It’s raining but let’s hope they get this one in: Hiroki Kuroda vs. Matt Harvey.
Brett Gardner CF
Robinson Cano 2B
Vernon Wells LF
Lyle Overbay 1B
David Adams 3B
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Reid Brignac SS
Chris Stewart C
Hiroki Kuroda SP
Never mind the Phenom: Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Photo Credit: Simon Davidson]
I might be alone with this wish, but I'm hoping the game doesn't start until about 8pm which is around when my son's spring concert ends.
Wish granted and then some. They're saying it'll be an 8:40 start.
Well, hot damn, that's perfect; I just got home from my afternoon walk.
LET'S GO YANKEES!!!
Dammit, that would have been 3 bases for Gardner.
[3] Early evening constitutional, Cap'n?
I like the late starts, means the game will take me right up to lunch time here. So this Matt Harvey..real deal or media creation? Why did it take him so long to reach the majors?
4) Ankiel is good out there.
Yanks win if Hiroki is sharp.
[5] Observe for yourself. He'll regress to the mean, but I'd say he's totally legit. His stuff certainly is.
Why did it take him so long to reach the majors?
2 years is "so long"?
[5] Yeah, I try to go walking when I get home from work everyday. Working in my favor is I get home at 3pm and I live in the hills above Laguna Beach and there's an awesome walk I take that follows a fire access road along the ridge line that follows the peaks of the hills to the highest hill in the city, called "Top of the World".
[7] Kuroda not so sharp, yet.
[8] Was he a college player? I'll have to read about him, am a bit behind on my 野球 reading this season.
[9] Sounds great! My evening train ride home gives me of view of industrial seaside of Kawasaki (the ugly-New Jersey of the Tokyo metro area). :)
Cano knew it, he had a cookie to hit, and fouled it off.
That last slider was so filthy it deserved a XXX rating ...
A SS with behind-the-bag range to his left???
That's unpossible!
[14] Bah, humbug. I like my SS with some Pasta, please!
Yanks have to keep working the counts to get Harvey's pitch count up. It's only getting more difficult for them.
The good news, Phillies beat the Red Sox 3-1; and Papelbon got the save.
[5] Good enough so far?
=)
[18] 92mph slider on the outside corner? Ouch.
HiroKi has really settled down.
Fail.
Fucking pathetic, Vern.
Lyle, Lyle, he's our man. If he can't do it, nobody can!
John Big Booty, bring me da Overbaythruster!!!
Overbay!
[24] Dialogue from the new Liberace film?
VW getting a little frustrating, but Overbay does it again! Big run and it seems Gardner has Harvey's number.
Can't spell Gardner without D!
[24] Heh!
Not a fan of Buckaroo Banzai, I take it?
Seriously Tejada, what the hell were you bitching about, you'd been out for seconds before you even got your hand to the bag ...
After Cano's error (he is human), a great defensive inning. Brignac had the bag blocked, and Tajada only touched the base after Brignac was heading to the dugout. Why did the ump call him safe initially? And Gardner's catch...
[28] D'oh! Completely blanked on that..for reasons totally lost to me know, as a kid I always confused Turk 182, THX 1138 and Buckaroo Banzai..maybe time to watch all three again?
[31] Big Boo-TAY, Big Boo-TAY!!!
Let's face it; with this line-up we can only expect the score scooter and depend on the pitcher's toll booth for the wins.
Ooof, Ike's getting KILLED by Mets fans ...
[34] He must go down to the minors or he'll be permanently damaged and finished as a player.
IchiGO!!!
IchiNO!!!
Well, poo.
No for Mo.
That's a load of bollocks.
Fugh.
No words. Mo's allowed to screw up 5 different ways once in a while. Mets fans get a little joy.
Hiroki pitched a great game.
Wait, I just got back. Mo blew it to the Mets??! WTF happeend??
Mo had nothing. Always painful when it happens to him. And Stewart is an absolutely awful catcher.
Crap. Tuned into to see the bottom of the 9th and saw the worst part of the game. Mo didn't look good. Pitches were up. Location was off. And he also didn't backup the catcher on the throw home. Rare physical and mental mistakes by Mo.
[41] Missing a Mo appearance? No soup for you. But, a double down the line in the stands by Murphy , a single by Wright that scored Murphy, and Mo didn't back up the throw as it got away from Stewart (he kind of stood around on the mound looking flummoxed), so Wright moved to second. A single by Duda scores Wright. Game over in 9 pitches by Mo.
Yanks lose three in a row first time this year, and the last team to do it this year.
[41] Just jumped out for a minute for my lunch bento-box!
Wow..9 pitches usually means 3 up 3 down for Mo..
[42] Stewart is playing injured.
Joba made him do it.
47. You're close. I believe it was Arod's fault.