Sunday (the 19th) mornin'

4/19/09 11:21 am

A couple of interesting games the past couple of days over at the new Stadium for sure.

Friday - NYY 6 CLV 5

My prediction for the game was entirely wrong. I had figured the Yanks needed a long and solid outing by Joba ( 4.2 IP, 6 H, 5 BB, 5 ER, 4 K, 1 HR), which they did not receive. The bullpen, however, running with Coke, Albaladejo, Bruney, and Rivera, went 4.1 innings, gave up only 3 hits (2 of them off of MO, who got the save), and not a single run.

Offensively, the Yanks deceided that solo shots to their jet streamed right center field would do the trick, and it did. Damon, Tex, Cabrera, Cano, and Jeter all homered, bringing the Bronx Bombers nickname back to life.

Saturday - CLV 22 (lol) NYY 4

Just when you thought it wasn't possible for Wang to raise his ERA going into this afternoon game (starting from 28.93), he went and proved us all wrong. 8 ER in 1.1 IP raised his ERA up to 34.50.. ouch! But, that was only 8 of the 22 runs. Clagget, making his MLB debut out of the pen, then wanted to show that he could could give up 8 runs. Unlike Wang however, he was able to record 5 outs. The Indians had ended up getting 14 of those 22 runs in the 2nd, the most ever given up in an inning by the Yanks. The 22 total runs also tied their worst run surrendering effort.

Hard to bring up positives after an onslaught like this, the game was just terrible to watch. Being broadcast on Fox only made it worse. Joe Buck and Tim McCarver make me temporarily jealous of the hearing imparied; I'd actually prefer listening to the two-faced Kay in the YES booth. I don't know how many of you listen to Kay's radio show on ESPN, but the entire preseason consisted of anti-yankee laced tirades since spring training began. He's annoying as hell to listen to, and should just leave YES.

Anyways, Pavano (0-2) vs AJ Burnett (2-0) at 1:05 this afternoon. That's as favorable a match up as any Yankee fan could dream of for today. Surprisingly to me, according to the sports lines, the Yankees are much smaller of a favorite today in comparison to yesterday. Hell, I should've bet the house against Wang yesterday, I would've won one and a half houses after the Indians got through with him.