Yankees are hardly A-OK

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 Yankees are hardly A-OK
A-Rod's return did little to spark the lifeless last-place Yankees. A costly error by Derek Jeter - who later left after being hit on the hand - was just the beginning of an embarrassing 12-2 blowout by the Orioles. [link]

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Total Disaster
Published 5/21/2008 by Fenway West (noreply@blogger.com) at Fenway West
The New York Daily News has summed up the current state of the Yankees as "total disaster." The Yankees were crushed by the O's tonight by a score of 12-2. 5 of the runs would not have scored if Jeter hadn't made a costly error. ...

Baseball Today: Wednesday, May 21
Published 5/21/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... ROCK BOTTOM: That's where Joe Girardi hopes the Yankees are -- with nowhere to go but up -- after last night's 12-2 pounding by the Orioles, a loss that rendered even Hank Steinbrenner speechless. (New York Daily News) The game marked the return of Alex Rodriguez but, as the Daily News' Filip Bondy points out, ...

Taking stock of where things stand
Published 5/21/2008 by D&A at NJ.com: Pride of the Yankees
... thrown off, threw high to Giambi at first, and that opened the floodgates. To his credit, Moose stood up and took the blame . But there was more than enough to go around. The Yanks will turn to 2008 stopper Darrell Rasner (2-0, 3.00) to help bail them out of this free fall. Rasner will face one of the pleasant surprises for the O's this season, Garrett Olson (3-0, 3.47). The club is hoping Rasner can give the pen a bit of a rest. In other news... Today, Mark Feinsand offers his take on the last-place Yankees. Filip Bondy adds that the ...

Schadenfreude 48 (A Continuing Series)
Published 5/21/2008 by redsock (noreply@blogger.com) at The Joy of Sox
... into the world's largest commode last night. With everyone expecting the Dead Bat Society to get a jolt from Alex Rodriguez's return, the Yankees released an odor so toxic across The Bronx that Hazmat suits and nose plugs should have been given to those who walked into Yankee Stadium. ... In their last 11 games the Yankees have scored 30 runs, are batting .232 (84-for-362) and .147 (10-for-68) with runners in scoring position.Mark Feinsand, Daily News: Even Hank Steinbrenner was at a loss for words after the Yankees' latest ...

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