Posted on 08/18/2006 8:27:35 AM PDT by Airborne1986
It's now or never for the New York Yankees.
The Yankees open a five-game series at Fenway Park on Friday with their alter egos in the American League East, the Boston Red Sox. Just 1 1/2 games will separate the two teams when that series begins.
Since the All-Star break, the Sox have slipped considerably, going 16-17 with problems surfacing with their starting pitching, relief corps and hitting (with the exception of David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez). The Yankees, meanwhile, seem to have righted themselves after a long year of struggles with injuries and under-producing pitchers such as Randy Johnson. New York has gone 20-12 since the break to move past Boston into first place, a five-game reversal in 31 games.
Yet even with the additions of Bobby Abreu and Cory Lidle and the improved pitching of Johnson, the Yankees won't separate themselves from the Red Sox if they don't make a move during this series, because Boston may be the most resilient team in the American League, if not in all of baseball. ...
For all the Red Sox difficulties of late, especially with their pitching, they could be tied for the division lead by Saturday morning if everything goes right and if they continue to play at home the way they have thus far.
That would give the Red Sox the advantage in the series and for the rest of the season. They would have their top three pitchers — Josh Beckett, Curt Schilling and David Wells — going in the final three games against the Yankees, with a chance to turn the tables on them just when much of the world felt New York was ready to assert itself and pull away.
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...and you were a liberal for how many years before you switched to the right (correct) team?
>>The NY/NJ area is soooo conservative
Is there any MLB team located in a conservative city? The Padres, maybe?
Commerce Comet...one of the two best all around players I ever saw.
Well you DO live in Mass. and if your really like A-Rod 'That Way'...there is the whole legalized Sodom....er I mean Marriage up there..
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Very simple. In October of 2000 the Yankees won their 4th consecutive world series. Then just one month later in November of 2000 the people of NY elect Hillary Clinton as senator and the yankees have not won since including losing in ways that have never happened before. Even becoming the first team to blow a 3-0 lead. Even Babe Ruth's daughter was rooting for the D-Backs in 2001.
I am watching game 2 of this double header and the pitching has been horrible. The Yanks have been reduced to using Mike Myers in the bottom of the 6th to pitch to a right handed batter. Boy Doofus Hansen came on in the top of the 7th to load the bases with 1 out.
10-7 now and the game is 3.5 hours old in the top of the 7th.
That was some damn inning. Mike Timlin is my new favorite pitcher....LOL.
SH*T. Red Sox are done. Back to the drawing board, Theo.
It's one hell of a game...PING!
7 in the 7th ang...it was sweet.
Timlin threw the offense under the bus in an interview a few nights ago saying that the pitchers were throwing the ball well but the team just wasn't hitting.
After his performance tonight he owes his teammates an apology. When you look at his stats over the past 12 games he's lost 3 games (tonight included) and been completely ineffective.
This game is an embarrassment to both teams. The Yankees bullpen is screwed for the next few days given Torre's handling of it in the Baltimore blow out and then being used heavily today. Boston has nothing either.
The Sox are having to rely on 4 rookie pitchers this year due to the injuries to Foulke and the ineffectiveness of Tavarez and Seanez. Timlin is over the hill and there's no one else that you can reasonably count on other than Papelbon.
I expect that when this series is done that the Sox will be 4.5 out of first and both teams' bullpens will be messed up for several days.
Well I have given up on my Astros
cincy, baby.
Through 8 innings each team has thrown 200 pitches and that's on top of having played a long game earlier today and the Yanks playing a game on Thursday that saw them use a lot of their pen.
The Sox's offense looks like it has thrown in the towel. Why bother scoring runs when your pitching just keeps giving it up like a cheap whore?
Bet Roger is glad he chose the Stros this year....
That pen reeaally looks bad this series.
They might get mired in a funk that plays them right out of post-season contention.
Boston butt...Smoked butt.
OUCH!
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