Game 45-Meet the Mets, Beat the Mets

By Steve S. On May 22, 2011 · 11 Comments · In Uncategorized

Last night’s contest certainly wiped the bad taste from Friday night out of the collective palates of Yankee fandom. 4 HRs and an easy 7-3 win will do that for you if you root for the boys in the Bronx. Tex  appears to be heating up, and The Captain broke the Yankee team SB record last night, which is among the silliest things I’ve ever read. It took Derek 17 years, Ricky Henderson just 4 and 1/2. Call me crazy, but if I need a SB I’m still taking Ricky.

Fun fact: Curtis Granderson is #2 in all of Baseball with 15 HRs (Jose Bautista has 18) and the Yankees as a team have hit the most HRs in the game with 70. If they kept up this pace, they would hit 252 HRs for the year. That would break the Yankee record of 244 set in 2009 but still fall short of  the all-time MLB team HR record of 264  set by the 1997 Seattle Mariners. The Yanks have scored 52% of their runs this year via the long ball, and while it may come back to bite them come October, for now it’s all good. LONG LIVE TEH BANDBOX!

Here’s your Yankee lineup for this afternoon’s contest:

1. Jeter SS
2. Granderson CF
3. Teixeira 1B
4. Rodriguez 3B
5. Cano 2B
6. Posada DH
7. Gardner LF
8. Dickerson RF
9. Cervelli C

Ivan Nova goes for the Yanks, with old mouthpiece himself Mike Pelfry going for the Mets. The Yanks are 8-0 in rubber matches during the Subway Series. What’s that you smell? Oh that’s right IT’S A YANKEE WIN! GO YANKS!!

 
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11 Responses to Game 45-Meet the Mets, Beat the Mets

  1. bornwithpinstripes says:
    May 22, 2011 at 3:09 pm

    does every pitcher who goes against the yanks have their best game of the year??? it is sickening to hear the sound guys not say what it really is, they don’t hit in the clutch. they foul off pitches down the middle then chase bad ones. only good thing is dickerson looks good ,nice smooth swing..joe should run him out there everyday until he proves he can or can’t perform..big upgrade on D. what did jeter close his eyes on the steal..the guy was so out..

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  2. oldpep says:
    May 22, 2011 at 3:32 pm

    Granderson sac bunt?? Yowsers

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  3. bornwithpinstripes says:
    May 22, 2011 at 3:33 pm

    the most important hit of the year for jeter..by far ..

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    Professor Longnose Reply:
    May 22nd, 2011 at 3:38 pm

    Yup. And Cano piles on with another single. Singles…sweet.

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  4. Duh, Innings! says:
    May 22, 2011 at 3:33 pm

    Hi everyone, I’m Joe Girardi.

    My team just tied the game 3-1 in the bottom of the seventh after leading off the inning with four straight baserunners including a two-run, game-tying single from my fading star player.

    My homerun leader (16 HR) who is second in the league is up, so instead of let him hit a 17th HR to make it 6-3, I will give the Mets an out and a potential inning-ending double play and make him bunt.

    I
    FUCKING
    DESPISE
    THIS
    MAN
    !!!!!!

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  5. Professor Longnose says:
    May 22, 2011 at 3:47 pm

    8 runs int he inning, no homers. I’m digging it.

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    China Joe Reply:
    May 22nd, 2011 at 3:51 pm

    They sacrificed Granderson because he would’ve killed the rally by hitting a 3-run bomb.

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    bornwithpinstripes Reply:
    May 22nd, 2011 at 3:57 pm

    good humor..we need it right now with yankee land tense

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  6. bornwithpinstripes says:
    May 22, 2011 at 3:58 pm

    dickerson gave some very good ABs today..who backs my vote for the kid to stay in RF

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  7. Bpdelia says:
    May 22, 2011 at 6:52 pm

    Ok I yelled a loud profanity and startled my kids when granderson bunted there. Im gonna give joe the benefit of the doubt there and assume grandy did that on his own. Nice, win, back on track.

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  8. smurfy says:
    May 22, 2011 at 10:10 pm

    Russell looks like Yogi in that picture, above. Almost prehistoric.

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