7:54 p.m. - Welcome back to the Delivering #27 Diary. Yankees are just two wins away from delivering their #27 World Championship to their fans.
7:55 p.m. - In Game 4, C.C. Sabathia has a chance to put a strangehold on this series and with a good performance put the Yankees up 3-1.
8:02 p.m. - Yes, the New York Giants got drubbed by the Philadelphia Eagles today. I don't know what's wrong with the Giants. Tonight, with a win, the Yankees have the chance to make up for that 40-17 drubbing, ten fold.
8:22 p.m. - It's game time. The one promise I'll make tonight is to not do so much play-by-play and be more of a color commentator. Not, that surpassing Tim McCarver is that difficult.
8:25 p.m. - After Jeter and Damon reaches base on hits, Tex drives in a run on a fielders choice.
1-0 Yankees.
8:26 p.m. - It's getting ridiculous how many times A-Rod has been hit this series. He just got hit for the 3rd time this series. The umps then make a horrible decision to warn both benches which greatly hurts the Yankees if C.C. has a pitch mistakingly go awry.
8:30 p.m. - Jorge drives in another run this World Series with a sac fly to left to drive home Damon. 2-0 Yankees. A very nice early start for the Yankees who are not doubt upset about how many times Eli Manning was intercepted by the Eagles earlier today.
8:37 p.m. - Fox just showed a comparison of how C.C. pitched against Chase Utley (Utley was 2 for 2) and how the rest of the Phillies did (2 for 22). McCarver's response to this was: "Wow, that's quite a tele-graphic." Uh, okay Tim.
8:38 p.m. - Utley continues his dominance of C.C. and hits a double to drive in Vic Torino, my wife's favorite Italian player. 2-1 Yankees.
8:42 p.m. - C.C. pitches superbly to Ryan Howard coming back from a 3-1 count to strike out Howard for the 10th time this series.
8:47 p.m. - C.C. works out of a 1st inning jam by striking out Raul Ibanez to end the threat.
8:51 p.m. - Seriously Joe Buck. I don't need you to mention how the Eagles dismantled the Giants. I know they dismantled them as does every Yankee-Giants fan. Quit it with the bad vibes, man.
8:53 p.m. - Here's C.C. for his first at-bat of the playoffs. I hear he's a good hitter. Let's see it C.C. ...and he strikes out. Have I mentioned how I hate that pitchers are batting in this series? Yes, I know Pettitte got a hit to tie up the game yesterday.
9:15 p.m. - Excellent play by Tex on a groundball by Giuseppe Torino (he he). Tex makes at least one tough play a game that Jason Giambi would never make in his life...on or off steroids.
9:21 p.m. - A-Rod's up to start the 4th inning with a chance to strike back at the people who've hurt him deeply in the past... Or something like that.
9:26 p.m. - Cano strikes out again and looks very bad doing it. He's having a horrible World Series. After that K, he's 1 for 13 this series.
9:34 p.m. - The home plate umpire tonight is wildly inconsistent with his strike zone and waits far too long to determine if it's a strike or not. The hitters on both teams are not happy about it tonight. The umpires in this year's playoffs are truly being talked about far too often for their ineptitude and bad calls. Umpires are like offensive lineman in football. You don't talk about them until they do something wrong.
9:36 p.m. - Johnny Damon's arm continues to hurt us as Howard scores on a line drive single to right. That should never happen. What does happen though is that Howard never touches the plate and is still called safe by the umpires. The lunacy continues! 2-2.
9:39 p.m. - Blanton strikes out badly to end the Phillie-Philly threat in the 4th. What am I going to say about that?....
Yes, pitchers shouldn't hit.
9:41 p.m. - After the Phillies tie up the game, the Yankees need to strike back in the Top of the 5th inning.
9:41 p.m. - Watching a Verizon Fios commercial featuring an actor who used to star in NBC's My Own Worst Enemy. What ever happened to that show? Was it cancelled? It was one of my favorite shows and I haven't heard anything about Season 2.
9:42 p.m. - I saw the extended preview of James Cameron's Avatar today. Looks pretty awesome.
9:43 p.m. - Nick Swisher starts the 5th and walks on 4 pitches. He is usually such a patient hitter - with a great eye for balls and strikes. He's been in such a bad slump - before last night's breakout game - that I think that's his first walk this postseason. Or it seems like it.
9:45 p.m. - Melky grounds ball up middle and Chase Utley tries to backhand throw the ball like he's a juggler in Cirque Soleil. Yankees are cooking with 1st and 2nd and no one out.
9:46 p.m. - And here comes Carsten Charles to the plate.
9:48 p.m. - Jeter sneaks a single past Rollins into left field and Swisher races home to put the Yankees up again. 3-2 Yankees.
9:50 p.m. - Johnny Rockets - or loops - a single to center and Melky displays some stellar baserunning - even goes back to step on the plate after he initially missed it (something Ryan Howard didn't do) - to tack on another run for the Yankees. 4-2 Yankees.
9:59 p.m. - Is Charlie Manuel incapable of talking to Buck and McCarver between innings. Girardi does it, yet Phillie hitting coach does it for their team. Would he talk if they agreed to only talk about NASCAR, Pabst Blue Ribbon and scrapple?
10:03 p.m. - Not a good start to the bottom of the 5th for C.C. as Rollins reaches on a hit and Cappacola Torino walks.
10:12 p.m. - C.C. works in and out of trouble after the first two batters reach base. Great performance for his right there.
10:15 p.m. - Verizon has a brilliant 3G commercial where they play off the iPhone's: "There's an app for that" theme....instead Verizon says "there's a map for that, which highlights their superior 3G nation-wide coverage when compared to AT&T's. My question is: Does AT&T even utilize 3G? I thought they used a different technology?
10:17 p.m. - Cano is hitting .077 this series..ouch.
10:20 p.m. - Howard short hops the ball and throws it to Blanton for the force of Cano. Hey, umps. Did you see that. HE SHORT HOPPED IT!
10:22 p.m. - Swisher walks again. There you go Nick. You're on like Donkey Kong.
10:33 p.m. - Great bottom of 6th for C.C. Only 7 pitches for 3 outs. He's at 95 pitches for game. The question is does Girardi let him bat to lead off the inning. I say yes. I love when pitchers bat.
10:35 p.m. - And the big man is batting to lead off the inning.
10:38 p.m. - I would love it if the Yankees could tack on a couple runs right here. After C.C. flies out to Werth - I swear, it's an adventure everytime it's hit to Werth -- Jeter walks and brings up Damon.
10:48 p.m. - Rollins grounds out to A-Rod and up steps Ziti Torino.
10:52 p.m. - Utley homers to right. C.C. threw one too many curve balls. 4-3 Yankees. According to Fox, Utley is 4 for 6 against C.C. in this series, while the rest of the Phillies are 7 for 45. That's what you call a stark contrast there.
10:53 p.m. - Girardi pulls C.C. who battled (and pitched well at times) tonight on short rest. His final line was:
6 2/3 IP, 3 ER, 7 hits, 6 K, 3 BB
Now, it's up to the Yankee bullpen to get the final 7 outs tonight.
10:57 p.m. - Marte comes in and coaxes a fly out out of Howard. Hey, at least he didn't strike out again. We go to the 8th inning (as Joe Buck might say). Yankees need to re-tack some runs on the board.
11:06 p.m. - My new buddy Nick Swisher is at the plate with runners on 1st and 2nd and 1 out. Tack on!
11:13 p.m. - Joba's in the game to face Werth. This is a big spot right here for him.
11:14 p.m. - Joba overpowers Werth with a high fastball.
11:15 p.m. - Everytime Fox shows a picture of Utley without his hat on, I marvel at how much grease is in his hair. What in his right mind is he thinking.
11:16 p.m. - Joba overpowers Ibanez with a high fastball.
11:18 p.m. - Feliz ties it up with a homerun. Ugh. 4-4.
11:19 p.m. - Joba looked really solid for the first two outs of the inning. I'm shocked that just happened.
11:23 p.m. - Matsui, Jeter and Damon to start the 9th gives the Yankees a good shot to take the lead again.
11:33 p.m. - After a tough 9 pitch at-bat, Johnny singles to left and gives Mark Teixiera a chance to write his first golden NY Yankee moment.
11:34 P.M. - In a weird, weird play, Johnny steals 2nd and then outraces a shifted Feliz to 3rd base. That's two stolen bases on one play. Just plain weird.
11:36 p.m. - Lidge hits Tex and somehow the ump doesn't throw out Lidge. Wasn't there a warning?
11:36 p.m. - And up comes A-Rod with a chance to drive in a big, big run for the Yankees.11:38 p.m. - And Alex rips a double to left to put Yankees ahead! 5-4 Yankees! HUGE HIT FOR A-Rod. Maybe bigger than all of his homeruns in ALDS and ALCS combined.
11:40 p.m. - Yes, I'm not happy that Brad Lidge wasn't thrown out of the game after hitting Teixiera.
11:40 p.m. - RT @YankeesWFAN 15 RBIs for ARod, ties Bernie in 96 and Brosius in 98 for most ever by a Yankee in the postseason.
11:41 p.m. - If a man approached you in 2006 and said by 2009 Alex Rodriguez will be a World Series Hero and Eli Manning will have been a Super Bowl MVP, would you believe either?
11:42 p.m. - Posada doubles to deep center to drive in 2 for Yankees. 7-4 Yankees.
11:43 p.m. - A-Rod is now 16 for 46 this postseason with .347 AVG, 6 HR, 15 RBI and 12 Runs. Wow. That's a stark contrast from prior postseasons.
11:44 p.m. - Mariano comes on to start the bottom of the 9th. He has never given up a 3-run lead in his postseason career.
11:48 p.m. - Mo quickly dispatches Phillies with an 8-pitch save, his 39th career postseason save.
11:52 p.m. - Johnny Damon has been really great this series. Tonight, was his biggest game by far as he was 3 for 5 with 2 runs scored and an RBI. Overall, in the series, he's been 5 for 17, 3 Runs, 3 RBI, 2 SB
Wrap-up - This was such an important win for the Yankees, especially after the Phillies tied the game up in the Bottom of the 8th. This game and frankly series could have turned in the Phillies favor if the Yankees did not score 3 runs in the Top of the 9th. Instead, the series is 3-1 and the Yankees are 1 win.....1 WIN away from capturing #27.
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