May
27
Game 46 Spillover Thread II
ByRaise your hand if you’re going to be absolutely exhausted at work tomorrow morning. At least coffee in my office is both free and right around the corner from my desk. Also, I don’t want to stay up until 2 to watch the Yanks lose. Let’s get on that.
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Word to that, Ben.
Well so much for that idea
That works.
Okay, a BG HR would give us the lead.
And lol that was the weakest one he hit all night.
Come on Gardner i would love to see a triple.
Well here’s a chance for Brett Gardner to start getting his name mentioned in the CF debate again. A double here would do wonders
Catching fly balls that arent hit right to him would be nice to.
O come on, Melky wouldn’t have gotten anywhere near that ball
Oh I agree. But Gardner is supposed to cover more ground due to his speed so he should be making those plays.
He’s winning right now, with Leche due for an MRI…
“Raise your hand if you’re going to be absolutely exhausted at work tomorrow morning. At least coffee in my office is both free and right around the corner from my desk. Also, I don’t want to stay up until 2 to watch the Yanks lose. Let’s get on that.”
I get to work from home tomorrow (remotely), hehehehehehehehehe.
Huge fan of Robbie, but he’s not exactly a base-stealer.
I’d love to see Gardner swing at one of these meatballs on a 2-0 count sometime
And deposit it . . . over the head of the second baseman.
Gardner!
nice piece of hittin for gardner wow
gritts!
GRIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The fuck? Is Brett Gardner resembling a Major League hitter?
Bobby steals one base and suddenly he warrants three pick-off attempts?
nice hit by Gardner!
great at bat for Gardner.. he’s really had a nice stretch of swinging the bat ironically since he was demoted from the starting spot.. we have to be pleased to the uptmost over how Melky and Gardner have played up to this point
As soon as we start getting to a pitcher, Ron Washington comes out and takes him out
Isn’t that his job?
Grit officially exclaims, “guys, I really don’t suck! I was just fuckin with ya.”
All we need now is a fly ball. PLEASE don’t groundout Matsui
Also, do you run Gardner here? It’s risky but it could keep them out of the double play and Salty can’t throw anybody out tonight. Of course they could always just walk Matsui then and pitch to Cervelli
Swisher is due up
With the way Gardner has been able to reach without it being too close, I say go for it.. Dare I suggest double steal?
That would be ballsy as hell (of course not as ballsy as a straight steal of home!!!!!)
/Gammon’d
Matsui-Swish-Cervelli, no?
My bad, Swisher seems to just be non-existent lately
Might be tougher with C.J.
I guess Ill be the first to say it, please Matsui no GIDP.
seriously…Gritts hits when he fills in for some taken out..just like that game he came in for Damon when he got ejected.
I was thinking the same thing when he first came in
How many pitchers does Grit have to take out before he starts getting some respect?
SSS!
Gardner is like 320/440/660 for May
Oof.
dammmmmmmm
I’ll take it.
o no.. please not another injury..
Okay Swisher, just don’t look at strike 3 this time. Mmmkay?
I’d almost rather take my chances with Cervelli with two outs than Swish with one out at this point.
That’s all they need. Get ready for the Berroa at DH era.
Gimme the Miranda at DH era please.
A Swisher Slam would be all kinds of awesome right here.
No doubt
Swisher.. Do what it does homie.
Swish will not K here.
yeah but he’ll GIDP. GOD DAMN IT
Man he coulda smashed that pitch
Pete Abe just said he calculated that Joba’s ERA is 10.38 in the 1st inning and 2.45 in all the other innings. Maybe they can please the Joba to the bullpen people by bringing Joba in the 2nd inning.
i would rather see a chat format than have to reload every 30 sec.. this sucks..
a chat format would be HORRIBLE
Swisher. I’d say you’re a bit overdue for a big hit
A HR would be nice here.
Wow. Swisher. Way to suck.
wtf
fuck this bullshit.
This is ridiculous.
Wow, Swisher… Unreal…
DAMN IT!!!!!!!
…
Swish, you’ve got to be kitten me!
what the…FUVCKYDGRDFJFGHDSFCK
…
J-rod anyone?
Well, at least he didn’t strike out.
I think people would rather a strike out and at least give someone else an opp with 2 outs. Killing the inning like that is just a deflating feeling and could be the ballgame.
10 times out of 10, I’d take the strike out over the double play. Give me a break.
It must have been a joke..right?
yup, joke.
could’ve taken a better approach and tried to hit the ball in the air at least though
Can’t buy a hit right now.
Lets just have Nady play RF and just underhand the ball into the infield when he comes back, better off than the way Swisher is hitting right now.
Swisher is real bad right now. Every aspect of the game.
You have to be kidding me
poor Swisher…
S-Dunc would have been nice in that spot against a left handed fastballer.
Pretty much any right-handed major leaguer would have been nice.
At 1.00 AM, Wed 27 May 2009, my love affair with Nick Swisher came to an end.
It was fun while it lasted.
I say if melks ok, we go with gritts and melk. swish needs a break.
Well if anybody was wondering how we got this guy for a back-up third basemen, this is it. Would it kill Girardi to sit him for a game?
I would rather get blown out from the beginning than lose games like this, if they lose of course.
Melky to RF, GGBG to CF, Swisha to bench. This is ridiculous.
I hate to say it, but I agree. Would greatly improve the defense, too.
swish needs a time out.
At this point, I don’t see why the Yanks aren’t considering it. Swisher has been a non-factor for weeks. He’s OPSing .668 over his last 144 plate appearances.
Nick Swisher is now hitting .170 over his last 35 games. The Yanks have played only 46 games all season. Can we end this obsession with him now?
Sure, as soon as we have someone else that can play rf. Looks like Melk will be out a couple of games at least.
What obsession? His OBP is still .365. Where’s the better option?
Since April 17, his OBP is .328. I’d say Gardner is the better option.
2-11 with RISP =
…
Son of a bitch.
I see Girardi’s content with leaving Aceves out there until this one’s out of reach.
Poot. This really sucks
great. we leave the bases loaded, and of course they come right back and threaten with 2nd and 3rd with 0 outs.. gotta love baseball, huh?
Wow. Shockingly, Aceves is going to give away this game. Let’s not use our very well rested bullpen tonight, Girardi. Brilliant.
Especially with an off day on thursday, ugh.
I don’t know why Kinsler doesn’t try to break for home on that play. Not like Gardner’s arm is that great
I’m going to go the MSM route and blame Nick Swisher for every unfortunate occurrence that occurs in the game henceforth.
Would you rather have them talk about sending Joba back to the pen????
He’s not the problem, Jamal, but it’s tough to deny that he is not a problem. His last few months have been worse than Melky 2008.
Aceves couldn’t go forever right?
I still hate this bullpen….
Look at GGBG hold those runners. Melky’s range plays better in right anyway.
Melky’s range is fine. May be as good as Brett’s.
Melky’s scapula begs to differ right now
Didn’t gritts just jump into a wall and miss a ball that he should have had? so their range is just about the same. And I believe melks was a harder play…straight over his head.
People just love to bash the Melkman, even when his AVG is the best on the team.
I know. It’s sad.
Andddd Texas is setup perfectly… Swish would ground into a DP and Texas would captalize… Swish had the at bat of the game and pretty much blew it. Lets hope Coke can keep it them only scoring a run. I still have faith in the offense to comeback in this.
Call me optimistic, but I feel like the Gangster’s gonna get out of this one somehow.
and by get out of it, i mean, he’ll leave the game and someone else will get out of it
Good call.
im not sure if my hands are on a wang or a tomko..
If your hands are on a wang, don’t tell us. TMI.
Hope to get a k and walk cruz and den try to double up murphy.
never mind the strikeout he already drove the runner in.
Why the fuck wasn’t the infield in?
But they bring it in for an IBB
Keep the infield back again, 3 runs in 2 innings is nothing to come back from.
If this innings goes wrong I guess we will all be able to go to sleep?
It’s alright we’ve been pounding their pitching all day this is still very win-able.
I agree
No doubt. Their closer is due to give up some runs as well.
come on phil!
Considering Aceves’ results tonight, they really should have just used Wang. That’s a complete hindsight critique, but when do they plan on using CMW anyway?
True, but imagine how much more out of hand this game would have been when Wang’s sinker wasn’t sinking in Arlington.
Agreed. If not tonight, when?
nobody wang chung tonight
I agree.
If not then, then I don’t when you would use him. If you can’t use him in this situation, that means he is only pitching in blow outs, one way or the other. And if that is not a good situation to be in.
if lead = +- 3 runs then reliever == Wang
Ugh..
6-3
Why can’t we do that?
C’mon offense… Do what you do and comeback in the late innings.
Swisher sux and very well may be the worst RF in baseball. Its late and I just wanted to say that before I go to bed.
Three runs against their pen? Hmmm. . .
I like the way you think
O’Day is very hittable… They can do this.
.188 ave against ain’t to shabby.
It isn’t… But the Angels and Mets let him go… 2 bullpens who are pretty questionable so it has to say a little something about the guy.
Cervelli chip shot ofer the LF fence.
orrrr not.
y the hell did the mets let him go.
he’s not so good.
C’mon Jetes. Start somethin
Thanks bro. JD, keep it movin.
Top of the order gets it done.
Cap’n!
do it. do it. do it now!
in an arnold voice.
How long before we start considering pinch hitting with CC?
There you go, Cap’n… Keep the train moving, lets do this.
come on johnnyyyyyyyyyyyy.
UGH
fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
i’m going to sleep.
+1
Mike R. = out
Dope.
Wow… awesome…
All these groundballs are killing me.
Damon grounding into a double play? Wow, we must really not be destined to win tonight.
Ah, this game.. this game, I don’t like this game.
Something like that.
Didnt see that coming….
That’s why the batting order was changed!
It wouldve been nice to be in a tie for 1st place in the division after the 1st week of the season for the first time since 2006.
You know, maybe everyone is cranky due to the late hour, but this thread is startlingly similar over the last hour to the one over at Lohud. Blasphemous, I know, but also a little bit true.
Perhaps it’s frustration watching the Yanks go 2 for 11 with RISP. Perhaps it’s frustration with he lack of depth due to injuries. Perhaps it’s frustration with an 84-pitch four-inning Joba start.
If you’re not frustrated by this game, I don’t think we’re watching the same one. The Yanks have had plenty of chances and have capitalized once. It’s frustrating.
Of course it’s frustrating. But I thought the difference between this blog and some others was that the people here were less prone to knee jerk reactions.
What are the knee-jerk reactions? Giving Nick Swisher a day off in a month in which he’s hitting far below the Mendoza Line? Using another reliever from a rested bullpen? Hardly seems knee-jerk to me.
I’m pretty sure Swisher had a day off two days ago. He is their best option right now. Going to Aceves looked might good when the team tied the game, not so good once he gave up runs. Just the kind of second guessing I’m not used to seeing here.
Most of us wanted Joba in for the fifth not Alf. I wouldn’t call it second guessing.
Complaining about a game, and also a batter that has been awful for over a month is knee-jerk?
Plus at least the weather down here in Miami was horrible today. Ugly day/night all around!!!!
What do you want from us man? It’s been a tough one..
No freaking way. This one isn’t nearly as bad as other ones here hve been.
With the hour and the way this game has played out, isn’t crankiness understandable?
I’d also say that we’re a far cry from LoHud. We all seem to recognize that these crappy games happen. We’re not calling for Girardi’s head, Dave Eiland’s head or Joba to the pen.
Fans are certainly allowed to get frustrated after a game like tonight’s.
Agreed. All I said was that this one particular chunk of the thread was a lot more bitter than I’ve gotten used to here. Sorry if I struck a nerve by mentioning Lohud.
We’re not calling for Girardi’s head…
Really, now?
Well, that HR is ballgame. I don’t see a 4 run 9th. I’m popping out.
wow, now it might be bedtime
Don’t do this to me Phil. Why… Why?
Phil Coke loves giving up HR’s to lefties.
At least Robertson gets to see what it’s like to pitch without 2-3 men on base
David Robertson in the role he does best, mop-up time.
Three straight strikes from Robertson? Hopefully he can keep that up!
Ok, I lied – this was too funny. mlbtraderumors.com
“According to Chico Harlan of the Washington Post, the Nationals designated pitcher Daniel Cabrera for assignment tonight. Acting GM Mike Rizzo was frank: “I was tired of watching him.” We all were, Mike. Cabrera told Harlan he would not accept a minor league assignment.”
HAHAHA
I think we might do sumthin in the top of the ninth.
I have an irrational dislike of Vizquel. Perhaps we should have brought in Jose Mesa for this series.
just for kicks, let’s win this one
You know what? That sounds like a good idea.
For pure shits and giggs I’m down with pullin some runs outta our collective asses.
I’d certainly prefer a win for staying up this late…
I like how ken ominously called this a non save situation. He just did it again.
LOL, come on, guys, I do this all the time and I actually like staying up for games!
Godawful AB by Teix.
Starts 2-0. Fouls off a strike, then swings at balls.
AROD garbage time HR plz, kthanksbye
NO SOUP FOR ME
Bright spot: at least Robertson looked good tonight.
I just don’t understand why Girardi didn’t use Wang today.
I hope this doesn’t mean he’ll come out tomorrow while we’re winning!
ok this one is over well get em tonight wit burnett.
Burnett v. Holland should be an interesting matchup. Maybe Burnett can start pitching well again.
ohhhhh give em a base hit! That shit was in the hole
crack in the armor baby
is it greedy to ask for a 4th hit?
If Gardner manages to reach, what are the odds against Swisher making the last out? 5-1? 25-1? 100-1?
If Swisher sits tomorrow…who plays right field?
jesse barfield
In a stunning trade, the Yankees have acquired Nick Markakis for Kennedy+Brackman+Venditte.
I keed, I keed.
I’m not the GM or anything but I say call on Singleton.
Oh well. Can’t win em all.
Bat off shoulder?
Grit, I know the games over, but do ya really have to look at the last out? Aysh
he likes to watch
Here’s a link to the Brooks Baseball Pitch F/X plot for Holland’s first start. Gas from the left side, but you knew that.
http://www.brooksbaseball.net/.....evDate=522
Get them later today!
I can’t believe the umps made us sit through a 2 and a half hour rain delay. We clearly lost because of that. This one shouldn’t even count.
I know they’ve tried pitching Joba through a simulated first inning just to get him ready for real game-time, but to day was just overkill, haha.
Nothing compared to Detroit last year. Survived them both, proud to say.