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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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All you can say is that today was not really the bullpen's day, but they framed it on it John Maine in the first game and Pedro Martinez gave them a pep talk and made them pitch well for him. It seems that every time the Mets call up someone new they have a good game so we might as well call up Mike Carp and/or Danny Murphy. There are reports that Rick Peterson is fired and Willie Randolph is going to Anaheim, but is not guaranteed anything, but we will see what happens.

Mets v. Rangers Game 1

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Texas	0	0	1	0	2	0	4	1	0		8	11	1
NY Mets	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	3	2		7	11	0

HR » TEX: M. Bradley (15), R. Vazquez (4), I. Kinsler (10) - NYM: C. Delgado (9), C. Beltran (8)

Mets v. Rangers Game 2

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Texas	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0		2	6	0
NY Mets	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	X		4	13	1

W: Martinez (2-0) L: Gabbard (1-3) S: Wagner (14)

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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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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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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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Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,That saved a wretch like me.... I once was lost but now am found, Was blind, but now, I see. T'was Grace that taught...my heart to fear.And Grace, my fears relieved. How precious did that Grace appear... the hour I first believed. Through many dangers, toils and snares... we have already come. T'was Grace that brought us safe thus far...
and Grace will lead us home. The Lord has promised good to me... His word my hope secures.
He will my shield and portion be... as long as life endures. When we've been here ten thousand years... bright shining as the sun. We've no less days to sing God's praise... then when we've first begun. Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me.... I once was lost but now am found, Was blind, but now, I see.

That's not really how I feel, but there were reports of that noise being sung in Willie Randolph's office following tonight's win.

You saw why Hamilton has 72 RBI's tonight the guy is just a flat at beast. Thankfully Oliver Perez was pretty beastly himself today only giving up 3 hits in 7 innings of 1 run ball. He also had 8 strikeouts and lowered his ERA under 5 to 4.98. The bullpen was actually good tonight and did not give up any hits and only had 1 walk.

The offense clicked on all cylinders tonight except for one person.... The one person you least expected it from before the season. That is right Mr. David Wright. His AVG. has really taken a real blow, but it is nice to see the Carloses step up in his absence. You know I pitcher is slow to the plate when Carlos Delgado gets a steal off of him, but it is always fun to watch.

Great game today hopefully Wright gets tomorrow off, but with Willie on the ropes he will probably keep him in so he can continue to play every inning of every game this season.

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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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Oh no. This is not what the Mets needed and here are some numbers for you.

.1 ip, 2 runs, 2 er, 1 hr, 1k
1 ip, 2 runs, 2 er, 1 hr, 2k's
1 ip, 2runs, 2 er, 2 BB's, 1 k

Those are Billy Wagner's numbers in his last three games all of them were blown saves. And during that time period his ERA has jumped from .36 to 2.33. It shows you how dominant he had been for the first two months, but this little slump came at the absolute worst time of the year you could ever imagine. If the Mets want to win some games Wagner is going to have to be lights out just about every night and not look as if he is throwing a beach ball to the plate.

FINAL in 10th 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E Diamondbacks 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 5 8 0 Mets 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 4 11 0

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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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WOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW! What a game that was. It seemed as though it was over once Wagner gave up that 3-run home run in the top of the 9th. It felt as though you were watching the game down 20-1 in the 3rd inning just waiting for the horror to end, but the Mets came through with a BIG BIG BIG BIG win to end their losing streak.

FINAL in 13th 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 R H E Diamondbacks 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 10 2 Mets 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 9 0

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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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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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