INJURY HELL IN YANKEELAND & A LOSS

You'd think that Hiroki Kuroda would come in tonight, hush the Baltimore Orioles, the Yankees would win and all would be well. Wrong!  Kuroda gets hurt and needs to exit the game early with a bruised right calf and the Yankees lose.  That's just damn cruel.

Kuroda went 2 innings, allowed 8 hits and 5 runs before being pulled.  Preston Claiborne and Adam Warren followed and Claiborne just gave up that extra Orioles run.  Warren pitched 4 innings tonight.

As far as Yankee runs, there were only 3. In the 3rd, Robinson Cano singled in Curtis Granderson. In the 5th, Granderson homered and in the 9th, David Adams cranked one out.  Obviously, it wasn't enough.

Now we wait and see what happens to Kuroda. The latest was Joe Girardi saying "I would be shocked if he couldn't [make his next scheduled start, next Tuesday against the Mets]." But let's be honest, I'd be shocked if Girardi was right.  We all know how the Yankees operate. Everyone acts like it's no big deal and then the player in question disappears to the DL for 2 months at a clip.  We'll just have to wait and see.

Final Score: Orioles 6 - Yankees 3.


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