Hughes has us pegged.  Knows just when our patience ends.  Just how much to give us to restore it before the next gut-punch.
The man is a genius and a demon.

I think it was the first game the Yankees lost that A-Rod had an RBI in as well.

Heyward gets lost in the Harper and Trout hype, but he’s quite good already and will probably be an MVP candidate by his mid-twenties.

Except for the four home runs how did you enjoy the play Ms Hughes

I think it was the first game the Yankees lost that A-Rod had an RBI in as well.

Yep. Actually, I knew that and figured that if that was the case than the home run thing must have been correct, as well, so I thought that’d sound a bit cooler.

Just a few days after Roger Clemens was cleared of charges he lied about cheating, I figured I’d do a Sports Legends Revealed at the LA Times about a bizarre case of cheating during the 1976 Olympic Pentathlon.

You can check it out here.

[6] I’ve always said you can’t trust an epeeist.

And thankfully this weekend is the end of this interleague nonsense.

Until the year long nightmare begins in 2013.

I have to imagine that Hughes’ neck hurts after whipping around to see all those dingers.  Hopefully this was just a bad day and he can get back on track next week.

Not A-Rod, but…

Luckily, everyone else in the AL East lost except for Boston, who will never lose again, I presume (well, provided that they get to play Miami every game, that is).

The Mets sure have done a good job helping the Yankees out. Hopefully they keep it up by getting swept this weekend.

Hopefully this was just a bad day and he can get back on track next week.

I think that is more likely.  His K and BB rates are still excellent, and those are still the best long-term indicators of a pitcher’s success.  Rob Neyer had a nice piece on Hughes today.  He opines that Hughes has been at least a bit unlucky on HR (probably true), and also that Hughes may not fully flourish as a pitcher unless he goes to a home park with less cozy RF dimensions (possibly true).

I’m sure it is possible to learn - with Hughes’s arsenal - how to pitch effictively to lefties in DNYS.  I don’t know if Hughes can learn that.  But he’s still only 26, and some guys take longer than others to figure it out.

I’m willing to chalk up yesterday as a combo of DNYS and ~100 degree heat.

I wish Phil could pitch only on the road…

Hughes should develop a sinker to induce some groundballs. I am optimistc about Hughes because he is still young, but can’t be a frontline starter if he continues to give up that many homers.

CC returns, Kuroda and Fuse tank. We know what happens next to Nova and Pettitte this weekend.

Best not to watch.

[13] Yes, either a sinker, or get better command of some other pitches that work low in zone (change, curve, even the cutter).  Just something with a downward movement that he can start low in the zone, and let move down out or barely in it.