Yanks Lose

As bad as we've seen AJ be in the past he was a little worse tonight. He gave up 3 homers and 5 runs after he had gotten the first two batters out in the first. Now that's inexcusable, but a phenomenon that seems to accompany AJ's struggles are his teammates' losses of plate discipline when trying to get it all back with one swing. It's the strangest thing. When your starter digs a hole, the hitters have to go to work, and you do that by grinding out at bats, not hitting a bunch of pop-ups because you're swinging too hard. This approach or lack of one by our hitters allowed Rodrigo Lopez to go 8 solid innings against them tonight. Rodrigo Lopez! We own him. It was ridiculous and it has to stop.

Chad Gaudin came in after AJ gave up 7 and stopped the bleeding for two innings, and it even looked like the Yanks would catch up, but Arizona made some amazing catches and it was not to be.

Chan Ho Park was once again good for one inning before giving up a three run jack in his second inning of work.

This was an all around bad game, and the team needs to talk about how they are going to approach things when the other team gets a sudden lead. They can't stop grinding. It won't work.

And AJ, who at the beginning of the season looked like he had learned to limit the damage earlier in the season, but now he's back to his traditional Bad AJ alter ego. He needs to find Good AJ and get him out there. He's not giving the Yankees a chance lately.

Andy goes tomorrow and we should be crushing this team. Go Yanks.

UPDATE: You all know by now that Phil Hughes is having his next start skipped to accomodate his innings limit for the years, but did you know that this Phil would be taking a look at the College Pitchers the Yanks recently drafted tomorrow? Well, he will so stay tuned.