Friday, August 21, 2009
Yankees (76-45) @ RedSox (69-51), 7:10pm, Friday, August 21, 7:10pm **Game Chatter**
Lineups
New York Yankees
D. Jeter, SS (.331/.395/.471, 4.5 WAR)
J. Damon, LF (.285/.365/.519, 2.9 WAR)
M. Teixeira, 1B (.283/.381/.557, 3.9 WAR)
A. Rodriguez, 3B (.254/.390/.492, 2.2 WAR)
H. Matsui, DH (.265/.361/.503, 1.3 WAR)
J. Posada, C (.273/.342/.492, 1.0 WAR)
R. Cano, 2B (.313/.345/.501, 2.0 WAR)
N. Swisher, RF (.245/.373/.478, 1.7 WAR)
M. Cabrera, CF (.335/.400/.554, 3.6 WAR)
Total, (.291/.373/.509, 23.1 WAR)
Boston Red Sox
J. Ellsbury, CF (.300/.347/.408, 1.2 WAR)
D. Pedroia, 2B (.295/.371/.437, 2.9 WAR)
V. Martinez, C (.324/.398/.581, 2.1 WAR)
K. Youkilis, 1B (.306/.421/.554, 3.7 WAR)
J. Bay, LF (.256/.384/.525, 1.9 WAR)
D. Ortiz, DH (.224/.318/.431, -0.3 WAR)
M. Lowell, 3B (.297/.343/.489, 0.4 WAR)
J. Drew, RF (.260/.375/.469, 2.3 WAR)
A. Gonzalez, SS (.263/.263/.316, 0.1 WAR)
Total, (.278/.365/.471, 14.3 WAR)
Yankee Win Probability: 46.9%.
The Yankees may lead Boston by six games in the loss column, but they have yet to win a game at Fenway this season. I don’t think any AL East team has ever gone 0 for Fenway and won the World Series in the same season. Also, our very own Jonathan will be covering the game on location for Stats Inc., and a Yankee loss would ruin his night. Not ruining Johathan’s night is really important, which means this game is really important too.
Go Yankees.
Jonathan:
5:30pm - Just met Pete Abraham. Very nice guy.
5:50pm - I took some pictures of some Yankees with my phone when I was down on the field before the game. Unfortunately I left my usb hookup at home. I’ll post anything decent tomorrow.
Some Notes: Posada needs two doubles to tie Bob Meusel (339) for ninth place on the Yankees’ all-time doubles list.
Rivera needs just 9 strikeouts to reach 1,000 for his career.
6:15pm - There is a monster thunderstorm moving up the east coast. There is likely to be a delay, at which time I may bring you an exclusive interview with John Sterling’s assistant.
6:55pm - Papelbon is out on the field carrying his infant child for some kind of pregame ceremony. His wife is very attractive. Hope the kid gets her looks. And personality.
7:05pm - During the National Anthem, singer Nadia Bjorlin stumbled with one of the lines early on. The fans got a bit restless.
Lineup cards now being exchanged as Pettitte comes in from taking warmups in the pen.
First inning notes:
Ow, looks like that foul ball caught Damon in a not so fun area.
Joe West’s strikezone is mighty wide. Better be the same for Pettitte.
It doesn’t look like Pettitte is getting the outside strike at all.
Second inning notes:
West’s strikezone officially sucks.
Pettitte seems determined to go 3-2 on every batter.
Third inning notes:
Damon left with a bruised right knee.
Fourth inning notes:
This game has been a bitch to cover. All those doubles down the line - I have terrible sight lines from the box.
But my night has not been ruined yet, thanks to SG and the Yanks.
Fifth inning notes:
Since Bowden entered the game, the Red Sox bullpen has not moved. Seems like Francona is determined not to burn out too many arms in this first game. He’s thrown 33 pitches already.
My dad just texted me: “No mercy are you smiling? love dad”
Even with a big lead, Pettitte feels the need to battle.
Ninth inning notes:
The stadium is about half full now.
Less than half full. Pin dropish.
Comments
Woohoo! Baseball!
Fun story from Wednesday night in Oakland - some A’s fan sitting in the right field bleachers was heckling Swisher, including calling him a “Trader” (I guess he was unaware the A’s traded Swisher to avoid paying him and thought Swisher left via free agency).
Eventually, Swisher gets sick of it and makes a gesture implying that the heckler could perform fellatio on Swisher, and the fans in the bleachers give Swisher an ovation (in addition to the crowd being at least 50% Yankees fans, Swisher is still well liked by most A’s fans). The heckler shouts something back arguing that Swisher should be the one who performs the fellatio. Swisher gestures back implying that the heckler’s manhood is only one inch in length, and gets more applause. The heckler replies with something to the effect of Swisher should go Farnsworth himself. The heckler is then escorted out by security.
I’d like Swisher a lot more if his performance this season wasn’t so badly inflated by the wind tunnel at NYS.
[3] Funny
If Swisher keeps up his good month/bad month alternation, October could be good.
Looking at Swisher’s April reminds one just how valuable he was in the early going with Teix starting slow and A-Rod absent. He definitely picked the right time to be hot.
My mother thinks Swisher is “just terrible!” because he hits .230 and she went to some game where he dropped an easy fly ball. I tried to persuade her otherwise. She humored me by listening for a while, then walked away, sure her son is more meshugganah than ever.
There is likely to be a delay, at which time I may bring you an exclusive interview with John Sterling’s assistant.
Watch out Jonathan, it’s just a clever ploy by Sterling to get to your stats and throw them in east river. His assistant will distract you while Sterling stealthy steals them.
Watch out Jonathan, it’s just a clever ploy by Sterling to get to your stats and throw them in east river. His assistant will distract you while Sterling stealthy steals them.
You just can’t predict play-by-play guys.
I seriously think you should make some predictions, just to see what he says.
Wait, WTF? Sterling has an assistant? What does he do? Curl his hair? He obviously doesn’t do any research for him.
[11] The assistant is probably in charge of holding onto the laminated printout that has the signature HR calls listed on it. If that got lost we wouldn’t get to hear “You’re on the Mark, Teixiera.”
Seeing as I have to go on a quick beer and potato run and the game starts in 20 minutes, guess I won’t be able to mow the lawn until tomorrow morning.
Why yes, my wife is away. However did you guess?
[2] Great story, ted…
This looks like a potential two-hour delay…
Good thing we had practice staying up late this week…
Watching the pregame opening on NESN and getting only the highlight clips from the 8-game run…
They are so desperate…
Why yes, my wife is away. However did you guess?
Respect…
A Jeterian start…
I´d love to see the following inning, which is not impossible with Penny/Martinez.
single sb, single sb, hr, single sb.
But Jeter just screwed this.
Captain.
If the storm is anything like the one that hit the city it won’t be a two hour delay. It poured for about 15 minutes and then it was done.
When did we trade for Miguel Cabrera? In the lineup tonight:
M. Cabrera, CF (.335/.400/.554, 3.6 WAR)
Miggy Cabrera’s been in the lineup for the last couple of weeks. Melky’s been showing up at the plate though.
What’s the injury?
That looked outside by a country mile.
That was 8 inches ouside.
No where near the plate…
Let’s see if Andy gets the same generosity from the HP ump
Damon fouled one off his foot and went down. Looked painful, but he was fine to strike out.
Nice AB by Teix…
Gotta take advantage of this…
Another one 6 inches outside. Kay’s right, it was on the other batters box line.
This strike zone is ridiculous.
C’mon Po!
Yay Posado!
Yanks lead 2-0… Penny at 28 pitches…
C’mon Andy… time to ‘battle’
Key hit there by Posado. 28 pitches by Penny. Nice start here.
Battle: On.
Hinske in for Damon.
We all spend far too much time here.
It’ll be odd to see Hinkse in the #2 spot in the order…
That was a strike on the outside corner for Penny.
Can Ellsbury steal home from 1st base?
36- And some of us are reminded about it quite often.
You walk Ellsbury… you pay…
Andy is battling. Please end this.
Urgh. not that way.
Get some, Youklis.
That made it OK. Kind of.
26 pitch 1st inning for Andy…
A swinging bunt by the Melkman…
This strikezone is a joke. It didn’t seem like Andy was getting it either.
Counting the double in the 1st inning, Jeter is hitting .636 over the past five games…
You can’t hit the ball out of your hand and be that successful…
Run, Melky, run.
Derek Jeter is awesome.
Jeet now at .652…
Melky at 3rd thanks to yfinBrazil…
Jeter is so ridiculously on fire.
Run, Jeter, run.
I have good feelings about Hinske here.
It will piss me off if this fat clown tosses someone for complaining about his shit strike zone.
Nice call Clay…
yay run…
[57] I saw that before I saw the in play runs on gameday.
39. Posted at 2:48:29 pm on Friday, August 21, 2009 by RI Yankee
We’ll be lucky to excape with 3 runs over this series.
I’ll be disappointed if we don’t get a three-spot on Penny in the 1st inning…
Ok… so it took two innings…
Teix is a BEAST!!!
Whoo! A Teix double.
Fucking wall.
Hello bitch?
Meet slap.
Damnit-close there.
Damn you Matsui.
Fun game yet?
Joe West, please retain your horrendous strikezone for the remainder of them game, IF you call it both ways.
Hey Jonathan,
Are you observing the ‘no-cheering-in-the-press-box’ rule?
One pitch, one out. Let’s keep that going.
Brad Penny another “low risk, high reward” signing by Theo. I bet they are glad their off-season featured the signings of Rocco, Schmoltz, and Penny instead of using the that low risk cash to lock up Teix.
66- Oxcysomething in his effen supper.
I really dislike Ortiz now. Seeing him reach base sucks.
what the hell ball 3 was not even close to outside of the zone.
Exemplary job of calling this game so far by Mr. Joe West. Top notch.
Little banter between Andy and the Bat-Mole after the inning ended.
It appeared to be good natured.
Wow, Jorge really ‘hustled’ down the line there. Gardner could have reached second. I’ll take it, though.
Why did Po swing at that ball in the dirt? Joe West would’ve called it strike anyway..
Someone with video, was Victor taking a nap behind the plate? Just trying to figure out how Po could possibly reach on a passed ball strike three.
Yeah, I just hope it ends well.
77- Sorry lad, I was on the phone.
Just looked at the radar, It looked like the rain will mostly pass north of Boston. Good news, especially with 5 runs lead.
[79] I will assume Victor was as well.
[77] It was a simple PB that got to the back wall and stayed there… no bounce back…
I just love it when Pedroia does something stupid…
Hard as it may be to believe, losing Damon may hurt us in the field. He does know the wall very well, and it just ate Hinkse up.
did pedroia really just do that?
and how is damon doing, if anyone has an update?
Ted Williams reaching base safely for 84 consecutive games is pretty goddamn amazing.
NESN says bruised knee. No X-Rays. Listed day-to-day.
85-yes he did.
Nothing yet on JD.
What is amazing about the Pedroia play is Jeter just sprints out to short left, picks up the ball, turns and flicks a strike to ARod… Pedroia was out by a mile.
Hey lads, should I understand that Pedroia put one off the wall, such that the GameCast “Pedroia doubles on pop up to shortstop Derek Jeter” doesn’t quite catch what happened?
“Hey lads, should I understand that Pedroia put one off the wall, such that the GameCast “Pedroia doubles on pop up to shortstop Derek Jeter” doesn’t quite catch what happened? “
Hinske leapt and just missed it, the ball caroms all the way to Jeter in short left and Pedroia is out by a mile.
Exactly, Mr. Mayor. Hinske leaped and missed, the ball took a long ricochet off the wall. Jeter made a heads up play and picked it up in shallow left and nailed that annoying midget at 3rd.
Oh the Pedrioa “popup”, it hit pretty low on the monster, and bounced past Hinske, rolling almost all the way back to the infield. Jeter fielded it as it trickled towards third, turned and made the throw.
It was almost like Damon was still out there, throwing to the curoff.
Are you observing the ‘no-cheering-in-the-press-box’ rule?
Small, unnoticeable fist pumps.
The Hinsk swished the ball to MVPeter and was gunned out by the MVPeter.
It will be on the world wide leader sometime monday.
SSF- I respect the fact that you are even showing up. Cascade hops I suspect.
Battle Goat moves on. I like this game.
I’d like to see A-Rod launch one.
Close Pin. Nice call.
I’d like to see A-Rod launch one.
Stupid wall.
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