Good start

Uh oh!

Fuck you Happ, you piece of shit.

It's the worst that could happen.

Sori! That's the way to get revenge.

Soriano stands up for a brother. Take that Happ(less)

That one's for Robbie!

Motherfuckingshit

A serious injury to Robbie would just be the shit cherry on the vomit sundae of injuries we've had this year.

If Robinson has a broken hand, then all expectation must go out the window. Every game has to be singular for success.

Who will play 2nd base?

Nune4!

Uh...
WadImiss? Jeez, I'm only a few minutes late. Rob got HBP in the hand, I guess. Bad.

[12] The glove hand. We know nothing except seeing the ball hit square. Robinson stayed into run after he got hit, but when he got to the dugout after Fonzie's homer, he went to the clubhouse.

[12] Yup.

After school nap induced a 4-0 lead. Huzzah.

Okay, I just watched the top of the first, so I'm basically caught up.

Holy shit. He's unbelievable.

Holy mother of god.

Hit my teammate will ya?

White left fielder Canadians can't jump.

I just friggin' love that bunt. Atta boy, Grandy!

Ha, Granderson actually bunted successfully for a base hot against the shift. It can be done!

Well done, Grandy.

Now go for 2nd.

Vernon Wells makes me not enjoy watching baseball.

Weird, I just realized Kay is in the booth.

This, I do like.

[24] On the other hand, he makes me enjoy not watching baseball.

[27] You say potato...

[25] Hey, that's right. But not yesterday, right?

[28] And you say orangutan!

Hey, monkeypants, did you see my proof of the impossibility of Euclidean baseball? I plan to publish it. (Hoping to get Brett Gardner to co-author, of course.)

[31] Nope, I must have missed it. actually, I have been mostly offline for the last three weeks or so.

Jeez, I was sure that Pillar AB was going to end badly.

SAFE!

[32] Here.

(It was much better than watching the actual game last night.)

Oh, wait, the actual demonstration is here.

Dear Mo. I missed the Cano ab. #%#$%#$

[37] Wuz wondering when the realization would hit.

Damn close there.

Safe.

Happ is the one who hit Granderson, too? Damn. Fuck that non striking douche. Learn how to throw inside without breaking bones asshole!

Andy is cruising, but Joba needs to come in to the game in late innings to face Encarnacion and...

Oh god, what happened with Cano?? Why do the Yankees continue to get HBP over and over again??

Wow ... good thinking at 3rd there, coach.

Nailed by Gritner!

Reynolds wrapped one?

[43] Hit in glove hand, left after rounding bases courtesy of Sori.

I was at Mud Hens game in the last couple of years. Hens pitcher hit a guy in the helmet, had to leave the game, and later hit another guy. Next Hens hitter got hit and simply walked to first. A Jay needs to wear seams.

Passionate advocacy by Leiter, drooling imbecility from Kay.

[48] see [42]

Speaking of Revenge Pitching, did everyone see this?

The lede:

AFTER RYAN DEMPSTER drilled Alex Rodriguez with a pitch last Sunday night, many fans and media members assumed that Dempster's brand of frontier justice was something other pitchers probably wished they too could administer.

That sentiment appears to be way off the mark. Over the past week, The Mag's Confidential team interviewed 36 MLB pitchers, all of whom were promised anonymity. When asked point-blank "Do you want to bean Alex Rodriguez?" not a single player answered yes.

There's more, too. Interesting read.

Ha!

Alex goes boom.

BOOM!!!

For those not on Yes. Kay just said that Cano's x-rays were negative. Now day to day.

Phew.

Maybe Phil Hughes will be able to shut down the Jays when HE'S 41.

[51] Hmm. Interesting. Thanks.

Nunez! With the cheap put out. Haven't seen that in a while.

Fun.
You don't get to see Out By Batted Ball very often.

Please don't make this interesting, Adam.

Ah, fuckFuckFUCK.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME???

I must have badly rolled my ankle a dozen times a kid. It's one highlight that gives me the extreme heebie jeebies. Put CC as 2nd. Just kidding.

Oh jeez. It's beyond absurd at this point.

Leaving NunEturf is just stupid.

Someone in the bullpen has to plunk the head groundskeeper for payback of the Nunez turf attack.

Well, that was good.

I think the Yankees might actually be an NFL team. Injuries/week is my evidence.

Good thing is, Yankees will have the all-DL team this year. That gets a trophy, right?

[65] Awesome.
We can't leave it for one of our groundskeepers, because the Jays don't return to the Bronx. Maybe next year?

Okay, let's get two or three runs and make this Joba-proof. (I want him to hit all the Jays.)

What a weird inning, precipitated by the odd decision to pull Pettitte after 86 pitches (coincidentally, this came just a half inning after the Blue Jays announcers, one of whom is Jack Morris, discussed how similar Morris' and Andy's career stats are, except for complete games, 175 for Morris v. 25 for Pettitte).

[70] Jack never had the Hammer of God.

[70] Or maybe it was the perfectly sensible decision to save the bullets of the oldest starting pitcher in the major leagues while simultaneously getting another pitcher (or two) a couple of low leverage innings to keep them sharp for a more demanding situation in a future game ...

[72] Yeah, seemed very sensible to me.
And frankly, 85 is a lot of pitches for Andy.

[72] Maybe, but of course the ol' "get another pitcher or two some innings" strategy is itself a product of teams carrying so many damn pitchers to begin with. Any way, that's a topic for another day. The inning was still weird, starting with Andy getting pulled early , with a baserunner struck by batted ball in the middle, and culminating with the Jeter-misplay-Nunez-mystery-injury-non-injury.

Ayyyyyyyyyyy!

Mo Modamwell better not get up in this game.

And he does.

There ya go!

[73] And frankly, 85 is a lot of pitches for Andy.

This is his 24th start. The 86 pitches thrown are the fifth fewest, and the three fewest pitches came in games when he got pounded early. He's gone 100+ pitches nine times this season. Including tonight he's averaged about 94 pitches per start. Maybe saving him an inning or two makes sense, but 86 pitches is definitely not a lot for Andy, especially given the ease with which he was pitching tonight.

That was good, but, Oakland has a good lead in a rain-delayed game, so probably we don't pick up a game.

Here's hoping Rob is playing 100% tomorrow.

(0) hey that's my photo! Thanks Alex. Good to be back in NJ for a week and have the yanks on TV rather than the online package. No complaints about access to pork roll and a decent bagel either.

(51) the players still have the CBA to live to, and if they allow Bud to run roughshod over it for a guy he doesn't like, then whose to stop him from doing so repeatedly. These things are too heavily negotiated to allow frontier justice, whether from Buds office or Ryan fucking Dumpster.

[78] No, I think it is a lot. It's just that Girardi leaves him in anyway.

His OPS-against for pitches 76-100 is .908. (He's also had a lot of trouble in the first innings, but stellar for innings 2, 3, 4, 5.)

[80] Right, that comes through pretty clear in the article. I have no inside knowledge at all, and the sports punditry was certainly suggesting that Joe Player was siding with the commish against A-Rod. Good job by ESPN, doing some actual reporting.