Opening Day....Yankee Stadium 1923....and today

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Posted By: Greg Ecklund

Hafner just hit one out...21-4 now. The next best thing to my team winning is seeing the Yankees lose...it warms the heart.

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Posted By: brock

Greg,
Who do you like?

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Posted By: Kevin Andrews

So who has the nicer new stadium - the Yankees or the Mets?

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Posted By: Bruce Dorskind

Sunday, April 24, 2005

One day after getting blasted by owner George Steinbrenner, the Yankees blasted the Devil Rays and accomplished something they'd never done before: score 13 runs in one inning at Yankee Stadium.

In Monday's 19-8 victory over Tampa Bay, the Yankees sent 17 men to the plate in the second inning, collecting 11 hits and three bases on balls.

The 13-run inning was the biggest -- in any inning -- for the Yankees since June 21, 1945, when they scored 13 in the fifth inning of a 14-4 win at Boston. It matched the largest second inning in major-league history, and the most productive second inning in the American League since the Kansas City A's hung 13 on the White Sox on April 21, 1956.

The 11 hits in the frame are the most in a single inning by the Yankees since April 11, 1987, at Kansas City.

The Yankees' club record for runs in an inning is 14, which they accomplished on July 6, 1920, against Washington at Griffith Stadium.

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Posted By: Peter_Spaeth

Wang is off to a nice start this year. His ERA was over 28.00 BEFORE today's game.

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Posted By: Greg Ecklund

Brock...the A's are my team

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Posted By: Kevin Andrews

It's interesting that the Yankees biggest home and road losses (in terms of giving up runs) all belong to the Indians. They gave up 24 runs to the Indians in Cleveland in 1928(?) (or so they said on the TV). The Indians also posted the 22-0 game in August 2005 in New York at the old place and now 22-4 in the new place.

Cavs won by 18 today and so did the Indians.

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Posted By: Peter_Spaeth

34.50 after today's fine outing.

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Posted By: Greg Ecklund

Why not try Nick Swisher in the rotation? He certainly can't be any worse than Wang has been.

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Posted By: Kenneth A. Cohen

Gee - and I thought Wang Chen Ming would have LOWERED his ERA with today's performance.

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Posted By: Rob D.

I can't wait to see what the yankees do against Carl Pavano tomorrow.

Pavano: 6 innings, 4 hits, 1 run (earned), 1 BB, 4 K

I can't wait to see what the yankees do against Dana Eveland tomorrow.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

You have to be impressed with Pavano. Big pressure start and he lowered his ERA to below 10.

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Posted By: Rob D.

Oh, I have little doubt that at the end of the season Indians fans will look back at April 19 as the high point of Mr. Pavano's campaign.

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Posted By: Rhys

Here is something for you Ted.

I have always thought Harry Stevens was underrated in the grand scheme of Baseball History. He might have done more to shape the overall game from a spectators standpoint than anyone else.

Rhys

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Posted By: Brock

Carl did pitch well but the yankees were able to pull off the victory 7-3.

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Posted By: Rob D.

Nice to see Jeffrey Maier's dad in attendance.

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Posted By: runscott

Kevin - that 22 run game by the Indians in 2005 was the most scored against the Yankees at home - ever. Yesterday's game tied the record, albeit in a new stadium.

Also, the 14 in the 2nd is the most ever in an inning 2...in ML history.

As an aside, I had the privilege of taking someone to their first major league game ever, Thursday night at Safeco Field....my friend is 53!

Scott <=== loves seeing records set against the Yankees.

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Posted By: Brock

Rob,
What are you talking about? Tht ball was over the fence so the fans have every right to touch/grab it.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Fun Wang facts: 6 innings, 23 runs this year (in 3 starts). He needs to pitch 47 scoreless innings for his ERA to go back down to his lifetime ERA of 3.79.

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Posted By: Rob D.

Of course it was, Brock. My bad.

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Posted By: Jim VB

I'm sitting here with DirectTV, flipping between TBS, YES and whatever the Cleveland station is called. According to the three different stations, the ball was, 1)clearly a home run, 2)clearly fan interference and should be an out, and 3)maybe interference but the outfielder wasn't going to catch it anyway, so the runners should be placed on 2nd and 3rd.

I guess they all had different angles (or paychecks signed by different companies.)


The play ened up being insignificant anyway. You guys should start in Little League teaching your Left Fielders to run hard after fly balls. Maybe that would bubble up to the big guys.

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Posted By: Marty Ogelvie

Were the Indians taking BP today vs the Yankees, dammit!

marty

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Posted By: Jim VB

"Were the Indians taking BP today vs the Yankees, dammitt....."


Nah. BP was yesterday. Today they were just jogging around the outfield shagging flyballs.

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Posted By: JimB

Barry,
I remember that "Batting Averages at a Glance" book very well. My dad probably still has it somewhere. We used it to figure out our batting averages in little league.

As for Dylan, I agree that he probably wrote his best stuff in the '60s, with the exception of Blood on the Tracks, which is an absolute masterpiece. However, if you saw him perform live in the late '90's or early 2000's, he was phenomenal, as was his touring band. He has also written good stuff recently. It is not in the same league as Blonde on Blonde, etc., but very good.
JimB

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Posted By: JDRUM

".......with the exception of Blood on the Tracks, which is an absolute masterpiece."

Agreed!!!