And the Yankees are in town…
Somehow is this a pre-req for the 4th of July?? I swear that when my bro and I hit the July 4th game last year, it was against the Yankees but I’m too lazy/busy/otherwise occupied to double-check that. And I don’t think last year was the first time either..
My memory could be playing games with me of course. And it’s going to be a beautiful night for baseball and likely a great pitching match-up with former Yankee, Hughes up against Japanese phenom, Tanaka.
Anyone have a guess of the over/under on how many times Bert brings up complete games since Mr. Tanaka seems to have quite an affinity for finishing what he starts?
Anyway, let’s play ball!
| NY Yankees | @ | Minnesota |
| Gardner, B, LF | Dozier, 2B | |
| Jeter, SS | Suzuki, K, C | |
| Ellsbury, CF | Parmelee, 1B | |
| Teixeira, 1B | Morales, K, DH | |
| McCann, C | Willingham, LF | |
| Beltran, DH | Arcia, O, RF | |
| Suzuki, I, RF | Plouffe, 3B | |
| Wheeler, 3B | Escobar, E, SS | |
| Ryan, 2B | Fuld, CF | |
| Tanaka, M, P | Hughes, P, P |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| NY Yankees | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 0 |
| Minnesota | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 0 |
well that most certainly didn’t go the way I expected although the result was not all that surprising… the good news is that they can’t put Tanaka out there again tomorrow.