Game 80: Yanks v.s Jays

Regular Season Game 80
Yankees v.s Blue Jays
Game Time: 1:05 p.m. @ New Yankee Stadium - Bronx, NY
TV: YES | Radio: WCBS 880STARTING LINEUPS:

YANKEES (46-33)

1. Derek Jeter SS
2. Johnny Damon LF
3. Mark Teixeira 1B
4. Alex Rodriguez 3B
5. Robinson Cano 2B
6. Jorge Posada C
7. Hideki Matsui DH
8. Melky Cabrera RF
9. Brett Gardner CF

Pitching For Yanks: RHP Chien-Ming Wang (1-6, 10.06 ERA)

BLUE JAYS (42-39)
TBA

Pitching For Jays: RHP Roy Halladay (10-2, 2.56 ERA)

PLAYER STATS

Yanks vs. Halladay
ABH2B3BHRRBIBBSOBAOBPSLGOPS J. Damon 84 29 5 1 1 2 9 13 .345 .409 .464 .873 D. Jeter 79 19 4 0 0 4 7 21 .241 .302 .291 .593 A. Rodriguez 63 18 5 0 1 12 4 12 .286 .338 .413 .751 H. Matsui 47 11 1 0 2 7 3 3 .234 .280 .383 .663 J. Posada 42 12 2 0 1 2 9 10 .286 .423 .405 .828 R. Cano 34 7 2 0 2 5 1 3 .206 .229 .441 .670 M. Cabrera 29 7 0 0 1 1 0 5 .241 .241 .345 .586 E. Hinske 24 6 0 0 1 6 0 8 .250 .240 .375 .615 M. Teixeira 22 4 0 0 1 3 1 4 .182 .217 .318 .536 J. Molina 14 1 1 0 0 0 1 4 .071 .133 .143 .276 N. Swisher 14 2 2 0 0 0 1 7 .143 .200 .286 .486 X. Nady 13 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 .308 .308 .385 .692 B. Gardner 11 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 .273 .333 .364 .697 K. Cash 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 F. Cervelli 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 R. Pena 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 .333 .333 .667 1.000 C. Ransom 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 .333 .000 .333 Totals48712425110423793.255.311.372.682
Jays vs. Wang
ABH2B3BHRRBIBBSOBAOBPSLGOPS A. Rios 20 4 1 0 0 1 2 4 .200 .273 .250 .523 K. Millar 19 9 2 1 0 4 1 5 .474 .500 .684 1.184 V. Wells 19 6 2 0 0 3 1 2 .316 .350 .421 .771 A. Hill 17 10 4 1 0 3 1 2 .588 .611 .941 1.552 L. Overbay 14 6 2 0 0 5 0 1 .429 .429 .571 1.000 J. McDonald 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 M. Scutaro 6 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 .167 .286 .167 .452 D. Dellucci 5 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 .400 .500 .400 .900 R. Chavez 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333 .333 .333 .667 A. Lind 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333 .333 .333 .667 M. Barrett 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000 .333 .000 .333 S. Rolen 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 .667 .000 .667 R. Barajas 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000 .500 .000 .500 J. Inglett 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 2.000 Totals121411120181118.339.398.463.861
NEWS AND NOTES

• Back on July 4th, 1939, Lou Gherig had this to say:

"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.

"Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn?t consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? Sure, I?m lucky. Who wouldn?t consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball?s greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? Sure, I'm lucky.

"When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift ? that?s something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies ? that?s something. When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter ? that's something. When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so that you can have an education and build your body ? it's a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed ? that's the finest I know.

"So I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for. Thank you."

? Lou Gehrig at Yankee Stadium

• Happy 79th birthday to Yankees owner George M. Steinbrenner III.
• Happy 233rd birthday to the United States of America.
• Chien-Ming Wang has made 9 career starts against the Blue Jays and is 4-2, with a 4.63 ERA. His last start against Toronto came on June 5th of last year, a game that saw the Jays beat up Wang for 7 runs (6 earned) on five hits and four walks in just 4.1 innings pitched.
• In 33 games (31 starts) Roy Halladay is 16-5 with a 2.79 ERA against the Yanks. In the Bronx he's 7-4 with a 2.97 ERA. And in the only time he's faced them this year, struck out five and held them to just one run in a complete game five-hitter.
• Robinson Cano is 0 for his last 15 with runners in scoring position, and on the year he's batting .208 with RISP.
• Derek Jeter has a nine-game hitting streak.
• Jorge Posada's left thumb is still sore but he's back in the lineup and catching.
• Melky Cabrera has the day off. Nick Swisher is playing in his spot.
  
• The Yankees are just 2 games back from the 1st place Red Sox.
  
• Jays third baseman Scott Rolen has a 20-game hitting streak, the longest current streak in the AL. Wang, you know what to do! ;)
• Forgot to mention this yesterday. While recently playing in a tournament in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Cuba's top pitching prospect, Aroldis Chapman defected from the Cuban national team. Apparently, the Yanks are interested.

This from SI.com:

Aroldis Chapman, whose age was reported to be 21 years old, walked out of his hotel room in Rotterdam and did not return, a spokesman for the Dutch baseball team said Friday. Chapman told cubaencuentro.com he was in Europe, but refused to reveal his location.

Chapman, whose fastball reportedly exceeds 100 mph, is widely considered the No. 1 pitching prospect in Cuba. The New York Times reported the Yankees, who have been at the forefront of signing international pitchers, will have discussions about whether they should pursue the left-handed Chapman.

Chapman pitched for Cuba during the World Baseball Classic in March, where he posted a 5.68 ERA in 6 1/3 innings. Reports during that tournament listed Chapman's age as 26.

In an interview with the Times, Yale University professor Roberto González Echevarría, the author of The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball, called Chapman "the most promising young pitcher" to leave Cuba since Fidel Castro took over in 1959.

"He throws at a 100 miles per hour, he is more polished than most young pitchers at his age," González Echevarría told the Times. "He is a really hot property, and it will be interesting to see how much teams pay to sign him."

• ESPN's Buster Olney has more:

ESPN reported that could receive a contract worth anywhere from $30 million to $60 million. And that "Yankees senior vice president Mark Newman, when contacted by ESPN The Magazine, said it's "safe to assume" the Yankees would have interest in Chapman."

THOUGHTS: I say we make a run for it. He throws pretty hard and is major league ready. "A left-handed Steven Strausburg" who has three pitches is someone to definitely go for. Not to mention, we wouldn't want him going to the Red Sox.

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