Summer in New York City always makes me think of the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and tonight’s Yankees game was no exception.
The first six-and-a-half innings were a lot like This Side of Paradise—a total snoozefest with a loathsome main character. Marcus Stroman held the Mariners bats almost entirely in check, but without dominating enough to be interesting, and Luke Raley got a second-inning hit that zapped the game of the tension of a potential no-hitter. But Stroman skated through the lineup with an almost evenly divided five-pitch mix that kept Seattle’s bats off balance enough to prevent a breakthrough, even as they made some decent contact and avoided the swing-and-miss that’s defined so much of their early season.