Buck Showalter’s new and improved Orioles left Yankee Stadium with the same old result: a loss. One pattern from past seasons that didn’t hold, however, was the performance of A.J. Burnett. Over the first two innings, the Yankee right hander struggled with his command and mechanics, but managed to pitch around trouble in each frame […]
Archive for April 13th, 2011
More of the Same: Yanks Feast on Buck’s Birds in First Meeting of Season
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Game 10 Batter/Pitcher Matchups: Orioles vs. Yankees
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vs. Chris Tillman PA BA OBP SLG HR RBI Brett Gardner LF 5 0.333 0.600 0.333 0 1 Derek Jeter SS 8 0.429 0.500 0.429 0 1 Mark Teixeira 1B 6 0.400 0.500 0.400 0 0 Alex Rodriguez 3B 6 0.500 0.500 1.000 1 3 Robinson Cano 2B 8 0.857 0.875 0.857 0 2 Nick […]
Catching Up with the Yankees’ Universe After a Trip to Another World
Posted in Alex Rodriguez, Baseball, Culture, MLB, Yankees, tagged Peru on April 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In a baseball sense, Peru is on another planet. Despite my best efforts to propagate the faith on a trip two years ago, baseball remains a relatively unknown game in the Andean region of South America. At least some progress has been made, however. During a return trip that spanned the past 10 days, I […]