The Yankees beat Detroit 7-6 last night, on a walk-off wild pitch. They also beat Umpire Joe West, who freaked out both teams with his pitch-calling. Joe drew more stares than Lindsay Lohan in a drug rehab. It was so bad, even the normally placid (I almost said catatonic) Joe Girardi managed to get himself ejected.
Actually, I consider Joe West to be the 2nd best umpire in the majors (All the other umpires are tied for first.).
If you just look at the numbers, Ivan Nova didn't have a very good night, giving up 11 hits and 6 runs. A number of those hits, however, were of the seeing-eye groundball variety. If a couple of those ground ball singles happened to be hit at fielders instead of finding holes, it would have been a different story. It kills me that announcers and analysts never seem to mention this. They may be good hitters, but nobody can place ground balls that accurately. The Yanks, on the other hand, hit some line drives right at people. Well, maybe I'm prejudiced. Nah!
Justin Verlander wasn't Justin Verlander last night. He was pouring in the mid-90 fastballs, but there was no pop to them...until the Yankees hit them. Maybe the broadcast team was right; throwing 130 pitches in one game in April can't be too good for your arm.
...and Jeter's 15-game hitting streak is over, but his batting average is still .400. He has a chance to be Player of the Month, except for that guy in Boston, David Ortiz, who happens to be hitting .425. Apparently, he's drinking from the same bottle of Geritol that Jeter is, but I'm pretty sure Big Papi is not going out with Minka Kelly.
***AROUND THE LEAGUE***
The Rockies put up an 11 run inning against the Mets. The Mets were cruising along with a 6-2 lead at the time. That will sure give your bullpen a workout.
The Angels continue to struggle, losing to Cleveland 3-2. They are now 6-14 for the year and Albert Pujols is not helping. He's hitting .225 with 4 RBIs. He still has yet to hit a home run as a n American Leaguer in his first 80 at bats. I always thought the AL was better than the NL, but not that much better.
Philadelphia continues to lose and are two games under .500. The Washington Nationals are still going strong and lead the NL East at 14-6.
In the spring, Bobby Abreu gave the Angels an ultimatum: Play me every day or trade me. The Angels chose a third option and released him yesterday. I told you that was a possibility, Bobby.
The Marlins have lost 6 in a row but Ozzie Guillen hasn't bad-mouthed any of his players...yet.
***THEY SAID IT***
"The Guinness Book has recognized a Japanese man as the world's fastest human to run on all fours. Him and 11 U.S. Secret Service agents." -- RJ Currie
"On Metta World Peace's suspension: "I haven't seen an NBA player take an elbow like that since Kris Humphries got between Kim Kardashian and a camera." -- Jay Leno
"This just in: the Charlotte Bobcats' winning percentage is the exact same number as your odds of winning the Mega Millions Lottery." -- Brad Dickson
"The Golden State Warriors won their coin toss with the Toronto Raptors. So they now have a 72.4% chance of making another bad choice with a lottery pick." -- Janice Hough
"Had an apocalyptic nightmare last week that I was standing in front of Skip Bayless and behind Stephen A. Smith in a DMV line." -- Norman Chad (Thanks, Norm. Now I have a headache.)
"When Tiger Woods withdrew from the WGC-Cadillac Championship last month, I still can’t believe the helicopter didn’t follow him all the way to Perkins restaurant." -- Norman Chad
"LFL teams are reportedly taking 2012 off for promotional tours to give lingerie football more exposure. My wife doesn't think that's possible." -- RJ Currie
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