The Red Sox are up 2-1 in the season series, and send Clay Buchholz to the mound at The Stadium, while Bartolo Colon goes for the Bombers. Both look to bounce back from dismal outings.
Ready, Steady, Go.
| Boston | |
| J. Ellsbury cf | .292 |
| D. Pedroia 2b | .237 |
| A. Gonzalez 1b | .329 |
| K. Youkilis 3b | .241 |
| D. Ortiz dh | .291 |
| J.D. Drew rf | .242 |
| J. Lowrie ss | .327 |
| C. Crawford lf | .218 |
| J. Saltalamacchia c | .200 |
| C. Buchholz RHP | 4.19 |
| NY Yankees | |
| D. Jeter ss | .270 |
| C. Granderson cf | .270 |
| M. Teixeira 1b | .262 |
| A. Rodriguez 3b | .259 |
| R. Cano 2b | .291 |
| N. Swisher rf | .218 |
| J. Posada dh | .162 |
| R. Martin c | .255 |
| B. Gardner lf | .260 |
| B. Colon RHP | 3.86 |
Everyone seems to be amped up for these games. I don’t know why, both teams are playing particularly horrible baseball.
Adrian!!! Nice one!
Clay B. is looking good. When do you think Crawford’s avg. is going to be higher than Pedoria’s?
Damn, thought that was caught. But thankfully it wasn’t! Go Russell!
Ump blows the call on the double play.
Yeah, even the Yankee announcers agree.
The call does not hurt the Sox, but costs Buck a few extra pitches.
Youk channels his inner Beltre!
Youk homer off Joba. Sweet …
Just a reminder: The Yanks’s strengths this year are their bullpen and offense.
Oh, and Boston is destined to win 100.
So much for pre-season certainties…
Tuned in just in time to see Youk with the dinger. 20 bucks says Joba hits him the next time they face each other.
Regarding Andrew’s comment to open the thread, I was actually under the opposite impression. Seemed like with both teams playing poorly, and it being fairly early in the season still, that no one was really hyping this series as much.
I expected Granderson to score after the triple. Shouldn’t happen on a wild pitch though.
Tough situation for Bard there, but he gets out of it. Nailbiter.
Well the Yanks payed you back pbe by squandering 2nd and 3rd with less than 2 outs. Ground ball anywhere but to 3rd, moderately-deep fly ball, all apparently to challenging for the 2011-version of Nick Swisher.
I fully expected Swisher or Posada to tie the game there. Bard couldn’t do anything but throw 98-mph fastballs over the middle of the plate.
This game is a microcosm of the Yankee season so far: surprisingly good (not great) starting pitching from an unlikely source, surprisingly poor pen, and an offense almost entirely dependent on Curtis Granderson and Russell Martin.
Sox had to work hard for that win. One small step on the quest for .500. Good night, everybody.
“Sox had to work hard for that win”
That qualifies as a good night for the Yankees these days.
Buchholz’ stuff looked great all night, despite the one mistake he made to Martin. SF, I see what you mean regarding Orsillo’s HR calls: he did it on a Gonzalez fly-out, but on Youk’s 2R HR he barely gets excited at all. He’s really bad at that.
don’t have the warm and fuzzies about this yankee team right now…nuff said