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The first playoff game at the new stadium was a happy affair as the Yankees defeated the Twins 7-2 on Wednesday night. C.C. Sabathia pitched well, striking out eight and allowing only two runs, one earned, over 6-2/3 innings. Sabathia only struggled in the third when he ran into trouble with two outs. With runners on second and third, Sabathia allowed a single to score a run and then Jorge Posada simply didn’t catch a Sabathia pitch allowing a second run and putting the Twins up 2-0.

    

The Yankees will face the hottest team in baseball, the Minnesota Twins, in the ALDS starting tonight. Minnesota came back from a three-game deficit with four games to play to tie Detroit and then beat them yesterday in a 12-inning playoff game to earn a trip to the Bronx.

The Yankees have won 102 games and apart from their slow start, dominated the American League. But none of that matters now as Wednesday as they will begin their quest for a championship against either Minnesota or Detroit.

• Royals 4, Yankees 3: Too bad Kyle Farnsworth can't close every game against the Yankees. Joba Chamberlain turned in a middling effort. The Yankees, who have clinched everything from the division to home-field advantage, have nothing to play for except their health. They have an off-day Thursday before traveling to St. Petersburg to play the Rays. Then come the playoffs.
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• Yankees 9 Boston 5: New York crept even closer to the AL East, lowering their magic number to three and winning for the seventh time in their last eight games against Boston. Joba Chamberlain put a lot of fears to rest by pitching six solid innings and looking like he did two months ago. Alex Rodriguez had a huge night at the plate, going 3-for-3 with 4 RBI’s and swiping three bases. It was part of an offensive onslaught against Jon Lester that only ended when Lester had to leave the game after taking a liner off his knee. Thankfully, x-rays were negative, but Lester will be reexamined tomorrow.

     

• Giants 33 Cowboys 31: When Giants Stadium opened the Cowboys spoiled things by beating the Giants. New York has returned the favor with a thrilling victory in the opening of Cowboys Stadium which included Mario Manningham showing he could be a #1 receiver. Manningham and Steve Smith had ten catches each and the Giants now have two wins and more importantly two wins in the NFC East.

At minimum, the Yankees will finish this weekend with a 4-1/2 game lead on the Red Sox. In the process of building that lead this weekend, they have answered the biggest question hanging over them since the last time they played Boston: can the beat a good team?

Yankees 13, Red Sox 6: It may have taken nine games for it to happen, but the Yankees finally beat the Red Sox this season. The Yankees had dropped eight straight to Boston before winning last night in The Bronx. It was the most lopsided start to the season series since 1933 when the Yankees won their first nine games against the Red Sox. The Yankees tagged Sox starter John Smoltz for 8 earned runs, 7 of which came in an 8 run 4th inning. Billy Traber didn't do much better in relief, giving up 5 more runs to the Yankees. Joba Chamberlain, shaky in his 5 innings of work, allowed 4 runs on 6 hits and 7 walks.

Yankees 6 Tampa Bay 2: Joba Chamberlain pitched another great game and the Yankees hit three homers to back him as they took two-of-three in Tampa. Chamberlain allowed only three hits, while striking out five over eight innings. Robinson Cano, Melky Cabrera and Mark Teixeira all went deep, part of a 12-hit attack for the Yankees. The win combined with a Boston loss, puts the Yankees 3-1/2 games into first. Fun fact: Yankees owner George Steinbrenner was at the game; Chamberlain said of the Boss's presence, "It's great he came here. It's definitely good to get a win when he's in the house. I heard stories about when he was here. It was a little nerve-racking. I got a little nervous knowing he was in the house."

• Yankees 8 Oakland 3: Joba Chamberlain had his second dominant start in a row and the Yankees’ offense blew the game open in the eighth. Chamberlain allowed only two hits over seven-plus innings while striking out six to earn his sixth win of the season. Johnny Damon and Derek Jeter combined for five RBI’s while Melky Cabrera had three hits and two runs scored. The win keeps the Yankees 2-1/2 games in front of Boston.
• Houston 5 Mets 4: New York needs Johan Santana to get a victory every time out and that is an impossible standard for Santana to live up to. Friday he wasn’t his best, allowing 12 hits and the Mets blew a golden chance to tie the game on a play at the plate. For some reason, Jeff Francoeur was sent home on a grounder to right in the 7th and he was thrown out by a mile ending the Mets’ rally and sending them to another loss.

• Yankees 2 Detroit 1: Maybe some time off was all Joba Chamberlain needed. Whatever the reason the Yankees were thrilled to see their young pitcher dominate the Tigers on Sunday. Joba pitched 6-2/3 striking out eight and allowing only three hits. The two New York runs were provided by (what else?) solo homers from A-Rod and Mark Teixeira. Phil Hughes came in and pitched the eighth with Mariano closing the door in the ninth as the late-inning tandem performed spotlessly again. With a Boston loss, New York is now only one game behind the Red Sox.
• Atlanta 7 Mets 1: What can possibly happen next? Sunday night’s injury was Fernando Nieve hurting his quad while running to first. Nieve had to leave the game, Tim Redding came in and things fell apart from there. Add it all up and the Mets have dropped three-of-four coming out of the break and now head to Washington.
• Liberty 89 Atlanta 86: Shameka Christon scored 32 points, including the last five of the game as New York survived a late onslaught from The Dream.

• Yankees 8 Atlanta 4: For five innings the offense kept doing what it has done far too often these past few weeks, sleepwalked through a game. In fact, the Yankees didn’t have a runner reach base until Francisco Cervelli went deep in the sixth inning, but that seemed to spark the bats. They scored seven more times over the final four innings and cruised to the 8-4 win. Joba Chamberlain went 6-1/3 allowing three runs and striking out five. Mariano Rivera came into the game in the eighth and nailed down his 16th save by striking out four batters.

Yankees 9 Mets 8: In all the years of the Subway Series, there has never been an ending like this one. For almost four hours, the Yankees and Mets battled back and forth, trading runs and the lead over and over again. Like they have done all season, the Yankees used home runs to get on the scoreboard with Robinson Cano starting things off in the second inning to put the Yankees up 1-0. But, Joba Chamberlain could not find the plate on Friday and the Mets took advantage of his wildness to take a 2-1 lead. Mark Teixeira went deep to put the Yankees up 3-2 but the Mets jumped all over Brett Tomko in the fifth to take a 6-3 lead.

• Yankees 4, Rays 3: A two-run deficit turned into a one-run win after a bases-loaded walk (Robinson Cano), a booted double-play grounder (Jorge Posada) and an infield grounder (Hideki Matsui). Mariano Rivera rebounded from a rough Saturday to save the game for Alfredo Aceves. Joba Chamberlain allowed three runs in six innings, and Nick Swisher had a solo homer. Yankee Stadium still hasn't had a game without a homer this season. After Texas beat Boston, the Yankees are back in first place by a half-game.
• Mets 7, Nationals 0: Livan Hernandez pitched seven scoreless innings and got five runs of support before he even took the mound as the Mets rolled in this rubber game. Five different Mets knocked in runs. Hernandez, whose ERA is 3.88, is probably living a charmed life. He walked four and struck out four. Although he's been everything the Mets could have asked for so far, don't count on him down the road.
• Revolution 4, Red Bulls 0: Awful. The Red Bulls have lost four straight, have no wins in their last five games and have just nine points in 14 games overall.

First innings aren't always eventful, but Thursday's between the Yankees and the Orioles was. Joba Chamberlain left the game after being hit in the leg by a line drive. In the bottom of the inning, the first three Yankees to bat doubled, and the Yankees put up a four-spot en route to a 7-4 win over Baltimore. It was their ninth straight win. Alfredo Aceves picked up the win in relief of Chamberlain, who had X-rays on his leg come back negative. Robinson Cano, hitting second with Johnny Damon getting the night off, had an RBI double and a two-run homer among his three hits. Mark Teixeira also had an RBI double in the first and had two hits. Melky Cabrera had a critical two-run double.

• Mets 8, Pirates 4: What a difference a week makes. The Mets rolled to another win over the struggling Pirates, completing a three-game sweep and keeping themselves in first place. Livan Hernandez had a rocky start but settled down and allowed two runs in seven innings, striking out five and walking four. Jose Reyes kept moving in the right direction, reaching base three times. The Mets are one of eight teams to play Monday. They host Atlanta in the opener of a three-game set.

• Red Sox 7, Yankees 3: One of these days, the Yankees will beat the Red Sox. But that first win didn't come Tuesday, and the Yankees (13-13) are 0-5 against Boston this season. The good news is the short two-game series is over, and the Rays visit the Bronx next. Joba Chamberlain allowed the first four Red Sox to score -- Jason Bay hit a three-run homer -- but settled down after that to record a whopping 12 strikeouts. Nine of those were looking. Unfortunately for him, the Yankees' offense consisted of a Johnny Damon three-run homer in the third and not much else. A.J. Burnett will try to stop the bleeding Wednesday.
• Mets 4, Braves 3: Livan Hernandez pitched well (!), and the Mets managed a sweep, albeit a two-game one, at Atlanta's Turner Field. David Wright and Ramon Castro had RBI doubles in the third to get the Mets going. The only reason this game ended up as close as it did is because Carlos Delgado dropped what should have been the last out of the game in the ninth. No harm, no foul, though, and the Mets come home to face the Phillies.

Yesterday, police in Lincoln, Nebraska said that the estranged mother of Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain was "arrested on charges of selling methamphetamine to an undercover police officer in February." Jacqueline Standley, 44, allegedly sold a gram of a meth-like substance (for $110) to a cop back in February. After tests confirmed it was meth, she was arrested over the weekend and her bail was set at $5,000. She previously said that her depression and trouble with drugs prompted her to let Chamberlain's father raise him and his sister; “No. I wasn’t the greatest mother. But in the bad choices I made, I in turn made good choices. And one was for them to be with their dad a lot.” Chamberlain, who says he hasn't spoken to her in a while, told the Daily News, "You've only got one mom, man, and you've got to be thankful for her. I still love her." Random fact: Standley appeared in the same courtroom where Chamberlain pleaded guilty to his October DUI.

• Marlins 4, Mets 3: Things looked swell in this one until the eighth inning. Fernando Tatis had put the Mets on top with a solo homer in the sixth that just got out to left field. J.J. Putz and then Francisco Rodriguez would be needed to secure six outs in relief of Johan Santana. But Putz coughed up the lead in the eighth and the Mets dropped the rubber game. Santana has three wins this year in five starts but has a 1.10 ERA -- and that's up from the 0.70 mark it was at the beginning of the day. After an off-day Thursday, the Mets travel to Philadelphia for a critical series starting Friday.
• Yankees 8, Tigers 6: This one turned out much more interesting than the Yankees would have liked, but it still helped the Yankees end a road trip that started with a four-game losing streak on a positive note. Nick Swisher homered twice -- he has three homers in his last two games -- and Joba Chamberlain struck out six and walked three in seven innings of one-run ball. Hideki Matsui also had three RBIs. The Yankees face the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim on Thursday.
• Red Bulls 2, Earthquakes 1: The Red Bulls finally won a match on the road. Unfortunately, it was only for a US Open play in game and doesn't count towards their regular season record.

The Smoking Gun kicks off the start of the baseball season with this video from Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain's DUI arrest in his home state of Nebraska last fall. Pulled over for speeding, Chamberlain tells a cop, "I came from Florida, and obviously I play for the Yankees." The Nebraska State Trooper asked Chamberlain, whose breath allegedly smelled of alcohol (there was an open container of Crown Royal in the passenger seat), about New York, to which Joba replied, "opening a door and saying please and thank you" doesn't happen in the Big Apple and drivers tend to cut you off, "They might hit you. It's a joke." And he also revealed he once met Yogi Berra in the locker room, "I go, 'Yogi, what the fuck are you doing here?" with Berra replying, "You know what? It's too cold for my old ass to be here." After the arrest, Chamberlain apologized to fans, "I intend to properly resolve this situation, and do not intend to be in such a situation again. My goal is to focus on pitching for the Yankees in the 2009 season."

Yesterday in Belmar Municipal Court, an innocent Jersey Shore town sought justice against a man who spent the summer bedding their women and eating their bagels, simply because he made them believe that he was Yankee phenom pitcher Joba Chamberlain. 30-year-old Ryan Ward has been charged with "theft by deception" after he swindled free food out of the Belmar Bagel Cafe last summer. Ward opened a newspaper to the sports section and pointed at "his picture," while asking female workers, "Do you know who I am?" He then autographed the newspaper, which owner Don Weston considered framing. (Ward has since returned to the cafe and paid for his free bagels and coffee).

The tabloids have details on what led to Yankee pitcher Joba Chamberlain's DUI arrest over the weekend: He was at the Night Before Lounge (the Daily News calls it a "nudie bar") where someone yelled, "If you played for the Red Sox, you wouldn't be sitting here." Chamberlain was angry enough to get out of his chair, but the Post reports that "several friends intervened before the tiff escalated beyond pushing and shoving." So Chamberlain left in a huff--though generously tipped $100 on a $45 bill--only to be arrested for speeding and have a cop notice the open container of alcohol and smell alcohol on his breath (he had a 0.134 blood alcohol level, over the 0.08 limit in Nebraska). Note to Red Sox players: Don't take the bait when someone says, "If you played for Tampa Bay, you wouldn't be sitting here."

Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain issued an apology last night for his DUI arrest over the weekend, where he was found with a blood alcohol level of 0.134--well over the 0.08 limit in Nebraska. In his statement to the Yankees and the fans, he said, “I want to apologize to the New York Yankees and the fans for an error in judgment and for putting myself in a difficult situation. I intend to properly resolve this situation, and do not intend to be in such a situation again. My goal is to focus on pitching for the Yankees in the 2009 season.”

Yankee phenom Joba Chamberlain was arrested and charged with a DUI in his home state of Nebraska early Saturday morning. Chamberlain was pulled over at 1 a.m Saturday on US 77 near Lincoln, the town which he hails from as well as the home to his glory days as a star pitcher for the University of Nebraska.

A Jersey Shore man is giving new meaning to the term "five-tool player" after spending the summer hooking up with as many as 100 women because of his resemblance to Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain. Ryan Ward tells the NY Post that after "numerous occasions of my shirt being ripped off," a friend encouraged him to "become (Joba) for the summer." However, Ward took his new found identity too far when cops had to arrest the 29-year-old Phillies fan after a two-week run of scamming free food and drinks from bartenders in Belmar and other Shore towns. The Yankee phenom says he would like to meet his doppleganger. Ward, currently unemployed and out on bail says, "I wouldn't mind becoming his celebrity impersonator."

After the game, Derek Jeter dedicated the win to Bobby Murcer. Murcer had been honored earlier in the day with a memorial service that many of the current Yankees attended in Oklahoma City.

Don’t pay attention to the score of 9-5, the headline says it all, Joba Chamberlain is hurt. How badly he is injured and what the ramifications are, aren’t known at this point, but the Yankees will have to hold their breath. Maybe it was the play in the fifth where Joba had to dive to get out of the way of a throw that caused him to leave the game with “shoulder stiffness”, but if it wasn’t they have to expect him to miss some time.

When Yankees’ season ends, their most important free agent re-signing will have never hit a home run, won a game or driven in a run for them. He will never have even worn the uniform because their most important piece of offseason work will be bringing Brian Cashman back to the Bronx.