On the hottest day at Yankee Stadium since 1999 the Yankees and A’s play for close to four hours. The game was almost as brutal as the weather but there is little for Yankee fans to complain about because their team put a beatin’ on the A’s to the tune of 17-7. Mark Cahill is a good pitcher, honest, but he doesn’t fair well against the Yankees and they crushed him last night. Dig the box score for the gory details.
If there was one concern for the Yanks it was that Phil Hughes didn’t pitch long enough to get the win. But Nick Swisher homered and had five RBI, and Mark Teixeira hit a grand slam. Also, Derek Jeter batted second again last night, this time with Curtis Granderson in the lineup (Grandy hit third).
It’s another scorcher out there today.
Keep hydrated and Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Photo Credit: Thomas Longo]
Amy Winehouse found dead today in her London apartment. Not a surprise, but unfortunate.
C'mon AJ. Already in a first inning jam.
Check swing, but he went. No harm, no foul.
[1] Holy crap. The 27 year old curse strikes again.
Interesting article on our old buddy Kei Igawa over in the Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/sports/baseball/kei-igawa-the-lost-yankee.html?_r=1&ref=sports&pagewanted=all
Nice fucking meatball, AJ.
5) I saw that. Good one.
Dag, Russ whiffed with two men on. He gave it a good ab, fouling pitches off and Harden's almost thrown 80 pitches through four...
Laird bases loaded gets a 2-0 fastball and misses it. Then gets another one, another foul...he's got to see a change here...
Fail.
fastball, wow. And fuck. struck his ass out. Harden at 88 pitches though, so there's that.
well, it's going to be 3-1 pretty soon.
Glad to be wrong yet again. Nice job by A.J. to get out of it.
Lousy bottom of the fifth for the Yanks.
AJ gets two quick outs in the 6th, then gives up a hit. Now, 1-2 on Connor. Let's see if he puts him away or screws the pooch.
Christ. He walks him.
Now, behind 3-1 on the next hitter.
The bases are loaded and the pooch is nervous.
Girardi pulls him and A.J. pouts, doesn't look at the skipper and walks slowly to the dugout. I don't blame him for being frustrated but you can't blame Girardi cause A.J. has not proven that he can escape trouble. Fuck him.
broken bat bloop rbi single, one run scores.
Fucking AJ ...
C'mon. One more fucking out!
Wade gets a ground ball out. One run. Not horrible all considered.
HOLY BOMB!
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn.
Unfortunately, that only counts as a single run.
Holy crap. That was a bomb.
That's a fuckin' grown man's home run now isn't it?
Kay's mistaken is he not? Some visitor player hit an upper tank shot last year. Any recall on who that was.
Ah ha. Russell Branyon.
Damn, the kid got robbed there.
And of course Javier Vazquez served it up to Branyon. Atta boy, Boooooooooooooooone.
Jeter doesn't want Oakland to leave town
Good ab here by Russell.
And caps it off with a base hit. Okay, boys, no double plays, let's GO!
Keep the line moving, Nuney. 2 on, no outs.
Hit one where they ain't Nunie.
bunt? Argh.
A pop up is not drilled, Michael.
Drilled. Really?
Old bitch.
Fuck this fucking game.
LOL
Kay saying "Sixth inning man" made my eye twitch
Also, I missed the middle portion of the game. Did we really bring our mediocre left handed reliever in to pitch to Matsui? Didn't we use to laugh at people who did that?
[43] Yeah...then you missed Kay barely get the words out of his mouth---"Logan has been really pitching better..."---when Matsui drilled one into the seats.
This is painful to watch.
[44] When I become commissioner of baseball I'm outlawaing LOOGYs
I want pie.
Huzzah. Great ab!
Well this screams double play.
Perfect time for a rally killer. Who is this new shortstop kid?
C'mon, Robbie. Little bingo!
What a shitty fucking loss.
So ZOMG MATSUI IZ A LEFTY wound up costing us the game. How I despise knee-jerk managers.