Yankees Daily

The New York Yankees lost to the Mets by a score of 6-4. C.C. Sabathia got the loss.

It doesn’t feel good when the Yankees lose. It doesn’t feel good when the Yankees lose to the Mets. At this time of my life, I don’t know any Met fans like I did 10 years ago.(2000 WS) That’s the good news for me. I don’t have to walk into my brain injured program tomorrow and hear some one say, “HaHa, the Yankees lost. What happened?” Most every one I know are Yankee fans.

The Yankees pitching just hasn’t been getting the job done. A.J. Burnett didn’t pitch well his last time out, Andy Pettitte didn’t, Phil Hughes didn’t and now C.C. Sabathia didn’t. There’s absolutely nothing you can do when your best pitchers aren’t on their game.

C.C. Sabathia had a bad game. He gave up six earned runs on 10 hits in five innings of work.

The Yankees made it a game again in the eighth and ninth inning but they’ve made it a habit of making it closer in the later innings and then losing. I swear I thought A-Rod was going to hit a home run when the Yankees were down 6-4 with two men on and two outs in the ninth inning. It wasn’t meant to happen.

I feel tired more than usual when the Yankees lose. I’m glad the sun isn’t out and this is a night game or I’d feel dampened in it. Who wants to feel bad when the sun is out? Not me. Every thing hurts more when the Yankees lose. My arthritis hurts, I have a head ache, it’s harder to breath. Yucky feeling.

The New York Yankees lost to the New York Mets by a score of 5-3.

The Yankees stranded 13 base runners against the Mets. That hurt. The Yankees had men on second and third in the seventh inning with one out but Mark Teixeira and A-Rod couldn’t get any runs in. That hurt. The Yankees had the bases loaded in the eighth inning and got two runs but were only able to score on a walk and a fielder’s choice. That hurt. Give me one big hit and more runs score. The Yankees had their big bats up in the ninth inning with Mark Teixeira, Alex Rodriguez and Robinson Cano but score no runs. That hurt. The first three batters in our lineup went 0-13. That hurt.

I’ll say it again, the Yankees stranded 13 base runners. That’s a lot. Right now my feelings are hurt. It doesn’t feel good to lose to the Mets when you had so many chances.

What’s not cool is that the Tampa Bay Rays won again and are five games in front.

I’m going to go lay on my bed because I have the sniffles. There are some tears in my eyes and I have a head ache. Yes, I know Yankee fans, we will be back but tonight was not the night. Boo hoo.

The New York Yankees won over the New York Mets by a score of 2-1. Javier Vazquez got the win. Mariano Rivera got the save.

AHHH!!! AH!!!! This is what I’m talking about! Javier Vazquez went to Citifield and shut the Mets down. He gave them a SUBWAY SANDWICH!!! WHAT WAS ON THE MENU JAVIER??? A SUBWAY KNUCKLE SANDWICH!!! He then put ham and swiss cheese on the bread and served the Mets their food!!! Along with their meal, he gave them nice big cold beverage of domination!!!

Javier Vazquez pitched six shut out innings giving up one hit and two walks along with having six strikeouts. Yes, you read that right. Let me say it again. Six “shut out” innings.

Javier stuffed the Mets with big doses of change ups and curve balls. The Mets were full with a nice big loss!! Ha HAHHHH!! Who do the Mets think they are? There’s only room for one team in this town! That team Yankee fans is? Yup, you guessed it… the New York Yankees! Too bad Javier had to leave with a sprained finger.

Yankee fans, did you see the error that Alex Cora made in the seventh inning that let Nick Swisher go to third and Francisco Cervelli go to second? It was destiny Yankee fans. It’s not meant for the Mets to beat the Yankees. It’s that way. It’s the “only” way. Do you know why the Mets made that error? So they can get RUSSOED!!! The Mets got RUSSOED!! Kevin Russo, RUSSOED the Mets!!! He hit a double and drove in both runs, momma!!

Then Joba Chamberlain 95ed the Mets! He threw 95 fastballs that got the Mets looking!! He did the Joba shake and bake!!! He was shaking and baking!! He was shaking and baking so much that Francisco Cervelli had to slow him down! Joba was also doing the “walk away.” The walk away is after you throw a pitch and strike some one out, you walk away to the side of the mound with purpose. Joba did the WALK away! He walked AWAY!! Joba Chamberlain, 1.2 perfect innings with three strike outs.

Then the Yankees took on “Nightly Nieve.” They call him nightly because he gives up runs nightly!! The Yankees took him to SLEEP! He only lasted one batter because A-Rod hit a base hit. Night night!

The Yankees said, “Bedtime Mets!” “Time to go to bed!” They needed some one to put them to sleep and who better than the sand man himself?? Mariano Rivera!! The Mets didn’t want to get tucked in so they scored a run on Mariano! What the? Still, Mo came back and got the last out.  Yankee fans? Welcome back to winning ways. Yankee fans? Welcome aboard.

The New York Yankees are playing the New York Mets so let’s *Beat the Mets* *Beat the Mets* Step right up and *Beat the Mets* Dah, dah dah dah dah, dah, dah dah! I don’t know how the rest of the song goes but it goes something like that.

Tonight’s lineups from Wallace Matthews of ESPN.

Yankees

Derek Jeter SS
Brett Gardner CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Robinson Cano 2B
Nick Swisher RF
Francisco Cervelli C
Kevin Russo LF
Javier Vazquez P

Mets

Jose Reyes SS
Alex Cora 2B
Jason Bay LF
Ike Davis 1B
David Wright 3B
Angel Pagan CF
Rod Barajas C
Jeff Francoeur RF
Hisanori Takahashi LHP

The New York Yankees lost to the New York Mets by a score of 6-2. Andy Pettitte started and got the loss.

The Yankees have a tough time hitting against pitchers they see for the first time and no one has an answer for it. I don’t either. I do know that most of the veterans on the Yankees didn’t hit well against Mets starting pitcher Fernando Nieve. However, Cabrera and Gardner went a combined 3-for-7.

Fernando Nieve attacked the zone against the Yankees and was very effective. He threw a lot of fastballs and mixed in some change ups. He was ahead in the count against the Yankees all game and it’s hard to hit when you’re behind.

Andy Pettitte had a hard time finding the strike zone and he had no cutter. That’s his best pitch and it wasn’t working. He got into a lot of long counts, walked batters and gave up a lot of base hits.(12 in all). This resulted in his early exit.

He mixed in all of his pitches too early. He was throwing every pitch in the first inning. He was throwing his 4-Seam fastball, his change up, his slider and his cutter. He didn’t pitch backwards meaning saving some of his pitches for later in the game. He was throwing his pitches middle away to the left-handed batters and it was right in their zone.

The bottom line is that the Yankees didn’t hit at all and Andy didn’t pitch well. The Yankees looked flat and it looked as though they didn’t carry over the momentum from yesterday’s win.

Player of the Game: Fernando Nieve. Starting pitcher for the Mets. He pitched a great game for a journey man.

The New York Yankees won against the New York Mets by a score of 9-8. Joba got the start and got a no decision. Mariano Rivera got the win.

Wow, talk about getting a gift. That was unbelievable to me. I was cursing A-Rod out under my breath when he popped the ball up but then I saw second baseman Luis Castillo drifting like he didn’t have a good handle on it. I had a glimmer of hope when he started stumbling towards the pop up and then he dropped it! Thank you!

Joba started out well during the first two innings even though his 4-Seam fastball was in the low 90’s. Joba has a lot of confidence in his slider and throws it a lot when he has a 3-2 count against batters. His slider was tight and hard and his change up was excellent. His velocity was poor the first two innings but in the last two innings it was topping out at 95 mph.

Joba broke in his secondary pitches too early in the game. He usually throws them in the fourth or fifth inning. He started throwing his curveball and change up in the third inning. He was hanging on to his fastball too long and his shoulder started flying open. This made him throw the ball inside. He was not sharp with his control.

Throughout Joba’s start, he kept getting Met batters in 0-2 counts and then he would reach 3-2 counts. He wasn’t sure what he wanted to pitch and that drove up his pitch count. He just couldn’t get the Mets out when he had them in an 0-2 hole and didn’t know how to finish them off. He didn’t know what pitch to go to.

Joba was becoming very predictable because he was throwing a lot of 3-2 sliders. Jorge didn’t want him throwing so many sliders on 3-2 counts but Joba seemed to insist. Joba threw the slider on 3-2 counts to the left-handed batters that were balls. He didn’t throw his slider for a strike and the Mets didn’t swing at it. The result was five walks in four innings.

In the third inning, he gave up two runs without giving up a hit. He was all over the place. He had terrible strike to ball ratio and reached 100 pitches by the fourth inning.

It also seems that he doesn’t like working with Jorge Posada since he kept shaking him off. On the bench, it seemed he was voicing his frustration to Jose Molina about Jorge’s game calling. A pitcher needs a good relationship with their catcher and this is not good if Jorge and Joba aren’t on the same page during games.

Mariano tried to go away to David Wright in the eighth inning after walking Carlos Beltran. He didn’t get the pitch away because the ball flattened out right where David Wright liked it and Wright drilled it in the gap for a double. The Mets then went ahead at that point.

The Yankees won but they didn’t really look good. Joba wasn’t good, Mariano wasn’t good and A-Rod wasn’t good. It’s still a win but it was a gift. It wasn’t championship baseball I saw.

Player of the Game: Derek Jeter. He hit a change up on the outside part of the plate which was a very tough pitch to get to and delivered a hit which resulted in him being the tying run. This happened in the bottom of the ninth.

Edited to add: The ball hit to Castillo looked like the air in Yankee stadium took the ball. Just like the wind tunnel they have.

After reading Dave & Aziz Nekoukar blog I found out that Santana has been traded to the Mets. This is great news because now there will be no more talk about giving up Yankee prospects. Now our youth movement can begin. The Mets also have a great Latino fan base and this is a better move for the Mets than the Yankees. Let me also say that I believe that the Yankees and Red Sox had no intentions of trading their younger players for Santana. They were playing games with one another to drive each other’s price up. If this was George Steinbrenner in his younger years, the Yankees might of gave every up one for Santana.

• Joke’s on us: Santana traded (for real) – Pride of the Yankees – Dave & Aziz Nekoukar
• Twins agree to deal Santana to Mets for prospects – Bob Nightengale – USA Today
• Mets agree to Santana deal, pending extension agreement – ESPN
• Yanks Step Back From the Brink and Watch Santana Go to the Mets – Tyler Kepner – NY Times
• Twins missed out on better Santana packages – Ken Rosenthal – Fox Sports
• Mets pass Yankees as New York’s most likely World Series winner – NY Daily News

We keep hearing all week that Santana could be dealt soon but I have a feeling that the Twins are bluffing because they want Hughes and the better Yankee prospects than the Red Sox and Mets could give them and the Red Sox would like the Yankees to break the bank for Santana. The Red Sox are the WS champs and they have a championship roster so they don’t need Santana. The only real reason the Yankees and Red Sox are playing this game is to keep Santana away from each other.

• Red Sox official: Johan deal could come soon – Rotoworld
• Twins ask for last offers, with decision coming soon – Buster Olney – ESPN