Yankees vs. Mets - Recap - June 27, 2008

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Ponson Shines as Yanks Take Game 2
Published 6/28/2008 by Mike at Green Pinstripes
... Sidney Ponson twirled six innings of shutout ball, Robinson Cano went deep and drove in three and Bobby Abreu collected four hits and three RBIs as the Yanks pummeled the Mets 9-0 at Shea for a split of the two stadium doubleheader.  How dominating was the nightcap for the Bombers?  Kei Igawa came in for the ninth and actually put up a zero!  It's now obvious that Igawa's role has been defined. ...

Rather Anticlimactic
Published 6/28/2008 by Greg at Faith and Fear in Flushing
... that all Subway Series day-night doubleheaders eventually run off the tracks. Sure enough, those who should have been wallowing in deserved misery were granted obnoxious salvation for Friday. We who should have been basking in ...

Chatter Up!
Published 6/30/2008 by Jay (noreply@blogger.com) at The Futility Infielder
... Extended weekend for me, with a pair of notable arrivals -- an out-of-town friend of nearly 20 years and the first-born son of my frequent FI foil, Nick -- which occupied my time, so I didn't get to see much baseball. A few glimpses of a portly, pinstriped Sidney Ponson here, a gander at one of the ...

The Moment's Over
Published 6/30/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Mets2Moon) at The Ballclub
... The Mets then proceeded to go out and do the absolute opposite of what they did in the afternoon. Where, in the day game, they got the clutch hit and hit the big home run, at night, they did a pretty good job of making Sidney Ponson look like an Ace, and not a washed-up drunkard. Here, it was Pedro, continuing to show that time may well be catching up with him, coming out and having another Oliver Perez outing, throwing shutout ball into the 4th before allowing the Yankees to dink and dunk him to death. I only paid halfhearted attention to the game, and at some point, I heard a ...