Jun
20
Game 68 Spillover Thread
ByI can has baserunners?
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The Mason Williams Watch
79 pitches through 6.
We need to get into their bullpen.
at this point, we need jesus
AJ and Berroa took 6 pitches and Jeter only 3…DFA him!
Odds the Yankees see the Marlins pen:
For 1 inning: 2-1
For more than 1 inning: 15-1
Not at all: 5-1
shocking good pitching dominates what a concept…
we are good for at least 1 more cano 2 pitch AB and 1 swisher strikeout……
Hopefully, Alex gets a chance to Bitch tit at some point in this game.
How nice would it be for him to hit a HR in his 1st AB at his home?
Hopefully Atlanta wins. Yanks can’t figure this guy out.
m0ar hitx pl0x…
I’m sure that MRI for Dice-K will find something.
Igawa ’09: 0 loses – DiceK ’09: 5 loses
Cashman >>>>>>>> Theo
and Dice-K’s lossse were at the MLB level so Theo=fail
Clearly a DL stint is coming, whether that MRI finds something or not.
it might be his eye!
check his nails too!
Inflammation of the ERA.
His fastball?
Bobby Valentines’ hotel room key?
A note from Scott Boras, saying “I’ll give you $1 million if you don’t tell Theo about THIS ->”
I’m hoping that he comes out and says something to the effect of “I am not injured” and the Red Sox get punished by the commissioner.
I invented this new injury test for baseball, using a cotton swab. You touch the cotton swab to a player and a pagan witch doctor can instantly diagnose that player with anxiety disorder. Patent pending.
I can has baserunners?
Either I missed something or you’re drinking Wild Turkey.
http://stellargirl.typepad.com.....rger_2.jpg
source.
That’s too bad cuz I love me some Wild Turkey.
Of COURSE Beckett is dominating and the Sox are up 2-0..
Yeah, Burnett has been terrible today. If only the Yankees could have a dominant pitching performance. Pettitte was awful yesterday too.
Lowe’s at 100pitches too
cant walk .287 OBP emilio AJ!!!!!!!
Four pitch walk to bonifacio = boo.
Yeah, you can’t walk Good Face.
i hope AJ doesnt implode
It’s entirely possible. This inning has a bad feeling to it. No bull dance… no flow…
Fantasy Trade:
a) Matt Holliday, Brandon Phillips and Joba for:
b) Magglio Ordonez, Dustin Pedroia and Matt Capps, who wins?
Whoever is getting A wins
Yah.
Was this even remotely a serious question? Capps is a reliever, right?
Closer for Pirates.
Went on DL after he hurt his elbow while undressing after a game. But 16/18 in saves, blown up ERA because of 2 games that combined for 2 IP, 8H, 7ER, 1BB. Obviously he’s on my team
a), easy.
The person getting package A considering Maggs is being indefinitely benched.
Bad walk, A.J. Escape from this.
Man…that was kind of totally a strike.
Nice gun!
Jorge says NO!
CWIDT?
Did you have the River Ave blues after the series against poor homestand?
” . . . after the poor homestand.”
Another great through my Molina.
PO!
Throwing out Hanley and Bonafacio? Those are big time caught stealings.
Respect the gun, Marlins.
GTFO Good Face.
That’s the universe righting itself — he shouldn’t have been on base to begin with.
1 freakin hit by a pitcher who never hits. Bronx Bombers are back.
You mean besides all that time he spent in the NL right?
he’s a good baserunner………………………………………………………FOR ME POOP ON!!!!!!!!!!!
Posada brought the chooch tonight.
Jorge is such an awful catcher. I wish Cervelli was in there today.
The way Johnson is pitching, I’m not sure it matters.
And some of those calls were kind of a travesty according to the pitchfx data, btw.
Hava Molina!
BULLSHIT BALL 3 WAS ALMOST RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE!!!
There were two strikes called balls in that AB.
Do you go back to the well right now? Another curve?
Nah, high heat was a good call, but a little too high.
WOOOOOOO
WHAT A THROW OUT!
Remember when we were a good defensive team???
Oh, Johnny . . .
Are you fucking kidding me, Johnny?
Thanks Johnny.
damnit johnny damon
that hurts
Ah fuck
Oh wow, how did he miss that?
He had ‘fluttering’ in his eyes.
We are so signing Matt Holliday next year..
Oh please, he’s a total fraud. Padded his numbers in Coors, didn’t start hitting in the AL until his team was out of it.
Well, that would be an enormous overreaction. Signing Holliday to a like…6 year deal…because of Damon’s DEFENSE??
Also…that was an error and a half.
They do need a corner OF bat, but I’m not sure another long contract to the likes of Holliday is the best course of action.
Well, that sucks enormous donkey balls.
Seriously.
Wow. Horrendous.
Damon is good for 1 one of those every couple of weeks. Unfortunately this one probably sealed the game for the Marlins.
I blame the ump on that run!
No, I’d really blame Johnny Damon.
him too
I blame Posada’s game calling.
Not a whole lot of defense by the Yanks tonight.
not an error?
AJ just flat out ain’t getting the job done. The job of the starting pitcher is to win ballgames, no excuses. Game’s over now, AJ has lost it.
what??
Really? You’re laying that on A.J.?
Wow. Are we watching the same game?
http://yankees.lhblogs.com/200.....t-marlins/
What game are you watching?
I can’t tell…is this such a good fake-troll that it’s throwing me off, or is this just such a dumb comment that I can’t believe it?
That’s on Luis Castillo’s level..
Just make sure you make up for it at the plate, Johnny. Problem is, I don’t think an All-Star team is hitting Johnson tonight.
i bet we get to him this next inning
Yanks will start a rally in this game. I believe they find a way against Johnson.
If Johnny doesn’t hit a two-run home run in his next AB, they must trade Hughes and Joba for Matt Holliday immediately.
like i said, we need jesus
AJ isn’t happy.
come on aj. we can still win this!
Man 2 runs feel like 10 right now with the Johnson is pitching.
now i know how the marlins felt last night against andy pettite
Calling Offense, first name Yankees.
Please come to the front desk, the team needs you.
Yes, solid defense and good pitching wins you games… but you do need to score at least a few runs to win…
Seriously no error???
Yeah, talk about home cooking.
“Yeeeahhh…that ball was catchable…and he got the glove on it…buuuuuut I’m pretty sure that’s a hit.”
That dropped pop up to Luis Castillo in the Yanks-Mets series should’ve been ruled a hit.
good job getting out of that inning
I feel like the Yanks can scrape a few across in the next couple innings. Johnson is ridiculous, but he only really throws the two pitches (I think I’ve seen one change the whole game). They HAVE to be able to figure out how to get a few hits, right?
Please?
Hello-ello-ello-ello?
Anybody-ody-ody-ody?
I feel your pain, believe me.
2 runs on Johnson tonight is like 5 on anyone else. Regardless, the Yankees can make up those runs. As always, confidence level = 10.
They called it a double – not an error – what a joke
Wonder if that long-ish inning was enough to throw JJ off his rhythm.
AJ hasnt K’ed anyone since 2 outs in the 4th!!!
Bust. Put him down. Send him to the glue factory.
I know Johnson’s pitching well, but you can’t chase that pitch when you’re up 1-0.
Nope.
Damon didn’t exactly redeem himself in that at bat
When is the time that the yankees give up on Damon in 2010?…Today 8:59 pm..
No, it’s not. The people that run the team don’t make decisions based on one error.
I feel bad for AJ. He had to do everything himself today.
If not for HIS hit, we’d be looking at a no-hitter.
Hey, you guys hear? Josh Johnson had TJ!
The surgery! I hope Kay reminds me of the surgery next inning, too.
bad Johnny
Mike, there’s your baserunner to has!
The Yankees have brought the tying run to the plate.
I would have bet against it.
Come on, Jorge…JUICE one!
yes tex! we’re winning this
Jorge DP…i hope not
Lucked out there, make them pay.
::bronx cheer::
Who would have bet that that wouldn’t have ended the inning?
The Yankees got away with that groundball.
Hah – Posada beats out a double play – that’s rare
uggla is bad at fielding
I will never forget his performance in the 2008 All Star Game.
Oh, that was BRUTAL. Man, I felt so bad for the guy. It was just an unending sequence of suck.
whew
Scorer finally got his sanity back – E7 on Damon
Not the prettiest rally, but I’ll take it.
Yeah, Cano!
Is this “Land Shark Stadium” thing a joke? What is that?
Come ON SWISH!!!!
Dan Uggla is not very graceful, is he?
Never forget his 3 strikeouts, 3 errors, and ground into a double play in a single game.
did posada even touch 1st base?
SSHH!!!!
I don’t think so – I was waiting for the first baseman to go tag him after the play. He tried to drap his toe across the bag but in IMO, he missed it.
JJ is up to 95 pitches – maybe we can get him out of there
Nick…what the fuck?
Holy shit Swisher… you have no chance in this AB.
I dunno SHIIIIIIIIIIIT
Oh yeah?
cmon Swishy!!!! Puh-lease! pretend this is April again!
Jeez, Swish is chasing some less than ideal pitches of late.
noticed that too
Ooo, ump was ready to call the second pitch to Swish a strike. He had his hands pumped.
Dammmit, that was it.
Really, Kay? Cheering for the Yankees or the Marlins? I thought there’d be some people cheering for the Mariners in there.
I thought they were prepping for the Dolphins.
Dolphins are always a possibility.
This is a great ballgame, huh?
That play by Johnny is really the only blemish.
Way to be, Nick!
teh swisha!!
There you go Swish.
swish!!!
Not bad, not bad.
I was guessing walk, groundout to 2B, HR. Surprised to see a solid single.
That just happened.
Angel Berroa 3-Run jimmy jack? Stranger things…
Yeah Swisher!!
damons play looms large…cmon Melky, deliver!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, it’s Melky, my bad…
Swish! It’s a good thing he got another hanging slider.
At this point, I’m not sure if I want to see them keep Johnson in there, or bring in the ‘pen. I realize they’re going to try to nurse him through the bottom of the Yanks’ order.
JJ’s at 103 pitches – Does he have a pitch limit?
2 out rbi’s are huge.
Dammit, right down the middle. Too late on it, Melk.
Blew Cabrera away on that one.
Bad Melky rears his ugly head again. That one was at his eyes.
Where’s the 10-pitch AB melky from two innings ago?
Dammit.
One of these years he will stop trying to hit HR’s, and will probably hit more as a result.
Well, Damon had better jack one later.
He owes AJ that much!
LETS GO YANKEES!
eeeeh, crap.
It’s 8-9-1 now, right?
They’ll work some pinch hitters in there.
oh, right. The NL.
Yes
Is anyone else annoyed by the title of the new Ice Age movie? Didn’t the Ice Age come after dinosaurs?
I’ve never watched any of those movies. Should I?
Any chance we see A-Rod for Berroa next inning?
It’s all your fault, Dan.
Let’s taunt the Marlins. They may become so cross that they will make a mistake.
Perhaps we could confuse them by running away more
PastadivingTex.
Berroa and pitcher up next inning, how do you handle the PH? Matsui for Berroa, Pena to pinch run if he gets on, then pinch hit ARod for the pitcher?
Depends who they bring in to pitch. If they bring in a lefty, PH A-Rod. If it’s a righty, go with Matsui. Worry about pinch running if they get on.
is arod available to pinch hit?
Yeah, he is.
I can’t believe this, didn’t AJ show he was tiring the last inning?
Is it me or did De Aza slow prematurely?
It looked to me like he was trying to pull the bat back and kinda got surprised it hit his bat anyway.
I think AJ could have gone longer. Poor AJ, once again another Criminally Unsupported start!
Yeah, but he’d clearly started to lose it. If he’d come out mowing guys down, I’d have left him in…but I think this makes sense.
yup and he already made this guy look stupid earlier.
And coke just made him look stupid now
as does coke
That was kind of a hanger by Coke for strike three.
Were they just playing the Ghostbusters music?!
It’s for Marooney. They totally ripped off their music.
So Hughes and Wang are no longer joined at the hip?
Hughes warming in the pen!
amazing. larussa letting coke stay in.
Heh, O’Neill called him Schmoltz.
Could be worse, could have called him ‘Shmaltz’.
Which is quite the insult in Yiddish, from what little I know.
or ‘Shmutz’
Could you imagine if O’Niell is calling a Yanks-Sox game?
“That was some hell of a splitter by Shmutz right there.”
A-Rod with a bat!
He’s gonna bitch tit!!!!
damnit, the red sox win
Eh, they’re gonna do that a lot. Yanks can only control what they themselves do. If they stop giving away games like they did on Thursday, they’ll be ok.
Ok, Nunez is a three-true-outcomes guy…lets wait him out, take some walks and let Johnny crank a “redeemer”
They’re really using Hughes like a reliever now, huh?
Don’t know how to feel about that…
I’m definitely not crazy about it. He’s been effective as hell, but if we’re going to see him as a reliever, I’d rather not see him in 1 inning stinats.
Nice Cokey..cmon Offense
I really really really hope Matsui doesn’t end up in the outfield.
cmon Hideki, let’s Hit-the-deck-i
good enough
Nice.
Perfect. Matsui works a 2-0 count, then jumps all over the heater.
Nice, Godzilla! Queue up some porno in the clubhouse to celebrate
There’s one succesful pinch hit. Let’s see another.
A-Rod gets more cheers in Florida than he does in the Bronx.
Heh beat me to it
A-Rod! (clapclap) A-Rod! (clapclap)
A BITCH TIT!!!!!
how awesome would it be if he bunted?
Odds A-Rod sacrifices Gardner over?
0.0%
The friggin fans in Forida cheer more for A-Rod than we do! Granted when it isn’t a game winning HR of course.
Yeah, that was a real nice move for a righty.
Why not PR Pena? You need him to play third, PRing Gardner just burns a bench player.
That’s why.
Gardner’s the better base stealer, and the way A-Rod has been going, he’s a huge GIDP threat?
Maybe ARod will play 3B?
Pena not a sure thing to steal the base.
Yeah, GREAT job by uggla.
Yes!!!
Grit Gutner with the stolen base!!!
This is exciting stuff.
Yeah, this is a GREAT game.
And by that, I mean “this game is certainly filling out the spreadsheets with which I simulate baseball games quite nicely”
IETCVM.
just move him over the third ARod…
get him over, alex
Nice pinch hit!
Odds Jeter GIDP?
97%. I’d almost advocate bunting with him.
I don’t like it. This kid Nunez hasn’t shown good command.
Josh Johnson the ground ball machine is out of the game. I think he gets it done.
But is he bunting??!?!
What a bum! Taking a walk in that spot? The nerve…
How unclutch was that walk?
A-Rod just set up the DP! We aren’t paying him to walk!
pinch run pena for alex?
why? a-rod can run just fine
OH MY GOD A-ROD DID THAT BECAUSE HE WAS SCARED. HE’S SO HAPPY TO GET THAT WALK.
Damn selfish walk.
/sarcasm
I know you guys are kidding, but the only remotely hittable pitches he got were the strike, and maybe ball four. That said, neither one was really a hitter’s pitch.
Double steal here?
He has had a lot of walks in big moments this year, it seems.
They kinda pitch around him.
i know
I bet Jeter bunts here, stupidly. He loves that crap.
If Jeter bunts I’ll MURDER.
I don’t know, I feel mixed here. Jete’s has that bum ankle right now, would be prone to a GIDP.
This is going to sound wrong, but should we bunt Jeter here?
why not bunt jeter here?
he’s been Mr Double play these past couple of weeks
Well, he didn’t do a very good job of getting that bunt down…
jeter should push bunt…
He shouldn’t have swung, tell you that.
Jeter is really close to soiling this AB.
Horrendous.
Just terrible.
Double steal?
Well, they tried.
cmon captain…PLEASE dont GIDP..get a hit!
michael kay talks about that 1st out and 3rd out at third ALL the freaking time. shut up already penguin.
haha
Unreal.
Like clockwork.
lol
88.8% chance Gardner wont score, unless he steals all the way home.
Terrible job, Jeter. Just awful.
And yet, I’m sure that somewhere someone is complaining about ARod walking. Saying that he needed to ground out to the right side, so that Saint Jeter’s grounder would have been a clutch RBI groundout instead of a GIDP.
A-Rod just isn’t gritty. Look at the Red Sox. They sacrifice their stats all the time! If there’s a guy on second, they make sure to get a ground out so they can go to third! They are so gritty and that team will win championships. The Yankees will never be gritty since they only play for the money.
The Sox are so gritty they spit gravel. The Yanks, however, spit gold coins.
Argh!
shocker
God. Dammit.
*bangs head*
Dammit DJ.
Better make up the run you gave Damon.
bullshit…
bullshit…
Sigh…
AJ Burnett had better ABs in this game than Jeter. Wow.
saw that coming…ugh
That was decidedly less than ideal
squeeze
hahaha who called it…
i did
WOW I bet the blame for that Double Play goes on A-rod
And yeah I’d take the “extremely idiotic” bunt over the DP anytime.
But Jeter leads Majors in Interleague Batting average!
brutal
I hate the bunt. HATE it.
But Jeter should pretty much just bunt every time he’s up with a man on first and less than 2.
No. He GIDPs quite a bit, but he’s a great hitter. I’d agree with you occasionally in situations like that.
It was more angry sarcasm. I wouldnt really advocate that.
That is all on A-Rod. If he had gotten a double instead of a walk, that would have scored a run. Bench A-Rod tomorrow as punishment.
hahaha i love the sarc
redemption time for damon
Couldn’t see that one coming.
Now we all know why Uggla was playing so close to 2B.
It’s like that adage about not being able to hide a defensive liability because the ball will inevitably find him.
Even with Jeter in the leadoff spot, the GIDP’s keep coming.
Grrrr..
That decision to bat him leadoff is looking better and better everyday
amen. Somehow he’s become a DP machine
What can you do?
Jeter’s a great hitter, but he’s got extreme groundball tendencies. So it goes. He tried to bunt, couldn’t get it down.
Send the runners?
Give him the take sign while you call a double steal?
what is worse Kay, Jeter keep hitting into DP or Gardner with 50% chance of making it to third while stealing?
I’d be happy a walk here.
Don’t turn the channel until that last page?
Seriously, Kay?
fuck balls
Fucking shit.
WTF was that, Johnny?
Ugh.
Way to go Damon.
Well that inning sucked.
bad game for JOhhny
how many games have the yankees lost this year because of situations like this? this team can be so clutch one day and so unclutch the other. nature of baseball i suppose.
Johnny’s been great for us, but he receives the Goat label for the evening.
i still think we’re winning
Can M.Kay just stop with this bs about how many are sitting and how many are standing in the stands? we don’t care…
Such a tremendous fail by the top of our lineup. That’s how you lose games. Well, that and committing two errors.