How about some runs for C.C. tonight?
Yo Mighty Score Truck (seen here on 30th street off 6th Ave two days ago)–bring it on home.
Jorgie gets the start at first…
Derek Jeter SS
Curtis Granderson CF
Mark Teixeira DH
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Robinson Cano 2B
Russell Martin C
Jorge Posada 1B
Nick Swisher RF
Brett Gardner LF
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
Yanks in Baltimore. Let’s hope the weather holds up.
Let’s not mince woids: Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Picture by Bags]
James Shields tonight. Soriano to the DL. Chris Dickerson called up.
Yanks in need of a “W.” Doesn’t matter how they get it, does it?
Derek Jeter SS
Curtis Granderson CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Robinson Cano 2B
Russell Martin C
Jorge Posada DH
Brett Gardner LF
Chris Dickerson RF
We’re discouraged but we’re still here.
Never mind the apathy:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Photo Credit By Raumskaya]
Yanks look to keep things simple by winning a ball game.
The team is vexed, the fans are frustrated but we’ll be rootin’:
Let’s Go Ding-bats!
[Picture by Adam Fuss]
Tough guys and hard feelings are back in business tonight in the Bronx.
Never mind the bollocks:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Picture by Hannes Kilian Drei Mädchen]
The Yankee Score Truck has been gutted–out of service–since the team returned to the Bronx. Wha’ happened?
Son. It’s time for a tune-up.
We’ll be rootin’:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
Gene Monahan will retire after this season…Rafael Soriano doesn’t appear to be seriously hurt…A.J. Burnett is on the mound tonight…
Score Truck anyone?
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Picture by Stella Simon]
The Royales with Cheese are in town for a three game series and they are an improved team.
We kick back and cheer:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
Dear Yanks,
Git ’em.
‘Nuff said.
Never mind the napkins…
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
Yanks return to the scene of the crime. At least they are out of Detroit. Let’s hope for a mess o runs, piled high and deep. Yeah, and another good start from Ivan Nova would be swell too. Here’s Cliff with the preview.
Don’t burn the brisket and Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Photograph by Steve Perille]
Time for a big start from A.J. and some big hits from the Yankee hitters.
It’s an afternoon affair at Comerica and we’ll be cheerin’:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Image via Tropical Toxic]
Fab Five Freddy G is on the hill for the Yanks tonight. I have a bad feeling about this one, but I’ve been known to be wrong, uh, often. Let’s hope that’s the case and…
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
Robbie Cano is back; Swish has the night off. Line up looks like such:
Derek Jeter SS
Curtis Granderson CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Robinson Cano 2B
Jorge Posada DH
Andruw Jones RF
Russell Martin C
Brett Gardner LF
Never mind the preamble…Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Picture by Steve Perille]
Yanks are in the Motor City, start of a four-game set against the Tigers. The wicked one, Justin Verlander goes for the home team; Bartolo Colon starts for the Yanks.
Why mince words? Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Picture by Herve Bertand]
Look who is in the garden.
Never mind the produce: Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Picture by Herve Bertrand]
Easy April ends today. The Yanks wrapped up a very good month by beating the Blue Jays 5-4 for their fifteenth win against only nine losses – good for first place in the American League East.
The Yankees scored all five runs in the second and third innings, and then threw up donuts for the rest of the game. Apart from the explosion on Thursday, the offense has been silent in the late innings on this homestand with only one run after the fifth in all the rest of the games combined.
Burnett bent but never broke in six innings and enabled Plan A out of the bullpen – Joba to Soriano to Mo. Plan A calls for three scoreless innings, and for the first time since April 4th, they obliged. We debate the wisdom of having three strict roles in the bullpen, but this shows how rarely those roles are executed as envisioned.
The Yankees won this one with singles and walks. Their only extra base hit, a double by Teixeira, didn’t factor in the scoring. Don’t be fooled though, they ended this month averaging just under two taters in each contest and I think they’ll rely on the long ball for a long time.
Burentt was in trouble almost every inning but survived. If the rest of the season evolves such that we can re-define this as “bad AJ,” we’re going to be thrilled. Mariano threw 18 pitches and 14 strikes in a one-hit ninth. It looked to be short work, until Jose Molina refused to take a hint and dumped a double into the “gap” in centerfield. I say “gap” because Granderson was shaded so far to right, the ball went almost up the middle. No matter, the game ended a few pitches later and the tension didn’t last long enough for me to find a knife in the silverware drawer.
The team is in first place without being dominant. The Rays have fully righted themselves, and that’s without Longoria. By the end of May, I bet the Red Sox are back at or near the top as well. The good news is that the Yankees look to have another gear in them as well. Hopefully they will find it in May and keep their lead, but with easy April in the rearview mirror, the hard road’s ahead.
We want big, fat, juicy runs, and a lot of them. We also want quick and easy outs from AJ by the handful.
Time for the Score Truck to make a showing.
That is what we want. What we need is to root-root-root for the home team.
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Picture by Florian Bayer]
It rains and then it stops, it’s dark and then light. Who knows what tonight will bring? But if there is a game being played in the Bronx know this: we’ll be root-root-rootin’ for dem Score Truck Kids. Mr. Sabathia is on the hill…
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
[Picture by Bags]
