Nov
01
Yanks announce A.J., on short rest, for Game 5
ByOnce again, the winner of the Great Beat Writers’ Race to Twitter is Joel Sherman. He is the first among the Yanks’ crew to report that A.J. Burnett will start Game 5 on three days’ rest. Burnett, dominant in Game 2, will face off against Cliff Lee tomorrow night. This start, the last of A.J.’s season, will be his first for the Yanks on short rest. He has made four career starts on three days’ rest and is 4-0 with a 2.33 ERA in 27 innings. If both pitchers are at their best, Game 5 could be one for the ages.
No shock here this was the right move.
Stupid.
Care to elaborate?
Yes because starting a pitcher who struggles vs lefties against a team that has some really good lefty power hitters and can have up to like 6 lefties in the lineup at a time is such a good idea.
And don’t forget that the other candidate has thrown a whopping 1 inning since the end of the regular season. I don’t see anything stupid about it.
And all of that in a true bandbox which saw 6 HRs yesterday.
Relax, I don’t think he saw game two. That’s all I can think of in his defense.
Burnett’s ERA on short rest is below 2.
Not Stupid.
Yep, because Gaudin v. Lee is a pitcher’s duel everyone wants to see.
Love how it’s like a race now.
Right move, no question. Either you’re going for the jugular or you’re trying to avoid going back to NY down 3-2.
Umm…. jugular. Unless they’ve made a deal to bring in Verlander as a ringer (wearing Blanton’s skin as a brilliant disguise), it will be jugular.
It’s absolutely the right move. If we’re up 3-1, you put up a guy who gives you a good chance to win it then and there. If we’re 2-2, put up a guy who gives you a good chance to go back home up 3-2. Good AJ can beat anyone.
Not surprised by the decision, but would have preferred to see how today’s game went before announcing the starter (if that is even allowed). I would have been in favor of starting Gaudin if we won tonight. That way you can start AJ on regular rest and at home. You are just putting your players in a better position that way.
However, if we lose tonight, starting AJ tomorrow is a no brainer.
If we win tonight, starting AJ tomorrow is a no brainer
starting AJ tomorrow is a no brainer.
QED, bitches!
Always make an opponent beat your best. If they’re on the way down, you knock them out and don’t give them a chance to get back up. Starting AJ tomorrow regardless of the result tonight is absolutely the best move.
We win today, we go back home with a 3 – 2 lead. We lose today, we go back home with the Phillies leading 3 – 2. Let’s win today so that I wont have a heart attack in games 6 and 7(if it goes that far). and I’m only 17. <_<
So you have no faith in this team’s ability to beat Cliff Lee tomorrow? So much for confidence=10.
I’ll be a 10 when we win it all. But Cliff Lee just turns into an animal every time he is on the mound. I don’t see how our offense will wake up against him. I just don’t.
He’s human. He can be gotten to. (Although I’ve been waiting for the Yankees to get to him for the last 2 years, and they haven’t yet)
God pitchers can shut this lineup down, but they don’t everytime. Look at this season vs. Roy Halladay. Sometimes he shut the Yankees down, sometimes they hit him.
Good pitchers. Obviously Mo could shut anyone down.
Thou shalt not worship false Mo’s.
Good pitchers can shut ANY lineup down. That’s why they’re good!
if he was such and animal is manager especially down 2-1 would be throwing him tonight to try and even it and intent on pushing him in game 7, but obviously he doesnt believe he is capable of being a true animal.
We win tonight. And tomorrow maybe cool, calm, no worries Lee will crack under the pressure of the must win.
hmmm , who catches tomorrow ?
i guess molina does
this may turn out to be 0-0 after nine innings
After Game 2, it’s pretty much guaranteed that Molina will start tomorrow.
As long as Hairston isn’t in the lineup, I can deal.
Molina earned the start with the plays in game 2.
Which plays? That one snap throw?
I think so. That play was huge.
Molina made some very nice picks on balls in the dirt.
Yeah, he’s also allowed some balls to get by him this postseason as well. As has posada, but Jorge also made nice blocks of the ball in the dirt when he caught AJ during the Angels game.
AJ has thrown shitty baseball with Molina back there and he’s thrown great baseball with Molina back there. He’s thrown shitty baseball with Posada back there, and great baseball. No one has run wild on the Yanks this season, and Molia made one good snap throw in the last game.
I just can’t fathom how people can think that makes it ok to put a lineup on the field with Molina AND a pitcher in it when they’re facing Cliff Lee. But, there’s not going to be any rational discussion about this anyway. When AJ was good, it was because Molina was back there. When he was bad, AJ just didn’t have command, but Molina nursed him through.
I’m not making any judgment about whether or not Molina should start, I’m just noting that he made about 4 really nice stops in game 2. Giving the guy his due and what not.
Nice. On route to his WS MVP.
That would be awesome.
my friend is a BJ friend, and he said there is a good chance AJ puts it all together the whole time next year because he has been healthy the last two years *knock
You have a BJ friend?
Awesome
http://thenextweb.com/wp-conte...../01/hi.jpg
A BJ fiend friend would be better.
“my friend is a BJ friend”
Overshare, is this guy your cousin?
No, my family doesn’t interact much with extend family.
HEYYOOOOOO! icwudt
I don’t get why people are content to just throw away a game in the World Series? Starting Chad Gaudin against Cliff Lee would be akin to just forfeiting.
people were saying Joe should start Gaudin and hope we get lucky knowing very well they’d be yelling for him to be fired if we lost
Gaudin has a 0.00 ERA against the Phillies in his career in two appearances (2.33 innings total).
How Girardi can ignore such dominance is beyond me.
/Krukenthal’d
IETC
Oh, and he has never allowed even a single run in the month of November.
Plus, his career record against teams who call Pennsylvania home is a perfect 1-0.
Free Chad Gaudin from Joe Girardi’s Chains of Ignorance!
I love misusing and abusing statistics.
Makes me feel like a Baseball Tonight host.
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Chad Gaudin’s career postseason ERA is 0.00! (4.33 innings).
Further, that includes 3.33 innings in the 2006 ALCS in which he walked three batters. Since he allowed no runs despite those walks, it shows Gaudin has MOXIE and knows how to work out of jams.
The other inning was his perfect 1-2-3 inning in this year’s ALCS against a tough Angels team. So he’s on a hot streak, to boot.
All this guy does is get outs when in matters. I’m not sure why anyone else has thrown any innings this postseason.
Does anyone have stats on pettitte on 3 days rest?
baseball-reference.com almost certainly does.