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From NYT http://tinyurl.com/28lk6p
Yankees 4, Diamondbacks 1
On Sinkerball Night, Yanks Keep Rising
By TYLER KEPNER
Published: June 13, 2007
It was a bad night to be a worm, a lonely night to be an outfielder and — as
always, these days — a great night to be a Yankee.
Two of the major leagues’ pre-eminent sinkerballers faced each other at
Yankee Stadium last night, in Brandon Webb of the Arizona Diamondbacks and
the Yankees’ Chien-Ming Wang. The result was predictable: a steady flow of
ground balls and another victory for the surging Yankees.
Wang worked seven innings, riding a Bobby Abreu homer to beat Arizona, 4-1,
and bring the Yankees’ record to .500 for the first time since May 9. The
Yankees have won seven games in a row and 10 of their last 12. With a 31-31
record, they have 100 games to see if they can make the playoffs for the 13th
season in a row.
The Yankees trail the Boston Red Sox by nine and a half games in the American
League East, but stand just five and a half back in the wild-card race, with
Detroit and Cleveland tied atop the A.L. Central at 37-26.
Wang had the lowest home run rate in the majors last season, allowing .5
homers every nine innings, and Webb was second, at .57. Only Derek Lowe of
the Dodgers allowed fewer fly balls, on average, than Webb and Wang.
Through six innings, neither team’s center fielder or right fielder had made
a putout. Wang actually generated fewer than half his outs on the ground (9
of 21), but the Diamondbacks could still not do much with him.
Wang had not allowed a homer since May 5, when Ben Broussard of Seattle hit
one to ruin Wang’s perfect game with one out in the eighth inning. Chad
Tracy lined a homer into the right-field seats with one out in the fourth
last night, but by then Wang already had a lead.
After Wang survived two singles in a scoreless first — getting a foul out
and a ground out to second — the Yankees built him a 3-0 lead in the bottom
of the inning.
Johnny Damon reached on an error by second baseman Orlando Hudson, a Gold
Glove winner last season. Webb fell behind Derek Jeter, 3-1, and Damon took
off for second.
Shortstop Stephen Drew darted to second to cover the bag, only to see Jeter’
s ground ball skitter through the spot he had vacated. Instead of a double
play, it was a single that put runners on the corners.
Two pitches later, Abreu hit a pitch over the fence in right-center field for
his fourth home run of the season. It made Abreu 20 for 39 in June, with 12
runs batted in over 11 games. It has been a swift turnaround for Abreu, whose
May average (.208) was the worst of any calendar month of his career.
The pitch he hit was only 89 miles an hour, pointing to a major difference
between Webb and the harder-throwing Wang, whom the Diamondbacks had never
faced in the regular season.
“Catchers will say it feels like a shot-put,” Diamondbacks Manager Bob
Melvin, a former catcher, said of the pitchers’ sinkers. “Those two are
about as good as it gets. But Wang actually throws quite a bit harder.”
Still, Webb won the National League Cy Young award last season, tying for the
league lead in victories with 16 while finishing second in innings pitched
and third in earned run average. The Yankees were mostly punchless after the
home run, with Webb retiring 10 of the next 11 hitters.
The Diamondbacks came into the game with a 37-27 record, trailing the Mets
and the San Diego Padres by three percentage points for the best record in
the National League. But besides the Tracy home run, they could do little on
offense.
Through six innings, they had the homer and five singles, and two of their
hardest hits were line drives by Drew that were caught by first baseman
Miguel Cairo. It was a meager output until the seventh.
Tony Clark led off the inning with a single to center, and the next two
batters slammed the ball to center field, where Melky Cabrera had gotten no
chances all night. He caught both of them for outs.
Up stepped the No. 9 hitter, Chris Snyder, and Wang hit him with a pitch. It
brought up Chris Young, who lined a shot toward left field that Jeter snared
for the final out. Two fly outs and a line out made for an unusual inning for
Wang — it was his first in 28 innings without even one ground out.
Not surprisingly, Wang was finished after the seventh, with 95 pitches and
another fine box-score line: seven innings, six hits, one run, no walks, two
strikeouts. He lowered his E.R.A. over his last six starts to 2.30.
The Yankees added a run in the seventh when Hideki Matsui led off with a walk
and went to third on a double by Robinson Cano'. With the infield in, Hudson
snagged a sharp grounder by Cabrera and threw to first for the out.
Matsui scored when Clark fired to second to double up Cano', making it 4-1.
Kyle Farnsworth entered for the Yankees and survived a shaky eighth to turn
the game over to Mariano Rivera in the ninth.
INSIDE PITCH
First baseman Doug Mientkiewicz had a screw inserted in his right wrist
yesterday, nine days after his injury in Boston. Mientkiewicz hopes to return
by Aug. 1. ... Pitcher Darrell Rasner, who broke his right index finger on
May 19, had two pins removed from his knuckle last Wednesday but said he has
not begun throwing. Rasner still cannot curl the finger into his palm.
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