Yanks offense can’t get going in second straight loss
By
Peekaboo! Sorry, it was the only Yanks picture available. (Carlos Osorio/AP)
In some games there is no joy. Last night that was exactly the case. For instance, getting seven innings out of Freddy Garcia, even if he allows four runs, would be perfectly fine on most nights. Hell, he struck out eight, including Miguel Cabrera twice. But no, with the offense only able to muster four hits, there was nothing remotely resembling joy in Yankee land last night. It made Monday’s game look like a route.
Only once in the evening did the Yankees have two runners on base at the same time. That came in the eighth, when they were already down 4-0 and the situation looked pretty hopeless. And, as if there couldn’t have been any other outcome, Curtis Granderson grounded into a double play. The only other real chance they had was in the fourth, when Mark Teixeira doubled with one out. But, again, they were already in a 4-0 hole. Nothing felt particularly optimistic at that point.
Some games are full of homers and fist pumps. Others are full of curses and head-hanging. The past few nights have brought much of the latter. Of course, the Yanks aren’t going to go 4 for 35 every night. There is tomorrow, of course, which is part of baseball’s beauty. Best yet, the Yanks get another crack at the Tigers and the chance to split a four-game series on the road. That isn’t all that bad an outcome, considering how they’ve played the past few nights, is it?
60 Comments»
RAB Info
The Founders
Mike Axisa, Ben Kabak, Joe Pawlikowski
Editor-In-Chief
Mike Axisa Archives | Email
Managing Editors
Ben Kabak Archives | E-mail
Joe Pawlikowski Archives | E-mail
Contributing Editors
Larry Koestler (Archives)
Moshe Mandel (Archives)
Eric Schultz (Archives)
Weekend Writers
Hannah Ehrlich (Archives)
Matthew Warden (Archives)
Special Contributor
J.R. O'Grady (Archives)
Technical Consultant
Jay Gordon
Subscribe to RAB by RSS
Follow @RiverAveBlues
Search RAB
Yankees News from YESNetwork.com
- New York City Football Club names Claudio Reyna Director of Football
- Yankees, Manchester City to own NYC MLS team
- Yankees, Manchester City announce NYC MLS team
- New York Yankees fall to Baltimore Orioles on Nate McLouth's homer in the 10th
- Ex-New York Yankees pitcher Scott Proctor retires
- Ex-Yankees farmhands Gil Velazquez and Cody Johnson find new homes
- New York Yankees top Baltimore Orioles in dramatic fashion at Camden Yards
- Rehabbing Alex Rodriguez partakes in defensive drills, hits in batting cage
- Robinson Cano surprises a young fan at the MLB Fan Cave
- Texas Rangers designate RHP Derek Lowe for assignment
Banner Design By
The Tyler Austin Watch
These last 2 games have been awful. Sluggish, slow, and with crappy outcomes.
Get use to these types of games
Why?
Freddy is now up to 23k’s in 25 innings. Somehow he’s missing bats. Colon and Garcia are turning into Smoltz and Penny, but you know, good.
Wow… Our #4 and #5 are actually decent!!! Go figure…
Colon, CC and Freddy. Every Yankee pitcher in this series so far has gone 7 innings, but with little to no run support to show for it.
Yeah that’s weird. I didn’t think Freddy would strike out any more than 3-4 a game.
Colon has 33 Ks in 33 IP, which is also kind of surprising.
I really can’t wait for them to play when it’s warmer than 50 degrees.
The gametime temperature was 58 degrees
Tonight was one of the rare examples of a game in which the Yankees’ patient approach at the plate hurt rather than helped them. Scherzer started nearly every batter in the game off with a fastball near the middle of the plate, and yet almost every Yankee took the first pitch. I can see doing that the first time through the lineup, but after that they were just digging themselves 0-1 holes and allowing Scherzer to stick to a pattern rather than make adjustments.
This game put me to sleep, it was really hard to watch =’(
No DoTF?
Trenton won 7-1. Romine was 2-4. Betances’ line was 5 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 HR, 0 BB, 5 K, 9-2 GB-FB.
Tampa lost 7-5.
Scranton and Charleston were both off? No scores appear in either of their leagues.
I believe the RABBis were at some event they hosted with Jonah Keri tonight. Still, I agree, unacceptable performance by you Mike. We demand DoTF.
I always look forward to DoTF, I check milb.com myself but enjoy the comments and SSS’s lol
Y’all will be sorry for bitching come 9:30.
very exciting
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.....38;t=g_box
Triple-A Scranton had a scheduled off day. They’re beefing up for their 4-game series against Pawtucket.
Double-A Trenton (7-1 Win against Portland)
Dan Brewer, RF, Bradley Suttle, 3B, Melky Mesa, CF, Jose Pirela, SS: All 1 for 4 – Brewer struckout once and doubled, Mesa struckout twice and was caught stealing, Pirela had a 3 RBI triple.
Austin Romine, C, Cody Johnson, DH: Both 2 for 4 – 1 K for Johnson but he has 2 homeruns in his last 3 games, could be heating up.
Corban Joseph, 2B: 2 for 3, 1 BB – Homered, tripled and walked, 13 for his last 34 .436/.588/1.024 in his last 10 games.
Addison Maruszak, 1B: 1 for 3, 1 BB
Austin Krum, LF: 0 for 4, 1 BB – only 2 for his last 19
Dellin Betances, RHP: 5.0 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 5 SO, 9-2 GB/FB – Great start here, no walks and the strikeouts/groundballs are coming. The only run came off a solo shot.
Josh Schmidt, RHP: 3.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 SO, 4-3 GB/FB
Fernando Hernandez, RHP: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0BB, 1 SO, 1-0 GB/FB
High-A Tampa (7-5 Loss to Daytona)
Zoilo Almonte, DH, Kyle Higashioka, C, Emerson Landoni, SS: All 1 for 4 – Zoilo is 2 for his last 20
Robert Lyerly, 3B, Luke Murton, 1B: Both 2 for 4 – Lyerly was picked off in the 5th and then had a fielding error in 7th which opened the flood gates for a 5 run inning from Daytona. Murton had 1 K.
Jason Place, LF: 1 for 3, 1 BB – He’s been struggling, decent day for him.
Abraham Almonte, CF: 1 for 5, 3 Ks, 1 SB – Had an outfield assist in 9th.
Walter Ibarra, 2B, Taylor Grote, RF: 0 for 4 both with 1 K, Ibarra walked.
Carlos Silva, RHP: 3.0 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 4 SO, 1 HR, 5-0 GB/FB – Not a great start from Silva, gave up both runs on Jae-Hoon Ha’s 5th homerun of the year . If you want to take something good from this outing it’s the strikeouts and groundballs.
Francisco Gil, RHP: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 SO, 0-1 GB/FB
Jairo Heredia, RHP: 2.1 IP, 3 H, 5 R, 4 ER, 3 BB, 1 SO, 6-1 GB/FB – He’s been dreadful so far, his babip is incredibly high though and these walks need to stop.
Preston Claiborne, RHP: 2.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 SO, 1-2 GB/FB
Low-A Charleston had a scheduled off day to prepare for the Hammerheads.
Nice job.
And, as usual, the Angels are choking against the Red Sox.
Hey, is your team slumping and lost a couple of games in a row? Why not play the Yankees? They’ll help end your losing streak right away! Take it from Boston, Chicago and Detroit: the Yankees are just what you need!
The Sox are 8-15 this year vs teams not named the Angels.
it’s even worse
the Sox are 5-14 this year vs teams not named the Angels or Blue Jays
Why the hell am I still watching this Red Sox/Angels game?
I guess I’m trying to see how I’d stand up against torture.
OMG, how the hell did he not slide into that ball??
I don’t know, I thought he did for a second but replay shows he didn’t.
Now the Red Sox will have Dice-BB make his first career relief appearance. If the Angels can’t hit off him…
Ah ha! There’s the Scioscia Face!!
SCORE!
Now can we please let this game end?!?!
No, boston has to score so that this game continues.
http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/
All nighter!
up next:
Cameron: .188
Crawford: .195
Varitek: .140
That’d be a fearsome trio if this were… like 2005
You know you suck bad when Saltlamacchia pinch hits for you.
Remember when Texas wanted Clay for him? Remember when he was the catcher of the future? Remember when the Sox passed on Martin because they had Salty?
I DO!
Love early morning baseball!
It is incredible to see how empty Fenway is.
You know what I hate more than anything, when announcers talk about them selling out every game for 2 years, their stadium doesn’t even hold 40k
And it’s a fugly piece of shit stuck in the ’20′s.
And 60% of the seats are sold by the season.
Looks like Big time Bartolo is our only hope
The game last night reminded me of last September. RISP failure/frustrating ab’s/lifeless. Time for a youth injection.
Nunez/Montero and…if Swish doesn’t get it going soon-your pick of Golson/Maxwell.
BTW, I hate Swish in the OF. Lollipop throws/slow going back on deep flies (other than tiny YS Rf).
BTW, I hate Swish in the OF.
Every rational thinking person’s hatred of Golson at the plate >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your hatred of Swisher in the outfield
Recently, we’ve heard so much about how good pitching is contagious. Well I think CC’s unacceptable start Tuesday night was also contagious. It’s obvious that CC is to blame for this loss. Fire CC.
I guess the silver lining despite these poor offensive performances the past few games is that the Yankees still own the 5th best record in MLB and 2nd best in the AL (behind Cleveland). Sure it’s only May, but it’s better than being in last place.
Wouldn’t it be cool if we has Max Scherzer instead of Phil Hughes?
Is no one else concerned that Girardi decided to use Cervelli over Martin in last nights game? I figure since Martin was one of our hottest hitters, you’d wanna keep a bat in his hand. Also, this is his second game off in less than a week. Seems a little overkill to use Cervelli so much.
Day game after a night game.Plus you can never have too many fist pumps.
Burnett in a day game on Thursday = Cervelli in a night game on Wednesday.
Everyone here needs to chill out. It’s too early to start freaking out about anything. I don’t know about anyone else but I’m pretty confident in this years team.
Today’s lineup:
Gritner, LF
Granderson, CF
Cano, 2B
Teix, 1B
ARod, 3B
Swisher, RF
Martin, C
Montero, DH
Nunez, SS
/dreaming’d
Our old friend Bobby Abreu comes through for us!
Better luck next time, frillers!
Lineup:
Granderson
Swisher
Tex
Arod
Cano
Posada
Martin
Gardner
Nunez
There needs to be some accountability. Girardi just sits there and does nothing. We can’t keep splitting with these inferior teams! Boston’s a coming.
Lineup just posted. Jeter and Arod not in lineup.
Bum-Hip Fights?
yeah, they had to much jelly morning at the assisted-living senior’s center.
those old timers have delicate stomachs.