It was interesting watching the Yankees AAA team play
against Cleveland
in the 2nd game last night two nights ago, but they came
through. It is also nice to see exactly
what we do have in terms of minor league talent, something the Yankees have
been avoiding for too long. Of course, the
Yankee brass didn’t have much choice with all the injuries yet they still have
chosen top bring in two infielders (who are not very good) rather than give
some of our other minor leaguers some action.
Either way, we are getting to see some of them because of the injuries.
Tuesday night: King
Felix and his sub 2 ERA against CC. Both
guys have dropped some velocity but CC is about 2-3 down from a few years ago
and that is significant. Seattle’s offense is not
strong and he was able to keep the damage down.
Granderson looked really bad in his AB’s…very different swing.
After being down 3-0 to King Felix Cano hung in there and
took a curve ball out to close the gap to a one run game. It really shows how good he is as he looked
uncomfortable (just like many others against Felix) and then pulls us right
back in the game. Later on Overbay did
his job getting the sac fly getting us the go ahead run and turning a one run
lead over to Robertson and Rivera.
Robertson did a poor job of walking the first guy on 4 pitches (how does
that happen?). Then it got worse when Romine
made a poor decision on a bunt that was just in front of the plate, but Romine
should have seen the jump and known the speed of the runner and not tried to
get him at 2nd. Now we have 1st
and 2nd nobody out.
Fortunately, the same runner who was going on first move to 2nd
on the bunt also made the mistake of going on the line drive to Nix and that
that one false step was enough for Nix to double him off on the line drive and
that saved the inning.
The Genius Maker looked great breaking two bats and was
aided by the final strike of the game…that was clearly a ball. Either way, he looked good again and saved
another 1 run game.
Wednesday night saw Hughes just pitch horribly and not get
out of the first inning and the game was over (7-0) before the Yanks stepped to
the plate. Hughes just has far too many
of those types of situations. This is
why I just have never been a fan.
Ichiro, who has not been doing well and actually made one of
his throws where he took 5 steps before releasing the ball, did hit the ball
hard a bunch of times with nothing to show for it.
It is amazing that our record is what it is…we have been
lucky in all these one run games
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