Nabokov spent the final 14-plus minutes on the bench wondering what awaits back on Long Island.

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Tony Pena, the Yankees bench coach, managed the Dominican Republic to the island nation's first international title in its third try.

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We first met five years ago when I found him sitting regally on a bench having just swooped there from his usual home of Duck Island in the park's lake.

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