NEW YORK - His bald head had been slapped, rubbed and patted down more times than could be counted, his body wrapped in as many hugs, high-fives and back slaps as any hero in Yankee lore. Raul Ibanez won’t simply be remembered as the man who pinch-hit for million-dollar hitter Alex Rodriguez in the ninth-inning of a crucial playoff game, but the one who reduced one of the game’s all-time greats to afterthought. Ibanez tied the game with one swing and won it with another, hitting the home runs that once seemed destined to come from A-Rod’s bat, sending the to the brink of advancement in this hard-fought Division Series with Baltimore. And when it was over, when the sheer...
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