This one got to me. They came so close to victory, only to fall yet again to the Rockies. That wasn't what made me cringe about this game however. It was the horrid plays from the Yankees themselves that lost this game. They grasped defeat from the jaws of victory, a trademark of a mediocre ballclub. Right now where we stand, that's what this team is, an average one.
Early on the game looked promising for the Yankees. Hideki Matsui hit a two run homer to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead and Roger Clemens looked good in his first inning of work. But then in the bottom of the second the Rocket allowed solo homers to Garet Adkins and Troy Tulowitski, making it 2-2. After that, both teams were shut down in the third and fourth. Then came the fifth, Yankees don't score, followed by two runs for the Rockies off Clemens, who was pulled after four and one third innings. Bad outing for him, he let the team down.
After the debacle of a fifth, the Yankees squandered opportunities to score, and it cost them the game. It really got to me, because they should have been able to tie it. Really dissapointing. So now they head out to San Francisco to play the Giants and "Baroid" Barry Bonds. We'll see what happens with that.
WP: R. Lopez (4-0) S: B. Fuentes (20)
LP: R. Clemens (1-2)
Yankees (35-35)
Rockies (38-34)
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With a leadoff double Torre had Cairo bunt ahead of Melky who promptly drove him in with a sac fly. That should be a good lesson for (although I dont know why a veteran manager still needs these lessons) Torre, you played for one run and then lost by one run.
It looks like Bobby Abreu is all confused again at the plate though the HP umpiring this whole series was horrendous. The strike zone was litterly levitating when the Yankees were hitting.
If in a 3 game series in Coors field we scored a total of 5 runs how much will we score in spacious Pac Bell versus far superrior pitching 3?
Oh and btw how much did that suck job by pope Clemens the first cost us yesterday,800,000,00 or a million? I'm just curious.
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