Jun
11
Game 61: Houston, you have a problem
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"Aw dang, I really miss New York y'all." (Photo Credit: Pat Sullivan, AP)
The Astros are bad, like really really bad. As a team they’re hitting .237-.290-.339, which is like having nine Randy Winn‘s in the lineup. It’s that bad. Houston’s rotation is sneaky good, but it’s just not enough to overcome that putrid lineup. I’m sure former ‘Stro Andy Pettitte is glad he decided to come back to the Yankees when he did.
Here’s the tonight’s lineup…
Jeter, SS
Granderson, CF
Teixeira, 1B
Cano, 2B
Swisher, RF
Posada, DH
Cervelli, C
Pena, 3B
Russo, LF
And on the mound, Andrew Pettitte.
Make sure you check out all the injury updates from earlier in case you missed them. The game starts at 7:05pm ET, and can be seen on YES. Enjoy.
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Those team numbers can’t be right, can they?
peñalized
btw andy pettitte has 199 wins with the yankees
I thought that was refering to what happened to Mexico today against South Africa. Dumb me.
Mike, I think you made all the girls who come on here throw up in their mouth with that picture of Pettitte in an Astros uniform. AT LEAST THEY SHOULD BE SICK.
I still can’t see him in an Astros uniform without being all “noooo he’s ours stupid Texas” (sorry to those of you from Texas). This picture is very FAAAAAACE though, so…
ha i used to help “baby sit” his children in a deer park camp 5 years ago, and he’s a great guy.
What what WHAAAAAT you can’t just drop these facts on me like this man!!
I’m concerned on why baby sit is in quotations.
He actually sat on babies
if i wasn’t too old for the camp to be a counselor, i would def keep on doing it :p
Wow a .237-.290-.339 isn’t just bad, that’s “Hide the Women and Children” Bad, YIKES!!!!
Do they have a hidden “Houston Astros Watch” up here on RAB somewhere?
Ahahahhahaha! A+
Carlos Lee: Most underrated bad contract in baseball?
it is a god awful contract. Vernon wells still has him beat, but he’s actually having a good season so far
Agreed. Do you want to take this donkey off our hands too?
man since i’m in houston, i have to watch the houston broadcast
i don’t like the houston broadcasters because they are so boring and overly homerish
Quick everyone, I need answers. I’ll miss the game tonight, being at work and all. But I might miss tomorrow’s game too. My sister wants me to go to my brother-in-law’s birthday party tomorrow. Unfortunately, said part is going to be in NE Philadelphia, which means a round trip of about 3 hours in the car. Plus, I’d have to go with my parents.
I’m thinking, considering my work week is fairly mentally exhausting and I’d actually like to spend my weekends relaxing, I should stay at home and watch the game. What say everyone?
Go to the store and pick up a bottle of José Cuervo Reserva de la Familia. Then order hookers. Party all night and call your brother-in-law while in a drunken stupor to wish him a happy birthday.
TSJC, is that you?
Agreed. If your BIL can’t understand that you want to stay home alone and watch a game, then he should have his “guy card” revoked.
the astros have jason michaels as DH
this should be fun
Wow, Bourn just looked clueless there.
Interleague play is a travesty and an abomination.
Andy’s got his No-Hit STUFF
Everyone does against the Astros.
they cant be THAT bad
they are a bad team
Shhh!
wow easy inning
How much of that .237-.290-.339 is Berkman? If you take him out, I can’t even imagine how bad it would be.
actually i think a lot of it is hunter pence and jeff keppinger. If they weren’t around…. yikes
Let’s go Yanks, get the wifebeater!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone with mlb.tv not getting audio?
Curtis Granderson is so awesome.
Astros won’t have a no hitter today.
What is Carlos Lee doing in the field?!?
Imitating Marcus Thames?
There was a time when my fiance thought his name was “Nick Swiffer.”
Ugh. Reply fail.
This is one of those games where Tex’s bat will go apeshit on the ball.
haha not if he’s getting walked…
HEY MYERS BEAT YOUR WIFE LATELY?
Yay Grandy!
and i might have an astros pettite jersey don’t judge me
I totally have a Pettitte Astros t-shirt :X It’s lost though, I think.
No, mine’s hanging in my closet in all its rusty glory.
Why yes, I have. Thanks for asking.
Haha whoops, I read the original question as “HAS MYERS BEAT YOUR WIFE LATELY?”
If the Yanks hang a crooked number on me tonight, she’s gunna have another black eye to explain to the neighbors.
OH YES FRANKIE COME TO ME
(ahem)
Yay, Cervelli.
cano!
cmon swish
Let’s go Swish, early lead!!!
Good eye Swisha!
Nothing I love more than opposing pitchers walking in a run.
Alright Jorgie!!! Break out of the slump now!
cmon jo po
SWIIIIIIIIIIISH
HIP HIP WHORE-HEY
All that stuff.
Carlos Lee is playing the outfield when there’s a DH spot available wha huh???
wow i just noticed that
yikes
They have to catch up to the O’s in the contest for Rendon somehow..
man i saw that breaking ball coming a mile away
Posada-Cervelli-Pena-Russo is just brutal, with Posada’s current struggles
EYES!
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah Frankie!!!
Cervi!!!!!!!!!!! Huge!!!
cerv!!!
woohoo!!
Frankie!!
runners in cervelli position
if pena gets a hit, i might fistpump
If Pena gets a hit I’ll eat my shoe
damn, i was looking for the salt…
oh darn
ugh, ball 4
34 pitches and 3 runs. Not so bad for the first inning.
Pretty good inning! 3 runs should be more than enough for Andy tonight
Is that Chevy Chase in the front row? It looks like him.
Wow, 3,000 innings. That’s sweet. Thanks for the insight Kay.
nice play mark!
how the hell was pete munro part of the 6 pitcher no-hitter. that guy was terrible
He had pretty good results the second half of that year. 2.79 ERA in 19.1 IP from the day of the no-hitter to the end of the year.
damn bloops
Pete Happy breaking up the no-no
He actually said “oh gosh”
Pettite having trouble closing em out…
Wow, terrible Andy.
bad bad andy
Ewwww
good god wtf?
manzella is horrible
ugggh
Well, that sucked.
Did anybody else notice that Jeter is one hit away from 3000 for his career?
2824 (regular season) + 175 (post-season) = 2999
Oh nos
It’s okay, he locks it down after this.
finally, andy
now the offense needs to get more runs
I blame all of you who said he had no-hit stuff in the first inning sob sob.
The Astros have been hitting better in recent weeks. Certainly not intimidating or anything, but better than their season line shows. Still some potential danger there.
Though Manzella shouldn’t be part of that. Oh well.
Oh I don’t think they’re as bad as people are saying. But whenever people make declarations after one inning – eeek.
Russo looked safe there
Upon further review, maybe not
looked safe
BARELY safe… sucks, but can’t blame the ump for that.
I’d say he was out. Foot wasn’t completely down when the ball was in the glove.
Hm, I thought the ball wasn’t quite in the glove when his foot was down. lol
wow jetes…
yikes
jeter, disgusting AB
aight guys, this is brett effing meyers
pound him plz
Can we go back to the first inning instead? I didn’t like that second inning.
Well, the Red Sox game is over already (theoretically). Thanks Jamie Moyer.
I just got home, has Paul O’Neill talked about his nephew being drafted by the Yankees?
Yeah, but Kay brought it up
Kay brought it up for him, and then they did talk about it a bit.
Yes, said he’s going to school. Hurt his shoulder right before the draft, needs/had surgery.
Cool. Thanks for the answers ya’ll.
Yeah, he and Kay discussed it. O’Neill said his nephew’s likely to head off to college at UMich since he was a 42nd round pick. He also said his nephew had shoulder surgery just before the draft, so his stock may have fallen a bit b/c of that.
man bourn looks like andy’s biotch
Bourn hits .194 vs. lefties. And it shows.
he’s hurting my fantasy team this year. i expected much more from him this season
much better inning
So, Andy can school the top of the order but the bottom of the order does the damage. That’s just not right.
Didn’t in the past Roy Oswalt say that he never wanted to play in New York?
I think he did… but he apparently changed his mind. IIRC, he also talked crap about A-Rod, saying something like that we shouldn’t count any of his records. Do you want to take away your 2005 pennant because Clemens and Pettitte played such a huge role there?
I think I remember hearing that but with the combination of his age and the remainder of his contract, he doesn’t have too many options. Wanting to go to a contender further shortens the list of possible destinations, so he pretty much has to take what he can get.
florida beating the rays 6-0
wowzers
And the Red Sox up 8-0 on the Phillies.
Big scoring early…
Boston housed Jamie Moyer. Shortest start for him since 1998.
You see his career numbers against the Sox? 6-12 record with a 6.5+ ERA. Never had a chance.
if you look at the scoring summary, it seems symmetrical in the way the scored. pedroia gets on, vmart doubles him home, ortiz doubles vmart home.
He forgot to take his Ensure this morning.
Trivia: Phil Nevin.
What was the question? Was it who was drafted first overall the year the Yanks picked Jeter at #6?
-Actually, I think it had to have been the question — now that I think about it, Nevin was drafted by the Astros
I’m sure it was that.
Unless, of course, it was “Who was Ryan Klesko’s favorite drinking buddy?”
hahaha, that would’ve been an all-time trivia question. Maybe they could’ve added that as a hint.
Too easy
wow whoopi goldberg is in the houston astros’ booth.
impressive
Big whoop
damn jetes almost had that
Is it just me or does the outfield grass look like it’s not in great shape?
It does look different at first glance.
They mowed it like an hour before the game.
We have the worst field in the majors.
/Pedroia’d
When Grandy was running out there you could see dirt and dust coming up. That boxing match was a TERRIBLE idea.
In my opinion, boxing is always a terrible idea. Not a fan at all.
Agreed. Nothing other than baseball should happen in the stadium in season, it’s not like they need the money.
If the extra money allows then to sign both Cliff Lee AND Carl Crawford, they could do whatever the hell they want there. I’m not complaining.
The Astros used to have a lot of “pride” back in the day.
Posada has no chance against the breaking ball
Curveball : Posada
as
Changeup : Teixeira
Ugh…
Guess you could add
Slider : Bourn
to that too.
boy will jo po EVER lay off the curveball? it’s almost as if he never sees it coming on a 2 strike count
Jorge has been a zero since coming back its like he never got off the DL
ugh….
10 straight retired by Myers… not good
I really hate to complain but for a guy tho throw 36ish pitches in the 1st and than 30ish over the next 3 is unacceptable
34 pitches in the first inning. 33 pitches total in 3 innings since. Yuck.
“Big Game” James. haha
the dumbest nickname in baseball
he’s never pitched in a big spot in his life other than the one WS game he won
I enjoyed when they were calling Rick Porcello Big Game Rick before the Tigers/Twins one-game playoff last year. Uhhhh…
man mike bourn is cooked
good job kevin
great steal too!
Nice Russo!
Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusso.
Brett Who?
dang it jetes
Jeter, ugly…
Jeter looks terrible
great running by russo!
What a gift, that was a terrible attempt by Keppinger.
good hit Tex
Heck of an arm by the RF.
James Shield’s final line?
3.1 IP 9H 10ER 3BB 4Ks
wow
shields’*
He outlasted Moyers 1-9-9-1-1 line.
swisha great play!
Very nice Swish!!!
I thought those last two outs were homers.
The nickname is “Fat Elvis”!
Argh!
Kay thinks Mo comes in to “Enter Sandcastle”.
Number of heart attacks that inning just gave me: 3
Man, Posada has a case of the Teixeira’s right now.
and now he feels better…..
$12,000, or as Michael Milkin likes to call it, “Pocket change”.
Milkin, the TRUE wall st guru…. just got caught and didn’t have politicians in his pocket like Goldman.
Illegally-obtained pocket change.
Great cause, though.
“My only regret . . . is that I have . . . boneitis.”
Is there anyone more annoying than Whoopi Goldberg?
Anyone from Jersey Shore, The View, Fox News, American Idol, local news casters, and on and on and on…
Isn’t she on The View?
She is… but you asked there were anyone more annoying… everyone on the view is annoying.
Anyone from Jersey Shore, The View, Fox News, American Idol, local news casters, and on and on and on…
Oh and any commercial on mlbtv.com especially the official licensing commercial and these yahoo commercials.
Yeah, it’s a good thing that mlb.tv is free, otherwise those commercials would be really annoying…oh, wait.
Moyer gave up as many runs tonight as Ubaldo has given up ALL YEAR.
Crazy. It’s almost like you can’t prognosticate this game.
Ugh, this is worse than a Kim Jones interview segment…
Eliminate cancer by 2016?!?!?!!?!
WLhat? REklalkjyly?
On what planet are these people living?
You would think that a guy who studies yield curves would be a be more conservative when it comes to investment returns and time-frames.
wow that was cat-like
jorge was just like ,wtf
Michael Milken once paid a $200 million fine.
holy shit how did he do that
Because he was worth about $2.5 billion.
oh, well that makes sense
crazy
Hunter Pence… with that first name, I wonder if his parents even liked him.
He’s a big dude. I’m sure he didnt catch any middle school hell for it.
Is Swisher trying to quit dip? I just noticed him chewing gum.
His face when he caught the ball was so funny.
Definitely. Swish Dog cracks me up on the reg.
good god bourn that was sick
I don’t know if I should be more frustrated that Myers finished seven innings against the Yanks (especially given that first inning) or more relieved that they at least have 4 runs given the C lineup out there.
Jeter, that’s a killer…
Oh dear.
bad move… hope this move doesn’t bite joe in the ass
This game is in Joba’s hands now. I’m very scared.
oh I am not a fan of this call to the bullpen..come on Joba whip some ass
wait… andy couldnt pitch a few more pitches??
Keppinger had very good at-bats against him…
Joba’s got this. The ‘Stros will hack at everything.
cmon joba… plz plz plz get out of this
ut oh… bad joba
cmon one more out… one more out…
Berkman take Joba deep?
Oh so you’re an Astros fan?
Huh? No Yankees.
My point
_____
Your head.
O:S from now on.
how is your point over my head? You asked a question which did not make a point.
No, his question very much made a point. He was pointing out that there was no reason for a Yankee fan to predict that the Yankees would blow the lead, and concluded, since we were playing the Astros, that you were an Astros fan. The post went over your head.
“Berkman take Joba deep?” is not a prediction; it’s a question.
It was a question that implied an answer in the positive. If you read baby carlos’s posts you’d know this because he hates Joba (I’m not trying to berate you for not reading every single one of baby carlos’s comments, but nevertheless I think that it’s important to understand where this comment was coming from).
Baby Carlos seems pretty pessimistic, but I can’t get on him for his Berkman/Joba post at all. Doesn’t really matter either way, I guess, as Joba got Berkman and the Yanks won
True; but what was really the point in asking IF Berkman would take Joba deep if he didn’t think it would happen.
Poster – According to you, Matt Imbrogno’s post “concluded” that baby carlos is an Astros fan. baby carlos, realizing Matt’s insinuation, responded that he is a Yankee fan. So how did the post go over his head? It’s HARD to get schooled by baby carlos, congrats.
See, this if funny because I didn’t even write the “over his head” post, I just clarified it. What he didn’t get was that it was a sarcastic insult (hey, it was).
It’s hard to get schooled by yourself, congrats.
when did you realize it was a “sarcastic insult”? In your earlier post you indicated that Matt “concluded” baby carlos was an Astros fan.
Joba got lucky… bad call.
he obviously swung
well obvious in my mind
No, it was a swing.
FAIL
walk berkman right?
nm
Oh snap. Get him, Joba. Get him.
I’d love to see a changeup here.
That’ll do.
good work Joba!
Phew.
good Joba!
FISTPUMPS!!!
Jeter is probly soooooooo relieved
I don’t think he went but I’ll take it!
Nah, he did go.
Whew
Jorge and the ball boy definitely thought he went, haha.
Tsk tsk, Curtis.
ball’s not carrying tonight
Damn, I thought that was getting out. Oh well.
thought that was gone
Thought that Tex hit was gooooone but I’ve thought like four Houston hits were goooone too.
I thought the one Swish caught up against the wall was gone.
Yep. And there was one Russo caught in the same inning I believe that gave me even more of a heart attack.
Yeah, it was the batter right before Swisher.
boy mo has really been missing his spots this year
well missing more than usual
Kay loves the word “nip” or any variation thereof.
Wow, that was outside.
how dare you.
If it’s not Mo on the mound, that’s a ball.
Woohoo!!!
Oh peace, Jason. His cutter was mooooooooving tonight.
YANKEES WIN!
Two hours and 20 minutes. Wow.
yeah, thats what i was thinking too.
I never understood though why people love short games. If you love baseball, wouldn’t you want to watch more of it, which would be somewhat longer games? I know there’s a point where it’s just too much or if the game is ugly, but still…
Short games, long games, I love ‘em all. I just like baseball. Except if the Yankees are losing. ;P
bexy, i agree. your guy Andy did ok tonight too
This makes me happy.
Sincerely,
Joe West
/too easy’d
Woohoo Yankees! Congrats on #200 with the Yankees Andy
So that guy Montero has 2 doubles in tonights game.
I think the Montero Watch is broken! It’s supposed to be cursing players… not helping them!
1.5 games out, 2 innings away from 1 game out. Seems like a long time since it’s been that close.
You guys need to stop stressing every time Mo pitches. Seriously. If I’d been following the thread I’d think he pitched out of a bases loaded, nobody out jam.
I had no worries with Mo. Slight concern with Joba’s spot because lately it seems like everything against him is being hit hard. Just gotta hope he gets on a roll soon.
Um on your earlier comment about the “over my head”. Again, my post was a question, NOT a statement. I was unaware in the world of RAB blog that a question equates to a statement for or against the Yankees.
Fascinating how much I learn each time I read the in game threads.
I love how you act like learning is a bad thing.
See again, misunderstanding another comment. So now I say I am fascinated by how much I learn and you interpret that as a bad thing.
Do you really understand English, grammar, and language?
Okaaay I’m out.
If you weren’t being sarcastic the comment above me wasn’t very insulting.
Good day to you sir.
Old, but still awesome and appropriate considering the pounding they took today:
No matter who wins tonight’s Celtics/Lakers game, Hoss sure hopes we can make fun of Philadelphia fans again. 6:58 PM Jun 10th via web
Gotta love Hoss.