Weekend Check

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For today we are building vocabulary to bank for our writing.  Posted in Classroom will be a doc that will help you filter unique vocabulary to your sport(s) of choice.  You will be adding to this file every week so that you grow accustomed to the language of your sport.  This is a major piece of your improvement as a sports writer is to expand your vocabulary and the sentence variety as well.  Below you will find an except from last night's Yankee game.  Notice what I highlighted were they types of words/expressions that are unique to baseball.  Only pluck the words/expressions that you know will be helpful during your drafting process.  Make your way through 2 articles today of your choice.  Pick rich articles that will display the words you want to draw upon in future writings.  

Joe Girardi was ejected in the ninth inning Thursday as soon as he confronted the plate umpire, Dan Iassogna, about balls and strikes. But Girardi, theYankees’ manager, was in no hurry to leave the field. He tried some performance art first.

Girardi was upset about the strike zone after his cleanup hitter, Brian McCann, struck out looking. After the ejection, Girardi strode away from Iassogna and dug his spikes into the dirt, scratching a line parallel to the plate and well out of the zone. Girardi yelled a little more, for theatrical flair, and then left with an energized crowd behind him.

The Yankees responded with another run, but Didi Gregorius flied to left with runners on second and third to finish a 3-2 loss to the Cleveland Indians.

“I just wanted the strike zone to be right,” Girardi said, mentioning other calls that also bothered him. “I want the strike zone to be the strike zone, and I know they’re not going to be perfect; I understand that. But it’s a real important time.”

The loss shaved a half-game from the Yankees’ lead in the American League East, which now stands at a game and a half over the idle Toronto Blue Jays, who start a road series against the Los Angeles Angels on Friday.

The Yankees have three more games this weekend with the Indians, who arrived in last place in the A.L. Central but have been tougher for the Yankees than Minnesota, Cleveland’s divisional neighbor, has been. The Yankees swept the Twins this week but have now lost three of four this month to the Indians.

The Yankees will miss the reigning A.L. Cy Young Award winner, Corey Kluber, in this series, but they will face other tough right-handers, Carlos Carrasco and Danny Salazar, the next two days. The soft-throwing Josh Tomlin looked like an easier assignment, but he was not.
“He did just enough to keep us in between speeds,” said McCann, who was 0 for 3 against Tomlin before Cody Allen struck him out in the ninth.