Chien-Ming Wang pitched a dandy today in front of 31,598 Progressive Field fans for a continued perfect 5-0 start. This win was bigger then some of the others, because not only was it against a good hitting team in the Cleveland Indians, it was also against C.C. Sabathia, last years AL Cy Young Award winner. I am sure that Wang had a game plan going into this one, but what other choices were there other than pitch 7 innings of shutout ball? And that’s exactly what he did.
mlb.com: “Chien-Ming Wang has been huge for us all year long,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. “He has pitched great. He knew what we needed and he gave it to us.”
The rest of the game was just how every Yankee fan would like to see every game end, Chamberlain, Rivera, good night.
The three of them combined for a 4 hit wonder (all 4 hits charged to Wang), and a relief pitching staff posting a no hitter surely does help. Both Chamberlain and Rivera struck out 2 batters a piece in their perfect innings. It was just how you want to see a game played against a pitching powerhouse in Sabathia.
The lone run came in the 5th inning, as Melky Cabrera hit a solo shot off Sabathia, to give the Yankees the lead.
That was all it took, and the Yankees break their 3 game losing streak, winning this and finding .500 again, 13-13.
