May 11 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, FL
Sun Sports
I didn't think the Yankees were aware they could:
A. Build a huge lead in the middle innings
B. Win a game without using either of their top two relievers
Those things don't happen often, but New York hit five home runs and gave Dellin Betances & Andrew Miller a rare night off, winning 11-5 Monday in the opener of a four-game series. Four of the long balls came with two outs, including three-run shots by Chase Headley in the fourth and Brett Gardner, who crushed his to dead center field to make it 8-1 in the sixth. Alex Colome did all he could on the mound, but darn it, eight earned runs and four HR in six innings just wasn't enough.
CC Sabathia's line doesn't look spectacular - 7 IP 4 ER - but the big lefty struck out nine and was in control from innings two-through-sixth. He gave up a couple solo home runs in the seventh, one of which was hit by Joey Butler.
That's an act of Joey Butler; nothing you can do about that.
Give the man a stolen base!
Alex Rodriguez stole a base standing up without a throw in the ninth inning, which is a ridiculous set of words to write one after another. The official scorer eventually changed the steal to "catcher's indifference", and I would just like to ask: what in the name of Macky Sasser is catcher's indifference?
I ran to second base, you didn't care to try and get me out and I was safe = stolen base.
(I also just had a quick daydream about a catcher's indifference call on a steal of home and how hilarious that would be. Sort of like a much shorter version of Turner's kid in Bad News Bears holding the ball while Engelberg ran around the bases).
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