Afternoon Baseball

ESPN.com - MLB - Box Score - Yankees at Devil Rays

I think I can be confident in calling this one before the game ends. Once again, Brown gave his team no chance tonight, giving up 6 runs and 8 hits in the first inning. Then after two scoreless, he's given up 2 more in the 4th, with Torre seemingly making him a sacrificial lamb for the time being.
Once again, if you're a pitcher who doesn't have the complete trust of your team to begin with, but you continue to give up early runs, you will never win games, even through comebacks.
Through 4 innings tonight, Brown has a 8.68 ERA on the season. After the 2nd inning, his ERA is 3.60. Unfortunately, he has an ERA of 18.00 in the 1st-2nd innings, having given up 2,4,0 and 6 runs in the opening frame this season. Making comebacks from those deficits are the exception, not the rule.

It's time for Brown to hang it up.