The Yankees outlasted the Kansas City Royals in 13 innings (around 5 hours), thanks to clutch hitting by Robinson Cano and Brett Gardner.
This marathon game had the Bronx fans boo the Yankees for grounding into double-plays and getting out with runners in scoring position.
As much as I was happy for Cano and Gardner, it still is a bittersweet victory. The truth is the Yankees won because the Royals made so many errors.
The Yankees pitching did great- Sidney Ponson toughed it out for 6.1 solid innings, allowing 7 hits and 2 runs. Although Damaso Marte walked his only batter faced (bad call by the umpire) Brian Bruney, Edwar Ramirez, Mariano Rivera, and David Robertson (3-0, 5.48) shut out KC the rest of the way.
Regarding Mo: once again Michael Kay implied that he shouldn’t be able to pitch in tie games, and that he is unable to do his job as a closer at home. Kay really didn’t give a mea culpa after Mo had 2 hitless extra innings.
Johnny Damon- what was up with him looking bad by blowing bunts and striking out all day? And “X-Man” Xavier Nady has regressed to his career mean.
In many ways, after last night’s loss, time running out (Yankees now have a 98% chance of not making the playoffs), and the constant choking with runners in scoring position, reality has finally sunk in for me. The Yankees simply should not be having so much trouble with the KC Royals.
As a fan, you can only have so much patience when management and players keep saying “okay, starting next game we’re going to put a streak together”. The team looks like a bunch of walking dead men that don’t realize the inevitable yet.
It appears time has run out. A miracle is needed.
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Or how about Kansas City Royals coach Hal McCrae who goes NUTS in front of the media by throwing things in his office, such as a phone. A clip of this also on this site.
Jays on national TV, good. Michael Kay calling it, bad.
Hi Tom! Now I know why the Yankees are 13-14 on this season. The Yankees haven't been hitting with runners in scoring position. Mark Texieira, Johnny Damon, Melky Cabrera, and Robinson Cano haven't been hitting with runners in scoring position Tom. It's been the bullpen some games I know but it is the offense that is not hitting in the clutch. I heard Brian Bruney suffered a setback on the 15-day D.L. Brian Bruney going to be out for another two weeks. I can't figure out why the Yankees haven't been executing and very poor in the fundamentals. I am a loyal Yankees fan Bro. But this is getting frustating Tom. I have to blame it on the players but I can't blame it entirely on Brian Cashman and Joe Girardi.
I wrote on a related topic here:
“The Mindset of the Class of 2029″
“Computers are increasing by a factor of about 1000X in performance per
price per decade. By the time any toddler of today is finishing
graduate school, computers will be about 1000X (for the first decade)
multiplied (not added) by 1000X (for the second decade) or about
a million times faster than they are now — just like computers are
about a million times faster than twenty to thirty years ago (at
constant dollars, or so MIPS per $). …”
And further here:
“Unschooling and exponential technological change; dignitarians”
“”"
Note that today's typical desktop computer is more powerful than a
supercomputer of 20 to 30 years ago. For comparison, the fastest
supercomputer in the world today “BlueGene/L” has 131072 CPUs and on the
order of 16 TB RAM (and runs GNU/Linux).
So, that is in the ballpark on what today's toddler may have on his or
her desktop in 20 years as they are looking for their first job. … See
_Manna_ for speculation about “terrafoam” projects used to house the jobless in the USA in 2030:
since that level of computing power is likely enough to finally drive
robots by machine vision.
“”"
I really enjoy your writings. I can wonder if we might have met is passing a long time ago at NCSU? I gave a talk there around 1987 on a simulation of self-replicating robots I developed on the Symbolics over in Park Shops across the street from the CS offices. I had gone to NC State to be a PhD graduate student in Industrial Engineering, and spent the summer there, but that fizzled when the person I wanted to work with resigned at the start of the semester. Most of that work was done over the summer, living off what savings I had from running the Princeton Robotics lab. Frankly, it might have been smarter to have stayed at that lab with a nice salary doing robotics research considering everything, but Sam Adams just wowed me with his work at NCSU with Smalltalk and factory simulation done as a staff member there. I just could not get over how amazing all that was. :-) I still can't. :-)
I can only think what might have been had things turned out otherwise, with people like you, and Michael Kay, Paul Jones, Ted Hall, James Boyle, and Sam Adams, and others in the Research Triangle area all interested in related issues in various ways. And RedHat of course, building a business at the edges of an open core. The RTP area has all the people you need for a great post-scarcity studies institute right there within a short drive to explore the interplay of these exponential issues, especially how they interlink with how stuff is made using ever improving digital fabrication techniques. Let's hope all this change brings us closer to the Australia Project than Terrafoam.
i am very glad that we won. i don’t care if we won in 9 innings or in 13 innings. the point is that we won! okay? never count the
yankees out! i am sick of hearing how badly we suck! get back to me
when we reach the wild card or the
play offs!
Okay, as much as I can’t stand A-Rod, his replacements are Wilson Betemit or Cody Ransom. Yes, he chokes when it counts but the Yanks wouldn’t be in any race without him. Let’s not lose perspective here.
The Yankees magic was lost in November 2001 in Arizona.
That’s the bottom line.
The 1949 team that had no less than 71 injuries, including Joe DiMaggio’s heel bruise that sidelined him for 65 days, and still managed to beat out the Red Sox by one game for the pennant?
2004 was the beginning of the CHOKE-ROD ERA
Little Leaguers know how to bunt for Crissakes…since when does Damon not know how to bunt.
…and could someone explain Wilson Betemit to me ? They gave up Andy Phillips & Miguel Cairo for a switchhitter that can't hit from either side of the plate and doesn't know the fundamentals of infield playing. WHY was he a #1 prospect for the Braves a few years ago?
No team with Alexis Fraudriguez will EVER make it to a World Series.
It just shows what’s become of the Yankees. When’s the last time they had a “must win” game against the Royals? 1981?