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Indians spoil Yankee Stadium opener for Yanks
The Yankees opened baseball's fanciest and priciest ballpark Thursday with a performance that would have embarrassed Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and other stars from their famous pinstriped past.
After an 85-year run in a stadium that produced 26 World Series titles, New York saw its hitters fizzle and its bullpen come apart on a sunny afternoon in a 10-2 loss to the Cleveland Indians.
Jhonny Peralta broke a seventh-inning tie with a two-run double off Jose Veras, and Grady Sizemore hit a grand slam into the right-field seats off Damaso Marte.
"To come in here and do what we did is something we'll always remember," Sizemore said.
That was a reference to the Yankees right fielder who pitched during a blowout loss at Tampa Bay earlier in the week.
"It felt like we disappointed quite a few people today," Johnny Damon said.
On April 18, 1923, Ruth homered as New York opened the original Yankee Stadium with a 4-1 win over the Boston Red Sox, and the ballpark quickly was dubbed "The House that Ruth Built."
The opening of the new $1.5 billion house for baseball's most storied team wound up being much less memorable. Yankees batters stranded 10 runners in the first five innings, going 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position. The primary cheers were for Jorge Posada, who hit the first home run in the ballpark's history, a fifth-inning drive off Cliff Lee that that landed in Monument Park behind center field.
"I'm going to remember the home run, no question about it, but right now it's a little disappointing," Posada said.
CC Sabathia, pitching in pinstripes for the first time since signing a $161 million, seven-year contract, allowed an RBI double to Kelly Shoppach in the fourth. But he left after 122 pitches and 5 2-3 innings in his first start against his former team.
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Happy grand opening to the New York Stinkees. Was that David Ortiz jersey there long enough to put a curse on the new stadium. If not, the Indians did all they could to make it so. If this stadium lasts as long as the old one Stinkee fans can always look back to a christening LOSS! While the old stadium started with a win foretelling many victories, the new one costing $1.5 billion to house a team costing over $200 million per year with a $161 million pitcher on the mound opens with a gaping wound, now an indelible scar ...foreshadowing a much darker future than in the "House That Ruth Built"...maybe! "It felt like we disappointed quite a few people today," Johnny Damon said. It was a little more than that Johnny. Sizemore, Peralta, Martinez, Lee, and Shoppach didn't just ruin the day for NY fans, they tore their hearts out.
Too bad, it wasn't supposed to be this way in the script. Sabathia was supposed to pitch a gem, while A-Roid was supposed to crush opposition pitching. But, Sabathia sputtered out of gas, and A-Roid was a not even there. Well, at least the fans don't have to look around and remember blowing a 3-0 ALCS lead. Still, this is a most memorable inaugural beating for the scrapbook. "To come in here and do what we did is something we'll always remember," Sizemore said. And so will all those New York fans who thought their team and history would always bring them magic.
REALITY ...that's what happened today. Right Joe.t...lol.
Cheers my boy,
Merlot
PS
After today's showing NASA is considering the possibility of saving billions by using Damaso Marte's arm to lunch it's rockets into space...bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!