The one thing I love about Baseball is that its never over until its over. In football, basketball and Hockey, players play against the clock as well as each other. The pace of a game can be slowed when coaches call time outs to stop the clock. In baseball though, there are nine innings, and they don't end until three outs are made in each half of the inning.
Yesterday's Yankee game was a perfect example of this. The Yankees were down 9-0 in the 6th inning and came back to win 15-9. It started with Mark Teixeira's solo home run in the sixth. The yanks were trailing by 8 when Nick Swisher hit a grand-slam in the 7th and then a two-run double in the 8th to put the boys in pinstripes ahead.
Teixeira ended the day with 6 RBIs and homered twice. The last run of the game was by Derek Jeter who got an RBI single that gave the Yankees their six-run lead.
Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine was quoted after the game saying that the team had hit "rock bottom."
Its always refreshing to see a game like that. I was out of the house all day with other plans and did not get to see the game, but me, and many others felt the game was over when the yankees were down so big so late in the game. I couldn't believe the come back, but it just serves as a reminder never to count out any team in any baseball game. It aint over til its over.
No comments:
Post a Comment