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Yankees lost first game of Mariners Series Thanks to Cliff Lee

Last year, Cliff Lee was the ace of the Phillies staff. Lee pitched in game one of the World Series and made the Yankees look pathetic. Lee pitched a complete game, allowing one run on six hits and struck out ten Yankees. Lee put the Phillies in a good position by stunning the Yankees, but everyone knows the Yankees erased that game from their brains and won the World Series in six games. Eight months later, the Yankees faced Lee once again when they met the Mariners at Yankee Stadium last night.
The Yankees wanted to have a better outing against Lee this time around. The Yankees had Hughes pitch, who has been the Yankees best pitcher this season. The Yankees felt good about their chances this time around against Lee. Unfortunately Hughes was not his usual self last night. The first inning looked promising, Hughes put up a zero and the Yankees scored one run in the bottom of the inning. Then the wheels came off for Hughes, from the second inning through the fifth he let up one run per inninng. The Yankees were held scoreless for those same four innings. Going into the sixth inning the score was 4-1 Mariners.
In the sixth, the Mariners unleashed for three more runs to make it 7-1. With Lee’s dominance, the Yankees stood no chance for a comeback. The Yankees were only able to muster one more run in the bottom of the sixth, but wait! In the ninth inning, Lee was looking for another complete game against the Yankees. Lee was obviously tiring, but the Mariners bullpen is so bad that the Mariners coach trusted a tiring Lee over his bullpen. Will the Yankees be able to mount another ninth inning comeback? The Yankees scored two quick runs and with only one out they were down 7-4. Lee remained in the game and got Granderson and the rookie Huffman out to end the game.
At least the Yankees made Lee sweat a little in the end of this game. Lee has the Yankees number and the Yankees have no solution on how to beat him. Instead of losing to him all the time, the Yankees have been rumored that they want to make a trade for Lee before the deadline. If you can’t beat him, trade for him. If the Yankees get Lee their rotation would be solid. Once Burnett is back to his usual self, the Yankees could have five possible number one starters on their team.
Hughes picked up his second loss of the season, last nights game was definitely his worst game of the season. I guess Hughes was due to lose some time.
The Yankees look to bounce back tonight against the Mariners. The Yankees have Javier Vazquez going against the Mariners Felix Hernandez. (yankees.com)

By Eric Heyer of Sports Fan Blog Network

June 30, 2010 Posted by homerunheyer | A.J. Burnett, Blogger, Curtis Granderson, Eric Heyer, Javier Vazquez, MLB, NY Yankees News, New York Yankees, Original Content | , , , , | No Comments Yet

   

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