Walking the streets of New York takes some practice.
CC Sabathia starts against his former team today at Yankee Stadium.NEW YORK, New York -- This is a daily briefing of the Indians 2010 regular season. The Indians play the Yankees today in the second of four games at Yankee Stadium.
Pregame notes:
Game 47: It takes a couple of hours to get used to New York. It's the people. There are a lot of them.
I mean they're everywhere. It's hard to walk on the sidewalks or cross the street. Everybody seems to move at their own pace without looking left or right. It's amazing there are no head-on collision.
It takes a while to catch your stride. Then you stop walking on people's heels.
It's the same way on the subway. On Friday the No.4 train from Grand Central Station to Yankee Stadium was crammed. Every car was packed, but the passengers acted like it was nothing.
Never let anyone say New Yorkers are rude. In the packed subway car I saw a man give up his seat so an elderly lady could sit down. I saw another guy grab the baby stroller of a young mother to help her exit from the train while he was boarding.
Hey, I even heard someone belch and say excuse me. There's no place like New York.
Lineups: Indians (17-29): CF Trevor Crowe (S), RF Shin-Soo Choo (L), LF Austin Kearns (R), 3B Jhonny Peralta (R), DH Shelley Duncan (R), 2B Mark Grudzielanek (R), 1B Matt LaPorta (R), C Lou Marson (R), SS Jason Donald (R) LHP David Huff (2-6, 5.25).
Yankees (29-19): SS Derek Jeter (R), RF Nick Swisher (S), 1B Mark Teixeira (S), 3B Alex Rodriguez (R), 2B Robinson Cano (L), DH Mark Thames (R), C Francisco Cevelli (R), LF Kevin Russo (R), CF Brett Gardner (L) and CC Sabathia (4-3, 3.86).
Umpires: HP C.B. Bucknor, 1B Doug Eddings, 2B Dana DeMuth, 3B Kerwin Danley. DeMuth, crew chief.
Lineup notes: Manny Acta rested Travis Hafner today, but it wasn't because the Yankees pitched a lefty in Sabathia.
"Nothing to do with a lefty," said Acta. "We're playing three straight days games and we wanted to give him a day off. We picked the day game after the night game (Friday night)."
Headline makers: Here's the New York Post headline after the Yankees rolled the Indians, 8-2, Friday night: "YANKS REVIVE VS. TERRIBLE TRIBE."
Quote of the day: "Baseball is a hitter's game. They have pitchers because somebody has to go out there and throw the ball up to the plate," former Reds pitcher Clay Carroll from Baseball's Greatest Quotations by Paul Dickson.
Next: RHP Justin Masterson (0-5, 6.13) vs. RHP A.J. Burnett (4-2, 3.55) Sunday at 1:05 p.m.