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The 2009 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2009 season.As the 105th [1] edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff contested between the Philadelphia Phillies, champions of the National League (NL) and defending World Series champions, and the New York Yankees, champions of the American League (AL).
This was the fourth time Bush has thrown out a World Series first pitch. The first time was when the Diamondbacks upset the Yankees. Was former President George W. Bush’s World Series ceremonial ...
October 30 – The New York Yankees beat the Philadelphia Phillies 8–5, at Citizens Bank Park, to take a 2–1 advantage in the World Series. Alex Rodriguez belts the first video-reviewed home run in World Series history to support another winning Andy Pettitte effort, while Nick Swisher and Hideki Matsui add solo shots.
Christy Mathewson is the career leader in World Series complete games, with 10 during 1905–1913, all for the New York Giants. [2] While complete games were once common in the World Series (the first edition without a complete game was 1959) [3] the most recent World Series complete game win was thrown by Johnny Cueto for the Kansas City ...
The Baseball Hall of Famer spent all 20 seasons of his big league career in the pinstripes, and won his last World Series title with the franchise in 2009 when New York defeated the Philadelphia ...
Winning an epic seven-pitch battle against Guardians reliever Hunter Gaddis with two outs and two on in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series, Soto drove a 1-2 pitch high and deep to ...
[2] [3] The game was the first All-Star Game held in St. Louis since 1966. [4] This was the seventh year in which the All-Star Game determined home field advantage in the World Series, with the American League winning all seven games up to and including 2009
A 7-6 Game 5 victory, a 4-1 conquest of the Yankees and the club's first World Series title since 2020 and first in a full season since 1988. DODGERS WIN WORLD SERIES: Celebrate with this ...