Yankees 3, Blue Jays 2: Shucks.

Everybody loves Jeter!

In the bottom of the third, Derek Jeter grounded to short. Yunel Escobar's throw pulled Adam Lind off the bag at first, and Lind attempted a particularly sweepy sweep tag as Jeter sped by. Jeter was called out on what was totally a phantom tag, but rather than throw a fit about it, Jeter put on a kind of pained, ironic smile and started pleading his case. The umpires got together, reversed the call. Yunel Escobar, charged with an error, literally had to be restrained. All the while, Jeter was perfectly chill about everything. Beloved Toronto play-by-play guy Jerry Howarth said something to the effect that Jeter did the right thing by not going ballistic and embarrassing the umpire. "Do you know who else he didn't embarrass, Jerry?" Alan Ashby asked, before answering his own question: "He didn't embarrass himself." And it was like, damn it, he's right. I wanted to hate that he said that, but I couldn't. Jeter, man: everybody loves him, and they're not exactly wrong. One wonders how the captain is dealing with life without Minka? They seemed so happy . . . 


Also, quite a game last night! The Blue Jays went up by two early, and it probably should have been more: Jose Bautista singled in an Escobar walk in the first, and Adam Lind drove in an Eric Thames single before Brett Gardner made a redonkulous grab in left and doubled Bautista off of first (Jose, at the time, was closer to third) to end the inning. At the time it was easy to say, well, Bautista made a mistake being aggressive, and that's cool, it's early. But that's all the Jays would get all night, thanks in large part to Andruw Jones remembering how awesome it can be to be awesome, and stealing a home run from Bautista in the fourth. Brandon Morrow had a decent outing, a textbook quality start (three runs in six innings, which is kind of why the textbook is kind of dumb re: the quality start stat), but alas. 


Back to Jose Bautista for a minute, though, he made a nice catch on a long foul ball by Curtis Granderson!

Also he fouled one off his foot and the crowd was like "lol" which I found to be unsporting!

Jose will strike back against the haters today, though, whilst Ricky Romero will strike out everybody. It is going to be great.


KS