For a moment, it felt like nobody could breathe, nobody could move. This baseball basilica, which shook with life and with energy barely an hour before, was suddenly, sullenly silent. ...
The Captain was on the ground. ...
Suddenly, impossibly, this wasn't going to be about a game lost, but something far deeper, far graver. The Tigers won the game 6-4 ... That's minor, though. That's get-em-again-tomorrow stuff.
This was something else. Jhonny Peralta hit a ball to Derek Jeter in the top of the 12th. Jeter dove for the ball. And never got up. He rolled on the ground, flipped the ball aside. And was in pain. Real pain. ...
There was no laughing this one off. Jeter couldn't put any weight on his leg. He was carried off the field. Carried off the field? You'd sooner see Jeter wear a Red Sox hat onto a field then get carried off one, unless absolutely necessary.
This, clearly, was absolutely necessary.
And so this is what the Yankees must deal with now: a Jeter who has a broken ankle, and a 0-1 deficit to the Tigers, and a star player, Robinson Cano, now 0-for-his-last-22, and an iconic one, Alex Rodriguez, who for the fourth straight game was either pinch hit for or kept on the bench entirely.
The Yankees had several opportunities against Fister, loading the bases in the first, second and sixth innings. But they stranded all nine men on base, putting on another dreadful display of situational hitting.
In five steps that appeared routine but weren't, Derek Jeter went from Captain Clutch to Captain Gone and the Yankees’ chances of getting to the World Series likely evaporated into the chilled air of an early autumn evening.
Not only did the Yankees suffer an excruciating 6-4 loss in 12 innings to the Tigers in Game 1 of the ALCS last night in front of 47,122 at Yankee Stadium, Jeter fractured his left ankle going for a Jhonny Peralta ground ball in the 12th inning when the winners scored twice off David Phelps. ...
"It's crushing. You go from the highest of highs to losing the game and having our heart and soul snatched away from us," Derek Lowe said.
Derek Lowe's soul got snatched away? You got to be kidding. I will admit that I did not know Lowe was on that team. I have not been paying attention. There has got to be some poetic way to describe Lowe's soul getting crushed. A Seinfeldian compliment...... I am speechless. Without speech. !
How are people not wondering if Jeter is on the juice? I mean, come on; dude was cooked, takes two weeks off and comes back playing like he's 10 years younger...then breaks an ankle running on dirt.
I wonder if, once Teixeira took second, maybe they should have put on Ibanez and gone against Chavez, even though that would have brought the winning run to the plate.
Cue the predictable comments re it's wrong to take pleasure in an injury.
ReplyDeleteNot from me, of course! "That's a shame."
Derek Lowe's soul got snatched away?
ReplyDeleteYou got to be kidding. I will admit that I did not know Lowe was on that team. I have not been paying attention. There has got to be some poetic way to describe Lowe's soul getting crushed.
A Seinfeldian compliment......
I am speechless. Without speech. !
Cue the predictable comments re it's wrong to take pleasure in an injury.
ReplyDeleteLook at the friggin title of all 146 posts, folks! And get thee to a dictionary.
And he's not dead, for fuck's sake. Although after reading Vaccaro's overheated prose, you could be excused for thinking he was.
Average Reds (SoSH):
ReplyDelete"The stress of moving more than 2 steps to his left for the first time in a decade was simply too much."
Didn't one of the announcers say "He's not hurt." right after the injury?
ReplyDeleteDarling: "He's all right. ... Oh, maybe not."
ReplyDeleteOh ho ho ho ho! What a joyous way to wake up on this crisp fall morning!
ReplyDeleteIs this what Joy of Tigers is like? Let it never stop!
Patrick, you da man.
ReplyDeleteWas that a Grady Little moment in the 9th? Who here thought Valverde should be pulled after the Ichiro HR, and then 100% pull him after walking Tex?
ReplyDeleteAnd we thought the copious video cuts to Jeter were bad before...get ready for between every. freaking. pitch. for the next (final) 3 games.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately this great tragedy will be used as the sole reason the Yankees didn't win it all in 2012.
Vaccaro didn't mention exactly just how many bullets Jeter took from the shooter...was it over or under 70?
ReplyDeleteWho here thought Valverde should be pulled after the Ichiro HR, and then 100% pull him after walking Tex?
ReplyDeleteI think a lot of Tigers fans are totally convinced that Jim Leyland is senile.
How are people not wondering if Jeter is on the juice? I mean, come on; dude was cooked, takes two weeks off and comes back playing like he's 10 years younger...then breaks an ankle running on dirt.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if, once Teixeira took second, maybe they should have put on Ibanez and gone against Chavez, even though that would have brought the winning run to the plate.
ReplyDelete"then get carried off one"
ReplyDeleteNice English!
"How are people not wondering if Jeter is on the juice?"
Dude, you gotta read my blog....or my comments at this site...
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ReplyDeleteSorry, I can't take any joy in an athlete's injury.
Sorry, I can't take any joy in an athlete's injury.
ReplyDeleteHey guess what, buddy? WE DON'T CARE!