A Biased Look at the New York Yankees, the Greatest Franchise in the History of Sports
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This game had a ton of stuff going on. First, it was the ESPN Sunday game of the week. Chien Ming Wang was fighting for his job and then the Yankees were going for their fifth straight win. Of course the game didn’t disappoint and even better the Yankees won. Mark Teixeira drove in two with a double in the first and then he came around to score on Jorge Posada’s sac. fly. Those three runs were all the Yankees would need but in between, there was definitely some excitement.
First off, congrats to Mariano Rivera. He picked up save number 500 with 1 1/3 shutout innings. Also give some props to Wang, who’s fighting for his job. He gave up two runs on four hits and three walks with three strikeouts in 5 1/3 before yielding to the pen. We’ll need to see more starts like this from him but at least we know he has it in him.
Derek Jeter was given a lot of attention last night. Steve Phillips thought he’d get to 4,000 hits but Joe Morgan disagreed. Then Morgan (who I still like but just says some bizare stuff at times) said Jeter would always play short stop and that would hurt him in his chances at reach the 4,000 hit mark. Still, Jeter had a nice game and he went one for two with three walks and a run.
The Red Sox lost, so the Yankees are now three games back. Even better, they come home to take on the Mariners and hopefully they’ll be able to add to that five game winning streak they have. Joba Chamberlain throws in the opener against Brandon Marrow.
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