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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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Matt Gagne / NY Daily News:
Mo is still the best closer in baseball — MINNEAPOLIS - If there is any doubt who the best closer in baseball is, the debate was settled Sunday. — Boston's Jonathan Papelbon blew a save (he lost the game) and the Red Sox painfully bowed out of the other American League division series.
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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 …
Dan Shaughnessy / Boston Globe:
The old-time gloom settles over Fenway — It was shocking. It was time travel. It was back to the bad old days. — It was a macabre matinee at our ancient baseball theater. — All you young New Englanders who shrugged whenever dad said, “The Sox will blow it, they always choke at the end,” . . . now you know.
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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 …
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 …
Thomas Harding / MLB.com:
Hot-hitting Torrealba bats fifth for Rox — Catcher has just 23 career at-bats above No. 6 spot — DENVER — With a strong finish to the regular season and a surprise home run in Game 2 of the National League Division Series, Rockies catcher Yorvit Torrealba found himself with a more prominent role for Sunday night's Game 3.
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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.
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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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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