Yanks win sixth in a row 5-4

by John Amato on Jul 8, 2005 11:06 PM EDT in New York Yankees News

The Yanks moved into second place for the first time in a long, long while. This win was typical Yankee basball. Good pitching, defense and timely hitting.

Chien-Ming Wang is the star of the game. He gets us to the seventh inning again and records his sixth win. Wang reminds me a little of Mariano because he basically uses one pitch, a moving fastball that keeps getting good hitters out. After the lead off home run to Sizemore, Wang settled, got a few double plays and as usuall never lost his cool.

Giambi is 8-12 at home so far and got a hit and an rbi to keep his resurgence alive.
Melky looks pretty comfortable out there for a twenty year old and got the second hit of his young carreer. Who said the Yanks had no minor league talent? Where would this team be right now without Cano, Wang and maybe Cabrera?

Franklin also threw an impressive 1 1/3 innings. I know he's bounced around the league, but he's definetly better than any of the other lefty "batting practice" pitchers we have thrown out there. His good work helped keep the bullpen fresh, because tomorrow could be a magic carpet ride with May pitching.

Mariano finally gave up a run to make it close in the ninth.

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From ESPN:

"Yankees setup man Tom Gordon was diagnosed with mild tendinitis in his right shoulder and is day to day. ..."

He said he slept on the shoulder funny. Funny Tom.

Hopefully the All-Star Break helps...

by sanchez96 on Jul 9, 2005 12:32 AM EDT reply actions

Another good game and another impressive...

Wang performance. I had no idea who this Franklin guy was or where he came from and was concerned when Joe took out Wang after just a single, but it turned out OK.

Sad to see that Mo gave up a run. I don't want to know that he is human.

by garp on Jul 9, 2005 1:17 AM EDT reply actions

Wayne Franklin

Have to say I was kind of impressed with him tonight. He got the job done, which is more than Stanton was able to do.

But Wang is really impressive. It was a tough night to pitch with all that rain and he said he had trouble gripping the ball, but he always hangs in for us - the opposite of Kevin Brown who melts down if somebody looks at him funny. Don't miss that guy at all.

Let's hope Giambi's leg strain is fine tomorrow because we'll need to score a ton of runs and we're not gonna get them from Posada. I've been riding him a lot lately, but watching him tonight made me nuts. If he isn't hitting into a DP, he's striking out. What happened to him?

by Yankee Fanne on Jul 9, 2005 1:24 AM EDT reply actions

Franklin

yeah, i was cursing Torre when he pulled Wang -- but then the pitch count was up to 110 (for those who believe in that nonsense), so from that perspective it was time to make a move. just dang scary when the best you can do from the bullpen is a guy with a career ERA of 5.50. but as you say, Franklin did get the job done -- a rarity these days for the bullpen. who knows, maybe we've actually found someone who overachieves in a Yankee uniform! :)

Mariano also showed signs of returning to some of his old behaviour -- scaring the beejeezus out of us before turning out the lights. gotta love that guy!

should be an interesting game today with May starting. the good news is that having won 6 straight and now in second place with Boston at least on the radar screen, each game is not quite so critical. still, if they can pull out yet another win in these circumstances.....

by lee on Jul 9, 2005 9:55 AM EDT up reply actions

Looking ahead

I know baseball is all about winning one game at a time, but as Lee said, we're inching closer to Boston and I hope the brain trust is thinking about that series after the All Star break. (I wish we could play the Sox now, while we're on a nice roll, but whatever.) Mo cannot give us heart attacks during that series like he did last night. And we need to find a way to pitch to Manny and Ortiz so they don't hang over the plate and go for the fences in Fenway. Their pitching is just as vulnerable as ours, so we'll have our chances.

by Yankee Fanne on Jul 9, 2005 11:52 AM EDT up reply actions