Don't Look Back: Yanks-Tribe Gamer III

The Yankees look to give George a belated birthday present tonight. Mike Mussina goes against Paul Byrd. This is your thread for comment.

Comments

[yankeemonkey]

Apparently Kris Wilson was called up in case Moose's groin acts up again...seeing as Villone has pitched a bazillion innings lately.

[Nick-YF]

A blah top of the first for the Yanks. Jeter singles and steals a base, but is left stranded at 2nd.

[Nick-YF]

Mussina gets Sizemore to k.

[Nick-YF]

1-2-3 for Mussina in the first. Time for the bats to wake up!

[yankeemonkey]

Whatever happened to the little thing called working the count?! Sheesh...

[yankeemonkey]

2 innings, 2 stolen bases....if only they amounted to runs....

[yankeemonkey]

I'll be damned.

[Nick-YF]

what is this? Andy Phillips with 3 triples in a week and now a stolen base. Channelling Willie Wilson!

[attackgerbil]

Andy singles, steals second, and scores on a single to put a NY run on the board first. Then again, we saw how that worked out yesterday.

[attackgerbil]

Now if we can get the Cleveland bats to channel Kenneth Lay.

What? Too soon?

[yankeemonkey]

Nah

[Nick-YF]

lol. Heartless bastards we all may be.

[attackgerbil]

SNY just showed Reyes hitting a triple.. timed him from contact to when he touched third base. 10.3 seconds. Amazing.

Moose K's Hafner looking for the first out.

Tampa scores first and leads Boston 1-0.

[Nick-YF]

Is Reyes the fastest guy in the league, or does that honor belong to the now retired Tino Martinez?

[attackgerbil]

2-1 fastball just misses outside to make it 3-1 to Martinez, who then walks on a pitch in the dirt. 2-1 looked pretty good.

[attackgerbil]

I can't get off my couch in 10.3 seconds without pulling something.

[attackgerbil]

0-2 to Broussard. He times it well and puts it deep to right; hits it to the track where Bernie makes the catch. Luckily, Martinez didn't tag up against Bernie. That would have been embarrassing. Two away. Moose got away with one there.

[yankeemonkey]

I'm gameday-ing....are some of those flyouts against Moose just barely missing heading out of the park?

[attackgerbil]

ARod fields a roller for the third out, throwing to second for the force.

[attackgerbil]

Broussard's was high and deep; Bernie caught it at the track at around 375 feet. It was close.

[attackgerbil]

Crosby leads off the NY 3rd and grounds out to first.

Tek just hit a dinger to tie it in TB, one apiece.

[Nick-YF]

why is Crosby pinch-hitting???!!!

[attackgerbil]

The Captain steps up. Swings and misses on a high pitch for strike one, and then cuts a deuce foul up third for 0-2.

[attackgerbil]

Check swing on another deuce to ground out to first for the second out. Jason is up.

[yankeemonkey]

What happened to Johnny?????

[attackgerbil]

I was trying to figure that out myself. Volume is off (Sox volume is on). Hope Johnny is not hurt.

[attackgerbil]

Giambi hits a shot that bounces off of the moon and comes down at short stop for the third out.

[Nick-YF]

I'm now in panic mode. If he's hurt, I'm gonna have to talk to God tonight, give him a real tongue lashing.

[attackgerbil]

Nothing about Johnny on the wire reports yet. I will keep looking.

[Nick-YF]

another observation: I guess I should respect Byrd. He's been solid throughout his career, but the Yanks need to hit him.

[attackgerbil]

Crosby is in center for the bottom of the third, led off by Todd Hollandsworth.

[attackgerbil]

Fricking Hollandsworth hits a fastball in to the right field seats.

[Nick-YF]

Hollandsworth owns us.

Meanwhile, on Yahoo it's saying that Damon left the game with an undisclosed injury. I hope it's the flu. But I can't believe what's happened to this team.

[yankeemonkey]

New York Yankees center fielder Johnny Damon left the game due to an injured chest.

AG: you and your Kenneth Lay channeling!

[attackgerbil]

Gutierrez is one and one. Moos loops a deuce in for a strike. The 1-2: nice curve but Gutierrez gets a piece of it to stay alive. Another 1-2: fastball high in the zone, popped towards the first base dugout, and caught by Posada for the out.

[Nick-YF]

an injured chest?!! WTF! Did he run into a wall in the field. Was he doing a Tarzan routine? What's that about?!!!

[attackgerbil]

D'OH! Stupid Ouija board. Had the silly thing in reverse.

[attackgerbil]

Grady grounds out to Cano for the second out. It's 2-2 to Belliard, who tries to time a Moose change but hits it foul up first. 2-2 again strike three looking on a fastball from Moose. Nice pitch.

[Nick-YF]

If only Cairo was Cano, Attack. If only.

[attackgerbil]

Tabloid headline: Johnny sidelined by bizarre chest-waxing incident. QEFTSG could not be reached for comment.

[attackgerbil]

Oops. Thanks, Nick. Wishful thinking on my part. I like typing Cano much better than Cairo.

[attackgerbil]

ARod sits down on strikes.

[yankeemonkey]

QEFTSG?

[attackgerbil]

Nice pitch by Byrd froze ARod.

[attackgerbil]

Queer Eye For The Straight Guy

[Nick-YF]

Hollandsworth would fit nicely on the Yanks right about, come to think of it.

[attackgerbil]

Posada singles, then Bernie doubles to the right field corner. Posada was timed at 10.3 seconds running from second to third.

[attackgerbil]

AP, be a hero!

[Nick-YF]

ha!

[attackgerbil]

Hollandsworth gets behind 3-0. Phillips is taking all the way on ball three. The 3-1 from Hollandsworth: nice breaking pitch; AP swings over it to bring the count full. Aaron Boone, who KILLED us with his D two days ago, muffs the grounder and AP reaches first on the error to bring up Melky. One out, loaded.

[attackgerbil]

MELKY!!! GRAND SLAM!!!

[yankeemonkey]

Hollandsworth?

Also, thank you Aaron Boone.

[Nick-YF]

Boo Ya!!!

[walein]

Melky!!!!!

[yankeemonkey]

Holy F*k!

[bloodyank78]

That F'ing Rocks! Leche!!!!!!!!!

[attackgerbil]

MELKY!!!! MELKY MELKY MELKY!! Hanging curve on a 1-0 pitch deposited in the right field seats. Who said the kid don't have powah? Oh wait. I did.

MELKY!!!

And now ERRON frickin' Boone with another error as Cairo reaches on the E6.

[yankeemonkey]

Not to be picky or anything, but is anyone else disturbed that all of our runs were driven in by Mr. Cabrera?

[Nick-YF]

You gotta love Aaron Boone for everyething he's done for the Yankees franchise.

[yankeemonkey]

indeed

[attackgerbil]

Crosby up for Damon, who was removed from the game for an injured nipple, fouls of the 1-0. Hit and run was on. It's 1-1.

[attackgerbil]

YM: Not at all. His hitting has been the last criticism of his game, which I think is unfair for a kid still learning the Majors.

Crosby swings and misses on another h and r and Cairo swipes second. Then Crosby singles to center to score Cairo. woot.

Nice aggressive baserunning by the Yanks this game. And thanks again, Erron.

[attackgerbil]

Jeter is 4-9 on the series. Crosby looks like he is threatening to run. Byrd looks like someone just ran over his dog.

[attackgerbil]

Make that 5-10. Captain, my Captain. Single to left makes it 1st and 2nd with one out.

[Nick-YF]

I want them to destroy the Tribe tonight. Revenge style.

[yankeemonkey]

I guess what I meant is that the top of the lineup (was) doing squat. Melky can drive in as many runs as he wants, he's not the problem....

[yankeemonkey]

Time for ARod to hit another "meaningless" homerun. I, for one, wouldn't complain!

[attackgerbil]

YM: I see what you mean, but ARod just fixed that for us. single to left after a Giambi sac fly (deep deep right) scores a run. ARod, I'm sorry I was reluctant to put you on the all star team.

Jeter swipes third as the Yankees seem to be running at will.

[yankeemonkey]

Or a single....that works very well too.

[attackgerbil]

Jorge doubles to the right corner. It's 9-1 Yankees as Jeter and ARod score. They FINALLY pull Byrd. Poor bastard.

[yankeemonkey]

Woot!

Now, why couldn't they have done this yesterday?

[Nick-YF]

If they did it yesterday, they would have still lost.

[attackgerbil]

Rafael Betancourt is on for the Tribe.

Why did they pull Villone yesterday?

[yankeemonkey]

No...BEFORE the slaughter occurred. I can't help but wonder what would have happened if they didn't leave the bases loaded in the 1st....Maybe Chac would have more confidence....Nah.

[attackgerbil]

Jorge is on second with two away to Bernie Williams.

[yankeemonkey]

Meanwhile Mr. Clutch strikes out on 3 pitches to strand a runner...TB up 4-1 heading into bottom 3rd.

[attackgerbil]

Bernie is down 0-2. Betancourt feeds a fastball away that Bernie takes a horrid cut at, and is retired swinging. Inning over.

[attackgerbil]

YM: I have to look at what I am typing before I post. I just finally saw that I was calling Byrd Hollandsworth. I'm not drunk. I swear. I'm just exhausted from an afternoon of drinking.

[yankeemonkey]

One pitch one out from Moose. Nice.

[attackgerbil]

Hafner sends a double to left center. Melky almost kicks Crosby in the head trying to jump over him, and landed in a way that had me cringing. I have this feeling that Damon would have had that ball.

[attackgerbil]

Wow! Martinez hits one to the track. Melky (who took an indirect route to the ball) makes the play, bouncing off the wall. Hafner has to retreat to second, as he didn't think Melky was going to catch that one.

[attackgerbil]

MELKY!

It's just so much fun to say.

[attackgerbil]

Broussard is up. Moose gets ahead 1-2. Fastball on the outside part of the plate is fouled off third. Jorge comes out to talk to Moose.

[attackgerbil]

Another 1-2: low and away to make it 2-2. Argh. Broussard deposits the ball in the right field seats to make it 9-3 NY.

[yankeemonkey]

Hmmm...another gopher ball from Moose. He needs to stop this.

[attackgerbil]

Broussard hit it about 20 feet deeper than his last at bat.

Boone hits a single to shallow left. Dying quail that Jeter made a great effort to catch. Man on first, two away to Byrd Hollandsworth.

[attackgerbil]

0-2 to Hollandsworth: High pop to shallow left. Jeter settles under it to retire the side.

[attackgerbil]

It will be Phillips, Cabrera, and Cairo to lead off the top of the fifth.

[attackgerbil]

AP out by half a step on a roller to short on the opposite side. Peralta even with a double clutch, launches a fine throw to nab him at first.

[attackgerbil]

Melky is up, fresh off his salami.

[attackgerbil]

Melky is sat down swinging for the second out.

[yankeemonkey]

That sounds dirty....

[attackgerbil]

Cairo takes ball one high. Betancourt brings a fastball that's close, but inside for 2-0. Cairo cuts at a fastball at the letters and fouls it back for 2-1.

[attackgerbil]

YM: heh. I should rephrase that. Melky is back in the box after stroking a salami. Hmm. Still needs work.

Cairo ropes a single to left. Crosby steps in with two away.

[attackgerbil]

Crosby takes a fastball at the knees for strike one. Then fouls another fastball back for 0-2.

[attackgerbil]

Cairo swipes second on an outside fastball.

[attackgerbil]

Crosby is behind 1-2: looks at strike three. It looked low, but the inning is over.

[yankeemonkey]

Blah...

Yanks are running all over the place today. Wonder what NYY team record is for single-game SBs?

[attackgerbil]

YM: Fifteen, in 1911, vs. the St. Louis Cardinals.

[attackgerbil]

Moose Ks Gutierrez to start the bottom of 5. Sizemore up. He takes a breaking pitch away for ball one.