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It’s Hiroki Kuroda‘s turn to earn a win tonight in his first start in Yankee Stadium. It’s a home opener to, with Jorge Posada throwing out the first pitch, you can’t embarrass yourself out there. On the line, a possible 4 game winning streak, the Yankees first winning record this year, and possibly even first place. In Kuroda’s short career against the Angels, he has a 2.45 ERA and a sleek 0.927 WHIP in 18.1 innings. As for the opposing team’s pitcher, I covered Ervin Santana pretty thoroughly this morning. Matt’s got the rest of the Angel’s wrap up for you here. Here’s your lineup today.
| Yankees | Angels |
| Derek Jeter SS | Erick Aybar SS |
| Curtis Granderson CF | Bobby Abreu RF |
| Alex Rodriguez 3B | Albert Pujols 1B |
| Robinson Cano 2B | Kendrys Morales DH |
| Mark Teixeira 1B | Mark Trumbo 3B |
| Nick Swisher RF | Vernon Wells LF |
| Raul Ibanez DH | Cesar Izturis 2B |
| Russell Martin C | Chris Iannetta C |
| Brett Gardner LF | Peter Bourjos CF |
The game starts at 1:05 PM EST on YES. Go Yanks!
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33 Responses to Game Seven: Hiroki Take Two
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Nice first inning.
Odd play, but great heads up by Martin stealing third.
…balanced by Gardner getting picked off.
Hey, Professor! Nice strike three from Kuroda. Yer out!
Kuroda’s looking much better this game.
Bravo, Alex. Right in amongst the monuments.
Hope he’s starting a hot streak.
The Bronx Bombers are back.
Nice shot, Curtis! Liner, right over the fence.
Tex looked pretty disappointed, as he stopped his run after first base. He hoped it was out -
Great stop, Robbie!
- and he came close, at the wall, 15 feet right of Arod’s. Just a little too high, maybe. A 400′ knock likely felt pretty good.
Teixeira isn’t an April hitter. He’ll warm up.
yeah, he has hit some hard.
Batoidea 1, Crimson Hose 0.
Whatzat? Smart hitters are ahead? The hell with the RuddySox!
Never mind. Sox tied it plus have the bases loaded with no one out.
Batoidea, and he’s not gonna translate!
Batoidea is a superorder of cartilaginous fish commonly known as rays and skates, containing more than 500 described species in thirteen families.
here, I just assumed it was in the normal human domain – you been sweatin’ at your lexicological favorite website- don’t deny it! – left with the 3 Stooges and bat -oidea.
Jes’ googlin’ ‘roun’.
4 hits, no runs through 7 for Kuroda. Nice game.
his jitters were solved by that 3 run lead, relaxing into his sticky rythm.
Could be. He got no run support in LA.
ah, so. Feels so good.
That Jeter double was fantastic, slicing, slowly, bouncing away from Bourjois.
I find the phrasing “slicing, slowly” to be remarkably poetic.
thanks, I do, too. Inspired by the nifty hit. Think Jeter was jammed, but has handled so many of those, he knows how to do it.
Curtis tip-toed back, varying his speed with the look of the floating flyball. Kenny remarked that Curtis was shallow against Pujols, earlier, and that he’s had a drive beat him, recently.
I have noticed him consistently deciding not to try for questionnable bloopers, and thought he would have had some. I like good risk control, but I’m wondering if his lack of reading skills might mean Gardner would be better in center.
No question Gardner would be better. The question is really how much.
why not try it? would it mess with Curtis’ success?
I guess you worry about the egos of the 40-HR guy before you worry about the egos of the bloop hitters.
Yep, nice job, Kuroda-san. Smooth.
Wow! Easy breezy day! Robertson closes it out.
Gets Pujols to dp, struck out Morales.
Gotta go. Take it easy til the next game.
Something to ponder: what are the chances Alex Rodriguez has a better year than Pujols?