Jun
07
Game 56 Spillover Thread
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i feel bad for the cubs… what the fuck were they thinking getting aaron heilman??
that was fuckin strike 3, goddamn this ump sucks
No that was strike three
iight, I think Hughes will pitch the 9th inning. I think.
hopefully mo will be…
AH, my bad Zack. Lol i did read it just not twice. My beef was “we’re.” My mistake, I think you understand what I mean though.
pena scares me
0-6 w/ RISP, we need to get on that
we will.
Its prety interesting how Pena remains a significant contributor to the Rays numbers wise despite bad contact skils.
Skills*
Anyone see what happened to Ellsbury?
NO!? did he get hurt or something?
wat happen?
i know he left the game
that was strike 3 again
aceves is like, fuck this ump, i’ll get em swinging
1-2-3, and again 1-2-3…..This is not good. We need offense.
A lot of people have left TB for dead (mainstream media). With all things considered (bad hitting, injuries and bullpen issues), they’ve done a pretty damn good job. Only 5 games out of first place and they give the Sux and Yankees problems.
Filthy
Cruz a single shy of the cycle.
Ace!
that’s nasty
Mexican Gangster dealing.
when does he not.
i hate all these 2-0 and 3-1 outs
bad baseball
it happens.
maybe before the games over this lineup might ya no wake up a bit wtf guys it just seems like the 5th inning killed them
Is that Edwin Jackson in Right Field for the Rays??? Psssshh
Im calling it now. Posada walk off 2-run homer.
If we can get some men on base, the Melkman will deliver
Can always count on JD.
Clutchy McClutch
finally, after 7 straight retired.
tex message
thank you john sterling.
abomb than mo redemption
Hopefully A-rod can do something with this.
please no groundballs.
Lol it’s funny watching Teix run.
Come on Al! Let’s get one in baby!
Let’s do this A-Rod
Lets go A-Rod.
Come on A-Rod, sit fastball here
That FB was the pitch to crush.
or pop up
oh, my bad, thought u meant the last one. I think u meant the swing and miss.
Yeah. The fastball that he swung under.
Um…ok. I mean, it wasn’t really that high at all. I’m glad he didn’t pop it up, but that was certainly a hittable pitch.
Word, I’m just saying we don’t really want him to expand the zone. Take the BB, pass it on.
This is cano’s kind of spot.
he sees lefties well.
If by that you mean a 1st pitch swinging ground ball to 2B you’d be correct.
Wow. troll? or just a total pessimist?
There goes your prediction.
Great AB! Alright Robbie. Let’s work on the bases loaded average.
Well, now we need Cano to come through. I’d be completely fine if he also walked though
uh-oh Robbie with bases loaded…cmon just a single
Wow, Padilla 7IP, 3ER on 99 pitches at the Sox.
Every wonder why it is so hard for Yankee hitters to just hit a fly ball to score a run. Seems like everytime there is a runner at 3rd, the hitter has to get the “big” hit instead of just trying to score the run.
Good AB by Cano… Now stay out of the DP…. take some pitches.
I doubt they’re trying to get the “big” hit. You just try to put together a good at-bat and right now it’s not happening for them. Hopefully Cano can turn on one here
I know you are correct and my statement is not true fact, but it is the perception that is occurs more often than not.
base hit to the left center gap, scores 2…
iight lets go Cano, give the yanks their first hit in RISP.
Sad to say, but it seems as though Alan Horne is officialy done
1.0 6 8 7 2 1 1 11.15
ouch
That is too bad.
Ah well, like Mike says…young pitchers do two things: walk people and get hurt.
cano bases loasded don’t know if I can watch
please please robbie just don’t make an out on ball 4
thank you
Can Cano walk with the bases loaded?
HE CAN!@!!!!W!W!@!!!@!@!@!@!#!###!#!!!!!
Teh patience!
ROBBIE CANO! WHADDYA KNOW
Yeah, I would not have called that one.
Good AB Cano.
Robbie with the clutch walk!
Cano drawing a bases loaded walk is something I didn’t think I’d ever see.
baseball’s awesome
Seriously.
I mean…that first pitch was totally a strike, but hey…I’ll take the break
Let’s go JORGE!!!
Amazing.
Robbie took a walk.. what is this world coming too!
That was an amazing at bat by Cano.
Flyball now ties this game. Let’s do it Posada!
Tie it up JoPo! WOOHOO!
YES!
and have a boot
Oh my goodness.
Posada knocked the stuffing outta that one.
That’s a DP if that’s Longoria playing 3rd.
Oh so nice…
See…. speed kills. Posada’s blazing speed caused Aybar to rush…
Again, Matsui sprinting down first, faster than Ichiro…. Speed is an excellent weapon.
Crap, Mo probably isn’t avaiable?
Probably is, because Girardi was evil and pulled him and put in Coke. Idiot Girardi.
yeah yeah yeah…
He’s warming, and it’s the bottom of the order…
Still, I’d like a hit from Swish.
Longoria totally makes that play…thank Mo he’s on the bench
What the balls.
an inning built on luck I’ll take it
There’s a ton of luck involved in this game. I’ll take it every time.
Awesome, flyball brings in the go ahead run. Time to get Mo up!
groundzilla beat out a DP.
He shoulda tossed the ball to SS and turned it instead of waiting to tag Posada.
But…..but…….this game was over…,.
Got the lead baby.
Matsui wasn’t running fast, but it looks like he was running freely. That’s an improvement.
insurance swish
No one id rather see up here than swish
Yes, I was worried Mo wasn’t available.
Alright now that we have the lead, time for Swish to break it open.
BTW, has anybody else noticed that we’ve done this without a hit w/ RISP? We’re still 0-8
Doesn’t matter if they win. What if they get 3 homeruns with a guy on first in each and a triple with a guy on first? Those don’t count towards RISP, but it still gets it done.
Thaaaaat was a strike.
Ball 3, that is.
Leave Aceves in the 9th!!!! LOL j/k
That third pitch sure looked like a strike! lol I’ll take it.
Wow, these “ball” calls are terrible according to Gameday. Eh, I won’t complain.
not according to my eyeballs
Really? That third ball to Swish looked good to me on TV too.
Finally, the Rays are the ones getting squeezed
Jesus, Gameday has Balfour getting really squeezed hard.
Howell that is
Look who is up…. Yanks will win this one!!!!
Lets walk in another one Melky.
Melky GS here. Im callin it.
Holy shit. No fucking way.
He didn’t go. That was horseshit.
starting today, yankees will be in first place for the rest of the season
from your mouth to Mo’s ears
That was crap.
Shit. Would have liked two more just to give Mo a chance.
Damn, well you can’t argue with three runs there!
Wow, he wasn’t even CLOSE to swinging.
Seriously. That’s kind of a bullshit way to end a rally.
It was definitely a gift call, since the pitchers were getting squeezed (though, the strike zone has been small ALL game).
Bottom 4 up for the Rays, but you have to assume Longoria pinch-hits for someone.
I’ll bet they pitch to him today after all the reports yesterday
and you assume Mo pitches to him.
I’m not gonna lie, kinda nervous here for Mo
Mo has ice water in his veins.
yea, he’s the shit but he has me worried against these pesky rays
And he can turn water into Old E.
Yanks better get this win, or else they cost me Garza’s fantasy win for nothing.
That happened to me with Price yesterday, lol (he’s in my 20 team deep keeper league). And I had Sabathia in both of my 12 team rotos, heh.
Mo is good in saves. Yesterday was not a save.
Mo is good when his velocity is at 92. Yesterday, it was at 89-90.
I think it’s amusing how Mo has one bad appearance and suddenly everybody is worried about him. Watch him go 1-2-3 with a pair of strikeouts and shut the media up
It is comical.
Exactly.
It’s so irritating. Every hiccup is a HUGE news story.
You think there’ll be any ESPN coverage of Matsuzaka’s shitty outing today? Nah, they’ll talk about how his 8K’s mean he’s rounding back into form, and ignore the 10 hits and 5ER in 5.2 innings.
If Joba did that, all we’d hear about is how he needs to go back to the pen.
Isn’t it kind of dumb to have a “player of the game” when the game is still hanging in the balance? If someone hits a game-winning HR here (or in the bottom of the ninth, if we get there)…wouldn’t that kind of obsolete the choice of Aceves?
but but but what about the sponser
It would suck is Ace was the losing pitcher. He smoked em.
How would that be possible? Aceves didn’t give up any runs…
No tie game, bring Mariano in.
Here we go!!!
Interesting question my buddy just asked me:
What happens if Longoria comes up, hits one out but tweaks his hamstring on the swing and can’t jog around the bases?
I remember seeing that happen in a softball game where the fielders actually carried the girl around otherwise a pinch runner would have been put on first. Anybody know?
I know it’s happened, but I can’t remember what they did. I think they were allowed to pinch run for the guy.
But I assume the pinch runner had to take over and stay at first right?
The pinch-runner will run the bases, that’s what happened with Gabe Kapler a few years ago.
Thaaaaat’s who it was. I knew I saw it.
Mo, show everyone why I hated walking him yesterday!
total domination. forget about it.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Big win.
Mo says eat my shorts.
Oof, rough win warble there.
Kinda an ugly win be we’ll take it every day!!! Back in 1st as long as Texas holds on.
What a great win
So much for Mo being human.
Oh my god, but we can’t beat the rays or the redsox!!!!>!!>!!!@11!!1!! We need to pack it up this year. WE SUCKSKSS1!!!!!111!!
“WE SUCKSKSS1!!!!!111!!” the extra K and 2 extra S’s were a nice touch
Terrific Win by the yanks.
and now we turn to tbs and cj wilson
Mo hit 94!
That was uge
Woot, double play and now Ortiz up to end the game for Boston
CJ Wilson is one scary looking dude
Really? I think he’s rather attractive.
And the blue glove is just icing
Here we go CJ Wilson!
Back to first
we’ll never leave 1st again.
Great win
Good to see Swisher heating up again,
Mo said he won’t say told ya so to Joe because he’s the manager. But he thought the suggestion by Kim Jones was pretty funny.
Hah, and at the rate with which the yankees score runs in the 8th, Al aceves has a shot at 15 wins this year
20 game winner HOF’er!
First place, back where we belong.
OT, but i love how people thought the mariners could contend cause of their hot start. That team is an absolute joke. Griffey is their 4 hitter and he’s hitting 220.
I am really starting to like this team more and more. I even enjoyed yesterdays game. While the team is not perfect, and not quite the 1998 Yankees (but who are), they at least have some fight in them. The additions of Teix, CC, and AJ have really made noticeable differences. This has been the best Yankee off season since I can remember.
“not quite the 1998 Yankees”
yeah 114 wins or bust
Nancy Newman: “Keeping Tampa at Bay, if you will”
Face, meet palm
Kay with a “grittyness and guttyness” reference on the postgame show.
I went to today’s game…but had to leave in the 8th -_-
that sucks dude…with this team this year, i dont think i would leave any game early
I WANTED to stay but I had a party so I had to.
Just as a note, this is why I think Cash is further flubbing the whole Hughes/Wang thing. The right move in this game was to go to Aceves, not throw Hughes out there in a close game for his first relief appearance. Hughes should have gone to the minors, and he could have come back for Wang after 10 days, or two starts, anyhow, if Wang was awful. The only thing I can imagine is that they did it to intentionally limit his innings.
send hughes down before you even see Wang start again, what if just bombed in the first or second? kill the bullpen when you play 10+ days in a row?
I hope Pettite brings some legit innings tomorrow to close this series out.