A New Season

   After a tragedy here in Rio ( monday night rained the same volume in three hours that would rain in one month and the city became a KAOS. We are already with 178 deaths because of the rain) I'm back at our blog. My internet connection didn’t work until last night. But now we’re starting to get our live back so last discuss a little baseball.

   After the first series is still to early to say who is the best team. Who got the best bats. And the best pitchers staff. But we can start to look a few things this week.

   Once again look likes the Yankees and the Red Sox will have a great team. The Yankees let Damon and World Series MVP Matsui walk but got a great centerfield in Granderson and a on-base machine in Nick Johnson ( he is a freak…he doesn’t have a single hit yet but got on base 6 times on five walk and one HBP). The new fourth pitcher didn’t even start and we know that this team will be a very hard team to someone win. The Red Sox on the other hand just showed the new Sox. Defense defense defense. Their attack still don’t put to much fear on the other side. The two guys that the others team should fear are Youk and Martinez. I don’t know if is bias (i made no secret that I'm a Yankees fan) but unless their trio of starters (Beckett, Lester and Lackey) have a healthy and good season or they will be in trouble to score a lot of runs. And if that happen Tampa will be right there to take the wild card and go to the playoffs. They have a really talent team and one extra motivation: this is the last year for Crawford and Pena at Tampa.

   On the others division looks like will be a competition between Twins and White Sox and between Angels and Texas. On the national league the Phillies, Cardinals and Giants look good and i believe the wild card will go to the Dodgers.

Last this season bring to us a great year !

Author comment: when the season got on motion I’ll start to talk a little bit more about the others team but always with The Yankees having priority.

Número 27

Que noite. Eram 3:30 da manhã quando eu finalmente fui dormir. Nove anos depois o NEW YORK YANKEES conseguiu seu título. Número 27 !!!! Para mim esse foi um pouco especial. Pela primeira vez eu assisti à praticamente todos os jogos, desde a pré-temporada até a WORLD SERIES. E que grupo de jogadores. As pessoas dizem que química é valorizada além da conta, mas esse caras mostraram que faz parte de um time vencedor, essa tal de química. Jogo após jogo, vitória após vitória eles pareciam gostar um dos outros, mas importante, pareciam gostar de jogar lado a lado.
A temporada começou um pouco devagar, mas quando todas as peças finalmente se juntaram ninguém pode parar esse time. Um walk-off atrás do outro, vitória e mais vitória, eles mostraram que grande clube os Yankees são. Depois de 103 vitórias na temporada regular, os playoffs começaram e eles mostraram que eles estavam aqui para isso, o TÍTULO.
Jogadores fizeram sua parte. Como A-ROD e sua extraordinária performance nos playoffs. CC Sabathia arremessando como o verdadeiro ACE do time, Jeter jogando como Jeter joga (para aqueles que pensavam que ele estava acabado, aí está sua resposta!), Teixeira e sua defesa acima da média, Pettitte não demonstrando nenhum sinal de sua idade, Matsui e sua incrível World Series e MARIANO RIVERA. Eu farei um parte especial ao Mariano. Tivemos 8 closers na pós-temporada e todos eles tiveram pelo menos um blow save ou uma derrota. Todos com exceção de um: surpresa, surpresa MARIANO RIVERA. Jogando 1 entrada, 2 entradas, não importava. Ele fechou cada jogo em que entrou. As vezes não era um save, mas era para terminar o jogo sem nenhuma chance de retorno. E uma menção especial para o técnico. JOE GIRARDI. Quão incrível ele foi tendo todas as suas decisões postas em dúvida e mesmo assim mantendo-as acreditando que aquele era o caminho certo para ele e para o time.

A WORLD SERIES de 2009 pertence ao NEW YORK YANKEES e o mundo está de volta a normalidade.

NUMBER 27

What a night. It was 3:30 in the morning when I finally went to bed. After nine years the NEW YORK YANKEES got his title. Number 27 !!!!! For me this one was a little special. For the first time a watched almost every game from spring training to the world series. What a group of players. People say that chemistry is overrated but this guys showed that is a valuable part of a winning team. Game after game they seen to enjoy each other and most important seens to enjoy play together.
The season started a little bit slow but when all pieces came together no one could stop that team. Walk-off after walk-off, wins after wins this they showed what a great ballclub the Yankees are. After 103 wins in regular season the playoff started and the team showed they were here for the TITLE !
Players steped up. Like A-ROD and his amazing pos-season. CC Sabathia pitching like the true ACE of the staff, Jeter doing what Jeter does ( for those who thought he was done, here's your answer !), Teixeira and his superb defense, Pettitte showing no sign of his age, Matsui and his incredible World Series and MARIANO RIVERA. I’ll do a special part for Mariano. We had 8 closers in this pos-season and every one og them or blew a save or lost a game except for surprise, surprise MARIANO RIVERA. Pitching 1 inning, 2 innings...didn't matter to him. He close every game he enter. Sometimes not in a save situation but just to finish the game without doubt. And a special mention not to a player but to the manager. JOE GIRARDI. How incredible he was having all his action doubt in some level and still believing that he and the team were in the right way.
The 2009 WORLD SERIES belong to the NEW YORK YANKEES and the world is right back on track.

Phillies ganham o primeiro jogo da World Series

Noite difícil ontem. Cliff Lee chegou ao Bronx com um objetivo: arremessar strikes e fazer com que os rebatedores dos Yankees tentassem rebater bolas fora da zona de strikes. Desde o primeiro arremesso ele manteve os rebatedores fora de equilíbrio.Trabalhando os dois lados da zona de strike ele arremessou um jogo completo permitindo apenas uma corrida, eliminando por strike out 10 e não permitindo um walk se quer.  O time do Yankees conhecido por sua paciência no bastão não conseguiu nenhum walk.

Do outro lado, CC começou o jogo conseguindo duas eliminações rápidas, antes de entrar em apuros lotando as bases. Porém, Ibanez rebateu uma bola rasteira nas mãos do Cano e CC conseguiu sair sem danos. Apesar deste primeiro inning (onde fez 24 arremessos) CC deu aos Yankees 7 entradas cedendo apenas duas corridas, essas duas marcadas em home runs simples pelo Utley. Não foi um bom jogo do CC, mas pelo menos deu aos Yankees uma chance de ganhar. Depois da saída de CC, o bullpen implodiu permitindo o Phillies marcar 4 corridas. Mesmo com o esforço na 9 entrada não foi o suficiente.

Pela primeira vez nos playoffs desse ano, os Yankees estarão atrás, 0-1. Jogo 2 dessa noite é crucial e será uma batalha entre AJ Burnett contra Pedro Martinez.

Placar do Jogo 1

Phillies win first game of the World Series

Rough night yesterday. Cliff Lee went to Bronx with one goal: trow strikes and make the Yankees hitters chase balls outside the zone. Since his first pitch Lee kept them off balance. Working both sides of the plate he trew a complete game alowing just one run and striking out 10 and without allowing a free pass. The Yankees hitters knowed as a patiente team couldn’t draw a single walk of Lee.

On the other side CC start the game getting to quicks out before got himself in trouble loading the bases but Ibanez hit a ground ball to Cano and CC got out of trouble. Beside that first inning (he had to trow 24 pitches) he gave the Yankees 7 innings of two run ball both runs scored by Utley solos shots. It was not a good game for CC but he still gave the Yankees a close game. After CC got out of the game the Yankees bullpen imploded surrendering 4 runs. Even with the effort in the 9 inning it was not enough.

For the first time in this playoffs the Yankees will be behind 0-1. Game two is crucial for them and will be a battle between AJ Burnett and Pedro Martinez.

Box Score Game 1