Yankees vs. A's series

[DirtyKash]

WOW! Brett Gardner just made an incredible over-the-head-falling-backwards catch at the warning track to rob Jason Giambi of extra bases. Disgusting catch. Giambi got a nice reception by the crowd.

[BronxBomberz]

Yeah, and now the Yankees have a good chance at scoring here in the 2nd, 2nd and 3rd, no one out.

[DirtyKash]

Stupid baserunning mistake. Well done Damon.

[DirtyKash]

This Andrew Bailey guy was sickkkkkkkkkkkk. He gave up a long ball in his second inning, but the kid was hitting 97-98 on the gun with great movement on his pitches. His breaking ball is also nasty. Glad I finally got to watch him pitch.

Good win for the Yankees. I can't believe they actually have a stat for most wins-saves by a starter-reliever combo. Christ.

[Kingdom]

Whoa, Oakland actually scored a couple of runs.

[browntown653]

Afternoon game today as the Yankees try to go for a 2-game sweep due to the rainout. Today's lineup behind Carsten Charles Sabathia:

Jeter SS
Damon LF
Teixeira 1B
Posada C
Cano 2B
Swisher RF
Matsui DH
Cabrera CF
Ransom 3B

Basically the same as yesterday, except the Melkman's in there for Gardner.

[hot_corner_gurl]

Whoa, Oakland actually scored a couple of runs.

HAHAHA 3-0 lead! Suzuki with the homer.

[NYgiantsfan5689]

CC finally settling down, and the Yanks offense is backing him well. Close game again

[NYgiantsfan5689]

Teixeira has been a brick wall for us on defense so far, it's awesome

[love_that_reefer]

All tied up at five. Sabathia has only one start in which he looked sharp but its still early.

[NYgiantsfan5689]

All tied up at five. Sabathia has only one start in which he looked sharp but its still early.

He's been a fighter though, and is still eating up a decent amount of innings, so that's encouraging

[Kingdom]

Livan Hernandez ate up a decent amount of innings too.

[love_that_reefer]

This is just his second game going 6+ IP.

[ljshorty89]

CC hasn't been THAT good. In 23.2 IP he's given up 23 hits, 13 BB, only 12 K, and 11 ER. More BB than K, same # of H as IP, and an ERA over 4 is not exactly good. He's been lucky to get away with as few runs as he has...

Livan Hernandez has 11.2 IP, 13 H, 3 BB, 7 K, 6 ER. Not great numbers, but they're VERY similar to CC right now(in half the number of starts/half the number of innings), their per 9 ratios are really similar. One of them makes 24 million, one makes 400k. Big difference in bang for buck.

[NYgiantsfan5689]

Now he's sucking. He's having a tough time out there, but he's fighting. Cant keep with fighting though. He'll settle down eventually, I'm not worried