Yankees win World Series

  NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Yankees have won the World Series,
beating the defending champion Philadelphia Phillies 7-3 in Game 6
behind Hideki Matsui’s record-tying six RBIs.
    Andy Pettitte won the clincher Wednesday night, pitching the
Yankees to their elusive 27th championship and first since 2000.
    Matsui homered, doubled and singled, and tied Bobby Richardson’s
49-year-old record for RBIs in a Series game. His two-run homer off
Pedro Martinez in the second inning started the Yankees on their
way.
    Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez helped the
Yankees wrap up a most successful season in their first year at the
new $1.5 billion Yankee Stadium.

    NY Yankees fans celebrate World Series win

    NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of Yankees fans in New York City who
hit the streets to revel in their team’s 27th World Series
championship have been greeted by an NYPD van, several patrol cars
with lights flashing and officers standing on street corners.
    Fans in Yankees jerseys and hats who watched the 7-3 victory
over the Philadelphia Phillies at sports bar Stout poured onto 33rd
Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues early Thursday to
celebrate and remained well-behaved.
    The three-level bar was packed most of Wednesday evening with
fans from as far away as San Diego hanging on every pitch as they
watched Game 6 on flat-screen televisions.
    Fans had waited nine years since the team’s last World Series
win, a Subway Series against their cross-town rivals, the Mets, in
2000.