How Sweep it is!
By Joe Davis
Mount Steinbrenner erupted again today as his $208 million team got swept (yes, swept, this is not a typo) by the Baltimore Orioles.
Kevin Brown who is being paid more than 15 million dollars this season, made his triumphant return to the Yankees today. Brown had been on the DL since April 2nd with "Lower back stiffness."
Brown went 6 innings, giving up 9 hits, 6 runs (all earned), walking two, striking out 3, and giving up two round trippers.
Miguel Tejada went 3-4 with 1 HR and 4 RBIs. Melvin Mora went 2 for 3, with one homerun, and scored 3 runs.
For the Yankees, A-Rod, who is still trying to gain acceptance by the Yankee "Not-So Faithful" hit a solo-homerun. That did not matter to the outcome to the game. A-Rod seems to get a lot of meaningless homeruns and RBIs (See ALCS Game 3). Hey A-Rod, too bad you can't hit five run homeruns...
Ruben "Hasn't Been Caught Using Steroids...Yet" Sierra jacked another homerun for the Yankees.
The Yankees were brutally beat by the Orioles in Game 1 of the series, 8 to 1. Then the Yankees got out hit by the Orioles in Game 2, 7-6. To complete the sweep, Steve Reed and Baltimore held down the Yankees in Game 3, 8 to 4.
George Steinbrenner spoke about the Yankees after the game.
"Enough is enough. I am bitterly disappointed as I'm sure all Yankee fans are by the lack of performance by our team."
"It is unbelievable to me that the highest-paid team in baseball would start the season in such a deep funk. They are not playing like true Yankees. They have the talent to win and they are not winning. I expect Joe Torre, his complete coaching staff and the team to turn this around,'' said the Yankees.
Torre commented about Steinbrenner's statement later, "He's right. What are you going to say? I'm not going to dispute that,'' the manager said. "If I try to defend what we've been doing, you'd have to check my sanity. This stuff out here is not pretty. We have to make it better. No question.''
It's 12 games into the season, and Yankee (Bandwagon) Nation has already pressed the Panic Button, repeatedly.
To anyone who is not a Yankee fan: Enjoy!
Information from AP was used in this report.
