Wow, that game was very demoralizing. Andy Pettitte rolled through the game, seemingly in control. However, so did Rockies pitcher Jeff Francis. Like I had predicted, the Yankees were ahead 1-0 on a RBI double by none other than Derek Jeter, scoring Melky Cabrera who also doubled. Alas, the game was not to be a good one for the Yankees, as Pettitte who was in control lost that control walking the pitcher Francis, and with two outs letting up a homer to one of the better players in all of baseball, Matt Holliday. The picture to your left is Pettitte right after the behemoth bomb. Things continued to get grim after that homer. The Yankee offense rolled over and died in one of the more pathetic half innings I have seen in a while in the top of the seventh. After this, Pettitte resumed his outing and got into further trouble, allowing a run and it was 3-1 Rockies.
Here is where I take issue with Joe Torre. Kaz Matsui up at the plate, Pettitte clearly laboring, and Torre keeps him in, instead of the suddenly decent Luis Vizcaino. So, what happens? You guessed it. Matsui hits a two RBI triple aided by a Hideki Matsui misplay in the leftfield corner. The Rockies would later add another run and the Yankees would go out like sheep in the eighth and ninth innings. Final score 6-1 Rockies.
WP: J. Francis (7-5)
LP: A. Pettitte (4-5)
New York Yankees: 35-34
Colorado Rockies-37-34
3 comments:
Congrats on he new blog.
And now to the the game. We all go crazy when Torre has the quick hook on the starting pitcher and when hes asked on the postgame why he took out the pitcher so soon he usually says that he noticed hat the pitcher was loosing his stuff. If he is this great analyzer to know exactly when a pitcher looses it. I wonder what happend tonight with him as Pettitte clearly strugled in the 6th and gave up the lead and then continued to do so in the 7th.
How do you explain Pettitte taking a page out of the Mike Mussina book of pitching, "Rule # 237- When you get a lead give it right back plus one more in the imediate inning folowing the one that your team rallied or scored".
It seems that runs are at a preimium again( we did after all splurge away runs like its going outa stile against the oher NL teams)
It seems like the Umps are ganging up on us again, I'm not blaming the loss on the HP ump but the constant shifting strike zone( hence the 11 Ks)surly didnt help.
Torre leaving Pettitte in after he clearly had lost his stuff was something I couldn't figure out for the life of me. I was calling for him to be taken out when Torrealba got his single. I can understand Joe wanting to preserve his bullpen with Clemens pitching today, but for a guy that manages to win every game, this one was a headscratcher for me...
And congratulations on the new blog, Dan.
The ump got me as well. But of course if you play a good game you'll still win the game nine times of ten. And the Yankees didn't do that.
As for pulling Pettitte, I can't kill him for letting him go through Torreabla, but after that...he has to know when his pitcher has run out of gas. But apparently he did not.
Thanks for the congrats, don't be strangers.
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