Wow. A very rare exception to the area play there. With an intentional walk to Jeter, Damon’s going to be up with runners on first and second and one out in the 10th.
That’s a late 90’s Yankee call, that was. Very weird
I wish that got called more often, but that’s not where you expect it to pop up.
Oh, and meanwhile, Rodriguez just tied the game with an 0-2 home run to right field. Thank goodness this guy finally relaxed and started playing baseball instead of trying to be The Most Beloved Man in New York.
Did anybody NOT have this one down for a game-ending error on a potential double-play ball?
Both teams really struggled in the field tonight. Maybe it was the cold and the rain, or maybe they stunk it up. But games one and two were so tight and had great pitching, which is really what you want to see in a playoff game. Sabathia and Burnett really rose to the occasion. It’s flat out bizarre that they’ll be turning to Chad Gaudin in game three.
I have officially nominated this for understatement of the year.
“Not where you expect it to pop up”? Damn right you don’t expect an umpire to change the way the game is called in extra innings of a League Championship Series game. I think they should always try to make sure that the player’s foot touches the bag, but given how often they allow it to slide, it’s pretty fucked up to change things in a crucial point of the postseason.
Yeah, thank goodness.
I mean, all he’s done in six seasons in New York is hit .300/.401/.567 with 238 home runs, won 2 MVP titles, and been the difference that allowed the Yankees to make the postseason on two occasions.
The greatest possible outcome this year would be the Yankees failing to win the World Series, while A-Rod smashes the ball like he has been doing. That way we get the pleasure of watching the Yankees loose, and whining Yankee fans suffer the frustration of losing while also of not being able to blame all the team’s failings on Rodriguez.
That’s 5.
Here’s a great article about Torii Hunter, the man, not the ballplayer.
It’s nice, every now and then, to hear about an athlete who’s using his riches to help people, as opposed to just buying whores and cars and good lawyers for the steroid hearings.
As a ballplayer, you gotta give it up to him too. When he signed the big contract with Anaheim a lot of people though it was a terrible move by the Angels because Hunter was past his prime and wasn’t a super-duper player to start with. But he has played really well for the Angels. He missed a quarter of the season this year with injuries, and he still drive in 90 runs and had the best percentage stats of his career. Still runs well and he’s still a first rate center fielder.
Eh, we win, we lose, no big thing. It’s a good post-season, and we’re doing okay. There’s two ways to lose, you know. One is by being outplayed, and the other is folding like the Mets. This year, the only way we’ll lose is by being outplayed, and if the Angels pull that off, they’ll deserve the series.
That’s an excellent attitude as well as an excellent dig at the Mets. 
It’s not a dig if it keeps happening! That fold in 2007 was epic. Edit: Also, as long as it’s not a cheap loss to the Sox. It’s not so much disliking the Sox, it’s hating what happens when the Yankees play the Sox and they lose. It’s almost as bad as when the Yankees play the Sox and they win. Either way, epic obnoxiousness, and a complete distraction from the sport.
E-sabbath: agreed. So grateful that the Angels knocked out Boston. I really, really hate the whole Red Sox-Yankees Yankees-Red Sox hype that happens so often at this time of year. “Distraction” doesn’t even begin to cover it.
I think that today, though, if the Angels aren’t worn out, they might win. On the other hand, the Yankees got to sleep at home.
The Yankees and Angels are off today. Dodgers and Phillies resume at 8:07 EDT, though.
Oops. Did I get the schedules backwards? Well, not like they don’t deserve a day off after that one.
Awesome!
This is the sort of non stressful game I have been hoping for! They can’t all be like that with this Dodger team but it is awesome that they could pull a game like this off!
Wow, that game lasted three hours and was over in twenty minutes.
Another great game between the Angels and the Yankees.
Somehow I knew Posada was going to hit a home run after Gardner got caught stealing on the pitch out and McCarver was going to say, “My how that caught stealing has loomed large in this inning.”
(And as I’m typing this Abreu has hit into the old 8-6-1 double for an out . . . and McCarver is back on Jeter’s ball sack)
IBB with no one on for Arod. Not sure what I think about this.
Neat move now as the Yankees give up the DH in order to use Hairston in the field. you don’t see that often.