Game 53: Halfway-ish there
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Still haven't changed the sign to Overstock.com, I see. (Photo Credit: Amanda Rykoff)
Tonight is game five of this nine game road trip down America’s west coast, and so far I think the net result is a positive one. The Yankees are 2-2 on the trip but had multiple run leads in the two losses against a pair of really good pitchers, which is all you could ask from them. Brett Anderson will be no fun tonight, but then again I said the same thing about Trevor Cahill yesterday. Here’s the lineup…
Derek Jeter, SS
Curtis Granderson, CF
Mark Teixeira, 1B
Alex Rodriguez, 3B
Robinson Cano, 2B
Russell Martin, C
Nick Swisher, RF
Andruw Jones, DH
Brett Gardner, LF
Freddy Garcia, RHP
First pitch is scheduled for a little after 10pm ET, and the game can be seen on YES locally and MLB Network nationally. Enjoy, assuming you stay awake for the whole game.
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coommmeee onnnn sweaty freddy!
I. Hate. West coast trips.
I disagree.
I can get seats about 15 rows behind the dugout in Oakland Coliseum for about 50 bucks….and that’s against the Yankees.
West Coast is full of win.
Brian Bruney is back in the bigs and trying to help Boston win their game tonight. He’s still got it!
Lets go yanks
Watching bruney melt down and get the saux back in the game
Boy does that guy still suck
Redsox lose thank godbthey put Sale in.
The Red Sox lost and Cliff Lee got hammered.
All is well in the world.
Colon >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Lee
For now.
Get your own gimmick.
Ellis pulled a Robbie there
Grandy!!!
BOOM.
That was quick.
See ya
Fucking Curtis. This man is a monster.
He’s a Manster. (stolen nickname from HOfer Randy White of the Dallas Cowboys)
Holy shit…that was fast
lol Curtis is not human.
ajax’s ceiling = c-grand’s floor
I love you, Curtis. Don’t ever change.
Overstock.com Colosseum’d
I know that didn’t make sense.
Grandy is SO DOMINANT. I love it.
The Grandyman can.
that was cool how the ball knocked his hat off
that didnt look foul at all
Oh, and since I saw people saying they were having technical problems in the Open Thread.
I’m using IE8 and every time I open a page, I get a script error. I just tell it to stop the script and the page works fine then.
I ran processes in chrome and I’m pretty sure it’s something with tiqiq.
I just decided to finally get with the crowd and switch to fire fox. It’s not giving me a warning but it wont stop loading. And I really don’t see what is so great about FF.
is it me or is this site not loading right?
i keep having to press stop
damn they are mashing Anderson, love it.
Yea, definitely saw chalk fly up on Teix’s bloop.
The bats, they are a clicking…
Grandy follows up that rough day yesterday with a home run today. Auh-may-zing.
Am I the only one that’s never scared of the A’s pitchers? I know they are good, but the Yankees always seem to hit them well.
Poll question: Under/Over 35 homer for Granderson this year?
Over. I think at he’ll get around 43.
Over. Bank on it.
Did you hear the sound of Curtis’ bat? The pure wooden tone still rings for me. We should start a campaign to get YES to let such beautiful noise come thru our TV sets from Yankee Stadium. Every hit sounds like a rubber band on a cardboard box. Intentional?
I agree 100%. Catchers’ mitts don’t pop. They pphhtt.
I figure they want us to attend games to hear the real thing. From the good seats, anyway.
Brett Anderson: “Man, these Yankee hitters are tough. I couldn’t do anything against them.”
Trevor Cahill: “Tell me about. This Nova guy is lucky.”
Brett Anderson: “They scored him 2 runs in the first, our guys score us 2 runs in a week.”
And just to get some stuff out of the way.
R.I.P. Andy Robustelli.
Hopefully all goes well for Gary Carter and his tumors can be treated.
Also, in case no one saw this, Boston has set their rotation for next week so they’ll throw their top 3 guys. So, c’mon, Joe, the writing is on the wall…
is there a site that would let me see a list of who Granderson’s home runs have been off of this year?
Probably with the play index on Baseball Reference.
http://www.baseball-reference......1&t=b
thanks
3 off Jered Weaver. Hopefully that will continue in Anaheim.
4 off weaver
http://hittrackeronline.com/de.....ype=hitter
Quick runs, quick innings for Freddy = the cure for the west coast night game blues.
Even Jones’ popups are cool.
Andruw will get one into orbit some time this season
I’m not going to stay up for the whole game, so I’m hoping for the Yanks to get a nice lead within the next few innings.
Or at least I hope to come on the site tomorrow for a happy recap.
uhg Swish.
wtf was Swish doing?
Swisher is just awful on the bases
Arod was the man in the 2009 playoffs.
I remember he hit another game tying HR in extras in the ALCS and I thought to myself, oh no he didn’t.
Guy was good.
Basically I would vote him the 2009 Postseason MVP.
And anyone who says he’s overrated is a dbag.
agreed.
stupid overrated ARod
Ouch, A-Rod
Sooooo many errors this season
People are REALLY whining about Swisher’s baserunning after that? How many players DON’T get doubled up there?
Red Sox players don’t. They are just that gritty.
Please, do tell me the exact number. Cause I have a feeling that most players WOULDNT be double up there.
??
Flukey play, I don’t see how you could blame Swisher at all…
What is that sound? Sounds like a bell and it’s giving me a migraine.
a sound exclusive to the Overstock.com Colosseum.
So it was Jim Joyce who blew that call on Teix’s bloop?!?
I knew it!!
(just kidding, I think Jim Joyce is awesome)
lol Jeter has amazing luck, you could say he has an “edge”
lol
They gave him a hit on that?
Oh good, they changed it.
Holy shit that was a bad call.
that called strike to Granderson was laughable.
Fun fact: I still have yet to watch a no hitter/perfect game.
Would be nice if a Yankee did one this year.
A perfect game would be a guarantee of World Series victory…
Missed Jeter’s play.
Also, nice bullshit strike call on Grandy.
arod making up for the error
yay for a hit with RISP
I dont mean to go off-topic here, but there is a mock draft, with every MLB player in the draft, thats going to be happening tomorow at 12 on ESPN. I bet there are at least 12 Red Sox players selected in the first round
Really? Why are they doing that?
So they can give Red Sox players more praise than they already get
You’re allowed to go ‘off-topic’ during game posts.
Anyone else think Crisp let up on that?
Yeah.
ARod got lucky
Sweet bloop
Colosseum doesn’t even sound like a stadium. There are so many individual people/sounds you can hear that it reminds me of a little league game or a spring training game.
Yankees can score all ways. Homers, infield singles and bloops. Yep, I’m changing the narrative.
yay kim jones!
A’s defense looks like Keystone cops…!
Gardner’s best throw ever.
BG FTW, glad Andruw wasn’t out there.
gardy with the nice throw
Gardy with a canon there
kouzmanoff… what an idiot
That was a great throw, Brett. More of those.
Nice throw, Gardy.
That was comedy.
Nice effort Kouz.
wtf?
lol nice job swish
All that for a toe? Sheesh suck it up and be a man, Russell,
at least it was big toe, but still,
Smashing my big toe was 90% as painful as breaking my leg in two places. Shockingly painful.
I’ve had a bad history with ingrown toenails on both of my big toes. Obviously not nearly as bad as your experience, but those are plenty painful, I can assure you.
I believe it. My toe didn’t break but I lost the nail and had some nasty bruising. Really sucked.
Yea, the last time I had one cut out, the nail eventually fell out. I once had an operation that was supposed to kill the nail, but it didn’t totally work because I still had the problems.
One of my college roommates was a big time skier, but he used to wear his boots super tight, like two sizes too small. Needless to say, he had ingrown toe nail problems on his big toes, and that shit was naaaaasty.
I can vouch for that. I am often disgusted by the sight of my big toes.
Yeah. I didn’t know that.
But these baseball players whine about the littlest things (in general not Martin) and it’s so annoying.
1. They’re men
2. They play baseball. That’s not physically demanding. Unless they are pitchers (maybe catchers) I don’t want to hear it.
I guy on TB, in game 7 vs the Bruins, he shattered his nose, but he went back out there and played his heart out in a losing effort.
Eh, disagree. They probably play with stuff that would shelve regular people for weeks.
Well, he couldn’t shatter his nose again after it was already shattered. So he wasn’t really putting himself at further risk, other than the fact that hockey is brutally violent to begin with.
Do you know how hard it is to hit a baseball?
Watch the difference between ARod when his mechanics are on vs. when they are off. It’s -hard- to hit a baseball.
A hurt player can have his balance, his mechanics, his bat speed, etc., off. And being off a fraction of a second on your swing = crappy hitter. Much better to sit and get healthy than to ‘man up’ and hurt your team in the long run.
Oh, Swish…
good time for a K
LOL, Coco. LOL.
dont be mean Mike!
Team Coco > Coco Crisp
Ken, if it takes him that long to get to 3000, he’ll be hitting about .225!!!!
QUIT RUINING HIS NARRATIVE!
I will not accept his inability to actually study the schedule and come to this realization on his own.
damn, that wasn’t a bad pitch..
No más, Freddy.
Their offense isn’t even good.
what the hell is going on in the A’s stands? all kinds of bells and whistles and cow bells, lol.
Its California, 90% of them are probably high
Trivia answer = Tom Hanks
the a’s fans suck
So does the team.
we’re blooping them to death.. I like it
too many bloops, this team’s offense can’t be built around the bloop.
You’re right. This is cause for concern.
great to see the babip gods on our side
Does Brett Anderson only throw breaking balls?
Bloody hell, Swish
Gardner’s fault. Never mind.
When will Girardi realize Gardner can’t bunt?
Probably the same time he realizes Jeter and Swisher can’t bunt either.
A squueze play? How incredibly stupid. That’s on Gardner, that pitch was right down the middle. He has to get the bunt down.
Why would the play even be called in the first place
really awesome play guys..
fucking gardner
how does he not know how to bunt
Way to go, guys. Dumb squeeze attempt, bat bunt.
yuck
the squeeze? are we the Padres now? do we not score runs that we need the squeeze.
so you think gardner should be swinging for the fences?
There’s a happy middle ground between bunting and swinging for the fences, you know.
There’s a lot in between bunting and swinging for the fences.
Gardner should be looking to hit the ball hard somewhere.
Girardi is a moron. Gardner can’t bunt. Enough!
Enough with the fucking bunting Girardi. Such a moron. Terrible execution by Gardner and Swish. Just stupid
lol Jeter’s hits are so entertaining.
Girardi + Sluggers = ???
Jeter manages to get another bum fuck hit
The BABIP gods are on Jeter’s side today.
I’m wondering if the A’s middle infield voted him overrated and if this is his form of revenge.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
I missed the squeeze play. Can somebody please give me the run down on what happened?
Gardner missed a very buntable pitch and Swisher got thrown out trying to get back to third.
Maybe Swisher will pull his head out of his ass soon. It wasn’t a suicide squeeze so he shouldn’t have gotten picked off. He has given away two outs already.
Great luck by Jeter today. If only the Yankees werent so willing to give the A’s free outs
Better to find out that doesn’t work now than against the Red Sox, I guess….
Really trying to find the silver lining in a squeeze bunt early against the A’s.
Obsessed with Jeter’s hits tonight.
Lol that was fucking hilarious! Why was noone on 2nd?
Granderson makes me hard.
Granderson is unstoppable
And Grandy makes them pay. The man is a beast.
Curtis Granderson has had enough of this bunting bullshit.
The Grandyman Can! I love this guy!
Give Grandy the key to the city
GRANDERSON FOR PRESIDENT
Jose Bautista isn’t letting me post MVP chants, damnit.
we can, we are fans!
Grandy = elite.
QUACK! QUACK QUACK QUACK!!
GRANDY!! Love to see the really nice guys do well
I am so loving this.
See, 2 runs, bunting always works.
\sarcasm
I love Grandy so much it hurts sometimes. Thank you for making up for Girardi/Garner’s ineptitude
Thank you Granderson. 2nd place in my roto league. Only ‘untouchable’ player on my team – not even for Bautista (because I’m a homer
).
I got him in the 18th round of my dynasty league. Needless to say, it has worked out well.
18th? WTF? He was my 8th rounder, lol.
Yeah, I don’t know how he fell that far. I think that we use a salary cap had something to do with it, but the 18th round was still too far of a drop for Curtis.
I’ve got both!
Granderson is the best thing to happen to my fantasy team.
granderson is so fucking god. Incredible what he does against lefties now
good*
Going into this game, he was batting .298/.355/.789. Against lefties. I mean, holy shit, he has a reverse platoon split so far this year.
God works as well
The G.O.D.
What was the trivia question? I see the answer as Tom Hanks, but I missed the question both times.
Which two-time Academy Award winner formerly worked as a vendor for the A’s?
Oh. Well there would have only been a few choices. I might have guessed Sean Penn.
comon ump… that was clearly a strike. Kzone seems a lot smaller for Freddy
Jeter #range
Jeter has so much range. He probably wouldn’t have thrown out Ellis anyway.
They really need a real shortstop and soon.
Stats said Jeter’s been just below average on defense. -.3 UZR and -1DRS
Stop it with the facts, this is the Internet.
Yeah, RAB is very Saber-friendly, except when it’s not, and you have to use your eyes. Maybe a ‘real’ SS gets that specific ball, but if you believe in defensive stats, then you can’t say Jeter’s been bad this year. And both UZR and DRS agree, so I would put at least a little credence into the numbers.
Except even proponents of UZR et. al. say the data takes forever to stabilize (it may take 3+ seasons).
That’s probably true, but UZR has been used here (though less lately, I think) and not always with the 3 year caveat.
But Jeter’s last 4 UZRs are (going backwards from 2011-2008) are -.3, -.4.7, 6.4, -.3)
Last 4 DRS are -1, -13, 2, -9.
Based on that (and yes, it’s not unlikely that Jeter’s gotten worse as a fielder as he’s gotten older) Jeter doesn’t seem to grade as a terrible fielder in the last few seasons.
Jeter showing the range
Garcia’s throwing a few too many pitches now.
At least the bullpen’s rested.
The sculptor that made the statue of Jeter in the field is really good…
Jim Joyce has a pretty awesome mustache.
Better than Wedge’s
C’mon Freddy. Just get one more out.
He did it!
it hasnt been pretty, but the results are good so far
If Jeter’s contract looks this bad this year imagine at the end
Robinson Cano just murdered a baseball.
ROBBIE CANO! DONTCHA KNOW?
Cano! Don’t Cha Know!
Robbie obliterated that, monster shot.
That was an absolute bomb, don’t cha know
TOo man Homerz!!!
Doncha know baby
Absolutely crushed.
Ribbinson styled after that huh?
Oh and people say the Yankees can’t hit (evil) homeruns against good pitchers, right?
The Yankees always seem to hit the A’s “good” young pitchers well.
Andruw is doing his best Reggie Jackson impressions.
i love jones style
swing as hard as you can incase you make contact
Robby showing the grit!
Gotta love Jones, dude is just looking to destroy the ball with every swing. More often than not he comes up empty, but it’s not for a lack of effort.
It would appear that playing at The Big O has aroused the Yankees offense.
man…i just watched cano’s bomb…that was violent.
After Jones retires he can go on the road and do a Gallagher style show smashing things with his bat for our entertainment.
i would go to see that
Can we make a pool?
Do we prefer to score runs on homers or suicide squeezes?
I prefer a good ol’bunt
sarcasm on
DAMMIT FREDDY! NOBODY TOLD YOU THAT YOU COULD PITCH TO THE SCORE!
Comon Freddy, at least 2 more innings..
Freddy….oh well
Pitching to the score, bay-bee
freddie is toast?
need to take him out now
Oh Freddy. don’t make us go to the bullpen early.
Ok freddy has his 3 run quota, now for some shut down baseball…
Gosh I’m lovin’ the the Big Apple Bringin’ In Pain!
Anybody else about fed up with MLB Game Day? Yet another game I can’t even listen to.
Gets the next three batters after that scare of a homer.
How is Elvus Andrus not up there with the league leaders in infield hits?
He’s so locked in.
granderson is on fire
Granderson just keeps hitting. Wow.
Lefties should just IBB Curtis
Its truly amazing how great he’s been against lefties this year
To say Granderson is good at baseball might be the understatement of the year.
WHY ISN’T GRANDY BUNTING?!?!?!?!?!?!
double steal, yay
Double steals FTW
It’s unbelieveable that just a year ago it was accepted that grandy could not hit lefties. I hope that never happens again, as long as he is a yankee, at least. yea for a double steal
Im liking these double steals lately
Who was that Cone said blew out his patella tendon?
Love being aggressive on the bases.
Isn’t that sixteen or seventeen straight for Jeter? Maybe he should be helping Gardner, who in fairness has improved of late.
ARod will set this up for a Freddy -> Pendleton night.
lets hope the rules from 2009 about IBB to teix are still true
I love it when they walk Tex to get to A-Rod.
heart you ARod
Booooooooooo. I wanted a slam.
/inlovewithhomers
Alex making the IBB look a bit less smart.
When will they ever learn not to IBB Teixeira to load the bases for A-Rod? Hopefully never.
Yeah, it’s not a salami. Don’t care. I’ll take it.
This is great but where’s A-Rod’s power?
/Debbie downer whiner who’s never happy’d
Brett Anderson is blown, haha
Well, this West Coast business is looking a little better now.
Looks like the offense is starting to wake up on a consistent basis
oh man that was hilarious.
clutch K by Robbie..
Uh oh that might get a Yankee hit.
Most productive K ever
Weird way to score a run, but I’ll take it.
hahaha the A’s are so bad.
There is no way to describe that play without the word “cluster” in it.
Oh, brilliant play by tex
HOLY SHITBALLS!!!!
Oh now i’m just embarassed for the A’s.
Girardi seems to be trying to channel the spirit of Billy Martin tonight with a suicide squeeze(attempt) and now this. Got lucky on that one.
That hilarious sequence overshadowed Cano’s wonky plate discipline.
At first I was pissed, then I was happy.
bahahahaha
Is this a big enough cushion for you Freddy?
Don’t worry. He’s just pulling a Jack Morris and pitching to the score.
/kidding
out of curiosity. Where is Chien ming wang?
Nationals DL If I remember correctly.
He’s been there since we released him.
so that 3 million went down the drain?
Grats nationals
Looking like a Lance Pendleton game
Hello!
Damn!
lmao at Bartolo
that was sick by Freddy
Epic
WHAM-O!
Freddy just earned his Pinstripes on that play.
Freddy getting through 7 would be miraculous.
While waiting for the top of the next inning, quick question. Where is Cito Culver? Extended Spring Training? And if so, why?
I’m pretty sure he’s starting the year at SI, so yea he’s in EST.
I think that ball hit Freddy in the chest and came out through his back. He gave up some ropes that inning.
If Freddy didn’t catch that, it was around the head/neck area.
Did anyone else just see Bartolo try to eat the Camera? lmfao
Did you see the dugout floor? It was covered with garbage. The A’s need to hire a better cleaning crew.
Its Oakland, CA. Be thankful the lights are on.
The A’s are too cheap to hire a better cleaning crew. Plus, Overstock.com doesn’t provide any.
Maybe one of the strategies of money ball is to demoralize your opponent with filth and squalor.
Michael “Its gone from bad to…” Wuertz is on the mound
/Berman’d
The tiqiq.com script has some kind of infinite loop. Had to block it.
Oh man, everything is nice and quick now.
yea, it was messing up Chrome, just kept loading and slowing everything down.
How do you block it?
This..?
lol, ARod is the guy that pushes over women and children during a fire drill
Conor Jackson is having a rough night.
This is kinda comical with the A’s tonight. A’s, even the Yankees.
the A’s defense is hilariously inept
So…
1) Pineda, 5 IP, 3 hits, 5 walks, 5 Ks, 3 ER.
2) Felix, 7 IP, 6 hits, 5 walks, 4 Ks, 4 ER.
3) Vargas, 3 IP, 5 hits, 4 walks, 1 K, 6 ER.
4) Cahill, 6.2 IP, 4 hits, 5 walks, 2 Ks, 4 ER.
5) Anderson, 5.1 IP, 11 hits, 3 walks, 3 Ks, 9 ER.
If it weren’t for the pitching in games 1 and 2, this would be shaping up to be an -awesome- road trip, despite the ‘zOMG awesome pitching’ they’re facing.
They still have to face Gio Gonzalez, Jered Weaver, and Dan Haren. Let’s see how the Yankees do against them before we call this an awesome road trip. I’m not looking forward to that Weaver start.
Gio should get rocked, right? 2 pitch pitcher versus a really good lineup? I call sweep.
Winning series. That’s the goal.
Well, I wasn’t looking forward to Felix or Pineda or anyone else up there and I’m sure we’d all take any of those outings from Weaver.
I just hope that the Angels roll over for us like they do for the Red Sox.
Anyone else stuck with the Oakland feed? Its like if Paul O’Neill were broadcasting with David Cone, but neither were funny or knowledgeable or entertaining.
What are you on? MLBN TV or computer? Who are their announcers?
Extra Innings package. Internet says Duane Kuiper’s brother and the guy Pete Rose blasted in the ASG. They alternate between boring and not funny.
Isn’t Duane Kuiper the Giants announcer?
Yes.
I used to have Extra Innings, but now have the MLB online package. You can switch between broadcast teams. I don’t live out of market, though, so Extra Innings might be better in that situation.
Ray Fosse. Haven’t heard him broadcast a game.
I’m not savvy enough to run my laptop through my television (nor energetic enough to move the laptop around when I go from couch to bed) so I just deal with Extra Innings. Usually its ok, but west coast trip plus not close game plus these guys equals me whining. (And, as someone who gets to deal with Jerry Remy for atleast 19 games times 9 innings minimum per year, I’m accustomed to suck. These guys suck and bore. I think that’s worse.)
I am genuinely sorry that you have to listen to Jerry Remy for all those games. He’s TimMccarver bad.
I felt bad when he got sick, but then I started to feel bad I felt bad.
I don’t know if you are listening to the radio or tv Oakland broadcasters but I found the radio guys to be quite enjoyable. Both were very knowledgeable, called the game adequately, and were rather unbiased.
Television. Basically, you can make three categories of announcers, good (Scully), actively bad (Harrelson) and “why am I still awake” boring like these guys. I’d be watching the non-HD YES feed if RCN gave me that option tonight.
So, Mike is there going to be a full recap today? I can’t think of anything to say besides the offense and Freddy.
http://riveraveblues.com/2011/.....nt-2131887
Probably not, but it’ll be longer than that sorry effort.
Oblique injury.
All injuries this year are now oblique related.
Yay Freddy.
Well, Freddy didn’t look very good but I’ll take 3ER in 7 every time. Too bad he can’t face this offense every game.
BTW Anyone else having problems today getting to the comments section here on RAB? I could get to the main page, but when I clicked on comments, the page would hang waiting for the ad to load.
Maybe it’s question/note for Mike A, just in case RAB made any server/code changes today. Generally speaking, if I’m having a problem getting to the comments other people probably are too. IT problems rarely impact one person.
We’re working on it, but it probably won’t be fixed until tomorrow.
Okay. Thanks. I figured you’d be aware, but didn’t want to assume. On the other side, if everything was okay, then that meant I might be having a problem on my side.
Willingham got Overstock.com Colosseum’d
Put a nice bow tie on this one.
Hey guys, how did you block the tiqiq.com script in Chrome (or other browser)?
I just have the NoScript add-on for Firefox. Works like a charm.
yup, just DL’d this. Working great.
I couldn’t figure out what’s wrong with it, so I just pulled the ad down.
Well, looks like the mop-up guy Ayala is now in to pitch in the only situation he knows how: low pressure. I really wish that Feliciano never got hurt in spring training because then this guy wouldn’t have made the team. I really get the same sick feeling I had watching Chan Ho Park last year when Ayala pitches no matter what the score is.
I’m guessing you are not a big fan of Ayala
I am really not. To me, Ayala is just another one of these guys like hawkins, park or tomko were when I watch the guy he really doesn’t give me confidence as a fan unless we have a large lead like tonight. At some point I really believe that he is going to revert back to being the Luis Ayala of 2008/2009 and be one of the guys that get remove from the team as guy like Hughes, Soriano and maybe Feliciano return.
Its not really fair to give him that treatment until he earns it. To date, he’s done his job and anecdotally, or whatever you want to label me watching games as, he looks like he could be pretty effective in certain (right handed hitters standing at the plate) situations.
I am not labeling you as anything. Just to me, Ayala looks pretty hittable and I have no faith in him in close, late game situations.
I didn’t mean you, I just meant the word “anecdotally” probably isn’t a perfect fit. It was side tangent. Usually I’m pretty good at making them parenthetical.
I think he’d make quite the nice ROOGY.
What does roogy even mean? I get confused when some of you use thes kind of terms.
LOOGY is “Lefty One Out GuY” / lefty specialist. ROOGY is just the flip, although teams seem to avoid them under the logic of “everyone is righty so we’ll just pick one”.
Ok, thanks for informing me. I really don’t pay attention to some of these online baseball terms that a lot of you use but its good to finally know what they mean.
Fangraphs is really good with the definitions and, if you’re a poop reader (male), Baseball Between the Numbers is a solid read even if you don’t agree with every chapter.
If that means that he is a situational righty then I find that hard to believe considering righties hit .260 off him in his career and .368 this year
Right, but the flip. He’s a right who, because of his 2 seam, kills lefties. So a ROOGY in that he does the situational lefty kill, just from the right side. In the absence of an actual lefty, teams tend to pick their best righty rather than the righty who might be most effective.
I was almost rooting for a Nunez error there just of the humor of it all.
+1
Nice game. Road trip turning better. Of course, there’s a part of me that keeps thinking we could be 5-0 on this trip, or no worse than 4-1, but that’s baseball.