YANKEES (43-32, 2nd, 3.5 GB)
OPS+ 115, ERA+ 98
1 game better than Pythagorean record
BA/HR/RBI/SB/SB att/OPS+ (100 is average) *= team leader
Tonight’s lineup:
Jeter SS .309*-9-30-17*/18-120
Damon LF .288-14-46-8/8-131
Teixeira 1B .276-20*-60*-1/1-149*
Rodriguez 3B .232-11-37-2/2-132
Cano 2B .297-12-42-4/7-111
Posada C .272-10-33-1/1-126
Matsui DH .246-10-28-0/0-111
Swisher RF .237-14-39-0/0-128
Cabrera CF .286-7-28-5/7-106
Pitching: RHP Joba Chamberlain (4-2, 3.81). ERA+ 115
The Hinske deal may be nice, but I’d really like another reliever. I feel that the Yanks’ season depends on the continued success of Hughes and Aceves out of the bullpen.
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1 Jason // Jun 30, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Nice late spurt by the Yanks, scoring five in the seventh and eighth. And to think that that was only HALF what Baltimore scored on Boston to amazingly come back from a 10-1 deficit and win 11-1. HUGE swing for the Yanks, and they need to string together wins, and finally beat Boston, to make that collapse even more costly.
Coke and Hughes were terrific, and Hughes really should have worked the eighth. He threw only 9 pitches in the seventh, looked strong, hit 96 regularly on the gun, and could have worked the eighth with ease. I worry not just about Girardi’s by-the-book or stat-sheet approach at times, and I particularly worry that Girardi will sap Hughes’s being stretched out. The kid has started plenty this year and, while he will be working out of the bullpen for the foreseeable future, the guy can easily handle two innings, especially when he had done so little. Bad decision, even before Bruney looked bad in the eighth. Let Hughes go 2 when he’s on; it will take advantage of his accumulated strength.
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