Blogger Baseball Scorecard: 2010 MLB Postseason Baseball: ALCS New York Yankees @ Texas Rangers

The Texas Rangers are a great team and I really like the way Ron Washington has molded a team for the post juiced ball era - lots of base running: stolen bases, taking the extra base, reading the defense, reading the ball. Good to see a return to a more complex game in the 3 run homer league.

But the Yankees are going to kill these guys, they don't have the pitching to match up, and I haven't even mentioned hitting yet. Ouch!

Game Schedule - American League Championship Series

Game    Matchup          Day     Date      Time ET
Gm 1    NYY   @ TEX      Fri  Oct. 15   8:00 PM
Gm 2    NYY   @ TEX      Sat     Oct. 16   4:00 PM
Gm 3    TEX   @ NYY      Mon     Oct. 18   8:00 PM
Gm 4    TEX   @ NYY      Tue     Oct. 19   8:00 PM
Gm 5*   TEX   @ NYY      Wed     Oct. 20   4:00 PM
Gm 6*   NYY   @ TEX      Fri     Oct. 22   8:00 PM
Gm 7*   NYY   @ TEX      Sat     Oct. 23   8:00 PM

Schedule from MLB.

ALCS Game 1 - New York Yankees @ Texas Rangers
Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Arlington, Texas
Friday, October 15, 2010
8:00 PM EDT

Weather: Clear, 84°F | 29°C
Wind: 3 mph | 4 kph LR

Starting pitchers:

New York Yankees

C. C.  Sabathia   G  GS CG   IP    H   R   ER  HR  BB  SO   W   L  ERA
2010 Season Stats 34 34 2   237.2 209  92  84  20  74  197  21  7  3.18
ALDS              1  1  0     6.0   5   4   3   1   3    5   1  0  4.50

Texas Rangers

C.J. Wilson       G  GS CG   IP    H   R   ER  HR  BB  SO   W   L  ERA
2010 Season Stats 33 33 3   204.0 161  83  76  10  93  170  15  8  3.35
ALDS              1  1  0     6.1   2   0   0   0   2    7   1  0  0.00

Umpires:
Home - Gerry Davis
First Base - Tony Randazzo
Second Base - Jim Reynolds
Third Base - Angel Hernandez

Game Notes:

If you can believe this - there is NO coverage of this game in the Toronto area!! Sportnet, "Your source for every MLB Postseason Game!" is showing a game with player who have sticks and are skating if you can believe it. The radio FAN590 all sports radio is doing CFL Football.

Luckily, I'm getting WCBS from NYC which is skipping off the ionosphere, fading in and out like the crystal radio that you had when you were a kid - it had no battery, you'd just attach the wire to a good ground source, like the hot water radiator, and listen though an earpiece on the AM frequency - which it barely picked up. But it was "magic", it had no battery - it derived it's power from the radio signal itself. A few years later, the mid 1970's living near London Ontario, I used to listen to the Cleveland Cavaliers on 3WE out of Erie Pennsylvania.

I love listening on long distance radio especially from distances that it's not supposed to cover, like WWWE and WCBS from New York City - but what is wrong with Toronto and broadcasting baseball?

At the Game Schedule link above MLB says, and I quote, "In Canada, Rogers Sportsnet will broadcast all 2010 MLB Postseason games."

I notice the trend these days is towards pay for view. Now only an elite will be able to watch Postseason baseball? Not sure that's a good business model for popular sports.

In a larger sense, tiered information, based on ones ability to pay for it, is undemocratic; and for national governments, a dis-unifying force. I'd say this is a dangerous slope we're on with this.

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	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
New York Yankees	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	6	8	1
Texas Rangers	3	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	5	7	1


New York Yankees	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8			9		H	AB	BB	R	RBI	LOB	PO	A	E
1. D Jeter SS		5-3				FO8(9)				GB4 DP 4-6-3 /				C J Wilson out after Jeter's hit. --->		GB5 2BH7 RBI <>			2BH8 Hamilton playing shallow-ish --
2. N Swisher RF 9th G Golson RF		Ks				pop FO3 /						FO9		Darren Oliver in to face Nick Swisher. --->		BB <>			pop FO2f
3. M Teixeira 1B		5-3 /						pop FO6				FO9		Darren Oliver out. --->		BB #2 1,2 #1 2,3 <>			FO9
4. A Rodriguez 3B				Ks				Ks				1-3 /		Darren O'Day in ---> Darren O'Day out 1 pitch. :)	X	GB5 2BH7 2RBI #3 1,3 <>			FO8 /
5. R Cano 2B				pop FO6				BH8(9) --						HR9 RBI <>	X	BH7 RBI E8th #4 2,3 ---
6. M Thames DH				LO7 /				BH7 #5 1,2 -						6-3		BH7 RBI #5 1,2 -
7. J Posada C						GB6 6-3		LO7 /						K		FO9 #5 2,3
8. C Granderson CF						BH8(9) -				BB x				1-3 /		Ks
9. B Gardner LF						BB -				GB5 FC 5-4 x						GB3 BH3 3-1 Gardner diving. <>	6-3 Gardner's Fast, he almost beat it out again! /


/Inning Totals	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		Totals
Runs	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	6
Hits	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	4	1	8
Errors	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
LOB	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	2	1	7

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	p-s	ERA
CC Sabathia	4.0	5	5	5	4	3	1	93-51	11.25
Joba Chamberlain	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	0	18-11	0.00
Dustin Moseley	2.0	0	0	0	0	4	0	27-21	0.00
Kerry Wood	1.0	0	0	0	1	1	0	19-11	0.00
Mariano Rivera	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	14-10	0.00


Texas Rangers	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		H	AB	BB	R	RBI	LOB	PO	A	E
1. E Andrus SS		BB <>		3UA				BH8 #8 1,2 <>				K						GB3 sac #9 1,2
2. M Young 3B		BH7(8) #1 1,3 <>		K /				2BH8(9) 2RBI #8 2,h #1 1,h ---				Ks /						Ks
3. J Hamilton CF		HR9 3RBI <>				BB ---		WP #2 2,3 K /						K				GB5 5-3 /
4. V Guerrero DH		FO8			,S	#3 1,2 Ks				5-3				6-3
5. N Cruz LF - 6th RF		BH9 wp FC 3,h out! x				BALK #3 2,3 GB5 5-3				BB -				Ks /
6. I Kinsler 2B		BB #5 1,2 --				6-3 /				FO8						BB CS x
7. J Francoeur RF PH 5th D Murphy LF		pop FO6						pop FO4		FO7 /					3-2 FX	#6 1-3-6 3UA
8. M Treanor C PH 8th J Borbon 9th B Molina C		BB #5 2,3 #6 1,2 -						BH8 <>				FO8				Ks /
9. J Cantu 1B PH 9th M Moreland		WP #5 3,h 2-1 out! /		pop FO4				FO9				GB5 E5 off his glove thru to left field -						BH9 --


/Inning Totals	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Totals
Runs	3	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	5
Hits	3	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	7
Errors	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
LOB	2	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	7

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	p-s	ERA
C J Wilson	7.0	6	3	3	2	4	1	104-68	3.86
Darren Oliver	0.0	0	2	2	2	0	0	13-5	###
Darren O'Day	0.0	1	1	1	0	0	0	1-1	###
Clay Rapada	0.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1-1	0.00
Derek Holland	2.0	2	0	0	0	1	0	37-21	0.00