Let’s win this thing.
ALCS Game One Spillover Thread IV
Hooray for fist pumps.
ALCS Game Two Spillover Thread III
Who gets the pie?
Dunn wild as Surprise loses their first game of the season
AzFL Surprise (11-2 loss to Phoenix)
Mike Dunn: 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 2-0 GB/FB – just 6 of 15 pitches were strikes (40%)
Lefty Wilkins Arias will pitch for Aguilas Cibaenas of the Dominican Winter League. Tomorrow night I’ll update you on all the action in Latin America.
ALCS Game Two Spillover Thread II
Oh look, the Angels mounted a little rally. How cute.
ALCS Game Two Spillover Thread
The Lazy Ninja gives the Yankees the lead.
ALCS Game Two: Angels @ Yankees
With four days off between the Division Series and the Championship Series, there was plenty of time to focus on the negative, as some are wont to do. There was talk about CC Sabathia’s struggles in the postseason and against the Angels, Anaheim’s ownage of the Yanks, the weather, and just about everything negative you could possibly think of. Game One, however, could not have possibly gone any better for New York. Sabathia dominated (and J-Poz wrote about it), the Yankees got timely hits and capitalized on Angel errors, and The Sandman closed the door. It all adds up 1-0 series lead.
The Yanks get a bit of a break tonight, because Mike Scioscia is sending Joe Saunders to the bump rather than the grizzled AL East vet Scott Kazmir. It certainly is a curious decision, but I’m not complaining. The Yankees will counter with AJ Burnett, who will have personal catcher Jose Molina behind the dish. It’s a good thing, Jorge Posada did such a horrible job behind the plate last night. Sigh.
Anyway, here’s the lineups.
Angels
Chone Figgins, 3B
Bobby Abreu, RF
Torii Hunter, CF
Vladimir Guerrero, DH
Kendry Morales, 1B
Juan Rivera, LF
Maicer Izturis, 2B
Mike Napoli, C
Erick Aybar, SS
Joe Saunders (16-7, 4.60)
Yankees
Derek Jeter, SS
Johnny Damon, LF
Mark Teixeira, 1B
Alex Rodriguez, 3B
Hideki Matsui, DH
Nick Swisher, RF
Robinson Cano, 2B
Melky Cabrera, CF
Jose Molina, C
AJ Burnett (13-9, 4.04)
The weather doesn’t look great, but everyone’s hopefully they’ll get this one. The baseball gods usually take care of these things, so I feel pretty confident that we’ll get nine innings in tonight. FOX has the call yet again, first pitch is tentatively scheduled for 7:57pm ET. Enjoy.