Game 155: Two to go
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It’s the last day game in the stories history of Yankee Stadium. In 40 minutes, the Yanks will take the field on the House that Ruth Built for the last time under the sun. It is a bittersweet moment, to be sure.
Al Aceves draws the start today for the Yanks. In his last Yankee Stadium start, he held the White Sox to two runs on five hits and a walk over six innings. He is 1-0 with a 1.80 ERA in 20 innings this year. Facing him will be Brian Burres, 7-9 with a 6.32 ERA.
Damon CF
Jeter DH
Abreu RF
Rodriguez 3B
Giambi 1B
Nady LF
Cano 2B
Ransom SS
Moeller C
Aceves P
Final Game Notes: The Biz of Baseball has the complete rundown of the ESPN TV coverage scheduled for tomorrow. If you can’t make it to the stadium for the farewell game, there are plenty of tributes to watch on the Worldwide Leader.
Photo Credit: The new Yankee Stadium by Librado Romero for The New York Times.
I guess people will have no doubt where they are next year. Are they putting signing up every 10 feet?
I, personally, enjoy the blue YANKEE STADIUM sign directly over the gold YANKEE STADIUM sign.
Maybe they can have a plane circle with another YANKEE STADIUM sign.
wow just two days until the end of the current yankee stadium. It feels so surreal.
Yeah I know. It’s sad, but I’m enjoying it too. The Stadium will be gone, but the memories will last a lifetime.
Did you read Sheff’s comments after the fight yesterday? He sure is tough after the fact.
Those blows he took to the head must of done some damage. Carmona kicked his ass about as much as you can in a baseball fight.
Haha. The Mexican Gangster with a web gem.
I blame Cano for being out of position.
How did he get an unassisted double play?
The batter popped the bunt up, Aceves dove and caught it on the fly in front of the mound. Then he literally ran, or should I say jogged, the ball all the way to second to get Roberts who just stood at third.
I doubt that one has happened before
lol
Nice play from Cano.
Heh, Aceves recorded all 3 putouts. I can’t imagine many other pitchers have done that.
I’ve seen three grounders to the right side where the pitcher covered in a row, don’t remember who it was though
Did Michael Kay say he tied a major league record?
he always says that. “he tied a major league record held by many” He just meant 3 put outs in an inning.
Yeah, I know. He ALWAYS says that shit.
I still marvel at the story when Babe Ruth told a sick little kid he would hit 2HR’s for him and he did just that.
How many athletes would make a promise like that.
Kramer made the promise to a kid that Paul O’Neill would do it, and he almost did.
I remember that episode.
Joba would tell a kid he was going to strike out 20 and then strike out 21 while pitching with two bloody socks and still manage to save a kitten out of a tree after the game. He’s that good
I remember Thome doing something like that for a sick kid in a hospital.
Melky promised a little kid this morning that he would get an at-bat. Fingers crossed, or that boy is history.
I dont get why BG aint playing
He did too good yesturday.
What would it take to get Adam Jones lol
Melky and IPK.
Erik Bedard with a bum shoulder apparently. Hey, maybe we could substitute Pettitte!
yo mike would you consider signing Milton Bradley to a 2 or 3 yr deal to replace Giambis production in the lineup? Or is Milton the type of guy who might not be able to handle New York
Earlier in the year I would have said yes, but now I say no. He just can’t stay healthy, even though he’s primarily been a DH this year. Plus is OPS is nearly 300 points lower on the road than it is at home, so Arlington’s been kind to him.
What could the yankees seriously get in return for Damon.. A solid prospect or 2 with potential to help the team in 09 or jus some salary relief and some throw in guys
Man, I have no idea what his value is now. I guess it’s as high as it can be right now, he’s only got 1 more year on his deal and he’s been very productive this year. I’m not sure what team’s would need a player like him anyway. Maybe Colorado or Houston?
Atlanta I would think would be interested but I dont know what we would want from them or could realistically get
Aceves pitch count is rising pretty fast, calm down big guy.
It’s amazing what you can do when you just throw strikes. (Ian, Phil cough, cough)
cough DiceK cough
I don’t give a shit what Dice K does. I want just want our young pitchers to just go throw strikes. Stop nibbling.
I can’t believe that he’s managed to succeed this year while walking so very many guys. I know you can get away with walks if you strike out a lot of guys, but that’s been ridiculous.
That was a redic catch by Jones. He was all sorts of contorted at the end of that one.
I agree, thats the sort of stuff that separate A-Jax and Jones.
Also, the fact that Jones is older and has been playing full-time baseball longer.
i think he meant they were comparable not that jones is better than jackson
I think this team really is not gonna look too different next season.
Depends on who is running the show… If it is Hank and not Cashman I think alot of new players will be around
Understanable.
To me, unless there gonna make a big trade, alot of the players are staying put which isn’t bad cuz alot of the talent is here like Cashman said. Just a couple of tweaks.
This will have been one of our “worst ” seasons in a long time and we’re still gonna end up with like 87 wins or so. The team doesnt have to look THAT different to be back in contention for the playoffs next yr.
Good to see Lester falling back to Earth
That’s a little Harsh. Lester is pretty damn good.
Michael Kay is a stat machine !!! or its that guy sitting next to him hehe
i like aceves. what are the odds he makes the starting rotation next april?
actually, who do you see as the starting 5 next season?
sabathia
wang
pettitte
joba
hughes
aceves/kennedy in the wings?
at this point id say alfredo is more “guaranteed” a spot than hughes or ipk
IPK last season pitch great at the end of 07 and we all know what happen.
And Aceves is not as good as IPK.
yarrr this be true matey we’ll just have to see
A day late Pat.
its always talk like a pirate day in my house, and in my hearrrrt
i’m not so sure… the yankees will remember how they gave kennedy a spot on the rotation based on his september performance and we all know how that turned out.
i doubt they’d make that mistake twice.
Honestly I see Cashman leaving because of Hank and that group he is planning to put together and I see a rotation of either Sabathia Wang Joba Burnett/Sheets Hughes or Wang Joba Burnett Sheets Hughes
The funny thing with the Yanks is that we cant rebuild ya know.. Really the only guys we could trade off is Damon Matsui noone else we could trade if we were trying to “rebuild” or noone else could really be traded like Po, Jeter, Arod
That is funny. It’s also funny that people wanna entirely blow up a team that will finish the season around 15 games over .500. Makes sense to me
O ya i know its so ridic all my buddies are like we gotta rebuild try to get Elvis and Votto jus get what you can for Arod pitching and young talent wins rings lol
Eating Subway sandwitches are great man.
i love the spicy italian sub. its one of their $5 footlongs, too. damn good sandwich.
I love the oven toasted chicken and bacon sandwitch.
those 5 dollar footlong sub commercials are very sexually suggestive
Thanks on link to the ESPN coverage. Will be filling up tapes tomorrow, for sure.
Also found a nice hommage to the Stadium’s send off at BizofBaseball.com:
http://www.bizofbaseball.com/i.....;Itemid=41
I’d rather try to use Aceves as a trade chip than Hughes.. Aceves success this year in the minors and majors could turn some teams on to him kinda like Kennedy las year with the Johan deal.. Man id love to see Votto or Chris Davis in a Yankee Uni but obviously wed have to give up alot more than we would like to… Aceves Kennedy and Miranda for one of them ? haha
aceves could be a good trade chip while his stock is high, but based on the small ML experience i doubt he’d bring back a lot of talent. no first rounders, anyway.
haha yea I wish, I dont think davis is goin anywhurrrr. texas likes him alot. We actually drafted him outta HS but obviously he didnt sign… damn
The only way you can get those 1st basemen if you include Hughes in that deal, and if Im gonna trade Hughes I want a much better player.
Oh yea cause Votto and Davis dont have the upside to be a top 5 first baseman in the league someday
I think Ivan means someone that plays a more premium position. Votto and Davis have the potential to be very good players, but if you’re traded a potential frontline guy like Hughes, I want someone who plays a more difficult position.
And Davis and Votta suck at 1st Base. Plus, I don’t think Votta is that great. Again, like Mike said, wouldn’t you wanna trade Hughes for a up the middle player.
Like a Grady Sizemore eh
right.
Imagine if Texiera went back to the Rangers like they had a deal worked out lol just for them to get some talent and than they use Davis as a trade chip or w.e.. WOuld the MLB look into that ?
hahah michael kay’s right. there’s not a drop of sweat on aceves’ face. that’s a little odd…
Did Volquez have alot of MLB experience before he was traded for Hamilton ?
About 80 innings worth spread over 3 seasons. Had a 7.45 ERA and a 1.91 WHIP over that time too.
Another example of why you don’t give up on young talented arms.
“Had a 7.45 ERA and a 1.91 WHIP”
Sort of like what Hughes and IPK had this year, huh?
BUT BUT BUT WE MUST TRADE THEM111!!onehundredeleven! They can never be good.
Yes. He’d been in the bigs for part of three seasons. He also sucked in that MLB duty. That was a swap of risky talent for risky talent. It worked out for both, but could easily have fallen apart on one of the two teams.
It would be nice if the yanks put a couple runs up on the board for Aceves.
dude i was just thinking that like cut the kid a break u bastards score some runs this game is fugly
Somebody please explain how a pitcher who was banned to the ‘pen because he sucks, can come into Yankee Stadium on it’s second to last game and absolutely dominate the Yankees’ “A lineup”?
Chad Moeller and Cody Ransom are in the A lineup?
Moeller is no worse than Pudge or Molina with the bat, and Ranson is comparable to any other bat we bring from the bench.
There shouldn’t be any bench bats in your ‘A’ lineup.
And, if Moeller (a third string catcher) is as good a bat as any of your other catchers, then that’s kind of an indictment of the ‘A’ lineup more than anything else.
Except that he has a .250 OPS over the last few weeks.
i dunno if ud consider moeller and handsome cody ransom ur A lineup
And that was like the 100th popup by Yankees’ batters today.
Sounds like they are getting under the ball. Maybe if they “square up” the ball they will hit it better. I’m no Charlie Lau though.
The Yanks are getting under more balls than a midget hooker.
HAHAHAHA
clever
This has been a pretty boring game, not for nothing. The highlight was Bob Sheppard pulling the lever.
If they lose a game in which they got 6 shutout innings from their starter, facing a guy with an ERA near 7…
it wouldnt have been the first time this season….?
Keep hope alive! This is where they score the runs.
or not
It’s good to know that the bottom half of the inning lasted 4 minutes.
im watchin on gamecast online are they bringing in a reliever?
never mind
Well I guess he didn’t look very good last inning so why not take him out and keep his confidence high? Maybe we’ll have another Humberto sighting!
I doubt Girardi would use him in a tight game, but I hope he makes an appearance.
At what age you consider that it’s time to leave ya parent’s house?
2 years ago?
I ask that question cuz a woman can stay at her parents crib and it’s a not a huge problem but a guy does it, forget about it.
Heh, I hear ya. I was out at 18 and haven’t looked back.
whenever you’re ready.
kids leave between 18-22 years old, depending on whether they went to college and still “technically” lived at home. but a lot of my friends (college grads) work full-time and live at home cause it allows them to save a lot of money.
its funny, cause in other countries (dominican republic, italy, etc) young adults dont move out until they get married. so its perfectly normal to see a 30+ yr old man or woman living with his/her parents.
I honestly don’t remember the last time I saw a game with this many flyouts
A-Rod will go deep.
I’ll take the single.
arod is such a stat padder with that single there
CC Burres doin’ his thing.
Exciting game eh.
I just want this game to end so I can play NHL 09 already.
Sheesh, Burres is only at 91 pitches too. He’ll be back out for the 8th.
Only the yanks could make Burres look like Cliff Lee.
Wow, Bobby’s making quite the case to be resigned, he came within 5 feet of the wall on that one.
I tell you what I give Gardner a bunch of shit, but I absolutely loved that play last night. I loved his nonchalant throw back to the infield. I’m sure that he was hurting, smacking into the wall, but it was cool as hell to see it.
For the love of God score a run!!!
Kay hasn’t been nearly as annoying the past few days. I’ll give the man this, whenever there’s a big moment or something special happening, he handles it well.
I know I’m the minority here, but I actually don’t have a problem with Kay. I think he’s way better to listen to than most of MLB announcers out there.
Rivera is gonna have a season where he’s probably gonna pitch 70IP with less than 10BB’s.
Make the arguement this is Mo’s second best season of his career.
Im calling it, Walk-off Homer from Derek Jeter.
Arod with an Abomb. Print it, book it, buy it.
Fuck!!!
Always the O’s. Hate those bastards.
was that as high and tight as it looked on gameday?
yes
where’d it hit him?
Yeah, got him on the left wrist.
well…at least he’ll have the offseason to heal.
True, but look how long it took Delgado’s wrist to feel right after breaking it in the last game of the year last season.
Brett Gardner makes shit happen.
yeah, sorta…I mean, all it did was make it so Abreu saw nothing good to hit.
Little G steals 2nd, 3rd and home.
Yankees haven’t had a dude this fast since Homer Bush.
do you steal third here? Gardner scores easily on a solid single anyway…
Let’s go A-Rod. Put one in the seats for the haters.
You see that A-Rod, that a diss to ya man. You go out there and park that baseball in the next burrough.
Well….he legged out that one.
JUST GET A SAC FLY, JASON!!!
Steal home Brett. Walker’s got a slow delivery, and he throws lots of junky breaking balls. Do it man, do it.
lets go Giambi.
BG should steal home for the win.
If Jeteer cant play tomorrow im calling for a lynching of trevor miller
Alright Cano do ya thing.
CaNO WALKS OFF ON ORIOLES ALL THE TIME
And He does.
Thaaaaaaaa Yankees WIN!!!
I LOVE THE YAANKS !!lol
If only we played this good all year
I thought Pete Abe said they were not gonna try hard and they were on vacation.
The Yanks just won’t die this year. Elimination put off another day.
ICWT In Cano we trust
Yankees win, Thaaaaaaaaaaaa YANKEES Wiiin!!!
Any news on Jeter?
lol elimination put off another day
See? Wasn’t that more exciting than a 10-3 snorer?
Those highlights had me tearing a bit lol