[nfbwatlk] King Felix, Ya done It Again!

Sat Aug 4 23:20:40 UTC 2012

Hi,
Yea!!!  Good for Felix!!!
Thanks
Lauren

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Becky Frankeberger" <b.butterfly at comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] King Felix, Ya done It Again!

> Woo Hoo! I just got teased  by a Yanky brain washed person.  But we won
> today!  One nothing, take that Yanks, woo hoo!
>
> Becky Frankeberger
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Mike Freeman
> Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 1:34 PM
> To: nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nfbwatlk] King Felix, Ya done It Again!
>
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>
>
> SEA
>
> 1 Final NYY
>
> 0
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>
> RECAP
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> Pitching
>
> W F. Hernandez (10-5)
>
> L H. Kuroda (10-8)
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> NEW YORK -- Felix Hernandez dominated the Yankees in their own ballpark
> again, pitching his third shutout of the season to lead the Seattle 
> Mariners
> to a 1-0 win on a sunny, sticky Saturday afternoon.
>
>
>
> Hernandez outpitched Hiroki Kuroda in a duel of pitchers who haven't lost
> since June. Mike Carp hit an RBI single in the second inning for Seattle,
> which bounced back from having its seven-game winning streak ended the 
> night
> before. The Yankees have lost 10 of 15.
>
>
>
> Hernandez (10-5) just didn't give the Yankees any room. After Robinson 
> Cano
> doubled with two outs in the first, Hernandez didn't allow a runner to
> second.
>
>
>
> He began the ninth against the top of the Yankees order and retired Curtis
> Granderson, Derek Jeter and Cano in order, fanning Cano to end the game in 
> a
> breezy 2 hours, 32 minutes.
>
>
>
> King Felix has the lowest career ERA at the new Yankee Stadium of any
> pitcher with at least two starts. After Saturday's masterful performance, 
> he
> lowered his ERA to 1.13 after his second shutout at the new ballpark. He
> beat the Yankees 7-0 on June 30, 2010.
>
>
>
> Overall, it was the seventh career shutout for the All-Star right-hander.
>
>
>
> Only seven balls were even hit out of the infield -- all to center field
> until Jeter flied out to right field for the second out of the ninth.
>
>
>
> Hernandez gave up two hits and two walks. Both free passes were with two
> outs.
>
>
>
> Kuroda (10-8) left in the seventh after he hit Brendan Ryan with a pitch
> following a one-out double by Eric Thames. The Mariners shortstop went 
> down
> on the plate and stayed there for a while, before he walked to the dugout
> with a trainer gingerly holding his left arm steady. Munenori Kawasaki
> pinch-ran, but he and Thames were stranded when Boone Logan retired Dustin
> Ackley and Michael Saunders.
>
>
>
> Kuroda gave up seven hits and a walk, with four strikeouts for his first
> loss since June 19. He went 4-0 in seven starts in between.
>
>
>
> Carp's single scored the first run Kuroda has allowed in a day game this
> season, ending a run of 31 scoreless innings. He stranded seven Mariners
> runners.
>
>
>
> Seattle stranded two runners in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings. The
> Mariners had runners on first and third with one out in the sixth, but 
> Kyle
> Seager popped to shortstop and Casper Wells hit into a force out.
>
>
>
> Game notes
>
> Hernandez's last loss was June 12 against San Diego. He is 6-0 in nine
> starts since. ... New York's Ichiro Suzuki extended his hitting streak to 
> 11
> games with a single in the third, giving him exactly 11 hits during the
> streak. ... The Yankees hosted a drive to sign up people for a database of
> potential bone-marrow donors. Volunteers collected DNA swabs from fans
> before and during the game. ... Former Mariners starter Freddy Garcia 
> (4-5)
> will pitch Sunday for the Yankees against Seattle's Hisashi Iwakuma (2-2) 
> in
> a matchup of right-handers.
>
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