Angels at Yankees

The New York Yankees play a makeup game with the Angels tonight at 7:00PM from the Stadium. They enter tonight 5 games up on them for homefield advantage. They are 2-4 against them this season and 18-32 against them over the last 5 years including postseason. It is a understatement to say the Yankees have their problems with the Angels. Here are the pregame notes and lineup via Peter Abraham and his Louhud Yankees Blog. Joba is 1-3 with a 7.76 era in his last 7 games allowing 40 hits and 18 walks over 29 innings. Opponents have hit 323 against him over that stretch. Joba has faced the Angels once which came on July 10th. He allowed 5 runs on 9 hits over 4 1/3 innings. Johnny Damon needs one homer to reach his career high of 25. Mariano Rivera who hasn't pitched since last Tuesday is 2 strikeouts shy of 1,000. A-rod is 18 of 42 this month with 6 runs scored, 14 rbi's and 5 xbh. Yankees Lineup: Jeter(SS) Damon(LF) Tex(1B) A-rod(3B) Matsui(DH) Posada(C) Cano(2B) Swisher(RF) Cabrera(CF)

Football begins with a couple of victories

The New York Giants and New York Jets both opened their seasons with wins. The Jets defeated the Texans by the score of 24-7 and the Giants won by the score of 23-17. I will start with the Jets who saw Mark Sanchez had a impressive first game as a pro. He was 18 of 31 for 272 yards and 1 touchdown and a interception. Thomas Jones had 107 yards rushing and Leon Washington contributed 60 yards rushing, he also had 24 yards recieving. Dustin Keller had 94 yards recieving and Jerricho Cotchery had 90 yards recieving. Chansi Stuckey had 64 yards recieving. Rex Ryan is known for defense and the Jets defense just looked awesome. Joe Namath gave Sanchez a pregame pep talk and it seemed to work as there weren't many negatives, he really had a sparkling debut. The Giants score was closer then the game really was as Washington scored a late TD. The Giants defense was really good other then that, one of the touchdowns scored by the Redskins was on a fake FG and another FG was because Eli Manning threw a interception setting them up perfectly for at least a FG. Justin Tuck had a great game with 1 1/2 sacks and being all over the field. Osi Umineyora didn't have a great game but he did have one big play where he caused a fumble and ran it back 37 yards for a touchdown. Eli Manning had a pretty good game being 20 of 29 with 256 yards and a touchdown. Brandon Jacobs only had 46 rushing yards, Ahmad Bradshaw had 60 rushing. The Giants spread out their passing attack, Steve Smith had 6 catches for 80 yards, Kevin Boss had 3 catches for 62 yards and Mario Manningham had 3 catches for 58 yards and a touchdown. The touchdown was the first of his career. Hakeem Nicks had a couple of catches for 18 yards but left the game with a sprained ankle. Domenick Hixon only had 1 catch for 10 yards and Brandon Jacobs had 2 for 17 yards and Bradshaw had 3 for 11 yards. Lawrence Tynes was 3 for 3 in field goals. The Giants now will go on the road for 3 straight which will be difficult. The Jets will come home and face the Patriots.

Yanks avoid sweep

The New York Yankees defeated the Baltimore Orioles by the score of 13-3 this afternoon. CC Sabathia got the start and didn't have his overpowering stuff but pitched 7 good innings regardless. He allowed 3 runs with only 1 strikeout. 1 of the runs was a gift from Johnny Damon though when he forgot how many outs there were and almost threw the ball into the stands as the Baltimore runner tagged up from second and scored. It was an embarrassing moment for Johnny and the Yankees as they played poor all weekend. The Yankees after that though woke up, or it was probably more after Joe Girardi and A-rod got tossed in the sixth inning. A-rod struck out with the bases loaded and 2 outs in the 5th inning on a pitch was clearly outside but it was fairly close. A-rod wasn't happy but the next inning went on then before the Yankees came up to bat again he was tossed for apparantly arguing from the bench and Joe Girardi went crazy getting in the umpires face, throwing his hat to the ground and getting so angry that I thought he was going to hit the umpire. At the end of the argument another umpire had to step in between Joe and the umpire. He hopes not to get suspended but I am sure MLB will not be happy with his actions. Phil Hughes pitched a effective 8th inning once again bouncing back from giving up the lead his last time out and Brian Bruney and Edwar Ramirez finished off the game. Hideki Matsui had a 5 rbi game and Derek Jeter added 3 more hits to his record total. A-rod before getting thrown out had a rbi double. Mark Teixeira had 2 hits and 2 rbi's, Robinson Cano had 3 hits and Nick Swisher had 2 hits. Melky Cabrera had 2 hits and 4 rbi's. The Yankees play a makeup game tomorrow with the Angels in a battle for homefield advantage.

Are you ready for some football?

The football season starts today locally with the Jets and Giants both in action. This blog is called Yanks and More so I have to start covering the football as well although my main focus will be the Yanks and baseball as we are nearing the playoffs and hopefully a world series run for the New York Yankees. I am going to do a quick preview. The Giants take on the Redskins at home and I would expect a tough defensive battle. The Giants will run the ball as lot and try to control the clock. I would expect the Giants to win 17-10 somewhere in that range. The Jets start a new era with Rex Ryan and Mark Sanchez. I would expect the Jets to be competitive this season but don't get too excited. This is going to be about growth and the future. I think Sanchez could be very good and should be the franchise quarterback for a long time but lets see how he develops. The game today in Texas against the Texans will be very e tough. I would say then Texans win 24-21. I will start going more in depth next week with the games and tonight or tomorrow will have the postgame recaps and reaction.

Yanks try to avoid sweep

The Yankees have lost 2 straight but remain 7 1/2 games ahead of the Red Sox and 5 ahead of the Angels for homefield advantage throughout the playoffs. Here are some notes and the lineup via Peter Abraham. The Yankees have been outscored by the Orioles 17-7 in this series. The Yankees are 12-5 against them this season. The Yankees haven't lost 3 straight since July 30-Aug 1st in Chicago. They haven't lost 3 straight at home since the beginning of the season when A-rod wasn't around. CC is 6-0 with a 2.31 era in his last 8 starts. He is 3-1 with a 2.63 era against the O's this season and hasn't allowed a homerun in 27 1/3 innings. A-rod is 17 of 40 this month with 13 rbi's. Derek Jeter is in a mini slump going 6 of his last 25. MO has allowed one run in his last 30 appearances. Since June 16th he has as many rbi's as runs allowed. This guy is just a machine, no doubt the best there ever was. I can't wait to see him inducted into the Hall of Fame. Yankees Lineup: Jeter(SS) Damon(LF) Tex(1B) A-rod(3B) Matsui(DH) Posada(C) Cano(2B) Swisher(RF) Cabrera(CF)