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Originally Posted by Dan_ref
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Originally Posted by me
Speaking of the cellar, Yankees are in last place this late in the season for the first time since 1975. Just saying.
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I guess I lose that Diet Coke. This was on ESPN.com's Page2 today.
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The Yankees are in last place! Celebrate if you're a hater. Cry tears bigger than Ian Kennedy's ERA if you're a fan. The Yankees haven't finished last since 1990, a truly memorable season ...
• Yanks finished 67-95, 21 games behind first-place Boston.
• They finished last in scoring (603 runs) and last in batting average (.241).
• Do these names make old-school Yankee fans shudder? Alvaro Espinoza (.224), Oscar Azocar (.257 OBP), Steve Balboni (.192).
• Even Donnie Baseball hit a sickly .256 with only 5 HRs in 102 games.
• Tim Leary lost 19 games. And mysteriously didn't start the final two weeks after losing his 19th game even though he led Yankee starters with a 4.11 ERA.
• The A's went 12-0 against the Yanks.
• The Yanks were shut out 15 times.
• Third baseman Mike Blowers made four errors in one game.
• Deion Sanders hit .158 in 133 at-bats, drew a dollar sign in the dirt, failed to run out a pop fly, got smacked down by Carlton Fisk and released in September.
• Mel Hall, Hensley Meulens, Claudell Washington, Wayne Tolleson, Luis Polonia, and Jim Walewander played for the team.
• The good news? Two late-round picks from the June draft turned into pretty good ballplayers: Andy Pettitte was drafted in the 22nd round, Jorge Posada in the 24th.
--David Schoenfield
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I watched the SportsCenter replay and he actually said that the Yankees haven't been in last place
on May 15 since 1975. I incorrectly took that to mean that May 15 was the latest they'd been in last, obviously. Apparently, he was talking about that day only; but I'm not sure why anybody would care about that.