Yanks did more with three outs in the third inning yesterday than they had done with the previous 108 outs and 36 innings. Brett Gardner took his grand slam at bat with a little extra fire after Huffman got beaned. Lucky beats good any day of the week. ARod is lucky AND good. Andy Pettitte will be an all star and Joe Girardi will make that statement for the Yankees.
Kind of wished R.A. Dickey versus Stephen Strasburg would have finished like it started, but it wasn’t in the cards for the Mets. Rousing victory for the Nats, who clearly play with added urgency every time their young phenom starter takes the hill. Can’t say enough about Dickey’s impact to the rotation, he’s gone to the seventh inning or better in four of nine starts and has kept the opposition scoreless in three of nine.
Enjoy the 4th safely and God Bless America!!!
All good points regarding Crawford on yesterday’s thread.
To me the question is not so much “do the Yanks need Crawford” it’s “what do you give up to get him?”.
HAPPY 4TH TO all on BBT! Have a good day,plus remember our armed forces who keep this Holiday for us
Happy Birthday America…stay safe & drunk today fellow BBTers.
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lohud saying that Al made the AS team but Andy did not.
Happy Birthday, United States of America.
All the best to you and yours, my BBT brethren, have a safe and happy holiday, and have some for me ( I’m on call and can’t imbibe anything fun until next Friday ).
Have some.
Happy Independence Day, Grunts!
Here’s hoping everyone has a Safe and Joy Filled Holiday!!!!!
Hughes looked mucho sharp, did not miss a single pitch
IP: 7
R: 0
H: 2
BB: 3
K: 8
6-0 Orioles, in the 9th inning……….
If we lose this game, I’m going to sneak into The Oriole clubhouse when they come home, and machine-gun the entire F***ING team.
Can not believe it Mo blows a save, 2nd of the year
OK Thames, Yankees win 7-6 on walk off single by Thames
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/fordwh01.shtml
Elected to The Hall-of-Fame in his SECOND year of eligibility. I’d like to meet those sportswriters who thought to themselves, “Nah, I don’t think that this guy has the numbers to cut it.”
Just took a look at Wiggintons splits. not sure he has the #s vs. LHP that the Yankees are looking for. I have to think that the ideal guy hits LHP well and can DH while playing a bit of 3rd and some left?
In 4 more starts CC has only thrown 12.2 more innings than Cliff Lee.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/team/_/stat/pitching/league/al/sort/blownSaves/type/expanded/order/true
just took a look at Wiggintons splits. not sure he has the #s vs. LHP that the Yankees are looking for. I have to think that the ideal guy hits LHP well and can DH while playing a bit of 3rd and some left?
Jrz July 5, 2010 at 9:11 am
Hmmmm, sounds like Nickhead, except for the left field part.
Or Damon
Or Matsui
none of them can play 3rd base.
I am not even sure they need somebody that can play 3rd, just speculating that they might wanna get somebody with a little pop vs. LHP to play 3rd when Al DH’s or gets a day off and it would be nice if he could play left to give either Gardner or CG a day off against a tough LH starter.
I dont know if anybody noticed but when Al popped up on Saturday and the CF lost it in the sun Tex was on 1st again and was running hard all the way again and scored again.
Sorry, that was the LFer on Saturday.
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