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Sam Borden / The LoHud Yankees Blog:
ALDS Game 3: Yankees at Twins — YANKEES — Pitching: LHP Andy Pettitte (14-8, 4.16 ERA regular season) — TWINS — Pitching: RHP Carl Pavano (14-12, 5.10 ERA regular season) — WEATHER: Pretty terrible. Temps in the 30s, sporadic snow showers and biting wind chill.
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Kelly Thesier / MLB.com:
Twins left to wonder what could have been — Baserunning, lack of timely hitting end season in ALDS — MINNEAPOLIS — Just five days ago, it was the Twins who were spraying champagne inside their clubhouse as they celebrated an improbable division title.
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Mark Feinsand / NY Daily News:
Bring on the Halos! Yanks sweep Twins in ALDS — MINNEAPOLIS - Goodbye Metrodome, hello ALCS. — The Yankees polished off their sweep of the Twins in the final game ever to be played in the dome, getting clutch home runs by Alex Rodriguez - who else? - and Jorge Posada to give the Bombers …
NY Daily News:
Bondy: Jorge shows why he needs to play — MINNEAPOLIS - A conga line of Yankees swirled into the trainer's room, propelled by spouting champagne and a familiar chant. “Hip, hip, Jorge!” they screamed. His teammates were dead set on retrieving their favorite grump, Jorge Posada …
Lyle Spencer / MLB.com:
Angels stun Sox for ALDS sweep — Vlad's two-run single finishes two-out rally in ninth — BOSTON — For Vladimir Guerrero, season 13 in the Major Leagues turned out not to be so unlucky after all. — In what he called “the biggest moment of my career — so far,” Guerrero ripped a game-deciding …
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Ian Browne / MLB.com:
Papelbon can't close door, Sox lose — Sox's closer allows three in ninth as Angels win ALDS — BOSTON — The Red Sox were one strike away from a win that would have prolonged their season another day. But the Angels wouldn't stand for it, coming up with three runs in the top …
Lyle Spencer / MLB.com:
Vlad's heroics deliver ALDS sweep — Angels rally with two outs in ninth to stun Sox — BOSTON — Stunning Red Sox Nation with a two-out ninth-inning eruption, the Angels completed a sweep of the American League Division Series with a 7-6 conquest of Boston on Sunday at Fenway Park.
Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Cards set to probe reasons for failure — Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak (left) talks with chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. during batting practice before Game 2 of the National League Division Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Calif. (By Chris Lee/P-D)
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Derrick Goold / STLtoday.com Top Sports Headlines:
Smoltz still has the itch to pitch, he thinks — ST. LOUIS — A veteran of October games and October dismissals, pitcher John Smoltz said it takes seven to 10 days for the “body and mind ... to realize you're not getting up to play baseball that day.” — It will take a bit longer …
Associated Press:
Phils-Rockies could set new cold weather record — DENVER (AP) — The Philadelphia Phillies and Colorado Rockies bundled up Sunday night for Game 3 of the NL playoffs, wearing stocking caps, gloves and thick, hooded sweat shirts while taking batting practice in the biting cold.
William C. Rhoden / New York Times:
Yankees-Dodgers Is the Finish Baseball Needs — In the euphoria of the moment, Los Angeles Angels Manager Mike Scioscia was asked Sunday if he had thought about a freeway series between the Angels and the Dodgers. The Dodgers eliminated the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday …
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David Brown / Yahoo! Sports:
Umpires continue playoff slump, blow call twice on Utley single — Umpires seem to make the darnedest calls this postseason. — Nothing, hopefully, can top umpire Phil Cuzzi's call on Joe Mauer's — [ground-rule double] foul ball during Twins-Yankees, but two umps each missed a call …
