No contest

• from 2nd left, Kerry Wood, Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte watching from Yankee dugout in the 9th in Texas. getty.

""It hurts," said Rodriguez, who took nearly an hour before speaking to reporters. "It's going to hurt for a while, it should. We're expected to win the World Series every year, the front office puts a team on the field that's supposed to win and I'm part of that. We didn't achieve our team goal and I'm one of the leaders. It's a failure."...

• "We didn't have the better team," Derek Jeter said. "They hit better than us, they pitched better than us. They beat us. They played better."

The Rangers nearly swept the Yankees, but for a late-inning comeback in Game 1. Trailing in the series 3-1, the Yankees won Game 5, only to send the series back to Texas, where the Rangers closed it out....

• "I won't use the word disappointed," Yankees closer Mariano Rivera said. "When you play a team that just attacks, attacks, attacks — hitting-wise, pitching-wise — you just have to give the credit to them.""...

"Rangers defeat Yankees 6-1 to reach World Series," Hartford Courant, Dom Amore

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