Yanks Start Tough Stretch Against Hot Sox Staff

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A-Rod could land on DL
Published 4/22/2008 by Dave & Aziz Nekoukar at NJ.com: Pride of the Yankees
... he wouldn't rule out the DL just yet. Chien-Ming Wang (3-0, 3.81) goes tonight for the Bombers. Tim Marchman calls the White Sox staff "a brick wall of strong pitching." There's never a good time to be without the best hitter on the planet, but losing him as they're going in to face the White Sox is certainly bad timing. Apart from Mark Buehrle , whom the Yanks will miss this series, and whom Marchman says has been "throwing beach balls", the starting staff of the White Sox has a 3.00 ERA, and has allowed just 66 runs this season (11 less than any other AL team, according ...

Do The Right Thing
Published 4/22/2008 by mr. met at the metropolitans
... But in the interest of spreading things around a little, let's give some credit to the Mets' David Wright, who hit .522 in his team's six games, with a sick .633 on-base percentage and nine RBIs along the way. Wright was so good for the Mets -- who, by the way, went 5-1 -- that he overshadowed the re-emergence of shortstop Jose Reyes (.429, two homers, two RBIs, two stolen bases). Reyes scored seven runs in the six games, two more than he had in his first nine. Tim Marchman talks Yankee baseball.