Godzilla Returns
Just in time for the stretch run, the Yankees get a boost tonight with Matsui back in the lineup. While he won't be able to play the field, his return should be a boost for the offense. Girardi just said on the pregame that the plan is to play Damon in center with Nady in left and Matsui at DH. That also means Giambi is back at first.
This should be interesting to watch. I am somewhat surprised that Christian got sent down because it means Gardner is now on the bench, but I guess he would not have started in AAA with Melky there. I just wonder if Damon will hold up in center every day and Giambi will hold up at first. I imagine Girardi will do a lot of shuffling of the lineup with Abreu sitting against lefties and maybe we will see some Damon at first?
I do wish the Yankees would get back to 11 pitchers, but they seem to feel the need for 12 right now. It was nice seeing Billy Traber pitch 2 innings the other day, but do we really need him?
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Peter, you really need to hang out your shingle as a psychic doing card or palm readings or something similar.
OK, so you guess that Pavano won't make it due to a paper cut. It's a stiff neck.
Then you wonder how Damon will "hold up" in the OF. Well, it turns out he'll hold up his glove while the ball bounces off the top of it.
Rasner threw a nice game though. Of course, he doesn't get the win ...
Going to need to replace the binoculars with a telescope pretty soon to see how far we're out of the running - any day now.
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August 19, 2008 09:49 PM
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Easily the worst loss of the year.
Posted by: ian | August 20, 2008 01:41 PM |
Mitchell, I guess on the plus side maybe I can guess the lotto numbers
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August 20, 2008 02:41 PM
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