Joe Girardi and the Yankees played the game under protest last night, thanks to Josh Beckett’s “injury” giving the Red Sox extra time to warm up. Well, I’m writing this blog entry under protest – I’m protesting all the bad baseball I saw last night! I’m just glad I decided not to buy tickets at the last minute last evening and go, or I’d be holding up an “unfair” sign just because!
Here are a few complaints, in no particular order:
* Why was Joba Chamberlain – who clearly didn’t have it – left in to implode? That was like water torture watching him stay in. One of our readers suggested the Yankees should have put in Javier Vazquez instead. And this is a reader who has been griping about Javy for months! That’s how much Joba’s star has fallen.
* Marcus Thames goes from walkoff hero to goat, not catching the ball last night. That was a terrible play to watch. So was A-Rod’s error.
* Randy Winn’s play was bad as well. But I’m not surprised Mariano Rivera had a shaky ninth inning. Whenever he blows one save, he ends up doing poorly in the next relief situation.
* David Ortiz wasn’t the only one who thought that ball was out last night. So did I!
* Michael Kay deserves blame, too. The moment he mentions that CC hasn’t given up any runs, Youk hits a homer. The MK Jinx is alive and well!
* I know the conventional wisdom is that Francisco Cervelli should have bunted, but I wanted him to swing away last night in the ninth. Like I wrote yesterday, he was hitting .786 with runners in scoring position going into last night’s game. Besides, the bottom of the lineup was coming up. Why not take your chances with Frankie?
Eh, I don’t even want to talk about this game anymore. I turned off the TV and went to bed as soon as the game was over. Too depressing that the Yankees lost this game!
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