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Jeter's return sparks Yankees to victory By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com | 7/11/2013 4:01 PM ET NEW YORK -- They rose by the thousands to cheer Derek Jeter as he ambled to home plate on Thursday, discarding the weight hugging his Louisville Slugger and digging in for his first big league at-bat in nearly nine months. Wearing his pinstriped uniform with No. 2 stitched on the back, the Captain was finally back on familiar turf. As general manager Brian Cashman put it, "Everyone knows this is where he needs to be." Jeter jumped on the first pitch he saw this season for an infield single and the Yankees did plenty more damage of their own later on, rallying from behind to post an 8-4 victory over the Royals at Yankee Stadium. Reinstated from the 60-day disabled list before the game, the 39-year-old Jeter went 1-for-4 with a run and an RBI, serving as the designated hitter in his first contest since fracturing his left ankle in Game 1 of last year's American League Championship Series. Legging out an infield hit that was fumbled by third baseman Miguel Tejada, Jeter smiled broadly after scoring the Yanks' first run on Vernon Wells' sacrifice fly and later contributed an RBI groundout, but he played a supporting role as the Yankees fought to take Andy Pettitte off the hook from a rough start. Yes, real spark there. He reaches on what might've been an error, and later makes an out that happens to score a run.

themetfairy wrote: The thought did occur to me. My camera is far from commercial grade, but I don't know to whom I could appeal if someone gives me a hard time about it. No one. if you protest you're a terrorist. That's the motto of security these days. Hmm, another thought is to go in the Hodges gate. It's the entrance the media use, but it's a normal entrance with elevators up to the field level.

Security is ridiculously inept, everywhere. If someone balks, I suggest walking away and trying a different gate (unless you're going so early that it's only the rotunda) maybe even through McFadden's where they always seem a little less concerned in general.

The email they just sent includes the regular prohibitions: Fans are encouraged to arrive early for ballpark events. All Citi Field Gates will open at Noon EST Sunday, 5:15 p.m. ET Monday and 4:30 p.m. ET Tuesday. In addition, the Mets are asking fans to be advised that prohibited items at Citi Field include, but are not limited to items larger than 16"x16"x8", hard-sided coolers, all metal cans (including sunscreen aerosol cans), glass bottles, open containers; commercial grade audio, video and photographic equipment; alcoholic beverages; illegal substances; laser pointers; noisemaking devices; fireworks, animals (except for assistive purposes); weapons and any items of similar nature.. Citi Field retains the right to determine what items are deemed appropriate for entry. Guests may bring in one, soft, plastic, factory-sealed water bottles of 20 ounces or less, Guests may also bring in one sealed, soft -sided child's juice box. Note: Water bottles and juice boxes may not be frozen.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Chad Ochoseis wrote: Among NL right-fielders, only Gerardo Parra has a higher WAR than Byrd. Byrd's on pace to finish the season with 28 HR's. I can't figure how Byrd's WAR is higher than Beltran, being that WAR is a counting stat and Byrd trails Beltran by about 50 PA's and has worse across the board slash lines. This is why I don't take black box statistics like WAR too seriously. For what it's worth, BBRef has Beltran's dWAR at -0.8 and Byrd's at +0.6, which would explain the difference. Byrd a better defensive outfielder than Beltran. Who would've thunk? Yeah ... I considered this but didn't bother to look it up, figuring that there's no way Byrd makes up the apparent offensive deficit with his glove. Yeah, the +.6 is really helping Byrd, and while that feels about right, I don't think it feels right that he's more valuable than Beltran. I also doubt it will end that way, which is only lending more fuel to the 'trade him' fire. Beltran, and Hairston, were both a little more consistent and reliable overall, and you knew what you were giving up. With Byrd I think it's definitely possible to convince other teams you're selling more than you really are.

Edgy MD wrote: I'm almost at the point where, if I don't get the home TV feed, I'm fine with muting the road feed and listening to Howie and Josh, even though the synching is rarely close. More so than the syncing is the cameras i think. The broadcast is going to jump and you're gonna (well, I am) wonder why we're focused on Kirk Nieuwenhuis in the dugout or the left fielder or some such. I only have a crappy radio in the bathroom (well, give me 6 weeks) but I find the radio-tv bit works best when you're multitasking. The radio's just enough ahead that it gives you time to step over or look up to the TV to see the action they just called.

I think I'm already going to lose money on the extra strip I bought, so not gonna worry about trying to spend an extra day at the Fanfest myself. Going to try to sneak over on Monday during lunch, but it's all the way cross town so that's like 45 minutes..

Chad Ochoseis wrote: White player that hits well but can't field: "professional hitter." That one transcends race. Lenny Harris was a "professional hitter" fairly frequently. I thought he was "a baseball player" or is that not a racial euphemism and more of a scouting one?

metirish wrote: Fair play to the Mets, west coast trips are usually awful and have routinely done damage. Except in '06 when it was where they asserted themselves as the division favorites.

Frayed Knot wrote: Zvon wrote: Cains done? Thats weird. Cain was unAbel to complete the 1st. Josh made this joke on the postgame. Either it's an obvious joke, or he's reading.

Frayed Knot wrote: FOX probably decided that, since they were lucky enough to get a Met game on the day of a Harvey start, they'd assign some good announcers and good markets to the game. Only problem is, once they found out that Harvey is being pulled on account of the blisters, they all hurled themselves out of windows. they're compensated with a Harvey start on tuesday.

Agreed. I don't think it was the dancing or music that was an issue. Here's the quote that, if I were the Mets, would have caused the most concern: As for the game, the A.I.C.H. began to promote it in early April. In an e-mail to the Indian Country Today Media Network, the group pitched the event as �a great opportunity to educate the public about the stereotypes professional sports teams continue to promote through logos, mascots and fan traditions, such as the �tomahawk chop.� � But if Mets officials harbored concerns with that type of language over the coming months, they chose not to express them publicly. Would they express this publicly? Would you? Wouldn't you try to handle it one-to-one? Did that email go to the Mets? Probably not. Did they even see it? Would they? I mean,if you buy group tickets and email blast your group, the Mets don't QC that email. So perhaps it wasn't an issue, even with the Braves, at first, but once they realized it was going to be a bigger endeavor..

Lefty Specialist wrote: The key here is that somebody needs to do their homework before the ball starts rolling. I mean, come on, you don't do this when you're playing the Braves. How hard is that to figure out? Yeah, this is where the failure is. It's really on the ticket grunt that didn't think it through. Or the process that doesn't have these things double-checked by authorities earlier. But I'd still rather the Mets err on the side of "Respecting our commitments and honoring these folks is more important than avoiding political fallout for the Braves insensitive logo." I mean, it sucks that they scheduled a whole week around it and now it can't happen (that week), but these things do happen. It's not the Mets fault, nor did they likely really even know, that there was all sorts of outside events happening in conjunction.

classic over politically-correctedness. It actually seems similar to the Cougar thing, in that a peon in the organization plans this great idea and the corporate suits finally find out what's going on and get all political on it. screw 'em.

hilarious. they lose again. to the Royals. really squandered that six game winning streak by losing three in a row now. 2 back in the WC. They came into today tied with the Phillies for 8th in least runs scored. Only .03 ahead of Pittsburgh.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Always looked like he'd slept in his clothes. On the street. Never a bad move to get a starter on a cheap make-good deal but could tell in March it was going to end this way. That's the way it ends for a lot of guys. Indeed. And he was actually a pretty good pickup, all things considered and the Mets knew they were adding a starter in June anyway. Is it really time for memories though? They could always re-sign him.

Edgy MD wrote: [*]Driving hard bargains in all your dealings means being willing to walk away from bargains that don't appeal to you. Exactly. And developing a reputation for it means opposing GMs are going to look at what Sandy is demanding and at least suspect that he's A. serious that he wants the guy he's talking about B. Isn't going to back down and accept something lesser. C. Maybe I better pull the trigger before I end up giving up my top pitching prospect. And that's a good thing. That attitude and reputation is how we got d'Arnaud, and Wheeler. It's how maybe Sandy fleeces someone out of a good outfielder without having to sacrifice as much.

good job staying up. I didn't make it. I don't know if this means I'm worn out, getting old, or simply a bad fan.

Haven't we already seen Ike Davis naked?

Frayed Knot wrote: Wow, we went nearly half a year without touching this thread. Says something about the Phils although I'm not sure what. Anyway, knee surgery for Ryan Howard. See 'ya in six to eight weeks (if things go well that is ... and, really, what could go wrong with the recovery process for a weight-bearing joint when one weighs 250 pounds?) remind me to lose weight again..geeze. is this a tacit throwing in the towel for the Phillies? The way he's been running I wouldn't be surprised if it's been torn a while. (Stupid Phillies, running an injured player out there when it clearly wasn't working)

I feel like this just happened..with Jerry Manuel as manager, but I can't recall the circumstances. I feel like it was Pagan who was skipped, but really just guessing.

The more pressing matter here is that you can DL Marcum without needing another pitcher until like the 22nd and get an extra player on the roster but the Mets haven't done so yet.

Edgy MD wrote: It's preposterous but it's supported it's own cottage industry for a year with regard to Hairston. I'm sure it goes back longer than that. Trade Reyes for anything you can get.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: cost-controlled reliever from, say, 2015-2018 is worth more to the franchise than a bump Sure, get us a live arm and we'll talk. This is probably the make or break point for me.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Swan Swan H wrote: metsguyinmichigan wrote: He thinks it�s hard? Ask the rest of the men in his line of work how they would describe it. Ask Jim Johnson, the Orioles� closer, who was about as perfect as you can be as a closer last year and this year has averaged close to one blown save every 10 days or so, even if he did mow down the Quadruple-A portion of the Yankees lineup yesterday. Ask the Mets, who are working on their eighth closer (at least) since Rivera started finishing games for the Yankees 16 years ago. And the obligatory cheap shot at the Mets. Franco, Benitez, Wagner, K-Rod, Francisco and Parnell. Am I missing anyone? Yeah, Looper. Putz, maybe. Takahashi. Ayala (ick). If you're gonna count those guys you have to count Soriano and Robertson and Ramiro Mendoza and Mike Stanton and Steve Karsay all who had more than 10. Over that time frame, 1997+, the Yankees had 31 pitchers record a save and the Mets had 45. (side note, who the hell is Tony Borland?)