Game 1 Thoughts
Mussina looked pretty good. Pretty good command, made good pitches when he had to. The Angels did hit some balls hard that were outs (against Gordon and Rivera too).
I liked taking Mussina out when Torre did. Mussina was at 97 pitches, outs are commodities in the post-season, let Leiter go after the lefties. Good job by Jeter in selling his "tag" on Vlad.
Cano got the big hit, but you saw in the 9th what a liability he is, at this stage in his career, at second base. Looks like he wasn't even going to throw the ball to first on Molina's ground-out, and then made a bad throw. And of course he could have opened his eyes on Erstad's ball.
Kind of a throw-back game to the Yankee teams of 1996-2000: low-scoring with good pitching. Colon just got a little bit too much of the plate in the early innings. Anderson might have caught Cano's ball, he kind of circled back to it. He's never been a great fielder. [Scioscia just said he ran a good route, but watch the replay and he goes sideways before he goes back and kind of circles back.]
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