Kissimmee, Fla., March 3 — I should have known better. It took 40 years of watching baseball to come to see that a visiting team up by two with a man on base and two outs in the bottom of the ninth was a team in danger of losing. And it held true today, even though we added three in the top of the tenth. Poor former prospect Ryan Bradley is #93 now, and he showed why in the 10th, a 5-run frame that ended on a first-pitch, no-doubt-about-it grand slam.

It was a long day, with five hours of driving sandwiched around a four-hour ballgame, but the day was very entertaining and we finished it up with burgers and grouper in the restaurant where Boomer and the Boss agreed on a second stint in pinstripes. In the outfield Shane (pictured) showed Chuck McElroy that pitches thrown outside will be taken to right, and Vander Wal followed up with a three-run dinger. Andy was OK, Houston’s Oswalt was awesome, and Brandon Knight and Steve Karsay were good.

Widger hit a bomb in his bid for the backup catcher job, and if taking pitches really is what Joe’s looking for this year, F. P. Santangelo scored some points too. But the most I can say for Kissimmee’s Osceola County Stadium is that the biggest ad on the scoreboard features huge capital letters for Waste Management, and Tony Soprano was nowhere to be seen.

Legends Field against the Twins (who gave up 20 runs today) tomorrow.

YANKEE BASEBALL!!!