Boston Red Sox at New York Yankees 2000 05 28 Pedro Martinez vs Roger Clemens PART 1

we now join this ESPN international program already in progress and if they're just glad to have Jeter back as I said Jeter is kind of the glue that holds his team together and they just feel much better when he's at the top the lineup plus he's a great defensive shortstop cheater who had a pulled oblique muscle in the left ribcage and he said it was really a disabling injury therefore for several days he couldn't do anything he couldn't run he couldn't so he couldn't bat said the time - it hurt just a walk now we're getting ready to start Jeff fryer will leave it off against Roger Clemens [Applause] fifty-five thousand in here again tonight the third straight sellout over the weekend with the Red Sox in town this ballpark open as we said in 1923 it was a red sox-yankees game in april of 23 and Babe Ruth the former Red Sox at home running that Babe Ruth that little babe ruth's magic rub off on him tonight as he faces the Red Sox the last time he faced him [Applause] I'm fine two balls and no strikes trot Nixon and Bryan dog back to follow Red Sox won the first game of the series Friday night behind Ramon Martinez Yankees equalized yesterday we should bring out because in yesterday's ballgame when El Duque Orlando Hernandez injured his back during warm-ups and could not make the start the Yankees got five innings from Jason Grimsley coming out of the bullpen and then three innings from reliever Mike Stanton so tonight they need submitting some Raju [Applause] two balls two [Applause] range for about 95 he dropped down the 91 throw the two-and-oh fastball for strike so he has his good fastball tonight it looks like it had great movement on [Applause] two strikes dr. Clemmens slacker tonight that's the first time he has thrown it before fast balls got two balls two strikes throw a good slider right over the outside corner watch the location it's the slot right on the outside corner look at that slider down and away and fry hits the top of it right back to Roger now trot Nixon will come up Nixon is hitting 318 five homers 27 batted in one dad nobody out [Applause] your statistics John they're kind of interesting in that right-handed hitters are hitting 280 against him in left-handed hitters are hitting 239 that tells you that his splitter is really working well against the left-handed hitters [Applause] he came to the Yankees from Toronto and he had two outstanding years in Toronto in his last 40 starts with the Blue Jays he was 21 and 9 with a 271 er a in his first 40 starts with the Yankees 18 and 14 and a 4.5 - we are a [Applause] one ball and two strikes and this is what he tries to do get ahead of you now here's just he has the splitter that he can go to or he didn't get to try to chase the fastball up and out of the strike zone there's this glitter and that pitch you can see how the movement down and away that's why he can be so successful against left-handed hitters drawback time deck another splitter and he took it three into good discipline at the plate there by Nixon because that pitch started near the strike zone and really the bottom fell out [Applause] 47 year-old Roger Clemens [Applause] swear to the count a driver gets his first strikeout I like I said he's very successful against left-handers this year and he just paints the outside corner with a fastball watches moving away from Nixon and Ed Rapuano says strike three ed Rapuano a long time national league umpire [Applause] a major-league gunfire there is a difference huh he which hopefully Derek Jeter calls off Brosius it's a 3-up 3-down first inning for Roger Clemens now Jeter himself will be coming up second against Pedro Martinez [Music] Sunday Night Baseball from New York City Red Sox nothing the Yankees coming up there's Joe Torre and in the Tauri era here in New York the Yankees have the franchise of greatness had been particularly great three World Series titles in four years and the average year of the Tories been about a hundred wins is the Yankees Pepsi starting lineup philippi Chuck Knobloch back in the lineup at second base Derek Jeter back for his second game after disabled list at shortstop Paul O'Neill in right Bernie Williams in center court hey Posada the catcher Tino Martinez at first Shane Spencer the d8 Ricky ledee in left Scott Brosius at third and on the mound for Boston there is Pedro Martinez and Pedro like I said has three quality pitches I mean he has an overpowering fastball a great great curveball and a magnificent changeup and he just throws strikes with all pitches at any time [Applause] there are two schools of thought of how to hit him one is to be patient try to get him deep into the count the other is to attack him first I think you have to go after him I would hate to be behind an account against a guy who has so many great pitches first baseman and that's what I balled up and in and that's very Junko for a right-handed hitter to hand here's the defense for the Red Sox Nomar Garciaparra is back he liked Jeter the clue to this end deal I remember one of the lingering feelings from the post season last year with the Red Sox really struggled defensively last year kind of zone one well you see Jeter going up there with my furry swing in 93 mile an hour fastball he was a little late on it but I think you have to attack Pedro one strike the count without the fish fowl John I think also the fact that he would he face some double a pitching before he came here he had a good game yesterday I don't think anyone's had the fastball that Pedro's had and so far that's all he's thrown but in the back of the hitters mind they know that he has a great curveball and a great changeup so that's always in the back of your mind that makes the fastball get on you just a little quicker [Applause] that one off to the right Jeter with four hits in 19 career at-bats against Pedro and in nine of those 19 at-bats Jeter has struck out on two change that bottom this is going to be it may look like a cheap hit let's face it he brought on all fast cause then he came with the change of them usually that's a strikeout pitch from Pedro after that many fast balls and there have to change up the genus plays right on it you see his head is on just trying to make contact and he does put the ball in play anytime you put the ball in play you have a chance of getting a base hit because that is usually a strikeout pitch right there for Pedro Martinez and Jeter can also steal a base and Pedro last year allowed 21 steals in games that he started any other hidden jewel on the first kid under the attacks gotta be destroyed phaedra had 21 steals against him in his starts last year but also 10 who were thrown out trying to steal Jeter with nine steals eighth best cannoli even though he spent time in to disabled list thrown at one time [Applause] rolled over his ankle and afraid the wall last in yesterday's game and Joe Torre was really fearful that O'Neil was have to be taken out of the game maybe even miss a few days but when he'll stay to the lineup and he says there's a little stiffness in that left ankle tonight and during batting practice he was there flexing it and working on it with the trainer between his batting practice at-bats well you know I think face better when something's wrong you always get something rather was lingering shots of him in the 97 postseason when he had that hamstring pull and it played beautifully an appeal to the third-base umpire Bill Miller denied and John one of the reasons that is tough to still up Pedro consistently is because he does pay attention to the runner at first base a lot of great pitches do not concern themselves as much with a runner at first base Pedro works to hold him close big haul on the right side with Jeter over there now field traded a bit toward left against only you 2 & 1 the count going into that dot he was on his way to second base he was he was about to take a step and watch us makes us succeed right there he buckle his knees buckle he started to go to second base or toward second I don't know if he's gonna steal but he was making this break to unwind just like that the Yankees are gone Garciaparra coming up that effort when we come back no score after one inning from Yankee Stadium and that's the view from high overhead courtesy of the gum out aerial camp the trip here to the big city with us we're glad to have them Nomar Garciaparra I had a problem swagged I see a fire hitting 346 but only two home runs 19 batted in so definitely Garciaparra the best is yet to come [Applause] and we see Roger Clemens at his best right there good slider knee high over the outside corner and then he comes back with a fastball on the inside corner I see a fire led the league in hitting last year 357 and the sky Hitler's nightmare not being able to see and he pitches two consecutive times in the advante below fast balls or two sliders or two curveballs he saw three different speeds a slider a fastball and a splitter all three different speeds and he's not even close to this when that's a great splitter right there especially no balls and two strikes one down now Carl Everett the big offseason acquisition of the Red Sox Edmond Houston as far as the slider has taken to low he has been everything the Red Sox had hoped for hitting 331 14 homers 42 batted in some fear we had the two best center fielders in the American League in this game tonight up the middle the big turn at first play everybody holds on as Bernie Williams the Yankee centerfielder gets it back in [Applause] Everett who had been in the Yankee farm system and this week in The New York Times he was the subject of a column in which he had been very critical of the Yankees just the fastball not over the middle of the plate he rips it right back through the middle for a base hit so Everett is aboard he's also capable of stealing a base he has five steals so far this year the batter will be Mike Stanley Stanton took a look at his knees again braces on both knees he's been slumping here at the month of May and surely Joe if you got problems with both knees that's got to affect your hitting anytime you have problems with your legs it's going to affect your your hitting because most hitters use their legs to generate bat speed so what it does is makes you swing with just the upper part of your body so you're not going [Applause] [Music] Tino Martinez on the back at first with Everett dangerous nine home runs so far this year only heading to 36 [Applause] a great tag by Tito [Applause] one motion [Applause] he says he got him in the air watch the tag you see he was leaning the wrong way as well and Tino Martinez watch the quick tag batino and there's a called strike the Stanley with two down and nobody on a very close play at first Brian Runge made the call splitter too low one ball one strike for the Yankee fans that was ever so sweet which Hemings pick somebody up and in particular that it was amber John both pitchers caught the baserunners leaning Martinez caught Jeter leaning but he was able to get back and of court Clemens caught Everett leaning both him looked like they were about to break for second base pictures as I said they're both concentrating on holding the runners and that's what you have to do whether you pick them off and not is not really that important but the fact that you keep them close and give you a catch or a chance to throw them out if they do go Martina's the Red Sox's watching the former Red Sox Roger Clemens on the mound to dine nobody out those scores seconded two strikes two Stanley [Applause] the high heart three strikeouts for the rocket last of the second Bernie Williams coming up there is no score Sunday night baseball presented by gum out Red Sox nothing Yankees nothing last of the second inning and a reminder the NHL Stanley Cup Finals are assumed to be upon us that Dallas Stars in the New Jersey Devils had get started choose dead in Eastern five Pacific on ESPN Game two will be on June the first again and then every other game will be on ABC top fly by Bernie Williams and the shortstop Garciaparra out there to grab it so Bernie has gone on one pitch how about some Devils man coming from three games to one down and playing for the Stanley Cup the first two games Thursday game two and then Game three on Saturday that'll be on ABC and every other game throughout the rest of the series however long it goes we'll be seen on ABC Sports that's the schedule for games five six and seven if necessary and I think for a change they should be necessary this year I think there probably will be there are two very good teams Jorge Posada in return 10 homers at 40 for Bernie so getting him on one pitch is certainly a bonus and the curveball to Posada in there for a strike Posada the Yankees regular catcher Joe Girardi went to the campus and Posada doing a great job great job behind the plate and an even better Joey hitting he's hitting 349 10 homers 25 batted in but he's hit a quick haul here Oh into the cow curveball that was a really good curveball right there a great Owen to pitch the only Posada this one kept him from swinging at that so I think once you get behind Pedro you get to one and two or oh and two you're I mean you're in serious trouble you just have to become defensive because he had such a variety of pitches to throw at you and he just gets you to chase it he took them Oh into curveball but here's another one look at this the bottom just falls out of it and that's his first strikeout the last time he pitched here at Yankee Stadium as you mentioned at the outset of the telecast Joe he had 17 strikeouts the most ever against the Yankees and the he's long history Tino Martinez starts him with a curveball two misses inside Tino 268 only four home runs in that ballgame last September the ten fedra in addition to having 17 strikeouts at no walks and only gave up one hit and the guy that got the hit is no longer for you one two three the rocket at Pedro starting struggling no score after two [Music] athletes toys door [Music] Time Square [Music] and to the heart of the theater district 47 the Broadway right there and meanwhile up here in the Bronx the big ballpark no score after two innings [Music] started well Troy O'Leary now he's a guy that the Red Sox would like to see get going he has been the slump throughout this month O'Leary hitting only 222 for the year five homers only 16 batted in he was a hundred RBI man for them last year and he had some big hits in the series against Cleveland's who helped get them in position to play the Yankees for the American League Championship last year at 280 had 28 homers a hundred three batted in Dovan 83 of the year before and 80 the year before that Troy O'Leary 30 years old Rogers got little giddy up on that that's it all right yeah I got a little giddy apart yes good movement I notice that in the first inning his ball was really [Applause] he's nodding there to an end to captain Stottlemeyer Bell the pitching coach Todd's dad yeah Todd stottlemyre that's Bell on the right Todd his son is one of eight games this year so far for Arizona [Applause] John Valentin and Jason Varitek will follow miss Mel stottlemyre Stanny pitcher here for the Yankees 16:17 into the seventies [Applause] [Applause] John I want to take a moment home plate umpire ed Rapuano wanted me to sent along the his condolences and the rest of the crew to Gregg Monet whose mother passed away her name was Ruby and we want to send our condolences along as well to Greg there's it Rapuano home plate umpire one out nobody on John Valentin slider misses what bought of those strikes well I'm sure Greg Bonet appreciates it's an excellent umpire and doing their jobs on a daily basis they're not going to get much sympathy for anything that happens in their lives so and that you pass that remembrance along two balls and no strikes to Valentin john shulock he's the crew chief right down around and eat Valentin [Applause] Babbington has only played in eight games this year with injury problems get to homers and two RBIs slider misses a little bit low 3 & 1 he was one of the heroes when they made that dramatic comeback in the division series against Cleveland there without two games to none in the best-of-five series and Valentin almost single-handedly fueled to come back with a couple of 3-run homers in game 3 of that series and then everybody else joined in the next two games the shortstop right to Jeter two down nobody on in the third inning don't score in the game be sure and log on to Major League Baseball calm for the most complete baseball coverage on the internet it's all there check it out major league baseball calm Jason Varitek switch hitter the Boston catcher hitting 308 two homers 13 batted in two down nobody on Clemens has given up one hit that was to crawl everything that's on one to bear attack but he picked Everett off so if he gets Varitek here he will have faced the minimum number of hitters through three when the game started it looked like he was just kind of hyped up he was overthrowing a little bit now I think he's settled into a groove and he just [Applause] [Music] [Applause] that is a hard thing to catch 88 miles or to the cat a piece of that one it stays alive going to the county I ask Posada if Clemens saw a changeup and he said that he will throw it changeup off his splitter so I guess again a couple of different speeds in that split fingered pitch see let me see the hard scooter so for tonight from them Valen to the town let's go split-fingered fastball is so effective is because it looks like a fastball out of his hand but you can't read any rotation on it so it looks like a straight fastball it gets to the plate about 10 feet out in front of the plate it just drop straight down [Applause] she went to the counter Posadas says that clemens is easy to catch but he said when he first started catching it because last year usually joe girardi did the catching with leonard he said at first it was very difficult when Isildur variant heavy ball learn Rodriguez very easy - were combined the plate that's sliding off the so from our - it's gone - three two we'd all been Jeff fries [Applause] so you just took the pictures and when things go well for him we didn't have a lot of move [Applause] finger pitches tack fouls Varitek stays alive and John the difference between hitting against Pedro and hitting against Roger is that everything Roger throws is hard for instance this is the splitter again but it's hard Pedro you always have to have in the back of your mind that he can change beads and he has a great changeup so that makes his fastball that much more effective but everything Roger throws is hard you just have to make up your mind very quickly whether you're going to swing or not 3:02 Clement says four strikeouts in three innings the last third of the Yankee batting order coming up now against Pedro no score the SPN Sunday night baseball presented by gum out the Red Sox nothing the Yankees nothing now the Yankees in the last of the third inning each pitcher has faced the minimum number of it is thus far although each team has a hit strike two Shane Spencer Spencer 257 average eight homers 23 batted in mister D H tonight Ricky ledee on deck then Scott Brosius our curveball going outside one ball and one strike see the numbers for Shane Spencer you got a lot of power a home runs it only 140 at-bats breaking ball down on a way to and on the cat Pedro Martinez only 5 feet 11 inches tall only 170 pounds there's only one pitcher under 6 feet tall who made the Hall of Fame the outside corner strike that was the Yankee gray whitey Ford yeah you know your hall-of-famers but I also know the short olive curveball is too low or eft-1 you guys kind of Cooperstown when I talk to him I can talk to her I hate those tall Hall of Fame let's read it to the cat now to Shane Spencer [Applause] phaedra pitching inside there his reputation for coaching inside the results out there to science one initially I don't need to mention the things that that I've done to prove that pitching inside works and you know it's not just the level being a headhunter that's gonna work to my advantage it's the fact that I'm going to pitch inside and if they want to put that in their mind that's applause for me Ricky ledee the hitter strike call of the outside but I think he explained that very well I mean that's the way he's going to pitch he was taught the pitch to use inside part of plate as well as the outside part of the plate and if the hitters are conscious of the fact he might come inside and that fear factor comes into plate it just helps him all the more 1:1 to ledee changeup too long that was a kind of boxed awkwardly but as a catcher Baron said one ball one strike John I think he that reputation kind of started with him when he was in the National League because he was trying to pitch inside he was a young pitcher and he didn't have that great control and every once in a while the ball would get away inside and then you talk about that label of a head helmet head hunter yeah that's a foul and I remember Philippe Alou saying that he wasn't throwing it hitters he was just trying to pitch inside the ball would get away from him but again I think he has used that to his advantage and he has hit five batters this season which is not an enormous amount Clemens is at 4 Clemens has that reputation among a lot of hitters as well in the days days to talk it over with Ed Rapuano I think they thought that ball was low [Applause] it's a fastball on the inside part of play and he picks us down but they hit a home run yesterday just some friend ro Martinez fans out on the bleachers vigils got his own the routing section out there and I hope this a lot of them and do they have some big guys around him Scott Brosius the Heather Spencer over at first and that curve ball snaps in there for a called strike one more thing about pitching inside pitching inside is an art just like Greg Maddux and the Atlanta staff basically pitch to the outside corner Pedro pitches inside and outside but it's not easy to pitch inside because you do not want to miss over the middle of the plate so if you miss you miss off the plate in and that's when you knock a lot of hitters down I gotta play owing to the count to Brosius lead oh man Chuck Knobloch is on deck bedroom Artigas speaks English and Spanish fluently they grew up speaking Spanish and as you heard and that sound bide with him he speaks English very well he also speaks quite a bit of French to play up in Montreal made an effort to learn that language facts fall off the outside one ball and two strikes Pedro also is thrilled to be on the same ballclub with his brother Ramon he said Ramon was like a father to him when he was get growing up and Ramon who reminded people to pray grow at times on Friday when he beat the Yankees changed up going on shopping two balls two strikes and both other although they certainly don't have the same style as another great picture from the dominican or the greatest pitches to ever pitch in the major leagues Juan Marichal and Pedro when he won his first tsiyon award made sure to remember Marisa [Applause] talking about Pedro and this deep feelings about his brother Ramon and he talked to us about that earlier this weekend Ramon I think has been my man Thor my father my brother my friend everything to me and just seeing him so proud of me and so proud of the things I achieved I mean made me realize that it was probably the reason why I did all those things very poignant comment there about his brother Pedro and a lot of people rather Ramon from his brother Pedro and a lot of people a few yet but Ramon was one of the best pitchers in baseball until his shoulder he had shoulder problems and he's bouncing back now but he had a great fastball and a great changeup very similar to Pedro Knobloch takes a strike [Applause] his brother Ramon was his mentor like a father like a brother and a friend all of those things to him and Ramone pitched awfully well here Friday 7 and 2/3 innings just one run no walks five strikeouts as the Red Sox took the first game of the series now I'm block off the fists foul off to the right Oh into the count the crowd here at Yankee Stadium no score in the game Knobloch fouled out to first his first time Knobloch with two hits in 17 career at-bats against Pedro not too many have ever done much damage against Pedro Martinez back to the bag his Spencer not led off the inning with a walk in there two outs later he's still at first base but they caught out on strength Brosius popped out and it's quickly on to to Knobloch block fouls that one into the upper deck going to that's a piss that Pedro doesn't use a lot but that's a strikeout pitch as well as its changeup he'll get two strikes on the hitter and he throws it up and out of the strike zone and if you try to pull it you'll swing and miss Knobloch doing a good job they're just staying alive four batters have swung and missed on more than 1/3 of Pedro's pitches this year this one got back to a pretty good job here just fighting off some tough pitches 37% every pitch is thrown this year that had a batter has swung at the batter has missed just as a comparison Clemens has always been an excellent strikeout pitcher he's seen the batter's swing and miss at 19 percent of the pitches this one yet half is off for this Pedro on two [Applause] one or two they go with two strikeouts so far tonight now in his last start last Tuesday he lost three to two and the three runs yell out of that game where the most earned runs and allow the ball game since last August that's how great he has been breaking ball outside they'd gone 15 consecutive starts without allowing as many as three her drugs major league pitcher had a streak like that his name was Greg Maddux six years ago [Applause] $2,000 went away [Applause] two balls two strikes Knobloch quickly fell in the hole at only two but he has really made federal workers just arrogant Red Sox pitching coach looks on two of the reunited here in Boston they had been teacher and student together in Montreal - like - to Knobloch Jeter would be next another foul into the upper deck that's the interesting confrontation because Martinez sees that Knobloch is just up there kind of fighting the ball off so he really doesn't want to throw him much off-speed because then he would be right on it and that's why I say such a smart picture he knows exactly what he's doing out there he knows what the hitter is thinking [Applause] spencer at first two down no score third in it when slicing back into it why turn it back by Knobloch but Pedro prevails a nine-pitch at bat top of the order for the Red Sox coming up [Music] ESPN Sunday Night Baseball from Yankee Stadium New York the Red Sox are Yankees tied for first atop the American League East a rubber match of the three-game weekend series no score as we head into the fourth inning a Jeff Frey would lead it off followed by trot Nixon and Brian Daum back against Roger Clemens and this is the second time through the order let's see if Rogers stage with the same pitching pattern that he's used the first time through no he starts him off with a breaking ball and that's what good pitches will do the second time through the order they'll change their pattern and if they go to the third time through the order they will change their pattern again one strike the count to Geoff Frye playing in place of the injured was they Offerman who's on the disabled list in that playoff game last October at Fenway Park Game three of that series one of his Clemens is Pedro Martinez Roger Clemens gave up a triple to josé Offerman on the second pitch he threw in that game to it wasn't where the pitch was supposed to go [Applause] after Offerman led off the game with a triple than John Valentin had a two-run homer and just like that got worse for trauma she was knocked out in the third inning [Applause] two strikes and John what you have to do as a hitter you sit there and you watch when you watching great pictures work you sit there and you watch how he pitches the other hitters if you're right-handed you watch how he pitches the other right-handers if you're left-handed you watch how he pitches left any hitters so you will try to pick out a pattern or have an idea about how he's going to fit to you when you get to the play number five reminisce [Applause] but Rogers just a complete control looking a little breaking bone that's a hard breaking slider down and away but the key is it wasn't in the strike zone he started it in the strike zone and had it break out and that's what he does so well when Roger gets ahead of you he gets you to chase pitches when Pedro gets ahead of you he just basically overpowers all one to track Nixon he struck out looking his first time so that fan who was posting the strikeout totals for clement remington in the the middle of the strikeouts he had 1918 that of course was the the last year that the Red Sox won a World Series Yankees have won 25 at all since then it was just a couple of years later that Babe Ruth a Red Sox star was sent to New York and the fortunes of these franchises of course have been forever but that was the 20th century now it's Pedro as a Red Sox it's a new century and the Red Sox are hoping to [Applause] roll now he's struck out three in a row and six of the eleven he's faced and you can see as I said he gets him to chase pitches once he gets ahead of you he does not throw a strike he gets you to chase the splitter it starts in the strike zone and goes down and away and again that's why it has so much success against the left-handed pitcher that pitch also moves away from the left-hander and you can see it tumbling but it doesn't look like that coming to the plate who looks like it's about 95 miles an hour and all of a sudden the bottom drops out Bryan dhaba he popped his short his first time to dive nobody on fourth inning no score Roger Clemens who got roughed up in his last start against the White Sox last Tuesday but as you mentioned Joe gets started before that ten days ago against the White Sox here he pitched very well but he also had good stuff last time he just made a couple of bad pitches and bad locations left them out over the plate check swing that is a [Applause] steps out of the batter's box and a fine play turned in by Posada to get it before went foul now the Yankees with Jeter O'Neill and Bernie Williams coming up against Pedro no score Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN Red Sox nothing against Roger Clemens the Yankees nothing against Pedro Martinez and the big guys are coming up now against Pedro starting with Derek Jeter Jeter and an infield hit the only hit for the Yankees so far fouls that one off the facing of the upper deck everything when he's on deck a lot of hitters get ready to hit a lot of different ways this is Derek Jeter in the on-deck circle just relaxing talking to some fans in the first row kids getting relaxed singer the seats two bases the right-field line and Jeter Jack yet but he is two for two against Pedro well Johnny's used the end of the bat the first time up to hit a tapper down the third-base line he used to handle though the bat this time to get a base hit down the right-field line watch this at jams him and he just flares it down the right-field line in on his fist right down the right-field line for a double and it bounced it to the stand for ground rule double [Music] [Applause] they don't draw pictures in the score box just put numbers and he's two for two [Applause] well they catch line drive five hits and sits at bats it's coming back to the disabled list we'll have three shots but trying to bring in striving for the inside O'Neill didn't think so but what you'll see here from Pedro he'll go at him hard trying to keep him from pulling the ball and if he thinks he can strike him out with a changeup that's the only way he'll throw him a changeup but he wants to try to get ahead with the hard stuff to keep him from pulling the ball wheels up there trying to pull the ball to the right side to advance Peter over the third fastball and this this is again the advantage that Martinez hands right here because O'Neal knows that he doesn't want to pull them off he also knows that he has that great changeup and he can't jump out there too quickly on the fastball well Neil now 37 years old 312 batting average as a Yankee that's far too low one ball into thank you is the since he became a Yankee back in 1993 that he did not hit 300 [Applause] he has the change-up he know eventually but he doesn't know when [Applause] he still alive is barely [Applause] most hitters can hit 90 to 93 mile an hour fastball if they can sit on it and look for it but Pedro keeps you from doing that because of his changeup you have to recognize the pitch first and in doing so that makes the 92 mile an hour fastball about 96 miles an hour 97 from the change-up here [Applause] but he knows we have one there it is he's gotta get it he just [Applause] ball one Bernie popped up to short his first time on the first pitch that he saw the Yankees getting a leadoff bloop double by Jeter here Jeter is the only base runner in this game to have gotten past first base [Applause] therefore a fault and John that was just a great job of pitching the pot on miracles Paul O'Neill went up there knowing what his job is Paul O'Neill's a smart hitter he knew he had to pull the ball and he just couldn't do it these spots I mean Federer becomes even tougher to him jeez unable to move cheater over the catch made by Valentin the food basement to down and now a sauna Oh Johnny was just the opposite with Bernie Williams he threw him a curveball for a strike then he comes with the fastball up under the hands and Bernie could not catch up with it he went hard hard with O'Neal and then soft he went soft and then he comes with the fastball right in under the hands look at that he just can't get to it just a great pitch [Applause] Jorge Posada struck out his first time hitting 347 for the year that offer the devil he's still out there at second base and the Yankees for the second consecutive inning have had somebody lead off by getting on base and they've not been able to move either one of those runners even so much as one base Jesus still out there it's short Garciaparra right behind it leftie a veteran Tino Martinez on deck there's Bernie Williams had an excellent start to his season but nothing for him tonight against Pedro [Applause] that is a strike I was interesting there Posada took that pitch like he was expected to be a changeup he really pushed his front children to try to stay there so he wouldn't pull off but it was a fastball one out of four solder changeup too low sada Yankees everyday catcher it and he has really been catching almost every day trainer caught yesterday Posada has not started just less than a handful of games total first well that's why he's such a great pitcher you never know what you're going to get even when you get him in a hitter situation like three one two Oh Masada was looking too Oh II thought he was gonna throw him a changeup he throw him a fastball he's looking fastball here and he throws him a curveball so he pitches just the opposite of what the hitter thinks he seems to know what the hitters are looking for so he's not just overpowering with his stuff he's very smart out there he gets into the hitters heads that jak1 jak2 chat with her for a moment not back plane 3 into 2 pasado Jeter at second two down no score [Applause] that's magnificent [Music] that's four strikeouts for Pedro Garciaparra coming up against the rockin no score [Applause] copito back in the studio is 1010 9000 takes us to st. Louis for the Mets and the Cardinals New York with three home runs today this one from Edgardo Alfonzo and the Mets sweep the card to the final score today was 6 to 2 its first time all year the cards have been swept [Music] Metsu the great weekend in st. Louis we're at the Bronx in New York Yankee Stadium ESPN Sunday Night Baseball that's the look at Yankee Stadium from a high overhead from the gum out aerial camera beautiful pictures of this historic ballpark at Wendy's an historic pitcher throwing ball one high and tight to Nomar Garciaparra co-parents struck out his first time finger nothing Yankees were two hits the Red Sox were one hit against Clemens [Applause] and the slider one ball one strike let's show you Garciaparra first at-bat really overmatched here with Roger Clemens Roger made great pitches on him from a curveball for a strike a slider over the outside corner for strike one fastball inside corner strike two a splitter for strike three see you later ball one-strike this time to Garciaparra [Applause] 1 & 2 and John this is a tough thing when you've been on the disabled list like Garciaparra and Derek Jeter and then you come back and you face these too overpowering pitchers it's very difficult for you to get any rhythm Jeter's gotten a couple of hits but they've been off the end of the bat and off the handle and Garciaparra is just overmatched so to speak and that's tough because I mean he's one of the better hitters in the league but when you get back off the disabled list you haven't faced this type of pitching I mean it's just very difficult to stand out there and get base hit I mean Pedro Martinez and Roger Clemens both seem to be on the top of their game tonight and the last thing Pedro just got mad because Jeter got that poop double I mean he just got mad and overpowered the rest of the hitters the Yankees biggest hitters the nothing with Jeter out there at second base one into two Garciaparra and John good pictures do that they get mad if you get a cheap hit off them I've seen Randy Johnson I get a boo pity just blows away the next three guys I mean that's what they do they get angry if you get a cheap hit Jeter with Tucci pitch tonight can the Yankees any good number seven third innings and it's just tough you know a guy like Garcia coming back and not having a chance to face someone this tough and you see Roger the reason that he throws two different speeds on that splitters he splits his fingers wider when he wants it to go softer and the heart when you're talking about he doesn't split his fingers as wide on the pitch on the ball [Applause] that was that thing that was the one he splits him a little wider he gets a little more movement and a little softer speed Carl Everett got a base hit his first time the only Red Sox hit picked off by Clemens shortly thereafter one ball one strike and he I've got the base hit on the fastball so you see Roger he's gonna try to maneuver around the fastball this time try to get him to hit something else either the slider or the splitter ball one strike two ever with detective the Rockets strike that I guess their launches huh [Applause] seven rockets there's another way what happened it just came chewing on the couch [Applause] now see that's now I can read that [Applause] two balls two strikes to every Roger Clemens who twice in his career he had 20 striper [Applause] - of those days and he has struck out five of the last six hitters and John when he struck out the twenty he was doing it with an overpowering fastball at a hard slider now he's doing it with an overpowered fastball in a splitter he just throws this ball by look at the movement on the ball that's what gets ever not the speed it was the movement [Applause] when he was in his great days with the Red Sox he used to say that his fastball and when he threw it down around the knees well that's that's true in most good pitchers when they get the ball down they get on top of it a little bit more they get more action on the down below up top is the riding fastball because they release it high and it's just overpowering fastball you get more speed up and you get more movement down one strength to counter Stanley Stanley struck out his first time it's a foul into the upper deck and the quick put through the cat goes to all into Clemens with nobody you see and Danny he has traced 14 hitters the last six the one that he did was strike out in the last six on a chip swing hit a temperance Thank You studio [Applause] splitter in the dirt but I think he was trying to really get a good sync on that splitter he's gonna strike him out with it just overthrew it held onto it a little too long but from Owen - he had a there it is again so he's just he's overthrowing it now he had perfect control he was throwing it starting his own and moving out but I think he's caught up in the moment a little bit here to who is it we all are caught up he's just blowing guys away [Applause] that at times he has to battle getting caught up in your assignment to much adrenaline those two pitches just shows you that because to achieve and that's foul third base side Stanley is an outstanding fastball hitter Clemens has thrown him three straight split finger pitches since getting ahead of him at on two O'Leary would be next eight strikeouts for the rocket in 4 and 2/3 innings [Applause] Clemens is already within one strike out of equalling his season's high for strikeouts the ninth strikeout to the game this year [Applause] channel that Senator Bernie Williams [Applause] [Music] Clemens has faced the minimum number Tino Martinez coming up against Pedro no score ESPN Sunday Night Baseball last of the fifth inning no score in the game Tino Martinez ball one facing Pedro Martinez in the Bronx Tino flied out to Center his first time nothing - nothing into tight two balls and no strikes Shane Spencer and Ricky ledee will follow that's a picture looks like a slider or a cut fastball yeah he doesn't really throw a slider that's just the movement on his fastball you know you can grip it a little bit off to the side you get that movement like a cut fastball see that one kind of moved back the other way it's just all depend on where you hold it if you hold a little bit off-center to the right it'll cut in you're a little bit off the center to the left it'll move to the outside of you put the pressure on your index finger easy play forever and there is one away just thought about that I don't know why I'm telling you all that how you hold that are you planning on throwing some yeah I'll teach you how to do that yeah let's take a look at Pedro how he got out of that last-minute kitchen of Masada - and oh look at see how he keeps his front shoulder in he was looking change up now he comes with a curve ball three and one another curve ball I mean it's just great pitching there by Pedro Martinez and he was in Posadas head because Posada was looking for a changeup - and oh and he threw him a fastball he's looking for a fastball pre-warning threw him a curveball when Pedro Clemens of the Yankees in that playoff game last year in the game before that that he had pitched against Cleveland [Applause] [Music] it against the best football of the game so far for the Yankees maybe for either team chewed out and here is Ricky ledee but Pedro who really was hurt and realized that he was risking his careers we see the pitch totals and it's thrown a lot of strikes here tonight Clemens and Pedro but Pedro was not right he had the back problem and his sword a lot of cut fast balls and he was dropping down a little bit more of a three-quarter delivery than over the top found off the cleanup plan [Applause] team Monahan the trainer quickly out [Applause] it's like you said John most of the time umpires do not get any sympathy what's a fastball in and it gets him right on the inside of the right knee and there is a shin guard there but you can see it stops looks like it stops just the low where he was hit so it gets him right on the inside he has a shin guard on but underneath the pants but that was just above where the shin guard stops that's got to be I mean that's tough area to be hit in on your inside of your knee well he's having a hard time putting any pressure in that leg it appears well the tough part is being able to bend down see that's the tough part being able to get back in position to call the balls and strikes as he tried to shake it off here he wants to stay in this game will tell you that this copyrighted telecast is presented by authority of the Commissioner of baseball and may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form and the accounts and descriptions of this game may not be disseminated without expressed consent see we're giving a notice if you think I am I'm giving us some sympathy because I've been hit with baseballs and I know how much it hurts I know he gets hurt we're looking for it to get other business in there opportunity while nothing's happening to get some well that was you that wasn't me I wasn't involved in that oh no you said John get to read this now will you but wait what they might do John's just try to get through this inning you know this half inning and then I would think that someone else would take over because I don't think he's going to be able to bend down for four or five more innings and I mean he's still trying to shake it off and it's not having much success now he gets hit right here on the inside part of the knee right there and you see the shin guard stops right there so we get right where the shin guard stops well he's gonna try and make a go of it here well the Empire's a tough Ricky ledee two down nobody on and the change-up is too long the day struck out looking his first time by the way gene Monahan is the Yankees trainer but the Steve Donahue is his assistant and that was Steve Donahue not gene Monahan who was out there administering two the plate umpire ed Rapuano if you if he it was not able to continue we would be in a delay here for a while because one of the other umpires would have to go in and put all of the equipment on all of the equipment that the Empress wear beneath their clothing the shin guards the chest protector everything else and that could take it take a good ten minutes and I think the problem there would be what would happen to Pedro he'd have to sit out there you know go sit down or whatever in the middle of an inning and that's not what you would like to see especially in a ballgame like this where one pitch can make the big difference Stanley and fry and it's around it but somehow it made it through the both of them and that's the first base hit by a left man of tonight against Pedro Martinez an interesting thing here John's a fastball in and it's a pretty good pitch but ledee gets the barrel of the bat out there see they don't expect him to pull the ball against Pedro but you're gonna see fry trying to get there he just can't get there that's just a clean base hit [Applause] today we hit a home run here yesterday otherwise struggled most of the early part of the season so much that he's been a lot of talk the Yankees might be in the market for I left fielder the dimes back in there or they've been all kinds of names mentioned Henry Rodriguez with the Cubs because they can't say Co ad eh Matt Stairs with Oakland and even very big names like Juan Gonzalez as long as groomers are going around against SM thought what let's go for it and they even had Sammy Sosa on the list John there were so many guys listed there that I was disappointed I mean just I've seen so many I've seen different names every day and you think you and I may be going hey we should be on the list I mean so many names being thrown out there this Brian Cashman the GM tell him [Applause] we were about the only ones not on the list right a list of rumors Scott Brosius he's been the Yankees most successful against Pedro in the past not that he's been real successful but he's been the most sorry Yankee five hits in 17 the career at-bats against Pedro that's surprising a little bit to me John because Brosius is a very good fastball hitter but Pedro's fastball moves in and he also has grit a great curveball and a great changeup so he has some pitches that would bother Brosius so it's surprising to me that it's not a left-handed hitter that has a most heinous I'm not surprised at all I mean Lao people would be surprised the day is running [Applause] [Music] 1 & 2 the count to Brosius now with a chance to drive it a run well I think you have to try to make something happen against great pitchers I've said this all along I think you have to run on mad actually have to run on these great pitchers because if you sit there and wait for things to happen you know you're just not going to get three or four base hits in a row good jump in each steal second base you're okay Brosius rises to the occasion a changeup down and away at second by fried into threat for the Yankees we're going to the six inning O'Leary Valentin and Varitek against the rock and no score [Music] it's all about the beer Heineken and by pfizer where light is our life's work [Music] Yankee Stadium with the classic that everybody seemed to be expecting last October it didn't materialize in the playoffs but maybe having it in progress here tonight but now even this great one that's been going may come screeching to a halt at least for several minutes because of the injury sustained by Ed Rapuano this is at the end of that anything I mean he had to be in amazing pain Joe and yet he finished the inning well they didn't want they understand the magnitude of the game they understand that if they make Pedro stand out there for that long while they change into the gear that it could hurt so Rapuano decided I will gut it out for this inning and then we'll change in between and I was surprised even that Roger Clemens went out on the mound for a while he went out there and threw a few pitches then he realizes gonna be a while so now he goes back into the dugout so we are at a delay here because as we mentioned before another up fire I'm sure right now is putting the equipment on well it should be Bryan Runge the guy that sits first base he's the first base umpire and you go in rotation so it should be Bryan Runge and I'm a little surprised that one of the umpires did not immediately leave the field and go begin the process of getting ready to become the whole plate of fire while that anything was still going on and just go with three out fires for a brief time we might have lessened in this delay but a few minutes you see the Yankee players are going to go sit in the dugout as well so we are in a delay here because the injury to Ed Rapuano we hope he's going to be okay but one of the other umpires is gonna have to put the equipment on it become the home plate on fire and there's Bill Miller the third-base up for explaining all that to Jimmy Williams no score the Red Sox with wanna hit against Clemens he has had eight strikeouts in five innings and has faced the minimum number of hitters three hits for the Yankees against Pedro Martinez he's had four strikeouts it has been magnificent but now something unforeseen we have a little bit of a delay so while we have a little bit of time let's go back to the studio and here's Bill Pido John thank you is gum out takes us to San Francisco for the Cubs and the Giants this is Sammy Sosa the other way 2 for 3 of the game and his 16th home run of the year the Cubs go on to beat San Francisco today final score was 4 to 1 cup someone in there and took two out of three from the Giants over the weekend at their beautiful new ballpark with Civic Golf Park Sunday Night Baseball from Yankee Stadium no score as we again are in a delay here that gives us a chance to remind you about a big full day of baseball on Memorial Day Memorial Day tribute where we remember our past heroes with a major league celebration of today's brightest stars starting at 1:00 o'clock eastern 16 teams on two networks showcasing a national tradition baseball to memorial day on ESPN and espn2 starting with the A's and the Yankees here on ESPN to Joe and I will be there some of you will see the angels and the Indians in a four o'clock Eastern 1 Pacific it'll be Houston in Colorado on ESPN and the Cardinals and the Diamondbacks over on espn2 as the Big Mac and Jim Edmonds go at it at bank one ballpark in Phoenix some will see the Cubs and the Braves and at 7 o'clock Eastern 4:00 Pacific the Texas Rangers and the Detroit Tigers the Rangers that go up against their old star slugger Juan goes on us now in Detroit at Comerica Park that'll be on ESPN and on espn2 at 7:00 Eastern the New York Mets and the Dodgers from Dodger Stadium as the bets go into a lie after sweeping the Cardinals in st. Louis well there you see the numbers Roger Clemens of course looks like he has the better life but the number that really is important is this one right here in the middle who run scored yeah Roger Clemens with eight strikeouts and Pedro with four let's take a look at Clemens strikeouts he's started in the first inning with where's Stanley Baba I'm he gets everyone Jeff fry [Applause] I mean he just everything he's doing is he's on top of his game baldie strike my with fastball they give them to chase the splitters out of the strike zone so that Clemens just had to shut it down here and this is the problem Joe because when the both pitchers have been in their rhythm they're they're totally where they want to be and this disrupts that rhythm well not only that John this is a cool night as you mentioned at the beginning of the broadcast normally you know it's pretty warm out here at this time of the year and everyone will you know stay warm but it's kind of a cool night any delayed could have an effect on on Roger I think Pedro's okay now because he's finished his inning and he's got his arm all wrapped up and he's sitting there got his hand wrapped up everything's wrapped up there so he's gonna stay warm so in some ways for Roger who was already on the the bench while Pedro was pitching I mean this could be like one of those real long innings where the Yankees get six or seven runs and he has to stay in there through two or three pitching changes and has that long delay I mean that's something the pitchers have to cope with from time to time well that's starting pitchers well I think the way Rogers throwing I don't think it's really gonna have any effect on him John because I think he has his rhythm and there was always the fondant if you're going to get good pitches you have to get them early because the longer the game goes them better their rhythm gets and the more confidence they gain I mean the guys you know Bob gifts a Sandy Koufax you didn't get those guys early you're not going to get them and I think if you look at all the history of the game guys like Greg Maddux all the good pitches you have to get them early well nobody's gotten to either one of these pictures tonight so far Clemens and Pedro through five innings scoreless and we're in a delay and we'll be right back [Music] 12 to 7 our times continue for the Tigers here Roger Clemens back out there warming up and we're just about ready to go the new plate up fires come out that gives us a chance here to remind you again about the NHL Stanley Cup Finals beginning Tuesday it'll be the Dallas Stars in Brett Hall up against the New Jersey Devils exclusive coverage on ESPN 8 Eastern 5 Pacific on Tuesday game 2 8 p.m. Eastern Thursday on ESPN again and then Game three on Saturday at 8 Eastern 5 Pacific on ABC Sports named for on Monday June 5th again on ABC in every other game if necessary games 5 6 & 7 will be on ABC Sports as well the NHL Stanley Cup Finals so Roger Clemens 68 pitches thrown he really got on a roll he struck out Jason Varitek 2 in the third and he struck out frien Nixon to start the fourth da back bounced out on a check swing dribbler in front of the plate and then he struck out Garciaparra and Everett to start the fifth inning if five strikeouts to six hitters and the one hitter he did not strikeout hit a seven foot tapper on a check swing Bryan Runge who had been the first base supplier will now take up behind the plate John Shula will move over the first base and Phil Miller is over there third Tommy Harper the first base coach for the Red Sox a great base stealer right a player in his day you know and one time held the Red Sox record the steals in a single season he's wearing a microphone and with all the strikeouts and the dearth of runs tonight he was talking to Paul O'Neill about that a little bit earlier but so much when you see this kind of kitchen so much for the Jew stuff all this kitchen will stop on and talk about it you step off we're off tomorrow [Music] you see that people do convert while things are slowed down here but Tommy Harper is right there are great pictures it doesn't matter whether it's the ball is juiced or not they're able to dominate the hitters and that's what we're seeing here tonight and John Bryan Runge behind the plate is the son of Paul Runge who was a supervisor of the umpires when they had two lakes he was a nationally supervisor can a former teammate of mine at in Durham and a whole lot of family line of umpires right yeah ed Runge before that there is hilarious we would begin play again after a 14 minute delay the clemens immediately yet strike one O'Leary flied out to right at a three and two pitches first time splitter to low on ball one strike Valentin and Varitek will follow [Applause] no score top of the sixth inning we'll have to wait and see if the umpires the change of umpires affects the pitchers in that if there is a different strike zone they're all supposed to be using the same strike zone now so I would say that this shouldn't have a big effect on what but suffice to say something that is not often [Applause] Genet - and especially with a guy like Roger because Roger keeps a book telling you you know where he knows what an umpire strike zone looked like which every umpire he knows if they're high ball umpires lowball umpires they're wide umpires or has the strike outfits work of the night that's number 9 equaling his season's high nine strikeouts in 5 and a third innings I mean he is just on top of his game in as I said it doesn't appear that the delay affected him at all there is another splitter right on the outside part of the plate John Valentin foul ball Valentin grounded to short his first time Clemens has faced 16 hitters and has struck out nine of them maybe while they had the delay Roger ran up in this locker and looked to see what the strike zone of Bryan Runge looks like checked his book so he probably knows exactly what he's doing basehead left-center the day over to pick it up the fountain gets the Red Sox second hit the only other hit for the Red Sox was Carl Everett's one on second of the second inning but before Clemens really had to get serious about working to the next hitter he ended up picking off Everett at first base I tell you what that's just good this is good hitting watch where this pitch is slider down and away look at that down and away and only a guy that's leaning out there could hit that pitch he leans out gets it and rips it up the middle for a base hit that was a good pitch that was not a bad pitch with just great hitting there by Valentin Jason Varitek struck out his first time switch-hitting catcher for the Red Sox nine strikeouts go walk the runner goes [Applause] which good idea by Jimmy Williams the manager of the Boston Red Sox to try something to try to change what's going on here with Roger not a big lead at first base by Valentin not a good jump and again the ball was so far inside it just tied Varitek up he didn't really have a chance to protect him let's put her down the left-field line it is [Applause] just foul Oh into the cat the bear attack [Applause] well Valentin takes off in watch Burrtec he tries to protect him way inside he just tries to get his a piece of the ball he really knew he couldn't put it in play just wanted to try to file it off he couldn't do so and perfect throw by Posada and [Applause] they rise to their feet again that's one of the dirt one ball two strikes so only two baserunners have been on for the Red Sox and both of them have been wiped out almost immediately after they arrived on base see Posada and has been one of the best so far the American League and he's Yvonne Rodriguez life so not over half of those who for the first time this year the rocket has reached double figures he's got a two-hit shutout going that time of the order coming up for the Yankees against Pedro [Applause]

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Published: Sat Oct 29 2016

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Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF-tbNjg1L4

One of the best examples of vintage Pedro.

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Watched this live and was just amazed as Pedro. He was the best for a few years. I mean think about the players he faced and how many were on roids