Friday, April 13, 2012
Yankees.com: Superb Kuroda leads Yanks in Bronx opener
NEW YORK—Hiroki Kuroda worked eight-plus stellar innings in his Yankee Stadium debut and Nick Swisher cleared the bases with a three-run double as the Yankees defeated the Angels, 5-0, on Friday in their home opener.
Alex Rodriguez and Curtis Granderson also homered in the victory for New York, as the Bombers won for the 14th time in their last 15 home openers, including three of four at the new ballpark. Rodriguez’s fourth-inning homer was the 630th of his career, tying him with Ken Griffey Jr. for fifth on the all-time list.
I only got to see bits and pieces but I look forward to watching the replay of Kuroda’s performance. Pretty much the home opener you’d draw up on paper if you could. A great starting pitcher performance, Swisher putting the team up 3-0 in the first inning., Rodriguez going 3 for 4 with a SB and showing that perhaps there’s still some life left in him, and most importantly a win.
If we revisit this, the Yankees have now gotten their record back to where it should have been after seven games. According to log5 the Yankees would have been 3.82 - 3.18 at this point, and they’re 4-3. Yay.
Comments
I was not hopeful going into this weekend with Kuroda starting the home opener and the LAA being the opponents. I had a bunch of whiny posts about Kuroda’s signing at the ready. Today was more than I could possibly hope for.
Love it but I really wish I could have watched this.
[1] Don’t throw them out! They may come in handy later in the season.
I really want to see Hughes outpitch Wilson in a tense pitchers duel that the Yankees win late.
So, I’m looking for about 6 inning from both pitchers.
You think they’re going to leave Hughes out there for 150 pitches?
I want to see the Yankees crush Wilson early and Hughes cruise.
Luke Scott: Not a fan of the Fens.
http://espn.go.com/boston/mlb/story/_/id/7809515/fenway-park-dump
Kelly Shoppach refuses to be outdone by Nuney:
http://gif.mocksession.com/2012/04/kelly-shoppach-slide/
[5] I think Hughes is going to have an efficient game with a mere 120 pitches.
[8] Shoppach is clever, he’s simply confusing his opponents, who would ever exepect the slide-dive/flop combination. You can’t defend against that!
I really hope Ellsbury doesn’t miss any time with his shoulder injury. That would really be terrible. Oh, I’d be so sad.
Did anyone hear Fransesser say Hideki Corroder? Awesome.
Every team in the AL East is in first place tonight, except for the Red Sox. Righteous.
So I went to a Flyers blog a couple of hours ago…..I’ll just say I love and appreciate every last one of yiz. Man….it was bad. Really, really bad.
I present to all of you the deepening depression of Robert Andino.
[15] It took 3 years for the fact that he was on the Orioles to sink in.
It’s the cummulative effect of Buck Showalter’s leaderism.
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