Game 44: But can they hit?
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So last night didn’t go according to plan, but at least the Yankees (Freddy Garcia, specifically) pitched well. In fact, New York pitchers have held the opponents to two runs or less over the last four games, and over the last eight games they’ve keep the other team to an average of 3.5 runs per game. That’s plenty good enough to win, the offense just has to do their part. Let’s hope a right-heavy lineup against the southpaw Chris Capuano does the trick…
Derek Jeter, SS
Curtis Granderson, CF
Mark Teixeira, 1B
Alex Rodriguez, DH
Robinson Cano, 2B
Russell Martin, C
Nick Swisher, RF
Andruw Jones, LF
Eduardo Nunez, 3B
A.J. Burnett, SP
Hate these Saturday night games, especially since this one is on FOX. Sigh. Try to enjoy.
Roster Move: Lance Pendleton has been recalled from Triple-A Scranton and Amaury Sanit was sent back down. Is carrying two long relievers really necessary? Another one inning, strikeout guy for the sixth and seventh innings would be cool.
Reminder: Ben’s going to be at the Delta Dugout tomorrow, click the link for all the details.
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See Soriano told us it’s the offense
What?
Soriano bitched about the offense not hitting.
He didn’t bitch, he just stated it as fact.
Oh really? I read a tweet that said “Sorinao complains about offense.”
…Yeah I should have checked up on it.
He was asked if it bothers him to not be pitching during the losing streak, and he said something like…
“My role is the eighth inning with a lead, and the offense hasn’t been playing well. No it doesn’t bother me because they haven’t given me a reason to pitch.”
Lol I think it’s refreshing to see some honesty from a player.
I find it pretty funny.
Can we get it from a player who hasn’t sucked all year and is on the DL?
I. Hate. Fox games.
Since they are always blacked out in LA I really hate them.
Should’ve kept: Javy Vazquez
Can you believe that moron Cashman let him walk? Levine should have gone over his head and signed him to a big multi-year contract.
Should of kept… Should of.
Jokes about Javy aren’t gonna be so funny a few years from now if Vizcaino lives up to his potential.
Hell jokes aren’t funny about Javy now. 10 million dollars for a negative WAR?
Boone Logan is actually the centerpiece for the Yanks which is a joke in itself.
I’m hoping that the game vs Bal was a sign of good things to come and last night was just a matter of the knuckleballer.
Optimism, people.
I hope they score some runs tonight.
Another loss to the Mets and that AAA lineup of theirs would be too much to bear, especially at home.
Kind of reminds me of that series vs Pawtuckett last season.
Lol I was reading comments on some nomaas post and there were people making fun of people on RAB.
So stupid. If you’re going to impersonate a commenter/author from one blog site on another blog site, then you should probably get a life.
Fuck Fox. I can’t even watch this game because they’re showing the A’s and Giants out on the west coast. Oh well… I guess anything is better than listening to Joe Buck and Tim Mccarver. So in that case, thank you Fox!
Should of won last night.
Kim Jones on Francesa…you know, she seems like she knows what she’s talking about.
This sucks FOX is playing the Red Sox game where i live and its not on Extra innings so i cant watch the game!!
Is it me or does it sound like buck doesn’t even care anymore?
He actually has some sort of vocal cord virus. That’s why he sounds so dull these days.
He still doesn’t care, though.
Justin fucking Turner
He doesn’t
those Red Sox throwback jerseys are ridiculous
those Red Sox
throwback jerseysare ridiculousFTFY
FUCK YOU FOX. Fuck you to hell.
Why the hell would I want to watch the Cubs and the Red Sox in Florida? Thanks for ruining my day, assholes.
Are you kidding me????
I’m getting the Yanks feed.
Thank god for MLB ticket!
Is there a reason why Fox has pre game stuff on and not the Yankees?
Info on my TV says Yankees vs Mets.
Anyone else experiencing this?
The game hasn’t started yet.
Yeah. It’s just I saw people talking about Buck and I hadn’t seen him yet, so I figured they were seeing him talking.
My bad.
That pre-game segment was terrible. Of course they had to start it by talking about the contracts…
Whatever happened to the old Fox baseball theme? I liked it a lot better than what they have on now.
So is the Mets’ pitcher a certified Yankees killer or should we see some offense?
We really need a new right fielder. Guy can’t hit and can’t even field anymore.
swisher has been slipping in the outfield all year, somebody get him some new cleats
ok, had enough of this game already. lol
Nice start -_-
And it starts early…
Swisher off the juice
I just discovered this button on my clicker that changes the TV to Spanish simulcastast or whatever and since there is no simulcast available, I get to hear the sounds of the park.
Pretty cool.
Burnett is such a friggin POS
CHOKER
Nothing says choking like giving up 1 run (so far) in the first inning of a game in May against the Mets.
Oh god…here we go again
One of those balls was a strike IMO.
I’m on the west coast, so the SF-Oakland game is playing, and I have to listen to the radio feed. I got through about 4 minutes of Sterling before switching it to the WFAN feed. God I hate Sterling.
Everyone is waiting with baited breath and not commenting, lol. Fueling the vitriol….
AJ’s gonna take us out of the ballgame in the 1st inning.
Gotta get this game in before the rapture to make it offical
The rapture already passed. Jesus took good AJ with him.
Burnett looks like he’s wearing makeup. Looks kinda like there’s some foundation on his cheek bones.
Who had walks in first run today in the pool
Fox/Joe Buck beggin for a slam there
I’ll take that sacrifice fly. Now let’s get a double play.
DP AJ.
Make it happen!
Oh god. Not Justin Turner.
What would it take to get hanley ramerez in the off season
Hanley is hitting ~50 points lower than Jeter.
should have walked him. christ.
don’t you mean should of?
no.
Joke, on today’s post by Stephen Rhoades.
Justin Turner… wtf
Justin Turner. Of course.
Aj you weak minded piece of crap
This game isn’t fun so far.
This is all Axisa’s fault, apparently.
every time they cut to a shot of David Wright joking around and enjoying himself I want to kill myself.
Alright, two runs is no big deal.
Really, I feel as though it could have been much worse.
I remember mast year vs Chi AJ had a meltdown and gave up 7 runs in the 1st inning.
Could have been worse
It is according to John Sterling
But on the other hand, you can’t predict baseball.
It is if the Yankees hit like they did yesterday
Lets put up a 5 spot now
Limited the damage…hopefully a 2-run lead isn’t insurmountable.
I feel fairly confident we can get one of those back in the first six innings.
AJ just kept pitching to the same spot and Turner adjusted. AJ needs to get his stuff together and this offense needs to back him up.
Was Turners hit as good of a piece of hitting as Sterling made it sound?
Who’s not that excited for The Hangover 2? I think there was no reason for a sequel.
There’s no chance it’ll be as good as the first one. It’s just a money grab.
Word. And lots of people will see it, making the movie tons of money, which will make the Hangover 3 and inevitability. This is why we can’t have nice things people.
Pretty much.
This is how we’ve somehow ended up with 5 Fast and the Furious movies.
I didn’t see what was the big deal about the first one, honestly.
Entertaining, sure. Funniest movie ever? No way. Can’t really understand how it made so much money.
Yeah it was pretty much just lots of physical comedy, a dose of Zach Galifinakis’ weirdness and Las Vegas as a backdrop.
Two looks the same, but only with Thailand taking Las Vegas’ place.
a dose of Zach Galifinakis’ weirdness
That is something of which I have seen enough.
He. Is. Not. Funny.
I like his Between Two Ferns interviews. I liked it better when someone did it to him. Yes, they’re all setup, but the awkwardness is funny.
That’s our leadoff man.
you think if we get to Mid-June and they’re still hitting like this that there’s at least a 20% chance that Girardi throws scraps of paper numbered 1-9 in a hat. Just to see , for s & g?
I don’t think they’ll move Jeter until he gets his 3,000th hit, at the earliest.
so 20% chance first game after the AS break then? Because he’ll probably get 3k right before break.
ugh. c’mon Jeter. i know it looked juicy, but AJ just threw 30+ pitches.
First no rapture
Now this
How much can a good catholic and yankeenfanntake
Considering it wasn’t the Catholic Church calling for the rapture, you shouldn’t take that one to heart.
I feel as though Jeter would not have made the play Reyes made last night.
no question Jeter doesn’t make that play
He wouldn’t have made that play if he had a fishing net.
Well to be fair, the transfer from the fishing net to the throwing hand would be difficult for anybody. Haha
Jeter may have made that play if he stays out of Cano’s way and Cano makes that play…
Not even with Luis Polonia’s glove.
I’m boycotting the Yanks if they lose this game. This season has been super shitty but please don’t lose a series to the Mets.
Really?
After the story about Big Bertha being a Red Sox fan trolling RAB, I don’t trust anybody anymore.
I hate it when people say this. It’s one game. Even if they lose you’ll be back within a week.
Nice bounce back inning for AJ. Now let’s see if this offense can get something going.
Don’t want reyes in pinstrpes
Ratherbhave a power guy like rameriz
I Rather Have Reyes Then Jeter.
Nunez is the future
I laughed
Reyes will be a lot more available in the offseason, and is more likely to stick at SS longterm (though with injury concerns).
Reyes probably doesn’t want to play for the Yankees because he’d have to shave off his precious dreadlocks.
but can we hit?
a-rod is gonna jack one
a-rod is gonna jack one hot single up the middle. finished that for ya
good enough. but he looked good taking Balls 1 & 2
Cano, just because the count is 2-0 doesn’t mean you have to swing.
Russell got that muscle, damn
Coltrane!!
Coltrane, baby.
The COOOLLLLLLLTRANE
Coltrane does it again!
atta kid
COLTRANEEEEEEEE
Jesus who???
Russell Martin raptured the shit out of that one.
Booooooooo we should have bunted!!!!!!
“Rapture this, bitches!”
Thank God for the few players who are hitting like Russell.
We have to keep this guy
Russell’s already coming close to what I thought he’d do power wise for the year (I had him at 11-12)
Should have left BG in left, put Andruw in right
Not a bad time to give BG a rest against the lefty.
make that Dickerson in right. sheesh.
Should have left Andruw on the bench.
At this point can we get a bagbof balls for swisher?
We’ll definitely need to look at a right fielder at the trade deadline. Swisher’s regression is the worst on the team, worse than Posada’s. Jorge is just getting old, Swisher is supposed to be in his prime.
I can almost guarantee you that they won’t.
I can see them keeping Swisher, but looking for an upgrade over Jones in case Swish continues to suck.
Yeah, maybe that.
Trade him to the circus for a toy poodle in a tutu.
Curse of the Papelbon commercial.
Let’s try trading him for Andre Ethier. I’m sure the Dodgers will be more than willing to comply.
You’d be surprised by how quickly people would be disappointed by Ethier. He’s a star when facing a RHP, but that’s it. Can’t hit lefties, awful in the field.
I’m aware. But remember the Red Sox game where some guy was screaming “COME ON! JUST SIGN ETHIER ALREADY!” as if it’s that easy? I couldn’t help but think back to that.
Russell Martin has been the Yankee’s most consistent player in the early going this season. Not even close either.
Really? Granderson has been the most consistent.
Swisher has been the most consistent. Consistently awful.
As FJM showed, consistent does not mean good.
Swish ,296 wOBA April, .296 wOBA May – consistent suckitude
I don’t think Granderson’s been consistent at all. Been up, been down, been way up, now down again.
Who hasn’t been like that? Not counting consistently bad.
Eh, Martin has been that way too.
Curtis Granderson? CC Sabathia? Jeter has been consistently not good.
CC has had some rough patches here and there. I forgot about Granderson my bad. I still think Martin has been the most consistent player so far this season. I should erase the “Not close” part.
Swisher and Jeter by far have been the most consistent Yankees.
Joe Buck: “Wally Backman’s great years with the Mets”
Wally Backman with the Mets: .283/.353/.344, never played more than 145 games.
But ok, Backman was there for two of the Mets better seasons.
Martin picked up burnett burnett needs to pitch now
Buck shows no emotion.
Michael Kay would be like,”Ooohhhhh and he makes the catch!! What a play by Granderson!”
Was it a really good catch? John Sterling made it hard to tell.
Yeah it was pretty good. I give it a 7 out of ten. Ran back on it, reached up and caught it will a full extension, back to the infield. Seen better though, out of Granderson this year too.
Nah. It was a running catch, but Kay tends to get a little over-excited on those.
If Fox covered the game in which Castillo dropped the ball, this would be Buck:
Arod…pops up to second. Castillo is there…and he drops the ball.
Jeter comes home. Here comes Teixeira. The throw…is not on time.
And the Yankees win the game.
Then McCarver says something stupid.
“in baseball one of the worst things you can do is commit a walk-off error and this is because the game is then over. You don’t get a chance to bat again and try to win the game.”
lmao
AJ pitched him like that was the Fenway version of Bay.
No harm done, but a little doubt maybe manifesting in AJ’s head?
….this comment has absolutely no tangible value – just an observation.
There you go Jeter, there you go.
That looked like the Jeter of old. He really can only do that off lefties now, unfortunately.
Well, at least he isn’t hitting lefties as bad as he is righties, right?
Yeah, that’s what I’m saying.
VS LHP: .289/.285/.400
VS RHP: .248/.286/.302
(going into tonight)
Right. .785 OPS and .357 wOBA v. LHP
.588 OPS and .264 wOBA v RHP
Grandy’s goin’ cold. Say it ain’t so.
Ok, Granderson, lefties are not supposed to fool you anymore.
yay Tex message
You’re on the Mark Teixeira!
Too many homers. Grandy should of bunted.
YOU IDITO IT’S SHOULD HAVE!!111!!
Tex, rally killer.
Damn rally killers! I wanted a bunch of singles!
TEIX MESSAGE
We’re hitting too many home runs again. We have to manufacture runs!
#toomanyhomers
Teix, stop hitting so many homers. How can we complain about everything if the Yankees are leading.
A-Rod is approaching locked-in mode. You can tell when he takes pitches like he has tonight.
He absolutely murdered both balls he hit tonight.
Swisher actually did something productive on the field?? Nice.
Yeah Swisher. These occasional diving catches he makes almost make me forget how mediocre a RF he is.
He’s pretty much an average RF. That doesn’t mean bad. Average.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Mediocre
Mediocre does not mean bad.
Oh I know. I wasn’t saying you meant that, but sometimes mediocre has a negative connotation.
All right. I can see how that could be misconstrued.
1. Tex has hideous haircut (or lack thereof) in 2010. He hits not as well as he usually does. For the ALDS, he gets a haircut and hits well.
2. Arod chews sunflower seeds all through May and sucks. He switches to gum and proceeds to hit well.
3. Swish dies well in 2010 then gets married during the off season and sucks in 2011.
4. Rumors of Jeter’s engagement in November 2009 after a great year. …Well we know what he looks like now.
5. Burnett gets a haircut in June 2010 and the rest is history.
/starting a narrative’d
3. Should be hits not dies
3. dOes well. It would be a good trick to first die and then get married. The rest of us do it in the opposite order.
Yeah I think that’s what I meant.
Typing fail.
6. Robinson Cano has career year in 2010. Grows a David Ortiz beard in offseason. Regresses in 2011.
That beard was hideous. If I were dating him and he grew that and didn’t shave it when I asked him to, I’d leave him.
There’s just no accounting for personal taste.
There is a common thread here for Jeter, Swisher and ARod. They have all had major changes in relationships with their significant others.
you were cooler before tommie told you what to write / not write
Haha you mean you miss my irrationality? Lol
not really, but the groupthink gets ponderous
Cano – first pitch swingin’
Come on Robbie
Paraphrasing Tim McCarver talking to Girardi:
“I bet you were pleased Burnett got out of that first inning, bases loaded, no outs jam with only two runs coming across the plate”
What?!?! 2 out of 3 runners who were on base scored. Only Tim McCarver would consider that a success.
It could’ve been much worse
Yes, but how can a manager say he’s pleased when 2 runs score no matter the situation?
When it’s only the first inning. There was, and still is a lot of baseball yet to be played.
I think he meant as opposed the world ending.
I hope mccarver gets raped by a bear.
How about by a raptor?
It’s not the rapture, it’s the raptor! I’ve already seen 12 velociraptors today.
Dammit! I knew I shouldn’t have let the cage open this morning.
They promised they wouldn’t go the route of Mr. Pilkington, but I guess you just can’t trust a raptor.
lol
A healthy Reyes would have been a nice addition for the 2012 Yankees. Oh well, we’ll have a year older Jeter.
I don’t want Reyes on this team. I think he’s ugly.
That’s a silly reason to be against having a player on the Yankees.
If I had it my way, the team would be:
C: Montero
1st: Pena
2nd: Cano
3rd: Arod
SS: Jeter
CF/RF/LF: Sizemore, Cabrera, Ethier
DH: Jorge
SP: Hernandez and Pettitte
BP: Robertson and Rivera
Throw in Banuelos, too. That’s a nice pic of him.
Please focus on Beltran. Who gives a shit if Reyes steals with two outs.
Well, then a single scores a run.
Not if he concentrates on the batter and gets him out.
Easier said than done. And see, the single scored the run.
Meh, just a bloop. 60% of the time, he makes an out.
Guess you were right after all.
Amen to that.
And there that is.
Whoever had the over on “speed slows the game down” by McCarver just won $41.
I hate Jose Reyes right now
Nolan Ryan is terrible in the Lowe’s commercial.
Nolan Ryan is terrible
in the Lowe’s commercial.Can anyone remember the last time the Yankees got a cheap-ass run like that?
This is not meant as criticism of the team; in fact, the opposite. Just by accident a team should run into breaks like that, but I can’t think of one offhand.
Tex’s HR last night. Can’t get much cheaper than that.
Swish’s double of Pie’s glove in Baltimore
I’d hardly call that cheap. The Yanks were obviously glad he didn’t catch it, but it wasn’t exactly a lazy fly ball. Most fans would have screamed at the ill fortune if he’d hauled it in.
Same to above: Teix’s ball was fortunate to hit the seats, but it had to be hit pretty hard to get that far to the outfield.
Beltran, by contrast, barely got a bat on the ball, and they got a run out of it. If the Ynkaees had had a few of those the past 2-3 weeks, people wouldn’t have “RISP FAIL!” locked into permanent type
I demand more HRs, dammit
More runs please?
Big Papi? In high socks? Jesus
and those throwbacks are terrrrrible.
Not as awful as the Phillies’ throwbacks though. Those are fugly.
I love those awesome powder blue/maroon combos.
Because they remind me of Mike Schmidt, and I hate Mike Schmidt, and it gives me extra reason to hate the Phillies.
Oh damn, I didn’t realize the Red Sox were in first place D:
Winning games despite the fact that it’s “only May”. Bastards.
There’s a difference between not panicking because it’s only May and there’s plenty of time left and not caring about games in May.
I hope AJ doesn’t fall apart in this inning like he did his last outing. Hold it, and unfortunately we’ll probably have to use Robertson and Joba again.
so far so bad
AJ got ahead of the leadoff man 0-2. Then threw FOUR straight balls. And now Justin Turner is up with a 2-0 count.
AJ please! 0-2 on Fernando Martinez! smh
Get Robertson up, pls.
I don’t suppose Turner even knows how to GIDP…
Meltdown…commence
I assumed Nunez would throw the ball into the outfield on that play. And I’m sure I wasn’t alone in assuming that.
you are KILLING me Cano
who read his lips there?
Fucking Cano … he really needs to pull his head out of his ass
Jesus Christ.
That better not lead to a run Cano.
And it doesn’t. Phew
WTF Cano???
bad hop, but still a play Cano’s made many many times before
made up for it nicely with that play for the 3rd out. nice!
Sloppy Cano… Slop Sloppy Cano.
(sung to the tune of sloppy joe by aam sandler)
Really? Gonna try to squeeze in that extra syllable?
Haha, I think it kind of works.
with Joba Chamberlain playing Chris Farley’s role as the lunch lady
Great call.
TRADE CANO FOR MARCO SCUTARO! AT LEAST SCUTARO IS GRITTY AND PLAYS THE GAME THE RIGHT WAY!!!!!
lunch lady land
So in the off season you have Cano, Cervelli and Nunez all working out together at Cano’s dad’s field. Doesn’t look like they spent ANY of that time on defensive drills so far does it?
the GRANDYMAN
enough of you Capuano
Stop with the homers!!!
This guyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
Ohhhh the grandyman can
Guess Curtis heard Mike complain.
Curtis. I love you.
Looks like Granderson adjusted to that slider.
Capuano hanging it didn’t hurt either.
Touché
And that there is the difference for Granderson this year vs. every other year of his career against lefties.
Too many homers.
An A-Bomb!!
AN A-BOMB! FROM A-ROD!
how on earth can we play small ball if we keep doing this????????????????
Just noticed how far Fox’s shittiness extends. I don’t usually use MLB.com’s Gameday, but I am today and I see that they don’t put up video highlights right away like they do for non-Fox games.
Why does MLB let Fox essentially put a chokehold on fans like this?
And in typing this, I missed ARod homer. Figures.
We’re hitting way too many homers. We’ll never be able to sustain this pace.
Joe Sheehan
No one ever says, “They hit too many grounders to shortstop.” Even though that’s an actual problem.
3 minutes ago
Love Joe Sheehan.
Heh, we say that all the time. At least for one player, anyway.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Yankee Stadium cheapie hit to left.
YCPB. Yeah, I went there.
Homers aren’t nearly gritty enough.
Lol, Big Z just hit Youk.
That is a brawl I’d like to see.
please tell me it was in the face
Nah, put it some place where it can actually have a negative impact.
Joel Sherman
Granderson has 141 career HRs. That was just 2d on 0-2 pitch. Other: 9/29/06 v. KC’s Runelvys Hernandez
Cano – first pitch swinging
When will the yanks learn to play the game right?
Dammit Cano. Stop swinging at the first pitch.
Come on AJ. Let’s get through just one more inning.
Good move to pull him before things get out of hand.
Can Girardi finally be learning not to wait until the pitching meltdown is in full flower?
Oh Lord, here comes Logan.
Guess that at bat wasn’t neutralized …
“You neutralize the lefty at the plate”
McCarver must not be familiar with Boone
LOOGYFAIL.
LNOGY.
Boone Logan is useless.
It’s amazing that he’s been better against righties, and better on the road than at home.
Was that a cutter from D-Rob? Me likey, that was nasty…
ugly at-bat by Beltran.. i’ll take it. LOL
KRob’d
These pitches are nasty and right there. Ump has to give us the call
That fastball is unhittable right now
How about a Houdini shirt for the RAB store?
I fucking love David Robertson.
and he did it all without a walk to load the bases!
Someone’s been studying w/ Mo in Cutter-School! D-Rob!!
Roberston for Closer after Mo? Mo has said he thinks he can do it
There is no after Mo. Mo will pitch forever. Or until the rapture, whichever comes first.
Nah, leave him right where he is. Too important getting out of jams just like that.
Right now yeah keep him where he is, but I’d like to see him get a shot closing once Mo calls it quits.
He needs to walk fewer guys.
he’s a cutie. He always looks happy when he gets the job done.
AJ looked disgusting in the dugout. My God, take a shower!
Robertson has given up the same number of hits and walks, 15.
and struckout 29.
If that doesn’t hit the mound, it probably goes through. Poor Swish.
That Pepsi Max commercial was strange. By the way, Coca-Cola > Pepsi.
always.
Uh oh. Get ready for some more B-Jobber talk. It’s a FOX game. You should already be watching on mute, just in case any of you slipped up.
Random thought: Why the hell did the Yankees give ARod a $300 million contract when he was 32?
Because he’s the greatest player of his generation and wasn’t showing any signs of slowing down. That hip injury was unfortunate.
That was a ridiculous contract even without the hip injury.
If you really want to talk about ridiculous contracts, then look no further than Jason Werth.
agreed
Why that ridiculous number? Who was gonna give him more than $180 mil?
I’m not arguing with you. He’s definitely overpaid. But there’s nothing you can do about it. And if anyone’s going to get a contract like that, it should be a guy like Rodriguez or Pujols.
Yeah but $300 million at 32 years old is bananas.
Fortunately the Yankees can absorb that. Any other team would be crippled for a long time by that contract.
Exactly. Only a team like the Yankees or maybe the Phillies or Red Sox could afford to dish out that much money over that period of time to an individual player.
I dunno, I just hope that Jeter’s contract doesn’t end up looking economical in comparison.
I’ll take Bonds for 500, Alex. But I still see your point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Steinbrenner
Rich kids don’t always make the best decisions when they get control of daddy’s business.
The range!
Bullpen looks great when they look like this.
Cashman must love seeing Joba dominate in the eighth while Soriano is out with another elbow issue.
The Yankees have left ZERO men on base today? Impossible.
No at-bats with RISP too, I believe.
Best way to prevent RISP fail is to not get RISP.
Hoagies and grinders, hoagies and grinders. That’s how I’ll think of Joba’s FBs and Sliders thanks to you, Jetrer.
I can so picture Joba in the lunch lady costume.
Hey, I want the credit.
Credit all around, good times.
Hahah thanks.
I should keep that clip handy to cheer me up when the Yankees are getting me all frustrated and pissed off.
Whoa Jeter with a hit off a righty.
Look at Jeter acting all young and mobile today.
Already 0-1 with RISP.
That’s right. We don’t need home runs.
That was the sweetest run they’ve scored all night, beautifully manufactured.
Really? To each his own, but I like homers.
Yeah, it only cost them two outs to do it. Fantastic.
#notreally
Small ball and HRs all in one game. I’m excited.
Luis Ayala better not give up any runs. Let Mo have a day off.
Ayala looks kinda nasty tonight.
Ayala has six straight scoreless outings. Yet for some reason I still have the impression that he has sucked. He’s actually done a good job for the Yanks.
Make that seven straight.
It’s nice that Ayala has been competent.
Man, Ayala was throwing some gas.
This is a win we can feel really good about.
Co-sign.
Ayala’s 2 seam is Bartolo-esque.
Wow, a Fox game completed in under 3 hours.
Haha yea, shocker.
Yeah but one of the teams was in the National League so it doesn’t really count.
Looks Flaherty got more Botox.
I didn’t think it was possible for me to like him any less.
Why don’t they do regular post games instead of extra innings?
I need to start going on here when the Yanks are leading more often.
Cubbies w/ bases loaded and 0 outs
Good news folks, no player’s died in today’s Red Sox Cubs game, but the Sox tried to change that.
Um Jose Bautista for MVP?
Dear Derek, you suck now
Dear Randy Levine, You’re an idiot!
3-2.. bases loaded walk to Carlos Pena. still bags full w/ 0 outs
GO CUBS GO!!
2 run double Reed Johnson!
4-3 Cubbies!!
Woo hoo!!! Hold this lead now Cubbies!! Two innings.
LOL! A comedy of errors in Fenway.
5-3 Cubbies! Error by Lowrie. LOL
still no outs. 1st and 2nd
WHOA! Lowrie pulled a Castillo at Shortstop!
damn i wish i could’ve seen it! im just following the game tracker on mlb.com LOL
you are the F’N MAN!!!
it’s all just crashing down at Fenway! another RBI Double! LOL
6-3 Cubbies!! no outs 2nd and 3rd!
LOL! Another error by the Sox leads to another run for the Cubs! LOL! LOL!
Laughing hard, now.
Derp. Herp Derp.
W O W bullpen explosion by Boston, couldn’t love it more.
And another one! From Fukudome to blow it open!
The Cubs are just piling on now. And the Rays already lost to the Marlins. For a day where the world was supposed to end, it’s going pretty damn well.
Well said sir.
9-3 CUBBIES!!!!
CUBBIES WIN! THUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH CUBBIES WIN!
Who removed that streaming link comment I posted?
http://riveraveblues.com/about.....uidelines/
#3. None of you is worth getting in trouble for.
Oof. I’ll remember that next time.