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Yankees News For April 13
Topic Started: Apr 13 2005, 07:50 AM (43 Views)
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Wright's night to make pitch
April 13
New York Daily News: It was all well and good that the Yankees showed their class on Monday, watching from the dugout as the Red Sox received their rings. But it would be just as appropriate if Jaret Wright sticks his first pitch tonight under Johnny Damon's chin, sends him sprawling to get out of the way, as if to say:
The niceties are over, boys. Let's play some hardball.
After all, nobody wants to see the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry lose the edge that has made it so compelling the last couple of years. And besides, the Yankees need to do something to raise their own sluggish level of play so far this season; what better way to get the blood pumping than sending a message from the Pedro Martinez handbook?
It's more important that Wright prove he's tough enough for this rivalry, as well as just being a Yankee. Whether he dusts anyone or not, Wright needs an outing that will erase from his memory his disastrous first start in the Bronx last week.
Wright matches up against Curt Schilling tonight, which means we ought to get a pretty good read on where he's headed this season. The Yankees can't afford him - or Carl Pavano - to be another Javier Vazquez, another Jeff Weaver, talented pitchers who were affected by the New York factor.
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Yankees Await Curt In 1st Start
April 13
New York Post: Believing he can't win when he talks about the Red Sox, Alex Rodriguez passed when asked about seeing Curt Schilling tonight at Fenway Park.
"I am going to reserve my comment," A-Rod said about facing the pitcher who spent the winter ripping into A-Rod about not being a true Yankee and castigating him for his chop play on Bronson Arroyo in last year's ALCS.
It's the first time the Yankees will see Schilling since Game 6 of last year's ALCS when Schilling allowed one run and four hits in seven innings while pitching with a damaged right ankle. The 4-2 Red Sox victory evened the ALCS at 3-3 and forced Game 7.
The Yankees should expect to see a pitcher raring to go after coming back from off- season surgery on his right foot. The hurler who loves the spotlight missed facing Randy Johnson in the first game of the season. And he couldn't start Mon day's home opener for the Red Sox when they got their World Series rings.
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Bomber bats show strain
April 13
New York Daily News: What do you do when a group off All-Stars doesn't hit?
You wait until it does.
Such is the situation the Yankees are in now, as several highly paid, historically productive players are languishing to start the season, leaving their vaunted lineup - at least for the moment - with holes.
Joe Torre says he isn't overly concerned and, really, he has little choice.
Indeed, the odds are in Torre's favor that the Yankees will finish the year closer to second in the league in runs scored (where they ended up last season) than to 13th (where they are now), but that doesn't make the lack of production over the first week and a half any more palatable.
It also doesn't make today's assignment look any easier: The Bombers take their sagging bats up against Curt Schilling in the Boston ace's 2005 debut, trying to turn around a skid in which they have dropped four of their last five games.
A quick glance at the stats page singles out Bernie Williams (3-for-21), Jason Giambi (4-for-21) and Tino Martinez (2-for-15) as the worst offenders among the Yanks, but just about everyone besides Derek Jeter and Hideki Matsui is trying to find some consistency. Jeter got a hit in each of the Bombers' first six games and is batting .370, while Matsui homered in three of the first four, is hitting .333 and has even been productive when making outs, advancing runners with either a groundout or a long fly ball.
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Mel insists they're not up in arms
April 13
New York Daily News: Coming into this season, the Yankees invested heavily to bolster their pitching. One week into it, however, practically the only pitcher performing as expected is the injured Kevin Brown.
The team ERA is 4.79. Through Monday, the staff had allowed the most baserunners in the American League. The opposing team batting average is an outrageous .323 - the highest in the AL, by nearly 50 points.
The fact that the Yankees and Red Sox are last and second-to-last in that category - and tied for last in the AL East standings at 3-4 - is proof that it's far too early to get worried about the pitching. Indeed, Mel Stottlemyre is not.
"No, not concerned about ours," the Yankees pitching coach said. "I think everything eventually will be fine, but early in the year it's tough."
And it's about to get tougher. With two games, today and tomorrow, at hitter-friendly Fenway, then three over the weekend against high-powered Baltimore, the Yankees' pitching numbers might not be coming down anytime soon.
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Curt's blood test
April 13
New York Daily News: It is about one hour before the Red Sox ring ceremony Monday and Curt Schilling is surrounded by a ring of reporters, the lights from television cameras flashing in his round face. Schilling won't be pitching for two days, when he faces the Yankees at Fenway, but the righthander, making his first start since Game 2 of the World Series, wears an expression like he's about to take the mound.
Schilling does not want to talk about it all again, that much is clear. He's been over the ankle, the bloody sock and how eager he is to return to the mound countless times.
So the normally loquacious pitcher is reticent, even though his start tonight is laden with meaning. His answers are clipped, which is okay, because the answers he provides the Red Sox tonight will be much more significant than anything he can say.
"I'm ready to pitch," Schilling says several times. "I feel like I did what I needed to do to get ready. I'm just ready. It's been a long time, a lot of months."
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"What do you do when a group off All-Stars doesn't hit?
You wait until it does.
Such is the situation the Yankees are in now, as several highly paid, historically productive players are languishing to start the season, leaving their vaunted lineup - at least for the moment - with holes. " Daily News


:please: :please: :please: This guy must be on LSD and he's having flashbacks... Group of All-Stars??? Maybe 5 years ago, but Bernie, Giambi and Tino are no where near being all stars. In fact, they're done! :rock:


btw YF03, Jeter's leading the team with a .370ba, some soft L :laugh2:
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The team ERA is 4.79. Through Monday, the staff had allowed the most baserunners in the American League. The opposing team batting average is an outrageous .323 - the highest in the AL, by nearly 50 points.

"No, not concerned about ours," Mel Stottlemyre, the Yankees pitching coach said.


Rome's on fire and this guy just keeps on fiddling. Clueless :crutches:
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Apr 13 2005, 09:19 AM
"What do you do when a group off All-Stars doesn't hit?
You wait until it does.
Such is the situation the Yankees are in now, as several highly paid, historically productive players are languishing to start the season, leaving their vaunted lineup - at least for the moment - with holes. " Daily News


:please:  :please:  :please: This guy must be on LSD and he's having flashbacks... Group of All-Stars??? Maybe 5 years ago, but Bernie, Giambi and Tino are no where near being all stars. In fact, they're done:rock:


btw YF03, Jeter's leading the team with a .370ba, some soft L  :laugh2:

Obviously he's not playing like a soft L. I'll take him off, I only did that to be a jackass and see the response. :peace:
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Apr 13 2005, 12:33 PM
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Apr 13 2005, 09:19 AM
"What do you do when a group off All-Stars doesn't hit?
You wait until it does.
Such is the situation the Yankees are in now, as several highly paid, historically productive players are languishing to start the season, leaving their vaunted lineup - at least for the moment - with holes. " Daily News


:please:  :please:  :please: This guy must be on LSD and he's having flashbacks... Group of All-Stars??? Maybe 5 years ago, but Bernie, Giambi and Tino are no where near being all stars. In fact, they're done:rock:


btw YF03, Jeter's leading the team with a .370ba, some soft L  :laugh2:

Obviously he's not playing like a soft L. I'll take him off, I only did that to be a jackass and see the response. :peace:

You succeeded. :laugh:
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