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- Nationals 10, Mets 9: Willie Randolph better be queuing up a tape of the 2006 Cardinals' September. Back then, they didn' t pitch, lost a ton of games down the stretch, and looked dead entering the playoffs. This year's Mets can identify. They can't seem to do anything right. Even with a six-run ninth-inning rally, the Mets came up one run short. At least Philadelphia lost to Atlanta -- still feels weird to root for the Braves, of course -- meaning the Mets and their two-game lead are closer to the division title despite their ineptitude. Philip Humber will be on the mound as the Mets try to avoid the sweep Wednesday.
- Devil Rays 7, Yankees 6 (10 innings): Kei Igawa -- remember him? -- turned in five shutout innings. As rare as that is, it doesn't automatically give the Yankees a win. Brian Bruney allowed a grand slam in middle relief and then Jeff Karstens gave up a walkoff home run in the bottom of the 10th. Detroit won, delaying the Yankees' clinching for another day, at least.
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Go Braves?
Joe's choices for post-season pitching just got easy: leave the entire bullpen off the roster, except for Joba, Mariano, Kennedy, Hughes and Viz.
Use Wang, Mussina and Petite as your starters.
Looks like Roger is history.
Like I have been saying all year, the Yankees have no bullpen. They have to get lucky in a five game series - either awesome starting pitching that goes right to Rivera for a one inning save or they have to score 10 runs a game.
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Maybe, but last night was no example of this. Joe was auditioning people, obviously not going with the 7/8/9 inning guys he would use in the postseason.
The good news about last night is it hopefully ensured Ramirez/Bruney/Karstens will be nowhere near a postseason roster.
bruney sucks
Any chance they can put Bruney on the next space shuttle and leave him in orbit somewhere? If I have to hear the Yankees announcers talk about how good his "stuff" is I'm gonna puke.
Bruney doesn't suck - last game he gave up one run.