[新聞] No. 53 (Abreu and Cabrera) Helps the Yankees

看板NY-Yankees作者leddy (耿秋)時間17年前 (2009/05/01 11:43)推噓26(26推 0噓 11→)

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兩個53號幫了洋基隊, Bobby Abreu去別隊穿53號後, 還是可以用守備幫助洋基隊。另一個接他53號的Melky Cabrera, 回主場後打進了超前分。來源: www.nytimes.com No. 53 (Abreu and Cabrera) Helps the Yankees By JOSHUA ROBINSON Published: April 30, 2009 Six months after he last wore the number 53 for the Yankees, Bobby Abreu was still helping them out — his error in the fourth inning put his former team in front. And in the eighth, with the score tied once again, it was the player who followed him into the pinstriped No. 53 jersey who gave the Yankees the lead for good. With a line drive right to Abreu’s patch of the field, Melky Cabrera singled in Robinson Cano from third for what proved to be the decisive run Thursday night in the Yankees’ 7-4 victory over the Los Angeles Angels in the Yankee Stadium mist. In the end, Cabrera’s was a tame shot, one that would have otherwise melted into the box score had it not sealed the game. It was easily dwarfed by some of the huge hits earlier in the evening that are quickly becoming a part of the new ballpark’s most distinctive features. A week had passed since the Yankees’ opening-week home run extravaganza, but questions about how well the ball carries here rushed back after Mike Napoli’ s shot to right made a beeline over the fence to give the Angels a 1-0 lead in the second. Johnny Damon golfed another ball into the second deck in right field an inning later, providing echoes of last week’s 20-homer series against the Indians. Derek Jeter gave the Yankees their first lead in the bottom of the fourth with some help from Abreu. With two runners on, Jeter lined what should have been nothing more than a standard single to Abreu’s feet. But after the ball caromed off his glove, Jeter scampered to second and two Yankees crossed the plate to make the score 4-3. The lead lasted all of a half-inning as Chone Figgins scored Erick Aybar in the fifth. With the score tied, both managers left their starters in, waiting to see which one would crack first. Neither did, though the Angels replaced Anthony Ortega in the seventh, preferring not to push their luck past 100 pitches. A. J. Burnett, meanwhile, survived the seventh and went some of the way toward banishing the five ugly innings he produced in Boston last weekend. He still gave up the same number of hits (eight) as he did at Fenway Park, although this time they turned into only four runs. The Yankees turned to the extremely capable Phil Coke for the eighth and rewarded him with the win. Justin Speier had to take the loss after he gifted the Yankees — and the free-spending fans behind home plate — exactly what they had come for. Thursday night was the Yankees’ first home game since they slashed the prices of some of the most expensive tickets in the ballpark. But at first glance, the impact of that decision seemed minimal. The full-season, front-row $2,500 tickets behind the dugouts, which were reduced to $1,250, only appeared half-full in the middle of the game, although the Yankees said sales had picked up. The $2,500 front-row, season-ticket seats behind and on either side of home plate, which were not reduced, were also far from full, suggesting the Yankees ’ strategy of offering those season-ticket holders an equal number of front-row seats, for free, for the rest of the season, did not produce immediate results. Fans who received those free tickets were allowed to use them as they pleased, either giving them away or reselling them. Those seats may be of greatest concern to the team, since they are the ones showing up empty during games on television. But the knock-on effect that the Yankees seem unable to avoid is that more of these exclusive seats are cropping up at resale, according to Jason Berger, a managing partner of one New York’s largest ticket resellers, AllShows.com. “The Yankees’ season-ticket holders are more accustomed to resell them and because of the inflated prices, they have more reason to this year,” he said. “The Yankees have been a little too aggressive on their pricing, given the economy.” Berger even guessed that tickets could appear on the market below their face value. And on Thursday night, he was right. Some tickets for the field level behind home plate — the sections directly behind the Legends seats — were selling for more than $200 below their $375 face value on FanSnap.com, which scans 60 ticket resellers’ Web sites. FanSnap offered a further 5,000 tickets all over the stadium for Thursday’s game, beginning at $8. Empty blue seats still dotted the place throughout the evening until the bottom of the eighth, when, for a few moments, the cheering crowd rose to its feet as the Yankees staged their game-winning rally. The seats, no matter how much they had cost, all flapped shut just the same. Ken Belson contributed reporting. -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 220.131.240.112

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