Garland & Savannah Jeffreys "Let's Play Two!"

Imagine its’ 60 years ago, you are a ballplayer on the Brooklyn Dodgers. You're one game out of first place on the last day of the season. 

You’re in Ebbets Field playing a double header with your arch-rivals the New York Giants. If you win both games, you are going to the World Series against the hated Yankees.

Now imagine you are the veteran Brooklyn pitcher who’s seen and done everything, twice.  The manager has mixed feelings about letting you pitch today but you will hurl the second game if the phenom rookie pitcher shuts the Giants down in the first game.

The rookie pitches a dandy four hitter, leading you to a pitching duel with Hoyt Wilhelm’s knuckle ball. You not only win the second game, you do it with a walk-off double in the bottom of the ninth.

Friday night at High Line Ballroom, Savannah Jeffreys, the phenom rookie rocked the first half of the double-header. Brooklyn won 6-1.

Walking in from the bullpen, Garland Jeffreys took the mound for game two and shut the Giants down 1-0 with 12 strikeouts and zero walks. 

Manager, Claire Jeffreys, said, “I consider myself the luckiest Jeffreys on the face of the earth.”

Friday night I was sick with strep throat but got myself down to High Line for Savannah & Garland’s show. Slept all day Saturday, but it was worth it.

Savannah Jeffreys has young Carol King’s confidence both in voice and in her terrific piano playing. Garland is Garland. His shows, music and storytelling always kill me. He leaves his heart and soul on stage. If you love Springsteen, see Garland live.  Their talent muscle is cut from the same cloth.