Monday, November 9, 2009
Hardball Times: Mahnken: Why the Yankees won the World Series
The Phillies certainly can point to any of a number of dreadful performances and declare they should have made a better showing in the series—in the clubhouse after Game Six, Rollins told reporters that the Phillies were better than the Yankees—but New York overcame dreadful performances themselves. Cano, Nick Swisher, Posada and Teixeira combined for a .167/.244/.282 line after going .289/.368/.528 in the regular season, but the team still scored more than five runs a game in the series.
In the end, the Yankees won because they were the best team, and they played better. You can say whatever you want about how they assembled their roster in becoming the best team, but they very clearly were the best.
Uhm, I could have swore it was because they bought it.
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