Down at Single-A Charleston, Yankees prospect Hector Noesi, a right handed starting pitcher has run up an impressive scoreless innings stream of 27 and 1/3 innings pitched, reports John Torenli on MLB.com.

He's spread those innings over 9 games, including 3 starts, in which he's 1-0 with 35 strikeouts, 3 walks and a WHIP of 0.52. That's a 11.27 strikeouts to walks ratio.

On Wednesday night, he threw a no hitter through 7 innings and was removed. After Casey Erickson pitched a 1-2-3 eighth, Pat Venditte gave up the first and only hit of the game - a solo home run - before completing the combined one hitter.

There have been a lot of complaints over the last month or so about the fact that fans who did not have tickets for field level seats could not come down to the field level seats to watch batting practice (I personally haven't been able to get to a game early enough to see batting practice anyway). Today, the Yankees have seemingly changed their policy, as now all fans will be able to be able to watch BP from certain sections of the field level area.

Peter Abraham has the announcement from the Yankees' official site:


MLB.com's Bryan Hoch also has some details.

Also, while I'm on here, Andrew over at Scott Proctor's Arm linked to some startling photos of the old stadium's ongoing deconstruction.

Brett Gardner's first career home run came in last night's 8-2 win over the Blue Jays. According to Tyler Kepner, when he got back to his locker, he found the supposed home run ball, inscribed as follows:


The name of the pitcher, hitter and the date were all wrong, as well as the fact that it was a two run home run, and not a solo shot. But, it also wasn't the actual ball, which was delivered to Gardner and inscribed correctly by team trainer Gene Monahan.

Apparently this is a pretty common prank in game and Gardner didn't buy it. "Supposed to be a joke," he said. "Not too funny, though."

It had been hinted at, but Brian Cashman confirmed to Tyler Kepner of the Times that Chien-Ming Wang's next start will be at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

I think I'm going to put the over-under at September 1 for the next time we'll see Brett Gardner pick up 7 total bases in a game. But he was on tonight, as well as most of the Yankee lineup, and the Yankees cruised to an 8–2 victory in Toronto to pull them back to within 5.5 games of the Blue Jays in the A.L. East.

The Yankees blew the game open with five runs in the 2nd. Brett Gardner put the Yankees ahead 2–1 with his first major league home run, a ball that just cleared the wall a few feet left of the right field foul pole. Ramiro Pena and Johnny Damon both hit almost identical triples in the right-center field gap (Damon's drove in a run), and Mark Teixeira and Robinson Cano added RBI hits in the inning, as well. A sac fly for Teixeira in the 4th, an RBI triple for Gardner in the 5th (I wonder when the last time the Yankees had 3 triples in a game was) and an RBI groundout by Francisco Cervelli, also in the 5th rounded out the offense's eight-run effort for the evening.

Andy Pettitte pitched 6 respectable innings, allowing just 2 runs on 5 hits as he picked up his third win of the season. The bullpen (Aceves and Albaladejo) combined for three scorless innings, although Jonathan Albaladejo did have to work himself out of some trouble in the ninth.

Good to see the lineup as a whole come alive for once. I'd imagine the baseballs had to look like basketballs to these guys after having to face Roy Halladay the night before. The Yankees will try to take the final game of this series tomorrow night at 7:07 ET and will send CC Sabathia to the mound to face Brian Tallet.

Recap records: Patrick: 9–5, Seamus: 6–8, Andrew: 1–4

Yes, everyone is injured. Thank you for noticing.

After yesterday's solid rehab start, it appears likely the Yankees will give Chien-Ming Wang another one, according to Chad Jennings. Though Brian Cashman wouldn't commit completely one way or the other, it sounds like he'll be making at least one more rehab start.

Jeter was scratched before yesterday's game, but he hopes to play tonight. "I've pulled that muscle before and been on the disabled list two or three weeks," Jeter told Peter Abraham. "I'm trying to avoid that."

Matsui told Abraham that he could have stayed in last night's game, saying that it was not so much a hamstring problem as it was a cramp. He's good to go.

George A. King III of the Post reports that Phil Coke likely was unable to pitch yesterday due to a stiff back. Coke didn't want to talk about it, and hopefully it doesn't become an issue.

Finally, in the same article, King notes that Brian Bruney is scheduled to have a bullpen session today after playing catch on Monday.

If he looks good, the Yankees could add him right back to the Major League roster, according to Joe Girardi. But, if he's not sharp, the team could send him down to Minors for some rehab appearances.

Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay took on his old battery mate, A.J. Burnett, on Tuesday night in Burnett's first start back in Toronto since leaving the franchise to join the Yankees.

Halladay took this one, needing just 103 pitches to set the Yankees down, throwing a complete game five hitter. He allowed just one run, which came on an A-Rod RBI single in the seventh. Beyond that, it was all goose eggs.

Burnett wasn't awful, but 5 earned runs over 7 and 2/3 wasn't going to get the job done today. He allowed 7 hits and walked 4. Jose Veras pitched the final out of the eighth.

Johnny Damon continued his hot hitting as the only Yankee to have 2 hits. A-Rod, Melky and Ramiro Pena had the other hits.

Andy Pettitte (2-1, 4.38) will go against Scott Richmond (4-1, 3.29) tomorrow at 7:07 PM ET.

Recap records: Patrick: 9–5, Seamus: 5–8, Andrew: 1–4.

Earlier today, we reported that Derek Jeter had been pulled from today's lineup due to a pulled oblique. Bryan Hoch has more on this. Jeter says that he hopes to play tomorrow and Girardi says he's day to day.

Hideki Matsui was taken out of tonight's game (recap soon). According to Peter Abraham, it's a tight hamstring.

Finally, Chad Jennings blogged Chien-Ming Wang's rehab start at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. He goes in detail, so check that out, but Wang threw 6 innings, allowing 0 runs on 3 hits with 3 walks and 6 strikeouts. He threw 82 pitches, 49 of them for strikes.

Sam Borden reports that Steiner Sports has begun selling memorabilia from the old Yankee Stadium on their website.

They have a section dedicated to the sale as well as areas where you can buy seats, grass and other artifacts and they have an auction area, as well.

A pair of seats will set you back $1,499.99, while a single seat will cost you $749.99. You can get specific seats, too, but tack on an extra $500 for them. You can also buy seats from the bleachers, which probably amount to short planks of wood. $399.99 for one or $699.99 for a pair.

For $50,000, it looks like you can own the sod that features the logo that was behind home plate. I'm curious as to how that gets delivered. Do the rights to Kei Igawa come with it?

If that's not in your budget, you can get a hunk of freeze dried grass for $80. A square foot of sod will cost you $120 and two square feet will cost you $280 (that math seems funny to me). You can buy sod from specific areas of the field, as well.

There is a whole host of artifacts available. Signs galore. "All Space Reserved on Game Day," "Caution: Slippery When Wet," and more. A selection of available items:

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Ian Kennedy had his surgery today. The pitcher will need to wait 6-8 weeks before he's able to throw, reports Peter Abraham. Our thoughts are with him - here's to a speedy recovery.

Meanwhile, details are short, but Derek Jeter has a pulled oblique, says Abraham. He's been scratched from the lineup.