Posted on 04/18/2009 4:48:33 PM PDT by kellynla
NEW YORK -- By the end of Saturday's massacre at the new Yankee Stadium, it was difficult to tell who was more fatigued: the arms in the Yankees bullpen or the people behind the manual scoreboards in the outfield.
The Indians blasted the Yankees and starting pitcher Chien-Ming Wang in a 22-4 rout that was beamed on national television, and featured the worst inning in Yankees' franchise history. Wang teamed up with reliever Anthony Claggett (making is big league debut) to surrender a franchise record 14 runs on 13 hits in the second inning, which lasted 37 excruciating minutes.
The last time the Indians scored that many runs in a frame was in 1950 against the Philadelphia Athletics. The last time a big-league team scored 14 runs in an inning was the Boston Red Sox back in 2003.
Wang's performance -- which resembled batting practice, only the balls were hit harder -- was particularly frightening.
Wang lasted just 1 1/3 innings, allowing eight hits and eight earned runs, a performance that will again trigger questions about his health. He's allowed 23 runs in six innings this season. He is only the second pitcher -- joining Baltimore's Hayden Penn in 2006 -- to allow seven or more runs in three straight starts to begin a season.
In the Yankees' six losses this season, four have come after allowing double-digits runs.
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I’d heard a NY Post columnist dubbed the new park “The House That Mute Built”. A lot quieter because the REAL fans are in the bleachers far from home plate and far from TV/radio mics...meanwhile mega expensive seats behind home plate go unsold; supposedly the Fri game had 7,000 empty seats.
““Wang’s been yanked early and often this short season.”
can you say that...?””
/time for a gratuitous tea bagging joke.
The “New” Yankee Stadium looks like a bandbox. Homer after homer after homer. Bush league at best.
Yankees suffer their worst loss ever: 22-0 Debacle against Indians reduces N.Y. lead over Boston to 3 1/2 games
Sept . 1, 2004
NEW YORK - The hits and runs kept coming, spinning by on the scoreboard as fast as symbols on a slot machine. It wasn’t just a rout, it was an epic defeat, the most one-sided in the 101-year history of the New York Yankees.
Cleveland’s 22-0 victory Tuesday night matched the biggest post-1900 shutout margin in the major leagues, Pittsburgh’s win at the Chicago Cubs on Sept. 16, 1975.
“There’s a certain element of embarrassment, no question,” Yankees manager Joe Torre said. “It’s hard to handle. It’s something you have to bounce back from.”
The Tribe is starting to look like the Indians of 2007.
Go Red Sox!!
Being from Boston makes me a natural born Yankee hater but still, it is so EZ to despise what the Red Sox have become over the last 25 years plus.
Can both teams please lose forever?
Cheers!
The Tribe certainly whacked Wang in that 2nd inning today.
Very high...
Today/tonite, Yanks lose 16-11 to Sox despite once having a 6-0 lead. The past 2 Saturdays, NYY has given up a total of
38 runs.
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