The Yankees brought their hot bats into Fenway Park and achieved something great short of winning the World Series, that is totally humiliating the Boston Red Sox and their jackass of a manager, Bobby Valentine.
During the offseason, the Red Sox front office forced out long-time manager Terry Francona for losing control of the clubhouse and allowing his players to get fat from Popeye's chicken.
To combat the fattening clubhouse calamity and awful September collapse of 2011, the Sox surprisingly hired former Mets manager Bobby Valentine and his clownish antics. Bobby V's pinnacle of success was in 1999 when he brought the Mets into the NL Championship Series and got wiped out by the Braves in 5 games, and then in 2000 he brought the Mets into the World Series against the Yankees and was also wiped out in 5 games. With some recent success in Japan (where the players probably had no idea what he was saying) and spending last season as a commentator for ESPN Sunday Night Baseball with his hair dyed a different color each week, this was the solution to all the Red Sox problems.
The Friday game was proceeded by a ceremony to celebrate the 100th year anniversary of the opening of Fenway Park (which was also in the same week the Titantic sunk, any correlation?). Terry Francona, stilled bummed out on how the front office leaked stories to the press that an alleged addiction to painkillers hindered his ability to manage last season, changed his mind and joined the on field festivities which included a large amount of other former managers and players who once wore the Red Sox uniform. Pedro Martinez and Kevin Millar led the entire Fenway crowd into a gigantic toast, and that was about as good as it got for Red Sox fans from there on out.
The Yankees got to business right away, scoring Derek Jeter in the top of the first, thanks for a fielding error on a pop up by Dustin Pedroia to start the game. Then from there the Yanks played the long ball game against Clay Buchholz with homeruns from Nick Swisher, Russell Martin Alex Rodriguez, and two from Eric Chavez (who doubled his total from last year in just one game!). The 6-2 final score was actually generous by the Yankees, who left a ton of runners on base throughout the game. Ivan Nova was great yet again and improved his record to 3-0 this season with 6 strong innings. Restless Red Sox fans unhappy with the team's 4-8 start this season, let Bobby V hear it as he went out to make his pitching changes. The manager also ruffled Red Sox feathers by publicly calling out fan favorite Kevin Youkilis a few days before for "not being into it" like he used to, although Valentine claimed his words were twisted. Dustin Pedroia had to remind his manager, "that's not how we do it around here". Didn't the front office know what type of clown they were getting?
After trashing the 100th year anniversary party a day before, the Yanks sent Freddy Garcia to the mound to help pile it on the sliding Red Sox, but instead the Red Sox actually showed a pulse. Garcia was battered around for 5 earned runs and wasn't able to even get out of the second inning. This is now three lousy starts from Garcia, which looms large as it appears Brian Cashman traded a top blue chip prospect Jesus Montero for a busted flatscreen from Kmart, as new pitcher Michael Pineda has now been shutdown again due to shoulder tendinitis and needs an MRI.
Red Sox starter Felix Doubront was having his way with the Yankees lineup as he cruised through 6 innings, only surrendering a solo homerun to Mark Teixeira. Down 9-1 in the 7th inning, the Yankee bats started to chip away the Red Sox biggest Achilles heel this season, their bullpen. With Daniel Bard moved to the starting rotation, Jonathan Papelbon leaving for free agency to Philadelphia , and new closer Andrew Bailey hurt; the Red Sox bullpen has been about the worst in all of baseball so far in 2012. A Nick Swisher grand slam and a two-run homer from Mark Teixeira (his second of the game) highlighted a seven-run seventh inning for the Yanks and cut the score to 9-8 Boston.
Scoring seven runs in an inning was so fun the Yankees decided to do it again in the 8th inning and went up ahead 15-9. Bobby V couldn't stop the avalanche of the Yankee bats as each bullpen move only resulted in the need to come out again to the mound shortly thereafter. The Red Sox faithful, having witnessed about one of the most brutal blown games in recent regular season history, booed the manager louder and louder on each of his mound visits, and even chanted for the front office to bring back Tito (Francona). With nothing else to do or say about the matter, Bobby V reached into his usual bag of foolish
behavior and actually tipped his cap slightly to his adoring public.
The Red Sox were able to run into a little luck as Sunday night's game against the Yankees was rained out, so they dodged facing Yanks ace CC Sabathia and a likely weekend series sweep. After losing their first three games of the season, the Yanks at 9-6 are about the hottest team in baseball and square off against another hot club in the Texas Rangers.
Bobby V and the rest of the Ringley Brothers head to Minnesota to face the Twins....
During the offseason, the Red Sox front office forced out long-time manager Terry Francona for losing control of the clubhouse and allowing his players to get fat from Popeye's chicken.
To combat the fattening clubhouse calamity and awful September collapse of 2011, the Sox surprisingly hired former Mets manager Bobby Valentine and his clownish antics. Bobby V's pinnacle of success was in 1999 when he brought the Mets into the NL Championship Series and got wiped out by the Braves in 5 games, and then in 2000 he brought the Mets into the World Series against the Yankees and was also wiped out in 5 games. With some recent success in Japan (where the players probably had no idea what he was saying) and spending last season as a commentator for ESPN Sunday Night Baseball with his hair dyed a different color each week, this was the solution to all the Red Sox problems.
The Friday game was proceeded by a ceremony to celebrate the 100th year anniversary of the opening of Fenway Park (which was also in the same week the Titantic sunk, any correlation?). Terry Francona, stilled bummed out on how the front office leaked stories to the press that an alleged addiction to painkillers hindered his ability to manage last season, changed his mind and joined the on field festivities which included a large amount of other former managers and players who once wore the Red Sox uniform. Pedro Martinez and Kevin Millar led the entire Fenway crowd into a gigantic toast, and that was about as good as it got for Red Sox fans from there on out.
The Yankees got to business right away, scoring Derek Jeter in the top of the first, thanks for a fielding error on a pop up by Dustin Pedroia to start the game. Then from there the Yanks played the long ball game against Clay Buchholz with homeruns from Nick Swisher, Russell Martin Alex Rodriguez, and two from Eric Chavez (who doubled his total from last year in just one game!). The 6-2 final score was actually generous by the Yankees, who left a ton of runners on base throughout the game. Ivan Nova was great yet again and improved his record to 3-0 this season with 6 strong innings. Restless Red Sox fans unhappy with the team's 4-8 start this season, let Bobby V hear it as he went out to make his pitching changes. The manager also ruffled Red Sox feathers by publicly calling out fan favorite Kevin Youkilis a few days before for "not being into it" like he used to, although Valentine claimed his words were twisted. Dustin Pedroia had to remind his manager, "that's not how we do it around here". Didn't the front office know what type of clown they were getting?
After trashing the 100th year anniversary party a day before, the Yanks sent Freddy Garcia to the mound to help pile it on the sliding Red Sox, but instead the Red Sox actually showed a pulse. Garcia was battered around for 5 earned runs and wasn't able to even get out of the second inning. This is now three lousy starts from Garcia, which looms large as it appears Brian Cashman traded a top blue chip prospect Jesus Montero for a busted flatscreen from Kmart, as new pitcher Michael Pineda has now been shutdown again due to shoulder tendinitis and needs an MRI.
Red Sox starter Felix Doubront was having his way with the Yankees lineup as he cruised through 6 innings, only surrendering a solo homerun to Mark Teixeira. Down 9-1 in the 7th inning, the Yankee bats started to chip away the Red Sox biggest Achilles heel this season, their bullpen. With Daniel Bard moved to the starting rotation, Jonathan Papelbon leaving for free agency to Philadelphia , and new closer Andrew Bailey hurt; the Red Sox bullpen has been about the worst in all of baseball so far in 2012. A Nick Swisher grand slam and a two-run homer from Mark Teixeira (his second of the game) highlighted a seven-run seventh inning for the Yanks and cut the score to 9-8 Boston.
Scoring seven runs in an inning was so fun the Yankees decided to do it again in the 8th inning and went up ahead 15-9. Bobby V couldn't stop the avalanche of the Yankee bats as each bullpen move only resulted in the need to come out again to the mound shortly thereafter. The Red Sox faithful, having witnessed about one of the most brutal blown games in recent regular season history, booed the manager louder and louder on each of his mound visits, and even chanted for the front office to bring back Tito (Francona). With nothing else to do or say about the matter, Bobby V reached into his usual bag of foolish
behavior and actually tipped his cap slightly to his adoring public.
The Red Sox were able to run into a little luck as Sunday night's game against the Yankees was rained out, so they dodged facing Yanks ace CC Sabathia and a likely weekend series sweep. After losing their first three games of the season, the Yanks at 9-6 are about the hottest team in baseball and square off against another hot club in the Texas Rangers.
Bobby V and the rest of the Ringley Brothers head to Minnesota to face the Twins....
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