(AP Photo/Kathy Willens)| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | ||
| TOR | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 2 | |
| NYY | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 1 |
WP - Shawn Camp (1-5)
LP - Sergio Mitre (1-1)
SV - Jason Frasor (5)
You can look at tonight's 5-4 loss to the Jays as a let down game, but not me. They didn't look tired, and for the most part played a solid game. One mistake pretty much cost them and that was Sergio Mitre's throwing error - the official scorer changed the scoring after the game - in the fourth on what would have been a double play.
If you don't think that was the reason they lost than you should have heard what Joe Girardi and some of the players had to say in the post game. Girardi, Johnny Damon, and Robinson Cano had no problem passing the blame for the loss onto that play and specifically Mitre's poor throw. Mitre himself admitted it was a major play in the game.
The play occurred with runners on 1st and 2nd with nobody out in the fourth. Jose Bautista hit a hard grounder back to Mitre, he turned, double clutched, and threw a tailing fastball off Cano's glove and into center. Lyle Overbay scored and Vernon Wells went to third. So instead of a runner on third with two out the Jays had runners on the corners with nobody out and a run in. Toronto would go on to score three runs in the inning to take a 4-2 lead.
Like they normally do, the Yankee offense came right back to tie the game with two runs of their own coming on back-to-back homers by Cano and Jerry Hairston Jr. I'll tell you the truth, at this point I thought this game was in the bag.
But then Toronto quickly regained the lead when Lyle Overbay hit a solo homer off Mitre with two out in the top of the fifth. Mitre would get the final out of the fifth before heading to the showers. It wasn't a great start for Mitre, but it was better than he has been. In 5 innings he allowed five runs (three earned) on six hits, he walked one and struck out six. Again, that error completely changed the game. Girardi said after the game that Mitre would make his next start.
The Yanks did not have another rally in their bones, and the Blue Jays relievers held them scoreless over the final 5.2.
One bright spot in the game was Alfredo Aceves who pitched four great innings in relief of Mitre. He allowed just two hits and struck out 1 in four scoreless innings. His great outing saved the rest of the Yankees pen, so they'll have everyone else available tomorrow.
Boston beat Detroit up in Fenway tonight so the Yankees lead is down to 5.5 games. It sucks to give back a game, but they weren't going to win the rest of their games. The most important thing is that they go out and win tomorrow. Try to keep that lead above five games.
| AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | LOB | AVG | |
| Jeter, SS | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .315 |
| Swisher, RF | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | .246 |
| Teixeira, 1B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .286 |
| Rodriguez, A, 3B | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | .259 |
| Posada, DH | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .280 |
| Cano, 2B | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .315 |
| Hairston, J, LF | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .259 |
| a-Damon, PH-LF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .281 |
| Cabrera, Me, CF | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .278 |
| Molina, J, C | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .242 |
| b-Matsui, H, PH | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .265 |
| 1-Pena, R, PR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .267 |
| Totals | 36 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 17 | |
a-Grounded out for Hairston, J in the 8th. b-Singled for Molina, J in the 9th. 1-Ran for Matsui, H in the 9th. | ||||||||
BATTING 2B: Cano (31, Camp). HR: Jeter (13, 1st inning off Rzepczynski, 0 on, 0 out), Cano (17, 4th inning off Rzepczynski, 0 on, 0 out), Hairston, J (9, 4th inning off Rzepczynski, 0 on, 0 out). TB: Jeter 6; Swisher; Teixeira; Rodriguez, A; Cano 6; Hairston, J 4; Cabrera, Me; Matsui, H. RBI: Jeter (48), Swisher (59), Cano (58), Hairston, J (30). Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Posada; Molina, J. SF: Swisher. GIDP: Rodriguez, A; Posada. Team RISP: 0-for-5. Team LOB: 7. BASERUNNING SB: Jeter (20, 2nd base off Rzepczynski/Barajas). FIELDING E: Mitre (3, throw). | ||||||||
| IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | ERA | |
| Mitre (L, 1-1) | 5.0 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 7.04 |
| Aceves, A | 4.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.14 |
Pitches-strikes: Mitre 96-59, Aceves, A 42-26.
JAYS STATS
PLAYER OF THE GAME: Lyle Overbay (2-for-3, HR, RBI, 2 R, BB)
HONORABLE MENTION: Alfredo Aceves
GOAT OF THE GAME: Sergio Mitre
Tomorrow's Game
Yankees vs. Blue Jays
Game Time: 7:05 p.m. | TV/Radio: YES, WCBS
RHP Joba Chamberlain (8-2, 3.73) vs. RHP Scott Richmond (6-6, 3.97)
Yankees vs. Blue Jays
Game Time: 7:05 p.m. | TV/Radio: YES, WCBS
RHP Joba Chamberlain (8-2, 3.73) vs. RHP Scott Richmond (6-6, 3.97)
8 Comments:
Can we please pose the Sergio Mitre question. Why the hell is he still on this team?
Whats up with Kay why is he such a moron? Why was he saying Aceves is not a long man. Has he not paid attention to the games this year. Aceves usually always pitches multiple innings. That what makes him so valuable. It was a 1 run game. If this was a blowout than he shouldn't been pitching. But Aceves gave the yankees every chance to win the game. Everyone else in the bullpen should be well rested.
Kay was being ridiculous about Aceves. Alfredo has been the long man since spring training. Not sure where Kay has been all this time.
I'd like to see Gaudin get some innings in. If Aceves could be stretched out a bit to be the #5 starter, they could use Gaudin as the long man. Mitre is a time bomb right now. You never know when he's going to blow up and have a big inning of runs allowed.
I have this feeling Girardi is stretching out Aceves & that they'll send Mitre back very soon & give the long man job to Gaudin to see how he does.
I think I own a copy of one of Gaudin's paintings.
I can't believe the smoke Cashman was trying to blow up our ass about Mitre. His performance is NOT comparable to the leagues other fifth pitchers, and wins for the team do not excuse horrendous starting pitching. PLEASE, ditch this guy.
mitre isnt necessarily here to win games. hes here to give the yankees innings and as long as he does that, he will keep him in the game. if the bullpen wasnt as good as it has been, then this would be a different story because aceves threw 4 innings of shutout baseball and that shouldve been enough for the yankees to win this one on offfense. forget about this loss. they will win tonight.
Mitre needs to go--he will wind up hurting us big time.
As far as Kay goes--he's a @#$%ing idiot. We have some of the worst commentators in sport....
Let's win tonight!!
Mike
i wouldn't say we have some of the worst commentators - not by a long shot. try listening to braves broadcasts or nesn, fox, espn. they're all substantially worse than the yes network. ken singleton is the man.
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