Baseball go bye-bye.
For the first time in seemingly forever, the Yankees actually jumped all over a Lefty-They’ve-Never-Seen-Before™ in the form of Jo-Jo Reyes (who only lasted three innings and gave up five runs — now that’s more like it!) and never looked back, taking the rubber game against the Blue Jays 7-3 on a beautiful Wednesday afternoon.
Things started off promisingly in the 1st, as a Derek Jeter leadoff double was plated by a Curtis Granderson double (his first of two on the game — is this man on fire or what?), as the Yankees took a 1-0 lead before an out was recorded. They quickly added to the lead on an Andruw Jones two-run bomb in the second (driving in a Russell Martin bases-on-balls), and then grabbed two more in the third as Mark Teixeira blasted a two-run shot to left-field. Though that would be all they’d need, the Yankees added two more on Jones’ second two-run shot of the game.
Jones hasn’t really played all that much, and hasn’t exactly made the most of opportunities when he has played (.191/.240/.340, -0.2 fWAR coming into today’s game), but there’s still something about his presence in the lineup that makes me feel like the team isn’t throwing at-bats away like they have on so many weak bench pieces in the past. It’s probably just confirmation bias, but it seems like Jones has had something of a knack for the timely home run.
Freddy Garcia did his part, keeping the Jays off the board until the sixth and ultimately hurling 6 1/3 innings of three-run, eight-hit ball with four strikeouts and zero walks. That’s about as Freddy Garcia of a line as it gets.
The Yankees improved to 5-3 against the Toronto Jose Bautistas, which may not sound like much, but that win total is already more than half the wins they recorded against the Toronto Annoyings all of last season, when they went 8-10.
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Well it looks like Soriano will be shutdown for 2-3 months with an inflamed elbow ligament.
In almost completely worthless news the Yankees claimed Kanekoa Texeira off waivers. Texeira was once in the Yankee farm system before being selected in the rule V draft. He’ll probably get a shot in the pen with Sori out, hell Buddy Carlyle did. I wouldn’t expect much, if anything out of him though.
I’d be shocked if Texeira sees a day with the big club. More likely one of our other farmhands will be coming up and this retread was sent there to be evaluated and fill the impending vacancy down in the system. That 2.53 WHIP of his is a clue … plus, do we really need another right-handed reliever?
I could see him getting a shot, Amury Sanit, Lance Pendleton, and Buddy Carlyle have been used this year. He isn’t worse than any one of them neccesarily. He isn’t good, but neither were they. Well with the exception of Lance in small doses.
I don’t think he was claimed with the idea of going into the pen, that isn’t what I meant, but I wouldn’t be shocked if he got a chance to at least be called up at some point.
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Its always nice to get home from work and see the Yanks won an early game. Its a great way to end the work day :D
Sanit has been pretty decent right?
If you call a 8.53 ERA/5.11 FIP/6.74 xFIP, and a 2.84 K/9, 4.26 BB/9, in 6.1 IP good.
I think you are confusing Sanit with Luis Ayala. Last I checked Sanit isn’t even on the Major League roster anymore.
Ayala has a 1.50 ERA/3.49 FIP/3.54 xFIP, and a 6.75 K/9, 3.00 BB/9 in 12 IP. Girardi has said Ayala will be taking over Robertson’s old role in the bullpen as Joba and he up their responsibilities to replace Soriano.
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