Headlines for August, 2009

Game 131. Pettitte’s gem reduces magic # to 26. Yanks beat O’s, 5-1.

The lineup. Alex gets a night off. YANKEES (82-48) Jeter SS Damon LF Teixeira 1B Matsui DH Posada C Cano 2B Swisher RF Hairston 3B Cabrera CF Pitching: LHP Andy Pettitte (11-6, 4.18). Brad Penny became a free agent after going unclaimed on waivers. He signed with SF. From Pete Abraham: UPDATE, 6:07 p.m.: Good news on IPK via the AP: Yankees pitcher Ian Kennedy will throw batting practice Wednesday for the first time since [read more...]

Odds and ends.

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Squawker Media Alert: I’m going to be on the radio twice this week

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Mets rotation: Nelson and Pat and pass the hat

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Milestones.

Andy Pettitte pitches tonight for the Yanks in Baltimore. He is looking to pass Lefty Gomez and go into 3rd on the Yankees win list by himself, behind only Whitey Ford (236) and Red Ruffing (231). Andy has 189 wins as a Yankee, same as Gomez. He has 226 overall. You wonder what if… he had stayed with the Yankees and [read more...]

On Joba, the White Sox, Mark Cuban, and the state of the Yankees

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Game 130. Yanks complete weekend sweep of Chisox, 8-3.

Maybe today’s win can be attributed TO the Joba rules. For Joba went 3 ip, 2 R, 4 H, 0 walks and 1 K. He was pulled after 3 innings, 35 pitches. Now maybe he would have settled down and given up no more runs. We don’t know that. What we DO know is what his replacement, Alfredo Aceves, DID do. 3 scoreless [read more...]

Game 130. Chisox @ Yanks. What will be the Joba rules today?

A lot depends on how he pitches. After all, if he is knocked out in the first, the Joba rules, version ? won’t apply anymore. But how long will Joba go today…even if he does well? Girardi has stated that in essence, they are “starting spring training over” with him. Meaning slowly building him up over the next month so that the innings [read more...]

Game 129. Yanks blow out Chisox 10-0 on combined one-hitter.

Lineup: YANKEES (80-48 +6, magic # 29; +6 on Pythagorean) OPS+ 117; ERA+ 102 No details today. Busy. A few comments. Jeter SS  2705 hits, 16 behind Gehrig. Damon LF Teixeira 1B Rodriguez 3B Matsui DH Swisher RF Cano 2B Hairston CF The Melkman gets a day off. Molina C Hopefully Posada is back tomorrow. Pitching: RHP Sergio Mitre (2-1, 6,82). Mitre vs. Contreras. Between possible rain delays and this matchup, it could be [read more...]

Game 128. Yanks win on Cano walkoff HR, 5-2 in 10.

The Yanks won 5-2 last night, dropping their magic # to 29. Robbie Cano’s 3-run HR (21) in the bottom of the 10th was the game-winner. The Yanks got a homer by Jeter leading off the bottom of the first. The HR, #17 for the season by the Captain, was the 223rd of his career—passing Don Mattingly. The hit was #2705— 16 behind [read more...]

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