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Saturday, May 26, 2007

Derek Jeter’s Streak Ended, But His Didn’t

Injuries/News:

Nothing.

AAA:

Eric Duncan and Alberto Gonzalez were both 1 for 3. However, the shortstop’s one was a double, as Gonzalez continues to pile up the extra base hits in the month of May.

AA:

Jeff Marquez had a nice bounce back after his last outing, which was his first poor outing of the year, 7-9-0-0-0-4-0 (IP-H-R-ER-BB-K-HR). Marquez has posted some pretty poor K numbers thus far, but my faith in him is unwavering.

A+:

The Tampa lineup faced another of the Devil Rays’ top prospects and the results were not surprising. Usually, Reegie Corona is solid, but last night, not so much. Corona was 0 for 6 with 3 strikeouts in what might have been his worst offensive game of the year. Jose Tabata, Francisco Cervelli, and Marcos Vechionacci were not much better, as they combined to go 1 for 14 with 4 walks and 6 strikeouts. The only good night was had by Colin Curtis, who was 3 for 6 with 1 strikeout and managed to push his SLG over .400 for the first time in a few weeks.

Despite a terribly poor showing by the offense, the Tampa Yanks were able to stay in the game thanks to their pitching. McCutchen’s final line of 7.1-7-1-0-1-5-0 is typical of Cutch’s performance to this point.

A-:

Mitch Hilligoss has now reached 32 games with his hit streak. I say it ends at 35 games. Hilly was 1 for 4 and so was Austin Jackson, but unfortunately Jackson also struck out once. Fortunately, he added a steal.

Spotlight On:

Brett Smith and Joba Chamberlain hitting the hill.