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Game 13 - Yankees vs. Rays
By Jessica | April 14, 2008
I couldn’t make it home until about 9pm tonight and I didn’t have it in me to rewind the game to the beginning. I had a vague idea of what was going on because every where you go in Florida there are Yankees fans. So I’d heard about multiple homeruns, yada yada. Why do I want to go back and put myself through that.
Sounds like Sonny had a night to forget right from the beginning. He must not have been breathing through the right eyelid or something. Damon and Rodriguez each hit one out in the first inning. Then in the second Morgan Ensberg sends one to the seats in left. Morgan Ensberg! He looks like a tax accountant not a baseball player, and I’m pretty sure he should be an easy out. After four more runs in the fourth Sonny’s done.
So I sit down to 7-2 Yankees, just in time to see BJ get thrown out at third. I’m not entirely sure he was out, but he’s got some seriously bad base running karma going on right now. Maybe he should play it a little safer for a while.
Cut to the bottom of the seventh where things get real interesting. Aki flies out. Carl Crawford 2 run shot! Pena hit by pitch. (possibly on the end of the bat?), BJ Upton 2 run shot! Longoria hits his first homerun, to tie it up! Cool! 7-7 Hinske grounds out and Riggy strikes out to end the party.
Top of the 8th, things are rolling along. Reyes gets the first two outs, then Robinson Cano comes in to pinch hit and totally rains on our hit parade, homering to right. Dag-nab-it. I had a feeling that might be the end and that was before they brought in Rivera.
I guess this is what you call a positive loss. Yankees 8 - Rays 7. Some would argue that a loss is a loss but the Rays showed some spark tonight. Doh!mann was impressive and kept the game from getting really ugly by fending the Yanks off for 3.2 innings. Reyes took another loss, but Glover did a great job getting A-Rod out in the clutch. The offense got going. Carl Crawford cranked it up for 3 RBI. BJ, Longoria and Hinkse hit well too. It would be great to see more of that.
One negative thought - This batting order gives me the heeby geebies: Riggans, Haynes, Bartlett, and Aki.
C’mon EdWIN, get them back to .500!
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