The New York Yankees lost to the Florida Marlins by a score of 2-1. Burnett started, pitched great but got the loss. I can’t take anything away from Josh Johnson. He pitched one heck of a game. He matched Burnett, pitch for pitch but the Yankees had their chances. Derek Jeter’s double plays really don’t disappoint me anymore. He seems to have a knack for doing it. He’s actually the best at it. Maybe he should of gotten the day off instead of A-Rod. It was first and second with no outs in the top of the eighth inning with the Yankees losing 2-1 and up to the plate stepped Captain Clutch, I mean, Captain Double Play. What does he do that he’s the best at? He grounds into a double play. He actually tried to bunt the runners over but he got two strikes on him. I thought the Yankees were going to open the game up and have a big inning. It didn’t happen. If we go back to the bottom of the sixth, Johnny Damon missed a routine fly ball that allowed Hanley Ramirez to score all the way from first base. I don’t know what Johnny’s problem is but he did this the other night too. This time, it cost the Yankees. If the Yankees made these easy plays, they win the game. Burnett had great velocity on his fastball hitting 96 mph. He only made one mistake and that was to Dan Uggla who he gift wrapped a fastball right down the middle of the plate in which Dan homered on. Overall, Burnett pitched great. He threw “get me over” curveballs for strikes and then threw a second curveball that had greater bite on it that struck the Marlin batters out. It was a wicked curveball with a very sharp break that was hard and down to the left-handed batters’ left foot. The right-handed batters had no chance against this curveball. It looked like he was throwing his fastball but it wound up being a curveball that fooled the batters. He threw it at any time in the count for strikes. In the sixth inning, he started losing break on his curveball and and came out of the game in the seventh inning after throwing 98 pitches. The Yankee bull pen held on the rest of the game with Phil Hughes looking excellent in his new role. Player of Game: Josh Johnson. He stifled the Yankees all game long.
