Game Ten: Lefty vs. lefty
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ofAs the Angels head out of town with their halos between their legs, the Rangers come on in fresh off being shut down by Indians’ lefty David Huff yesterday. They’ll get another lefty tonight, though CC Sabathia and Huff are on opposite ends of the southpaw spectrum. The Yanks’ ace flirted with a no-hitter last time out, and has pleasantly avoided his typical April slump in the early going. He makes his first home start of the campaign tonight.
Opposing Sabathia tonight is starter turned middle reliever turned setup man turned closer turned setup man turned starter C.J. Wilson, who is one of the few professional athletes worth following on Twitter. He struck out nine in seven shutout innings against the Jays in his first start, but missed his last outing earlier this week with a stomach bug. Hopefully he’s a little off his game tonight. Here’s the starting nine…
Jeter, SS
Johnson, DH
Teixeira, 1B
A-Rod, 3B
Cano, 2B
Swisher, RF
Thames, LF
Granderson, CF
Cervelli, C
And on the mound, Carsten Charles Sabathia.
First pitch is scheduled for 7:05pm and can be seen on YES. There’s some rain in the forecast, but it looks like there will be enough of a window to get this sucker in. Enjoy the game.
Update (10:14pm): The game has been called, so the Yankees win. Our regular recap will be along later tonight.
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1) CJ Wilson once talked to me on Twitter. It was cool.
2) I don’t want to see Florida ever again.
3) I sat next to a total this-is-why-everyone-hates-yankee-fans-ass at last night’s game. He called Swisher a clown, said he didn’t belong on the team, that they should have resigned Abreu, and also called Jackie Robinson Day a joke.
I wanted to smack him.
And then I found out his friend was the guy that got kicked out of the stadium a few years ago for trying to go potty during God Bless America.
Small world.
2) I don’t want to see Florida ever again.
Heh. You spend three weeks sleeping on a pull out, caring for one sick relative while trying to make sure the others don’t f- up too badly (they do, anyway), changing a flat tire and jumping a dead battery, and seeing a guy’s testicles in the ICU cos the damn nurses forgot to cover him up…
Guy sounds like a dick, but you should absolutely be able to take a leak during God Bless America. It’s not the anthem, so . . .
“I sat next to a total this-is-why-everyone-hates-yankee-fans-ass at last night’s game.”
I’m surrounded by those people every time I go to a game. Sorry.
Just so people don’t start freaking out about CC getting a personal catcher in Cervelli: it’s just how the schedule works out. It looks like Posada is set to rest again in 5 days – due to a day game after a night game – which is Sabathia’s start again. Still, I bet we hear rumblings about how much better Sabathia works with Cervelli, etc.
Agree. No big deal here at all. When Cervelli plays CC is really the best guy for him to be paired up with anyway. Frankie weakens the lineup and CC gives up the least amount of runs.
Can we really say he’s avoided his early slump yet? He’s had one great start and one bad one. Two bad starts in a row and it’s another slow start for CC.
/Debbiedownered?
No. I THINK he’ll do well. It’s just too early to make that call yet. One great start and one bad one is not enough to define whether or not he’s having early season success.
Do you think Nolan Ryan throws up in his mouth a little everytime he hears how Girardi would have taken CC out if he had a no-hitter through 8 because his pitch count was at 110?
yes, but i still dont buy it that he would have removed him from the game. CC would go all Paul O’Neill on the clubhouse.
CC would have eaten Girardi
I love this comment hahaha. Reminds me of the Onion article where Sabathia and Fielder imagine each other as a hotdog and a burger, respectively. Classic.
I LOVE THAT ARTICLE. High-five for our shared awesomeness.
http://www.theonion.com/articl.....-oth,2493/ In case someone wanted to view it, lol *high five*
As he imagines putting Girardi in a headlock and punching the shit out of him.
I don’t think that the actions of the Rangers have backed up Ryan’s talk. Last year they had 51 games started by a pitcher 25 or younger and the starter threw 100 or more pitches in 16 of them. Compare that to the Yankees who had 38 games started by a pitcher 25 or younger and the starter threw 100 or more pitches 13 times.
The Yanks are really pushing Marcus Thames…He has played a ton, I guess the bat has not been awful, but the defense…yikes…is it crazy to DH Thames, and let Nick Johnson play the field? Wasn’t he a decent OFer??? I guess the risk of injury isn’t worth it tho
Johnson was a great 1B, but hasn’t played the OF outside of 2002.
Wasn’t he a decent OFer???
He most certainly was not.
haha got ya, well if he cant be any better than Thames, then forget that idea for sure.
Come on! I’m psyched for this game!!
Swisher is cracking me up.
Swisher pimpin himself for the gig as Chipotle’s spokesman
Do it, CC!
I wonder if anyone talks about CJ Wilson being a starter now after being a reliever.
That should be an error.
I agree. He hacked at it like an ax for some reason.
1. Great power by Hamilton.
2. Thames looked very lost on that play.
I can has strikeout, pleez?
Little leaguers field better than Thames. Thames is just terrible out there.
doubt even Gardner gets to that hamilton ball.
He likely would’ve played it better off the wall, though. Then again, a squirrel could’ve.
did it matter?
2nd and 3rd is the outcome of that no matter what, no?
I’m not saying he should have gotten to it…. but he could look like he has an idea where to go to be around the ball. He’s just bouncing around out there.
That ball was not hit very hard. It was hanging up there but Thames stumbled around for 5 seconds before knowing what to do. Gardner makes that catch at the wall.
Not even close. He would have been about ten feet closer, and still about 20 feet away.
We are going to have to disagree here.
When I watched the play in real time I definitely thought it hung up long enough for Gardner to catch. Also, Thames was so far away from catching it because he got a really poor read off the bat. Maybe it was the wind, but he did not look like he had any idea where the ball was going until it hit the wall. Gonna have to watch the highlight after the game.
Glad Thames is in LF.
It is not like he has cost the team a run everytime he has been out there or anything…
None of it would have mattered if Jeter made his play in the first place.
Perfect Game, No-hitter, Shoutout, all gone. At least the important result is still within reach.
my god…is it going to be like this all the time with the Thames hate?
::Player hits HR while Thames is in LF::
“ZOMG Gardner could have caught that. Damn You Marcus Thames!!!11!1″
So you’re telling me Thames can play LF…
Yeah really. No one on the roster makes a play on that ball.
Gardner would have over ran that ball. HE”S GOTZ TEH SPEED!!!111
I bet Ellsbury would get to it. After all, he was the defensive player of the year last year.
ietc
I bet Mo would have threw his glove up, have it catch the ball, and caught the glove.
That’s actually a two base error.
In reality, though, Mo would catch it because, well, he’s Mo.
I think Andy is right on this one. Does anyone remember the rule that covers this?
Would have been awarded 3 bases then.
He should be booed everytime he shows his face until he hits 4 HRs in a game, or the Cycle, which ever comes first
I would LOVE to see Thames leg out a triple. That would be awesome.
Great pitch to end an inning that could’ve been a lot worse. Let’s get the run back, offense!
Quietest 10 game hit streak ever.
but teh groundouts to SS!
Joaquin Arias? It has been a long time old friend.
Gameday has every one of the pitches to Johnson as strikes on the black.
Walk #11. In Game #10. I (heart) Nick Johnson.
He didn’t start yesterday either.
Excellent point.
You, sir, are a formidable opponent.
And he still drew a walk!
Move over Barry Bonds 232 walks. He come “Nick the Discerning”
Not a real man!!!
Poor Teixeira
At least Jeter is 90 feet closer to 3rd?
Exactly what I was talkin bout.
Yay Jetes.
Thanks, Teagarden!
Is it just me or does Teagarden sound like a made up name?
Taylor Teagarden certainly sounds like one
A noun is a person, place or thing. Person no, Place or thing, yes.
Tie game baby!
Wow, look at that. An umpire doing his job properly.
Has anyone seen how Grandy responded to the roll call?
I’m pretty sure he just waved. I saw it at the home opener, but if I don’t remember it, it wasn’t anything spectacular. Gardner flexed his muscles a la Damon.
Ah, ok. Thanks.
NJ is really fun to watch. I am so calm when he is up to bat because there is just such a good chance he gets on base.
One day he should just go up without a bat. I bet if he does that in a full game (4 AB), he’d still walk at least once.
Am I the only one who is concerned that Alex is going to clock someone with his bat when he flips it after he walks?
WHat are some serious NJ walk projections. He seems to be going towards 200.
Depends on how much time he spends on the DL.
/rimshot
I’m really amazed they’re playing. This weather is teh crap.
Let’s go Yankees!
OH MY GOD. Kay, enough with the fucking Girardi CC thing. Holy shit. Where is the off button on this moron!?
… mute?
There’s the Chris Davis we all know.
@OldHossRadbourn is at the Yankee game. That narrows his true identity down to just 49,000 people.
http://twitter.com/OldHossRadb.....2310714868
Did anyone figure out who he actually is? Definitely a Yankees fan. I wonder if it’s one of the guys who writes for Bronx Banter.
Wow. Davis struck out.
Is your mind blown?
Texas’ catchers have cool names. Taylor Teagarden. Jarrod Saltalamacchia.
Oh HELL YEAH.
CC don’t need no stinkin’ defense.
The woman in that American Airlines ad really over pronounces her T’s. It annoys me.
Neftali Ferez … yeah Michael Kay
I am mildly confused by this “Segment 2″ thing. Like, is there a Segment 1?
Yeah, segments are just pieces of the broadcast between commercials, and that’s the second one. They’re just trying to give it a snappy name – sorta like “Page 3.”
ohhhh, I get it now – it’s the second “segment” of the show. Thanks. That was helpful, actually. I assumed “Segment 1″ was some mysterious thing that existed in a purely theoretical void
Why wasn’t Jon Rauch included in the text poll?
he didn’t get changed to it in-season because the current closer was sucking something bad
He’s not an in-season replacement, technically.
I’m pretty sure they said midseason replacement.
I thought they just said replacement. My bad, yo!
Fair enough.
BABIP hates Swisher right now.
Swish hammered the ball yesterday and his first AB today.
Nick does not have lady luck on his side his last few at bats.
Oof, Thames turned towards second there. He’s lucky they didn’t tag him.
saw that.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. The ball definitely didn’t go out of play.
High socks (NOT PANTS) are NEVER a bad thing and every Yankee should wear them.
It is a minor league rule.
should be a major league rule grumble grumble
I envision hell as a dark empty room in which I am forced to wear headphones that play a 24/7 loop of Kay and Flash talking.
I kind of laughed when Flaherty made jokes about how much Kay doesn’t like Mussina
Just one reason why I don’t like Kay. Mussina is probably my favorite player, ever.
Understandable. I love Mussina as a player. And I want him to join the booth so that either he or Kay will kill the other.
Moose in the booth would be incredible. I think he’d be really, really good there.
Funny. I envision hell as the world’s most comfortable bed, but very time I fall asleep an alarm goes off and wakes me up.
that sounds so horrible I think I’m going to cry
If I were Dante, I’d include it as the tenth circle of hell.
There is no player-analyst who talks about his career more than Flaherty. The ironic thing is that, of all the ex players on YES, he had, by far, the worst career.
He’ll always have that half season in San Diego. He was better than league average. Those were the good old days.
But he’s such a smooth, interesting talker! When coupled with Kay, man, those guys are just wonderful.
give him credit…he has made the most out of the least. One hit got him a player-analyst job for the biggest sports franchise’s RSN.
Looked inside to me.
and to gameday.
No live chat, guys? WHY DON’T YOU CARE ABOUT US?!
It would have just been filled up with porn anyways.
nothing like John Flaherty highlights
Serious question..
How many career ABs does it take to no longer consider it a SSS? Obviously there isn’t an exact answer, but an educational guess would do.
*educated
I’d think three complete seasons. So about…what, 1,500 or so?
It depends what you are looking for in the at bats. Many statistics start stabilizing in as little as 500-550 PA.
A season’s worth? 500? Though, over the course of a long career a season can be considered a SSS, especially if it deters from the mean.
Yeah, that’s why I wrote three times that, above. Not sure, that’s a good question.
It really depends on the stat. Something like contact rate would be pretty stabilized by 200 PA and could even be representative of a 10 year career.
Brook Logan? Really, Kim?
We almost called up Queen Nefatari Ferez. That’s a true story.
I’m laughing.
i wished so bad she would have said Brook Lopez.
He’d be 12 for 60.
Pay. Attention. To. The. Game. Please.
god I love CC being on this team lol
wow 6Ks in a row
it’s because the Yankees don’t care about defense.
/Neyer’d
Ron Davis anyone?
Ron Burgundy?
Ron Davis once held a consectutive strikeout record for the Yankees back in the 80′s. Not sure if he still holds it.
A single for Thames? ummm…ok.
Nice i saw RAB on my tv
Whaa?
yesnetwork.com commercial showed the RAB homepage
Oof, that was ugly.
Joba for CJ Wilson…Do you do the trade?
No, let Wilson show that he’s not a flash in the pan.
awful swing captain
oh dear
Fuck, the absolute last guy you want hbp.
Ha I know…
Have fun on the DL Nick
Nick Johnson didn’t work the count there. I’m disappointed.
CJ Wilson probably wants to save himself the pitch count
is that because sometimes he attempts to steal?
I can’t wait for april to be over so we can have Tex back.
Ok kids, dinner time. You all enjoy the pummeling that will soon ensue.
Nick Johnson… attempted stolen base……… what……….
and he was safe to boot!
He was safe!
ball beat him.
/umpire’d
He looked safe in real time and was absolutely safe on the replay. http://tinyurl.com/robotumps
The only thing weirder than NJ stealing is NJ stealing and being safe.
http://www.nydailynews.com/gos.....z0lFMoGD9d
Funky slide by Johnson… he was safe!
Safe? Out? Who cares? It’s the human element!
I can only think of Arod on the trivia. Anyone got any other guesses?
Palmiero? Juan Gone?
Yeah, Juan Gone is gotta be one.
A-Rod and Juan Gonzalez did. Palmiero didn’t. Hmmm.
It’s not Palmeiro, I looked. Never led the league in homers.
Question?
Rangers who have led league in HR.
What three Rangers have won AL home run titles?
the three Texas Rangers that won the AL HR crown. A-Rod and Juan Gonzalez are two. Palmiero isn’t the third.
Jeff
Bullshit question. Screw the Washington Senators.
wow, CC is a classy guy
Re: Johnson:
Robo umps?
CC = cruise control
Does anyone with MLB “At-Bat”(the pay-only souped up version of gameday) know how they calculate the “Nasty Factor”? I’m guessing its some formula of pitch type, velocity,and x and y movement.
I was wondering the same thing.
CC’s stuff is filthy tonight, even more so than usual.
Hey, I was right.
DYK Ron Davis holds the Yankee record for consecutive K’s, with 8?
ZZ is cruuuuising.
That Howard answer is misleading. Both times he led in HRs, 68 and 70, the team was in Washington, not known as the Rangers.
A-rod needs to hit a Home Run soon.
reliever mentality… but he’s starting… mind… explode-y…
A-Rod’s just a base clogger
Logically inconsistent Flaherty is logically inconsistent.
CJ Wilson loves the HBP
I love you Kendry Morales, my fantasy team is being carried by you.
Plus Kemp as well.
AROD learned alot from Kate Hudson in the acting department lol
Man, they’re off to the races in Boston.
Tampa, you mean? What’s going on?
Yeah. Three stolen bases in three innings. So far.
Wow. Carl Crawford returns mwahaha.
Wow, Beltre terribly bobbled a ball. He’s been getting to everything but making bad plays.
Meaning?
John Flaherty has obviously never seen A. J. Pierzynski pretend to be hit.
Swisher bunting makes me so fucking angry. STOP.
NICK SWISHER BUNTING AGAINST TEXAS NOOOOOOO
Weird, Swish looked really young from the shot of him bunting, I don’t know why.
He looks very young today, IMO. Maybe it’s the high socks and the fact that he’s very clean-shaven.
High socks. He looked like a righty Brett Gardner there.
Obligatory shot of Andy in the dugout to make bexy happy.
Apparently hitting the batter isn’t the pitcher’s fault.
/Kay’d
I can has Grand Slam, Marcus?
nope
one granny here and Thames have the lock on his job against lefty for rest of the season.
we kick ass with the bases loaded
Uhg, I hate bad calls.
I really wanna see a GRanderslam this year
Wow. Somebody review that foul ball call!
Pretty sure it waas foul.
damn umpires
Soooo close.
Where did that 0-2 pitch miss? Wow. Maaaaaaybe a bit high, maaaaaaaybe a bit outside.
If that situation is reversed with CC pitching I would be livid…I think CJ has some legit beef on that one
He called a pitch earlier in the at bat as a strike even though it was further outside. Lucky break.
Thank god for bad defense
Well that was exciting
Good God, Rangers defense.
Texas has given the Yankees all three runs tonight. That’s a very bad play by Davis; he’s gotta just go to first on that.
They gave Cleveland all their runs in that game where Cleveland won in like two hours, too.
Heh. That was a weird way to score 2 run.
I thought Ron Washington stressed the fundamentals…
Who homers first?
Arod or Montero.
Arod
there’s a cocaine joke to be made here but I don’t know how to make it. Waaah.
Is their some sort of penalty for pegging the batter?
How can ya not like Cervelli?
A Cervellian hit.
Gazoo!
Yeah, Spike!
http://images.tvrage.com/shows/15/14978.jpg
Jose Ramirez has 7 strikeouts in 3 innings so far tonight.
Quickly becoming one of my fave prospects.
Agreed.
…and Arodys Vizcaino has given up 3 earned in 4 innings to lower his era to an even 7.00.
but teh 98 mph and teh javy failure!!!!
Mike Maddux looks nothing like his brother.
that’s why he is not going to HOF.
that’s pretty funny.
HAHAHA.
I’m no meteorologist, but that looks bad.
You’ve been cerved.
Logan isn’t just a lefty specialist? DId the Yankees see his splits versus righties last year?
The Yankees did, but Kay didn’t.
He said he heard this from the Yankees though.
That pitch was called a ball to Granderson.
Mr. Michael Fkin Kay..Yankees batter doesn’t care about weather when he hits and neither does their pitcher when throwing the pitch. In span of 4 innings you have tried to connect both the things and it doesn’t make anysense.
Dear Reebok,
Americans HATE Sidney Crosby.
Love,
James.
Aw come on. Let Canada have its hockey. It’s not like America really cares.
I’d rather be a silver medalist in hockey than Canadian anyways.
nice play Adrian
Double play ball, please.
We’ll have to settle for the k.
That works.
Melky with a dribbler to the pitcher for a infield hit! Average up over .100
I laughed at this. Poor Melky. His BABIP is like .100.
Sometimes, BABIP is indicative of how you’ve been going. He hasn’t hit the ball hard at all this year.
Fair enough, and I agree. I haven’t been watching many Braves games, though, so it’s all I have to work with.
CC Sabathia has thrown nine balls tonight. Nine!
Nick Johnson sees ninety balls every game.
Note: This may not be entirely true.
If this game isn’t delayed, he could realistically record 15 Ks.
/MLB 2010′d
Arias…
why does this name look familiar?
The Arod trade.
Part of the A-Rod trade.
ZZ is rolling like a barrel down a hill.
wtf is Elvis Andrus doing in the box? Dancing?
that was one of Kay’s worst lines ever
He’s used it before plenty, and I actually think it was originally Sterling’s. I certainly remember Sterling saying it back when he and Kay were in the radio booth together.
I’de say any time he talks about Joba farting and grunting is worse.
did Kay actually ever say that?
No, but whenever either Joba or Hughes are pitching, he talks about how Joba “is a different animal” in the pen. It’s infuriating.
that’s every commenter.
Skies may open now.
-Melvin Croussett
It figures that in a game against the Rangers the weather is more of a nemesis than the actual team.
Yikes.
My mom has officially declared that Teixeira just isn’t trying
Your mom should be forced to read RAB everyday for the next month or two.
38% think Rodney will remain the Angels’ closer after Fuentes gets back?
So they’re definitely not gonna even attempt to have Feliz start? I know many thought the ‘pen would be his ultimate destination, but they’re not even gonna try?
Well at least we aren’t the only FO that does this.
Cardinals have Mets disease. Wow.
If the Cards end having a Metsian collapse, the Cubs will take the NL Central… only to be swept out of the playoffs by the NL West Champions.
Heh. Well, I mean I just turned it on the game for .002 seconds and saw an unbelievably dumb play by the Cards. But the Cubs are the Cubs.
good..go REDS haha
Charleston Riverdogs guessing game. You get 3 hints. One in the 2nd inning, one in the 5th and one in the 8th. Tonight’s answer is a “former Riverdog”.
Tonight, first hint, “#1 prospect”. Second hint, “catcher”. I guess I’m going to have to wait until the 8th inning to figure this one out.
And he stilll gets a strike.
Can we just call the game already?
My fantasy team has no problem scoring runs (23, second in the league this week) but it seems to be allergic to RBIs (12).
Apparently the Yankees don’t recognize that value…
/bitter’d
someday a real rain will come along and wash all the scum off the street
/bickle’d
someday a real rain will come along and wash all my vomit off the seat
/phillies phan’d
A+
oh Philly fans.
is that a “STE-ROIDS” chant? o_O
I think it was an asshole chant. Must have been someone wearing Red Sox paraphernalia.
Sounded to me like an “AAAASSSS-HOOOLE” chant, like someone was getting thrown out in the stands.
I miss Vlad’s hair.
Screw V-Mart, sign Jason Varitek long term!
I heard someone on the radio today suggesting the Mets trade for Varitek.
/defying the scouting reports
i’m lovin this thames experiment if he keeps on hittin
the way Thames is swinging the bat its hard not to argue with Girardi so far.
i said that way wrong..I was attempting to support Thames
Great move, Joe.
Gardner’s in the game, can we all relax now
I will until I see his swing.
Marcus Thames is teh, how do you spell it, “Sux0r”?
Kind of sad that the http://www.riverdogs.com internet broadcast has absolutely no sponsors. In between innings you hear sounds from the park.
Why hasn’t Wilson thrown over?
Maybe he’s not allowed to? Buchholz’d?
Haha, love it.
At least he made Wilson work.
I’ll be there tomorrow, sect. 332B–anyone else going?
I feel like I should be there. I was there for AJ pitching against Texas twice last year out of… four total times at the Stadium. Go figure.
Damn, Gardy, you’s fast.
In 2007, I saw like…four Kei Igawa games.
I would give you a sympathy hug if I was there. My mom went to Opening Day 2007 and tried to lead a “This is bullshit! We want Pettitte!” chant in her part of the stands (Pavano was starting), which is awesome. She also saw a lot of Moose starts (remember, Moose ’07 was awful).
wow Gardner beats the pitchout
Brett says ‘Fuck your pitchout.”
gardy is too fast!
Not gonna be in much longer? But teh Nolan Ryan!
Frankie Hustle.
Great throw by Andrus.
Agreed, that was pretty incredible. I don’t think too many people get close to getting Cervelli.
Yeah. He was falling backwards and still got it there in the air; that’s nuts.
Cerve showing off the wheeeels.
Posada would have maybe been half way up the line
If they call that a hit, that’s ridiculous.
Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the crappy defense
wow fail by the rangers
derek grounding to short again…
Kind of.
There’s no way they come out for the seventh, right?
CG for CC
Stupid rain.
With the rain delay, let me just say that Oliver Perez wearing #46 is a horrible taint to all lefty New York pitchers wearing #46 >:(
also WTF Francoeur is like on fire. This is bizarre.
I’m waiting for both he and Wells to realize they just raced off a cliff’s edge.
heh, I could understand if he was like hitting ridiculous bombs because that would go away. But he’s like walking and stuff.
:: head explodes ::
I have more faith in Wells returning to being a useful player than Francoeur being anything more than a white Jose Guillen (or even that useful)
Once again the Gods spread the cheeks to ram cock in fucking ass!
Patiently waiting for the Spartacus season finale @ 10PM.
that’s an interesting way of putting it
Me and you both, Hammer.
No way CC goes back out after the delay, right?
how the fuck does varitek have 3 HRs??????
i have no idea
2 vs. Royals, one Green Monster scraper.
http://www.weather.com/weather....._typeahead
game over.
I do not avoid women, Mandrake. But I do deny them my essence.
you’re gonna have to answer to the coca-cola company
in fantasy i traded polanco and liriano for javy and hughes…I hope I was just selling high, and not in fact screwing myself.
I have seen 3 yankees games in my life (I Live in Australia). Two of them were started by Igawa and Ponson…
I hope you booed the hell out of them as is your right.
/WFAN’d
Igawa actually was pretty solid. Bruney blew it in extras in Oakland. Eyechart fumbled a gounder to first to end the game. The same weekend Scutaro took Mo deep.
oh my lord…Ive been to 2 in NY, and one was the A-ROD walk off in the 15th against the Sux…I guess I have better luck lol
I was there, too!
Is Kyle Perkins your favorite farmhand?
Not yet. Probably for the same reason Graeme Lloyd isn’t my favorite Yankee.
The Rays have to go to the pen in the 6th against the Red Sox tied 1-1. No chance in hell they can win this game.
Red Sox pen hasn’t been distinguishing itself either, though Beckett is pitching so they will probably get length out of him
TWSS?
haha I thought that myself, then vomited thinking of Beckett in any sort of sexual way
Varitek has more homers than Teix and A-Rod combined.
He has more HR than Tex, Arod, Johnson, Swisher, Thames, Gardner, Cervelli, Winn and Pena combined.
Halladay continues to devastate. I really thought people were having way too high of expectations. I may end up eating my shoe.
I think you’ll be right in the end. He’s a great pitcher, but he’s not Gibson v.1968, Koufax v.1965, Pedro v.1999, etc.
He’s not but he’s a ridiculously good SP, possibly the best in the game right now, who’s been on a pretty poor team for years, facing the Yankees, Red Sox, and newly excellent Rays a bunch of times. Now he’s going to an excellent team in a far inferior league.
I know 20 wins is a lot and pitcher wins are a dumb stat, but I would be mildly surprised if he didn’t have 20 wins at the end of the year.
Well of course not but he’s still really really good. He had a 3.00 FIP playing in the AL East! And unfortunately he was on the Jays and pitched against the Yanks, Sox and Rays a lot.
NL East should be child’s play. 20+ wins isn’t too unrealistic. A sub 3 ERA isn’t either.
Uh, he had a sub 3 era in the AL East, I’m thinking sub 2.5 era.
Oh my bad. Change ERA to FIP I suppose.
I expect him to have a good season, but nothing particularly historic. So yeah, 20 wins? 3 ERA? Sounds fine to me.
I’m quite relieved that the Yanks don’t have to face him 4-5 times a year.
Chris Carpenter’s hook is fucking filthy.
sucks there is a rain delay…I bet CC would have gone the distance, his pitch count was looking very good.
Hahaha. Squirrel Face thinks he’s fast. What. A. Douche.
is that Pedroia?
Youk.
oh, because of the beard. Heh.
Since he’s as tall as a squirrel I understand how you got confused.
he also has a rodent-esque face
The Mets booth is so confused that Ollie is pitching well up to now.
Hahaha Ortiz finally delivers with RISP and Youkilis gets thrown out at the plate. LMAO
Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.
/TSJC’d
No. Douchilis was at 1st and tried to score instead of staying at 3rd and having runners on 2nd and 3rd with no outs.
I The Sox are facing 3 lefties next week. that should make a good laugh
Ouch. Mike Cameron might have a kidney stone.
don’t only old people get those?
/I should look this up on Wikipedia’d
Isn’t Mike Cameron like 60 now?
Yeeesh.
If he is going to pass that the traditional way he is a braver man than I. I would get the shock wave treatment.
I would think that the Sox would want Cameron back ASAP. Otherwise, you would have Ellsbury in CF and Hermida in LF (Which in itself is not bad, but that would ruin teh pitching and defense!!11)
or Hall in CF because Ellsbury is like possibly dead or something. (That’s what happens when you hurt Andy, jerkface.)
Power Rankings already? Seesh.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.c.....index.html
Yankees 5th because of a bad Teix and Javy. Phillies are first. Giants are ahead of them too. Heh. If those teams played the Sox, Rays and Angels for 3 straight series I wonder if they would do just as good. Doubt it though.
http://simmerdown3.files.wordp.....e-logo.jpg
Haha that’s awesome.
Philly might have done just as well as the Yanks did. Giants not so much.
Phillies are one of the best teams out there I agree but they played against the Nats twice and the Astros. 2 of the worst NL teams. Yanks played against the 3 best AL teams that aren’t them.
Phillies just look ridiculous in general when they play the Nationals though. They score like 14 runs a game. (Note: This is an exaggeration. But they definitely scored 14 runs against them the other day.)
Sox aren’t even in the top ten? I hate them and all but oooookay
Well it’s a SSS but they have been struggling. And with Cameron and Ellsbury hurt they might be worse.
Lol the Angels are about to lose a six run lead.
what?? details!
Mathis is playing AGAIN, wow.
Haha, Mike Napoli needs to demand a trade.
The Mets would take him, but he isn’t Hispanic so they wouldn’t allow the trade to take place.
Toronto originally led 1-0 off a Vernon Wells homer, but the Angels piled on the runs and it ended up being 7-1 Angels. Then the Jays add two runs but I forget how and then there was a two run jack by Adam Lind to make it 7-5 Angels. Last I saw on MLB Tonight was Lyle Overbay with the tying run at the plate.
ah. I just put the game on and it was 7-5 Angels with the Angels up so I guess they got out of it
I’m conflicted between wanting to see the Angles loose and wanting to see Toronto give sole posession of the AL East lead to the Yankees.
looselose/spelling’d
We all know Toronto will fall sooner or later. The Angels losing is always nice to watch.
is there really a debate there?
Mets broadcasters are obsessed with Jeff Francoeur. I can’t decide whether he’s really really cute or too stupid-looking and dumb to be cute.
also the Mets are winning 1-0 right now. The Mets SP? OLIVER PEREZ. And from what I’ve seen, he looks… like… really good. What???
ehh The Cards ran out a pretty poor lineup tonight. They sat Holliday and Rasmus
Pujols has grounded out twice and struck out O_O
Jay-Z suing Ortiz? Maybe he really does have a passion for the Yanks.
over the name of the 40/40 club. Ortiz chose forty-forty…
I’m no lawyer (but did well on my LSATs), but methinks he’ll win that suit.
Do I want to watch the Rays’ bullpen against the middle of the Red Sox order in a tie game? I feel like this could be very ugly
This rain delay is pathetic and embarassing.
/Joe West’d
Classic.
Yo Phillies bullpen don’t eff it up for Halladay thanks
Damn they won already…
Game called.
And it’s officially a game.
Yaaay Yankees
Does that count as a complete game win for CC?
I believe it does.
NBA cap will be $56 million. That is unbelievably huge for the Knicks, who can now pay for two max FA’s and even have a bit left over.
Thank Mo for that.
I’m not big on basketball, but from what I’ve read here, I’m assuming that the Knicks can sign both LeBron and maybe Dwayne Wade right?
Yep. Any combo of LeBron/Bosh or Lebron/Wade or Lebron/Joe Johnson or Lebron/Amare. Of course, it could also be Bosh/Wade, Bosh/Johnson, Amare/Wade…
Just to be clear, I want NO part of Amare.
You said the other day you were in 8th grade right? I can see why you are not big on basketball with the Knicks team you have grown up with. Man I miss 90s NBA. Good times.
CC with the CG win, lol.
A 73 pitch complete game! That takes some skill. On another note, the Yankees are officially in sole possession of 1st place in the AL East and are tied with Minnesota for the best record in the AL.
Would have loved to see more of CC (damn, the rain. sigh.) as he was utterly vicious tonight. 6 innings, 9ks, using only 73 pitches, throwing only 15(!!) balls. That’s gangsta right there.
Oh well, a win is a win. Let’s get ‘em again tomorrow. Go AJ!
Yea, he was straight beastly tonight, truly a joy to watch.
Damn this internet connection. Wasn’t able to watch the game ugh. Missed CC’s masterful performance.
The Mets.
(astonished stare)
Cervelli really is adorable.
I get that it doesn’t make economic sense from a “gate” perspective to have built Yankee Stadium with a retractable roof? But how about in terms of protecting investments? I cringed when I saw CC slip on the mound. Does it really make sense for the Yankees to risk the health of some very expensive players playing in sub-par conditions?
Just something that crossed my mind tonight.
aaand the Mets lose. Shocking.
and it’s Castillo’s fault. Even better.
To piggy-back on what someone said earlier about Nick Johnson having more walks than the Astros:
Nick Johnson: 11 BBs in 44 PAs
Houston Astros: 8 BBs in 345 PAs
wah wah wooie
Wow. I hope they’re hitting well enough to make up for that lousy walk rate. Oh wait, they’re not. And Wade probably still thinks they’ll contend.
MLB Network is showing how CJ Wilson got squeezed by the umps tonight.
CJ is on and talking about it, too.