The big fear was that if the Yankees mounted a rally tonight, Boston would bring in knuckleballer Stephen Wright, and everything would go south.
Not gonna happen.
The Redsocks today replaced Wright on their roster - (I didn't know they can do that) - with the imminently hittable Alan Embree. He's got a bum knee.
Big break. Huge. And we better exploit it. No excuses now.
Surely you mean Heath Hembree. Alan Embree hasn't played since 2009, with a wholly unmemorable stop with the Yanks in 2005.
ReplyDeleteA team can replace a player on their roster during a series if the player is injured.
Right now Andrew Miller is doing his Toonces impersonation in Houston.
ReplyDeleteAlan, Heath, an Embree's an Embree.
ReplyDeleteI had an Embree once, very painful until you get it lanced.
ReplyDeleteNasty slimy things that are.
ReplyDeleteTick tick tick...
ReplyDeletePreying this is our night,,, tick tick indeed!!
ReplyDeleteALL FUCKING RISE!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHoly shit.
ReplyDeleteThat's a looooong home run.
ReplyDeleteI expect you to ALL RISE!!!
ReplyDeleteFlight crew, meal service.
ReplyDeleteI think Judge's wrist is okay.
ReplyDeleteStanton didn't whiff. Wow.
ReplyDeleteGardy!
ReplyDeleteGardy. Nice job.
ReplyDeleteWe scream for ICE CREAM!!!!!
ReplyDeleteGary the Good
ReplyDeleteI'm a little hungry. Might grab an ice cream sandwich.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite part of the game so far was Price's reaction when Judge crushed that ball.
ReplyDeletePrice has nothing. We need to get him early and get into the BP ASAP.
ReplyDeleteICS, you're gonna have to have a MONSTER postseason before we will forgive your chubbsy ubbsyness!!!
ReplyDelete40 pitches. Someone warm the shower for Price. JOE KELLY!
ReplyDeletePrice is such a sad sack in the postseason. Just amazing.
ReplyDeleteCuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuutch!!
ReplyDeleteSo many reasons to like Cutch. AND PRICE IS OUT! JOE KELLY!
ReplyDeleteHR in any other park....but Price is gone!!!!
ReplyDeletePriceless!
ReplyDeleteLolololololololololololololololol!
ReplyDeleteOK boys, time to pound the pen.
ReplyDeleteNEED ... MORE ... RUNS!!!
Kelly!!!!!
ReplyDeleteOK. Shutdown inning for Tanaka now
ReplyDeleteNeed the Professor to squash them.
ReplyDeleteTime for Tanaka to keep this under control. They've hit a couple hard, but no damage. Has to keep it that way. No shootout tonight, please.
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteYes. We need a statement game from Tanaka. We also need breakout games from Torres and Andujar.
That was a great strikeout. Masterful, from a 3-0 count.
ReplyDeleteIn the promo they just ran for Stanton, he actually MADE CONTACT with the ball on each of the swings they showed. What a novel concept.
ReplyDeleteDidn't have a lot of footage to choose from.
ReplyDeleteStill in the hospital. Pants not on head. Quietly charting. Maximum reverse jUjU.
ReplyDeleteShocked. A hit.
ReplyDeleteMy juju contribution tonight was to support Tanaka by having a bowl of ramen noodles for dinner (extra everything). No sake, though - fighting a chest cold.
ReplyDeleteHe made contact !!!
ReplyDeleteTakes two down the middle, swings at an obvious ball, whiffs.
ReplyDeleteAlcohol is bad for a chest cold? I never noticed.
ReplyDeleteKelly looks like an extra from "Silicon Valley."
ReplyDeleteTanaka looks sharp.
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteIf the national announcers say that "Sanchez was a little bit lazy", it's pretty much a given that we foaming-at-the-mouth Yankee fans have a pretty fucking strong point
Tanaka is being very deliberate, controlling the game and tempo
ReplyDeleteYep. Relaxed, good location. Needs to keep this up.
ReplyDeleteStill, we
NEED ... MORE ... RUNS
NEED...MORE...RUNS YES
ReplyDeleteLove how redsock fans want every pitch that doesn't go over the screen called a strike.
ReplyDeleteI love when he goes long in an at bat. Just needs to cash in a little more often.
ReplyDeleteKelly oddly good tonight. But he's done.
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteGardner can continue to pull 20 pitches per at bat and he will continue to be a Yankee hero.
Oops.
ReplyDelete3 runs isn't enough against the Red Sox on a normal night.
ReplyDeleteWe will lose because we didn't manage to tack on more runs against Price.
ReplyDeleteor Kelly
ReplyDeleteNow he's being too careful and will run up his pitch count
ReplyDeleteDon't walk Nunez. Ugh.
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteWe're going to be okay. Boone is consulting with Rothschild. (Cough)
OK OK GET SOME RUNS!!!
ReplyDeleteNice comeback.
ReplyDeleteTanaka simply wasn't fooling Nunez with the low sinker. But he didn't give in, and gave u the walk. Then he immediately adjusted and threw a couple higher for Kinsler before nailing him with that same sinker-slider barely off the ground. Not a bad clinic.
ReplyDeleteI am approaching the compound. As soon as I arrive in the safe room, I will check out the console, analyze the data, and decide whether or not to have the drone operator take them out. Oops! Wrong message board. Sorry about that. Just ignore it. I was in Brooklyn taking photographs and now I’m walking the dog. Soon I will be checking out the game and might deliver some pithy and meaningless commentary. Then again, I might not. I might just sit there with my soup spoon in one hand, drooling serial from the front of my mouth onto my keyboard and cursing the fates.
ReplyDeleteShould they win this series it will be due to the efforts of David Price and Nunez.
ReplyDeleteLet's cash in on the break!
ReplyDeleteSiri really sucks. You all know that I meant cold cereal, right?
ReplyDeleteWhen Nunez made that stop at third, I though, "geeze, he never played third like that for us." Then he threw it away and I thought, "that's the Nunez I remember."
ReplyDeleteThis is a definite "make contact put the ball in play" situation for Stanton.
ReplyDeleteExactly.
ReplyDeleteIf you eat cereal at every meal that would be serial cereal, right?
ReplyDeleteThey have to have a conference for Swiffer? Wow.
ReplyDeleteScrew Stanton
ReplyDeleteThey did.
ReplyDeleteAAArrrggghhh!
ReplyDeleteGeez. Stanton is pre-2009 playoff ARod.
ReplyDeleteYou see Giancarlo, the bat and ball need to touch each other more frequently than that.
ReplyDeleteStanton is the 2018 version of 2003 Soriano. Utterly hopeless.
ReplyDeleteIce Cream creamed.
ReplyDeleteSee shit like that gets a team going. What is in that head of his? Oh yeah, ice cream.
ReplyDeleteThe game is now completely on Tanaka’s & the bullpen’s shoulders. Outside of Judge, no one in the lineup looks like he has a clue.
ReplyDeleteGardner another nice catch. Good jump.
ReplyDeleteNicely done Professor. Nicely done.
ReplyDeleteI was at 2009 ALCS Game 2. There is time yet to save Tiny Tim.
ReplyDeleteTWW ... I was at 2009 ALCS Game 6. Now THAT was a fun postseason.
ReplyDeleteOk, remember the object of the game. When you get baserunners, they need to SCORE.
ReplyDeleteLBJ hit it on the nose - the kids have to get on. They've been a large part of the season so far. Good to see them on base. Get 'em in!
ReplyDeleteGardy blew that AB. 3-0 and can't walk.
ReplyDeleteThis team is redefining choking with every at bat.
ReplyDeleteGoddammit.
ReplyDeleteEvery inning is Groundhog Day inning
ReplyDeleteJudge may not see another pitch near the strike zone the rest of the series. Why pitch to him?
ReplyDeleteJudge has been both good AND lucky tonight
ReplyDelete2 men on, no one out. Inning over.
ReplyDeleteStanton will make contact. I hope.
ReplyDeleteHit. The. Damn. Ball.
ReplyDeleteLolololololololololololololololol!!!
ReplyDeleteNunie!!
Loaded for Ice Cream.
ReplyDeleteGood things happen when you make contact, even when it doesn't go in the seats.
ReplyDeleteWtf????
ReplyDeleteThere's some bullshit right there.
ReplyDeleteThat's fucking insane.
ReplyDeleteBULLSHIT!
ReplyDeleteBlatant
ReplyDeleteC'mon ICS
ReplyDeleteFuck you, assholes!!!!
ReplyDeleteOK OK OK! Finally a gamebreaker
ReplyDeleteICED
ReplyDeleteI'm having some ICE CREAM!!!
ReplyDeleteICE ICE BABY!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYou get an ice cream sandwich! YOU get an ice cream sandwich! EVERYONE GETS AN ICE CREAM SANDWICH!
ReplyDeleteI just had an ice cream sandwich! Mint Chocolate chip!
ReplyDeleteAnd the morons chant Yankees suck. Think how bad the Sox are if we suck and are beating them 6-1.
ReplyDeletetake that, beaners!
ReplyDeleteAnd that replay shit was shit.
ReplyDeleteThat was fucking huge. If we'd gone through another inning with runners on base and come away empty, the socks fans would be fired up and they'd have momentum over the last few innings. That was a big, big home run, boys.
ReplyDeleteGood to see ICS get hot, and right now.
ReplyDeleteABsolutely BBB!!!!
ReplyDeletePreach BBB
ReplyDelete479 feet home run
ReplyDeleteHoly fuck did he rip that one.
The big difference tonight is Spike Lee in the house
ReplyDeleteIs Spike in neon orange and blue,LOL????
ReplyDeleteMaybe take out Dellin before it's 6-4...
ReplyDeleteIf Sachez doesn't blast that and the Yankees don't score, then it would be full-bore panic mode now.
ReplyDeleteJust get out of this inning, things will still be cool.
Minimal damage
ReplyDeleteWhew.
ReplyDeleteI can't hear Jackie Bradley Jr.'s name without thinking of Martin Short in a blonde wig on SCTV.
ReplyDeleteHere's a hot take. I hate Boston.
ReplyDeleteGood chance we’ll see Flop sweat pitch...
ReplyDeleteDamur, I'm shocked... shocked to hear such a thing.
ReplyDeleteGardy walks, which he should've done last AB.
ReplyDeleteBritton has some weird mannerism when he looks for the sign. It's an epidemic, I guess.
ReplyDeleteTiny Tim sees a specialist, gets a new set of crutches and an ice cream sandwich!!
ReplyDeleteThat was a bit late, but I just got home.
ReplyDeleteGod bless us every one.
ReplyDeleteBritton walks a guy. Yank him.
ReplyDeleteI want Britton to strike out the side, I really do.
ReplyDeleteAll right! One More Inning!
ReplyDeleteVery nifty that Didi!
ReplyDeleteballsacks on fire
ReplyDeleteremind me all to tell you my story about an STD scare in Alamogordo, NM back in the 90s.
Brian Anderson just went Clyde on us...
ReplyDeleteHahaha lol ICS can't find his helmet!
ReplyDeleteI'd love to know who hid it on him
ReplyDeleteRemind me to tell you about the time I did a pelvic exam on a 350 pound woman with bacterial vaginitis.
ReplyDeleteEmbree doesn’t want to throw a strike...
ReplyDeleteWinnie, I think I'll forget to ask about that, thanks.
ReplyDeleteBench Stanton. Please. Say he’s injured and put him on the injured list. . Just, please, make him go away.
ReplyDeleteAgreed.
ReplyDeleteStrap it in - this could be bumpy...
ReplyDeleteUnsustainable, I could not agree more. Stanton makes A-Rod's 1-for-27 playoff showing look Ruthian by comparison.
ReplyDeleteCrossed fingers, toes, eyes, nads.
ReplyDeleteOh God.
ReplyDeleteStanton is a stiff. There is no joy in the man when he plays. Everything about his demeanor speaks to a man who cannot have fun
ReplyDeleteDon't think. Just throw.
ReplyDeletethis is exactly what i did not want to see.
ReplyDeleteHere we go. First walk.
ReplyDeleteI'm just trying to absorb it all here.
ReplyDeleteHe must be on a short leash
ReplyDeleteK.
ReplyDelete99. Good sign
ReplyDeleteYes!
ReplyDelete6-4-3! See ya!
ReplyDeleteWHEW!!
ReplyDeleteWHOOOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NICE! We go home in good shape! We won the game we needed
ReplyDeleteSee ya, Beaners.
ReplyDeleteBOSTON SUCKS MY ASS!!! I TWERK UPON THEIR FACES!!! AaaHaahahahahaaaaaHHHHaaaahhhhh!!
ReplyDeleteAAaAhhaaaa-haha-haaa-hhhhhHHHaaaaaaa-HHHHHaaaaAAHHHHHHHHHHHaaaa-ah-ah-ah-aaaaaaaaAaAaHaHaHaaHaHAA-HAAAAaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaa !!!!!
Now we need both at home. Two days to wait. Argh!
ReplyDeleteWW Twerk of Destiny
ReplyDeleteSee, Winnie, my story might *sound* like it was going to be gross, but it really wasn't. YOUR story, on the other hand, not only sounds gross from the get-go, but it seems impossibly for it to not be unspeakably horrifying in every way. And bear in mind that I do not possess a cool, detached clinical perspective.
ReplyDeleteStill, we might have to trade stories at some future mid-game interlude, although I'm not sure I can handle yours.
It was, as you say, unspakeably gross.
ReplyDeleteAaron Judge, please explain to Sancho that the Yankees are a class act. No microphone drop bat toss. Act like you have homered before.
ReplyDeleteAfter his year, he can do whatever he wants if he hits one 479 feet. Hasn't had much fun this season, what the hell.
ReplyDeleteDon't be scold. Let them enjoy themselves. Especially after the Red Sux pitchers jawed at him over stepping out of the box.
ReplyDeleteMust respectfully disagree. Yankee greats are most poised in crucial games. Jeter never hotdogged. Gotta earn the pinstripes.
ReplyDeleteBROTHERS....
ReplyDeleteWE JUST PUT OURSELVES IN THE DRIVERS SEAT IN THIS SERIES.
BUT, WE CAN'T BE HAPPY WITH OURSELVES.
THERE IS MUCH WORK TO DO.
CAPS NOTES:
STANTON MUST BE MOVED DOWN IN THE ORDER, BECAUSE HE'S KILLING US IN THE CLEANUP SPOT.
TANAKA CAME UP HUGE AS HE USUALLY DOES IN THE BIG GAME, (AND WE NEED TO REMEMBER THAT).
MUST ADMIT, I LIKE BOONE'S HANDLING OF THE PEN.
DELLIN IS DEALIN'.
SANCHEZ IS CATCHING CLEAN GAMES (DEFENSIVELY) FOR 9 INNINGS. (WHAT WAS THE PROBLEM DURING THE REGULAR SEASON)?
IF WE CAN GET ANDUJAR AND TORRES GOING AGAIN, THIS COULD BE A SPECIAL SEASON.
CAN WE PLEASE GET MORE THAN 0 OR 1 CLUTCH HIT A GAME?
GONNA ENJOY THE REST TOMORROW.
LETS BURN THEM IN THE BRONX.
Looking at the Boston fans at the end of the game, I got the feeling they were thinking this was the last game in Fenway they'd see this year.
ReplyDeleteBe here now. No hubris. Just focus on the moment.
ReplyDeleteAnon, I seem to recall a young right fielder named Paul O'Neill being far from poised.
ReplyDelete
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