Game 97: It’s a Gio!
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Come on, Ned! Move this thing!
I can’t! It’s a Geo!
The Yankees will face the baseball equivalent of a Geo today, Gio Gonzalez. A 2004 supplemental first round pick, Gonzalez has bounced around the league quite a bit: he’s been traded three times already, and one of them was back to a team that once traded him.
A year and a half after the White Sox drafted him, they sent him to Philadelphia as part of the Aaron Rowand – Jim Thome trade. Pitching above A ball for the first time in the Phillies’ system, Gonzalez had his struggles, seeing his K rate drop and his BB and HR rates rise.
After just one season — 363 days after the original trade — the Phillies sent Gonzalez back to the White Sox, along with Gavin Floyd, for Freddie Garcia. That one didn’t work out too well for Philly.
One would think that the White Sox liked Gonzalez, considering they traded him and then traded for him back. But in January 2008 they sent him to Oakland, along with Ryan Sweeney, for Nick Swisher. Among all these trades, there are multiple games of six-degrees.
The Yanks look to make it nine straight. I hope everyone enjoys the game. I’ll be at a wedding.
Lineup:
1. Derek Jeter, DH
2. Brett Gardner, CF
3. Mark Teixeira, 1B
4. Alex Rodriguez, 3B
5. Nick Swisher, RF
6. Robinson Cano, 2B
7. Melky Cabrera, LF
8. Cody Ransom, SS
9. Jose Molina, C
And on the mound, number forty-six, Andy Pettitte.
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Come on AP!! I wish Kevin Russo was playing short but what can ya do.
can he play short? i thought he was a 2B/3B
He’s been projected as a major league utility guy for about 3 years now. This year he’s finally getting some games in at short. Not many, but a few.
he can’t be much worse than ransom, so i’d agree with the original statement
yanks rolling out the B lineup
this is a C lineup, but that’s ok, they’ll still win.
House money baby!!!
You know Joe, It’s a nice day for a white wedding.
Ransom: 4-4, 4 HR (all 1st pitch)
Bank on it.
No, Ransom: 0-4 4 K’s (all on 3 pitches, swinging)
Bank on that
His performance will be someplace in-between both of these. Bank on it.
This is where the smart money goes…
If trotting out the C line up today means the A line up against Tampa and the ChiSox, I can handle it.
agreed. to me it just assumes cause of the way gio is pitching they can get away with it.
What is it with Gio Gonzalez though, is he sort of like Ian Kennedy? his minor league # is quiet impressive. but somehow he never gets a whole lot of hype and have been traded around a ton.
I will respond to that with a statement similar to what I heard yesterday on the Bill Simmons podcast when he had his friend on who is a Yankees fan…
Gio Gonzalez has had impressive numbers in a league where Kei Igawa was an all-star.
It should be an adventure with Ransom at SS. Holy hell.
LETS GO YANKEES!
Bob Lorenz butchered that, it was Wieters not Zaun. C’mon Bob, you’re better than that.
That play was Wieters pretty much letting Jacoby know he’s got four inches and fifty pounds on him.
It was glorious
Why does Girardi always pick one day to give everyone a day off? Can’t he spread the off-days out???? This is going to be the streak breaker.
JoPo Matsui and JD isn’t really everyone.. Either way, we’re 22 games over .500, I think Joe knows what he’s doing.
but last year, when we were struggling, he had no idea what he was doing [/irrational fan
well when your starters go 7 every night and the bullpen has been lights out along w this lineup most of us would look like we know what we are doing.
true dat
so when the team wins the praise goes to the players, when the team loses the manager sucks. fair analysis
This is the world we live in.
No they need rest and they’re in a great position to rest a few. Hopefully we get a big lead and more come off the bench to give rest to more.
If you’re going to rest everyone, do it on a day with a shitty opposing pitcher.
Ain’t this the second time in a row Molina’s caught Posada?
Funny how those things work.
posada pitches??
now that i would pay to see.
can you imagine all the wild pitches!
Balks.
Posada’s pitching? I always figured he was destined for DH when he couldn’t catch anymore.
HE’S A STARTING PITCHA!11!
People don’t give JoPo enough credit.
He pees on his hands.
Woah.
Oops.
At least you know we’re completely unforgiving of innocent mistakes when we know what you really mean. As if you didn’t know that already…
I hope Andy can have an outing like last time and the offense keeps hitting to win another.
Good first inning.
Well at least Gio cut that mop he used to have off.
so lefties are hitting 536 off of him and girardi decides to sit matsui and damon today.
lol.. are you suggesting the Yankees gameplan and avoid resting players to face Gio Gonzalez?
Really. It would be insane to NOT rest players today. I don’t care if they’re righties or lefties.
Gritner on base. Always a good thing.
I want to see Gritner race a horse ala chad ocho-cinco
Does this umpire have a srtike zone? According to Gameday, he’s very hitter friendly.
Is there something wrong with the YES ball/strike display?
GRIT GUTNER ON BASE = AWESOME
NICE JOB GRIT GUTNER!
You know, listening to Leiter and O’Neill banter right there was kind of awesome.
Except when they said Melky’s been playing well lately. LOL
.275 BA in the last month is fine, but .329 OBP is ugh.
He just halted a 2 for 17 or something slump last night.
sss
/stupidity
Walks Gardner and strikes out Arod. This should be an interesting game. Cody Ransom grand slam type situation.
Man alex has struck out more than usual in the past 2 games
WTF is a G moment? Is everything a commercial?
Nirvana. Sponsored by Cottonelle.
Ace’s whole life is a G moment.
ietc
A-rod K’ing a lot lately or just me?
It’s not you
Well, that’s kinda good I guess. I wished it was just me.
sub 3 hour game would be perfecto.
A win would be perfecto.
A win and a TB and BOS loss would be perfecto.
+13
If Andy could only do this everyday for the rest of the 2nd half…
Andy is just not in the mood to throw the ball today. Wants to be home before 3.
This weather is perfect for a Houston boy. Hazy hot humid. Yuckville for the rest of us.
2 weekends ago in htown it was 106 degrees and very very high humidity. I wanted to kill myself
Michael Kay hasn’t said “Pettitte is perfect through two” yet? What is the world coming to?
So what’s everyone’s vote for “Jeter’s signature play”?
Mine’s “The Flip”. Perfect example of Captain Intangible.
Dive against Boston for me.
Definitely the Flip Play. That’s my vote.
the flip fo sho. That play was something i’ve never seen in my life
well, you just did
cmon yanks, lets get andy some offense
3 or 4
5,6,7,8
reports from utah say the jazz want to swap boozer for lee… sign me up
lebron would come for sure if they could resign boozer for 5 years 80 mil
Unless he’s still pissed at Boozer for dissin Cleveland.
well if he’s leaving cleveland isnt that hyprocrtical?
LOL ietc
hahaha excellente
why? arent they trying to get rid of his salary after signing millsap?
Yup. Lee for Boozer makes no sense for Utah. They want a rotation player, but probably at a position DIFFERENT than Millsap plays.
agreed it makes no sense, but thats what the utah papers are saying. i hope its true, only because that by trading for boozer theyd have his bird rights so they can go over the cap to resign him. so say they only have enough cap space to sign lebron, they can still get two max guys.
so i’m going to say the yankees destroy this kid in the second time through the order like they’ve done the other schmucks
I hope so, I really do
Yeah…look at last nights game for example. The kid for the A’s was dealing the first time through the lineup and then once they saw what he was doing they started to have some pretty good at-bats against him
As Waldman and Sterling would say: they are professional hitters.
Ha! Well said…
Anderson said that he never saw hitters adjust from AB to AB. Welcome the big leagues kid!
M’s DFA’s Balentien
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/.....l#comments
He might be worth taking a look at and stashing in AAA. Could be a Nelson Cruz-type late bloomer.
that guy was supposed to be the next great thing for the Ms.
I’d send IPK for him.
IPK will help our pitching depth next year. Send someone else.
Cody Ransom
IPK will help our pitching depth next year.
This statement is a conundrum.
No, it’s not. He’s a starting pitcher. Pitching depth is having more pitchers at AAA that could possibly help if someone gets injured. Kennedy could do that. Just like Hughes has this year.
Well, if they did trade for him within the ten days, they’d have to put him through waivers to go to minors since he’s out of options, and he’d get claimed. This is his first time being DFA’d, so he can’t refuse the minor league assignment if he clears waivers with the M’s (which he won’t).
Send Melky down for a few days if need be. Mike, you for or against picking him up?
Why would you send Melky down for Balentien?
Just to get him. Swap back after the 10 days. Or one of Melancon/Robertson instead, but I’d rather not loose a ‘pen arm for 10 days.
Melky is out of options
Was afraid of that LOL.
Ya, I was hoping otherwise in the beginning of the season but there was a story about it on the Yankees website during spring training. It would have been nice to have a little more roster flexibility with Melky.
Perfect through 3.
WATTA ACCOMPLISHMENT!
Damn, Andy, where do you have reservations after the game?
Kay finally said it about Pettitte. I won’t repeat it.
“perfect through 3″ Kay says.
HAHA perfect through 3
oh kay :facepalm:
Phew, I was starting to get worried he wouldn’t say it.
So we should believe pitchers when they said they had good stuff after a bad loss instead of bashing them for not admitting they sucked? Both Andy and Joba said that after getting bombed but they (mostly Joba) got bashed by some people and here they are getting results finally.
4 pitch inning…looks the offense mailed it in today.
/Mike Axisa’d
Did Kay say the dreaded words for Gio?
This Ted Williams thing has clearly gone to Jeter’s head, thereby affecting his performance.
Kay, you bastard. You ruined the perfect game.
There goes the perfect game! DAMN!
damn you Orlando!
Theeere it is. Now lets have the Yanks get their first hit
Has Michael Kay every tried to get from Oakland to SF in 15 minutes??? Not so possible.
hahaha 15 mins in their dream
it takes 15 mins to leave the coliseum
He got there in 15 minutes on his computer with Google maps.
then 2 hours of staring at break lights
Has Michael Kay every tried to
get from Oakland to SF in 15 minutessay something that required intelligence??? Not so possible.Fixed.
TB 0
Tor 4
Top 3rd
with Price pitching too so +1
Oh even better…Price to the 8th!
I think it is pretty quick if you are taking the Bard. Like ~15 minutes
Shakespeare?
If you mean BART I don’t believe there is any ride from any place in Oakland to SF that is 15 minutes. And that’s getting on the BART to getting off, it doesn’t include getting to the station and getting off and getting to the park.
OK Offense, wake up!!!!
HAHAHA.
Oh Swish. I appreciate your hair cut all the more now.
perfect game by gio
*no hitter by gio
No, Gardner has a walk.
It is, however, a no-hitter.
Suddenly I want to spend $20 at Chilis…
The quesadillas there are pretty damn good
Kay better be bringing up the fact that Gio is perfect so far since he is perfect.
He has a perfect game going so far. No hits. No walks. Perfect.
Perfect game.
He walked Gardner.
you are aware that grit gutner walker earlier?
Gardner walked.
replace the perfect game by no-no…he has a walk.
No-no. He has a no-hitter. No hits. None.
No-hitter.
But are there any hits?
Brett Gardner says hello.
He has a “Gameday” perfect game. According to Gameday Gardner had 6 strikes that at bat.
What is going on in this game? Yankees please.
It is not even that the Yanks aren’t hitting, they aren’t even watching pitches! They aren’t wearing down the pitcher to get to the bullpen. Where oh where is Wade Boggs when you need him??
relax…8 in a row.
This team has no heart.
yikes, the yankees are trying to not live up to my 2nd time in the order prediction
yikes, the yankees are trying to not live up to my 2nd time in the order prediction
i hate my interweb connection
Just got in from running some errands. No hitter huh?
yep :/
Suck on that, small ball!
IETC
Arod’s bat looks slow through the zone again.He could probably use a full game off.Now I hope that jump starts him and he hits one out on his next trip.
you can read his bat speed from your couch? Dayummm
If his bat is slow thru the zone with a curveball, then yes he is in trouble. Why wouldn’t pitchers just throw the ball 85 mph against him?
andy pettite showin anderson how its done!
6-0 Tor leads TB
Price 3 IP 6ER
i remember when a rays fan friend of mine told me price would be better than joba this year
oops
5.60 era, just a tad higher than joba
Prediction: no-no is broken up with a three run homer. My guess = Robbie Cano.
i’ll tell you that the first hitter up will break the no hitter in the 5th inning
well i was wrong
Naw, if Robbie hits a 3-three HR to break up the no-no, it wouldn’t be until like the 7th inning now. They’ll get to him sooner.
As a side not to the game while there’s a commercial break…has anyone seen some of the Yankees draft pick stats in the cape league this summer? Pretty impressive thus far. Tyler Lyons and Aaron Meade have pretty much been printing money for themselves with the way they are pitching.
Yeah, I’ve been following via the NoMaas draft blog, they’re doing pretty well for themselves.
Ya I’m impressed. Has anyone here ever been to a Cape League game?
I once saw a movie with Freddy Prince Jr. in which he played in the Cape League. Does that count?
Definitely negative points against you.
It’s a very pitcher friendly league, so take their numbers with a grain of salt.
I agree, its good to see some positive numbers from the young college kids the Yankees have drafted though.
Melky is gonna break it up…
thanks Melky!
WHY DID HE BUNT!! DFA THIS BUM!!
ha ha
Price just got chased in TB. Cormier coming in in the 4th. Ouch.
Ace in the hole baby, ace in the hole.
The Melkman!!!!! breakin’ up a no hittaa!!!
Melk!
Melky’s going to get hit later.
That’s dirt Melky.
ps. I like it.
Break up the no-hitter and possibly hurt the pitcher! Nice!
That’s positively Jobanian!
What happened? Only gameday today.
oh, he bunted
THE MELK MAN DELIVERS!
Small ball gets it’s revenge!
Ladies and gentlemen…Mr. Cody Ransom.
Damn Cody, why don’t you hit like a starter! You should be going 3/4 every game you play. you only play part time. it’s so easy.
Clutchy McClutchbrera.
outside of that one good game, Cody hasn’t been hitting much. Then again, our whole lineup hasn’t hit (except Melky) today.
On the break-up of the no-hitter, I quote 300: “Even a god-king can bleed.”
This is a good game to be stuck watching on Gameday.
you are missing a good pitcher’s duel on YES
I actually read somewhere (lie), that Gameday was made for specifically for Bill James Disciples. It totally takes the human element out of the game. Does Gardner make a spectacular diving catch? No. Ball in play out(s), Fly out to Gardner.
Perfect. The way the game should(n’t) be.
That’s pretty stupid.
agreed
No, I mean your implied slight of Bill James fans. That’s stupid. But I hope demolishing that straw man goes well for ya.
So who breaks up the tie? Gotta be Al.
Tampa is getting rompified.
lets hope their bullpen gets worn out, because the yanks roll into town on tuesday
wow, this game is awesome. i haven’t seen petitte pitch so well in a while
his slider is just nasty today
were you dead last weekend when he pitched?
Im guessing Molina K’s. Jeter hits. Gardy walks. Tex K’s. A-rod HRs.
Maybe Gardy and Tex switch what they’re doing.
Well Jeter got on, even though it was via walk
The booth banter right now is all sorts of awesome.
I wish we coulda seen Al punch Paul
Al is just flummoxed.
He got ya JoMo.
Filthy pitch.
GCL Yanks got no-hit today.
ouch
yikes
was it by a guy with a +12 era coming in
Im assuming you’re referring to Gio. You know his ERA is bloated because of his last start in which he allowed 11 ER in like 2 innings or something. He is not good but he’s not THAT bad. And his ERA was like 9+ not 12.
wow that was not a strike
Running up his pitch count a little bit this inning, finally.
great eye jetes
GRITTTTTTTTTTSTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
nice one gardy
We love our Gritner
GRITNER!!!
YEA!!
Good poke Gardy
GRIT GUT GARDNER
GRITTY
Gritty Gutty ftfw!
Gardner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cmon, Tex don’t K or popout here
I LOVE YOU GRIT GUTNER!
Is anybody else listening on WCBS? Susyn is describing Gio like a pouting child right now, saying she’s been told hes’ “very emotional.” That’s awesome.
he’s not really shown much of any emotion on the mound, so i dunno what she’s talkin bout
What else is new… She’s on another planet.
Well she should know emotional people…Her being one of course… (See “ROGER CLEMENS IS BACK!@#!@#@#”)
Now steal home.
Steeling home would be a good play here.
But if he stole home, would it be on the opening montage of The Espy’s like Tacoby Bellsbury’s steal?
No, he’d be show-boating cause they were already up by 1.
Damn it Tex
wow that infield in play was brilliant by bob geren’s A’s
well that sucked
on to the 7th!
I wish we could have brought home Gardy….
Oh well, hold them there Andy.
AP, Ace, Mo. Win.
Well, good thing Jeter didn’t take any chances on someone else driving in a run.
Oy Andy, don’t go givin’ up leads now!
Damn, cmon Andy get out of this.
Uh oh….
aight mane, you gots to get outta this
we need a DP
Strikeout
Double play
Let’s go Andy
I can has GITP?
haha
that would be nice
I enjoy Al’s commentary on pitching.
cmon andy
I’m about to pull my hair out right now…
Did Andy suddenly misremember how to get guys out?
Kay is just about as bad with calling strikeouts that are really foul-offs as he is with homers/flyballs.
The booth is directly behind home-plate. How the hell could he see the ball if it’s fouled directly down?
WOOOO!!!
Now for the DP!!!
there’s one…now we need 2 more
Go getem AP
nice job getting the first out
Ace please.
leave AP in!
Bah, dammit Joe. Just yank him, of course he was going to say he could get him out.
Fuck! that was right down the middle!
Limit
The
Damage
its a loss now. good job girardi.
oh get over it.
the right move was to get him out. now he gets him out when it’s bases loaded. what’s the point of letting him pitch to that last batter?
oh come on he bunted.
now it’s really over. thanks a lot girardi.
call the whambulance.
4-1.
Dumbest poster of the day award. Congratulations!
how is it dumb? what’s the point of letting pettitte pitch to that last batter?
You mean the guy who bunted for a single?
Who gives a shit if Pettitte threw it or Aceves threw it?
Okay, take him the fuck out now.
oh well
we’ll have to get them in the bottom of the inning
shit.
bummer dude.
IODIGFNSIOegknoaninoinionoiNONIONGERIO
Mexican Gangster time!
yikes, i guess we should take him out now
That run that Tex/A-rod didn’t drive in from 3rd looms large right now…
Huge.
C’mon, Ace. Show them what a smooth Mexican Gangster can do.
Get ready for some major pinch hitting. Matsui, Posada, Hinske! Call in the troops!
You gotta have faith.
/George Michael’d
what I would give for a DP right now…
lol at Leiter practicing.
Way to go Ace!!!!!! uno maas
Clutch Cutter
1 more out!
wow that was easy
Garbage holy crap. What a garbage hit.
oh craptacular. gotta get that ball up Ace.
Damnit
Fuck. I hate dinky ass hits.
FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!! 0-2 SINGLE! Damnit
Should have thrown him a breaking pitch
oh jesus christ
well lets hope the yankees can come from behind
He should have gotten it a little higher. But seriously he missed 2 that were a little lower than that. It was a lucky hit. That one wasnt.
who the hell is landon powell
i dont even think his teammates know who he is
Oh well we still have 3 more innings, just gotta be patient and get guys on base.
MOTHER FUUUCKKKKKKKKKER. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU THINKING ACEVES??? A PITCH MIDDLE UP ON 0-2????????? God damnit, that sucks
Gonzalez has been sitting for a while, I like our chances.
Pretty stupid pitch selection if you ask me. Three 89-mph fastballs in a row? Not exactly blowing it by Powell. Ace lucked out with him missing the first two.
It happens. We can come back though. have plenty of times.
Man, the whiners are out in force. You’d think they’d lost 8 straight.
I was just typing the same thing.
This is what happens when you announce 3 perfect innings pitched
ietc
These dinky ass singles are pissing me off.
Stop whining
GFYS.
That escalated quickly.
I blame this on Girardi for not taking Pettitte out a batter or two earlier.
sarcasm? I hope.
Yes, but it is frustrating when you see him give up hit after hit and all.
oh lord
Those were all Andys runs right? lol
damn, cmon Ace!
Wow, get Robertson in… save Hughes and Mo for tomorrow. Game over.
Ace choked
Ballgame.
Ace getting exposed.
No, just an off day. It happens.
WHAT THE HELL IS THIS???
People booing Ace at the stadium. What a bunch of scum.
Girardi will now learn not to get too attatched…. Needed a strikeout, shouldve brought in a strikeout pitcher.
Yikes Ace…now you’ve kinda taken us out of it. 3-1 not so bad. 4-1, OK. But 6-1?
Holy fuck what is going on??
oh good god
aceves getting pounded
I don’t know what you guys are so worked up about. I mean seriously, shit happens. It’s not like Ace was gonna continue with his domination all season. We’ll get em tomorrow I guess. At least now the rest of the bullpen can get some work in! (Gotta look on the bright side)