If you could see me, you’d see a dude scratching his head.

According to various sources, here’s the Yankee lineup tonight. I don’t get why Abreu hasn’t been tried in the lead off spot. He gets on base a lot, and runs the bases well, I’d rather he get more PAs than Melky, no offense Melky.

YANKEES
Melky Cabrera CF
Derek Jeter SS
Bobby Abreu RF
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Hideki Matsui LF
Jorge Posada DH
Jason Giambi 1B
Robinson Cano 2B
Chad Moeller C

Who-Dini? Pettitte-dini!

If you look at the box score from last nights game, you’d think Andy Pettitte pitched like shit and got lucky. And that’s sorta right, except that with the exception of two innings, he actually pitched pretty well last night. If I were Randy Jackson, and I were critiquing his start, American Idol style, it would go something like this:

“Ok, ok check it out dawg, right? You were pretty good out there man, pretty good, a little bit pitchy here and there, and I wasn’t feelin’ the whole third inning thing but I’m not mad atcha doood.”

 

First off he was really efficient, 3.1 pitches per batter faced is the lowest number of any Yankee starter this season. The downside was that he gave up a lot of baserunners, 12 in 7 innings to be exact, but he was stingy, the Ray’s 4 baserunners per run, is really high, 2.5 is normal. So how did Andy do it?

1) Luck: The Rays came to bat 16 times against him with at least one runner on base, and managed 6 hits and 2 walks in those situations, and yet only scored 3 runs, because of….

2) Low SLG: Usually teams with high Baserunners Per Run have low slugging percentages, and that’s what happend last night. Andy didn’t give up any extra base hits.

3) Timely results: A strikeout to get him out of a two on two out jam in the first and a double play ball to get him out of a bases loaded one out jam in the second, were critical moments that kept him in the game early.

Part of me knows that Andy got lucky last night, but the kid in me likes to believe there’s something “clutch” about him that showed up last night.

A piece of advice

for Joe Girardi. Everytime you’re about to summon Kyle Farnsworth from the pen, think back. If you brough him in the last time you wanted to, then skip it. He’s only good every other time out.