The Heart of the Yankees showed up at the “New House” tonight. (More about the “new name” later). While the pen predictably failed, Joba waiting until the 2nd inning to begin pitching, and with the bats taking eight innings off lounging in the clubhouse, the heart of the organization, the grounds crew, played great. Everyone who saw the mound crew scrape and dry the mound to near perfection in a drizzly rain had to be impressed. Their performance deserved SportsCenter recognition. With the home team behind, runners on 2nd and 3rd, and one out, the crew, when asked, ran on the field with their gear and scraped, dried, and raked a slippery clay mound into pitchable shape in record time. Sadly, the offense did not perform up to grounds crew standards.
I hope that Joba Chamberlain now understands that neither Jason Bay nor the rest of the batting order take any at bats off, even in the first inning, to challenge Ortiz and everybody else with his fast ball, that any lead turned over to bullpen before the 9th is not safe (and even those aren’t real safe when playing Boston), and that changes are necessary.
Josh Beckett played the game with Mark Teixeira showing him a fat curve ball that he took, then, following up that pitch with the same curve, but thrown in the dirt and, amazingly, prompting a futile Teixeira hack - and doing it repeatedly. I live about a mile from I81 and I can see Teixeira’s headlights from here.
Picasner knows what the others in our merry band of scamps are up to, and I, for one, want to hear what he really thinks. Meet me in Cognito.
Vod
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