POST-GAME ADDENDUM

Greeting, it's Jay from "On The Sportslines" again, back with a little post-game post.

Okay, Joba irked me by giving up the game-tying homer to Pedro Feliz after looking dominant against the two previous hitters. He'll get the win only because of some SERIOUSLY heads up base running by Johnny Damon and so HUGE, clutch hits by Tex and A-Rod (who has very nicely rebounded from his 0-8 with 6 K's in games 1 and 2). This Yankee team never thinks they're out of any game and tonight was just the latest evidence of that.

Momentum can change in the blink of an eye. Just when the Phillies had hope, the Yankees took it away. Brad Lidge had been so 2008 in this post-season which had to give the Phillies loads of confidence. After not pitching for 10 days, the Yankees made him look like his 2009 regular season self. That 3-run 9th inning completely took the winds out of the Phillies sails. Beating Rivera is tough under normal circumstances, but next to impossible when you're demoralized.

As I said ealier today, Charlie Manuel will now be second guessed for not starting Cliff Lee on short rest against Sabathia. Instead of having him out there to even up the series, he'll have to be even better than he was in game 1 in order to keep the Phillies seriously diminished series hopes alive against a Yankee team that can smell its 27th World Series title.

I've said it all season, I've had a feeling about this team and its gotten stronger and stronger every day. 10 wins in the books, just 1 more to go. 11=27. To borrow a phrase I've heard Fox's Joe Buck use time and again, "HERE COME THE YANKEES!"