Game 22: Home again
ByIf only the starts lined up right: Andy Pettitte debuted 15 years ago yesterday.
Photo credit: John Dunn/AP
Freddy Garcia has gotten off to a horrible start in 2009. He pitched a Pavano-esque 129 innings from 2007 through 2009. Last season he came back last August with the White Sox after failing to catch on with the Mets earlier in the season, and actually pitched fairly well. His 56 innings mostly came in September, not the best month on which to base an analysis.
This season he’s off to a slow start, a 5.82 ERA in 17 innings spanning three starts. Walks and home runs have killed him. The Yankees do two things exceedingly well. They take walks, and they hit home runs. It sounds like a perfect combination for a night of baseball in the Bronx. Only problem is, it has the makings of a reverse lock.
Garcia, now 35, put together a solid career with the Mariners and White Sox. From his rookie season, 1999, through 2006 he missed the 200-inning mark just once. He had a 113 ERA+ during that span, 16th highest among pitchers with more than 1,400 innings pitched. His opponent tonight, Andy Pettitte, had a 117 ERA+ during that span, 13th overall.
In his career Garcia has faced the Yankees 10 times, pitching 68.1 innings and allowing 34 runs, 32 earned, for an ERA of 4.21. One of those instances came last season, when the Yankees got to Garcia for three runs in six innings. Before that he hadn’t faced them since 2006. The team is quite a bit different now.
Pettitte has faced the White Sox 23 times in his career, not including the 2005 World Series. He’s had his good games and his bad, allowing 75 runs, 67 earned, in 139 innings. His last outing came last year, when he struck out eight White Sox and walked none in 6.1 innings.
Posada’s out of the lineup again, though he says he’s fine. Girardi said he could use him tomorrow or Sunday. I might be worried if he doesn’t.
Lineup:
1. Derek Jeter, SS
2. Nick Johnson, DH
3. Mark Teixeira, 1B
4. Alex Rodriguez, 3B
5. Robinson Cano, 2B
6. Nick Swisher, RF
7. Curtis Granderson, CF
8. Francisco Cervelli, C
9. Brett Gardner, LF
And on the mound, number forty-six, Andy Pettitte.
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Freddy Garcia has gotten off to a horrible start in 2009. He pitched a Pavano-esque 129 innings from 2007 through 2009.
Heh. Yesterday, I watched highlights of a thrilling pitchers duel between two cagey vets going toe-to-toe, shutting down the opposing offenses.
It was the Twins-Tigers game between Carl Pavano and Dontrelle Willis.
:: head explodes ::
Hey, Willis won that game. It’s his second win as a Tiger. Ever.
You know how chronic Yankee bashers loved (love?) to cite the cost per win for Pavano in pinstripes? I look forward to the final ledger on millions per win for D-Train’s stint in Motown.
Cost thus far: 29M (over 3 years)
Games started thus far: 18
Team record in 18 starts: 7-11
More than $7 million per… damn, son.
And in terms of WAR, he’s below replacement level since signing that contract, so the Tigers have actually paid Willis a large sum of money in order to win fewer games than they would with some generic quad-A caliber pitcher.
Like Eddie Bonine or something. Which explains why Eddie Bonine started so many games recently.
and d-train got the win.
2 wins since he was traded from FLA.
let’s hope Freddy is in a 2003 state of mind:
http://bit.ly/9v56gs
Not sure this has been linked here, but since it has something to do with today’s game:
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports......t.html.php
Jeter’s just two back of Ken Griffey Jr. for first place on the hits leaderboard among active players. Could he catch him today?
I thought he got that yesterday? I remember seeing the beat writers on Twitter saying that he tied him for the active lead.
I thought he tied him for the most multi-hit games as an active player.
B-R.com says they’re tied.
http://www.baseball-reference......tive.shtml
Fun Fact from that list:
There are only two active major leaguers with over 1,000 career hits already who are under the age of 30. Can you name them without looking?
Casey Kelly and Ryan Westmoreland?
DAMNIT, I TOLD YOU NOT TO LOOK!!!!!
Pujols and Miguel Cabrera?
Cano’s going to join them this year.
No wait, Pujols is 30 now. It can’t be David Wright. Crawford?
Yup.
Wright (1003 hits, age 27) and Miggy Cabrera (1250 hits, also 27).
Hah! Crawford’s 28 and has 1,325 hits.
Yup, there was 3, not two. My bad.
Pujols turned 30 in January, so, no.
Miggy! I always forget how young he is.
He was playing in World Series games before he could drink.
He’s certainly made up for lost time.
http://www.instantrimshot.com
Crawford? and… Pujols… or is he 30 this year?
jose reyes?
carl crawford?
Reyes will join them soon, he’s 27 and only 24 hits away from a grand.
Bah, I missed Crawford. There’s three.
He’s got 1325 and is only 28.
crawford looks 38, so he doesn’t count
That Hardball Talk post is from yesterday. Jeter got his two hits and is now tied with Griffey as the active hits leader. Next guy to get a base knock will get the sole leader.
What’s amazing is that the Kid had over 970 hits in the bag before Jeter made his Major League debut.
What’s amazing is that the Kid had over 970 hits in the bag before Jeter made his Major League debut.
That means Griffey is just a lazy slacker since Jeter caught him already.
/ignoresallcontext’d
Would of been something if Griffey had remained healthy. The media would of had a blast with the HR record.
…I can’t read. DFA me?
Hopefully I didn’t screw that meme up.
For anyone who hasn’t tried it, MLB.tv on PS3 is phenomenal.
HD?
Oh yes.
That picture = Bexy baiting
There are so many good things about both Baby Andy and Mature Andy. (Frankly, I think the picture RAB used for the thread the last time Pettitte pitched was more Bexybait. Hate to see you go, love to see you walk away. Ahem.)
freddy garcia’s nickname is “the chief”
that nickname should have been retired. there’s only one chief, a 7-foot, pot-smoking center for the boston celtics
If it makes you feel any better, Freddy Garcia’s nickname is probably actually “El Jefe”.
I’m just sayin’.
I prefer Chief from Cuckoo’s Nest.
juicy fruit
If Robbie continues to mash (obviously not quite like he is now) and puts up an MVP caliber year, and chance he challenges Utley for the best 2B in the game? I know there are variables such as Utley’s preformance, but given the age difference and talent level, it should warrant consideration.
That said, at the moment, Utley is clearly the best 2B in the game. He is a great fielder, a little more rounded out at the plate, and can mash… but you all know this.
Lets not get crazy now, Utley has been better than Cano for several seasons already. If Cano beats Utley for a few years in a row then yes he is the best 2B in the game.
That.
Utley’s WAR the past 5 years:
7.3, 6.8, 7.7, 8.1, 7.6.
That’s insane, yo. Cano needs like 4 absolute monster years to get into Chase’s stratosphere.
Yeah, Utley is the shit. There is no shame being slotted behind him. I just want him to surpass ol’ Dusty.
I just want him to surpass ol’ Dusty.
Who the f#$% is Dusty?
/Chappelle’d
Missed the reference. I’ve really gotta see more of his comedy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94ozLQToei0 (NSFW-profanity)
Those 5 seasons start in his age 26 season. Cano had 4.7 WAR last year in his age 26 season.
I agree, for the most part. I am defiantly allowing myself to become a little too optimistic with this wondrous month. But with Utley entering his age 31 season (I think) and that nagging hip of his, it may just happen.
That said, I wouldn’t want to see Utley’s numbers to be affected by an injury, he’s a great player.
Who the F is Donny Lucy.
There goes the no hitter!
BAAH, YOU SUCK DEFENSIVELY, ROBINSON CANO!!!!!
/convenientlyforgetslastnight’d
BS hits.
Gimme a break.
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/p...../nell6.jpg (safe)
Who the heck is that?
Nell Carter.
http://visualentertainment.tv/.....ME%201.jpg
Oh, I’ve heard the name before. Wasn’t allowed to see television as a kid and she’s a bit before my time.
I don’t want to hear your excuses, JMK. We all know you’re a racist bastard who hates black people.
/LoHud’d (I assume)
Rios kills us IIRC.
Yo, fuck BABIP.
We need a BABIP correction in this inning…
Think it’s close enough to May that Tex wakes up tonight?
2-for-4, 2B, HR, 2 RBI
Fucking shit.
Well that sucked.
And a BS HR to top it off.
Dammit.
Goddammit that guy in the chat yesterday jinxed us.
What the hell is with that guy and the sweatshirt?
That guy needs an asskicking, stat.
Swisher’s gonna find him after the game.
Meh, it was out regardless. Swish was slightly under it.
To look on the brighter side, it looks like Andy his hitting his spots. The first two hits just found the grass and Konerko and Quentin hit good pitches… although, I’m watching gameday so maybe I’m 100% wrong.
Bartman’d?
Summamabitch. There goes the sparkling ERA.
Now it’s just really really shiny.
I think AJ is getting the whipped cream ready…
Look I’m going to be greedy but the Yanks better score 10 runs next inning. I want the first walkoff tomorrow when I go to the game. -__-
When is that though, they need to get 15 and they only play the Twins so often.
Idk who I feel worse for, Andy or Bexarama.
They’re mutually exclusive?
I would hope we were different people
Comforting you in your moment of sorrow would probably be more fun, in my opinion.
Wouldn’t mind Andy comforting me. And I could comfort him. Ahem?
http://twitter.com/tsjc68/statuses/13032618612
;_;
Pettitte looks awful
Meh, he’s making decent pitches, IMO, they’re just hitting them.
2 bloopers and the most extreme cheapie? Please.
strange I think he looks good, the white sox got 3 of the pussiest hits of all time…quentin is the only one to really square one up.
This isn’t exactly true, although the Konerko pitch got a TINY BIT too much of the plate.
Via gameday, he looks like his pitching great. He is hitting his spots and has good velocity. Two texas-league singles and one of the hottest hitters hitting a good cutter is just how it goes sometimes.
Plus two K’s.
He’s getting blooped to death
the people next to him should punch him in the head.
Who? What’s going on?
The homer was right near the wall. Probably gone regardless, but some asshole with a sweatshirt in his hand tried to catch the ball when Swish may have had a play. The sweatshirt hit Swish’s glove. Guy needs a beatdown!
me and my friend was arguing today…what if a ball hits in foul territory and goes fair, is that a foul or fair ball? I know it doesn’t happen alot but it happened in a softball game yesterday. anybody know?
Once a ball is foul, it’s foul.
yea that is the side of the argument I am on..I was almost certain I was right, but he still argues anyway.
Are you sure? I think if a ball comes back into fair territory before it reaches 1st or 3rd it is a fair ball.
That’s right.
You are correct.
ohhhh so if someone chops the ball in foul territory and it somehow comes back fair and gets passed the bases then it is fair? that makes sense, this was kind of like a bunted ball but it instead of rolling foul it rolled fair, but it wasn’t a bunt just a poorly hit ball. that would be out right?
It has to come back fair before it passes 1st or 3rd base. If it is foul past 1st/3rd and curves back fair in the outfield, it’s foul.
thanks everyone…I appreciate the help
yankees in business
If that shit stayed fair I was going to cry.
Damn, I just got my first real look at it. Fuck you, sweatshirt dude!
Holy rough inning, Batman. 25+ pitches, 3 sort of BS runs? Ugh. (FWIW, I don’t think Swish would have gotten that anyway. Still, that dude should be beaten with bats.)
At least he looked normal trying to catch that HR ball. I still laugh at his attempt to catch the Abreu or Morales HR, I forget.
I thought it looked as though the ball and sweatshirt both ended up in Swisher’s glove and that by pulling the sweatshirt out of the way, that guy knocked the ball out too. Either way, if your team is in the field and there’s a play near the wall, just get the fuck out of the way. That sort of idiocy/fandom really bugs me.
Yeah, he only threw 23 strikes out of 26 pitches. And those two excuse-me hits were inexcusable.
Reply fail.
And those two excuse-me hits were inexcusable.
INEXCUSABLE, DO YOU HEAR ME!!!!
(shakes fist)
My assumption is you’re attempting to me. 2 runs were crap, agreed. Because of them his inning count went up.
Frustrating, but I think you’re misinterpreting me. Andy actually threw the ball pretty well. Sometimes them’s the breaks.
I FAIL. …assumption is you’re attempting to reply to me.
Also, his *pitch count*, not innings count. Whatevs. You know.
No, I was responding to Hummingbird S who said “Pettitte looks awful.
Gotcha. Carry on then…
The only thing that bothers me about Michael Kay is that he is just as excited for opposing team home runs as he is for ours. Listen to other team broadcasts, and they never cheer when the Yankees hit a bomb.
Meh, at least he has a modicum of objectivity.
Do you expect him to be like. “Konerko hits a HR…F*** that piece of s***!”
/TheHawk’d
Freddy Garcia looks like crap.
Kay’s an idiot.
Grit-stache?
Pettitte simultaneously hurting his own AND Robbie’s respective Player/Pitcher of the Month chances with that inning?
Good thing Freddie’s getting
fingeredlit.Lirano had it pretty muchlocked down, IMO.
Maybe. If Andy’d had another stellar game today, he would have at least been in the argument.
Is Nick The Stick growing a ‘stache?
The return of the young Salvador Dali look? I hope so. So much.
Nick Johnson still has more walks than the Houston Astros.
Okay, there are about 4 posts calling for some guy’s head… explain plz?
Look up a couple posts, i explained.
Can we stop calling it the “2 Hole”. My immature mind can’t take it.
Can I still say that he’s pounding the hard stuff right back up the gap?
FISTED!
That’s still appropriate.
Seriously, BABIP really hates Andy today
Is it just me, or should the Yankees just not hit and run ever? I really don’t see the benefit with this powerful a lineup.
Does Kay take joy in pointing out that people are sucking?
A lot of it. It’s terribly annoying.
good eye tex
Tie game after this AB.
(Please?)
Gameday had the swinging strike 3 out of the zone… it’s obviously propaganda placed fourth by the Umpire’s Association to sully the reputation of Nick Johnson and his ability to identify strikes and ball.
alex will get a hit here
called it!
Okay. Time for our 3-run jack.
I am feeing A-rod pulls a Konerko.
Close enough.
Garcia likes getting balls dirty.
A-Rod!
I love me some Al.
OMG A-Rod hasn’t done shit lately he’s killing my fantasy team OMG.
CUT HIS ASS!!!!!
/ThatGuy’d
I love Juan Pierre’s old-school stirrups look.
I can’t believe I didn’t notice this before and now no one will see this comment, but Andy Pettitte’s legitimately old-school stirrups in the 1995 AP Photo Joe found for this post are fantastic.
I’ll take it; Pierre actually played that really well off the hop. If he doesn’t grab that on the first time, Tex definitely scores and A-Rod may end up on third.
Hmm, upon further review, that was a much easier hop than I thought. Still a good play, though.
BABip correction! Prediction: Garcia doesn’t make it past the 4th.
Eh… 2-run first is great after a 3 run deficit.
Who is Lucy? Isn’t Flowers raring to go down in AAA?
Yay A-Rod.
CentWAR Centaur™ FTW.
It’s too bad that B.Proj. doesn’t update the WAR database in season.
FanGraphs does. We can add that number to his season-opening total.
OMG FANS GIVING CANO RESPECT!
That’s a first.
M-V-P!
M-V-P!
M-V-P!
and he delivers!!
No Homer?
So Andy in Sunny Daytona, did you get Melvin to joint the group?
I invited him to join “Bring Melvin to America”, become a fan of “River Avenue Blues” and become a fan of “This Purist Bleeds Pinstripes”.
Does “Mystique & Aura” have a Facebook fan page yet?
ROGER. CLEMENS’S. BALLS.
I wish I could see the look on the face of the person who reads this w/o knowing the context.
Heh.
RISP HIT! Cano!
MVP! MVP! MVP!
Keep testing him.
He is just SMOKING everything.
JoePawl?
Hah. You just beat me to it.
Who says Robbie can’t hit with RISP?
Peter Gammons, John Kruk, ESPN.
RBIson Cano!
It’s home Swish now.
my fantasy team laments home stands
Robbie Dey call him mista boombastic
Only one RBI? That’s unacceptable for Robbie the way he’s been hitting lately. I expected a grand slam.
Come on Swish hit that sweatshirt carrying jackazz right between the eyes.
Damn. That was a good throw by Konerko.
Damn, Swish.
great throw
Aaagh! I hate luck
Swisher becomes Ramiro Pena with the bat at Yankee Stadium. lol
Oh Home Swish..
Swish is not having the luckiest game I’ve seen.
I knew it wouldn’t take long.
Aaaaaand just as I typed that, DP.
Donny Lucy?
Seriously? Donny Lucy with the double?
Come on Andrew.
I HATE Lucy.
who the hell is lucy? ricky’s wife?
Andy’s throwing BP today.
I think her name was Lucy but they all called her Loose
/Beastie Boys’d
unbelievable
Walking Juan Pierre? Not optimal.
… Pierre… really?
Really!?
Man, who the fug is Donny Lucy?
This is the SI cover jinx!!!
/weak willed’d
The Cano expectations are out of whack. I mean, he’s been in the majors for six seasons, is a life-time .300 hitter, has hit as high as .340 and last year hit .320 with 25 HRs and 48 doubles. They talk about him as if he’s a failure at times. He doesn’t have to get bette rto be exceptional beyond picking up the RISP stat.
+24
OK no more bad luck excuses, right now Pettitte is sucking balls. Dunno what kind of balls yet but he is sucking some kind of balls.
He needs Posada. Pettitte has said repeatedly that Posada is the best catcher he’s ever had. Not that positive things about Jorge and catching ever get reported by the media. Clemens and Wells also said he was the best at calling games.
correlation ≠ causation
Wasn’t being too serious, since I know Andy can pitch to Cervelli. The whole “Posada can’t catch” movement that seemed to pop up last year around AJ Burnett was a bit absurd.
Other than the walk to Juan Pierre, I honestly don’t think he’s sucking balls, I gotta say. If I’m being biased, please let me know, but I really don’t think so.
The 1st inning was certainly not sucking balls. That was just pure horrible luck.
Right. Two bloops to short right, and then the ball just over the wall mingling with a jacket. It is a game of inches. He’s not as bad as the line shows, but he’s a bit off, too.
MIchael Kay is a hater.
the guy went way out of the baseline!!
Really bad call.
I don’t like that call. Not a very good call.
/LaDanianTomlinson’d
Good call umps.
God, the umps are so afraid to interpret that baseline rule. They seem to never call it.
Some of them probably don’t know that that is a rule…
I hate umpires sometimes.
I hear that all the time….
He still seems to be pitching well (with exception to the Pierre walk…).
wtf is going on here
What a weird game this is. Is Pettitte pitching horribly or reasonably well?!
Not nearly as bad as four-runs-in-two-innings
That.
Andy’s not as sharp as he normally is, but he’s had some rough luck. Some seeing-eye balls, some perfect pitches hit well, etc.
Here’s what I want to know about umps in general: why is it ever ok for a call to be wrong? ever?
Human error?
thank god
Seriously that guy from the chat jinxed Pettitte tonight.
[Comment From SYFSYF: ]
How many more starts before Andy gives up his first home run of the year
Thursday April 29, 2010 1:35 SYF
1:35
Because you said that, he’ll give up at least on Friday. Thanks
Jinxes, curses, and hexes: the hobgoblins of feeble minds
I’m just kidding…mostly.
I’ll just assume that SYFSYF was the guy with the black sweatshirt.
Don’t talk about Red Sox and Cubs fans like that. Oh, wait. Go right ahead.
So, do umps just not know the rules or…?
Good question. Dunno why Girardi didn’t put up a symbolic fight either.
MLB umpires are horrendous at their jobs
Check out Kay with the “if you believe in the fallacy of the pre-determined outcome” quote.
At least he’s acknowledging the absurdity of his innings predictions.
I don’t know why it’s a “fallacy”?
/Jacob’d
Ozzie’s ugly mug boils my blood…
Jesus gunning down a runner to end an inning.
grandy man has no luck
we are so lucky
I’m making a BABIP sacrifice tonight.
Seriously, babip is a douche.
Austin Jackson would have that line drive completely over Konerko’s head.
Or struck out. One of the two.
I just realized I forgot to type “hit” in between have and that.
Meh, you’re an ump, you make mistakes. It’s an integral part of the game’s beautiful human poetry.
I usually get paid 30 bucks a game, you get what you pay for.
AJax hasn’t struck out in the last 3 games and is 2 for 2 tonight
/SSS’d
Man, I left work early for this?!?
Seriously, though, with the game on at 1 tomorrow and Fox starting their telecast at 3, does that mean the game will be blacked out on DirecTV Extra Innings?
I hope not, I thought only the mid-afternoon games were blacked out
Yes.
Great, just what I wanted to hear.
Yes it will be blacked out, or Yes it won’t be blacked out?
Man, I haven’t seen Garcia pitch much… but he looks like he is mostly arm and a little bit of leg… it IS ugly.
The Yanks will bash him tonight. We can just hope that the game runs past 12:00 so Tex and hit a walkoff.
I’ll be blown away if Big Tex totally clobbers one into the stands at exactly 12:00:00 AM.
Getting back to the discussion if Pettitte is pitching poorly tonight or just had some bad luck, to expand it, I would say that Garcia is not pitching as well as Pettitte. They’ve smoked some balls off of him. He could easily be behind right now.
that was encouraging
Can we get a few more Teahens in the lineup? Andy’s great, but Teahen makes him look like Koufax.
Well Mr. Axisa you were right about my comment about Andy and the home run in the chat.
Jerk!
I know. He did chose to put the comment in the chat…so I’m not totally to blame.
I BLAME YOU!!!!!
/irrational and weak willed’d
NJ is killing me. He’s on the Yankees AND he’s on my Roto team.
Cant blame BABIP tonight for Nick Johnson. Strike out and a fly ball to the 2nd baseman.
Yes, it looks like it will be blacked out. Doesn’t show up on the schedule.
Should be a reply to MikeD.
Thanks for the info!
Even though it perturbs me.
Adam Dunn hit a triple….I really need to see that highlight
wow could you have 2 easier innings? Garcia is a bitch
OK this is getting annoying now seeing the Yankee hitters swing at slow crap low and outside therefore pulling weak ground balls.
Our 2 and 3 hitters need to start hitting. This is getting a bit crazy. Luckily tomorrow is May.
Can the Yankees start smashing Garcia yet?
Trivia answer: I’m guessing Dave Winfield in 1988. My dad says Paul O’Neill in 1994.
i’m with your mom, and she says winfield too…
[/too easy’d
Well my dad was right…
Fabulous Freddy
HUGE reply fail
Is it me, or has Pettite looked much better than the score indicates?
A LOT. He got cheapied to death in the first inning.
to clarify: he has not been brilliant but much better than his line indicates
Yea, two bloops and a barely cleared the wall blast.
Yeah, that first inning was all bad luck.
They probably should stop judging Cervelli based on the .190 average in AA. It was a very few number of ABs. He hit over .300 in AA the year before that, also over very few ABs. His lower minor league record indicates .270ish with a decent eye. Now how that translates to the majors is another question, but suggesting Cervelli can’t hit based on what he was doing in AA early last season is not quite fair. That said, I’ve been surprised by what I’ve seen so far in ’08 and ’09 and not convinced it will continue, but hope it does.
You expect TV announcers to understand small sample sizes? I think you overestimate their chances…uh, knowledge!
My Dad always has said that Carlton Fisk was a better hitter in the majors than the minors because the pitchers in the majors threw around the plate more.
Am I saying that Frankie Cervelli is going to have Carlton Fisk career? Yes. Yes I am.
Dave Winfield had better numbers in the majors than in the minors, too.
So did Bob Horner.
That’s a funny one…even in my grumpy mode tonight!
He looks like he could realistically hit .270-.300 if he started at catcher the whole season. That’s above average for most catchers. His only problem with the Yankees is that they have the luxury of Jorge still being able to catch everyday and several potentially good hitting catchers in their farm system. If at the end of 2010, the Yankees don’t view Cerv as a potential replacement for Posada at catcher, I hope they trade him while his value is high…
With Posada in the final year of his contract and questions about Montero as an everyday defensive catcher lingering, I don’t see them moving Cervelli. The Yankee pitchers like him and he’s cheap, so I expect him to be aound for a while. I can see Posada and Montero rotating between catcher and DH next year (and beyond, depending how long Posada remains/effective), with Cervelli still serving as the defensive specialist for those two. If Romine keeps progressing it’ll become even tougher by 2012.
Damn, Paulie was on fire April 1994.
seriously, darn near .450? That’s crazy.
Believe he finished hitting .359 that season to lead the league, granted it was a strike-shortened season.
Apparently the Yankees feel the White Sox didnt take enough ground balls during pre-game.
/Harry Doyle’d?
Can we hit the ball in the air? Freddie Garcia has 6 ground balls already.
They are beating everything into the ground.
Red Sox have made 2 errors so far in the 4th inning in Baltimore, losing 3-1. Run prevention baby.
Orioles with the bases loaded and no outs.
Of course the Orioles hit into a 1-2-3 DP.
teh amazing defense!!!
Give a team 5 outs in an inning…they are lucky being only down a few.
i am at a loss for words that freddy fucking garcia is dominating us like this.
Really? Aaaaghhhh
Swish that was really really bad.
Really really bad, more like plain UGLY.
It’s Freddy freaking Garcia.
I always get those 2 mixed up
Woo-sa. Zen Baseball. (My mind feels like a pretzel right now!)
How are we looking so helpless against Freddy Freakin Garcia right now?
these things happen. Doesn’t mean they’re not FRUSTRAAAAATING but they happen.
Rope-A-Dope, baby. Rope-A-Dope. The pain starts coming in the bottom of this inning.
Detroit just scored 8 runs in the 4th against LA. AJax is 3 for 3
This is relevant because he is boosting my offense on my fantasy team
this makes me happy cuz porcello is my starting pitchah
Do you need his last five starts?
i actually sat him the last 3 starts, because he had been bad the first 2, but had i known he was playing LAAofLAofUSAofNAofEarth, i prolly would’ve wavered about it.
You and me both
Piniero misses Dave Duncan.
I just hope the offense wakes up tonight
AISD. Just catching up, we do have a facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/home.p.....049?ref=ts
Ehh, just search for Mystique and Aura, should be easy enough to find.
Added and suggested.
This reminds me of the Brett Tomko start last year. Not sure why that is. You sit there and wonder, “why haven’t we put up a crooked number against a guy like that.”
yea what was worse about Tomko tho is we all knew it was going to go down like that.
I totes knew this was coming with the Freddy Garcia has gotten off to a horrible start in 2009. (you mean 2010?)
Dammmmmmit.
Granderson is getting owned by bad luck
If he didn’t have bad luck, he’d have no luck at all…
/hacky cliche’d
Two hard hit balls for Granderson. Signs of life.
Please learn how to bunt, Brett.
Come on, Jeter. Keep it rolling here.
Jeet goes yard here
Andy_C_23: Soothesayer
Indeed. Indeed.
+2 for you, my man!
High five!
Phew, I thought they got him on that.
Oh peace, Freddy.
That was an A-Rodian shot from Jeter.
that ball broke perfectly into his bat
it had to happen eventually…this guy is throwing horrid pitches
JETES!!!
Yay Cap’n.
You hang em, Jeter bangs em.
I don’t think that’ll be the only thing he bangs tonight.
http://www.hiyoooo.com/
I would actually be very disappointed if the only banging Jeter does tonight is on the field.
teh clutch!
Its alive! Our offense is alive!
love that stat for Jeter… .500 hitter with 2 outs RISP
Gardner is tied with McCutchen for the MLB lead in Stolen Bases! El Capitan connects, DEREKKKK Jeter homers! ( Sterlin’d)
great AB
Tex goes yard here
Why does Michael Kay seem so shocked when guys don’t play exactly like they used to years ago?
Now he’s complaining about digital cameras!
Beltre has 5 errors… and Alex Gonzalez has just hit his 2nd homer of the evening.
Both things suck for the Sox’s off-season.
Is it me or does Nick Johnson look a helluva lot like Fanucci from The Godfather Part II?
eh maybe less than I thought: http://assets.nydailynews.com/.....oschin.jpg
I think it’s just you. I’d have to see Nicky J in a white suit and hat to make a proper judgment, though. Someone with photoshop skills help me out.
I could see NJ doing some damage in A Clockwork Orange.
private pyle in “full metal jacket”
Pedophile’s lil’ bro just hit a HR for the sux
I think people’ve said this before, but can we stop that? What his brother does has nothing to do with him.
Exactly. And, pedophilia is never funny.
I agree. But I just hate Pedroia so much that I find it funny to call him “Brett Pedroia’s brother,” since Dustin is younger.
But I think you guys are right, I’ll stop doing that.
Yeah really, let’s not joke about pedophilia.
Whoa. A quick shot of RAB on the YES commercial. Never saw that before.
+1
That was awesome.
really? I see it a lot.
I’m sure I’ve seen it, but just not noticed it.
It’s been like that since last year.
See this? This is Matt not paying attention.
I have also seen this before…I noticed just this year tho
Did anyone see that blonde girl they just showed on YES? I think she’s an actress.
Pettitte is pitching great. The only qualm I have with his performance tonight is the Pierre walk.
So he starts Pierre with an 2-0 count…
i wish juan pierre was a better player becuase he’s obviously a great guy/teammate
ANDYYYYYYY
7IP for Pettitte?
Putting him through the lineup a fourth time is kind of a scary idea.
A-rod and Tex are so going to murder and pillage the month of May.
Is Bret Gardner the best flat footed hitter in baseball? The Great Bretsky!!!
Remember two years ago when there were rumors that the Yanks were going to sign Garcia to a minor league deal… than they signed a couple guys named CC and AJ.
ajax 4-4, now batting .357
The one day I sit him…
Cano scoffs at such a puny number.
Ten pitch inning? Gross.
to dead center? AGH.
Yeah, anywhere else and that’s a hit.
Yeah, anywhere else and that’s
a hitoutta here.So I have been following Austin Jackson’s stats this year, as I am sure like many others at RAB, and he has some interesting lefty, righty splits, albeit in a small sample size.
His triple slash against righties is .389/.450/.569
Against lefties is .136/.208/.136.
Considering he hits righty, I found this a little odd. Does anybody know what his minor league splits were?
And now you can tack on another 4 for 4 against righties tonight.
5 for 5 now
The scouts haven’t figured him out yet I guess. Even worse, his strikeout rate is going to come down once the more he sees major league pitching
0.290-0.359-0.451 vs LHP
0.282-0.350-0.386 vs RHP
Thanks Mike. You the man.
That’s mostly because he has exponentially more RHP than LHP throughout his career.
597 PA vs LHP
1664 PA vs RHP
I think it’s a SSS issue. He only has what, 30 atbats vs lefties this year?
Less. Like 22. I tend to agree with the sample size issue.
But it is tough to ignore his far superior slugging in the majors along with everything else against righties in a larger sample size. about 76 at bats
Vulture time!
Keep it scoreless for two, Ace. They’ll get you a run.
Are you kidding? He can’t pitch the 8th, only Jobber can.
“Kimberly Jones will work the clubhouse after the game.” Oh my.
Wow. Now who has a dirty mind?
Andy’s been pitching, I can’t help it :X
Naughty, Naughty.
So many ROTY’s turn out to be terrible players… Cap’n as an exception of course.
Human memory is obviously a flawed thing, but does anybody else think Ace’s windup is far more stiff, rigid and upright this year than last. Maybe due to the injury?
Shaq should hook him up with some Icy/Hot.
haha.
The Rays have such a deep rotation. Seriously… what the hell!
That said… Yankees in every way >>>>>> Rays
It also helps that they haven’t played any sort of good team in a while >:(
That said, they are VERY good.
So, RABbis, guess who got to talk to Melvin last night…
Where is Melvin Mora playing nowadays????
Wrong Melvin
lol I assumed so.
Just read Halle Berry is now single again!!!! I still have a chance….
She’s a MILF and cougar
and she won an academy award despite being out-acted by p diddy
“Make me feeeeel goooood!!” Totally Oscar worthy performance.
Can u believe the guy who broke up with her apparently talked about their age difference now being a problem. 9 year difference. I would totally overlook the 14 year age difference between me and Halle Berry.
She’s got 22 on me and I wouldnt think twice
Good man.
Everyone who is doing the wave in the seventh inning of a fucking tie game should be shot. Pay attention, you morons.
Yeah, Toronto is happy Wells wasnt claimed on waivers last year.
You are such a moron Kay.
lol… he seriously said that?
Really!?
He was talking about how the White Sox claimed Rios for nothing, and how Toronto put Wells on waivers- but they’re probably happy they have him since he’s off to a hot start and the power has returned
Somewhere at home, Jermaine Dye is pissed.
ace missing his spots. please be careful with quentin
mets are destroying the phils
8-1
Yay, the Yankees (non-Cervelli division) got some BABIP luck!
“The Yanks pull an Ace out their sleeve to stifle the South-Side Sox”
/clicheheadline’d
I’m all for giving AB’s to Grandy against lefties… but could we see JoPo pinch-hit?
Cervelli’s hurt! Call up Jesus!
thornton was totally average until 3 years ago. did he just “figure it out”?
Bah! Gotta go to work.
We go this!
Hell yeah, Gardy!
grit……he’s got it
Don’t look know, but Thames is going to pinch hit for NJ.
Or Jorge.
I hate it when I have to prematurely leap out of my seat in excitement ;_;
I hate it when I prematurely…..never mind.
hehe i was just about to link to a funny captioned picture. but you beat me to it
Go ahead, I didnt link to anything!!
thank you for making it not actually that premature!!!
Fuck yeah Captain!!!!
Jeterian!
Great AB by Jeter.
JORGE… NO DL!!!
Yikes, PH for Nick, that’s a bit of a lack of confidence.
my pet rock has a obp of almost 400 too, he wants someone who’s not afraid to swing the bat
Well earned
I know Thornton wasn’t 100% sharp, but wouldn’t have been smarter to keep Posada batting right handed rather than facing the short porch?
Who are you to question the Almighty Oz?
Jorgie pinch hitting!!!
NJ couldn’t walk Jeter in from 3rd?
hate this shorter field BS from bighead.. Jorge is a better pure hitter from the right.
closely-shaven joba = monster baby
my gf’s 6 month old nephew looks exactly like joba, we were just saying that as well
yankees 2028 first round pick!
All these relievers throw Mid 90s, where do the Chi Sox find these guys?
Jorge + Breaking Balls = not good results
And it wasn’t the usual down and in breaking ball.
bad ab
seriously… do you ever come here to say anything good about the team?
Yeah, there was that one time–
No, wait, that was me. Nevermind.
Are you sure it was in a book? Are you sure it wasn’t nothing?
Someone got drilled in the head.
Ace all set for the vulture win….
He got 11 of those last season, hence why I drafted him in fantasy this year.
Arod about to break this game wide open.
I kinda don’t want them to score anymore runs so Mo can get the save. Does that make me a bad person?
YES IT DOES!!!!!
(punches Andy_C_23 dead in the mouth)
I’M A HEMOPHILIAC! DICK
i want them to get to Jeter’s spot as he only needs a double…
This is going to sound more meanspirited than it should be, but…
… hitting for the cycle is even dumber than getting a save.
Does it ever get lonely up there…by yourself on that pedestal?
No, I bring ladies up here to keep me company.
Am I the only one who thinks Frank Robinson is under appreciated as a player? He was a freakin’ beast.
Check yesterday’s gamethread.
Punk.
http://riveraveblues.com/2010/.....ent-860309
I was out/had a power outage last night. Thanks for beating the drum in my absence. I’m also in total agreement w/you about Morgan, too.
Frank Robinson is the man. When I went to a game in Montreal, we waited outside the players parking lot, and Frank rode out in the passenger seat, with a smoking hot mid 20′s blonde driving him. I had been a fan before, that upped it quite a bit.
It’s a Marte partay.
Tomorrow’s headline after Yanks victory over Chicago White Sox:
“Obama’s financial regulations no match for power of Wall Street”
That looked outside. Thanks, blue.
waaaaaaaaaaaaaay outside on gameday
AJax with a 5-for-5 night. Wowie.
What could have been.
A fist pump?! ON THE SECOND OUT?!?!?!
Justin F. Chamberlain.
grunt!
fart!
Soria nearly gave me a heart attack but he finally closes out a 3-2 Royals win over the Rays.
Soria locked down the save against the Rays
So Joba pitched well in teh 8th, where should the Terriost Threat Level advisory end up tonight?
Thanks to M&A for the link today; much appreciated.
It was a good read, I just expounded on other aspects.
Word, you did a great job. Thanks again.
I’d stay steady at Orange if I were you.
Tack on run via Robbie homer, please.
Joba throws 5 pitches, incredible!!!
Hot damn. Rios made that look easy.
A-Jax clearly is not made uncomfortable by the horseshoe up his ass.
Detroit says “thanks” for taking Granderson and his terrible splits vs lefties
With the season ending today, it is indeed official that Austin Jackson is a fantastic hitter and quite possibly the best young hitter in the game.
I’m still pissed that the Tigers just won the 2010 World Series thanks to Johnny Damon and Austin Jackson.
The Yankees suck. Get bent, Cashman.
damn Swish can’t get any luck
Well, before ESPN bashes the Yankees tonight for the A-Jax trade, there is this (before tonight):
If Grandy had the same BABIP luck as A-Jax, he’d be hitting .391. If A-Jax had the same BABIP as Grandy, he’d be hitting .181.
When Joba runs in from the bullpen, he looks chubby and stubby-a bit like a manatee…..strange comparison. Please Grandy-get something going!
daniel bard fail
How come only average or below average players “get the most out of what they have”? Don’t great players get more out of what they have than those other guys?
Because great players know that they’re great, so they don’t treat reporters nicely because said reporters are beneath them.
Average and below average players are nicer to people, because they know they suck and need to be liked. So reporters say more glowing things about them, because they like them better because they treat the reporters better.
Why is Barry Bonds a dick? Because, fuck you, I’m Barry Bonds.
Because, fuck you, I’m Barry Bonds.
Fuck you; pay me.
Quick 1-2-3 so I can watch Bill Maher. Please.
John Lackey can’t buy a win.
Fantasy question of the day: Would you trade Derek Jeter and Hunter Pence for Hanley Ramirez?
Yes.
Sold! Done and done.
Why is Michael Kay so floored by this?
Because he could have died from carbon monoxide poisoning?
My mother gets irate when that ad comes on.
BRO-BOT… I AM A BRO-BOT..
Gordon Beckham has a really square head.
if anyone else is using the mlb.com new “at bat” feature (a new and improved gameday), do you know how they’re calculating the “nasty” factor for each pitch? Because the first pitch in the pierre at bat they had mo at 93 mph but gave him a 17 nasty rating, and the next pitch was at 91 but gave him a 57 nasty rating. I guess it has to do with movement and other factors but I’m curious if anyone knows how they actually calculate it. and im sorry if this is considered off-topic but it has to do with the game kinda.
FINISH HIM!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.mortalkombatwarehou.....ots/10.png (safe)
Done and done.
Mo is GOD.
Where have you been for the past 15 years?
/kidding
Where have you been for the past 15 years?
Hey, did you know that a pitch slows down in velocity as it travels through the air towards the plate? I just found that out a few months ago.
Sincerely,
Tim McCarver, published author
Solid. My fantasy team will appreciate the Ace W.
If you jumped ship after the fourth or fifth inning, shame. on. you.
Jeter is so modest.
Kim, what the hell is that necklace?
I missed it. Was it made of pearls?
/nasty’d
In Dela G’s dreams.
(he’s the one who really loves Kim, right?)
haha i love me some kim jones
Is Brett Gardner the WCBS “player of the game” every game because he’s the only one who will talk with them or something? Last few times I’ve listened on the radio, Susan has said “and here I am with the player of the game…Brett Gardner” (while he was good), he certainly wasn’t the player of the game in either occasions haha.
Gardner scored 2 runs in the game, getting on base with key singles in the 5th and 7th to prolong the innings where the Yankees tied the game and then took the lead.
Joe Posnanski argued (on numerous occasions; try this one for starters: http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlo.....z-houston/) quite effectively, IMO, that we overvalue the RBI guys and undervalue the run-scored guys. What Gardner did tonight was arguably just as instrumental as what Jeter did tonight. I wouldn’t be upset with Gardner over Jeter as the player of the game.
He IS the best flat footed hitter in baseball today. The Great Gritsky vs The Great Bretsky. Either will do for tonight.
Mo is ridiculous. They shouldn’t allow gods to play against humans, it’s not fair.
Big Pop Up being Big Strike Out
When I see Cervelli chat up Mo after the last out, all I can think of is the Chris Farley Show. Remember that time you struck out Beckham? That was awesome.
Haha, TCWA.
+19
When are the Red Sox gonna take Papi out back and shoot him like Old Yeller?
David Ortiz is still playing baseball? I assumed he’d retired to go find the real killers, and the Sox had resigned an old, washed up Mo Vaughn to take his place and instructed him to speak Spanish to ease the transition for the racist Boston fanbase.
When we do the same with Nick Johnson.
O:S
Mo just surpassed Roger Clemens on the Yankees’ strikeout list. And he just tied Eric Gagne’s record for 51 consecutive saves converted at home.