Apr

13

Not Hughes’ Best Night

Posted by M. Patel under News, Players 

Phil Hughes started against the Red Sox tonight, in the last game of the series. He struggled early on and ended up staying in for only 2 innings. His ERA is now 9.00 on the season after allowing seven runs last night. He did strike out three, so he wasn’t bad on all of his pitches. It was a really crazy game for both sides. Dice K stumbled as well, allowing four runs and walking six in 5 innings. He has huge control issues yesterday. The only people that had good days were some of the relievers (on both sides.)

Ross Ohlendorf came in after Hughes and pitched 3 innings, followed by LaTroy Hawkins who pitched 2 and Farnsworth who closed. They only allowed one run and five hits total. The big story of the night for the Yanks was that Jose Molina got injured. Jorge Posada had to come in despite being told he couldn’t play. The injury bug really seems to have hit early this year for the Bombers.

With this game the Yankees drop to 6-7, but it isn’t too bad even though it may seem like it. We are still within 1.5 games of the division leader (currently the Orioles!) and it is still April. Also, the Yankees have seen similar starts in the past few years and we’ve still made it to the postseason every year. Tomorrow is the beginning of a new series, against the Rays. Game-time is 7:10 EST and it will be aired on YES. Ian Kennedy is starting for the Yanks and Andy Sonnanstine for the Rays.

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