numbers from tonight. beckett was dominant. >> tim: he really was. a great curveball, 9 strikeouts through his six innings of work. best performance of the year for beckett tonight. >> joe: jorge posada, you see that top line, took himself out of the lineup. it's one of three things, either he's upset about being a d.h. and he's hitting .165 and he wanted to put the struggle aside for the night. b, he was upset about being in the lineup and batting in the number nine spot. or c, which is a new twist on the story that came out about midway through the game, he's got a bad back. >> tim: well, it's confusing and it's very difficult for us to make a decision on what is right and what is wrong until the press conference is over. and we hear all the facts. >> joe: we had brian cashman on. he said that there was no injury. jorge's wife, laura, tweeted that he had a bad back. there are all kinds of different stories, contradicting reports regarding what is the number one story to come out of this game until the final score, whatever that may be. and that is part of that core of the yankees -- as cameron is on with one out -- is going to hit ninth as the d.h. and then took himself out of the game about an hour ahead of start time. tonight's game presented by lowe's is sponsored by the new 2011 jeep grand cherokee, and by exxon mobile taking on the world's toughest energy challenges. one on, one out for carl crawford, who has a hit. 1 for 3. strike 1. bottom of this eighth inning will be the two, three and four hitters for new york, who had the benefit of playing 20 of their first 28 games of the season here at home. the give-back on that is they had a total, the yankees do, of 20 home games in august and september combined. here's the 1-1. strike 2. >> tim: joe, just looking down at the yankee dugout, into the yankee dugout, and looking at gene monahan, who will be retiring after this year, he is a cancer survivor, with the yankees since 1962 when he started as a batboy at 17 years old, the year of a rodger maris broke babe ruth's record, gene we have been by fox sports, since you are such a huge nascar fan, you have privileges in the pit next february when daytona runs, it's the nascar superbowl, right? >> joe: yeah, right out of the gate. >> tim: yeah. >> joe: here's ball 3 outside. so you have authorized his trip into the pit at daytona next year? >> tim: that is correct. >> joe: nobody is more deserving. 49 continuous years of serving to the yankees. crawford fouls it. he is going to retire to north carolina, get a dog that he's going to name schrader. >> tim: after ken schrader, the famous nascar driver. >> joe: buy a pickup truck and take schrader to go buy seed. >> tim: because he wants a backyard. >> joe: and it just sounds nice. >> tim: he's just one of baseball's and life's great people. >> joe: that's strike 3 on the inside corner. good tailing pitch. two out. and gene monahan, who has been honored by the yankees this year, getting his championship ring after going through that struggle in 2009, held a press conference during the week. and when he walked out it was such a great press conference, members of the press got up and applauded him as he made his way out of the room. >> tim: wow. >> joe: one on, two out. varitek. strike 1. jason with a big rbi hit back in that four-run seventh inning. he came around to score on the three-run shot by adrian gonzalez. strike 2. nothg and two the count. one-out hit by cameron. he's at first. and that's strike 3. that sends us into the bottom of the eighth inning. big bats coming up, granderson, teixeira, rodriguez for the yankees, down by 6. ♪ [ male announcer ] you've reached the age where you don't back down from a challenge. this is the age of knowing how to make things happen. so, why would you let something like erectile dysfunction get in your way? isn't it time you talked to your doctor about viagra? 20 million men already have. with every age comes responsibility. ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain, as it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. side effects may include headache, flushing, upset stomach, and abnormal vision. to avoid long-term injury, seek immediate medical help for an erection lasting more than four hours. stop taking viagra and call your doctor right away if you experience a sudden decrease or loss in vision or hearing. this is the age of taking action. viagra. talk to your doctor. see if america's most prescribed ed treatment is right for you. 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[ male announcer ] new lubriderm® men's 3-in-1. >> chris: chris rose back with you. game called in chicago. ryan vogelsong picks up his first major league shutout. back to the bronx with joe, tim and ken. >> joe: thank you, chris. the vogelsong is a good story. former first-round pick that never made it with the giants, bounced around, spent some time in japan, and now he's back. and even with that highly thought-of rotation, the injury to barry zito, vogelsong gets his chance and he's made the most of it. granderson, first up for the yankees here in the eighth. teixeira and rodriguez to follow. rich hill, the left-hander, starts to crank it up for boston. one ball, one strike on granderson. 2 for 3. easy for crawford. to his right. one out. today's game presented by lowe's, is sponsored by burger king, who reminds you to have it your way, and by directtv. don't just watch tv, directtv. one out. here is teixeira. he is hitless tonight with a walk a pair of strikeouts and a tight breaking ball in for strike 1. beckett struck out nine. albers has struck out two. that's strike 2 on teixeira. on deck is alex rodriguez, who is hitless. right back up the middle and almost took matt albers shoe with it. up above, aerial coverage provided by directtv. get the most mlb and hd, call 1-800-directtv. >> tim: there's a saying in baseball you are never as bad as you look, you are never as bad as you think you are. the yankees offense looks really bad now. it looks sluggish, it looks tired, and we are in may. of course, the likes of josh beckett and clay buchholz, the way he pitched last night, that will make you look that way. but they lost two to kansas city, lost the series to kansas city, two out of three. and they have lost three in a row coming in. but they do not look good right now. it's a long season, we know that and all that, but a cause for concern in yankee land. >> joe: i would say, as we said earlier, this is game 5 of 16 straight for the yankees in a stretch where they played 32 games in 33 days. ken rosenthal, you have more from town on the field. >> well, tim is absolutely right. the yankees were first in the american league in runs in april, and entering tonight only 6 in may. they have had a favorable schedule. a ton of games at home. off days, a lot of rest. and yet here they are. you wonder when the schedule gets tougher with so many older players exactly how they will do. >> joe: i just think, kenny and tim, this is becoming more and more a young man's game. there's been obviously so much talk about performance-enhancing drugs and trying to limit the use of that in this game. but i think taking amphetamines out of this game has taken a big bite out of what some of the older players have done over the years. >> tim: that's a valid point. >> joe: as rodriguez pops it into right. cameron for out number 2. you can visit your local lowe's to cast your scott's mlb all-star ballot and enter for a chance to win an all-star week experience, compliments of scott's. you talk about performance-enhancing drugs, amphetamines is a performance-enhancing drugs, and baseball has done a very good job of taking that out of the game. this is a long year. while we talked about the yankees' schedule, the red sox are in game number 2 ever playing 20 consecutive games over 20 days. ball 1 to cano, who is 0 for 3. >> back in 1962 jim broden was the first to coin the phrase it's a long season in baseball and is that ever true in baseball. >> joe: it's a grind of 162 games, at varitek blocks that. it's 2-0 on cano. >> tim: jim was a former major league pitcher and also pitched for the chicago cubs. an excellent book. that was 50 years ago, but he nailed it. it is a long, long season. 0. matt albers is in his second inning of work. struck out two last inning, allowed a one-out double. rich hill is out there, ready to go if needed. here is a 3-0. that puts two on with two out. a missed date in baseball history. may 14, 1967. mickey mantle hits home run number 500. willie mays, his first home run as a member of the mets. and in '96doc gooden throws a no-hitter. the mets still don't have a no hitter in their history. >> tim: that's right. 49 years without a no-hitter. we have the mets next saturday night against the yankees right here at yankee stadium. i think the mets have 32 one-hitters. it's really remarkable, since their organization has been built around pitching. staggering that they have -- >> paul: ryan, sever, all the great pitching in the '80. that sends us into the next inning. red sox will bat. up 6-0. do you have something for pain? ♪ oh, bayer aspirin? oh, no, no, no... i'm not having a heart attack. it's my back. trust me. it works great for pain. 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red sox have had this ride on the season. they started 0-6. pedroia, strike 1. they won two of three from the yankees in boston on the weekend of april 9th. now they are on the verge of winning their 17th against 13 losses since that weekend against the yankees at fenway. >> tim: and going to within one game of .500. as terry francona says, that's where you start. >> joe: they have had three tries at the .500 record and they are 0-3. they will be knocking on that door, it seems, tomorrow night. as ball 1 goes down and in to pedroia. what's happened to the yankees with boston in this series, they have shown two guys in buchholz and beckett in the first two games who have looked like aces the way they have pitched, and they have jon lester going tomorrow night against freddy garcia. that's as good as this series could go after two games to the boston red sox here at yankee stadium. >> tim: right. >> joe: the pitch is high. the count 2-1 on pedroia. 2-2. meanwhile, beckett against the yankees this season, 14 innings pitched, 6 hits, no runs, 19 strikeouts. that's out of play. still 2-2. pedroia has singled and stolen a base, struck out, been intentionally walked, singled and scored a run ahead of the adrian gonzalez home run in the seventh. and a little floater base hit into left by pedroia. the first two are on for boston here in the ninth. just a reminder, coming up tonight on fox, your late local news and then fringe and 30 seconds to frame. check your local listings. >> tim: joe, we talked to terry francona about carl crawford before the game. terry said, you know, we do need to get carl going, but we need to get petey going and tonight petey is going. he's 3 for 4, an intentionally walk but he singled to right, center and left. and that's getting pd going for the red sox. >> joe: pd is dustin pedroia. when you have a number three hitter that's going like adrian gonzalez, you have the lead-off guy that's as hot as jacoby ellsbury, you get your number two guy going and it's only a matter of time with pedroia, then combined with that good pitching, that's what the red sox will ride in this a.l. east. the big blow of this game, the blow it open came in the seventh. high fastball from sabathia deposited into the seats in right by gonzalez. before the cheesesteak last night before the game went deep, he said he was going to go deep. >> tim: that's his fifth home run in the last four games. >> joe: count goes to is 1-2. that home run for adrian was the first extra-base hit in his first longball off a left-hander this season. that's to teixeira. out at second and a good job by ayala covering a double play. 3-6-1. over to third goes ellsbury. two out. >> tim: a good play by the sure-handed gold glove of teixeira and jeter's relay to ayala in time. nicely done. >> joe: it will bring in j.d. drew, who will pinch-hit for youkilis. it is still rich hill getting loose. bottom three due for the yankees. there's strike 1. interesting that when we talked to sabathia yesterday before game one of this series, he said one of the tougher outs in this lineup is drew for him because he hangs in there so well against lefties. face as right-hander here pinch-hitting and he takes ball 1. >> tim: i that you the same thing when mike cameron was announced as the right fieldner tonight's game. c.c. sabathia told us j.d. drew was the toughest left-handed out in the red sox lineup. >> joe: there is strike number 2. j.d. hitting .240 with six home runs, 22 rbis. two out here in the ninth. runner at third. that will get out of play. >> tim: i think what this does is it ashowers us our first glance at jose iglesias. he will probably come in as a shortstop and then jed lowrie, perhaps, moving to third base since youkilis is out of the game. >> joe: iglesias has got his first start during the week. he got that on wednesday. he's getting loose. he wears number 76, the number he wore in spring training. 21-year-old cuban defector. they talk about his lightning quick hands and he was starting to get hot with a bat at triple-a when they called him up. called him up when scutaro went on the dl with a rib cage muscle strain. good job by drew to spoil that pitch. iglesias, by the way, suffered a broken hand last year. that glove he keeps close to him now. when he was going in as a defensive replacement in his major league debut, scutaro hid it from him. can you imagine, 21 years old, get your first chance, and that's like a nightmare, can't find your glove. >> tim: he had hid it behind the camera in the camera well. >> joe: now it doesn't leave his side. >> no. >> joe: here's the 1-2. in the air to center for granderson. that sends us into the bottom of the ninth inning. bottom of the order coming up for the yankees, who trail by 6. one a day men's pro edge. give yourself an edge. a complete multivitamin with more magnesium to help support healthy muscle function. more b vitamins to help convert food to fuel. more confidence in a 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