“Ballgame over! World Series over! Yankees win! Theeeeeee Yankees win!”

It’s been almost a decade since we have heard the phrase made famous by John Sterling. The drought is over as the Yankees are the 2009 World Series Champions. Nine years since their last title, the New York Yankees can call themselves baseball’s best again.

In front of the home crowd in New York, Hideki Matsui tied a World Series record with 6 RBIs while Andy Pettitte got the win on short rest as the Yanks dethroned the defending champion Phillies with a 7-3 win in Game 6 on Wednesday night.

In a fitting coincidence, this championship came eight years to the day after the Yankees lost Game 7 of the 2001 World Series in Arizona on Luis Gonzalez’s broken-bat single off Mariano Rivera.

Desperate to regain the glory, New York spent over $1.6 billion over the last 8 years with no success until this year. Their expensive off-season signings paid off huge dividends as the $423.5 million trio of CC Sabathia, Mark Teixeira and A.J. Burnett all played key roles for the Yankees this season in returning them to baseball’s grandest stage of them all.

Hideki Matsui, who was named World Series MVP; carried the Bronx Bombers all game with a 2-run home run in the 2nd inning, a 2-run single in the 3rd and a 2-run double in the 5th that basically wrapped up World Series Title #27 for New York.

2009 Yankees World Series Champions hats will be in soon at Hat Club.

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