Yankees Win World Series 2009, Hideki Matsui drove 6 runs.

Yankees Win World Series 2009, Hideki Matsui drove 6 runs

By Yann Marshall

Rating 3.00 out of 5

MLB 2009 Postseason New York Reports: Yesterday night, the New York Yankees win their 27th World Series title with a 7-3 win over the defending champion Philadelphia Phillies.

Hideki Matsui drove in six of the Yankees 7 runs. He punches a two-run home runs, a two-run single and a two-run double runs. He was named World Series MVP and it was the exceptional that title has gone to a Japanese-born player or a permanent selected hitter.

“Tonight Matsui was huge,” said Yankee manager Joe Girardi to the reporters.

Matsui’s heroics came at immediately the right time. The Yankees had lost Game 5 in Philadelphia and forcing a sixth game at NY’s Yankee Stadium. If Phillies may perhaps win it, they could force a seventh and deciding final game. But at the present the Yankees don’t have to worry about playing in the drizzle, which is in the weather predicted for Thursday.

The New York Yankees World Series title was their first since 2000 and in those nine years, George Steinbrenner unlocked his checkbook liberally and was often carped for trying to buy one more championship. Except to this year, when he yet again spent millions of dollars on pitchers CC Sabathia A.J Burnett and first baseman Mark Teixeira, nobody of the teams went all the way.

“When you think about the money they have invested and massive talent on the team, the previous eight years have been very annoying not to go all the way”, says Gabriel Schechter, a library examiner at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. “So this would be truth catching up to their yearly expectations”.

To acquire there, they had to beat a Philadelphia team that was too loaded with talent, with left-handed pitcher Cliff Lee, who puzzled the Yankees. Their second Pitcher Chase Utley tied a Major League record with five home runs throughout the World Series.

“The thing about this Philadelphia team that makes them nearly impossible to dismiss is their determination. They reply”, says J.T Barbarese professor at Rutgers-Camden in NJ and a Phillies fan. “They have been performing it all time”.

That was partially why Phillies manager Charlie Manuel decided in the third inning to allow Pedro Martinez, his opening pitcher, face Matsui with the bases overloaded. If Hideki Matsui got a hit (which he did) then Manuel reasoned, “We can go behind 4 to 1, and we can certainly bounce back there”.

Matsui’s first instance at the plate a home run demonstrated his willpower, the Yankees Girardi said, “What a hard at-bat”, he said. “He hit several balls hard unclean, and he kept at it and kept at it and got us the go ahead”.

Whereas Matsui was scoring runs, Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte was appearing good next to the Phillies hitters. Manuel said that “I felt they did a fine job on our left-handed striking and blocked them, and that is a huge part of our felony”.

Pettitte’s grouping of fastballs and cutters kept the Phillies off steadiness till the sixth inning, after Utley walked followed by a Ryan Howard flash into the seats.

However for Philadelphia to win, they would have to strike Mariano Rivera, the Yankee nearer who had a four-run lead. It was too large a mount for the Phillies to go up.

Manuel says to after match he expects to be finance in the World Series next year confidently facing the Yankees. But will Matsui a free representative after this season, be playing for New York Yankees’?

At the postgame press-conference, Matsui was asking over that. He laughed vociferously and said, “I have no idea”.

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