Posted by admin on January 4, 2009 under Top Yankee Moments Of 2008 | 
Chien-Ming Wang has been the Yankees ace in 2006, with two years of 19 win seasons. However, in 2008 his season was cut short with just 8 wins.
On June 15th, in an interleague game against Houston, Wang suffered a season ending injury while running the bases. Never had interleague play seemed like such a bad thing.
According to Wikipedia, Wang was diagnosed with a torn Lisfranc ligament of the right foot and a partial tear of the peroneus longus of the right foot.
I don’t know exactly what that means, but it does sound painful.
It didn’t require any surgery, but he did have a cast on his foot until the end of July. However, rehab would keep him out for the rest of the season. It may have been a fatal blow to the struggling Yankees.
On a more positive note. On April 22, Wang recorded a win against the Chicago White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field. The victory, in Wang’s 85th career start, made him the fastest Major Leaguer to record 50 wins as a starter since Dwight Gooden, who won his 50th game in his 82nd start on June 29, 1986, at Chicago for the New York Mets. Wang also became the quickest Yankee to 50 wins since Ron Guidry who accomplished this in his 82nd start.
Posted by admin on January 3, 2009 under Top Yankee Moments Of 2008 |
Even in the turbulent seasons since their last world series win, there were a few names that were always there, holding the team together. One of them was Jorge Possada, who for the first time in his career ended up on the DL. He was part of the Yankee heart who’s reliable bat you could count on, his mind behind home plate was counted on and when he was injured so was the rest of the team.
In late July, Jorge was placed on the disabled list with a shoulder injury. A week later, he put the mask down for the season, he would have surgery and not be able to play for the rest of the season. However, before the final game at Yankee Stadium he did catch the ceremonial first pitch from the daughter of Babe Ruth, Julia Ruth Stephens. He’s expect to be back behind the plate this spring tranning.
Posted by admin on January 2, 2009 under Top Yankee Moments Of 2008 |
Maybe it’s not the most important moment in 2008, but when the Yankees signed Billy Crystal signed to a one day contract it was definitely a feel good moment.
In Spring Training, the Yankees signed the comedian to a one day contract. He was the lead off hitter, playing the DH role in a game against the Pirates. He fouled off a pitch, took three balls but eventually struck out. Not bad for a rookie that was about to turn 60 the next day.
Maybe, I still have a chance of playing for the Yankees after all.
Posted by admin on January 1, 2009 under Top Yankee Moments Of 2008 |
Yankee fans have a lot to look forward to this upcoming season. However, I thought I would start this blog off with some of the top moments of 2008.
There were a lot of memorable moments in 2008. There were some good ones and a lot of bad ones. At times it definitely seem like the negative ones out numbered the positive. I could’ve done just positive moments, but it seemed like this year the bad moments were just as important as the good ones and made the good ones feel so much better, so much more satisfying. Making the champsionships of the past so much more special and making the future look so much brighter this season.
Chien-Ming Wang has been the Yankees ace in 2006, with two years of 19 win seasons. However, in 2008 his season was cut short with just 8 wins.
