Game 121: Win or lose, your redeye awaits
ByI always wondered what ballplayers preferred in a situation like this. Take a redeye home, sleep on the plane, get some more Zs at home, and spend the day with the fam, or get a good night’s sleep tonight and fly home tomorrow? I’d opt for the former. I’ll actually be taking my own redeye tomorrow night, at around the same time the Yanks will take theirs (if they take it) tonight.
The Yanks will look to close the season series against the A’s with a win against rookie Brett Anderson, a feat they’ve accomplished twice so far this season. They hit him up for five runs on nine hits in 5.1 innings back in April, and then got him for four runs in 6.2 innings last time, on a night when Joba Chamberlain sparkled.
Anderson has been pretty good lately, though not as good as he was during his string of three straight scoreless appearances — which ended, by the way, in that July game against the Yanks. He’s had decent starts against Boston, Texas, and Kansas City, but Chicago tattooed him five days ago, to the tune of seven runs over five innings. Anderson is already over his career high of 120 innings pitched in a season, and is considerably ahead of his 105 innings from last year.
For the Yanks it will be Chad Gaudin, making his first start in pinstripes. You can read a bit on Gaudin’s history here. He’s appeared for the Bombers twice out of the bullpen, once pitching well and once pitching pretty badly. The Yanks hope to get five innings out of him tonight, at which point they’ll likely turn the ball over to Brian Bruney, Phil Coke, Phil Hughes, and Al Aceves for a tune-up before Boston. None of these guys have pitched in a few days.
As expected, Jorge gets the day off.
Lineup:
1. Derek Jeter, SS
2. Johnny Damon, LF
3. Mark Teixeira, 1B
4. Alex Rodriguez, 3B
5. Hideki Matsui, DH
6. Nick Swisher, RF
7. Robinson Cano, 2B
8. Melky Cabrera, CF
9. Jose Molina, C
And on the mound, number forty-one, Chad Gaudin.
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Let’s go Yankees!
Zach McAllister has 8K’s through 3 innings.
Wow. That’s awesome! He’s certainly making a statement for his inclusion in roster expansion.
Yeah, you just don’t know if we’ll ever see him full time, or if he’s a trade piece…
But it sure would be nice. Still, I’m not opposed to trading him for a nice piece.
Tough matchup for GoDan…
Peter Abraham has some Joba-related info:
He’s going to have 6 more regular season starts.
Yeah, they said that on the pregame.
6 more starts, about 6 IP each puts him at around 165 IP for the season. More than I thought, but I’ll trust their judgment.
+1
The main thing is they’re keeping him strong at the end of the year. Pitchers tend to get hurt when they’re fatigued, and all this extra rest at the end of the year should avoid that pitfall.
Gaudin will do fine. His numbers aren’t that bad, of course he was pitching in San Diego. The A’s lineup is a good one for him to face and do ok. Thanks to AJ and CC the pen is rested and there’s a day off tomorrow before Boston. Hopefully they can close out the west coast trip with another win.
He’s done well in this ballpark when he pitched with the As a few years back.
Why’d Halladay have to blow up today? And how is Buchholz amazing all of a sudden?
What difference does it make? They’re not catching the Yanks anytime soon, and Texas is winning right now.
well my friends and i left the jays game in the 8th, as it seemed they won’t be winning the game. We are staying at the mariott attached to the skydome, so it was an easy walk. Clay laughed at our “Clay loves laptops” chants each time he entered the dugout and during BP. I also got another autographed Roy Halladay ball, but for the second time in 2 weeks after autographing my ball, he gets shelled for 5 runs (by the yanks, then the sox).
Anyways, lets hope the yanks win
Prediction?
Yanks win 6-5
I hope you got your keebler products and a box of rice krispies signed by ol dusty pedroia
he refused to sign our photo of him photoshopped as an elf. I screamed at him during BP (when there were like 30 fans around, so he had to have heard me) and when he came close to sign balls, he saw my photo and went to the next kid
i felt like i got the shaft
damn, next time I’m going to make him sign a Rice Krispies box…when he comes up.. I’ll ask him “are you snap popple or crack?”. Probably have a proper picture to bait him over and then pull out the Rice Krispies box.
DId you get your laptop signed, Dela?
He ran up to my laptop, but when he saw it was chained to my chair, he went to the next kid :/
IETC.
Question, why not have players leave early to go back east. There are obviously starters and few others that won’t play, so why not go back early and rest, why stay and watch the game? Get to Boston rest, get used to the time change and join the rest of the team in a day.
They have a day off tomorrow.
Zach McAllister, 10K’s through 4IP.
holy sheet
incredible
Call him UP! Jk.
Hughes-esque.
Am I the only one a bit worried about losing tonight plus with Lester going for the Sox tomorrow that the lead going into Fenway on Friday could be “only” 5 1/2 games??
Granted Fri and Sat its Penny and Tazawa for the Sox….
Pitching matchups for Yanks-Sox:
Friday-Pettitte vs Penny
Saturday-Burnett vs Tazawa
Sunday-Sabathia vs Beckett
We really should take 2 of 3. Also, Beckett got shelled his last time out, so maybe that shoulder is starting to go, like it did last year.
this sucks.
I just moved to Brooklyn–I don’t get YES, mlb.tv is blacked out, and I don’t have Io so I can’t stream the games. My only options are gameday or (shudder) jawn and suzyn. which one should I use?
How do you not get YES in Brooklyn?
not included in the school’s cable package
Ah, that’s the shit I got at UConn. Annoying.
Go to a bar.
This could lead to him not being in school anymore, ha ha.
nah–I’m going to be 23 in a couple of weeks
DirecTV
Which school are you at?
SUNY Downstate med school
Good for you. How’s it going so far?
orientation going on now, classes start Monday
I’m very annoyed at the YES-less cable though
Too bad about the cable. As others have said, check out a bar. Best of luck with classes!
I love my life. The end.
glad to see school is going well
Haha school isn’t, but real-life-not-in-school is. Yay!
excellente!
I hope by “the end” you don’t mean your life.
Pudge is 2-2 in Texas…. last year, didn’t he only have like 4 hits for us?
Sure seemed that way. He was acquired as an upgrade over Molina, and then proceeded to hit like Molina during his (Pudge’s) Yankee tenure.
Yup.
4 singles to be exact.
4 singles to be exact.
He knows all the good Antique shops and bathhouses in Texas. He’s happy there.
Only the yankees would be sponsored by lexus, jeep, audi, mercedes benz and BMW
If the Yanks were ever sponsored by Oldsmobile or Hyundai, it’s time to pick another sport.
hahaha true dat
Captain on fire.
Jeter is so money.
Why is Damon bunting?!?!?!?!
Can we stop trying to sacrifice, please? It’s the first inning!
jeter is incredible… as usual
I’m so conflicted. Top Chef is on…the Yanks are on. What to choose?
Watch Top Chef during Yankee game Commercials, or when Gaudin is pitching, might not be pretty…
I’m thinking of betraying the Yanks because I’m out of whiskey (a Gaudin start could get dicey) and I love Top Chef. Does this make me a bad fan?
Another Top Chef fan. Nice.
Yankees and it’s not close.
Ok Marky T, 2 Strikes, knew what to do.
woo hoo
i’ll take the 1 run
1-0
Runners being moved over, and scoring on outs? John and Suzyn must be ecstatic!
you just can’t predict baseball
[/sterling’d
. . but we can predict what Harold Moscowitz (aka John Sterling) is going to say, now can’t we?
I don’t sthink I sthaw a sacrifuyce fluy awwll yearah lahst yearah Jawn, did youuh?
I’d love if they get rid of Waldman and replaced her with Fran Drescher. Compared to Waldman, she has the voice of an angel.
Plus she’s kinda hot.
OK, very hot. Always had a thing for her.
IETCVM
It’s not even the 3rd inning and I puked a little in my mouth looking at the ugly field…
Don’t worry. You aren’t the only one.
oh well, lets see what gaudin has in him
Mike Hampton has a rotator cuff tear.
This is not a repeat from any year since 2001.
(79 ERA+ this year in 112 innings!)
I seriously hope he shows up on that list of 103 names. It would explain a lot.
Gaudin’s gamdeday picture has made me a true believer in the Yankee facial hair policy.
lmao.
I’m taking the over on Gaudin and Swisher for the game’s first HR.
I’m not sure I understand, somehow those two are going to team up to hit the game’s first HR? Over what?
I hate the Angels but what they’re doing this year is pretty amazing.
man that at-bat took effing forever
Adam Kennedy… all over Gaudin’s stuff, hopefully he’s just mad about last night.
This is the problem with Gaudin. His offspeed stuff doesn’t work against lefties well, so he nibbles with his fastball a lot.
Comon Chad, put him away.
It’s Dr. Evil!
son of a fuck nut…
bad-din, bad-din.
This is going to be a looong night.
jesus christ
this will not end well
Take it back.
hahaha watching Davis’ eyes was hilarious
like he was up to no good
Arent you in a hotel in Toronto?? How u watching the game!!
i have mlb.tv
and yeah im in the hotel
Hope you have free internet at the hotel!!
yep. My best friend’s dad had reward points and got us a great room and free internet
Sweet.
Go the the Bright Pearl Chinese place, you can walk. Order the entree for two. It’s on that main street (perpendicular to the water…has the trolley line on it)
Glad Hughes is ready for the 8th inning tonight.
oh, i’m glad. i need to see him more cuz i dont remember what he looked like.
might be the 5th inning….
http://thegrandnarrative.files.....-horse.gif
Hey there was a thread today about Hughes and not starting so dont blame me, blame RAB!!!! LOL
How funny is that gif?
That shit was funny as hell.
unless i’m mistaken, that’s a rotoscoped michael bolton from “office space”
It’s one walk and a bleeder up the middle. Relax.
ZMac got his 11th strikeout of the game with the bases loaded and 1 out. He is being taken out after 4.2 IP.
good-din
Gaudin can only go about 85 pitches and he has gotten into very high counts in the short time we’ve seen him so he needs to be efficient tonight. Im not excited.
All I want is 5 decent Gaudin.
That was nasty.
nice K there
he seems to have a lot of breaking pitches
You know what Jerry Lane thinks? That he’s a better umpire than Flash was a baseball player.
jesus christ, texas blew another lead tonight and joe mauer didn’t have to go supernova tonight.
Yankees commentators: “That ump is a pussy shit and should die in a fire…where is Michael Kay?!”
Good job Guadin.
Pffft, scoreless inning. And all you guys were bitching.
my bad
wow
gaudin is houdini
Gaudini as a new nickname?
The Great Gaudini
perfect
that’s pretty good, I was thinking Rodan… but no one knows who the heck Rodan is…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodan
?
I like that.
Good inning for Gaudin.
Good job Chad, 4 more of those and we should be fine.
Marc Feinsand thinks the game will go 3:44. Just saying.
sheesh Flash really doesnt like Lane, made that clear haha
Are you saying Flash is doing this?
http://thegrandnarrative.files.....-horse.gif
I just love that fucking thing.
LMAO
again: michael bolton hitting the fax machine in “office space”?
Rajai Davis’ range is starting to piss me off.
Brett Anderson has horrible OCD.
What does he do? I always seem to miss it.
They’ll probably show it again, but he either needs to stand up the right way, or drink water the right way… does it over and over until he gets it right.
Thanks, I’ll watch for it.
Davis can cover some ground out there.
i know cliff lee is a good pitcher, but he switches leagues and it’s like he’s superman. why is the national league so much worse? when i was a kid, it was the superior league. will the pendulum swing back eventually?
i wonder how peavy will perform. era over 4? i think so.
randy johnson was the same way after he left seattle and came to houston then arizona
he was a walking god when he switched leagues (not like he wasn’t before though)
How about his when he first got to Arizona?
Four year contract
1030 IP
787 H
1417 K
188 ERA+
1.04 WHIP
Four Cy Youngs
whoa
unbelievable… Just unbelievable
this pitcher is so freaking weird.
so this brett anderson guy is actually good.
That was not a fun inning.
Vaccination Day?
i have to hold my breath when he faces lefties.
gaudin’s breaking stuff is wicked
Nice little split-change thing there.
Hey that was cool!
Molina has confidence in Gaudin, so… i do too now.
where the hell are these missing?
umps wouldn’t know what a strike is if it killed their family, blew up their house and raped their dog
oh… come on, just had to get the raped dog in there.
just trying to drive the point home
couldn’t frame that could you, jose?
damn
aight chad, lets get a GIDP
Man, I’m so ready for the Yanks to come back east… It’s hard for me to get into baseball/patient mode during these late games.
hear, hear
why didn’t HPU appeal? what a fucking asshole
That looked a tad low.
on game day it was actually in the K zone… quite odd
beautiful called K
Gaudin’s got the strikeout stuff going.
This ump, I like him.
Gaudin is proud of his slider.
Damn Guadin.
Gau-damn?
Gaudin is SO MUCH BETTER THAN MITRE
damn
chad was ILLY that inning
K-d the side
Struck out the side… Gaudin… GET SOME!!
Chad Gaudin’s ERA as a starter for the Yanks: 0.00.
CHAD GAUDIN IS A STARTING PITCHER!
CY YOUNG!
I don’t want to jinx anything but maybe I was wrong to think this guy would get SHELLED. If he’s a 5th starter who can do this with some consistency (Joe Morgan’d), I’m psyched.
45 pitches already but I’ll take no runs allowed
Also, fuck Top Chef. What was I thinking? Watching this is the better choice.
atta boy! A friend of mine attended culinary school with a past contestant of top chef.
At CIA? I had an old roommate who went there and also an old roommate’s ex-gf (who had a mustache *shudder*) who went. I’ve been told that they make a lot of cocaine creme fresh.
I’d love to go to cooking school (I’m pretty good, but I’m SLOOOOOW), but I have a pretty nice gig as is
Oh yeah. What do you do?
LOL
He attended ICE in manhattan.
He was classmates with Sarah or something. The Asian girl.
that padma is one hottie though
I can’t believe Rushdie got some of that.
What’s wrong? It was an ok episode, no?
Oh yeah, definitely. The episode was going well (It was Masters) but I just can’t not watch the Yanks. I have this irrational fear that by me not watching will cause them to lose.
Plus I can DVR the episode.
Would have liked to see us rest Leatherface tonight. But we are resting Jorge so that’s good. If we win, I won’t complain.
OK, look at this pic and tell me who is NOT a woman.
http://www.nydailynews.com/spo.....frica.html
Easy, right? Apparently the IAAF can’t figure it out with conducting DNA tests.
She is definitely a He
It is a bit more complex than just looking down there and saying, “Hrmm…about that”. They have to check through genetics, chromosomal stuff, and all sorts of other medical/science jargon I cannot comprehend.
Or they could just look behind him and see if he’s got something tucked between his legs.
Haven’t we learned anything from Mrs. Doubtfire?
Yes! Haven’t we?
This guy makes RuPaul look feminine.
Robin Williams’ ass hair is probably dreaded like jungle vines.
I heard he is the biggest producer of dingleberries in the US of A.
fernando vina: if ichiro wants, he can go deep to right.
my question: why doesn’t ichiro want?
Exactly. Everyone says this about Ichiro. “Oh he could hit 30 homers if he wanted to!” Then why the hell doesn’t he do it? The homers would easily outweigh the singles and an increase in power would probably lead to an increase in walks which could get him more steals. He could be Willie Mays.
Now the bench is being praised as it should be but funny how things change over the course of the season.
I really love the versatility they have now with Hinske and Hairston. I hope they bring both back next year.
I’m generally a strong Cashman supporter, but I also come down on the side that he’s not particularly great at assembling a first rate bench to begin a season (and I’ll gladly grant that it’s harder for him than most given the lack of regular playing time he’s able to promise and I’ll also say I thought he had done a better job going into this season, at least insofar as outfield depth, before X went down)–but I have to say, and have always felt–no one–no one–is better at fixing a team on the fly mid-season. Year in year out he plugs gaping holes over the course of the year. The results aren’t always perfect, i.e. ’08, but the process IMHO, is always fantastic.
Easy to say right now, but I freaking love the Hairston and Gaudin moves–I like Hinske too, though i liked it more when I thought they’d let him play 3B (pre-Hairston obviously.
that was a clear ball
Umm yeah, the ump’s zone is all over the place right now..
brett andersen is really helping my fantasy team but he should lose tonight because gaudin is going CG SO.
YEAH JOHNNY!!
What a catch by damon!
That catch will do wonders for Damon’s UZR.
Rajai Davis is unimpressed.
LMAO kennedy
Hey, nice play Johnny.
love it love it love it damon gets like 3 fantastic plays this year and we just witnessed one of them.
We are very lucky to have been privy to such a showing.
Great Pitch.
what a nice K
wow
gaudin looks great so far
soooo that sergio mitre…
too early to say Gaudini is better then Mitre? (not that it takes much lol)
Is this the only series we’ll play this year in which Damon is the better defensive left fielder? Scott Hairston has looked like a little leaguer out there so far.
what about that youkilis character?
He doesn’t play LF that often, does he?
still, we had an advantage that series.
True. You got me there.
damon makes the play, then gets the hit
nice
nice hit Johnny
Gaudin is awesome!
Go offense!
BOMB!!
Texual healing.
Texual Harassment!
Teix!
A TEX MESSAGE!!!
3-0 YANKEES!
TEX!
Don’t even think about turning around, Sweeney.
He beat that like a Lifetime special.
IETC.
woo! that got out in a hurry
woo! that got out in a hurry
BOOM!
Dang. Teix unloaded on that shit.
Tex message to the left field stands.
Man that ball was smoked.
I love no-doubters.
that AB for alex was ugly
he had a good swing at a fb and just got a nasty slider by brett…hes had much worse abs
true, but i guess it looked a little worse because of the way he went down
art howe?
Davis can’t catch everything.
Swisher and Jeter = on fire.
swishahouse with the nice hit
Teh Swish!!!
ugh at swinging at the sliders
Cano don’t swing at those!
Technically, it looked as if the ball hit the ground first. If that’s the case, wouldn’t that not be a HBP?
gaudin looks a little like jeremy bonderman
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throw damn strikes
Chill, he walked Cust on purpose to get to Everidge. And it worked out.
Chad Gaudin … another example of Brian Cashman throwing money at a problem and lacking creativity.
Amen
Wow I totally didn’t read this. I saw it at “Cashman throwing money at a problem and making something or other.”
Either way, damn Cash sucks at trades!
the yankees have a team of all-stars that they overpaid for
they’ve never not paid a pitcher 10 million
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Say what you will about Cash (I’m a fan, though by no means worship the man)–but I’ve always felt his greatest asset was his ability to fix a team on the fly–good examples of it virtually every season since 2000.
the guy is like dice-k. Escaping jams all the time
Gaudin is doing well but he’s tossed 70 pitches through 4 innings
could be worse and he’s pretty much functioning as the 5th starter this week
If he can go 6 we should be thrilled.
Guadini!
The spirit of Jorge stays alive. DP!
heh
another hit for the captian
he saw that mauer went hitless and wanted to gain some points…
JEET!
did molina hit it hard, or was melky just slouching into second?
/lazy dominican’d
lol at showing off your arm when molina is 50 feet from the bag
Yanks have hit into a bunch of DPs this series. Hopefully this won’t carry over to the Boston series.
my god, cappy. remember how towards the early part of the season Jeter was hitting like .270?
damon gets on!
now for big texy
Oh no. Do we really have to face Brad Penny? Isn’t he the best free agent signing from this past offseason? We’re screwed.
no, that would be John Smoltz, the guy we dont have to see… Thank God.
i hope he gets his shit together in st. louis
I’m so tired of seeing Rajai Davis.
I’m so tired of seeing Rajai Davis.
so much that you posted it twice
RAB has been screwy for me the past half hour. Maybe it’s Safari.
+1
hmm…
I’m so tired of seeing JSquared being tired of seeing Rajai Davis.
Fuckin Davis.
damn davis and his unlimited range
we’ve had to deal with ichiro robbing hits, now davis
ugh
ughhh fuck you davis.
The range of Rajai Davis is really starting to piss me off.
let’s hunt him down
Davis is an annoying little bastard.
Wow, Texas lost to Minny again and the wild card lead in the process.
Ken Singleton has one of the best announcer’s voices I have ever heard. Flash has the worst I have ever heard, and he sure is bitter tonight.
It’ll be nice to get back to town and finally start to play the Michael Kay drinking game.
singleton’s voice is very homey. Like he welcomes you into his booth
It’s like he’s reading bedtime stories.
agreed
i love kenny, but i can not stand flaherty so its kinda been bittersweet the past 6 games
wtf happens to this guy when he faces lefties.
That was lazy.
aww no love for hinske.
Yeah first he gets snubbed by RAB and now the YES network…poor guy
We love you Hinske
nice out there
lets hope we can get a DP with Mo’s help on davis
wtf was that???
ugh
oh, boo.
Freaking Cano.
Damn you Rajai Davis
Fear Molina.
faaaaaaaaaaccckkkkk
lets do Gaudini!!!
lol i meant go*
god dammit cano
Those floodgates want to bust open real bad.
cmon joe
leave gaudin in
DOUBLE PLAY HERE
NOW!
Probably will bring him in just to face Suzuki then take him out to bring in Coke to face Sweeney.