NEW YORK (AP) All-Star center fielder Shane Victorino will be in Philadelphia's starting lineup tonight for Game 6 of the World Series despite a finger injury. Full Article at Reno Gazette-Journal
Shane Victorino hit .292 this season with 10 homers, 62 RBIs and a major league-high 13 triples. Full Article at Sports Illustrated
NEW YORK - Keeping Phillies second baseman Chase Utley in the ballpark is a mission tonight for the New York Yankees, who will try a second time to wrap up the World Series in Game 6. Full Article at PhillyBurbs.com
CC Sabathia and A.J. Burnett, younger and stronger, approached their recent starts for the Yankees on three days' rest with shrugs. Andy Pettitte approaches his tonight with understandable trepidation. average. Full Article at The San Jose Mercury News
Phillies' fans are holding their breath over the status of centre-fielder Shane Victorino, who suffered a finger injury in Game 5 when A.J. Burnett hit him with a pitch in the first inning. Full Article at National Post
What I am going to do, call him in and say, 'Ryan, I'm hitting you fifth or sixth tonight because this is the sixth game of the World Series?' What's that telling him? If my manager did that to me, I'd have some words with him.
What kind of message do I send to Howard, after 3 or 4 years he's been in the big leagues, all of a sudden in a big, important game in the World Series, I drop him?
You know, I learned a long time ago, especially when I played baseball in Japan, you've got to slide that ego away every now and then
And really, if I thought dropping Howard down in the lineup would win the game for us, I'd do it. But you know what? He's been there that long, and I don't want to go doing it on a day, the sixth game of the World Series.