Yankees 5, Indians 2: In going so deep into the game, Joba Chamberlain finally becomes the eighth inning pitcher everyone seems to want him to be. If he wants to keep the critics happy after Mariano finally retires, he is going to have to go to complete games. And this one makes eighteen straight games without an error for the Yankees. So who's gonna be the first guy to draw everyone's fire by identifying all of the balls where Jeter didn't get close enough to even risk an error, let alone threaten a competent play? Rob Neyer? Tom Tango? John Dewan? James Click? Mike Emeigh? Onion?
Pirates 8, Mets 5: New York's bullpen flashes back to 2008 and blows a 5-0 lead. Andy LaRoche continues his good hitting -- his line for May was .330/411/.457 -- going 2-4 with a triple and three RBI.
Astros 4, Rockies 1: Why didn't anyone inform me that Miguel Tejada was batting .353? Don't we have a communications protocol around here? I can't be expected to make sound command decisions if my crew is hiding things from me. Look, I trust you all as officers. You're all fine men and women. But if I continue having to find this sort of thing out myself we're just going to go a "report everything" regime in which I take all discretion out of your hands. I hope it doesn't come to that. Now carry on.
Marlins 7, Brewers 4: Jorge Julio came in in the sixth inning with a can of kerosene in one hand and a match in the other, and then Ken Macha sprayed the conflagration with hairspray when he brought Todd Coffey in.
White Sox 6, A's 2: That's four in a row for Chicago, and 10 of 13 overall. Gavin Floyd pitched well enough to win (7 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 8K) but his teammates scored too late to allow him to claim the W. I imagine that it is exactly that sort of disrespect that is causing all of these pitchers to refuse trades to the White Sox. I could go into brutal detail regarding how bad the A's are playing these days, but commenter APBA Guy does such a better job of it than I do, that I suppose I should leave it to him.
Reds 5, Cardinals 3: A win is nice, but losing Edinson Volquez in the second inning due to numbness in his right hand and/or a reaggravation of his back injury (unclear from early reports) is not good at all.
Orioles 1, Mariners 0: Rich Hill shut out the Mariners for 7, giving up only two hits and Jim Johnson and George Sherrill handled the other two innings to seal the deal. The Orioles would probably like to play the Mariners all the time, as they have won nine of eleven against them.
Diamondbacks 3, Dodgers 2: Hiroki Kuroda is back after missing almost two months with an oblique strain. I hate those. I much prefer my strains to be perpendicular nor parallel. Anyway, he gave up two runs and three hits in five innings, but got nothing from his offense by way of support. The L.A. bullpen threw five wild pitches, which is always fun.
Phillies 5, Padres 3: Adrian Gonzalez (hey, I can spell it right!) hit his 21st, but it wasn't enough as Joe Blanton was in rare, effective form. OK, he's won three in a row, and his last start was really impressive, but I'm not prepared to take him out of the liability column just yet.
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That has to be the best picture of Joba ever.
Re the Jeter crack: Doesn't this jack**s ever have anything good to say about the Yankees?
another Yankee hater proving how ignorant he is. Jeter is a gold glove SS and certain hall of famer. What has this clown ever done that he'll be rembered for?
That's right, the Yankees beat the Sox record. Who cares what the record is or why, they took it from the Red Sox. :)
They said the same thing about Ripken. To say Jeter has no range is ridiculous. They need something to drag him down. Did you ever think that Ozzie Smith made great plays because he was 5'9 and didn't get to the ball so he had to dive? Jeter is 6'2 and Cal was 6'4. To say they had no range is just stupid
Hey, Randy Johnson's 6'10. I guess he would make a pretty good shortstop then?
Every respected, advanced defensive metric (e.g., UZR, ) has Jeter rated as a rather poor defensive shortstop, due entirely to his atrocious range. He was especially terrible from 2005-2007 (which includes two of his gold-glove years). Though to be fair, UZR has him rated as just about average defensively for this year and last.
Jeter has proven his worth since the first day he stepped on the field and into the batters box. You negative nabobs (TY Spiro Agnew) are always looking for anything to bring a good man down. And then you are the first to stomp on 'em when they're down. Great Journalism!
Yeah I'm sure Jeter is really thinking in the middle of a play- Oh I better let that one go in case I make an error. You Bald Idiot!!!!!!
The ball only gets by Derek Jeter when Derek Jeter chooses to let the ball get by Derek Jeter?
Is this like some new Chuck Norris meme?
Derek Jeter can be (a) a first-ballot Hall of Famer, team leader, and all around great guy; and (b) a shortstop with below average defensive range at the same time. Those things aren't in conflict. What is in conflict are assertions that Jeter is a superior defensive shortstop and numerous statistics which establish that he is not.
Stupid Craig with your NUMBERS.........numbers are for losers....give me broad generalizatons and sterotypes.
In any other era, when defense at shortstop was considered much more important than offensive numbers, Jeter woul have been a third baseman or a corner outfielder. He has only ever won a gold glove at SS because, like every other award in baseball, it is based on popularity and skewed toward the rotten, er, big apple. Is he a great all-around player DESPITE his shortcomings? Yeah, I'll give you that, BUT, in my opinion, he doesn't qualify as a great SHORTSTOP.
Its so hard to find irrational yankees fans these days
and Joe Montana couldn't throw the deep ball but he's got 4 SB rings and was a SB MVP, and Jeter's got 4 WS rings and a WS MVP. I guess the point is I don't know why people get so upset saying Jeter is at best an average defensive SS. If you can flash a fistful of rings I think you were good enough or very lucky.