Two wins away; Yankees Game 3 World Series Recap

The Yankees are officially two wins away from winning the world series.  Finally, they started to hit and destroyed a laboring and almost scared Cole Hamels in route to winning game 3.  Lets get to the game.

-I thought that when it was 3-0 two out runners on first and second with Utley coming up, that this game would be a blowout.  Pettitte looked terrible that inning, he could not find the plate at all; it looked very bleak.  Then Pettitte got Utley to chase (no pun intented) on a bad pitch and suddenly you felt rather confident it was only 3-0. 

- The A-Rod homer was so, SO big.  Good job by the replay system in getting it right, and just big props to A-Rod for ignoring the whole "A-Rod is going to choke" thing.  Basically Marc Malusis said A-Rod going 0-8 with 6k's was the biggest storyline and the guy is a choke.  Well, take that Marc Malusis you clown.  It was huge to get him that hit, and it could not have come at a better time.  A-Rod is going to heat up, and it started last night.

-You know when I knew we were going to win?  When Andy Pettitte got an RBI single to tie the game.  There was no way after that we were going to lose.  Hamels threw a hanging curve and Pettitte actually put a good swing on it and drove it to center for a bloop single.  Damon followed with the 2 run RBI double and that was all she wrote.

-Cole Hamels is hurt.  He has to be, you dont go from a dominating starter, and a guy who is on the rise in this league as the next great starter, to a guy who could not even make it out of the 5th inning in Game 3 of the World Series.  He did not have good control, he was missing badly was pitches, and that hit to Pettitte blew up any confidence he had.  As for Pettitte, he was good, not great by any means, but he was clutch when you needed him.  You knew when the Yanks gave him a lead, he was not going to give it back up.

-How about Joe Girardi pushing the right button with Nick Swisher?  Give him a day off, and then watch him go 2-4 with a home run.  Great job by Girardi and great job by Swisher for coming through. 

- As of now, Mariano is World Series MVP.  He has a save, did a Houdini job of getting out of that ham in Game 2 and besides, I dont know who else you can give it to.  That is why it comes down to these next games to see who the MVP will be.  Tonight is huge, C.C vs Joe Blanton and the matchup is so heavily favored towards the Yankees.  

- Lew