Shelley Duncan took the ball for a ride in game one of today’s day/night doubleheader for his first dinger in the bigs, and Kei the bullet-dodger dodged bullets long enough to log five innings before turning matters over to the pen. Matsui had homered by that point to tie the game and erase two solo shots. Vizcaino, who picked up the win, pitched a scoreless inning along with Kyle Farnsworth. Scott Proctor was touched for a homer, a triple and a single in one inning of work but the lead stayed safe when Mo came on in the ninth, though things did get interesting with the bases full of fish before a strikeout to end the game.
Matt DeSalvo is on the mound for the nightcap. He was roughed up in his last two starts, taking the loss in appearances against Chicago and Toronto, pitching six innings in the two games and giving up six runs, five earned. He’ll face J.P. Howell, who was obliterated by Boston in his last outing. With the BloodySox taking the BloodlessSox behind the shed for a serious ass-whup, the Yankees really need this win, and they should get it, considering the caliber of pitching they are facing. Then again, between Howell, DeSalvo, and tired pens, both teams might very well put up football scores so who knows.
Duncan gets a rest in the second game as Johnny plays left and the as-of-late-very-Godzilla-like Godzilla DH’s. Jorge gets a rest, so Nieves catches DeSalvo; smells like Scranton. Yankee-Killer Carl Crawford is out with a sprained ankle he got while legging out a single in the fifth; X-Rays are negative and he says it isn’t bad. Lineups in the extended; comment away.
| SatanFish | |
| A. Iwamura 3b | .283 |
| B. Harris ss | .306 |
| B.J. Upton cf | .344 |
| C. Pena 1b | .288 |
| D. Young rf | .289 |
| T. Wigginton dh | .281 |
| J. Gomes lf | .267 |
| D. Navarro c | .183 |
| J. Wilson 2b | .300 |
| Yankees | |
| J. Damon lf | .234 |
| D. Jeter ss | .331 |
| B. Abreu rf | .265 |
| A. Rodriguez 3b | .306 |
| H. Matsui dh | .281 |
| A. Phillips 1b | .307 |
| R. Cano 2b | .281 |
| M. Cabrera cf | .275 |
| W. Nieves c | .138 |
Nice bottom of the first for NY. ARod _just_ missed a dinger on a double off the wall.
Pena singles to right to lead of the fish 2nd.
Gomes hits a quail between Robi and Bobby to advance Pena to third.
Gomes swipes second. The pitch was in the dirt; Nieves made a decent throw considering, but Gomes had a good jump. 2nd/3rd with two away.
Navarro walks on a very close 3-1 to load the bases for Wilson.
Looked like a good pitch, right at the knees.
Hard liner off of ARod’s glove scores Pena and Gomes. ARod probably should have gotten that, but it was a hard, hard single. Yanks 3, Fish 2.
Damon with an amazing grab in left saving a double (or more) by Iwamura. That’s two robberies of Iwamura by JD. Really, a great catch.
Melky doubles to left to lead off the Yankee 2nd.
Nieves lays down a good sacrifice to push Melky to third.
Damon puils the ball on the ground to first; Pena makes the play unassisted as Melky scores. Two away to Jeter.
Jeter grounds it hard at Iwamura; he gets eaten up by it and Jeter is on first after the E-5
Abreu grounds to 2nd after working a full count, ending the inning.
That McNuggets commercial has got to be one of the most annoying things I’ve seen in a while.
ARod doubles to lead off the bottom of the third.
Matsui pops out to second. ARod was half-way to third before Matsui got under it. AP up.
Andy lines out to Gomes for two away. Robi up.
Robi hits an outside pitch to left scoring ARod.
Now Melky follows with another single. Nieves up, and he lifts it to left center for a double. Wil! Yanks 7, Fish 2.
Howell makes JD look really bad on a dropped strike three; Navarro throws to first to end the inning. Not a pretty at bat from Damon.
Checking out for a bit. Go Yankees.
Kay just announced the Yankees may have traded Nieves and a minor leaguer to the Angels for Bengie Molena.
Melky makes a fantastic grab in center to rob Iwamura. Bad luck for him today.