Want your voice heard? Don’t try screaming during Sunday night’s ALDS Game 1 between the Yankees and the Orioles – they can’t hear you in Baltimore.
Instead, post questions and comments below, interect with other fans and follow inning by inning with commentary from The Post’s Marc Raimondi.
BOTTOM 9
CC stays in and gets Machado to ground out to start the bottom of the ninth.
Davis goes down swinging. Sabathia is up to 115 pitches. But he is the workhorse.
Ford doubles into the right field gap and now Joe Girardi has a decision. And he’s pulling CC.
Great performance by Sabathia. He goes 8 2/3, giving up two runs and eight hits. He’s responsible for Ford at second.
David Robertson strikes out Ryan Flaherty and it’s over. Yankees beat the Orioles in Game 1, 7-2.
TOP 9
Russell Martin absolutely crushes it. Gone. 3-2 Yankees. Wow. Absolutely huge postseason home run for the catcher. Came off closer Jim Johnson, too.
Ibanez follows with a base hit and Jeter slaps a hit-and-run single. Ibanez to third. Yankees are in great shape here already up a run.
Ichiro hits a little dribbler, Johnson fields it, but has no play. Eduardo Nunez, pinch running for Ibanez, comes in to score. 4-2.
Rodriguez strikes out swinging with a chance to almost blow the game open. Three strikeouts tonight for A-Rod.
Cano lines it down the left field line and two runs score. Cano ends up on third. The wheels have come off for the Orioles. 6-2 Yankees. C’mon, did anyone expect Cano to really go 0-for-5?
This is a funny way for the Orioles to preserve their reputation in one-run games.
Russell Hunter in now for the Orioles. Brutal outing for Johnson, who was great all year.
Swisher hits a sacrifice fly to center, scoring Cano and it’s 7-2. Teixeira ends a massive top of the ninth by grounding to second.
YANKEES 7, ORIOLES 2
BOTTOM 8
CC right back in there with 95 pitches. He’s the Yankees ace and it’s going to be his game to win or lose.
Hardy doubles to lead off, slapping it down the right field line — just fair.
CC bares down and fans Jones swinging with a slider. Big out.
Wieters has already made his mark on this game defensively, but offensively he won’t, at least not in the eighth. Sabathia jams him and gets him to pop out to in foul territory to first.
And here’s the guy you don’t want to see: Reynolds. This will be a big test for CC.
Reynolds grounds out to short. CC bends and doesn’t break yet again. Still 2-2 heading into the ninth.
TOP 8
Matusz in and Cano grounds out. He’s 0-for-4. Didn’t see that coming, not with how he finished the regular season.
Matusz catches Swisher looking at an inside fastball. Nice pitch. The left-hander looks good. He’s got great stuff, but he usually has troubles getting righties out — a rather large issue when most people in the world are right-handed.
Teixeira takes a walk. It didn’t look like Matusz wanted anything to do with him.
Now we know why. Matusz fans Granderson, another lefty. Great inning and the Camden Yards crowded is charged up.
BOTTOM 7
Ford dribbles it to Cano, who is typically nonchalant, but flips it over to Teixeira for the first out.
CC is still only at 82 pitches, which is remarkable in the seventh. No signs of slowing either.
Brian Matusz throwing in the Orioles bullpen now. He’ll probably come in to face Cano in the eighth.
Sabathia catches Andino looking. That’s CC’s fifth strikeout. The big fella is cruising right now.
McLouth grounds out to second. Great start by Sabathia. Very impressive. All tied at 2 and we’re heading to the eighth.
TOP 7
Patton still in for the Orioles.
Martin works a full count and leads off with a walk. That’s big. Patton might not be long for this game.
Ibanez walks, too, and Showalter has to get Patton out of there. It’s one thing to get hit, but you absolutely cannot walk two Yankees to lead off the seventh in a tie game.
Darren O’Day is in and Jeter bunts against him with two strikes. Didn’t see that one coming. Both runners move over and there’s only one out.
This is Ichiro’s chance for a Yankees postseason moment. Suzuki hits it to second, Andino comes home, Wieters makes a tremendous scoop and gets Martin out at the plate. Two down. Wow. What a play by Wieters on an impossible hop. Andino was playing in.
A-Rod almost gets rung up by O’Day, a sidearmer — and then he does, swinging. We’re still tied.
They showed a graphic before the K. A-Rod’s postseason average with two outs and runners in scoring position: a robust .133. Ouch. That won’t make it any higher.
BOTTOM 6
Jones is jammed by CC and grounds out up the middle to Cano. Other than that one inning, Sabathia has looked very good.
CC freezes Wieters. He’s 0-for-3. I won’t mention keeping the bases empty with Reynolds coming up again. Oh, crap. I just did.
Reynolds singles to center. CC is still only at 74 pitches. He’s fine.
Machado breaks his bat and sends the ball to Jeter. In between hop, Jeter bobbes and he can’t get Reynolds at second. Inning still alive. E-6 for El Capitan.
Davis hits a deep fly to left center, but Granderson has plenty of room to squeeze it. CC is out of trouble again — and now through six.
If only he could get a little run support.
TOP 6
Hammel will probably be a batter to batter decision here now that he’s over 100 pitches.
A-Rod grounds out to Hardy at short. Reminds me of an old Manny Machado.
Cano cues one off the end of the bat and Machado throws him out. Cano is 0-for-3 — when was the last time that happened?
Two down now and Hammel might just get out through this inning. He’s up to 109 pitches.
Swisher rips a single up the middle. Call him Mr. October.
And call me wrong, because Hammel is getting the hook. Really nice outing for him. 5 2/3 innings, two runs and just four hits. He’s responsible for Swisher on first.
Left-hander Troy Patton is in. He had a very good regular season out of the bullpen for the O’s.
Teixiera singles up the middle. Swisher stops at second.
Update from the National League game: Reds 4, Giants 0 in the top of the fourth.
Chris Davis robs Granderson in the right field corner on a foul fly ball. That was a dangerous route to the ball for Davis, but he shielded himself from colliding with anything and somehow caught the ball, too.
Absolutely huge play with two runners on. Still tied at 2-all.
BOTTOM 5
Davis loops a broken-bat single into right field. He’s got two hits now off CC. Sabathia, contrary to Hammel, is only at 46 pitches. He’s been very economical.
Great play by Martin to throw out Ford on a little roller in front of home. Showalter is out — he didn’t like the call. But the replay shows it was the right one. Davis is over to second on a pseudo sacrifice bunt.
Andino slaps it just past Jeter’s glove and into left field. Davis had to hold up, so he stops at third. First and third with one out for the guy who has the Orioles’ only two RBIs: McLouth.
CC catches him looking. Nasty fastball with movement on the outside corner. McLouth knew it too. Huge pitch.
Nice stop by Martin with Hardy up. Hardy grounds out to Cano. Nice job by CC to get out of the jam. He’s still only at 61 pitches.
TOP 5
Hammel snags a comebacker off the bat of Ibanez for the first out of the inning. He’s up to 90 pitches though. Curious to see how long Buck sticks with him.
He seems fine, though, catching Jeter looking for a strikeout. Hammel has four Ks. He’s been solid. Can’t complain about this performance if you’re an Orioles fan.
Crowd really into it here as Hammel strikes out Ichiro to end the inning. Pretty cool to see the Baltimore crowd going crazy. As a fan of the “The Wire,” I’d like to see the city succeed. However, if show creator David Simon was writing this script, there would surely be a tragic end to the Orioles’ magical run.
BOTTOM 4
Jones pops out to third and Wieters smokes a liner right at Granderson in center. Two very quick, important outs for CC. Once again, he doesn’t want to pitch to Reynolds with guys on base.
Sabathia is careful with Reynolds and he walks.
Just heard that Suzyn Waldman said on the radio just now that the Athletics lost today to “Toronto.” Interesting. So much for Showalter or Bob Melvin winning Manager of the Year. John Farrell is the first skipper in the history of baseball to win a playoff game without his team even being in the playoffs.
Machado grounds out to Jeter to end the inning. More and more like A-Rod every day.
TOP 4
Great at bat to lead off for A-Rod. Hammel threw him three straight close pitches and Rodriguez laid off and earned a walk. Interesting that Hammel didn’t challenge him with a fastball on 3-2 with the bases empty.
Cano hits it hard down to first. Reynolds almost falls over, but scoops it and steps on the bag. A-Rod safe at first. That was almost caught on a fly and Rodriguez would have been doubled off. Break for the Yankees.
Swisher walks again. This is already his best postseason ever.
Teixeira crushes a fastball to right off the wall and A-Rod scores to tie it at 2. Teixeira is thrown out at second. Terrible slide by Teixeira. Not like he can really run hard right now, though. Swisher stops at third.
Granderson is intentionally walked and that will bring up Martin with runners on the corners and two outs.
Hammel busts Martin up and in — it almost takes off the catcher’s head, but he gets out of the way in time. There will be no revenge for Martin, though. He flies out to center to end the inning.
Good job by the Yankees to come right back.
YANKEES 2, ORIOLES 2
BOTTOM 3
Chris Davis gets the first hit off Sabathia and the immortal Lew Ford gets a broken bat single. The Orioles have something cooking here in the third.
Robert Andino sacrifices the runners over and McLouth singles home two runs. A little small ball by Buck Showalter there. Sabathia ends the bad inning by inducing Hardy into a double play.
CC looked almost unhittable through the first two innings. The O’s didn’t hit him hard in the third, so Yankees fans should not be too worried. It doesn’t seem like Sabathia is coming apart.
ORIOLES 2, YANKEES 1
TOP 3
Hammel strikes out Ibanez to start the third. First K for him.
Jeter grounds out to short. This game is moving along rather briskly. I know by me writing that, we’re now in for a four-hour, 15-inning classic.
Hammel fans in Ichiro with an inside fastball. Best inning so far by the Orioles right-hander.
BOTTOM 2
Sabathia gets Wieters to pop out quickly to second base. Good thing — don’t want anyone on base for Reynolds.
CC catches the Yankee killer looking, though. First strikeout for Sabathia. Nice backdoor hook.
I’m not a big fan of the whole Manny Machado-Alex Rodriguez comparison. Although him striking out against Sabathia there is reminiscent of a young A-Rod in the postseason.
Six up, six down for CC.
By the way, who had the idea to put Cal Ripken Jr. in the booth for this series? Can we get Paul O’Neill or Al Leiter in there to offset the Orioles homerism?
TOP 2
Nick Swisher walks on four pitches. That’s one of the more underrated parts of Swisher’s game — he’s a really solid on-base percentage guy.
It looked like Mark Teixeira had a read on that hanging slider, but Hammel pops Teixiera up to short. That ball easily could have ended up going off the warehouse in right field. Perhaps Tex’s timing is not quite back yet.
Mark Reynolds makes a great diving play to get Swisher at second. The throw from second is not in time to get Curtis Granderson. Apparently, Reynolds doesn’t only kill the Yankees with his bat.
Russell Martin pops out foul to Reynolds at first to end the inning. Hammel made some bad pitches, but got away with a few and got a great defensive play to boot. Still 1-0 Yankees.
BOTTOM 1
CC Sabathia gets Nate McLouth to ground out to the sure-handed Mark Teixeira at first to start the bottom half of the inning. It’s not hyperbole to say that Sabathia might be the biggest key to the postseason for the Yankees.
CC jams JJ Hardy badly and he loops out to Jeter at short. Nice pitch. Two down.
Adam Jones grounds out to Jeter to finish the inning. Excellent start by Sabathia.
TBS play-by-play man Ernie Johnson was kidding about Jones chasing Ripken right? I’m sure he was — Jones played in all 162 gams this year — but it was painfully unfunny. Good thing Jones grounded out quickly to end Johnson’s shame.
TOP 1
Derek Jeter leads off with a hit — obviously. What else do you expect from The Captain?
Ichiro Suzuki, like he’s done so many times down the stretch, comes up with a big hit, doubling to the opposite field and driving Jeter home. 1-0 Yankees.
Getting ahead early is huge for the Bombers. They must put pressure on the upstart Orioles from the start and this is the way to do it.
Of course, Ichiro trying to steal third with no one out and Alex Rodriguez up is crazy. Matt Wieters guns him down. Terrible decision by someone.
Not that A-Rod would have driven him home after striking out looking against Jason Hammel. Questionable call there by the homeplate umpire.
Hammel breaks Robinson Cano’s bat and he flies out to right. That’ll end the top half of the first, but the Yankees drawing first blood is massive.
YANKEES 1, ORIOLES 0
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8:34 p.m. — Looks like we got a game tonight. First pitch is forthcoming.
8:01 p.m. — Reports from Baltimore are saying that the game will begin at 8:40 p.m. Hang tight, everyone. It’s going to be a long night.
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