I'm bringing back the running diary that I used to do in 2007-2008 during each Giants game for the Yankees playoff run and renaming it: "Delivering #27 Diary"
I'm predicting it here first: Yankees in 6 over Angels.
Let's go Yankees!
Here goes:
7:57 p.m. - Here we go, first pitch. I'm confident in the Yankees, but my memories of the 2002 and 2005 playoffs against the Angels make me as scared as the girl in the tent in the Blair Witch Project. But we didn't have C.C. back then!
8:01 p.m. - Bobby Abreu's hitting 2nd for the Angels. Welcome back Bobby. Now, sprain a knee!
8:03 p.m. - Why is the Fox HD broadcast keep breaking up in picture and sound? Is it just me?
8:05 p.m. - Despite a soft hit by Hunter in the 1st, it looks like C.C. is really dealing tonight. Let's go Yankees!
8:11 p.m. - Tim McCarver makes his first "Captain Obvious" prediction when he predicts Jeter's right field single in the 1st inning seconds before the Captain hits it.
8:12 p.m. - Johnny needs to step it up in the ALCS. He was awful in the ALDS against the Twins.
8:13 p.m. - Heeeeeere's Johnny!! as Damon drops in a double to left field.
8:15 p.m. - Don't know why Tex was swinging at 3-0 right there.
8:17 p.m. - A-Rod drives in 7th run of postseason with sac fly to center. 1-0 Yankees.
8:20 p.m. - Shades of the Mets's Luis Castillo in the ALCS...It's windy tonight at Yankee Stadium as Hideki Matsui hits pop fly to SS and Aybar and Figgins look at each other as the flyball drops in between them. Damon scores from 2nd. 2-0 Yankees. Angels look sloppy tonight.
8:27 p.m. - C.C.'s first K of the night. I wish Fox could get their act together with this HD transmission.
8:30 p.m. - Great, great play by Robinson Cano on a slow dribbler to 2nd. He's been making great plays like that all year long...
8:33 p.m. - Cano leads off to start 2nd. It's uncanny - SI did an article on it once - how in an inordinate amount of cases, a player who makes a great defensive play to end an inning leads off at bat the next inning...
8:43 p.m. - 2nd K of night for C.C. He looks really good tonight. This is the reason the Yankees paid him a bajillion dollars this past offseason.
8:52 p.m. - Tex tatooes a ball to right like he tatoo'ed it to left for the Game 2 ALDS Game Winning HR.
9:02 p.m. - Vlad Guerrero looks a lot chubbier since he stopped using steroids. The ball he just hit to the fence would have been gone if he was still on the juice. ...
9:05 p.m. - Angels cut the lead in half, 2-1.
9:19 p.m. - Melky needs to deliver right here.....and he walks. At least he got on base. Feels like he hasn't been on base in weeks.
9:23 p.m. - John Lackey looks like a fat accountant.
9:25 p.m. - Damn! I forgot to tape NBC's Secrets of the Lost Symbol! Great book by Dan Brown. Hopefully it'll be on NBC.com later tonight.
9:25 p.m. - Yanks broke through early in the 1st as a result of some sloppy play by the Angels and haven't broken through since as the fat accountant has pitched well. C.C. needs to keep it up!
9:30 p.m. - 3 groundouts and 3 great plays by Yankee IFs. Yankees up through 4 1/2 innings...
9:34 p.m. - I just typed Amazone.com into my Internetweb address by mistake and went to the French version of Amazon.com....Wee...wee...
9:35 p.m. - Johnny hits a gapper into left-center and is 2 for 3 in ALCS after going 1 for 12 in ALDS. Welcome back Johnny.
9:42 p.m. - Matsui sticks out his bat and hits double to left. Johnny scores and Alex tries to run over catcher and is out at the plate. 3-1 Yankees. Kate Hudson must have been cringing, like Abby Manning, when Alex ran into the catcher. Abby cringes when Eli hikes the ball.
9:49 p.m. - Damon makes a great diving catch off bat of Abreu. I am shocked and in awe.
9:50 p.m. - Great play by C.C. on bunt by Hunter and great split by Tex. I don't care if his foot was off the bag. He did a damn split! Tex makes a great play like that almost once per game. The Yankees could pay his double what he is making and he wouldn't be making enough.
9:56 p.m. - Wow, Bobby Abreu actually caught Cano's fly ball near the rightfield wall and didn't cringe up in the fetal position at all. That's progress for him...
10:02 p.m. - Jeter up with 2 outs in 6th and Melky on 1st. Come on, Derek...do something clutch for once in your life....Kidding.
10:03 p.m. - Melky to 2nd on another sloppy play/2nd error of the night by the Angels. ...
10:04 p.m. - Jeter comes through in the clutch again with a base knock up the middle. Goes to second on 3rd error of game for Angels. 4-1 Yankees....
10:07 p.m. - Marc Bulger takes the mound for the Angels. I guess the Rams gave up on him.
10:12 p.m. - McCarver says that C.C. has lost 1 game since the All-Star Break. I had no idea. If it's true - and you never know with McCarver - that's awesome.
10:13 p.m. - 6th K by C.C. Did I mention, he's dealing tonight. Just a clutch, clutch performance on the big stage by C.C.
10:16 p.m. - Another great play by Robbie as he lays out and gets the 2nd out of the 7th.
10:20 p.m. - The Yankee Stadium crowd is loudly chanting C.C. as Sabathia strikes out 7th batter of game. Must be an awesome feeling.
10:23 p.m. - Thru 7 innings, C.C. has given up 1 run, 4 hits while striking out 7 and walking 1. This is the best pitching performance by a Yankees starter since Andy Pettitte outpitched John Smoltz, 1-0 in Game 5 of the 1996 World Series.
10:40 p.m. - The ducks are on the pond for Swishalicious! Break it open Nick!
10:43 p.m. - On 3-2, Swisher, who usually has a really good eye, strikes out on a horrible pitch.
10:53 p.m. - C.C. thru 8 innings...1 run, 4 hits, 7 Ks, 1 BB. Just an awesome performance. Will he come out for 9th?
11:00 p.m. - I'm pleasantly surprised...Joe Buck and Tim McCarver have been informative and not annoying tonight. They are much better than Skip Caray and Ron Darling. My cat's would be better than Skip Caray.
11:06 p.m. - Top 9...Enter Sandman.
11:13 p.m. - Mariano blows it by Vlad for 1st out in 9th.
11:17 p.m. - 36 postseason save for Mariano Rivera and Yankees win game 1 against the Angels.
11:18 p.m. - Great, great outing by C.C. Sabathia tonight. Timely hitting by Yankees who took advantage of 3 errors by Angels. Yankees up 1-0 on Angels in 2009 ALCS.
Who's scared now Blair Witch girl!
7 wins left until #27.
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