via Drayer:

He did get big points however after he caught a Francisco Cervelli fly to right. As he was jogging in he took the ball out of his glove and gave it the big underhand flip into the stands. Or so it appeared. We then heard a big boo, saw the delay on the tv and sure enough, Ichiro faked out the fans and carried the ball back to the dugout. Nice.

Awesome Ichiro, hating on Yankees fans.

This was an impressive series. I really thought they were going to get killed, but instead they were only roughed up a bit, mostly on the Bronx-special homer. If they can keep hitting the ball the way they have here I expect they will keep the false hope going well into August.

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How was Langerhans?

The best was the replay of the HR in which you see every Yankee (except Cabrera) practically get whiplash from turning around so quickly. Everyone in the stadium knew that was out the second he hit it.

Funny story: I interned with Turner Construction last summer and I was lucky enough to get assigned to the new Yankee Stadium project. So I got to see it get built all summer, which was awesome. So I go back to visit my co-workers in March on my college’s spring break, and toured the finished stadium. We went into the Batter’s Eye restaurant (the one Branyan drilled) and I asked my colleague if anyone could hit the restaurant. He said he thought it was too far out for anyone to reach. I said that I thought that a guy like A-Rod could do it once or twice a year, but everyone else seemed to have the opinion that it was too far out to dead CF for anyone to hit it. So it was awesome to see Russell prove me right.