NASTY CANASTA!

Nasty Canasta was once a cartoon character created by animator Chuck Jones.  It's also a term a buddy and I used years ago to describe something really disgusting or an unfortunate incident.  "Damn, that was Nasty Canasta with a capital C!" Tonight was Nasty Canasta...and the "C" was for Curtis.  What was once a thrill to watch, meaning, the Yankees creeping all the way back to tie the Red Sox 6 to 6, and then losing the way they did... it's was unfortunate, it sucked... it was Nasty Canasta.  If Curtis Granderson doesn't misplay that Pedro Ciriaco ball in the 9th inning, the Yankees momentum probably leads them to victory tonight... or at least that's how I pictured it.

The best and biggest shot of the night was by Mark Teixeira who ended up tying the ball game off of enemy Vicente Padilla.  Now, you know me, one thing I hate is showboating and it was unusual to see Tex watching that ball launch into the seats. He never does that. But because of everything we know between he and Padilla and the bad blood between the 2, (Read WHO'S THE TOUGH GUY? MARK TEIXEIRA OR VICENTE PADILLA?), I get why Teixeira did it, but historically on BYB, I don't like the "stand and stare" when you crank out a home run.  Tying the game 6-6 was glorious though.  I'll take that all day long. Tex was 2-4 tonight with 2 RBIs.

CC Sabathia was not vintage CC and now the questions will start... "Is everything OK with CC?" or  "What's going on with our ace?" Look, it think it's safe to say CC isn't having a great year, although I predict by August 5th, we will see a strong run by CC to give that push to the playoffs.  That's him and with injury this year, I think he's just alittle out of whack.  Tonight he pitched 6 innings, allowed 8 hits and 6 runs.  He also struck out 6.  That's more like a Hughes performance than a Sabathia performance, but, don't fret, we'll get the CC we want very shortly...promise.

Other highlights:

• Jayson Nix had 2 RBIs and was 1-2 with a home run.
• Ichiro Suzuki made an outstanding catch in the 7th robbing Adrian Gonzalez.  Loved to see that!
• Chris Stewart cranked out a home run early on.

So, the final score tonight...it was a heart breaker on a silly fielding mistake by Granderson, but... Life goes on.
 
Red Sox 8 - Yankees 6.

I'm going to bed...good night.

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