Yankees 9, Blue Jays 3: Well fine.

You would think this is perspective playing tricks on you but C. C. Sabathia is actually that big relative to Yankee Stadium.

Oddly enough, whenever the Blue Jays have run a truly hideous lineup out there this season, they've played pretty well. And yesterday, this is what they had to offer in support of Brett Cecil:


McCoy SS
Johnson 2B
Bautista RF
Encarnacion 1B
Lawrie 3B
Teahan LF 
Molina DH (I would remind you here that "DH" signifies a player designated to hit)
Arencibia C
Wise CF


Just crazy enough to work? In fact, far, far from it, largely because C. C. Sabathia is kind of awesome. The awesomest? No. But he is reliably at least somewhat awesome, and possess, in the words of our game's greatest poet Roger Angell, "Sunny looks and pavilion-sized pants and weird, white-toed spikes." Exactly. Home runs by Jeter, Rodriguez (anybody want to join me in stopping saying "A-Rod"?), and Swisher bested Jose Bautista's 40th of the season, and that was that. Brett Cecil got pretty mad in the dugout after his day was done, and I understand where he's coming from, but getting swept in Yankee Stadium happens, man. It happens.


KS

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