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The Curious Case of the Missing Hits

The Yankees played their last game at the Metrodome in Minneapolis this afternoon, as they will now play the rest of their games in stadiums where a pop up is visible. Cheers! The result was a 6-4 victory, leading the Yankees not only to a sweep of the series, but a sweep of all regular season games against the Twins. 


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To celebrate, Mark Teixeira hit his 21st homerun of the season, breaking a career long drought of 95 at bats without one. Half of the runs scored for each team (3 for the Yanks, 2 for the Twins) came in the second inning. Strangely, the total of 5 runs were achieved by only 2 hits, one hit by the Yankees and one by the Twins. It can only leave you wondering one thing: where did the rest of the hits go? Were they outside enjoying the beautiful weather? 

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You can put your magnifying glass away, the hits are nowhere to be found. The Yankees scoring went a little something like this: walk, hit by pitch, error, walk, fielders choice, and finally a single by Jeter, leave it to Jeter to actually do some work to score a run. The Twins methods of scoring were more or less the same, a homerun scored the first run, which was followed up by a walk and two errors. The pitching was a tad shaky, but all 5 bullpen pitchers succeeding Ace allowed 0 runs, and Mo sealed the deal for the save and the sweep. Every Yankee had one hit a piece except for Swisher, but he’s so good spirited that I bet he even takes his no hit days with a smile on his face. There’s always tomorrow…

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Justin Morneau was 0-10 in the series. Thats right, no typo here folks, hitless in the whole series. For those of you wondering, Morneau has not been hitless in a series once during the course of the season. Very strange indeed, kudos to the Yankee pitchers for handling him so well. Finally, Albaladejo got the win and Liriano picked up the loss. The win moved the Yankees to within half a game of the Sox for first place in the AL East, a loss by Boston tonight would have them both tied for first place. 

Looking forward to tomorrows series against the Angles, it’ll be Joba (4-2, 4.04) vs Joe Saunders (8-5, 4.44). Both Joba and Saunders are coming off rough outings, giving up 8 and 6 runs their last time out, respectively. Vlad and Hunter are both day-to-day as far as their injuries are concerned, and the Yankees will see former teammate Bobby Abreu for the first time since their first meeting in the beginning of May. The Yankees and Angles split that series, each winning a game (the last game of the series was postponed). 

Signing off for now
-Inside the thought bubble

Wheres My Full Package of M&Ms?

Not the most edge of your seat–pee your pants–heart racing–bite of someone elses nails because you’ve already bitten your own off–game of the season. AJ dealed a nice game, but threw so many wild pitches I thought I was on safari.

 

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He did however, record his 100th K of the season (sorry AJ, no pie in the face for this one). Hughes and Rivera were dominant as usual, Coke a little shaky but no worries, the Yankees controlled any last minute heroics to hold onto the game for a 4-3 victory. The bottom of the Yankees order did most of the scoring tonight, with 3 of the 4 runs coming in the second inning. The Twins offense was about as “one man show” as N*Sync (admit it, you only know Justin Timberlake)

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Playing the role of Justin Timberlake tonight was Joe Mauer (of which a resemblance can be seen, no?) He got the teams only RBIs, and collected a third of the total hits. Is anyone surprised? As if there isn’t enough proof in this world of just how great Joe Mauer is, he officially has enough at bats to be counted in the batting average rankings, and guess what? Thats right, he’s first. Again, is anyone surprised? Joining him on that list is his partner in crime, the other half to his M&M, Justin Morneau. Morneau has so far been kept hitless in this series. I feel like I’m eating the fun size package (there is nothing fun about less candy), where are the rest of the M&Ms?!  I’m sure he’ll make up for it with a stellar performance tomorrow.

 

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Leave it to my 3rd grade level attention span to find one of the best parts of the game to be when the stray “Happy Birthday” balloon floated onto the field in the basepaths. In the spirit of that, I curiously decided to look up whose birthday it was today. I doubt the birthday balloon neither belonged to John D. Rockefeller nor Toby Keith.

 

Pitching for the Yankees tomorrow will be Fettucini Alfredo “Ace” Aceves. Taking over for the injured Chen Ming Wang, Ace is expected to throw between 60-65 pitches tomorrow, so its crucial for Ace to go as deep into the game as he can and for the bullpen (probably count on seeing David Robertson) to keep the pitch counts as low as possible and really get the job done. Remember, Aceves started 4 games for the Yankees last september, finishing the month with a 2.57 ERA. Looking forward to tomorrows game, I’m sure he’ll do great.

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**PS- To anyone with some minuscule amount of dignity, I apologize for the N*Sync reference… and accompanying picture

Signing off for now

-Inside the thought bubble

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