Lists.  That’s a great thing about sports; about baseball.  You can come up with Top 10 lists about anything, from Top 10 pitchers of all-time to the Top 10 hitters of all-time to the Top 10 Yankees teams of all-time.  There are lists about Hispanic players, the hotness of players’ wives; lists of brothers who’ve [...]

BRONX, NY – Hideki Matsui has hit a lot of home runs in his long and storied career, but none bigger than his blast that evened up the World Series on Thursday night.
Matsui’s solo shot off Philadelphia’s Pedro Martinez in the sixth inning of Game 2 broke a 1-1 stalemate and was the key blow [...]

“This contract’s not going to change how I perform … It’s not going to change how I prepare. It’s not going to change how hard I play.”  – Chase Utley, 2007.
(BRONX, NY)  There were a few tense moments in the press box before Tuesday’s World Series opener, as the rain seemed to intensify the closer [...]

It’s interesting to note that right in middle of the word “clutch” are the first two letters of the surname of Philadelphia Phillies’ second baseman Chase Utley, whose two solo home runs provided the only scoring off New York Yankees’ ace pitcher C.C. Sabathia over the first seven innings in the opening game of the [...]

Bronx, NY – Where do we begin?  The 105th World Series that begins Wednesday evening in the Bronx between the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies has the makings of a classic. And it all starts with a classic pitching matchup on the mound of Philadelphia’s Cliff Lee and New York’s CC Sabathia.
“It’s just weird [...]

BRONX, NY – The conditions were the same for both sides. Cold and wind causing some havoc in the Bronx at Yankee Stadium Friday evening  Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia with his eight solid innings put the Los Angeles Angels bats on ice. The Angels made a season high three errors and the Yankees capitalized in [...]

Bronx, NY – Now it is official. Alex Rodriguez is truly a New York Yankee post season player after hitting two home runs in the ALDS series. If it were not for A-Rod, well perhaps the Twins could have took the series to a game 5. Perhaps, even with the two costly running blunders on [...]

CENTRAL ISLIP, NY— Julio Manon smiled broadly and made his prediction for the elimination Game 5 between his Ducks and Southern Maryland in Tuesday’s Liberty Division Championship Series.
“We’re going to take this,” Manon said after picking up the win in the Ducks 15-5 victory in Game 4 that tied the first-round series at 2-2. “There [...]

CENTRAL ISLIP, NY— Troy Cate ran to the cooler, grabbed a beer with each hand and sprinted down the hallway to the door leading to the Citibank Park home dugout.
Ducks manager Gary Carter didn’t have a chance to avoid him.
Cate doused the Hall of Famer as soon as he opened the door as the rest [...]

Newark, NJ – Every Met fan knew the look, the feel, and motions of this blown save. Heck, even Yankee fans had to suffer through this for a few weeks.
And now, with Armando Benitez in the Atlantic League, things haven’t changed.
The erstwhile major league closer came into Atlantic League All-Star Game in Newark with his [...]