Highbridge News: #Yankees Light off the Fireworks

Highbridge News: #Yankees Light off the Fireworks: #Yankees Light off the Fireworks  McCann Walk Off Saves the Day By Rich Mancuso BRONX, NEW YORK, JULY 4-...

#Yankees Light off the Fireworks

#Yankees Light off the Fireworks 

McCann Walk Off Saves the Day

By Rich Mancuso

BRONX, NEW YORK, JULY 4- It is early July and the New York Yankees know games against AL East division teams will be significant. The one played against the Tampa Bay Rays Friday night in the Bronx, won by the Yankees 7-5 on a walk-off home run in the 12th inning from Brian McCann, can be considered important.

And in the words of Brett Gardner, to the Yankees it was “the biggest win of the year by far.” It was a comeback win in July Bronxnews

that is seen with a tight pennant race in September, and the way this division race is materializing a win like this one could mean a lot when the last few games are played.

The Yankees scored all their runs on the home run ball, Mark Teixeira hit a game tying three-run shot to right in the eighth inning. They had to wait a few extra innings for McCann to display the fireworks with another long shot to right that put his team, at least for the moment in first place.

“It was one of the best feelings you can possibly have,” McCann said about his seventh career walk-off hit and third as a Yankee. And it was a dramatic home run, because the Yankees have not had a walk-off win since the final home game of last season when Derek Jeter got the winning hit in his Bronx finale.

McCann added, “A big spot like that against a team in our division, It’s a great feeling.” 

The division, as it stands now, could go down to the wire. That is why the Yankees fought and had that never quit attitude, and it also helps that their home ballpark is built for their home run hitting team. The Yankees hit a lot of home runs, second in the American League, and have homered in 29 of 36 home games.

“Good way to start the homestand against a division team,” manager Joe Girardi said. After his team completed a 3-4 road trip at Houston and Los Angeles, Girardi said the division games would be important because the race for first place would not be decided until those last days in September.

And what helps more, as the first half of the schedule concludes, is that his team has a majority of games remaining in the 

Bronx, 36 of their first 80 have been at Yankee Stadium. 

The home run and walk-off win put the Yankees a game ahead of the Orioles. and two games in front of the Rays and Toronto Blue Jays in the division.

And home cooking was good for the Yankees Friday night. They could not reach Tampa Bay starter Chris Archer again. MThe right hander, third in the AL among earned run average leaders, came into the game 5-0 in seven career starts against New York, but he failed to become the seventh pitcher since 1914 to begin a career against the Yankees at 6-0 or better,   

Archer did not figure in the decision after allowing no runs, three hits in 6.21 innings and tossing a career high 122 pitches. However it was his 11th quality start and if it were not for the home run ball by Teixeira, his 20th off a 1-0 fastball from Kevin Jepsen, Archer would have added to his win mark.

“it was a battle,” Archer said. “They have a good lineup and know how to work counts.” Yankees starter Masahiro Tanaka, with the exception of giving up two runs in the first inning, threw the ball well and avoided a third straight loss. 

But it was those fireworks in the 12th inning the Yankees provided with  the slim crowd remaining of the 43, 141 before the July 4th holiday. A division win they know was important.

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Highbridge News: #CaughtonTape: Fast food fools steal ATM

Highbridge News: #CaughtonTape: Fast food fools steal ATM: #CaughtonTape: Fast food fools steal ATM By Dan Gesslein BRONX, NEW YORK, JULY 2- Smile geniuses. A pair o...

#CaughtonTape: Fast food fools steal ATM

#CaughtonTape:

Fast food fools steal ATM

By Dan Gesslein

BRONX, NEW YORK, JULY 2- Smile geniuses. A pair of criminal masterminds were caught on tape stealing an ATM machine from a fast food restaurant.

At around 10:20 a.m. on June 30, two crooks broke into the Checkers Restaurant off the Grand Concourse. The restaurant's surveillance cameras recorded the masterminds as they rocked the ATM off its attachment to the floor. They then dragged it onto a waiting hand truck and wheeled it out the door.

The masters of disguise thought wearing a bucket cap and baseball cap would hide their identity. However, the crooks' faces can clearly be seen on the video.

Anyone with information is urged to call CRIMESTOPPERS at (800) 577-TIPS.

All calls are strictly confidential.

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#CaughtonTape: Fast food fools steal ATM

Highbridge News: Danced over victim as he lay dying

Highbridge News: Danced over victim as he lay dying: Gunman convicted in holiday killing Danced over victim as he lay dying BRONX, NEW YORK, JULY 1- District Attorney Robert Johnson ...

Danced over victim as he lay dying

Gunman convicted in holiday killing

Danced over victim as he lay dying

BRONX, NEW YORK, JULY 1- District Attorney Robert Johnson announced the jury conviction of 32-year-old Cadman Williams in the Memorial Day weekend 2008 killing of a Yonkers man.

After a six-week-long trial and two hours of deliberation, the Bronx Supreme Court jury found Williams guilty of: manslaughter in the first degree (Class B Felony) and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree (Class C Felony). 

When he is sentenced by Justice Dominic R. Massaro on July 23^rd, Williams faces as many as 40 years in prison.

Kenneth Sackey of Yonkers was celebrating not only a new job, but the long, hot, holiday weekend, returning from a family barbecue the evening before Memorial Day to his brother’s apartment in the Bronx. But as they returned to 1749 Grand Concourse, Sackey was loaded for bear, with an attitude and a bat – and when he saw some of the kids with whom he had a spat the night before, he was going to show who was boss. The 42-year-old Kenneth took his bat, and with a backhanded swing, cracked it against the entryway of the building, shattering the wood and sending splinters flying out across the sidewalk.

Williams was friendly with the kids, but he had not been at the deli with them the day before. He was not bruised by the bat, but his ego took a hit. So he hit back, drawing out his .22 caliber revolver, and squeezed off three-to-four shots – two of which hit their mark. Kenneth Sackey tried to flee through the apartment house, but video showed him falling and writhing in pain during his last minutes of life. Either bullet alone would have killed Sackey, as the one in his back struck a major vein that leads back to the heart. The bullet to the victim’s face traveled 

through to his spine.

Another surveillance video showed Williams moments after he walked past his dying victim, dancing a heartless jig as he took the elevator up to his then-girlfriend’s apartment.  

The case against Williams gained some notoriety for the delays bringing it to trial, resulting in an unusually long Rikers Island stay for the defendant. He will be credited for the nearly seven years he spent at Rikers awaiting trial.  

The primary delay involved defense requests that admissibility of the DNA found on the murder weapon be stayed until a Brooklyn judge rendered a decision regarding that type of DNA in an unrelated case. That decision finally came late last year.  But the issue DNA in Williams’ case became irrelevant when the defendant testified on the stand that he, indeed, had fired the fatal shots.

The case against Williams was prosecuted by Bronx Senior Trial Assistant D.A. George Suminski and A.D.A. Amy Schneider of Trial Bureau 20/50.

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