A-Rod strikes out 4 times as Yankees 5-2 lose to Royals and Brian Bannister

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Baseball Today: Wednesday, April 9
Published 4/9/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... and Brett Butler -- who survived cancer surgery of their own in the 1990s and are still in the game. PICK YOUR POISON: The glass-is-half-empty crowd's cup runneth over with the Yankees. The list of downers starts with Derek Jeter's strained left quadricep muscle (New York Daily News), and just grows from there: Jorge Posada's dead arm (New York Post), a miserable start by Phil Hughes in a loss to Kansas City (New York Daily News), Ale x Rodriguez' four strikeouts in said loss (New York Daily News) and the fact they've just ...

Who said this would be easy?
Published 4/9/2008 by Dave & Aziz Nekoukar at NJ.com: Pride of the Yankees
That was pretty ugly yesterday , but don't forget the Yanks were probably a little tired with their first trip of the season, and one that had them traveling overnight, no less. (And how 'bout dem Royals, huh?) But you know what really gets us about the team so far? There's been an error in every game except the first one. Anyway, since this season didn't start with the Yanks at 7-0, which still would have left the Yanks with a bunch of naysayers, we looked back at last April's archives, when the Yanks got off to a similarly difficult start. Panic was the word of the day ...