Thursday, September 22, 2011

Tampa Bay Rays @ New York Yankees (3)

The final game of my road trip was the final game of the originally 3-, but ended up 4-, game series between the Rays and Yankees.  It was quite entertaining, but not in a fun way for the local fans ...

Bartolo Colon was pitching for the Yankees.  The crowd were not impressed by the 3 runs given up in the 1st, 2 in the 2nd, 2 in the 3rd, so were quite pleased when Joe Girardi took him out and put Proctor in instead.  He gave up 5 in the 4th.  A long procession of pitchers who weren't with the team a month ago followed, some making their major league debuts. Laffey got a big cheer for only giving up 1 in the 5th!

In the meanwhile, Tampa Bay's starter Matt Moore give up 4 hits in 5 scoreless innings for the win.  The final score was 15-8, but wasn't nearly as close as that, although the Yankees did load the bases late, but failed to get any more runs in.

This is an important homestand for the Yankees - it's their final regular season homestand, with just the three game series against Boston the next three days.  I am fortunate in that I attended three games of this series against the Rays (unfortunate to miss CC, though).  I feel sorry for people/families who wanted to come to see their heroes for one final time this year as they had no chance at postseason tickets and chose today's game, because so many regulars did not play (and it's not like they played both games of the double-header the previous day either - most sat out one of other of those games too).  And at 13-0, more were taken out, including Jeter.  Jorge Posada played the whole game at 1B though, and got a huge welcome every time he was announced.  I wonder if I shall see him playing again (didn't I say that last year, too?)

The official attendance was 47500-ish.  By the 9th inning, I'd estimate it was about 4750-ish.  The subway ride home was very easy.

No more games for me this year.  I shall, however, if the wind is right, be performing a fly-over of tomorrow night's game between the Red Sox and the Yankees, probably sometime in the 2nd inning - my flight takes off from LaGuardia about 20-25 minutes after first pitch.

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