Game 128: Moose hunting for 17th W
ByMike Mussina has won 17 games for the Yankees three times during his career, most recently in 2003. Tonight, with Moose due for one more start this month, he’ll go for win number 17 of the season. For all the ups and downs the Yanks have lived through this year, getting Moose 20 wins would be some story.
Behind him, the Yanks will toss out this lineup:
Damon CF
Jeter SS – One hit shy of 2500 for his career.
Abreu RF
Rodriguez 3B
Giambi 1B
Nady LF
Matsui DH
Cano 2B
Molina C
The Yanks this year are just 5-7 against the Orioles, and Moose is 0-2 with an 11.12 ERA against his former team. Both the Yanks and Mussina really need this one tonight. Game time’s at 7:05 p.m.
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LETS GO YANKS!!!!
Moose’s last two starts against Baltimore have not been pretty…
He’s due……?
Just like the Washington Generals.
btw, during the game intro I noticed the street between the stadium and the warehouse is Eutaw Street. I had no idea, always thought it was Utah Street.
Perhaps we should rename ours Rhivuhre Avenue.
Random sort of political factoid: The Yankees have won 19 world championships when a Democrat is in the White House (Last one was in 2000) and 7 When a Republican is in the White House (Last one 50 years ago in 1958).
Don’t know what that means, but it seems like a fairly large sample size. A lot larger than the Red Sux sample size, I might add. (4-3 Republican to Democrat for the Sux).
Nader ’08! Let’s see what happens then.
Can Obama pitch?
Can Hillary bitch?
Sorry, that one was too obvious.
haha
Giambi still batting 5th.
Lovely.
5 of 6 starts tonight, as I predicted after last night’s game
Attaboy, Johnny.
Congrats Captain
Congrats Derek! 25K!
That would be a lot of hits
I could do it.
Hahahah! Ooops! Let me amend that to 2.5K!
Lets go, let’s jump on this kid
…or not
Alright, time for some RISP PA’s for ARod and Giambi!
FUCK!
GOD DAMN YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!
“THE BLACK HOLE” strikes again.
http://pr0n.encyclopediadramat.....racist.gif
Touche…
The Dominican-American and Honkie Holes strike again.
FUNNY !!!
Are you kidding? that’s the funniest thing I have ever been called. If you only knew my nationality.
“A BLACK HOLE is a region of space in which the gravitational field is so powerful that nothing, not even light, can escape its pull after having fallen past its event horizon.”
THAT’S WHAT I MEANT.
Sorry if i offended anyone , but lets try and take things a little less seriously.
I don’t think he was taking it seriously, mustang.
As for your nationality, I’m going to guess Appaloosian. Or possibly Clydesdale.
Nope.
I’m Klingon.
Sorry if offended any Trekees.
LOL
Boy, if that doesn’t sum up our season, I have no idea what does.
Well, while ARod and Giambi may still be sucking it up, at least Derek Jeter’s still got an Edge.
The one with the cool panoramic vista roof?
No, the one with the voice-activated Sync Bluetooth system.
Haha, the edge commercials are so bad.
Men on base, A-Rod makes 2 outs and Giambi makes one more.
Story of our season.
BTW-Yes, I had this post written the minute Jason came up to the plate. I’ve seen this before once or twice.
The A-Rod Hotel runners check in, but they don’t check out.
LOL
Why is Giambi still batting 5th? He had his best month in March and ever since his numbers have dropped with each month. He’s not even hitting .200 right now, and we don’t have time to wait for this clown to get it together.
lol at March, I meant May
I still think Nady is #5.screw R-L-R it doesn’t matter.
Yea seriously. WTF does Nady have to do. With each month that Giambi has gotten worse, A-Rod has pretty much gotten worse. Giambi offers nothing and A-Rod isn’t getting any protection.
How about Masui?
Or maybe even a dog’s ass? Maybe its time we put a dogs ass up in the #5 spot. Could it be any worse?
TImes like that, I miss Bob Sheppard.
“First base, number K9, A Dog’s Ass…”
YES!!!
The same reason A-Rod is batting 4th they are the runner producing wonder twins.
Seriously have the same question about the both of them.
He’s trying to get him going. You know, its still early. No need to panic.
PANIC!
PANIC!
LOL
That inning should have been so much bigger. Anyway, Sunday should be an easy win cuz the Orioles cant win on Sunday
They did the past two I think.
We still should win. Who’s starting for the O’s on Sunday?
Nasty curve.
that’s nasty.
Melvin Mora has 25 RBI in his last 12 games? I think RBI is a pretty dumb stat, but damn yo.
He’s hitting everything. He had 26 RBI last month and has 30 this month (and is hitting .455). Meanwhile, A-Rod has what, 12 RBI this month (and 5 in one game against the Royals?).
Whats his BA w/ risp. I think its safe to say that its better than Arod’s
.377
*sigh*
.377/.424/.577
Mike, am I in the Fantasy football league? I emailed you 45 minutes prior to when it was closed but I haven’t gotten an email back.
Yes, I just emailed you back.
Damn the O’s are ripping the ball.
I hate this umpiring crew. West and Buckner always want face time
Gotta catch that Cano.
Cano has amazing range but he can’t dive. Its really lame.
Oh come on! Cano should make that play. I feel he doesnt always give effort defensively. Pedroia would make that play
Peter Gammons, is that you?
How does that sound like Gammons?
Throwing undeserved praise that the Red Sox=Sounds like Gammons
Oh shut up, Pedroia makes that play
Oh come on, Cano should have had it, but Pedroia doesn’t have close to the range Cano does. Because Cano has more range, he dives LESS. Pedroia wouldn’t have even been there to dive at it.
Pedroia dives on balls.
A lot.
Heh.
http://cache.viewimage…33E
I see Pedroia make that play whenever the Sox play the Yanks. Someone has to get into Cano’s face. That ball bounced almost as much as the Figgins ball
Our defense sucks
Jeter wouldn’t have gotten him out anyway. He would have just ate it instead of throwing it.
I know, I was also talking about the outfield. The reason we’re tied for fewest errors in the league is cuz we dont get to alot of balls
You mean the defense with the least amount of errors in the league?
Its hard to make an error on a ball you dont get to
thank god Matsui’s back. Atleast we have a little bit of plate discipline.
redeem yourself cano
If Cano’s not gonna hit, he has to give effort defensively. He drives me crazy
if theo called cashman tomorrow and said “pedroia for cano, straight up” he might actually hesitate for a second before hanging up the phone
I wonder how Pedroia would do if you put him in a different lineup and took him out of that Little League field.
I wonder how he would do if he wasn’t a midget.
wow are you saying that Pedrioa benefits from Fenway Confines.
He’d only be hesitating to make sure his voice recorder was picking up the conversation, so he could laugh at it again later.
Marquez seems to have found his way to double A
Marquez and Horne. Oh, how the not-so mighty have fallen.
If you want to lament a bit more check out Baseball America’s prospect hot sheet, Number 3 inparticular
It was a good week, no biggie. Check out number five.
Agreed, but I’d like to hope that he is getting his season together. Very happy with number 5 who conveniently doubled in his first at bat
Ugh. I can’t even say “It’s in rookie-A ball” anymore.
To be fair, you would have never seen him demoted like that with the Yanks and it might be what got him going again. Granted, it was only a few games but between that and the trade he certainly received his wake up call.
Molina’s pissed.
Michael Kay has some serious connections.
“I was talking to a ML scout the other day, I won’t say who it was, but he said the Yanks need to start winning some game.”
Hardcore inside info right there. Stuff like that renders blogs useless.
Earth shattering.
Haha.
Hey, JD Drew has a herniated disc. And I thought the Yankees were the only ones being “decimated by injuries”…
Thats nothing. I was talking to an MLB executive the other day and he said “Scuse me, I gotta take a leak.”
i was talking to a famous renaissance astronomer the other day, i won’t say who it was, but he said the earth is round and revolves around the sun
nice.
FUCK
I really hope that “cute little thing” strikes Millar out tonight. On three pitches. And Millar lets go of his bat on the third strikes and it helicopters into the stands. And he corkscrews himself into the ground like a cartoon. And the pitch hits him right in the junk.
The funny thing is that Edwar has good numbers against him.
i wouldnt pull millar out of a burning car… i hope he has an inner thigh rash that no lotion will cure, and a headache or something
that thigh rash thing was random and peculiar, lol. it’s ok though.
i was just trying to think of things i absolutely hate… thats near the top… and i forgot razorburn… i just fuckin hate millar
Wait a minute. Razorburn where?
I hope the strikeout happens on a change up that Edwar bounces in the dirt, that comes up and hits sweetie pie in the ballsack. And then his wife (who wants kids) divorces him, runs off with the gardener and takes half his loot.
damn, swung at ball 4
Oof, rough night for St. Phil.
Yea he got smacked around a bit.
Again?
What’s their excuse this time? He ate some bad chicken?
Hey who are biggers idiots, the Lohud ones or the ones at NYYFans.com?
LoHud. By far.
Are they that bad?
Brutal. Common sense and any form of rational thought are non-existent.
Well . . . . the host of the show draws a certain audience . . . . .
yall should check out the on the yankees beat blog… they seem to be intelligent fans
what was phil’s line?
so far:
2IP, 5H, 4Earnruns, 0BB and 3K’s
I’m sure he’s just working on his change up, delivery and trying not to break any bones.
You know, I have a funny feeling 10 years from now we’ll all be looking at the Cashman ‘rebuild the farm’ era and be saying stuff like “Pitchers who you draft that are hurt tend to stay hurt.” About A LOT of these guys.
Hope I’m wrong.
2-5-4-4-0-3
Still in there as far as I know.
it aint done yet
hey mike… random question… u think the yankees would actually offer giambi arbitration… he probably realizes he wont get a multiyear deal anywhere, seems pretty risky to me, that is if they want to get rid of him
No way. First off, they’d have to buy out his option for $5M. Then if he accepts, the most they can cut his pay is 20%, which puts him in line for at least a $17.6M salary next year. So the buyout plus his salary means he’d get $22.6M if he accepts, more than his option is worth.
It’s not worth the risk, the value of draft picks has been a bit blown out of proportion. If he’s only a Type-B, it’s even more of a no-brainer to not offer.
thanks… good info, i didnt know that 20% rule… i hear the draft class is weak anyway so maybe the draft pick thing means a little less this offseason, i can see it for abreu though, i doubt theyd even mind him accepting
Definitely offer to Abreu, Pettitte and Moose. If any of them accept, there are worse things in the world then having those guys on a 1 yr deal at a similar to salary to what they’re making this year.
Hit a Homer A-Rod.
next time.
Yankees baseball I LOVE IT !!!!
Boy the yanks are making Liz look like Pedro in his prime.
night after night, this is painful to watch
Makes you want to go out and kick your dog.
Oh! My God sorry PETA or if i offended any dog lovers.
LOL
ugh. i dont understand why bobby was moving on that pitch
if nothing else, can we please make a decent effort to get moose 3 more wins this year?
or 4. you know, 3 or 4, no real difference
Michael Kay is going to ruin the Smile of the Game for all of us by calling out the producer for never showing a guy. Jerk.
Why does Phil Hughes suck all of a sudden?
Hughes has a tired arm. He said it himself after he got rocked in his last start. He’s just going to have to push through it.
tired arm? He has rested it all season…think Warren Spahn ever told anyone he had a tired arm???? Wuss…
at least according to chad jennings hughes isn’t getting rocked, sounds like some bad defense behind him and a few bloop hits. but like he said, its still 4 runs
That’s good to hear. But it won’t stop the naysayers.
Nah, Kay is one of his biggest haters.
NAY!
NAYYYYYY!!!!
NAY NAY NAY!
Nick Markakis = the most under-rated player in the game. 12th best OPS in the league.
He’s only underrated because the Western world doesn’t know the Baltimore Orioles still exist.
^He’s fucking awesome. He’s always one of my picks in fantasy because he’s so damn underrated and nobody picks him early.
Come on.
markakis has to be one of the most underrated players in the game, dudes just solid…
ha mike… didnt see u typed that, in that case… i second ur opinion
He’s from NY too, I believe.
Do we really have to know how Michael Kay sleeps at night?
markakis is a bad boy.
Mike A: will De La Rosa be in AA next year? He’s nasty
Not to start the year. He’ll only make about 5 starts with Tampa this season, not counting playoffs.
He’ll get to AA eventually.
Good. My dream 09 Tampa rotation is still in place
Andrew Brackman
Zach McCallister
Dellin Betances
Wilkins DelaRosa
Jeremy Bleich
DP please.
haven’t seem him play, is jed lowrie for real?
i dont think so… not that great an arm and i hear has bad plate discipline… but then again i thought buchholz was gonna be the next oswalt so who knows
I,ve always here his plate disipline is very good.
He’s good, but not that good. Another benefiting from the lineup and ballpark.
he’s iight. A solid player but nothing special although you would think he was the way he was overrated.
Ed Rapuano should have caught that. What an ass.
How many hitters in the sox lineup benefit from that ballpark? About 4?
All of them. Mike Lowell is the president of the Fenway Benefitters Association.
Even Ortiz? I always thought he benefited from manny.
Actually no, not Ortiz. There must be something else injecting some juice into his bat.
Except that every time Manny was hurt, Ortiz hit the crap out of the ball.
That was terrible.
Sadly, it’s just not that surprising anymore. This team semingly tries to play awful baseball. And they’re succeeding.
Shut up Kay.
Great slide Giambi. Meanwhile Shawn Marcum has completely lost the plate in Toronto vs. the Sawx. Ugh
Why? Why? Why?
mike lowell does… that guys a bigger pull hitter than anyone in the league… and dear god giambi how slow are you
silver lining: the sox win and we hold onto third place for another day
Where is Pena in that mix…. “Jason! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!” Aren’t base coaches paid to think ahead and prevent those kinds of things?
Do the Yankees have to take a look at Pena, Meacham, and Long after this season?
Are you being serious right now? Blaming the first base coach? Come on already, that’s just desperate
Not really, because I know Giambi was going there no matter what, but I guess my broader point is that what are coaches here for? All these base running mistakes, shitty hitting…. if the coaches are never going to be held accountable, then why not just hire any schmuck to coach? Why have a coach at the base if he never has a role in what happens out there?
I’m not being desperate… I think all hope is gone. I’m watching out of blind loyalty.
do u think the yanks could score runs off their own kei igawa?? i mean somethin has to give… who would succeed?
this offense facing igawa would be like crossing the beams in ghostbusters
Comment of the day. Well done.
Good point…. Maybe the Yankees can trade their bad starters to their opponents before every game…. “Here, now make sure this guy pitches. He’s so ready!!!”
i suppose the baseball gods would rain the game out
Alan Horne … don’t look, it’s so ugly, you might turn to stone.
Jesus Christ.
Do you think he can rebound and have a nice season next year? If he stays healthy?
Alan Horne and healthy are two terms that have coincided exactly once in the last 6 years. I’ve just about lost all faith.
But he’s just working on stuff before he gets to the majors right?
Horne? Nope. The wheels didn’t just fall off the bus, the axles are lying in the road.
Are you sure that thing is a bus?
It was at one point.
Great down 3-1
3-1 in the 4th feels insurmountable with this offense.
uhhh, then again, maybe not.
This is pathetic. This team never takes advantage of losses by teams ahead of them. Nice play by Moose, but still, we gotta win this game. Radhames Liz, 7 ERA? Come on
I remember in the middle of those championship years saying to myself it’s going to suck when this all comes to a end.
I was right!
I know it’s only the 5th inning, but it really feels like we lost this game in the 1st when we completely squandered an opportunity to blow it open immediately. And as I’m typing this, Cano launches a bomb. I’ll take it
More of that, it seemed to work
The reverse jinx by Michael Kay… Keep talking, fat boy!
Cano crush that mothafucker.
Please keep talking Michael Kay! That was a bomb
This game is over. How can the Yankees come back from this?
Season. Over.
How many days til pitchers and catchers report?
I’ll tell you how! With some big clutch hits form their #8 and #9 hitters! Thats production you can count on!
Singy’s gettin loose! Keep talkin Michael!
Kay……Dont’ shut the fuck up.
Kay is never allowed to say anything positive again…. Should be part of his next contract.
Did I just see Molina go yard?
Full moon tonight?
I love Kenny Singleton. Maybe my favorite broadcaster.
I agree…. as much as I hated him 30 years ago, I love him now.
Forget about those Baltimore years. He’s a kid from Mount Vernon.
Yes!! They have gone back at least for a inning.
So I guess the Sarfate the Starter experiment came to a crashing halt.
If you rearrange the letters in “Safarte” you can get “Startef”, which is close enough in my book.
Maybe someone misspelled his name, and thats how he ended up in the rotation.
Hughes is getting rocked.
NAY!
NAY!
I just saw the line.
LOL
I’m going to keep using that one till I get banned.
Anyone else hate watching Millar play, like there is just something arrogant about his on-field demeanor? There is no player I detest watching more, except maybe Beckett.
At least Beckett is good, so it’s slightly more tolerable. I hate Papelbon as much, with the “stare”. Imagine if he went 7 innings, that’d be so f’ing obnoxious.
Papelbon…. good call. I’m usually sick in my stomach by the time he gets to the hill, since we’re probably losing by then, so I can’t even watch him, but you’re right.
A- Rod homer right now.
Why not, he can’t hit into a DP
He tried to.
I’m still calling it.
Damn, that line drive was smoked by Abreu…. wow…..
blue jays hangin tough
i’m following hughes on gameday … 3 innings pitched 6 strikes out but 7 runs.
eek
make that 8
every pitch hughes threw they swung and got basehits.
I would make Hughes throw a splitter. One of my favorite pitches ever
If only it were that easy
I’ve thought the same thing. It would fit nicely with his delivery and repertoire, but you have to have nice big hands to throw a good split.
Its funny, nobody seems to be throwing splits anymore, and everyone has a curveball lately. Its just one of those things, pitches seem to go in and out of vogue.
Should the Yanks re-sign Abreu? Maybe
should the yanks DFA arod? maybe
Depends on how many years he wants. 1-2 years OK, 2+ no thanks. If he gets 3 years on the open market, you let him go,
He hasn’t been one of our problems this year, but he looks like he’s on the downside. Walk rates have been dropping for 2 seasons.
arb or sign yes… its not as if the system is exploding with position talent
Well, you have Nady to take his place next year, so its a legit question.
Nady COULD play LF as well, so you could resign Abreu if its a short term and possibly deal Damon in the off season to fill a need, like a CF. Which we don’t have for at least a year or two, unless you want Melky/Gardner there next year.
Personally, I think its a tough call. Both are productive, both have shortcomings. If there’s a deal out there for Damon, I lean slightly in that direction. Jeter leads off next year.
Can anyone safely argue that Abreu has been part of our problems at the plate? He’s had down stretches, but he hasn’t been the problem.
A-Rod not even hustling! Bum!
Hey Mike would ya be worried a bit with Hughes? even though he had a bad outing im still not worried.
Nah, not worried at all.
its got to be a dead arm period.
the only thing i’m worried about is his innings total, it was basically a wast of a year for his development. i can’t see him pitching in winter league so basically next year he’ll be on a short leash again. luckily he’s only 22
I think its a dead rib period.
He was sick and still adjusting to the new glasses. Give him one more start then worry.
A-Rod is like death right now nothing is going his way.
could anything happen in the next few weeks to make the brothers steinbrenner change their minds about extending cashman’s contract?
NO, NO, NO.
Cashman did everything he could to make this team better at the trading deadline.
This is all on the players.
and the coaching staff
And the Canadians. Bastards.
Yeah. Who do they they are? It’s not like they’re even a real country.
Daddy is here!
torre just stuck with maddux too long
he should have brought proctor in.
oh wait. he is having elbow surgery.
He brought Sturtze in instead. No joke.
Sturtze grew up from up the street of my friends grandma’s house. Confusing but its true. Only like 10 minute drive from my house.
ZING !!!
oh wait. you WERE serious.
Wow. I had no idea he was still playing/alive. He must be a masochist if he signed with the Dodgers after they got Torre. Either that or Torre’s the only guy in baseball who will give him a job.
Let me guess. Scott Proctor.
Damn! Beat me to it!
Who the hell is Brian Matoos? I know Brian Matusz, but not Brian Matoos.
Wow. That was one hell of a play by Bobby.
Followed by a horrible play….
Im still in shock. he caught a ball NEAR THE WALL. Would you look at that.
Need to get some runs in the 7th, I’d guess this’ll be Moose’s last inning. Would like to at least give him a chance at the W
Here is the daily dumb managerial move, leaving Moose in.
Lost season, trying to get him to 20?
The season’s not lost. It may look like it, but it most certainly is not.
I appreciate the optimism, but we behind not only the Sox, but the 2nd place team in the central. Whoever that may be, it’ll be tough to jump them both. But then again, maybe Pavano’s ready to earn the 1st of those 40 million dollars…….nah
Gotta be. Girardi is definitely thinking that since he’s already thrown in the towel on the season, in a 1 run game in the 6th, you might as well try to get your pitcher 20 wins.
it worked.
that was a strike.
That’s awesome, the fans cheered when Mo’s kid ran out on the field.
Any chance the kid’s name is Jesus?
LMFAO!! It would only be too perfect….
man, imagine if he learned his daddy’s Cutter.
Mo’s kid moved pretty quick to get that paper bag off the field, maybe he can play in the outfield for the Yankees….
when will people learn not to run on Molina.
Jesus Christ the Orioles keep bringing in young relievers with horrible numbers, so for sure the Yankees aint coming back….
And Molina’s still in this game because….
because pudge has been sucking lately.
How bout Betemit then, and then put Pudge in. Pudge sucking still has more of a chance of getting on base than Molina. If not, then it was a worthless trade
Girardi is saving Pudge to pinch-run later in the game.
Haha, shit I completely forgot about that. Great point
Yeah, that guy just a hit a homerun and threw out a runner to end the inning. DFA him immediately.
Uh, what are you talking about. I’m talking about pinch hitting for a .220 hitter in the 7th inning of a game when you’re down 1 run. But thanks for your lame attempt at sarcasm
You are welcome. Actually I reread your post about Betemit hitting and Pudge coming in after. yeah that would be alright. I guess I just can’t get too excited about the pinch hitting options as being that much better than Molina. All the “dynasty” teams had decent sluggers and/or former All-Stars available as pinch hitters. Now we have defensive replacement slash pinch-running outfielders and utility infielders.
it was a little bit early for that anyway.
Austin Jackson removed in the sixth for a pinch hitter, Probabaly nothing, but ouch
He had yesterday off. He’s probably nursing something. If it was anything serious, you know they’d shut him right down.
Im serious, look at the combined ERA’s of the 3 pitchers the O’s have used so far and the Yankees have only 3 runs so far thru 7 innings. If this is not an example of this entire season in a nutshell I dont know what is. Any Yankees team since 1993 wouldve scored at least 8 runs so far against a trio as horrible as what the Orioles have used so far tonight.
did anyone elses MY 9 black out?
wahts ajax’s speed compared to regular ml outfielders? normal? above average?
Didnt he make a web gem during Spring Training that had Reggie Jackson drooling over him??
Reggie liked the way he struck out every 5 minutes. Chip off the old block.
and his last name, of course.
yea he said he was a better athlete than Tomilson.
He has above average speed for a small forward, average for a point guard.
He’s fast, not Gardner fast, but faster than Melky.
Just to be safe, please never put AJax and Melky in the same sentence again, don’t want any of Melky to rub off on him.
19 steals in 127 games, for what it’s worth.
any scoring since the 3-4 o’s? my tv is fucked up
Nope
There’s nothing wrong with your TV, the Yanks just don’t score runs anymore.
no its blacked out.
We gotta score this inning no?
Yeah, probably.
No, there is another inning after this, but if your impatient and want to avoid that whole weird Rivera picthing in a tie game thing, then yeah this is the inning
Kam Mickolio is awesome. I hope to see him pitch. He’s basically Justin Masterson except a year older and without the Red Sox hype.
OK, now just keep Abreu out of scoring position and we should be alright
dudes a machine
Gotta like Abreu. People love to bash the guy.
Unclutch.
Bad baseball by A-Rod, should have just moved the runner over.
Yeah, I know. He’s making $28m and can’t even hit it out. DFA the loser.
Yeah that brings him up to. . . what, .239 with RISP?
Juuuuust missed
2nd and 3rd nobody out.
We’re doomed.
Oof, Abreu was out.
LOT of yanks fans at this game… listen to the crowd
whatever happened to that kid jason anderson i think he was a lefty pitcher for us a few years back.. very short stint
Jason Anderson’s a righty, he’s in AAA somewhere. Nothing special.
http://www.baseball-reference......ja01.shtml
Unbelievable
“Unbelievable”?
How many times a year do you need to see the same thing to start believing it?
Not surprise Giambi didn’t get the run in.
the stache! clutch!
I don’t know about the rest of you guys, but I’d be all about a sac fly right here. Mickolio’s nasty.
I thought they would walk Nady and have Walker face Matsui-Cano, especially with the way Matsui is running a definite DP candidate.
It’d be even better now.
Fuck Giambi… The most overrated player of the last 10 years.
Mmmmmm, hyperboles
whats the score guys? my TV is fucked up
4-4 now, runs scored on a wild pitch.
5-4 now, Nady singled.
4-4
now i see 5-4 on game day. thanks fellas. how does it go again? X gonna give it to ya’ .. WHAT WHAT! lol
Woo hoo. Who needs hits with RISP?
Hahahahah!
baseball is a funny game, sometimes you score despite your best efforts.
Thanx Ken.
Fucking embarrassing. Giambi sucks.
calm down dude.
That wasn’t anger, it was disgust.
At least with X’s RBI, Girardi’s wheels will start turning a bit and maybe he’ll let Nady hit behind A-Rod, finally.
or wiat for matsui to get going, when healthy, thats one of the best RBI men in the league.
keep putting that waste of space 5th joe
Right, cause you want the guys who get on base the most to hit lower in the order. That’s the secret to scoring more runs.
Plus if im not mistaken he doesnt ground into many dp’s so really he isnt that big of a rally-killer.
So I guess your doing jumping jacks everytime he does absolutely nothing with men on base
That response really makes no sense.
Me: “I like sushi, it tastes good.”
Him: “I guess you love it whenever a starving child in Africa eats a poisonous blowfish then.”
That’s basically what that amounted to.
You forgot the grammatical errors.
He doesn’t get on base when there are RISP. Look up his clutch stats.
.352 OBP with RISP.
Fine, lets look at all his RISP #s
BA .205 OBP .352 SLG .321 OPS .673
Because you want your #5 hitter to draw walks, not drive in runners on base.
If he’s on base, then he didn’t make an out. I’m OK with that.
If his OPS is .673, he’s not a MLB starter.
Again, its the 5 hole were talking about. Where you put one of your second best run producer. He doesn’t produce runs, despite a gazillion opportunities to do so. It makes no sense.
Giambi’s OBP has declined with every month.
I understand you can ride out the highs and lows with a player, but he needs to be out of the 5 hole given the problems we’ve had with RISP this season. He simply doesn’t generate runs.
XXXXXXXXXXXX-MAAAAAAAAN
The untier unties it.
X-MAN.
unrelated, but how does Willie Harris have 12 home runs?
from the nats?
yeah
He had 7 in his previous 1200+ ab’s. Something a little fishy about that one.
Nady for MVP. There, I said it.
IPK or Masterson?
Masterson if he’s a starter, IPK if Masterson stays in the pen.
Don’t think Masterson will get lefties out enough to be a starter, but no doubt he’ll be a very good middle/setup man for years. If IPK falters as a starter, he won’t make it as a reliever. That being said, I’ll take IPK.
Masterson. More stuff, an out pitch (sinker) and has already had somewhat prolonged big league success
big hit from the guy that should be batting 5th
Jeff Marquez about to get saddled with a complete game loss.
How’s his line look?
Nevermind, the milb.com box score was messed up. Marquez only went 6.
Certainly would have taken that from Hughes.
so far matsui is the only one “not in the party” .. credited to ken singleton. 0-2 2 BB
like the walks.
did you not see me say2 bb?
The Mets bullpen is so terrible that they had to make Johan Santana stay for 121 pitches over 7 innings just to not blow the game…unbelievable
That Molina was embarrassing.
Isn’t that a dropped third strike?
Only Molina would k on a pitch that hits him….alright him and melky.
why is there 3 umpires? i didnt hear.
Dunno, one the umps was limping in the O’s dugout. He’s fine, there’s 4 umps on the field now.
yanks pick up marte’s option?
If they do, it wont be based on his stats with the Yankees this season.
Absolutely. Marte on a 1-yr $6M deal is way better than the alternatives.
Just out of curiosity, what are the alternatives right now?
Billy Traber is one
Ugh.
Via Cot’s, the FA LOOGY’s this year are:
Affedlt, Beimel, Eyre, Fossum, Fuentes, Fultz, Hendrickson, Kline, Martin, Ohman, Oliver, Parrish, D. Reyes, Shouse, and Stanton.
Fuentes is only desirable option, and you won’t get him for $6M per.
no one, really. phil coke next year, at best.
6 sounds a little pricey for a lefty specialist.
How about extending Marte to 2 for 10 or 3 for 13?
He’s more than just a lefty specialist though. He can get righties out on a regular basis too (not that he’s shown it). He’s not Mike Myers. And I’d rather have him on a 1 year deal than give him anything long term, even if it’s for more $ per.
I like Mike Myers, although that might have something to do with him also going to Iowa State.
Yeah, but he killed all those people and he wears that creepy mask
That’s a solid point.
First ya saw jesus, now you wll see his father God himself.
Look away. The brilliance may blind you.
if it blind me then I don’t wanna see.
Anyone else see that shot of Girardi in the dugout? He had about 3 huge bottles of “ROLAIDS” behind him on a shelf.
He along with the majority of Yankees fans….
Great night by Abreu.
5 singles and no steals???? I’m just bitter, have him on my fantasy team and currently tied in steals this week.
Hey look, it’s Indians’ closer of the future, Fernando Cabrera.
hey isn’t that the guy who blew like an inf. amt. of saves and went like 1-10 in 2005?
No, that was fausto carmona and it was 06
Hit a Homer A-Rod.
Good enough.
i know this is non related but scranton just pulled off a hell of a comeback
That they did.
And Patterson coughs it up…
how unclutch…
CODY RANSOM!
Ransom = ’08 Shelley
Hopefully more like Shane Spencer of yesteryear.
couldn’t agree more. they’re almost the same type of player, minus the forearm murders…
hey hey
Oh my goodness gracious. Matt DeSalvo allowed 9 baserunners in 1 inning tonight.
“Oh my goodness gracious”
Suzyn?
nice cody! and x-man!
again, XXXXXXXXXXXX-MAAAAAAAAN
Like I said about Giambi…. overrated. Adios, muchacho.
Who is rating Giambi so highly?
His spot in the lineup (#5) is the place where you put one of your best run producers, and he hasn’t been that in years.
this is fly right now// love it when yanks do this
They are kill em out there, needing first Aid
How awesome must Ransom feel right now? 2 HR’s in 2 career AB’s.
He was in the majors before with other teams.
I guess that makes me an idiot. Carry on.
He played with San Fran a few years.
Ransom is 2 for 2 with 2 hrs with the Yankees…. More likely than not, the more he plays the faster the league will start to figure him out, but the question needs to be asked… how much longer does giambi have at first if he continues to play like shit…?
Please tell me you are not seriously thinking about benching a guy with an 135-OPS+. Please, please tell me that.
Don’t bench him, but move him down to #7. His RISP #s are hideous, and thats been this team’s biggest problem all year. You can’t hit him 5th.
BA.205 OBP.352 SLG.321 OPS.673
http://www.baseball-reference......;year=2008
With the way this team has hit with RISP this year, they’ll all be hitting #7!!
Actually, do yourself a favor and go through the starter’s splits. Their not as bad as you’d think. Most are actually pretty good.
Damon, Jeter, Abreu, Nady, Cano all have good #s with RISP. Its (you guessed it) the #4 and #5 who have been killing us all year, especially given the guys who bat in front of them. You can’t have 2 outs back to back like that in your lineup.
To be fair, A-Rod has been so so in clutch spots (.239). Below his lofty standards, but somewhat decent. Giambi has been putrid. Together, they have been killing us all year. You have to split them up. I’d put Matsui there (.338 w/RISP) myself and maintain the R-L-R stuff.
He was great in May and June, but sucks as of late. The Yanks can’t keep giving him these chances to redeem himself when they are struggling to catch up to the wild card.
And his OPS+ numbers are way down in the last 2 months.
Didn’t I preface this with.. “continues to play like shit”, and we all can’t deny the issues that Giambi has been having as of late. That great OPS+ was a product of his May and June.
Giambi has been hitting like crap in July and August he is sporting roughly a .770 ops, after a monstrous May and June (1.05 ops). He also has a .212 ba and .673 ops (including May and June) with runners in scoring position.
I know that in all likelyhood Girardi won’t bench Giambi, but if the lineup isn’t getting the job done, why not think about changing things up.
For Cody Ransom though? Seriously?
Well, yeah I admit that is a stretch. But I wouldn’t mind changing the dynamic of the team, unfortunately the Yankees are what they are… An old veteran team that mainly moves from base to base, scoring big runs off hrs. How many more games would we have won if we could of scored some damn runs off outs ???
Giambi has an .888 ops, do you really think Cody Ransom can match that? It’s 2 at bats!!!
Oh I get it, Tragic Number. You so funny Michael Kay.
Hey, nobody listens to me. I’ve been telling everyone we should put a dog’s ass in the #5 spot.
Couldn’t be any worse.
How would it hold the bat?
Don’t ask.
Playoff chances on life support lasts for another day. . . .
When was William Shatner named the skipper of the Baltimore Orioles????
Can Dave Trembley sing?
“It was a very good year . . . “
I’ve watched only two innings tonight and I already saw Carl Pavano laughing, smiling, and enjoying himself in the dugout. It’s funny, Peter Abraham, Joel Sherman, and others will have you believe that Pavano is a cancer in the clubhouse and that nobody wants him there. As I expected from the first time someone wrote those words, seems like a whole lot of bullshit.
Just because Mike Mussina made one comment? God Damn mainstream media.
Just so you know, the first 7 innings he stole candy from children in the stands and burned crosses on the field.
Can’t wait for the PeteAbe update where he details how A-Rod orchestrated the whole thing.
That’s actually more believable than when you said Torre put Sturtze in the game, and that turned out to be true. So did they get film of Pavano’s acts?
Now they’ll probably say that he’s not focusing on the game hard enough.
Does anyone expect anything else from the media? Mike is a stand-up guy, he will not make any waves in the club house. Besides, if Pavano helps the team get to the play-offs, it’s money in his pocket.
Some may not like him or some of the things that happened to him…but hay, that’s life. One down 34 to go. 27/08??
http://www.baseball-reference......co01.shtml
the due on my9 has a heavy brooklyn accent
Thats Russ Salzberg, who might have had the worst show in WFAN history.
dude*
Okay, that Scranton game is getting redic.
What’s going on?
They came back from a 6 run deficit, blew the save in the 9th, and just walked off with a win.
hey mike what do we make of hughes’ line tonight? he was terrible or was it the supposed bug?
I think the bug was just a bunch of BS. He’s just struggling now, it happens.
I like this Ransom guy. He could be a solid bench player for the Yanks
Not to rain on the Ransom parade, but he’s 32 years old with 5 career home runs, and a .241/.335/.390 line. Unless he’s friendly with Radomski and McNamee, I don’t think we should pin any hopes on him.
Yeah, but ride him as a late inning replacement until the league figures him out. Can’t hurt.
BTW-Once around the league for him takes us (hopefully) to October.
This ain’t his 1st rodeo, he’s been figured out already. Don’t think we can ride him based on 2 ab’s. In 4000 minor league ab’s he’s at .242/.322/.426
Amen lol. People relax…..Org guy.
If he was 0-2 with a K and a GIDP in those at-bats, they would be singing a much different tune.
Small sample size FTL.
Modammit, people. I finally make it to the punchbowl, and there’s a turd in it.
Hah, Modammit. Took me a sec, but I gotcha now.
Not only a small sample size, but the 2nd smallest sample size possible. Unless you want to include the rest of his sucky career, but that wouldn’t help the Cody-backers argument
. . . and even bad players have hot streaks. Its fucking late August, you can ride a hot hand for a while. Everything isn’t sabermetrics, you can use some common sense once in a while.
Anyway, I’m only talking about using him as a late inning def replacement anyway. You don’t want Giambi’s glove out there in a close game.
How can you call it a hot hand. It’s 2 at bats!! Varitek had 2 hits tonight, he still sucks, will suck tomorrow, and is not a hot hand. Neither is Ransom