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YANKEES
Proctor blows save in nightcap
Yankees split doubleheader with the visiting Tigers.
BY JIM BAUMBACH
Newsday Staff Writer
August 30, 2006, 4:11 PM EDT
One strike away from an uplifting doubleheader sweep of the American
League-leading Tigers, the Yankees saw things go sour very quickly, leaving
them with one painful case of whiplash.
Craig Monroe's two-out homer off Scott Proctor in the ninth sent the Tigers
to a 5-3 win over the Yankees in the nightcap, taking away the good feelings
from a smooth 2-0 opening win.
Proctor was forced into action to close the second game because Kyle
Farnsworth's balky back locked up in between games and Joe Torre didn't want
to use Mariano Rivera twice in the same day.
So with the Yankees looking to protect a one-run lead in the ninth, Proctor
came in and struggled, saying he didn't pitch with the same aggressiveness
that has made him so effective.
Proctor walked two in the inning, and the most frustrating of which was a
two-out walk given to Curtis Granderson. He fouled off consecutive full-count
pitches before ball four, and then Monroe hit a first-pitch slider up in the
zone over the leftfield wall.
"That's why it's 27 outs, I guess," Torre said.
Torre made reference multiple times to how close they came to "stealing" the
win, considering they had only three hits.
But given the unpredictable state of their bullpen, the one-run win in the
nightcap would have been even more impressive.
Everything started out so well in the afternoon when Chien-Ming Wang made
another case to include his name among the contenders for the AL Cy Young
Award. Wang improved to 16-5 by tossing 7 2/3 scoreless innings, allowing
three hits and two walks.
He gave the bullpen a break, as Proctor threw only one pitch for the final
out in the eighth and Rivera tossed 14 pitches in a scoreless ninth. But with
the Yankees ahead of the Red Sox by eight games, using Rivera twice in the
day wasn't appealing. "I have to look at the big picture," Torre said. "This
game wasn't an October game. That's when you throw all the rules out."
Looking ahead to October was partly why Torre deemed Farnsworth unavailable,
too. Farnsworth felt a twinge in his back between games but thought he could
pitch. Torre opted against it.
"I thought I could have gone out there," Farnsworth said, "but Joe said
otherwise."
Still, Farnsworth's back is an issue because it has cropped up before and
there's no way to know when it will come up again.
While he was sporting a large ice pack around his lower back, Farnsworth
stood in front of his locker and insisted that the tightness he felt was not
that bad. He beleived he could pitch today, and Torre didn't rule it out.
Before Proctor came in and blew the save, which he called "embarrassing," the
Yankees did so much to get that one-run lead.
Jaret Wright pitched longer than he has all season, lasting 6 1/3 innings and
giving up two runs. Derek Jeter's two-run double sparked a three-run sixth
inning to open the Yankees' one-run lead.
Brian Bruney stranded runners on second and third in the seventh and Ron
Villone left men on first and second in the eighth.
That carried the positive theme from the first game, when Wang once again
placed his stamp as the Yankees' best pitcher.
Wang's 16 wins ties him with Toronto's Roy Halladay and Chicago's Jon Garland
for the American League lead, and Wang was rewarded with a resounding standing
ovation from the 18,167 fans in the first game. "I was very happy about that,"
Wang said.
Wang has won eight of his last nine decisions since July 8, leads the team
with 187 innings and his ERA fell to 3.66. He was backed by Craig Wilson's
leadoff homer in the fifth -- his first RBI since Aug. 13 -- and Jason
Giambi's sacrifice fly later that inning.
Wang also continued his dominance at home, improving to 11-2 in 115 1/3
innings.
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