(Twelve Takeaways from Tonight's Game - July 10th, 2014 Edition)
I must preface this edition with the fact that I just got home from the game and it's 1:45 am Eastern Time. Good thing I take notes during the games! No pictures tonight to speed up my entry into bed hopefully by 2:00 am to get up in 5 hours to start it all over again.
1. Michael Brantley does not strike out much. I failed to mention it in last night's game but his streak of plate appearances without a K ended at 64 in his 1 for 6 performance on Wednesday. Well he rebounded tonight and went 2 for 4 getting robbed of a base hit by Ellsbury in the 7th. Brantley was nowhere close to the league record of which Joe Sewell of the same Cleveland Indians went 115 GAMES without a strikeout from May 17 through September 19, 1929.
2. Speaking of Jacoby, I officially nominate him to be the next Yankees Captain. I know, it's only his first year of a 7 year contract, but seriously I think this guy has what it takes to drive and lead the Yankees for the next decade. Call me crazy, but I've been called worse.
3. Mustard should be banned from stadiums. During the first inning my buddy who shall not be named since he is an Indians, sorry...Native Americans...fan proceeded to drop his hot dog through his #DollarDogNight bun onto his lap. His shorts were promptly covered with mustard, not ketchup mind you, but mustard. Since there were no females with us, there were not any napkins amongst the four of us. Here is a snippet of what was going on at that time via twitter:
4. Dollar Dog Nights are a good yet bad idea. I ate 6 hot dogs before the end of the 4th inning. My son had 5, which he says is a record. Consequently, once we stopped eating hot dogs, the Yankees also stopped scoring runs. #KneppersFault They announced in the 7th inning that over 36,000 hot dogs had been sold, which was approximately 8,000 more than the fans in attendance.
5. Asdrubal Cabrera's antics on the basepath last night were hilarious. Jeter got a kick out of it but also probably realized how old he was since he could barely bend over to tag him out on his 2nd slide within the basepath to avoid the tag.
6. Cervelli has got to have a magnet in his knee or something? Did he say something bad about the Native Americans or post something awful on twitter...twice in 4 days now.
7. How is Chris Dickerson an above .400 hitter against the Yankees? For real, I want to know...this is just ridiculous.
8. I saw a lot of LeBron jerseys at the game tonight. Almost more than I saw for Michael Brantley. I thought everyone in Cleveland burned their jerseys 4 years ago? Anyways, I had a great time yelling out updates about the #LebronWatch2014...obviously everything I was saying to people were lies, but I found it hilarious.
9. McKKKKan...he tried to join the Golden Sombrero ranks last night with Brendan Ryan and he did! Great job on the accomplishment Brian...I wonder what his stats are as a DH. I believe that Jorge Posada was the only catcher in recent memory that did well when not planted behind the dish...I could be wrong, but that doesn't happen often.
10. I saw a shirt outside of Jacobs Field (I refuse to call it Progressive since I'm a Libertarian) that angered me. It read "Lonnie Baseball". Are you serious? Hit well for 2 months and they are already calling you the next Don Mattingly!?! Get right out of town. Not funny.
11. In a span of 10 minutes my night was ruined. Word about Tanaka's partially torn UCL was released and then the Yankees promptly gave up 4 runs via a bases-clearing triple to Asdrubal that hit the University of Toledo logo (my alma mater, golden and blue) on the right field wall and a sac line drive to knock in another run by Brantley. The game was basically over by then, because we all know that THE YANKEES CANNOT SCORE AFTER THE 5TH INNING!
12. Derek Jeter has now amassed 1,000 multi-hit games. Unbelievable. That's a lot of freaking gift baskets El Capitan!
