Not Your Average Joe | Yanks Send Message to Ortiz, Sox

It's tough to know whether or not Red Sox pitcher Julian Tavarez threw at Yankees' captain Derek Jeter intentionally on Monday afternoon. There is considerably less doubt surrounding the intentions of Andy Pettitte's up-and-in pitch to David Ortiz in the next half-inning. "We're just pitching," Yankee skipper Joe Girardi said, via the Boston Herald. "We had some guys whose feet we needed to move - it's just pitching, just playing the game." The pitch was a message to Big Papi and the entire Red Sox dugout that these aren't Joe Torre's Yankees. Message received, I'd say, based on the glare toward the mound that Ortiz delivered after the pitch caused him to jump back out of the batter's box.