What record did Hideki Matsui tie in this Yankees vs Phillies World Series game?”
Statsui: MVP delivers jaw-dropping numbers Matsui ties World Series record with six RBIs in Game 6 By Anthony DiComo / MLB.com 11/05/09 2:55 AM EST NEW YORK — For a man as typically stoic as Hideki Matsui, the display was something more emblematic of his caricature, Godzilla. Matsui, clapping his hands together at every pronouncement of his team’s accomplishments, listened to the emcee boom out his name and walked to the front of the stage. Matsui removed his cap and doffed it to the crowd, running a hand through his jet black hair. Then Matsui raised two clenched fists into the air. “I guess you could say this is the best moment of my life right now,” Matsui said later, through an interpreter. If not that, it was perhaps the most influential moment for one of baseball’s global superstars. Matsui, on the strength of his record-tying six RBIs in Wednesday’s Game 6, was named the World Series MVP presented by Chevrolet after the Yankees defeat
Matsui’s 6 RBIs give Yanks 7-3 lead in Game 6 NEW YORK — Hideki Matsui tied the World Series record with six RBIs on a home run, single and double that each drove in two runs, and the New York Yankees led the Philadelphia Phillies 7-3 after six innings in Game 6 on Wednesday night as they neared their record 27th championship. Matsui’s third homer of the Series gave starter Andy Pettitte a 2-0 lead in the second inning. Philadelphia, which fought off elimination by winning 8-6 in Game 5, got a run back in the third on Jimmy Rollins’ sacrifice fly. Matsui hit a bases-loaded single with two outs in the third, then greeted reliever J.A. Happ with a two-run double off the right-field wall that boosted New York’s lead to 7-1 in a three-run fifth. Matsui improved to 8 for 12 (.666) with three homers and eight RBIs in the Series, and 9 for 19 (.474) against Martinez in postseason play. The only other player with six RBIs in a Series game was the Yankees’ Bobby Richardson, who had a first-inni
On Wednesday night, Hideki Matsui, the soft-spoken but hard-hitting Japanese slugger, took Philadelphia out of the World Series in Game 6, took the New York Yankees to a 27th ring, and took the 2009 World Series MVP presented by Chevrolet honors in the process. Matsui, who became the first Japanese-born player to be named World Series MVP, basically won the award on Wednesday night. Matsui went 3-for-4 with a home run, double, single and a single-Series-game record-tying six RBIs as the Yankees closed out the Phillies, 7-3, in front of a raucous Yankee Stadium crowd that hadn’t seen its team win a Fall Classic on home turf since 1999.
