Last night’s recap: The Red Sox have sprinkled their magical beard dandruff on Grady Sizemore and turned him into a player again. It’s already cost the Yankees a game in the standings and Skinny C a notch in the loss column.
Today, I’d prefer the Yankees to win. Whaddya say?
Brett Gardner LF
Brian Roberts 2B
Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Carlos Beltran DH
Brian McCann C
Alfonso Soriano RF
Kelly Johnson 1B
Yangervis Solarte 3B
Dean Anna SS
ok, let's do this. Let's Go Yan-Kees!
Nice lazy Saturday afternoon. Dogs have been to the park, shopping done, windows open to air out the house.
Uh oh.
Tell me again, Flash, how good Kuroda's stuff is today. Oi! $$&$&$ Ortiz!
phew
Good 3-1. That was tricky.
ok! That was making me very nervous.
Phew.
This offense puts me to sleep.
Zzzzzzzz..... Lol....
Wake up, Seamus!
there we go! I'm awake!
Lackey is such a raging jackass douche.
The two run homer giveth, and the two run homer taketh away.
Okay, well, we have more outs left. But I liked having more runs. That was better.
Win Expectancy = .58.
[15] i'm down with this more runs idea.
That was a nice nap. What happened?
[17] AJ F-ing Pierzynski happened.
Good. This time let's turn the extra outs into runs.
Brett has an annoying habit of watching pitch after pitch sail through the strike zone.
[18] I hate that guy.
Cano has a .425 OBP, in case anyone was wondering. I believe that's even higher than Brian Roberts'.
No complaints about Ellsbury, though.
Hey, I just remembered, rbj: how do you like having Jacoby on our team? (He just added 2% to our win expectancy by stealing.)
Whoops, but Carlos gave back those points and then some.
(22). Sigh...
Come on, Hero, tighten it up. Can't walk Jonathan Herrera. That's no good at all.
[24] love having a Jacoby playing for the Yankees.
McCann can!
nice!
woo hoo!
He'll yeah!
This is more fun.
SORI!!
woo hoo!
Belly to belly
I bet my grandson's enjoying this game - 5 HRs in 4 1/2 innings!
Shutdown innings are not supposed to begin with lead off doubles. Especially from mlp.
Time for a Big Pop-Up.
Sometimes I scare myself.
3 replays on Ortiz pop up to the infield. Wow
Stranded Little Pony.
[36] Did I miss a home run?
Beltran, McCann, Soriano, Idiot. I count four.
Sori sorry
[42] my bad! I got too excited. Grandson just texted photo from his vantage point at Stadium, he's in 2nd row field level next to the white bricked in area. Oops Sori...
That is the kind of ball I drop in softball.
No harm.
Sigh. Imagining if Beltran had been wearing pinstripes since 2005.
This is a good game.
There's #5!
Now it's 5 !
Always nice to slap the slack-jawed mouth-breather around a bunch.
I have to admit, I was not at all excited by the McCann acquisition. If he can actually hit, it's a great pick-up. Great.
[49] [50] Yes, I now understand that Coleman's grandson was reporting from the future!
[51] And when he's throwing to the drooling ape it's even better. Easily my least-favorite battery of all time.
Slacked jawed mouth breather and drooling ape. Love it. : )
[53] yes! he's in right field! just saw him peeking out from behind Napoli's butt.
My little spin out.
Wow, Dusty looked funny!
C'mon HiroKi!
Clappity clap clap.
Big Strikeouti
Siddown Big Fatty.
Sit down, fat ass!
Bah.
That Ortiz AB was a thing of beauty.
Dammit, if you're going to hit the douchebeard ... HIT THE DOUCHEBEARD.
Dammit!
GODDAMMIT SOLARTE.
Shite.
damn it, we had him at third. argh!
Carp got hooked.
Nice play, assholes.
In case McCann wasn't already the star of the game (which he was)...
Uh ... oops?
Have to imagine Carp biffed a sign there ...
Dumb steal attempt...
They may have figured McCann wouldn't throw with the runner on third...
Get those runs back.
[75] Or that he'd get a waste pitch to run on.
You know, I'd like the bunt there a whole lot more if it had come AFTER Gritner had already stolen 2nd.
Double steal? Just cause they can?
Pierzinski has terrible caught stealing percentage...
Bah! Tough pitch.
Oof. Carlos.
Oooohhhhhh.
Nice play by Xander.
Dammit.
nice job warren
Burke Badenhop?
KJ go BOOM!
wow, big shot for johnson.
Just when I thought the shine was starting to come off of Port Jervis ...
There's one back.
the rooks!
Damn, Anna hit it too hard to score Port Jervis from 1st.
Just tuned in from sunny Florida. Nice to see the youngun' s playing well. Pip Jervis and Santa ana!
Oops.
Shit! Smart move by the SS unfortunately.
yeesh. This is a lame use of a challenge. When standing up his foot left the bast.
I'll take it.
Uh, ok.
He should have been called out.
Just saw a missed replay
10,000 push-ups, Brett! Oi!
Terrible job, Slappy.
FUCKING TERRIBLE.
Keep up the good work Mr. Roberts.
Dang, how much more can I hate AJ Peerginsky? A Red Sox?
Just win this thing?
[101] I'm happy with everyone else getting a hit.
Nice. Good game, y'all.
Sweet win!
Easy to go kelley!
yep, nice win!
Good job boys.
Now, win the series tomorrow night!
(it'll give me something to watch while I wait for E2 of GoT to show up for torrenting!)
I regret missing most of it, nice win!
Watching now, great game. Go Go McBelCann!
Big Papi: does anyone get more free passes then this guy? Pimps every home run, whines on strike outs, named on a 'list' but gets to take selfies with the president. A-Rod gets on a 'list' and is banned for a year..it's crazy.
[110] Dude, it's Big Papi's world. We just live in it.
I set the alarm for 2:00 AM today, saw the whole beautiful game and went back to bed.
It was well worth it.
I don't know if you guys are still up, but we are just rolling into lunch time out here.
I barely noticed that Jeets was out today, I thought "something" was missing, but it took me a few innings to figure it out. My conclusion is that, apart from our "Fantastic 5" starters (who are a joy to watch), this team is rather milquetoast, especially when Ichiro is sitting.
Ellsbury is exciting, but he's not much of a character. Soriano is really the only starting player with a dynamic personality, IMHO.
Solarte is a breath of fresh air with his youthful enthusiasm, but how long will his honeymoon last?
Of course that doesn't mean I'm not happy to have McCann behind the plate. He is turning out to be the most important move of the off season.
[112] Solarte is a breath of fresh air with his youthful enthusiasm, but how long will his honeymoon last?
As long as they win, beybayyy, as long as they win...
I wish i could have checked this game out, but had some long-needed rec-walking at Rockefeller State Park and missed out. Sure would like to do another recap soon, so I hope they can repeat this performance on my watch >;)
As it is, this team will take a bit of time to get all its moving parts in gear; a lot of which are refurbs or replacements. But if they hold up for the next few months, I don't see this team missing out on the playoffs. That's a mighty big IF given what we're dealing with; the keys are C.C. and Teix and whether or not they stay healthy and produce even average numbers this year. Not so worried about the rest of the crowd as the Yanks do have depth they didn't have the year before.
And, er, it may be a little too early to tell, but I think Jeter should DH a lot more than he plays the field, no?
[114] I think it's time to call the insurance company about Teix..