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He’s done it so many times before that we shouldn’t be surprised, but Derek Jeter had another great night in October. The captain went 5-for-5 with two singles, two doubles and a home run as he helped spark New York to an 8-4 victory.
Chien-Ming Wang didn’t pitch up to his usual standards, but he was good enough. Wang gave up eight hits and three runs over 6 2/3 innings, but he got key groundballs in the second and third innings to snuff out potential Detroit rallies. Tiger starter Nate Robertson was hit all over the park, surrendering twelve hits and seven runs in 5 2/3 innings of work.
New York will look to take a 2-0 series lead tomorrow night with Mike Mussina facing Justin Verlander.
Photograph of Wang fans at Yankee Stadium showing their love by Kathy Willens/AP
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I have a suspicion that may be baseless but leaves me queasy nonetheless. See the fan sign ("Wang is just right") in the photo above? I saw a number of different signs on TV last night, with different wording but all in the exact same style (butcher paper from a roll, "rounded" letters with outlines filled in white).
Is it possible that Fox is "set-dressing" Yankee Stadium by making up signs and salting the stands with them? These do look like the sort of things a graphic artist would make in an attempt to imitate "civilian" handiwork.
I hope I'm wrong -- that these were made by one group of real fans who just had slightly above-average graphic ability and more than one sign's worth of smack to talk. But I've been disgusted for years with the way Fox encrusts its post-season TV coverage with stupid crap, and I'd be really upset if they were doing that to my ballyard too.
I miss the old days when the playoffs were on the national network *and* the local carrier, so you could stick with White, Messer and Rizzuto and let Joe Garagiola spell it out for the once-a-year dilletantes. Why do we persist in this idea that Tim McCarver is smart and insightful?
OK, I'll stop.
I was actually at the game last night and was watching the people with those signs all night. It was a bunch of people with yankees flags and pennants and stuff who had about 5 signs (such as when Jeter came up they changed it to MVP) it didn't look like anything official.
They were sitting in the front of the upper deck on the third base side
I can understand your paranoia, Jim, it's not too outside the realm, but that bunch is a group of fans who's been doing that for years. Rest assured. We can go back to hating Fox for other stuff (like Jeannie Zalazi's hair, Kevin Kennedy's denseness and, well, they're Fox).
poor tigers... oh well. the yankee lineup is just overwhelming. yawzah!
Don't go getting happy Yankee numb nuts! Your team has to win the damn thing (The championship) before you all get to brag about it . I've heard that Yankee fans were suppose to be reserved, Guess I was wrong on that one . Be easy and wait for the end to pass although you should beat the tigers handly . Without the Redsox there to confront your team this is diffinitly the Yankees year to do it . There are really no teams in the post season that present a real threat to the Yanks. Well the Mets, and the A's . Everybody else is subpar. The cardinals have no pitching what so ever after you get pass Carpinter .
I was not amused by the reminders about other sports programming on Fox. I don't care about the damn football matchups for the coming weekend, IT'S POSTSEASON BASEBALL. Fox and ESPN commentators end up making Michael Kaye(or even, gasp, Bobby Murcer)look good.