(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)The A's were no match for the red-hot Yankees tonight, especially without Matt Holliday in their lineup. With an offensive explosion and Joba's second straight seven inning start, the Yankees rolled to an easy win to extend their win streak.
Joba's start seemed to mirror his last way in some ways. He immediately put the Yanks in a hole in the first but didn't really get hit hard. After getting an easy first out, he surrendered a double to Orlando Cabrera. Cabrera would steal third on Jorge Posada's arm and score on a sac fly. That would be the only inning of consequence for Joba until the fifth. Until then the offense would take over and get the Yankees the lead.
The first two innings weren't good on that side of the game either. The Yanks didn't get a guy on base through them and Brian Anderson struck out the side in the first. In the third though, they struck with a big inning. It started innocently enough with a Robi Cano base hit and then a pop out from Nick Swisher. However, then Melky would hit a double to put the tying run in scoring position, both would score on consecutive hits by Jeter and Damon. That put the Yankees ahead 2-1 which was really all the runs that they would need.
Hello, Greg here. Just wanted to add my two cents...
I was very impressed with Joba tonight. Even though he didn't have his best command, throwing just 56 of his 100 pitches for strikes, he did do his best to challenge hitters, worked quickly, and seemed to be on the same page with Posada. In 7 innings he allowed a run on 2 hits, walked 3, and struck out 6. And for the second start in a row we saw a little of the emotion he showed so much coming out of the pen.
Phil Coke was also very good tonight. He came in the game to replace Joba with runners on first and second with nobody out in the top of the eighth. It was just a 4-1 game at the time so those runners were important. He struck out Nomar, then got Adam Kennedy to fly out to right, and then struck out Orlando Cabrera to end the inning.
The Yanks would score four in the bottom half of the inning extend their lead to 8-1. Jorge Posada had a long solo homer near the second deck in left.
With two hits in the game Derek Jeter passed the great Ted Williams on the all-time hits list. The second hit was Jeter's 2,655th of his career.
That makes eight wins in a row for the Yanks, and they're now 21-5 over their last 26. Very impressive.
ATHLETICS STATS
PLAYER OF THE GAME: Joba Chamberlain (W, 7 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 6 K)
HONORABLE MENTION: Derek Jeter (3-for-5, 2 RBI)
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Hello, Greg here. Just wanted to add my two cents...
I was very impressed with Joba tonight. Even though he didn't have his best command, throwing just 56 of his 100 pitches for strikes, he did do his best to challenge hitters, worked quickly, and seemed to be on the same page with Posada. In 7 innings he allowed a run on 2 hits, walked 3, and struck out 6. And for the second start in a row we saw a little of the emotion he showed so much coming out of the pen.
Phil Coke was also very good tonight. He came in the game to replace Joba with runners on first and second with nobody out in the top of the eighth. It was just a 4-1 game at the time so those runners were important. He struck out Nomar, then got Adam Kennedy to fly out to right, and then struck out Orlando Cabrera to end the inning.
The Yanks would score four in the bottom half of the inning extend their lead to 8-1. Jorge Posada had a long solo homer near the second deck in left.
With two hits in the game Derek Jeter passed the great Ted Williams on the all-time hits list. The second hit was Jeter's 2,655th of his career.
That makes eight wins in a row for the Yanks, and they're now 21-5 over their last 26. Very impressive.
| AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | LOB | AVG | |
| Jeter, SS | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .320 |
| Damon, LF | 5 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .279 |
| Teixeira, 1B | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .280 |
| Gardner, CF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .274 |
| Rodriguez, A, 3B | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | .252 |
| Ransom, 3B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .188 |
| Posada, C | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .286 |
| Matsui, H, DH | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .253 |
| Cano, 2B | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .313 |
| Swisher, RF-1B | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | .233 |
| Cabrera, Me, CF-RF | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .284 |
| Totals | 35 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 17 | |
BATTING 2B: Cabrera, Me (16, Anderson, B), Rodriguez, A (8, Anderson, B). HR: Posada (13, 8th inning off Breslow, 0 on, 0 out). TB: Jeter 3; Damon; Teixeira; Rodriguez, A 2; Posada 4; Cano 2; Cabrera, Me 4. RBI: Jeter 2 (39), Damon 3 (54), Matsui, H (43), Posada (45). Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Rodriguez, A 2. GIDP: Damon; Rodriguez, A. Team RISP: 3-for-13. Team LOB: 8. FIELDING E: Cabrera, Me (3, throw). | ||||||||
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PLAYER OF THE GAME: Joba Chamberlain (W, 7 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 6 K)
HONORABLE MENTION: Derek Jeter (3-for-5, 2 RBI)
Tomorrow's Game
Yankees vs. Athletics
Game Time: 1:05 p.m. | TV/Radio: YES, WCBS
Game Time: 1:05 p.m. | TV/Radio: YES, WCBS
LHP Andy Pettitte (8-5, 4.62) vs. LHP Gio Gonzalez (1-2, 9.33)
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It's crazy. Jeter is only about two seasons away from 3,000 hits.
Created to the yankees for playing consistantly the past 5 weeks - they should be destroying these teams and they are. But the schedule is about to get much tougher, we'll see how they do. In the last five weeks half their loses came at the hands of the west leading angles who swept the yankees.
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I hadn't finished the post....
Anyway, great win for the Yanks. Let's hope they can keep it going.
Hey Mike, sorry about that my mistake. I saw it up and thought you had finished.
Don't worry Mike it came out fine.
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