Inning ending DP by Mark Teixeira to win the game

[24fps]

A solid old-school stomping moots the point. Sunday's game is a golden opportunity on too many levels to count.

[Spoonless]

I'll certainly not complain about being the beneficiary of such a call, but having such an egregious error stand just strengthens my desire for some sort of review system, be it a managerial challenge system or just an umpire or two in a video booth.

[FuManchu]

[McLovin]

Hey Yankees - you lost this game because your big, bad, expensive #3 hitter came up in a big spot and hit a weak ground ball to second that was SO weak that the O's couldn't turn a clean double play on it.

You're pissed about the wrong thing.

[Frobby]

Yep, the ump missed it. Stuff happens.

Teixiera suggesting the umps had a pressing date and Martin feeling he was "cheated" would put me in an exceedingly foul state of mind if I was an umpire having to work on a fine autumn Sunday on the beautiful Atlantic Seaboard. It will be interesting to see whether or not they're cowed by the increasingly insufferable Yankee sense of entitlement.

Let's trot out the "A" lineup this time Buck, and see what shakes out.

He should get exactly the punishment Reynolds got when he blasted the umpires in the game where he was ejected.

[whynot38]

I'm actually kinda of ticked by this call as the script was perfectly written again. I can tell you exactly what was going to happen. Arod would of been up next and would of hit a double to the left center gap. McLouth would get to the ball, relay to JJ who guns down Tex at the plate.

Robertson relieves for the Yankees. Davis PH's for Tollefson and flies out to deep center on a good play by Granderson. Wieters PH's for Teagarden and grounds out to Cano. McLouth, (yes Nick's replacement) comes up with 2 out and hits a ball to deep LC that sneaks over the wall for the gamewinner. OPACY goes nuts.

On a side note yankee players, announcers and fans whine more about the dimensions at OPACY

[john316]

Screw New York. The whole city is filled with scumbags. Didnt they fete that little worm Jeffery Maier? They all know the call was blown but the mayor of New York had him in for celebrations. They paraded the toolbag around the media. They were just charmed with how the "beloved" Yankees had won. They didnt care that everyone knew that it was bull****.

They made a cheap made for TV movie about the dorky little 12 year old. They celebrated the blown call.

Maybe we should make a movie about this Umpire after the season is over? Celebrate his birthday and parade him around to all the media? Just rub it in their cheating faces.

I hope the umps job the Yankees every game and twice on Sundays!

I agree 100%. I wish I was going to today's game so I could ask Meal for his autograph.

[Ampontan]

On a side note yankee players, announcers and fans whine more about the dimensions at OPACY

I guess that pennant porch they had out in right field in the old ballpark is either (a) a distant memory (b) OK because it was the Yankees, or © both.

[PT709]

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[DrungoHazewood]

I guess that pennant porch they had out in right field in the old ballpark is either (a) a distant memory (b) OK because it was the Yankees, or © both.

From the 1920s through the mid-70s Yankee Stadium was 296 down the RF line, and under 350 to straightaway right. They designed the park so Ruth could hit more homers, and the only reason anyone knows Roger Maris' name is the fact he got really good at pulling the ball right down the RF line.

[crawjo]

From the 1920s through the mid-70s Yankee Stadium was 296 down the RF line, and under 350 to straightaway right. They designed the park so Ruth could hit more homers, and the only reason anyone knows Roger Maris' name is the fact he got really good at pulling the ball right down the RF line.

Umm, no. Maris hit 61 homers in 1961. 31 on the road, 30 at home. Yankee Stadium was not that much of a hitters' park.

[OFFNY]

I guess that pennant porch they had out in right field in the old ballpark is either (a) a distant memory (b) OK because it was the Yankees, or © both.

The original Yankee Stadium (1923-1973) was 296 feet up the right-field line, and the wall was 4 feet tall.

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[DrungoHazewood]

Umm, no. Maris hit 61 homers in 1961. 31 on the road, 30 at home. Yankee Stadium was not that much of a hitters' park.

Umm... yes. When Maris was given to the Yanks by their farm team in KC he realized that his only way to survive there was to hit the ball right down the line. To center and left it was a canyon, well over 450 (and thus, overall, a pitcher's park). So he altered his approach, started pulling everything. That carried over on the road. I have to think that had Maris ended up in a less unbalanced stadium he'd have been a more well-rounded gap-to-gap hitter and he wouldn't have come close to 61 homers.

[OFFNY]

Umm, no. Maris hit 61 homers in 1961. 31 on the road, 30 at home. Yankee Stadium was not that much of a hitters' park.

The original Yankee Stadium was extreme for right-handed batters (461 feet to left-centerfield), and left handed batters, which is why it was so impressive that Joe DiMaggio hit 361 career home runs in his injury-shortened, military-shortened career.

[DrungoHazewood]

The original Yankee Stadium was extreme for right-handed batters (461 feet to left-centerfield), and left handed batters, which is why it was so impressive that Joe DiMaggio hit 361 career home runs in his injury-shortened, military-shortened career.

And why there were often rumors about trading DiMaggio for the left-handed Ted Williams. DiMaggio would get the Green Monster, and Ted the 296 Ruth porch at Yankee. I'm kind of glad it never happened.