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River Ave BluesSo today’s the big day for Dan Giese, and we’ll see what life is like without Chien-Ming Wang for the Yankees.
The Yankees are starting the post-Wang’s Injury Era with 31-year-old Dan Giese. He is making his first Major League start. In 7.3 innings in long relief this year for the Bombers, Giese has allowed six hits and one run while walking one and striking out four. On the other side of the ball, the Reds are tossing Daryl Thompson, a 22-year-old righty with just 18 innings of AAA experience.
How about a win?
Game time is 1:05 p.m, and I’ll be enjoying this one from section 6 in the Tier Reserve.
Damon LF
Jeter SS
Abreu RF
Rodriguez 3B
Matsui DH
Giambi 1B
Posada C
Cano 2B
Cabrera CF
Giese P
What are the expectations for Giese today? I would think 5 IP and anything less than 4 runs would be fantastic.
I’d sign up for that.
I am, as ever, concerned that the Yankees won’t get to this guy unless he has a hard time throwing strikes. It seems like, with guys they’ve not seen before, the pitcher just has to lay it in there and they’ll happily get behind in the count and then get themselves out all day. I can understand taking pitches the first time through the order, but when it comes around again, you’ve GOTTA hit these chumps.
I am really getting frustrated with this offense which is scoring 2 or less runs in over 30 % of their games.
There inability to hit with men in scoring posion is disgraceful. Bases loaded no outs and do not score. How many games are they going to keep losing before someone puts a fire under them.
A little off this subject but I just went to the Yankee home page and read about the all star balloting. It appears that the Red Sox are just about leading in every category. A real joke seeing that it is the last year of the old ballpark and the last All Star game. It is a joke that you are able to vote 25 times and than use a fictitious name while keeping the same e-mail and continue to vote. I voted 25 times and left it at that but why should we have the entire Sox team start first and represent the American League on our Home Field. You realize in Boston they are eating this up.
It is my opinion that this website that has more than 1000 loyal viewers needs to step up and promote voting for Yankees more so than they have been doing with a small posting. I hope everyone takes the time to vote. We have until July 2nd. Believe me it will put a nice dent in the voting if all the loyal RAB bloggers voted!
We really should do that. Not necessarily vote for all Yankees like those morons in Boston, but vote for the players that actually deserve it.
Nice clean inning by Miami Giese.
The only player in baseball that breaks more bats than Johnny Damon is Mariano Rivera. This is getting ridiculous.
Jeter grounding into DP is getting rediculous
between the yankees game and stanford’s cws game, would seem to be a busy afternoon of baseball ahead.
Cano called him off to up his fielding % after last nights error
why, why, why are they playing the double header on friday against the mets? awful decision.
FOX has the Saturday game at 4pm, and ESPN has the Sunday game at 8pm. MLB can’t screw around with their TV deals.
they couldnt play that first game at 1pm on Sunday?
not that i blame them, cash rules everything around me (word to the Wu), but it sucks most of us will have to follow the game on our computers rather than get to watch it on TV.
They could play the game at 1pm on Sunday, but it couldn’t be televised by YES or SNY or MY9 or whatever. ESPN has exclusive broadcast rights. It’s retarded, I know. I’ll be watching on Gamecast from the office as well.
wow, babe’s grandson is pretty jacked for an older dude.
I was thinking that myself.
wow, Votto looks exactly like the 1B the yankees need.
bad play by Thompson, though.
gotta make it hurt, now.
I’d take him no question about it
Yeah seriously, Votto’s a stud. He was originally a catcher, but moved to first base in the minors. He took off once Cincy got rid of that retarded “no batter can swing until they take a strike” requirement they had in the minors. He’s even got a perfect Roll Call name, “Jo-ey Vot-to, clap clap clapclapclap.”
The Reds just drafted Yonder, who’s clearly a better player than Votto. Maybe the Yanks can swing a deal for him in the future.
ha! you know i thought the same thing about Votto, and of course my mets-fan friend goes “oh, of course, because every great young player will obviously be given to the yankees for nothing. you just expect to get whoever you want.”
he’s such a bitter, bitter man.
Yeah sure, Yankee fans are the only ones that do that. How’s Johan working out for them?
that was just a digusting display of an attempt at offense.
Was it really an attempt?
Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. The 8 and 9 slots are where rallies go to die.
and we’re not even playing this game in a NL ballpark.
Melky striking out on balls over his head is really starting to bug me.
Agreed, emphatically. I was a Melky defender but he’s really been bad this year, no way around it.
Oh gawd. Another rally.
On the bright side, Thompson has thrown 47 pitches through two innings.
Robbie C-A-N-O. I don’t know!
Anybody got any ideas for a device or implant of some sort to prevent Robbie from swinging at the first pitch of every at-bat?
Seriously, though, that was just painful to watch.
you would think Girardi would have had this talk with him, just like the “conversation” he had with melky about not sliding into 1B.
I was actually noting back in the Houston series (didn’t watch much of the padres series) that he WAS taking some first pitches.
Posada just did it too…this kid’s walked a bunch of guys, what’s with that? Posada should know better.
Chien Ming Who??
ugh… just ugh.
Yankees are bringing the A-game today! Watch out!
They’re trying to give the kid a false sense of confidence by helping get out of no out rallies like this. They’re pounce later, you watch.
Yeah, that’s it…
Jeremy Bleich on ESPN now.
you’re killing me with the split posts!
Yeah, but trying to watch 2 games at the same time sucks even more. Just open the Bleich thread in a separate tab. That’s what I did.
Well, on the plus side, at least the offense (for the most part, *cough cough*) is making Thompson really work, while Giese has been extremely efficient up to this point. Maybe the bullpen won’t have to work quite so hard today, which would certainly be a pleasant surprise.
Dan Giese in the house.
Griffey still has that sweet swing, but he looks awful at the plate.
It’s no accident his 600th homer came on a breaking ball. He can’t hit good fastballs anymore.
He should cheat.
Nice 1-2-3 inning for Bleich.
so i opened another tab for the new post for nothing?
No, I made a mistake and posted that in the wrong thread.Keep the posts separate, it’ll get confusing/cluttered.
can somebody pleaaase tell robbie to hold his hands still and keep his back elbow up? it’s like watching robert redford pretend to be good at hitting
What happened in the second? Arod got a double, Matsui was at first, no outs and then no score. I was listening to the radio and figured they’d score and then nothing.
yeah, you dont really want to know.
Posada K’ed (I think), Cano popped up behind the plate, Melky struck out on 3 pitches, the 3rd pitch was over his head.
Strikeout, infield fly, strikeout
Anxious much, Cabrera?
I don’t think Cabrera got cheated in that AB.
Don’t waste this start by Giese!
This is the chance Giese has waited for for a long time. I think he’s got to be pretty happy with it and the Yankees have to be happy with him.
who knows if he can keep this up. but you gotta think this is the best moment of his professional life right now.
Giese looks good. Offense looks bad.
The Reds’ pitching coach is named Dick Pole? Hah.
doesnt get much better than that.
sometimes, you really have to wonder wtf his parents were thinking.
I bet his first name is actually Richard, but wants to be called Dick.
how could anyone really voluntarily want to be called ‘dick’?
LOL, idk.
Check out this Dan Giese character. Another horrible Cashman pickup.
but he had no backup plan.
62 pitches through 6 frames for Giese. WTF is going on with the Yanks offense?
6ip 62 pitches, pretty economical
Giese has thrown 43 of 62 pitches for strikes. Impressive.
Classic Yankees against a rookie no one has seen before
What’s funny is that there are TWO guys making their first big-league starts today. Go figure nobody scores.