Kenny Guido
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Boo birds come out in Yankees' loss to Chicago
Roger Clemens imploded in the second inning, Robinson Cano committed two errors and Kyle Farnsworth gave up two home runs in 13-9 game.
Twenty-two runs were scored at Yankee Stadium Thursday, 16 of them in a crazy second inning. Eight for the White Sox in the top of the second. Eight for the Yankees in the bottom of the second. The most runs in a second inning in major-league history!
Tied at 8 after two innings, even with Roger Clemens already having been knocked around and knocked out, Joe Torre said the Yankees "felt pretty good about ourselves."
But the White Sox ended the long, hot day feeling even better about themselves after a 13-9 win. Clemens was hit hard and booed at the start and Kyle Farnsworth was hit really hard and really booed near the end.
Yankees relievers allowed five runs in 7 1/3 innings; Chicago's bullpen allowed one run in 72/3 innings. That was the difference as the Yankees lost a game in the standings to Cleveland (they're three back in the wild-card race) and Boston (eight back in the AL East).
Oh, and by now you probably know this: Alex Rodriguez did not hit his 500th home run. Again. But at least he had two hits and an RBI and broke an 0-for-22 skid.
Throw in a pair of errors by second baseman Robinson Cano -- one on a sure double-play ball that could have bailed out Clemens in the second but instead led to five unearned runs; another one through his legs that led to nothing but just looked bad -- and you had a pretty ugly 3 hours and 59 minutes of baseball by the Yankees in 94-degree heat.
"It's just disappointing," Clemens said after lasting only 1 2/3 innings in his shortest outing since 2000. "It wasn't good. I got the guys behind and it was neat that they got back into it. It was pretty incredible, actually, to sit back and watch the guys battle back, but it was just too much."
It was almost too much to watch. Ninety pitches were thrown in the second inning, which lasted exactly one hour. It was the second time in big-league history that two clubs each scored eight runs in an inning. The first, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, was on May 8, 2004, when Detroit and Texas did it in the fifth inning.
"You don't get eight runs right back like that," Torre said. "I'm proud of this club, the way we kept fighting back, but we just gave away too much."
There were two errors, one physical and one mental, in Chicago's half of the second, and after taking a step in on Jermaine Dye's long drive to center, Melky Cabrera just missed grabbing it. That was the third hit of five in a row that gave Chicago a 3-0 lead. Darin Erstad ripped one of those hits off first baseman Andy Phillips' glove; Phillips recovered the ball but had no one to throw to because Clemens was late covering.
Clemens was poised to escape down just 3-0 when Jerry Owens hit a double-play grounder to Cano. But he booted it, and the White Sox went on to tally five more times and KO Clemens. Even after Clemens got the second out on a force at the plate, he allowed a two-run single to Jim Thome, an RBI double to Paul Konerko and a two-run single to A.J. Pierzynski. "We gave them too many outs in that second inning," Torre said.
The Yankees' eight-run inning was all them. Wilson Betemit, starting for Derek Jeter, hit a three-run homer off Jon Garland in his first Yankees at-bat and Jorge Posada blooped a two-out, two-run double -- his second double of the inning -- to tie the score at 8.
But Dye (4-for-5, two homers, four RBIs) hit a two-run shot off Jeff Karstens (0-2) in the fourth to give Chicago a 10-8 lead. Bobby Abreu homered in the sixth to get the Yankees within 11-9, and they had two on and one out in the seventh when Johnny Damon lashed a line drive into the glove of first baseman Konerko, who doubled Cano off second.
Farnsworth gave up a pair of solo homers in the eighth, one to Konerko and one to Dye off the facing of the black seats in centerfield. As Clemens said, it was just too much.
Roger Clemens imploded in the second inning, Robinson Cano committed two errors and Kyle Farnsworth gave up two home runs in 13-9 game.
Twenty-two runs were scored at Yankee Stadium Thursday, 16 of them in a crazy second inning. Eight for the White Sox in the top of the second. Eight for the Yankees in the bottom of the second. The most runs in a second inning in major-league history!
Tied at 8 after two innings, even with Roger Clemens already having been knocked around and knocked out, Joe Torre said the Yankees "felt pretty good about ourselves."
But the White Sox ended the long, hot day feeling even better about themselves after a 13-9 win. Clemens was hit hard and booed at the start and Kyle Farnsworth was hit really hard and really booed near the end.
Yankees relievers allowed five runs in 7 1/3 innings; Chicago's bullpen allowed one run in 72/3 innings. That was the difference as the Yankees lost a game in the standings to Cleveland (they're three back in the wild-card race) and Boston (eight back in the AL East).
Oh, and by now you probably know this: Alex Rodriguez did not hit his 500th home run. Again. But at least he had two hits and an RBI and broke an 0-for-22 skid.
Throw in a pair of errors by second baseman Robinson Cano -- one on a sure double-play ball that could have bailed out Clemens in the second but instead led to five unearned runs; another one through his legs that led to nothing but just looked bad -- and you had a pretty ugly 3 hours and 59 minutes of baseball by the Yankees in 94-degree heat.
"It's just disappointing," Clemens said after lasting only 1 2/3 innings in his shortest outing since 2000. "It wasn't good. I got the guys behind and it was neat that they got back into it. It was pretty incredible, actually, to sit back and watch the guys battle back, but it was just too much."
It was almost too much to watch. Ninety pitches were thrown in the second inning, which lasted exactly one hour. It was the second time in big-league history that two clubs each scored eight runs in an inning. The first, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, was on May 8, 2004, when Detroit and Texas did it in the fifth inning.
"You don't get eight runs right back like that," Torre said. "I'm proud of this club, the way we kept fighting back, but we just gave away too much."
There were two errors, one physical and one mental, in Chicago's half of the second, and after taking a step in on Jermaine Dye's long drive to center, Melky Cabrera just missed grabbing it. That was the third hit of five in a row that gave Chicago a 3-0 lead. Darin Erstad ripped one of those hits off first baseman Andy Phillips' glove; Phillips recovered the ball but had no one to throw to because Clemens was late covering.
Clemens was poised to escape down just 3-0 when Jerry Owens hit a double-play grounder to Cano. But he booted it, and the White Sox went on to tally five more times and KO Clemens. Even after Clemens got the second out on a force at the plate, he allowed a two-run single to Jim Thome, an RBI double to Paul Konerko and a two-run single to A.J. Pierzynski. "We gave them too many outs in that second inning," Torre said.
The Yankees' eight-run inning was all them. Wilson Betemit, starting for Derek Jeter, hit a three-run homer off Jon Garland in his first Yankees at-bat and Jorge Posada blooped a two-out, two-run double -- his second double of the inning -- to tie the score at 8.
But Dye (4-for-5, two homers, four RBIs) hit a two-run shot off Jeff Karstens (0-2) in the fourth to give Chicago a 10-8 lead. Bobby Abreu homered in the sixth to get the Yankees within 11-9, and they had two on and one out in the seventh when Johnny Damon lashed a line drive into the glove of first baseman Konerko, who doubled Cano off second.
Farnsworth gave up a pair of solo homers in the eighth, one to Konerko and one to Dye off the facing of the black seats in centerfield. As Clemens said, it was just too much.