Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
NYY 4, Oakland 3. As I've said before, there's nothing more predictable than A.J. Burnett's unpredictability. So after two terrible starts, you had to figure A.J. would pitch a good game in this one against the A's, and sure enough that's exactly what we got -- 6 innings, ...
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
NYY 9, Oakland 3. Wow, the Yankees have actually put together a 4-game winning streak, the longest such streak since the first week of July when they won six seven in a row -- which as I've noted before, is the longest winning streak of the year. Could ...
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Sunday, August 29th, 2010
NYY 12, Chicago 9. This one was certainly an ugly game, but I guess at this point you take the wins anyway you can. Lots of less than encouraging news though -- hopefully CC Sabathia isn't catching A.J. disease like everyone else in the starting rotation seems to ...
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
NYY 9, Detroit 5. After a couple of fairly decent starts, Dustin Moseley is rapidly regressing towards his career ERA of 5.29 -- which should surprise no one, but is certainly a cause for concern as the news about Andy Pettitte continues to be not all that good. ...
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
NYY 8, Seattle 2. When you've got the team with the best record in baseball playing a last place team on the day before the four-day All-Star Game break, I guess it's not to be unexpected that you would see some ugly baseball. And that's exactly what we ...
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010
NYY 6, Seattle 1. You would have thought the Yankees had caught a break when Cliff Lee got traded earlier in the day, and Seattle was forced to go with David Pauley, who had only five major league starts and a career 8.35 ERA. But you would have ...
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
NYY 6, Oakland 2. So maybe there is something to the "A.J. Burnett needs pitching coach Dave Eiland in order to be effective" story. Yeah, small sample size, yada yada -- but 0-5 with an 11.35 ERA during Eiland's absence, and since his return 1-0 with a 1.32 ...
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
NYY 9, Arizona 3. It seems like forever since the Yankees had a "textbook" win, but that's exactly what they got last night. Get an early lead, get seven strong innings from your starter, get to the opposing team's bullpen, and then beat up on the relievers and ...
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
NYY 4, New York Mets 0. With Johan Santana going for the Mets, you had to like the Yankees' chances here, as they do like beating the name brand pitchers. And sure enough, Mark "Is He Really Out Of The Funk For Good Now?" Teixeira got the one ...
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Saturday, June 19th, 2010
NYY 5, New York Mets 3. After scoring all of four runs in the last three games against fairly mediocre pitchers, the Yankees scored five runs in the first four innings off of Mike Pelfrey, arguably the second best pitcher in the NL right now. Go figure -- ...
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