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Linfield's Brosius throws out 1st pitch before World Series game

Local Sports | Wed, 11/04/2009 - 4:20 pm | Read 1241 | Commented 2 | Emailed 0
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NEW YORK — Linfield College head baseball coach Scott Brosius threw out the ceremonial first pitch before Wednesday night's Game 6 of the World Series between the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies at Yankee Stadium.

New York entered the game with a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series, and would clinch its first world championship since 2000 with a win over the defending World Series champion Phils. The game was televised on FOX (KPTV Channel 12) beginning at 4:30.

Brosius, the Most Valuable Player of the 1998 World Series while playing with the Yankees, is a graduate of Linfield and Rex Putnam High School in Milwaukie.

Brosius' playing career with New York spanned from 1998 to 2001. He was traded from Oakland to New York prior to the 1998 season. He then signed a three-year contract with the Yankees and retired following the 2001 season, in which Arizona defeated New York in the World Series.

During his four-year stay with the Yankees, New York won the American League pennant each season and the World Series title from 1998 to 2000.

Brosius was an American League All-Star in 1998, the game played at Coors Field in Denver. He won a Gold Glove award in 1999.

Next year will be his third season as baseball coach at Linfield.

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Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:46pm - Posted by: darth_r8r

During his career with the Yankees, they won the American League pennant every year, from 1998 to 2001, as well as the World Series from 1998 to 2000. Brosius won the World Series MVP Award and was an All-Star in 1998. He won a Gold Glove in 1999.

He hit 2 home runs in Game 3 of the 1998 World Series, including one off of Padres closer Trevor Hoffman to give the Yankees a 3-0 Series lead.

He led all AL third basemen in errors in 2001, with 22, and had the lowest fielding percentage in the league (.935).

Brosius hit a two-out, two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 5 of the 2001 World Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks to tie the game and set up an extra-inning Yankees win. The previous night, New York first baseman Tino Martinez had hit a two-out, two-run home run to tie the game as well. It marked the first time in World Series history that this had ever occurred. The Yankees would go on to lose Games 6 and 7 of the series, after which Brosius retired.

He was given the nickname Scott Supercalifragilisticexpiali-Brosius by Chris Berman and "Brosius the Ferocious" by Yankees radio announcer John Sterling....IM SICKENED THAT THEY HAVENT RETIRED HIS #..AND THEY LET j dAMON USE IT..ITS ALL GOOD WE ARE ONCE AGAIN WORLD CHAMPIONS...TY SCOTT FOR ALL YOU DID 4 THE SPORT OF BASEBALL AND FOR WHAT YOU DID 4 THE YANKEES..!!!!