I don't see both of these guys shutting down any of these lineups. And if I'm wrong, I hope I'm wrong with Kuroda and he does shut them down.

Off topic: has anyone here been having problems with MLB.tv or At Bat 12 ? I have been using At Bat 12 on my iPad, and lately when I try to watch a game, every time an inning ends and the "commercial break in progress" screen comes up, the app resets to the "game day" screen. Then I need to re-select the video feed, wait for it to check for blackout restrictions, etc....every half inning.

I wrote MLB.tv customer service, and received only their useless pre-fab list of tricks (e.g. "try restarting the device"). Thanks.

Go Yanks.

[2] I haven't had any trouble with mlb.tv. But I haven't tried it on an iPad -- just on my MacBook and my Roku box.

[3] Well, I'm testing it right now, using the Seattle-Detroit game. h look, Montero just whacked an RBI single.

Hm. Seems to be working ok so far. We'll see what happens when the Yanks-Rangers start, though I'll probably be a sleep by then.

Only Yankee with 30 hits in the first 16 games? Dang, Derek's piling some firsts. Which isn't easy to do on the Yankees anymore.

Man, after all these years hearing about the Whirling Darvish, here he is.
Light 'em up, O!

okay, I might have taken a pitch

I just heard on the radio that Jamie Moyer has pitched to 8% of the players in MLB history.

Could that be right? Did I mishear??

[9] They've been talking about that fact throughout this week. Crazy, right?

This strikezone is gonna be a bitch

[9] Six degrees of Jamie Moyer?

Wow, so that fact is going around. Amazing. [12] I guess an awful lot of baseball players have one degree of separation from Jamie Moyer. (Or is that zero? I can't remember how it works.)

Sox on the board and still batting in the top of the first.

Oh Christ

Oi!

Sayonara.

ugly already

Nick Blackburn is... struggling.

[13] I think Jamie would be the zero. Every batter he's pitched to is 1 degree.
Meh, Josh will do that. Just make sure the bases are empty when he's at bat.

Well, sooner or later we should make solid contact, right?

Someone who throws strikes and keeps hitters off balance. Oh, boy.

[20] Oh, right, Jamie is the zero. That's right. Like only Paul Erdős has an Erdős number of zero.

[21] Teix did -- line drive but at Hamilton.

Just in, was Singleton talking about Sumo wrestling?? Caught the end of him saying something like "..and we met the Hawaiian champion Konishiki.." HUGE 450+lb ex-champion. Popular TV "talent" now in Japan..

Oh, Yu Darvish is good. They won't get much off him tonight looks like.

Ahh..even Michael Kay is on the "Michael Young, what a leader!" nonsense..ain't it great how certain guys get a pass?

Go Go Kuroda!

I need to get David "Ball Four" Murphy popular.

Ump has a real slow call.

Twins and Sox started at the same time as us. Still in the first inning! Morneau with the bases loaded and one out, torturing Beckett with a long at-bat...

Josh has thrown 28 pitches. Only one out. Full count...
And he walks Morneau, driving in the Twins' first run.

Phew.

Okay, at least we have a hit

Beckett comes back, striking out Ryan Doumit on three pitches. Two away, bases loaded.

Settle down 'ya Prima Donna!

The Captain can do no wrong.

Derek!

I'll be damned.

Danny Valencia. God, the Twins are anemic. Beckett doesn't have control, he goes to 3-0. But then a strike, and Valencia grounds out on the sixth. Only one run, but Beckett threw 35 pitches in the first inning.

The scouts are right. Jeter does seem faster

Outside Blue! Fuck that shit!

Great pitch. Damn.

He might have gotten a call, but that's the first one he got

IN THE AIR

[39] Legs, or bat?

This could very well be the inning that ruins this game.

Holy shit.
Man, that was brutal.

Dammit!

Oh well.

At least we have a hit.

[44] Legs

Kelly Shoppach leads off with a double, and Aviles sacrifices him to third! Bizarre. Aviles is not good at hitting, but that is just a terrible tactic.

[50] Twinkie Baseball. Catch it!

This is a duel, no doubt.

I wish I could take the whole morning off, but gotta head out for a lunch in 30 minutes. Darn!

[51] Soft-tossin, fundamentalin', baseball the way it's meant to be played!

[50] He's not an *awful* hitter either.

Is there an older 3rd baseman-Shortstop combo than Jeter-Chavez tonight I wonder. : /

Mr. OK and Just Fair, you know Shoppach and Aviles are on the Red Sox, right? It was Bobby V's tactic.

Failed, too -- they didn't get him in!

Rip off!

A walk in front of Hamilton. boooooooooooooooo!

Kuroda has thrown that way high rolling thingamajig a couple times tonight

I wish the announcers would learn how to say his name. He's only been in the majors for what, 5 years.

It's Koo-roh-dah, damnit!

Nice toss, Josh.

Irritating. Almost had him on the steal, too.

[56] Oh, crap. Whoops . I knew Minnesota playing Boston but just figured the the anemic Twins pulled that stunt. It is compforting to know Shoppach and Aviles are in the Boston line-up.
2 out walk in front of Hamilton and the Yankees can't fucking score with the fucking bases loaded and no outs. Fucking Bollocks!

[55] Jeter /A-Rod

Martin has reminded me of Cervelli defensively this year.

That's not a compliment.

[64] With all of Chavez's time on the dl he seems older.

A Robbie Rocket into the gap.

An extra base hit!

Pathetic.

I predict 3 straight strikeouts. Determine.

Hmm.

[70] Should read nevermind. Stupid Touchpad.

I've swung like that before

[72] I've been determining for like 20 minutes now

I like 1998 Derek Jeter

Yay Derek.

A few 95 mph fastballs in a row and then he RIPS a curveball down the line. Jete!

Okay, this is boring

Well that was good. Now. Score truck!

A most efficacious (spelling?) double play.

This game has been very Matsuzakaish, in that I think the Yankees will score nine runs off him next time they see him

Yu looks very good.

Dice-K didn't throw strikes. Yu isn't afraid to hit the plate.

Lead off homer. 2 out walk to Hamilton. Yanks shit the bed with the bases loaded. This should be an entirely different game. grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....

Hello!
Kuroda proudly represents. 2 runs in six innings against the Rangers lineup is more than can be expected.

Yu Dar man is the real thing. The Yanks need to get to the bullpen.

[85] I think he's going 9.

[56] Ouch! I also assumed they were on the Twins..hard to believe a RSox team bunted there. Does Bobby V think he's still in Japan? No matter now as they're up 8-1.

[86] Havn't seen much since first inning. How were the Yanks' at bats against Darvish? Has he been dominant or just so-so?

Darvish is twirling tonight.

[87] Jeter and Cano both ripped doubles along with singles. The rest of the lineup has been hopeless. He's looked like Pedro, sadly. Kuroda has been pretty damn good, too.

This game should probably bother me more

Robbie swing at and trying to pull a bad pitch

MOVEZ

If nothing else, Nolan's way is more fun to watch than the hysterical over reaction to Mark Prior that teams had adopted

Joe Nathan is always up for a good implosion.
Damn, Yu. I don't think we'll see a much better shutdown of the Yanks than that.

Oh well.

Darvish was marvish. Many different pitches for strikes. You think Ibanez could have taken one pitch from Nathan?

The Yanks will take the series tomorrow.

The only thing that bothers me now is we need Phil Hughes to pitch well to avoid a losing streak.

[98] D'oh!
[96] I'm still bitter Yanks did not really bid for him.

Kuroda pitched a nice game. Yu was that much better. Not a bad loss. Happens.