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Notes: Farnsworth understands boos
Reliever remains confident he can turn around tough season
By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com

NEW YORK -- The negative reactions Kyle Farnsworth has heard before his
recent appearances aren't ideal, but the hard-throwing reliever says he
understands where they're coming from.

"I'd boo myself," Farnsworth said. "I definitely haven't performed to the
way I'm capable of performing, so they have all rights to [boo]. The only
way to get them to stop booing is go out there and throw scoreless innings."

Farnsworth narrowly escaped being tagged with a loss on Tuesday thanks to
a late Yankees rally, but the 31-year-old believes he has a way to make
things right. To that goal, Farnsworth said that he has worked for the last
month or so on correcting a flaw in his delivery.

His next step will be to continue mixing in his slider, a tweak that had been
recently suggested by manager Joe Torre.

"I've talked to him about that since Baltimore, actually, not to forget
his slider," Torre said.

In the eighth inning sequence on Tuesday, as Farnsworth took over duties
after a seven-inning, 116-pitch performance by Andy Pettitte, Farnsworth
got ahead of Toronto's Aaron Hill to a two-strike count with a pair of
sliders.

Instead of going back to the slider, Farnsworth challenged Hill with a
high fastball, which the infielder stroked down the left-field line for
a run-scoring double.

"You've got to take the good with the bad," said Farnsworth, who has a
4.46 ERA in 41 appearances. "You've got to take whatever good you can
out of every outing. You definitely can't give up. Bad times don't
last -- it's definitely going to get better. That's the way I look at it."

Torre has been consistent that he will remain with Farnsworth in the
late-inning relief mix to set up closer Mariano Rivera, even though
right-hander Luis Vizcaino has been largely effective in recent
appearances, posting a 1.17 ERA since May 28.

If Farnsworth has felt a loss of confidence due to his recent troubles,
the reliever isn't admitting it, but Torre said that he didn't feel there
was any question a pitcher could be affected by such frustration.

"When you're in a position of responsibility, anytime you get down to
those last six outs of a ballgame, and for the most part, you're winning,
that's a lot of responsibility," Torre said. "... If you don't do your job,
 you look around and say, 'I just let 24 players down.'

"I don't care how long you play the game. When you're not hitting or if
you don't feel you're in a groove as a pitcher, there's a piece of you
that's not the same."

Farnsworth, who is in the second year of a three-year, $17 million contract,
said that his troubles have not prompted him to second-guess a decision
to come to New York.

"If you can pitch here, you can almost pitch anywhere," Farnsworth said.
"I have no regrets at all about coming here. I'm going to keep on going out
there day in and day out. When you do good, they'll tell you about it, and
when you do bad, they definitely tell you about it too."

Delighted to DH: Hideki Matsui was spelled in left field for Wednesday's
game by Johnny Damon, trading off designated hitter duties for a night.

Torre said that Matsui has seemed to appreciate the reduced duties of
serving as the Yankees' DH this season. In 28 at-bats this season as a
designated hitter entering play Wednesday, Matsui is batting .321 with
three home runs, three doubles and eight RBIs. He is batting .283 overall
with 14 home runs and 56 RBIs.

"He loves it," Torre said. "For a guy who has played the outfield every
day, he really enjoys the DH spot. For me, it's probably more of a mental
lift for him, since he likes it so much."

One added bonus of serving as the DH for Matsui is having the opportunity
to rest his body, which he has taken to comforting after games by wearing
ice packs on both knees. Then again, it's not as though Matsui is exactly
alone in the parade of Yankees headed to the trainers' room.

"I don't know who's selling us those ice packs, but they've got a pretty good
deal," Torre quipped.

Comeback trail: Right-hander Phil Hughes allowed a run on two hits over
four innings on Wednesday, pitching for the Double-A Trenton Thunder.
The rehab start was the third for the 20-year-old Hughes, who is
recovering from left hamstring and ankle injuries.

Yankees general manager Brian Cashman and special advisors Gene Michael
and Reggie Jackson were both in attendance for the game at Trenton's
Waterfront Park, in which Hughes threw 57 pitches (36 strikes) and limited
the Binghamton Mets to a pair of walks and struck out five.

Hughes' next effort is scheduled to come on Monday for the Triple-A
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees, one day after Jeff Karstens is scheduled
to make his first rehab start at Triple-A.

There's a catch: The Yankees have shuffled their catching plans for at
least one turn through the rotation, breaking up the battery of Mike Mussina
and Wil Nieves for Friday's game. Instead, Jorge Posada will rest for
Thursday's day game and receive Mussina on Friday.

Torre also noted that he was leaning toward having Matt DeSalvo pitch the
night game of Saturday's doubleheader, a rain-necessitated twin bill against
the Devil Rays. That would mean Nieves would catch Kei Igawa in the day game.

Pitcher perfect: Wednesday marked the eighth anniversary of David Cone's
July 18, 1997, perfect game against the Montreal Expos, though without
Yogi Berra or Don Larsen in the house, Roger Clemens only made it through
one batter before surrendering his first hit.

Before Clemens' start, Torre reflected on the dual perfect games he's seen
in his managerial tenure with the Yankees: "When I think of the two perfect
games while I was managing David Wells and David Cone, it worked out perfect,"
 he said. "I don't think David Wells could have pitched on July 18, because
it was so hot, and I don't think David Cone could have pitched on that cold
day (May 17, vs. Minnesota) when Wells pitched his."

Coming up: The Yankees and Blue Jays wrap up their four-game series on
Thursday afternoon, sending Chien-Ming Wang (10-4, 3.43) to the hill in
hopes of extending his team-victory lead. Toronto counters with right-hander
Dustin McGowan (5-5, 5.05 ERA), with first pitch set for 1:05 ET on the
YES Network.

Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the
approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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