Double Jeopardy, Pressure on Tomorrow
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Birds Crush New York Pitching in 9-2 Rout
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“It’s kind of been like that all year. We’ve been up and down and we’ve always seemed to bounce back when we need to bounce back. We’ve got to do it tomorrow.” ‐ Joe Girardi (h/t: Chad Jennings/LoHud)
MEMORY LANE : On today’s date in 1947, in Game 4 of the Fall Classic, Bill Bevens comes within one out from pitching the first no-hitter in World Series history. The Yankee hurler loses his claim to fame and the game when Cookie Lavagetto, pinch-hitting for Eddie Stanky, hits a two-out ninth-inning double giving the Dodgers a 3-2 improbable victory …
Today in 1995, Yankees pitcher Dave Eiland was granted free agency. Upon his retirement from baseball in 2000, Eiland joined the organization as a minor league pitching coach, laboring with the Gulf Coast Yankees, Staten Island Yankees, Trenton Thunder and finally the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees. In 2008, he took over for Ron Guidry as pitching coach for the big club, and was fired after the 2010 season ended with the Yankees missing the playoffs, amid reports of a conflict with manager Joe Girardi …
(h/t: NationalPastime.com, Baseball-Reference.com, Today in Baseball History)