The Yankees have to hope the result of a single game doesn't determine the fate of their season. If it does, Sunday's has the potential to haunt them.

How would they feel looking back on it and knowing they lost to a sub-.500 Mets team with Bobby Abreu, Jason Giambi and Robinson Cano all given the day off?

Manager Joe Girardi took a calculated gamble in assembling an almost entirely righthanded lineup to face starter Oliver Perez. He'd used the Bombers' conventional lefty-heavy batting order against the Mets' southpaw on May 18 and it managed only two runs. Noting that Perez was holding lefthanded hitters to a .167 average, he benched several regulars to create a batting order in which Johnny Damon was the only lefty.

It failed even more miserably, managing a single run on just three hits in seven innings against Perez in a 3-1 loss at Shea.

Full Article from the NY Daily News HERE.