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TUESDAY
OCTOBER 20, 2009
thestar.com
Angels tread
fearlessly on
Yank bullpen
Angels 5 Yankees 4 (11) YANKEES LEAD SERIES 2-1
Scioscia manages boldly while Girardi scrambles
to keep up; now it’s all up to New York ace Sabathia
ANAHEIM, CALIF.
T
he Yankees have blown
bigger leads than this one —
right, Red Sox fans? — and
talk about putting the pressure on
CC Sabathia here Tuesday.
If the big left-hander, pitching
with a 2-1 series lead on short rest,
can’t hold down the Anaheim An- DAVE PERKINS
gels, the momentum that Joe Gi-
rardi and Co. let slip away Monday ing through his bullpen like he was
could well come back and flatten Joe Torre, or somebody. The trou-
them. ble with using seven relievers be-
The Angels rallied for a 5-4 win in hind a decent Andy Pettitte is that
a terrific ball game that had just one of them might be horsebleep
about everything, including six ho- and if he is, goodbye ball game.
mers — four solo shots by the Yan- Alfredo Aceves turned out to be
kees — and a back-up catcher com- just that, entering with two out
ing away the hero. and nobody on, after David Rob-
Jeff Mathis smoked a long double ertson had retired both his hitters,
with two out in the bottom of the and promptly yielding a single to
11th inning, what he called “the Kendrick and the rocket to Mathis.
biggest hit of my life,” to score Ho- “As far as (removing) Robertson,
wie Kendrick as the Angels we liked the matchup with Ace
matched the Yankees in every cat- better,” Girardi said. “It’s just dif-
egory except power and over- ferent kind of stuff against those
matched them decisively in the hitters and we have all the match-
manager’s office. ups and the scouting reports.
Girardi was running to his dugout “And it didn’t work,” he added,
MARK J. TERRILL/AP binder like a high school kid, seek-
Angels’ Howie Kendrick achieves some altitude after scoring the winning run in the 11th inning vs. Yankees. ing out statistics and then march- PERKINS continued on S4
Read Richard Griffin’s take on the NLCS, Dodgers vs. Phillies, on page S4 and at www.thestar.com/sports