Jul 31, 2008
Story Timeline: 72 days
NEW YORK -- Mike Mussina will try to bounce back from a tough start and Jered Weaver looks healthy heading into the Yankees-Angels FOX Game of the Week at 3:55 p.m. on Saturday. Mussina had gone three games without a walk before issuing a free pass to Baltimore 's Brian Roberts in the first at-bat Monday. And even though Mussina escaped the first inning with no runs -- Roberts was thrown out at the plate trying to score on Nick Markakis' double -- the Orioles tagged him for four runs in the second. Mussina allowed six runs, the most he's yielded since May 20, in five innings, his shortest outing since May 24. "You learn to let it go and take it all into perspective and understand that it was a pretty good stretch of games that I had been pitching well," he said. "They're not going to be great all year long." As for the...
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