Meche Can't Buy a Break

Game Date: September 7, 2007
Yankees 3, Royals 2 / Box Score
WP: Farnsworth (2-1), LP: Musser (0-1), SV: Rivera (24)
Royal Home Runs: None
Royals Record: 62-78

Gil Meche was good again last night. Just not good enough. He gave up two earned runs in six innings. But when Neal Musser served up a double to Bobby Abreu in the seventh inning to drive in Derek Jeter, the evil Yankees scored what turned out to be the winning run. In case you are wondering, Gil Meche has received the lowest run support in the American League this season. If you look at his last six starts, he gave up three runs once and two runs five times and he still doesn't have a win to show for it.

That's how baseball works sometimes.

Unfortunately, there's more bad news. The evil Yankees have won seven out of eight games against the Royals this season and they are 44-12 over the last 56 games they've played against each other.

Tonight, Brian Bannister (12-7, 3.16) will try to play the role of stopper again. He'll go up against Andy Pettitte (12-8, 3.82). Bannister has never faced the evil Yankees. Pettitte is 10-3 in his career against the Royals with a 3.17 ERA.