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In their first season under the lights of their new Bronx stadium, the Yankees won their 27th world title Wednesday night with a 7-3 win over the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6 of the World Series.

The win is the team’s first championship since 2000 and represents the fifth World Series ring for the “core four” of Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte and Jorge Posada.

“You never know when you’re going to get back here, you know, so for all my teammates that have been here before and we couldn’t do it,” Posada said. “This really says a lot about our team. I’m excited. I mean I’m speechless. I’m really enjoying the moment right now.”

Rivera closed out Game 6, getting the Phillies’ Shane Victorino on a groundball to second to end it.

“Now it’s over. Now there’s a lot of celebration, a lot of smiles and that’s it,” said Rivera. “We win today and I’m going to rest now.”

The star of the game was Hideki Matsui. The Yankees DH was awarded the Series MVP award following his two-run homer, two-run single, and two-run double performance Wednesday night.

His six RBIs tied a record set in 1960 by the Yankees’ Bobby Richardson for most in a single World Series game.

Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte picked up the win, adding to his record of postseason wins and series-clinching wins.

The World Series celebration could be heard all across the city, but especially in the Bronx.

Fans who came pouring out of the stadium following the Bombers’ victory said they were glad they clinched the title at home.

“Amazing, amazing! Greatest game I ever went to. About time. A-Rod, Jeter, Pettitte, Matsui MVP, what more can be said,” shouted one Yankees fan.

“New president, new stadium, new champions, New York!” said another enthusiastic fan.

In Times Square, fans wasted no time stocking up on World Series souvenirs at Modell’s Sporting Goods. Read more..

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The New York Yankees are hoping to wrap up the World Series against the Phillies in Philadelphia Monday night. But if they lose Game 5 and have to go back to the Bronx to finish up the series, they really should get some of the fans from Sunday’s Yankee Stadium game-watching event into the ballpark. Because the Bronx backers at that event - local fans who were just happy to be in the stadium to cheer on their team- were far more enthusiastic and happy to be there than most of the postseason crowds at the stadium so far.

I went to the game-watching event with fellow Faster Times writer Jon Lewin - he’s the Met fan counterpart of Subway Squawkers, our New York City baseball blog. Barbra from Manhattan, one of our readers, joined us (she took the photo of the last pitch of the game, seen at left) .  Somewhere close to 10,000 or so Yankee fans were also at the event, where we watched the game on the 100-foot video screen.

The stadium officials let us sit in the field-level seats at the new ballpark, in front of the moat. We got to sit on the third-base line, right by the visitors’ dugout. So we finally got to see what it was like to luxuriate in comfortably cushioned box seats with wooden armrests. Seats were great, cup holders not so much. Two of us suffered overturned soda casualties thanks to poorly-designed holders. At $6 for a Sierra Mist, that hurt! Read more..

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For the Yankees to win the World Series, they need A.J. Burnett to perform nearly as well as ace CC Sabathia.

The weather cooperated to allow a baseball game on Saturday night in the Bronx. But son of a gun if it didn’t feel like a football game, with temperatures in the 40s, winds making it feel worse and two hardened teams going into overtime as the clock turned to Sunday.

Weather watch: It was 47 degrees at gametime on Saturday night, 2 degrees warmer than on Friday, but it was again blustery, with a 15 mph wind from the north-northeast and gusts up to 23 mph that made the ceremonial red-white-and-blue bunting flap.

Pretty, pretty, pretty amazing.

And then it was over, 5 hours, 10 minutes after it began, with Jerry Hairston Jr. racing home at 1:07 in the morning, Game 2 of the ALCS to the Yanks, 4-3 in 13 innings.

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Jorge Posada has two young children, and he hoped they were not awake to see what happened in the eighth inning Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium. After crossing the plate with a run, Posada elbowed Blue Jays pitcher Jesse Carlson, inciting what seemed to be an especially aggressive brawl near the Yankees’ dugout.

Jorge Posada was restrained by his teammates, including C.C. Sabathia, after a scuffle with members of the Blue Jays Tuesday night.

 “It’s a tough example,” he said. “I don’t want my kids to see that. Somebody could have gotten hurt. I’m glad that nobody did.”

Posada did not explain why he elbowed Carlson, and he did not say directly that he was sorry. He said he hoped he could avoid a suspension, claiming he did not start anything. Technically, that might be true. Carlson had thrown behind Posada in retaliation for Mark Melancon’s fastball to Aaron Hill’s back. But Posada escalated things. Read more..

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Jonathan Papelbon struck out Robinson Cano with the bases loaded to finish a game that featured five homers and a shouting match

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NEW YORK — On Monday evening, Red Sox slugger David Ortiz stood in the visitor’s dugout at new Yankee Stadium wearing short sleeves and a big smile, seemingly oblivious to both the cold rain that had cancelled batting practice and would delay the start of the game and the .208 batting average he lugged with him to the Bronx. “You know why I came out here?” Ortiz asked. “Because I got lost in the clubhouse like three times and I said, ‘I’m done.’” Read more..

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