Via the Toronto Globe and Mail:
Since baseball adopted its current postseason format in 1995, only Torre’s 2001 New York Yankees came back to win a best-of-five series after losing the first two games at home. The turning point in the series came in Game 3, a 1-0 win in Oakland, in a game remembered for Derek Jeter’s instinctive run and lateral toss to home plate to nail Jeremy Giambi. But Mike Mussina’s seven runless innings set the tone.
“The best way to do it is to pitch,” Torre said.
“I had Andy Pettitte, who probably in postseason play I trusted more than anybody else other than Mariano Rivera, and if you watched Andy get ready for a game you’d think he was scared to death, until you watched him pitch,” Torre said. “You realized that even though he may have been a little uneasy, he was able to just put that away and channel all of his energies in the right direction.”
Courage is not the absence of fear. More so, it’s being afraid and doing it anyway.
Now, let’s see if the Cubs, Brewers, Angels and White Sox can check their fears and maybe make some of these LDS match-ups a little more interesting this weekend…
And, by the way, if the Yankees and Pettitte slow dance too much this season, any chance that Andy might go west for a season and go join Joe?
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October 4th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
” But Mike Mussina’s seven runless innings set the tone.”
What’s Mussina’s name doing int this?
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“And, by the way, if the Yankees and Pettitte slow dance too much this season, any chance that Andy might go west for a season and go join Joe?”
I don’t see that. Andy said if he returns it’ll be w/ the Yanks (if they want him back).
October 4th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Andy is a flat out stud when it counts.
I’ve never seen him pitch a worse second half than this year. Can we chalk it up to the crappy team around him?
I wouldn’t mind seeing him be the 5th starter next yr. You need lefty’s in YS.
October 5th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Mr. Torre on his way to the NLCS.
Priceless.
October 5th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Good luck to Joe, he’ll might face the Red Sox again(though I think the Rays will play the NL team). It would be fun to see the Hollywood Dodgers up 3 games to none and tanking to the Red Pox again. Not only does Francona have Scioscia’s number he has Torre’s number too. BUT Joe” the Madman” Madden has all their numbers this year……. Go Rays!