Yanks vs. King Felix. They didn’t stand a chance, right? Well, Hernandez wasn’t in top form and the score was tied at 2 going into the 7th inning. But the Yankees made bad plays in the field (et tu, DJ?) and by the end of the inning the M’s had a 4-run lead. They’d add another 4 and won, 10-2. Really, the less said about this one, the better. But if you want the gory details, Chad Jennings’ got ’em for you.
[Photo Credit: Horacio Coppola]
It’s Phelps vs. King Felix in a make up game at the Stadium.
Brett Gardner LF
Derek Jeter SS
Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Brian McCann C
Yangervis Solarte 3B
Alfonso Soriano DH
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Brian Roberts 2B
Kelly Johnson 1B
Never mind the crown:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Photo Credit: Dennis Stock/Magnum Photos]
Dig this post over at Cinephilia and Beyond. It hips us to a great BBC 4 radio show, Desert Island Discs. Check out interviews with Michael Caine, Stephen Frears, Mel Brooks, John Huston, Elia Kazan, Bob Hoskins and many more.
And it was a good home coming for Phil Hughes and Eduardo Nunez as the Twins beat the Yanks, 7-2 today at the Stadium. Hughes’ fastball was a steady 93 mph through eighth innings. He also hit 94, even 95 mph at times. It was a harder fastball than we’ve seen from him in years. Hughes only had one bad inning, when he allowed a couple of runs, but it looked good enough to sink him.
Delin Betances relieved Chase Whitely and struck out 5 of the 6 batters he faced. Man, has he ever been impressive. Adam Warren pitched a scoreless 8th, setting the stage for David Robertson in the 9th, Yanks holding a 2-1 lead. But Robertson gave up a game-tying home run, couldn’t get out of the inning and was replaced with the bases loaded. And wouldn’t you know it but Nunie doubled with the bases juiced to put the Yanks away.
Hughes got the win. Good for him. Yanks lose a game it looked like they were going to win. Drag.
[Picture by Bags]
Brett Gardner LF
Derek Jeter SS
Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Brian McCann C
Yangervis Solarte 3B
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Brian Roberts 2B
Kelly Johnson 1B
Zoilo Almonte DH
And now:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Picture by Bags]
Mmmm, mmm, good.
Painting by Edward Hopper.
Masahiro Tanaka has become that guy for the Yanks in 2014. The stopper. He allowed an unearned run in the first inning yesterday and then shut the Twins out for the next seven. The Bombers had the bases loaded and nobody out in the bottom of the first, failed to score, and runs were hard to come by all afternoon. They broke a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the eighth, thanks to a double by Brian McCann, and, after a rain delay, David Robertson got the save.
Final Score: Yanks 3, Twins 1.
[Painting by Jimmie James]
Tanaka time.
Brett Gardner LF
Derek Jeter DH
Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Brian McCann C
Alfonso Soriano RF
Yangervis Solarte 2B
Kelly Johnson 3B
Brendan Ryan SS
Yanks play today, they win today.
Never mind the clouds:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Photo Credit: Joao Drumond via MPD]
Been thinking a lot about Jeter these days and one thing that came to mind recently is that I don’t recall seeing him make too many mistakes over the course of his career. Mistakes being different from errors. He’s made those. And we can debate whether or not his penchant for sacrifice bunting over the years is an error or a mistake. What I mean by mistake is that you rarely see him make a bad play.
In the 5th inning, with Brett Gardner on second base, Jeter hit a line drive to right field for a base hit. It reached the right fielder on one hop, which was not enough time to allow Gardner to score. Gardner was held at third. At the same time, Jeter rounded first and drew a throw, getting himself in a rundown in the hopes that Gardner could score.
I’m not sure Gardner is the right kind of baserunner for that kind of high-wire act. He’s fast but he’s not cagey and doesn’t have great instincts (we’ve seen this played out with him as a base stealer). And so in the middle of Jeter’s rundown, Gardner got in a rundown and didn’t score. By the time Gardner was tagged out, of course, Jeter was on third.
“It’s my job in that situation, if you think there’s a play at the plate, you’ve got to go and try to go to second base to trade an out for a run,” Jeter explained. “Gardy wasn’t going, so it’s not my job to think what’s going to happen. I’ve got to make sure he’s going. Good play by them, but I assumed he was going. I shouldn’t assume.”
Yanks lost, 6-1.
[Photo Credit: Brad Penner/USA Sports]
Brett Gardner LF
Derek Jeter SS
Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Brian McCann DH
Brian Roberts 2B
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Yangervis Solarte 3B
John Ryan Murphy C
It’s Nuno.
F what you heard:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
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Get Carter is a movie I’ve been meaning to see for a long time and last week I watched it with a friend.
Nasty and grim, I enjoyed it.
Strawberry and Rhubarb: a Good Combination.
I tried to read The Hobbit when I was a kid but I thought it was boring and I didn’t make it too far. I never read J.R.R. Toilken’s famous Lord of the Rings triology. But I did enjoy Joan Acocella’s review of Toilken’s newly-published translation of Beowulf:
As an adult, Tolkien could read many languages—and he made up more, including Elvish—but the number is not the point. Even in secondary school, Carpenter says, “Tolkien had started to look for the bones, the elements that were common to them all.” Or, in the words of C. S. Lewis, his closest friend, for a time, in adulthood, he had been inside language. Perhaps he couldn’t come back out. By this I don’t mean that he couldn’t talk to his wife or his postman, but that Old English, or at least that of “Beowulf,” was where he was happiest. He knew how it worked, he loved its ways: how the words joined and separated, what came after what. Old English is where he spent most of the day, in his reading, writing, and teaching. He might have come to think that this language was better than our modern one. The sympathy may have gone even deeper. Like Beowulf, Tolkien was an orphan. (He was taken in by his grandparents.) He grew up in the West Midlands, and said that the “Beowulf” poet, too, was probably from there. He did not have difficulty living in a world of images and symbols. (He was a Catholic from childhood.) He liked golden treasure and coiled dragons. Perhaps, in the dark of night, he already knew what would happen: that he would never publish his beautiful “Beowulf,” and that his intimacy with the poem, more beautiful, would remain between him and the poet—a secret love.
[Picture by Jeffrey Alan Love]
