The Yankees dropped the rubber game of their three game, Interleague match up with the Cincinnati Reds, 5-2. After winning the first game of the series behind Andy Pettitte‘s eight shutout innings, the Yankees fell a bit short of a comeback on Saturday, and just came up short overall on Sunday.
All the action took place in the later part of the game. In the bottom of the sixth, the Yankees took a 2-0 lead on a Raul Ibanez home run that landed in the second deck in right field. With CC Sabathia going, that should’ve wrapped things up. CC in the 7th, Cory Wade and the LOOGYs (if necessary) in the 8th, Soriano in the 9th. Ballgame. But, no. Against the bottom of the order, CC surrendered solo homers to Ryans Ludwick and Hanigan before issuing three walks, including one with the bases loaded to force in the go-ahead run, making it 3-2 Reds. In the bottom of the seventh, Alex Rodriguez hit a ball that I think everyone watching the game thought was gone off the bat…but wasn’t. Sigh. Isn’t that the season in a nutshell? Anyway, the Reds added runs in the 9th after a Dewayne Wise couldn’t make a diving catch on a Ryan Ludwick liner that rolled to the wall and scored two. Zombie Mark Teixeira reached via error and was pinch run for, but that’s all the Yankees could muster against Aroldis Chapman in their half of the ninth and they fell 5-3 in the game and 2-1 in the series.
Right now, the Yankees are playing poorly. Very poorly. There’s no getting arouund it. But, this isn’t exactly a new thing for the Yankees. They’ve tended to play poorly at the beginning of the year before turning it around once the weather heats up. Still, they’re sad right now. And this is what they need to do.
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I couldn’t believe that A-Rod out in the eighth. I’m really beginning to worry that age has dimished his already dimished power.
Arod hit that ball well, the wind blew that blast back into the park. Even Dusty Baker said he thought it was gone.
I don’t care if Arod only hits 20 hr’s as long as he scores 100 and drives in a 100. But hitting .270 with a .360 OBP, he isn’t even going to do that. His swing looks good though, so he’ll warm up soon than later and go on a nice run.
Texiera, on the other hand, has a broken swing. I thought Cashman should have traded him for pitching in the offseason before his decline was further exposed. We should have Montero playing 1st right now.
And then the pitching… CC – along with Nova and Hughes – have to hit their marks. The amount of hr’s and bb’s they are handing out is killing the team. Didn’t these guys go to spring training?
I’m going to touch on A-Rod for my post tomorrow. Everything is where it should be, except for the power.