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Yankees News For April 12
Topic Started: Apr 12 2005, 07:10 AM (16 Views)
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Sox run rings around Yanks
April 12
New York Daily News: It was the Red Sox's day yesterday and George Steinbrenner wanted his Yankees to watch. Losers to Boston in last fall's ALCS, they sat in the dugout as the Red Sox paraded their stars, past and present, on the field at Fenway Park, savoring the glory that only comes with 87 years of waiting.
Steinbrenner's wait has not been nearly that long. The four-season drought between World Series titles for The Boss is nothing compared to the seemingly eternal damnation the Sox finally exorcised, but time moves quicker in Yankeeland. Was anyone surprised that Steinbrenner, according to his spokesman, "suggested" to GM Brian Cashman that it would be a "good idea" if the Bombers found a front-row seat for the festivities?
Needless to say, the Yanks followed The Boss' "suggestion" and the dugout was packed. Whatever motivation came from witnessing the celebration didn't help the Yanks hit a knuckleball, though, and they managed just five hits off Sox starter Tim Wakefield in an ugly 8-1 loss before a sellout crowd of 33,702.
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Now Boston 'Loves' A-Rod
April 12
New York Daily News: It was funny in a good-natured way when the Red Sox fans cheered for Mariano Rivera during pregame introductions yesterday, and funnier when Rivera acknowledged the cheers with a playful bow.
The sarcastic cheers had a nastier edge when the fans gave Alex Rodriguez the same treatment after he made a routine play at third base in the eighth inning. And A-Rod wasn't about to laugh it up with the crowd, not after his error four innings earlier cost the Yankees dearly.
Instead he stood at third base, staring straight ahead, pretending not to hear but surely wishing he could do something to shut them up.
"Yeah, of course, you always want to do that," A-Rod said after the Yankees were routed, 8-1, in the Sox's home opener. "But I'm going to have more opportunities for that."
Unfortunately for him, the Sox fans are going to have more opportunities to ride him the way they did yesterday, when it became just how clearly the locals here pay attention to what is said and written about their ballclub.
After all, Derek Jeter was always the object of Sox fans' resentment toward the Yankees here at Fenway Park. But then Red Sox players started praising Jeter in recent months as a true Yankee, as a way of expressing their venom for A-Rod, and the fans obviously noticed.
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Pavano expects to start Friday
April 12
Newark Star-Ledger: Carl Pavano is showing no ill effects from the line drive off his head Sunday and is expected to make his start Friday night for the Yankees at Baltimore.
"My head's a little sore, with good reason," Pavano said yesterday.
Pavano came out of Sunday's game after Melvin Mora lined a ball that glanced off the right side of Pavano's head. A CT scan and neurological tests showed nothing more than a mild concussion.
Pavano seemed nonplused.
"To put it in perspective," he said, "I've been pitching for 20 years and I've been hit once by a line drive in the head.
"I've got a hard head. You know what they say about Italians."
Mora's liner came one pitch after first baseman Jason Giambi dropped a foul pop, extending the at-bat.
"I told him I'm going to hit him fungos today," Pavano joked.
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Boston Holds Its Party, but YES Just Says No
April 12
New York Times: The Yankee-centric myopia of the YES Network reached a fascinating level of absurdity yesterday in a pregame show that virtually ignored the sight of the Boston Red Sox receiving their World Series rings.
Oh, it was discussed, but not seen live. During Kimberly Jones's 5-minute-24-second report from Fenway Park, the camera never showed the ceremony, live or on tape.
"This place is wild," Jones told the studio host Bob Lorenz. (Do tell.)
"The Yankees are standing on the dugout steps," she said. (No, didn't see that.)
"Derek Lowe got a rousing ovation," she said. (Sorry, missed that, too.)
The YES cameras, having lost all mobility, remained in a tight close-up on Jones (you managed to see fans in the bleachers, but they were far away) except during a taped interview with Yankees Manager Joe Torre, himself in a tight close-up, who said the team was not under orders to ignore the ceremony.
So while the Yankees graciously watched from their dugout, YES would not show them watching.
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Moose out of control, lets game get out of hand
April 12
New York Daily News: Mike Mussina wasn't putting the pitches where he wanted them. He'd been fighting spotty control from the beginning of the game.
And with a chance to keep the game in reach with a 1-2-3 fourth inning, the righthander finally put one where he wanted it.
His 0-2 delivery to Mark Bellhorn froze the Red Sox's second baseman with the bat in his hand.
Instead it was called a ball.
Bellhorn ripped the next pitch to right for a single, opening the gate on a three-run outburst that broke open a three-run game and sent Boston to an 8-1 victory.
The hit was only the beginning.
Alex Rodriguez mishandled Johnny Damon's grounder to sustain the rally and then Trot Nixon and Manny Ramirez got hits that drove the runs in.
"I had Bellhorn struck out," Mussina said. "I think all three of us thought he was struck out.
"What are you going to do? You're going to miss some calls and you're going to have to work with it."
Joe Torre and Mel Stottlemyre made great efforts to set up the Yanks' rotation to have Mussina on the mound for yesterday's first game at Fenway.
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Sox Fans Want Some Mo
April 12
New York Post: It figures that Mariano Rivera would deliver a bit of levity to the blood feud that exists between the Red Sox and Yankees. After being one of many Yankees to watch the Red Sox receive their World Series rings prior to yesterday's game at Fenway Park, Rivera was greeted by a loud cheer from the sold-out crowd when he was introduced with the other Yankees.
The ovation left little doubt about how the Red Sox fans felt about Rivera's struggles against their team lately as well as a dig at Yankee fans who booed Rivera off the Yankee Stadium mound last week when he flushed his second straight save against the Red Sox.
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Sign of respect: Yankees watch ring ceremony from dugout
April 12
Boston Herald: Manager Joe Torre and most of the players sat in the visitors dugout or stood on the top step for virtually the entire hour-long ceremony and were seen applauding at several junctures. The gesture didn't go unnoticed.
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Tim baffles again
April 12
New York Daily News: Tim Wakefield's fingertips are all over the Red Sox-Yankee rivalry, from the flat knuckleball that Aaron Boone pounded for his famous playoff-clinching homer to the brilliant knucklers he threw last season as a regular season starter and October reliever.
So it was perhaps fitting that Wakefield, who is also the longest-tenured Sox, started and won on one of the great days in Boston history. After he tried on his World Series ring and enjoyed the Sox lavish pregame celebration yesterday, he cranked out a series of dipping and weaving knucklers that once again frustrated the Yankees.
Wakefield, 38, allowed five hits and one unearned run in seven innings and allowed the Sox to separate fun and business. As manager Terry Francona put it, "The day was going fast. It's the home opener, we're playing the Yankees, we got a ring ceremony. All of a sudden, you look up and (Derek) Jeter is in the batter's box. It was going quick. But Wakefield kind of took care of the rest of that for us.
"He was fantastic."
Francona added, "He's very deserving of this day. When we saw how this was going to unfold, we were glad. You can't pick the rotation with your heart, but sometimes it works out that way."
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