Monday, August 4, 2008
Texas 9, Yankees 5
For whatever reason, Joe Girardi felt that Damaso Marte should go ahead and throw 42 pitches in relief tonight. He’s only exceeded 29 pitches twice this season. Anyway, the last one was a 92 mph fastball that Marlon Byrd hit out for a two-out game winning grand slam. On a night where Tampa and Boston had already lost, it was an especially disappointing loss.
In a development that will have more meaning than this poorly-timed loss, Joba Chamberlain left the game in the fifth with a “stiff right shoulder”. That diagnosis doesn’t tell us anything, unfortunately. This is one of the first Google hits for “stiff right shoulder.”
Anyway, hopefully Joba will be ok. As for the rest of the team WTF knows.
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