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- Yankees 6 Mets 2: To say this was a must win for the Yankees may be understating things. Yes, it is only May and yes, there are 120 games or so left. But, when you are 10+games back in the division and you face getting swept by your local rival, you just have to win.
And win the Yankees did, answering the call and avoiding a total collapse at Shea. Jeter, Posada and A-Rod went deep while Tyler Clippard pitched six brilliant innings. This game will mean nothing at all if the Red Sox beat up on them tomorrow, but the Yankees have one night where they can feel like a good team again.
Both teams will now face their arch rivals with the Mets heading to Atlanta while the Yankees return home to face Boston.
Left photograph of Yankees starter Tyler Clippard by Ed Betz; right photograph of Met Shawn Green missing Johnny Damon's two-run double in the fourth inning by Kathy Willens/AP
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With a strikeout, a sac bunt, and a double, Clippard starts his Major League career with a .500 average. As a pitcher in the American League, it's unlikely he'll be back in a batter's box anytime soon and could finish the season with the highest batting average on the Yankees this season. File that away for future trivia reference.
It's sad to see all that money going to waste on the injured list!
Gothamist sees everything through a Yankee porthole, but so does every other paper in town.
Realistically, the Amazing Mets will have to win 4 titles in 5 years to be taken seriously.
Pity.
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#3- I agree it's pathetic that all media is playing this kid up as the coming of Christ and Yankees Savior. Remember the rookie Chase Wright that was the suppose to be the "right stuff", now back in the minors. We'll see how the Yankee Clippard does in his next starts.
These Yankees are almost as embarrassing as the Knicks. NY is becoming the laughing stock of professional sports (with the Mets as the obvious exception).
Realistically, the Amazing Mets will have to win 4 titles in 5 years to be taken seriously.
Not really. New York's a win-now town... it always has been, always will be. The Yankees are going to be dealing with a lot of crap over the next few years; new manager, probably new owner, new philosophy while the Mets have one of the better general managers in baseball right now and a team full of young guys much like the 1996 Yankees were.
The Yankees might finally be coming to the "lean years" which always follow a dynasty. The amount of money you spend on the team doesn't matter when the guys are old and beat-up.