Yankee stadium

I went to the Yankee's game on Saturday night. They scored 17 runs on 20 hits. The last Phillies game I went to, the Phillies scored 13 runs on 23 hits. I see a trend here. And if you're wondering, 23 hits and only 13 runs seems inefficient but its not a record. The Royals in 1990 scored only 11 on 23 hits as did the Pirates in 1970. The biggest difference (H - R) was 15 in 1980 when the Mets scored 7 runs on 22 hits. (All this data is 1957 - present)

So my game of baseball roulette was altered, as the Yankees swapped the day and night pitchers. I watched Matt DeSalvo instead of Kei Igawa. He wasn't pitching well, leaving after 4 2/3. How's that make you feel when your teams scores 17 and you can't earn a win? Of course this is all due to the somewhat arbitrary definition that a started must pitch 5 innings for a win, but its possible (and has happened) that a reliever throws ZERO pitchers and earn a win. BJ Ryan did this in 2003 by picking off the runner at first, then having his team take the lead, and being replaced. (Its difficult to find more instances since a pitcher can retire a baserunner without offically facing a batter, but its hard to tell if he threw any pitches to the batter.)

Another side note. Vizcaino is the pitcher who got the win in the night game of the doubleheader, but he also got the win in the first game which must be a rare feat. In fact, he has 4 wins this year against the Devil Rays (3 in the last 8 days). No other pitcher has more than 2 wins against TB.

Also of note was the I got to see some construction of the new Yankee Stadium. Its obviously very early, but there is a bit of a skeleton of a stadium. Pretty cool.