Daily Fail: New York Yankees

Charlie Klein

The Washington Nationals, who have had issues with spelling and winning this season, took two games of a three game series at Yankee Stadium this week in the Bronx. Just another sentence I never dreamed of typing in my sports writing dreams. Here are the facts: the lowly gNats had not won two consecutive games since May 8th and 9th. The likelihood of any other team going that long without consecutive victories seems minimal. The Nationals are on pace to lose 119 games this season. The new Nationals closer Mike MacDougal had gone 1,066 nights since his last save. The New York Yankees came into the series 37-27 and were only a game back of the Boston Red Sox. Now they find themselves three games back of the Beantown Bombers. Joba Chamberlain proved today that his best sport is beer pong, giving up three runs to a team that hits .257 and is 20th in runs scored. With such scary hitters as Austin Kearns (whose on base percentage is over 150 points higher than his batting average) Anderson Hernandez, and Corey Patterson. What makes this such a failure for the Yankees was that they were not able to outscore a team that has fewer wins than its cleanup hitter has homeruns. Long Island's own John Lannan carried a no-hitter into the fifth inning and finished the game with 8.1 innings pitched, four strikeouts, and two-earned runs. Adding some salt to the wound is that Craig Stammen, who has an ERA of 4.76, was able to shut out a team with expensive players like Teixeira, Damon, Rodriguez, and Matsui. More importantly Stammen picked up his first Major League win against the team with 26 World Championships. The Yankees now share their newfound infamy with the Arizona Diamondbacks as the only teams to have lost two games consecutively to the Natinals. Now that is something that all of us can do Joba fist pump to.