Yeah, I stayed up for the whole thing. Ten innings, West Coast time…it was close to two in the morning when all was said and done and the Yankees had lost 7-6 to the team they cannot beat, the L.A. Angels. Ugh!

And the real thing was that both team’s best players had battled each other to a 6-6 tie through nine…A-Rod had homered, K-Rod had gotten out of trouble against Bobby Abreu in the ninth…and then it was back up catcher Ryan Budde hitting a game-winning shot to the right-center field gap off the Yankees’ last option, Sean Henn. I guess that’s the way extra-inning games are often won and lost — with stars on the bench and second tier guys on the field.

So it’s back to work tonight at 10pm.  Mike Mussina takes on Kelvim Escobar in a game that hopefully ends closer to 1am.