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Yankees news for May 14
Topic Started: May 14 2004, 07:17 AM (27 Views)
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IT'S AS EASY AS JON, TWO, THREE
May 14
New York Post: What, exactly, do the Yankees have in Jon Lieber? Is he the quick-working, strike-throwing freak who has pitched brilliantly twice at Yankee Stadium? Or is he the chucker who was spanked by the Mariners in Seattle when he couldn't get his pitches below the belt? With their fifth-starter's spot a disaster, the Yankees desperately need Lieber to provide solid efforts from the fourth turn in the rotation. They will find a fifth starter, but unearthing two arms (especially if Jose Contreras isn't one of them) is a daunting task. Yesterday, Lieber delivered, hurling the Yankees to a 7-4 victory over the Angels in front of 41,089 at the Stadium.

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GIAMBI KNEEDS A REST
May 14
New York Post: Jason Giambi exiting for Tony Clark isn't out of character - Joe Torre does it often for defense. But Clark replacing Giambi in the top of the seventh yesterday, with the Yankees in front by two runs and Giambi's spot in the order five stops away, was odd.
"The day game after a night game, I knew he wasn't going to go nine. His 'left' knee got a little tired," Torre said.
Giambi downplayed it but admitted he has to watch the surgically repaired joint.
"It was tired after the long game 'Tuesday night' and the day/night thing," said Giambi, who went 2-for-3 and drove in two runs in the 7-4 win over the Angels. "I wanted to make sure about it. It will be a battle all year until I can get it right. I have to take care of myself."
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Bernie clears air and fence
May 14
New York Daily News: Joe Torre called Bernie Williams into his office late Wednesday night, convinced that his struggling center fielder had hit bottom. With a horrific slump weighing on his mind, Williams didn't run out a ninth-inning popup - ending up only on first when the left fielder dropped it - and Torre wasn't happy.
"He was embarrassed," Torre said. "It was unacceptable."
But yesterday, the frustration lifted. Williams went 3-for-4 with a home run, and the Yankees beat the Angels, 7-4, in front of 41,089 at the Stadium. It was the Bombers' fourth win in their last five games and - in taking two of three from Anaheim - gave them five straight series victories since being swept by the Red Sox at the end of April. The win, combined with Boston's loss last night, also put the Yanks alone in first place.
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Better plate discipline allows Matsui to relax
May 14
New York Daily News: Hideki Matsui started this home stand with back-to-back 0-for-4 performances, and while that slump isn't nearly as bad as some his teammates have endured, it clearly was starting to bother him. Joe Torre said he noticed Matsui's plate discipline begin to wane, as the left fielder lunged at balls he'd normally let go by.
After yesterday, however, both Matsui and Torre are feeling better about things. Matsui went 2-for-4 in the Yanks' 7-4 victory, crushing his fourth homer of the season in the sixth inning and adding a double in the eighth.
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Forever Yankee still earns stripes
May 14
New York Daily News columnist Mike Lupica: The Yankees did not have to come from way behind yesterday. Their starting pitcher, Jon Lieber, is the one who came back, from one bad pitch to Jose Guillen and one bad inning. So the Yankees took two of three from the Angels, even though they gave up a total of 22 runs in the process. It is an average of seven runs a game, which figures, because there have been 11 games for the Yankees already, out of just 34, when they have given up seven runs or more. So they better hit the ball around the way they did yesterday.
We know how much hitting they brought in between last season and this, Steinbrenner and all the rest of them getting hysterical because an $180 million team couldn't beat the starting pitching from a $49 million team in the World Series. We will see as the season plays out if the Yankees have enough pitching, or if they really will have to go out and buy more.


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Cy's The Limit For Clemens
May 14
New York Post columnist Kevin Kernan: "The man who is 7-0 with a 1.99 ERA is on his way to his seventh Cy Young Award and New York will get a close-up view of Clemens Sunday when the Mets come to Minute Maid Park. The game within the game will be Clemens pitching to Mike Piazza, but don't let the hype of that moment take away from what Clemens has accomplished in his Houston homecoming."


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Jorge: Play wasn't underhanded
May 14
New York Daily News:Jorge Posada doesn't remember the ball flying into his face.
The only thing on his mind was breaking up a double play when he slid into second base in the second inning Wednesday night, but then Alfredo Amezaga's throw was low and Posada suddenly found himself lying on the ground, blood coming from his nose.
"I was just hoping it wasn't broken," the Yankee catcher said yesterday.
But it was broken. So Posada went to a hospital, where he had X-rays and a CT scan (to make sure he didn't have a concussion) before doctors reset the nose. Posada said he left the hospital around midnight, with instructions to keep his head elevated to keep the swelling down.


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Quantrill, Guillen Turn Up Heat
May 14
New York Post: Jose Guillen wanted Paul Quantrill to attempt the anatomically impossible. Quantrill just wanted Guillen to shut his pie hole.
A day after the two men had an eighth-inning staredown, Guillen and Quantrill ratcheted up the rhetoric before yesterday's 7-4 victory by the Yankees over Anaheim. It was a classic way to inflame what has become a budding bicoastal rivalry.
"Trust me, I'm not afraid of anyone," said Guillen, who hit a three-run homer off Jon Lieber in the fourth yesterday. "You tell him that.
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From Coast to Coast and No Middle Ground
May 14
New York Times (registration required): "Several Anaheim Angels were hunched over a picnic table in the clubhouse before their game yesterday with the Yankees, a pile of newspapers spread in front of them. The Angels were searching for remarks from the Yankees, then repeating some of those comments and, perhaps, cataloging them for future reference."
Watch these teams carefully because a legitimate coast-to-coast rivalry is brewing, a rivalry suddenly filled with verbal sparring, criticism about the way players behave and a heightened intensity encircling two strong teams that oppose each other a total of nine times in the regular season.


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Contreras won't be rushed
May 14
Newark Star-Ledger (registration required): "Joe Torre announced that tomorrow's starting pitcher will be left-hander Donovan Osborne who, in his first start last weekend in Seattle, got roughed up. Jose Contreras, whose demotion opened a roster spot for Osborne, will pitch Sunday for Columbus. Torre couldn't commit to Contreras returning after one more start in the minors."


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Sierra a Yankee treasure
May 14
New York Daily News: "First of all, don't call it a hot streak. 'This is not a hot streak,' Ruben Sierra said. 'I know I can be like this all season.' Now there's a tasty thought for pitchers to chew on."
Meet the new and improved Ruben Sierra. Gone is the "me-first, team-second" malcontent who wore out his welcome with eight different clubs (including two stints with the Yankees and three with the Rangers) during a major league career that started in 1986 and was interrupted in 1999 by stays in the Atlantic League and Mexico. In its place has emerged a kinder, gentler Sierra - who is now all about team and anything he can do to help the cause.


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Contreras won't be rushed
May 14
Newark Star-Ledger (registration required): "Joe Torre announced that tomorrow's starting pitcher will be left-hander Donovan Osborne who, in his first start last weekend in Seattle, got roughed up. Jose Contreras, whose demotion opened a roster spot for Osborne, will pitch Sunday for Columbus. Torre couldn't commit to Contreras returning after one more start in the minors."


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