The Empire is Back!

Yesterday was one of the best days of my life. The Yankees won their twenty seventh world series and their first one in ten years. This has been the first world series that I have been very interested in since it is the first time that the Yankees have made it to the world series since 2001. That year I was in India and therefore did not have the opportunity to watch them play as I was too young and they do not show baseball in India. The Yankees won yesterday in an impressive fashion even though some people saw them as underdogs in this series against the defending champs, the Phillies. I always thought that this was the stupidest thing that I had ever heard especially since the Yankees had just beaten the angels who were considered one of the best teams in major league baseball this season, in an impressive fashion. I always thought that the Yankees would win in six games and they did last night in impressive fashion, blasting Pedro Martinez for five runs in four innings.

Pedro Martinez is considered one of baseball’s most outstanding pitchers of all time and has done a lot in his career, from winning the World Series to winning the cy young not once but three times during his illustrious career. On the other end was Andy Pettitte, who is 37 years old and is the best post season pitcher ever to take the mound with the most post season starts and the most post season wins of all time for any pitcher. Pettitte helped the Yankees clinch all three of the series that they had to win by pitching really well.

Another major part of the Yankees success was the resurgence of Yankees slugger Alex Rodriquez, who carried the Yankees with his bat all the way to the world series and even though he did not have on the best series in the world series he had many key hits that helped the Yankees offense get rolling and eventually help them win. Then there is Mr. October, Derek Jeter, who continued to do what he has been doing for the past 14 years in the post seasons’ he was played in, and that is get hits. Jeter has played the most post season games and has the most RBI’s and hits in the post season of any player ever and he is tied for third on the homerun list for the post season. This goes to show how reliable of a player Jeter has been throughout his career.

Then there is the most outstanding player of the World Series and one of the most humble players to ever set foot in major league baseball. Hideki Matsui carried the Yankees in the final game and had six runs batted in to tie the all time record for RBI’s in one world series game. Matsui hit a home run, a double, and a single. He was a triple shy of the cycle which was never been done in the World Series ever before.

The Phillies came into Yankee stadium and won the first of seven games and this made me somewhat scared and made me believe what some of the people were saying about the Phillies and how they were going to win in six games, but then the Yankees as they always do, came back and won the next three games behind outstanding pitching and some timely hitting. This is when I knew that this series was over as there was no way that the Yankees were losing after having that big of a lead.

So me and my friends went out and bought champagne and sparkling soda in order to celebrate. We watched the whole game in a good mood as we knew from the beginning that the Yankees were going to win just by the way the game was going and the momentum was always on the Yankees side. Then came in Mariano Rivera who is the best closer of all time, and this is when the champagne bottles were about to be opened.

So eventually the game was over and all the champagne was all consumed. We all sat there a little tired but the too excited to go to sleep, just taking in the moment and enjoying the rest of our night.