Yankess Game Sat. May 30th at Yankee Stadium

Yo wats up! Check this out. My name is C.T. Minardi. I am from Syracuse, N.Y. I went to a Yankees game Saturday and it was pretty intense! The Yankees played the Cleveland Indians. Walking into the stadium, I was greeted by all sorts of beautiful pictures on the wall of past Yankee greats including Reggie Jackson, Paul O'Neill, and Thurman Munson. The new stadium was gorgeous, clean, and very interesting with all kinds of murals, pictures, memorabilia, and more! This new stadium is state-of-the-art complete with plasma T.V.'s everywhere and it even has a bar called Mohegan Sun Sports Bar in the middle of the outfield seating! A huge HD T.V. screen that must have been 50 feet tall rises sky high to the left of the outfield and keeps the crowd interested. At the top of the game, the Yankees introduced themselves individually on the big screen. Then, they honored six Tuskegee Airmen, the United States first black fighter pilot group during World War II. CC Sabathia was starting pitcher for the Yankees. This was shaping up to be another great Yankee win. However, the game took a turn for the worse when starting Indians pitcher David Huff was hit in the head with a line drive from A-Rod. Cleveland pitcher Arron Laffey gave up six runs in relief. However Joba Chamberlain also gave up seven runs in relief for the Yankees. The Yankees fought, but the Cleveland Indians fought back. It was a very physical game riddled with injuries.

Cleveland Indians starting pitcher David Huff #28 was struck in the head with a line drive from A-Rod, during the third inning of the game. He was lying motionless on the ground for quite a while and was helped off of the field in a stretcher. As he left for a CT scan at the local hospital to make sure he was alright, Huff gave a thumbs-up to the nervous crowd and they politely cheered. The play itself resulted in an RBI double for A-Rod, as the ball had ricocheted off of Huff's head and landed in right field. A-Rod then quickly headed to the pitchers mound to check on Huff. The scan came back negative, but as a precaution Huff remained in the hospital for the next few hours to recuperate. As the replay ran on the plasma T.V.'s, the crowd let out a collective "Ooooh!" as they observed Huff's injury in slow-motion. Arron Laffey came in as pitcher for Cleveland and things started to go the Yankee's way! Laffey gave up 6 runs, and walked three batters. He only gave up two hits. However, by the time the fourth inning was over, the Yankees led 9 to 3. Sabathia, having given up seven hits and five runs, left in the sixth. Unfortunately for the Yankees, Cleveland scored runs in the fifth and sixth inning to come back to an 11-10 lead by the seventh inning, thanks to seven runs allowed by relief pitcher Joba Chamberlain for the Yankees. Big Hitters Robinson Cano and Alex Rodriguez drove in three runs apiece, and Derek Jeter hit an RBI double, but the game was out of their hands by the last few innings, and the Indians came back to win their highest-scoring game of the season, Cleveland 13, Yankees 11.

History Note: On April 16th, 2009, the New York Yankees played their first game in the new stadium against the Cleveland Indians. On Sept. 11th, 2009, Derek Jeter secured his 2722th hit, surpassing a record set by Lou Gehrig.

Also, on May 29th, 1995, Jeter made his big leauge debut at Seattle, and went 0 for 5. On Saturday, May 29th 2010, Jeter went 3 for 5 and tied Bernie Williams for second in Yankees history to get his 449th double.
-C.T. Minardi