Game 134: Red Sox at Yankees

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Red Sox vs Yankees- Bloody Sock vs Vera Wang
Published 8/30/2007 by Ian at SOX & Dawgs
... Yankees lineup courtesy of Peter Abraham from the LoHud Yankees Blog. ...

Bronx Banter: Oh, Hey, and Another Thing, Meat. You Don't Know S***, All Right?
Published 9/1/2007 at Bronx Banter
... today at the age of 22. Mike Mussina was drafted #20 overall in 1990 out of Stanford and made hid major league debut on August 4 of 1991 at the age of 22. Moose held the White Sox to one run on a Frank Thomas solo home run in 7 1/3 innings, scattering three other hits and four walks and striking out one. He then got beat up by the White Sox five days later. He alternated good and bad starts for four more turns, then aced the stretch posting a 1.66 ERA over his last six starts (including a win against the Yankees). The next year, Mussina made the All-Star team, won 18 games, finished third in the league in ERA and fourth in the Cy Young voting. The rest is history. We can't reasonably expect Kennedy to be that good that quickly (besides which, he won't have that month to adjust that Mussina had in August 1991), but if the comparisons to Mussina work, this was in many ways the right decision. As for Old Moose (Big Moose? Mussina is a few inches taller), Peter Abraham has some ...