Yankees beat Indians 4-0 in second shutout of season

By Larry Koestler On June 11, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Game Recaps

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The Renaissance Tour continued Saturday afternoon for 6 2/3 more brilliant shutout innings before encountering an unfortunate roadblock in a pulled left hamstring. In the postgame said he didn’t know how long they’d be without Colon until tomorrow, while Brian Cashman said he expected a DL stint. Knowing what we know about hamstrings, this could take a while — while got back in a month last May, took nearly three months to get back in 2007 and two months last year. Best-case scenario would obviously be the former, but it wouldn’t be at all surprising if Colon were on the shelf for closer to two months, which is obviously a pretty significant blow considering that Colon has been the Yankees’ second-best pitcher.

While many expect Cash to go out and get a starter at some point, the pressure is now that much greater. I’d have to imagine will be given a couple of opportunities to show what he can do as a starter, and we may see a few of other Scranton kids — perhaps D.J. Mitchell or David Phelps — in the Bronx before long.

Fortunately the Yankees managed to hang on and , marking their second shutout of the season. (13th of the season), Curtis Granderson (20th, tied for the Major League lead with Jose Bautista) and (19th) all chipped in solo home runs, while a single drove in in the 7th.

was ridiculous in relief, recording all four of his outs via the strikeout, though not without of course putting men on first in the form of back-to-back singles in the top of the 8th (not to mention balking to take the double play away). It’s almost comical at this point in that it seems as though D-Rob can’t perform unless he gets himself into trouble first. Heck, even Boone Logan pitched a perfect ninth.

While it’s too early to get caught up in the division race and also silly to worry about things one can’t control, it’s still pretty annoying that the Red Sox are of course once again in the midst of one of their “we’re never going to lose a game ever again” streaks, and so hopefully the Yankees can continue to at least keep pace, injuries and all.

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3 Responses to Yankees beat Indians 4-0 in second shutout of season

  1. UYF1950 says:
    June 11, 2011 at 5:55 pm

    If Bartolo Colon isn’t the feel good story of the year for the Yankees I don’t know what or who is. He continues to amaze. BC, keep it up and come back soon.

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  2. Duh, Innings! says:
    June 11, 2011 at 6:25 pm

    The Yankees should get Gavin Floyd and Derek Lowe, veteran innings eaters the Yankees need. Floyd is a #3 while Lowe is a #4 at worst.

    The Yankees could move Garcia to the pen for a Sabathia/Burnett/Floyd/Lowe/Nova rotation which could also be the 2012 rotation if Nova has a good enough 2011.

    It is too much of a gamble to think Colon and Hughes will return as productive starters and the rotation after Sabathia is good enough to help the Yankees make the postseason.

    Right now the Yankees rotation after Sabathia is a guy who as well as he’s pitched so far still had an awful last season (Burnett), a reclamation project (Garcia), a kid with a half-season or so of MLB starts (Nova), and a callup (Noesi or whoever.) That’s not cutting it long-term and Colon or Hughes replacing the callup may not even cut it.

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