Miami Vice

Well  at the end of the day the general  consensus was Masahiro Tanaka had done his $175M / $23M AAV job, the only problem a team  being managed by their GM, 10 games under  .500 with a kid who Jeff Loria pays $22.5M less, did Tanaka’s job a little bit better

Tom Koehler a kid with  2 yr’s of Professional  baseball service time coughed up  1 run, a HR to $23M Mark Teixeira, who is tied for the league lead in Taters.  The winning run off Tanaka came  in the form of a HR from a kid Derek Dietrich who has been in the big leagues for 4 days

There is no  crying in baseball, just  whining, the Yanks and their manager did a lot of the latter, whining about hard hit balls by their offense that found Marlins leather, they  didn’t mention  the  6 hits, 5 of them ropes in the first 3 innings off their $175M Ace, that’s more hits then  any of his previous 6 stars this yr… The Bomber defense also nabbed their fair share of hard hit balls, no mention of that either by Joey Daycare or the insidious broadcast team of Lieter and Kay

In the first 3 innings Tanaka San was hit so hard the Yankee defense is lucky nobody got hurt, to his credit, the  Rakuten Rocket got a timely punch out in the 1st inning with 2 men on base, and after 2 singles to  start  the 3rd inning Tanaka  induced a nifty DP off the bat of Carlo Stanton to escape further damage…

Damn  ball  was smoked BTW

He wasn’t as lucky in the 2nd inning as future Hall of Famer Derek Dietrich, a potential new Yankee killer doubled and scored the Marlins 1st run  on a single by defensive whiz SS Adeiny Hechavarria, that  tied the game 1-1

Teixeira handed  Tanaka the lead in the 2nd inning on his league trying 18th Tater of the season but the Japanese Icon  couldn’t keep the juggernaut Marlins off the board

It was obvious Tanaka San didn’t have his A game last night, but great pitchers usually find a way to navigate rough waters when they aren’t in rhythm.. Much  to our delight, despite a shaky 3 inning start, Tanaka at least showed what  we all love about him, he held that huge, powerful, and overwhelming force known as the Miami Marlins in check for the next 3 innings, giving his offense a chance to  figure out Cy Koehler

Playing in an NL park the poor Yanks were at a slight disadvantage, they could only bring a machine gun to a knife fight.. Unfortunately they had to leave $63M worth of ammunition on the bench as ARod, Ellsbury and the always injured Beltran were unavailable.

Much  to Hal’s Championship Caliber Team’s chagrin, Cy Koehler’s only blemishes were the Teixeira HR and 2 hits by Didi Gregorius,  one was actually an E-2 but why confuse the issue…The rest of  these Pin-Stripers went  0 for 27 against Cy Koehler,  and legendary stoppers Hoppy Capps and AJ Ramos

In fact Hoppy Capps and his leap  frog delivery scared the hell out of pinch hitter Beltran, Brett the Face and Butterfingers Headley in the 8th inning when Capps punched out the side

McCan’t  walked to lead off the 9th  but closer AJ Ramos was much  too dominate for Teixeira who  struck out swinging, Mr Jones who was caught looking and pinch hitter Home Town Hero A-Rod who popped up on a hung slider to  end the damn  game

The shattering defeat to  this lowly Fla. squad knocked the Yanks out of first place as our hometown heroes  continue to play  to  their  level of expectation. It was their 3rd loss in the last 4 games and they’re now 1-3 to start this torturous 20  straight game death  march that began in Baltimore and ends on July 1st in Anaheim.

Twelve of the 20 games are on the road, with one more in Miami, and 7 more in Houston and Anaheim after an 8 game home stand that  starts on Wednesday

Tonight the Yanks get a chance to  leave Arod’s home town with a split a when Eovaldi  and Phelps go head to head in a barttle of Thousand Dollar Cars

Keep  that Triple A phone number on speed dial Joey, you might be calling a tow truck by the 5th inning

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