A Yankees Final Exhibition Is Less About Baseball

When Joe Girardi's lineup card hit Twitter, I though it may have been an April Fool's joke, but I was wrong. Brett Gardner CF Eduardo Nunez SS Robinson Cano 2B Kevin Youkilis 1B Vernon Wells LF Ben Francisco DH IchiroWhen Joe Girardi's lineup card hit Twitter, I though it may have been an April Fool's joke, but I was wrong. Brett Gardner CF Eduardo Nunez SS Robinson Cano 2B Kevin Youkilis 1B Vernon Wells LF Ben Francisco DH IchiroBut for a Francisco Cervelli's two-out, two run single in the fourth, the Yankees couldn't come up with clutch hits. They had runners on base in all but one inning but the only extra-base hit was Kevin Youkilis' leadoff double in the fourth. The“I hate the Yankees — every time there's a home game, it totally messes up the parking in this neighborhood,” said Mark Kassof, an owner of Thriftland, at River Avenue and

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