The Yankees look to secure their first series win against Boston in 2011 — which would also be their first against the Red Sox since May 2010 — as Phil Hughes faces Josh Beckett tonight.
Russell Martin is apparently still a bit banged up, so Francisco Cervelli will try to be the focal point of the proceedings for the second straight evening.
Brett Gardner LF
Derek Jeter SS
Curtis Granderson CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Robinson Cano 2B
Nick Swisher RF
Eric Chavez DH
Eduardo Nunez 3B
Francisco Cervelli C
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Maybe Hughes can keep the Yankees in the game while the Yankees see if they can work Beckett’s pitch count up.
All right, that’s a good bottom of the first for Phil.
Darn! Chavez hit it right into the triangle in Fenway.
yep, but at least he’s swinging it.
hey, Professor Longnose, good evening. Becket looks tough as nails, and Phil’s doing well.
Good evening, smurfy. What’s new?
tired cowboy: first tennis in 25 years today.
Did Crawford’s hit high off the Monster, above catchable height?
Yes, well up on the wall.
Phil has great velocity, and I’ve seen a couple sweet curves. The question is command, avoiding mistakes in placement.
I didn’t think Nunez should try for second–there’s just so little room out there in left center–but he made it.
Nice, Nunie! Like the “hustle double!”
You love it when they make it and you hate it when they get thrown out.
right enough, but if he stoppe and thought about how tough Beckett looks, he’d go… and be out for considering too long.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Now I wouldn’t have minded a bunt.
yeah, not Derek’s.
I agree.
OK, it worked out the same as a bunt.
Should Gardner have bunted?
I wouldn’t have thought it a bad play if he had, but he certainly could have tried to hit.
Oh, Gardner! He strikes out so rarely…
The Captain!
nice timing, too
What do you think, smurfy–is it about time Teixeira got a big hit against Boston?
woulda been real niice.
Ellsbury is a lucky duck.
Let’s see if Hughes can reach deep down and get out of it.
Two outs and only gave up one run. So far, so good. Get that third out, and…
Looked like Phil gotaway with one v, gonzalez.
Damn. Let Boston take the lead.
Phil’s gonna be in battle mode as long as he’s in there.
Next question: can we keep it up ‘gainst Beckett?
I hope so. Still in the game and Hughes didn’t collapse. Could have been worse.
Nice he mowed over Crawford, but that was a big mistake to Lowry.
Come on, Robbie, bounce one off the wall.
Over!
Beckett’s curve is wicked good.
Let us drink, gentlemen. Let us drink, till we roll under the table in vomit and oblivion.
Take Josh with you, please.
Will no one rid me of this meddlesome pitcher?
it was a great temporary respite when he sucked last year
Meand Swish thought that one was well enough hit to bounce off’n the wall.
Eric, Eric, he’s our man…
They Yankees are just missing again and again.
ha, love it. Giv Beckett a turnaround. Come on, Nunie!
Did you hear Michael ribbing ESPN? Saying, Schiling, Nomar, wonder who is representing the Yankees? Certainly not Dave somebody, who’s the RS radio man. Hmmm…
No, I didn’t. (On Wednesdays between 8:00 and 10:00 I turn down the sound on the Yankee game and listen to a Beatles radio show.) Sounds like he’s got a point, though.
Beatles? Thought they broke up long ago.
And yet, people still listen. WNHU.net if you’re interested.
My computer takes 15 seconds to refresh or post each time, so adding amusic connection would probably slow it down, I’m thinking.
wow, Derek’s had 60 hits since 3000, already.
Come on, Granderson. We need big hits.
Grandy’s hit looked good, till you saw him put his head down, disappointed.
Since you’re not listening, Ken S. alerted us that Phil’s velocty is down to 92 (even with a jam on) from the 95 in the first.
He’s doing OK, though, overall.
yeah, but it’s an uphill, 2-2 sorta battle.
Not that OK, I guess. You and Ken S. were right.
That’s game.
May be, but I trust our hitters will keep fighting.
Phoo, thought Papi had flied out. Sheit, gotta go now.
You leaving?
No, I mean the hitters gotta go now.
Cano gets an RBI hit. It’s still over…isn’t it?
no way, Professor. Put you nose on the line!
Alright, Robbie, chipping away.
Tying run at the plate, and a chance to get Beckett’s pitch count over 100 this inning.
That runner on second is big. At least get him over, Swish, if not in.
Swish is laying off the curve, and it’s been out of the zone.
Thought that 3-2 curve might drop in, but it didn’t.
2 men on, nobody out…and it’s Eric!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
Chavezzzzzzzzz!!!
Way to go, Eric!
My negativity drives the Yankees higher and higher.
ataboy! Here’s Cervie: give him a good insult!
AND takin’ the lead!
Whoooo! 5 -4 lead!
Sweeeeeeeet. (Game hardly over, but still.)
You STINK, Cervelli!!
there you go.
It didn’t work today as well as it did yesterday.
Will Hughes come out for the 6th? Beckett for the 7th?
yep and I don’t know,
Right so far.
Let’s see if Phil’s got the intestinal fortitude to hold them.
He’s only at 79 pitches–but he hasn’t been pitching THAT well. I’d at least have someone up.
If this were do or die, I’d make a switch. But this may be decision time for Phil, so they are giving him rope…
So far, I can’t kvetch about leaving him in. Let’s see how it goes.
Boy, home park advantage. A well placed swinging bunt. Rolled and bounced perfectly to the corner.
Think Gardner should have cut it off? Should it hve been rules a grounds rule double?
nah, I think it was extra frustrating chasing the rolling ball.
That’s it. Take him out.
And how did Gardner let that get by him?
didn’t you see the replays? The ball took a weird hop and carom, guided by divine hands.
No, didn’t see it.
un-believable. Rolling down the line past third, it bounced off an unseen pebble, but didn’t quite go in the stands, where they cut into the field, but took a whisper bounce off the upper extemity of the padding.
Great story Michael told: on Carlton Fisk’s homer in the 76 WS against the Reds, when he famously stopped down the line to wave and will itfair, the camera would not normally have followed him, but a rat was stirring under he operator’s feet, and he was distracted, was trying to kick it, and happened to bump the camera along in the right direction. Beautiful!
Ha!
Today, they cover everything.
that was my most vivid moment watching MLB: I was renting a room in Houston, and watching with a sleeping carpet-layer, kicking his bed to wake him up.
I was watching, but not really rooting for anyone.
oh, I wanted the Sox to break the Big Red Machine! Great baseball!
it was 74, not 76.
I guess I was rooting for the AL. I didn’t hate the Sox back then. I hated the Mets–and still do. I was rooting for the Sox in ’86.
me, too. I was a Cubber then.
Damn! Raise up my hopes and then…
everything is going against, but it’s stil not over…
Yeah. The game’s only 2 hours and 45 minutes old. Lots of time left.
heh!
Keep the deficit at two for the 8th/9th and I won’t feel that they’re out of it.
When the Yankees are behind, I generally figure that if they can get the tying run to the plate, at least that’s one at bat that’s worth watching.
3 more to hold ‘em, 2 more to score. Get ‘em Yankees!
Girardi had weeks of a 6-man rotation and he couldn’t arrange things so that the Yankees didn’t have two guys battling for the 5th spot in the rotation pitching in a three-game series against the Red Sox?????????
yeah, it was weird,lining up all the question marks for this series. Kinda like an acid test.
The rain and injuries messed it up. Nova was supposed to go in this series, and I think Garcia as well.
I suppose that’s a valid excuse, but it still stinks.
Great, great double play.
Boy, Ayala did that about as well as you possibly could. Nice play, Teix!
Baserunners, baserunners,my kingdom for some baserunners.
robbie was awfully disappointed.
shinguards, nick.
motha-fugga! great plays!
Me, too.
This Yankee team isn’t going anywhere… What a joke
have a bb in your forehead.
those guys sure know how to play the line!
asswipes!
Don’t blame this game on me. I rooted my best.
defective! Take him away.
:(
Nunez cannot hit a fastball.
Cervelli can’t hit a baseball.
er, sorry, Prof. Forgot to tell you it was already over.
Well, well. AJ holds the standard v. little ol’ Lester. Charge!
Have no fear. Burnett will pitch us to a series win.
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