A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Sunday, September 3, 2006
Home Game 68
Yankees 10 Twins 1
Subway Race Winner: 4 train
Cap Game: #3



What an absolutely gorgeous day to watch a ball game. It's that time of year when the sun is a bit lower in the sky, so our seats are in the shade for most of the game. Great start by Rasner. He made one bad pitch on the Hunter home run. Other than that he pitched a solid 6 innings. He made a great play in the 3rd. With runners on the corners and no outs, he knocked down a Punto ground ball and got Tyner in a rundown between 3rd and home. Jorge did a great job by running Tyner back to third before throwing to A-Rod for the put out. This prevented the runner at second from advancing the third. Rasner got out of the inning when the next batter hit into a 6-4-3 double play.

A-Rod had another monster day at the plate with another 2 home run day. He had 5 RBI on 3 hits for the day and was robbed of another hit in the 3rd when the shortstop made a leaping catch of a line drive. His second home run came off of rookie Pat Neshek, who has a really funky delivery. When I saw him warming up, I turned to my dad and said that A-Rod would probably strike out. It's a pitcher he's never seen before with a deceiving delivery. Well, Alex proved me wrong, and on the second pitch knocked it into the center field bleachers, in almost the same spot as his first one.

It was nice to see Myers pitch to more than one batter. My mom can't stand the guy and was making sarcastic comments while he was in there. Well, I shouldn't say that she hates Myers, but rather the notion of lefty specialists. I didn't have a problem with Proctor closing out the inning. However, the Yanks scored 3 more runs in the bottom of the inning to make it 8-1. I would've liked to have seen someone else start the 8th to give Scott some rest. But I'm not going to complain too much. It was a great win. Four players had 3 hits on the day (A-Rod, Abreu, Posada, & Cano). They got another quality start from a spot starter. And they gave Mo another day to rest. Moose is coming off of the DL. Matsui looks like he will have some rehab games with Trenton. With Boston losing today, I believe the magic number is down to 18. Things are looking pretty good (knock wood).

Random Notes
- Only one note for today. And this is some advice to you kids out there. As we were driving along Jerome Ave., my dad started squirming in his seat saying he didn't think he'd make it to the Stadium and he would need to find a bathroom. Well, anyone who's driven on that road knows that there's no where to go for a pit stop. Luckily I had an empty Dunkin Donuts cup in car. So after he turned onto River Ave. he pulled over and, uh, relieved himself in the cup. My mom and I promised not to let him live this one down (thankfully he doesn't read this blog). So kids, the moral for today is when your mom asks you if you have to go to the bathroom before you leave the house, you better go.

In attendance record: 26-16

I promise I'll get to the Seattle post tomorrow.

Correction: I just saw a replay of A-Rod's second dinger. It landed in the black, not the seats in center.