Yanks lose to the Rangers 6-5 in unlucky 13th

By Jose “Pepitone” Reyes

While the Red Sox were blanked 5-0 by the Oakland A’s and The Rays win 9-8 after blowing an 8-1 lead. The Yanks were involved in a marathon game which was up for grabs but the Yankees had more than double the opportunities by leaving an astronomical 18 men on base. That’s inexcusable and if it weren’t for Swisher’s game winner against the Orioles, it would have been 5 in a row. So that of course, means the Yanks have lost four out of the last five games. The Rangers came back in this one as Vazquez could not hold a 4-1 lead and left the game with 5.0 innings pitched, 6 hits and 4 earned runs. Then Logan, Robertson and Wood came in to totally shut down the Rangers for 2 complete innings. Then Joba came in to setup Mariano and gave up a homer to Cruz to tie the game. Mo pitched 2 complete innings but only after Hughes came in to pitch the ninth. The Yanks kept leaving runners on the bases and finally Cruz again came through and hit another homer to win the game. Yanks Blow it! Box Score and Highlights.

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I read this very interesting article about Eric Show (ESPN-Tom Friend):

“The tortured life of Eric Show”

SAN DIEGO — Back then, the news came in on Teletype, not over the Internet. Pete Rose had just slapped two hits at Wrigley Field, bringing his career total to 4,191, and somewhere up there, Ty Cobb was fidgeting … or having a gin and tonic. One more base hit and Rose would break Cobb’s all-time hits record, a mark that had stood for nearly 60 years. Everyone in baseball wanted a bird’s-eye view, but one team in particular was about to see it up close and maybe too personal: the woebegone 1985 San Diego Padres.

A year after reaching their first World Series, the Padres had gone into something of a tailspin. On Sept. 8, the day Rose tied Cobb, a talented San Diego club that featured Tony Gwynn, Steve Garvey and Goose Gossage was in third place, 10 games out. The team was toast. The only good news, depending on how you looked at it, was that the Padres were headed to Cincinnati for three games with the Reds. They’d probably get to witness history, although, on the other hand, one of their pitchers would have to serve up history. One of them was going to live in infamy.

Who was it going to be? As the team dressed in its home clubhouse that Sunday — about to board a flight to Ohio — all eyes turned to the next three men in the starting rotation. One of them was a left-hander, Dave Dravecky, his hair slicked back after a shower, his pulse strikingly calm. Another was LaMarr Hoyt, a former Cy Young Award winner……Continue Reading