Alex Rodriguez broke his hand, right? Is there any particular reason he doesn't play the field any more?

Also, just for our own edification, seeing as we've doubled down on the righty give up lineup on the most important game of the year, Wei-Yin Chen's splits.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.cgi?id=chenwe02&year=2012&t=p#plato

[2] Good Catch. Quick.... call Girardi!

Help me out.
I can watch this Yankees game...
but there are some good repeats on of 'Two and a Half Men'.
So it's between something I've seen before that's funny... or
something I've seen before that's depressing.

At least Teix is back tomorrow.

Um..... this is the game thread, right?

Holy fucking mother of God!
It's started already.

Fucked fast

Bullet #1: dodged.

Wow. Not exactly a clean inning but the first inning in what feels like forever with 0 ER

I wasn't worried at all. I knew Phil would pitch his way out. Not worried at all.

Who's with me?

(11). What's on second?

Hughes Vs. Reynolds.
Any thoughts?

Does Hughes have a Curveball?

[10] Don't worry, he'll shit the bed at some point.

So according to Singleton's analysis, which seems to match the video, Hughes basically missed on every pitch to Reynolds but in the end got away with it.

[13] He's throwing something off-speed with downward break -- he got Chris Davis to ground out on it. But I don't know if it's a change or a curve.

[15] Hm.
I think I prefer that to what I am expecting will happen next time.

[17] Lucky > Good > Expected

LEFTY MASHERS (Jones, Pearce, McGehee) update: feeble 0-3

[19] I'm not even paying any attention, so I missed that Pearce and McGehee are in the lineup at the same time. Actually, even if I were paying attention, I'm not sure I would have differentiated between them.

Thank fucking Mo!

It's alive...ALIVE!!!

Russel!

Muscle with the 2nd wind!

Nice blast, Russell. Especially after A Rod JUST missed that fastball.

Pearced!

Eat it McCloud. Go Pearce. Whoo-hoo.

[10] What me worry? Russell Martin, September Stroker!

Steve Pearce, now a Yankee?

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit’s Clobberin’ Time

It looked like it hit off the edge of McClouths glove.

Maybe it's the high socks, but Andruw Jones looks like he lost a pound or 10.

Pearceamania is runnin wild brothers!

50 yr old Roger Clemens is pumpin' em in at 88 mph.

[32] "Pearce"mania.

Jays-Sox rain delay over. Goodbye Yankees-O's.

!

Alex finally caught up to one. Nice!

Yay-Rod!

[35] I'm guessing you saw the best part.

I'm surprised they had that long rain delay. It was completely clear hear -- I guess the rain passed north of us.

Didn't JUST miss anything there.

I missed ARod's HR. Was it nice?

[41] Clobbered.

Yep. I had utter confidence in Hughes.

The real key is CC needs to win tomorrow and start to put some space between the teams.

Nice play for the ol' shortstop.

Phil Hughes can't help but suck

Phil, do not blow this lead!

Yeah, we prefer to have the homers be solo homers. Even if the guy aboard reached on error, we still frown upon it.

Phil 'Its Just a Matter of Time' Hughes.

Very predictable home run b AJones there. Oh well, Bullpeen Rouxlette will hold them!

Loved that ARod tater, he's still got some power.

The Swisher error didn't help.

We need more runs.

[51] Double digits!

I have been saying it all season but Phil's location is terrible. Time and time again he misses location on his fastball by about 2 feet. Russell will set up inside to lefties and it winds up high on the outside corner. Bad news. Damn, Jeter. Roll on.

Two for Jetes.

I think we're ten away from Willie

Dag, Swish hit one deep but foul, Cano just got under that one.

[55] 3273 to 3283.

Um.
Cody, the thing about solo homers does not apply to you.

Its gonna be hard to do anything with two decent relievers

[55][57] He should blow past Mays, but he probably just doesn't have enough games left to get to Collins (3315) this season. I figure Jeter will end up with around 3305 this year.

[59] Rapada is good.

[61] His last 11 games have been some kind of no good.

OH FUCK NOT JOBA

Nice out by Boone. Man, it seemed like Markakis was on every pitch.

Yankees better do some scoring if Joba's coming in

[62] True, but unless he's hurt the last 11 are no more important than the previous 50.

Good job by Boone.

More runs...

A Rod just missed the 1-1 pitch.

Damn, Alex. That was right down the chute.

"Football Sunday with Mike Francessa" Sunday morning on YES..that sounds horrid.
Good job by Camden Yards PA guy there playing Jimi Hendrix!

I'm a little worried about D-Rob coming in here..no Soriano for 6 outs? This is September baseball!

[69] You want Soriano to come in for six outs every night of September?

[69] This is a big appearance for Da Hamma. If there is October baseball, he'd better be right or it will be an early winter.

[70] Yep! Back in my day sonny, closers were real firemen! Like Goose Gossage throwing 75 pitches every night!!

No, but after last night..you really want D-Rob in there to face the middle of their lineup?

[72] Yeah, I do, actually.

I think this is a low leverage appearance, so perfect -- and like kenboyer says, he needs to get right back on the horse. Or bike, or whatever the metaphorical hell it is.

D Rob vs A Jones: Redux. Curious to see how he approaches this one...

(As a general rule, I tend to ignore the recent past, just to compensate for everyone else paying too much attention to it :-))

Woke up late. Missed the Yankee fireworks. Saw the O's fireworks. Man, this has turned into a nail-biter.

Pants low for luck, I see.

Curve ball, right over the plate for a strike. Jones jumped a little. That was the pitch Robertson couldn't get over last night.

Second pitch, another curve, this one moving low and away, swing and miss, strike two.

Same pitch, curve, away, whiff.

Wonderful.

[75] That wouldn't have worked for us in Germany 1936

Sorianoesque strikeout.

Weiters slams it but to center, easy out for Grandy.

Out-fucking-standing.

[79] That would be the Alphonso version. Not the Rafael version. : )

[74] Good approach!

Mr OK, YOU JUST GOT HAMMERED!

Quick. Everybody text Yes: Steve Pearce for player of the game.

I'm glad that DRob did well, but there should be no smiles in the dugout until untuck.

Nix as a pinch hitter? Now I've seen everything.

[85] Oh, dude, careful. You sound like a Red Sox fan.

More mix and match from Bucky Boy.

Showalter is the very definition of a sourpuss. His ugly face forever making ugly faces. Never seen the man smile.

88) Buck looks like he could have played for Nixon's Watergate Softball team.

[83] That's what SHE said! Wait..I'm unclear on how to use that one..
[88] Painful guy to look at. And they insist on showing him repeatedly on the YES broadcasts.

[89] That's inexplicably hilarious.

Yes!

Ahhhhhhhhh.

Oh, man. What a pleasure.

Derek's going to pass Willie tonight!

@#$%@%@#$%@#%@#$%@#$%

Ah, well. Still good knocking, Swish.

Nick was robbed! Call the police.

He caught the ball between the exact same two fans of Pearce's homer.

Cmon sori

[89] Hilarious. Put McCarver on it, too.

Funny thing is that the same guy in the stands that fought McLouth on the Pearce HR, tried to get the ball out of his glove on the Swisher catch.