Don Mattingly, World Series and New York Yankees
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Yankees great Don Mattingly never appeared in a World Series while wearing pinstripes. Now he has a chance to win one with the Blue Jays.
Don Mattingly is one of the best in the game to have never won a World Series. If he does now, it will be against the team he once managed.
No Yankees fan will be happy if the Blue Jays finish off the Yankees in the ALDS. But one tiny silver lining could be that it will keep alive the dreams of the 64-year-old Mattingly making it to World Series for the first time in his six-decade professional baseball career.
The long wait is finally over. After 5,231 games over 36 seasons as a player, coach and manager, Donnie Baseball is going to his first World Series. “Obviously it feels great to get there, and I feel like we’re gonna play well too,
Maybe the death of the dumb, decades-old Yankees hair policy was an omen because everything’s going Don Mattingly’s way this year.
The former Yankees captain, currently the Blue Jays bench, had a front row seat to the Bombers' recent collapse.
Blue Jays coach Don Mattingly's message of patience, perseverance and being there for his kids still resonates today.
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Dodgers notes: Blake Snell, Shohei Ohtani, Don Mattingly
The Dodgers lost a clunker to the Blue Jays in Game 1 of the World Series on Friday night, thanks to a nine-run sixth inning that turned the opener into a laugher. Blake Snell allowed the first three runs of the inning,