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Redemption for Soriano

By Rich Mancuso

BRONX, NEW YORK, August 29- Rafael Soriano on Monday night was not perfect at Yankee Stadium. The efficient closer for the New York Yankees gave up a three-run homer run in the ninth inning that contributed to an extra inning loss to the Toronto Blue Jays. Tuesday night he rebounded with a perfect ninth as New York evened their series with the Jays, 2-1. 

The Yankees go for a rubber game win Wednesday afternoon in the Bronx in what now has become a tight race in the American League East with the Orioles and Tampa Bay.

Soriano struck out two Blue Jays and preserved a win for Phil Hughes (13-11), his sixth straight win at home.

“The best day I had all year,” commented Soriano who got his 34^th save.

Hughes pitched seven good innings and the only run allowed was a home run off the bat of Adeiny Hechavarria with two outs in the fifth inning, the first of his career. The Yankees produced a run on an RBI single from Nick Swisher in the third, and Curtis Granderson got a run on a sacrifice fly in the fourth.

It was one of those rare games that saw the Yankees fail to hit a home run. They came into the game leading baseball with 199. Manager Joe Girardi used newly acquired Steve Pearce in the cleanup spot of the order as the designated hitter.

With Alex Rodriguez on the disabled list with a broken hand, and Mark Teixeira out for at least a week with strained left calf, two power cogs out of the lineup, his team resorted to small ball off Blue Jays starter and loser Rickey Romero.

Romero (8-12), coming off a bad start against Detroit, yielded five hits in seven innings and had an extra day of rest.

“I’m just going to build off this,” he said.

Pearce walked, went to second on a wild pitch, and advanced to third on a groundout and scored on the Granderson sacrifice fly to center.

“The little guys in the lineup did a nice job in that role,” said Girardi. “We’re a little banged up,” he said about his team that has an important three-game series starting Friday evening in the Bronx w,ith second place Baltimore.

Said Girardi about how Soriano rebounded, “It’s hard when you do your job 95 percent of the time and not as easy when you don’t.”

Email Rich Mancuso: Ring786@aol.com  Listen and watch Rich Thursday night from 10:30pm-12:30am live www.inthemixxradio.com 

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Bronx News (Bxnews.net): 12 Injured as SUV's Crash into Jerome Avenue Shoe ...

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): 12 Injured as SUV's Crash into Jerome Avenue Shoe ...:     By David Greene   A dozen people were injured when two out-of-control SUV's jumped a busy sidewalk and plunged into...

12 Injured as SUV's Crash into Jerome Avenue Shoe Store

 

 

By David Greene

 

A dozen people were injured when two out-of-control SUV's jumped a busy sidewalk and plunged into a Norwood shoe store.

Rescue crews were dispatched to the Payless ShoeSource, located at 3457 Jerome Avenue, at just after 7 p.m., on Friday, August 24.

One young man with fresh blood on his pants leg, recalled, “There was a worker who was pinned under one of the vehicles and a bunch of us went in there and we got her out."

A second witness claimed one driver was making a broken U-turn when the driver of a Ford Expedition crashed into it at a high rate of speed. One witness reported that the

driver of the Expedition claimed he was suffering from a stroke.

However, police say the second vehicle was parked, when the driver swerved, hitting the parked car and forcing both SUV's to be catapulted into the store. Most of the injuries were described as minor and all are expected to survive.

Police say the driver and three passengers were injured in the Expedition and one victim was injured in the parked car. The seven additional victims were either walking along Jerome Avenue at the time of impact or inside the shoe store.

Employees at Payless were busy cleaning up debris the following day. Workers at the store were still not answering the phone the following Monday.

While no one was killed in the crash, a quarter-mile stretch of Jerome Avenue from Mosholu Parkway to E. Gun Hill Road is quickly becoming the most deadly road in the city.

On March 28, Justin Bravo, 28, a teacher at MS 244 in Kingsbridge was killed when he lost control of his motorcycle and slammed into the wall of an overpass at Mosholu Parkway at Jerome Avenue.

On February 29, Norwood cab driver Kwame Awtwi, 51, suffered a heart attack and crashed into a pole at the corner of E. Gun Hill Road and Jerome. Awtwi died a short time later at Montefiore Hospital.

On February 19, two men were seriously injured when their Chevy Impala struck a subway pillar on Jerome Avenue at Van Cortland Avenue. The two men in this crash were critically injured but are said to be recovering.

Detectives continue to hunt for the hit-and-run driver who mowed-down 23-year old Josbel Rivera, 23, who was killed on December 26, as he crossed Mosholu Parkway at Paul Avenue. Days later the car was set ablaze in Kingsbridge.  

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): CRIME WAVE?

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): CRIME WAVE?: Fatal Shooting the Latest in Violence Plaguing Pelham P’kway Houses (Detectives stand over the body of a young man shot dead aft...

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): CRIME WAVE?

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): CRIME WAVE?: Fatal Shooting the Latest in Violence Plaguing Pelham P’kway Houses (Detectives stand over the body of a young man shot dead aft...

CRIME WAVE?

Fatal Shooting the Latest in Violence Plaguing Pelham P’kway Houses

(Detectives stand over the body of a young man shot dead after a dispute on Pelham Parkway.--Photo by Boris Kaykov)

By David Greene

BRONX, NEW YORK, August 28- One man is dead and another was wounded after an early morning dispute led to gunfire in the Allerton section.

Police say the two victims were drinking and sitting on a bench outside of the Pelham Parkway Houses, at just after 1 a.m., on Sunday, August 26, when the pair got into an argument with a group of men.

One of the men pulled a gun and shot the two victims before the group fled the scene.

One of the men, later identified by police as Adrian Garcia, 25, was shot in the neck and was declared dead at the scene.

The second victim who remains unidentified, described as a 20-year old man, was shot in the leg and was transported to Jacobi Hospital. That victim was expected to recover. Police have made no arrests at this time.

Police are still actively hunting for the killer of longtime Pelham Parkway Houses resident Evelyn Shapiro, 88, who was beaten to death inside her apartment, her body was discovered back on June 16.

A $12,000 reward is still being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Shapiro's killer.

In May, 2009, Jimmy Butler, 22, and Jimmy Robinson, 20, were gunned down inside the complex, their killers also remain at large.

In response to Shapiro's brutal murder, Councilman Jimmy Vacca secured $4 million for the purchase and installation of security cameras at the Pelham Parkway and Throgs Neck Houses. Installation of those cameras are to begin in 2013.

One resident of the complex who declined to be identified, stated, "The young hoodlums think their bad with their little gangs," adding that the Bloods and the Crips have a stranglehold on the complex as they peddle their drugs.

The resident said of the new security system, "I don't understand why its taking so long."

As of August 19, the NYPD recorded six homicides during the first eight-months of 2012, compared with just two reported during the same time period last year.