The New York Yankees lost to the worst team in baseball, the Washington Nationals by a score of 3-2. This is not the end of the world. Don’t forget, the Nationals are a professional baseball team and they did give C.C. Sabathia and the Yankees a hard time on Tuesday night. Still, one would think that there would be a little more fire under the Yankees’ collective butts. A little more desire. Was it me or did they just go through the motions tonight? They only scored on the home run as well. That has to be pretty alarming. What also is alarming is that the Yankees keep failing against pitchers they haven’t faced. Maybe Alex Rodriguez needs a day off. He admitted that his hip is stiff. On the last play of the game, Alex should of tried to steal second because if the Nationals were to try to throw A-Rod out, Gardner would of stolen home. Wang pitched an ok game but he really didn’t do as well as the box score might indicate. His sinker was up in the zone all night and it was going left to right instead of down. He got away with his pitches up in the zone because he was mixing it up and because the Nationals are not good. His velocity was down as well. The National batters would look for a sinker but Wang threw them a slider and struck them out. It would be good if he could throw that pitch more. He mixed in his slider, threw some change ups but he didn’t have a good sinking fastball and he didn’t have great velocity. One has to wonder what the outcome would of been if this was the Red Sox. Player of the Game: Washington Nationals pitcher John Lannon. His name constantly reminds me of John Lennon. He threw a great game by throwing first pitch strikes and working quickly.
