06/08: June 7th at the White Sox
Posted by: James
Heck of a win by the Yankees tonight. I was in Chicago watching the game with some Sox fans so I'll have to be brief. The game is a pretty simple breakdown.
Mike Mussina, perhaps taking a cue from Chien-Ming Wang, decided to pitch one heck of a game over 6 innings. Unfortunately for Moose, Jose Contreras was just as effective in shutting down the Yankees bats. The Yanks scored their first run in the fourth on a Matsui groundout that scored Bobby Abreu after he and A-Rod had started the inning off with singles.
Chicago tied it up in the 7th. Mussina started off the inning by giving up singles to Thome and Konerko before being taken out. Mike Myers then came in for the thankless job of LOOGY and gave up a RBI single to A.J. Pierzynski to tie the game at 1-1. Scott Proctor then came in with 2 on and none out and proceeded to bail the Yankees out of the inning. Rob Mackowiak lined a pitch deep to center but the ball got knocked down by the wind.
The Yankees took the lead in the eighth when Derek Jeter pinch hit, stole second and took third on a single by Melky Cabrera. Bobby Abreu then came up and with one out, laced a double to right to score both Jeter and El Leche. 3-1 Yanks. After the bases got juiced with two walks to A-Rod and Hideki, Abreu scored on a ground-out from Cano. 4-1 Yanks.
In the 8th, Kyle Farnsworth came in and after one quick out, gave up a single to Jerry Owens. After an errant throw to first put a man in scoring position, Tad Iguchi hit a ground rule double to make it 4-2. At that point, Joe had seen enough and brought in Mo. Iguchi did came around to score on a Konerko single to make the score 4-3 but Mariano sat Pierzynski down on some high heat (A.J. promptly got tossed for slamming his bat down in frustration of his ineptitude.)
In the top of the ninth, the Yankees put the game out of reach. Singles by Jeter and Melky and a walk from Abreu loaded them up and A-Rod brought them home. Grand slam A-rod. 8-3 Yanks. Hideki got aboard on a walk and came around on a Cano triple. Cano scored on a Uribe error on a groundball by Posada. 10-3 Yanks. At that point, the formula was back in play. Bottom of the ninth. Enter Sandman. Game over. Good win, good pitching, good clutch hitting and now, finally some positive momentum. Let's go Yankees.
Mike Mussina, perhaps taking a cue from Chien-Ming Wang, decided to pitch one heck of a game over 6 innings. Unfortunately for Moose, Jose Contreras was just as effective in shutting down the Yankees bats. The Yanks scored their first run in the fourth on a Matsui groundout that scored Bobby Abreu after he and A-Rod had started the inning off with singles.
Chicago tied it up in the 7th. Mussina started off the inning by giving up singles to Thome and Konerko before being taken out. Mike Myers then came in for the thankless job of LOOGY and gave up a RBI single to A.J. Pierzynski to tie the game at 1-1. Scott Proctor then came in with 2 on and none out and proceeded to bail the Yankees out of the inning. Rob Mackowiak lined a pitch deep to center but the ball got knocked down by the wind.
The Yankees took the lead in the eighth when Derek Jeter pinch hit, stole second and took third on a single by Melky Cabrera. Bobby Abreu then came up and with one out, laced a double to right to score both Jeter and El Leche. 3-1 Yanks. After the bases got juiced with two walks to A-Rod and Hideki, Abreu scored on a ground-out from Cano. 4-1 Yanks.
In the 8th, Kyle Farnsworth came in and after one quick out, gave up a single to Jerry Owens. After an errant throw to first put a man in scoring position, Tad Iguchi hit a ground rule double to make it 4-2. At that point, Joe had seen enough and brought in Mo. Iguchi did came around to score on a Konerko single to make the score 4-3 but Mariano sat Pierzynski down on some high heat (A.J. promptly got tossed for slamming his bat down in frustration of his ineptitude.)
In the top of the ninth, the Yankees put the game out of reach. Singles by Jeter and Melky and a walk from Abreu loaded them up and A-Rod brought them home. Grand slam A-rod. 8-3 Yanks. Hideki got aboard on a walk and came around on a Cano triple. Cano scored on a Uribe error on a groundball by Posada. 10-3 Yanks. At that point, the formula was back in play. Bottom of the ninth. Enter Sandman. Game over. Good win, good pitching, good clutch hitting and now, finally some positive momentum. Let's go Yankees.
Seamus wrote:
Best part of this game was seeing all of Ozzie's pitching moves turn to a total disaster. Bukvich enters a 4-3 game with two outs in the 9th and gets out of it trailing 10-3. None of their last three pitchers recorded more than one out.