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04/25: Yankees Play Terrible Baseball, Lose 16-11

Posted by: Andrew

For the second straight day, the Yankees lost a game that they probably should've won. You see, they were up 6-0 this afternoon with A.J. Burnett on the mound. However, Burnett, who had stellar career numbers in Fenway Park before today, faltered, and the Yankees lacked clutch situational hitting. Those factors contributed to the Yankees' 16-11 loss at the hands of the Boston Red Sox.

While the game was still close in the seventh and eighth innings, the Yankees failed to get the runner in from third with less than two outs.

Robinson Cano went 3-for-5 with two home runs and five RBI. However, Mike Lowell had six RBI and Jason Varitek hit a grand slam.

The Yankees built their 6-0 lead off Josh Beckett in the first four innings. But Burnett gave up five runs in the bottom half of the fourth and three more in the next inning. Before the Yankees knew it, they were trailing 8-6. Jason Bay had an RBI single and Varitek hit his grand slam in the fourth. Jacoby Ellsbury followed with a solo home run and Bay hit a two-run double in the fifth.

The Yankees tied it at 8 in the next inning on a Johnny Damon two-run home run off Beckett. Unfortunately, Jose Veras decided to be bad Jose Veras. He hit Nick Green with a pitch and gave up a double to Ellsbury. He then walked Dustin Pedroia before being pulled. A David Ortiz sacrifice fly gave the Red Sox a 9-8 lead.

A two-run error by Pedroia gave the Yankees a 10-9 lead, but the bullpen was once against unable to hold it. Jonathan Albaladejo gave up a three-run home run to Lowell to make the lead 12-10 in favor of Boston. Though the Yankees cut the lead to 12-11 on a Cano solo home run in the eighth, an RBI single by Pedoria and a three-run double by Lowell ultimately gave the Red Sox a 16-11 lead.

The Yankees used seven pitchers, and all but Phil Coke gave up an earned run. Burnett and Josh Beckett each gave up eight earned runs in a game billed as a pitchers' duel.

They will look to salvage a game in this series tomorrow night at 8:05. Andy Pettitte will face Justin Masterson.

Recap records: Recap records: Patrick: 5-2, Seamus: 3-4, Andrew: 1-2

Andrew Fletcher blogs about the Yankees regularly at Scott Proctor's Arm.

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Seamus wrote:

Yeah this was one of those games where even if they won I would have came out of it not feeling too good. When you have five guys who have already have a multi-hit game going into the 6th inning you shouldn't lose by 5 runs.

04/25 20:47:11

Jerry Bradley wrote:

A touch of irony surrounds the Yankees and their new bosses this year.
Perhaps the name Steinbrenner is running its course. George handed the reins over to his son and the Yankees haven't been the same since.
It's not just the pitching per se, but it is a number of issues that all add up to: "You can't buy a World Series, no matter how much money you have."
Yet, again, maybe the three little Yankees went to market and two little Yankees stayed home. The other little Yankee went wee, wee, wee all the way home.
In other words it is going to be a long hot summer for the Yankees and their fans. Especially in the new Yankee stadium, where balls fly out of the park like nails from a nail gun.

04/26 03:18:17

Patrick wrote:

What this really adds up to is that this is baseball. No one's trying to buy a World Series, but the way that this works is that you maximize your resources to the very best of your ability, put the best team you can on the field and then you let them play. That's just baseball.

It wouldn't be any better if the Yankees spent $50 million instead of $200 million because then, we wouldn't have been utilizing our available resources, which should be the goal of every team. You always build your team on paper, but baseball is a game of variables played on the field and, regardless of talent level or any of that, anything can happen on any given day.

Thanks,

Patrick

04/26 10:12:34

Seamus wrote:

I think it's important to keep this all in perspective. I know this looks bad, the Yankees just had two terrible losses in a row against their arch rivals, but it's just two games. I know we all wanted them to get off to a fast start and 9-8 doesn't look as good as 11-6 would have looked, but at the same time their record through 17 games is better than Philadelphia was last year.

04/26 11:58:39

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