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Yankees Get First Win Of the Season, and At the Right Time
Yes, the wait is over. On a sunny Thursday afternoon in Baltimore, MD, the Yankees got their first win of the season. It was a “bird killing” 11-2 victory over the O’s. We can now all breath a sigh of relief…at the moment.
Wednesday was ugly. This game had high expectations because the O’s had their 35-year-old rookie from Japan, Uehara going up against Hideki Matsui also of Japan. They were former teamates on the Youmiori Giants.
The Orioles scored all of their 7 runs off of Chein-Ming Wang in the 3+ innings that he pitched. Two of them came in the first inning. The last five came in the fourth, Wang’s last inning. Nick Markakis hit a two-run shot off of Wang that inning. The Yankees bullpen did it’s job, holding the Orioles both hitless and scorless for 6+ innings.
The Yankees got one run in the fourth inning, to cut the lead in half (at the time). Then the Orioles got their five runs in the bottom half of the inning. In the sixth inning, the Bombers got another run. It wasn’t until the ninth inning that things began to look better for the Yankees. Jeter hit a two-run shot with two outs to make the score 5-7. But George Sherrill closed the game and got the save as the Orioles were victorious for the second game in a row.
Thursday’s game had many firsts for the Pinstripers. For one, A.J. Burnett got them their first strikeout by a starting pitcher. He also lasted the longest out of the three pichers, going 5 1/3 innings, allowing 2 runs only. In the bottom of the third inning, Burnett got out of a jam, bases loaded, 2 outs, count 3-1, 1 run already in. He struck out the batter on the next two pitches.
Mark Teixeira got his first home run off of Simon in the fourth inning. Nick Swisher followed with a two-run home run (that was almost caught) off of Simon. Robinson Cano got a two-run homer in the seventh off of Bass. In the ninth, Ramiro Pena got the first base-hit of his major league career off of Ray. The Yankees got their first win of the season.
To Kansas City the team travels next.
Until then, see ya!
Baltimore Season Opener Is Just That
This Monday, the Yankees opened up their season in Baltimore. It looked like an easy day. Ace, C.C. Sabathia was on the mound for the men in blue and white. Jeter had a nice long at-bat in the top of the first to start the game off. They were up by 1 by the top of the 3rd and everything seemed to be flowing smoothly.
Then came the bats of the Birds. The Orioles got three earned runs in the bottom of the third and three in the bottom of the fifth inning. In the top of the sixth, the yankees tried to climb back. They got 2 in the sixth as well as 2 in the seventh to trail by 1 going into the bottom of the eighth.
For the most part, after C.C. left in the 5th inning, the Yankees bullpen had done their job of not allowing runs. That all changed when Cesar Izturis went yard in the bottom half of the eighth off of Phil Coke. The Orioles racked up 4 runs in the inning to lead 10-5.
The Pinstripers had no gas left as they went 1-2, walk by Cano, -4 in the top portion of the ninth inning. It was definately not what the team was looking for to start their season off on the right foot. They looked on as the Orioles players high-fived and congratulated each other.
Wednesday could bring a different story, though.
Until then,
Peace!
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