Pirates-Yankees: The Live Blog

Big League Stew found this 3/13/2008 on yankees.lhblogs.com [flag]

Welcome to Legends Field. It’s 70 degrees and sunny and the Yankees just had a bunch of old men dressed as pirates sing the National Anthem. I’m totally not making that up. It’ll be Mike Mussina against Paul Maholm. [link]

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The mighty Billy Crystal has struck out
Published 3/13/2008 at Big League Stew
... watching Crystal was a lot of fun on an otherwise routine Thursday. Crystal didn't have to wait long get his fantasy on and then get out of the way for the real ballplayers. The soon-to-be-60-year-old comedian led off the bottom of the first inning as the team's designated hitter (not "designated Hebrew," as Crystal himself suggested on Wednesday) and worked the count to 3-1 before striking out against Pittsburgh lefty Paul Maholm. You can find the pitch-by-pitch here. Yet despite the knockout, Crystal can walk into his next film shoot with a couple of ...

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Spring training Game 12: Pirates at Yanks

NJ.com: Pride of the Yankees found this 3/13/2008 on yankees.lhblogs.com

YANKEES Crystal DH Jeter SS Abreu RF Rodriguez 3B Matsui LF Cano 2B Duncan 1B Molina C Cabrera CF Pitching Mussina Rivera Karstens Veras PIRATES Morgan CF Wilson SS McLouth RF Bay LF LaRoche 1B Doumit C Bautista 3B Gomez DH ...

ST Round-up: Mussina “Crystallizes” a Gem

Posted 3/14/2008 on The Bronx Block

Leading off for the Yankees in today’s Spring Training game, 59-year-old (his birthday’s tomorrow) director of 61* Billy Crystal stepped up to the plate. Staring down Pittsburgh Pirates’ pitcher Paul Maholm, Crystal worked a full count before striking out swinging. Crystal checked with the umpire if it was a strike that he swung through, walked towards the Yankees’ ...

Moose Looks Great In Loss to Pirates

Posted 3/14/2008 on A New York Yankees Blog

Moose pitched 5 perfect innings against Pittsburgh today. He threw 64 pitches and struck out two. If today was an indication of anything to come then this should be a great season for Moose as well as the Yanks because if Mussina can stay solid that means we basically have 4 reliable starters for the post season. That’s a big if, considering Moose’s age (he turns 40 this year!), ...

Pirates Steal Show from Crystal

Posted 3/14/2008 on My Pinstripes

Mike Mussina was perfect for 5 innings and Billy Crystal made his dream come true, but the Pittsburgh Pirates came away with a 5-3 win at G.M.S. Field in Tampa . Mussina was as good as he's been in a long time, retiring all 15 hitters he faced. But the start of the day belonged to Crystal, the long time Yankees fan who was fulfilling a dream. The 2nd pitch Crystal saw, he hit just foul along ...

I Could be Wrong

Posted 3/14/2008 on Baseball Musings

Mike Mussina threw five perfect innings today. Maybe he will last past April. Of course, it was against the Pirates....

Mussina perfect in Yankees loss

Posted 3/13/2008 on Scott Proctor's Arm - A New York Yankees Blog

Mike Mussina threw five perfect innings in the Yankees' 5-3 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates Thursday afternoon. The veteran right-hander threw 64 pitches for 41 strikes in his longest spring outing to date. He struck out two batters and walked none in what should be a confidence booster. Mariano Rivera followed Mussina, and gave up his first two hits of the spring. He didn't give up a run ...

Yanks/Pirates Game Day

Posted 3/13/2008 on BASEBALL HOT CORNER

Notes from today's Yankees/Pirates exhibition game from Tampa: David Cone has made an impressive debut as an analyst at YES , watching a game and learning at the same time from a literate former player adds a lot to the experience, hopefully this catches on. Today's Coney Corner : He details how Girardi has been on Mussina to pitch inside, not just show a pitch but throw strikes. As the ...

3/13/08 Yanks-Pirates

Posted 3/13/2008 on The Sommer Frieze

No surprise. Billy Crystal struck out and as I predicted was PH for by Damon the next time he was due up. Good news. Mike Mussina has pitched well. After 3 innings, there is only one hit in the game—a single by Molina. Moose has pitched 3 scoreless and hitless innings, walked none and struck out one.

Liveblog: Pirates at Yankees

Posted 3/13/2008 on Scott Proctor's Arm - A New York Yankees Blog

First Inning Mike Mussina got Nyjer Morgan to strike out looking on a curveball. Mussina was hitting 85 m.p.h. with his fastball in this at-bat. Mussina retires the side in order. He induced a pop up to right and a fly out to center. His fastball didn't reach past 86 m.p.h. Billy Crystal walked up to the plate to "Birthday" by The Beatles. He made contact, fouling a pitch to the right side, ...

Game Preview: Pirates at Yankees

Posted 3/13/2008 on Scott Proctor's Arm - A New York Yankees Blog

Pittsburgh Pirates New York Yankees Nyger Morgan CF Billy Crystal DH Jack Wilson SS Derek Jeter SS Nate McLouth RF Bobby Abreu RF Jason Bay LF Alex Rodriguez 3B Adam LaRoche 1B Hideki Matsui LF Ryan Doumit C Robinson Cano 2B Jose Bautista 3B Shelley Duncan 1B Chris Gomez DH Jose Molina C Luis Cruz 2B Melky Cabrera CF Paul Maholm Mike Mussina Jaret ...

Yankees vs. Pirates: The Billy Crystal Game

Posted 3/13/2008 on Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog

Spring Training Game 12 Yankees (6-5) vs. Pirates (4-9) Game Time: 1:15 p.m. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, FL TV/radio: YES - MLB.TV Here are the lineups (hat tip to Peter Abraham ): YANKEES Crystal DH Jeter SS Abreu RF Rodriguez 3B Matsui LF Cano 2B Duncan 1B Molina C Cabrera CF Pitching : Mussina, Rivera, Karstens, Veras PIRATES Morgan CF Wilson SS McLouth RF Bay LF LaRoche 1B Doumit ...

Yanks' Mussina throws 5 perfect innings (AP)

Published 3/13/2008 on Yahoo! Sports - MLB News

Mike Mussina threw five perfect innings, but got overshadowed by a batter that struck out in his lone at-bat in the New York Yankees' 5-3 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday. Mussina's outing didn't get the biggest ovation from the 10,705 fans ...

Yanks lose despite Mussina, Crystal

Published 3/13/2008 on Major League Baseball News

Long after the Spring Training debut of designated hitter Billy Crystal, who struck out in the first inning on Thursday in his only at-bat, the Yankees rallied but fell, 5-3, to the Pirates. Mike Mussina continued to improve, tossing five perfect innings.