Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Yankees v. Padres 8-5 (W)
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |  | R | H | E |
San Diego | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 2 | |
NY Yankees | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | X | 8 | 14 | 1 |
Rollin Rollin Rollin Keep Rollin Rollin Rollin.....
Make that 6 straight wins for this Yankees team. They have not missed a beat despite the news of losing Chien-Ming Wang. Not only that, but they are now 6 games over .5oo and only 5.5 games back of the 1st place Red Sox in the East and 3.5 behind Tampa Bay for the Wild Card.
Darrell Rasner was not spectacular by any means, but he was able to get the win against Jake Peavy so he gets an A+ just for that. He did what a pitcher like him is supposed to do and that is manage the game. He doesn't have to get that 10+ strikeout game, but just hold the other team to a couple of runs and you'll be fine. His control was a little off with 5 walks something that has not been a problem so far this year so I wouldn't worry.
I don't think anyone can justify a $28,000,000 contract, but if anyone can come close that is definitely Alex Rodriguez. He's like a man amongst boys. 3-4 with his 14th home run in just 193 at-bats. That is a clip of a home run every 13.8 at-bats, which comes out to about 1 home run every 3/4 games and then if you multiply that by a whole season its about 45-50+ home runs. He also had 2 RBI's so in terms of Yankee leaders he is 2nd in home runs, 3rd in RBI's, 1st in average, and 5th in hits even though he missed about 15 games less than everyone else.
After Edwar Ramirez gave up 2 home runs in the 7th and Kyle Farnsworth gave up 1 in the 8th it made for a save opportunity for Mariano Rivera. Mo got into early trouble when he game up a lead of double, but got a strikeout and then got a bloop out to Derek Jeter ran to second for a game ending double play. Here are some highlights from Baseball Tonight.
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