Ah, you know what? I missed the whole damn thing so I don’t have much on what went down yesterday. I checked the box score, saw that each team had a bunch of hits, so I guess the Yanks had their chances just couldn’t get her done.
They lost, 5-3, and the modest but promising, four-game winning streak is over.
Phil Huges didn’t get bombed but he wasn’t good, either:
“I can’t remember the last time I was as bad as that,” Hughes said. “Just not being able to locate the fastball, or any offspeed pitch for that matter. Any time I did have to come in for a strike, it was out over the middle of the plate and just got hammered somewhere.”
Unless of course, a better assessment is this one…
“The fastball command wasn’t there,” Francisco Cervelli said. “We get behind all the time, and especially when you can’t throw strike one, that’s a problem. … When we miss location, this is the big leagues, you pay. Sometimes they hit a base hit, sometimes a homer. Today was three bombs.”
(Via Chad Jennings)
And here’s some more weirdness.
Hiroki Kuroda will get the start tonight as Andy Pettitte’s got some back pain and will skip a start. Yanks and O’s make like The Game of the Week tonightski on ESPN.
In the meantime, it’s sunny here in the Bronx. Hope everyone has a fine day. We’ll be back tonight with a game thread.
For now, dig the Andrew Wyeth picture above and listen to this:
I want an arod cam during tonight's game. Intermittently they could show the game from his point of view with occasional glances to a document shredder, a bag of money, a portrait of himself as a unicorn, and his roid mule.
1) The horse is dead but you keep beating.
It was fun seeing Frankie at second.
Sox holding a steady 4-0 lead over the Rays. Clay has a no no through six. But now, time for the Knicks Pacers!
[2] It's an equus thing.
yeah, i keep checking the scoreboard in hopes of laptop giving up a hit (and, subsequently, runs)...
braves are destroying the gnats...
[5] Evil! yo - i'll be playing the Bucks Creek festival, just outside B'ham, in a month. if you're around, come on out!
Fantastic. I'll look into it. If you get a chance check out the Barons new park.
Dammit, I like no-nos, but not Buchholz.
c'mon desmond - BUNT!!!
[8] cool. i prolly won't have much time to do anything except play...
Double = better than bunt!!!
wahoo! fuck you, laptop!!!
haha : )
man, do i hate the shit sox.
Thelarmis, did you see the WSJ story about Mo last week? He was talking to a drummer. (That wasn't the whole story, but, you know.)
[13] i did see it! : )
Ah! Good.
So, keep on drummin', and someday you will meet the Great One.
[15] i'm on it.
i was in the presence of Zakir Hussain last night. didn't meet him, but a friend of mine did.
Zakir and Mariano - THE greatest at what they do, the world over.
Wow!
Hm, I haven't met anyone great recently. (Except my son, who's home for a while, he's great.)
I guess that means I'd better keep practicing.
well, i didn't meet zakir...but i will meet lotsa great folks on Saturday.
i'm sharing the stage with Tower of Power, Maceo Parker, Dirty Dozen Brass Band and many more : )
and, yes, keep pracketing. i'm about to prak right now - both marimba and drumset...
that's really awesome about your son!!!
Knicks win! Clinch second seed. Outstanding. Now, onto the Masters before the game.
[22] you're not practicing marimba? huh.
[23] Why is practicing marimba like watching golf?
(I have no idea, it just sounds like a good riddle, doesn't it?)
Good finish to the Masters. In the rain, too.
Still pretty amped about the Knicks win today, too.