It&#39;s yet another typical autumn: Leaves fall, and Yankees rise
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Beautifully colored leaves, warm days, chilly nights, high school football and ah, yes, October baseball. Like most things in nature, fall is predictable.
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Thanks to David Ortiz&#39;s two-run walkoff homer in the bottom of the 12th at 1:22 this morning, this baseball season isn&#39;t over just yet at Fenway Park.
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A packed Skydome on a beautiful autumn  evening and the New York Yankees in town for a season-ending  three-game homestand against the Toronto Blue Jays, painted a  perfect baseball picture.
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ANAHEIM - Funny how one Red Sox championship seems to have changed everything in baseball&#39;s world order. Suddenly the Yankees seem to be chasing their hated rivals in the offseason now too, after all those
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There was a breakdown in the cosmic order Wednesday night. At least that's how it felt to Yankees fans.
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THE Yankees&#39; final seven at-bats yesterday defined their current state. Gary Sheffield homered and was followed by six meek outs in 11 pitches.
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Every second week in October, The Start catches a leaf as it falls from a tree. It has happened in West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Florida and Ohio.
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By the time things mercifully came to a conclusion last night -- or was it early morning? -- the dominant story for the first two-thirds of Game 1 of the ALCS, a 10-7 Yankees victory, had been reduced to a footnote.
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Amid the stormy gloom in Gotham, the rain-idled Yankees last night had plenty of time to gather in front of their televisions and watch the Red Sox Express roar toward them.
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From the instant Aaron Boone&#39;s home run cleared the left-field wall last October, the Yankees and Red Sox have been building to this.
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A night that started so promisingly for the Yankees, with Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter standing on second and third, respectively, when the game was two batters old, veered toward the absurd quickly.
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When the Yankees visit the Red Sox this weekend, there will be drama, subplots and quality baseball. But there wonât be much change in the American League East.
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The bullpen blew another one. The reliable relievers who carried the New York Yankees all season are coming apart at the most important moment. Mariano Rivera must be tired by now. Tom Gordon is struggling. Paul Quantrill is hurt. And the Yankees are halfway to the biggest collapse in postseason history.
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The New York Yankees, having won the taut pitchers&#39; duel in Game 2, took Game 3 of the American League Championship Series to the other end of the spectrum.
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Joe Torre and Mel Stottlemyre have an interesting week ahead of them, as they try to sort out the Yankees&#39; starting rotation for the postseason.
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Amid the stormy gloom in Gotham, the rain-idled Yankees last night had plenty of time to gather in front of their televisions and watch the Red Sox Express roar toward them. The national telecast might have been enough to send a jittery Boss Steinbrenner searching his Bartlett's Familiar Quotations for some &quot;Little Engine That Could&quot; metaphor.
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The once-mighty New York Yankees are  unraveling these days on the field and the Yankee family seems  to be fraying at the seams during the Bronx Bombers&#39; nose-dive  in the standings.