The Yankees have posted 9 walk-off victories so far this year: April 22nd vs Oakland (won on a Melky Cabrera homerun) May 1st vs Anaheim (Brian Fuentes explosion, Posada hit a single with the bases loaded) May 15th vs Minnesota (Joe Nathan was called on for the fourth day in a row, exploded) May 16th [...]
Archive of entries posted on July 2009
Big Boats and Old Timers
I had a busy baseball weekend. After getting home later than expected on Friday night, thanks to the hour long rain delay I went home and got a few hours sleep than ran over to Staten Island in the morning for their mini Old Timer’s day which is a nice and cute thing, wasted a [...]
Badly Photographed Scenes From A Rain Delay
On Friday I thought about leaving early to avoid the rain. I feel no shame in admitting this as I’ve been rained on at plenty of baseball games across several levels this year already. But then I got caught up in everything going on and didn’t. I could have left as soon as it went [...]
Ian Snell: Not A 2009 Rotation Candidate
A few days ago, tucked into a small blurb in an article about potential Roy Halladay trades the Toronto Sun reported that the Yankees have been looking at banished Pirates pitcher Ian Snell. Yankees may be a third-place team, according to one scout who saw them in Anahiem. They need a starter and are looking [...]
Bill Madden: 2009 Spink Award Finalist
Bill Madden, terrible sports writer for the NY Daily News is a 2009 Spink Award finalist.Winners of the Spink award get mention in a permanent exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame, though they are not actually considered Hall of Famers. When you see ESPN call Peter Gammons a “Hall of Fame” writer, they’re referring [...]
Life, The Rotation, And Everything
The All-Star break is usually denoted as the halfway point of the season, and so what better time to look at how the rotation is doing. You’ll notice there are only four starters, and that is because at the minute the Yankees only have four starters. Chien-Ming Wang is injured and presumed dead, Alfredo Aceves [...]
Out Twinning the Twins
The Yankees score a lot of runs. Right now, they lead all of MLB in the category (though the Rays are not far behind). I’m sure plenty of people out there are waving their hands around screaming “NEW YANKEE STADIUM BANDBOX” but those types are only partially correct. Here are the team home/away splits for [...]
How I Spent The July 4th Weekend
I realize it’s July 7th now, but sometimes life gets in the way of blog posts. But I can never resist posting the random photos I take while at games. On July 3rd, I made my way to Yankee Stadium for their series opener against the Blue Jays. There were a lot of red hats, [...]
All Hail The Ace(ves)
Alfredo Aceves was signed out of the Mexican League in early 2008. It wasn’t his first time hooking up with a Major League team, the Blue Jays had previously signed him as an International Free Agent in 2001. He didn’t stick around there long, as Toronto sold his contract to the Yucatan Leones in the [...]
Things That Are Ridiculous, In Brief
And a special non-Yankees related throw in that is completely amazing. Update by request:
