| Walk off wins like this can have a profound impact | | | | which existed earlier in the season. |
| on a team's success for several reasons. | | | | Fourth, the walk off win acts as a natural team |
| The New York Yankees now have twelve walk off | | | | builder. The celebration at home plate helps the |
| wins this season. This amounts to a walk off win in | | | | players to feel connected to one another and allows |
| almost one of every ten games they have played | | | | these highly paid professionals to feel like playful kids |
| thus far in the 2009 baseball schedule. | | | | once again. |
| First, the walk off win signals to the team, the | | | | This kind of win is fun for the players and for the |
| coaches, the opponents and the fans that their team | | | | fans. The enthusiasm that they feel and demonstrate |
| is confident and resilient. They believe in themselves | | | | at the end of the win carries the team into the next |
| and they are unlikely to give up in a close game. You | | | | game with a great deal of camaraderie, enthusiasm, |
| can never count this kind of team out of a game. | | | | confidence and joy. These are great emotions to |
| Second, it tells you that the pitching, the coaching | | | | have when you are competing on a constant basis. |
| and the defense are keeping the team in a lot of | | | | Fifth, this kind of dramatic victory can damage the |
| games. Staying close in games and winning close | | | | confidence of the losing team which may have felt |
| games is a mark of a championship baseball squad. | | | | that they played well and had the game won, until |
| Third, walk off wins show that the team can win in | | | | the dramatic comeback unfolded in the last inning. |
| its home ball park. Winning at home tells you that | | | | In my view, these walk off wins will help to propel |
| there is good chemistry between the fans and the | | | | the Yankee franchise to a victory in this year's world |
| team. This is certainly the case with The New York | | | | championship. The team is playing great ball and they |
| Yankees right now. The city has once again | | | | seem to be gaining more and more momentum as |
| embraced this squad, despite some controversy | | | | the season draws to an end. |