Unsettling Events in the Bronx

by jrbh on Apr 6, 2005 1:31 PM PDT

I've been watching the Yanks-Sox game on Extra Innings, and it's a very odd and unsettling day up there in New York.

Terry Francona isn't at the game; he was hospitalized with chest pains before it started. No word yet on his condition.

Derek Jeter was hit in the head with a pitch, stayed in the game to run the bases, then was removed. There has been no word on his condition since then either, even though quite a bit of time has passed.

In all this, Mariano Rivera has blown his second straight save; yesterday, it was just Varitek yanking a HR on him, but today, he fell apart: four runs on three singles and three walks, blowing a 3-2 lead and costing the Yankees the game.

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ya, "unsettling"

like winning the lottery and wondering "what will i do with all this money!"

i do hope frannie is OK.

mark my words: the wild card will not come from the east this yr!

"Hey Ho Let's Go!"- The 2005 A's, kickin' some ass.

by bigelephant on Apr 6, 2005 1:46 PM PDT reply actions

This sounds like good news to me......

Screw both those teams.............
Health wise, I hope they are OK.
But, let them beat each other up......

Now THIS is Billy Ball

by Masaryk on Apr 6, 2005 1:46 PM PDT reply actions

Injuries

Kevin Millar also left the game after what was described as a "leg injury"

Kielty, rejuvenated by his new genetically created St.Pats Day/Oktoberfest, shows us why Billy and Ohad are geniuses.

by ohad on Apr 6, 2005 1:47 PM PDT reply actions

i wish...

francona the best, but as far as the rest of those two franchises, i'm not losing any sleep.

Do you Yabu?

by JMC @ Athletics Nation on Apr 6, 2005 1:48 PM PDT reply actions

Well...

People being hospitalized and hit in the head are both unsettling. But Rivera getting lit up? Sounds good to me!

by peanut gallery on Apr 6, 2005 1:55 PM PDT reply actions

Yeah, the Rivera thing...

...isn't "unsettling," it's more in the nature of something worth celebrating.

But the other two suck.

by jrbh on Apr 6, 2005 2:03 PM PDT reply actions

yeah, I heard the end of the game

interesting...just a fluke, or the beginning of a downward slide for the big Mo?

by OaklandSi on Apr 6, 2005 2:19 PM PDT up reply actions

He hit bad patches in 2004

& 2003

The good news for A's fans is they seem to last longer each new season,
an appealing trend for sure

"all a's all the time." xbhaskarx 3/28/05

by A s Eh on Apr 6, 2005 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions

I got to see some of it

at lunch. I really CAN'T STAND the Red Sox.

The most important things in life are good friends and a strong bull pen. - Pitcher Bob Lemon, 1981

by Steve in Napa on Apr 6, 2005 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions

The Sox

are the only thing that can make me pull for the Yanks.

athleticsnation.com, 164

by ArakSOT on Apr 6, 2005 4:42 PM PDT up reply actions

Yep

my sentiments exactly

by Cass from the Rey on Apr 6, 2005 5:26 PM PDT up reply actions

Exacto-mun-doh

Alaska-A, Number-one-A's-fan-in-southern-southeast-Alaska.

by ak_A on Apr 6, 2005 8:20 PM PDT up reply actions

word

"Hey Ho Let's Go!"- The 2005 A's, kickin' some ass.

by bigelephant on Apr 7, 2005 5:19 AM PDT up reply actions

Dotel

Maybe Rivera is washed up and Steinbrenner will want to trade for Dotel.

by AlBowe on Apr 6, 2005 2:26 PM PDT reply actions

Yeah...

I'm sure Beane is aching to acquire some of the Yankees' cavalcade of excellent minor league prospects.

by Vic @ Athletics Nation on Apr 6, 2005 2:28 PM PDT up reply actions

I think its just mental with Rivera and Boston

right now

He is awesome, will be just fine.

by OaktownPower on Apr 6, 2005 2:29 PM PDT reply actions

This just in from the AP

NEW YORK -- Derek Jeter left the New York Yankees' game against Boston on Wednesday after he was hit in the helmet by a pitch and was taken to a hospital for a precautionary CT scan.

The results were normal and Jeter was expected to play Friday night against Baltimore, the Yankees said....

"He heard some ringing in his ears. He felt a little woozy," Yankees manager Joe Torre said. "Timlin wasn't trying to hit him. He was just trying to rush a little, and his ball was all over the place."

by jrbh on Apr 6, 2005 3:38 PM PDT reply actions

Despite my distaste

for anything and everything related to the Yankees, Torre is a refreshing quote. No blaming the pitcher or posturing for the next game. He simply states that it happens sometimes when a guy doesn't have his control. So different from so many other managers and players who blow everything into a huge concerted effort to take out their players.

Anyway, regardless of that, I still hope his team loses every game the rest of the year.

by peanut gallery on Apr 6, 2005 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah, agreed about Torre

by jrbh on Apr 6, 2005 3:59 PM PDT reply actions

Torre's a class act

I don't care to see anyone hurt or sick, but I'm going to enjoy watching the Yankees collapse.

by kent1 on Apr 7, 2005 12:31 AM PDT up reply actions

I WAS THERE!

my friend stpehen had an extra bleacher ticket. it was 67 and sunny, no clouds, light breeze, perfect baseball weather.
As i am partial to the sox (my first apartment was 5 blocks from fenway), i find yankee fans distasteful, at best. although they can be funny in a crude way.
they always play YMCA over the P.A. for the groundskeepers to come down and do a little dance, and some burly yankee fans started taunting a sox fan and replaced the words "YMCA' with "Why are you gay?" it got worse, but at least the guy took i well.
several people were ejected. at the bowling alley/bar across from the stadium after the game, a bunch of sox fans came in and fights nearly broke out. i never saw anything like that at the hofbrau.
jeter's been hit by pitches twice this year. timlin was just trying to come inside, and it got away. mirabelli, boston's catcher, immediately made sure jeter was OK. Derrick got up and walked to first, but then they pulled him. torre is a class guy for forgiving timlin. i just wish he didn't manage the yanks.
we heard about francona via a cel phone call, or else we wouldn't have known. there was very little report on the PA when new players came into the game, which was frustrating. At the Net (or whatever they call it now) i remember geting a lot more info than what bob sheppard gave us at the stadium today.
it's hard to be an a's fan in NYC. i hope to get tix when they come out here.

by brothersky on Apr 6, 2005 4:05 PM PDT reply actions