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...mark the reopening of the New York Stock Exchange, New York Governor George Pataki and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani joined traders in singing it. That evening, as major league baseball games resumed around the country, it replaced "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" as the theme song of the seventh-inning stretch. Over the next weeks, everyone - Celine Dion, Marc Anthony, N.Y.P.D. officer Daniel Rodriguez, the whole country - sang "God Bless America...
...then, in what amounted to winning the lottery twice, the Yankees managed to overcome two-run, two-out ninth inning deficits twice, as Tino Martinez and Scott Brosius both hit game-tying homers off D-Backs closer Byung-Hyun Kim. Although both games went into extra innings, there was little doubt that the Yankees would come out on top of both matches, and they...
Despite a lopsided loss in Game 6 to the D-Backs, one couldn’t help but think the Yankees would find some way to win the decisive Game 7, given their pair of miraculous finishes just days earlier. This feeling was reinforced in the eighth inning of the game, when Rivera came in to preserve a 2-1 lead after Alfonso Soriano homered off Schilling to break a 1-1 deadlock...
...stadium when the Yanks crushed the Mariners 12-3 to clinch the A.L. pennant. "It was awesome," O'Neill recalled. "I saw so many things go on that night." An enthralling wave of singing and chanting--some of it even printable--washed over the crowd from the first inning and never stopped...
...This is where it gets weird again. Pettitte could not get an out in the third inning. His replacement, Jay Witasick, could not get an out west of the Mississippi. The B-Backs hit doubles to right, scorched singles to left, and up the middle. Johnson, who looks like a licorice stick holding a pretzel rod when he?s at the plate, directed a single to right, making the score 7-0. The D- Backs now had a cadence going. Single, double, single, double. Torre had already conceded the game, leaving the miserable Witasick in to face an Arizona team...