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After five minutes Fernandes was cooling his heels (and the welts on his shins) on the bench as Harvard cruised to a safe (literally) victory...
...Yankees came back from a presumably insurmountable deficit, winning all three games in Atlanta, then beating the defending world champions 3-2 in Yankee Stadium Saturday night. This Series had all the elements of a true Fall Classic. There was the unlikely hero off the bench: Yankee pinch hitter Jim Leyritz clubbing a three-run homer off Mark Wohlers to tie the score in the eighth inning of Game 4. There was the unlikely goat: sure-handed Atlanta center fielder Marquis Grissom dropping a fly ball to set up the only run of Game 5. There were the nightly chess...
Millar was something of a team hero last year, coming off the bench to contribute much more than expected to the offense...
...memory of Breistroff, two black pucks encircling the number seven with the initials MB underneath have been placed in front of each bench. This year's uniforms feature the same insignia on the left shirtsleeve...
Mike Aldrete will see some big at bats in this series off the bench for the Yankees...