I’ve attended two no-hitters at Yankee Stadium: Doc Gooden’s improbable 1996 gem and the Houston Astros utilizing 6 different pitchers in their 2003 effort. Yesterday afternoon started off in somewhat similar fashion, as my dad and I watched CC Sabathia cruise through 3 2/3 perfect innings until walking Victor Martinez in the fourth, and the [...]
Behind an absolute 7-inning, one-hit gem from CC Sabathia, the Yankees reduced their magic number for winning the AL East to one. One more Yankee win or Red Sox loss and the Yankees will be your 2009 AL East champions. The pitching from Sabathia today should be the story, even more than the Yankees inability [...]
Is the Yankees’ season a tragedy waiting to happen or a charmed, magical ride to a 27th crown, just like the fabled days of Mantle, Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Berra, Munson and, well, Jeter and Rivera? There exists a form of literature and drama called the tragedy. Some of the most famous works throughout history have [...]
Even if they didn’t want to admit it, many Yankee fans likely wrote Friday night’s game off as a loss before a pitch was tossed. Lefty Jon Lester, who has been one of the best pitchers in the American League this year, against Joba Chamberlain, who has the potential to be even better than Lester [...]
While beating the Red Sox always makes for interesting storylines of its own, tonight’s game produced two occurrences of note: 1) Joba Chamberlain pitched well. If anything, Chamberlain may have been hampered by the long innings the Yankees had at the plate, but he pitched six innings completely and used only 86 pitches to get [...]
Boston Red Sox: 91-61. 2nd in the AL East.
Pitching match-ups:
Game 1: Jon Lester vs. Joba Chamberlain
Game 2: Daisuke Matsuzaka vs. CC Sabathia
Game 3: Paul Byrd vs. Andy Pettitte
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Lineups courtesy of Pete Abe: YANKEES (97-56) Jeter SS Damon LF Teixeira 1B Rodriguez 3B Matsui DH Posada C Cano 2B Swisher RF Cabrera CF Pitching: RHP Joba Chamberlain (8-6, 4.73). RED SOX (91-61) Ellsbury CF Pedroia 2B Martinez 1B Youkilis 3B Ortiz DH Bay LF Drew RF Varitek C Gonzalez SS Pitching: LHP Jon [...]
From Roger Rubin: The victory, combined with Texas’ loss to Oakland, reduces Boston’s magic number at 3 to clinch the wild card and their sixth playoff trip in seven years. And don’t you think the Sox wouldn’t like to sew it up in their archrivals’ new home. “Oh, we will…hopefully,” said Ortiz, who hit his [...]
Got this email from my Dad, who was somehow able to attend all three Yanks/Angels games this week. As background, we are always interested in this stuff, besides the game, namely pre-game, batting practice and such. He got there early enough to note the following (sorry Dad, I took it out of 3rd person/alter-ego…he wrote it disguised as HIM, aka Capt. Chaos. Have I told you he sometimes skips his meds?):
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