Monday, July 6, 2009  Too Little, Too Late  If you missed the
game today and saw the final score, you might have thought this
was a tightly contested and compelling game. You would be wrong.
As you can see above, even when the Yanks pulled within one run
in the ninth inning, they still had a very slim chance (10-15%)
of coming away with the victory. They didn't go quietly on a
getaway day, but for a while it looked like that might be the
outcome.  Joe Girardi was ejected in the first inning after
Derek Jeter was caught stealing at third base with no one out.
Jeter walked, advanced to second on a balk and made a
questionable decision to try and take third. Although the throw
beat him to the bag, replays showed Jeter to be safe and Girardi
was tossed when he started wagging his finger at third base
umpire Marty Foster. Unlike four out of the five times he's been
ejected in his tenure with the Yankees, the team did not end up
winning this one.  Andy Pettitte sat the first five Blue Jays
down in order, but then