Same matchup, different location. The Yankees are sending the following lineup to the field:
SS Jeter
CF Granderson
1b Teixeira
DH Rodriguez
2b Cano
RF Swisher
3b Chavez
C Cervelli
LF Gardner
SP Nova
Montero sits while Alex gets a half-day off. Martin also sits. The good news? No rain! Let’s play ball.
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My basement’s flooded. I blame Bud Selig.
He’s got more teflon on than Dick Cheney. Think he cares?
Rodriguez seems to be picking up where he left off–hits, but no power.
They were saying he had trouble pushing off on his knee before surgery. May be a long road home.
Could be a long 6 years left on his contract. All we can do is hope he gets better.
Bases loaded, no one out in the second for Chavez.
Base hit, thanks to some iffy Baltimore infielding.
Loved the phantom fielder! Swisher should have grabbed it, and chucked it to the wall!
That would have been great!
Now Cervelli with the bases loaded. He’s out power man lately. Let’s have a slam!
Nick The Mad Bunter doubled off second. He really needs to get his head back in the game.
Any complaints about Jeter swinging on the first pitch?
Nah. The guy was having control trouble, but there were two out, and the Yankees were already ahead.
Besides, it looked tasty!
Would have enjoyed three more, but three should do. Nice inning 2!
Showalter squeaked out a win in extra innings against a 6th starter and a JV lineup, but really the Yankees shouldn’t be losing to this team under normal circumstances.
Brett shoulda tried to catch that. Haven’t seen him often try.
I guess he’s a runner, not a jumper.
Bob says: “Looks like it’s leather, but it’s not! It’s a unique fabric.”
Yeah, my recliner is like that. And it sticks!
But Bob seems so positive!
Tex stole a base!?!!???
Hang around long enough, you see everything.
If Cervelli can hit another homer or two in September, he might make a good trade chip.
Ohhhh, I-I-i love a poorade! Tododedodo….
I just know you were actually marching as you typed that.
with a kazoo and a smile!
That Red Sox game last night must have been wild. If I had known, I’d have watched it.
Saw the hi-lites, lotsa runs, and the right team lost. Guess it woulda been nice. The other night (Monday), our game was over, and Phillies-Braves was on MLB. I looked in and Phillies were up, forgot to look back again. Lee pitched most of a shutout! Man, I’ve been trying to see him all year!
You’ll see him in the playoffs.
Back before the season started I said I would really like to see Jesus Montero hit a game-winning home run off Lee in the 7th game of the World Series, and the odds of it happening keep going up.
…hmmm, maybe, but I don’t like a rookie’s chances. That guy is something alse, clever wise. When he’s going good, which is usually Big Times.
The odds probably have gone up from 100,000,000 to 1, to maybe 10,000 to 1.
Simon did a nice job in on Cervie’s hands with his two seamer.
Cervie is catching, makes me think maybe Russell’s got some showing off to do in LA!
Your basement is flooding. Bad? Is your sump pump getting it out?
It’s only a little. It’ll dry by itself. The rains have been ridiculous.
Talk about a shot across the bow!
C’mon, A-Rod! Bring ‘em around!
Ah, time for a ham sammich.
Swisher played it beautifully off the wall but then made a crappy throw.
Hope he’s not hurt.
they just showed Swish fake-throwing his arm, and the announcers were talking about it. Some trouble.
Come on, Nova, pull it together. You can get out of this.
He’s missing up, which is what’s been hit. Swish threw to third well, if a bit off line.
Nova Ks his way out of it! Nice job.
This poll is ridiculous. Crabcakes? In Baltimore? Why not fresh crab?
I dunno about eating crab, but like crapcakes. But I go crazy for TexMex!
Oh, yeah, Unca Tommy grilled soft-shelled crab for us once. Dynamite!
I’ve eaten crabs in Baltimore the way Kenny Singleton described–with a steak knife and a mallet, on a table covered with brown butcher paper. I think the restaurant was called O’Bricki’s, or something like that. It was absolutely superb.
These soft shelled crabs, you just ate the whole thing. MMM-good!
Grrrrrrr, Cervelli! Learn to play defense!
He’s too busy hitting home runs!
Boy, Nova is missing his mark by a mile. Probably helped against Guerrero.
He didn’t do badly for not having good stuff.
Another lefty gets another hit off the same old Boone Logan.
Yeah, he did not, and you complained he wasn’t getting lefties, like Michael just said. But I recall him getting Ortiz and ? Gonzalez a week ago: did just fine.
His line against lefties this year is terrible. He’s giving up a much larger percentage of extra base hits against them compared with against righties.
At this point its better to not have a lefty in the bullpen then continuing to run this piece of crap out there. So he got Ortiz out two weeks ago? Super. But for a lefty specialist, they have more success against him that necessary.
And what’s scary is these aren’t cheap hits. It seems as if lefties are crushing him for doubles up against the wall.
I wouldn’t call him a piece of crap. You’re right, lefties are hitting him for power–all 4 homers he’s given up this year were against lefties. But his line against righties is good. He may need to reconsider how he’s pitching to lefties–he may be challenging them too much. Perhaps one of the Yankee Analysts guys can look at the pitch data and see if something jumps out about the way he’s pitching.
they’ll probably have trouble with sample size: he’s only faced maybe 30 – 50 batters.
I just looked. Before today’s game, righties had 60 plate appearances against Logan, and lefties 101. I don’t know if that’s enough to get an idea of what’s going on, but it can’t hurt to look.
He’s been in 55 games, so he’s actually being used as a Lefty Three Hitter Guy.
Firefox seems to be working better . Explorer was tripping on some ad that had to load, a script that was de-stabilizing things.
Wow, a beautiful play by Ayala.
yeah, he stuffed it.
Yanks need to open up and bang out a big inning.
Nice catch, Swish!
OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWTT!
I like your synopsis: rather punchy.
The “OW” part was for Cervelli.
hip, hip
Shock absorber Cervie holds on!
Ooooh, shoulder in the nose!
I was thinking he should keep his mask on, but on this replay I see that he did have it on: so, only a distributed blow and neck snap.
Chavez wasn’t out. The catcher caught the foul tip off the bounce.
Brett’s looking a little nervous, the way he bobbled that.
OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWTT again!!
This time it’s Granderson with the strong throw to nail him.
But, oh, tie game.
They shouldn’t even be letting Baltimore in this game. They should totally stomp them.
Some very strong defense today, thinking of Cano’s whip from near short, Swish’s, Grandy-Cano!-Cervie. Brett needs a few beers, is all.
The sparse crowd seems to be shouting their ignorance – er, enthusiasm.
They’re going to lose two games in a row to Baltimore.
so the mo would seem to say.
We’d better cheer more, to ofset the bufoons in Bal-mer.
Bricka-bracka! Firecracker! Sis-Boom-Bah!
Is that OK? I saw it in a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
yeah, is good!
Proctor stopped ‘em. C’mo -o – o -on, Yankees!
Get this one! Don’t let them rob it!
The Yankees are back to not scoring after the 6th inning.
Gregg is tough, for a second inning. Rapada is next. He was tough yesterday with those low strikes. This ump seems a bit tighter, though.
6 K’s in a row for the Yankees…come on now.
I have no problem with Showalter managing to win. That’s what he should be doing. But lefties don’t faze Cano much.
surprised Cano went for the low one. That messed him up, woulda been 2 – 0. Coulda waited on one he liked.
Come on, guys. I know you’re tired. But let’s get it done. You can sleep on the plane.
Pathetic.
Chucka blucka doodoo.
Too bad their pitchers dominated the last several innings. Our defense was quite valiant, several plays to remember.
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