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YANKS TAKE IT ON CHIEN
SHORT OUTING TURNS INTO A WANG NIGHT
By GEORGE KING
August 9, 2007 -- TORONTO -


When Chien-Ming Wang resembles a blend of Kei Igawa and Matt DeSalvo,
the Yankees' chances at victory are Kate Moss slim. And when Roy Halladay
faces a lineup without Alex Rodriguez and is staked to six-run bulge through
three frames, those chances expire early.

That's what happened last night at Rogers Centre, where the Blue Jays
pummeled Wang and the Yankees, 15-4, in front of 40,811, snapping a
five-game Yankees winning streak.

"Everything he threw was right over the plate," pitching coach Ron Guidry
said of Wang. "You chalk it up to one of those days. All good pitchers go
through them. I don't know if there was anything he could have done
differently."

In the shortest outing of his career, Wang lasted 2 2/3 innings and
surrendered a career-high eight runs. Considering he was 10-1 in his
previous 11 decisions and was riding a three-game winning streak,
Wang was overdue for a stinker.

And considering how well the Yankees have played lately - they are 21-8
since the All Star break counting a suspended-game victory - it wasn't
tough to swallow, even if it did sour the positive buzz all over the
clubhouse before a huge three-game series against the Indians starting
tomorrow night.

"You don't like to lose, but with Halladay on the mound you know you have
to control it, and we couldn't do that," Joe Torre said.

The Yankees started the night a half-game out of the wild-card lead, trailing
the Tigers. When the game was over the Yankees were the same distance back,
but the Mariners were on top, one percentage point ahead of the Tigers.

Staked to a 6-2 lead after three frames, Halladay cruised to his 13th win
in 18 decisions. In seven innings he allowed six hits and four runs. The
only runs he surrendered came on homers by Robinson Cano and Hideki Matsui.
Cano slugged a two-run shot in the third and a solo blast in the seventh,
two batters after Matsui opened the inning with a drive to center.

Rodriguez wasn't in the starting lineup due to a calf problem, the result
of getting hit Tuesday night by Josh Towers, an incident that triggered two
bench-clearing situations and led to Roger Clemens' ejection later for
retaliating when he drilled Alex Rios.

Bobby Abreu was tossed in the fourth by plate umpire Derryl Cousins after
a borderline third-strike call.

"He didn't like the way I slammed my bat and he threw me out," Abreu said.
"I just said something."

The Blue Jays assaulted Wang, Jeff Karstens and Ron Villone for 16 hits,
nine of them doubles. Vernon Wells went 3-for-4 and drove in four runs.
Frank Thomas was 3-for-5 with three RBIs.

"My bullpen felt OK, but everything was down the middle," a ticked Wang
said. "The ball was too high in the middle."

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Blue Jays 15 Yankees 4

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