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Game 86: Red Sox at Yankees (L)
| Boston Red Sox (50-37) vs. New York Yankees (45-40) |
| Jon Lester (6-3, 3.48) vs. Andy Pettitte (9-5, 3.98) |
| July 3, 2008 @ 7:05 p.m. @ Yankee Stadium |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||
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| Boston | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 7 | 11 | 0 | |||||
| New York | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 0 | 5 | 1 | |||||
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Preview:
After an offensive juggernaut performance last night, the Yankees hope to keep their hot bats going against Boston, who has been struggling as of late, and were just swept by the Rays. These next few games will be important for the showdown in the AL East. Every win the Yankees get against the Red Sox will move them closer to Tampa (man is that weird to say).
I don’t pump my fist for any major league team except the Yankees. I did, however, find myself pumping my fist after the Rays swept the Sox. Both Jason Varitek and Manny Ramirez are in slumps right now, meaning that the offense really rests on J.D. Drew and Dustin Pedroia, who is currently on a 10-game hitting streak. Tonight could be a rubber match, as the Sox send Jon Lester to the mound. Lester is 3-0 with a 3.35 ERA in his last six starts.
Andy Pettitte will look for win #10 on the season tonight. He is also looking for his fifth straight win, after going 4-0 with a 1.00 ERA in his last 4 starts. He has allowed only 2 earned runs in his last 30+ innings.
The Yankees will need their offense to continue churning out runs against the Sox. Last night Jason Giambi put up six RBI’s, and A-Rod had 3 of his own. Whether he can perform amidst rumors that is marriage is ending is another thing. Brett Gardner will likely start again tonight, as his offensive production has picked up. He was 1-for-4 last night with an RBI and 2 runs.
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Recap:
If the Yankees were picking any night to fall apart, it had to be this one.
The Yankees were blanked by Jon Lester, as Andy Pettitte picked up his first loss since May 23rd. He pitched 4 2/3 innings, and allowed 6 runs on 9 hits, one of his worst outings of the season. What’s worse is the fact that he could miss some time, due to the fact that he may have to testify in Roger Clemens’ defamation lawsuit.
Only 3 Yankees had hits tonight, two of them having multiple hits. Honestly, this was a piss-poor effort, and I really am getting upset recapping it. The only good thing to come from this game was David Robertson, who continues to be impressive, striking out one in an inning of relief.
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18 Responses to “Game 86: Red Sox at Yankees (L)”
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:22 pm
That inning was all on Jeter.
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:29 pm
What did u expect? He’s too old to play short.. He should be playing 1st. if betemit can do it, so can jeter
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:36 pm
nice to have a 4 and 5 hitter who cant hit with risp
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:38 pm
aargggghhh
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:40 pm
This over priced offense is such a joke. 18 runs last night, and its a mortal lock they won’t score 18 runs the entire 4 game series.
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:56 pm
In all seriousness, I’d like to see the Yankees get swept by the Red Sox and Rays and put them out of the race entirely so that they stop this f’ing yo yo of a season and we can concentrate on the young players maturation and look towards 2009. I keep saying that this team is not playoff material in 2008 (well before Wang went down) and yet as long as they stay in shouting distance of the wild card, I can’t let go. They’re so freaking painful to follow this year, but for the life of me I can’t find a way to stop caring.
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:26 pm
There’s something fitting about the camera cutting to Yogi Berra, who’s sitting there checking his watch.
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:28 pm
This is ridiculous. Tonight they aren’t even taking pitches. Swinging at the first pitch, grounding into DPs. They are hurting themselves. Lester hasn’t even thrown 50 pitches through 4…They are definitely not being patient at the plate and letting it come to them.
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:30 pm
I can’t believe i’m seeing this. they are just playing horrible. Completely pitiful…
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Lester major flaw is that he can’t consistantly throw strikes. I guess the yanks got a bad scouting report. i wonder what the trade value of Giambi and Abreu is. time to blow this miscast team up
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:45 pm
agreed get some better pitching geeze.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Last night’s 18 run game was not merely a fluke. The team was motivated, motivated that evening by Steinbrenner’s tirade. I suggested a couple months ago that Girardi was not the god-like figure many of you made him out to be and I was debunked. Arguments were made that a professional team like the Yankees didn’t require motivation. That argument was bull then and its bull now. Why is it that EVERY one of the players has been in and out huge slumps? It’s not because they are not capable and the solution is not to get rid of one or many of the players. I swear, in the past eighty games there has not been two consecutive games where the players came into the clubhouse and the lineups were the same as the night before. Every night for the last 80 games these guys have had to play a different role than the did the night before. And imagine how it makes these guys feel to be demoted up and down the lineups constantly? Last year in the second half where the Yankees were the best team in baseball, every night you could count on the same cast of characters batting in the same order, and we never saw the huge slumps that we have the first half of this season.
July 4th, 2008 at 12:29 am
The scouting report on Lester was put together while he was fighting his disease and recovering from treatment. Tonight’s Lester was the same guy that was top rated before his diagnosis. This is exactly what was expected, and what to expect for years.
Jeter’s play is still a thing of beauty. His 7 errors are about 10 less than Sox counterpart Julio Lugo’s this year. Jeter on first is a brilliant idea, maybe next year.
The good news: very impressive young relievers, plus Joba and Gardner. Start the rebuilding, if there is to be a rebuilding, around them. Alternatively, spend a bundle and the Farm’s best prospects for CC and a couple of other high achievers, and maybe get into contention this year. Seems like a no-brainer.
July 4th, 2008 at 6:54 am
The lineups have not been changing that often. The lineup last night was the same order as the night before, except for Gardner and Cabrera being swapped. The issue is the team looked dead after getting down early. They didn’t seem to want to fight back.
July 4th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Seems like the Yanks haven’t beat a decent lefty all year. Anyone know the team’s record vs lefthanded STARTERS?
I dug up the righty/lefty splits, but don’t know how to find how they do vs lefty starters.
July 4th, 2008 at 9:29 am
No life. All this talk about Jeter playing first is running contrary to what we’ve been seeing which is Possada out there. He’d probably make the outfield transition better than most infielders, and , his arm is better than Possada’s.
Robin Yount was a good center fielder toward the end of his carreer, He and Jeter have a lot of similarities in body type, athleticism and playing style. I believe that would be a solution that solves the problem of , “Where does Possada play because he can’t throw anymore and we still have three years left to pay.”
Did anyone hear that Matsui might be done for the season?
July 4th, 2008 at 9:32 am
The heart of the Yankees championship calibre teams has gone with Torre. Pettitte used to step up in games like this one. No more. Jeter and Posada willed the Yankees to victories before this year. No more. Girardi is going to have to find a new way to get this team going. I don’t think Jeter, Posada and Pettitte have their hearts in picking the team up and carrying them to the post season without Torre around anymore. On top of that, A-Rod, after showing what he can do when motivated last year, is back to cruise control this year. Cano, with his big contract, while being a nice kid, has been a disgrace with his attitude at the plate. Cabrera, also a nice kid, has shown that he’s not a legitimate prospect. Abreu, Matsui and Damon are redundant and while one of them is an asset on any big league team, the three of them together means lots of injury time due to age, poor outfield defense as a group and a real vulnerability, as a team, to lefthanded pitching. The three of them together kill a team’s versatility - no righty power, no great defensive outfielder, no big time stolen base guy. Only Giambi, in his contract year, has stepped it up. I hope the Yankees land Teixiera in his place moving forward. This team is a mess and Girardi has his work cut out for him turning all of this around
July 4th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Steve:
The Yankees are 14-14 this season against left-handed starters.
Go to the MLB.com Standings page, and at the top, click on the button that says “vs. L” to add that column to the standings.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/standings/index.jsp
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