Looking at his face, it's hard to wish him ill, but I am really feeling a deluge tonight.

So we'll get no hit, right?

Hector Noesi has a highly anagrammable name. The best is probably "Nice Hooters". But each of his names is a good one-word anagram of its own.

nice hOOters wins!!

hooray ; )

Everything about Nosei's numbers scream "game of his life tonight"

Cap'n with a hit. Noesi is no Sales

McCann can!

Mac!!!

The offense is back!

I always liked Noesi, remember his great changeup striking out lots of guys. Didn't see that in first inning...

Where exactly was Brian Roberts positioned for that there ground ball to second base?

Robbie would have...

[12] Roberts would have if he wasn't playing left first base. I'll say it again. Yankees are the worst positioned team in baseball

Oh fer...

Catch the fucking ball! E3!

Oh Jesus.

Okay, what the fuck is going on here? Jesus Christ.
Catch the goddam ball, somebody, please.

Good analysis by Flash on WP

Thank you.

So all we have to do is make them hit the ball to the outfield.

Yankees feel sorry for Hector and want him to have a run too.

Brett!

[17] Kuroda got five outs that inning.

Can we please get rid of Brian Roberts and Kelly Johnson? Time to go and live comfortably for the rest of their lives.

That's how you do it Kelly

Much better

At the Trop, the Sox got a lead-off double in the fifth, then Chris Archer struck out two to get to Papi. And Maddon has decided to walk him.
In a 0-0 game in the fifth inning.
Interesting. Pretty insulting to Mike Napoli.

Napoli lines out hard to short to end the inning.

Maddon is a genius.

That was ball for, Teix. Chin-level.
I thought Teix never swung at ball four.

Bah, way to swing at ball four.

[27] That's one McCann looking Tesh ...

[17] rather profane professor.
Friday night Yankees! No hockey distractions, no impossible pitcher (sale); tonight the Yankees will ***.

[29] Jeez.
I'm trying to watch two games. I lost track.

Chris Archer has shut out the Crimson Hose for six innings. Took him 120 pitches.

[31] Sure, just hard to mistake the loaf pincher for ... well, anyone else.

;)

Hm, but shouldn't that have been fielded?
Right, as Flash says, KJ "does not look comfortable at first base".

Kelly Johnson at first is not working

Holy hell, Johnson! You suck ass at 1st. Sigh...

And there you go, the inanity of the basis of the argument of folks like Flaherty: "I applaud the fact you're playing 160 out of every 162 games a year because you're not injuring yourself running like a madman on every routine groundball, I just won't say it, because you're not making it *look* like you're making an "acceptable" effort."

Hoo boy.
Loaded for Dunn.

Oh, man ... is *this* going to be that inning for Kuroda? The one he has each inning where seems unable to keep himself from losing the fucking plot???

Gulp. 2-0 to Dunn. Surprised he was able to lay off those.

Hiro getting pinched.

[39] Err, the inning each game ...

Whew.

Phew!

[37] I'm really not a big fan of the jog to first, but I can specifically recall a time Cano did it and it mattered (he somehow lost a footrace to Todd Jones to end the game).

The fact that I can only think of one is probably an indication that it usually wasn't the end of the world.

And ... ... EXHALE.

[42] [43] This is a regular thing we have, huh?

Uh, I meant [43] [44].

I say Mussina

[48] Good! Because I was VERY confused by [47]!

[37] Perception is reality. The players call MLB, the Show. There has to be some sensitivity by a player to how it looks.

[47] Yup.

I remember two times when Mark ran hard out on routine pop flies and wound up on second when the ball was dropped. On the other hand, there's a reason we're missing Frankie brains right now

I am not related to Kelly Johnson, but I must say that, for him, this game is an aberration. Seems he's played decently earlier in the season at 1st. Since when do Banterers condemn a Yankee for one bad game?

There is no Modamn reason a professional athlete should be excused for not being able to perform four 90 foot sprints per game. It infuriates me. imho.

Ouch!

They showed that?

I am now rooting for Kelly J to hit a home run here.

Chris Archer took 120 pitches to cruise through six innings. He's replaced by Jake McGee, who retires the Red Sox in the seventh on six pitches.

[57] Will you settle for a walk?

[59] yes thanks!

It is nice that the Yankees have settled into the usual ineptitude against the awful Noesi

I'd love to get to Omaha for the CWS one of these days.

Someone on the field?

[52] Forget that ... all you need to remember is that the Loaf Pincher scored on Luis Castillo's dropped pop-up to 2nd ... from 1st ... on a routine 3rd out in the 9th ... because ... he ran as hard as he could on a "nothing" play ... because.

I might bitch and moan about Tesh sometimes, but I'll NEVER forget *that* play ...

Ah yes, the Ryan incident

[64]

I was there. :)

Kelly Johnson seems like a fine gentleman. He is just not very good at baseball anymore. Same goes for Brian Roberts. Cash signed them because he was desperate for infielders. Hard to watch.

Gawd.
Happy Shitty Defense Day.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....... Robbie, oh ROBBIE!

Err, maybe Kelly should go...

Aw crap.
Only 3 runs off Noesi?

Its time to take Kelly Johnson out of the game

Yeah, I think Kuroda would have a shutout if Teixeira were playing first. Save maybe twenty pitches, too.

GRRRRRR. STABBY, STABBY!!!

For fuck's sake. Posada could play a better first base than Johnson.

Hiroki was thinking about running over to first base with the ball himself, I believe.

And Johnson just muffed the end of inning ball from the dugout.

[72] It's time to take Kelly Johnson ... behind the barn, and tell him about "the rabbits" ...

I can't believe they've only played four innings. Seems like six.

[79] You can put on the board......OI! (In my best Hawk Harrelson voice of course)

[67] a Kelly Johnson/Brian Roberts unearned run given up. But in the case of Roberts, he was a fine player a few years ago who struggled recovering from two severe concussions (one self administered ). For $2M, there is not much of a downside playing him, and he has shown a few moments lately returning to form.

And now no one can hit Hector Noesi

Very positive strikeout for Ellsbury.

Has Hector thrown a changeup yet?

He hasn't called that pitch all night

That's a horrible strike 3 call. Yeesh. This is the first game I've been able to banter in a while and I'm full of complaints. lol....

[86] We kicked them in the teeth in the first, and then went to bed. Grumble

Eh. We've had a bunch of base runners since the first, but no money.

Aw fuck!

Oh well.

That lead held up for a few innings.

This is an embarrassment

[39] Nope. Turns out that was THIS inning.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

Girardi should rip Johnson out of the game while he's at it

Dang, a boring now shitty game. It's a long season...

Really, I thought winning less than five games in Chicago made this trip a failure. Winning less than four would make it a disaster.

The Captain ... ain't quite dead yet!!!

Still ... sigh.

Anyone surprised that Joe is going for it by using Del. this early. He still believes in this offense. Hope he is right.

ITS FUCKING HECTOR NOESI. EVERYONE ELSE IN BASEBALL IS CRUSHING HIM.

Hector just threw a changeup to Solarte...

Unbelievable.