November 6
Philadelphia Daily News
columnist Frank Seravalli
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Huddled up inside the enclosed Ritz-Carlton of bullpens in leftfield at Yankee Stadium, the Phillies' relievers would have stayed there all night - protected from the cold, harsh, pressure-cooker environment - if they could. Given their struggles this season and this World Series, the quiet bullpen was a sort-of shielding bubble. In Game 6 - with the season on the line for the second game in a row - that bubble popped early. Like a window that bursts inside a pressurized cabin, when J.A. Happ opened the door to the outside world at Yankee Stadium to warm up in just the third inning, the gaping hole sucked everyone out with him. In all, the Phillies used five relief pitchers to try to stop ..."
November 6
New York Times
columnist William C. Rhoden
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Jimmy Rollins stood in the middle of the losing clubhouse early Thursday morning, speaking with reporters and putting the best face possible on the Philadelphia Phillies' four-games-to-two World Series loss to the Yankees. "They were the better team this series," he said. "Do I think we're the better team? I really do. They showed a lot of heart. A lot of grit. We drilled a couple of guys, no one backed down and they executed." Rollins, the Phillies' shortstop, set the tone before the Series when he predicted that the Phillies would beat the Yankees in five or six games. After the Yankees won Game 6, Derek Jeter told some reporters that Rollins's prediction had served as motivation."