Tickets and a good cause

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Just got this email. Sounds like a good opportunity to get some tickets and support a good cause.

UMPS CARE Charities is the official charity of Major League Baseball (MLB) Umpires. Through their BLUE Crew Tickets program, umpires treat children awaiting adoption to special experiences at ballparks across the country. Each experience includes game tickets, a goody bag of treats, and the opportunity to step onto the field for a souvenir baseball and photo.

To cover youth program expenses, UMPS CARE Charities will post Yankees tickets at face value to select games. Here are links to UMPS CARE Charities to learn more:

Web: www.UmpsCare.com

Purchase Yankees tickets: http://www.UmpsCare.com/Buy-Now_80e7362342e8.html

About BLUE Crew Tickets: http://www.umpscare.com/BLUE-Crew-Tickets_8c3929597cf7f8.html

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Jeter and Teixeira get the gold

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Small note from the Yankees.

Derek Jeter and Mark Teixeira will receive their Gold Gloves during a pregame ceremony that begins tonight at 6:50. Jeter has won the award four times (2004-06, ’09) and Teixeira three times (2005-06, ’09).

Tags: Derek Jeter, Mark Teixeira

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Vazquez out of Boston series, lineups

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Brian Heyman here again at Yankee Stadium today. Joe Girardi just announced at his pregame press conference that Javier Vazquez will not take his regular turn Friday night at Fenway. Instead he will take two bullpen sessions, tomorrow and Friday, and then start Monday’s series opener in Detroit. Phil Hughes will pitch on normal rest Friday night because of Thursday’s off day.

This all seemed logical at this point. Vazquez is 1-3 with a 9.78 ERA in five starts. Girardi indicated he probably would have done this even if the Red Sox were not the opponent and Boston were not the setting, because of the off day and because it was time to do something different. “I think he could use a little time to catch his breath,” Girardi said.

So what do you guys think?

OK, as for the Yankees’ lineup, Alex Rodriguez is back in it. He sat out yesterday and said he might have had a little cramping problem in his right leg, reportedly behind the knee, although he wouldn’t be specific. He came out for a pinch runner in the ninth inning on Saturday against the White Sox.

1. Derek Jeter SS

2. Nick Johnson DH

3. Mark Teixeira 1B

4. Alex Rodriguez 3B

5. Robinson Cano 2B

6. Jorge Posada C

7. Nick Swisher RF

8. Brett Gardner CF

9. Randy Winn LF

CC Sabathia P

Orioles

1. Adam Jones CF

2. Nick Markakis RF

3. Ty Wigginton 2B

4. Miguel Tejada 3B

5. Matt Wieters C

6. Garrett Atkins 1B

7. Nolan Reimold DH

8. Lou Montanez LF

9. Cesar Izturis SS

Jeremy Guthrie P

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Yankees vs. Orioles, Rivera, Posada injury updates

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Update, 8:00: Well, so far Jeremy Guthrie hasn’t hit anybody. The Yankees are struggling to hit him, just a single by Nick Swisher in the second. Matt Wieters solo shot off CC Sabathia is holding up through three.

Update, 8:19: Finally a couple of well-struck hits off Guthrie in the fourth. Alex Rodriguez lined that hard single to left, and Nick Swisher hit that two-out rocket off the right-field wall to make it 1-1.

Update, 8:21: Make that one more well-struck hit, Randy Winn’s three-run shot to the Yankees’ pen, his first in pinstripes. That makes it 4-1 and snaps a 491 at-bat streak with no homers for him. His last one came April 25, 2009, for the Giants at Arizona.

Update, 8:38: Perhaps Jorge Posada is having more trouble with the knee Guthrie hit last Wednesday. Francisco Cervelli is coming in to catch here for the top of the sixth. I’m sure we’ll get a report in a little while.

Update, 9:00: OK, it’s not Posada’s knee. He left with tightness in his right calf. He’s headed for New York Presbyterian for an MRI.

Update: 9:09: Sabathia was not happy with plate ump Bill Hohn in the seventh during Lou Montanez’s at-bat before issuing a walk. But he pitched out of it. He has allowed one run and six hits through 6 1/2, really much sharper than he was the last two times out.

Update, 9:26: Sabathia is done, one run and six hits over eight. Joba Chamberlain will try to close it out.

Update, 9:39: Chamberlain gets the save. Yankees win 4-1.

Update, 10:16: The reason Joba closed was because Rivera was unavailable. It was revealed that he had tightness in his left side since Saturday. He played catch today, felt good but didn’t want to push it. He will try to throw tomorrow to see if he can go. He said he wasn’t worried, that if this were October, he would’ve been out there.

Update, 12:07: The MRI results are back on Posada. He has a mild strain of the right calf and is day to day.

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Post-game show

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There were many good signs for the Yankees in their 12-3 win over the White Sox on Sunday.

Mark Teixeira had his career-high-tying four hits, giving him six in his first eight May at-bats after delivering 11 hits in all of April. This was his second straight poor April here. Why? “If I knew, I wouldn’t be doing it,” he said after the game. Teixeira batted .136 in April. Now he’s up to .189.

Robinson Cano has nine homers already after his three-run shot off Mark Buehrle, including a major-league-best six for lefty hitters against lefty pitchers. But he said he doesn’t want to think about hitting homers, that he’s after line drive. He leads the majors at .387. “I’m not surprised because I work very hard,” Cano said.

Brett Gardner is up to .429 (9 for 21) against lefty pitching and .342 overall. His solo shot off Buehrle was his first-ever in the majors against a lefty. ”I’ve always thought of him as as an everyday player because he hits lefties,” Joe Girardi said.

Nick Swisher, who has struggled at home, homered for the second straight game and had three hits.

Girardi thought Nick Johnson’s two-run double to left-center in the seventh was a good sign, although he preceded that by going 0 for 4. The hit brought his average to .141. 

Phil Hughes looks like an ace instead of a No. 5 starter, now 3-0 with a 1.44 ERA after seven shutout innings and only four hits allowed. The stunning stat is just 10 hits allowed in 25 innings over four starts. ”The confidence is incredible,” Teixeira said about watching him pitch. Hughes doesn’t think of himself as the fifth starter. “I’m just a starter,” he said.

Javier Vazquez is scheduled to have a bullpen session on Monday. Girardi indicated that he will see how that goes before internal discussions take place and a final call is made on whether to start him or skip him Friday at Fenway.

Mark Melancon was called up as a 13th pitcher and worked the final two innings, allowing a three-run shot to Paul Konerko in the ninth. But Melancon replaced Curtis Granderson on the roster because the bullpen was used extensively on Saturday. Girardi said another outfielder will probably be summoned shortly, perhaps as soon as Monday.  

Granderson got hurt when he was trying to go from first to third on a single by Gardner after originally having taken off on a steal attempt of second. He felt a grab, not a pop or snap. He said he was reminded of a cramping feeling. After I got home yesterday, I was like, man, it’s killing,” Granderson said. “Today I woke up expecting it to feel the same. It feels better.” But he’s still not expected back for about a month, according to Girardi. 

Francisco Cervelli made his regular-season debut as a third baseman in the eighth. “He takes ground balls almost every day when he’s not catching,” Girardi said. It’s an option when Girardi wants to rest A-Rod and Derek Jeter at the same time, with Ramiro Pena taking short.

Girardi said A-Rod had stiffness – there were reports of a muscle injury in his right leg suffered while running the bases in the ninth inning Saturday – but that he was not injured and will be back in the lineup Monday night against the Orioles after resting on Sunday.

The Yankees have won seven of their eight series so far. And that’s it for now.

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2009 World Champions

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Cano continues to knock the cover off of the ball. Bombers take the series, and shut out O’s 4-0.

Final Score: Yankees 4, Orioles 0


New York Yankees
Hitters AB R H RBI BB SO #P AVG OBP SLG
D Jeter SS 5 1 2 0 0 0 17 .311 .337 .456
N Swisher RF 5 0 0 0 0 1 19 .264 .361 .458
M Teixeira 1B 4 0 1 0 0 0 15 .139 .292 .266
A Rodriguez 3B 3 0 0 1 0 1 22 .250 .340 .438
R Cano 2B 4 3 3 2 0 0 7 .407 .444 .790
M Thames DH 3 0 3 1 1 0 17 .588 .650 .941
C Granderson CF 4 0 0 0 0 0 13 .230 .313 .392
F Cervelli C 4 0 1 0 0 0 7 .409 .480 .455
B Gardner LF 4 0 1 0 0 1 22 .306 .386 .371
Totals 36 4 11 4 1 3 139
BATTING
2B: M Teixeira (4, B Matusz); R Cano (5, B Matusz); M Thames (3, B Matusz); B Gardner (2, A Castillo)
HR: R Cano 2 (8, 4th inning off B Matusz 0 on, 1 Out; 8th inning off A Castillo 0 on, 1 Out)
RBI: A Rodriguez (13), R Cano 2 (17), M Thames (2)
SF: A Rodriguez
Yankees RISP: 1-8 (D Jeter 0-1, C Granderson 0-1, F Cervelli 0-1, M Thames 1-1, B Gardner 0-2, N Swisher 0-1, R Cano 0-1)
Team LOB: 7

New York Yankees
Pitchers IP H R ER BB SO HR PC-ST ERA
A Burnett
(W, 3-0) 8.0 3 0 0 1 4 0 116-77 2.43
M Rivera 1.0 0 0 0 1 1 0 13-8 0.00
Totals 9.0 3 0 0 2 5 0 129-85
PITCHING
WP: A Burnett
First-pitch strikes/Batters faced: A Burnett 20/28; M Rivera 4/4
Called strikes-Swinging strikes-Foul balls-In Play strikes: A Burnett 22-8-24-23; M Rivera 3-1-2-2
Ground Balls-Fly Balls: A Burnett 11-9; M Rivera 0-2
Game Scores: A Burnett 79

Yankees 12, White Sox 3 - good teams win series

This was a bad day to be White Sox fan.

Phil Hughes pitched extremely well, and he addressed some of the issues that have been concerning fans. He did allow a couple of hits - actually, nearly doubling his season total (and raising his BABIP at least a bit) - and surrendered only one walk. The only thing that probably kept him from going out to pitch the 8th inning was the fact that the Yankees tacked on an additional 5 runs in their half of the seventh to increase the lead to 12-0.

Tex had four hits and showed big signs of breaking out his slump, Cano and Gardner both continued their hot streaks, and Francisco Cervelli played third base for two innings to round things out .

Play of the game: Robinson Cano's 5th inning, 3-run homer

Quote of the game: long time listener talks about Nick Johnson:
Well, he’s not hitting, he screwed that up, and he plays Miley Cyrus as his AB music. If he was trying to be hated, it’s hard to see how he’d go about it any different