Spring Training Game Thread: Under the lights
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There’s nothing quite like baseball under the sun, but I’ve always had a soft spot for night games. The cool breeze, the lights, I dunno what it is, but I like it. The Yankees are playing one of their few night games of the preseason tonight, taking on the Rays’ B-team in Tampa. Javy Vazquez will be making his third televised start of the spring in as many outings. I guess he’s an attention whore.
Anyway, here’s the lineup…
Jeter, SS
Granderson, CF
Swisher, RF
Posada, C
Cano, 2B
Thames, DH
Winn, LF
Miranda, 1B
Pena, 3B
Scheduled Pitchers: Javy Vazquez, Chan Ho Park, and David Robertson. Dustin Moseley, Mark Melancon, Romulo Sanchez, and Boone Logan are also available.
Also scheduled to play: Reegie Corona, Colin Curtis, Greg Golson, Reid Gorecki, Eduardo Nunez, P.J. Pilittere, Austin Romine, Kevin Russo, and Jon Weber.
First pitch is scheduled for 7:05pm ET. You can watch locally on YES, or out of market on MLB Network. Enjoy the game.
Photo Credit: Kathy Willens, AP
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No Michael Kay: Priceless.
There appears to be a lot of room in here tonight.
I love how the commercial for this said “A-Rod and the Yankees take on Evan Longoria and the Rays” and neither of those guys is playing.
“Juan Miranda and the Yankees take on Sean Rodriguez and the Rays” doesn’t have the same cache.
Oh its got cache baby. Its got cache out the yin yang!
hah.
Hasn’t Sean Rodriguez been absolutely MURDERING ST? Not that it matters.
Good inning. I think Javy just won the fifth starter competition.
I smell a Cy Young
That was a fast inning.
Joe Madden is SO clever.
*Maddon
He is one of the few Managers I cannot stand. He oozes doucheness.
I’m still mad about David Price hitting Teixeira
“O”, “E”, whatevs.
This.
This is somewhat unrelated, but, my brother bought MLB TV package for 140 dollars, and while he payed for it, I get it for free. Life is rewarding in little ways sometimes.
I got my new computer today. I think I’m in love. I have MLBtv open and I’m able to watch it at the highest quality without it freezing up or shutting down on me every five minutes.
Sure, I have low expectations but I think they’re going to be raised with this baby.
When I first read this I thought it said, “I’m going to raise it as my baby”.
I appreciate computers but I save the baby raising for puppies.
Nice. Is it custom built or an overpriced brand name?
…it’s a Dell.
Heh. I was going to buy a Dell once customizing the parts and it would have cost me 1500 dollars. The internets told me Dell is overpriced and building your own is way cheaper. And the internets never lie.
except if it’s MLB.com telling you Curtis Granderson is NOT a switch-hitter
Man, Granderson’s bat on the ball sounded really nice.
I thought it was a HR and I was like GRANDERSON HIT A HR OFF A LEFTY! and then I was sad.
I know, it wasn’t even close. Soooo disapointing.
Nice hair. I think that guy in the third row just won the craziest hair at the ballpark tonight competition.
They are talking about his homers making up for his avg, as if he didn’t have a 375 obp last year. Jesus people, a single is the same thing as a walk people, the only difference is a walk takes more pitches from the pitcher.
I’m refering to Swisher by the way.
Swishalicous!
Nice hit. I think Swisher just won the right fielder competition.
(Ok, I’ll stop now.)
IETC
OMG, Posada has a 421 avg in 7 games, he needs to slow down.
Kay’d
Wait, that wasn’t Kay, oops. Out of curiosity, how do you cross out/italisize/bold text here?
(b) (/b) (i) (/i) (strike) (/strike)
except use instead of ()
use instead of ( ) …
agh. it’s not showing up. > that thing. use that.
Ugh,
Muchas Gacias…..finalmente!
I mean gracias, damn new keyboard.
What’s Sterling’s home run call for Granderson going to be?
Something corny sounding no doubt…
it’s a Grander-slam
(Pitcher surrenduring homer) went to Denny’s for a Grander-Slam!!
Even more, “It’s a Grand-Slam, double-covered and smothered”.
/Sponsored by Dennys’d
A GRAND HOME RUN, BY GRANDERSON!
Wasn’t that Grand!
It couldn’t be grander, son!
OMG, cano should be put in the minor league system of the royals, immedeately. He struck out with risp.
These announcers are refreshingly pleasant. Who’s the guy that’s not Singleton?
it’s Singleton, Tino, and Flaherty, no?
One’s Flaherety and the other is Tino
Tino and Flash
Oh okay it’s Tino, thanks.
Clearly Cano can’t hit in the five-spot
RISP! RISP!
CC? Wasn’t it AJ who hit Pena?
Nah, I think they just showed the video of CC.
I noticed. My typing skills are just too great.
(Not really)
no, it was CC
BTW, Pena seems like a really classy guy from his few appearances on MLB Network. He didn’t seem to hold anything against CC and/or the Yankees at all.
I remember it was CC, Pena tried to hold back with a check and got his fingers smashed.
I want to listen in to the conversation K-Long and Johnson were having.
Probably talking about what they had for dinner last night.
That’s my kind of conversation.
I wonder what kind of food a guy like K-Long likes to eat.
Lightning. And he craps thunder.
That explains his awesomeness. I shall now refer to him as “K-Long the Lightning Eater”.
If you take out the dash it would be “Klong the Lightning Eater.” That is so much more badass.
Panic!!!
I blame the announcers
I blame Michael Kay. He was sitting at home telling his fanclub about the perfect game Javy was working on.
heh
Well it is Javy and it is the AL leader in homers…
VAazquez is sooooo unclutch. Giving up a homer to the AL home run king, unaccaptable.
3 full counts in a row. He’s getting his work in.
Make it 4.
4 full counts now
What a silly thing to say. No one is more balanced than the Red Sox.
Balance doesn’t equal good. The pirates are very balanced. Everyone is on the same level…..horrific.
Rays better than Boston for defense? I don’t think so.
It’s close, but Boston has the edge.
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not, but I think the Rays are actually projected to have better defense than the Red Sox.
I have to disagree. Rays had a 69.5 UZR last year. Boston had a -16.3 UZR last year. No way the gap was closed by that much over the course of one off-season.
I don’t know.
Beltre >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Lowell
Cameron >>>>>>>>>>>>> Ellsbury (CF)
Ellsbury (LF) >>>>>>>>> Bay
Don’t get me wrong, the defense will be improved, but in my opinion they still won’t have a better defense than the Rays. Projections seem to agree with that as well.
This. Everyone on that team except for whoever is catching are plus defenders.
I don’t know about the Rays and honestly I didn’t know they were that good.
1B defense doesn’t matter all that much, but I think Pena is actually quite good.
In a small sample size because he plays pretty much everything, Zobrist is a great defender.
Evan Longoria is an incredibly good defensive 3B. He is probably more or less Beltre’s equal there.
Their OF is pretty awesome.
Crawford >>>>> Ells
Upton > Cameron
Drew >>> rays RF (unless it’s Jennings or Upton, both of which are totally possible)
Longoria = Beltre
Bartlett > Scutaro
Zobrist > Pedroia (SSS, but so it would seem)
Youkilis > Pena
don’t watch either enough to really gauge their catcher’s D, but to me it seems like the Rays are clearly a better defensive team, and that gap only widens when they call up DJ
That wasn’t a strike?? 38 pitches up the 2nd inning
yeah, that was like right down the middle. Umps in mid-season form.
Umps and their damn bias against Yankees!!!
Just like the scouts.
Sincerely,
mryankee
one thing I’ve learned from reading the internet: everyone thinks the umpires (and the national announcers) are biased against their team
Seriously though, Foster hates the Yankees.
I remember Halos Heaven last year during the post season….they really did think that everything was set up for the Yankees to win.
because the Angels didn’t get any egregious calls on their behalf in the first round or anything
So I know, the Pujols for Howard, ehhh news, from earlier this week was absolutely never discussed as a potential trade. If, however, the Cardinals didn’t think they could sign him, and wanted to trade Pujols for a great 1B already locked up, what would you trade with Tex to get him, assuming a 10/$275 million extension for Pujols? Would you not do it at all to save some payroll flexibility? Would you do Tex/Joba/Romine. More? Less? I’m interested to see what people’s thoughts on this would be.
That’s not even close to being worth it. With Teixera’s 6 more years, I think it has to be just Tex for Pujos, but only if the Cards know they can’t sign Pujos. Joba definetly shouldn’t be there.
I’m wondering if Winn has always been a slow starter. Is there a way to look at historical ST stats?
I don’t hink anyone cares enough to document. Well…. anyone who knows anything about baseball.
Thanks for your input chief rocka.
That wasn’t a dig against you, it was a dig agains people who really care about ST stats, like the people who say Damon>>Granderson based on this spring. I didn’t mean to insult you.
Heh no big deal. I was just curious because some guys are historically slow starters, some are quick starters. I wanted to see if Winn fell into one of those categories, it looks like he doesn’t.
2008 and 2009 ST are here
http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player....._id=133160
Ah thanks.
I hope you enjoyed knowing anything about baseball
I am laughing SO HARD. (sorry WIlliam)
If you had read my quotes from Lohud by a commenter named “whatever” on a thread a while back, you would no my frustration. The guy compiled a list showing how many Games back people were in the AL East, and said Granderson, based on ST stats, would be another Gary Mathews Jr.
I saw that. Those were some of my favorite LoHud posts ever.
oooh he’s back!
another terrible game by curtis granderson.. tell me, is this what we can expect all year? jeter getting on base, and granderson flying out with weak quick at bats? where’s the heart that a guy like damon brings?
heart = whiteness, obviously (yeah I know Damon’s not entirely white)
Tino perpetually sounds like he has a headcold
Michael Kay taught him how to do that.
Well, Kay just has a big head, literally and figuratively.
That’s what she said
Pena is hitting pretty well.
The captain comes through!
Upton was hotdoggin!!
/Kay’d
I still remember the game where Derek tied Lou Gehrig’s hit total and Upton was chasing after a ball and then very abruptly he just stopped and threw his hands up in the air. Except it was way funnier than I’m describing. I still giggle about it.
Cadillacing.
DE-RECK JE-TER Duh Duh…Duh DUh
Gah! Kim Jones, you torment me.
Crawford worked that walk with his streetsiness.
/Lombardi’d
haha I was just telling my mom about that and she was like, WHAT?
You shouldn’t tell your mom about it, even talking about Crawford can intimidate people, he’s so hood.
Jorge Posada is adorable when he’s furious with himself.
/this sentence makes no sense’d
Good call, but that was a really nice throw by Jorge. Can’t do it much better than that.
It looked like he was out.
nah, he was safe. Just cuz he’s so fast. Good throw by Jorge, though.
Disagree, I thought he was clearly safe. Tag was around the knee after his foot had already reached the bag.
You have an anti-Yankee bias. Just like the umpires.
It’s the great irony of my life.
I wish they had shown the tag in Slo-Mo so we could actually see if the call was right or not. God knows they show close ups of many calls that are very obvious.
fond memories (…) of Game 3 of the World Series
Are you referring to when Andy and Po both botched handling a bunt? I remember a few irrational people tearing Posada over every mistake or out because of Catcher Gate.
Yup. Oh God people are soooo irrational about Posada, it’s ridiculous. That said, it WAS a dumb play.
It was a dumb play on both Posada and Andy’s part, though. Posada definitely doesn’t take all the blame.
Pena had that wtf face on
Lazy Puerto Ricans.
/Dominican Lou’d
Wow, that was a weird check swing
Javy and Cano are getting out of jams with their clutchiscrappytude, ruining your ethnic stereotypes.
/lolcats’d? kinda?
Scrapitude: ur doin it rite
Heh, that’s better.
Lovin swishs sideburns
Why was Cano playing so far back last inning? He had to come in from a few feet into the OF.
Shift was on for Pena.
Carlos Pena was AB and we use the shift against him.
Pena is a pull hitter and the Yankees put on a semi-shift.
Nice walk. I think Posada just won the catcher competition.
(Ok, I’m really done this time. Promise.)
Ok, I’m really done this time. Promise.
I don’t believe it when it comes to wings, I don’t believe it now.
Haha, touche.
Did you see Jeter? He’s got the SS competition in the bag. Not sure about Cano though, Pena has 1 hit to Cano’s 0, it will be close.
Pena and Russo are all over the place this Spring, Cano’s gotta work hard if he wants to hold on to even the utility job.
Whoah, strike that, reverse it… Nice play by Cano, he’s back at 2B.
Yeah, Tino said he was good, we listen to Tino.
That looked out.
It was supposed to be a back door sinker according to them, at that angle it sure is hard to tell if the ball really did move back in. IMHO, it looked like a ball..
Ignore me if you weren’t referring to Cano’s strikeout.
Inconsistent ump
my mom is complaining excessively about the RISP “problem,” heeeelllppp
Robbie Cano: .210 BAbip with RISP last season
I don’t even want to START to explain that to her
I really don’t get people who complain about stuff like that during Spring Training. I can understand why a lot of people think the things they think, whether I agree with them or not… But that’s one thing I really just can’t wrap my mind around.
I think she’s just conditioned to hate when the Yankees lose and/or anything bad happens to the Yankees. That, I can understand. The excessive complaining about it/acting like it matters, I cannot.
I can’t even really understand people caring about the results of the games during Spring Training. Freaking Romulo Sanchez is on the mound, Marcus Thames just hit, Ramiro Pena is at third and Juan Miranda is at first, in the fourth inning. How anyone can get themselves worked up about the results of the games or anything like that is just beyond me.
Yeah, I’m with you. As long as everyone is non-injured by the time ST is over, I don’t really care if the Yankees go 0-a billion in ST.
This.
Tell your mom I’m disappointed in her. Just walk over to her and tell her: “The Honorable Congressman Mondesi is disappointed in your lack of perspective, Mom”… But don’t explain anything about why you’re saying it or why someone is called “The Honorable Congressman Mondesi” or anything like that. Just say it and walk away like it’s totally normal.
Agree. Bexy needs to do this.
I just did. She was like “What does Raul Mondesi have to do with this?????”
Well done!
I was away from my computer, sorry… That’s awesome. You rule, and your mom rules.
Chan Ho Park has really let himself go.
Oh wait.
Outstanding 2nd baseman? yes, for his offense. Quite a few gold gloves in his future? Not as long as Pedroia has something to say about it. Along with Zobrist, and many other 2nd basemen.
but he makes great plays from time to time which make people forget about flubbing easier ones, and has a great bat. That is more important to winning gold gloves than you know, being the best defensive player at your position
I know, i was refering to Tino’s comments about Cano after Cano’s one handed flip to Miranda. He said that Cano was a great 2nd baseman who had many GGs in the future.
ah. not watching the game–Tino might be right though
Good point, Jeter did it once a few years ago during a bad defensive season. Many people who win them aren’t great defenders. At least Cano is an average 2nd baseman. On a popular team with a flashy glove, I guess he could win. Then again, Pedroia has all that, plus he’s known as a better defender than Cano.
Jeter was not just a bad but a REALLY REALLY BAD defensive SS during every year he won a Gold Glove except 2009, according to UZR.
I think one year according to UZR Cano was the best defensive 2B. Last year, he had a negative rating. Apparently TotalZone lists him as positive, though.
BJ just cadillac’d right across the plate.
gotta be honest, not that my opinion means much of anything, but i’m not really liking what i’m seeing from Sanchez – very herky-jerky delivery that doesn’t seem to bode well for his control (and he hasn’t proved that fear wrong yet). Good stuff, but a lonnnnng way to go from what i can see.
Not that my opinion means anything either, but he has way too much in his whole delivery. I think he needs to refine his delivery.
Is it just me, or is Tino’s voice really annoying.
It’s not just you. He doesn’t have a broadcaster’s voice at all. Worlds better than when he was on ESPN, though.
My letters to the YES Network suggesting Gilbert Gottfried as an announcer keep getting ignored.
It’s like nails on a chalkboard
Is he going to be on for the whole season?
No, he’s going to be more like Harry Connick Jr. on Will and Grace than Megan Mullaly.
How often is that? Something in terms of either Smallville, HIMYM, Chuck, Psych or House. WIll and Grace is off my television analogy spectrum.
Okay, Tino will be in the booth as often as Supergirl was on Smallville.
(The latter being a great shame. Talk about a wasted opportunity to tell great stories about my second favorite Kryptonian with breasts.)
I know, Laura Vandelvort would have helped me to stay on during the last half of season 8. Uhg, this season is much better thankfully. Still, having the hottest girl in her early 20′s on the show would be a great boost for ratings.
GO BIG EAST !!
Marquette better not disappoint.
Posada’s in mid-season form.
Watching Sanchez hurt my shoulder
but where are his RH splits????
also Chan Ho Park has made 75 hilarious faces already
Is Georgetown f’ing up anyone else’s bracket as bad as they’re f’ing up mine?
That would be me.
Why doesn’t Posada or anybody else swing on 3 and 0 during the Spring?
It’s the Jews’ fault!
Sincerely,
Ronan Tynan
Did Tyler Kepner really say that BJ Upton was going to have a killer year and carry the Rays to the playoffs after one Spring Training triple? You know better than that, Kep.
Robertson has a beee-yoo-tiful curveball.
Singleton is really marveling at peoples ST stats. He’s practically drooling over Posada and Cano when they’re at the plate. I must say Ken, I thought you knew better than that.
http://twitter.com/OldHossRadb.....0697505221
(I’m pretty sure whoever this actually is, they’re a Yankee fan. And they saw Kepner’s Tweet.)
I love Old Hoss’ twitter. But how ridiculous was Kepner’s comment?
COMPLETELY ridiculous
Kepner’s capable of being quite full of himself at times.
It wasn’t even full of himself as much as it was simply a silly thing to say.
He did make fun of himself a little later, though.
Wild allegation: One of the RABbis is behind @OldHossRadbourn.
Under that assumption, I’ll put money down on Ben.
I can 100% guarantee you that none of us (Ben, Joe, or myself) are behind Old Hoss. I know he has at least checked in on RAB, he DM’ed me a “good job” on Twitter for the anonymous scout post, but that’s it.
Eh, it was a cool idea though. You should write a post claiming credit for April Fool’s Day.
Completely off topic, but…idk if we all have the same commercials on MLBTV, but there was a really weird commerical where a mother used her phone to track her teen daughter in the mall. Sounds a little creepy to me. I mean, she has a phone.
Hey Mondesi, do you think Granderson will be able to recover and steal his job back from WInn? WInn has been on base 2 times today to Granderson’s 0.
Right. People worry about the wrong things.
reply fail
Colin Curtis has been awesome this ST. I mean, wasn’t he supposed to have very low power, or was that only true of Jackson?
Javy has such a nice smile.
Jazzy also almost doesn’t have the accent that hinders most Spanish pitchers. I’m picking a up a Javy jersey because I think he’s awesome.
The season hasn’t even started yet and Flaherty is already getting on my nerves.
BTW-Tino is just awful.
Georgetown=FAIL!
They screwed me hard today
TWSS
Who the Frock was that?
what the hell are they talking about here, my head hurts
They just showed a commercial for the Daily News’ “Modern True Yankee Heroes” or whatever and Andy Pettitte was on the cover for this Sunday’s version. Then, they showed someone playing Bejeweled. My true loves!!!
I can’t take Flaherty anymore!!!!!
I have a great idea for the Yankee broadcast booth. have Singleton, Kay, Tino and Flaherty all in the booth, but only turn on Kenny’s microphone.
IETC
Tino has the personality of a 2×4.
He seems like a really nice guy but all he ever talks about is being from Florida and stuff aaaaghhh
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
/Giuliani’d
You thay that like it’th a bad thing.
/Giuliani’d
Fixed that for ya.
I prefer Tino to Flash, its a long season so im hoping Tino grows into the job.
I’m hoping he grows into the job, just not this one.
Im a carpenter, are you saying 2x4s have no personality ?
Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying. Somebody has to say it.
THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES, MAAAAANNNNNN!!!
I can’t believe there’s A NEW VERSION of the 2009 Yankeeography.
Really? Wow. When are they showing it?
I believe it’s on right now.
New as in, a second version??
I’ve been watching it for the past half hour but there’s been a couple of new things, I think. A few interviews and stuff that weren’t in there before.
Remember being 0-8 against Boston and then they didn’t even win the season series? Ha ha.
Good times.
Yeah.
/Delicious Dish’d
Park is not as intimidating without his beard.
Well, you know about those grit-beards…very powerful.
I saw that entire 15 inning game. I almost didn’t
When Derek struck out with the winning run on third and two outs in I think it was the bottom of the ninth, maybe the tenth, I like had a hernia and turned it off. I turned it on again, fearfully, like half an hour later, and it was STILL GOING ON
Alex crying after the Yankees won the WS absolutely killed me.
Just start the season already….I cant wait to see Aceves win the 5th starter spot
Hate to break it to you, but I think you’ll be waiting a looooong time for that to happen.
Excellently done.
why thank you sir
Tell it to your blog-mate.
Hahaha, I don’t think they empathized the game where we stole like 6 bases off Varitek in the first verison.
Holy shit, how much did Game One of the WS suck? Fucking Cliff Lee.
THREE DAYS REST!!!!!!
The Yankees didn’t start Chad Gaudin in the WS! HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THEY WON?!?!?!
take away that AL pennant because the Angels didn’t play “Angel baseball.” If they had, clearly they would have beaten the Yankees.