I really didn't want to put together a write-up for this game. Suffice it to say that this game proved everyone's thoughts on Sidney Ponson. He is doing it with smoke and mirrors and it was only a matter of time before his luck ran out. Sir Sidney gave up runs in the first, second, third, and fourth (3,1,1,2)...notice a pattern? Dan Geise came in and did a good job, going 4 innings and giving up 2 runs while saving the rest of the pen.

It's not like the Yankees didn't hit Lester though...they just didn't capitalize on the opportunities they had. In the third, with runners on first and second and nobody out, Derek Jeter grounded into a double play. In the fourth, A-Rod doubled to start off the inning but didn't score. Continuing the futility of the offense...in the fifth, the Yankees loaded the bases with none out and after scoring two (Jeter single and Abreu walk to load em up again), scored nothing else. A-Rod lined out, Nady flew out and Cano grounded back to the pitcher.

In any case, the Yankees had to lose sometime, no? It still felt like a bad loss...and Ponson's BAA (over 5 starts) is .322/.378/.469/.847. Umm, yeah, that's not good. Honestly, I wanted Darrell Rasner to be better...I really did, but yeah, not so much. .338/.400/.517/.917 over 9 starts. Help can't come soon enough...and speaking of help, anyone have any idea what happened to Washburn between May 10th and May 21st? Was he hurt or something? Because those two starts HAMMERED his ERA...but he has been lights out since then (2.82 ERA over 71 IP).