Things getting uglier in Boston, though Yankee fans will be pulling for the Sox against the O's this week: http://yhoo.it/NBJYnH

[1] i'm really not worried about the O's and their -49 run diff. i hope they sweep the shit sox and make them look really really bad in the process.

GO YANKS!!!

[2] I'm with you. If the Red Sox could go from the best team in baseball in August 2011 to the worst team in September, why couldn't the 2012 team go from .500 in August to the best team in baseball in September? Go O's.

On 8/13/78 the Yanks dropped a game to Baltimore and were 9 games back of the Red Sox. That was a team that had a fair share of negative media attention and an acrimonious clubhouse.

The Sox might well be cooked, but we can't know for certain right now.

[4] We can't be certain in baseball (Sterling's Law), but it's nuts to be more worried about the Red Sox than about the Rays, and wrong (though perhaps not nuts) to be more worried about the Red Sox than about the Orioles.

[5] Definitely need to worry about the Rays over everybody else. I think the O's and Sox are about even for me.

I look at the other scores hoping first for a Rays loss, then a Rangers loss, then a Red Sox loss.

[1] Ha. It could not happen to a more deserving btreacherous organization. The players are the mirror of their backstabbing owners and management.

I'll take that double play. Not pretty, but got the job done.

[1] Just keep winning, and nothing else matters. The line-up tonight is a little anemic. Ichiro will no longer face lefties?

rats.

You think Granderson could take a pitch there? Harrison looks like he lost the strike zone. Not so Grandy lately.

[11] Kind of slumping lately. OPS down to .813.

Must score a run or two for Kuroda. He must feel as lonely as this game thread.

Kuroda Is pitching well. Maybe a second night off for the pen?

Maybe a night off for our bats?

[15] Theirs too. Time to contact your Yankee fan friends.

Atta boy, Kuroda. Step up Offense! WTF is wrong with you clowns!

Don't mean to be picky but some runs would be nice.

Nine more outs is a long way to go but if he gets through the seventh it'll be time to get goosed.

Jeez, Andruw. One pitch. Not awesome.

Thought there would be more comments for this game...

[21] Comments will pick up, but don't want to say too much and jinx.

I don't get Martin's at bat there. Swinging at the first pitch. That's just horseshit, man.

Poof.

Now get a double play.

[19] O ye of little faith.

Nice job of tagging up by Elvis there.

[27] Motherfuck him AND John Wayne!

[27] You gotta love a mother who names her baby Elvis.

Now it's runs time. A 5 spot would be nice.

That's it, Cap. Now a few more hits in a row. What a season from Jeter.

Oh good, Nick's better side for home runs.

[32] Cheers to that! SWISH!

Now THAT was an at bat!

What a great AB for Swisher. That ball went o GONE do.

As I have foreseen. 3 more so Kuroda can cruise.

[36] 12 more.

On the Mark!

Good times!

Looking at the time stamps, a 5 minute AB for Nick.
Now only 2 more runs.

Washington will get in trouble with Nolan Ryan, taking Harrison out of the game with only 106 pitches.

Back to back
and belly to belly
chow down Texas
on my huge Hebrew Hammer!

[42] Maybe you should have said "Deli" instead of hammer for rhyming purposes.

That's funny. My9 promo: Who inspired Curtis Granderson to wear his socks so high?
Urkle?

8 Solid!

(43) The ladies love the Hammer, not the deli (note: the judges will accept salami as an alternative answer)

So pleased for Hiroki. Now, just need three more outs.

46) Keep it clean now, we do get Ladies in here...

Way to go, Hiroki. Two more, Hoss.

Ichi!

Amazing how blank faced Kuroda is no matter what, huh? Wonder if he'll crack a smile...

One more.

My Hiro ♡♡♡!

Wow. What a game. Clappitycplappityclappity!

Yup, a smile. Great performance.

That was one of the better pitched games I've seen in a while.

Awesome Hiroki.

I couldn't watch this game, damn.

And I'm out of town and didn't know about the Red Sox explosion. Holy shit. I don't like Bobby Valentine at all, but if the management caves to the players and dismisses or undercuts Bobby, the team will lose fans in droves. Serious.

Great performance. Especially against the team with the most runs scored in baseball.

Amazing that he still is not getting great run support. Three is OK, but he deserves 4 or 5.

I wonder how that works. It's always one pitcher every year. It's not like the batters think, "Oh, Hiro's pitching, we can take the day off."

I hope he gets some blow-out support next game. Right now he's the ace.

57) And on a night we want the Sox to win they are getting their asses handed to them...again.