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Follow us on TwitterAfter Mike Mussina’s outing last night in which he tied Bob Gibson for 44th on the all-time win list, a message mysteriously appeared on Mussina’s white board in the locker room. The note, according to Dan Graziano, read: “Thanks ESPN for the 4:00 a.m. arrival and day game the next day.”
For Mussina, it doesn’t really matter. He pitched last night and doesn’t throw again until the Yanks get to Boston. But it’s hard not to feel sympathetic for the Yankees. Because MLB wouldn’t tell ESPN that they could not have last night’s Yankee game, the Yanks were stuck playing a 7:05 p.m. game on get-away day. They had to fly to Kansas City after the fact and play a day game today. Had yesterday’s game been at 1:05 p.m. as originally planned or had today’s game been set for 7:05 p.m., everything would have been fine.
The Yankees aren’t making excuses for themselves. “It’s difficult, but it’s not something you don’t expect,” Girardi said. “When I played here, we did it a lot. It’s just part of the baseball life. You’ve got to be resilient and you’ve got to go through it, and there are no excuses.”
Even if there are no excuses, the Yankees are facing a scheduling fight this month. Because of the Pope’s trip to New York, 18 of their next 20 games are on the road, and they have one day off — on April 21 — this month. The last thing they need are day games on the road after night games at home. Either way, we play today; we win today.
Mister Hughes pitches today for the Yanks. Watch that velocity. The sky might fall if he’s not throwing fast enough. With Hughes on the mound, I’d be remiss not to mention the Big Three K Craniosynostosis pledge drive. Please consider donating if you haven’t already.
Damon LF
Cano 2B
Abreu RF
Rodriguez 3B
Matsui DH
Posada C
Giambi 1B
Betemit SS
Cabrera CF
Hughes P
Game Notes: Jeter out; Giambi in. Derek is day-to-day and could miss up to a week, but for now, the Yankees are saying he won’t land on the DL. An MRI showed a mild strain. A-Rod remains at third base.
Love Cano in the 2-hole. Torre woulda bumped Melky up.
YES is showing the 04/07/07 game where A-Rod hits walk-off Grand Slam against Chris Ray and the Orioles.
Damn that hit still brings chills down my spine. I remember the walk-ff vs. the Tribe, I was actually checking the score getting on the train and the score read 8-6. I was like WTF!?! I checked the score earlier when I was in Central Park and it read 6-2 in the 9th so I assumed a L, checked right before I got on the 3 Train to BK and I was fucking ecstatic.
Cano has been doing good past 2 days, Lets see how he reacts.
Really? Giambi right back at 1B his first game back from sitting with an injury? I would have gone with Ensberg at 1B and, assuming you don’t want to sit Matsui’s hot bat, kept giambi on the bench
Actually Giambi was ready yesterday but with the weather they didn’t want to push it. What’s this infatuation with Duncan/Ensberg? Giambi is a better bat and there is no clear cut defensive winner at 1B on this 25-man roster.
BTW, the Tigers fucking suck.
I don’t have an infatuation with Duncan or Ensberg … and I agree Giambi is a better bat
I said what I said because its a LONG season … games played during a season at 1b for Giambi since becoming a yankee in 2002 - 92, 85, 47, 78, 68, 53
I know Girardi has been hopeful of using Giambi a lot at 1b since becoming manager, but Giambi is relatively old and clearly injury-prone
I just worry about throwing him back out at 1B in his first game back playing and question the logic of doing it … 162 games is a lot of games
Sorry, I didn’t mean you specifically. Just been noticing a lot of clamoring for these guys (mainly Duncan) to start, not just getting ABs of the bench. Just a bit strange to me that people want Duncan so bad to start over Giambi seeing as how what a healthy Big G can give you.
I agree I’d definitely rather have a healthy giambi getting on base 38-40 percent of the time playing over Duncan … just concerned over giambi’s always-injured body
They’re sucking, I’ll grant you…but Dice - K was dealing today.
I should also mention i’m incredibly annoyed I’m at work and can’t watch today’s game. Hughes is far and away my favorite yankees pitcher and Bannister is, without a doubt, one of my personal favorite non-yankees pitchers. He’s got a phenomenal baseball mind and manages to take his mediocre stuff very far given his dedication to analysis
If your judging him on being injury prone than nick Johnson is NOT a good alternative.
I want to see what david cone is going to say about Moose passing him.
that and his age are the two big reasons i’d rather the yankees not pay for the moon in orchestrating a trade with Bowden
That screen in KC is unbelievable.
That is without a doubt the most impressive Diamond Vision screen I’ve seen in the Majors. That thing looks downright distracting in center field.
Interesting read on Hughes diminished velocity (low 90’s as opposed to the scouted mid 90’s) with regard to his mechanics…
http://www.waswatching.com/arc......html#more
Take a look here. None of us really buys the velocity argument and Pags’ scouting report has more holes in it than Swiss cheese. The idea that Hughes should still be at AA is simply ludicrous.
Yankee one is bigger. Yankees looked locked in and Bannister does not.
I meant the new yankee stadium screen.
oh come on robbie, your helping him now.
Did Singleton just say “might have chased a bad pitch”?
Kenny Singleton just said Cano “might have” swung at a bad pitch. The ball hit the plate, Kenny.
Anyone else notice its windy? Does that affect his breaking ball? His accuracy looks off.
phil looks uncomfortable….
That run is completely on Posada. You can’t botch a pitch-out like he did.
Yankees.com has reported that Jeter is out until atleast Friday.
So did PeteAbe about 90 minutes ago.
didn’t check Lohud yet lol, just saw it on the RSS feed, whoops.
Is it me or does the game so much better without Michael Kay.
As for Phil, well hopefully he will improve from the first inning. He did struckout Billy Butler which was cool.
Now would be a great time for Betemit to get a hit.
You wish shall be granted…
See? Told you.
Why didnt posada slide? Its like he slowed down.
God I hope he isnt hurt.
Melky didn’t give him the slide sign. He’s not hurt. Don’t worry.
In the replay he slowed down 3/4 of the way down the line, when he turned to see the ball.
Damon and Bases loaded should be good.
Haha, it looked like Posada completely gave up on that, but just got lucky.
Ah come on damon.
“Johnny is the perfect guy for the situation, he fouls pitches off until he gets one he can handle then he either hits it or misses.”
Way to go Kenny.
Come on Robbie!
Damn. Cano just missed a bases-clearing double right there.
yeah bannister is struggling mightily though, even cano drew 3 balls on the count!
Look at Joe cheering on the team.
Joe torre didn’t know what happens until Mattingly screamed into his hearing aids.
I was just thinking the same thing. When was the last time you heard an opposing dugout yell “Relax!” to the Yankee dugout. Under Torre they couldn’t get any more relaxed.
Love that fire from GI Joe.
Mahay in the bullpen, weren’t the yanks close to signing him?
3-2 on Cano.
Right down the middle……….
Ah way to go Cano
(rhymed, I know. Im just black like that)
Cano should have blasted that one. Terrible swing on an 88 mph fastball down the middle of the plate.
On the bright side, Bannister is at 54 pitches already through 2.
Atrocious defense.
Unearned.
Cano could have really blasted the game open. Hopefully, his struggles with the bases loaded is just a sample size issue (56 at-bats), but his .232/.246/.357 rates are pretty horrific. As he matures, he will hopefully stop pressing.
Posada’s throw on the pitchout and Abreu’s muff in the 2nd have led to both runs. Awesome.
I was thinking the same thing. This is a frustrating game, and the umpire’s terrible strike zone isn’t helping much.
Yanks have had 6 baserunners and scored 2, royals 3 basrunners with 2 scoring. Ugh
What a display of defense this game is.
Thinking the same thing, im sure the conditions have somethign to do with it though (hopefully)
It’s awfully nice of the official scorer to give Tony Peña, Jr. a stolen base. That’s a clear error on Betemit.
So Hughes throws a pitch on 3-2 to Pena that sure looked like a strike. After walking, Posada throws a hose to 2nd to gun down Pena, except Betemit drops the ball. I know you got in late last night, guys, but how about waking up?
getting squeezed big time.
Phil just looks awkward out there…
Grudzielanek didn’t even think that pitch was a ball. What does that tell you about the umpire’s strike zone?
horribly inconsistent, or just horrible
On the downside, Hughes is going to be 54+ pitches after 2 as well….
The umpire is horrible today, the strike zone has been all over the place.
That was close.
Pitches not right over the plate aren’t getting called strikes. At least the umpire is being consistently horrible.
and it’s going both ways for the most part…
Way to get out of the jam, Phil.