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River Ave BluesI dunno about you, but I hate these 4pm Mike Mussina starts on FOX. Something about it just makes me feel very uncomfortable. The only way it could be worse is if the game was in Fenway.
The Damon situation adds injury to insult, and it’s just another in a long line of debilitating injuries that includes (at one time or another) 60% of the Opening Day starting rotation, a HOF third baseman, a HOF shortstop, an All-Star catcher, an All-Star DH, three serviceable if not down right reliable bullpen arms, and a utility man. I’m not making excuses, this team needs to start playing better. Bases loaded with one out? You have to get some runs in, doesn’t matter if you’re the Yankees or the Red Sox or the Pirates. You don’t come through in those situations, you’re going to lose ball games.
Sox starter Justin Masterson has been pounded for 8 earned runs (3 homers) and 21 baserunners in 12 IP over his last 2 starts. Double-A Trenton beat the sidearming sinkerballer from Jamaica on not one, but two occasions last year, so let’s hope the big league team follows suit and gives him the same Bronx welcome they gave The Laptop Stealer earlier this year.
Righties are OPS’ing .501 off Masterson, lefties .864.
1. Gardner, LF
2. Jeter, SS
3. Abreu, RF
4. A-Rod, 3B
5. Giambi, DH
6. Betemit, 1B
7. Cano, 2B
8. Melky, CF
9. Molina, C
Notes: PeteAbe says Jorge Posada is a little under the weather, otherwise he’d almost certainly be playing … Brian Bruney’s road back started yesterday with a 2 inning stint in the Rookie Level Gulf Coast League
Not a lot of Jamaicans in MLB history, I would think. Devon White? Its not exactly a baseball hotbed.
That being said, I hope we send the bumbaclot to a early shower.
let’s get a split. we’re still better off than we were on this day last year. grind it
The Yanks need to kick Masterbation’s arse.
Like to see Gardner lay down a bunt or two today, just like Ellsbury did yesterday. Any way he can get on base is a positive.
are zoilo and abe almonte brothers? because their birthdays are 17 days apart
Wouldn’t that be impossible for them to be brothers then? I cant imagine a woman being in labor for 17 days.
yea i guess so
Maybe they just have a pimp of a Dad.
to those killing girardi, he has managed the bullpen extremely well this year. their 3.57 ERA is considerably better than the AL average of 3.81. no one is overused or underused.
it’s hard to blame him for the hitting. if it had to fall on one person, it would have to be kevin long. and they’re only the 3rd worst AL team with RISP (ahead of Toronto and Seattle), not the very worst.
a win would be nice, and Moose throwing up and in at Manny would also be nice.
“Batting 4th, ManRam playing DH.” How do you play DH Papelbon?
Nice throw by BG.
The RedSox are the Goliaths of the MLB? Ok…Joe Buck, Tim McCarver. Where is Deion Sanders when you need him?
Nice clean inning or Moose. Gotta make Masterson work for it, can’t just keep rolling over every time a guy throws something that moves.
Nice at-bat, A-Rod.
I think Crisp trapped that….
C’Mon Melky!!! Get a hit!
Got Melk! RBI single. Nice slide by Giambi
Vaya Melky!
What a slide by the Big G. He’s an ath-uh-lete.
Yeah, and his mustache cleaned off the plate as he went by…umpires like that kind of effort!
i thought giambi would’ve been out by a mile
Great to see Melky come through. It wasn’t a great looking pitch he took a swing at though … and coincidentally it was the first pitch.
It would be nice to see Moeller get one start every now and then….Molina never takes a pitch
Melky Cabrera does have a .300/.364/.400 vital line for July coming into today, I’m just sayin’.
Robbie Cano is a fucking man.
I’ve always felt he was under-rated defensively. That was a great play.
With that range he shows at Second Base, was he really that awful at Short Stop? I have to think the superior range at Second Base would translate to below average to average range at Short Stop.
He was bad. Bowa really helped him become the defender he is today.
So now that he’s improved so, do you think he can be an improvement over Derek Jeter at Short Stop by Spring Training 2009?
Jeter making plays going left. The Yanks just might win today.
Heh, that wasn’t Derek Jeter.
Mark DeRosa has 11-HRs this season, his career high is 13 in 2006 playing in Texas.
Man I really hate pedrioa
So do I. Luckily he’s already maxed out his skill set; he’s got basically no room for improvement, except maybe for a few more stolen bases.
Yeah and I’m going to be pissed if he only hits .300, plays excellent defense and occassionally hits a dinger each season
That was dirty.
I hate not getting the game because of Cards vs Cubs!
Buck and Mcgarver are making my hangover worse
That is the third hit Mr. Gardner has had taken away from him these past four games, wow.
eat it rook !!!
That’s at least 3 hits taken away from Gardner since coming up - the comebacker vs Texas the other day, the comebacker to Masterson, and that shot to Lowell. Eventually they’ll start finding the holes, and he’ll go on a nice little tear.
such is life when you want to make a career of hitting 3-hoppers to the same side of the infield all day, and hope to beat the throw to first….i hope his college correspondence course schedule is current
Is it me or does Dustin Pedroia diving for every single fucking ball going to lead to hip replacement surgery at age 29?
That’s call grit Jamal.
I’ve always wondered if all that diving is to make up for an utter lack of range.
The sad part is that ff he was say, 5′10″ instead of 3′5″, he’d get most of those balls on the dive.
it’s also called lack of range.
BG is so unlucky
Make ‘em pay Giambino.
does anyone have a good website i can use to look up random stats such as how mike mussina pitches at 4:00pm starts? etc.
Oof, not for stuff like that. I usually hit B-Ref or Fangraphs for my stats, that usually covers it.
this has day/night splits, but not necessarily start times
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/pl.....Cxi8CFCLcF
“The one thing young pitchers lose with the bases loaded is the ability to pitch inside. They’re almost forced to stay on the outside half” says McCarver.
Next two pitches: inside to K the Big G.
Are they really going to load the bases with less than 2 outs and not score a run again? Really?
Hey Betemit…Alex Cole called, he wants his glasses back!
Screw it, all you can ask for a hitter to do is smack it, that’s what Wilson Betemit did but he just hit it right at someone.
*I love these Burger King Steakhouse commercials.
we could ask him to get a hit……
Well if you know how baseball works you know you can’t just ask someone to get a base hit, he smacked the ball, that is all you ask of yourself as a player and of your hitters as a coach.
I love how we can’t ever get hits with the bases loaded
Wow, nice job by the kid to get out of that.
We have seen this picture before.
Isn’t the makeup game on July 10th?
why does it feel like the Yanks are losing, but in reality (except for last inning)they have been playing reallly good ball all day?
It probably feels that way because they’re missing chances…I wouldn’t worry too much today though, they’ll either break through against Masterson or the bullpen cause he’s not good for much more than 6 innings…
This ump is fucking terrible…….. nice play melky
Haha….Youkilis’s hot zone starts after his AB. That quite hilarious Mr Tim McCarver. Hah!
I thought Clay Buchholz was the untouchable pitcher between he and Jon Lester. Didn’t the Red Sox say you can have a Lester packag