--DH Hideki Matsui was placed on the 15-day disabled list due to an injured left knee. Manager Joe Girardi had said the move could be coming, and the Yankees went ahead and made it Friday, allowing RHP Sidney Ponson to take Matsui's place on the roster and start Game 2 of their split-ballpark doubleheader against the Mets.
--RHP Ross Ohlendorf was demoted to Class AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre after struggling in the Yankees' Game 1 loss to the Mets. Ohlendorf yielded six earned runs and five hits in 1 1/3 innings and has posted a 6.53 ERA in 25 appearances this season. --LHP Kei Igawa was given another chance to show he can finally earn some of his expensive contract from the Yankees as he was called up to replace demoted RHP Ross Ohlendorf. Igawa pitched in mop-up duty for the Yankees in Game 2 of their doubleheader, throwing a scoreless ninth to finish off the 9-0 win. Igawa had been shelled in his one start with the Yankees earlier this season and struggled all through his rookie year after coming over from Japan in 2007.
--RHP Sidney Ponson wiggled out of trouble early and ended up giving the Yankees six shutout innings they desperately needed in Game 2 of their doubleheader against the Mets. Ponson yielded five hits and four walks and struck out four.
--RF Bobby Abreu went 4-for-4 in Game 2 of the doubleheader and added three RBIs. Abreu had been struggling recently before the bust-out performance, which helped the Yankees salvage a split as the teams traded routs.
BY THE NUMBERS: 1 -- Number of earned runs Andy Pettitte had allowed in his last 21 innings through the weekend.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "It's time the National League joins the 21st century or is forced to join. The National League is playing the same way it did in the 1880s. That's over with. The National League should have the designated hitter." -- Yankees co-chairperson Hank Steinbrenner, to the New York Post following Chien-Ming Wang's injury running the bases in an interleague game.
