Yankees/Angels ALDS Game 5
The Yankees may very well lose the game tonight. In fact, given their complete ineffectiveness to put a ball anywhere but in the “pop fly” category whenever runners get on base, they’d deserve it.
But the umpire’s call on Robinson Cano at first base in this game has to go down as one of the worst in post-season history. It’s baseball’s equivalent of judicial activism — calling a runner out for touching first base on the left side of the bag instead of the right. The runner was running in a way so as NOT to interfere with the play. The runner ran down the same line that every other runner who runs to first in an effort to get a single runs. And the home plate umpire called him out for it.
I call B.S. on you, Mr. Home Plate Umpire.
Update: And the Yankees lost. The only question now is, who looked more pitiful and pathetic? A-Rod, or Hideki Matsui? Neither of them could get anything done when it counted. Take the ninth inning, for example: A-Rod hit into a double play. Matsui grounded out, stranding his 27th and 28th baserunners of the evening.
On the bright side, this means plenty of TV time in the next couple of weeks can be spent catching up on the new fall season instead of watching baseball. Yay.
October 11th, 2005 at 2:33 pm
I didn’t watch the game, nor did I follow that series, but as a life-long So. Cal. resident, it’s nice to see the Angels kicking some butt again. Even if I do think the name “The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim” is one of the stupidest in all of sports.
October 11th, 2005 at 4:35 pm
Many are already wondering which players will be sent packing and which will remain. The big question to me is whether or not George will fire Joe. I’m not a Yankees fan, but Joe is a great coach and it would be a bad decision to fire him.
So I bet George fires him.
October 11th, 2005 at 5:15 pm
BWAH HA HA. Nah, I think Joe is safe. He still has one more year left on the contract, as I recall, before turning the team over to Mattingly or Girardi or someone else. And he does as good a job as you can do with an All Star type team of clashing egos that don’t clash.
I think Bernie will return next year on the cheap to help cement his lifetime Yankee statistics. I don’t know what the contract situations are like, but I doubt we’ll see both Sierra AND Sheffield back next year. Say buh bye to Sierra, if it can be done.
As much as I bust him for his ALDS choking, Matsui is the one person who absolutely positively HAS to be resigned. He’s a great ball player and a humble man.