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Yankees Continue To Struggle

TIGERS 4
YANKEES 2

After suffering a sweep at the hands of the hated Boston Red Sox, the Yankees showed little bite against the hungry Detroit Tigers; in fact, they didn't even show up. Whoever was playing in the Yankee uniforms tonight, they were not the Yankees, or, at least, not a team that spent $400 million in the off-season and posts a salary of over $200 million this season.

Justin Verlander cruised by the Yankees, scattering seven hits over seven innings while striking out nine and walking none. In five career games, Verlander is now 3-1 against the Bombers.

As for Tiger offense, they knocked around C.C. Sabathia. In the first inning, Miguel Cabrera's single to center drove in Placido Polanco for the game's first run. It seemed that Sabathia settled in after that, giving up just one hit, but in the sixth, the Tigers went back to hitting around the Yankee ace.

Curtis Granderson's bunt single got things started, and Sabathia was unable to throw up the speedy lead off man. Polanco followed up with a double to left center to drive home Granderson to make it 2-0, Tigers. Magglio Ordonez followed this up with a gigantic home run to right to make it 4-0, Tigers.

The Yankees never threatened again until the final inning, but, by then, it was too little, too late. The Yankees are now 9-10 and beginning to enter panic mode unless they begin to figure things out real fast. BOX SCORE.

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