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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 pitch marked the first game at the new home of the College World Series, replacing the nearby Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium. Before Bush threw out the first pitch, his father, who played for Yale in the first CWS in 1947, delivered a video message christening the new stadium. He is the first President to have thrown ceremonial first pitches ...
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 ...
Eric Bruntlett, a reserve second baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies, pulled off baseball's fifteenth unassisted triple play against the New York Mets at Citi Field on August 23, 2009. It ended a Major League Baseball game for the first time since 1927, as the Phils beat the Mets, 9–7.
And this time, they held onto the lead - and finally crawled within one win of their first World Series since 2009. ... First pitch for ALCS Game 4 is scheduled for 8:08 p.m. ET on Friday night.
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 ...
Don Larsen threw out the ceremonial first pitch to Berra, who had been his catcher during the 1956 World Series perfect game. Larsen was the only perfect game pitcher to attend another perfect game, until Cone and fellow pitcher Dallas Braden were in Oakland for Domingo German’s perfect game in 2023 as a TV analyst for the New York Yankees ...