It's a GutCut Jr in the Bronx, Eduardo Rodriguez for Boston and CC Sabathia for the Yankees. That game begins in 82 minutes. There was day baseball today—the Astros won, the Twins won, the Reds won.
Here's Didi. Behind 1-and-2 he fouls one to the stands down the third-base line, another foul goes to the stands behind home plate. Didi lays off an 87 mph slider in the dirt. Is there a Yankee with better plate discipline than Didi Gregorius? No. He hammers one foul down the right-field line. A slider at 88 is low and Didi isn't biting. The count runneth full. Didi checks on a 96 mph fastball that was a little low and a little out. There are two on, two out, for Starlin Castro. This will be E Rod's 20th pitch of the inning. Castro fans. "The first inning took a cool, crisp half hour. Welcome to Red Sox-Yankees baseball." At five minutes an out that would be a full-game pace of four hours and thirty minutes.
CC went six. He allowed one run on four hits and five walks. He threw 102 pitches, fanned six. David Robertson pitched a clean top of the seventh. As Dave O'Brien summarized it on NESN as the half-inning went to commercial, "The Red Sox go quietly here in the seventh."
Brock Holt takes over in left field for Rajai Davis, who went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts from the leadoff spot. Betts has two walks, as does Devers. CC didn't throw Betts many strikes at all and on the couple of full counts he ran to Devers, he was not going to throw anything too appealing. Those were the two guys he decided he was going to stay away from, and it worked.
Ziegler retires the side. Kim sent one down the left-field line but Ozuna ran it down. César Hernández went 3-1. Let's take a peek at who Miami is sending up there in the bottom of the ninth. It's the pitcher's spot, Gordon and then Stanton. Oh, yeah!
Héctor Neris will try to get the last three outs for Philly. He starts things off by hitting Mike Aviles. To Gordon, 95 away. Gordon singles. Here's Stanton. Stanton, 8.
Paid attendance in St Pete today was 3,385. Wednesday was 6,123. Tuesday was 3,485. Neris is 3-and-0 to Ozuna after getting Yelich to fly out. 96 away, I can't say I disagree. He'd rather face Realmuto with the bases loaded. 98 away gets a swing and it's 1-and-2. 89 running in just about hit Realmuto and would've tied the game. I'm not sure what kind of pitch that was—a changeup? 95 over but seemingly low gets the call, backwards-looking K, that's the ballgame.
Baseball Bridge
There is still one game going, Dodgers at Diamondbacks. It's 8-1 Diamondbacks, mid 6. Let's look at the specs for this Bridge. We need now 79 more minutes of baseball over 18 outs, meaning 4.38 minutes per out. If that pace pertained over the course of a full game the game would last 3 hours and 45 minutes—that's a pretty long game. I don't think this bridge is going to take us all the way to the Bronx for the 18:05 first pitch there but we shall see. It doesn't help that the home team is leading—by seven runs. That's three fewer outs. I've been listening casually to this game. Greinke has pitched six innings: one run, two walks, six Ks. This could be Greinke's 16th win.Bridge Fail, Dodgers Fail
A little later—17:43 central daylight to be specific. Arizona have defeated Los Angeles 8-1 to complete a three-game series sweep of the suddenly seeking Dodgers. Yeah, they've got Kershaw coming back tomorrow, I know. But: Bellinger is still trying to find his legs under him; Chris Taylor has his hands full in center (or is it shortstop?); Justin Turner needs "rest"; the trio of Granderson Forsythe and Adrían are like three appendices, no one knows where they go; Brandon McCarthy has been gone so long you have to wonder when he's coming back; Alex Wood's shoulder keeps barking; and, where the heck is Corey Seager anyway? Nineteen minutes until the baseball band starts up again. I think I can hear someone tuning up a sousaphone.Sánchez Goes Fishing
It's the first inning of the HotCut. In the hole, Gary Sánchez went after an Eduardo Rodriguez changeup, down and away. The Yankees TV crew—who sounded different tonight initially but who were in fact the same people as always...maybe they just sound different when the game is carried on WPIX as opposed to the YES network?—observed that Sánchez has struggled to find his stroke since he was infamously involved in "the fiasco in Detroit". Gardner is on first via HBP.Here's Didi. Behind 1-and-2 he fouls one to the stands down the third-base line, another foul goes to the stands behind home plate. Didi lays off an 87 mph slider in the dirt. Is there a Yankee with better plate discipline than Didi Gregorius? No. He hammers one foul down the right-field line. A slider at 88 is low and Didi isn't biting. The count runneth full. Didi checks on a 96 mph fastball that was a little low and a little out. There are two on, two out, for Starlin Castro. This will be E Rod's 20th pitch of the inning. Castro fans. "The first inning took a cool, crisp half hour. Welcome to Red Sox-Yankees baseball." At five minutes an out that would be a full-game pace of four hours and thirty minutes.
Five Walks? No problem.
Top 6, the Yankees lead the Red Sox 2-1. One out, the count is full to Devers. Devers, BB. Hanley singles—err, no—maybe it's an FC 9-6 because Devers hesitated on the floater to right. Judge threw immediately to second and got the force. Chris Young grounds out, 6-4.CC went six. He allowed one run on four hits and five walks. He threw 102 pitches, fanned six. David Robertson pitched a clean top of the seventh. As Dave O'Brien summarized it on NESN as the half-inning went to commercial, "The Red Sox go quietly here in the seventh."
Brock Holt takes over in left field for Rajai Davis, who went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts from the leadoff spot. Betts has two walks, as does Devers. CC didn't throw Betts many strikes at all and on the couple of full counts he ran to Devers, he was not going to throw anything too appealing. Those were the two guys he decided he was going to stay away from, and it worked.
Adding a New Bird to the Life List
Facing Heath Hembree, Aaron Judge walks to open the bottom of the seventh. Chase Headley singles to shallow center, a ball that manages to fall in, Judge goes first-to-third. Greg Bird bats. This might be his debut in these pages. "This is becoming messy," says Eckersley on NESN. Hembree is working Bird in. But now a pitch travels to the outside part of the plate and Bird punches it through the left side of the infield, Judge scores. The Yankees have 14 hits. I'm going to look elsewhere.When You Zieg, I Neris....Wooooo!
The Phillies lead 3-2, top nine. Brad Ziegler will pitch for Miami. The sidewinder gets Cameron Rupp, K. It is quiet there in Miami. There are more people at the ballpark tonight in Miami than there were at Tropicana Field today (for the Astros and Rangers) but it doesn't feel like that many more people. If this were the Trop people would be raining down catcalls, whistles and nature-boys.Ziegler retires the side. Kim sent one down the left-field line but Ozuna ran it down. César Hernández went 3-1. Let's take a peek at who Miami is sending up there in the bottom of the ninth. It's the pitcher's spot, Gordon and then Stanton. Oh, yeah!
Héctor Neris will try to get the last three outs for Philly. He starts things off by hitting Mike Aviles. To Gordon, 95 away. Gordon singles. Here's Stanton. Stanton, 8.
Paid attendance in St Pete today was 3,385. Wednesday was 6,123. Tuesday was 3,485. Neris is 3-and-0 to Ozuna after getting Yelich to fly out. 96 away, I can't say I disagree. He'd rather face Realmuto with the bases loaded. 98 away gets a swing and it's 1-and-2. 89 running in just about hit Realmuto and would've tied the game. I'm not sure what kind of pitch that was—a changeup? 95 over but seemingly low gets the call, backwards-looking K, that's the ballgame.
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