Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Wanging Ugly
Chien-Ming Wang was effective for the first time in several weeks as the Yankees beat Oakland 3-2 1 last night. Wang threw seven and one-third innings and allowed one run, but he didn’t really pitch all that well. He allowed seven hits and two walks, but his ball/strke ratio was an unimpressive 37/43. That’s 51.8% strikes, Wang is usually around 62%. Wang allowed the leadoff man to reach in every inning but the eighth, but the Yankees turned four double plays behind him to get out of several jams. Still, the bottom line was positive after four straight clunkers where Wang allowed 24 runs in 23.2 innings.
The offense didn’t do much, but Oakland’s a good run prevention team so we should probably be happy with three runs. Darrell Rasner goes tonight against Justin Duchscherer, who’s quietly putting together a monster season in his first year as a starter.
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