Saturday, July 16, 2005
17-1, Part Deux
To put it in the words of my dad, "It's nice when you expect the Yankees to get killed, and then they get killed." That's exactly what happened last night, as Tim Redding got rocked just like he was supposed to left the Yankees searching for starting pitching answers.
The look to have found one, possibly, in the form of Al Leiter. Newsday is reporting that the Yankees have acquired Leiter from the Marlins in exchange for cash, and he will start tomorrow night at Fenway Park. Despite his 6.64 ERA, don't be surprised if Al has enough to contribute to one more pennant push in New York.
July 15th at Shea
I was at the Mets game last night, and I admittedly was expecting a loss to Atlanta. I'd seen it too many times before. But, the way the Mets lost was disappointing.
Tom Glavine came into last night's game a career 1-8, 8.81 against Atlanta since signing with the Mets in 2003. Surprisingly, he pitched extremely well last night, going seven strong and allowing just one run. He pitched into trouble in some of the later innings, but was able to pitch out of jams with some clutch outs. Robbie Hernandez came on to pitch the final two innings, but Jose Reyes misplayed yet another ground ball en route to allowing the go-ahead run to score in the eighth.
John Smoltz was just as good, however. The Mets didn't mount a threat against him the whole game, and the only run was scored on a David Wright shot to left that I knew was gone off the bat. Wright seemingly had hit another blast in the bottom of the ninth with two outs, but Jeff Francoeur caught it at the wall.
Willie Randolph's most questionable desicion of the game came in the eighth inning when Reyes led off with a single to left. Instead of letting Reyes steal a base, which has been Jose's only consistent attribute since August 2003, Willie has Mike Cameron hit early in the count and predictably, Cameron hits into a 6-4-3, rally-killing double play.
The good news was that we finally found another usher to let us sit in the field level. The best usher in the world, Lee, retired after last season. Our tickets were for upstairs, but the new guy on the first base line gave us great seats 15 rows from the field. I came close to a John Smoltz foul ball, but it was just a bit out of my reach.
I'll be back at Shea for July 19th v. San Diego. It's time to score some runs for Zamby (4-7, 3.58) against Tim Hudson (6-5, 3.78).
The look to have found one, possibly, in the form of Al Leiter. Newsday is reporting that the Yankees have acquired Leiter from the Marlins in exchange for cash, and he will start tomorrow night at Fenway Park. Despite his 6.64 ERA, don't be surprised if Al has enough to contribute to one more pennant push in New York.
July 15th at Shea
I was at the Mets game last night, and I admittedly was expecting a loss to Atlanta. I'd seen it too many times before. But, the way the Mets lost was disappointing.
Tom Glavine came into last night's game a career 1-8, 8.81 against Atlanta since signing with the Mets in 2003. Surprisingly, he pitched extremely well last night, going seven strong and allowing just one run. He pitched into trouble in some of the later innings, but was able to pitch out of jams with some clutch outs. Robbie Hernandez came on to pitch the final two innings, but Jose Reyes misplayed yet another ground ball en route to allowing the go-ahead run to score in the eighth.
John Smoltz was just as good, however. The Mets didn't mount a threat against him the whole game, and the only run was scored on a David Wright shot to left that I knew was gone off the bat. Wright seemingly had hit another blast in the bottom of the ninth with two outs, but Jeff Francoeur caught it at the wall.
Willie Randolph's most questionable desicion of the game came in the eighth inning when Reyes led off with a single to left. Instead of letting Reyes steal a base, which has been Jose's only consistent attribute since August 2003, Willie has Mike Cameron hit early in the count and predictably, Cameron hits into a 6-4-3, rally-killing double play.
The good news was that we finally found another usher to let us sit in the field level. The best usher in the world, Lee, retired after last season. Our tickets were for upstairs, but the new guy on the first base line gave us great seats 15 rows from the field. I came close to a John Smoltz foul ball, but it was just a bit out of my reach.
I'll be back at Shea for July 19th v. San Diego. It's time to score some runs for Zamby (4-7, 3.58) against Tim Hudson (6-5, 3.78).
# posted by Dave @ 2:42 PM 
