1 hit from the 5th inning on is real coachable. And every once in a while when your making 20+ million a year, you have to outperform your opponent. And I will say this, whomever the advance scout is, he should be fired and whomever has come up with the plan for pitching to Longoria, please pick up the red courtesy phone, your membership has been revoked...
Couple of thoughts on this recent series in Tampa. Tampa's defensive overshifts are killing the Yankee hitters...especially the lefty hitters. If the Yankee lefty batters (vs Tampa's shift) would consistently just STICK OUT their bats and hit a little ground ball in the general direction of 3rd base....they would get easy hits. Keep doing it until Joe (the Genius) Madden gets tired of giving away gift hits which come around to score. He'll go back to the drawing board. And....the Yankee pitchers better wake up and start dusting off Evan Longoria. Maybe, they can also make him jump rope. Do some of these clowns REALLY know how to pitch, or are they just throwers? Don't they want to OWN the inside part of the plate? Do they enjoy getting their butts kicked by a hitter who looks more comfortable batting against them than he does in a reclining chair? KNOCK HIS ASS DOWN !
_________________________________ With the help of a couple of nice catches in LF (by TWO DIFFERENT LFs) on long balls and line drives with runners on base and a bunch of hard hit ground balls headed to normal hit alleys which were turned into outs by infielders playing in a dramatic shift. Toss in a couple of at bats resulting in easy outs by Yankee batters who had a chance to tack on a few more runs w/risp. Tampa DOES have an excellent pitching staff, and.... ..but.... the bounces always seem to go their way (in Tampa)- This Joe Maddon guy is living a charmed life when he plays the Yanks in Tampa. Just about every button he presses is the right one. And this too shall pass.
I have been calling for a concert of chin music for Longoria for a time now. Just good old fashion hardball.
Oh yes - the good old days when the Mariners came into the league and the Yankees lost games on walk-offs by immortals Tom Paciorek, Dan Meyer (both more than once) in the Kingdome. Even as a kid watching those games - it was like - wtf are they losing to this team.
