The New York Yankees lost to the Atlanta Braves by a score of 4-0. Starting for the Yankees was Chien-Ming Wang and he got the loss. Where do I start? This team cannot play situational baseball and it’s a problem. The Yankees had the bases loaded twice and men on second and third once and all three times they made first pitch outs. The Yankees lead off with doubles but fail to move the runner over to third with less than two outs. They’re underachieving across the board and it’s painful when batters like Robinson Cano swing at pitches in the dirt. Cano also has to be more patient at the plate. He swings at too many first pitches. The Braves didn’t have to pitch to Texeira the way A-Rod is hitting. The thing is, can you really change the lineup and take A-Rod out of the clean up spot? The team can’t hit with men in scoring position and haven’t for weeks. The team is in a team wide hitting slump and who knows when they are going to break out of it. I wasn’t too happy with Jorge’s game calling in the third inning. Yunel Escobar got two strikes on him with two sliders but both pitches were flat. The third pitch, Jorge called another slider and Yunel then started the rally with a hit. It would of been nice to see Jorge call a sinker because Wang’s sinker was working pretty good tonight. Wang has trouble pitching from the stretch though. He has no control with runners on base and him having only one good pitch hurts him. Better lineups are going to beat him good in the future. Like I started out the post though. Wang wasn’t the problem, it was the offense. It died. No one knows where it went. If the bases are loaded and a young, inexperienced rookie pitcher is in trouble, has no control and is walking batters, you don’t swing at the first pitch. It’s unbelievable that the Yankees got this guy off the hook so many times tonight. I mean, the Braves pitcher was begging the Yankees to score off of him. How much more can you give? Hanson had no control and didn’t know where his pitches were going. He wasn’t very impressive and the Yankees should of scored more than five runs off of him. How they didn’t is amazing. What about A-Rod? He’s making mistakes in the field, he can’t hit and he can’t get on base and looks worse than I’ve ever seen him. Like I said in a post I made a few days ago, A-Rod, please go back on steroids. Stop pulling a David Ortiz on us and stop pretending that you’re tired. We know you’re not that good of a ball player without the roids and you’re proving it. Then we have Derek Jeter hitting into double plays again. Is he kidding? Is he joking? Maybe Jeter will do a Ashton Kutcher on us and tell us that we’ve been all punked and that he’s not really hitting into this many double plays and we’re imagining it. The second out of the eighth inning defines this team, complacent and over paid. Posada strikes out and didn’t even bother running to first base. It’s like he gave up. He was in a daze. He was lost. He was in Land Of The Lost. This whole post is out of order and it’s a mess, just like the Yankees.
