Yanks Embarrassed By Pirates in 12-5 Loss

Joba Chamberlain: Flame-Thrower

sooze posted 6/26/2008 from www.babeslovebaseball.com

Congratulations to Joba Chamberlain for finally getting his first big league win as a starter, a 10-0 rout of the Pittsburgh Pirates. And it only took five tries.

Pirates Notebook: Reliever acquired; Barthmaier coming up

BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog found this 6/26/2008 on www.post-gazette.com

INDIANAPOLIS (39-41) beat Buffalo, 5-0. RHP Bryan Bullington (4-6, 5.22) pitched 6 1/3 scoreless innings and allowed one hit. He struck out three, walked three and threw 47 of 82 pitches for strikes. RHP Jesse Chavez (3.80) and RHP Marino Salas ...

Girardi To Yanks: "We Stunk"

Greg C. posted 6/26/2008 from slidingintohome.blogspot.com

From George A. King III : After watching the Yankees waste multiple scoring chances, the Pirates spank his pitchers and the fielders not make plays, manager Joe Girardi told his players what he thought of last night's debacle. Following a 12-5 drubbing that was witnessed by 38,867 at PNC Park, Girardi stopped in the clubhouse and delivered the same message he would give to the media shortly ...

Blue Jays Fans Are Creative, Classy

Drunk Jays Fans found this 6/26/2008 on psamp.blogspot.com

Baseball fans are unique. And original. Let's get specific, and single out some of our Canadian fan-brothers (if that's even a word). The last interleague series we played prior to the current Yankees series involved another AL East team, the Toronto ...

When worlds collide

Walkoff Walk found this 6/26/2008 on yankees.lhblogs.com

Now this is wildly amusing. The Yankees stayed the Westin in Pittsburgh, which is attached to a convention center. The Yankees checked out today and guess who was checking in? That would be the the furry convention. These are folks who dress up ...