Ponson, "Dazzles" However Yankees Fizzle

Sidney Ponson surprised me, in a good way. Going six innings and yielding but one run, while striking out five, he gave the Yankees a chance to win the last game of the year. Granted it was against the Red Sox Z squad, but impressed me nonetheless. The ample Aruban moved his way through the hitters with a relative ease. No walks is unheard from out of Ponson. Not a bad final start for the Yankees.

Yankees came up short however, with the amazingly bad Rasner letting up two to make it 3-1. Yankees quickly tied it however with a top of the 9th rally against the pitcher who is only notable for knocking off Hank Aaron for alphabetical order by last name, David Aardsma. Robinson Cano tied it up, ending his season on a 11 game hitting streak, good to see he finally woke up at the tail end of the season...

Anyway to wrap the game up we go to the 10th and Jose Veras loses the game on a single ending the season officially, and capping what was a terrible ending to what was a promising start to Veras' season. Both he and Edwar Ramirez really went death spiral at the end of the year. Yankees end the season at 89-73, same record as their crosstown, "rivals" the Mets, who also failed to make the playoffs. All things considered with injuries the Yankees didn't do too badly. However the AL East is so tough it's really difficult to make the playoffs. Expect the same thing next year...hopefully they pull it out in 2009.

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