
OK, we've had our first official tasting of the annual Yankees-Red Sox rivalry. To our dismay, the Red Sox came out on top, 2-1. Hate it.
Chien-Ming Wang pitched an absolute gem on Friday with a complete game 2-hitter. That set the bar pretty high for the pitchers for the rest of the weekend. Unfortunately, our Yankees did not live up to it. Moose gave up 4 runs in 5.2 innings, along with that bad decision to pitch to Mann-Ram. And Phil Hughes looked absolutely lost last night, giving up 6 earned runs (+1 unearned!) in 2, count 'em, 2 innings of play. And could last night's game have crept along any more slowly? Daisuke Matsuzaka didn't look too sharp, either. If Yanks-Sox games are going to last 4+ hours, ESPN may want to rethink their start time of 8pm.
Did anybody else notice that ARod went 0-5 last night and 2-13 on the series with 0 RBI? Come on!
Are we entering into the era of "Clueless" Joe Girardi? That decision to pitch to Mann-Ram in the second game seemed foolish. Why not walk the bases loaded and let Moose pitch to Youkilis? I don't get it. Why put Posada behind the plate in the third game with his "dead arm"? The Red Sox ran all over him.
Jeter, Posada, come back! We need you!