Chase Headley teaches us how to “Stop, Drop, Roll and Completely Make Umpires Look Like Hapless Idiots Human.” It worked for them.
Our Cleveland Indians will play their final game prior to the All-Star break, looking for a split in the four-game series against the Bronx Bombers. With yesterday’s controversial interference play kind of leaving a bad taste in our mouths, it’s up the Cookie Monster to help maintain the Tribe’s comfy (but not totally insurmountable) 6.5 game lead over the Tigers.
The good news? Chances are pretty good that we won’t see the Yankees’ Three Horsemen of the Apocalyptic Bullpen (Betances; Miller; Chapman) today, unless the game gets real crazy; such as another super-stupid-long 19-inning nightmare, or today’s Yankees’ starter Masahiro Tanaka gets engulfed by a swarm of ginormous and very hungry fire ants. I mean, if Chase Headley can fool an entire group of umpires into thinking that he was going to “make a play on a ground ball” by hurling himself into Francisco Lindor and then flopping like a leaf tumbling off of a tree branch (as depicted above), then just about any borderline unconscionable scenario is plausible.
Argh… Yes, I’m still bitter.
(Oh, and Derek Jeter got married to model Hannah Davis. I guess this means no more gift baskets.)
As always, lineups are as follows:
Indians | Yankees | ||
1B
|
Carlos Santana |
LF
|
Brett Gardner |
2B
|
Jason Kipnis |
CF
|
Jacoby Ellsbury |
SS
|
Francisco Lindor |
DH
|
Carlos Beltran |
DH
|
Mike Napoli |
1B
|
Mark Teixeira |
3B
|
Jose Ramirez |
SS
|
Didi Gregorius |
RF
|
Lonnie Chisenhall |
2B
|
Starlin Castro |
LF
|
Rajai Davis |
3B
|
Chase Headley |
CF
|
Tyler Naquin |
RF
|
Rob Refsnyder |
C
|
Yan Gomes |
C
|
Austin Romine |
SP
|
Carlos Carrasco |
SP
|
Masahiro Tanaka |
We’re having a great season… but I hate the Yankees so much losing the series to them is leaving a baaaaad taste in my mouth right when I wanted to be celebrating where the Tribe is at the half way point. Salazar and Carrasco couldn’t pitch one more decent game before they took a breather?! Am I just being greedy?
No, you’re not being greedy. But place today’s performance on the whole team. They’re all playing like my college team after a night of hard drinking. Although I think we could give the Tribe a game with as bad as they are playing today.