Some notes from Game 6 - Yankees at Rays in Port Charlotte

Yesterday both Freddy Garcia and Ivan Nova pitched a combined 5 scoreless innings.  Freddy Garcia pitched the first two and Girardi said his velocity was up around 89-90 mph.  He allowed only one hit, retiring BJ Upton, Johnny Damano and struck out Longoria to end the first innning.  Garcia threw 20 pitches, 14 for strikes. 

Nova came in relief following Garcia and pitched three scoreless innings, giving up three hits.  Nova is the only pitcher so far to pitch 3 innings.  Hopefully the Yankees are trying to push him this season, so he can actually pitch through the 5th inning which was a problem for Nova last year.

Overall, it was a good outing for both Garcia and Nova who are the favorites to fill the 4th and 5th pitching slots.  This first week of games is just about over and now its time for these guys to really make an impression.