Yanks and Royals both looking to take care of business this weekend. Yanks hanging on to slim playoff hopes, not that anyone expects them to make it.
The good news is that big, bad Michael Pineda is on the hill tonight. Man, does this dude needs a nickname or what? I mean, c’mon, just look at him. Any thoughts? I haven’t landed on one yet.
Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Derek Jeter SS
Brett Gardner LF
Carlos Beltran DH
Brian McCann C
Mark Teixeira 1B
Stephen Drew 2B
Chase Headley 3B
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Never mind those George Brett flashbacks:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Photo Credit: Larry Sultan]
[0] Big Mike sounds good for the moment.
The Big Pineda (playing off the Big Kahuna)?
The Towering Inferno (with all respects due to RuPaul)
Pinpoint Pineda
The Thriller (start with Vincent's chilling soliloquy and go from there, that would be awesome warm-up or entry music of he ever closed)
The Funk (P-Funk)
That Escobar at bat sucked.
And we pay for it.
Thanks for the out KC.
A hit!
Another hit!
And I'm about to get that Detroit rain. Can hear the thunder and see lightning flashes. Might lose the satellite feed.
And there it goes.
Would somebody please tell Paulie that it's pronounced Pin-AY-da, not Pin-Yay-da!!!
Damn, Shields is on tonight. Still only a 1 run game though so things can go wrong for him--and right for us--with the quickness.
C'MON JEETS.
Yo, DJ is going to hit one out here, the final HR of his career: watch.
…Especially because he looked so bad on that change up.
See how he laid off that weak shit on 2-2…setting him up.
Or that.
Ok, so he grounded out to second. That's the story of his season at bat--most likely to ground out to second.
Goddamn. That also sums up the Yanks this year. "To the Wall…"
And it's back.
Nice, Pineda. How about a two run jack to help him out? Or is he going to have to give up negative runs to win?
Big Pine is not getting the love he deserves.
And that is my nickname for him. A play on his name, his size, and his early season pine tar episode.
Plus, he's been pineing for runs.
Doubt that he's pining for the fjords though.
[20] Big Pine! I like it, sounds very old-timey.
Kay and O'Neil are not my favorite announcers..
Oh, I want a Lucy bobblehead!!
[22] why the fjords? They got something like fjords in the Dominican.
[24] ya think when Lucy and Schroder reached teen years, Lucy 's bobble head...oh never mind.
Time for some big game mistakes.
Are we really going to lose this game 1-0 on an error?
oi. watching football. Looks like Pineda pitched well.
He did.
[25] Monty Python. Meaning of Life, IIRC.
[28] a new way to lose.
Whoa. D-Rob pitching from behind!!!
NAILED.
[30] cool. good to hear. I've been dispirited about this team.
Losing 1-0 on an unearned run has got to be a rare negative outcome.
Hamma coming down hard.
Ellsbury just missed that one.
Time for HR #4, Jeet
OK, then
Wow!
Has Derek ever been pinch run for?
PR for Jeter?
Antoan don't get picked off again!
Proposed nickname for Antoan Richardson: "Bobby."
Ah a nose picking sight.
Up to Carlos.
Beltran will never catch up to that fastball.
[44] [45] The Snot Heard 'Round the World!
[47] You are so right.
sigh
Jeez Carlos.
[48] Beltran down looking! déjà vu.
Night all.
Not a GD strike. That fucking muppet behind the plate. Totally fooled by the catcher's frame job. That guy's zone sucked all night.
Bollocks. Sigh...
I wonder if Carlos Beltran is still standing there waiting for whatever the fuck he could have possibly been looking for.
I mean seriously. What the fuck? Did he forget the count?
[57] That wasn't a fucking strike. Totally outside. Catcher yanked it back in and that incompetent hump was giving too much strike zone all night.
I really hope this Pineda kid can stay healthy.
He's looking really good.