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Yankees News for April 5
Topic Started: Apr 5 2006, 08:33 AM (11 Views)
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Good vibes end in a hurry
April 5
Newsday: One dominant win, and now one excruciating loss.
One hundred sixty games still remain, and yet the Yankees have already felt the two extremes.A day after an offensively powered opening-night win, the Yankees dropped a crusher, falling 4-3 on a one-out shot to the leftfield warning track by Marco Scutaro in the ninth.
Scott Proctor was on the mound in the ninth because the Yankees didn't capitalize on Johnny Damon's one-out double in the top half. With the score tied and rain pouring, manager Joe Torre wanted to save Jaret Wright in the event it was pushed back to today.
So Torre turned to an unlikely pitcher in Proctor, who hadn't pitched since March 28 and has been away from the team as his infant daughter had surgery for a heart defect.
Proctor, who returned in the second inning of the opener Monday, insisted he was in the right state of mind and was focused on the mound, and simply did not execute. He gave Milton Bradley a four-pitch walk leading off, and didn't get himself out of the jam.
"You've got to get it done," Proctor said. "A four-pitch walk is unacceptable."
After Jason Kendall sacrificed Bradley to second, Proctor intentionally walked Nick Swisher to set up a potential double play. But Scutaro turned on his 1-and-1 pitch and lined it over Hideki Matsui's head and onto the warning track for the game-winner.
"It was just execution with the pitches to the first hitter," Proctor said. "I get that first guy out and it's a whole new ballgame. You can't put yourself in a whole like that."
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Zito: NY Suits Me
April 5
Newsday: Barry Zito's former Athletics teammates Jason Giambi and Johnny Damon said they believe Zito, who's due to become a free agent after this season, would thrive in New York. Zito, while saying he's thinking only about the A's now, agreed.
"They know me," Zito said yesterday. "I like big situations. I like pitching in the playoffs."
Zito has enjoyed his time in Oakland, but in his seventh season, the clock appears to be ticking. "He's been in Oakland a long time," Damon said, "and he knows his days here are numbered." Zito said only that he intends to talk to A's ownership about his situation at year's end.
Zito's friends on the Yankees envision the Yankees and Mets being in the hunt for Zito, understandable in that he's a big winner who doesn't turn 28 until next month. Both teams have expressed interest in the star lefthander, who's 86-54 lifetime with a 3.55 ERA after the Yankees rocked him, 15-2, Monday night in the season opener.
Although yet another Yankee said he believes Zito favors the Yankees over the Mets, when that assessment was relayed to Zito, he didn't pick a favorite.
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Alex Set Up For Rod-iculous Year
April 5
New York Post: OAKLAND The back of the shirt laid out the numbers of utmost importance to Alex Rodriguez in the calendar year 2006:
"Two-hundred fifty-seven days."
"Thirty-seven weeks."
"Nine months."
The front of the shirt did the same thing, only less cryptically: "Mission Twenty-Seven."
The T-shirts were distributed to all the Yankees, and several were wearing them under their gray road uniforms during Monday night's bravura of an opening - a 15-2 pasting of the Oakland Athletics that couldn't have been more one-sided if you'd had the young Tyson in one dugout and Mitch "Blood" Green in the other.
But as with everything else about this team, the words and their meanings apply more directly to Rodriguez, affect him more completely, engage him more assiduously. There are fewer and fewer people in the Yankees clubhouse who had anything to do with the first 26 mission that ended properly, after all; none of those dossier omissions are more prominent than No. 13's.
"We're one focused team right now," Rodriguez said. "You could see that we were really chomping at the bit, eager to come out and see if we could put everything together. When we play the way we played tonight, it's really exciting to think what we could do."
Someone said, "Though you probably won't score 15 runs every night."
To which Rodriguez smiled, and without missing even half a beat, replied: "Why not?"
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Pataki and Bloomberg Back Train Station at Stadium
April 5
New York Times: But yesterday, after decades of pleading from fans in the suburbs and community activists in the Bronx, Gov. George E. Pataki and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg called on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to devise a plan for a new Metro-North Railroad station adjacent to the proposed site of a new stadium.
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No Word On Pavano Return
April 5
New York Post: As of 9 o'clock (EDT) last night, the Yankees hadn't heard from Dr. Robert Watkins. That meant they didn't know when Carl Pavano would be able to work out again.
Pavano's MRI results were sent Monday to the back specialist in order to make sure the spill he took on March 28 didn't jar his recent back problem or cause damage to his butt, which he fell on when he stumbled fielding a grounder.
GM Brian Cashman spoke with Pavano yesterday afternoon and said the injured right-hander was eager to start throwing again. However, Cashman won't give Pavano the green light to throw on flat ground until he hears from Watkins. "He feels considerably better; that's good," said Cashman, who expects to hear from Watkins today. "He feels 70 percent better. Once he feels better he can get going."
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