In 23 PA against the Yankees, Pedro Ciriaco is batting .500/.522/.682 with 7 R and 6 RBI, and I want him to go away.
Onto the line-ups:
| Boston Red Sox | New York Yankees |
| Jacoby Ellsbury, CF | Derek Jeter, DH |
| Carl Crawford, LF | Nick Swisher, 1B |
| Dustin Pedroia, 2B | Robinson Cano, 2B |
| Adrian Gonzalez, 1B | Andruw Jones, RF |
| Cody Ross, DH | Casey McGehee, 3B |
| Jarrod Saltalamacchia, C | Curtis Granderson, CF |
| Mike Aviles, SS | Russell Martin, C |
| Scott Podsednik, RF | Jayson Nix, SS |
| Pedro Ciriaco, 3B | Ichiro Suzuki, LF |
| Franklin Morales, SP | Phil Hughes, SP |
The first pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m., on MY9 and MLB Network. Let’s go Yankees!
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Will the real Phil Hughes please stand up, please stand up?
and pitch effectively!! (my apologies to Eminem)
The Yankee lineup looks lot like yesterdays Wichita means ver weak past the number 5 spot
I wonder if Bobby Valentine still hates the Yankees.
What could change his mind?
Well, I was being sarcastic, but if I had to come up with a reason, how about his need to find a new job after the season?
Nice AB by Swish. Tried a little of everything and then got all of it.
exactly, not johnny one note
Good thing Martin stayed with that pop up.
did a fine job, terrific catch.
Yankees are doing their specialty–solo homering the opposition to death.
Is it supposed to rain all night?
I HEARD Curtis’ knock. Pure norwegian wood. The atmospherics, or a soggy small crowd probably let them pick it up better.
There is a small nasty cell that has tripled in size, and they added red color, that is centered on YS. Looks like they should delay a half hour.
Ah, just keep playing. Maybe the Sockholes will just decide to quit.
Fans of the Evil Empire are probably praying for a wash out.
Ah, they’re not an empire. They’re more like the Evil Hamlet or something.
lol
I went over to overthemonster.com. They’re not praying for a washout. They’ve all given up on the season, and are wondering what kind of draft pick position the Sockholes will get.
Phil shoulda thrown his changeup. It woulda come back to Nix.
Hughes was so shocked he got a GB he couldn’t control himself.
his joy lasted as long as he could turn around, poor Phil.
wow, look at that! Aviles is realy wearing RED SOX! How novel.
No, that was Posednik.
figures, he’s probably not one of the boys, accepted into the club.
Damn, first two innings he looked good. Now he’s completely lost and on the verge of losing the lead.
And there goes a 3 run lead. That is disgraceful.
Those should be earned runs.
I’m very encouraged to see his changeup. He gets that good down and out. His drifting fb is killing him, just as it did Nova.
Come on, Hughes, you dweeb! Stop screwing around and PITCH!
Meatball.
GameDay shows zero ER. I think they should all count. I dislike unearned runs. The pitch still didn’t do his job and get the needed outs.
Possible exception would be a run that scores from an error.
Yes, they’re all unearned. I meant they SHOULD be earned.
Hughes, the Good Hughes not his Evil twin, needs to take the mound. If he can shut down the Evil Hamlet the rest of the way it’ll give Yankee batters a chance to knock a few more out of the park.
He got a K, but too many foul balls again. It’s the Evil Twin again this inning.
I hope. I hate losing to the Red Sox.
Looks like an all or nothing night for the Yankee batters.
A 7 pitch inning, Hughes really needed that.
Jete jacks it. Four solo homers. I wonder what the record for solo homers in one game is.
Sabathia gave up 5, wasn’t it?
Only needs 506 more to tie Bonds! Wait, that’s wrong. But y’all get the idea.
Morales is trying to out Hughes Hughes tonight.
Only scoring one run at a time, it’s the Yankees’ definition of small ball.
Yankee bullpen stunk yesterday, but it wasn’t the A guys.
Even so, it was fairly unusual. Everyone but Joba has pitched well. And as far as I’m concerned Joba still gets a pass.
glad I missed it.
Nice. Hughes followed the 7 pitch inning with an 8!
a nice trend.
In that AB Jones’ hit looked like a CB!
Damn, Fibber broke the streak.
Fibber should hide behind Gonzales so Granderson thinks the bases are empty.
I’ll take a walk or a home run, but I won’t be too crazy about a strikeout.
Let’s do it, Russell.
He swung at ball four twice.
He looked like a little leaguer in that AB
Nix showed with a professional hitter does with that pitch
yep
boy, Ichiro didn’t know what to do with it. Harder for a lefty to handle that pitch, down and in.
Yeah. A left Martin on that swing.
no doubt, it’s a nasty pitch. It’s frustrating because they seemingly should be able to lay off, but it looks a strike.
Jason Nixes the Sockholes!
ha. ha.
Who shows up to pitch the 7th? Mr. Jekyll of Dr. Hyde? (tic)
So far, Jekyll. But this might be his last hitter either way.
Six really good innings and one clunker. All in all, a decent outing. Hughes did have a good change tonight.
Speaking of which, since the ball goes down and the speed is down, shouldn’t it be called a change down?
a down-and-outer
I like that. OK, make the change.
Time for a Geico run or two.
15 minutes can cause you an HR
nice Swish!
that wasn’t a Geico run, was it? Didn’t see any cute little gecco.
I thought that was him catching the ball. Opps, squashed.
ha!
Felines have caught the birds. Now I hope they eat them.
Swish isn’t smiling much tonight. Too determined.
The O’s and the Tigers are tied.
Come on Robertson. High socks, high hopes. Now get some high results.
It would be interesting to have Tex replace Kay!
Swisher fell down!
bad swishy
oh, what a turrible center fielder, too. His route stunk. He got a bad break. He couldn’t see it.
He was lucky the ball found his glove!!
yeah, wandering around, and the ball found him. Ha.
I hope that fly by Pedroia shuts up the Red Sox fans who thinks its too easy to hit home runs in Yankee Stadium.
it’s close to a flip for Fenway, short right for left. They don’t have a leg to complain on.
There’s only one way to shut up Sox fans. Tongue removal or vocal cord removal.
There are two ways to shut up Sox Fans.
Just a short tribute to Monty Python.
This is not a normal Red Sox team. The game didn’t even go 3 hours!
wow.
A little hard rain made it slippery, but we kept homering.
But the hit of the game came from Nix.
critical time, for momentum.
Thank God that losing streak is over. Chat y’all tomorrow.
Is that 25 over .500? Think we’re 71 – 46.
23, 71-48
71-48.
And the African felines lead the Native American birds 5-3 in top of 9th
They shouldn’t lead them. They should chomp them down.
Good game, eventually.