June 22 at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, NY
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I'd have to check my manual, "What Not To Do Against The Phillies", but I don't think allowing eight earned runs in 3 1/3 innings is considered a good thing. That's what happened to Michael Pineda Monday as last-place Philadelphia won 11-8 in the opener of a three-game series that has "Yankees Get Swept by a 47-loss Team At Home" thrown up all over it.
New York is about as streaky as any team in 2015. Here's how the season has gone so far:
* Started 1-4
* Went 20-8
* Lost 10 of 11
* Won 11 of 14
* Lost 5 of 6
* Won four straight before losing Sunday and Monday
Maikel Franco, who went 4-for-5 and hit a pair of home runs, is from the Dominican Republic and according to Baseball Reference he pronounces his name MIY-kehl. I'd rather think of him as a kid from somewhere in the United States and his parents named him Michael, but spelled it Maikel because that's what parents in the United States do now. I call it keeping up with the Jo'nes.
Baseball Phrases
Couple quick ones from Michael Kay:
"Heat-seeking missile"
"Grind"
and Paul O'Neill:
"Catch 22"
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