I missed this game, due to a matinee of “American Idiot” — which marked the first time in history I knew the words to every single song in a Broadway musical — and a second consecutive Saturday dinner at Ruth’s Chris Steak House. Given my lifelong love of Green Day I unsurprisingly thought “Idiot” was fantastic. I was also predictably excited that upon exiting the theater I saw that the Yankees were beating Cleveland 10-5 after six innings, and all seemed right with the world. I turned my BlackBerry off as I was trying to conserve my battery and figured the Yanks had the game in the bag.
Apparently I was horrendously wrong. The bullpen coughed up a five-run lead for the third time in the last two weeks (!) and the Yankees somehow lost a game they absolutely should have won by a final score of 13-11.
This is the fourth straight start by CC Sabathia the Yankees have lost. Also, Boston and Tampa Bay both won. All in all another wretched pitching performance. Losing games where the offense scores 11 runs is inexcusable, and Joba Chamberlain better be doing some serious soul searching, because he has not gotten the job done this season thus far.
* One of my all-time favorite Yankee quotes. Per my dad, this was former Yankee manager Stump Merrill’s response to a reporter during a particularly brutal stretch of the Yankees’ wretched 1990 season.
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