WHY THE YANKEES WERE SWEEPLESS IN SEATTLE

Tonight was another one of those annoying low scoring, deep into extra innings games. It seems like the Yankees have had a ton of them this season while losing just about all of them. This time it was against the Seattle Mariners. The pitching on both sides was fantastic, but the M's were a little better last night as the Yanks failed to sweep the Mariners in Seattle, something they've yet to accomplish since 1999. 2 times last night the Yankees were close to possibly winning this game. Once by Curtis Granderson in the ninth who was robbed by a leaping Ichiro and once by Mark Teixeira who was robbed of possibly a double or by Michael Saunders in the 11th. But...it wasn't their night.
It was a 2-1 final in 12 innings in this one. Mike Carp scored the first run for the M's in fourth on an Ivan Nova wild pitch. Nick Swisher chased Jason Vargas, who pitched a great game, with a solo shot in the seventh. And finally, in the 12th inning, Luis Rodriguez, yes Luis Rodriguez, hit a walk off solo bomb off Cory Wade to lead off the 12th. By the way, Luis Rodriguez has nine career home runs in 400 career games.Obviously the Yankees offense was pretty much non-existent. As a team they went 4 for 38 (.105 average). They also went 0 for 4 as a team with RISP, and they left six man on base. It's just one of those games, nothing you can do about it. It was the last West Coast game of the season, so maybe they really wanted to get out of Seattle.

Both starters were great in this game. Let's start off with Ivan Nova. He continues to make his case to be the number two starter in the playoffs by going 7.1 innings, allowing five hits, four walks, and five strikeouts on just 87 pitches. Jason Vargas also pitched a great game for the Mariners, he went 6.2 innings, allowing just three hits on one walk and six K's. If you love pitchers duels, this one's was for you.

Final Score: Mariners 2 - Yankees 1

The way the Yankees lost this game would make this a stupid loss. But I'm already over it, and I wrote this about 10 minutes after the walk off homer landed in the seats. The Red Sox lost yet again yesterday, thus the lead in the AL East is still at four games. The Yanks have an off day today, their final one of the regular season, to travel to Toronto to take on the Blue Jays. CC Sabathia (19-8, 2.93 ERA) is scheduled for the Yanks to pitch, against Brett Cecil (4-9, 4.37 ERA) for the Jays. Let's go Yanks!



--Jesse Schindler, BYB Staff Writer




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