Game 92: Streaking after the break
ByAt the All-Star Break last year, the Yankees were 50-45, six games back of Boston for first place and 5.5 back of Tampa for the Wild Card. They opened the second half on a tear, winning their first eight games, two of which were against the Red Sox in Boston (lest we forget the Joba game). The Yankees look to build a similar post-break streak this year, as they’ve won their first three. The difference, of course, is that the Yankees were 51-37 at the break. That, and they’re fielding a much stronger team this year.
Next on the ledger is the Baltimore Orioles, the team which derailed the Yanks’ efforts last season. The Yanks lost the series finale to Boston, which is understandable, but then dropped two of three to Baltimore before embarking on a mediocre August. That put them pretty much out of the race.
They’ll lead things off against rookie right-hander David Hernandez. A 2005 16th round draft pick, Hernandez traveled the minors a level per year, posting ho hum results until last season in AA. There he threw 141 innings to a 2.68 ERA. His strikeout rate was a ridiculous 10.6 per nine, though he walked 4.5 per nine, which is always a concern. His strikeout rate actually jumped when he moved to AAA this season, 79 in 57.1 innings (12.4 per nine). The difference is that his walk rate dropped below the 3.0 mark.
As is the case with many minor leaguers, the strikeout rate hasn’t yet translated to the majors. The only appearance in which he recorded more than three strikeouts is a 2.2-inning relief appearance against Oakland in June. He has a solid 93 mph fastball which he can dial up to 95. He also has a changeup and a slider, though FanGraphs’ Pitch Type Values pegs the latter as his weakness.
Hernandez looks like the prototype of the kind of pitcher the Yanks struggle with: they’ve never seen him before, he’s on a crappy team, and he’s posted mostly middling results. If he can hit his spots tonight, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Yanks struggle. Then again, maybe the offense is ready to feast on a neophyte after facing two of the league’s best in the past two days.
Strangely, Posada caught all three games this weekend, including CC in a day game after a night game, yet Molina gets the call to catch Pettitte, one of the pitchers vocal about how he enjoys pitching to Jorge. The message from Girardi is simple: you’ll pitch to whoever is catching on any given day.
Lineup:
1. Derek Jeter, SS
2. Johnny Damon, LF
3. Mark Teixeira, 1B
4. Alex Rodriguez, 3B
5. Hideki Matsui, DH
6. Robinson Cano, 2B
7. Eric Hinske, RF
8. Melky Cabrera, CF
9. Jose Molina, C
And on the mound, number forty-six, Andy Pettitte
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WE’RE GOING STREAKING!!!!
Hopefully the rest gives Pettitte a boost and he bounces back from a couple poor performances. With Hughes and Mo probably unavailable, we could use quality innings from him tonight.
Same here.
Ok that probably doesn’t make sense (not even to me) but I meant that I also hope that Andy gives us some length and quality tonight for another win.
I’m okay with that message.
Tonight’s bottom third of the lineup against righties this year:
Hinske – .239/.352/.391 in 108 PA’s
Cabrera – .287/.340/.410 in 197 PA’s
Molina – .220/.273/.341 in 45 PA’s
Well, Cabrera’s numbers aren’t horrible…
neither are Hinkse’s…almost the same OPS
Holy Crap Moly
Maybe the Wilpons lost alot more than 500 million to Bernie Madoff-
Thats the only reason I can imagine not doing this…. Maybe halladay is more attainable than previously thought
#mets rejected request of package of f-mart, niese, parnell and ruben tejada for halladay. #jays
http://twitter.com/SI_JonHeyman/status/2747001347
I heard it was $700 mill.
Well if they weren’t ready to deal fmart along with assorted pieces of junk it must be closer to a billion. Thats basically a package of Ajax, Robertson, Melancon and like Eduardo Nunez. BASURA!
Thats basically a package of Ajax, Robertson, Melancon and like Eduardo Nunez.
No, it’s not
F-Mart > AJax
Niese >>>>> Robertson
Parnell >>> Melancon
Tejada >>>>>>> Nunez
Bah, parnell and neise are nothing special, tejada has a nice obp. Definitely not the type of package we were expecting.
Niese is a 22 year old lefty, and Tejada is 19 and is already in AA.
They’re both much better than David Robertson and Eduardo Nunez, respectively.
Eh yea eduardo was a bit of a stretch I just threw him out there. Ok so the guys I threw out there weren’t EXACT comps but that is by no means a stellar collection of talent.
It’s not a bad collection of talent either, though.
F-Mart, Niese, and Parnell are all legit big leaguers who all still have good upside, and Tejada’s far away but he’s a good prospect. It’s a better haul than Santana. Much.
Which was my main point.
That’s a horrible package (at least not as good as it can get)
He looks very attainable but the Yankee price would surely be alot higher.
Probably right.
Minnesota charged us a premium for Santana because they didn’t want him in the AL. I’m sure the Jays would do the same to keep him away from the AL East.
RT @JesseSanchezMLB Oakland placed Giambi on DL with quad injury. Giambi’s hitting .193 with 11 home runs and 40 RBI in 83 games. Wow.
Damn, I feel bad for him.
Darn, I was hoping to give him a cheer this weekend. Ah well.
Billy Beane had some genius moves this offseason. Giambi, Cabrera, Holliday.
I hope that we get a big lead again, except that this time, hopefully Pettitte holds it.
I have a feeling Hinske will homer tonight…
What do ya know.
great call, i feel like the odds are with you now on that call
Jake Arrieta and Troy Patton hit speedbumps in their promotions to AAA this year, but Chris Tillman (2.42 ERA, 1.086 WHIP, 9.2 K/9, 2.1 BB/9 in 93 innings) is dominating at Norfolk and Brian Matusz (2.01 ERA, 0.894 WHIP, 10.1 K/9, 1.7 BB/9 in 31 innings) is similarly dominating in Bowie.
I wonder when their ETA’s are. Tillman later this summer, and Matusz, Arrieta, and Patton all next summer?
Thir future pitching, Wieters, and their outfield is why the O’s can be scary.
Thanks Seattle!
Very strong up the middle with Wieters, Jones, and Roberts. Just need a real SS.
So how many homers for Super Hero Hinske tonight? At least three, right? Plus he’ll catch everything hit within a 50-yd radius.
Shit we might need at least 4 or 5 to stay in this game.
1 down, 2 to go…
Oy Andy, quit it with these long flies.
Holy hell Andy, I said stop it.
I think we all were saying it!
Roberts hit that off the end of the bat, Mikey.
Markakis’s drive, however, wasn’t.
I am so over Andy Pettitte.
Hit that out to one of the deepest parts of the park … gotta be the Stadium, right Andy?
But the jet streams!
I hear ya. I for one can’t wait till he resigns with Houston.
yeah not the 81 mph two-seamer (per gameday) down and in to a lefty
Great start.
Promising start.. -.-
This sucks
Thank u singleton
holy shit he crushed that
Please Pettitte, I want a good performance tonight.
11 strikes : 1 ball
atleast hes throwing strikes
yezzur
Not much help when they are hitting the strikes hard.
true, you need that good balance
I hope our offense score plenty of runs today
we will need them
They’ve got be itching to score runs after the pitcher duels this past weekend.
Hey Tommie,
I like your comparison of Hughes to Mussina.
The more I,ve watch Hughes, the more he does remind me a lil of Moose.
THAT IS HOW YOU DEBATE!!!!
What happened? I blacked out.
OY TWO HANDS FOR POP UPS JETER
ok that inning wasnt THAT bad. 16 pitches, 1 solo HR
Well, only 1 HR isn’t bad. Hopefully, he can somehow keep them there.
For a second I was terrified Charlie Weiss was going to be in the booth…
Unbelievable. Markakis hits a 400 footer and the MASN announcers are blaming the “jetstream.”
We’re gonna booooooo Markakis
We’re gonna boo, boo, boo Markakis
thanks andy for getting outta that jam
If Andy Pettite ever called out Joba for his lack of accountability I’d like to think it would go something like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Elr5K2Vuo
Damon is a solid baseball player.
damn i thought jetes got that
Let’s go Rangers for today and the next 2 days.
as a guy in texas, i normally hate both teams
however, i will will root for the rangers like crazy
nice hit damon
Three batters, three hard hit balls. I approve.
Let’s hope it continues and translates into a lot of runs
Man, Teix is becoming my fav yankee players rite now.
No DP Alex…
No whammies, no whammies, no whammies…
No DP, but a K.
Half a whammy?
incredible how feared markakis is
Well he has a hose…
Something only A-Rod could dream of being.
/Fox’d
David Hernandez’s fastball is awfully striaght.
Way to fucking clutch, Alex.
That was nasty.
Well, he had a long AB I guess…cmon Hideki
Two balls we smoked into RF. I like our chances against this dude.
that didn’t seem like a strike to me on alex
it was on Gameday unfortunately
yargh!
Oh boy, it’s Robbie with bases loaded
Go Cano!
I like seeing us tire out the pitcher in the first!
That seem like a pitch around.
Excuse me if I am not joyful that Matsui passed the baton to Cano.
You can’t hit what they don’t throw at you.
Two negatives make a…
…oh wait. No it does not.
This is gonna be ugly.
well at least cano can’t DP!
He’s hitting .350 in july!!!!??!!
holy crap
I’m not home yet. What happened?
That was ball four.
damn it cano
that was ball fo fo sho
Well Cano is having a tough ab.
son of a gun.
meh
Oh well, 35 pitches at least.
its mind blogging to me how much cano can continually suck with RISP
Did you see that AB?
Yeah, just more reason to cut Cano. Who cares if he’s hitting .350 this month? He didn’t come through in this one instance and that’s all that really matters.
yea, you’re right, he only didn’t come through in this instance. its not like he’s sucked pretty badly with RISP this entire season, or anything. no one wanted to “cut” cano as far as i can see, either
im pretty sure i didnt say the yanks should cut cano, its just unbelievable to me hows hes not delivering with RISP.
I agree.
It is mind blogging.
Swung at ball 7.
hahaha IETC
Too close to take IMO.
no, the only pitch he fould off that was a ball was pitch #6
Darn, no runs.
You could see Cano putting up a fight, that’s goood news.
I’ll take the 35 pitches in that inning.
True.
At least we know Hernandez is gonna get shelled tonight.
Can we trade AP for the rights to SNY’s K-Zone and radar gun?
Can we give up Kay too?
Yes but if they ask for Kenny, I take the deal off the table.
Cano stinks
Great story, Brian. Compelling, and rich.
Well, that’s gonna do it for all of us here at Channel 4 News. You stay classy, San Diego.
In your opinion.
Cano stinks with runners in scoring position otherwise he is a great second baseman.
Fixed.
That wasn’t fixed it was overhauled.
am i the only one who doesn’t think we will score that many runs against this kid?
i know we’ll get hits, but i don’t see all that many runs
am i the only one who doesn’t think we will score that many runs against this kid?
i know we’ll get hits, but i don’t see all that many runs
If you hit it runs will come.
if your patient their bullpen will come
Based on an AB by Cano and an AB by A-Rod?
Baltimore’s bullpen ERA is 4.50. Even if we don’t score runs off Hernandez, 35 pitches in the first portends well for our immediate future.
agreed
confidence level in yankees= 8
confidence level in cano with risp= 2
Cano is a winning player!
Damn, that was frustrating. We needed a sac fly but A-rod unfortunately K’s. And Robbie could have walked in a run but swung at ball 4 twice. Oh well, hopefully, Andy holds them (not very likely) and we get them next inning.
on the other hand, that inning wasn’t a total waste as we wasted 35 pitches for Hernandez.
Just how they drew it up
Pinball wizardry!
Jeter and Snoopy. Two of my favorite things.
THAT was an awesome play.
What happened?
Liner bounced off Teix, Robbie snatched it and underhanded it to AP covering first.
wow that was flippin sweet
…An inside the park grand slam?
I wanna hit me one of those!
Shitske!
HINSKE!!!!!!!!
Lightning, meet bottle. Bottle, lightning.
You kids play nice.
heh. I hate that phrase but it is oh so deliciously applicable.
theres the first one.
but Cash is a horrible GM!
Babe Hinske!
Like I said last time, this guy probably deserves to play more often.
Wow that ball was just destroyed.
HINSKE HITS ANOTHER! WOW
Who the fuck called the Hinske HR?
Man, another home run from Hinske.
now thats called abusing the short porch in RF.
Hinske is not bad at baseball.
HOLY MOTHERFUCKER ERIC HINSKE
Hinske, who do you think you are?
Cody Ransom? I kid, sort of.
4 of his 5 hits are HRs- he’s too reliant on HRs
/francesa’d
ietc.
I heard him said that today. The yanks rely too much on the homeruns while the Sox and Angels play “small ball”.
I,ll take the homers thank you.
wow, hinske has been awesome for the yanks
Wow, props to the commenter who called it.
Cash has done it again
Stupid Cashman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You could tell that was a HR as soon as Hinske made contact.
Great pickup Cashmoney$
WOW HINSKE!
HINSKE DOES IT AGAIN
HOLY CRAP THIS GUY IS LIKE SHELLEY DUNCAN!
Ixnay on the uncan-day.
only better
Except better.. lol
…except he’s a serviceable MLB player.
I hope not. Shelley was exposed fast and I think Hinske can hit a breaking pitch.
I guess the theme here is Hinske is a little better than Duncnasty
i was talking about all the homeruns in in few games he’s played
anybody know what Sterling said?
“A Hinske Homer.”
Lame
What happened to the even more lame “Hinske with your best shot?” I thought Abraham had a contest and that won.
Probably mad, a few people came up with good ones on the internet and he didn’t wanna rip them off. the “Hinske with your best shot” was pretty good.
It is high, it is far, it issssss an A-Bomb from Matsui! As Cano’s homerun puts the Yankees deficit at 2.
The nice thing about Molina catching is not listening to that stupid Hip Hip crap. If I were Jorgie, I’d be yelling STFU.
dont do commercials promoting it then
I don’t.
And in the ESPN commercial Jorge looks exasperated by it.
It’s one of the things on my list of “annoying things at YS that should die” along with YMCA and a few other things.
thats BS. he signed up for the commercial and he knew what it was about, dont want to hear that he doesnt like it
Then you won’t want to hear this: he doesn’t like it.
then dont do commercials promoting it
+20
HIP HIP JOSE!
Way to be prompt on the lineup, lol.
haha yeah it was like
and here is the orioles lineup, you can see they have 8 people and reimold in RF
ok back to jeter
52 pitches for 5 outs, I’m not even sure it matters whether we hit him or not, he’ll knock himself out by the 5th inning.
or turn into CC and go 7 scoreless
54 pitches already?
He’s gonna be out of this game by the third inning at this rate.
Wieters not throwing guys out, move him away from catcher.
Yup. He’s way too big for the position. Bump him down 30 spots in your prospect rankings because of it.
Cmon Johnny, give us a YSIII HR
the guy’s fastball is like a straight line with no movement
Firstpump Aubrey! Comeon do it!
Huff=Fail.
Oh man … have to take advantage of this.
Or not.
There is a good chance that Rick Sutcliffe could die from erotic asphyxiation with Smotltz pitching to Varitek tonight.
Lol did you see Tex’s (?) face when he dropped that foul?
Umm, that wasn’t a strike…
shhh
you dont know anything
Probably right but Gameday does and that was ball 3 to Damon is what it says
i agree that it wasn’t a strike though
I know
this umps zone is pretty inconsistent. that pitch was out of the zone by quite a bit.
This is the dinner reservation strike zone special.
god, hughes in the 5th spot in the rotation would be so awesome. kinda off topic, just saying that CC AJ Joba Petitte Hughes >>> CC AJ Joba Petitte Mitre for the rest of the year.
+27
icwudt
I agree
BTW, I think nothing is off-topic for game threads and open threads
We haven’t even seen the dude pitch yet.
so what, he’s 28 and nothing special at all, he’s been mediocre in his career so far. IMO, even ivan nova >> mitre
No one expected Aaron Small to do anything either. You never know with baseball let the guy pitch first.
Charlie Weis just asked Kim Jones to bring everything from the deli.
I’m considering making Army my new second favorite college football team if they start playing games in YS3 with regularity.
I can’t do that for Notre Dame, because they’re douchenozzles.
There are two things that Noles and Hurricanes agree on, the Gators and Notre Dame both suck.
man charlie weis in the booth?
they don’t have enough ice cream for the two of them
Andy is really tough to watch .
Damn leadoff walks…DP Please!
Hey Weis, i think USC vs Oklahoma would be a better game at yankee stadium
Notre Dame is gonna get worked by USC, I can’t wait.
I bet the spread will be 35
last year i bought in for the o/u at 28 and took the over
that was brilliant
I’m not completely competent in the ways of betting and such. Basically taking the over when the o/u is 28 means you think more than 28 points will be scored combined right? Shit, I would have taken the over on 28 for USC’s point total.
So wild pitches don’t occur only when JoPo is catching? That’s odd
This ab is killing me.
finally.
It’s Cesar Izturis, put him away.
its cesar freakin izturis
damn, put him away already
i don’t even want petitte to go deep in games cause i know he’ll just give up runs like its his job. the yanks bullpen (minus tomko) pitching 6-9 is better than seeing petitte give up lead after lead.
eh I still want him to go deep. It means he’s pitching effectively and efficiently. And that’s a good thing so our pen doesn’t get overworked and exposed.
You don’t want the Yankees starter to go deep into games, yet you’re a Yankee fan?
how about i rephrase that to i don’t want to see andy petitte pitching at all rather than going deep into games. i’m a yankee fan, and i want yankees starters to do well, its just difficult and a bit painful watching petitte pitch
Mo won’t pitch tonight and I doubt they want to use Hughes so I’d like to see Andy go deep. If it’s close, they use Coke and Aceves to close it out. If it’s a blowout, obviously they can use Bruney, Melancon, Robertson, Tomko.
my god that took forever
he wastes so many pitches and works so slowly
Joba needs to learn how to pitch by watching the veterans on this team
/everyone
Interesting route, Hinske.
The turf in RF releases mind-altering vapors. Only explanation for the interesting plays of Hisnke and Swisher.
Weis is about as exciting as a Nationals game.
Heh, that catch was Swisher-esque minus a hop.
how many pitches is he at?
900?
Um..51 he hasn’t even really been inefficient
Heh if A-rod was a pitcher, I could see irrational statements such as:
“He’s really selfish since he’s keeps trying to get them to foul pitches off instead to put them away so he can drive his strike percentage”
and he never gets strike outs in the playoffs
Hinske flashing the leather he is known so well for*.
*may or may not be true.
Any ball hit near Hinskie u just hold ya breathe.
thought that was gone at first glance
God Kay is an idiot. Even I knew off the bat that he got under it.
ha! DEEP to center Field! all the way to the 285ft mark!
Kay the ball wasn’t even on the damn warning track.
“That one is driven DEEEEEEEEP to right center field…oh, he didn’t quite get that one.”
WTF?
That was sterling-esque
no, it was exactly what one should expect from Michael Kay.
Amazing how much bitching there is about a guy who was signed to be the 5th starter.
He wasn’t signed just to be a number 5 on the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was signed to pitch well. He also held out on us until he realized no one was going to pay him what he wanted. Remember the “mystery team” with the “3 year deal.”
i cant complain about 8-5 4.77 from my 5th starter half way through the year
I’m not someone complaining about it. I’m also not going to act like he was signed just to be the prototypical “5th starter.” Citing a W-L record does not tell the whole story though, he has not been reliable at all.
With CC, AJ, Wang, and Joba as your top 4, Andy pretty much was signed to be the prototypical 5th starter.
I guess so, Wang coming off an injury, Joba was 22 yrs old this winter, AJ history of injuries. I thought AP was signed to be a solid anchor in the rotation, he has not been that.
hes 37, who fooled you into thinking he was going to be the anchor in the rotation?
Solid anchor, as in, consistent and good ol’ reliable Andy, not “THE ANCHOR.” We had CC and Wanger for that.
expecting a 37 year old coming off a 2nd half where he had a bad shoulder to be consistent and reliable is a bit of a stretch
yes he was signed to be the prototypical 5th starter. dont know what your expectations were this season but if he repeats his performance last year then he’s probably the best 5th starter in the game. as long as he gives us 180 IP and an era in the 4s somewhere then he did his job.
“he has not been reliable at all” what 5th starter is reliable? Brad Penny?
All I know is that when the rotation to form in March, Joba was the 5th starter. AT least that’s how I took it. Especially coming off a year in which we had plans of Joba, IPK, Philly.
A 5th starter’s job is to give you a decent amount of innings with league average or slightly better production. If Andy pitches a little better than he did in the first half, he will give us just that. And the “3 year deal” crap was posturing by his agents, which is part of baseball. Do you hate A-Rod after the whole opt-out fiasco?
Alex Rodriguez=Best player in baseball, IMO
AP=Old pitcher that earned 1 mil per loss last year.
So it was OK for A-Rod to “hold out on us until he realized no one was going to pay him what he wanted” just b/c he’s good at baseball? OK.
Um, Someone was willing to pay him and he didn’t hold out. He opted out of a contract to get payed. Andy was holding out for money from us until he realized he just wouldn’t get it. It’s two completely different circumstances.
Who was willing to pay him? Pretty sure he came crawling back to the Yankees out of desperation b/c no one was matching his needs, and the Yanks had already said they were going in another direction. He got lucky that Hank gave him an idiotic contract.
Yea and he was signed to give us innings…how many innings per start is he giving us? 5.96, which isn’t bad but you would want a bit more.
Sign to be the 5th starter but now due to circumstances, is the 3rd starter.
so your expectations of a 37 year old change half way through the season?
Has to be Brian Roberts rite?
Good question… probably Huff. They think Sherrill. I guess we’ll see.
cmon a-rod… you seriously swung at that sheet?
Gary Thorn, “the Orioles are only 13-19 against the East, that’s not bad”, dude, that’s .400 ball, that is pretty bad.
Well for the O’s that isn’t so bad but rather solid by their standards.
Now that was not a good inning by our offense.
Good play, Robbie.
damn adam jones motored down 1st base on that K
Cc tex and arod, thats like 68 million between those guys, damn.
its a lot more than that my friend
a rod himself makes 33 million this year
arod 32
tex 20
cc 14 (bumps up to 23 the rest of his contract)
32+14+20= 66, I was off by 2
oh my bad, i thought he started making 23 this season
heh its ok, we forgive.
LOL.
That was my friend’s comment when they were on Regis & Kelly. “That’s a lot of money sitting right there.”
Kay’s head grows even larger as he say’s “Rege”
Yeesh, so it’s grown to my size.
Range
JETER IS GEICO MONEY!
Time to break this bitch open
Marquez/Betemit for Swisher and Fryer/Erickson for Hinske…
So Cash is greater than or equal to Theo?
Woooooooo Shitske. Swisher coulda did that.
as a matter of fact, he swing through that just like swishahouse does
Shitske?
That’s what Drunk Jays Fans used to call him. I figured I’d keep it alive.
Ah, I see.
Cmon Mike, you can’t hate on Hinske…yet.
I’m not hating. It just annoys me that people think he’s a superior player to Swisher.
Oh yea, thats’s dumb. Not many people here have said it though.
lol kay, no one actually tapes crap with their VCRs while watching live anymore
Dammit, WAKE THE FUDGE UP BOYS
20 pitches in the last two innings after 59 in the 1st 2 for Hernandez. Damn, can we stop with the 1st pitch outs now, 3 are enough.
This game feels very relaxing after the past two, even though we haven’t blown it open yet.
Maybe that’s just me. I have pie, I have cold medicine, I have Yankee baseball. I’m satisfied.
I want some cold medicine!
nice job andy
I hope Melky gets hot again soon
Ugh that was a Joba-esque walk after being ahead 1-2. Cmon Andy
Come on Andy.
lets see if cano helped save a run
boom there you go
kay that joke was terrible
I must confess, I actually like that stupid whistle played after every Yankee pitcher gets a K.
Good job Andy.
Nice pitching there Andy.
Great job by Pettitte there.
I figured out what I really detest about kay. He always sounds so proud of himself after he makes a little pun or joke. He always wants to pat himself on the back after making an observation. I can’t stand that shit. Take a fucking clue from singy and make your joke and keep going with the conversation.
Good escape, Andy.