The Yanks need to win a series against a team that starts Sal Fasano. On the other hand, the Yanks are starting Miguel Cairo tonight. Hmmm. Wright vs. Hamels. Comment away!
The Yanks need to win a series against a team that starts Sal Fasano. On the other hand, the Yanks are starting Miguel Cairo tonight. Hmmm. Wright vs. Hamels. Comment away!
Melky is back, and batting 7th. Go Leche!
Damon gets it going well. Hamels looks good though. Works quick. Should be fun to watch the rook.
Hmm. FC, but Damon looked safe?
sooth time: A-Rod hit a homer in his first at bat. I’m calling it.
HBP instead. He would have and Cole knew it.
Giambi Ks, looking at the fastball. Did he think it was a ball, or was he fooled?
Alex HBP. And pissed.
You must mean Alvin Rodriguez, the third baseman for the Saugus Knights little league squad, no?
Alvin Rodriguez is not clutch.
Interesting call, Nick. Instead they hit him. Message? Let’s see what happens now.
I’m testing my predictive powers for the roulette tables in Vegas.
Wright defends himself with the glove; Rollins singles. What does it say that Wright is always getting hit by balls drilled up the middle? Coincidence, or bad pitching?
bad pitching. He’s just so hittable it’s a joke.
His pitches do not miss bats.
2 runners on and 1 out as Jaret Wright forgets to forget that he’s Jaret Wright.
I don’t believe what I just read! to quote Old man Buck. Wright k’s Burrell and Howard to end the inning. Good job, Jaret!
Wright misses _just_ outside for ball one. The one-oh is looped toward center but Cairo makes a good catch ranging to his right to record the first out.
Three-one to Bell: fouled up first for a full count with one away, one out, no one on in the bottom of two.
The payoff looked like a splitter on the outside corner. Bell fought it off foul up first.
Full again: fouled out of play up the right field line. Bernie chased it but ran out of room.
Another 3-2: Bell is walked on a fastball low. Long at bat. One out to
Frank ZappaSal Pasano, who pops out to Jeter.The pitcher is up. Hamels takes ball one, then strike one. Swinging strike two. The 1-2: inside on the corner for strike three, side retired.
Jaret Wright leads off the top of the third for NY.
Wright hits a comebacker to Hamels that he throws to Howard for the first out.
Looping curve for ball one to Damon. Fastball away for ball two. The 2-0: Johnny takes it for a strike at the knees. The 2-1 is cut on and hit foul for 2-2. The deuces: way outside for a full count.
The payoff is low and away to put Damon on first. Captain up.
Lefty Hamels is holding Damon close to first. Jeter taks an outside and high pitch that was a pseudo-pitchout. Damon had a short lead and did not get much of a jump as Hamels has a very quick motion and JD is thrown out easily by Pasano.
Damon had no chance on that steal. It’s 2-2 to Jeter: ground ball up the middle just off of Rollins for a single with two away.
Giambi up. He’s swinging at the first pitch and it’s 0-1. Looks at strike two on the low outside corner. 0-2 is strike three looking on the outside corner. It looked a touch outside, but it was a very good pitch.
Rollins hits a lead-off single for Philly in the bottom of the third.
Chase Utley is up for Philadelphia. Swings at the 0-1 outside change to make it 0-2. Rollins is holding on first. Thought he would be running.
0-2 is a curve outside for 1-2. The Phanatic is beating up on a Yankee fan, bopping him on his NY hat-wearing noggin.
Utley is retired on what looked like a splitter inside for the first out, Rollins holding at first. Abreu up.
Abreu swings and misses at the first pitch from Wright. 0-1: pitch out. Rollins wasn’t going.
The 1-1 is a breaking pitch over for a strike. The 1-2: at the letters for ball 2.
Attack, my gamechannel is down. You’re all I got in the way of a guide for the game.
The 2-2: fastball just a bit high to make the count full.
I’ll do my best Nick. The full count was a change fouled off. Another payoff: fastball out swinging, Rollins gets caught in the rundown and is tagged out to end the inning.
The fastball was at the letters.. good pitch. Abreu swung under it. Posada threw to Jeter immediately, and Rollins was frozen half way between first and second.
Rollins looked pretty far out of the baseline there. Not too much to beef about.
seems like Wright actually has good stuff tonight. He’s missing bats.
Wonder if Alex could have turned on that inside fastball he took for ball 4.
ARod is up to face Hamels. The count is 2-1: high fastball for ball three. ARod is walked to bring up Jorge. He misses away and low for ball one. Pasano comes out to talk about it.
Well it is the Phillies, Nick. [Joke] He’s looked solid. Not spectacular. Solid.
1-0 is a strike on the outside corner.
Nick, have you checked ESPN’s gamecast? It’s not too bad.
It’s now 1-2 on Jorge: big breaking pitch over the plate for strike three. Good pitch.
Jorge spectatin’ on the curve. Backwards k.
Nick, Wright is going deep in the count a lot.
Bernie fouls the first pitch off. The 0-1: another great breaking pitch for 0-2. If Hamels can keep that working, trouble.
No, he can’t. He throws an 80-foot curve for a WP to advance ARod to second.
Ugh.
Bernie grounds out to third for the 6-3. ARod holds at 2nd. Melky looks at ball one.
Come on Leche!
2x Ugh.
80-foot = 50-foot. Cabrera pops out in foul territory off of first to end the inning.
hey AG, thanks for the ESPN gamecast heads-up.
Have I mentioned tonight—it’s becoming a daily ritual—how annoying the Philly uniforms are? They’re underoos, for god’s sake! The stars over the i’s and in the p on the cap…awful. And why is there batting helmet solid red when they wear 2-tone caps? Really this shouldn’t be an issue, because they should NEVER wear 2-tone caps)?
Burrell misses for strike one. The 0-1 is a change that looked mighty good but is called low. 1-1: Burell lifts a high outside corner fastball to straightway center for the first out. Here comes Howard.
Oh my god that changeup was ballsy. DONT TRY THAT AGAIN.
Wright throws outside for ball one. The 0-1 is a change over the middle taken for strike one. A big curve gets a check swing strike for 1-2 on Howard. Slurve in the dirt for 2-2.
Nice pitch by Wright! That was a ball though.
YF: I was thinking the exact same thing. Can’t believe he didn’t hit that one a mile and a half. It was belt high, right down the middle. 1-2 is looking for strike three on the inside corner.
Replay looks like it actually was a strike. Way to go Jaret!
The 1-2 was about 3 or 4 inches too far inside. The ump has been calling that corner thoug.
I like your diatribe about the Phillies unis. They look like they should be worn at a hospital by candy stripers.
AG: totally. He shows Howard another one of those floaters over the middle in this game, it’s gonna land in Trenton.
Rowand rips a single to right. Two away to Bell. Yeah, it looked closer on the replay then it did in real time.
Jorge!
Inning over as they test Posada and he says, SIDDOWN, nose job.
Miguel Cairo hits it to straightway center off the glove of Rowand who was playing too shallow for a triple.
Wow. If only we coulda got a few past Rowand last year….
Trip for Cairo. Sweet.
Low and away to Wright for ball one, then low again for ball two. Wright hits it to the track to score Cairo on the sac fly to left. Nice, Jaret!
Wright does it all! 1-0.
Damon tips it for strike one, then strokes it to left for a single over a leaping Rollins.
Jeets up. Hamel is low for 1-0 with one out and a run plated in the top of 5. Jeter hits it on the ground at third and advances Damon to second on the 6-3 FC.
Okay. Let’s see if Giambi can do something other than watch the pitches go by….
Jaret Wright is pitching spectacularly. As in “the Phils aren’t likely to score a run, much less get an extra-base hit or even a measly single” good. I mean, he is just unhittable right now.
Now back to my own thread.
SF with the jinx
Giambi up. Curve low and away for ball one. Curve quite a bit outside but called a strike for 1-1. The 1-1 fastball is hit off the end of the bat and foul in left field just off the line.
The 1-2 is a fastball way outside for 2-2.
A. Gerbil sticks pins in his SF effigy.
Giambi is retired swinging to end the inning.
that’s not quite the kind of improvement i was hoping for.
Jason Giambi definitely won’t test positive for injecting rocket fuel into his ass.
Now back to the Sox-Nats thread.
Graphic on YES showed that Giambi is hitting .194 since May 3rd with RISP. Now it’s worse.
Wright throws three consecutive balls to David Bell (!) to lead off the bottom of the fifth, and then walks him with a badly missing pitch high and outside.
Wright throws another ball to
ZappaPasano (!) for five consecutive balls.Still unhittable!
Seven consecutive balls as SF is obviously an expert in practicing the black arts of voodoo. Finally a strike for 3-1.
Strike two and Fasano is arguing that it wasn’t.
Full count to Fasano is popped out of play off third off of a broken bat.
Payoff: hit on the ground into a textbook 643 dp for two away.
Pitcher up. Wright throws at his ankles for ball one, then high and a bit away for ball two. Wright finally decides to bring a fastball against the pitcher for strike one.
2-1 is way outside. 3-1: Wright walks him. FUGLY.
You guys are being awfully tough on a pitcher who hasn’t given up a single run tonight.
Wright must think that Hamels is a threat and pitched around him to get to Rollins. Two away, one on.
Yes, SF, but it’s the way he hasn’t given them up that wrinkles my shorts.
Third out as Rollins grounds out to first.
ARod, Posada, Williams coming for NY.
it’s the way he hasn’t given them up that wrinkles my shorts
That’s funny, sad, and very “Red Sox fan circa 2003″…
Rod takes ball one, then strike one as we are in the top of six. Another strike looking, then the K as ARod misses and looks lost in that at bat.
Thanks, SF. I was exceedingly proud/ashamed of myself for saying it that way.
Posada pops out to left center.
Bernie takes a fastball looking for strike one on the inside corner. The 0-1 is a broken bat dribbler foul up first.
meanwhile, in news around the league, the ChiSox have 9 runs and it’s only the bottom of the 2nd. They scored 20 runs last night. Nuts.
Sounds like a perfect time for someone to coldcock AJ Pierzynski, Nick.
The 0-2 is a fastball high. Bernie fouls the 1-2 out of play off the third base line. Another 1-2: 12-6 curve that Bernie grounds out 6-3 to end the inning.
For those who hadn’t heard, Barrett’s first game back from suspension is against the ChiSox on July first (I think).
Hello, Phillies? Phillies? IT’S JARET WRIGHT. That’s all.
Isn’t every game the perfect time to coldcock AJ?
The Barrett-less Cubs are up 9-1 on Cleveland right now in the top of the sixth as well.
SF: now it’s Ron Villone. Looks like Wright lived up to your billing.
Villone starts off with fastballs against Utley and is up 0-2 quickly. The 0-2: check swing that he holds up on on the outside change for 1-2.
This, by the way, is the right move by Joe. Wright is a 5 inning pitcher and that’s that.
I have sooth. Even when I don’t want to.
The 1-2: away for 2-2. Deuces is a defensive swing as Villone was in on the hands; it’s fouled off up third. Another 2-2: strike swinging for one away. Nice pitch by Villone.
Abreu looks at a slider (?) by Villone away for ball one. The 1-0: fastball gets away and is high for ball 2. The 2-0 is inside and high for ball 3. Abreu is taking on the 3-0 and looks at a strike on the inside corner. The 3-1 is fouled back to bring the count full.
Payoff pitch: outside corner fastball to retire Abreu looking. He was not expecting that pitch it seemed.
Burrell looks at ball one. The 1-0 is high. 2-0 is a straight fastball for strike one.
The 2-1: slider (i think) in the dirt for 3-1. The 3-1 is a breaking pitch way outside for ball four. Danger, danger. Howard to the plate.
Howard hits it hard on the ground at Cairo for a 4-3 FC to end the inning.
nice inning by Villone and with that I’m heading out of work and getting ready for my trip to Vegas. Be well, all!
Cairo rips a shot to the left center for a double to start things off for the NY 7th.
Have fun in Vegas, Nick. See you later.
Cabrera rather than Cairo.
Cairo sacs Cabrera to third 1-3. Then AP, pinch hitting for Villone, grounds into the 6-1 to nab Cabrera at home. AP on first. He feels shame. Damon up.
Damon works the count full. He hits the first payoff pitch foul, dribbling up first. Proctor is in the pen for NY; we’ll see him in the bottom of the seventh. The next payoff: Damon walks. It’s two on, two out to Jeter.
Jeter hits it off the hands to right center to score the run. First and third, two outs to Giambi.
Giambi pops out by the on-deck circle to end the inning, swinging on the first pitch.
Bell, Fasano, Hamels (probably pinch for him) coming up for Philly against Villone in the bottom of the 7th.
Proctor rather.
Proctor has appeared in 35 of the 69 games played by NY so far this year.
Proctor is up 1-2 on Rowand. Proctor serves a big curve that he just gets a piece of. Then on the next 1-2, Rowand pops out to Damon for one out.
Proctor loses the handle on a slow curve and hits Bell in the back. Don’t think he meant to do that.
Victorino will hit for Fasano with one away.
PB on an inside pitch advances Bell. 1-0: fastball at the knees fouled back and out of play.
Myers and Beam in the pen for NY. The 1-1: fastball fouled back as Proctor showed 96 on the gun. Doubtful.
Curve in the dirt retires Victorino 2-3 as Posada throws the runner out. Bell holds at second.
Proctologist rollin’.
Nunez, pinch hitting for Hamels, grounds out to first to end the inning.
Arod is at a full count. He’s reached base twice tonight on a HBP and BB, along with a K. The payoff: ARod walks on the pitch outside. Posada up with no outs and a runner on first.
Nice curve by Fultz. Posada takes it looking, 0-1. Posada hits the next pitch off the end of the bat up first for a foul.
Fultz just misses on the 0-2 at the knees. Strike three swinging on the big slider as ARod steals second. One away to Bernie.
Looked like a slider. Bernie swung and missed anyway. Looks at a couple of balls and then lines out to left for the second out.
Posada struck out on a curve, not a slider… the slider was to Bernie, rather.
0-1 to Melky: in the dirt for 1-1.
LECHE! And some gutsy baserunning by Alex.
Melky with a nice single off the end of the bat to score ARod. Leche. He advances to second on the throw home.
YF: Bowa has been bold all season sending runners. Glad it seems to pay off more often than not.
No baseball tomorrow. I think I will spend tomorrow night doing yard work, maybe a BBQ, and start reading some over-hyped book about some ancient baseball that I picked up at Border’s last week. ;)
MIGGY! single to right scores Melky. Attaway, boys.
Howard was shading way far right off first there.
Crosby is down 0-2 quickly but works it back to deuces. He fouls a 2-2 back and left off the dugout. He rips a single to right aon a 2-2 to make it first and third, still two outs.
Damon up. He singles to right to score Cairo and advance Crosby to second.
First and second to Jeter with two outs. He takes strike one. The 0-1 is a curve low. 1-1 is inside and low for ball 2. Condrey is up in the pen for Philly.
The 2-1 is ripped foul off first. 2-2 is a breaking pitch hit off the right side of the pitcher, fielded 1-3 to end the inning.
(hit to the right side of the pitcher, didn’t actually hit him)
Farns is in for NY. Contain, Kyle.
Rollins to hit for Philly. The 0-1 is a breaking pitch fouled back and left. The 0-2: fastball outside for ball one. 1-2: slider fouled off. 1-2: fastball on the outside corner fouled back.
Another 1-2: slider high in the zone popped out to left for the first out.
Chase Utley steps in against Farnsworth and fouls off a pitch, then takes ball one, and then another foul for strike two. The 1=2: fastball outside that read 100 on the gun, fouled off.
1-2 again: pop out to Melky in left for two away.
Farns blows the 1-1 by Abreu for strike 2. Another fastball on the outside high corner; Abreu swings and misses to strike out and end the inning. Nice, Kyle.
Farns: a lot easier when you throw strikes.
Is this Abreu, the one who’s k’d thrice, our potential new sheff? carefull what you wish for?
Wagner just walked two, gave up an infield hit and a 2 rbi single–all with 2 outs in the 9th against the Reds…now the Mets are losing.
Cano grounds up the middle for a single to lead off the top of the ninth.
Arod with the 643 DP.
Is Farnsworth going to come out for the 9th?
I say he should.
Jorge. YF: I have never been on the Abreu bandwagon.
only 15 pitches thrown so far.
Mo’s up in the pen. So is Smith. I think Farns should pitch the ninth.
Posada pops out to end the Yankee 9th.
strikes out rather.
9-3 final in Boston as Soriano grounds out 4-3 to end the game with runners on second and third.
What’s the point of putting Mo up in the pen after he pitched two innings yesterday?
Mo is in for NY. Day off tomorrow, I guess. But after last night, why not rest him unless need be?
Yeah, what Walein said.
Not a save situation, Farns looked fine. But okay. I hope he works quick. He’s facing Burrell, Howard and Rowand, the meat of the Phillies lineup.
Slider for a ball inside and high, then an off-speed (or was it a slow split?) for a ball high. Then a strike at the knees.
2-1 is a strike swinging on a fastball. 2-2: beautiful pitch that froze Burrell. I think it was a split.
Starts off with a strike against Howard. Then another strike. The 0-2: cut in on the hands. MELKY!!! Diving grab in left.
Beautiful catch.
Rowand is at 1-1 with 2 away. Mo stops a hard-shot comebacker, loses the ball under his legs, recovers, and guns to first to get the out. AMAZING play by Mo. Ball game. Two incredible plays to end it.
Wow, how did Mo recover to make that play. It’s easy to forget how incredible of a fielder he is.
Enjoy the day off everyone. See you Friday for the white-hot Marlins.
Got to say…it WOULD have beena save situation for Farnsworth.
Though Baltimore did beat FLA today..
nite AG
True, Walein.
Jaret Wright with the game-winning RBI. CLUTCH. You can only hope to contain him. ;)
Yes. See y’all right here Friday. Tomorrow we can all root on our national side of footballers. Good luck to those Yankees. They need all the help they can get.