6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog: Good Time To Be On A Honeymoon, Jay: Red Sox 17, Yankees 1

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Saturday, May 28, 2005

Good Time To Be On A Honeymoon, Jay: Red Sox 17, Yankees 1

... because I'm sure he wouldn't have wanted to be around for this 17-1 drubbing of the Yankees at the hands of their mortal enemies, the Red Sox -- at home. But perhaps I underestimate the estimable Mr. Jaffe. Perhaps he's already inured to these kinds of blowouts.

It was a game no Yankee was good at; Carl Pavano gave up five, former bullpen stalwart (and ex-Dodger) Paul Quantrill coughed up another six, but Mike Stanton and Buddy Groom both gave up three each. It's hardly news that the Yanks' pitching, 9th in the league, isn't what it was in the Clemens/Pettit/El Duque days, but now that Randy Johnson's become just another soft-tossing lefty, now that Andy Pettit hangs out in Houston, now that Vazquez makes his starts under the Arizona dome (though perhaps not for much longer if he exercises his out), the Yanks find themselves in disarray.

Baltimore is 30-18 and unexpectedly in first place but beset with injuries; with five starters on the DL, the Orioles nervously watch the Red Sox and Yankees beat each other up behind them. Scratching and stumbling to stay ahead of those two team, losing to the mediocre Tigers (so depleted is the Baltimore bench that Lee Mazilli recently used reliever John Parrish as a pinch runner), the road ahead looks both uncharted and rough.

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