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Yankees v. Padres

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

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It was recently reported that Wang will be out for 6-10 weeks and possibly more. With him out, the Yankees will need to look for another starter to replace him. They have already had to find replacements for Kennedy and Hughes, and will now need to have a third spot starter. Rumors have surfaced about either Brad Penny or Sabathia, but neither seem likely. David Wells' name is also being tossed around, but he too will likely not be chosen. Probably, the Yankees will try to rebuild from within and start another young gun. I suggest Dan Rieves but Jeff Karstens as also a possibility. One thing is for sure, The Yankees will need to survive another injury, or face elimination for contention for the playoffs.

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Oh no no no no. This probably is the worst possible news the Yankees could have gotten. There is nothing worse than finding out your ace starting pitcher is out for at least 10 weeks and could possibly be done for the season. This is according to Peter Abraham.

RHP Chien-Ming Wang was examined today at New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia Medical Center by Yankees Team Physician, Dr. Stuart Hershon and Dr. Justin Greisberg, Foot and Ankle Specialist.

Imaging studies revealed a mid-foot sprain of the Lisfranc ligament of the right foot and a partial tear of the peroneal longus tendon of the right foot.

Wang will be on crutches and wear a protective boot for a minimum of six weeks.

Millwood, but I am not sure if I want to give up young talent for them. Who knows when Ian Kennedy and Phil Hughes will be back so other internal options would be Alan Horne, Jeff Marquez, Daniel McCutchen, Jeff Karstens, and Kei Igawa.

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This is a very bitter sweet victory. It is probably more bitter than sweet if you ask me. The lost of Chien-Ming Wang will cause you more loses than this one win will count for. With Joe Girardi saying he would be 'shocked' if Wang makes his next starts makes you wonder who will get the big league call. If you look past the injury of Wang and the game you see that it was probably the best played game all season by the Yankees. Pitching, offense, and defense were superb.

Yankees v. Astros
June 15, 2008

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
NY Yankees	0	0	3	0	0	8	0	2	0		13	15	0
Houston	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	7	2

And damn how good has Johnny Damon been this year. Again he had a multi hit game. This time he went 3-6 raising his average to .328. To go along with that average he has 29 extra base hits, a .392 OPS, and 12 steals. I do not know who is having a better comeback year him or Mike Mussina.

The bullpen was great after Wang's 5 shutout innings. Ross Ohlendorf, Edwar Ramirez, and LaTroy Hawkins all pitch hitless, scoreless innings with one run and one K and Dan Giese closed the game out with a scoreless inning with one hit and one K.

It was also nice to see Robinson Cano get 2 hits and 3 RBI's to help him get out of this season long slump he has been in.

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For anyone who has been watching the Yankee game you just saw this; Chien-Ming Wang stumble towards home plate, only to be helped off the field and into the clubhouse. For a player who barely runs the base path, it isn't hard to imagine that he pulled a hamstring or some other leg muscle. Either way, it looks bad.

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The New York Daily News is reporting that the New York Mets have interest in All-Star closer Brian Fuentes. According to the paper no deal is 'imminent'. Last season the Mets offered Aaron Heilman for Fuentes, which the Rockies rejected at so we will see what happens.
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We have this update according to ESPN Rumor Central:

The New York Yankees are one of several teams who are watching the progress of Freddy Garcia, reports the New York Times. Garcia had rotator cuff and labrum surgery last August and has begun throwing off a mound recently. He will reportedly start throwing for teams in Miami starting in early July.

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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

FINAL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Yankees 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 8 12 1 Astros 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 9 0

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It has been rumored that the Yankees are interested in acquiring Indian's starter C.C. Sabathia. He won the Cy Young award last year, but has pitched well below his potential this year: 4-8 with a 4.34 ERA. The Indian's hopes of reaching the playoffs this season are dwindling with every loss, which are coming frequently, and they will look to plan for next year. With Sabathia's contract expiring after this season, the Indians may try to get some value for him, as they may not be able to afford him next year.

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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.

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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The Yankees have recalled utility infielder Alberto Gonzalez to place of Shelley Duncan. The Yankees felt like it was a waste to keep Duncan up if they were not going to use his bat so they called up someone who is a defensive specialist.

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お誕生日おめでとう松井秀喜!!!!!!!!

Apparently that is how you say 'Happy Birthday Hideki Matsui' in Japanese, but who really knows so we will just go with that. After his little show last night he deserves another happy birthday so why don't we say it again. お誕生日おめでとう松井秀喜!!!!!!!!

FINAL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Yankees 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 6 1 Athletics 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0

After Last night's lose I wrote that the Yankees were going to need Andy Pettitte to step up and pitch a great game and he did just that. He pitched 8 innings, giving up only 1 earned run on 5 hits with 6k's and 1 walks. You always no it is a good sign when you only have two pitchers in

Matsui after his grand slam

one game and they are your starting pitching and closer. And Mariano Rivera followed up Pettitte's amazing start with a scoreless inning, something Billy Wagner has not been able to accomplish recently.

Its the top of the 6th, one out, bases loaded, Joe Blanton on the mound, Ken Singleton announces he gives up a lot of grand slams, the birthday boy Hideki Matsui steps up to the plate and guess what happens. That is right Hideki Matsui launches a grand slam to deep right center field providing all of the offense for the Yankees.

Other than that it was a pretty boring game, but hey they Yanks are now back over .500.

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Darrell Rasner had his first real bad game of the season last night. Rasner got through the first two innings with no problem giving up no hits in the 1st and a 1-2-3 inning in the second, but a Jason Giambi error in the third opened the flood gates for the Athletics. They capitalized on wound up putting up a big 6 spot which was all they would need to put the Yankees back to .500 at 33-33.

Yankees v. A's

FINAL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Yankees 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 7 1 Athletics 0 0 6 1 1 0 0 0 x 8 11 1

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Today at 1:05 pm on the YES Network we will get to witness the 2nd start of Joba Chamberlain. Joba has showed his displeasure for his last start and plans to go deeper into the game and the Yankees are giving him the least to do that by putting his pitch count from 70-80 instead of 62 where it was last time. Hopefully they will play his theme song today.

What a great game Johnny Damon had last night. 6-6 with a double, 5 singles, 4 RBI's, and the game winning hit. With last nights performance he is now hitting .326 and in my mind put him in contention for comeback player of the year. I mean just last year people were calling for his head, but not anymore. Mike Mussina and his 9-4 record have to be up there too.

Game recaps will resume on Wednesday the 11th.

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At #18 the Mets took a player many people thought they wanted to take in the draft and that is of course ASU 1st/OF Ike Davis. Davis is hitting .394 with 16 homers and 73 RBI in 49 games. With the 22nd pick the Mets took shortstop Reese Havens out of South Carolina. Havens is hitting 315 in the wood-bat Cape Cod League. Havens hit .359 with 18 homers and 57 RBI in 63 games this season for the Gamecocks.

Davis should moved through the system very quickly and start in Citi Field sooner rather than later unless the Mets decide they need to sign Mark Teixeira this off-season. He is very athletic and has good blood lines so hopefully he can fill out his potential as a slugging player in the middle of the lineup. Reese Havens reminds me of a bigger version of Dustin Pedroia. That is not a bad thing. He knows how to play ball and could possibly move to catcher where he would instantly become the best catcher in the system. If anyone can make the switch to catcher it is him.

Little disappointed they passed on Cole twice, Melville, Meyer, Galloway, Odorizzi, and Collier but only time will tell on this draft.

Picks to watch:
Eric Beaulac, rhp
Kyle Allen, rhp (hs)
Javier Rodriguez, of (hs)
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The Yankees first round draft pick made the whole draft worth while. They got one of the top talents in the entire draft and the best prep pitcher available. The took the Californiaphenom Gerrit Cole out of Orange Lutheran High School. Some people say he is the best California prep pitcher since Phil Hughes in 2008. If he watch his delivery on the left an his stuff he seems like a replica of Max Scherzer of the Diamondbacks. This kid throws a legit 93-96 mph fastball with movement and can hit 98 if he gets everything behind it. He uses a curve and change that will be plus pitches and make him one of the top prospects in a few years.

Jeremy Bleich might have been a stretch in the 2nd round, but the Yankees do have a need for a lefty in the system and for the 2nd straight year the Yankees took Scott Bittle (3rd round) a guy who just knows how to get outs.

Picks to watch:
Brett Marshall, rhp
Kyle Higashioka, c
David Adams, 2nd
Pat Venditte, lhp/rhp

Thats right Venditte is a reliever who can throw with both his right and left hand earning himself the nickname "The One Man Bullpen". A video of him can be seen here.

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Joba Chamerblain's Unofficial Theme Song

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Yeah, you keep telling me that! Who is she? WHAT? WHAT? The sultan of swat! The king of crash! The colossus of clout! The colossus of clout! BABE RUTH! JASON GIAMBI!!! THE GREAT BAMBINO! GIAMBINO! Do you smell what the Giambino is cookin!!!!!!!

Yankees v. Blue Jays

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Toronto	0	0	0	2	5	0	0	0	1		8	9	0
NY Yankees	2	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	3		9	14

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As you all noticed yesterday the Yankees were happy to see that their All-Star catcher Jorge Posada returned. Jorge did not play, but just the fact knowing he was back and healthy was good enough for most people. Well today he announced that he will need off-season surgery.

"There's no discomfort but something's messed up in there," he said. "We're going to have to get that fixed after the season."

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Joba Chamberlain's first start did not go as well as he had hoped. He had problems throwing strikes which does not help when you are on a 70 pitch limit. You can tell he was nervous with 3 walks and a balk in the 1st inning. He still managed to give up only 1 run and struck out 2 in that inning. The 2nd inning was much easier with a 1-2-3 inning. In the 3rd he got one out and walked one before recently called up Dan Giese replaced him. Giese allowed an unearned run to score for Joba Chamberlain.
Joba's final line: 2.1 innings, 2 runs, 1 earned, 1 hit, 4 walks, 3 K's.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Toronto	1	0	1	1	0	0	6	0	0		9	12	0
NY Yankees	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0		3	9	1

New York Yankees
Hitters	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	LOB	AVG
J Damon LF	4	1	3	0	1	0	0	.301
D Jeter SS	5	0	2	0	0	0	4	.282
B Abreu RF	5	0	0	1	0	2	5	.285
A Rodriguez 3B	3	1	0	0	1	1	4	.294
H Matsui DH	4	0	2	1	0	0	1	.332
J Giambi 1B	2	0	1	1	0	0	2	.253
S Duncan 1B	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	.175
R Cano 2B	4	0	0	0	0	0	6	.216
J Molina C	4	0	0	0	0	2	2	.211
M Cabrera CF	3	1	0	0	1	1	0	.266
Totals	35	3	9	3	3	6	24
BATTING 2B: J Damon (18, R Halladay); S Duncan (3, J Carlson) 3B: J Damon (2, R Halladay) RBI: H Matsui (27), J Giambi (29), B Abreu (37) 2-out RBI: H Matsui, J Giambi

New York Yankees
Pitchers	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	PC-ST	ERA
J Chamberlain	2.1	1	2	1	4	3	0	62-32	2.42
D Geise (L, 0-1)	3.2	5	1	1	1	0	0	65-36	2.45
J Veras	0.1	2	2	2	0	1	0	16-10	5.25
E Ramirez	0.0	1	4	4	3	0	0	17-3	2.81
L Hawkins	1.2	1	0	0	2	1	0	35-21	6.31
C Britton	1.0	2	0	0	0	2	0	22-16	1.29
Totals	9.0	12	9	8	10	7	0	217-118

Giese had a nice little game after settling down an really saved the bullpen. It just sucked for him Roy Halladay was pitching for the other team and Edwar Ramirez had a nightmare game otherwise he might have gotten a win tonight. Just look at that line of Jose Veras and Ramirez combined .1 innings 6 runs, 3 walks, 3 hits. It looks like Oliver Perez's line from yesterday that did not deserve a post.

Hideki Matsui and Johnny Damon have just been hitting the cover off the ball and it continued tonight. Each had multiple hits and Damon missed the cycle by a home run. Matsui is just like a hitting machine hitting anything near the zone and spreading it over the field.

It sucks that Robinson Cano seems to be regressing after showing improvement the last couple of weeks. He is such a vital part of the line up and needs to be more successful for the Yankees to be successful.

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