All the Critics Love You in New York: Game 3, Jays at Yankees - April 3, 2008
by hugo on Apr 3, 2008 6:33 PM EDT
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A little Prince for everyone today. I will not deny that I'm a big Prince fan. Today's title, of course, comes from his classic off 1999.
Will we be able to get the game in today? My brother hopes so, since he's there. I hope so as well, since I'm all set to watch Dustin McGowan take on Phil Hughes. There was some talk that McGowan wouldn't be able to make his start after he was sent back to the hotel yesterday to get some rest with what was apparently flu-like symptoms, but McGowan is apparently ready to pitch today, assuming there's a game.
The Jays took yesterday's game 5-2 behind excellent pitching by AJ Burnett, Brian Tallet, and Jeremy Accardo, and a big night from Vernon Wells. Mockingbird takes a great look at A.J. pitch distribution and location last night and concludes that AJ is a bit of a fibber. Of course, if he keeps besting the Yankees, we can forgive him. Not enough of the season has gone by to really draw many conclusions, so let's just keep the good pitching going and try to get some good at-bats against the future star.
Marco Scutaro had x-rays today after being hit on the hand by a pitch yesterday. Luckily, the X-rays were negative and Scooter should be good to go. The Jays couldn't really afford an injury to Scutaro, since Rolen is expected to be out for quite a while longer. By the way, I'm hoping that Gibbons' decision not to use McDonald at SS in the 9th after Eckstein grounded into a double play to end the top of the inning was based on the idea that Scutaro might have had to come out of the game and Mac would be needed at 3rd. I know Gibbons has stated that McDonald wouldn't be a defensive replacement for Eckstein late in close games, and I don't have a problem with Eckstein's defense (which has always been respectable before falling off last season), but clearly the Jays are better off with J-Mac at SS late in close games than they would be with Eck. That's not a knock on the diminutive scrapper, as the Jays would be better off with Mac than virtually anyone in that situation.
In other news, Syracuses's season started this afternoon, and there's some good news to report. Adam Lind homered off the much-lauded prospect Homer Bailey, and David Purcey pitched an absolute gem of a ballgame .
The lineups:
Toronto Blue Jays
SS David Eckstein
LF Matt Stairs
RF Alexis Rios
CF Vernon Wells
DH Frank Thomas
1B Lyle Overbay
2B Aaron Hill
3B Marco Scutaro
C Greg Zaun
P Dustin McGowan
New York Yankees
DH Johnny Damon
SS Derek Jeter
RF Bobby Abreu
3B Alex Rodriguez
1B Jason Giambi
2B Robinson Cano
LF Hideki Matsui
C Jose Molina
CF Melky Cabrera
P Phil Hughes
Scutaro and Matt Stairs, who has had some arthritic hip issues, return to the Jays lineup, but Jorge Posada continues to miss time with a stiff right shoulder.
By the way, the Tigers are not very far in their quest to score 1,000 runs, nor to establish their status as the best offensive team of all time, as professional moron Steve Phillips avers. Let's go Jays!
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Missing 2 or 3 Gs in Zaun's name.
It's Ggreggg, right?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I think you're thinking of Gregg Myers, but I could be off
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Gregg Zaun's Gs provided by Gregg Zaun
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
you're not married, are you?
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
x grounds out 6-3
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Stairs looking at a curve
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rios looking too
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Dutsy gets Damon swinging
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Jeter grounds out, Abreu strikes out
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Jays in order again in 7 pitches
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Giambi walks on a full count
Dusty not as efficient as Hughes at this point.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Cano grounds into the FC
Beats out the double play throw
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
McGowan gets Godzilla swinging
making Cano's stolen base attempt moot.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Hill down on 3
foul, foul, fly
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Scutaro down on 4
ball strike ball fly
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Zaun grounds to first on the second pitch
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Molina breaks up the no-no for their side
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
McGowan walks Milquetoast
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Damon lines out to Rios
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Jeter GsIDP to end it
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
this is quite annoying
for some reason, neither gameday audio nor mlb extra innings is working.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
That's odd... mlb.tv is working just fine.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
x dumps in a double
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Stairs moves x to third
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rios extends the streak to 23
and the score to 1-0
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rios steals and goes to third on the missed catch
would have been out if Can'o had caught it.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wells strikes out on a curve
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Frank caught looking
and tossed for arguing. Now who's our DH?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Put it another way: Stew or Coats?
Coats might be important as a defensive replacement, but he hits lefty, which can be useful in this stadium.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Abreu singles to right
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
A-Rod flies out to shallow right
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Giambi grounds into the shift
Abreu goes to third with nobody covering
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Cano flies to Stairs to strand the runner
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Overbay grounds out to second
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Hill flies out on the first pitch
That's not making Hughes work.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Scutaro draws the walk
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Zaun doubles down the line
Scutaro stops at third.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
x with the RBI infield single
off A-Rod's glove
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
x=clutch
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Stairs was last year too
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Not this time.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Matsui singles the other way
on a 1-2 pitch
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Molina out on a low infield fly
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Double play, out of the inning
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rios has to sit down to dodge that curve
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Dustin gets him to roll over
timely
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
3-0 count, lazy fly for Rios
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wells pops up on 1-0
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
The answer is Stew
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Stew fouls off a few, then grounds to Jeter
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Damon doubles to right
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Gets ahead of Jeter, then falls behind
then plunks him
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wolfe up in the pen
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Dutsy walks them full for A-Rod
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wild pitch advances all the runners
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Dusty gets A-Rod swinging
but no chance of a double play to end the inning
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Sac fly double play ends the inning but ties it
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Yanks bring in a lefty
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Overbay flails at a curve
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Hill grounds out on a 3-2 pitch
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Scutaro's clearly aiming for the foul pole
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Abreu goes into the stands to fetch Scutaro's fly
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wolfe gets the grounder from Cano
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wolfe gets Matsui swinging
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
mlb.tv froze with the ball on the way to first
but I guess Overbay completed the grounder for the 1-2-3
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
good inning from wolfe
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Here comes Joba
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Zaun loses another bat
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
And watches one go down the pipe for strike 3
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
time for some runs
provided Joba doesn't get the call 6 inches off the plate like he did opening day
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
x grounds to second
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Stairs with the single
giving Rios a chance
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Coats pinch running
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rios flies out
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wolfe still in
vs. a switch hitter, a lefty, and a righty.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Cabrera singles to right
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Downs in to face Damon
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Damon reaches on a bunt bobbled by Downs
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Jeter bunts too
This time they get the out
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Abreu bloops it into center
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Downs catches A-Rod looking for the second out
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Downs plunks Giambi
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Cano flies out, stranding them full
giving us 3 outs to solve Rivera
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wells sends one up the middle
Will Stew bunt?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Slow grounder advances Wells to second
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Overbay with bad career numbers vs. Rivera
1 for 6, 4 Ks
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Overbay grounds up the middle
Wells at third with 2 outs for Hill.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Hill also 1 for 6 against Rivera
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Hill caught looking on the inside corner
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
McGowan
I thought he looked really good, despite being sick before (during?) the game.
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