October 5, 2007
Last Night's Action: An Early Hole
- IIndians 12, Yankees 3: Well, that didn't go as planned. Chien-Ming Wang didn't have his sinker, gave up a ton of two-out and two-strike hits, and the Yankees got buried. Their patient bats wore out C.C. Sabathia, but they only got three runs for their efforts against him, and that wasn't nearly enough given the way Wang pitched. Then they stunk up the joint against the Indians bullpen, but by them the game was over. It's only one in a five-game series, but the Yankees have an uphill battle. Remember who's likely pitching in Games 3 and 4: Roger Clemens and Mike Mussina. Andy Pettitte will face Fausto Carmona in Game 2 on Friday. Want a positive spin? The Yankees have never lost a division series in which they have lost the first game. That includes 1996, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2004. Those teams were better than this one though.
- Rangers 5, Panthers 2: A sluggish second period couldn't slow down the Rangers, who lit the lamp four times in the final session to pick up a win in their season opener. Who knows what Tom Renney said in the dressing room during the intermission, but it worked. The Rangers got three goals in two minutes and two in 12 seconds. Chris Drury, one of the big offseason signings, got a goal in a five-point performance.
- Lightning 3, Devils 1: Things didn't come up roses for the Devils, who started a season-opening nine-game road trip with a loss in Tampa Bay. Why the long trip? They're waiting for their new arena.
- FC Toronto 2, Red Bulls 1: Ah, the own goal. Soccer players' way of giving back -- to their opponents. Blame this one on Chris Leitch, who kicked the ball into his own net for the deciding score. New York will have to wait for a playoff berth.
Photograph of Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte, Alex Rodriguez, Doug Mientkiewicz, and Jorge Posada watching from the dugout by Ken Blaze/AP
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Go Tribe. :)
Wow. The Indians have won one game. Wang was terrible.
when do the mets play?
oh, that's right . . . .
@ guest 3:
Oh, when will the Yank$ make their tee time for next week?
Get a life.
Cleveland Indian fans are some of the best fans in baseball..
Did you hear them giving it to the Skankees last night..?
YANKEES SUCK !
YANKEES SUCK !
YANKEES SUCK !
YANKEES SUCK !
LOL !
The Yankees are going down in three straight! Which only means that they will increase tehir payroll to $300 million or so next year trying to buy a championship.
The Yankees represent what is wrong with America.
i was watching the game and it was always two outs and two strikes and then BAM!!!! wang was nervous or something.
I feel a little bad for Wang. He had a great, Cy-caliber season, and then choked in the first game of the post-season. We know he can perform under pressure, so he must feel he let a lot of people down, including himself.
Joe's managerial style in the post-season is partially to blame for the Yankees' early departure from the playoffs in the last several years and, unless he drastically changes his laissez-faire approach, the Yankees will again make a swift, early departure this year. Wang was clearly off his mark, having trouble finding the strike zone and resorting to his third-line pitch too often. He should never have been left in until giving up eight runs. When he was relieved, the game was still within reach.
Although Ohlendorf had been impressive in his late-season trial, a pitcher with 6.1 innings of experience should not take the ball for what might have been long relief. Who might Joe have gone to?
I'm afraid the choices were not ideal (therein lies one big problem), but I might have chose Vizcaino or Hughes over Ohlendorf.
And the big bats: Jeter, Posada, ARod...looked positively anemic.
kenny lofton is so cool!
calm down ladies, its only 1 game.
and the '04 team was not better. javy vasquez and kevin brown, nuff said.
All fans of teams playing the Yankees chant Yankees suck. Its not original, nor indicative of how great that teams fans are.
RealityCzech-
Even the Czech Republic has abandoned socialism, so why do you continue to harp on salary differences and wish for caps in baseball?
Do you think most people really want to watch a World Series between Tampa Bay and Pittsburgh?
Any other owners are free to invest as much money in their clubs as they want. Take your socialist concepts of fairness in business back to Eastern Europe, please!
What no update on how the team that shouldn't have won the NL East is choking in the playoffs?
Many Mets fans have been quite happy with the Rockies performance against the franchise which is the worst in the history of organized professional sports anywhere.
Maybe people from Florida or Pennsylvania might want to watch a world series btwn Tampa Bay and Pittsburgh..DUH
It can't and shouldn't be Boston or New York every year..
Best thing about this website: [hide guest comments]
We Want the Cup!
and yet Czech responds like he reads the guest comments. hiya Czech.
the yankees and other big market spending teams subsidize the small markets and tightwad owners. the same tightwads who are wealthier than Steinbrenner. the same tightwads who pocket the yankee money instead of putting it back on the field.
how do you hate a team who takes your money(from tickets and concessions) and puts it right back in the product? its a tangible return on your investment.
if only everything else in america could be more like the yankees.
"if only everything else in america could be more like the yankees"
It kinda has been for the last eight years
Drury was good, but he only had a 3-point game, not 5.
guest 15: "Maybe people from Florida or Pennsylvania might want to watch a world series btwn Tampa Bay and Pittsburgh..DUH"
Thanks. You answered his question which was "Do MOST people want to watch [that series]."
Clearly, even you admit that nobody outside of those small markets would want that snoozefest...
"It can't and shouldn't be Boston or New York every year.."
And in only 2 of the past 5 years have either or those teams made it to the world series. Sheesh, don't you people follow sports?
Nevertheless, those 2 years averaged 30% higher television ratings than the other 3 years.
Yankees Rockies ws?
Tribe in 4.....crack some bubbly open in the Bronx.....
The mistake on the lake.