It’s C.C. and the Killer B-Squid-id-ad this afternoon at the Stadium:
Brett Gardner CF
Nick Swisher RF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Robinson Cano 2B
Jorge Posada DH
Andruw Jones LF
Eduardo Nunez SS
Francisco Cervelli C
Ramiro Pena 3B
It’s absolutely gorgeous in New York for this Goldbricker’s Delight.
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
well thats a good start
Ok then. 1st two on base. Score a bunch!
This is a good start, now cash in the chips.
Not a double steal. Defensive Confusion. ; )
Love me a good Robbie swing.
Robbie comes through!
Double > Groundball to right side
Groundball to right side > K
Therefore...
Kay: "Andruw [Jones] has not played in a while because the Yankees have played against a slew of RHP."
Translation: "Andruw [Jones] has not played in a while because he has been pretty awful and the Yankees figured out that Gardner can hit LHP."
That was pathetic, Ed. : (
I'd like to see Cano play short fo ra season for my own personal entertainment.
You can't stop Frankie, you can only hope to contain him. And now we have the pitcher bunt him over to second....textbook baseball!
Man, they sure are making Wulfie throw some pitches.
"Driven DEEEEEEP"
You can't waste a Frankie lead off single! They're a rare breed.
KIm Jones: [paraphrase] "Six pitchers, that's what you're going to see if you want to work Phil Hughes back into the rotation..."
Translation: "Phil Hughes is going to the bullpen."
This ump sucks.
[15]
FOEIG = Phil
SOEIG = Dave
TOEIG = Rafael
Everybody wins!
[17] Especially he Yankees, who would in fact never lose a game!!
Heavyweight match-up.
C'mon CC!
that was beautiful
Frankie is good at strike 3 excitement.
Drilled! # 300!
300!
Way to go, Teix.
Yikes... anyone who complains about Girardi's getaway lineups ought to see who Franconia is playing today...
http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=310630122
Frankie goes to rbihood!
Brett owes about 8,000 push ups for this home stand.
[26] You can't stop him, you can only hope...etc.
CC is... THE MAN!
The ol' husband and wife play.
The sad thing is that I fully expected Jorge to get thrown out---somehow, somewhere---on that blooper.
Cole hamels was cruising and gets hit by Gonzalez line drive off his right hand. He gets taken out of the game and the next guy promptly gives up two runs.
Now Lester has a lead and can lock this one up.
Nuñez ran out of his batting helmet...that looked just like Pee-Wee League.
Yikes. He had to have been safe.
Not out.
Michael Kay avoided that very obvious fallacy of the predetermined outcome moment.
11 k's. Hot damn!
Baker's dozen. Clappity clap clap clap.
Now 13 ks. CC is dealing today.
[38] It's too bad he won't have the chance to close it out. It would be cool to see him top 15 Ks.
Hm. When was the most recent high-K game by a Yankees' pitcher?
[40] My baseball reference skills are bush league. A beer to who answers it. Maybe the booth will say it before game's end.
[41] Cone had 16 Ks in 1997 (according to some or other website I found). I can't remember any Yankee pither more recently with more than 13 Ks, but I'm sure someone has accomplished that.
BOOOOOOOOOOO
Oh well.
[42] Clemens had 15 vs Seattle in the 2000 ALCS, but thats obviously not regular season
Didn't Guidry have 19 Ks in a game in 1978?
Logan got lucky there. Prince was trying to hit it to Delaware.
[46] 18.
Meat tray for the 9th? Mo help us!
Yayyyy!!! They're warming up Mitre already!!!
[48] Thanks.
Toughish throw, but that's gotta be an error on the pitcher. I mean, the throw hit his glove.
I could make a stronger throw to 2nd. Yeesh.
[48] That was the game where the practice of standing and clapping for the third strike of a strike out started ...
Meanwhile, that's an A+ reliever 'stache that Axford is sporting.
They should send Dickerson home on a straight steal. Just for my own amusement.
Holy Crap!
Frankie Brains with a hit!
Cervelli with 2 rbi's today. Take that, MP!
You. Just. Can't. Stop. Him.
When was Frankie's last 3-4 with 2 rbi game?
C'mon, I'm hungry ... hungry for some MEAT TRAY!
Jesus who?
[56] and the Yankeeography production team is deployed!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Just Ayala.
So, how long after Unlucky™ comes in do we see Mo? I guess on the bright side, maybe Mo can vulture a few extra saves from Mitre's unluck and make a run at the all time record this year.
[64] Whoops...Ayala instead.
That was a damn fine game. CC is good.
Another W for CC.
Wow. Wunnerful, wunnerful.
And no Mitre. We are all Lucky!
Teix: "...I give ourselves a lot of credit..."
That made me laugh for some reason.
I dunno, I think Mitre is a perfectly cromulent, break-glass-in-case-of-emergency, last-guy-out-of-the-pen who pitches in case of blowouts.
I'd much rather see him on the mound than Buddy Carlyle ...
[71] That pitcher shouldn't even exist, given the rarity of the situations suitable for his services. If a pitcher is used only in break-glass/last-guy/blowout circumstances, then his spot on the roster should be taken by someone else, like an additional position player.
In addition, given Girardi's apparent love affair with Unlucky™, I stand by my prediction that he will end up starting ten games if he stays on the roster.
CC giving unsolicited praise to Cervelli's game behind the plate. That's worth something.
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"You want it to be one way ... but it's the other way"
-Marlo Stanfield