The cliches flowed like champaign on new years:
A.J. on his performance: "I tried to set the tone, stop the bleeding and get us on track."
And on his bases-loaded escape: "I was fired up to get out of the jam."
And Girardi has this gem: "You don’t want to be 0-3." We never said we did, Joe.
Burnett's line was troublingly similar to that of Sabathia's and Wang's: Less than six innings pitched and 7 hits. The difference: Burnett was able to strike hitters out. Had he not been able to, then he would have been out of the game before the 5th inning. But he DID manage to strike some people out, and that was the difference in the ballgame.
Well, not the only difference. The Yankee lineup destroyed the O's pitching in this series. Only Koji Uehara , who nobody had ever seen before, could stop them, and I'll bet that won't happen again. And think of this: the Yanks scored 11 runs today with no hits from Jeter or Damon (our 1,2 guys). That's a badass lineup.
On to K.C. And let's give that Swisher guy some more at bats!
A.J. on his performance: "I tried to set the tone, stop the bleeding and get us on track."
And on his bases-loaded escape: "I was fired up to get out of the jam."
And Girardi has this gem: "You don’t want to be 0-3." We never said we did, Joe.
Burnett's line was troublingly similar to that of Sabathia's and Wang's: Less than six innings pitched and 7 hits. The difference: Burnett was able to strike hitters out. Had he not been able to, then he would have been out of the game before the 5th inning. But he DID manage to strike some people out, and that was the difference in the ballgame.
Well, not the only difference. The Yankee lineup destroyed the O's pitching in this series. Only Koji Uehara , who nobody had ever seen before, could stop them, and I'll bet that won't happen again. And think of this: the Yanks scored 11 runs today with no hits from Jeter or Damon (our 1,2 guys). That's a badass lineup.
On to K.C. And let's give that Swisher guy some more at bats!
Edit, August 15th The Yankees faced Uehara again and they still could not hit him well. Now he is on the DL. And "that Swisher guy" was just getting started.
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