World Series: New York Beats the Defending Champs

     By Sean Axon

    The New York Yankees captured their 27^th World Series title defeating last year’s Champs, the  Philadelphia Phillies.
     New York won game two, three, four, and finally game six to send the Phillies back to Philadelphia without the trophy and the label of 2009 World Series Champs.
   Philadelphia started off strong, winning game one of the series and then winning game five forcing a game six back in New York.
    In game six it was a showdown of veteran pitchers, with Pedro Martinez for the Phillies and Andy Pettitte for the Yankees.
  Pettitte came out victorious, pitching five and two-thirds innings and scattering three runs. Martinez, on the losing side pitched four innings and gave up four runs.
  The defending champs, the Philadelphia Phillies just could not get their offense rolling to their standard in the series and were shutdown by New York’s pitching.
  Joe Girardi, the manager for the New York Yankees pitched only three starting pitchers the whole series: CC Sabathia, AJ Burnett and Andy Pettitte, they each got only two or three  days rest.
 The World Series MVP went to Hideki Matsui who destroyed the Phillies pitching, tied a single game record in game six with six runs batted in. Matsui was also the first Japanese born player to be a world series MVP.
  Besides record tying performances, a very embarrassing record was broken by Ryan Howard of the Phillies the record broken was most strikeouts in a series, Howard having 13.
  Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, and Andy Pettitte all achieved their fifth World Series Championship with the Yankees, and Jorge Posada got his fourth.
Yankees celebrated their World Series victory on their home field, a new 1.5 billion dollar stadium.

The New York Yankees have played in 40 World Series, out of the 40 they have won 27 Championships which is the most in major league baseball history by a long shot. 

The city of New York partied like it was 1999 (the last time they won the world series) and the streets of New York were filled with ecstatic Yankee fans.