Beaned Town

What? It's just not a Yankees/Red Sox game until a Yankee pitcher hits Kevin Youkilis?* Makes me wonder if there is a tally sheet taped to the wall in the Yankees clubhouse. I wonder how many times Youk has been hit a.) by a Yankee pitcher and b.) in Yankee stadium? Too be fair, Mussina beaned Alex Cora as well. The following inning {6th for those of you who care} Lester hit Johnny Damon up high. But it wasn't retaliation. The Yankee announcers even said so. They are absolutely unbiased and you can believe everything they say, right? ...And they call Boston Beantown, huh.

*The picture is not from today's game. MLB.tv got wise and I can't screen cap live. I googled for the picture and was amazed at how many pictures of Youk getting hit there are out there.

oh no! not a no - no!

Up until tonight I loved the no hitter. The Red Sox nearly handed a no hitter to the Angels. I say handed, not to devalue the talent of the Angels, but because the Sox are deadly at home. "Pedroia The Destroya" and Youk got a couple of hits in the bottom of the ninth to end the no-no and a drinking binge. The nervous binge was mine, not Lackey's. It would seem that this season, the Angels own us. Post season is a different matter all together. There is no doubt in my mind that we we will sweep them in them in the ALCS... again.