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Yanks win Series in six games, Matsui MVP
By Daniel Dullum November 4, 2009 |
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For the 27th time in their storied history, the New York Yankees are champions of Major League Baseball. Andy Pettitte won on short rest, Hideki Matsui drove in a record-tying six runs, and the Yankees closed out the Philadelphia Phillies 7-3 in game six, winning the Fall Classic 4-games-to-2. It was the Yankees’ first World Championship since their three-peat of 1998-2000, and the first in new Yankee Stadium, which opened this season. Matsui, named the most valuable player of the Series, hit a two-run homer off losing pitcher Pedro Martinez in the second inning, added a two-run single in the third, and a two-run double in the fifth off reliever J.A. Happ. The last player to drive in six runs in a World Series game was the Yankees’ Bobby Richardson in game three of the 1960 Series against Pittsburgh. Richardson was the MVP of that Series, the last time that award went to a member of the losing club. Pettitte went 5 2/3 innings to get his record-setting 18th postseason victory. Mariano Rivera got the final five outs to close out the game in a non-save situation. Ryan Howard homered for Philadelphia, but it came too late to stem his hitting slump. Howard set a World Series record by fanning 13 times. |
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