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Follow us on TwitterNine and friggin’ nine against the Orioles last year. That’s pretty unacceptable for a team that basically had the inverse of the Yanks record. They hope to get off on the right foot tonight, as they take on the erratic — and that’s putting it mildly — Daniel Cabrera.
In his career, Cabrera has pitched 72.2 innings against the Yanks, to the tune of a 4.95 ERA. What’s strange is that while he’s struck out 7.52 per nine inning over his career, he’s only struck out 5.2 per nine against the Yankees. He’s walked 5.31 per nine over his career (hence the 5.02 lifetime ERA), and 5.70 per nine vs. the Yanks.
So he has struck out fewer hitters and has walked more vs. the Yankees compared to the rest of his career, yet his ERA vs. the Yankees is a tick lower than his lifetime ERA. Strange stuff. Could tonight be the night luck really catches up to him? We started moving in that direction last year, tattooing him for 20 earned runs (21 total) in 27 innings, with 18 strikeouts to 17 walks.
Really, Cabrera should be sick. He’s 6′7″ and has nasty stuff. But control problems have plagued his career, and not even the tutelage of Leo Mazzone could fix him. His ERA has climbed every year since 2005, and he has yet to crack a league-average ERA.
For the good guys, Phil Hughes takes the mount, trying to regain his form. And what better team to do it against than the Orioles? Yeah, they may be 9-7 now, but I can’t seem to figure out how. They only have three guys on the offensive side with an OPS+ above league average — and Luke Scott won’t be hitting .380/.456/.600 for much longer. Then again, it stands to reason that Ramon Hernandez will raise his paltry .152/.160/.326 line.
Oh yeah, and Edwar is in the house! Albaladejo is sent down, which is fine and good, since he tossed three innings last night. You might be asking what happened to Scott Patterson, but I don’t think it’s a big deal. Edwar will be gone once Joba comes back, which probably won’t be too far in the future.
Your lineups:
1. Johnny Damon, LF
2. Derek Jeter, SS
3. Bobby Abreu, RF
4. Alex Rodriguez, 3B
5. Hideki Matsui, DH
6. Robinson Cano, 2B
7. Jason Giambi, 1B
8. Melky Cabrera, CF
9. Chad Moeller, C
And on the mound, number thirty-four, Phil Hughes
And for the O’s
Roberts
Mora
Markakis
Millar
Scott
Huff
Jones
R. Hernandez
L. Hernandez
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I called Albaladejo going down last night, but I certainly thought Patterson would be the one coming up.
Let’s just hope Phil gets his act together a bit. He needs to calm down and do what he can do.
Yep , Phil really could use a good showing tonight to get him out of that last two game funk….or at least I hope!
We all hope.
Disgusting throw, Arod better bomb it.
wtf Arod. You look at all these good pitches till theres 2 strikes and then strike out.
Look at that, the only Yankee starter not to give up a homer. There’s something positive.
If the opposition scores, Phil Hughes doesn’t do well. Thanks Michael Kay.
Nice clean start for Phil. Good stuff.
Giambi really needs to work on balence, most of the outs he makes would be hits if he didnt have a crazy shift.
too many walks and no swings and misses
Hughes’ curveball is coming out sideways. He not yet thrown one for a strike.
You know I hate Mike & the Mad Dog but today I have to say I agreed with them 100%. They ripped into ESPN for that so-called interview of Miguel Tejada where they just low balled the dude like a bunch of assholes. Mike Francesa called them out on being so hypocritical by using Ray Lewis and Barry Bonds as examples. The Ray Lewis issue was when ESPN’s own Stuart Scott was all friendly with Mr. Lewis as he was involved in a very much publicized murder trial. Francesa also pointed out how every ESPN baseball analyst/reporter was on their knees for Barry Bonds during all the scandals that he has endured thus far. He made one final point that rings so true, ESPN will never do anything like what they did to Miguel Tejada to stars like Kobe Bryant, Ray Lewis, or Barry Bonds because those guys were on top of their respective sports at the time of their respective scandals.
I agree, it was such BS what ESPN did to Miguel Tejada.
Nice high fastball to strikeout Jones. Oh the horror of a 91mph fastball with life!
Excuse me sir, it was 92 MPH (according to Gameday). Come on Mike, how in the hell could you think a 91 MPH fastball can be effective enough to strike somebody out?
Check out Ken Singleton dropping a Matt Weiters note.
It’s Wieters. Duh.
That curve just now made me cry.
No wonder, according to Gameday it had a 16″ break….GOD DAMN!
maybe someone should tell moeller that phil throws a curveball and a changeup PC rising this inning
I think those sideeways curves mentioned were sliders
No they’re curves. It’s way too slow to be a slider.
McNair’s at the game and Masn is interviewing him. Pretty cool.
good guy, not a HOFer though. Good interview by whoever that was
Eric Duncan hit a homer. It’s going to be a good day.
Yay! Now all I need is for Christian Garcia to have a pulse and this would be a great start to the 2008 baseball season.
You spelled Shelley wrong. No big deal.
Oh the impatience is killing me.
and the sideways curve is indeed a slider. about 78-81 mph.
How the hell do let Daniel Cabrera throw only 5 pitches in an inning? You could just stand there with the bat on your shoulder and work a 3-2 count off him!
Im surprised Cano wasn’t involved in that inning.
that was a quick half inning
I am watching on gameday…how does Hughes’ control seem? I see he has thrown 40 pitches in 2 innings …23 for strikes.
Really? It doesn’t seem that way, he’s been ahead of everybody, literally - Kay just said he threw first pitch strikes to every batter so far.
Thats what gameday says? They aren’t always reliable “live”…so take it with a grain of salt.
First strike pitches , woo hoo! Be agressive! Thanks Mike!
seems pretty good, but I’ve only seen his last 6 or 7 batters, got here late
Yikes, Phil got away with that high off speed pitch.
Couple days late but here is some good news on progress by Humberto Sanchez and Andrew Brackman. Information on Jeff Karstens as well.
http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com.....p;c_id=nyy
Nice quick inning for Phil. Oh wait, Giambi fucked it up.
When Giambi plays defense like that, who care if he hits .050 for the season? That man is a true asset.
amen. Tex here we come!
Stellar play by Giambi right there.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, just release Giambi already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously. There are all the reasons in the world to release him. PEDs, bad plate appearences, not helping the team, actually hurting the team, and wasting money.
he was SAFE!!!!!!!!!
The Yankees’ best player this year has been the backup catcher. Nice stop by Moeller right there.
AMAZING stop, I can’t imagine a average joe going from their knees to a full jump up to catch a ball, unexpectedly as well..
You figure that Giambi should be familiar with groundballs to first. God knows he hits enough of them.
lol, nice
I would like to see Hughes throw some more changeups, only two thus far.
This umpire is 1000000x faster than the other one vs the sox.
LoL, Michael made a funny.
We’ve got a no hitter going! (Trying to jinx it)
I think it worked (if they count it as a hit)
Those little two-seamers inside eat A-Rod up. That’s why Fausto owns him.
Seems to be the new book on A-Rod this year because Josh Beckett did the same shit last night.
Damn you Nick Markakis. Other than Hanley Ramirez he has to be one of my favorite baseball players.
come on Matsui!!!!! ITS GODZILLAAAAAAAAA!
SHIT abreu.
ooh, might’ve been safe. gotta see a good replay.
That was close at the plate. No surprise he was called out though. It’s absolutely infuriating when an umpire calls a runner out simply because the throw beat the runner. Those replays weren’t great, so I’m not sure if that was the case with Abreu.
I’ve never been a fan of Meachem. Ever since I saw the yanks get throw out alot in spring training.
he looked safe to me, but MASN’s replay wasnt that good a view.
Was he safe? Masn of MLB.tv didn’t exactly replay it from an angle you could see anything
And you all yelle