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07/27: Unit Takes No-Hitter Into 6th as Yanks Defeat Twins

Posted by: Seamus

Admit it. You're the one who said something about a no-hitter in your living room before Juan Castro singled to center to end Randy Johnson's run at a third career no-no. Johnson turned in his best performance as a Yankee last night as he struck out 11 and gave up only two hits in 8 innings. The Yankees' victory over the Twins moved them past Minnesota in the wild card standings and into a virtual tie with Oakland for the wild card lead (the Yankees lead by a percentage point).

A-Rod went 2-3 last night with a home run and Giambi was 0-1 but reached base three times (2 BB's and 1 HBP). The Yankees now have the American League's top two leaders in on base percentage in Giambi and Rodriguez. In fact, they also have 3 of the top 6 (Sheffield) as well as 5 out of the top 14 (Jeter and Matsui), and people wonder why the Yankees are still winning games despite so many injuries to their starting rotation.

Of course it wouldn't take that kind of production from the Yankees' offense if we keep seeing performances like the one Randy Johson gave us last night. He seems to be heating up as the weather heats up. Hopefully it's not the weather though because we don't get 95 degree days in New York in October.

The Yankees' bats will get a good test today as Johan Santana will face them for the Twins against Al Leiter. It's going to be a tough one, but it's kind of big because Kevin Brown will not be making his scheduled start on Thursday so we're going to be capping off this series with another emergency starter.

Comments

JVarghese wrote:

Any idea as to why Gordon came on in the ninth? I can't see the games - I'm in PA but why not trot out Randy for the 9th (he was cruising and at 97 pitches) or at the very least, pitch someone like F-Rod rather than Flash who needs the rest. I mean, with the Yankee rotation still in shambles, you don't know how many innings you'll have to coax out of these guys over the course of the next week or so until we start getting guys back from the DL. I'm not trying to pile on Torre after losing a couple of the previous games due to his mismanagement but still - it boggles the mind.

07/27 08:43:04

Patrick wrote:

That's cool on the OBA.

Great performance from Randy against a good team.

07/27 11:31:08

Seamus wrote:

Yeah, I don't know why they stuck Gordon in there either really. Personally I would've just let Johnson finish the game. He only threw 97 pitches.

07/27 15:29:58

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