It was his first start of the season, and it came against the red hot Yankees in the new Yankee Stadium on national television. And JA Happ threw a fine ballgame, certainly good enough to win. He left with a 4-2 lead after allowing two runs over six innings, but Brad Lidge gave up a two-run homer to Alex Rodriguez in the 9th and then a walk-off singel by Melky Cabrera to complete a 5-4 Yankees win. Happ, nonetheless, was satisfied with his outing.

“I’m definitely pleased,” said Happ, who threw 75 pitches, 50 for strikes. “From the get-go, I was hoping to give four or five solid innings and keep the pitch count down by throwing strikes and letting them put the ball in play. I went six, so I’m definitely happy with it. I’ll try to build on this.”

To make matters worse, the Mets got a 9th inning home run from somebody named Omir Santos off of Jonathan Papelbon to beat the Red Sox 3-2.

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Kyle Drabek threw five hitless innings for Clearwater but gave up four in the sixth and took the loss. Joel Naughton hit his fifth home run of the season for the Threshers…Antonio Bastardo, in his first start with Triple-A Lehigh Valley, gave up three runs (all in the fifth) over six innings, with a 11 Ks, for a very solid AAA debut. The IronPigs did blow a 4-0 lead and lost 5-4.

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