The Moment of a Lifetime for Pavano..Tyler Kepner – NYTimes Carl Pavano won tonight for the first time since May 22, 2005. When we talked with him after the game, someone said it must have felt like lifetime since he won.
Whose lifetime, exactly? I can answer that one.
My youngest daughter, Caroline, was born on May 21, 2005. She was one day old when Pavano beat the Mets on a Sunday afternoon at Shea Stadium. We hadn’t even taken her home from the hospital.
Now she’s walking and talking. She’ll climb anything. She eats meals at the table with us. We’ve got boxes and boxes of clothes she’s outgrown, and we haven’t shopped for baby food in forever. She’s down to one nap a day. We’ve signed her up for preschool. She’s still in diapers, but she also knows how to put diapers on her dolls.
So you get the idea. A human being can accomplish a lot of milestones in the time it takes for a pitcher to win one game.
A lifetime ago? You bet. (read more...)
Finally Pavano pitches Yankees to a Win in Minnesota
After a shaky debut last week, Carl Pavano threw seven innings and gave up two runs as the Yankees rolled to an 8-2 win. - KAT O'BRIEN - Newsday
MINNEAPOLIS -- The problems that plagued the Yankees in the first week -- rough, abbreviated outings by starting pitchers and errors galore on defense -- must have been left behind in New York. Apparently, warm temperatures and Carl Pavano were the antidotes...
Rodriguez hit his fifth home run of the year. This was a soaring 390-foot shot to rightfield off Twins starter Sidney Ponson with two outs in the sixth inning. It gave A-Rod 13 RBIs in six games -- and four homers and 10 RBIs in 11 at-bats in the last three games.
"You can just see the confidence there," Torre said.
No Yankee had ever hit five home runs in the team's first six games, as Rodriguez has, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
