One Step Beyond.
Good, long profile by Alexsandar Hemon on the Wachowskis and their new movie Cloud Atlas in the New Yorker. I wasn’t riveted by the Matrix-and I think I only saw the first one–but I’m curious to see Cloud Atlas after reading this piece.
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In three games against the Red Sox, the Yankees went 2-34 with runners in scoring position. They won two of those games which gives you an idea of just how bad the Sox are. That they didn’t sweep them is proof how how unstable the Yanks are.
Oh yeah, both hits with runners in scoring position came from Derek Jeter. His bloop double in the seventh gave the Yanks the slimmest of cushions and Phil Hughes did the rest, with some help from Boone Logan, David Robertson, and Rafael Soriano. Hughes was outstanding, never mind Boston’s anemic line up. Like David Phelps last night, Hughes delivered.
The Yanks win, 2-0 and remain tied for first with the Orioles.
Exhale.
[Photo Credit: Joel Zimmer]
Phil Hughes goes against the Boston Red Sox C Squad tonight. No excuses, just win.
Derek Jeter DH
Nick Swisher RF
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Robinson Cano 2B
Russell Martin C
Andruw Jones LF
Curtis Granderson CF
Steve Pearce 1B
Eduardo Nunez SS
Never mind dem angry boids’: Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Photo Credit: Creative Review]
Still Number One.
Check out this photo gallery on the construction of One World Trade Center over at the Atlantic.
[Photo Credit: Gary Hershorn/Reuters]
Drawing by the great Edgar Degas.
If DJ can stand tonight, he’ll play tonight.
Meanwhile, over at River Ave Blues, Mike Axisa maps out the starting rotation for the rest of the year.
[Photo Credit: N.Y. Daily News]
It ain’t easy. The Yankees held a 5-3 lead going to the bottom of the ninth tonight. Rafael Soriano was on the mound. Minutes earlier, Nate McClouth pegged a line drive off the right field fence down in Baltimore to give the Orioles a 3-2 win over the Rays. Because, as we all know by now, the Orioles don’t lose one-run games.
Cody Ross, Bobby Valentine and coach Jerry Royster had all been thrown out of the game in the bottom of the eighth when Soriano’s 3-2 slider was called strike three. The pitch was low though it may have crossed the plate in the strike zone. It was enough to make Ross, and Valentine go batshit crazy.
The biggest concern for Yankee fans, however, was that Derek Jeter left the game with an apparent ankle injury after hitting into a double play to end the top of the eighth. Early word has it as a bone bruise in his left ankle with Girardi saying Jeter will try to play tomorrow (he’ll have to be unable to walk to stay out of the game).
So Soriano gives up a solo home run to Jared Saltalamacchia. He gets the next two outs and then botches a ground ball putting the tying run on base. Then Jacoby Ellsbury hits another one right at Soriano. He fielded it this time, underhanded the ball softly to first, and the Yankees had the game, 5-4.
Curtis Granderson hit two long home runs, Robinson Cano had a two-run shot over the Monster, Nick Swisher had a couple of hits, and David Phelps pitched a fine game. Best start of his career. The first part of the game sailed by, the last half was plodding, a typical, Yankee-Red Sox affair.
We exhale for now.
[Photo Credit: Jared Wickerham/Getty Images; Elise Amendola/AP ]
No speeches, no bitching, just rooting.
Derek Jeter SS
Curtis Granderson CF
Alex Rodriguez DH
Robinson Cano 2B
Nick Swisher 1B
Raul Ibanez LF
Eric Chavez 3B
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Chris Stewart C
Fuck Everyone: Let’s Go Yank-ees!
Missus Cab Driver…
[Photo Via: Retro New York]
This is the best thing I’ve seen all week. Thank you, Hardball Talk.
Roasted pumpkin with rosemary and garlic, part of a simple September feast indeed.
