Game 93: Getting back on track
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Matsui hit a HR in his first game back at Yankee Stadium last night. (/Gary Cohen'd) (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
It’s only been four games, but the Yankees’ starting pitchers have been a bit off since returning from the All Star break. It started with CC Sabathia‘s shaky, though not terrible, effort against the Rays on Friday, even though he was working on normal rest. A.J. Burnett got knocked around before knocking himself out of Saturday’s game on ten day’s rest, while Andy Pettitte didn’t have his usual command before getting hurt on the same amount of rest the next day. Phil Hughes, working on 11 day’s rest last night, got smacked around pretty good himself.
So today the ball falls into the hands of Javy Vazquez, who by all accounts has been no worse than the team’s second best starter over the last seven or eight weeks. But there is a problem when Javy pitches: the Yankees never score any runs. Ever. They’re scored a total of 30 runs in his last 11 starts (2.72 per), and were held to two runs or less a whopping six times during that span. It’s not like he’s been lined up against aces either, I think the guy’s just cursed.
Joel Piniero, who’s on a nice little roll of late (2.10 ERA, 3.59 FIP in his last seven starts) will be a tough matchup today. He won’t beat himself with walks and chances are the team will beat his sinker into the ground. Gotta hope Piniero leaves a few pitches up the zone and the Yanks capitalize.
Here’s the lineup, which needs a real DH like nobody’s business…
Jeter, SS
Swisher, RF
Teixiera, 1B
A-Rod, 3B
Cano, 2B
Miranda, DH
Granderson, CF
Cervelli, C
Gardner, LF
And on the bump, it’s Javy Vazquez.
It’s a getaway day for this short two game set, with the game starting at 1pm ET. You can watch on YES locally and MLB Network nationally. Enjoy.
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To be fair, Gary Cohen doesn’t have much to cheer about these days. Reading that Matsui hit a home run was probably the highlight of his month. Why not add a bit of creative (if fabricated) flair?
Hah, very funny caption. I’m glad I wasn’t the only one to hear that piece of information.
Jesus(,) we need a dh
Prediction: Juan “Gone” Miranda goes deep today.
seconded. Cano, too.
A-rod hits #700
No that’s not a misprint.
I want ARod to break Hard Hittin’ Mark Whiten’s record.
Nice.
Since I didn’t watch the Mets last night, I’m guessing Cohen said that even though the Angels have already visited Yankee Stadium this year, along with Matsui already having homered during that series?
If so, that’s some bad fail on Cohen’s part.
Yep, and then he went on to talk about what a special moment it must have been for Godzilla.
Does he think he’s Leonard from Memento or something?
Oh, and go see Inception.
That’s the thing about Mets announcers and Mets fanboys/broadcasters on WFAN. They don’t watch the Yankees AT ALL, yet think they can provide insightful comment on them. It’s disgraceful really. I’d rather have them be honest and just come out and say, “Look, I’m a Mets fan and I don’t pay any attention to the Yankees at all. I watch six Yankee games a year…the six times they play the Mets. So…I’m not even going to try to comment on the Yankees.” They might get fired, but at least it would be honest.
Good numbers today:
Swisher vs. Pineiro: .360/.433/.520 in 31 PA’s
Cano vs. Pineiro: .615/.615/.846 in 13 PA’s
Hunter vs. Vazquez: .209/.244/.372 in 45 PA’s
Bad numbers today:
Tex vs. Pineiro: .216/.310/.486 in 42 PA’s (not bad power)
A-Rod vs. Pineiro: .152/.200/.182 in 35 PA’s (yikes)
Granderson vs. Pineiro: .071/.176/.071 in 17 PA’s (yikes again)
Abreu vs. Vazquez: .316/.384/.803 (10 HR’s) in 86 PA’s (Holy Schnikes)
Can’t help but think that with Hunter and Matsui (1-8 against Javy) behind Abreu, there shouldn’t be anything even close to the plate against him.
Hasn’t Bobby already hit like three home runs this year off of Javy?
I think it was one with a double. Could be wrong.
One, he’s 4-5 with 2 singles, a double, a homer, and a lineout against him. All three of the non-homers were called line drives too by BR.com.
Heh, GMTA. Too slow on my part.
It’s all good. I’m a sucker for hitter/pitcher match-ups. I have to check them every game for starters, and typically even check them for most relievers.
GET OUT OF YOUR MOTHER’S BASEMENT YOU NERD
losing 6th season series in 7 years needs to be avoided today.
Let’s see.
Pineiro, April 14 @ Yankees: 7 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 7 K
Pineiro, April 24 vs. Yankees: 6 IP, 11 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 1 BB, 2 K
I’ll take Option B, please.
And we get to see Matsui ‘roaming’ LF today!
Yesterday was pretty embarrassing to watch a young mediocre rookie pitcher seemingly adapting to the veteran Yankee line up instead of the opposite taking place.
That being said, the line up looked abismal yesterday and if they looked that bad against somebody irrelevant – somebody who’s significantly better may suggest a problem.
Let’s hope for good Javier Vazquez today! Hopefully Phil Hughes hasn’t tagged Javy just yet. AJ apparently tagged Hughes quite quickly however…so we could be in for a treat :/
Yesterday the meme won. There is still time left in the season for the Yankees to correct that. They were able to last year.
if they looked that bad against somebody irrelevant – somebody who’s significantly better may suggest a problem.
Orrrr they could beat him up like they did David Price (and Jeff Neimann to an extent). #ycpb
Why does everyone say games like that are “embarrassing?” Every team loses games like that. Every single one.
Yeah, and everybody is embarrassed once in a while too.
All 3 of these things happened last night:
1) Hughes got hit hard and the Angels beat up the back of the Yankees pen, winning 10-2
2) The Rays blew leads in the 9th and 12th innings before losing to the Orioles.
3) The Red Sox lost to the As after getting out to a 4-0 lead, partly because of a balk that put the winning run in second.
All things considered, I’d say the Yankees loss was the least embarrassing. And that’s not even mentioning the Dodger fiasco, or the Mets.
Yeah obviously. When compared to these things but I wasn’t really evaluating it that way. Plus, everybody has their own scale of what is embarrassing, what isn’t, and anything in-between.
Tripping on the sidewalk could be a major embarrassment to some people and others couldn’t care any less. It’s all relative.
Last night was one of those throw your remote at the TV games.
It stunk but I’d rather just flat-out lose than what happened to the Dodgers last night… but it’s kinda nice to have losses, no matter how bad, only count as one loss, haha.
Why does everyone say games like that are “embarrassing?” Every team loses games like that. Every single one.
UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!!
IETC
//Matsui hit a HR in his first game back at Yankee Stadium last night.//
nope. The Angels have been here in April so it wasn’t his first game back in Yankee Stadium
http://media.skateboard.com.au.....e_joke.jpg
That’s the point of the joke. Gary Cohen was wrong.
ahhh right. Haven’t seen that when I first read it. Shame on me
Robinson Cano, career v Joel Pineiro:
.615/.615/.846 (8 H, 2 2B, 2 K, 0 BB in 13 PA)
Nick Swisher, career v. Joel Pineiro:
360/.433/.520 (9 H, 2 2B, 1 3B, 1 HBP, 1 SF, 1 SH, 5 K, 3 BB in 31 PA)
Everybody else is pretty bleh; this isn’t a good matchup for us (historically). And he owns ARod (.152/.200/.182 in 35 PA) and Granderson (.071/.176/.071 in 17 PA).
Beat you to it.
http://riveraveblues.com/2010/.....ent-980248
Nobody makes me bleed my own blood.
NOBODY!!!!!
You only get two more movie references that have Vince Vaughn in them today, TSJC. Use them wisely.
English from an English teacher fail. I love summer.
Let’s hope the Yanks completely dominate Piniero. Also, if Cash ninjas Ruben Amaro for Werth, what would be the OF alignment? I was thinking it would be:
LF Gardner
CF Granderson
RF Werth
DH Swisher
incoming calls for Granderson to sit
sounds about right.
LF: Thames
CF: Curtis
RF: Peña
Bench: Swisher, Granderson
8th inning pinch-hitting specialist: Werth
8th inning pinch-runner for the 8th inning pinch-hitter: Gardner
/championship’d
Cashman wants to improve the bench. Here is how to do it.
Nice play!!!
If you want to know what embarrassment is, go ask the dodgers
Or the Mets. Eleven straight games with no more than four runs.
Also, they’ve played 94 games this year. Jason Bay has hit homeruns in four of them.
I saw a stat the Pelfrey was the 1st pitcher since 1900 to allow 50+ baserunners while getting less than 50 outs over a 4 start stretch (or something like tht)
I saw this on twitter.
http://twitter.com/OSingh91/status/19054760176
Also, they’ve played 94 games this year. Jason Bay has hit homeruns in four of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3fjGvRX5cg (NSFW)
Unfortunately, one of those 4 games was to beat us.
It’s Jason Bay, it was gonna happen. I consider ourselves lucky that it was just the one game and not all six games we played against the Mets.
True.
They lost a series against the Giants.
However it was one of the weirdest series ever.
Brain twins (though you beat me to it, I just didn’t see it):
http://riveraveblues.com/2010/.....ent-980293
Ohhh you mean the Brain Busters…I was scratching my head there for a minute
Man, watching the Rays game on MLB.com and seeing Upton strike out on 3 pitches again makes me wonder what the hell happened to him. Does he just want out of TB so badly he is tanking it?
There must be something with that farm system and certain highly touted OF prospects. Delmon Young had been a disappointment for quite a while too (although he’s much better this year).
I don’t think it’s the farm system. They’ve developed plenty of good players. Longoria, Price, Shields, Zobrist, Crawford, etc..
Although they really didn’t “develop” Longoria.
They drafted him in ’06 and was was in the show in ’08.
Yeah I know, but he still counts. I understand what you’re saying though.
I was trying to make a more general connection but didn’t want to come across as racist because when I original wrote it – it may have been misinterpreted…so I just put what I could down.
Obviously, it has absolutely nothing to do with skin color but some people jump the gun when you make a negative comparison like that. Just didn’t want avoid that from happening.
I meant to say similar prospects like Delmon Young as well.
Another one of those cases where 1 or 2 of a players tools gets Peter Gammons’d and turn the prospect into Hall worthy.
He’s lazy like Cano, but doesn’t get the same results!
…and he always seems to be in the doghouse.
yep… he is in the doghouse. But he does seem like he is an arrogant asshole, so it may be well deserved.
Coach Norman Dale would not just randomly target a player.
You’re messing with things here, man. BJ Upton isn’t dominican, therefore he isn’t lazy.
no, he’s toolsy and athletic and a showboat
/damn it i hate it when stereotypes are true’d
*should be noted that i only meant that this stereotype was true in the instance of BJ Upton, not all black players
I really kinda disagree on the “real DH”. A platoon with Miranda/Thames isn’t the worst thing ever. They both hit the opposite pitcher well and could work. Remember, an All Star at every position isn’t necessary. While I would salivate over Adam Dunn hitting at Yankee Stadium, I’m willing to ride the Miranda/Thames wave….for now.
//In two weeks, I’m with you.
Remember, an All Star at every position isn’t necessary.
You’re right. But we have a shortstop and centerfielder currently in season-long slumps, and our 3-4 hitters aren’t hitting as well as they should be.
Hence, we need a real DH.
Teixiera has been fine for a while now….
And Alex is having a down year, but he hasn’t been terrible either.
Agreed.
The Yankees don’t NEED a DH, but it would considerably lengthen the lineup and improve the team.
There’s probably not a need for Cashman to overpay, but if the price drops to a reasonable level on someone like Adam Dunn, then he should pull the trigger.
Oh, most definitely. If you can buy a legit DH bat without paying much of anything, you do it. But that’s not likely, is it?
an All Star at every position isn’t necessary
Mercy does not exist in this dojo!
/John Kreese’d
I can’t stand listening to the Angels’ broadcasters. They’re really up there with the worst in the game.
Yep. I have no idea how GQ or whatever it was rated them as one of the five best. I used to like Victor Rojas on MLBN but he’s frigging annoying now.
Yup. One thing that stuck out to me yesterday was when Posada went out to talk to Hughes once, they went all Joe West saying it’s absurd and no wonder their games take so long. Then, later in the game, they lauded Mathis for going out to make sure he was telling the pitcher to remember his mechanics and pick the right pitch.
Um it was GQ…their selection of Vin Scully is like saying New York is hot and muggy in the summer.
Heh.
Not a stretch to say Scully is the best broadcaster in baseball, but other than saying the Angels’ broadcast was among the best, I thought their list was pretty good.
A first inning run. Javy must be stoked.
Reply fail.
Matsui playing in left? That’ll be interesting.
Waldman introducing Sterling as “the voice of the Yankees” especially hurts more now.
The old “bunt foul on purpose in order to get the 3rd baseman in and the pitcher to throw another strike in case you bunt again so you can hit it back up the middle” play.
The Mariners did that against Andy, I remember pretty clearly. That’s probably the only way the Mariners can get a hit though. OH SNAP
A-Rod’s gonna turn that play into a 3 HR, 9 RBI game, reverse-cano-style
He is already done that to the Angels, time to up the ante. 4 HR 13 RBI.
He got Abreu out!!!
Gardner woulda had it.
Yes but then what else would there be for Granderson to do….
That Granderson is a terrible centerfielder.
/sarcasm
Than you, Death Valley.
Sweet inning Javy
Over/Under: 3.5 Dave Duncan references today.
There’s one.
2
Eh, IDK if I’d count the one Kay made.
haha, I know, it was just funny because as I read your post, Kay mentioned Duncan.
Jeterian!
Judging from some of the posts I’ve seen, as Granderson got to wall on that ball Gardner should have been already standing there, leaning against the fence, chewing a carrot.
haha. I would love it if that happened
I hate manufactured beards. Beards are supposed to be an indicator of manliness – like, man that dude is gruff; look at his beard! But when it’s all manicured like that, it defeats the purpose. It’s like having all the ugliness of a beard without any of the manliness of a beard.
/rant’d
Vote on when Matsui breaks his knees under his own knees. I say 6th inning.
Matsui in the field. This isn’t one of those RAB April Fools jokes, is it? My heart can only take so much.
Swish should hit one to left so it goes over Matsui’s head and it’s an automatic triple.
Stop trying pull that Sinker. You’ll GIDP.
Only if it were that easy….
I mean, if it was, pitchers like Chien-Ming Wang would’ve never made it in this league.
It’s easy: just don’t swing at the pitches you can’t drive. Then drive the one you can. Simple.
Sincerely,
Manny Ramirez
Matsui will make a diving catch in Left today. I will just ignore the fact that him making a diving catch means a normal outfielder would be to the ball easily anyway.
There is no way that should’ve been a double. Bad play by Rivera.
That’s just classic Angels baseball, my friend. Solid defense and always taking the extra base.
Wait, what?
Tex says ‘Shift this’.
Look at Tex with the hustle double.
ZOMG WE’RE OUT-ANGEL-ING THE ANGELS
only if Granderson tries to bunt leading off the 2nd
Good baserunning there.
I forgot that wasn’t abreu in the field, he has a much better arm than that.
Mark Tex baby.
Tex is hooooottttt
… with the bat, I mean.
3-13 on this homestand
http://c.editingmyspace.com/fi.....op_020.gif (SAFE)
Let’s go A-Rod, get the offense going today!
Well, it’s one. Let’s see if Cano keeps his numbers against Pineiro going here…
Well, I guess this was predictable.
That is $20 million dollar base running right there.
I thought Teix was too lazy to make changes to his swing/stance unlike Swisher.
Looks like Juan Rivera is taking lessons from Torri Hunter on how to play the OF.
Great baserunning by Teix.
Diving/sliding clearly means effort.
(yes this is sarcastic)
TEH RUN SCORED!!!!!!1111
A-Rod just bothered. He just saw Tex run into a double and now he jogs down the line. O well he got his RBI
More IBBs for Robbie!
Respect.
Cano is getting the Barry Bonds treatment as of late, and he isn’t as hot as he was in the beginning of the season.
Barry Bonds treatment lite lol
Crazy to think that Cano wasn’t even a top 100 prospect in 2005.
Well, he does have terrific numbers against Pineiro and nobody really batting behind him. It’s a pretty easy call.
I know Miranda isn’t major league tested, but he is a lefty with a lot of power, pretty big risk putting another runner on in front of him, especially in the first inning.
Eh, he’s at .222/.300/.407 (smallish sample). He does nothing for me. I’d take that trade off all day long if I’m them.
Fun Fact: A-Rod makes $3400 an hour. Even the hours he is not playing baseball.
CC Sabathia averages around $48,000 per pitch.
Did you add an extra zero? A that number a 100 pitch game would be 4.8 million a game.
Er, yeah, nevermind, I’m an idiot. it was something around $5,000.
I feel bad for C.C. now. Poor guy only gets 5 grand a pitch.
I know right? He only matches my yearly salary in one game, instead of doubling it. How does the poor guy feed his family?
doubling it on 2 pitches, that is, lol
actually, nevermind, my brain is shot today. Ignore anything my dumb ass says.
Lets just say he makes more money than both of us.
Banuelos and Brackman are pitching pretty well so far today.
Brackman: 3 IP, 4 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 5 Ks, 4-0 GB/FB
Banuelos: 4 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 3 BB, 9 Ks, 2-1 GB/FB
This what’s wrong with you people!
None of you will ever understand what DotF means to me!
DOTF SPOILER ALERT
——————-
Banuelos and Brackman are pitching pretty well so far today.
Brackman: 3 IP, 4 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 5 Ks, 4-0 GB/FB
Banuelos: 4 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 3 BB, 9 Ks, 2-1 GB/FB
——————-
END OF DOTF SPOILERS
Better?
I’d be amused if people wrote “DOTF SPOILER ALERT” before the person stated their said spoiler.
way to jinx it
Manny has given up 3
Brackman gave up 1
And it continues!
Brackman had already given up the 1 run – it wasn’t earned. And Manny’s 3 runs weren’t earned either.
Banuelos finished with 5 ip, 5 h, 3 R, 0 ER, 3 BB and 10 Ks.
10K’s in 5 innings? Nasty.
And this is why ManBan is my favorite pitching prospect.
My reasoning as to why Tex is smoldering: He finally cut his hair.
Nice play, Tex.
I’ve got a good feeling about today.
I’ve got a good feeling about today.
Stupid Black Eyed Peas song just got stuck in my head because of this comment.
FERGALICIOUS!!!!
I like this version of Javy Vasquez.
Love it Javy. Love. It.
We traded the guy who succeeded for the guy who failed, Mike. Never forget that.
Nice easy inning there; time to score more.
Some random Blue Jay fan:
on fan 590 Scott Downs (and John Buck) were traded for Brett Lawrie
… Hasn’t been confirmed anywhere else though.
delete that, it was some joke on the blue jays board
god do i feel stupid.
Was it one of the fake umpires? They seem trustworthy.
The Brewers kid? Doesn’t sound right.
That makes no sense for the Brewers.
Maybe the city of Milwaukee is about to pass a “No Canadians” policy, and the Brew Crew simply has to cut bait.
Ouch; Frankie was clearly guessing wrong there, haha.
Thanks for trying, Frankie.
Leave it to Grandy and Cervi to see 5 pitches total. At least Gardner is usually good for a bunch of pitches.
Granderson hit the ball decently, though.
Curtis Granderson lines out to center fielder Torii Hunter.
Did he get robbed?
It was routine.
Thanks.
Do the people watching the game like to clarify what is happening on the field for the gameday followers or is that annoying?
I don’t mind. Just don’t expect a play-by-play.
Doesn’t bother me either.
It’s cool. I know I don’t have a problem with it.
Holy hell, those two little boys looked miserable.
It’s a bit hot out.
Kim Jones needs a stylist.
Kim Jones needs Dela G.
Gardner woulda had that.
You have that set as an autotext shortcut now or something?
Gardner would have had that.
Sad Face.
Curtis Granderson thru 68 games in 2010: .233/.302/.392, 7HR, 24RBI.
Melky Cabrera thru 68 games in 2009: .291/.354/.447, 7HR, 28RBI.
(note that i don’t want Melky back just looking at what he did in CF last year vs what Curtis is doing in CF this year.)
Meh.
The line numbers don’t matter as much as the RBI and runs scored do. That’s what it’s all about right there.
Melky gunned a guy down at home last night with a perfect throw too. And it was like a split second type of play, where everyone basically thought Melky had no chance.
But he nailed him. Brought back good memories.
(nothing of this has to do with wanting him back, just good memories of the Melkman.
frigid in the booth and blasting air… Michael your a pervert
Time for my ritual post-3rd inning Michael Kay-induced shower.
Kay has a creepy vibe when he’s talking to Kim Jones, IMO.
Agreed.
What’s wrong with uncontrollably licking your lips and rubbing your hands together when talking to women?
I even do it on here…
If he were to actually do that I’d love to see Kenny and Paul’s expressions while Kay’s talking.
Maybe he’s overdoing it because he knows he won’t be able to once he’s married.
Gardner would have flew up and got that ball on its apex.
Cervelli = http://www.vosizneias.com/wp-c.....g-nose.jpg (SAFE)
I wish there was a way I could figure out how many times you have posted this exact same picture. I can think of like 10.
haha you have to admit it’s a funny picture…and it represents my sentiments very well
Frankly, it’s the sparkly Betty Boop picture that scares me more.
For my sanity I beg you to find a new picture to post instead.
If they Angels played 9 catchers against us I’m pretty sure we’d lose every game by the score of 43-12.
Its amazing how fast Javy went from “Bench him, trade him, he sucks,” to our number two starter. Cashman has gotten a ton of crap for this past off season, but that trade was a clear, sure winner.
Wrong. The only thing that matters is that one pitch in 2004. Nothing else is relevant at all when discussing Javier Vasquez.
I’m still mad that he loaded the bases and then gave up that grand slam. I’ll never forgive him for that.
haha
fun fact: Javier Vazquez was 1-0 in the 2004 ALCS
I hated 2004. I’ve tried to erase it from my memory.
Yeah, some people just live in the moment too much.
Remember when people were calling for Tex to be moved down in the lineup? Funny how that talk has gone away, too
Boverreacting: It’s faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaantastic.
ha, yea, he is back to normal now for a month.
I don’t know why but these Coors ads really rub me the wrong way.
He will not be stopped.
july 21, game 93: the day Jeter turned it on
Ugh, send him…
Nah, not with no outs.
Normally I totally agree, but once Thompson saw the throw clearly toward 2nd, he could’ve turned it on again and jogged home. Doesn’t matter now though.
Nick Swisher would show you his feminine side. If he had one.
Sharks have a week dedicated to him.
Come on Yanks.
@KenTremendous Sad news out of Philadelphia: Jamie Moyer will go on the 15-day DL with a strained he died eight years ago.
I miss FJM so much
His Twitter is fucking annoying at times (it’s like 75% potshots at Jeter, he comes off as way more obsessed with the Yankees than a Red Sox fan) but:
Bad news from New York: Pettitte on 60-day DL with a Grade-1 strain of his How Is He Still Good? muscle.
I lol’ed.
I heart Swisher
Texual healing.
I wanna Tex you up.
Let’s talk about Tex, baby.
Nice Tex.
I love that the ball Tex should have a double on goes for a single and vice versa.
You know, Susan…
There we go.
This just in, Tex is no longer struggling with the bat.
Tex is almost batting .260!!
WHY IS HE STILL BATTING THIRD
Because Girardi is a stubborn idiot. The more questions he receives about moving Tex, the longer he will keep him in that slot.
Damn, I thought he had that one.
TEIX woo
/YES camera tease’d
Kay with his best Sterling impression.
Wonder if Sterling just Sterling’d himself.
Yes. Yes, he did.
Eff you Michael Kay, I was texting “599″ to my buddy….
lol micheal kay
Damn. That was off the end of the bat.
Jesus. Sterling just wet himself on Arod’s flyout, thinking it was 599 there.
one word – Depends
Tex has reached base in 37 straight games.
A-Rod’s HR/FB% is almost TEN percent down this year. I cannot wait for the correction.
isn’t he making more contact with a higher LD % though?
Contact is slightly up, line drive is slightly down.
gotcha
thanks
I admit to thinking that was #599 off the bat, Kay-style. He’s hitting #600 tomorrow though, guys, because I won’t be able to watch the game.
now that ones gone
WOOT CANO
MoNsTeR
Robbie Baseball!
Pineiro’s getting tattooed. Everything’s hit hard.
This young man is GOOD!
Dontcha know.
Scoiscia, perhaps you might want to stay with the IBB.
SWEEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And that’s why I take the matchup with Miranda all day long if I’m them.
Ah yes, the obligatory A-Rod “Cano stole my homerun” reaction shot.
YOU SHOULDA INTENTIONALLY WALKED HIM AGAIN
Cano knew it. Love it.
Soooo that’s why they were intentionally walking Cano.
It ALWAYS feels good to beat the shit out of the Angels.
Are they all over him right now? Was Cano’s as crushed as Gameday makes it seem?
It went on the center field side of the Yanks pen so it was hit a long way.
Yup. No doubter off the bat. Cano was preening right after he hit it
So Cano is hitting about .690 off Piniero now?
Cano knew that right away then Harkey showed Joba what they see when he pitches every third time out.
+1
Cano! Show ARod how it’s done!
ugh miranda
Tex and Robbie must have received the memo about giving Javy some run support!
Rally Monkey Soap Dispenser Night is coming!!!!!
Funny that it looks more like a duck though.
thanks for helping grandy hideki
In the Year of the Boar and Robinson Cano
Amazing reference.
Everything if finding a hole today. As opposed to yesterday, where everything seemed to find a hole for them.
My Junior High School-type answer to that would be, “The Angels are quite adept at finding holes, heh, heh” Yes, I used the word “adept” quite often in high school.
nice. I would have went with, “the Angels are used to balls finding their holes”
Bases loaded with Cano at the plate: Does Scoisiaball say IBB him anyway?!
Napoli looks as annoying and Varitek
except he can actually hit
[grabs microphone]
What do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean…
A GOOD START!
http://instantrimshot.com/
Thanks, I’ll be here all night!
So nice to see Matsui out there…
Yep… Yankees failed and should have resigned him.
Not you again…
He’s kidding this time. I hope. =P
My Twitter feed exploded with “WE DISRESPECTED MATSUI!!!!! WHY DIDN’T WE RESIGN HIM!!!!!!” yesterday when he homered. I understood the arguments both ways (though I didn’t want anything to do with him, honestly, if he insisted on playing the field which he supposedly did) but guys, he’s having an awful year. If he was on the Yankees we’d be whining and bitching about how Cashman is a sentimental fool.
that was a brilliant comment. Did your Coco Puffs decoder ring give you that answer or your Magic 8 ball before the blue liquid spilled all over?
meant for Ross (I am really Snooky from Jersey Shore)
sarcasm, right?
Yes, total sarcasm. Love Matsui but his time has passed.
Angels defense. Fundamentally sound.
Granderson brought his bat today, good job.
Well, it helps that it’s Matsui out there.
So, Javy appears to not be cursed with no run support today.
Thanks for Mats in the outfield, Scioscia.
geez…watching Matsui charge that hurts my knees.
/hopes for a patented Cervelli 25 bouncer up the middle to score Curtis
hahahaha
or the, “get it one inch over the infielders glove liner/floater
I think Gardner’s got that one trademarked
This Matsui-Hunter-Rivera OF alingment reminds me of the halcyon days of Matsui-Bernie-Sheffield-Womack-Guiel.
I had just forgotten about Tony Womack and now you had to go remind me? You just ruined my day.
Lemme cheer you up:
We could have signed Tony Womack to play CF this offseason, but we didn’t. Instead he signed with the Mariners and changed his name to “Chone Figgins”.
And another little tidbit that will blow your hair back…
Before he was Tony Womack? He was known as Tom Gordon.
Hey, if the Yankees had signed a good secondbasemen that year, Cano wouldn’t have been called up that year!
/wakesupinapuddleofsweatandshaking
Aaron Guiel was fucking awesome.
AFFLECK YOU DA BOMB IN PHANTOMS, YO!!!
Word, bitch. Phantoms like a mallfucker…
Dude ISO’d .200 in pinstripes. Word.
(ANYONE WHO MENTIONS SAMPLE SIZE WILL BE ELIMINATED)
Hahaha ietc.
how about LIDR Bubba Crosby who actually had a significantly negative UZR?
Remember Matsui in CF in 2005?
(shivers)
**ahem**: http://riveraveblues.com/2010/.....ent-980261
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http://riveraveblues.com/2010/.....ent-980648
The Angels broadcasters just said Pineiro needs to hold it here because they’ve had some very good swings of Javy. I must’ve missed most of those.
So Cano should have a hot streak coming along soon, right? Heading into today, his July line was .222/.306/.444. However, he had a 7-game hitting streak prior to last night, during which he went 9-28 after starting the month just 3-23. Perhaps the streak is already underway…
He scorched a few balls yesterday too, but nothing was falling.
Wondering what’s more surprising so far today:
Jeet’ being 2-2
Granderson having a hit
Granderson having a hit. His OPS was at .691 before that.
Lately…I go with the Yankees actually scoring some runs and the starter having reached the fourth inning without giving up a run.
Lately…I go with the Yankees actually scoring some runs
Someone didn’t watch the Rays series. (the pitcher thing, I’ll give you that.)
The Yankees actually scoring some runs
Whaaaaat?
In the 5 games since the break including today, they’ve scored 5, 5, 9, 2, and 5 runs.
Jeter taking more than 1 pitch.
Easy trivia. Moyer and Zito.
What was the question? I’m at work…just curious.
This is my first time listening to the radio broadcast in years (am out of market and watch the games online) and I had nearly forgotten how much I missed stories such as “Francisco Cervelli was given some DVDs of ‘The Frisco Kid’ to watch.”
Where’s that guy who said the team who had huge holes and were at risk of missing the playoffs? I’m guessing he’s nowhere around today.
DECLINE IS IMMINENT TEX AND CANO AND AROD WILL ALL FALL OFF A CLIFF
/Bret’d
THERE IS ALSO NO WAY THAT ANY OF THE PLAYERS IN SLUMPS WILL EVER COME OUT OF THEM THOUGH
And Granderson was the WORST TRADE EVER HE’S 29 DECLINE PHASE DECLINE PHASE
Guess: Moyer
It’s SPOILER ALERT Moyer and Zito.
You bastard!!!!
I’m guessing the question was who are the only pitchers to beat all 30 teams? Here’s hoping that list goes to 3 after today.
Yep. Me too. I think Pettitte has 29 teams defeated, hopefully he never gets to 30 though…
(I checked, he never beat the Giants either.)
I’ve had DOTF and the trivia ruined for me. Rosebud is the sled.
Verbal Kint is Keyser Soze!!!!
Vader is Luke’s dad!!! I lose.
and Wakefield
Gardner would’ve………
Random aside, just reading the words “testicular contusion” regarding Carl Crawford is enough to put me into the fetal position.
Always wear a cup, kids.
Every man must feel bad for him.
Every PERSON. I’m not a dude but I’m like ow, OWWWWW every time I read that.
That made me cringe.
http://video.adultswim.com/the.....rsion.html
At first I thought that said testicular confusion.
yeah they are confused as to why he didn’t wear a cup.
You think that’s bad…you should see how certain nurses put in a catheter…
One of my buddies is in med school and did a internship at a city hospital near by…told me the story of how he always thought the process was done very carefully…and then this big large woman grabbed it and kept squeezing it only to follow with attempting to jam the catheter in as if she were a 3 year old playing with building blocks.
I curled up for quite a while on that one. Built up an immunity to the story though I believe…still makes me a little nauseous however.
Oooh, Sterling, “can’t predict baseball” story! Everyone take a drink!
36 pitches for Javy through four.
28 strikes, 9 balls.
Studly.
Rock of the rotation.
/Optimistic’d
36 pitches through 4 full innings. Damn.
yikes Bobby Abreu’s OBP is down 40pts from last yr
Bobby Abreu’s wall alertness is up 40ft from last yr.
“Like”
I loved yesterday how he was afraid of second base. Apparently the wall aversion was just a sign of what’s to come.
Yeah, but his IsoD is only ~10 points off his career average so it’s not as ugly as it looks.
can we trade for him to be our DH?
(ducks)
Yep. I think it’s mostly a result of his batting average being much lower than it usually is for whatever reason (BABIP? Fangraphs sometimes makes my computer implode so I’m not checking it right now).
.302 BABIP compared to .344 career.
He’s getting older, so that may not simply be bad luck.
LD% is a few ticks off of where it should be, so we can surmise that he’s not hitting the ball as hard as he used to.
So is Matsui’s.
As an aside, I just looked at Matsui’s career stats on ESPN for the first time in forever, and they have the Japan numbers on there. I don’t think I’ve seen that before. That’s pretty cool.
It is cool. After all these years with the Yankees, it’s easy to forget how dominating he was over there.
Pettitte one of them?
No
Pettitte never beat the San Francisco Giants.
Or the Yankees.
Good call. I forgot to check to see if there was a team that he never pitched against. My bad.
And he only beat the Astros this year.
3-3! The sky is un-falling!
Just his second 3-hit game since May.
The BABIP gods are smiling on Derek Jeter today.
It’s about damn time.
Now this is the Jeter we’ve all come to love.
Is it time to move Robbie out of the 5 slot? 3rd? 4th?
No, it’s time for someone to get hot behind him for some protection. As much as we love to make jokes about the intentional walks, they’ll get old real quick if nobody can make teams pay.
No. No reason to move Robbie from the #5 with such success especially when A-Rod and Tex are in the #3 and #4.
Case in point. Another IBB.
Am I getting old or is history repeating itself?
Gorgeous. Swish waited on the breaking ball, smoked it back up the middle. Stick that shit on a training video.
But Fred McGriff still needs the royalty checks…
3B and HR for the cycle Texy!
Hope this isn’t too off-topic, but has anyone been checking in on the Rays/O’s game? They just ran a graphic on James Shields’ averages each time through the lineup that’ll make your head spin.
The Orioles have given them a lot of trouble. Old man Tejada wore them out yesterday.
Yeah, they showed it when he faced the Yanks last week.
What was it? I remember they were saying that in the game he pitched against the Yankees too. But he’s Big Game James so it’s okay.
The short version just looking at BR right now:
1st time: .675 OPS
2nd time: .801 OPS
3rd time: .902 OPS
I didn’t see it last time it was brought up. That is pretty drastic.
I heart watching the Rays blow leads vs the O’s
Tex opp field wow
Great job, Tex.
#599 please!
Someone on the Yankees has 598 HRs?
So I guess Teixeira’s not washed up?
Are some of these balls to LF “Matsui specials?”
That one by Tex wasn’t. Legit double into the corner. Just inside the line.
Teixiera has had enough of your fucking shifts.
Tex has a double double, take that Lebron James!
Wow, Tex going the other way batting lefty. Nice!!!
And it’s painful to watch Matsui out there. At least it would be if he was doing it for our team.
Don’t try to pull that, Alex!
Feared.
really, really really lame
Bondz
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Cano is so feared.
Well, guess A-Rod’s numbers against Pineiro weren’t a fluke…
Robbie Baseball: Feared.
Soooo I’m watching Gameday at work, and just broke out laughing hysterically with that second IBB to Cano.
My fantasy team does not appreciate the missed RBI opportunity.
Time for Miranda’s HR?
here is your predictions ts!
Piniero helping out my fantasy team by taking away a stellar RBI chance from Cano. Thanks, dick.
Miranda’s gonna get a fastball to turn on here.
Turned on it too much, haha.
Cano getting the Jim Rice treatment
That was ugly.
GRAH! Miranda, why didn’t you hit a grandslam!!
*grumble*
I can has Jesus?
no touchie until september
HUZZZAH, FJM is doing Deadspin again. It’s Christmas in September (9/22 to be exact)
Yaaaay!
Excited to hear how Brett Gardner sucks. ;_; (No, seriously, I love FJM. I’m psyched.)
I don’t read deadspin, though I loved FJM. You mean they’re writing an article on there, or a full-time kind of gig?
they’re taking over for a couple days. They did it last year too.
Think this is the most run support the Yanks have given Javy. Nice to see, finally.
Put that kid in CF.
I think we found our replacement for Pena.
Gardner woulda had it.
I know Jesus doesn’t have to be on the 40 man until this offseason, but if they continue to have DH production like this (and I think Miranda should get another week or so), don’t they have to add him in September? I’m OK with waiting until Scranton finishes their postseason, but at that point, why not bring him up? I know it will require a roster move and start his clock, but if he keeps mashing, don’t they have to do it?
This is assuming that they don’t pick up a DH in a trade.
No reason to call up Jesus so early he is only 20 in AAA and has only been hot for the last month of the season. The most prudent way to go about Montero is let him play out the season in AAA and watch him progress from there.
Did you read what I wrote? I said after his season in AAA.
Stop laughing, Pena. He’s fielding just as well as you are.
+1
T-Rock.
#21 T-Rock
Beautiful.
Damn, that ballboy has hands.
That’s a pretty play.
*shiver*
Feinsand on radio talking about post-trade deadline trades, “You can have Esteban Loiza walk through the door.”
That just made my stomach hurt.
Bunting when down six runs: GREAT BASEBALL!
‘Smart ball’
just turned on the tv
good to see the yanks on mlb network. looks like Javy has been rollin
Well not anymore. Thanks, Dela. Way to blow it.
my bad, i bring bad karma anywhere i go
It’s all his fault with his magical wizard powers
and the angels score immediately
what a lucky ass hit
I believe that is known as an “Angel” hit.
lol the angels wont give up at all on these at-bats
Everyone talking about 37 pitches through 4. He’s now got 15 pitches this inning through 2 batters.
Baseball is fun sometimes.
24 pitches, 3 batters, 3 runs, 0 outs is NOT fun…
28 pitches, 4 batters, 4 hits, 3 runs, 0 outs, with Abreu on deck now.
Yikes…
The curse of the Montero Watch strikes again.
Bobby Wilson really?
Aaaannnnndddd there’s Home Run Javy.
Man I wish the guy could limit those a little.
yikes, that sounded gone when he hit it
boy i walk in the door and the angels score…
Ew.
Teix should have hit this guy harder.
/totally joking
Quick … BOOOOOOO!!!
At least it is a save situation for Mo.
I hope Tex kills Wilson at home like he did in Anaheim.
Javy seems to have lost it in quick order. Hopefully order can be restored equally as fast.
If only there was someone in the shape of a major league hitter behind Cano. This game might’ve been over already.
I blame it on Miranda not taking the bases loaded walk he was given…
WTF!!!
man this ump does not give the corners at all
cmon javy
Is calling a Hispanic guy a “Mike Scioscia type player” sort of like calling a white guy “scrappy?”
Sort of like how Dustin Pedroia “plays the game the right way.”
Aye!
Miranda’s AAAA. Let’s not kid ourselves.
Ok, that’s enough hits. Time for an out now, ok?
Hello, Boone. We meet again.
Well this isn’t as fun as the other four innings.
I hate Erick Aybar. Does anybody else hate him?
Yes.
I hate him because he spells his name wrong.
He fits very well as an angel.
Typical Sciosia-type player. Yes, eminently hateable.
Who doesn’t.
a double play would be nice
Javy looking a gift horse in the mouth.
Unbelievable. How can you call for that many fastballs in a row.
Fastball. 87 mph.
ehhhhhh
cmon javy, stop throwing fastballs all the time
I think it was getting too easy for Javy, so he just wanted to pitch in some tight spots.
/JackMorris’d
Finally!!!
Woohoo! An out.
Lower-case “t” is for TIME TO LEAVE, Dela!
lol ok i’ll change the channel
No, get out!
Too early to go to the bullpen? Or do you let him potentially throw more than 45 pitches in one inning?
Yikes, that first pitch was begging to be a homer. Thank you for taking it.
damn that was an incredible save by cerv
Not including that HR, number 9 hitters have a 140 sOPS+ against Yankee pitching.
I don’t know what is up with this team and 9th place hitters.
http://youcantpredictbaseball.wordpress.com
SEE: Brett Gardner
Although he only has an OPS+ of 120…
His sOPS against #9 hitters is an insane 183!!!
Brett Gardner plays for the Yankees.
How does he effect how Yankee pitchers perform against other team’s 9th place hitters?
What? I don’t understand the question you just made up.
Brett Gardner is predominantly the Yankees #9 hitter and he’s hitting very well too.
I don’t know where you came up with your question. I was just comparing the Yankees successful #9 hitter to other teams #9 hitters ALSO being coincidentally successful against them.
I don’t know where you came up with your question. I was just comparing the Yankees successful #9 hitter to other teams #9 hitters ALSO being coincidentally successful against them.
Were you?
I tried to insert the sparkly betty boop picture here to be clever but apparently they blocked me from ever using it again because you didn’t care for it.
You abusing your pull around here Thomas? lol
Oh nevermind. I get what you are saying now.
What the F*** is a Bobby Wilson?
Thanks, Aybar. Angels baseball.
They play the game the right way, Mike.
/Caughtstealingatthirdwithsrugglingpitcheronmoundandoneofyourbesthittersatplate’d
Angels baseball! ™
Nice. Good job, Cervelli.
Javy looks sunburned.
Cervelli’s defensive regression to the mean is in effect mode like Al B. Sure.
How can you hate Aybar when he does something that stupid to help you out???
Alright, get the runs back now.
Well, that was a quick turn of events for the better…
Yanks regressing to the mean with runners trying to steal.
Angels baseball <3 <3 <3
Fundamental Angel-style baseball!
Thanks Erick!
Fundamental baseball right there. Anytime you’re down 3 with a starter starting to struggle, you have to, just have to, get thrown out stealing.
Gamecast says Eric Aybar was “caught stealing” what does that mean?
Gamecast says Eric Aybar was “caught stealing” what does that mean?
Andy Stitzer: Is it true that if you don’t *use* it, you *lose* it?
Health Clinic Counselor: Is that a serious question?
Andy Stitzer: No, it wasn’t.
Awwwww me so stupid!!!
So this is all Dela G’s fault, right?
The Yankees are going to blame the Jews in their true Nazi style.
THAT’S NOT HOW YOU TREAT THE GREAT JOE TORRE, YOU FASCIST KRAUTS!!!!
Sincerely,
Tim McCarver
That was a pretty awful half inning. Time to score four more runs and give Javy some more room.
Why in the world would you run there potentially sacrificing an out when there is a pitcher on the mound who has thrown that many pitches in 1 inning?
This Angels team is just full of dumb.
Mike Scoscia: the smartest man in baseball.
i seriously just turned the channel to ESPN, and javy gets 2 quick outs
incredible
booo that man!
What a AB there from Grandy.
He doesn’t hit lefties well. We all know tha…
…wait what?
That play had to have hurt ARods arm a bit. That was a legit collision
Haha I love all the fundamental Angels Baseball comments
Fundamentangels
/TSJC?
I approve of this honorific attribution.
No, Michael the second out at third is not acceptable. Making an out at third is NEVER acceptable.
Even the homerific Angels announcers bashing the hell out of Aybar. That’s when you know it was an amazingly stupid play.
Is it the manager Kay? Or the fact that all those are big market clubs? Um …
Good time for Cervelli’s bi-weekly contribution to the offense.
does anyone else think pineiro looks like sergio mitre???
CERVELLI!!
I don’t see it.
I think he looks like the fifth member of All*4*One, though.
lol man i havent heard the all-4-one reference in a while
DIG!
I actually thought Francisco Rodriguez looked like him when he was pitching yesterday, just fatter and uglier.
Matsui!!!
John Sterling says Tex has 3 doubles
Gameday says Tex has only 2 doubles
Someone is lying to me
It’s President Obama.
The death panels are real.
I’ve seen the FEMA camps. They are located underneath Yankee Stadium.
I blame the Journolist. It’s a coverup.
9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB!
Don’t use logic or reason! Politicians care about your health and they most certainly never ever lie! I’m all out of bread! Obama promised me that I’d never have to go to the store to get moooore!
Not gonna touch that one.
lol mike kay is effing hilarious at times
thats flat out an awful job behind the plate…
Wow, that was an awful call for strike 3. Jeter should be on 1st.
that was not a strike
BS
WHY ARE YOU WATCHING DELA???? ;P
lol good question…
i’ll change it to espn, i promise
Not only was that pitch low, it was outside as well.
Both shallow and pedantic.
/PeterGriffin’d
That’s just morbidly obese.
I don’t mean to go on a rant here, but this umpire’s zone makes about much sense as Beowulf having sex with Robert Fulton at the First Battle of Antietam. I mean when a Neo-Conservative defenostrates, it’s like Rescalnikov Fillibuster deoxymonohydroxinates.
what the hell is a “rant”?
On a completely off topic note, I love how this ump just punches his fist out for a strike. No need to look like Leslie Nielsen out there.
Well I am glad to know that Michael Kay will be talking to Donovan about the United States great run. That will continue as Andy Pettitte will talk to Andy Pettitte and the 2008 season.
I just can’t put this start into words right now.
KRob strikes again!
Next Wednesday is a time of great glory and wonder hooray
Swisher, Cano and Tex all have more HRs than ARod. Just hope he is not nursing anything and comes up lame in October.
Also, I wonder whether the odds of ARod not cracking the Bonds record has gone up significantly in the last few weeks.
“… and Torii Hunter leads off with a leadoff double in the 6th inning.”
Wordplay at its finest, Michael. Bravo.
I hate how Javy’s fastball has that tail on it. Kinda like hes throwing a flat sinker.
Well this is not ideal.
SMH
Well, saw that coming.
Ugly pitching two days in a row against a team not scoring.
Bitch.
It’s a Thrilla! By Godzi—oh wait. Damnit Javy.
What’s with all these Angel leadoff two-baggers?
Again poor pitch selection. 0-1 count and they don’t throw a change up? Terrible.
Its amazing how fast your number two starter can turn into “bench him, trade him, he sucks.”
haha
Well, Susan….
What the…
Poop.
but- but- but…the run supportz.
yucky starting pitching
Clearly Javy was just overwhelmed by early run support. Couldn’t let that stand.
He’s just getting his Jack Morris on.
He’s going to get he win today, and it’ll make me laugh.
Awesome
I dislike this game now.
amen
oh c’mon… this is getting ridiculous
and frickin matsui hits a home run in his first game back at yankee stadium
and frickin matsui hits a home run in his first game back at yankee stadium
DAMNIT, HE KEEPS DOING THAT!!! SO ANNOYING!!!!
2 homers in two days for Matsui.
His last 2 homers took him a month and a half to hit.
Would losing today’s game be embarrassing?
wow i just turned the channel back to the game and javy gave up a homer??
yikes
Predicted winner percentage has gone from mid-90′s down to 67% now.
Javy was pitching to the score.
/jack morris’d
Boy…that escalated quickly.
Should we start a pool on who ties the game up off Joba later?
I will take “nobody”
Bad pitching I can take, but I am so so tired of giving up home runs to guys who shouldn’t be hitting home runs. Wilson stinks, and I don’t care how good the Ghost of Hideki Matsui was last year. Cheap home runs turn laughers into nail biters.
Keep it in the fucking park.
Agreed. It sucks.
Matsui is a “guy who shouldn’t be hitting home runs?” I don’t think so. That guy can flat out hit.
And he has an amazing porn collection. So that has to count for something too
Flat out hit? He had 9 whole homers coming into this series. He had 2 homers in the last month and a half.
He was the WS MVP last year. I don’t think he forgot how to hit based on one half of a season where he still has hit 12 homers. Just me though.
He was the WS MVP last year.
David Eckstein was the WS MVP in 2002. Being the WS MVP and being a good hitter are not equivalent. You should use a different piece of evidence to demonstrate Hideki Matsui’s purported hitting prowess.
I was going for the quick route and assumed he watched Hitdeki during his 7 year Yankee career where he hit 140 home runs.
I go upstairs to drop one down and I come back and I see Matsui rounding the bases.
You’re not allowed to go to the bathroom ever again!!!
I walked from the car to the office cubicle and I knew it happened, because I heard his knees running 360ft.
“CC sabathia always gives length…”
hi-larious mr kay
Little harder when you’re not facing the M’s or a NL team.
Somehow the thought of Sergio Mitre completing our rotation doesn’t sit well with my stomach. Add to that our unsettled bullpen and we’ve got some issues.
Sure looks like D-Rob is getting squeezed a bit.
Whaaaaaaaaa the Yankees have issues. If they were down 5-0 and just scored six runs, people would feel a whole lot better even though we’d be sitting in exact same situation.
probably not as Javy would have still given up those 5 runs.
I only remember whatever just happened in the past 10 minutes AND bad shit that happened 6 years ago.
Sincerely,
Yankee fans
It’s all about the Mo! And I don’t mean the closer. It’s also about the missed opportunities, despite putting 6 on the board.
Angels Baseball.
that was a brilliant bunt
Pitch to da GIDP, Drob!
Keep calling for fastballs.
Yeah, he should definitely break out the knuckleball.
Nice play, Grandy/ARod.
Curve would be great you think?
ATTABOY DROB!!
Nice job battling back by Robertson.
Wow, marvelous throw by Gardner.
Oh holy shit, I thought the run scored.
Hah. You were trying to be snarky and sarcastic but ended up being genuine and right.
he wasn’t tagged out??
Bad throw by Alex
No, he got back.
yeah x-mo agreed
The real Wilson (.207 BA) returned (not the 2-2, 1 HR)…thank god
Damn, I thought Aybar was about to give us a freebie with some Angels baseball ™
If A-Rod puts that throw closer to the bag we’re out of the inning.
*Rivera
Ugh, better throw by A-Rod and he’s out. Damn…
More runs please. I’m at work and I’d rather not sweat through my shirt thinking about a Joba v. Angels matchup.
Well there you have it. AJ successfully tagged in Hughes who successful tagged in Vazquez.
It’s like that movie Fallen with Denzel Washington and John Goodman. They brush each other on the way out of the stadium and pass along the bug
I shudder to think of what your DVD collection looks like, Rose.
haha due to the quality or quantity?
The quantity is quite breath taking…
The quality. Nobody quotes/cites more bad movies than you do, Rose. How you don’t have PTSD is beyond me (although perhaps you do.)
PTSD from what exactly?
The quality of my collection is immeasurable.
Fallen was a pretty good movie. It would not make my DVD collection cut (if I still had one really), but I would not argue with that choice.
http://www.teachwithmovies.org.....Dcover.jpg (safe)
And Pettitte successfully tagged in … Nick Johnson or something?
lol perhaps!
Thank you, Juan. We appreciate that.
Sorry. I don’t know what just happened. I didn’t mean to reply to this. Must have hit the button by mistake.
That’ll do.
Record-setting win: intact.
That’ll do pig, that’ll do.
/babe’d
Alright alright. Score a run or two now.
X5
Finally!
Whew… Almost Angel’d in a single inning.
Well, that was nerve-racking.
Can I has more runs????
funny
i change the channel to the NHL network, and DROB gets out of trouble
i swear i am yankee kryptonite
lucky
Whew. Now, need the middle of the order to do it yet again… Maybe with A-Rod involved this time.
599 time.
plus 600…in the same inning
/wantitallandrightnow’d
plus 600…in the same
inningat bat.Fixed.
Ugh, Piniero is still in though.
That bastard Danny Glover over there…I just know he’s going to put in Mel Clark and then we’re all doomed.
So we’re gonna try to go Boone to Joba?
Yeah, we might need a few (dozen) insurance runs.
I fucking hate Erik Aybar….
goodness, that was quick as hell
Let’s go, bullpen. Enter beast mode.
I like those innings where we make the pitcher work.
Can we please not let Joel Pinero get through an easy 6th inning?
nevermind
Well, it’s immensely frustrating that Pineiro actually got through six innings after all that.
How are the Yankees in the bullpen while the Angels still have their starter on the mound?
Javy meltdown
I think it was rhetorical.
Home Run Javy.
Is Boone Logan seriously coming in? For Abreu? And then Hunter and Matsui? Awesome.
It’s either him or…Joba. We’ll no doubt see both before it’s all over.
Does this inning have reverse lock written all over it?
All things considered, not bad. Though not really reverse lock, they’re not hitting lefties like they used to.
nothing like a 1-2-3 inning after blowing a big lead to bring out the doom and gloomers from the woodwork.
Would you package Romine to get Soria?
Not at all
No.
I think it depends on the package. I think it would take another Romine-level prospect and maybe a couple throw-ins.
Am I crazy? Aren’t they asking for the world for Soria?
I would, though I would almost always take the established major leaguer side of a trade considering the Yanks way of handling and making prospects work. I have no confidence in that facet of the organization. That’s why I’d trade Montero for a bunch of guys too.
for a bullpen arm though?
Catching Prospect of Romine’s caliber > MLB ready bullpen arm
He’s not a regular bullpen arm. He’s a great pitcher who has shown some staying power. I’ll take that over a AA catcher who’s never broken an .800 OPS.
And wow, I thought I’d get called out on the Montero comment much more than Romine. Oh well.
There seems to be a nervous silence here.
Do you blame us? =P
haha, not one bit.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE.
Good Joba’s in. Let’s get this SOB confidence back up.
I say Joba does the job here and in the 8th… Who is with me?
Gamecast is…75% NYY win projected (up from 67%)
this should be interesting
Joba coming in to pitch in the 7th?!?! OMG!1!11!! WHO WILL PITCH THE 8TH!1!11!!
Or
Joba coming in to pitch in the 7th obviously means Girardi is sending him a message.
Joba, you can do this.
I’m having an “Oh No” moment
I’m okay with a walk to Napoli. He’s killed the Yanks.
It is the double to Rivera that Joba can give up that is the problem.
Awesome,,, that run doesn’t mean anything….v
or
The defense showing complete faith in Joba
My bad they knew Joba was walking Napoli so why waste time…
Did the Yankees get the memo about playing 9 innings today?
How about, I can’t make Mo get 7 outs.
Wow, no 3-2 slider.
Napoli: 2-4 with a double and two walks off Joba
Rivera: 2-7 with 2 K’s off Joba
I’ll take my chances with that walk…
Napoli is now 2-4 with 3 BB’s against Joba
Ugh, again…
Ah Fuck…
Bah. Bullshit hit.
You gotta be kidding me with that one
Can anything go right?
lol. Award 1 point to the Joba has been unlucky crowd.
This inning makes me hate the save rule.
Now I hate it a little less, but you know what I mean.
But, the way Mo’s feeling, they wouldn’t use him, sit for an inning, then use him again. So, would you rather that one out or 3 outs sometime later on?
it just looks to me like joba doesn’t have an out pitch that is in the zone
Most pitchers dont have an out pitch in the zone…
Good. I’m liking this.
There you go Joba. Nice job. Still need 3 more outs though.
Watching Joba pitch is like waiting on a pregnancy test.
Joba got out of it without any hard hits so that was good.
Any chance on a spillover thread?
Nice! How did that play at 3rd look? Routine?
Yes.
Yeah, it was an easy ground ball.
Score some runs please…
ughh, kate smith…
PHEW.
Joba almost gave me a heart attack.
Kinda forgot we have Mo in the pen.
cano why would you swing at that???
He must have trouble with Shields. Did the same thing last night.
Cano is 1-13 off Shields.
He was up last last night watching old tapes of Melky
late** last night
Serious qn: 8th inning Joba or someone else?
Who else did you have in mind?
Joba, it’s gotta be. They’re not bringing in Mo for two.
oh and scot shields works very very fast
Cano being antsy to swing plus Shields owning him is not a good combo…
You know who else owned Cano? George Sherrill. Pitcher/batter matchups are fine but they are not gospel.
Though that wasn’t a great at-bat by Cano.
Nothing’s gospel, but they can tell you things.
Things? Trends is a better word. Yuck.
There you, Juanathan.
What’s the Sterling call for that one? Miranda rights?
Juan Gone. Seriously.
Tommie = Ms. Cleo.
MIRANDA!!!
FUCK YES!!
Thank you Juan!!
Said it before the game..let’s just give Miranda a chance eh?
**air-fives TSJC**
Damn, Pete and TSJC were spot on with the predictions.
Thank you Miranda.
Huge HR. Nice job, Miranda.
“Who you callin AAAA, mofo?”
– JuAn MirAndAA
Dunn who? Jesus who?
Oh, so all it took was for the bases to be empty.
Goddammit, Kenny.
(exhales…)
juan gone
Bonus points to tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside the Elder for his Miranda prediction!
**sheds a single tear**
here comes the offense
Joba = a younger Kyle Farnsworth who can’t throw as hard.
joba can throw 98-99 like farnsworth…
Nah, he’s not nearly as homer prone.
Joba = a younger
Kyle Farnsworth who can’t throw as hardpitcher who’s development is incomplete.Fixed.
Joba = a younger Kyle Farnsworth
who can’t throw as hardpitcherwho’swhose development is incomplete.really fixed
/dick’d
/only because I know TSJC loves me… kinda’d
/sorry to that one guy who found this insulting’d
Thanks. I always mess that one up.
Don’t sleep on Juan Miranda, folks. Dude has serious power.
That was almost a disastrous double play. Phew.
Was that a Cervellian hit?
wow that was close
I think Scioscia uses Scot Shields too much. His arm practically fell off last year. Maybe the Angels should trade him to the Dodgers, and let Joe take care of his arm.
are you fucking serious?
Seriously? Thrown for that?
Brett with the rage!
Umps wrecking games.
Did Gardner just get ejected in the middle of an at bat?
Fucking ump. Threw Gardner out.
Fuck umpires.
Gardner gets tossed? Come on.
Ok this is where I need details! What’s going on?
Gardner didn’t like the strike call, turned around to ask the ump about it, and a few seconds later he tossed him.
The same ump who tossed Girardi too quickly last night.
What the hell, ump?
Wow, he’s got a crazy quick (i.e. terrible) hook.
Was the ejection legit? Or was is just residual crap from the Yanks being pissed with this crew during the series in Toronto and last night?
Paulie callin’ out the ump. Love it.
O’Neill drops a “bullcrap” on the air.
i had to do a double take HAHA
O’Niell: “Bullcrap”
at work, not watching…but there seems to be something with the umpiring crew that doesn’t particularly like Yankees in general
Jeter does get some nice privileges from umpires…
You can’t eject Grit, WTF?
Haha, O’Neill: “It’s such bullcrap when something like that happens.”
that ump is BS. how could you throw him out with an 0-2 count and he seemed to be harmless?
good god
So is this still Gardner’s AB if his replacement strikes out? What if he gets a hit?
I believe any out would go to Gardner, any hit would go to Curtis.
Thanks, and that would make sense. I think if there was only one strike on Gardner than the AB, either way, would go to Curtis. Two strikes, any out is against Gardner. I think.
What about the walk?
I really want to know what Gardner said.
CURTISS!!!! FUCK YOU UMPIRES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ha!
I love it!
Gardner planned that shit.
Colin muthafuckin’ Curtis.
Gardner who?
Yea, CC the 3rd
**of current baseball playas. I think sabathia has a jr
colin curtis is amazing!
I did NOT see that coming
Even the umps can’t stop this team.
I love this ump.
“I’ll C.C. you later!” Really Sterling? I mean, really?
Gardner meant to get ejected.
Curtis is like, “FUCK YOU”
F YOU UMPIRE!
Ok Sterling’s call, “I’ll see, see you later!” (Get it…Colin Curtis…C.C., see, see)
Awww, I guess it was too much to hope for
“COLINOSCOPY!”
or “A COLIN CLEANSING!”
Darn.
I personally enjoyed Kenny’s dual meaning’d “You have to be careful what you say” after O’neill dropped the bullcrap.
How ’bout Kenny shuts up. God forbid someone says something honest.
Hilarious.
Way to step-in and step-up Curtis!
lmfao Curtis just **** on the umpire!
Game ball!
That was a message to the umpires! Yay Colin! Get your curtain call!
And Curtis tells Emmel, “Up your butt with a coconut!”
Colin Curtis: The Man, The Myth!
wow that was epic
lol@arod shove
Eat that Emmel!
haha, Curtis! (Damn you, streaming delay!)
Karma Kramer??
i love coming to RAB just to see the comments after a crazy big moment like that.
To me, it’s part of the game experience now. lol
So the same up quickly ejects Girardi last night and now Gardner today.
What are the odds that baseball is forced into issuing a release where they say that they will look into the actions of said umpire, while of course not really doing a damned thing.
what a great F You to the umpire
COLIN CURTIS!!!!!!!! And he came in with an 0-2 count and everything :’)
…and the rout returns (whew).
It would have been funny if Gardner took the curtain call as an F.U. to the ump.
haha
wearing the bobby valentne disguise mustache and glasses
Amazing. A. maz. ing.
That would of been epic.
That would
ofhave been epic./friendlyhelpout’d
Aussie pitcher, somewhere Mark Hutton is very happy for his trail blazing path.
The Angels feed it showing footage of Scioscia in the dugout. He’s all pacing, throwing cups, muttering/yelling shit. He’s pissed. It’s such a pretty sight.
My dog could die and my wife could leave me. Seeing video like that would still cheer me back up.
Another day off for Mo?
I just got a delivery, and when the delivery guy was here, the game was in the background when Miranda went deep.
The delivery guy said something like Boone Logan has a real future with the team because of his “look,” and referred to Miranda as “that big kid out of high school.” I played along. Why even start.
The difference between RAB Yankee fans, and your everyday fan, is quite large.
My father-in-law tells me every time that Joba messes up that it’s all because they tried to make him a starter.
ha, if that was my father in law, I would be a B-Jobber all the way around him, ha.
Mike HC’s father in law: They never should have converted Joba to a starter, they should have left him a reliever.
Mike HC: YOU’RE AN IDIOT WHO DOESN’T KNOW SHIT AND YOUR DAUGHTER IS A CHEAP WHORE WHO TRAPPED ME!!!! Can you pass the potato salad, please?
hahah.
hahhahaha.
I have no response. Funny.
AND YOUR DAUGHTER IS A CHEAP WHORE WHO TRAPPED ME!!!
I think that is the line that really got to me. I’m still laughing.
Tell him that it was the other way around. Joba was messed up by converting Joba from a starter to a reliever. And if that doesn’t work, what Tommie said….
hahaha thats hilarious
That inning was brought to you by SWB!!
brought to you by cashman, oppenheimer and co.
WHO BUT!
here comes the joba blow up
Now we know what situations that Colin Curtis prefers to get an at-bat in.
Javy gon get the win if Joba can hold on.
This means he would have beaten every major league team.
i voted for curtis
This game has been a roller coaster ride.
And apparently it’s going to stay that way. lol
ha, yea. Dodged a bullet there.
I dare someone to find me the last time a guy was pinch-hit for mid at-bat and the pinch hitter went on to hit a homer.
I’m sure the folks at Elias have their computers crunching away as we speak…err, write.
Haha Mo looks pissed to be stretching.
Man Joba sucks
ugh
mariano shouldn’t have to warm up!
I can’t wait to read the Halo’s Heaven game recap.
THE YANKS PAID OFF THE UMPS AND RIVERA THROWS A SPIT BALL
not supposed to be a reply
attaboy joba!
Wow, I thought for sure Joba would go outside slider.
ughhh Joba…cmon man, you can do this
Hunter chased the cheese.
I saw Colin Curtis hit a home run back in 2010 and all I got was this stupid shirt
Let Joba pitch the 9th so he can’t pitch tomorrow.
Joba + three innings = TERRIFYING THOUGHT.
(Yes I know he was a starter. Don’t tell me this isn’t a terrifying thought.)
This inning is A-Rod’s last chance to be the last one to join the party (combining Curtis/Gardner).
Do it up!!!
Or not.
I’m feelin the A-Rod tack-on
Bobby must’ve not realized the wall was there.
Heh, it wasn’t Bobby.
Wasn’t it Rivera?
barry bonds had 120 IBBs in a season???
holy shit
Steroids boost all stats not just HRs lol
that gets you a rap song about you
“here’s another hit, barry bonds”
that song is incredible
lil wayne killed that song
Yeah. That was the same season he walked… wait for it… 232 times.
According to Rosenthal Yanks looking at Johhny Peralta. I’d take an A-Rod/Jorgie 2 headed DH Monster. What would you guys think? PS-That Curtis stuff was awesome. The Umps are a disgrace. I think Paul Emmel may be Scoscia’s brother-in-law
A-Rod should play third with Peralta DHing. That guy fields like he has hooks for hands.
I’ll be super cereally pissed if Alex doesn’t play 140 Games at 3b for the next 5 years at least
Eh, he’ll out-produce Pena, but I wouldn’t want him starting at all, if that’s what you mean by your 2 headed DH.
woooo ups baby
I can’t imagine that was a fun experience for Hideki.
I was about to post about how I’m glad the Royals are coming in with their terrible offense, and then I saw they lead the league in batting average at .281? What the F! (Though they’re 13th in OBP and 23rd in runs scored, so shows you how worthless batting average is)
Still, that surprised me. Oh well, we should still give em the broom.
Yeah, pretty much. They hit, but most of what they hit are singles.
They’re playing .500 ball for over a month now. Not great, but still better.
3 out of 4 is always a nice result in a 4 gamer.
Prior to their last series before the ASB, they were playing .500 ball since the first week of May.
They were 32-22 from May 9th to the start of he Seattle series.
Aaaaaaaand I just realized you were talking about the Royals. My bad, yo. That’s the Yanks’ record.
Well, since you admitted the error of your ways, I guess I’ll let you continue to have your commenting rights.
Mo has got hops.
Ballgame over! Yankees win!
I enjoyed the way they turned back the Angels’ momentum and Shield’s head.
MO is so damn good.
Mike, I agree about Johnny. But I think the plan with him or a Wigginton type is get A-Rod a minimum of 2 games a week at DH. I think Cash believes less time in the field will help A Rod’s power numbers
great win
More like a win. I wouldn’t go around bragging about this one.
Nice win Yanks!
Now take care of business against KC and Cleveland. 6-2 shouldn’t be too much to ask for.
After all the excellent pitching Javy did resulting in losses and NDs, I really don’t mind him getting a win while he pitched pretty crappily. (I never mind Yankees pitchers getting wins, actually =P)
Dad?
Kinda glad I didn’t see any of this game. I counted several times where I might have lost it.
David Ortiz in July: .222/.391/.377 1 HR 6 RBI 16 Ks. Give him an extension!!! He gets on base!
I’ll take him next year if he’ll play for cheap just to spite the Sawx
Is it just me, or was Javy not as awesome at the beginning of this game as every single person commenting on camera is saying? He was having quick innings, but he wasn’t missing bats and he was giving up a lot of long fly balls. I was a little surprised he made it through the first 4 innings unscathed.
BABIP giveth, BABIP taketh away.
Let’s go Oakland
Clap, clap…clap clap clap
whoa Buchholz doing it all today:
a wild pitch, a balk, 3 walks, 2 HRs and already at 75 pitches
There was that little blip before this post about Brian the Ninja Cashman potentialy landing Werth. If that has any truth to it, bring him on. Better us than TB landing him. Thoughts?