Game 149 - Washington Nationals at New York Yankees

June 10 at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, NY
YES Network

I think my least favorite type of Yankee game is the home day game during the week. It just always seems like first pitch was supposed to be at 7 p.m., but they decided at the last minute to start in the early afternoon.

And when those weekday games go into extra innings? That's the worst possible scenario for me as a Yankees fan. Things never seem to end well (though there have been plenty of day games that have ended well, I just seem to remember the excruciating day losses much more). Just like many games in the past, Wednesday's get-this-horrible-stuff-away-from-my-computer-screen-day contest ended with the Nationals scoring a run on an infield single in the top of the 11th and winning 5-4.

The best part about day games: they end. I can now go through the rest of the late-afternoon, evening and night in peace.

* New York got a pretty good start from Nathan Eovaldi (7 IP, 3 ER, 4 K, 1 BB), yet instead of going to set up man Dellin Betances in the eighth inning, manager Joe Girardi turned to rookie Jacob Lindgren and the southpaw served up Michael Taylor's game-tying, two-run home run with two outs. Chris Capuano, not closer Andrew Miller, pitched the 10th and 11th and Denard Span's slow roller up the middle was enough to score the eventual winning run.

Not sure why neither Betances and Miller didn't get into a two-run game with an off day coming on Thursday, but the Yankees certainly paid for it.

* New York erased a 2-0 deficit with a big 7th inning, highlighted by Brendan Ryan's RBI-triple, a run-scoring double by Brett Gardner and a go-ahead double to dead center field by Alex Rodriguez. After Gardner's hit tied the game, commentator Al Leiter said: "huge hit in this game."

Thanks, Al!

More from Al Leiter

Al wasn't just in the broadcast booth to tell you a hit that brought home the tying run in the bottom of the seventh inning was a "huge hit". He had other things to say:

"A true 12 to 6"
"A lot of things in the hopper"
"Hot button"
"He has some clunkers in there"
"Barreled it up"
"Heavy fast ball"

And I know what he meant, but this was still funny to hear:

"He's seeing more plates per plate appearance"

Non-baseball related spelling issues

During the game I was talking to someone about a salad I had and it took six tries to get it right:

cesar
casear
ceesar
caeesar
cesare
CAESAR.

It was a caesar salad.