Saturday, June 14, 2008
Yankees v. Astros 8-4 (W)
Paging Doctor Mussina paging Doctor Mussina. Please report to center stage to receive your curtain call. I report please report to center stage to receive your curtain call and praise from all Yankee fans. With Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy not working out as well as the Yankees had planned this season Mike Mussina has just been an absolute Godsend picking up his 10th win of the season and moving into a tie for the league lead in wins with Cliff Lee.
Yankees v. 'stros
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HR » NYY: A. Rodriguez (11) - HOU: C. Lee (14)
Mussina looked destined to come back down to Earth tonight in the 1st inning where he gave up a 3-run home run to Carlos Lee that was absolutely crushed into left field. Mussina
recovered quickly though limiting the damage to just that over 6 innings with 4k's. He continued to feature a knuckle-curve early in counts going with an El Duque style of using breaking balls early in counts and fastballs late in counts. Scouts will and probably have caught on so he is going to have to use that Stanford education to come up with a new plan of attack.
Even though he has already missed a significant amount of time this season Alex Rodriguez already belted his 11th home run of the season. He seemed to just flick his wrists and get bad wood on the ball yet still managing to get it over the fence. It was pretty funny to watch the Astros fan interfere with Hunter Pence and Pence get pissed.
Everything seemed to be clicking on all cylinders again tonight and as the saying goes your momentum is only as good as your next day starter so with Chien-Ming Wang starting tomorrow the momentum looks great to continue the 3 game win streak.
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