While most of us were watching the Olympic Opening Ceremony, there was baseball going on yesterday. Last night, the Yankees opened up a 3-game set with the Red Sox at The Stadium. With 2 out in the 1st, Dustin Pedroia homered into left field, and it was 1-0 Boston. In the bottom of the inning, New York got back 3 on a fielder's choice ground ball by Mark Teixeira and a 2-run bomb by Raul Ibanez to make it 3-1 Yanks. In the top of the 3rd, Carl Crawford homered to make it a 1-run ballgame at 3-2. Then Teixeira got his 2nd RBI of the night with sacrifice fly to score Derek Jeter, and it was 4-2 Yankees. There were 2 HR's in the fourth by Jarod Saltalamochia and Russel Martin with a 2-run shot to prove this game an early slugfest as New York lead 6-3. This was all the scoring until the bottom of the eighth when Curtis Granderson showed off his power factor, hitting a grand slam to put the game away as the Yankees took the victory 10-3.
The Mets, on the other hand were in Arizona for their second game against the Diamondbacks. New York scored first on an Ike Davis home run and an Andres Torres RBI single, and it was 2-0 Metropolitans. Then came a dreaded, 6-run bottom of the second for the D'Backs to make it a 6-2 game. The Mets would get 3 back in the very next inning on a David Wright homer, but Arizona prevailed and scored 5 more runs in the game to get the 11-5 victory as the Mets fall back to 4 games under the .500 mark.
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