Saturday, May 26, 2012
Yankees slug three homers to overwhelm A’s
The Yankees have no problem with thinking of themselves as a team that leans on the home run. When their lineup is able to get their power game on track, the results usually wind up being favorable.
It worked that way on Friday, as Mark Teixeira, Robinson Cano and Nick Swisher homered to help the Yankees open a long road trip in style, outslugging the Athletics 6-3 on Friday at O.co Coliseum for their third straight victory.
“Home runs are great,” said Teixeira, who hit one of the Bombers’ three blasts off Oakland starter Tyson Ross. “You’re going to go through stretches where you’re not going to get hits with runners in scoring position.
“You’re going to hit balls at people. That’s the name of the game sometimes. But home runs don’t get caught and we’re a team that’s used to hitting a lot of them. We’d like to hit a little bit more.”
As SG has noted, the Yankees’ power has allowed the Yankees to actually score a goodly amount of runs this year despite their woeful production with runners in scoring position. If they improve their batting average with RISP than this offense could really be amazing.
Hopefully pitching against Oakland in Oakland will give the Yankee pitching staff a bit of a respite. The Yankees face old friend Bartolo Colon on Saturday with CC on the hill, in what dred has aptly dubbed a “big matchup.”
Comments
You’re going to hit balls at people. That’s the name of the game sometimes.
I can’t figure out what he’s trying to say. Usually when someone uses that expression, they mean that’s what you want to happen, or have to do to succeed.
We may have found the root of his problem with the shift.
Someone should introduce to him the phrase “hit ‘em where they ain’t”. Home runs exist because they go where there ain’t can be no defenders. QED. And THAT’s the name of the game.
If Mariano=Mo, does Soriano=So?
Wang got the win in relief last night. Good to see him back.
[2] No. A trillion times if necessary.
The operative part of Soriano is “no”.
[3] Yes, I agree- hopefully he’ll be starting again this year.
[5] We could go with emphasis by elision, hence “Soria”, or, in Girardy style, “Sory”.
Sorry
Was listening to Mets-Pads while gardening. I had intended to root for the Friars but the radio duo was so stupid I was glad Santana pitched a gem as SD lost 9-0.
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