Game 36, Gainst the Blue Jays

Sabathia tries to out due his complete game. Pitches against Tallet for the 1st place Blue Jays.

The Yankees get 1 in the first after a Damon double and a walk to Teixeira, Matsui, and Swisher. So the RBI goes to Swisher. The Blue Jays get 1 in the forth and fifth to make it 1-2.

Gardner walks and scores after a Cervelli single and a Jeter single. Matsui gets the final run in the eighth with a home run. 3-2 final score.

Jeter 1-5, Damon 1-5, Teixeira 1-4, Alex Rodriquez 0-5, Matsui 1-3, Swisher 0-2, Cano 1-4, Gardner 0-2 and Ninth on the line up, Francisco Cervelli 2-4. The best of the game is ninth in the line up. I am amazed the Yankees won today. 1 had a good game. Close one I guess.

Sabathia went 8 innings, gave up 5 hits, 2 runs, and 4 walks with 5 strike outs. He had a very strong outing and it was just strong enough. Rivera gets save number 7 for the season. Sweet.

The Loss in the Tags is for my count. Today was a win.

Game 20, at Detroit

All right, coming off a bad weekend the week doesn't look much better. With a loss today the Yankees fall back under .500, sweet. They are looking good. 9-10 after their pathetic display today. Not scoring until the ninth with 10 strike outs and many players going 1-4. Sweet, despite the teams drought, Cano went 2-4 with a double today and scored one of the 2 runs. Good for him, he was my favorite player even during his under preformance last year and it's paying off now.

Sabathia had 7 strike outs with only 4 earned runs off of 6 hits and 0 walks. Great pitching, this is one of the games where it wasn't pitching that lost the game. The line up didn't wake up until the top of the ninth and by that time it was too late. Lets hope to win both the next 2 in Detroit and get back over .500. I am getting sick of all these Red Sox fans here. They finally have something to be happy about this season.

Game 13 at home, Burnett

Today the Yankees play the Indians again. Burnett is pitching so the Indians should be held a little stronger than yesterday.

Wangs short outings are making it real tough on all the Yankees to win games. From the bullpen being called in to finish a game 1.1 innings into it, to the lineup who have to make up for a 14 run inning, which can rarely be done.

Todays game is at 1:05 at New Yankee Stadium.

Game 6 at Kansas City

Chamberlain's first start. He squares off against Meche for the Royals. When I went to a game at spring training, he started and he looked really good so we will have to see if he can hold them off. With the Yankees haveing not scored fewer than 4 runs a game, he should have no trouble if he can hold them below 3.

Games at 2:10

Game 4 at Kansas City

The Yankees play the Royals today in Kansas City. Pettitte is the starting pitcher for the Yankees, going to try to make his first start a W. He will be pitching against Ponson for the Royals. As far as i know the Yankees line up will be the same as it has been, Jeter, Damon, Teixeira, DH (Nady or Matsui), Cano, Swisher, Ransom, Gardner, and Molina.

The Yankees go to Kansas City fresh off their 11-2 victory over the Orioles. If Pettitte can keep the Royals under 3 runs for his start, I think the lineup will get him a win, having not scored less than 5 runs a game so far.

I'll be back when it starts to give feedback on what happens.

3 Days Before Opening Day: Exhibition game against the Cubs

The first game in New Yankee Stadium. The day has arrived. Many of us have been waiting for this day since they announced the decision to build a new one and broke ground in 2007. This is a very historic day, the beginning of a New Era, right across the street from The House that Ruth built. No more visions of the legends who played on the 76 year old field, the men who built the stadium to having the reputation is has today. That era, unfortunately, has passed, and is now across the street from the new Yankees home.

The legend lives on, however, through the stars of today, Jeter, the superstar captain, Rivera, the Closer that ended 4 world series with wins for the Yankees, Cano, the young rising star, Sabathia, Burnett, Wang, Pettitte, and Chamberlian, the starters who all the fans place their faith in to end games before they start with wins for the Yankees. Today is the beginning of the first year in New Yankee Stadium, much presure on all the starters and the bullpen pushing for the first win in the new stadium.

The Yankees have released the projected starting lineup, starting pitchers rotation, and bullpen;

Projected starting lineup

1. SS Derek Jeter

2. LF Johnny Damon

3. 1B Mark Teixeira

4. DH Hideki Matsui

5. C Jorge Posada

6. RF Xavier Nady

7. 2B Robinson Cano

8. 3B Cody Ransom

9. CF Brett Gardner

Projected rotation

1. LHP CC Sabathia

2. RHP Chien-Ming Wang

3. RHP A.J. Burnett

4. LHP Andy Pettitte

5. RHP Joba Chamberlain

Projected bullpen

Closer: RHP Mariano Rivera

Setup: RHP Brian Bruney

Setup: LHP Damaso Marte

Middle: RHP Jonathan Albaladejo

Middle: LHP Phil Coke

Middle: RHP Jose Veras

Bryan Hoch of MLB.com reports that even with all the success in spring training, there are still hurtles for the Yankees before things really get started;

"Girardi harbored major concerns coming into the spring, and with good reason. Catcher Jorge Posada is coming off a serious right shoulder surgery, closer Mariano Rivera had a procedure on his pitching arm, Wang missed half of last season with a right foot injury and Hideki Matsui needed surgery on his left knee. All four made it through the spring healthy, but with A-Rod already missing about six weeks, another injury to a major veteran could be a crippling blow."

4 Days Before Opening Day

Derek Jeter moves up in the batting order. Instead of batting second he has moved to first in front of Damon as lead off hitter for the start of the 2009 season. I am assuming that the batting order will follow the last couple of games in spring training so it will go;

Jeter
Damon
Teixeira
Matsui
Posada
Cano
Swisher
Ransom
Gardner

This will be it, at least until Rodriguez gets back into the order. When Rodriguez does get back he will most likely fall back into his 4th spot.

On 1st and 10 this morning they talked about this, saying Jeter is getting too old to be in the number 3 or 4 spot because he isn't a power hitter anymore, and his on base percetage has gone down year after year.

Also, they brought up the simulated results of next year, being, Red Soxs winning with the Rays 2 games back and the Yankees 2 games further back. I do not think this is right, the Rays had their fun, everyone will be gunning for them, I don't think the Rays will be as good as they were last year. They don't have the advantage of surprise anymore, their guys have been there, no more excitement anymore.