Huh! I guess baseball season is still going on.
Carl Pavano picked up his third win of the season before exiting with an injury (how bout that?), Derek Jeter tied Lou Gehrig for most career hits at Yankee Stadium (an interesting bit of trivia) and Alex Rodriguez clubbed a first-inning grand slam as the
Yanks bested the Rays 8-4 in the Bronx. Mariano Rivera notched his 35th save of the season and tied Lee Smith for second place on the all-time save list with 478.
I watched about two minutes of this game since I was watching the Giants-Rams game at my brother's joint. Yes, he's a Giants fan so he had a happy Sunday.
Still, interesting things did happen at Yankee Stadium.
Robinson Cano was benched after not hustling after a base hit grounder in the fourth. Cliff Floyd turned a single into a double when Cano didn't immediately chase the ball down after it went into the outfield.
"That's a ball that we have to hustle after and get and keep Cliff Floyd from
getting to second," Girardi said. Cano countered with this: "Sometimes I let the team down. Ninety-nine percent of the time
I play hard. It's kind of frustrating not helping the team, and he's right."
I see.
And
Pavano left in the sixth with a stiff hip to a chorus of boos and hisses. "I didn't hear a reaction, to tell the truth. I was just more saying to myself I'd like to have
gone deeper in the game," Pavano said.
Yeah, right.
Anyway, I really have no business writing about this game since I didn't watch it, but here's
Brian's hostile take on things.
The Yanks will start a four-game set with the first-place Chicago White Sox on Monday night. Mark Buehrle (13-11, 3.88 ERA) will go against Alfredo Aceves (1-0, 1.29 ERA) in the opener. Buehrle is 5-1 in his past seven starts and has given up just one run in his last 13 1/3 innings. He has had trouble on the road this year (3-8 with a 5.34 ERA in 14 starts) and against the Bombers in his career (1-5 with a 6.58 ERA in seven starts). Aceves pitched well in his first big league start last week and picked up his first career win against the first-place Los Angeles Angels.
He'll try and knock off another first-place team Monday night.
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