Miggy Cairo won today's Seattle game over Texas in the 12th with a gritty, clutch, scrappy, character-veteran single. The sort that separates men from boys, turns a season around, restarts the ol' cliché machine...
More to the point, perhaps, Jay 'Make Them Pay' Payton hit a grand slam with two outs in the 7th to take Baltimore past Boston. That does count as major.
3 prolly minnie minoso since that's what alex linked to above the photo - hard to make the person out from the distance in the photo - but similar facial shape to minoso
let's hope the yankee offense is hiding in that caddy
Yeah, that is Mr. Minnie Minoso indeed. Random, I know, but what the heck...Dude, I have ZERO confidence in the Yankee offense. Almost as if they are going to have to get lucky to get one win here...but, so far, it is nice to see Moose pitching well.
32 i'm still in that camp, proctor is pretty damn fungible and right-handed relief pitchers are something we've got plenty of, with more on the way
betemit is still an unknown, partly because of his streakiness and partly because of his "injuries" (hammy, yes ... "pink eye", no) but i'd still rather have his possibility than proctor's reality
I find this two-out hits with RISP very strange....there's a word for a hit in this sort of situation, isn't there? an adjective of some sort? one that can be applied to either the hitter or the hit in question?
47 I think its some virus that Hank wrote and released on the interweb. Don't worry, those series of tubes will be cleared up soon enough. Now get off my lawn.
By the way, have I mentioned lately that I have serious disdain for Manny Ramirez. He makes a wonderful over the shoulder catch running towards the wall, scales it a la Ken Griffey Jr. to high five a Sox fan in the first row, and then lands to throw to the cut off man. BLEH.
49 The last time Cano had his batting average over .200 was Opening Day - or, if you want to get really technical, until his 2nd PA in the 2nd game of the year.
Back to good ol' sucking. Damon had a 3-1 FB down the pipe and didn't even swing. Abreu had a good 2-0 FB to hit too, and didn't even try. It's really nice to be patient and all, but when you get to 2-0 and 3-1, and you get a fat pitch, why not swing?
101 You bet he did, RI (see 80 , or go through Gameday).
Hey, I just remembered - I'm going to be in your neck of the woods on Memorial Day, for the PawSox-SWB Yanks game. My kids' first ball game. I expect they'll last an hour and a half, maybe two.
105 Why doesn't Hank issue threats to Sterling, if he keeps up with his ridiculous shtick? The only nice thing about A-Rod having been hurt is not having to hear, "An A-bommmbb, from A-Rooodddd".
113 Dude, the bombs are worth the Sterlingisms. I just hate the "Giambi hits it, it is high, it is far, it is caught 2 steps in front of the warning track".
114 "it is high..it is far.." easily as bad as everyone's favorite Hawkism "put it on the board...YES!" besides FJM are there any other good sites to laugh about bad announcing/writing?
68 I am here...I resorted to superstition and decided not to post during the game. Clearly, that did the trick as the Yankees exploded and doubled their offensive output. It was either that or the new lineup, which to be honest, I didn't love. If it was me, I would start by leading Jeter off...I think that would be the best way to get him pack in a more patient mode. I also agree with you and would have moved Giambi down to 7th.
The best news from the game was the performance of the Moose and the 4-4 from Cano. Unfortunately, facing Kaz and Santana is not the best way for lefty Cano to build on today, but then again, if Cano is locked in, maybe it wont matter.
132 I'll be positive and look at things from the Red Sox fan point of view...I am sure they are annoyed the Sox haven't built a bigger lead, especially if the 100-year trend of the Yankees playing better over the second half continues.
Here are the two big events coming up: Kennedy's start on Thursday and Arod's return on Friday. If those two go well, I'll step off the ledge.
Yes, william, talk about impatience! A Rod's Tuesday, we hope.
Moose was gorgeous and as someone said, his wins are hard-earned this year. He's been stellar, hat-tip time.
Ohlie was unlucky, agreed, then lucky on the DP.
I was VERY unhappy with Leche ... you cannot, repeat cannot strike out looking with the runner going. In da old days that'd get you fined by a manager!
I like william's idea (see, right and wrong, dude!) of Jeter leading off - do it tomorrow, against a lefty. I admit I'm gloomy about that game, their ace (another ace!) against our maybe-comeback-kid.
Miggy Cairo won today's Seattle game over Texas in the 12th with a gritty, clutch, scrappy, character-veteran single. The sort that separates men from boys, turns a season around, restarts the ol' cliché machine...
More to the point, perhaps, Jay 'Make Them Pay' Payton hit a grand slam with two outs in the 7th to take Baltimore past Boston. That does count as major.
let's hope the yankee offense is hiding in that caddy
i see the offense is still stuck on offal
Of course, they've both mostly looked like crap.....
betemit is still an unknown, partly because of his streakiness and partly because of his "injuries" (hammy, yes ... "pink eye", no) but i'd still rather have his possibility than proctor's reality
It's the loneliest number since the number one
Japanese announcers are great with understatement: "Yankees offense is not at full production so far this season..."
OK, now I KNOW its buggy - it says Cano is 3 for 3 and is hitting .200. Maybe I should switch to IE?
But, with that hit, Robbie is now hitting .200.
Six weeks under .200 is a long time.
I would have put Giambi 8th and bumped everyone else one space, but hey, 2 runs is 2 runs!
But Girardi figures this is a good night for high SAT scores.
11 of those 16 way out called strikes were against the Yanks.
And here comes Ohlendorf.
He comes on and gets his two ground balls to close the inning and instead gives up a run.
Why no pinch runner for Giambi?
Oh, man. Tough call on ball four.
The 2nd pitch to Crawford was also outside. Joba is getting some calls Moose did not.
Hey, I just remembered - I'm going to be in your neck of the woods on Memorial Day, for the PawSox-SWB Yanks game. My kids' first ball game. I expect they'll last an hour and a half, maybe two.
Oh, cool 104 . You'll like McCoy, it's really nice for AAA, and still homey, of course.
Oh, cool 104 . You'll like McCoy, it's really nice for AAA, and still homey, of course.
Robbie's up to .205!
It took him the next 6 games to get the next 4.
7 games to get the next 4.
And 10 games to get the next 4.
He had 16 hits in 29 April games. Thanks to tonight, he now has 14 in 11 May games.
Well, not in this game, it seems.
It's annoying that we couldn't make up a few games on the Sox during their losing streak, but I'm feeling a little better about the season.
Before tonight's win, Moose was was on pace for, you guessed right, 19 wins.
Man, 4.00-4.50 era from Moose this year would be sweet.
The best news from the game was the performance of the Moose and the 4-4 from Cano. Unfortunately, facing Kaz and Santana is not the best way for lefty Cano to build on today, but then again, if Cano is locked in, maybe it wont matter.
The oddest pitch selection of the game was Joba's 3-2 curve to Iwamura.
Here are the two big events coming up: Kennedy's start on Thursday and Arod's return on Friday. If those two go well, I'll step off the ledge.
Moose was gorgeous and as someone said, his wins are hard-earned this year. He's been stellar, hat-tip time.
Ohlie was unlucky, agreed, then lucky on the DP.
I was VERY unhappy with Leche ... you cannot, repeat cannot strike out looking with the runner going. In da old days that'd get you fined by a manager!
I like william's idea (see, right and wrong, dude!) of Jeter leading off - do it tomorrow, against a lefty. I admit I'm gloomy about that game, their ace (another ace!) against our maybe-comeback-kid.
Tonight's lineup, using season-to-date stats (including tonights), should score 4.332 runs/game.
The best lineup configuration of tonight's personnel is:
Matsui
Giambi
Jeter
Damon
Abreu
Cano
Melky
Molina
Ensberg
which scores 4.462 runs/game.
Sub in A-Rod for Ensberg (using his pre-injury stats), and the optimal lineup is Matsui
Damon
Abreu
A-Rod
Giambi
Cano
Melky
Molina
Jeter
good for 4.838 runs/game.
The typical Yanks' lineup with A-Rod in it scores 4.629.
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