Back in the saddle again.
This game royally ******. Clippard ******, our ability to throw out base stealers ******, the weather ****** and Mo made it an adventure. Fortunately despite all that, we managed to win the one game of the series I thought we'd lose. Thank God we had a rested pen available for today, because we ended up needing it. I'm sure Clippard is a nice kid, but he's just not major league ready right now. This game was just ugly. Butt-freakin-ugly. Since the pitching was nothing to write home about, we'll move on to the offense.
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Alex Rodriguez is now 10 HRs away from 500. Impressive feat considering he's 31 and only been playing in full seasons since 1996. I hope he gets there by the All-Star break, and sticking his bat in the thin air of Coors Field, might allow that to happen. There was a lot of players hitting during this game, it just seemed for a while that they were all landing in someone's glove. Derek had a HR in this game and went 4-5, Alex went 2-4, Godzilla went 2-5, Robbie went 2-4, Miggy went 2-5 and Johnny went 1-4. The only person in the lineup who didn't have a hit was Melky. He'll have a shot tomorrow. I hope. I like when we score 11 runs, but only when the opposition has less than 3. Just a word to the wise. BTW, where was this offense last night? We could be sitting at 11 in a row right now if you hadn't dicked Rocket over.
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Match-up for Sunday:
Next Game:
Sun., June 17 @ 8:05 p.m. ET
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Come on Wang.....let's take the series and go for 2 in a row.
The Yankees hit a ton and got a lot of base runners today, and they needed all of them. Today was one of those games where I didn't feel comfortable until Posada caught that pop up to end it. Most of the hits that Mariano allowed were seeing-eye singles, but he wasn't sharp. Nuke was, well, Nuke. Clippard is really struggling now, and seems afraid of the strike zone, not unlike DeSalvo before he was sent down. His walking Reyes was almost comically predictable, and balking him home was terrible, just terrible. He looked like filled a Depends out there. At least Vizcaino has shown improvement.
But Jeter, A-Rod, Matsui, Cano, Cairo and Damon were really huge and clutch. A-Rod has an excellent shot to make the 500 club in a month if he keeps this up. Either way, his making history in a Yankees uniform will be a great moment when it comes.
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Yep, I agree - the game was *very* ugly. But Yankees bested my Mets so I tip my hat to your guys again.
I am never really thrilled with Tommy Glavine but when he faces a lineup that hitd missiles, I am scared as s__t. Glavine is a "fluff" thrower who gets by facing less experienced/talented hitters with his finesse and placement. He had neither today by the way but even had he had a better game, the Yankee middle of the lineup probably still would have hit him hard.
Good stick-to-it play by the Bombers. Mets did show some spunk in the 9th but Beltran made it laughable.
I do love my team but the Yankees were better today. Good game.
On to tomorrow...
Lee Ellen
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i have to agree with the YES guys when they said that it's lucky for glavine that he's an NL pitcher. he really doesn't have the stuff anymore to face an AL line-up. nor does he really seem to have the control he had in april. clippard obviously was a shonda and quite rightly was sent down. they gave him more than enough opportunity to prove himself ready for the big leagues. maybe in a year or two
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