Game 50: What’s the opposite of a lefty killer?
ByThe Yankees need a win today. It’s not a season-defining game by any stretch, but the best cure for yesterday’s meltdown is a decisive win. If they do that, we can forget yesterday and look to tomorrow. If they don’t, the harping over yesterday’s loss will only amplify.
In part one, A.J. Burnett needs to be more like Phil Hughes than CC Sabathia. He was rolling along in Minnesota last time out before the sky opened up. He was at a good pace pitch-wise, and had struck out five Twins in five innings. The biggest thing from him was the adjustment on the curveball. The big, looping, power curveball wasn’t working, so he went with a more subtle one. It acted as an off-speed pitch, which was all he needed it to do. If he does have that power curve today, watch out.
On the hill for the Indians is the former Red Sock Justin Masterson. The Indians acquired him in the Victor Martinez deal, and have had him in the rotation ever since. This year hasn’t gone too well for him, as he has allowed 37 runs, 32 earned, in 47 innings. The book on him says that lefties hit him hard. This year that has been his biggest weakness. Teams have stacked lefties against him — 122 of the 229 batters he has faced have been left-handed. They have hit a collective .386/.483/.545 against him, striking out just 14 times to 18 walks.
Masterson actually gets a bit lucky here. Normally the Yankees would have the switch-hitting Jorge Posada behind the plate, which would leave the lineup with just two righties, Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter. Instead they’ll have a third righty, Chad Moeller. That still means six left-handed hitters, with two of the righties representing two of the best hitters on the team.
In Chad Jennings’s pregame notes he notes that Joe Girardi will stick with Joba Chamberlain in the eighth inning. He’s had a rough stretch lately, but all relievers will. If this is the worst of it, Joba will be fine. But he has to continue pitching if they’re going to find out.
Lineup:
1. Derek Jeter, SS
2. Curtis Granderson, CF
3. Mark Teixeira, 1B
4. Alex Rodriguez. 3B
5. Robinson Cano, 2B
6. Nick Swisher, RF
7. Juan Miranda, DH
8. Brett Gardner, CF
9. Chad Moeller, C
And on the mound, number thirty-four, A.J. Burnett.
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At least the worst is over with. The Yanks will crush the Indians today. I’m predicting a 13-2 victory.
So, how awful does Joba have to pitch to stop being THE EIGHT INNING GUY ZOMG?!
He got the job without deserving it. Looks like he’ll keep it, again, without deserving it.
on a rational level, his FIP is below 2.4 even after yesterday’s disastor. component wise he’s been quiet strong this year.
On a non-rational level though, please tarr and feather him and every damn journalist who ever wrote aobut those 8th inning bullshit .
FIP is below 2.4 and his BABIP is .392
Ehhh…he’s been giving up hard contact and lots of XBH. Both of those doubles just missed going out last night. Besides, any reliever that blows multiple four run leads in two weeks has a problem. Whether or not it is a long term problem that can’t be corrected is a different question, but something is definitely up.
.386/.483/.545 ??? wow, that pretty much means any lefty that step up against him instantly turns into early 00s Barry Bonds with a bit less power.
should be a good day for Grandy and Mirandy I guess
I’ve got an edge
with a cool panoramic vista roof
Wow, Russell Branyan really loves the new house. He’ll be traded at the deadline for sure.
(Kind of) Fun fact: I was at the game where he hit the black of the Mohegan Sun restaurant and the game where Raul Ibanez put one deep into the right field bleachers.
Point of my story: I am bad luck at Yankee games
Reply fail. Meant to reply to Carlosologist.
I was at the restaurant shot too–that was when I left
Yeah, that’s when I left as well. I was so salty when Griffey didn’t play. But that Ichiro error kind of made up for it.
geez, I thought both Gammons & Bill Simmons SWORE “Scout’s Honor” that Masterson was a much better return for Victor than Buchholz? They must have meant for The Red Sox.
Masterson has a .405 BABIP. Yikes
If you suck, your BABIP should be high.
his tERA is 4.61 , so it’s not like he’s getting THAT unlucky
good luck today Yankees. try not to blow this one, seems to be more common since detroit.
I wish Russell Brand was playing 1st for Cleveland instead.
Let’s go Good AJ!!!!
Looks like good AJ so far. Keep those first pitch strikes coming!
Nice job by Swish there.
I jinxed him. No-no’s been broken up.
why the hell is Moeller in the line up….does the 24 YR OLD Cervelli need a day off!!!!!
Yes, he does, he’s a catcher.
Right you are. Here’s what I suggest:
Cervelli is 24 (as you mentioned), so he’s young enough where he’s invincible. We should really push him. I mean, you don’t get better unless you’re really challenged, right? By the logic, I think we should have him play every game AND before or after all games, we should force him to participate in Iron Man competitions.
I mean, fuck it, he’s 24. He can handle it.
Amiriteorwut?
aaaahhhh bunt
But a very good bunt.
bunting for a hit =/= sacrifice bunting
I have no problem bunting for a base hit. It’s the sacrifices that drive me crazy.
lets sit a 323 hitter for some scrub who cant run
Cerv needs a day off.
yes, and CC had problems with his pitch calling yesterday for sure. give the kid a break for once
yeah, his hot streak calling them went cold th last week or so. Needs to adjust.
Masterson is trash. Of course, this now means 7 shutout innings.
They’ll get him, he has been terrible all year.
not unless he is Joba terrible.
How is a 2.41 FIP terrible?
your right… I need to reference more stats before making comments, because numbers, large sample size, small sample size, never lie.
I am still new at this blog and all the “only speak if you are authorize baseball guru” rules. But I am learning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
No one said that statistics never lie. However, presented in context, they allow you to provide evidentiary support for your opinions — and provide a basis for others to understand your thought process and agree or disagree with your assumptions or conclusions.
dude, let it go.. said I was learning the rules of the blog. Fuck, be patient for christ sake.
yanks will make this guy look like an all star today.
Did someone on the Yanks run over your dog?
wow… can we please see the pitcher get hit one more time, maybe in between innings, beginning of new innings… maybe if you keep showing it, blood will spew
You suck Kendry, way to make my injury filled team even worse. How the hell does that happen?
Was that criticism of Jeter? From the media? Blasphemy!
So basically Kendry hasn’t been that special yet Kay.
No, it’s not a sharp-looking cap. It looks like horseshit. It’s an embarrassment that they’re wearing it.
good news for today’s game, Joba is not available…. so that is a plus.
Look, we all know that Joba has pitched like crap in several of his recent outings, but your ceaseless harping on the issue is boring and contributes nothing to the blog. Stop.
my continuous harping… wow, I did not realize I was the only one. totally my mistake, my apologies.
Sarcasm is a rapier, not a sledgehammer.
well, masterson seems like the perfect guy for Miranda to pad up his stats a bit
Masterson might be my most-disliked major leaguer. Good thing he’s not a member of the Red Sox anymore, I might spontaneously combust.
Why? To me, he was probably one of the more likable ones, now that he is on the Indians he is much more likable imo.
Goofy looking guy who throws a sinker, former Red Sox reliever, just not that good.
Really? Of all the unlikeable characters out there you choose…Justin Masterson? Just seems weird.
good god
And no Jesus mention…
10 more outs? Was that a Harvey Haddix ref?
(I don’t think it was)
Of course their bunts work…
Damn, lucky blooper.
That could have been very bad.
That was almost very embarrassing. Heads up by Moeller
Cano for the next Dereck Jeter, but with power…and defense.
*Derek
Can you rephrase that?
Cano is going to be the next Derek Jeter, but with more power and better defense.
and to be fair, less speed.
20-30 points lower OBP as well. So, it’s not really a great comparison.
He has some very good defensive qualities, the most notable being his arm. I’m not sold that he’ll ever have very good range. That said, they’re very different types of players. Jeter is a hitter that sprays balls to right and is generally a very patient hitter. Cano is a guy that swings at tons of stuff and looks to drive liners all over the field. Not much patience at the plate.
But Cano doesn’t have an edge…
IETCVM
AJ unraveled slightly that inning compared to the first two, no biggie.
Meh, not really. Box score looks worse than he was. Still, I think he should have been the one covering 1st on the pickoff.
I’d rather see catcher cover. He’s got all the gear on, no need to put your pitcher at unnecessary risk for injury.
These guys look terrible
Some hits would be nice.
Yea, hits.
Seriously, the guy hasn’t won a game since August, you have a lineup of6 lefties. What is this? It’s so frusturating when we are not hitting bad nobody pitchers.
/Rant over
Yeah, my friend Matt is an Indians fan and without a doubt the most annoying person on the planet. He’ll typically sit around at home all day and play videogames all day (his Xbox live gamerscore is over 90,000 and he’ll shater 100K by the end of the summer), and he sends me about 30 texts a day. So, point being, these assholes better start crushing this ROOGY or I’ll be pissed.
****SHAKES FIST****
I’m terribly offended by your obvious anti-Asian leanings!
Asian, because of the videogames thing? Nahh…not Asian, just a worthless. He’s pretty much the human equivalent of the AIDS virus.
No, it was because of ROOGY. I was just being silly.
Ahhh…I guess I’m not as up on my racial slurs/stereotypes. Silliness is A+ in my book, so keep on keepin on.
My friend IS worthless though.
I have a friend who’s like 34 or 35 whose life still revolves around what video games come out.
At least he has a job and also cares about sports, but he’s one of the reasons I haven’t purchased a new video game in like…5 years. It’s also why I didn’t buy any of the current systems, though I feel I’ll break down and buy a Wii at some point.
Nice play by AJ.
Trivia answer: Yankees, Indians, White Sox, A’s
Attention all douchebags that still wear the tags and stickers on your hats. We get it that you are trying to perpetrate that you stole the hat, but we know you didn’t, so stop. Take the crap off.
Is that why they do that?
I have several co-workers who do that. I asked all of them why they do it, and they didn’t know.
So that means it’s just some sort of stupid trend that someone started, that other people thought was cool for some stupid reason, and now it is what it is.
Makes sense. That’s the dumbest thing about trends… you ask someone why they do it and they have no idea. They just saw someone else doing it. No individuality.
/end rant
I agree. I don’t know why, but I just know that I do.
/irony can be pretty ironic sometimes’d
I thought they did that so the hat looked “fresh”.
It’s not really that they want to look like they stole the hat. They think it makes them look ‘fresh’ like the hat is brand new; similarly to why they don’t like getting their white Nikes scuffed a little.
That might make sense, actually. It would also explain why they don’t bend the brims of the hats like they’re supposed to so that it actually looks like a hat.
That was weird.
Kendry Morales just sunk my team’s offense. He was my 2nd best player next to Kemp.
Good Lord. THE BANDBOX! Just put the ball in the air today fellas…
Second time in what, four games that Swish forgot how many outs there were?
Yea, that was either Thursday or yesterday, I can’t remember when.
I’m not sure if it’s a matter of forgetting how many outs there are as it is just having an instantaneous reaction to get that ball in quickly after a great play. The last thing on his mind as he’s crashing into the wall is how many outs there are.
I love Nick Swisher.
Anybody feel like comparing the stats of Cano’s career offensively and defensively to the beginning of Jeter’s Career in the same number of pa’s.
*?
I don’t think that’s a cheap hit, more like negating the amazing fielding of the ball.
Masterson’s going to have an easy afternoon if he’s getting strike calls at the shins.
I know WTF?
Uhg, right on top of that.
Yeah he looks real close…to a league average ballplayer.
He’s playing well recently.
That was crushed!!! No Kenny, I don’t get sick and tired of talking about how good he is.
Kenny? Paul O’Neil.
Oops, whatever. The point still holds.
Lets go Swish
pa fucking thetic
How come Tex can’t score on that?
Didn’t get far away enough.
He’s a bad baserunner plain and simple. He didn’t get a good read on that ball. I think a good baserunner (Jeter, A-Rod) knows that ball is going to hit off the wall, doesn’t hold up, and scores.
I was thinking the same thing. The OF was no where near that ball..he could have scored easily. Cant hit, cant run Tex
Oh, I thought he meant on the dropped third strike. Oops.
I did.
Ah. Then, yeah. Didn’t actually get that far away :-/
After watching Trevor Crowe make a couple of absurd catches this weekend, you really can’t understand why a guy who’s only actual weakness is footspeed would hold up on that ball?
Lamers.
Wow the Yankees never had success against Masterson
Cano’s double was the first extra base hit any current Yankee ever got off him.
So that was terrible.
Clutch.
I thought someone said earlier Masterson sucks….
He does, just not against the Yankees
Grrr!
Well that was unfortunate.
I’m starting to feel like I shouldn’t watch this game. Since I work Monday-Friday until 10:30, I can only watch on weekends. So they lost yesterday, they lost last Sunday, they lost on Thursday when I came home from work early. I really don’t remember the last time I saw them win!
Yay!!!!!!!!!
Wow, watching Rios’ home run, it’s a good thing it went out because it looked like Upton had no idea where that ball was going.
Am I the only one who thinks he looks lost out there a great deal of the time?
I remember an ESPN poll – sometime after BJ was criticized for not hustling or something – that asked: Who would you rather have on your team, BJ or Justin Upton.
It was about 60/40 for BJ. I laughed.
ESPN polls are as useful as Fox News polls.
“If only we could just draw the ovals.”
Ummmm…over my head. Explanation?
http://www.thedailyshow.com/wa.....ibertarian
Wow, only 5 minutes into it and I’m reminded of why I don’t watch The Daily Show anymore.
Because I can’t stand the clips of that joke of a network, and that clown Beck in particular.
Just, just wow.
So, when does JOPO actually come back? I’m thinking Wednesday.
These my friends, are outs. All you need are 27. 13 runs, uhg.
OK, if Girardi’s reason for playing musical relievers was because they pinch hit Branyan, maybe he just should have put in Marte when Robertson left so that they wouldn’t want to use Branyan?
Oh, that’s right. They would have used Branyan the next inning when Marte was out of the game. But that tells me you have no confidence in Joba to get lefties out, either.
/aggravated’d
This is not Joe’s fault, Joba messed up, it happens. Don’t blame Joe. Blame Joba, although every earthly reliever has a bad outing once in a while.
I know it’s Joba’s fault. I’m just so sick of Girardi’s bullpen overmanaging. Mitre’s been pretty decent, and he throws 3 pitches. The whole thing was just aggravating, from Sabathia seemingly being affected by the long delays in between his innings, and just the general collapse. This is at least the 3rd game they’ve lost that they had no business losing.
And now I’m getting more aggravated because they’re making Masterson look like Roy Halladay!!!!
I’m think I’m going to order a pizza so I have to leave to pick it up, and maybe then they’ll start hitting.
I blame Joe for sitting around and watching Joba give up four runs and the lead. If he doesn’t have it, take him out. Oh that’s right he couldn’t because he had no one left in the bullpen because he was mixing and matching in a 5 run game.
Yanks take the lead this inning. Who’s with me?
Maybe not.
Uhg.
Boy, both the Yankees and the umps are helping out Masterson on these strikeouts.
So when the pitching is working the offense isn’t and when the offense is working the pitching ins’t.
I remember when this team didn’t swing at pitches out of the strikezone. That was a fun April.
This is ridiculous. Grow a pair of balls and play like you want to defend the championship.
Is the zone really big today? It’s looked like both guys are getting some stuff low and away that may not really be in the zone.
Can someone tell the Yankee they arent facing Halladay, i think they have Masterson mixed up with Halladay >:(
It would be fitting that after yesterday’s disastrous game to lose today to a pitcher who has lost his last 11 decisions. While being shutout through 5 innings no less.
Justin Masterson is a complete hack who gets raped by lefties, and yet the yankees cant do anything against him through 5 innings. ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
/rant
Are you new here? Don’t think I’ve seen you before.
ive been frequenting this site for a while now, but i rarely comment. usually when im frustrated as hell lol.
How does Masterson have 7 strikeouts?
sinkerballer + a generous interpretation of the bottom of the strike zone = today
+ Yankees hitters swinging at WAY too many pitches out of the zone.
If the ump is calling low pitches strikes, you have to start swinging at them.
Not exactly Gardner’s best game so far.
I think the sun got him. It happens.
Plus it was more of a line drive than a flyball so alot harder to judge but still it seems like he misreads more balls playing LF than CF.
I don’t know if it shows up in the defensive stats, but Gardner does not seem to track the ball as well in LF as he does in CF. I guess it shouldn’t be a surprise since he hasn’t played much in left, so hopefully he’ll get more comfortable out there.
It’ll probably show up in his range rating.
Man, the ball is carrying everywhere today.
And a perfect time for AJ to just straight lose any command he had. Funny how things work…
Big k.
Sad when a midiocre team is beating the Yankees with a pitcher who hasn’t won a Game since last year, good job Yankees
SO true man, shitty teams NEVER beat good teams. Ever.
AJ with the filthh
AJ has been great today.
I thought the height of frustration this season – the low point – would be when they blew the game against the Red Sox, followed by a spanking by the Rays and losing two of three to the Mets.
After taking two of three in Minnesota and getting CG back, I didn’t expect it to carry over into this part of the season. The Yankees need to get it going.
They need to win this game and this series.
DO. SOMETHING!!!
This is ridiculous.
Yankee hitters must have early dinner reservations.
NYY Steak, open year round.
We’re beings shut out by a piece of crap.
What the hell was that swing, A-Rod?
See now Robbie’s gotta pick up the pieces.
Thank you Kay. Thank YOU.
Mother Fucker
Sooooooooooooo close.
Seems like the only balls traveling are hit by the Indians.
Serenity now Serenity now Serenity now Serenity now Serenity now Serenity now Serenity now Serenity now Serenity now…
>XO
Max Scherzer 5.2 Innings / 14 K
buh bye Dontrelle!
back to back shitty games to a last place team
good job yanks
Holy shit, Max Scherzer struck out 14 today. In 5.2 IP!
Incredible.
Actually, this is one of the issues with Scherzer — pitch counts are so high that even when he’s on, he’s getting yanked early.
Well Masterson was do for a win, Its just bad that it might come against the Yankees
Relax everyone, it’s one run. The odds it remains one to nothing isn’t 100% or close to it. Plenty of baseball left.
can the yankees EVER have pitching and hitting clicking on the SAME day???
i seriously think it’s becoming impossible
You know, we’ve won 3 out of 5 games we’v played, so it happens quite a lot.
Two of those games were 1-0 and 3-2, so his point is somewhat valid.
I was reffering to the whole season.
Oh, ok.
/somewhat disbelieving’d
Do you think Joba, Zmac, Melancon, and other Minor League player get us Lee this summer if Javy keeps struggling
WAAAAY too much for a summer rental
Uh, why would we do that? We’ll get him in FA anyway.
Heh.
Why, can Lee hit?
Yeah, that’s way too much for Carlos Lee!
ICWUDT
The only person with an upside is Joba, but no telling how long that will take, Melancon has looked midiocre at best, Zmac wont be a starter with the Yankees, so he has no use, and a minor leager the Yankees wont ever need in the majors. Yankees get Lee, sign him to extension, and have the best rotation in the majors when CC starts pitching well, besides its just a thought
First off who’s trading for Vazquez? I believe he has a no trade clause so it’s limited the amount of teams he can go to.
Second, supposedly the Mariners are looking for a catching prospect. So unless you’re willing to give up Romine or Montero, the deal likely isn’t happening.
You’re right. Let’s consult Steve Phillips and see what he thinks about trading Montero & Romine in a package deal for Oswalt or Lee.
We have a minor league full of catching prospects, give them Sanchez or Murphy
Two guys who are so deep in the minors to have little value.
CLIFF LEE!!!
Lou Marson sounds like someone that should have been playing in the 1920′s
Heh, that’s true.
Shit.
That is probably all they need…
Noooooooooooooooooo
There is an ‘I’ in quit, you know.
Shoot, I hate unearned runs.
2 outs, 2 strikes om the hitter with nobody on base. Indians still score runs this inning.
And if we lose Swish that’s basically our offense lost as well.
That groundball is a pretty good sign this is not their day.
well game over guys
It’s 3 fucking runs.
They’ve hit exactly how many balls out of the infield today?
teehee!
No
Thanks for the out, makes up for the error.
The bottom of that order has been fucking killing the Yankees.
Uch, unearned runs are a bitch.
If Yanks lose this one, I’m calling it: Gardner’s fault
If Yanks lose this one, I’m calling it: Yankees fault.
This is a team game. Don’t point at one player. No one has scored and their defense is getting sloppy. Blame the team.
If the Yankees lose today, they will have less wins than the Blue Jays and probably have same amount of wins as Boston. Yankees will be closer to 4th place than 1st in the division.
The month of May sucks!!!!
It is much too early to worry about that. 110+ games to go.
Just pointing out how horrible this month has been considering how good April was.
Oh, good, she’s singing. We got three at bats to make it up.
Man Bautista is raking for the Blue Jays. Is this real or Chris Sheltonian?
The latter.
Looking more like a Yankees loss, not an Indians win, the offense better respond this inning or im done watching the game
It would be better if you were done posting here…
Dont be done..Yanks arent done
Well, I’m going to get my pizza now. If they come back, we can all attribute it to that. (see my earlier post)
Pizza from where??
Just Papa John’s. Wanted to try one of the types I haven’t had before.
But I pulled back into my garage just as Teix’s HR went out. So, yea, I shouldn’t watch the rest of this game now.
here comes the comeback
Do they pinch-hit for Moeller?? If so with who??
Probably not. Unless it’s Posada, Girardi’s petrified of using his backup catcher.
Aaaaaaaand I’ll shut up now.
Joey G just burned you.
Well that sucked considering he was ahead in the count 3-0.
I’m calling upon the grit gods here
IT WORKED, PURE FUCKING GRIT FOR GRIT GRITNER!!
please steal Gardy
Seriously. He needs to be going. Masterson’s delivery is infinite.
Lately it seems whenever he’s gotten on base he hasn’t tried to steal
LOL at Oneill saying that couldve been a DP to end the inning.
Cervelli for Moeller, shows how weak the bench is at the moment.
I was just thinking “who else is on the bench?” If it’s Cervelli or Thames against a righty sinkerballer, I might take Cervelli.
This wouldve been a perfect spot for Winn to pinch-hit!! lol
If they don’t score here I’m done with baseball
At least Jeter can’t GIDP.
Thats what happens when you pinch-hit for your 3rd string catcher with your 2nd string catcher.
bunt, Jete
Kay does realize Jeff Nelson is not the first and only pitcher to ever use that move right??
No.
Kay repeats himself over and over as if thinks a new set of Yankee fans show up for every game. At least he doesn’t mention the “fallacy of the predetermined outcome” over other inning. Now it’s just every other game.
Man, I remember the good times. Opposing pitchers never made it past the 6th inning, Yankee batters swung at things called strikes, Brett Gardner used to steal ba…. HEEEEYYY!! Let the good times roll Gardy!!
Yay.
OMG ITS OVER
AJ should be leading 2-0 nothing now.
YEA!!!!! love the speed by Gardy
Cap’n Clutch!!!!
Hey, we have a game! Looks like my prediction of 7 shutout innings was off!
Jeter did something!
Good job Jeet, lets go Granderson
Crowe has a good arm apparently shit.
Yeah I’ve been impressed with Crowe all around. Legit player.
Swish was on his knees yelling for Gardner to slide
Yeah baby…
As long as that is all he was asking Gardner to do while on his knees…..
Hey!!! LOL
wahoo, halfway there!
CAN the Grandy man?
yes he can!
Grandy man can!!!
Ok ok, it’s tex time
Curtis Granderson can’t hit lefties.
I was going to crack on Tony Sipp, but he was legit last year and has pretty stellar MiLB numbers.
Positive vibes all around for Tex…enough is enough
Grandy!
Granderson owns this guy.
well, alright, so we’ve been foolish
ad nauseum is accurate
This what we missed from Granderson, COME ON TEX, BIG HIT!!!!
can tex come through? i hope so
Yes he can
No, Mike. “We” haven’t. You have.
Tex is gonna hit it to Texas
Woo!
POSITIVE VIBES FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah positive vibes indeed
TEX!!!
Eat that, Kay.
zOMG its ovah!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
THE DROUGHT IS OVER
whoooooooooooooooooooooo…tex to texas
We all had faith in you Tex!!!!!! (not really??)
BOOM.
ha, ha , haa!
Tex and Jete more than redeem themselves for the bad play earlier. AJ gets the win!!
I came.
I think Teix should check his pants too… big hit for him. I’m just sayin maybe he ejaculated.
Ejaculated.
Thats what im talkin bout Tex, break out of this damn slump
better news, Posada might be back, lets face it Cervelli has really cooled down, and isnt throwing runners out anymore, but I still love that kid no homo, but I expect Posada to DH
Dwayne Bowe approves.
clutch tex!!!!!! woooooo
Boys, time to toss the life preservers over for all those who jumped ship.
TEIX MESSAGE!!!
Bring in Joba to SHUT EM DO….wait noooo!
Um….positive vibes wont work for Joba
Ne needs a Red Bull and a case of the winds.
FUCK THIS TEAM…IM DONE WITH THEM…
/Fritoman’d
Shut up loser
F*ck yo couch Masterson!!!
They never should’ve gave him money
Positive vibes all around for the bullpen
Please no Joba.
this sipp guy SUCKS against us
How far was the Tex Message sent!
Texas and beyond
I want AJ back, showed no signs of fatigue
who do you think comes in for relief now?
And, yep, just got back from picking up pizza and now they’re winning. I don’t think I should watch this.
U shouldnt
Get the f*ck out of the house NOW!
Yeah, please turn your TV off for an hour or so.
We’ll let you know when you can watch the post-game.
Where is the Pizza from??
Papa John’s.
AJ to the 8th!!!!
PLEASE NO JOBA!!!!!
He’s not available.
Doesn’t Burnett get the win even if he doesn’t come out?
He does but no-one in the BP except Mo
That’s what I though, but Kay said something weird.
this is how bad joe doesnt true our BP
he brings burnett back in after his 100 pitch mark
You know, maybe it’s because they used all of their relievers yesterday.
and they hardly pitched..besides joba and gaudin
And maybe it’s because Joe routinely has his veteran starters throw more than 100 pitches, especially if they’re dealing.
Remember when AJ signed with the Yankees the biggest concern was his durability. No one ever mentions that anymore.
I’m honestly stunned, with all the players who have hit the DL, that he’s not one of them.
How dare you question him?
Acupuncture…seriously…read it somewhere…he asked Cashman if the Yanks could provide before he signed contract
Burnett’s had some legitimate injuries during his career, but I remember reading somewhere that he admitted he was always so concerned about his arm that he wouldn’t pitch if he didn’t feel 100% and at times opted for the DL. Halladay pretty much told him that his arm will never feel 100% if he pitches an entire season and he basically had to tough it out and get therapy for it. (Perhaps the acupunture is part of it.) Regardless, he changed his approach later in the 2007 season and he’s pretty much taken the mound for every start the past three years.
Acupuncture
Oh boy, Joba is warming up.
Jason Knix, the man with a 115 avg and no home runs just hit a GS off of Sheilds, CWS up 7-3!!!
This inning for Sheilds, walk-walk-HBP-almost hit by pitch, grand slammed instead- single. Still in the game. Started the inning tied at 3.
Big Game James.
-caught stealing-another single-still in teh game with 110 pitches. What the fuck is Maddon doing?
1 er, 8 ip. Fucking domination!
That is a HELL of a game by AJ.
Oh, so that’s where Burnett’s K-rate went.
No walks today, either!
AJ his own set-up man, good game AJ
AJ fucking Burnett ladies and gentlemen…
Hey, Joba was right: night turned to day! Yankee Day!
Well done, Allen. Well done indeed.
Big game Allan James…
Fuck, Boston breaks open the game 7-1.
Don’t worry about them. Look forward, not back.
I’m doing both see comments above. Still, you’re right.
Forget the RS….(for now)
Darn it..I’m totally loving on AJ right now
.360+? I’m aiight with that Robbie
LOL. For me its that sexy move AJ makes after he strikes a batter out plus the hand flick and of course the tatts
ps. Robbie’s got a nice behind though
What’s Cano batting this week, .800? What a beast, it hasn’t even been that long since his last tear.
Cano with another multi-hit game. And the outs have been absolutely smoked.
I really really hate Ortiz and the Red Cox, whatever Yankees are winning
blow it open miranda!
Yes sir!
Shit, is his arm injured?
Oh Swish…don’t be hurt.
I’m liking this DH a lot.
Miranda earns his stripes. oh, yeah.
Mo is going to lose his Save opportunity.
good job miranda!
About 20 minutes ago I was feeling as bad as you could about baseball and now I’m feeling as good as ever. All in 20 min. Weird how that works.
This is why I love baseball
This is why I hate baseball. This is why I love baseball.
I like Jensen Lewis (the furniture store)….not the pitcher
Whoa, he’s strong.
Miranda’s been a pleasant surprise. Hitting for lots of pop.
It’s nice to see his power translating to a big-league level, even in SSS. He’s one of those guys who probably would have gotten his shot a lot sooner if he hadn’t been on the Yankees.
Ive mentioned this before, sure getting a full-time real good DH at the trade deadline would be a good move but I have no problem with a Miranda-Thames DH platoon for the time being.
What a rocket
what happened to swish?
RAn into the wall trying to catch an rbi double. Smashed his arm into the wall.
*Ran
Can we see a AJ CG, probably not
He’s nearing 120, so no.
What a rocket!
26 runs scored in the 2+ games since Grandy came back. That’s a nice change.
What happened to Swish’s right shoulder? He had a chance meeting with a concrete wall. Hi, how do you do?
swisher ok?? i heard he was injured!
Oh crap, and just when we heard Posada is coming back and Granderson is back, hope nothing to serious
Squeezing Mariano Rivera?
ZOMG, bp outs.
You know Mo is back when he’s dealing in a non-save situation.
God can do more than just pitch.
Game over. It got a bit jumpy at the end.
Man, Mo has to skip the bat he smashed!
Holy crap Mo. I love you. LOL!
Game, set, done
That’s the best Mo looked. His velocity has been there, but control was off. Not today. Nice dance, too.
Wa- the fuck -hoooo!
That was awesome to end the game.
Indeed.
Mo’s got hops
We have our next ss right here. When Jete retires, Mo can go Casey Kelly on us, and close and play ss. He can hit the best of ‘em (see Rodriguez, Fransciscio), and field. Perfection!
Pretty spry for a 40 yo.
Matsui in left, no joke.
Eh, they’ve already done it.
tex just said he had a great may. and that he would take 4 more monts like may…. who wants that? he’s hit 270 something with 5 hrs 22 rbi’s. we can do better cant we tex?
This.
Wow, that May really is a lot better then it seems. It’s only a slightly worse than normal month for him. 281, 6 hr’s, 22 rbi’s, and a near 500 slg.
If he did that every month the rest of the way, he’d hit .270/28/122.
I can’t say I wouldn’t take that. I mean, I’d prefer +.20 on the BA and 5-10 more HR, but that’s a decent season.
That’s not exactly worth 22 mil. That’s a drop of more than 10 homers from last year.
I mean, you’re right … let me modify that statement and say that I’d take that as a down year. If he kept up those numbers the rest of his contract, not quite good enough.
Wow, Tex over AJ as the player of the game. Wow. A 3-run homer versus 8 ip of 1 er. Hmmm.
Well Tex did have the better WPA. (.447 vs .128)
True, but WPA is very flawed. For example, the Burnett could pitch 10 innings of shutout ball, and Tex could get a walk-off solo shit int he bottom of the 10th.He’d have the better wpa, but would anybody question the more impressive performance? No.
I’m not disagreeing with the fact that AJ had a monster of a game. It was his best start all year.
and he held temper when the defense fell short bing bang bong.
WPA isn’t flawed, it just doesn’t tell you what you wanted to know. In fact, it’s really just intended to help tell the story of a game…this AB was really big, this play really hurt the team’s chances of winning, etc. It’s frequently misused.
THIS.
A.J.’s the unsung hero. Eight great innings with a taxed and generally unreliable bullpen? That’s straight up ace-like.
Yup. With just 1 earned run.
Wow, fail by MLB.com. Burnett pitched 8, not 7.
MLB.com is pretty terrible overall
Any chance of a quick recap guys? It’s the OH’s birthday and she’s killing me for trying to get on the computer to check what happened