Below The Beltway

The Yankees clobbered the Red Sox 14-3 yesterday, thanks in large part to Mark Teixeira:
BOSTON – Those three long balls Mark Teixeira sent over the Fenway Park fences delivered an emphatic message: His early season struggles are over.
Teixeira joined Lou Gehrig as the only Yankees to hit three home runs against the Boston Red Sox, [...]

The Yankees lost this afternoon, which sucks, but they still managed to make some history:
The A’s quickly put runners on first and second in the bottom of the sixth and Kurt Suzuki(notes)—who earlier hit a three-run homer—sent a sharp grounder to Rodriguez at third base.
Rodriguez stepped on the bag and threw to Cano at second. [...]

Once again, the Yankees won and another pitcher came within five outs of a no-hitter:
OAKLAND, Calif. — In the second start of Phil Hughes’s career, in 2007, he flirted with a no-hitter all the way into the seventh inning against the Texas Rangers before fate cruelly intervened. Instead of finishing on the mound, he finished [...]

Guys like this are why I continue to love baseball:
During his seven-plus years in the major leagues, Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira has visited numerous children’s cancer wards and spoken to hundreds of patients. But Teixeira said none of those experiences touched him as much as the encounter he had in February with 19-year-old Brian [...]

It was a great day to be a Yankee fan yesterday, especially since it looked like C.C. Sabathia was about it make history:
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — As the innings sprinted by Saturday afternoon and the Tampa Bay Rays still had not managed a hit off C. C. Sabathia, Joe Girardi’s thoughts drifted to a sunny [...]

At 8:05pm tonight, the Yankees and Red Sox will meet in the first game of the 2010 Major League Baseball season.
You know who I’ll be rooting for.
And hopefully this season will end just like that last one did, right John Sterling ?

Thought so.

The Yankees and Red Sox will meet at Fenway Park to begin another season of battle, but the best rivalry in baseball is going to be a lot different this year:
The Yankees and the Red Sox will play each other 18 times this season. The rivalry will be renewed each game as they move from [...]