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WANG VICTORY
BOMBERS OVERCOME A-ROD'S TRIFECTA OF ERRORS
By GEORGE KING
July 18, 2006 -- How good are the Yankees going these days? Well enough to
win a game last night when they committed four errors - three by Alex
Rodriguez.
Fortunately for the Yanks, they had the unflappable Chien-Ming Wang pitching,
Miguel Cairo coming through in the clutch and Jason Giambi flexing his
muscles long enough to produce an upper-deck homer to right.
Wang, Cairo, Giambi and Mariano Rivera overcame the errors to lead the
Yankees to a 4-2 win over the Mariners in front of 53,444 sweaty customers
at Yankee Stadium where the first-pitch temperature was a sweltering 93
degrees.
"They are doing very well," George Steinbrenner said of his club that has
won eight of nine and trails the Red Sox by one-half length in the AL East.
Victories have a way of glossing over ugliness, and A-Rod was unsightly,
making three throwing errors, going hitless in four at-bats and fanning
with the bases loaded in the seventh.
A-Rod, who has a team-high 17 errors, exited to start the eighth due to a
bruised left big toe thanks to a foul ball on the toe in the fifth.
"[Sunday] I had a brilliant day and today I stunk," said A-Rod, who may
have the toe X-rayed this morning. "[Today] is another day and I will be
here."
Watching A-Rod in the field, where he made errors in the fourth, fifth and
seventh innings, Joe Torre decided to lift his cleanup hitter while
protecting a two-run lead.
"It was a close game and if he loses mobility he isn't going to help us,"
said Torre, who wasn't sure about A-Rod's availability tonight.
None of the errors (Jorge Posada was charged with the first one, a throwing
miscue that was first baseman Andy Phillips' fault) helped the Mariners
score. That's because Wang pitched around the errors.
"He bailed everybody out," Torre said of the sinkerballing right-hander
who is 10-4. "We need to play better defense, but we played well when we
needed it."
Wang, who allowed two runs and seven hits in seven innings, fanned
Richie Sexson looking to end the first with a runner on third and the
Mariners ahead, 1-0.
A-Rod's first errant toss allowed Adrian Beltre to reach first opening
the fourth, but Wang induced Raul Ibanez to hit into a double play. In
the fifth, A-Rod threw wide of second to kill a chance at a double play
but Wang worked out of a bases-loaded jam by getting Beltre on a grounder
to Jeter.
"My job is to get ground balls and get outs," Wang said.
The Mariners, who made three errors, helped the Yankees score three runs
(all unearned) in the second thanks to a fielding error by Sexson at first
base. Cairo, the No. 9 hitter, made it hurt with a two-run single against
loser Jarrod Washburn (4-10), and Johnny Damon, who was 1-for-19 (.053)
against the lefty before the game started, singled in a run. Damon went
3-for-4 against Washburn.
Giambi's 28th homer upped the cushion to 4-1 in the fifth.
"I got a hanging slider in the zone and put it in the upper deck," Giambi
said of Washburn's mistake.
With Wang gone, Mike Myers and Scott Proctor combined for a perfect eighth.
Rivera ran into immediate trouble in the ninth when Kenji Johjima opened
with a double and Yuniesky Bentancourt singled. But with runners at the
corners and no outs, Rivera fanned pinch-hitter Eduardo Perez looking,
popped up Ichiro Suzuki and blew a 96 mph fastball by a swinging
Willie Blumquist for his 22nd save and 401st of his career.
Blumquist's miss provided a small breeze, but it was nothing compared to
the Yankees exhaling about getting away with making four errors.
george.king@nypost.com
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