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"'I reach back, and I see 88," said Vazquez, who was clearly frustrated after allowing six runs in 4 1/3 innings. "The fastball is not there. I don’t have any zip on it."
Also missing: the movement on Vazquez' fastball. According to Pitch F/X, of all the pitches that Vazquez threw that were classified as fastballs, he failed to generate a single swing and miss.
"'I don’t have any life on the fastball," he said. "I get a lot of swings and misses on my ...
It looked like just another night when the Yankees would be victimized by Cliff Lee, but the Yankees managed to chip away at him, as they scored four runs off him and knocked him out of the game in the seventh inning before going to work on the Texas bullpen.
Marcus Thames hit an eighth-inning homer and put the Yanks ahead with a ninth-inning single before Mariano Rivera came in and shut the door on a 7-6 victory, even needing to strand a leadoff triple to do it.
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Game Notes
The odds were stacked up against the New York Yankees before Texas Rangers Cliff Lee even threw his first pitch.
By the top of the sixth inning, Lee was schooling the Yankees again, with a 6-1 lead, posting 11 strikeouts, no walks, and a stacked bullpen just waiting.
Yankees Javier Vazquez pitched just shy of six innings. Vazquez is fighting a pitcher’s "dead arm," which is fatigue from throwing, but regardless Vazquez didn’t skip his start and that is a sign of a true ballplayer.
Mark Teixeira was on a mini-paternity leave, ...
The Yankees struck out 17 times in last night's game.
Javier Vazquez only lasted 4.1 innings, allowing eight hits, six earned runs, and two walks—making that two shaky starts in a row for Vazquez.
Not to mention that the Yankees were down 6-1 to one of the best pitchers in baseball, Cliff Lee.
Being down by even one run against Lee is a task within itself. But down by five? Good luck.
Lee was in total control in the first six innings. It looked as if the Yankees were going to be in for ...
Rumors of new baseball managers for the 2011 season have been flying about in the baseball world.
Many names have surfaced, including Don Mattingly, Willie Randolph, Joe Torre, Bobby Valentine, and current bench coach of the New York Yankees, Tony Pena.
Tony Pena has been part of the Yankee coaching staff for five consecutive seasons, serving as the first base coach, catching instructor, and currently the bench coach.
His value has been tremendous over the years. Tony Pena has improved the performance of catchers during his tenure as the catching instructor with the ...
The health of Jorge Posada has pretty much become a day-to-day thing. He’s had to deal with the recovery of a broken foot, a cyst in the back of his knee, and now his surgically repaired shoulder has been bothering him.Last night, for instance, Posada’s shoulder got so bad that the Yankees wouldn’t use him as a pinch hitter in the eighth inning with the tying run in scoring position. So it’s big news that he’s not only in the starting lineup today, but he’s actually starting behind the plate ...
The Yankees got seven innings out of their starter A.J. Burnett, but once again the offense failed to make much noise as Mariano Rivera let the game slip away in the 10th inning causing the Yankees to lose to the Texas Rangers 4-3 in 10 innings.
Here are some notes:
That was an impressive performance by Burnett, if he could have avoided a sixth inning two-run homer by David Murphy it would have been a great performance.
Francisco Cervelli came up in a big spot in the ...
The New York Yankees lost a heart-breaker to the Texas Rangers in the 10th inning, final score 4-3.
It’s no big secret that the Yankees are losing, winning only 4 of last 11 games and falling fast.
The Bombers first place lead is dwindling down, now just a half-a-game over the Tampa Bay Rays. The Boston Red Sox are playing catch-up sitting at five games back and also making the AL East a three-team event again.
Yankees starting pitcher AJ Burnett looked really good... again. For how long is a total ...
With the way the game has changed over the past few decades, relief pitching has become a substantially more important part of baseball.
In the age of innings limits, pitch counts, and match-ups, starters aren't pitching as deep into games as was once the norm. A bad bullpen can turn a decent team into a bad one, and a great bullpen can solidify a good team as a serious playoff contender.
For the first half of the season, the New York Yankees struggled with consistency once the starting pitcher exited the ...
A.J. Burnett (9-9, 4.93) will be taking the mound against C.J. Wilson (10-5, 3.30) and the Texas Rangers in just a little while.
Here are some notes:
Robinson Cano is out of tonight’s lineup with a cold. Ramiro Pena will be in the lineup in his place.
Curtis Granderson has a .206 AVG and a .518 OPS against lefties so he’s sitting against Texas’ lefty tonight.
Jorge Posada caught the last three games in a row so he’s getting a night off and because the ...