The way Justin Verlander was pitching, you have to wonder how the M's managed to score the one run they did.
It was the most manufactured of runs: single, steal of second, fly ball / move to third, strikeout / wild pitch.
JV's night: eight innings, five hits, the one run, ten whiffos.
Alex Avila tripled twice. Two other Tiger catchers have done that in a single game: Brad Ausmus in 1999, and Lance Parrish in 1980. Ausmus was fast and stole the occasional base, like Avila, your 2011 All-Star catcher (vote early and often). Parrish just hit the ball hard.
Brennan Bash hit his eighth homer, and third this week, with Don Kelly on base.
But let's examine the box score to see what Ryan Strikeout did.
Third inning, foul popup with Avila leadoff triple on base. Fifth: swinging strikeout with Avila on third after triple #2, none out. Seventh: grounded into double play. The boos grew lounder after each failed at bat.
The baseball fan isn't letting up until that #25 belongs to someone else. Like maybe when Magglio comes back next week?
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12:28 AM and the Yankees and Red Sox are only in the sixth inning, after a three hour rain delay.
Since it's a weeknight (school and work tomorrow) and so many fans came to the Stadium only to leave unrewarded, the Yankees are exchanging ticket stubs for future games as if tonight's now-official game had been rained out. They also let fans who left, and waited out the rain in their cars, to come back in. Customarily, that isn't allowed. No re-entry.
That's Yankee class. Don't expect the Dodgers to try something like that anytime soon.
But it still doesn't get them off the Carrie Jacobs-Bond must-lose list.
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