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NY DAILY NEWS WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK  PHOTO: Yankees manager Joe Girardi holds up the 2009 World Series trophy a few hours before pulling a woman out of the wreckage of a car crash. What can't Joe Girardi do? Just hours after he steered the Yankees to their 27th world championship, Girardi stopped on a Westchester road to help a damsel in distress. Marie Henry - who had lost control of her car and slammed into a wall - didn't even recognize the Yankees manager. "He certainly did a commendable thing stopping and making sure she was OK," said Kieran O'Leary, spokesman for the Westchester County Police Department. "The woman said that she had a watched the Yankee game and was a Yankee fan, but because she was shaken up, she never realized it was Joe Girardi who stopped to check on her." Girardi's post-game heroics came about 2:25 a.m. after Henry went careening into a wall where the Cross County Parkway meets the Hutchinson River Parkway. The Yankees boss, coming off the team's dramatic World Series victory over the Phillies, was the first on the scene. He pulled his car to the side of the road, ran across traffic and stayed with Henry until police arrived. "The guy wins the World Series, \[and\] what does he do? He stops to help," Westchester cop Kathleen Cristiano told the Journal News. Cristiano said she was stunned to see Girardi when she pulled up to the accident site. "He was jumping up and down, trying to flag me down," she told the Journal News. "You don't expect him standing by a car accident trying to help." By the time Cristiano reached the scene, the 27-year-old Henry was out of her car and declined to be taken to the hospital. Girardi, who was decked out in a T-shirt and jeans, then told them he "had to get going," Cristiano told the Journal News. "It was totally surreal," she added.
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