| IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | ERA | |
| Mussina (L, 0-1) | 5.2 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4.76 |
| Hawkins | 1.1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.75 |
| Farnsworth | 1.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Ohlendorf | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 |
JAYS PITCHING
Offensively the Yankees were asleep the entire game. Alex Rodriguez had a 2-run home run and that was pretty much it. But A-Rod also had a terrible AB in the 9th when he came to bat as the tying run and struck out. Besides that, the offense was pretty pathetic, but Derek Jeter did have two hits. Johnny Damon has looked absolutely terrible at the plate so far. Last year he didn't come to camp in shape, this year he's in shape, but he can't hit. The Jason Giambi experiment at first already seems to be a mistake. After looking decent yesterday, he reminded everyone tonight that he just isn't a good fielder. I can only imagine how many runs he will cost this team defensively this season. Tonight he turned a low liner which should have been an easy out into an E3 and a run. He misplayed a few other balls later in the night.
| NY Yankees | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | LOB | AVG |
| Damon, LF | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .125 |
| Jeter, SS | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .375 |
| Abreu, RF | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .429 |
| Rodriguez, 3B | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | .429 |
| Giambi, 1B | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .000 |
| Cano, 2B | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | .143 |
| Matsui, DH | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .167 |
| Molina, C | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .333 |
| Cabrera, CF | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .333 |
| Totals | 32 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 12 | |
| BATTING HR: Rodriguez (1, 7th inning off Burnett, 1 on, 0 out). TB: Jeter 2; Abreu; Rodriguez 4; Matsui; Molina; Cabrera. RBI: Rodriguez 2 (3). Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Cano. GIDP: Jeter. Team LOB: 4. BASERUNNING CS: Abreu (1, 2nd base by Burnett/Barajas). | ||||||||
JAYS HITTING
If you were wondering where Jorge Posada was tonight, he sat out with a "stiff shoulder."
"Nothing that I'm concerned about,"manager Joe Girardi said.
"I don't expect it to be long.
"He's day to day," Girardi said.
Next up for the Yankees is the rubber game of the three game set with the Jays tomorrow night at The Stadium. Phil Hughes gets the start for the Yanks and faces off against Dustin McGowan. First pitch is set for 7:05 and the game can be seen on YES and heard of WCBS 880.
8 Comments:
I can't tell if your entire commentary is sarcasm or if you genuinely believe the sky is falling. You can't honestly be ragging on some of the offensive players based on one or two games, can you?
Moose was not nearly as bad as you're making him out to be, but I can understand how you might think so from being at the game live as opposed to seeing on TV where you can actually tell what/where he was throwing. If not for some lucky bloops and an inconsistant and often tight strike zone, he could have gotten out of this thing with 1 or 2 ER.
Moose left the game one out away from a quality start and a 4.50 ERA.
This is exactly why I never predict how an individual will perform. Just like all of the Mets fans, bloggers, reporters and radio talkers (Ed Coleman on the FAN) said the Pedro Martinez was going to have a stellar year...a bounce back season...uh...yea.
Mussina is done. What did Mussina do to show he was going to be any better that last season? So he had a few good games against some AA guys in a spring game.
Oh...Hawkins stinks too.
All I said was the offense was pathetic last night.
Damon, however, has looks bad since Spring Training began.
As for Mussina he still can't seem to put hitters away when he needs to, which is what killed him last year.
Moose = Chet Stedman
I love reading your blog/website here but you actually need to watch Moose's performance over on TV because the umpire, for both pitchers, was very inconsistent. Moose made one big mistake to Wells and paid for it. Hawkins, was not bad, and anybody who says he was should re-watch his performance. Yankees fans in general get way to into the games in April. June is when you should be worrying.
Anonymous,
The ump may have been inconsistent, I'm not going to argue that, but it didn't seem to bother Burnett at all. Also when Mussina had a hitter down in the count he couldn't put them away.
I didn't say Hawkins was bad, all I said he gave up a run.
By the way, I'm very happy to hear you like my blog.
Greg,
I didn't mean any of that as a dig against you, sorry if I came across that way.
Its just my fustration over having Mussina and Hawkins on this team.
What you saw last night from Mussina is what he is, 5 innings, 7-8 hits, 4 runs, runners on base every inning.
The Yanks could do just as well with, say, Scott Patterson gaining ML experience.
Mike,
Don't worry about it, I didn't take offense to anything you said.
"What you saw last night from Mussina is what he is, 5 innings, 7-8 hits, 4 runs, runners on base every inning.
The Yanks could do just as well with, say, Scott Patterson gaining ML experience."
Agreed on both points.
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