Melky Cabrera News

NEW YORK - Thanks to Alex Rodriguez and the Yankees, Madison Square Garden finally had some champions on the court again.

Thursday 05 Nov 2009 Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 11:46PM MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com - - The Trenton Thunder Minor League Baseball team had a total of 23 former players suit up for their Major League affiliate at some point during the New York Yankees World Series Championship season that concluded on Wednesday night.

Fans cheer as the Yankees were honored in New York with a ticker-tape parade celebrating their 27th World Series championship.

Yankees manager Joe Girardi turned the other way at the fork in the road. He brought back Game 1 starter CC Sabathia with just 3 days of rest.

After Hideki Matsui spent the last three games in Philadelphia being used solely as a pinch-hitter, the Yankees are looking forward to getting him back in the lineup for Game 6 tonight as the designated hitter.

Sam Borden reports that Melky Cabrera may have a full hamstring tear, rendering him inactive for the rest of the World Series.

Yankees center fielder Melky Cabrera left Game 4 of the World Series on Sunday night with an injury.

If the knock against Yankees manager Joe Girardi is that he's been overmanaging his way through his first postseason, well, let's put it this way: At least he's got plenty of help.

Pedro Martinez slowly walked off the mound, listening to the taunts from the Bronx crowd.

Nick Swisher watches Chase Utley's second homer sail over the right-field wall in the sixth inning.

In today's amNewYork, Julie Gordon reports that Justin Timberlake has cooked up something very special for the World Series at his New York barbecue joint Southern Hospitality .

Joe Girardi kept the bottom of his lineup the same for Tuesday night's Game 4 of the American League Championship Series, and the move paid off as the slumping bottom of the order proved crucial in a three-run fourth inning and a two-run eighth.

In the end, it was Mariano Rivera on the mound as his teammates rushed after him to celebrate the Yankees' 2009 Pennant.

Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira reacts after home plate umpire Fieldin Culbreth calls strike three in the first inning Thursday night in Game 5 of the ALCS.

Torii Hunter said the Angels' failure to execute the fundamentals was one of the differences in the series.

The Angels' Bobby Abreu doubled in the first, one of four hits off A.J. Burnett in the inning.

Jeff Mathis crushes a pitch from Kennedy that one-hops the wall in left for a lead-off double.

About 40 minutes after the final out of Thursday's American League Championship Game at Angel Stadium, a pair of stadium workers rolled 12 cases of Korbel champagne past the visitor's clubhouse and into a waiting elevator.

BOTTOM OF THE THIRD INNING Erick Aybar is tagged out by Teixeira on a bunt attempt.

ANAHEIM, Calif. As a hired $161 million gun, CC Sabathia is supposed to honor the endless parade of zeros in his paycheck.