Series Preview: Yankees (1-2) at Royals (2-1)
ByAfter a rough start to the season, the Yanks picked up their first victory on Thursday and hope to ride that into their first series win of the season this weekend in Kansas City. They’ll see the season debuts of Andy Pettitte and Joba Chamberlian, and CC Sabathia gets a chance for redemption on Saturday.
The Royals are rolling after their first series with the White Sox. If not for a poor decision to let Kyle Farnsworth face Jim Thome, the Royals could have swept the defending AL Central champs, but they’ll take two out of three any day. Their starting pitching was stellar, allowing just one run over 20 innings while amassing 21 strikeouts and issuing four walks. Shaky youngster Kyle Davies impressed in his start yesterday, going 7 innings while allowing no runs on 3 hits and 2 walks, striking out 8.
The offense, while racking up just six runs during the series, hasn’t been too hot. New leadoff hitter Coco Crisp has two doubles and a homer — and the homer won the game in the top of the 9th yesterday. Alex Gordon recorded the first Royals run of the year with a homer on Tuesday, but that’s one of just two hits he has on the season. It’s still early, of course, and some of these guys could pick up the pace. Yet it’s not promising that the team has zero hits from first base so far this season, and that Jose Guillen, surprise surprise, has more strikeouts than hits.
The Yanks starting pitching struggled in the first two games, but Burnett rebounded with a solid outing yesterday. The bullpen has been a bright spot, as it’s had basically one bad inning — the eighth on Opening Day — but has dominated in the past two games, allowing no runs in relief of Wang and Burnett. Pettitte could make it all right by going deep this evening and giving most of the bullpen a day off. That’s one of the strengths of the rotation: a bunch of guys who, when they are on, can go deep into games. The one exception, Joba Chamberlain, is surrounded by workhorses Sabathia and Wang.
On the offensive side of the ball there wasn’t much to complain about. The exception, perhaps, is the number of men they left on base, but that’s going to happen when you put a lot of guys on base in general. The Yanks put 45 runners on base in the first three games and scored 21 runs, so that’s not a terrible ratio by any means. Just imagine this lineup once A-Rod makes his triumphant return.
Here are the pitching match-ups for the series. All games are on YES and CBS 880 AM.
Friday, 4:10 p.m.
LHP Andy Pettitte vs. RHP Sidney Ponson
After getting bounced from the rotation late last year, Ponson went unnoticed for most of the winter until he turned in a decent WBC performance for the Netherlands. Kansas City then signed him to a minor league deal, and he won the fourth rotation spot out of camp. Hopefully the Yanks offense can repeat the last time they faced Ponson.
Saturday, 7:10
LHP CC Sabathia vs. LHP Horacio Ramirez
Nothing has been more frustrating over the past few years than the Yanks’ flailing efforts against soft-tossing, mediocre lefties. Over five appearances against the Yanks in his career Ramirez has held them to a .739 OPS, among his best against any team. They fared a bit better off him last year, when he faced them twice in relief appearances. The totals: 1 IP, 3ER, 0 K. He faced the Yanks as a starter twice with Seattle in 2007, going 6.1 innings of one-run ball the first time, but getting smacked around for four runs, three earned, in 5.2 innings the second go-round.
Sunday, 2:10
RHP Joba Chamberlain vs. RHP Gil Meche
As mentioned above, Meche had an impressive start to the season, allowing one run through seven innings of work, striking out six and walking none. He was in line for the victory until Kyle Farnsworth blew it in the eighth. He’ll get another chance at his first win against Joba, who gets his first start of the season. In 13 games lifetime against the Yanks, Meche has held them to a .734 OPS. In one start last year he went six innings, allowing one run and striking out eight. The Yanks are hoping for a result closer to 2007, where they mashed Meche for 13 runs over 17.1 innings, with just six strikeouts.
Keys to the series
The key to any series is scoring more runs than you allow. It’s a revelation, I know, but that seems to be the way you win baseball games. Specifically, the Yanks will have to tee off on the ass-end of the Royals rotation and pick up those first two games. There’s no reason that Pettitte should lose to Ponson, and even less reason (yes, less than none) that CC should lose to Horacio freaking Ramirez. Meche is a dicier proposition, but if the Yanks head into the game already up 2-0, it might make things a bit easier.
One thing I’d like to see in the series: Ramiro Pena get a start at third. The best time would have been tonight, though, since Cody Ransom’s strength is against lefties. There’s always Sunday.
Tonight’s lineup:
1. Derek Jeter, SS
2. Johnny Damon, LF
3. Mark Teixeira, 1B
4. Hideki Matsui, DH
5. Jorge Posada, C
6. Robinson Cano, 2B
7. Nick Swisher, RF
8. Cody Ransom, 3B
9. Brett Gardner, CF
Keeping up with the Royals:
I often talk about keeping up on all 30 MLB teams with an RSS reader. For the Royals, I mostly read beat writer Sam Mellinger’s blog and his newspaper, the Kansas City Star. If any Royals fans are reading and write a blog which is updated at least once daily, email me and I’ll check it out: josephp at riveravebles dot com.
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Our ARod-less hitting has been pretty good…. Cano and Po been real bright spots. But if you look at our RISP, especial if you exclude some of the positive piling-on RISP from last night, it’s downright dreadful…. well below a BA of .200. Once again, a solo HR is more apt to happen then getting a guy in from third with less then 2 out (NO outs in some cases).
Let’s hope this is just small sample size and goes away.
We have yet to score less than five runs a game. If you score 5 runs a game every game and have something vaguely resembling starting pitching and an effective bullpen, you’re not going to lose a lot of games.
Cano and Po been real bright spots.
+ Swisher and Tex.
(Yes, the good game 3 outweighs the bad games 1 and 2 for Tex.)
But if you look at our RISP, especial if you exclude some of the positive piling-on RISP from last night, it’s downright dreadful….
If you choose to look at a portion of any data set that is not favorable it is always going to look unfavorable.
Sidney Ponson, we meet again.
Also, just as an FYI: The Royals have placed Jose Guillen on the DL with a groin strain. I’m always happy not to face someone who hits well against the Yanks.
That José Guillen contract sure looks real good now, doesn’t it?
still better than the mo vaughn contract
Or the Russ Ortiz contract
Or the Kenji Johjima contract.
Albert Belle
Alex Rodriguez
Kei Igawa
Dontrelle Willis & Nate Robertson
Luis Castillo, Oliver Perez
Barry Zito
CC Sabathia
Even after 24 hours, it still feels great to look at Pavano’s line from yesterday.
Best thread ever?
Darren Dreifort, Carlos Silva
Miguel Tejada, Eric Byrnes
Washburn, recent Shef deal
Jeremy Bonderman, Juilio Lugo, Jason Varitek
How the Royals are paying 71M for that pathetic roster boggles my mind.
Especially since it doesn’t even include a contract extension for Grienke yet.
i told you their going to win that divison
These two things are not related.
This is sarcasm, right?
nope
Um… yeah, then you totally lost me.
Me: This team is paying buttloads of money for a bunch of pretty crappy players, and they have significant future financial obligations that they’re going to have to take care of sometime soon.
You: Told you they were freaking awesome.
Me: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
Did I catch a niner in there? Are you talking on a walkie talkie?
the nope was sarcasm
since i regret i actually picking the royals to win the divison.
Ah, okay.
I saw it explained somewhere else, where they summed it up to the Royals have spread their budget out to have okay salaries for a bunch of mediocre players, where if they had just gone with team controlled/league min guys, they they actually could have spent that money on a few players that are actually good & help the team win.
The Royal’s payroll should be like $40 million ($10 million for Meche and $30 million for the rest).
I guess that is why you don’t pay $4 million to all your relievers.
Or carry 6 first basemen.
if only they could trade for Nick Johnson
They’d never want Nick Johnson. His OBP is above .300.
Looks like it’s freezing in KC
For anyone that thinks the screen at the new YS is too big, check this out
http://yankees.lhblogs.com/fil.....hoto12.jpg
That looks ridiculous
probably isnt even HD
Kauffman stadium has lost teh mystique with that screen!!!!1111!!!!
“Welcome to the New K.”
Instead of actually signing good players, we blew our wad on this huge screen to make it easier for you to watch the crappy ones we already had.
ESPN says the game is being delayed due to ceremonies.
ceremonies for what?
opening day
Get used to it.
We’re also in the Rays home opener on Monday.
4 opening days for the Yanks this year.
Screw the ceremonies – let’s get to the game!
Yeah my brother just asked me about that.
I think I should post in the game threads here. They seem rational.
if the yankees get shutdown by ponson i might lose it
Ponson might lose it too.
A-rod is probably dying to play in this game…it seems like he always kills the Royals.
Didn’t he always have like ridiculous 2 hr games against the Royals?
What an unclutchy assburglar.
it seemed like it, and as commented by southernyankeefan, I think he had that one game where he hit 2 HRs in the same inning and he was hurt a bit too. The 2nd HR was in the upper deck in left field and Jeter had this funny look of disbelief on his face after it.
i think he hit 2 hrs in the same inning against the royals
I know he did that against the Mariners. I love it when Yankees do that. So much fun.
yeah…good times
Since I’ve been on RAB like 7 months and started commenting like 6 months ago after the season was over…Are Series Previews the game threads?
Only when they say “game thread”
Series Preview threads are the Game Threads for the first game of the series. We’re trying something new.
gotcha
Fashion tip: Kay, avoid the Blazing Copper/Neon Pumpkin Tie.
I wonder if his Blazing Copper tie has a panoramic Vista moonroof on it.
I doubt it
What could the Royals possibly be doing for nearly 20 minutes? The only thing they can celebrate is not finishing in the cellar last year.
They were pretty damned good in the 80s…
So their slogan for 2009 is:
The Kansas City Royals – Celebrating 20 years of futility!
and George Brett
They’re probably lathering up their bats with pine tar.
For as much as I clown on the Royals, I do love their uniforms.
The home whites, the road grays, and even the baby blues. Love them all.
Just no more of that ridiculous black, please. Thanks, guys.
i like those fountains and waterfalls too.
They got rid of the fountains.
Huh? I’m looking at them on TV right now!
The big ones.
Oh, right.
Yeah, Kaufmann’s pretty awesome.
I always thought they should have ran that grandstand all the way around the foul poles, though. It still weird to not see stadium when you look down the lines, feels a little amateurish.
Man, I love MLB.TV. Listening to Harry Kalas (you recognize him from those NFL Films presentations) broadcast Phillies games is amazing; that man’s voice is majestic.
You’re an old soul Jamal.
i grew up in philadelphia. listened to him and richie ashburn call the 1980 phils-astros playoff. great great announcer.
KC fans have to be told what to do with their hats and where to place their hands during our national anthem?
Isn’t it customary for the PA to say that at any and every event?
Dudes got lungs!!
Holy crap that guy is amazing
That saxophonist >>>>>>>>> Mariah Carey
IA
Circular breathing FTW. You kinda puff up your cheeks and throat with air that you can push through the sax while you inhale more air through your nose. Repeat ad infinitum. It’s hard!
Shitty AB there, cap.
pretty sick on the sax
Anyone else having issues with Gameday? Keep getting scripting errors in both Firefox and IE.
Man I wish the Yanks would have people play – we have some of the best musicians in the world, you don’t think a few of them would like to open up the game?
yea I got an unresponsive script message too and im using Firefox
Can we start the game alredy??
Anthony Kim had 10 birdies today at Augusta. That’s sick……..sorry, I’m stuck at work.
11 set the record
Nasty
Sidney Ponson makes any uniform look disgusting.
Big numbers for Jeter…and a weak grounder. It’s almost poetic.
If the Yanks make Ponson look like a Cy winner……
Don’t worry, at the very least he won’t pitch a no-hitter. So however bad it might be, it could be worse.
This is true. Thanks for the silver lining.
They don’t call me Optimist Prime for nothing!
She also can turn into a truck.
It’s a cute, feminine truck, though.
Its similar to the Canyonero F-Series.
And I just realized that it wasn’t Optimus Prime.
Nope. I predict Ponson doesn’t make it through the 4th.
Big game today.
JOHN DAMON!!
Dude, it was a single.
lol
i think you missed the point think Team America.
ICWUDT
http://www.libertyfilmfestival.....merica.jpg
Heady play, Tex. Nice.
When did heady become a word?
Apparently, about 600 years ago.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/heady
Not the answer I expected.
Me neither.
I would have guessed 1700′s, tops.
Probably since the invention of beer.
Nice play tex
Ponson’s “injury scare” is just an extension of the opening day ceremonies.
HIP HIP
Worst chant ever.
I like it.
Now see, it won’t even be a shut out!
I’m watching Gameday, I’m a little behind. I just found that out now. Sweet.
http://www.google.com/imgres?i.....Fg5vBll5MM::&tbnh=150&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dthat%2Bwas%2Beasy&usg=__7_xVBgliKA_3OhscHBz0Z8B3-qo=&ei=B7HfSbeXL8vMlQffsuHgDg&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=4&ct=image
that was easy..2 run lead
Just what the Doctor ordered…
Funny, I always thought acquiring players was supposed to improve one’s club. Mike Jacobs has proven otherwise.
Starting Jacobs over any of the other 1B’s on their roster makes monumentally less sense than starting Nady over Swisher.
How long till matsui is out of the clean up spot?
May 17.
I know that was hit hard, but get in front of the ball Jacobs.
Man, the Royals can really pick it
he even freezes better than giambi!
Whaddya know, Canó’s on fire.
Haha ponson is now a threat to his teammates.
HAHAHAHAHAHA, this game is so over already.
Sidney Ponson FTL.
Defense matters. That’s two routine plays they botched.
It’s the Royals.
hey, the royals needed a 1B with a .300 OBP. they we’re willing to sacrifice some defense
and hell hit 20 hrs
HORRAY MIKE JACOBS!
Melky would’ve crushed that 2-2 pitch off the face of the New K’s new screen.
Yea, and he would have given it back by running in on a fly ball to the warning track.
im confused what does melky have to do with swisher
You don’t see resemblances between the two?
They are both Outfielders.
They both play for the Yankees.
They both have 7 letters in their last name.
Cabrera has a secretary named Swisher.
Swisher has a secretary named Cabrera.
Do I need to continue?
IETC
That Firestone commercial was horrible.
Yeah that one is horrible, but the one on the boat in a storm isn’t bad.
beats that male enhancement ad that looks like it was shot on someone’s phone
cano has a 15 game hitting streak dating back to last year. pretty impressive
Call me when it’s at 55 =P
Call me when it’s at 16.
HOLY JETERIAN CATCH CANÓ!
Andy looks like he’s just slinging it up there. He’s almost sidearming it.
True, but there are two outs right now…
He could throw it underhand for all I care, just as long as he got outs. Though I have to said, I’d love to see an eephus pitch.
That was a very “crisp” defensive play there, Robbie.
Isn’t it awesome that we will probably get a better year out of Pettitte for 1/3 of the money we paid him last year. I’m starting to love our rotation more and more.
nice robbie
Is he dancing? What a funny stance.
he’s stirring the pot of love
Five o clock bell. See ya.
Anyone else noticing that Andy Pettitte looks really fluid with his delivery? Don’t quote me on this, but I think I remember reading that his delivery was a little stiff down the stretch last year.
HgH.
He had a bum shoulder last year.
how bummed is dejesus he wasnt traded to the yanks
I love me some Alex Gordon.
You must hate you some Cody Ransom…
Gordon’s and Joba’s highschools were archrivals.
cody got robbed
so Ransom got robbed of a hit TWICE. at least once in each series.
ewwww that was an UGLY swing
fugly swing gardy
That was a pretty feeble effort by Gardner
Wow, Jeter not looking like he’s owned Ponson.
Cole Hamels is getting pimp-smakced.
the size of his head is anything but feeble
surprised it doesnt affect aerodynamics while he’s running.
geez where dit this ponson come from
OMG! He gave up a rocket to a replacement level 3B, K’ed a possibly-worse-than-replacement-level CFer, and then Jeter who clearly hasn’t had a good AB yet today.
yeah but i was hoping for a perfomance like the first inning
Damn, Adam Lind with 3 HR’s and 9 RBI already; who has him in our RAB league?
Walk to Butler.
Perfect game is gone, but no-no is still intact.
Oh god, what have I done!?!?
The key to any series is scoring more runs than you allow.
Better hope the YES execs are reading today.
“This is the content we’re paying for? We can get that from Kim Jones and Jim Kaat fer crissakes!”
*aren’t
Gardner is really looking bad at the plate early on this year.
That’s alright Swish! You’re till the man.
Oof.
Swisher superior D at work there.
Yeah, that one was brutal. Good thing Nady hasn’t made any misplays in RF yet–
AAAAAAAAWWWW, TOO SOOOOOOOON???????
agree.
Once again, defense matters
yo la tengo!
Is it me or are the commercial breaks between innings much shorter this year?
They are just sucking us in.. lol Eventually they will get longer and longer.
Somebody doctored that video – what the fuck is Jeter doing ranging to his left and actually fielding the ball?
Heh, awesome Royals move:
March 27, 1997: Traded Keith Lockhart and Michael Tucker to the Atlanta Braves for Jamie Walker and Jermaine Dye.
Crappy Royals move:
July 25, 2001: Traded Jermaine Dye to the Colorado Rockies (in a three way deal) for Neifi Perez.
Gayest. Thing. Ever.
http://beardoftruth.com/
“I’m pretty sure I made Joba Chamberlain pee once.”
No, you didn’t.
Wow that was gayer than TSJC’s “banhammer” pic yesterday.
Heh.
Is it my Yankee bias that makes me find that so unfunny or is that just not funny? I’m thinking the second one.
Well considering yankee fans went apeshit for giambi’s mustache its not too terrible.
I don’t recall any Yankee fans making animated website tributes to Giambi’s mustache.
Especially animated website tributes where animated Giambi has beads of sweat running down the side of his face for no explicable reason.
Theres all sorts of shit on the internet. Heres a blog named after it.
http://www.yanksblog.com/item/.....ache-facts
Plus the sweat thing is making fun of him for always sweating. Not Patrick Ewing type sweaty but sweaty nonetheless.
oops wrong Ip address
http://giambismustache.blogspot.com/
Well, Giambi’s stache growing corresponded with him hitting well and made him look like a porn star. Youk has already had this beard and porn stache > thick goatee.
So did the Yankees just say “hey, two runs, that’s all we need” and decide not to hit any more? This is Sidney Ponson people!!
Give it another inning or two Ponson’s wheels can come off real fast.
Like I was saying…
which is the better name, coco crisp or boof bonser?
http://www.baseball-reference......ca01.shtml
Milton Bradley.
I think it’s time to knock Sidney Fatty around..
Pettitte is looking good today. Let’s get a big inning off of Ponson …he is ready to get lit up any inning
Robbie Cano, MVP.
Cano!
Cano>>>>>>>>Melvin Crousette
BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!
Also, C-R-O-U-S-S-E-T-T. He’s a Dominican force of nature, not a French pastry.
This is the best I have ever seen Cano.
haha/. bye bye nady
So Swish made up for that defensive misplay.
Swisher taketh, and giveth away
oo props for beaitng jamal, muahaha
*beating
spelling FTL
Cano and Swisher… Mmmmmmmmmmm.
Nick Swisher taketh and Nick Swisher giveth.
copycat
Best form of flattery, no?
is anybody else watching on mlb tv and having problems
LMAO….. well said
Get Farnsworth up!
Cano is on Fire! I love Swisher’s at-bats with RISP!
Cano is on Fire! I love Swisher’s at-bats
with RISP!That was enough.
same sentiments exactly. i just don’t kno how to do the strikethrough
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/_STRIKE.html
Swisher should have went to third there….cmon
david cone is a great announcer
Epic FAIL.
haha
Eek, got away on that one Swish.
Actually, no nevermind. I didn’t realize that ball was caught on the fly, I thought it was a grounder and they were trying to nab Swish off second.
You gotta reach base somehow…
HAHA
Gardner should bunt here
royals baseball
Why bunt here?
Ok I miss A-Rod.. that’s right I said it.
http://simplythebest.net/sound.....elujah.wav
very nice
I’m still laughing…
i love all the excitement over the fact we just gave up an out
good thing gardy got thrown out because it keeps captain doubleplay at bay
swish almost pulled a nady on the bases
Cody Ransom is an asshole.
IETC
I was worried for a seck Jeter wasn’t going to come through.
Bad baserunning from Ransom.
Maybe some baserunning practice tomorrow morning
Not that they actually do things like that
And that’s why you’re the royals
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1779099
“Simply complete the test at your leisure, and mail it in… just like the Royals do every year after the All-Star break.”
That’s great.
that’s why we bunt.
that’s why
Perhaps Joe Girardi should give Cody a little basic baseball lesson.
yeah that was a HUYA by ransom
Mel Gibson: GIVE ME BACK MY BASERUNNER IN SCORING POSITION!
haha or simply put “RISP”
Pettitte is FEELING IT!
Not bad for an over hill broken down pitcher.
Not saying you said that, but some people here did.
over the hill
I frickin love that avis commercial.
Ha me too. I’m wicked psyched to be here.
4th and 5th starters Joba and Andy >>>>> 4th and 5th starters Wakefield and Penny
Isn’t Smoltz was in there somewhere? Not that it makes any difference in that inequality
4-5-6 starters Joba, Andy, and Hughes >>>>>>>> 4-5-6 starters Wakefield, Penny, and Smoltz
The ever-elusive 6th starter should make its debut in major league baseball by May 15th
Do you mean Phil Hughes is gonna make a start for the Yankees by May 15th?
No it was a bad joke going back to Mike’s assessment of Melancon in DOTF today
Heh, thats actually what I thought u were going for but I wasn’t sure.
That’s a bold, bold statement there.
As Steve Phillips would argue, Joba is automatically a worse starter than an injured Penny because Joba is a reliever.
They are going opposite field in the air a bunch. Weakly though.
Yes just showed a Quit Smoking commercial.
Except for you Andy Pettitte! You keep sa-moking!!!
i <3 Tex
He’s kinda slow.
He’s got a step or too on Giambi though
two
Sydney Ponson probably has a step or two on Giambi. I’m so happy i dont have to see him chugging around the bases anymore
Mark’s warming nicely…
Yay: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/articl.....8;c_id=nyy
BTW, if you’re not following MLB.com’s Yankees beat writer Bryan Hoch, do so.
http://twitter.com/bryanhoch
Yeah, thanks, completely forgot to mention the Twitter part.
was about to report that but I figured Mike was going to have a post on it later…great news though and im still hoping for a late April return
That was bullshit. At the same time, how the hell do you take a pitch that close, mainly Matsui’s. Get the guy in or over.
No slow April for Tex this season!
Is it me or should Matsui not be in the clean up spot?
It is you and your correct assessment of the situation.
I feel the same. He should be on the bench but I guess they’re starting him out of respect. I’d rather see both Nady and Swisher in the lineup like yesterday…
No way. Matsui over Nady all day. He should be in the 6/7 hole though.
he shouldn’t
Matsui blows!!!!!!!!!!!!…….
put Cano in the clean up spot
The last two called balls to Posada was a called strike to Matsui; stupid ump.
Posada is piss.
http://www.instantrimshot.com
Wow, he called that pitch balls one and two before.
This umpire is getting a little crazy with the strike zone
Question. Is the advertisement behind the plate digital or is it really there in KC. It doesn’t look digital. I would be surprised if there was an MSG ad in KC.
The strike zone is anywhere over the plate, or either batter’s box at the New K.
Why not move Cano to 3rd and Tex to cleanup until Arod comes back?
I agree.
Meh, leave Tex 3rd.
1-Jeter
2-Damon
3-Tex
4-Cano
5-Posada
6-Matsui
7-Swisher
8-Ransom
9-Gardner
he said when alex comes back
No, he didn’t.
mah bad. I misread it.
Yeah that does a better job of keeping the lefties apart at the top part of the lineup
Will the real cleanup hitter (cano) please stand up!!!!
While I agree, I hesitate to touch cano, he is white hot, just leave him be for now.
A 4-pitch walk for Cano.
I am so pleased.
Seriously, outside of Joba Chamberlain’s starts, Robbie Cano’s plate appearances were the thing I was most looking forward to this season.
When did Canó get is fourth walk last year? August 14th?
i look forward to cano at-bats
4 walks in 4 days and no Ks and a 15 game hitting streak…
Someone swing the fucking bat.
I could get strikeouts with a strikezone that big.
Cano didn’t get his 4th walk until the 22nd game last year.
Dang
WTF is up with all the strikeouts from ponson
He’s afraid of the wall. Second time he’s done that. He did it in B-more and that play led to a huge inning.
when he was a child, he was bitten by a wall. ever since then…
Mike Jacobs is awesome.
… at… making flatbread pizza.
I’m gonna assume there’s gotta be some sort of qualifier there. That’s my best guess.
awesome at not getting on base 71% of the time
Awesome at ensuring the Royals don’t score
i love cone advising youngsters to smash their pinkies
Nice Mordecai Three Finger Brown reference coney.
Pettitte looking solid. Our offense has been awfully lucky. Hopefully we get the dreaded risp #’s up..
Wouldn’t it be great to see Pettitte go 7 innings? Rest the bullpen a little bit before Joba’s outing
isn’t CC going tomorrow?
Yes indeedy.
Andy Pettitte is a gamer.
(head explodes)
It’s not like he said he leads the league in grit
Cody Ransom is worse then anyone predicted, at this rate he will start tomorrow, Pena on Sunday and hopefully forever after that. Arod back, ransom DFA
That’s too bad. I had him penciled in as the Lou Gherig to Arod’s Wally Pipp in March
Ponson has always been the type of guy to have fun and punch Aruban judges in the face.
truth!!
gardner gets the head out and bust right away…on jackson’s granny!!!
haha
Wow, Jeter does not look good today, at all.
Ponson survived 6 innings… wow
At least we’re winning.
Prediction fail: Me
The fact that Izod is the official clothing line of IndyCar does not make me want to wear Izod nor watch IndyCar.
Heh, Izod.
talk about misbranding. not a lot of izod shirts at the daytona 500
not a lot of
izodshirts at the daytona 500ietc
better
ponson and rasner started 35 games last year. amazing we won as many games as we did
Farnsworth is warming up. Awesome.
Tex is going to take him deep.
check that, Swisher will. he’s 3/4 off him.
Should have had him there
I swear, Lou Pinella “demoting” Carlos Marmol out of the closer’s role is probably the best thing that could’ve happened to that bullpen.
andy pettitte: #4 starter
FARNSY
Wild prediction: Farnsy throws a perfect inning
almost there
Good call
Farnsy needs to get smacked around a little
Kyle. It’s been too long.
That’s what SHE said!
Literally.
yea, now we get to hit farnsy just like every other team has!!!
Figures.
Did I hear Michael Kay correctly? Did the Royals really drop $215M on the upgrade at the New K?
Yes
wow. a good inning.
Brian Cashman has just been seduced.
Farnsy K’ing the side. That was sad.
I hate that KC logo on the mound.
Why?
Ummmm, was Andy just talking to the ball?
Four Ks in a row…
Yanks’ hitter can’t wait to get the heck out of there.
it’s KC, can you blame them? Oh wait, they have a few more days left
swisher is kind of a portly fellow hunh? He’s pretty fast for having such a stocky build…
harden struck out ten today in 6 innings with 1 ER.
here’s to him staying healthy
I’ll drink to that. I’ve got him on my fantasy squad too.
wow how lucky was that deflection
Good Mo! he is SO amazing with his command.
Good game by Mr. Andy “X factors don’t mean shit” Pettitte and the first small step to that nice warm crow meal.
One win down and 16 more to go.