Last night’s game was the 10th that I attended this season, and brought my 2009 record to 5-5. Considering I started the season 0-4, I feel OK about finishing at .500, although I really wanted to secure a winning record after last night’s game, and the Yankees blew it.
The Yankees wound up with walk-off wins in 26% of their home wins. Of my five wins, two were of the walk-off variety, which means I saw walk-offs in 40% of the victories I attended.
Given that the Yankees finished the season going 57-24 at home, it’s pretty crazy that I attended more than 20% of those losses — one of which was a rare extra-inning loss on May 6 to the Rays, another a tie game in which Mariano Rivera gave up the lead in the 9th inning a day later and last night’s game in which the potential tying and winning runs were in scoring position. Crazy to think that the Yankees could have had three more walk-off wins this year.
Here’s a list of the games I attended at Yankee Stadium in 2009:
| Game | Date | Opponent | Starters | Outcome |
| 12 | 4.18.09 | Cleveland | Wang v. Carmona | L, 22-4 |
| 27 | 5.06.09 | Tampa Bay | Burnett v. Sonnanstine | L, 4-3 |
| 28 | 5.07.09 | Tampa Bay | Pettitte v. Niemann | L, 8-6 |
| 42 | 5.22.09 | Philadelphia | Burnett v. Myers | L, 7-3 |
| 61 | 6.12.09 | New York Mets | Chamberlain v. Hernandez | W, 9-8* |
| 139 | 9.07.09 | Tampa Bay | Burnett v. Sonnanstine | W, 11-1 |
| 144 | 9.13.09 | Baltimore | Sabathia v. Guthrie | W, 13-3 |
| 147 | 9.16.09 | Toronto | Gaudin v. Tallet | W, 5-4* |
| 155 | 9.26.09 | Boston | Sabathia v. Matsuzaka | W, 3-0 |
| 159 | 9.30.09 | Kansas City | Chamberlain v. Tejeda | L, 4-3 |
| *walkoff | ||||
I didn’t even realize I’d seen Burnett v. Sonnanstine twice before compiling this list. Mercifully I avoided all of Sergio Mitre’s outings, although unfortunately I never got to see my boy Hughes start. Something to look forward to in 2010, after we’ve finished hoisting that 27th World Championship banner.
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I only made it to 2 games. I watched a combined 6 hours of rain delay to only 5 1/2 hours of baseball. Because of that I think I've memorized the location of every concession stand in the building.
And last year when you and I went we endured that one hour-plus rain delay only to watch them lose at the hands of lowly KC. Skip, apparently you are a bad luck charm when it comes to the weather and Yankee games.
Put your .500 record aside and just be thrilled that you attend the Luis Castillo "drop" game…