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| Yankees News for July 15 | |
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| Giambino | Jul 15 2005, 07:31 AM Post #1 |
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Yankees News for July 15 --------------------- Click here for links to full articles then click READ MORE under Yankees news for July 15: http://www.yankeemania.com --------------------- Alex Puts Big Hurt On Curt July 15 New York Post: Of course, it had to come down to Curt Schilling against Alex Rodriguez. There was no other way the defining moment of the latest Yankees-Red Sox skirmish was going to play out without the Red Sox' new closer battling the Yankee the Bosox love to hate. From the moment Schilling started getting loose in the bullpen in the eighth, you knew he was going to face A-Rod with the game on the line in the ninth. And he did. After Gary Sheffield punished a splitter for a leadoff double, Rodriguez crushed a first-pitch splitter for a two-run homer that collided with the back wall of the center-field bleachers to carry the Yankees to a pulsating 8-6 win in front of a sold-out Fenway Park gathering of 35,232. As A-Rod circled the bases, memories drifted back to last year's ALCS, when Schilling said Rodriguez' chop on Bronson Arroyo in Game 6 was a "bush-league play," a "junior high move" and that A-Rod wasn't a "real Yankee." Last night Schilling, one of the best starters of his generation working his way back from a foot problem, looked like a junior high closer and allowed the Yankees to pull within 11/2 games of the AL East-leading Red Sox with their eighth win in nine games. "Sheff hit a split that I left up," Schilling said of the Yankees' No. 3 hitter who went 3-for-4, drove in two runs and homered for the third straight game. "I left a split up and he handled it. Then I turn around on the next pitch and hang a split to A-Rod." Rodriguez danced past questions about Schilling's remarks last year. But in his second year as a Yankee, he is putting to rest the talk of him not being a big stage player. A two-out homer off Schilling to win a game is about as big as it gets in Yankees-Red Sox. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A-Rod, Yankees bloody Curt July 15 Newsday: For one night, there was nothing Curt Schilling could have said to sour Alex Rodriguez's mood. Finally, A-Rod effectively shut up his biggest antagonist. All it took was one swing and a monster home run. With Schilling on the mound for the first time since April, Rodriguez smashed the first pitch he saw for a mammoth two-run homer over the centerfield wall last night, sending the Yankees to a stunning 8-6 win over the Red Sox in a game in which they had trailed 4-0 in the first. As big a hit as it was for Rodriguez, it was an equally important and uplifting win for the Yankees, who pulled to within 1˝ games of first-place Boston. "That one was the biggest I hit all year," Rodriguez said of his 24th home run. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Schilling debut a dud: '04 hero can't provide relief in loss to NY July 15 Boston Herald: Making his second relief appearance since May 13, 1992, Schilling left a pair of splitters up in the strike zone to Gary Sheffield and Alex Rodriguez and the New York Yankees sluggers took full advantage, sending Schilling (1-3) and the Sox to a deflating 8-6 defeat. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A-Rod Has True Yankee Moment July 15 New York Post: Just a few moments earlier, the noise inside Fenway Park was so rich, so dense, so riotous, you could see the grandstand sway, feel The Wall vibrate, Red Sox fans pleading with Curt Schilling to turn back the clock, pretend like it was October again. Now, you could hear a bloody sock drop. Now, you could have heard every step Alex Rodriguez took on the sweetest baseball journey of his life if only his feet had bothered to touch the ground. With one forever swing of his bat, Rodriguez had given the Yankees an 8-6 lead, but he'd done so much more than that. "That," Joe Torre would say, "was a signature. He's waited a long time for a moment like that." Damn right he had. For a season and a half, Rodriguez has endured the endlessly banal debate of whether he qualified as a "true Yankee," as if that's a title you can earn on a civil service exam. He'd absorbed an endless stream of Red Sox taking aim at him, none more pointed than a chatty gentleman named Curtis Montague Schilling. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wang's injury disarms Yanks July 15 New York Daily News: The Yankees' starting rotation took another hit yesterday, leaving them scrambling to determine if there's a move they can make to prop up their tattered pitching staff. A grim-faced Brian Cashman announced before last night's game at Fenway Park that rookie Chien-Ming Wang was placed on the disabled list with a shoulder injury... Cashman also wouldn't comment on whether he expected Wang to pitch again this year, but sources said it's believed Wang suffered a season-ending tear in his shoulder. In addition, Cashman said that Carl Pavano's inflamed shoulder hasn't improved as quickly as the Yanks had originally hoped. They were anticipating that Pavano would start Sunday's game here, but Cashman said Pavano is probably two weeks away from being activated. Kevin Brown (back spasms) will throw a bullpen session today and is a "possibility" for Monday's start, Joe Torre said. Jaret Wright - whom Wang replaced in the rotation - is "probably an August pitcher for us," Cashman said. Journeyman Tim Redding was called up from Columbus and will pitch tonight in Wang's place, but the Yanks didn't announce a starter for Sunday. They could look to fill that spot from the outside, with Colorado's Shawn Chacon and Al Leiter, who was designated for assignment by the Marlins yesterday, being two prominent options. The Yankees had already been in conversations with the Rockies about Chacon, and Cashman met with Leiter last winter, when the former Met lefty was a free agent. Gene Michael, the Yanks vice president and special adviser, was sent to Columbus to examine the organization's internal possibilities. Aaron Small is a long-time minor leaguer and could be a fill-in; Sean Henn has failed in three spot starts for the Yankees; Jorge DePaula, recovering from Tommy John surgery, is still a few weeks away from being healthy. Tanyon Sturtze was considered an option but the righthander pitched an inning in last night's 8-6 Yankee win. Torre is leery of using Sturtze, who is his seventh-inning setup man, as a starter because that means he would be unavailable as a reliever for several days. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mommy Giambi A Swami July 15 New York Post: YOU ARE Jason Giambi's mother, and you are crying inside. You listen to your son's voice from the other end of the country, and it sounds nothing like the happy-go-lucky Jason you know, long after a terrifying mystery tumor and the torment of a BALCO trial nearly struck him out, looking. "It wasn't a good voice," Jeanne Giambi said yesterday, and she knows, because she and her husband hear it practically every night after a game. "He wasn't himself." And how could he be? His employers, the Yankees, who had signed him to a Ruthian $80 million contract, watched him flail away at the plate and wondered whether he would be better off in the minor leagues, and no one knew for how long. "He didn't ask my opinion, I gave it," Jeanne Giambi said. "I said, 'They'll end up hitting you and you'll wind up on the DL.' " Her husband John — who idolized Mickey Mantle, who knows his boy's swing even better than Don Mattingly — had advice as well. "You're gonna find your swing. It's just a matter of time." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rivera strikes quickly: NY closer in top form July 15 Boston Herald: The difference between a first-time closer and one of the best of all-time could not have been any starker than it was last night. Thank Mariano Rivera for making the comparison. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sheff’s cooking July 15 Newsday: Gary Sheffield went to Detroit for the All-Star Game, but he felt as if he were on vacation nonetheless. The Midsummer Classic emphasizes appearances over baseball - Sheffield managed to appear in newspapers and television shows with yet more controversial comments - and the 36-year-old actually felt somewhat out of sync when he reported to Fenway Park yesterday. But by night's end, Sheffield looked as locked in as ever. The rightfielder kicked off his second half in powerful, memorable fashion, contributing a monster night to the Yankees' 8-6 victory over the Red Sox. "I came in and worked on some things in batting practice," Sheffield said. "It paid off in the game." It was Alex Rodriguez who attained one night's revenge for what seemed a lifetime of humiliation last night. But it was the man who hits in front of A-Rod, Sheffield, who ensured that such vengeance could occur. Sheffield doubled twice, homered and walked, and his last hit, a ninth-inning double off Red Sox "reliever" Curt Schilling, set the winning rally in motion. "Sheff had a great night," Joe Torre said. "He had some great at-bats." "He was on everything," Red Sox manager Terry Francona said. "I have never seen a guy swing so hard and miss so little." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Redding at ready, takes ball tonight July 15 New York Daily News: Tim Redding was driving on an interstate loop around Houston Tuesday when his cell phone rang. His two kids, Shea and Brennan, were watching a DVD in the back seat of his truck and his wife was chattering in his ear: "Is that Brian Cashman?" It was, and the strange season for the Yankee rotation was about to take another twist. Redding, acquired nearly two weeks ago in what was perceived at the time as a minor trade for jettisoned reliever Paul Quantrill, was thrust into the Yankee rotation, and Cashman, the Yankee GM, was calling to tell him to fly to Boston to join the team. Redding, a 27-year-old righthander, will start tonight against the Red Sox, filling in for the injured Chien-Ming Wang. Two weeks ago, Redding was recovering from a shoulder injury of his own in San Diego and not pitching very well. Now he's going to take the mound for the team he grew up rooting for as a boy in Rochester. "I watched most of these coaches here fighting for the pennant while I was growing up," Redding said. "I could die right now and I'd be a happy man. I hope this is the last uniform I put on." While Redding is giddy, the Yankee rotation is in turmoil, and how badly it is reeling was revealed when both Mel Stottlemyre and Joe Torre admitted they knew "very little" about Redding. Stottlemyre usually likes to watch new pitchers throw on the side at least once before they get in a game for the Yanks, but he won't have that chance with Redding. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- Click here for links to full articles then click READ MORE under Yankees news for July 15: http://www.yankeemania.com --------------------- |
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