Best Calling Card

But it’s the best calling card available to Red Sox fans, and it’s actually quite pertinent, if we are comparing these teams in their present state, not in the days of Babe, Joe D and the Mick. The Yankees are in a position rare to …

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Yankees closer than ever to role of underdog – In the news …

Run production is the calling card of baseball’s best teams. The Yankees led the majors in runs, home runs, on-base percentage and extra-base hits in the regular season, and are off to a rolling start in the playoffs thanks largely to …

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MLB playoffs: ALCS pick: Yankees in six, but Angels have ability …

Although Colorado was the NL’s sleeper success story of the year, the Phillies calling card is the come from behind win. NLDS — St. Louis Cardinals Vs. LA Dodgers. A classic National League matchups with headlining Hall of Famers … Their starting pitchers, beyond the portly C.C., are average at best . They have too many DHs roaming the field. Meanwhile the Cardinals have their own killer 3-4 combo in Albert Pujols and Matt Holiday that can battle the Yanks to the finish. …

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TSS 2009 MLB Playoff Preview & Predictions | The Smoking Section

But that comment about the cheap homerun shows frustration to me. After the 0-8 start, the Yankees beat them fair and square. And it wasn’t with the big bat. We beat them their own calling card . With good pitching. …. So my feeling now is simply that whoever the Yankees play, it will be a tough series and they will need to be at their best to advance … and if they play their best , then they will win because they are better than either the Twins or Tigers. …

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