YANKEES 3
BLUE JAYS 2
Tuesday Night at the Stadium, Robinson Canos walk off single, gave the Yankees a 3-2 victory in 10 innings against the Blue Jays. The Win gave the Yankees their 4th in a row.
In a 1-1 game in the 8th inning, Joe Torre brought in Kyle Farnsworth to give the Jays a 2-1 lead. Even though Farnsworth has not gone an inning without giving up a run in about 18 consecutive appearances, Torre decided to bring him into the game. Everyone in the stadium, everyone watching at home, everyone on the field, knew that Farnsworth was going to give up a run, and he did.
However, in the bottom of the 9th inning, the Yankees rallied, and Melky Cabrera scored the game tieing run on a balk by toronto reliever Accardo. In the 10th inning, with Alex Rodriguez on second base, Robinson Cano hit a walk off single down the left field line to bring home A-Rod for the winning run.
Andy Pettitte and Roy Halliday combined for a GREAT pitchers duel through 7 innings, both giving up just one run. Pettitte allowed runners in all but one of his innings but racked up a season-high seven strikeouts, limiting the Jays to seven hits and three walks. Pettitte pitched a seaosn high 116 pitches.
The Yankee victory, coupled with a 9-3 Red Sox loss tot he Royals, pulls the Yankees to 8 games back of the Sox. Wednesday pitching matchup pits: Roger Clemens vs Shaun Marcum.
GAME NOTES:
PETTITTE: 7 IP, 7H, 1ER, 7 SO
CANO: 2-5, GW RBI
AROD: 1-4, RBI
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
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July 18th, 2007 at 10:07 am
Kyle Farnsworth is horrendous. In 41 games, he has 4 one, two, three innings. I’m not sure why Torre continues to go to him in the 8th innings when Viscaino and Bruny have been pitching pretty well as of late. farnsworth should be religated to the 6th inning in a 10 - 0 games. While his trade value drops every time he pitches, the Yanks have to get rid of him anyway they possibly can.
gary
July 18th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Gary: I AGREE 100%!!!
July 18th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
They should do something quick before the trade deadline. You know some desperate team and/or some pitching coach that thinks he can fix him will bite. At this point I would even eat the money, just dump ‘em. I would even take some minor league player in exchange.