Game 48: Back home
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Do the Yankees have a little Captain in them? (Photo Credit: Craig Lassig, AP)
Hopefully some home cooking will wake the offense up. That and the short porch, anyway. The Indians have the third worst record in baseball at 17-28, which tends to happen when your pitching staff has the game’s second worst xFIP at 4.79. Offensively, if the Yanks manage to contain Austin Kearns and Shin-Shoo Choo, they should be in the clear. Hopefully our boy Shelley Duncan gets some playing time. I wouldn’t be opposed to seeing him hit one out as long as the Yanks have the lead and are firmly in control.
Here’s the Alex Rodriguez-less lineup…
Jeter, SS
Granderson, CF – good to see him back
Teixeira, 1B
Cano, 2B
Swisher, RF
Miranda, DH
Gardner, LF
Pena, 3B
Moeller, C – hooray for Frankie Cervelli finally getting a day off
And on the mound, St. Phil.
First pitch is scheduled for 7:05pm ET, and can seen on YES. Enjoy the game.
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that photo is geico money
get em yanks
You know, this time last year, if Canó was hitting cleanup, we would have killed Girardi.
Wait 4 hours, if they lose people will kill him for giving ARod a day off.
People the past few days: A-Rod’s SUCKING, he needs a day off!!!!
People now that A-Rod’s getting a day off: What the fuck, this lineup sucks! Where the hell is A-Rod!
More like wait 1 AB. If he grounds out, people will kill Girardi.
Lets go Yanks, knock the Indians out early. I’m saying 7-1, with Hughes going 7 innings for the win. Cano and Miranda go deep, Gardner swipes a base.
Nice calls.
You hit the nail right on the head! Thats what I said – “Way to go Robbie Cano!”
Captain Morgan dude for Javy?
Feel sorry for Winn, but not surprised. GO YANKEES!!!!!!!!
Bold prediction: Granderson hits a homer tonight
Bold would be 2 homers. Your prediction is more italic, maybe strikethrough.
http://www.lezebre.lu/images/get-off-my-nuts.gif
Dressing up as a drunken pirate and get on the field at MLB games.
Great job, or GREATEST JOB IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD?
k-long on the radio just says he likes gardner further down the order where he can do more damage. I like that idea and hope they stick with it
Amauri sanit suspended
http://yankees.lhblogs.com/201.....suspended/
Yupp, for mephentermine, similar drug to ephedrine.
Nick Swisher just officially went Hollywood—he and Joanna Garcia are engaged. It’s in People and everything.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20389624,00.html
Let’s get it on bitches!!!!
Oof. T’was a mighty fine curve.
that guy was waaaay out in front of it
Phil-bert’s showing off early.
So, which is more annoying: O’Neill constantly saying “again” in front of things that he hasn’t said before, or Leiter saying “also too” every third sentence?
not having flaherty is better imo
Oh, I agree, I like O’Neill and Leiter quite a bit, actually, but those little things get under my skin.
ah i understand where you’re coming from now
Damn. Paint on the corner.
got em
Hell of a start to this one
huuuuuuuuuuugheeeeeeeeeeeees
impressive inning!
Phil Hughes is a bad man.
Strikes out the side! Great start
I really really hope there is not a bench clearing brawl with Shelley on the Indians.
As long as you move, Shelley can’t hit you.
ICWUDT and I enjoyed it very much.
Haha, don’t run straight at him! Charge at him in a wide curving motion, if need be!
welcome back Curtis… please stay healthy now
have teams always been playing tex with that shift or is that a newer thing?
Give Cervelli 2 days off? I don’t see why. I would understand if he got tomorrow with how much he has been used and day game after night game happening but whatever. Just complaining about something not that important unless Moeller ruins a rally or something.
What a weird text poll.
i voted for will smith day
Very unenthusiastic strike call.
And Austin Kearns is batting cleanup?!
4 outs
4Ks
Phil Hughes: wheeling and/or dealing
is it too soon to talk about the ultimate perfect game, 27 up, 27 k’d
My feelings towards Russell Branyan are more or less “abject terror”
O/U 26K’s?
over
29!1!juan!!
5outs
5Ks
Holy shit. Hughes is just being unfair at this point.
BOOOOOO!
finally, a non K out
i love this pitching
I really didn’t like Hughes throwing a cutter over a changeup as his third pitch when they first started talking about that, but it’s freaking nasty when he executes it.
Not saying anything original here but HUUUUUUUGHES!
Is anybody else ready to strangle Sid the Science Kid?
lol at robbies celebration
He was out
haha he was out by like 2 steps
I think he was out
So lazy!!!
He was also comically out.
What an awful call, but I won’t complain too much.
looks like another bucknor making an error near first base
Swish!
swishahouse!!
<3 Swish <3
Swisha!!!
Nick Swisher’s having a good day, eh?
SWISHA BLAST!
Monster shot for Swish. Absolutely insane.
HOLY SHIT
Laughing at how comically huge that HR was and also how out Cano was.
Kerry Wood and Clemens hold the record for 20 K’s in a 9 inning game. Maybe getting ahead of myself, but I’m thinking Phil is looking like he has a good chance at getting there.
To tie that, he’d have to K 15 in 7 innings. That’s Moose in 1997 level.
(I don’t think he’s getting there, due to pitch count.)
Mike Mussina’s stats in the 1997 ALCS. Holy MFin’ ess.
Wow, can’t believe Moose lost that game. Talk about no run support.
(And don’t rain on my hope parade.)
yay the lineup is producing!
hahaha frankie and swish
Remember when the Yankees were just a group of unemotional, uninteresting robots? This team is much more fun to watch.
agreed. i truly think adding damon, swish and burnett made this team 100 times more fun
well i mean they all meshed in 09 and it spilled over in 2010 with frankie here full time and swish and burnett doin their thing
But…but Twinkie Town said there were only slightly less assholes on the Yankees than in Nazi Germany!
No, really.
Y’know, that kinda made me thirsty. I think I’m gonna get myself a soda.
I’d rather have Winn than Pena. Ick.
I don’t think it’s that big of a difference on offense. On D, we have a greater need for Pena’s glove.
nobody else plays ss
Sure, but there’s gotta be an all-glove no-hit SS somewhere who can hit more than Pena.
hey. off topic but Jose Lima died. wtf???
He died like, five days ago.
hmm stuck on last saturday, i presume?
sunday*
We landed on the moon!
This is hilarious.
Gary Coleman is the new early celebrity death that you need to care about for 2 days, or until the next one: whichever comes first.
Huh??? What you talkin’ bout, Willis?
Live every day like it’s LIMA TIME
Do you think Kay gets annoyed whenever Jack Curry or Kim Jones winds up having to call the play-by-play for something that happens during their on-field segments?
you have to have a massive ego to even care about small shit like that
Hahaha they’re making Jack Curry do these sideline reports now. Bet no one eats his pork chop.
bad curve…
A double? Hughes sucks, DFA his bitch ass!!!!
J/K, obvi
Shattered forearm.
OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
ugly injury there… poor Cabrera
tex is like a hungry hungry hippo
what ever happened to split fingered fast balls? it seemed like only people who threw them were clemens and red light (shilling) now i cant think of anyone who throws a split. does it mess up your arm or something?
They don’t want to teach it to kids, since it supposedly messes up your arm.
Splitters are complete hell on the elbow. It requires a lot of friction to generate the downward break.
That and you need massive hands to jam the ball betwen your fingers.
Like Andy said, I think it’s death on the shoulder.
Haren, Diego Contreras, and Papelbon throw a splitters. Valverde too.
Freddy Garcia throws one too.
I believe Papelbum throws a splitter.
Ugh blah thought that was gone and would have been amused and happy.
I pulled a DJ tonight–4 grounders to short; one was an IF hit and I scored three times.
Hah, gotta hit he cages son.
damn juuuuuuust missed it
Obviously I’m late, but it’s absolutely great to see Curtis back in the lineup.
attaboy texy
I’m having flashbacks to Giambi vs. the O’s.
A hit! By Tex!!!
F you shift!
http://nysuperblog.com/wp-cont.....e-bird.jpg (safe)
Exactly what I had in mind.
Tex finally beginning to make solid contact.
Yay Tex got a hit. More importantly, C-Grand went first to third without a limp.
the problem with split-fingered fast balls. i did some research the on the split, it puts pressure on the wrist or some shit ,
http://www.stevenellis.com/ste.....split.html
Trivia answer = Indians?
The Yankees in 1923?
Is Choo the most underrated player in baseball?
He’s up there.
Yes. He had the seventh best wOBA of all outfielders last year with .389.
I’m sure it’s somebody else…that I can’t think of.
Best nickname in baseball too: Big League Choo.
My guess for the trivia question is the Mariners at Safeco. But it’s probably the Indians at Jacobs/Progressive because they are playing the Indians.
they are sitting on the fastball, hughes has to be able to throw his curve
Hughes…?
If Thames was playing LF everybody would be killing him for not getting to the 2 balls Gardner didnt get to this inning even though they were smoked.
Wait till Gardner’s BA dips another 5 pts…then everyone will be killing him, too
Possibly though like you said, they were smoked. Hard to get mad at anyone for that.
I was being sarcastic…
/fair-weather-fans
When Thames plays in the field people get mad at him for not catching a foul ball that lands 20 rows deep into the stands. lol
Nasty curve.
Nice… Very Nice!
Dammit, why am I getting blue screen of death whenever I run mlb.tv for extended periods of time. This blows…
BSOD?
What, are you running Windows 95?
Vista, been running it since 1/2007 and it’s been dead reliable until the past few weeks. Seems to happen with video intensive stuff, updated the video card drive to no avail.
Could be a hardware issue at that point. I didn’t think the BSOD exsisted in XP/Vista but according to wikipedia I’m wrong.
I haven’t seen one since 95 myself.
Oh yea, got it regularly on XP. Shit was buggy as hell for me. Vista’s been nice, at least till now.
I got the BSOD on Vista and it was unrepairable. The Dell people said the only thing I could so was wipe my entire hard drive clean, then install XP. So I run that now, and haven’t had a (major) problem.
Wow, I heard so much bad stuff about Vista but I was lucky. I never had a thing since I built my computer. Now this is annoying me, hopefully I can solve it.
A lot of the bad press about Vista is from when it first came out, there were a ton of hardware/driver incompatibilities that screwed over a bunch of people. I’ve never had a problem with it either.
Who is Joanna Garcia and is she hot?
Never heard of her, but you can be sure she is.
To answer your question, yes. Yes, she is hot:
http://tonicgossip.com/wp-cont.....garcia.jpg
A Jeterian blast from Nick Swisher.
Moeller catching Hughes is a better fit than Cervelli.
The pitch selection is much improved.
It might be an adjustment based on last game and have nothing to do with the catcher. Who knows?
I have never been a fan of Cervelli catching Hughes. He is much too inexperienced back there to be handling him.
I’m sure adjustments were made with Eiland, but I feel much more comfortable with Moeller making in game adjustments if Phil falls into bad habits.
That is a legitimate opinion, and I might agree although I don’t think it matters too much.
I’m of the opinion though that they probably redrew a game plan for Hughes after his pitch selection last game.
Impossible for us to know for sure from where we are sitting.
Jim Edmonds-like.
Damn, nice play.
Can’t get too mad at that, nice play
I’m not even mad, that was amazing.
ha donald does look like biggio
Yuni Betancourt with a GS against the Red Sox.
Huzzah!
aight grandy, maybe you can continue the rally
CB helping us out tonight
hahahaha the sox are losing 9-5 to the royals, mid 4
tim wakefield’s line?
3.2 IP 12H 9 ER 3BB 1 Grand Salami
Ugly! How the hell did he shut out the Phillies?
nevermind that, how the hell did R.A. Dickey shut out the phillies???
The Phillies recently have… um… well if you think we’re not scoring runs…
Hitting woes w/RISP continue.
man hafner has looked bad against hughes tonight
*hopes not to jinx
I’m sure Hughes would really appreciate a couple more runs of support. Kearns just missed tying the game right there.
Melvin Returns! Tomorrow. I’m so excited.
Just saw the replay of the Crowe catch…oh my god.
Miranda looked like Crowe stole his milk money.
It’s always a little surprising to me that Willie Mays’ famous “Catch” to rob Vic Wertz has stood the test of time so well, when it seems like more impressive plays are made all the time nowadays. Not to take anything away from Willie, obviously, but I wonder if maybe the level of play really has gone up all around. I mean, Crowe did just what Mays did, but he also laid out straight away from the plate – incredible!
No, Crowe didn’t do what Mays did. Mays was 450+ feet from the plate, and then turned around and threw in to prevent the runner from scoring.
is kay on drugs?
utley>>cano
haha seriously. That’s like taking Hughes over Felix. Take of the goggles, Mike.
*off
He said something about the hip injury worrying him long term, so at least he didn’t say Cano’s better than Utley straight up.
sure, but you’re talking about a guy whose offensive production would be good-great at any position on the diamond, and the guy you’re talking about is one of the absolute best defenders in the league at 2B.
Oh, I’m not saying he’s right; just saying that it’s not as bad as saying straight up that you’d take Cano over Utley.
Lets score some fucking runs.
Guys, did they just compare picking between Utley and Cano to picking between Magic and Bird?!
Wow.
yay free run!
Grit-slam?
finally some good hittin
good job gritster
I like this Carmona fellow
man pena has little plate discipline… ha
man where did that miss?
got lucky there
Right now every game in the Yankees system is in the bottom of the 6th.
2007 ALDS Game 2 = maaaaaaybe the most frustrating game I’ve ever watched.
game 6 of the ALCS in 2004 was mine. they should’ve beat schilling
at least i think it was game 6
It was. My mom was there
She had absolutely no idea what happened with the A-Rod slap play until she got home, and then she was like MEGA FACE PALM.
man i still wish A-rod never did that slap. i always wondered what the heck he was thinking during that play… haha
carmona was friggin amazing that night though. perfectly spotted 97 mph sinkers with crazy lateral and vertical movement? no chance, really
Not because of Carmona – he was fucking ridiculously awesome that night indeed. You just have to tip your hat sometimes.
But damn, the rest of that game… I just remember there was an inning where Grady led off with a triple, and then Pettitte was facing the heart of the Indians order, and that triple didn’t score. It was really amazing pitching by Andy. I was SO psyched. And then… everything else happened.
Mattingly! I thought I told you to trim those sideburns!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHv3aDa8n_A
Make em work Ramiro.
god i hate the wave
The wave should not be done at Yankee Stadium. It’s just wrong.
The wave should not be done at any stadium.
No one listens when I tell them to take it to Shea.
that’s cuz shea isn’t used anymore!
Ditto.
I don’t mind it.
love the wave during his k
boy branyon loves to kill at this stadium
Heh. Good thing we got the tack-on runs.
Should’ve gotten more though
Good thing we got those 2 runs last inning
that curve was FILTHY!
and so was that one
Given the result of Pena’s at bat (an out) seeing 11 pitches is great.
But, that really was an unimpressive at bat. The pitches he was fouling off were very hittable.
Given that so many of them were up in the zone, it was a pretty bad job he did not get the ball to the outfield.
Don’t nibble, Phil. It’s your last batter; just go at him.
man bucknor has been damn generous tonight
Wait until he gets behind the plate. He will seek his revenge then.
CB Bucknor wants us to win this game I think
C.B. Buckner must have a few dollars on the Yanks tonight,lol…
Nice play, Tex. Good outing for Phil.
Yankees have gotten away with a couple of calls today.
Haha it will be so fun reading about the conspiracy theories from the idiot fans of all the other teams.
Besides that though that was a really great play by Tex.
It’s going to be hysterical.
CB Bucknor is the man!!!!
man donald prolly wants to kill bucknor tonight
this time he was safe
Wow, he seemed safe to me, but fans of other teams will be going bananas after this game. Always fun.
why are you bunting, curtis??
see why you dont bunt my man?
good job
Bunt this!!!!
Bitch!
Welcome back, Curtis!
damn it feels good to have CG back!
pretty good hit for a guy who cant touch lefties
That was both exciting and unexpected. Yaaaaay Grandy!
cmon… cano!
GRAND SLAM!!!
RBI-nson Cano!
DAMN, Cano just made that ball has bitch.
his
Robbie!!!
You know what? I saw that coming. Love you, Robbie!
Wow, who the hell is this team in pinstripes and what did they do with the ineffective line up.
They met the Indians pitching staff?
Don’t be ridiculous, it’s obviously because A-rod wasn’t there.
/MSM’d
fucking A!! GRAND SLAM FROM CANO!!!!!!!!
WANTED: robinson cano for murdering baseballs
What a way to find your power swing. Just got here as they showed the replay. Why’d Swish “realize why he got plunked”?
Revenge for the Cano grand slam?
It was because Cano took his curtain call in the middle of the pitch.
Swisher getting hit after a grand slam, very interesting
O’Neill just lectured us on the unwritten rules, oy.
Magically, Granderson gets back and the lineup takes off….
or it’s the Indians….can’t wait for JoPo to get back…circular lineup, how we have missed thee…
In the long run, Grandy will be huge, but tonight, it’s more of the indians pitching. Still, nice to see some runs either way.
Arod who? :-)))))
Cano was so lazy, he waited ’til Swish tied him for the team lead to hit another home run.
IETC
I live to please.
I’m a few minutes late, but … Cano fucking murdered that ball.
Ah, run scoring. How I’ve missed you.
Ugh, I was in the shower/listening on the radio when Cano hit it.
At least you’re squeaky clean :-))
if you like outside, you might see it….because it hasn’t landed yet…
Haha, quite well played.
WHat his Phil’s pitch count?
109. He done.
108 or so…he is done…
White Sox tack on in insurance run in the 9th, lead the Rays 4-2!
*an insurance run…
And Blosox losing to KC…baseball sure is a funny game
it is a round ball that comes in a square box.
Gardner gets a hit!
welp, here comes pena with the double play i bet… haha
and it happened….
yup!
>:(
whatyou talking about dela…..
very omniscient of you….
Hey, Dela, why don’t you sit the next few plays out, k?
my bad folks
Nothin’ but love for you, Dela.
*makes 2 hits to the chest and points to the sky*
Bhurle fined, I get Ozzie, and I’m enthused by West, but Burhle, really?
Buehrle dropped his glove. I didn’t think he was trying to be show-offy, but I guess that’s why. Also, he said something like “I think Joe West is just trying to promote his CD.” lol I love you Buehrle!
Ah, that little quip would do it.
the mets’ pitching staff hasn’t given up a run in 32 innings i believe… wowzers
The correction is going to be insane.
Fire Joe West!
Fire Joe West!
Fire Joe West!
Fire Joe West!
Fire Joe West!
You’re a disgrace
You’re right, he took far too long to post that.
Buy my CD
nice, strasburg vs. jesus tomorrow in swb
anything less than a Harperian line of 5 for 5 with 4 HR, means Jesus is a bust tomorrow…..
Prediction:
Jesus goes 1-3, single, k, BB
@MikeAxisa:
Where’s your g-friend Rose tonight?
lol at kay. “Tonight’s votes are robinson cano and everybody else”
There’s a good point to be made for Hughes. I was kinda livid when people chose Swisher over Pettitte the other day haha. I mean I understand why but seriously >:(
agreed, but usually, unless the game is a 1-0 shutout, most people are inclined to choose the offensive guy
sucks sometimes
I know Ace is a tough dude and wants to come back, but I think going for the surgery now is probably the smarter play. Any setback in rehab and he’s basically done for the year, since they’ll likely just go for the surgery at that point. Could that put him on the shelf for part of next year?
mitre has been looking good lately. he might be able to fill in for aceves perfectly
Woo-hoo! Rays lose!
nice! on a side note: WTF is up with toronto
prediction: by the end of next week, the yankees will be in first place
I’ll buy that for a dollar
I’ll buy that for a dollar
/forgottochangemyhandle’d
“Cano…looks at Granderson haul it in.”
What happened there, Mike?
red sox down 12-5 to royals top 8.
yikes
I know hat you mean, the Sox are still gonna probably win, that score isn’t nearly bad-bp-meltdown immune enough.
KC has 20 hits; and 2 shut out innings from one Karl Farnsworth.
Still not really liking the whole outfield alighnment now that Gardy is an every-day player, but I’m so happy Grandy is back, I can’t bring myself to give a shit.
What is not to like about it?
Gardy is the better fielder, he should be in center.
eh, perhaps he has better range, he’s faster– but CG knows how to field the position better at the moment, how to get a jump on fly balls, plus he has a much better arm
That remains to be seen.
Granderson has looked great in CF so far this year. Better than Gardner in the limited samples IMO.
Good for Moeler.
Jeter walks, ZOMG.
a texy slam?
Competition? Even if they did become really good, I fail to see how we’d have any rivalry outside of possible WS matchups.
competition in media markets i think
Is it bad to want teix to K so robbie can hit another…
Want him to walk in that scenario.
Bases loaded with 0 outs again.
Farnsy K’d Big Sloppy on 98mph heat. Golden memories
he can walk too
I so badly want Tex to walk and Cano to hit another grand slam.
No dice
Glad Tex can smile about that. sheesh.
Uhg, he hit that right up the middle, but no hit.
he went after a pitch that was probably ball 4 and grounded out weakly up the middle…it was a bad AB.
I hate Tex right now
he had a nice hit and had two walks, he can’t always make it happen– the game’s over anyway
He’s 2 for 3 and 2 walks, that’s an excellent night. He has had like 3 multi-hit games in a row.
he is swinging the bat well and played fucking gold glove defense all night, you fail 65 percent of the time in baseball and are considered a god, you cant always get the hit.
Lets go Robbie Cano
Are we back to Feared Cano?
Lets go Swish
Wow, a GS and a walk, Cano has pulled out all the stops tonight.
“switch hitter batting from the right side”….
fucking really Kay….
He went to Fordham.
I keep losing sound on YES. Cable issues? Anyone else?
those curves to swisher were very nice
well yeah, that’s why he proposed to her
ahaha awesome comment
http://www.hiyoooo.com/
thank you thank you, i’ll be here all week– tip your bartenders, they look hot for a reason
hahahaha money my man
I love that my 3 PM article today was about Cano not walking.
I love lamp
Andy_C_23, are you just looking at things and saying you love them?
I love carpet. I love desk.
Currently pitching for the Red Sox: Bill Hall
(thanks @cantpredictball)
Can Bill Hall work with Javy on his mechanics…
Harold Reynolds on Bill Halls 11 pitch, 3 up, 3 down inning…He threw more strikes in that inning than Dice K threw all day yesterday….
Chan Ho Park has yielded more home runs this year (5) than he’s struck batters out (4). Fuck.
With two Ks in that inning, he now has 6 Ks to 5 HRs. I still want him DFAed tonight, though.
Oh ha. Bill Hall is now pitching for the Sox. Against KC.
That, and a clean inning to end the night will be the cherry on top.
Don’t know if this is common knowledge, but West is the head of the Umpire’s Union, so he is very hard to fire.
Sonofa…
Yeah, I know.
Who is the guest commentator?
This game with a half dozen beers has really made my night, thank you yankees! =)
this sounds like an awesome night.
In re: Russel Branyan:
He doesn’t hit the ball a lot, but when he does, he hits it hard.
I’m so glad I got to see that Super Bowl ring instead of the game’s final pitch. Great production, YES.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for watching the Robinson Cano show. We hope you come again tomorrow.
if you can, watch the mets game, santana and gallardo have been killas tonight