Clock keeps ticking on Yankees

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Baseball players are conditioned to have short memories. When there are 162 games to play, you can’t get too carried away over one loss. But once September rolls around, every loss becomes magnified. The Yankees fell only a half-game further behind tonight but it felt like more. “How many games do we have left?” Alex Rodriguez asked reporters near the end of his interview. Told ... [link]

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Kazmir Dominates, Yanks Fail to Sweep
Published 9/5/2008 by Greg Cohen (noreply@blogger.com) at Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog
... Kazmir walked five, but don't let that fool you, he had great stuff tonight. He overpowered the Yanks in six strong innings of work, holding the Yankees to no runs on just one hit, while striking out seven. Combine that great start with Darrell Rasner's putrid start and this game was pretty much over after two innings. Rasner couldn't get out of the 2nd, lasting just an inning and a third, allowing five runs on six hits and two walks. “I’m ashamed of what I did tonight,” Rasner said. “It’s embarrassing.” Yes Darrell, it is. ...

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