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.
Wow! And they get the '06 Superbowl as well!
Motor City Mania, I guess.
How's Nomar Garcia-Popup working for you?
As a life long Oakland A's fan whose parents are from Texas, I was always taught that damnedyankees is one word. It sure was come October around my house. Now my 5 yr old is learning the same thing...
If my memory serves me correctly, the Skankees were 8-11 last season prior to getting hot and winning over 100 games. I hope that does not happen this year, but its way to early to gloat.
As a long time Yankee fan, I was happy to hear a guy lead a cheer 'let's go Yankees' lots of clapping. The Baltimore fans resonded with 'Yankees suck' - they were right.
Yep. If Jack Clark hadn't dropped a foul pop-up that would have been the 3rd out of the inning, the Denkinger play never would have happened.
Hillary Rodham = Hilrod?
IIRC, you have to give the secret hand shake...
The secret code is: all your base are belong to us.
Genuflect before the Viking Kitties.
Actually, I got on two ping lists by saying "pretty please" to MeekOneGOP and "cuz" of Survivor fame.
That's good. If us taxpayers are putting in $50 million for Comerica Park, we should get some big events there once in awhile........
A-Rod was Mr. July/August while playing for the Rangers. By that time, the Rangers were 30 games behind the league leaders. During April and May, when the games really mattered, his average with runners in scoring position was right around the Mendoza line. Looks like he's not doing much better in NYC (can I hear an "awwwwwwwwwwwww"?).
I bet he's to blame for those $8.50 hot dogs, too! Hicks has to cover the $6.5M in "sunk costs" for shipping A-Rod to the Yankees.
I'll probably go to a game or two this year. We'll get there early so we can eat at Friday's, so I won't have to take out a home equity loan for the concessions.
Hillary Rodham = Hilrod?
Yes, the Curse of the Hilrod!
Since her election by the people of New York, they've been defeated in the playoffs four consecutive years. Which is not bad, but the fact that they had a collective $300 Million payoll advantage over the teams that knocked them out is astounding.
Perhaps President Reagan should never have pardoned Big Stein. He would still be banned from the game.
BTW, 11 - 5 BoSox favor.
Cards fans still have not gotten over that call. They tend to forget it happened in game 6. St Louis could still have won it.They lost game 7 by the score of 11 to 0. After seeing the replay of that call maybe 700 times I still can't tell if he was right or not.
I'm going to the game tonight. We're playing Cleveland.
"Yes, the Curse of the Hilrod!"
LoL! I like it. :)
LOL!
Didn't Clark drop the ball partly because he was still fuming about the blown call?
You're getting the Super Bowl next year for the same reason.
Schilling looks like he still needs some more innings to get into shape. Manny's dropped balls didn't help either although I guess he more than made up for them with his two homers.
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