The first place Blue Jays are in town for a 3-game series.
Tonight gives Tanaka and my gut tells me he’s gonna take a beatin’ tonight.
Hope I’m wrong.
Gardner LF
Jeter SS
Ellsbury CF
Teixeira 1B
McCann C
Beltran DH
Suzuki RF
Roberts 2B
Johnson 3B
Never mind the heat index:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Photo Credit: Fred Stein]
I love O'Neill. He really is Scooter 2.0.
Nice.
And speaking of hilarious, lovable, local color guys, I once heard Hernandez refer to a confused and overwrought scorecard as "Like a bad acid trip."
Can you imagine?
I really love Leiter, too. I could have a beer with him and watch baseball all day long.
Fuck, nice play.
Thief!
After an eleven-pitch AB, Derek up there hacking.
[7] Twelve. Brett hit the twelfth pitch.
I was thinking, dude could have a perfect game through three innings and have to leave with 108 pitches.
:)
Indeed.
That was a beautiful pitch.
Now that's more like it.
I say we can win with three runs tonight. (Pace Belth.)
[10] Which? The called third strike, right?
He launched it into the upper deck.
It was some shot.
[12] Right. Low on the outside corner.
Hm.
Control problems.
Wow.
The splitter.
He has balls.
[16] I think McCann is calling the shots.
He was a very good pick-up, Brian McCann.
Yay, a hit. Now cash it in.
HOMERUN!!!
YAAAYY!
Thank you Brett!
[17] Indeed.
A spinner=homer!
Yee Haw.
Another spot for McCann to get that big hit...
Man, what a lame first half McCann has had.
Phew!
Siddown Reyes.
[24] A generalization, to be sure...Great defender, terrible hitter, so far.
Great walk.
[27] Yes. See [17].
Kelly Johnson coming alive
Driven from the game in the fourth inning by those loooooooooong ABs.
[3] He's Keith Hernandez!
[4] Really? I don't like Leiter at all..find him arrogant. Likely we'd descend into arguing politics within 5mins over a beer. Cone on the other hand, I'd like to party round town with him!
Oh, that was unfair.
God, I love watching this guy.
Boy, he looks good now. Whiffed their three best hitters in order. But, high pitch count.
Tenakkkkkkkkkka!
I got something for your gut right here, Alex!
;)
Tesh!!!
Tenaka can field as well.
Whew. Before I got a chance to say, "Big batter here", the danger is over.
Can he come out for the seventh?
[40] Betances
[40] He could come out for the 8th! But the pitch count alarmists would fuss..104 now, he can start the 7th I would think.
Hahhaah!
They would fuss.
I suppose Betances will do.
Mmmm, more Betances
That's unfair. I love it.
Dancin' Bettances ...
99 mph. Holy mother of god.
My, oh my, Betances.
And a crazy curve ball.
It must be possible to make him a starter.
That's some serious nasty.
I mean, the 99 mph fastball is not his best pitch.
Jesus, that was a hit until suddenly there's some motherfucker standing in short right field.
This shit is absurd.
Also? If you start hitting it to the other side, eventually THEY'LL STOP WITH THE FUCKING SHIFT!
THAT was a great relief pitching performance!
Yankees quietly hanging in this year. Are there any great teams running away with it?
That was pure filth.
[54] The Giants, I guess.
Alright Hammer, hurt 'em!
[54] Tiggers are imploding. Vaunted pitching staff isn't looking good.
One down
One nail.
I've been dealing with a ton lately so have not been able to follow the Banter. I'm sure it as been discussed previously, but what a tragedy that Tony Gwynn passed away so young. What a brilliant career and all time skills. Seemingly a beautiful person too.
His passing is profoundly sad.
NAILED.
Two down. Kinda ugly
NAILED.
Unusual -- the cutter is his out pitch tonight.
[61] Yeah. It was. My uncle smoked, got the lung cancer. Died a month before his first grandchild was born. No one had to tell us not to touch tobacco.
Jeez, Dave doesn't make these things easy.
Come on, bring down the hamma!
Aw fuck
Blargh.
Sigh.
D-Rob will throw more pitches than Betances.
Pitcher's ump ...
D-Rob will throw more pitches than Betances.
Was thinking about that a batter ago ...
This is not fun. It's supposed to be fun.
HAMMER HIM.
That'll do, Pig.
That'll do.
HAMMERED!!!!
Three down! Night all.
David, how about a clean inning next time?
NAILED!!
[78] Rather see a quick inning ...
And that is why I prefer Paul O'Neill to Al Leiter. Because Al is talking about the dangers of bouncing a curve when the runner on third means nothing and Paulie is not an f'n moron.
Nice win. Tanaka is unbelievable.
"He keeps guys in line."
I don't know why I find that such a curious remark about Girardi.
Or about the team?
When asked about the manager, if the first thing you say is, "He keeps guys in line," that has to mean something, doesn't it?
[80] RIght.
And yes, it was and he is.
This is how we do it.
Tanaka's "bad day" is six innings, ten strikeouts, one run. (As Brian McCann just put it.)
[82] Economical.