Saturday, September 27, 2008
NorthJersey.com - Caldera: Yankees keep Sox from clinching AL East
BOSTON—For Joe Girardi, there was little satisfaction in denying the Red Sox an opportunity to clinch the AL East.
“I’d have liked to have knocked them out of the playoffs and put us in. That would’ve meant something,’’ Girardi said, after the Yankees completed a soggy 19-8 win Friday night over the Sox at Fenway Park - a game that saw two rain delays that totaled two hours and nine minutes.
The Rays lost their game, but clinched the division by virtue of the Yankees’ late-night triumph - thus completing one of the most unlikely titles in recent memory. Tampa Bay wasn’t supposed to compete in the Sox-Yanks world, at least not this year.
Actually, Tampa Bay had a non-trivial chance to compete this year.
This is what happens when teams pitch to Cody Ransom. Ransom for 1B in 2009!
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