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Now we know it will be the Yankees and Phillies -- Broadway vs. Broad Street in the World Series. Two clubs whose home towns are 90 miles apart -- and who met this past May in inter-league play in the Bronx.The Phillies took two of the three games during the regular season.
The clubs are also Spring Training neighbors.
It's just a half hour drive (in good traffic) between the Yankees facilities in Tampa and the Phillies' second home, Clearwater.
First two games will be at Yankee Stadium, then the teams head down the Jersey Turnpike, cross the Walt Whitman Bridge and resume on Saturday at Citizens Bank Park.
But considering that the action will be played at night to the delight of network TV -- but the disappointment of paying customers as well as traditionalists like me -- the next shot seemed more appropriate.
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...
...you share it with Anthony Recker , a "well traveled backup catcher," whose seven big league seasons included stops with the A's, Cubs, Braves and Mets -- where one of his highlights was a 13th inning homer that beat the Angels in Anaheim. He's since built a successful second career as an analyst with MLB Network and SNY (the Mets regional network). Roy Oswalt , who won 163 games spanning the Astros, Phillies, Rangers and Rockies. His best days came in Houston, including back-to-back 20-win seasons -- the second, 2005, marked the Astros' first trip to the World Series.
Now we know it will be the Yankees and Phillies -- Broadway vs. Broad Street in the World Series. Two clubs whose home towns are 90 miles apart -- and who met this past May in inter-league play in the Bronx.
The Phillies took two of the three games during the regular season.
The clubs are also Spring Training neighbors.
It's just a half hour drive (in good traffic) between the Yankees facilities in Tampa and the Phillies' second home, Clearwater.
First two games will be at Yankee Stadium, then the teams head down the Jersey Turnpike, cross the Walt Whitman Bridge and resume on Saturday at Citizens Bank Park.
But considering that the action will be played at night to the delight of network TV -- but the disappointment of paying customers as well as traditionalists like me -- the next shot seemed more appropriate.
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