Hitting ARod was not an accident. As a strategy move, it made zero sense. Did it cost them the game? Truthfully, we will never know, but we do know that it didn't help prevent losing the game. We do know that it gave Girardi the opportunity to rally his troops and wake up the Yankee team. Did that make the difference? We'll never know, but it didn't help our cause. It clearly got ARod fired up. Would he have hit the HR if he hadn't been plunked? Who knows. The HR fed more positive energy to the Yankees than it would have had it not been for the plunking. It was gratuitously stupid, and in sports and in life, it has been my experience that gratuious stupidity always comes back to bite people.