Joba Chamberlain pitched only three innings against the Mariners Sunday, but it had nothing to do with any rules.
Seattle roughed him up for seven runs in the first two frames, and the Yankees suffered a 7-1 loss, failing to clinch a playoff berth after the Rangers' loss earlier in the day put the Bombers a win away from punching their ticket to October.
Chamberlain called his outing "embarrassing," but seemed delusional when breaking down what went wrong for him during his brief performance.
"It was all working, surprisingly," Chamberlain said. "You take away two pitches, maybe it's one or two runs."
Considering the six hits and three walks he allowed, it was clearly more than one or two pitches that did him in, a troubling trend that has plagued him for the past six weeks. Continue
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