Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
June 03, 2007
Big Hit for A-Rod

Alex Rodriguez takes Jon Papelbon the other way into the bullpen for a 6-5 Yankees lead. With two out in the top of the ninth and the heart of the order coming up for Boston, A-Rod's 20th home run couldn't have come at a more opportune time.

Update: Posada strikes out to end the inning. Rivera will try to do what Okajima and Papelbon couldn't, hold a lead. He'll have to get through Ortiz, Ramirez and Youkilis.

Update: Ortiz fouls off a ton of pitches on his hands before hitting a deep fly ball to right that comes down in the glove of Abreu. One out.

Update: Rivera gets Manny to chase an outside pitch for strike three. Two out.

Update: Youkilis gets hit on the arm during a check swing. He's at first for Mike Lowell.

Update: Lowell strikes out on an inside pitch to end the game and Rivera picks up just his fifth save of the season as the Yankees win 6-5.

Tonight's game also demonstrated the problem at the starter/reliever boundary for the Yankees. Pettitte got in trouble, and the first reliever in allowed the go-ahead run to score.


Posted by David Pinto at 11:54 PM | Games | TrackBack (0)
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Papelbon didn't have a lead to hold.

Boy these Yankees-Red Sox games sure don't finish in close to three hours anymore.

Posted by: Adam B. at June 4, 2007 12:59 AM

Adam, when these two teams play, the games are the longest for any other two-team match up so far this year. And the Paps' pitch that AROD belted out was a good pitch....only a handfull of major league hitters could have done that. I tip my hat and turn the page. Today is another day, albeit on the other coast, too!
Thanks again, David, for your shout-out to my blog yesterday. My hits skyrocketed, and my Sunday was great, right up until about 10:30 or so last night.
Have a great week!

Posted by: Peter N. at June 4, 2007 07:18 AM

You want long games, check out Yankees - Orioles games; those ones go for about four hours.

Posted by: rbj at June 4, 2007 07:58 AM

Tonight's game also demonstrated the problem at the starter/reliever boundary for the Yankees.

I call that the Joe Torre problem. Why go with your worst reliever in a key situation? Only Joe can tell us that.

Posted by: Ben K. at June 4, 2007 12:01 PM
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