Shawn Chacon is now a Yankee. We’ll see how this will work out. While it’s hardly a blockbuster, there’s no doubt the Yankees need arms. They also signed Alan Embree and dumped Buddy Groom on the Diamondbacks for the all important player to be named later and some cash.
On Friday, a three run second and a lack of run support did Mike Mussina in. He pitched eight innings and gave up only eight hits and those three runs. Tino Martinez drove in the only run of the game on a solo homer as the Yanks only managed seven hits.
Things turned around for the Yankees late in the game on Saturday. Once again they were on the Fox Game of the Week and they put on a show for the national audience. With the score 7-5, Francisco Rodriguez walked four batters then gave up a two run base hit to Hideki Matsui to finish the game off in walk off fashion.
They’d need extra frames to top the Angels this afternoon. Both teams scored a run in the tenth to make things interesting, but Tony Womack drove home the winning run in the bottom of the eleventh. Jason Giambi hit his 300th career homer.
The question is, where are we at now. The Red Sox are riding five straight wins so we lost a game to them. And to make matters worse, the Tigers basically lied down for the A’s. So we’re 2 1/2 games back of the Red Sox and 1 1/2 games back of the A’s for the wildcard.
The Yankees travel to Cleveland for a three game series starting Tuesday. They have a day off to get their pen back in order.
