I always get leery when the Yankees go into extra innings. Outside of Mariano Rivera, their bullpen is pretty spotty. They did the job today though. Chien-Ming Wang gave up two runs on seven hits and a walk through eight innings before he left the game. Then the pen gave up only a single run (although it almost cost us) through four innings and that allowed Alex Rodriguez to do his magic. Marcus Giles hit a solo shot in the top of the twelth and then A-Rod answered with a two run shot in the bottom of the twelth to win it.
Randy Johnson got the job done on Monday. Jason Giambi gave him a five run cushion in the first two innings on two homeruns and Johnson threw seven shutout innings with nine strikeouts. Chipper Jones took Scott Proctor deep in the ninth for two runs to make things interesting, but Mariano Rivera slammed the shut and got the final two batters out.
Yesterday was the loss. Jaret Wright took the loss because the Yankees couldn’t score any runs. We did get single runs in the seventh and ninth (both driven in by Melky Cabrera) but it wasn’t enough and Wright took the loss despite giving up only a single run through six innings.
Next up is rivalry weekend, so the Mets come to town. Unfortunately, the Mets couldn’t do jack against the Red Sox so the Yanks are going to be at least three games back heading into the weekend depending on what the Red Sox do tomorrow.
