Angels@Yankees Game Thread 8/2/08

[browntown653]

The Moose has been just awesome today.

[BuckFoston]

Bottom 7 recap:
Jose Molina continues to bat well today (3-3) and singles to left.
Damon draws the walk.
The Yankees keep adding onto their lead. Jeter singles to right bringing home Molina. Damon advances to third.
Abreu hits a fielders choice ground ball, Damon scores, Jeter out at second but Abreu beats the throw to first.
A-rod goes down swinging.
Sexson getting his first AB today and grounds out to short.

[BuckFoston]

Top 8 recap:
Mussina is done for the day, great outing. Final line for him:
7.0 IP, 2H, 2R, 1ER, 2BB, 5K.
Jose Veras to come in relief.

Mathis goes down on strikes.
Matthews JR. goes down looking.
Figgins draws a 3-2 walk.
Aybar goes 0-4 on the day striking out looking.

Yankees up: 8-2

Bottom 8 recap:
Justin Christian to pinch hit for Nady, pops up to short.
Betemit strikes out swinging.
Cabrera continues to struggle going 0-4 on the day. Popping out to center for his last at bat.

[BuckFoston]

Top 9 recap:
Teixeria pops out to deep center.
Vlad draws a walk.
Anderson lines out to deep right.
Kendrick sends a bloop over first to get a single.
Juan Rivera flies out to deep center to end the game.

Great game today. We picked up a much needed win and hopefully this can start something for us. The Yankees will play one more at home tomorrow night against the Angels before they head down to Texas to play a four game series there. Mussina had an amazing outing today. Betemit, A-rod, Abreu and Molina all went deep today to help us get back on the winning track. Rasner and Lackey will be pitching tomorrow. Cano was out of the lineup today to help rest his sore hand and Betemit stepped in and did a very good job. He got the team going with his two run blast in the second. Very good game today, hopefully we can continue this.

[nyjunc]

2 straight days we got excellent pitching against the hot Angels although they were a little depleted yesterday. Hopefully we can make it 3 in a row and get a split. That would be huge.