C.C. vs. R.A. ‘Nuff said. Terrific match-up.
1. Jeter, SS
2. Granderson, CF
3. A-Rod, 3B
4. Cano, 2B
5. Teixeira, 1B
6. Swisher, RF
7. Ibanez, LF
8. Stewart, C
9. Sabathia, LHP
Never mind that damn knuckler: Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Photo Credit: N.Y. Daily News]
I think CC is going to take him yard.
Funny brush back pitch by R.A. to Alex.
1) I like your thinking.
Nice piece of hitting by David Wright.
[1] i agree.
and where is everyone? figured it'd be packed here...
i'm just getting back to the ATL from NYC. i was at the CC complete game last Monday at the Stadium. we had a blast. i thought everything about the stadium and game was *fantastic*!!!
missed the Banter. looking forward to catching up on things 'round these parts...
Just spotted Judd Apatow sitting in the stands behind first base...
Ah, crud.
4) We missed you too.
crap. personal catcher - oopsie!
And that's how you handle that, Stan.
that's more betterer! too many pitches though...
[6] aw, thanks! hope the speaking engagement went well thursday; sorry i missed it...
al - just seeing the gene ammons post. very nice. his nickname was "Jug". pretty cool! also known as "The Boss", though "Jug" was his main sobriquet.
Man, Youk ain't what he used to be (injuries), but the White Sox got a tremendous steal. $2m and 2 castoffs for Youk? Wow. Hard to believe the Red Sox couldn't do better.
Hey, yeah, we were thinking of you during that CG, cool!
[11] $1.1M, I hoid.
ooh, good. let's tack on another unearned run here!
(might be our best opportunity...)
Yeah, so, there's something he can't do. Field.
I'll take it. 2nd unearned run now, please.
[12] nice!
i won't miss - or root for - ugly, at all. i'm just glad he didn't end up in Atlanta. bravos were one of the teams bandied about...
ooh, this is nice. unearned run, please!
Keystone Mets.
a veritable threat!
wtf?!?! : /
Yep, things are setting up nicely for a CC salami.
fucking bollocks.
Jeez.... Teix is soooooooo slow. Cost us a run.
goddamn motherfucker. shoulda sent Tex.
i'm pissed.
Grrrr.
Crud.
CC was looking for the knuckler, that was the problem.
[23] i think it's rob thomson who cost us the run. tex was motoring. i'd have taken our chances with a play at the plate...
27) I think they would have nailed him. But oh, well.
Too bad cause C.C. smoked that ball.
dude. ah...
9) It was tons of fun. Thanks!
beautiful.
good.
pitcher hitting with 2 outs after a rally is such a buzzkill. DH should be in both leagues...
dickey's got a 1-hitter going...
i'd like to see Curtis steal 2nd.
I'm gonna be in Philadelphia next weekend, with a kid. But, the Phillies will be in Florida. Too bad, it would have been cool to go this weekend and see them play the Rays.
[34] Or a PB. (No J.)
sweet. a 2-hitter!
and another veritable rally!
how 'bout a double steal?! : )
[35] i was maybe an hour from philthy mid-week. no baseball game though...
[36] i'm all about the PB with no J.
bases loaded.
uh-oh.
triple steal!!! ; )
No double-steal necessary.
Here we go...
Okay!
Okay, Mark.
[39] I knew you would be, somehow.
a run!!!
nice streak, RA. good on ya!
that "rule" about the innings doesn't make sense to me. they should add 2 outs to it...
crushed.
SWISH-A-LICIOUS!!!
ka-BOOOOOM.
Yeah BOOOYEEE!
Swish unimpressed with Mets' Dickey
Chicken that!
leadoff walk. ah...
Jesus christ, Chris Stewart. Jesus.
personal catcher.
jesus christ.
Damn, had him.
Oh, and Rob. Both. Oy.
[50/51] huh.
[50] [51] The Jews for Jesus prayer meeting will begin at midnight.
yeah, that was more on robbie...
[55] right after the Jews for Jeter meeting lets out.
nice play.
Oh, I missed a Grand Salami? Damn.
[59] Almost.
[57] That one is at Youk's house, though, so you might not come.
I just want to state, for the record, that I called this Dickey slap down in the last game thread.
Now, that I've seen the fireworks, I have to get ready for work.
Catchya'll later.
good play, tex.
[62] Have fun storming the castle.
[61] yeah, i'll skip that one.
adventurous, swish...
Ole!
[61] If Kent Tekulve is going to be there can I come too?
please be okay and have NO lingering effect...
cool.
cash it in!
nice.
Did everyone see that Laptop went to the hospital and the DL? Undisclosed gastrointestinal illness. One rumor has it that he snarfed down a whole lot of Tylenol self-medicating back pain.
Dickey has stopped throwing knuckleballs. There's one, high. I wonder what happened.
[71] yeah, internal bleeding.
[71] I fucked up my stomach by taking 400 mg of ibuprofen for a year and a half. It masked the pain in my hip, but physical therapy cured it.
nice hook!
[73] Oh, is that official now? I heard it on the radio but from some bozos, so I wasn't sure how seriously to take it.
[74,73,71] Ibuprofen or Aspirin can really to that to your stomach??
ESPN, so intent on their montage of Knucklers COMPLETELY miss the play, plus no replay.
ESPN: Fail.
Oh, what the hell, send him up there again and CC will strike him out again.
Siddown you putz.
Heh nice back pocket reference.
man, do they love david wright. as well they should.
[77] i take ibuprofen all the time. never hurt my stomach...
i really don't want my best pitcher sliding into home plate and getting hit with the ball as the collision happens. ugh.
Note to CC: do not slide into home plate.
[77] Yes, in my case. I dropped 30 lbs. When 5 would have been good. Taken 2 years to add 5 pounds. Occasional use is fine, but it is not a permanent solution. PT wasn't that bad.
[84] Yeah.
[83] If you take a lot of it, though. I mean, a lot.
good.
raul the cool!
personal catcher.
So far tonight I have seen Chris Stewart pop up with the bases loaded and ground into a double play. That blows, Chris. Give up your Modamn naked pics of CC already!
Throw one pitch and get one out
Duda! Duda!
sloppy play tonite...
Robbie, how bout waking up and actually PLAYING the game, you fuckin' dog.
Man, I've got a bad feeling...
Yeesh.
CC looks fine. Error, floppy single. But this is a big sequence coming up.
Long way to go in this one...
[97] But if CC gets this dummy, it looks a lot shorter.
ugh.
how bout 1 pitch, easy infield popup...
Yeah, now he's not looking so good.
Now this is a big batter.
I say CC whiffs him.
Here we go...
No way!
Fuck!
Why can't our guys field today???
motherfucker.
More fucking crapola. Let them fucking tie it up why don't ya'!
Man, the infield has let us down today. Let CC down.
Crud!
Crap.
Honestly, I would have left CC in. Nothing wrong with the way he was pitching.
But we'll see...
Vinny Rottino..am sure the guy who worked at Pizza Center on E.13th st when I was a kid was named that...
i think the hamma would be a good choice here. i mean, he didn't load the bases himself, but he's quite used to this situation.
[108] I don't think "The Binder" allows for using your best bullpen guy in the 6th inning, even if it's a crucial situation.
oh noze.
Who could have predicited? MF! So that's what a 2 out hit looks like.
Was there any particular reason Mark Teixeira was playing on the grass with the bases loaded?
whew.
c'mon yanks. get it together and win the damn game!
[112] Yes, it was a play.
Three errors behind C.C. tonight. Didn't have great stuff but they didn't help him either. Cano, wow, you'd better make up for that shit with the stick, Son.
OK. From what I've seen of this peculiar game, the knuckler has put a spell on both sides. The ball is flying a little askew...
The damage ends here, poor CC has no decision. Scrappy Mets made a game of it, but the Yankees should prevail over the Mets bullpen.
I mean seriously. Was the idea that right handed batting Andres Torres was so fucking fast that he'd beat out a grounder to the right side? Who us he? The Flash? Is Joe Girardi an imbecile?
They should prevail but I don't think they will...
Try putting the ball in the air, Alex. That was fucking weak.
incredibly weak showing from the top of the order against batista.
As good as the Yankee pen has been I can't see them doing the job tonight. Nah, this has "shit-the-bed" written all over it.
[119] No matter one's opinion of Arod, what will the Yankees do for the next 5 years with his $30M per year in payroll and his probable continued decline.
To paraphrase: the end of baseball slugger's career is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.
[122] Is there anyway to take it out of Hank's allowance?
if i'm right about a-rod's contract:
$29 mil - this season
$28 mil - next season
$25 mil
$21 mil
$20 mil
$20 mil
122) What can they do? They'll live with it.
Please don't tell me Fab Five Freddy is coming into this damn game. Not unless the Yanks put a five spot on the board here.
take him yard, robbie.
oh my...WOW!!!
That's what I'm talking about, kid. Good job. Need more though.
If you didn't snooze on defense, Robbie, that would be a tack on. Good on ya', anyway!
[115] He made up for it!
I miss Mariano.
[125] Two years is something a team can live with, but FIVE years is unprecedented. The Arod welcome mat will be awfully thin by 2017.
Anyway, you knew Cano would redeem his sloppy play with the shot to take the lead.
Looks like Robinson is not available tonight. Still think the Yanks blow this one.
133) The A Rod welcome mat has been thin since 2004.
[134] Hey doom and gloom! I was worried the the Yanks would get swept after Friday's debacle. How's about a little faith? lol...
pinch stand there or a play?
[136] That's just Alex' reverse hex working. Yanks will win...
d-rob is up in the 'pen!
would anyone here have pinch hit with coltrane?
Anyone at the park? It was obvious a moment ago that everyone, including everyone in the Yankee dugout, was looking at some kind of event or disturbance up behind the plate.
I HOPE it's a reverse Hex. Still think Soriano will gag. Hope to heaven I'm wrong because I've had a bunch of so-called friends IMing me all night talking shit. LOL
oh, just seeing now that martin has a stiff back...
Wow, Boone back out there to start the inning.
Great sequence. One out. Five more to go.
boone!
here comes the Hamma!
Logan did well, and restored order. Worried about Robertson for some reason.
i think this is the first time d-rob is pitching back-to-back days since he's returned...
Fuck the Mets. And ugly, too. I wish he was traded to Japan. Lets go Hammer!
I cannot believe the Ike Davis missed two games eating a bad oyster. Take some lomitil, and play the game. Not to be punny, but it sounds fishy to me.
hammered.
[133] It's only money.... and after 2014, it won't be a big deal. Meanwhile, there will be a dozen or so games every year where Alex passes an all-time great in some category.
This is probably the greatest Infielder in Baseball History and a top 10 All-Time player.
Try to enjoy him.
152) Well put.
[141] Old-skool fight in the upper deck according to Twitter.
[149] Hey, we don't want him over here either!
C'mon D Rob. Man at the plate is your concern now. Go get him.
Dayum. I thought Stewart was a defensive plus of a catcher.
think Mo is watching the game?
Why is Cano holding the runner at second?
Balk.
oh, fucking bollocks.
156) Think he stole that on Robertson. His first throw tonight, though, was a clunker.
Yes!
Ok. Insurance please. When this gets to Soriano, it will be his biggest save opportunity so far this year.
sweet!
ooh, and VERY hot blonde yankees fan in the stands!!! ; )
[164] Hey! Don't you have a potential Mrs. Thelarmis there watching with you? :)
[152] Agree that he is one of the greatest, but the Centaur regrettably has a taint that should never have escaped the bottle. Tough to enjoy.
166) The bottle? Are you referring to his frosted hair? LOL
I think Soriano should save the game tonight with his shirt untucked and then angrily tuck it in after the 3rd out.
I'll say this right now. No matter what happens: I Miss Mo.
The Yanks top of the order didn't take off any pressure there for Soriano. It's all on him now.
[169] Yup
And now it's pouring.
Oh, MAN, that 0-1 pitch. Wright missed one there...
where was that?!
(inside, i guess)
Man, this is nerve-wracking.
Tough AB by D. Wright. Waiting for a mistake. Like say, a hanging slider.
Homina homina homina
Nice! 1 down!
fucking beautiful!
A CHANGE UP!
FUCKING ONIONS!
1 more baby!
Check out those douche bag Yankee fans behind the home dugout.
YES!!!
1 more.
So does Ike walk off here?
[182] There's a lot to excuse being a Yankee Fan.
[182] There's a lot to excuse being a Yankee Fan.
[184] no.
AHHH! My first double post of the year!
The sun only shines on a dog's ass once a series. C'mon Soriano!
ken boyer with the double post! : )
fuck yeah!!!
Good win. CC shoulda done better and the defense was shite. We'll take it!
Yay! Yankees stole this series. The Mets saved face. You have to appreciate Soriano, he ain't Mo but who is, and we'll take someone whose better than most.
Cano with the GWRBI! (Remember that stat everyone? Donnie Baseball had like 25 of them one year.)
2 outta 3 in the Subway Series, I like it.
Outstanding win.
192) Glad we wuz wrong.
[194] I do remember it, and it's precisely in conjunction with Mattingly that I do! I seem to recall the number 13 for him, or maybe 17...