In 2010 Andy’s record was 11-3, and he reached his lowest ERA since 2005. He drove in his first postseason home run in game 3 at Philadelphia. He won game 3 of the World Series, and on four days rest won the deciding game 6 against the Philadelphia Phillies. Andy was 14-8 that year, and in the postseason he became the winningest pitcher in postseason history when he won all four of his postseason starts.
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In 2009 Andy and CC Sabathia led the Yankees to its first World Series since 2000. 2008 was the first year in Andy’s career that he didn’t have a winning season going only 14-14. In the season he started the most games in baseball with 34 starts and a record of 15-9. Andy makes his Yankee returnĪfter the 2006 season, Andy again signed with the Yankees after refusing the Astros offer. Back then, the Astros were in the National League, they faced the Chicago White Sox in the series but were swept in four games. While with the Astros, Andy would help the Astros get to their first-ever World Series in their history. He signed a 3-year contract with the Houston Astros. Andy leaves us for the AstrosĪt the end of the 2003 season, Pettitte cited that he wanted to spend more time at home with his young children before they grew older. It would be the last World Series win during Pettitte’s first stint with the Yankees. The Yankees again won the World Series in 1999 and three-peated in 2000 when Pettitte went 19-9 with three complete games. In 1998 the Yankees would go on to win the World Series again when Andy started in Game Four, defeating Kevin Brown of the Padres in the deciding game of the series. The Yankees were defeated by the Indians in the ALCS, and their hope for back to back World Series wins. In 1997 he led the league in pickoffs with 14 and induced 36 double plays. In that year he won seven of his last eight games of the season going 12-7 on the season.Īndy looking beneath the brim of his cap, was a pickoff artist. He performed well enough that the Yankee kept him as a starter. That was short-lived because of injuries at the Stadium, he was called up just ten days later as a starter. He made his major league debut in April but two weeks later was sent back down to the minors so he could continue starting games. Pettitte makes his major league debutĭuring spring training in 1995, Andy competed with Sterling Hitchcock for a place in the starting rotation, but failed and found himself in the bullpen to start the year. In 1994 he pitched for the triple-A Columbus Clippers, he went 7-2 with an ERA of 2.98 and was named the minor league pitcher of the year. In 1993 he pitched for the Carolina League to a record of 11-9. That year Pettitte would go 10-4 with a 2.20 ERA playing for the Greensboro Hornets. In 1992 Andy and Jorge would first meet up with fellow player Derek Jeter. Andy threw a knuckleball, but when he teamed up with Jorge Posada, in the New York Penn League, Posada couldn’t catch the ball so Andy stopped throwing it. From 1991 to 1994, the young Andy played for the New York Yankees in the minor leagues.
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