[YES]Wang continues to keep Yanks in the hunt

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Wang continues to keep Yanks in the hunt

By Jennifer Royle
YES Network Online
July 8, 2005

NEW YORK Over the past couple of months, Joe Torre has commented that he's
never felt uneasy when he sits on the bench and watches Chien-Ming Wang pitch.
Having labeled Wang as his most consistent starter so far, Torre felt no
differently Friday night in the Yankees' 5-4 win over the Cleveland Indians.

Wang did what he does best. After giving up a home run to Grady Sizemore
on his first pitch of the game, the right-hander kept his composure and
showed no signs of disturbance, even after allowing four hits and falling
behind 2-0 after just two innings. Wang, who admitted the ball was slippery
due to the rainy conditions, settled down and held the Indians to just
three hits and one run over the next 4 2/3 innings.

"It looked like he was on the brink of something disastrous," Torre said.
"For not having his good stuff, he kept us in the game and obviously gave
us the opportunity to do what we did."

With the Yankees back to playing balanced baseball, the offense picked up
Wang, who after the game, blamed his troubles on his slider not being as
effective as usual. But a rally in the third helped him relax when a
leadoff walk from Bernie Williams and consecutive hits from Melky Cabrera
and Derek Jeter ignited the offensive spark. With runners on second and
third, Robinson Cano's groundout then scored Cabrera and after Gary Sheffield
walked, Alex Rodriguez and Jason Giambi hit back-to-back RBI singles
which gave the Yankees the lead, and their bench a sigh of relief.

"One of the big at-bats in the game came from Cano," said Torre, who
emphasized the importance of his team playing small ball. "The pitcher's
aren't always accommodating. We have to do what we can and I thought we
did some good things. We did some fundamental baseball tonight."

"We're not going to hit a home run every day, so you just have to find a
way to score runs," Jorge Posada said.

With Friday's victory, the Yankees are now six above .500, tying their
highest mark of the season. And it's hard to ignore the question:
Would they be where they are in the standings had Wang not joined the
starting rotation? With three of their starters currently on the disabled
list and Randy Johnson having a disappointing season, Wang has given
the Yankees a chance to stay in the American League East race, right along
with the Orioles and Red Sox.

"He has been huge," Torre said. "But not realizing how much he's controlled
the game. He goes out there and it's never a question  even is easy.
At times he could pitch eight but we've cut him back a lot of games
because we wanted to put (Tom) Gordon in the game."

Two games away from the All-Star break, the Yankees couldn't be happier with
their position with Boston defeating Baltimore at Camden Yards, the Yankees
jumped into second place, 3 1/2 games behind the Red Sox. The standings make
next week's four-game set at Fenway Park even more interesting.

"We could use the time off," Torre said. "But it's something that we found
here over the last 10 days or couple weeks, whether you're playing or not,
everyone seems to be in it and working the games. That's the most important
thing right now."



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