Sunday, July 22, 2012
Yankees.com: Hughes stung by home runs; Cano’s streak ends
The Yankees’ third straight loss to the A’s came 2-1 Saturday night, decided by a tie-breaking home run from Brandon Inge in the eighth inning at the Oakland Coliseum. Phil Hughes was impressive in 7 2/3 innings, allowing just four hits and striking out six, but two of those hits were solo bombs. Even with the Yanks’ mighty lineup, a strong starting pitching performance doesn’t guarantee a win.
“Here we have the luxury,” Hughes said, “When you do pitch like that, we normally win.”
So much for my theory that Oakland would help Hughes’s gopheritis. I suppose a cynic would say something like, yeah, but he’d have given up six homers in DNYS, but there are no cynics here, are there?
This is the least bothersome three game losing streak (soon to be a four-game sweep) that I can remember in quite some time. All the games have been decided by one run and I’m kind of pulling for Oakland to sneak into one of the wild card slots and the Yankees are helping further that goal.
I may feel differently if they get swept though.
Comments
Yeah, it is really hard to give too much of a shit about these losses. Now if CC loses, I might think otherwise.
He’s pitched pretty well, but Hughes’ velocity has been down the last few times I’ve seen him. Hopefully nothing’s wrong.
[2] Oh, just - don’t.
Please.
[2] Maybe he’d do better as a reliever.
Can’t fault Hughes.
Three straight 1-run losses. Annoying. It helps I didn’t see any of them, at least.
Wife had a friend in town so I missed all three games, plus I got to eat like a tourist all weekend. Not bad.
Also, not sure if this has been mentioned, but there’s this neat ebook called The Hall of the Nearly Great. It recognizes a bunch of guys who fall short of induction to the HoF but were still terrific ballplayers in their own right, and it’s co-written by a lot of folks in the saber community.
To my knowledge SG isn’t involved, so the several Yankees that are mentioned (Cone, Donnie, Knoblauch, few others) don’t get the benefit of having certain assumptions and components changed, but it’s still a nice pickup nonetheless.
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