It's a good thing old Yankee Ron Villone was pitching for the Nationals, and Elijah Dukes was playing center, or this game could have been a tough loss for CC Sabathia. As Squawker Jon noted, former Met Anderson Hernandez doubled his career home run total with a three-run blast off CC. My cat C.C. was hissing over it!
On the bright side, Robinson Cano did go 4-for-4, and Brian Bruney looked fine in his return to the Yankees bullpen.
But Derek Jeter left the game after hurting his ankle. As for myself, I was feeling a little under the weather yesterday, so I wasn't giving the game my full attention. Hopefully, Jeter - and I -will be feeling better tonight!
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Squawker friend Bernadette Palsey - aka Lady at the Bat - wrote a story for mlb.com about the new A&E Home Video set The New York Yankees: Essential Games of Yankee Stadium- Perfect Games and No Hitters
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Lisa- Thak you for reversing the jinx. We needed to have David hit. Much appreciated!
ReplyDelete"Ortiz, who did not homer in the first six weeks of the season, now has five for the year—four of them in the last nine games. His batting average is back up to .210—still 73 points below his career average, but at least not below the Mendoza line, .200, where he stayed for most of the last month.
Ortiz homered into the Marlins bullpen to lead off the fourth, then came up again with the bases loaded and two outs and singled up to make it 8-1."
All it took was Yankee pitching to get David Ortiz back in the hitting groove! Sheesh.
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Watching the Nats I conclude that Dukes is an absolute disgrace to the game. I would cut him right now.
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