Sigh, Yankees
Not really in the mood to do this tonight, but I don't have anything else to do, so what the hell. Since blogger doesn't like letting me indent, I'm adjusting the format for ease of reading tonight.
Inning 1
NYY: Jeter leads off with a bunt and almost makes it on base. Not sure I agree with that tactic given his performance in the last several games, but whatever. Womack is back in the lineup tonight, batting second. He flies out to Winn in left. Two down, looks like a slow start this game. Up next is... Sheffield? Yep. He starts out with a big chop at empty air. There's a fly to Ichiro in right, three down.
Mariners: Carl Pavano is the starting pitcher for the Yankees tonight. Ichiro starts out with a one pitch fly to Womack in left, one down. Winn hits a hard grounder to Tino, who tosses it to Pavano, who tags Winn right before the bag. Beltre is up next... strikes out swinging on a high fastball. Quick inning.
No score.
Inning 2
NYY: Matsui gets a nice single to right field. What happened to his slump? Nice, A-rod grounds one past short for a single; two men on, no outs. Tino! Eh, 0-2 in the count, both strikes looking. C'mon Tino. He flies to center, no runners advance. Posada is also back tonight. Sounded like a broken bat; single over 2nd to center, Matsui scores and A-rod makes it to second. Giambi, heh, got a nice high fly that wasn't caught, amazingly. A-rod scores, Posada stops at third. Cano flies high to Valdez (the SS) for the second out. One runner in scoring position for Jeter. Struck out swinging. Two runs for the Yankees.
Mariners: Argh I wasn't paying attention because I was reading the fun hate comments and deleting them. One out though. Ibanez grounds to Tino who easily steps on first for the second out. Boone is up next. He made it to first on... something. I was doing more blog-management. Nice hustle by Matsui in center to catch Reed's deep center hit.
Yankees 2, Mariners 0
Inning 3
NYY: Womack flied out to Olivo (the catcher) who made a funky teenage mutant ninja turtles back slide catch. Sheffield just flied out to Ichiro. Matsui hit a deep line drive to right field, but Ichiro was there for the play. One, two, three.
Mariners: The lead off batter lined one right to A-rod for out number one. Valdez grounded to Jeter for an easy out at first. Ichiro chipped one foul... Should've been caught but three fielders converged and all slowed down. Ichiro looks out of rhythm, or maybe he just has a funky swing. Geez, he's fouled off like five in a row now. Okay, inning over, he chipped one again right to Jeter.
Yankees 2, Mariners 0
Inning 4
NYY: A-rod leads off, 0-2 in the count just now... 2-2... 3-2... Popped up to Sexson well foul. One down. Tino! Full count. And he walks. Well, Posada flied out deep enter. Giambi comes on... Olivo fails to stop a pitch and Tino takes second. Two outs here, Giambi needs a hit to keep the inning alive. And there it is! Tino scores easily because Ichiro bobbled the ball and Giambi takes first. It was on the ground between first and second, if you're curious. Cano delivers a base hit to move Giambi to third. Nice inning so far. Jeter's up! Well, Jeter grounded to short for an out. Three down, one run.
Mariners: I'm covering this game very poorly. Winn and Beltre both, I think, grounded out, but I'm not sure. Sexson just hit a single past A-rod to left. Oh man, Ibanez just hit a single past Cano to right! Men on first and second, two outs. Pavano is ahead in the count 1-2 against Boone... struck out swinging. Whew.
Yankees 3, Mariners 0
Inning 5
NYY: Womack doesn't look happy with the pitch calls... not that it matters because Ichiro made a great play to catch his bloop to right. Not many RFs would have made that play. One down. Sheffield--and what a weird martini stir that is--makes it to first on a slow grounder to third. Beltre missed the barehand grab anyway, but Sheffield would have been safe regardless. C'mon Matsui, home run! Or a single. Whatever, get on base. He's behind in the count 1-2... fouls one off... high fly ball to Reed in center. Two down, Sheffield just chilling on first base. A-rod is up; and that's a home run! 5-0 Yankees! Sweet! Aw, poor Tino. That was a good hard grounder that should have got him on base, but the Mariners 2nd baseman made a diving stop and got him out at first. Three down.
Mariners: Reed grounds to Cano for an easy first out. Olivo strikes out swinging. Pavano is pitching a good game so far; he's only allowed 2 hits in 5.1 innings. I believe his average is 1.333 per inning, but I could be wrong. Uh oh, full count for Valdez. That's a chop over Pavano's head to Jeter, who makes the play to first to end the inning.
Yankees 5, Mariners 0
Inning 6
NYY: Posada leads off. Posada is down in just three pitches; he struck out swinging. Giambi takes the plate... Whew, home run for Giambi. Nice job buddy. He's doing fairly well lately. Whoa buddy they're closing the roof! OMG IT COLLAPSED ON THE FANS! Ha just kidding. Cano is at the plate, and he just struck out swinging. Jeter's well ahead in the count 3-1, and he'll ground it right to Valdez at short for the third out.
Mariners: Interesting, the home plate ump didn't call time for Ichiro and Pavano put one right down the center as Ichiro stepped back for strike one. We'll see if it stands, the Mariners manager is out there arguing. Yep, it stood. He's behind in the count 1-2 now... quick grounder to A-rod, out at first. Randy Winn takes the plate... grounded straight to Cano; he didn't even move. Two outs. Womack makes the catch on the move for the third out from the bat of Beltre. Inning over.
Yankees 6, Mariners 0
Inning 7
NYY: I was out of the room, but Womack flied out and Sheffield walked. Matsui is full on the count 3-2, and he struck out swinging. Two men down. Heh, they boo A-rod every time he walks out. Two balls, no strikes yet. Full on the count with one badly called 'strike' in there. Well A-rod almost got a home run there, but it was just a little short to center. Three down.
Mariners: Sexson grounded to A-rod for the first out. Whew, Ibanez came close to a home run, but it flew foul past the right field post. Struck out swinging on the next pitch. Two outs, no men on. Oh no! Boone got a hit over A-rod's head, a line drive to left. He stopped at first. Reed grounded to Cano for the third out.
Yankees 6, Mariners 0
Inning 8
NYY: Tino's up first. Aw, he struck out. Poor Tino, he's not doing much this game. I hope his hot streak is just hiccuping and not coming to an end, because I really like to see him deliver. Posada's up next, taking a big swing at pitch #1. Strike one. Posada gets a single hit hard on the ground past the second baseman. Next is Giambi... eh, popped up foul, and that's an out. Bah. Two men down, one on first. Cano is 0-2 in the count. 2-2... and that's a strikeout. Semi-swinging; he tried to hold up but couldn't do it.
Mariners: Remember when I said I didn't know how Boone got on base a while back? He got hit. Olivo's at bat, out on a hard grounder to third. Valdez grounded to Jeter, and that's it for him. Up next is Ichiro Suzuki. 1-2 in the count. Holy crap! He struck out (swinging)! Inning over.
Yankees 6, Mariners 0
Inning 9
NYY: Jeter leads off with a first pitch fly right foul. He took a ball high and fouled one back for a 1-2 count. Ouch, very deep hit to center which Reed caught. I thought it was a home run, and it was only a few feet short. One down. Jeter doesn't look happy about that. Womack is behind in the count 0-2, and that's 0-3... struck out looking. He's 0-5 this game. Sheffield walks in 5 pitches. Matsui takes the plate... blooper to the second baseman, three outs.
Mariners: Pavano is going for the shutout here. I'm betting he'll get it. One down on a grounder to Jeter. Hansen is behind in the count 0-2... make that 2-2... argh, 3-2... c'mon, Pavano. There's a hit past second base to short center on the ground. Sexson is up... one strike. Oh man, Posada just took one in the face off Sexson's bat. Tough guy, he doesn't even look phased as he checks his mask for damage. The count is 2-2 on Sexson. 3-2... Pavano might get pulled if he doesn't take out Sexson here. Sexson fouls one back... fouls another one back... just get out already! Shit, there's a hit past Jeter. Men on first and second, one out. I want Pavano to finish the game for the shutout, so he'd better not wuss out. Good, he's staying in. Pavano is behind in the count for Ibanez, 2-1. 2-2 on a swing by Ibanez. Jesus, Ibanez fouled three in a row. HA! Cutter in the dirt and Ibanez swung at it. That's two outs. Olivo is the last batter we'll see, I hope. 2-0 on the count. Damn, Posada just took another ball in the face off Olivo's bat. Olivo took a big swing at an outside pitch for 2-2. Full count, 3-2 and 2 outs. The drama! And that's the game, Sheffield makes the catch in the right field corner.
Final: Yankees 6, Mariners 0. That's 10 games in a row, go Yankees!
