Yankees-Blue Jays: The live blog
yankees.lhblogs.com 3/4/2008 — Welcome to wind-swept Knology Park, just down the road from the gun shop and across the street from the VFW. It’ll be Phil Franchise against Jesse Litsch. FIRST INNING The wind is blowing straight in here. You’d need a bazooka to get ...

Inexplicably, the game has started again
yankees.lhblogs.com 3/4/2008 — It’s raining at Knology Park. Not drizzling, raining. Yet they have started the game up again. Every starter for the Yankees is out except Shelley Duncan and Bernie Castro. Phil Hughes threw 30 pitches under cover to complete his day.  ...

Yankees hold the bottom line on Joba
yankees.lhblogs.com 3/5/2008 — The Yankees have come to contract agreements with all the players on their 40-man roster. Phil Hughes agreed to $406,350, Melky Cabrera to $461,200, etc. For players under three years of service time, there is no wiggle room. Their agents can ...

Short Day for Hughes, Satisfying Day for the Kei-Man - Bats - Baseball - New York Times Blog
bats.blogs.nytimes.com 3/4/2008 — The Yankees brought a lineup packed with stars to Dunedin Tuesday – Damon, Jeter, Abreu, A-Rod, Giambi and Posada all made the short trip from Tampa. Unfortunately for the fans here, including Spike Lee, all those players were gone by the time play ...

The Official Site of The New York Yankees: News: Igawa not lost in Yanks' perfect game
newyork.yankees.mlb.com 3/4/2008 — DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Any time Yogi Berra enters a ballpark, you figure there's a good chance of seeing some history. Sometimes, as David Cone learned in 1999, that includes a perfect game. And sometimes, as the Yankees now know, there can be an imperfect ...

Yanks hold Jays hitless in short win — Major League Baseball News 3/4/2008
The Yankees waited out a 61-minute rain delay in the second inning on Tuesday, only to see their 2-0 win over the Blue Jays get called in the sixth inning due to more rain. Four Yankees pitchers, including Phil Hughes, held the Jays without a hit in ...

Igawa not lost in Yanks' pitching gem — Major League Baseball News 3/4/2008
It may have been only a spring game and it may have been cut short in the sixth inning, but the Yankees' "perfect game" on Tuesday afternoon caught manager Joe Girardi's eye. Most encouraging was the work of Kei Igawa, who shook off a rocky spring debut.

Igawa, 3 others combine on five-inning perfect game as Yankees beat Blue Jays 2-0 — Latest Sporting News Articles for MLB 3/4/2008
DUNEDIN, Fla. (AP) -- Post another perfect game for the New York Yankees.The franchise that has ...

Hughes ahead of Yanks' spring curve — Major League Baseball News 3/4/2008
The clock hadn't even started for most pitchers, but Phil Hughes was already punching in regularly by January, throwing bullpens at the Yankees' Spring Training complex in Tampa, Fla., and getting a jump on the year to come. The extra effort seems to ...

Yanks combine for 5-inning perfect game (AP) — Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 3/5/2008
Post another perfect game for the New York Yankees. The franchise that has thrown them the most often recorded another one Tuesday, albeit a rain-shortened, five-inning gem. Phil Hughes and three relievers combined to stop the Toronto Blue Jays 2-0. ...