The New York Yankees lost to the Los Angeles Angels by a score of 5-4. Starting for the Yankees was C.C. Sabathia and he got the loss. So let me see if I understand this. It’s the top of the 7th inning. The Yankees are starting to get to John Lackey. The score is 4-2 after Jorge Posada drove in Melky Cabrera. Gardner is then safe on a throwing error and then Jeter singles. Bases loaded. No outs. This is it right? We’re going to put the Angels away with a big inning? Tex strikes out. Ok, so there’s only one out. Look! A-Rod is up next with the bases loaded and only one out! Our hero will come and save the day, right? Well clutch A-Rod hits into a double play. What a disgrace. It’s disgraceful. An absolute disgrace. That’s A-Roid for you. We can expect more of this if the Yankees make the playoffs. Then the Yankees have the bases loaded again in the 8th inning. Ok, Yankees get a run in and then Gardner is up with a man on first and second. Young guys have that spark about them. Maybe he’ll get a hit here. What? Huh? Girardi subs Gardner with Swisher? Swisher sucks! That was a terrible move. All we needed was a base hit and he puts in Mr. Nick I swing for the three run home run Swisher. C.C. Sabathia gave up five earned runs but four of them came in the fourth inning. He seemed to have settled down after that. Still, he did give up five runs. He didn’t have a good fastball and he wasn’t going to get through that Angels team with sliders and change ups. He didn’t keep the ball down and a lot of his pitches were up. The Yankees needed a solid effort from their ace stud today and C.C. Sabathia did not deliver. The Yankee hitters try to do too much with men in scoring position. They’re always trying to pull the ball. They swing at bad pitches and make weak outs. The Yankees had so many opportunities in this game to score runs. How fitting was the game to end with Alex Rodriguez striking out? Player of the Game: Los Angeles Angel pitcher John Lackey. He picked up his teammates after they made some dumb mistakes.
And the wild card lead gets even closer, Rangers back 2.5, Rays 3.5 and very very surprising to me Seattle is only 5 games back. Do you know how minor league Pitcher Andrew Brackman has been doing in the minors. 1st round pick two years ago but I heard he has had some injuries
