2007 New York Yankees (MVP 05)

[NYJets]

Yankees have wrapped up the season with a 95-67 record. They are the American League East Champions and will face the AL Central champion Indians in the first round.

Schedule/Results
vs. Tampa W 5-2
vs. Tampa L 4-3
vs. Tampa L 5-1
vs. Bal L 9-2
vs. Bal L 11-3
vs. Bal W 6-5
at Minn W 7-4
at Minn W 6-5
at Minn W 11-3
at Oak L 1-0
at Oak W 10-1
at Oak L 12-4

vs. Cleveland L 13-10
vs. Cleveland L 6-4
vs. Cleveland L 10-6
at Boston W 3-0
at Boston L 12-5
at Boston L 10-4
at Tampa Bay W 5-1
at Tampa Bay L 15-11
vs. Toronto W 5-1
vs. Toronto W 5-4
vs. Boston L 8-1
vs. Boston L 7-2
vs. Boston L 9-2

at Texas W 7-5
at Texas W 15-2
vs. Seattle L 13-8
vs. Seattle W 8-5
vs. Seattle L 13-11
vs. Seattle L 9-1
vs. Texas W 7-3
vs. Texas W 11-9
vs. Texas W 6-2
vs. Texas W 8-2
at Seattle L 10-5
at Seattle L 5-2
at Seattle L 7-6

at CWS L 7-3
at CWS L 10-1
at CWS W 6-3
at NYM W 3-0
at NYM L 6-5
at NYM W 8-3
vs. Boston L 3-1
vs. Boston W 2-1
vs. Boston W 13-6
vs. Anaheim L 6-2
vs. Anaheim L 4-1
vs. Anaheim W 4-3

at Toronto L 5-4
at Toronto W 4-2
at Toronto L 7-2
at Boston W 5-4
at Boston L 10-1
at Boston W 5-2
at CWS L 4-2
at CWS L 4-3
at CWS W 6-2
at CWS W 4-3
vs. Pittsburgh W 6-5
vs. Pittsburgh L 3-1
vs. Pittsburgh W 9-1
vs. Arizona W 8-7
vs. Arizona W 8-7
vs. Arizona W 6-5
vs. New York Mets L 5-3
vs. New York Mets W 11-3
vs. New York Mets W 6-2

at Colorado W 14-5
at Colorado W 5-2
at Colorado L 6-4
at San Francisco W 8-3
at San Francisco W 8-7
at San Francisco W 8-5
at Baltimore L 4-2
at Baltimore W 4-2
at Baltimore W 7-3
vs. Oakland W 12-8
vs. Oakland L 8-5
vs. Oakland W 3-1

vs. Minnesota W 10-7
vs. Minnesota L 11-10
vs. Minnesota W 6-5
vs. Minnesota L 9-2
vs. Anaheim W 10-9
vs. Anaheim L 10-7
vs. Anaheim W 5-3

at Tampa Bay W 16-0
at Tampa Bay W 8-0
at Tampa Bay L 10-9
at Tampa Bay W 4-2
vs. Toronto L 8-1
vs. Toronto L 4-1
vs. Toronto L 5-2
vs. Toronto L 5-1
vs. Tampa Bay L 4-1
vs. Tampa Bay W 9-2
vs. Tampa Bay W 5-2
at Kansas City W 9-6
at Kansas City W 4-3
at Kansas City W 5-0
at Kansas City W 3-2
at Baltimore L 3-2
at Baltimore W 5-3
at Baltimore W 5-1
vs. Chicago L 5-4
vs. Chicago L 3-1
vs. Chicago L 5-4
vs. Chicago L 10-9
vs. Kansas City L 10-9
vs. Kansas City W 5-4
vs. Kansas City W 6-5

at Toronto W 5-2
at Toronto L 4-3
at Toronto W 6-3
at Cleveland L 9-7
at Cleveland W 3-2
at Cleveland W 4-1
vs. Baltimore W 9-6
vs. Baltimore W 4-0
vs. Baltimore L 6-3
vs. Detroit L 4-3
vs. Detroit W 5-4
vs. Detroit W 9-8
vs. Detroit W 10-3

at Anaheim L 2-1
at Anaheim W 3-0
at Anaheim W 7-3
at Detroit L 10-9
at Detroit W 7-1
at Detroit W 4-0
at Detroit W 10-8
vs. Boston W 8-5
vs. Boston W 6-4
vs. Boston W 5-3
vs. Tampa Bay W 3-1
vs. Tampa Bay W 5-1
vs. Tampa Bay W 5-4
vs. Seattle W 7-3
vs. Seattle W 8-6
vs. Seattle L 10-5

at Kansas City W 10-6
at Kansas City W 4-1
at Kansas City W 6-3
at Toronto W 11-5
at Toronto L 6-1
at Toronto W 8-2
at Boston W 8-6
at Boston L 12-7
at Boston L 9-8

vs. Baltimore W 7-3
vs. Baltimore L 8-4
vs. Baltimore W 7-2
vs. Toronto L 6-4
vs. Toronto L 5-4
vs. Toronto W 10-4
at Tampa Bay W 10-3
at Tampa Bay L 15-6
at Tampa Bay L 8-7
at Baltimore W 3-1
at Baltimore W 4-2
at Baltimore L 6-5


Batting Stats
Notable Stats
(AVG/HR/RBI/OPS)
DH
Jason Giambi .308/26/109/.892

1b
Doug Mientkiewicz .267/9/27/.720
Josh Phelps .319/9/30/.865

2b
Robinson Cano .346/18/87/.882
Miguel Cairo .269/4/23/.675

SS
Derek Jeter .346/8/50/.885

3B
Alex Rodriguez .316/50/158/1.012

C
Jorge Posada .273/29/88/.785
Todd Pratt .224/0/1/.500

LF
Hideki Matsui .271/12/49/.732
Melky Cabrera .278/5/30/.715

CF
Johnny Damon .325/19/76/.872
Bernie Williams .283/3/14/.853

RF
Bobby Abreu .276/32/109/.844

Pitching Stats
(W-L/ERA/WHIP)
SP
Chien-Ming Wang 13-11/3.66/1.40
Mike Mussina 16-6/3.74/1.26
Andy Pettitte 14-9/4.43/1.32
Carl Pavano 7-7/5.38/1.52
Phil Hughes 11-6/5.38/1.43

BP
Chris Britton 4-5/3.75/1.47
Mariano Rivera 3-6/3.48/1.07 44 Saves 4 BS
Luis Vizcaino 6-3/5.32/1.55
Jose Veras 2-3/3.76/1.25
Kyle Farnsworth 1-3/9.00/1.90
Jeff Kartsens 2-0/10.66/3.00
Humberto Sanchez 0-0/6.00/1.33


Batting Title
Derek Jeter edged teammate Robinson Cano by percentage points on the season's final day to win the batting title with a .346 average.


Playoff Matchups
New York vs. Cleveland
Seattle vs. Boston
San Diego vs. Milwaukee
Cincinatti vs. Washington

The Yankees have announced that Mike Mussina will pitch game 1, Wang will pitch game 2, Pettitte game 3, and Phil Hughes is scheduled to pitch game 4.

[NYJets]

ALDS Game 1
Cleveland (Sabathia) at New York (Mussina)
This game started off well for the Yankees, as Mike Mussina pitched a 1-2-3 first inning, and Johnny Damon led off the bottom of the first with a single. When Derek Jeter than advanced him to 3rd with an opposite field double, it looked like the Yankees were really going to get off to a great start. But Sabathia struck out Abreu, and got A-Rod and Giambi to both lineout, and the momentum took a huge shift.

In the top of the 2nd, David Delucci led off with a walk, and Johnny Peralta doubled him home, giving the Indians a 1-0 lead. They then loaded the bases, and the big blow of the game came from #9 hitter Trot Nixon, as he blasted a Mike Mussina changeup into the right field seats, giving the Indians a 5-0 lead. In the 5th inning, Nixon struck again, again on a changeup, hitting a solo homer into the bleachers, and the Indians led 6-0.

That's all Sabathia would need, as he went 8.2 innings, giving up only 2 runs, solo homers from Robinson Cano and Alex Rodriguez. The Indians went on to win 6-2, taking a 1-0 lead in the series.

"I just couldn't get my pitches down tonight. I don't know why, I just left everything up in the zone and they made me pay. But we have Wang going tomorrow and then Andy, I'll be ready when I get the chance to redeem myself later in the series," said Mussina.



Joe Torre was not happy with the strikezone all game long.



Jeter robbed of an extra base hit by Dellucci.



A-Rod before hitting a 9th inning homerun.

[NYJets]

ALDS Game 2
Cleveland (Westbrook) at New York (Wang)
Jake Westbrook struggled with his control in this one. He walked 3 batters in the first inning, 2 with the bases loaded, and the Yankees jumped out to an early 2-0 lead. That score would hold up until the top of the 5th until a 2 run double from Victor Martinez tied the game.

In the bottom of the 6th, Johnny Damon blasted a 3 run homerun over the short porch in right, giving the Yankees a 5-2 lead. In the top of the 7th, the Indians answered back with an RBI double by Grady Sizemore, and an RBI single by Victor Martinez, cutting the Yankees lead to 5-4.

That's as close as the Indians would get however. In the bottom of the 8th Hideki Matsui hit a 2 run homer, extending the Yankees lead to 7-4. Mariano Rivera came on for the save, tying the series up at 1.



Johnny Damon's 3 run homer dissapears into the seats.



Crowd gets on their feet, Yankees are one out away.

[NYJets]

ALDS Game 3

New York (Pettitte) at Cleveland (Lee)
An incredible comeback from the Indians gave them an extra innings win and control of this series. Cliff Lee struggled badly early, giving up leadoff walks to Johhny Damon and Derek Jeter, and a single to Bobby Abreu, loading the bases. Lee got a big strikeout of A-Rod, but he couldn't hold off the Yankees bats any longer, as Jason Giambi blasted a grand slam to straight away center field. In the 2nd inning, Josh Phelps hit a solo homer into the same spot, making it 5-0 Yankees, and in the 3rd, Giambi added his 2nd homer of the game to make it 6-0 New York.

The Indians cut it to 6-2 in the 5th on a Josh Barfield double, but the Yankees still appeared to have control of the game, as that lead held until the bottom of the 8th. After a leadoff walk, Kyle Farnsworth came in to relieve Andy Pettitte. He worked himself into trouble, as the Indians put runners on 2nd and 3rd with 2 outs.

Farnsworth got a soft groundball to Jeter that appeared to get him out of trouble, but Jeter bobbled the ball, a run came in, and everyone was safe, making it 6-3. Victor Martinez added an RBI double, making it 6-4, with runners on 2nd and 3rd for Travis Hafner, who was hitless for the series. But Hafner redeemed himself, hitting a game tying double into the gap. Mariano rivera came on to get them out of the inning, and got them to extra innings with a scoreless 9th, but the Yankees would not recover.

In the bottom of the 10th, after a leadoff bloop double by Sizemore off of Chris Britton, Victor Martinez hit an RBI single to center, completing the comeback win for the Tribe, 7-6.

On a side not, after the game they showed an animation of Jeter walking off the field with his head down, and Minkievitch and Damon came over and patted him on the back in a "keep your head up" kind of way. Pretty cool.



Sizemore slides in ahead of the Damon throw for the game winner.

[WTF]

Ouch.. what a way to lose.

[NYJets]

ALDS Game 4
New York (Hughes) at Cleveland (Byrd)

For 2 straight seasons, the Yankees season ended in the ALDS, with Alex Rodriguez getting most of the blame. Going into game 4, it looked like the same thing would happen this year. The Yankees were down in the series 2-1, and A-Rod had only one hit.

But A-Rod did his part to keep the Yankees season alive, and rookie Phil Hughes did the rest, as the Yankees defeated the Indians 8-4, forcing a deciding game 5 in the Bronx. A-Rod drove in 5 runs, 2 on a 3rd inning triple, and 3 on a 4th inning homerun. Hughes surrendered only 1 run on 6 hits and 0 walks in 7 innings to get the win. The Indians put up a 3 run rally in the 9th off of Jose Veras, but Mariano Rivera came in to get the final 2 outs.

It will be a game 1 rematch, Mussina vs. Sabathia in game 5.

All 4 division series will have a deciding game 5.

[ehh]

Good stuff so far. Good luck in Game 5.

I lost 3-1 to the Tribe in my first season in the ALDS, Sabathia is a tough to hit. I couldn't hit anyone on their staff for that matter. A-Rod hit .087 for the series I believe.

I'm going to restart my dynasty tonight though, gotta get the Rocket on the roster.

[NYJets]

ALDS Game 5
Cleveland (Sabathia) at New York (Mussina)

They say pitching and defense wins championships. Thankfully for the Yankees, this was only the ALDS. The Yankees made 3 errors, and gave up 6 runs on 14 hits, but their offense was able to overcome it, and pull out a 9-6 victory.

The Yankees took a 9-5 lead into the 9th, and appeared to have the game won with Rivera coming in. The Indians rallied however, scoring 1 run, and putting runners on 1st and 3rd with 2 outs with Ryan Garko up at bat. Here's John Sterling with the call:

"The 1-1 from Rivera is....swung on and belted to deep right....it is high....it is far...it is...CAUGHT BY ABREU! GARKO CAME WITHIN INCHES OF TYING THIS GAME BUT ABREU MADE A GREAT CATCH CRASHING INTO THE WALL. BALL GAME OVER......AMERICAN LEAGUE DIVISIONAL SERIES OVER....YANKEES WIN.....THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA YANKEES WIN!!!!!!"



Abreu makes a game saving catch crashing into the wall.










The Mariners came back from 2-0 down against the Red Sox, so the ALCS will be a rematch of the 2000 and 2001 ALCS, Yankees vs. Mariners.

The NLCS is what everyone predicted before the season started, the Brewers vs. Nationals.