Seven-Up?
Posted on Jul 1, 2009 5:54 pm
By Cliff Corcoran
The Yanks have won their last six games by a combined score of 45-19. Tonight they have a match-up of veteran lefties as Andy Pettitte takes on the Mariners’ Jarrod Washburn. The 34-year-old Washburn is having his best season as a Mariner and has turned in a quality start in ten of his 14 outings, including his last two against the dreggs of the NL West. The 37-year-old Pettitte has been all over the map, lasting just 3 2/3 innings his last time out in Atlanta after pitching a gem in Miami the turn before.
Joe Girardi drops Robinson Cano a spot against the lefty, puts Melky in center, and gives Alex Rodriguez a half-day off at DH with Cody Ransom drawing the start at third base. Eric Hinske is in the house and could pinch-hit for Ransom against a righty late in the game. Ramiro Peña is off to make his Triple-A debut for Scranton.
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Poor Ramiro…
He deserved better than that. They will miss his glove and his speed.
They’re supposedly trying Peña out in CF at AAA. Surely this is a desperate attempt to turn him into trade bait before deadline, no?
[0] I thought *for sure* that Hinske would start tonight at 3B. I was wrong.
[3] Not against the lefty, MP. He’ll come in when they bring in a righty reliever. Both Ransom and Hinske better produce or I’ll be pissed…
[4] ah, right.
Quiet here so far.
That’s not the kind of “production” I had in mind…
Pfft!
[5] Everyone gettin’ their fireworks?
heh heh
*** BAD PUN ALERT ***
Umpires Jerry Meals at first, Ron Kulpa at third… a Meals-Kulpa around the corners (especially with Ransom covering third tonight)!
(ducks and runs…)
Holy Smoke… the Umps are BLIND!
[9] uh oh is this a future event?
[8] Ouch…
: )
Let me see some Po Ab’s first Kay, before we see how “blessed” he is against Washburn…
: )
[11] Hey! No crying in baseball… >;)
(I did warn you!)
That’s what you get when they send a priest to do the Pope’s job…
: )
I can’t believe the obviously Red Hot Cano was dropped behind the Caught Looking Posada guy. Another Girardi loss.
[15] Hey RYI! Are you back home now?
RIY too…
Yes, we’re both back home, PJ! Back here in RI and RY, respectively.
[18] That’s good! Did you bring home some scotch by chance?
: )
Man, Karl Malden is dead at age 97. Not unexpected, but at this rate we’re going to run out of celebrities by August.
[20] Yeah, he completed the latest three with Mays and Travelena…
this is hot such a great return for cody so far
My favorite Malden role was General Omar Bradley in Patton…
Yay Johnny!
Johm-demon!
[19] I brought home an 18 year old, as a matter of fact.
[26] Very nice! They don’t get much better than that!
: )
[26] Nice.
That was going out without a doubt…
I dunno which one of Karl Malden’s roles were my favorite since he was in just about everything back in the day, but his bad guy role in “Nevada Smith” jumps to mind…
“Yer YELLAH! Ya haven’t got the GUTS!!!“
Okay, I caught the tail end of that story. Whose shirt did Griffey steal?
Dang.
pick-off time
Should Teix have gone home on that play?
Wow. I love that about Andy.
[33] i think he was too off-balance
gotta love the pick off … loved the wooga-wooga Balentien did before trying to dive back in!
[30] Maybe it wasn’t a shirt, but that t-shit that Alex saw at Shea… um, CitiField…
Is that what all the innings have looked like against Washburn???
blech.
Letting the opposing pitcher off with only 5 pitches is unacceptable!
[38] a few have gone slightly longer only to be killed by a dp
but blech described those innings as well
Exactly: two base runners twice. Two DPs killed off the surge.
Damon homered. One of these innings, though, someone will hit a 3-run homer, and we’re off…
8 pitch innings by Andy Pettitte, however, are eminently acceptable.
wow leche!!
Replay time. Kinda looked foul to me.
[44] me too
Better angle, looks good.
Yeah, that was fair… “DON”T FUNCK THIS UP, MITCHELL!!!”
>;)
[46] yeah it’s like from one angle someone is kinda ugly, another not so a bad
well hr it is
[8] you, sir, need to go to the Punitentiary!