08-31-2007, 01:01 AM
That's how a series gets won. The Sox are the best in baseball, and the Yanks shut them down. They won off Dice K , Beckett, and Shilling, and get Okajima to give up his highest amount of earned runs, matching his previous total for the month of August. I wish I could have seen the game today. I kept checking the 30 second refreshing box score, once I saw Cano had hit a 0-0 pitch off of Shilling the first time up, I knew he would probably hit another if Shilling stayed in. Joba gets thrown out after throwing another no-run inning, basically having Okajima's mid-June to mid-July stretch of pitching. If the Yanks don't keep this going, they will again implode in a game this week and give up double digit runs, which is how they have gone since the All-Star break. Fortunately, Mussina is not pitching, because he has no strike zone right now. When he won that stretch of games, he was arguing pitches every inning, he knew his stuff was not there, and he has even admitted he has no confidence in anything he throws. Better to try Kennedy now against Tampa than have Mussina give away a game in the first. He needs to work on something with Clemens or Pettite, or else he needs to admit he is hurt, and stop working through his injury. Wang is great though, a very refreshing pitcher.