Jim Leyritz, a former baseball player who most notably used to play for the New York Yankees, was arrested on Friday on charges of driving under the influence and killing someone else. Leyritz was driving a 2006 Ford Expedition when his vehicle crashed into a 30 year old woman's Mitsubushi Montero. The woman was ejected from the car and she died after she was taken to the hospital. It was reported that Leyritz refused a blood test by the authorities and that a blood test would be taken above his authority. It was also reported that the lady who was killed was not wearing a seatbelt and that was why she was ejected from the car. Over his career, Leyritz has played for six major league teams. Those teams are the Yankees, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox, San Deigo Padres and the Los Angeles Dodgers. He had some good moments in his career, most notably the 1996 World Series with the Yankees. In Game 4, with the Atlanta Braves leading 6-3 in the eighth inning, Leyritz hit a three run home run to tie the game and the Yankees would go on to win the game and tie the series at 2 apiece. They would win two more to seal the World Series victory. Leyritz was also a vital part of the 1998 Padres team that went to the World Series as well. That team ended up losing to the Yankees in the World Series but Leyritz played big in the playoffs. Will Leyritz being to go to jail for a long time? What does this do to his reputation?
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