Saturday, June 14, 2008
Yankees v. Astros 2-1 (W)
Tonight was the Joba Show and it was a pretty good one in that. It was definitely his best of his first three starts in his young big league career. When you look at the box score and see 4 walks it looks a lot worse than it was considering 2 of them wore intentional. One thing that I found quiet funny was Joba Chamberlain's attempt at a pitch out that went horribly wrong.
NYY 2 | Hou 1 |
HR » NYY: D. Jeter (4)
Joba's velocity looked good throughout the game as well did his stamina and breaking ball. One slider to a believe it was Kaz Matsui was ridiculously filthy and looked like it was just an un hittable pitch. 88 pitches with only 1 run in 6 innings is a step forward and in the next start Joba will 'no longer have a pitch count' which means around 100.
Pretty shocked that it was a pitchers duel considering the other pitcher was the Yankee great Shawn Chacon. Shaw Chacon actually slightly out pitched Joba, but that is besides the point. There was some speculation that the Yankees did not want to use Kyle Fansworth when Jose Veras was used for two innings, but they were really protecting Mariano and Fansworth actually came in and got his first save of the year.
The Captain, Derek Jeter, provided the heroics when he belted a home run in the top of the 8th of Doug Brocail to break the tie. It made it 2-1 and that was it. Jorge Posada looked terrible throwing the ball and was pulled out in the 7th inning.
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