Posted on 04/17/2005 2:37:29 PM PDT by bikepacker67
BALTIMORE Apr 17, 2005 — George Steinbrenner is tired of waiting for his New York Yankees to get going. Now he's angry. Miguel Tejada hit his eighth career grand slam, and the Baltimore Orioles roughed up Kevin Brown and completed a three-game sweep of New York with an 8-4 victory Sunday. The last-place Yankees (4-8) have dropped four straight and eight of 10 overall.
"Enough is enough. I am bitterly disappointed as I'm sure all Yankee fans are by the lack of performance by our team," Steinbrenner said in a statement issued immediately after the game.
"It is unbelievable to me that the highest-paid team in baseball would start the season in such a deep funk. They are not playing like true Yankees. They have the talent to win and they are not winning. I expect Joe Torre, his complete coaching staff and the team to turn this around."
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Melvin Mora also homered for the Orioles, who took a 6-0 lead in the second inning and coasted to their sixth win in seven games. Baltimore improved to 5-1 against New York this season after their first sweep of the Yankees since 2000.
Tejada went 3-for-4 with two doubles, raising his batting average to .375 and his AL-leading RBI total to 18. He went 6-for-12 with eight RBIs in the series.
Daniel Cabrera (1-1) gave up three runs and eight hits in six innings, and streaking Brian Roberts went 2-for-4 with a walk and scored a run. Roberts, who has a hit in all 12 games this season, is batting .449.
Ruben Sierra and Alex Rodriguez homered for the Yankees, whose four-game losing streak matches their longest skid of 2004. New York, which went 14-5 against Baltimore a year ago, has been outscored by the Orioles 47-26 this season.
Making his 2005 debut after spending the first two weeks on the disabled list with a strained back, Brown (0-1) allowed six runs and nine hits in six innings. The right-hander walked two and struck out three.
Brown retired the first two batters in the first inning before Mora hit his second homer. Tejada then doubled and scored on a single by Sammy Sosa, who went to third on a double by Rafael Palmeiro before Brown retired Gibbons on a fly ball.
No I didn't. How did he fare?
Not bad at all. Some of the skits he was in were awful but he held up pretty good. I'm sure Belichick taped it and will torture him with it come training camp.
LOL
Every year it's the same thing! Go Yanks!
Go Devil Rays! I wanna see what it looks like when Steinbrenner's head explodes. :)
Of that you can be sure! Part of Belichick's genius is ensuring that nobody on his team ever gets their head too swelled up. The Patriots are very fortunate to have landed him. I always wonder what would have happened had he remained "HC of the NYJ".
weeping
Don't forget it wasn't just Belichick that came over. It was most of Parcells coaching staff and his front office including his son in law Scott Pioli.
The Sox pitchers limited the Tampa Bay Devil Rays of St. Petersburg to two runs in three games. We'll see how the Yankee arms hold up.
Yes he did and in much greater numbers than I (and I expect his aides) did as well. The best part of course was him one hopping the opening pitch to the plate when he wasn't even throwing from the mound!!
The Yankees and Red Sox have already played 6 games this year. They split 3-3. I'll bet the league wanted to give some other team a chance to be at the top of the heap for a few days. It has to be very discouraging to be in the AL east if you aren't the Sox or Yankees.
In three weeks, the Sox and the Yanks will be at the top and going away. Baltimore will be third and sliding.
Send George a carload of steroids........
If the Rays can take one game against the Yanks I'll be happy.
That won't happen till the Cubbies win it all.
That won't happen until the Cubbies win it all.
LOL My beloved but not very good Royals have the same 4-8 record as the Yanks. Our pitching sucks.
As a Mariners fan, this made my day!
Suff-aH, georgie boy...SUFF-AH
The first MLB post season game I remember watching as a kid was Game 1 of the 1984 ALCS.
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