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Time for a quick salute to Mark Teixeira, tonight's Yankee standout in their 4-3, 11-inning win over the Twins in Game Two of the Divison Series. In the decisive inning, the big 1st baseman starred on defense -- with two great plays (catching a line drive, then stopping a hot grounder and throwing home to nail a runner attempting to score) that kept Minnesota from scoring in a bases-loaded, none out situation. Leading off the bottom of the inning, he smacked a line drive homer that he called "a wallbanger," deflecting off the left field wall into the seats for the winning run. As has become the trademark of this Yankee club, "Tex" was smacked with a pie (actually a towelfull of whipped cream) by AJ Burnett during his post-game TV interview. A sweet ending to a dramatic Yankee win. When I went back to this year's images, I found a Spring Training preview of the righthanded swing that produced the walk-off homer. Wondering the last time a Yankees post-season contest ended with such suddenness? That was the Aaron Boone game against the Red Sox in game 7 of the 2003 League Championship Series.
September 2nd, 1955 : Whitey Ford takes a no-hitter into the 7th inning, while Yogi Berra adds two hits and Mickey Mantle crushes a three-run homer as the Yankees beat the Washington Senators 4-2 . It's also a big day for Billy Martin . Back from a year and an half of active duty in the Army, the shortstop goes 2-for-4 as the Yanks stay a half-game back of the league-leading White Sox. (They would regain 1st place on the 16th and go on to their 21st American League pennant. Martin would hit .300 over the final 22 games.) The Monument Park plaques are from a 2021 visit to Yankee Stadium. The image of Whitey and Yogi up top is from the 2012 Old Timers Day at the Stadium.
...you celebrate it with Bill Mazeroski , the first player to end a World Series with a walk-off home run. 65 years ago next month, leading off the last of the 9th in game seven against the Yankees, he crushed Ralph Terry's second pitch over the left field wall, giving Pittsburgh perhaps its greatest baseball moment. A gifted defensive player with more modest offensive skills, Maz remains one of the more controversial inductees of the Hall of Fame. A statue, depicting his joyful scamper around the bases following that 1960 home run, is one of several outside PNC Park in Pittsburgh. And below, Pablo Lopez , who earlier this season, added his name to the nearly 170 who have played for both the Yankees and Mets. The utilityman got into 24 games for Bronx Bombers -- highlighted by driving in the go-ahead run against the Royals on June 12th, His Mets tenure was microscopic -- he pinch ran for JD Martinez (and scored a run) in the September 1st, 2024 game against...
The stories I post are based on or connected to photos I've taken. While watching the remarkable conclusion of Saturday night's Orioles game on TV, it struck me that I'd seen one of the key players on a recent trip to Baltimore -- and the other as a Mets minor leaguer a year ago: In the most dramatic bottom of the 9th I've seen all season , Yashinobu Yamamoto of the Dodgers was one out away from no-hitting the Orioles. Two outs, no one on, LA up 3-0 -- standing on the verge of history. And indeed we were... just not the way you'd expect. Down to their last out, Baltimore's rising star Jackson Holliday faced Yamamoto. He crushed the righty's 2-1 pitch and launched it into the right field seats, ending the no-hit bid and shutout -- but still leaving the O's down 3-1. That was just the start of a remarkable comeback. Next up, former Mets prospect Jeremiah Jackson (below) doubled to the wall in left -- followed by...
Time for a quick salute to Mark Teixeira, tonight's Yankee standout in their 4-3, 11-inning win over the Twins in Game Two of the Divison Series. In the decisive inning, the big 1st baseman starred on defense -- with two great plays (catching a line drive, then stopping a hot grounder and throwing home to nail a runner attempting to score) that kept Minnesota from scoring in a bases-loaded, none out situation. Leading off the bottom of the inning, he smacked a line drive homer that he called "a wallbanger," deflecting off the left field wall into the seats for the winning run.
As has become the trademark of this Yankee club, "Tex" was smacked with a pie (actually a towelfull of whipped cream) by AJ Burnett during his post-game TV interview. A sweet ending to a dramatic Yankee win. When I went back to this year's images, I found a Spring Training preview of the righthanded swing that produced the walk-off homer.
Wondering the last time a Yankees post-season contest ended with such suddenness? That was the Aaron Boone game against the Red Sox in game 7 of the 2003 League Championship Series.
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