Possible Clues:

• Subway Series side, familiarly
• Tugs sharply
• Tug, small, for US nationals
• Removes from the mound, in baseball lingo
• The New Yorker's local readership in Washington, for instance
• '09 World Series champs
• Extracts with pliers
• Discards dynamically
• NY MLB team
• Removes abruptly