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05/10: Sox Take First of Series With a 14-3 Blowout

Posted by: Seamus

The Yankees' pitching staff got knocked around last night as the Red Sox teed off on Randy Johnson, Aaron Small and Tanyon Sturtze en route to a 14-3 victory over the Yankees. The Big Unit was pretty ineffective, giving up 7 runs (only 2 earned, however) and walking five batters in only 3 and 2/3. Aaron Small accounted for 4 runs allowed and Sturtze for the other 3 in the 9th inning. The loss puts the Yankees a game back of the Red Sox for first in the A.L. East.

The only positives for the Yanks last night were Giambi launching his 11th home run of the season and Melky Cabrera going 2-3 with an RBI single in his 2006 Yankees debut. I've got nothing but love for Tanyon Sturtze and Aaron Small, and I've wanted to defend them from the people who say that Torre plays the loyalty cards too much or just uses them too much, but they certainly didn't make it easy for me last night. I guess my best argument for now would be something like "Hey, well wouldn't it be nice to have guys like this around who can eat up meaningless innings?" Still though, I'd give Small a chance as he's just come back from injury and he hasn't gotten enough reps in yet to make that judgement about him (extended spring training doesn't cut it).

Tonight's matchup should hopefully feature better pitching (at least on our side) as Mike Mussina will take the mound against Curt Schilling in a battle of 5-1 pitchers.

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Michael wrote:

I think the focus really should be on the errors in the field last night. It really rattled RJ I thought. I will also point out that the home plate ump really called a poor game as well.

Let's go Mooose!

05/10 13:42:06

MTQ wrote:

Just anecdotally it seems to me the Yankees often get really bad starting pitching against Boston. Off the top of my head last season there were two games that the RS scored 17 runs in, Moose got hammered on a Sunday night game. They seem to have a real hard time dealing with the patience that Boston shows at the plate.

I hate to be negative but I don't have much confidence in Moose this evening.

05/10 15:05:27

MTQ wrote:

Melky returns to the lineup tonight. I for one am glad.

05/10 18:05:19

James wrote:

MTQ, I can't disagree with you there...though I do disagree with the Moose thing - I always have confidence in him. I like the more cerebral pitchers a la Maddux, Glavine, etc.

05/10 18:21:58

MTQ wrote:

Problem is it seems every time he pitches v Boston he's up around 45 pitches with one out in the 2nd inning.

By the way - Mike Lowell cannot hit the fastball, hence his success moving over from the NL, why they keep throwing him off speed stuff is beyond me.

05/10 20:02:53

James wrote:

Still, good trend so far...2-1-0 for the Red Sox and 0-1-2 for the Yanks. Let's see that keep going.

05/10 20:20:04

MTQ wrote:

I was worried about Moose's pitch count early but he really recovered in the middle ins.

Gosh if he could stay healthy this season what a bonus that would be.

05/11 07:48:19

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