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All season long we've heard about and talked about how Jason Giambi has not been clutch, killing the team in important situations, hitting .205 with runners in scoring position.


Today, by himself, he may saved the Yankees' season.

Starting the game on the bench, Giambi......

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It's not that the Yankees didn't have chances.

In nearly every inning, it seemed, the Yankees had a chance to tie the Red Sox--or at least to chip away at the lead--and every inning, when it mattered most, they came up empty.

The boos came down heaviest on Alex Rodriguez, an......

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While you were busy lamenting the death of the Yankees season, they went and swept the Orioles.

In Baltimore.

With Mike Mussina, Carl Pavano and Darrell Rasner as the starting pitchers.

Okay, so outside of Mussina's start, there wasn't much 'pitching' going on in ......

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There was an early barometer for the Yankees in tonight's game.

In the top of the first inning they had the bases loaded with no one out--and too often, this season, the Yankees have found themselves in this situation and not been able to score.

Today, however, (thank g-d), ......

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When things go wrong for the Yankees, it seems like everything collapses at once.

Darrell Rasner shouldn't be blamed for today's loss...until the seventh inning of the game he had actually out-pitched AJ Burnett.

As this season has gone, however, perhaps it's no surprise tha......

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One poster on the LoHud Yankees' Blog has the perfect summation of today's game:

When you read the Yankees' obituary in the papers, it will read--

RIP due to inability to score with RISP


I would like to add that the s......

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So first off, I apologize for being so sporadic recently. I've been dealing with some personal issues which will hopefully sort themselves out, but it looks like I haven't been missing much.

This was, after all, a make-or-break road trip for the Yankees, and, well, when you only win t......

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The next time the Yankees get a hit with a runner on third base, I'm opening a bottle of champagne.

Their season is in free fall. They had a chance to win every game this weekend and didn't win any.

Tonight, they're playing flat, as if they really don't care.

Yo......

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The Yankees, it seem, have a physical inability to win baseball games in Anaheim.

This would be not a big deal if the Yankees were not in the middle of a pennant race--one in which they are outsiders looking in.

By all accounts, the Yankees have a beat up pitching staff, and......

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If a Little League coach ever wants to instill in his young pitchers how to work out of trouble, he might consider showing them a tape of Mike Mussina's performance tonight.

Mussina was not dominant--eight hits, one walk and six strikeouts over seven innings--but he made the pitches (a......

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...but maybe the Yankees could institute a fine every time a batter grounds into a double play?

They could donate the funds to Yankees Universe or some other charity.

What was that, four DPs hit into by the Yankees today? It's a little hard to win games when you do that.
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There aren't too many nice things liberal New Yorkers like to say about Texas.

After tonight, there are probably even fewer nice things New York Yankees fans will say about Texas.

Last year, Phil Hughes lost most of the season after pulling a hamstring while pitching a no hi......

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Down 5-0 in the fourth inning, Yankees fans were just praying the deficit wouldn't get any larger.

Maybe, just maybe the Yankees would be able to chip away and make the game close, and maybe, just maybe, there would be that little glimmer of hope that the Yankees could end the series ......

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There are few certainties in life.

Death, taxes. and that Old Timer's Day will always leave a chill in your Yankee fan blood.

At about noon this morning, it was pouring Noah's Flood, and it looked like the Yankees would be lucky to get the ceremonies in, but, almost as if by......

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If the offense doesn't care, why should I?


Sidney Ponson pitched the best I have ever seen him pitch. Can't have asked him for more than that.

The Yankees have to stop using Mariano Rivera in tie games.

It's now up to Darrell Rasner and Mike Mussina to avoi......

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