HDLR Early-Season Schedule
I've been perusing the Yankees' April schedule--which happens to be dominated by road games, which I'll get to in another post--and have chosen a few games for HDLR viewing. I'd like it to be all of them but, for reasons I discussed a while back, have decided to more selectively open HDLR festivities. Below are several games in the first few weeks that will without question be HDLR games. If there is an important interceding event, if the Yankees win the first fifteen games, or some other seismic anomaly, I'll reserve the right to throw open the HDLR on an ad hoc basis. Until then, count on coming by for these games if you'd like:
[All times ET]
Monday 3/31 versus Toronto, 1:05 p.m.--the home opener, count on it.
Friday 4/4 versus Tampa, 7:05 p.m.--possible fireworks, plus I'd like to have a game or more per series this year.
Monday 4/7 versus Tampa, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday 4/9 @ KC, 8:10 p.m.--Royals' home opener.
Friday 4/11 @ Boston, 7:05 p.m.--Yankees-Red Sox, enough said.
Sunday 4/13 @ Boston, 8:05 p.m.--see above.
Wednesday 4/16 versus Boston, 7:05 p.m.--first Yankees home game against Boston.
Saturday 4/19 @ Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.--evaluate for yourselves just how bad the O's might be.
This amounts to eight of the first twenty games for the HDLR, and just over one game per series, with Boston getting two for obvious reasons, and Tampa getting two of that four-game series. I'll determine HDLR games every few weeks, and will select games for the White Sox, Indians, and Tigers in the next few weeks. I might choose some games based on possible pitching match-ups, though much will depend upon my schedule.
Hope to see you then.
In the second inning of today's game, Ian Kennedy just left a fastball up chest high, and Eric Hinske clubbed it out to right, 1-0 Tampa Bay. Kennedy just doesn't have the stuff to leave up his fastball.
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Chris Richard just cranked one out to left, a fairly wind-aided homer but still one that Kennedy made a mistake on, 2-0 Tampa. In between homers, Kennedy has struck out a batter, with three Ks now. Homer, strikeout, homer, strikeout. Something's got to give; hopefully it's the homers.
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Kennedy's pitch to Richard actually wasn't all that bad. Though it was over the plate, it was down, though it might not have been in the location where Posada and Kennedy wanted it.
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A-Rod tattooed a line-drive double to center, Matsui singled, and a sac fly from Posada scored A-Rod, 2-1 Rays.
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Betemit scalded a single under first to load the bases with one out in the second.
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Meanwhile, in the other split-squad game, the Yankees are positively pounding Justin Verlander 7-1 through 2 1/2, mainly through base hits. Though Joba surrendered a lead-off homer to Granderson, he's settled down and gotten several ground outs. That's a match-up I'd like to see.
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Kennedy's 1-2 curve ball to Aybar was just filthy, ending the inning and stranding Upton at second. Nice piece of pitching for Kennedy, who otherwise hasn't been his best today.
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Joba surrendered 2 in the third, including an RBI triple to Granderson, 7-3 Yankees in the other split-squad game.
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