April 8th Orioles @ Yankees

[CrespoBlows]

Originally Posted by riverside sluggers

Please tell me Im reading this wrong... Paul Bako, the same Bako who last year hit .209 with 10 RBIs... hit a clutch 3 run HR to put the O's on top? His last homerun was back in 2004 when he was with the Cubs.

Well the first run though of the 1-5 Yankees starters hasnt been all that grand, who knows if they didnt have a lights out bullpen

Paul Bako is clutch, now? Jesus, do you throw that tag on everybody?

[Optimist]

Pettitte comes on in relief.

[yankees228]

Originally Posted by Optimist

Pettitte comes on in relief.

They are really really really desperate.

[example1]

Craziness. Pettitte in in relief in the 5th game of the year? Is this team's pitching hurting that much?

[riverside sluggers]

I thought yahoo! sports was having a glitch when i saw his picture in the game's box score, huh ok. Makes sense considering the starters through the first 5 games havent been able to pitch decent ammount of innings. Through 4 games the bullpen already has had to work 18.2 innings

[Optimist]

Thanks in part to Pettitte himself (his 4 innings earlier this week), yes.

[yankees228]

Originally Posted by Optimist

Thanks in part to Pettitte himself (his 4 innings earlier this week), yes.

Snow with the sun out, weird.

I wonder if Pettitte will come out for a second inning.

[Optimist]

Cano-no

[yankees228]

It's not even that he dropped the popup, stuff like that happens, it's that he put his head down and didn't run after the ball. If he goes after the ball and Jeter can stay on the bag Tejada may not go, or if he does they may throw him out. Those are the kind of mental errors his made in his first year.

[Coco's Disciples]

Yikes, Pettitte in relief? The pitching and defense has REAAALLLLYY struggled so far.

What an AB by Damon, capped off by a triple.

As for Rod, it's not like it's some miracle that he's now hitting. He's always hit. I don't believe in clutch. It comes and goes. It came at the perfect time for him last night. Good for him.

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Every single freaking Yankees game goes like this it seams. Yankees fall behind by quite a few, work counts, put guys on, pitchers lose strike zone, yankee hitters score runs.

I would like to just watch a game where the yankees go down quietly... and Michael Kay does too. Argh!

[Coco's Disciples]

John Parrish escaped that one by a hair. I'm watching on Gameday; is it true that he threw 4 straight balls in the dirt to Giambi after going up 0-2?

[yankees228]

Phelps really has trouble with any kind of decent offspeed stuff. The kind of offspeed stuff that he didn't see in spring training. He is going to have improve on that, and considering standing closer to the plate if he wants to continue to play against lefties.

[yankees228]

Originally Posted by Coco's Disciples

John Parrish escaped that one by a hair. I'm watching on Gameday; is it true that he threw 4 straight balls in the dirt to Giambi after going up 0-2?

Three straight, then a foul tip, then the fourth.

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Yankees lose. THAAAA Yankees lose.