Aug
31
Game 134: Can they make it two?
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They're comin'. (Elsa/Getty Images)
Last night was a good win for the Yankees. They manufactured some runs, got a gritty (gritty!) performance from their ace, and finished up with some big time bullpen work. Now they have to do it all again, and this time against Josh Beckett. Yay. Here’s the lineup…
Brett Gardner, LF
Derek Jeter, SS
Curtis Granderson, CF
Mark Teixeira, 1B
Robinson Cano, 2B
Nick Swisher, RF
Eric Chavez, DH
Eduardo Nunez, 3B
Frankie Cervelli, C
Phil Hughes, SP
It’s another 7:10pm ET start, and you can watch this one on YES locally or ESPN nationally. Enjoy.
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When is Beckett gonna return to earth? Hopefully tonight!!!
Philthy Phranchise needs to show up tonight.
on another note, that picture got me wondering, do you think Andruw smiles even when he’s fighting?
I’m sick and tired of watching guys like Trout, Lawrie, Stanton, Posey with way less minor league experience than Montero, come up and have success. It’s about time he’s called up.
Posey was a college prospect, so it’s hardly a valid comparison with him.
True.
Throw Eric Hosmer and Freddie Freeman into that group of guys with way less minor league experience than Montero who have had MLB success.
Lawrie, Stanton, Trout, Hosmer, Freeman. I’m sorry, I’m gonna puke.
Lawrie, Stanton, Trout, Hosmer, Freeman. I’m sorry, I’m gonna puke.
All those players (except Freeman) share something in common.
Mike, I assume you’re referring to those players being on bad teams. It doesn’t change the fact that they have had major league success and that Montero’s promotion is at least a year overdue.
I understand why Yankee fans want to see Montero, but his promotion is not a year overdue. It’s a year overdue from your perspective.
Montero is also a catcher, who with the exception of Posey, makes Montero unique. As noted, Posey was a college player and is it three years older than Montero. No comparison.
Montero’s SLG against righthanded minor league pitching is .398 to Posada’s .465 against MLB pitching. Posada is out OPSing Montero by nearly 90 points against righthanders, who throw the overwhelming majority of pitches in the majors.
I’m not arguing that Montero shouldn’t be called up, but he really hasn’t done anything to scream for a call up. Sure, he could have been called up a month ago, but it’s all pretty minor stuff since Jones has been providing good production against lefties.
Montero could have forced the Yankees hand by improving on what he did in 2010. He regressed. He had an opportunity in Spring Training and didn’t look good behind the plate or at the plate. I don’t think sitting and catching one game a week is the way to learn. I didn’t think it was a good idea when Posada was originally called up and I don’t think it’s a good idea now. As his age, Montero was better off playing reguarly in AAA.
His time is now and I don’t think he’ll be going back. Let’s hope he lives up to the hype.
The patient approach doesn’t hurt, better the Tampa Bay way rather than Detroit.
Why not start Jones vs Becket/Lester? Because of Chavez’ game last night?
I think Jones gets the DH nod tomorrow unless it’s JESUS TIME!
I’d sit Gardner against the lefty and put Jones in LF. Insert Montero at DH.
Throw him right into the fire!
Cervelli again?
Martin is banged up- has a sore thumb/toe.
Arod poisoned Russell Martin with a sore thumb.
He is the Yankee Clapper.
http://www.sumopaint.com/files.....dbtfrq.jpg
“that’s Cervelli”
wow.. that pic looks badass !!
Definitely. They should be carrying chains.
Hughes needs to set the tone and hit someone in the first couple innings. Beckett is gonna come at someone, possibly Cervelli. Benches will be warned after the first person hit so the tone needs to be set by Hughes.
I’ve seen umpires carry incidents on the previous day to the present day and throw people out immediately. Be careful.
Don’t. Give. Them. Free. Baserunners.
If Beckett want’s to hit anyone I’ll take the free baserunners, plus he might get ejected.
Agreed. Hit Gardy and he’ll steal 2nd on your ass. Keep on hitting and Beckett gets ejected. Works for me!
the last thing Phil needs to do is give them free base runners
The fans seem to care more about the macho bullshit than the players. No reason to give that team free baserunners.
Jorge ‘Rally Killer’ Posada isn’t in the lineup. Yay.
Last night’s win was definitely gritty, but nowhere near as gritty as Dahhston Fackin’ Pedroyahh is awn a nightly basis. He’s awll hahht!
jones needs to play more…
i agree
no shit.
Buckett works slow. Keep stepping out of the box and make him wait longer. Get him early and often.
Texas just traded for Mike Gonzalez, good trade for them.
Adams, Uehara and now Gonzalez.
Talk about turning a weakness into a strength quickly. Wow!
Adams has cost them at least two games already.
And Uehara has allowed 6 runs and 3 HR in 9 innings.
Good phil. Keep thinking happy thoughts!!!
Havnt seen anything on Martins injury. Is RAB slacking on reporting or am I blind? This is my source for Yankee updates, whats up with Russell the Mussle?
When did Russ Martin get hurt? I never really heard about that…
Just banged up, typical catcher stuff. Girardi said he’s playing tomorrow and can play tonight if needed.
Will they enforce Beckett to throw pitches tonight?
http://www.baseball-reference......5070.shtml
We can dream, right?
Keep Phaith, he can do it!
cc is a scary mother fucker
Phuck em up, please
“Both teams with 52 wins” – Michael Kay
Yay Brett.
Curt Schilling in the ESPN booth, kill me now.
Mute button, save your sanity.
I dont mind Schilling that much. He’s a asshole to everybody including the Red Sox.
wow im almost happy im stuck watching the game on NESN
Gardy! slump b gone.
I feel like this is a good sign, at least for the Gardy slump!
Leadoff line drive. Must be time for a bunt.
Bad Girardi! Bad!
That wasnt Girardi. Jeter did that on his own.
Now that I think about it, Jeter almost definitely called that himself.
Still, bunting in the 1st inning is the height of stupidity.
Choosing the NESN feed (on Extra Innings) over the NESPN feed. It was a no brainer for me.
Except the NESN announcers are unintelligible…
yeah, but they’re not that bad with the Homer B.S. I was pleasantly surprised last night.
Watch out for Orsillo if Pedroia hit a home run. He will JIHP.
Orsillo is miles away a better announcer than Remy though… King douche.
Gardy can’t steal off Varitek? great bunt there Jete
Playing small ball against the Red Sox is always a good idea.
Die bunt die.
brilliant bunt attempt, just brilliant
Time for Grandy to bunt him to 3rd!
Love this picture, CC looks like he’s ready to kill a mofo.
I love giving away outs…that’s why I always enjoy it when Jorge Posada gets ABs!!!!
Ugh I hate Curt Schilling. He refers to the Red Sox using their first name as if he was still on the God damn team. It’s a little thing that really shouldn’t bother me, but it’s just silly.
Is there a bigger phony in recent years that has never had a good thing ever said about him by a former teammate? Also damn is he fat.
Besides giving up an out (which is bad enough) he gives Jeter surrenders an out on 1 pitch.
HATE Jeter bunting with Gardy on 1B no outs first inning. Where is the Captain’s great baseball mind? DUMB!!!
another successful bunt
Mark Teixeira does nothing. #tweetsfromyesterday
Grandy, babe, enough with the Strikeouts! C’mon now. Why DOES he strike out so often, though? Seriously . . . It seems to be a tad of an issue.
i just got in from the car and was floored by the bunt. was it jeter or girardi and WHY?????? dont they realize its fucking varitek trying to throw out one of the best base stealers in the game. how does this happen?
It was Jeter. He was trying to bunt for a hit.
Which is highly unlikely. Take a strike Captain or bat 8th.
I dont feel good about this game. I know its redundant from me, but I really dont feel good about this one.
Join the club. Beckett vs. Hughes bodes terribly on paper.
Well, according to ESPN, Beckett “dominates” the Yankees. He owns them. And, in addition to that, the heart of our lineup (the high priced bats) can’t hit him for shit. Also, Hughes is pitching . . . There’s honestly not much to feel good about.
TO be fair to ESPN, this year Beckett has owned the Yankees.
He has but, you know, it’s not as though their bias isn’t already extremely apparent. Is there any way whatsoever that I can buy out ESPN and fire everyone on board? Screw Disney, I’ma take dem asstwats down.
Shit is gonna take forever.
thats nice go look in the mirror and tell it to yourself
Death, Taxes, and Greg.
Gregs ‘gut feeling’ = 0-162 season.
The day after the Yankees clinch a playoff spot, Greg still thinks they can blow it and miss the postseason.
Did this cunt just say something to gardner?
Possible.
“As Josh Beckett came off the mound, he gestured angrily at Gardner — thought he was tipping location for Teixeira, apparently.”
Buster_ESPN
He should know, Beckett does take an hour between pitches, he probably saw how many steps Gardner took on his lead.
Too fucking bad, Beckett. That’s baseball.
So we have the fastest man out there leading the league in sb’s, a righty with a slow delivery, a 400 year old catcher with an arm weaker than Swisher’s and a HOF batter at the plate, no outs in the first.
/beyond my understanding…
94-95? Phil’s amped up.
Did anyone just see Beckett wave at Gardner?
What the fuck was that??
Why are the Sox pitchers such scumbags?
ESPN is saying that they think he was stealing signs.
But it is ESPN with Garciaparra and Schilling in the booth so there is a bit of bias to a particular team in the booth.
95? Me likes.
Watching the NESN broadcast. Is that right? NESN is showing Hughes touching @95..
Looks like Hughes came to play tonight.
Damn, 95mph fastballs.
95!
i really hope tex doesn’t continue to suck balls against the sox this year. his #’s are pathetic. they were pretty decent for 2009-2010, they are ramiro pena #’s this year
Wow. That’s encouraging.
Phil with the 95. Nice!
did anybody see the gesture Beckett made to Gardner after the inning as he was walking off the mound (I could just be seeing nothing)?
According to Buster Olney, Beckett thought that maybe Gardner was tipping his pitches for Tex.
yes thats what prompted me to ask others, dont exactly trust buster too much.
He can’t put hitters away. Wow
Hughes getting swing and misses is a good sign
Gardner is definitely stealing signs, which is why Tex and Grandy just struck out.
Beckett truly disgusts me
agreed, he such a douche bag. He think because he’s from Texas, he can act like Nolan Ryan. That whole “Texas tough guy”. Somebody should just punch that douche in the mouth and tell him to shut up.
If he acted like that in Texas, he’d get his ass kicked, let’s be clear. Not tough.
Hughes has come pumped up. 93-95. Mostly all fastballs though.
So Gardy gets hit next ab? Keep that in mind since Beckett is such an ass.
I hope so, I wouldn’t mind Gardy’s speed on the base paths.
I’m truly not understanding Girardi’s unwillingness to just greenlight Gardner when he’s on 1st base with no one out, against Salty…and Varitek. I don’t get it. Take your chances with Gardner straight stealing, rather than having Jeter hacking away without giving your 34 SB guy a chance. Something about being aggressive rather than passive.
With Gardner on 2nd THEN you can entertain the bunt, or Jeter can ground to 2nd and allow Gardner to take 3rd.
You’re preaching to the choir.
I dont think Girardi is as controlling as Billy Martin was. Gardner goes by himself.
I’m sure this is true. about Martin v. Girardi.. but OTOH as Harold Reynolds relates in that great story about his SB crown: “Rickey would have had 60 by the *break*!”
I don’t think Gardner has the same drive to steal anything that isn’t locked up that Rickey had either… but we can dream.
Gardner probably has the greenlight. He just didn’t go, and Jeter bunted him over himself.
SO MAAACH FAAACKIN HAAAAAAHT
Pedroia has extraordinary talent for a midget.
My favorite moment of last night’s game was Chavez’s second-inning RBI single up the middle that got by Pedroia but would have been an easy out for a normal-sized man.
I used to love it when he yelled “Da Plane! Da plane!”
another shrewd play but jeter. bunting with the base stealer on first in the first inning.
why does he do that???? moronic…
Oh, I didn’t realize it was 2007
serious question, is it considered a swing and miss when it is foul tipped into the catcher’s mitt for strike 3? i guess it has to be, because it can’t be considered anything else, right?
No, it’s considered a foulout. It’s a caught foul ball, just as if it was a caught flyball in foul territory by a corner infielder/outfielder.
then why does it say it was a strike out and not a foul out?
ellsbury’s first ab
Not sure. Where does it say that?
mlb at bat said he struck out on a foul tip
I was under the impression that the ball had to be hit above the batter’s head for it to be considered a foul out, rather than a strike out in that situation.
I suppose I could google this…
a foul tip is not considered a caught foul ball, it is considered a strike (whether it is 1, 2, or 3). It is very different from a caught foul ball, for example you can steal on a foul tip and there is no need to tag
My bad, I guess I’m wrong.
Relevant citations:
Phil’s gotta throw something different just to change it up. They’ll pound the fastball eventually if that’s all he throws.
It’s the first time through the order. He can’t break out all his pitches, they’ll be nothing left for a surprise attack later.
Fastball fastball fastball
yup, what’s he thrown 12 fastballs and 1 curve?
How many 3-2 counts were there last night?
Oy Vey.
AGon was waving at sliders in the dirt, what’s he talking about?
Props to A-Gon for calling out the atrocious umpiring though, even if his complaints are a bit misguided.
What did he say?
why don’t you share your sentiments with these folks. They would love to hear from you
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/
What the heck man? I was just asking what he said about the umpiring?
Can anyone tell me why Martin is out? He did seem to tweak something at the end of the last Oriole game. Thanks
bumps and bruises
Because Cervelli is the MAN!
Wow Adrian was actually complaining about the ump? lol wow
So has anyone started taking odds on if Beckett hits Gardner in his next at bat?
If he hits Gardner, they should attack him. There’s no “rule” for hitting someone based on an assumption, at least cunt Lackey had a reason. Beckett is just a damn bully and he should get pounded if he does throw at him.
I’ll take the over on Simmons and Beckett to hit him.
#atrociousgrantlandcommercial
That’d be great. By all means, Josh, put one of the fastest runners in MLB on base.
Off the charts… It’ll be high & tight too… Fuckin jobber.
“late afternoon BAs” sounds like that will become a Kay-ism
Wow, Phil’s not fucking around tonight. I love it.
*Phucking
I phucked up.
Alright Phil. Alright.
Good first inning for Hughes. Velocity is certainly there.
Philth
huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuughes
pretty damn good inning, no one squaring up the fastball.
Hughes is in straight up ‘keep me in the rotation’ mode…
While we’re putting him under the world’s most intense magnifying glass, I’ll say that was a good inning from Phil, no?
Yay Phil.
Other than too many pitches in the inning, nice opening frame. Phil is attacking the zone again and getting a lot of swings and misses. Looks promising.
Velocity and location both look good.
I just wanna weigh in here with a wonky baseball technical obervation before we get too far into this game. F*%$ the Red Sox.
HOLY SHIT! Mo Vaughn sighting on the NESN broadcast….
He has gotten ‘not slim’ in retirement. Looks like Rick Ross’ clean shaven body double….
LOL
I guess the ten year mandatory minimum character assassination period has expired and Red Sox fans are allowed to like Mo Vaughn again.
Yeah, Buckner and Pedro both endorsed him…. Manny has his application in effective August 2014
Buckner will be on “Curb Your Enthusiasm” this Sunday. Can’t wait.
That was very… Cano-ian.
Noesi starting for SWB tonight. Montero not playing and hopefully will never play another game for Scranton.
I really, really dislike Josh Beckett.
Can someone explain to me why Tex bats ahead of Cano?
split the lefties?
Incumbency.
why doesnt jones play more?
He’s hitting .189/.286/.432 with 3HRs against RHP?
how many of those AB after the AS break?
Phil’s got the Phastball at Phenway so far. Keep it up!
So Beckett looks to lower his 1.00 ERA (2011) against us tonight, huh? Nice. That’s awesome. Fun. Good TV.
Ugh, that was a tease.
Fuck this ballpark
Damn, wrong part of the park Chavvy
Wrong part Eric!
Wrong part of the park, Chavy.
I like that contact is being made.
wrong park of the park, Eric.
part*
damn 10 feet in both directions means a home run
He hit it to the wrong part.
Leiter please cut the crap, we all know Beckett is a self-absorbed asshole…
Hate that fucking triangle… And Simmons out of spite
I missed it, did he hit it to the wrong part of the park?
Call 912, call 912!
I dislike Carl Crawford who seems to still like hitting against the Yankees even when he doesn’t hit against other teams.
Reply Fail. Should be it’s own note.
I love that “912″ reference.
He hit it in tot the triangle
Yankee fan always wins
God I hate the Red Sox, not the team as much as the players. Outside of Ace and maybe Bard, fuck em all!
I hate the team not the people.
http://sports.espn.go.com/bost.....id=6179587
was he talking shit to chavez? what a donkeyraper
Same pitch Cano struck out on.
WTH? reply fail.
Crawford owning the Yankees as usual…
I’m Phine with the one out double. Shut ‘em down.
JD Drew is still on the Sox?
ah, he’s on the DL
DL… Shoulder?
In name only.
Yes, the good news is he’s still on the Red Sox. The bad news is he won’t be next season and they might replace him with somebody good.
Yeah Michael Kay. Just scorched to center man.
scorched to center, huh, looked like a soft looper to me Michael
I hate god damn Varitek and that stupid “C” on his chest. This is NOT hockey douches. Why don’t they give him an armband to wear on his left bicep like they do nin soccer.
YOU WILL NOT DISRESPECT MR. FOUR NO HITTAZ
Tek just looked terrible on those Hughes fastballs.
Captain Varitek with a gritty AB.
America’s Captain!
PHIL! this is fucking awesome. gives up the double and shuts it down.
Phyuck yiu, Varitek.
Where’s this stuff coming from Hughes?
looks like good Phil is here today, guess he’s fine as long as he doesn’t have to face Oakland
Keep Hughes away from Oakland, Nova away from Kansas City, and AJ away from everybody.
Jo-Jo Reyes. Poor Jo-Jo.
Old team smacking him around.
Curt Schilling is a joke. All he does is gush about the current Sox that he played with and he constantly fumbles over his words. Not one good word said about Hughes.
Is he on the ESPN telecast?
The Red Sox radio announcer and two former Red Sox players are calling the game for ESPN.
I give a pass to Dave O’Brien because I liked him when he used to call the Mets games for WPIX.
I don’t see a conflict of interest there at all.
Isn’t YES doing this game too?
I shit you not, compared to any national broadcasts the NESN feed I watched yesterday was refreshingly fair. Boston accent color guy and all.
Need to put a K on Varitek’s jersey instead of that stupid C. What is this hockey??
He needs a G for Grit. All Sox players do.
ESPN’d
phil is looking pretty good …… is it just me or does crawford only remember how to hit when facing the yankees?
I know everyone already knows this but Lackey is one ugly mofo.
He should grow some douchy Red Sox facial hair to enhance the ugly in him.
He has facial hair. You just can’t see ’cause it’s on his ass.
So far so good for AJ to the bullpen. If Hughes keeps this up he stays in the rotation no matter what AJ does.
sheeeesh even with noone on base he takes forever to throw a pitch
Nunie! so gritty.
“They were adamant that it wasn’t intentional”
Lackey: “I was trying to knock him down”
Sounds pretty intentional to me
Nunez with the speed
Gritty Nunie.
Nunie
Nunie!
Nunez with a gritty and hustly play.
Hustle!
Nunie! Now for Girard’s bunt over to 3rd.
Nunez!
I guess we’ll be seeing a bunt now.
Buster_ESPN Buster Olney
We’re going to do a segment coming up showing how Gardner was (allegedly) tipping pitches the last time he was on second base.
Anyone in a non-YES area wanna recap what they consider “tipping pitches” when they show it?
hope olney gets cancer
That’s over the line.
Yea, really, Buster’s a good guy, though he’s easily made fun of.
He wrote of the best books about the Yankees that’s out there.
To be fair, Olney followed with “If Gardner/Yankees were tipping location, they’re one of 30 teams that do it. Everybody gives location, if catchers let them.”
That.
Fuck you.
I’m at work, I’d like to know this too.
ESPN is completely full of shit. They’re saying Gardner is tipping out pitches by turning his head. Nevermind the fact that the SS that is trying to sneak behind Gardner is right where Gardner is looking.
Hey lets bunt!
his helmet stayed on
Take the stupid fucking bunt off. It’s Josh fucking Beckett.
Nice hustle by Nunez.
Stop fucking bunting.
I agree.
free outs, get ya free outs here.
/1920′s New York paperboy’d
Cervelli? First Yankee player to be hated by Yankee fans and Red Sox fans?
I like Cervelli, but I seem to be in the minority.
Nah, I like him. I wish he was a little more reliable, but personality wise, I like him.
What is with this bunting? VARITEK is behind the plate!! Steal a base!!
What are you looking at Cervelli? That wasn’t even close to you.
hope nunie’s ok, i wonder if he’s got super glue on the helmet tonight? no clue how that didn’t fall off
Velcro
what the fuck is Cervelli doing? this is the worst AB ever
nope.
This isn’t even the worst AB Cervelli will have tonight. The answer to “what the fuck is Cervelli doing” is “being the awful player he is”.
Works the same as a bunt.
Cervelli is so dramatic.
so bunt with Jeter, no bunt with Cervelli?
Jeter was bunting on his own.
first base open…lets see what Beckett does to Gardy
Damn it… Blow me BABIP
I am Loving Cervelli.
I would have attempted a squeeze there.
Nice one Brett
Runners in sad places.
And that’s why I would have tried a squeeze.
fucking awful
El Capitan.
the Cap’n! awwwwww yea.
Helicopter swings. Ugh
that hit was too gritty for Ellsbury
yea jeter, i really miss when gardner was awesome
Not quite enough wheels, Taco Bellsbury.
That’s Tacoby Bellsbury to you!
Good job Capt!
Nice camera work ESPN.
Phew. Not getting that run in would have been bad.
I noticed that too, they just stayed behind home plate the whole time
Yeah, suck some NY nuts
/unnecessary’d
Requesting Jeter gif
Web gem. . . . . . not!
Jeter!
just turned on the game…why Cervi two games in a row? Martin hurt?
Tweaked his thumb.
Cool. Nice to see that our RISP failures are just as predominant in Fenway as they are elsewhere. Also, GFY Brett.
Yeah . . . I typed this in a minute ago before Jeter . . . I’ll eat me some crow but Brett still continues to piss me the fuck off.
I bet Ortiz could steal off Varitek
Present day Mo Vaughn could steal off Varitek.
Nunez earned that one
Hey, look, a steal without a bunt?!?! Are we allowed to do that? Is that legal?
*checking the binder…..*
“Does Robin get another shot?”
(Prince John and the Sheriff check the scripts)
Yes, he does, he does.
Nice hit by Jeter. 1-0 Yanks.
Now, why is Jeter taking off and stealing bases, but Gardner’s not???
Gardner was on first for one pitch, which Jeter foolishly bunted
He could have stolen third though
Dear BABIP:
My bad.
lol kay jizzed his pants for a second
Thanks Kay I just shit myself
Kay is an absolute moron. Gardy hits a ball 100 feet foul and he starts to call a HR
I’m out for a bit to have a Phish dinner. Go Phil, Phuck up the Sawx in Phenway.
surprised hes not walking grandy to get to the king of pop(ups)
You only have yourself to blame for this.
Well, there you go… Hoping ur wrong, although……
Come on, Tex.
Minimum for Tex: Make Beckett work.
This would be a nice time for Tex to unload a HR.
Please earn your money Tex.
I must be in hell. I’m stuck having to watch a Yankees game on ESPN…with Curt Schilling announcing…….
#ThingsWeDoAsYankeesFans
Really? That blooooooows
I’m not sure I could be paid enough.
Thankfully there is a mute button.
run up that pitch count
pop one over the monstah Teix.
Who here actually believes that Tex will pull through?
And now Tex will hit one off the monstah
change up?
0-2 count on MT25. This will not end well.
not hard to predict that.
On Teixera, yeah. Other players, good ones, can turn that into a walk or hit. Teixera seems like the worst 0-2 hitter in baseball, especially when facing the almighty changeup.
Mark Teixeira in 0-2 counts: 210 OPS+
gosh damn it. oh well, his pitch count is sky high through 3
Mark Teixeira does nothing. #skyblue
At least it wasn’t a popup
drop Teix to 8th, Torre style.
Didn’t even make him work that much.
Tex has what Nick Swisher had earlier in the year. He is pull conscious from the left side.
Tex just isn’t clutch.
No clutchabilities.
That’s right.
There is no such thing as “clutchabilities.”
Ask Jeter about clutchablilities
Would really like to see Cano hit before Tex.
Wellll. Not a popup. So that’s something, right??
teix has a useless bat…. its beyond frustrating
MIke, what has heppened to Tex over the last three years?
Teixeira not interested in hitting off the wall. Next year he has to start learning to use the whole field and less loft in his swing.
Teixera is so fucking worthless. I don’t care to see any type of rebuttal. There is no arguing it anymore. Teixera IS Giambi, but at least Giambi had that legendary ‘stache. It’s hard to hate MT25 but I believe I’m about one month of this deplorable shit away from getting there.
Short fuse, eh?
If watching his average continually decline over the past three seasons is a short fuse, than yeah, I’ve got one of those.
What’s with the Giambi hate? Giambi was an epic hitter.
I loved Giambi, but I accepted him as a .250 hitter. Tex not so much.
Giambi as a Yankee: .925 OPS, .397 wOBA, 145 wRC+
Saying someone hits like Giambi is a huge compliment
I suppose I meant to say that he hits like Giambi “average wise”.
Are you saying Tex needs a stache?
So fucking excited!
Scutaro AGAIN…
Ugh, I can’t believe how good garbage like Scutaro is against us.
What is it with Scutaro? Why does this scrub always hit us well. phuck me.
Well, we’re doomed.
this is the inning it all falls apart
Stupid Fenway.
Can’t just keep laying that fastball right there on the first pitch. Change it up!
come on Phil, don’t Phail me now.
The midget will find a way.
Ellsbury looks like a koala.
Looks like Johnny Damon.
Yeah, if Summers Eve sold koalas
I actually meant to type Pedroia, but it goes both ways.
Whoa, let’s not insult koalas.
Looks like they found the fastball huh…
This camerawork is awful
A gritty groundout
I expected a big blast to the first row of the monster seats.
Intentional walk in the third inning.
Bah- that’s squarely on Hughes. Giradi made the right call, Hughes just made an awful pitch
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I can’t say I have a problem with this IBB.
And the intentional walk…
wow seriously? 3rd inning and girardi has him intentionally walked…. they better HOPE lowrie doesnt come through cuz hes feisty against us
Come on Hughes…
Fucking stupid.
fuck me, Lowrie? come on.
Damn.
That’s on Hughes. He threw a fastball.
Nope, that was a changeup.
Yea I know, I went on first sight.
Intentional walk to Ortiz scares the living piss outta me… Even if it is Jed Lowrie following him
And there it was.
Meatball.
That would happen.
stupid IBB
Well if Ortiz hit a two run homer, what would you say then?
stupid change-up over the plate.
Phil, Phil, Phil. Just hasn’t got the putaway. The kid isn’t there yet.
up up up up….hung the shit outta that one..good thing it wasnt Ortiz that would have been a 3 run moon shot
I’m only listening but it sounded like it really hung. What’re ya gonna do? He’s gotta throw other pitches.
shocking the intentional walk backfired. Dumbasses. And again another crappy bum beats them this inning.
Hughes needs to avoid throwing belt high flat changeups. That has nothing to do with the IBB
Throw a fastball at his feet.
Phuck Phil. Call up ManBan!
I really don’t like Curt Schilling in the booth.
What Hughes has shown me so far is that he belongs in the pen. He was able to maneuver through one rotation of the order but not the second.
I’m glad your opinion carries no weight.
AJ would have given up 6 runs that inning
Glad you’re here and not in any position of power… Your team in MLB 11 The Show but be brutal though, huh….
I play the other one. Cant paly the show on a computer.
OK then… That too… Not sure if it helped or hurt your point but let’s go with it
THe point I had is that if Hughes cant develop an out pitch, he should go to the pen.
define “out pitch” please
He had some nice out pitches in the first two innings.
so if he’s unable to pitch a shutout he belongs in the pen? Got it.
All is well, IMO.
Two runs isn’t the end of the world. Good job limiting the damage.
Yes. Giving up 2 runs was kinda expected with a runner on 2nd and 3rd with no outs against this line-up.
Im a little dissapointed he couldnt get Lowrie out but nevertheless I agree with you.
Nice K there Hughes.
I guess 2 runs wasn’t terrible the way that inning started. but that IBB was just dumb.
That’s in the middle. If Hughes hung a changeup like that to Papi, the ball would have gone to the Citgo sign.
Or he could have thrown a good pitch and gotten him out.
Wow Crawford is as, hot and cold as it gets huh… 1st inning he is a foot away from a HR, this inning he is swinging a club out there…
Ortiz is red hot and loads better than Lowrie, especially against righties. The IBB was the right move at the time.
funny how the Red Sox fucks have shown up the Yanks pitchers and fans for years..then one clap by Cervelli and its effing Armageddon. S
Montero in the lineup tomorrow? Man oh man…
Well played, Mauer.
Kim’s looking good.
Definitely noticed that, too.
Please, please, please be right, Kim.
Jones in left, Montero DH?
makes sense to me
Those Latinos! Always getting riled up amirite?
http://espn.go.com/new-york/ml.....o-cervelli
Talk about hypocrisy and quite frank disrespectful.
It’s not that I’m a bigot, it’s just that… I can’t think of a good way to finish that sentence.
The game has change Tommie. These Black Guys with there slam dunks, and flashy cross-overs, and baggy shorts, that’s how they do it. Nothing that “we” can do about it.
/Jarrod Saltalamacchia if he was a basketball player’d
“Hey, look guys, I had arepas for lunch yesterday, so I can’t be a bigot right?”
“Hey, look guys:I had arepas for lunch yesterday, so I can’t be a bigot right?”
oops
Damn you Latinos with your jazzy music and your rice and beans… Fiery attitudes and low riders…
#SaltalamacciaTranslationServices
I would start Montero at catcher tomorrow when AJ pitches. “Welcome to the bigs, kid.”
I think he’d willingly become a full time DH at that point.
You don’t want to discourage the kid. He might get a headache dealing with that clown.
A headache? He’d probably get hurt scrambling after AJ’s breaking balls.
On the other hand, maybe a new catcher is just what AJ needs!
He won’t be ‘bored’ then, by golly
Robbie is hacking like crazy
That swing looked like me in gym class.
Joe Gordon in 42?
And obviously DiMaggio in 47.
scared of Chavez
Montero catching AJ and against Lester for his first ab.
All downhill after that….
Nunie will get plunked
If that asshat dares pull what he did to Abreu, these benches will empty again but a real fight will happen.
Beckett needs a “pitch” clock. He takes SO LONG.
But Curt doesn’t care as long as he gets results!
I’m surprised Beckett hasnt really come inside on any hitters.
thanks girardi,,,,,,another loss
How?
You are a miserable little person, know that?
haha it’s the 4th inning, and btw what the hell did girardi even do
Last week it was a 7 run deficit in the 4th inning when the bridge jumpers came out…. At least this one is still close.
Batshit insane.
CC can’t pitch every day, what else can Girardi do. This is beyond insane.
thanks for the gimme out.
We can’t beat the Sox. They have the advantage in the intangibles. Schilling going off on the Yanks being better off without Arod.
Joe Gordon in 1942: 147 games at 2B, .322/.409/.491 (.900), 8.4 bWAR
Ted Williams in 1942: 150 games at LF, .356/.499/.648 (1.147), 11.0 bWAR
Joe DiMaggio in 1947: 141 games in CF, .315/.391/.522 (.913), 5.6 bWAR
Ted Williams in 1947: 156 games in LF, .343/.499/.634 (1.133), 10.3 bWAR
How did he lose either of those? He beat them in normal stats.
The Yankees won the pennant. Boston did not.
Michael Kay catching onto NESPN’s ways.
Kay is crossing the finish line at last.
Shut up Nomar and Curt. “You can’t measure heart!”
This is unwatchable with Schilling and Nomar debating heart and intangibles.
Leave Schilling alone. He is wearing his “bloody sock”. He’s on his high horse.
I can’t even be mad at ESPN putting Nomar and Suckilling in the same booth.
Because what else would you expect? I am shocked Peter Gammons hasn’t made a stop up there yet. What a joke ESPN is.
You know there is one thing I thought I would never say in my life….
Thank god Don Orsillo and Jery Remy are broadcasting. They are at least TRYING to be objective.
agree. i’m not going near NESPN
i thank god i have yes, would def have to mute the espn team tonight, sorry for all of you who don’t get yes
finally, someone handles the bottom of the order.
Always a laugh seeing Fairy-tek with the hockey “C” on his uniform which really stands for c**t.
Varitek is so old and shitty I don’t even bother cutting him down anymore. It’s like kicking a dead horse.
I actually am upset when Captain Cunt puts the bat on the ball, he should always strike out.
A 1-2-3 inning!!!!!!!!
tex is just as good at catching pop ups as he is at hitting them
Nice 1-2-3 by Phil. Kid’s doing good so far.
He’s certainly besting my 6IP/4ER prediction so far, let’s see him keep it up.
First pitcher to do that in this series for the Yankees.
In all seriousness, I am quite surprised that not alot of latin players have not even voiced there opinion about what Jarrod Saltalamacchia said. I mean if Im Alex Rodriguez, I would be quite furious and would of at least said something.
I’ve been working all day, what’d he say?
http://espn.go.com/new-york/ml.....o-cervelli
Not a big deal. Typical media reaction.
“You son of a motherless goat!”
“The game is changing,” Saltalamacchia said Tuesday. “Younger guys are coming in, (Rangers shortstop) Elvis Andrus and (Blue Jays shortstop Yunel) Escobar, a lot of Latin players and that’s the way they play the game. It’s OK to an extent, but if you go further than that, than that’s when you’ve got to kind of step back.”
Younger guys are coming in…
That’s the best part. Grizzled veteran Jarrod Saltalamacchia telling the kids how it should be done.
I’m surprised Ortiz didn’t choke slam him or something. He definitely hid beyond that “younger” statement but he is Latin and is WAY more demonstrative than Cervelli is. He must be referring to the 30 fist pumps during the game. BTW, Saltalamacchia should shut up, he had one good (barely decent) year and now he got things to say?? He should calm down and continue his .250 BA and 12% rate of throwing out runners.
Its not like back in 2007, when it was legal to kill a man for emoting too much.
What did he say?
What did Salty balls say?
The worst part is that he tried to hide behind this “young players” BS. Salty is 26. He’s younger than Yunel Escobar and only one year older than Cervelli.
no way arod reacts to that in a million years, maybe some of the yankees though
Great call out Kay, clearly the Yanks are not properly represented on the ESPN telecast it’s just refreshing to see ESPN stop pretending to be unbiased.
Oh Alex…
FACT: everyone looks like a pussy while dodging a foul ball in slo-mo.
You mean YES-mo.
Yes, most people have two lips and hair.
Oh come on Brett.
In fairness, he’s not the only one not hitting Beckett.
But this slump sucks. I was hoping the leadoff single would jump start him.
Someone should really tell Josh that the soul patch went out a long time ago.
Gardner is so lost at the plate, he needs a GPS to find it.
The thing with Beckett this year is that he can throw all of those pitches for strikes. Kind of like Roy Halladay.
I don’t fucking care about Cap Anson.
No respect!
This game is moving along too fast for Montero to win it past midnight.
Jeter!
Don’t you sit Gardner for a night and hope nobody hits a screamer in the gap tomorrow?
(A catchable one. I know it’s AJ)
Sit the entire OF. Everything will be walks, wild pitches or home runs. No need for an outfield tomorrow.
Good thinking. Maybe 2 catchers?
Oh yeah. Gardy sits tomorrow. In addition to the slump, he has no luck against Lester. Unless they are not planning to play Montero, in which case Jones is the DH.
Come on Grandy, Batista took the HR lead. Tie him up.
i love gardner’s defense, but jones has got to play tomorrow
HR Grandy! I got 5 on it…
happy about jesus but dont understand why they are not calling bentances or more importantly banuelous the yankees need to solve there obvious pitching problems and burnett and hughes arent going to make the cut bottom line is we need a pitcher hard throwing left handed pitcher and we have one and were not even giving him a chance at least give him a start before the postseason to see what hes got in the big leagues
Punctuation is your friend.
In this case, it might make the comment even worse.
troll
This comment is so much lol.
Banuelos is near his innings limit for the season, if he was called up, he would only be used as a reliever
Holy crap.
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play......d=18660659
Thank god MLB.com had the video. I think there were only 9 people there to see it.
Only a 2-run blast. Not impressed.
I feel so badly for him. Has a great season by any standard, gets almost zero recognition.
Wow almost didn’t recognize where they were playing. Now I see why the O’s didn’t wanna lose the gate with the DH. That place is empty when the Yankees aren’t there.
Out of curiosity, do rosters expand at midnight, or before the next game.
I’m guessing anytime between the end of tonight’s and the start of tomorrow’s game.
This game is giving me RISPiratory distress.
How? We have really had only one golden opportunity and we cashed in on it.
Doubt Montero has ever batted 8th before but I guess he will tomorrow.
This is a big inning for Hughes. Last time he got hit a bit at the top of the order. Let’s see if he can adjust again.
Where the fuck was that pitch?!?!
It seems I say that a lot with these Sox hitters.
Beckett is getting that pitch. #WTF
just missed. . . . .
ESPN Front Page: Beckett is on his way to beating the Yankees again. 2-1 is anyone’s ballgame except if that ballgame pits the Evil Empire against the lowly, downtrodden, poor, miserable Red Sox. Go get ‘em Beckett! Make ESPN look like winners once again.
Yikes. Guess I jinxed it. Go fuck yourself, ESPN.
That was a hanging changeup. Yikes.
Can’t get beat by your 3rd/4th best pitch, especially 3-2.
the 3-2 pitch was a fastball
fuck
Ugh….
Aaaaaaaaand derp.
Fuckity fuck fuck fuck.
Phail.
Clever…
“Tom”
fuck. I knew that was coming.
That’s why he was intentionally walked.
I felt that one coming
Should have walked him again. They keep giving into Papi and he always beats us. Ballgame.
didn’t miss that one. Fuck.
FUCK!
Sheesh, that wasn’t even a bad pitch.
That’s what I thought too. Wasn’t in the middle of the plate or anything. He just hit the crap out of it.
Damn you, Hughes, you’re going to get to 6IP/4ER on the nose, aren’t you?
AA players could have it that out. I saw a little bit of drool drip out of Papi’s mouth as that pitch came down the middle.
He will do this to us until he is dead. And I will never not be infuriated by it.
oh well atleast Phil didn’t totally suck today. Beckett usually only goes 6 innings, they can get him.
Given the way Beckett’s pitching, this game is almost a certainty. Still liked what Hughes did.
why do you even follow the Yankees?
Because I got attached to them.
Beckett’s not going 9 and it’s anyone’s game against the Sox’s bullpen
Can’t really say that with this offense and that pen. It seems tough at this point tho
Your optimism must make you a blast to have a drink with huh?
wow looks like chances of winning just went down the toilet
Ortiz gets a fastball right down the middle and he hits it out. Granderson gets a fastball right down the middle and tries to hit it 500 feet, and hits a lazy fly ball to medium outfield.
The offenses are close on paper, but everyone knows which team has the more dangerous hitters when it comes to crunch time. Why are you giving in to Ortiz with Lowrie on deck? At least try to make a competitive pitch like up and in, instead of out over the plate.
That wasnt down the middle. It was down in the zone.
It was knee high but right down the middle of the plate. When you throw a 92-93 mph fastball, it’s actually easier to hit it when it’s down-middle than middle-middle.
Grandy is the worst 38 homerun guy evah!!!
This response is a prime example of why it is difficult to have an intelligent conversation around here.
There is a difference between saying he is a bad hitter, and saying he has holes in his swing. Because of those holes, he is a more inconsistent hitter at the plate, hits for a lower batting average, and strikes out a ton more often.
Nobody is saying he’s a bad hitter, but there are ways to get him out in big spots. Look at how balanced Ortiz was on that swing. Granderson seems to hit home runs more when he guesses right on a fastball and turns it around.
Okay well, Tex better fucking do something here. 3 outcomes right? pop-up, K on a change-up or HR. Let’s hope its the latter.
texiera playing this series?
so our 3rd or 4th hitter is hitting 247.. i forgot he has a lot of rbi’s. that has noting to do with him having a ton of baserunners…
tex has done zero against the sox all season and having him hit 3rd or 4th with that avg is stupid.
the jeter throwaway ab in the first, looks even smarter now. so the yanks gave awaay 1 of 15 outs so far for no reason in the first inning. unbelievable that jeter continues to do thaqt. in the 7th inning, another story in the first with gardner on first.
gardner also is on fire…so beckett will have 4 or 5 wins versus the yansk for the year????ridicculous……..
not counting tonight teix has hit .125/.232/.188
Dude, Tex is a SOX KILLER.
The fans quiver in their seats when he steps to the plate.
He’s been a total monster this season. Especially vs. our arch rival.
Really hope some yankees pitcher plunks that motherfucker
I hope the Phil Hughes bandwagon is starting to realize the difference between the Mariners, A’s, White Sox, and Orioles’ lineups and the teams we will be facing in the playoffs.
Phil has had his best stuff I’ve seen all season tonight.
Hitting 95.
Using his curve effectively.
Giving up 4 runs in 5 innings.
“Ace” in the making.
CC got a win, Phil showed good stuff and Montero plays tomorrow.
It’s all good.
Did Ortiz atleast pose after going deep? He is latin and they don’t play the game right according to Saltwhateverthefuckia
Of course Beckett got a HBP. Unintentional this time though.
ewww, gross swing Cano.
but not that one.
Leiter is seriously pissed about this. It’s kind of amazing.
I smell a come back!
Comeback, bitches.
There we go, answer right back.
Oh, I thought this game was over.
How good is this Cano guy?
God, this blather about the momentum. SHUT UP.
Sweet swinging Ribbinson Cano.
DONTCHA KNOW!
Good hitting Robbie. Let’s go Swisher. We need another run, at least.
Cano making my rispiration easier.
Better Cano, much better. Going oppo a lot nowadays.
Ok cmon
a bunt???? A BUNT??????
was that a bunt i saw by swish it fucking better not be
Not able to watch . . . Was the Teixera HBP intentional by Beckett?
No a curveball that got him in the foot
Ok. But I now hate Beckett more than Youkilis, Papelbon and Pedroia if that’s all right with everyone.
No. He was trying to bounce a curveball and it hit Tex in the foot.
Is there such thing as an unintentional Beckett HBP? I don’t think those things exist.
probably not, i beg to differ, not sure, maybe?
We might have a chance here, but I’d take Hughes out early unless he looks sharp as a tack next inning.
So would I.
Schilling is a goddamn embarrassment on commentary
so just noticed this, does beckett have a neckbeard?????
That’s not a soul patch, it’s more like a runway! Catches the food he dribbles I guess…
He’s a giant douche, prob.
Bunt time!!
Time for the big hit. Let’s go Chavez!
Hellz.
Yeah.
Chavy is gonna do some damage.
CHAVY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL REDDICK!!!!
WOOOOOHOOOOOO
FCK YEA
Fuck yeah CHAVY!!!
thank you Reddick
Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Also, LOL at Reddick
ZOMBIE ERIC CHAVEZ!!!!!
Zombie Chavez!
ERIC CHAVEZ RED SOX KILLER!!!!!!!!
Good job proving me wrong Yankees.
Zombie!
This is so much with the awesome.
“Given the way Beckett’s pitching, this game is almost a certainty.”
Sincerely,
Greg, four minutes ago
The Reverse Lock!
I’m sure. *chuckle*
I was being sarcastic.
Doesn’t matter because the Phillies are winning and they’re laughing at us.
Chavez to the rescue!!!! Tie game!!!
Eric muthaucking Chavez
That’swhatI’mtalkinabout!!!!
Chavez!!! DON’T GO TO THIRD BASE! SAVE YOUR FOOT!!
LOL Reddick. Good thing Lackey ain’t pitching. He’d be a hot honey right now.
i wanna see a squeeze play with nuni
Chavez!!!! We have a ballgame again!!
Poorly played by Reddick.
I’m confused. I was assured this game was over.
awesome defense!!! now this is the beckett that we all know and love
Official scorer is a clear Red Sox homer.
Red Sox fans may love to make fun of Drew but he is a far superior fielder to Reddick.
Nunie just gets the job done. That’s his calling card.
Lovin me some smallball!
good job Nunie!
That’ll do pig
Eat shit jackass hahahahahaha
Very nice comeback inning. Hughes has made one mistake thus far which many, many a pitcher has done before him many, many a time before. Liking the Yankees’ chances here as long as Girardi is careful with Hughes if he gets in a jam again.
Besides, Jesus Montero is coming up tomorrow. Therefore, the team will be able to start AJ Burnett on two days rest for what’s left of the season.
Wow. ESPN is taking their sweet fucking time with this update . . . Beckett still hasn’t thrown a pitch to Chavez yet according to their Gamecast
Nunie gets the job done!
Fuck Beckett and his stupid beard.
good job Nunie.
Chavy!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nuneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eduardo Nunez-an excellent value at 475K
Nice hitting Nunez!!!! Aggressive baserunning by Chavez. 5-4 Yanks. Good job, fellas. Let’s get Beckett out of there. Keep it going.
But they told me the Yankees couldn’t hit Beckett this year.
ESPN’d
I am very tempted to link all those gloom bagger comments from the first 5 innings.
Gloom Bagger Diaries.
Red Shoe Diaries >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gloom Bagger Diaries
What the hell is a gloom bagger? Is that a take off on tea-bagger, the derogatory and homophobic description of the tea party?
What still bugs me about these games against Beckett, though, are the fact that Granderson, Teixera, and Swisher still aren’t hitting him. We need more out of these guys and less strikeouts/popups if we’re going to bend them over in the playoffs.
Nick Swisher has a .313/.405/.594 line vs. Josh Beckett.
This year?
Career numbers.
we need you to stop being annoying
Haha. Wow. You’re a complete fucking dick. Good on ya mate! And please, for the love of Mo, go fuck yourself.
Chill out.
Will do, but the proof is in the pudding.
the Yankees score 4 runs and you can’t stop complaining about Tex. Was just hoping you could make an intelligent contribution instead of moaning about the same thing all night.
guess you’re not capable of anything else so keep on telling us how Tex and Granderson sucks all night.
I wanna see Gardner hit a homerun here.
He tried & failed.
No, you have to wait until Fat Albers shows up…
Hey Hey Hey
I love when the Yankees hit Beckett hard. It feels so good.
But the Gardy slump continues…Ugh.
http://espn.go.com/
hurry and click before they change it
That’s what I’ve been making a mockery of this entire thread. Do they seriously only hire Sox fans in Bristol?
Two of the top guys in charge of programming use to work in Boston including the former head editor of the boston globe sports department.
Argh. People use their site and channel as a viable source of sports information. I fear that, because of them, the USA could indeed become a Red Sox nation . . . NAHHHHHHH! That kind of Stupidity is most definitely a Bahston thing.
Only the Baseball Today crowd is not total Red Sox fans. Karabell is a Phillies fan, Law doesn’t like anyone, and Simon is a Mets fan. The producer Soderberg is a Sox fan but he hardly gets to talk so it’s ok.
I started listening to the podcast about two weeks ago, I was surprised by how entertaining it is. Very nice listening in the afternoon.
I can see why Becketts ERA is so low since these terrible home town scoring DBs call that an E, wow.
All 5 runs were earned according to gameday
I saw they only gave Chavez one RBI and since the runner advanced to third on an “error”, I thought it might have been unearned as well. I stand corrected.
Schilling literally just said that the only psychological edge that exists in the Sox/Yanks series is that the Sox have Mariano’s number.
Earlier this inning he said “We” have a 4-1 lead.
guess he missed last night’s game…
still pisses me off that he gets to be the recipient of two of the few times Mo blew it in the playoffs. Of all the guys to get lucky it has to be blowhard curt.
I’d agree more with your statement, Widget, if you spelled “Curt” with an “n” instead of an “r”.
Schilling can go suck his ketchup-stained sock.
I refuse to put on ESPN. Is Curt eating crow?
About what? He said at the start of the inning that the Yankees were always 45 seconds away from tying the game
How they have him comment on Yankees-Red Sox games is beyond me.
Would it be taking it too far if 3 Yankee fans dressed as kings for tomorrow’s game and jumped onto the field pregame to give Jesus gifts?
where you going to find frankincense?
actually, i heard in the clubhouse that’s what they call Cervelli’s armpit musk.
HAHAHAHAHAHA! That’s good.
Jesus Montero is bigger than Jesus and the Beatles.
Funny.
Although, for his sake, two of those gifts better be a 10 for 10 start and earplugs.
please someone make this happen, maybe not go onto the field, you will def get thrown out, but that would be awesome. i would try but i am only going with my girlfriend on friday, no chance she’s dressing up, she doesn’t even really like baseball, plus we would be missing a wise man
Big inning here for Hughes…
Come on Phil. Nice and easy.
Is there a reason that our pitchers can’t seem to handle Crawford? I really don’t get it.
The radar is a little off.
phew.
kept Crawford off the bases, very nice.
come on hughes 2 more outs
props to hughes on that one, all the way from 3-0
This story seems apocryphal
C’mon Phil, bear the fuck down, KID!!
I’m sure the Yankees would still be in the lead if Chavez bunted the runners over instead of hitting a triple
The Carl Crawford apologists.
Wow 5 runs against Cy Young candidate Josh Beckett – that is good.
As much as I would like to win, I would be OK if Hughes hit Ortiz or Pedroia in the face and the Yankees lost based on that.
Although AJ is pitching tomorrow so we will have a chance to hit Ortiz or Pedroia in the face tomorrow so I am getting ahead of myself.
No the win is the priority today.
that was the opposite of the Crawford AB, got him 0-2 and lost him. bad Phil.
Phil Hughes has to put these hitters away with 2 strikes.
This is fucking disgusting…..Schillinger (Oz), Nomar, and ESPN???
SO I go to Twitter and notice this too…..
“PeteAbe Pete Abraham
Beckett at 80 pitches after 5. Could be Beckett-Bard-Papelbon”
Schilling is so fat. Disgusting. Sorry if this has been mentioned already.
Well it could have been, but it’s not.
I am dog tired of hearing all you antibuntites. Let it go, man.
Do not throw Vagitek a fastball.
Did Hughes completely stop throwing his cutter? I know he was in love with it last year.
No he still throws it, 14.3% of the time according to fangraphs.
thank god we don’t have to see youkilis and his ridiculous batting stance
I can’t believe I actually feel sorry for Nomar.
You can tell he actually tries to remain neutral and do his job. The other 2 jerk-offs in the booth are slanted, fat-ass fanboys.
Singleton: [incredulous] Why would I want to go in there?
Amen, Kenny. Amen.
Another reason why Mr. Singleton is awesome.
Ugh, fucking garbage hit.
How on Earth did that get past Gardner?
Oh what bullshit.
There’s bad luck, there’s horrible luck, and there’s that crazy shit.
yea I give up. this is just disgusting.
Wow
what the fuck was that
Gardner doing his Reddick impersonation
Are you kidding?
Amazing…
What. The. Fuck.
B.S. hit, although Teixeira should try that too.
Good pitch by Hughes, an assist from the stadium in giving the Red Sox the tie though.
I don’t want to hate you Hughes but I have to. That was fucking terrible.
That pitch was down and away…how is that Hughes’s fault?
how are you blaming Hughes for that cheap ass hit?
How about the walk before it? And the other runs he’s allowed?
Hughes should’ve been pulled after the Reddick AB, in which he had him 0-2 and then proceeded to walk him on a bunch of garbage pitches, including a WP for ball 4.
OH what the hell
For gods sake, Guard the line!
wtf are you talking about?
I would rather give upa single than a double. If Chavez was closer to the bag, he would have gotten there and thrown Varitek out.
Aren’t outs better than singles or doubles. Fielders should be positioned where batters are most likely to hit the ball. Not where a fluke hit wound up being hit.
Yes, Greg, the Yankees clearly should have been guarding the line there in case Varitek reaches across the plate into the other batters box and cues a ball off the very end of his bat and down the wisps of chalk on the line for the most improbable double in the park.
(rolls eyes)
Much rather give up a single than a double.
Greg, stop acting like a moron. That hit was 100% fluke and 100% luck. You don’t position your fielders to take away lucky, fluky dribblers down the line that have a slim chance of ever happening.
You’ve gotta be shitting me……
Time for your milk and cookies, Phil. Good night. Sleep well.
Why does it feel like I’m seeing more outfielders chasing after balls they didn’t play correctly? Cut that shit off, damnit.
well, one was by the red sox, so that’s good
Oh, I was also including Granderson’s inside-the-parker as well. Wasn’t talking about just the Yanks.
WTF is this witchery?
Wow, BAbip’d.
What a late swing, just a weird play all around.
BABIP’d fucked.
How do you like Nomar with the “fans are smart” comment? Are you for serious?
UGH. Really didn’t want Phil out there for the 6th.
What a joke of a hit. Now Yankee rapist Scutaro up to bat.
Phil Hughes just tried to hit the outside corner on a 3-2 pitch vs. a AAAA LH hitter.
He ended up missing his spot by 4 feet. Throwing a wild pitch to the left side of the plate.
He has no command.
NOTE: His “stuff” might be as good as we’ve seen it this season.
These are not good signs.
So sick of Hughes. The guy is a wuss, period.
You’re blaming him for that hit? The one Varitek bailed on and lucked out it stayed fail? That one that was all luck and zero skill?
No, but I blame him for the walk before it. The guy has given up 6 runs and it kind of seems like people want to give him a pass because of one lucky hit?
How can you blame Hughes for that?
I really do not like Fenway park. Something weird always happen.
Perhaps because it’s full of weirdos.
Fairy-tek of all people. Hughes should have ponded the strike zone and let him swing at air.
lol Fairy-tek? That sounds like it was coined by a drunk fat guy named Tony in the bleachers in 1998
Fairy-tek! Awesome! hahahahaha
Come on, Boone.
Didn’t that look foul?
2 out
I would much rather give a single than a double. Chavez has to be closer to that line.
Go look at Varitek’s spray chart. No, Chavez shouldn’t have been closer to the line.
You can’t plan for all possible eventualities all at once, Greg.
I would rather get an out than give up a hit. Chavez should play where the hitter would most likely hit the ball.
Nunez is playing 3B
I hate it when the DH plays so far from the line.
Nice try Phil. At least, you kept us in the game…. I’ll take that.
Imagine if this was AJ? Hughes leaving fastballs over the plate all night…luckily they didn’t score more
That ball was far from over the plate.
The real bullshit is that, this is a double for Varitek with an RBI when it took a weird bounce, and when Chavez’ hit was a weird bounce it was an error.
[Yankees take lead]
Joy to the world!
Game is tied
Awful team, awful game, ruined pitcher.
(Yankees take the lead)
Awful game, just stupid
(Red Sox take the lead)
Joy to the World! The Nation is back!!
/ESPN’d
fuck this I’m out.
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Well, Boone had been good for a long time.
and of course ball 2 and 3 where both strikes
LNOGY
Yay Boone.
Logan giveth and taketh away.
Awful inning…
We’re doomed.
Well, fuck.
Now thats the Boone Logan I remember
*Sigh* Good Boone pitched last night. Guess its time for Bad Boone’s turn to pitch.
http://www.google.com/imgres?i.....38;dur=132
Bah!
WTF Boone.
Ellsbury is ridiculous man.
The pen isn’t gonna get a whole lot better than Logan at this point in the game.
Fucking brady bunch mother fucka
For all he did yesterday, this is the reason why we are in trouble in the playoffs. Our left-handed reliever CANNOT GET LEFTIES OUT!!! I hope Feliciano and Marte find the magic potion Beckett and Ortiz uses.
Why am I not surprised? Yankees bullpen bails out Beckett again. Stupid Ellsbury and his waxed eyebrows.
Boone giveth and Boone taketh away. A cheap Fenway homer-right espn?
Bullshit.
this is so weak
Hughes has no spine. What a fukin chump
You aren’t actually watching the game, are you?
How could he have given up that home run…..oh, wait….
If you want to hate on him for walking Reddick, fine, but Hughes made a perfect pitch to Varitek. It was just a nice piece of hitting with combined with a freak hop.
ESPN will now devote the next ten minutes to Pedroia’s slide
“That’s serious hustle from the little guy who plays the game hard”
Shut the fuck up Leiter. He would’ve been safe by a full step if he didn’t launch himself at the bag.
When it fucking rains it fucking pours…
Chances are, this game won’t end 7-5.
I hate Pedroia
I hope someone breaks Pedroia’s arm. I HATE that cocksucker
what a friggin joke., what is the yankee era against this team???
has to be over 7…
hughes walks reddick after being up 0 and 2, then a curve ball to varitek who could not catch up to anything.
another giveaway game. girardi did not have the pen warmed up ie; wade and the big 3…
5 to 4 and the binder guy needed or wanted hughes to get thru the inning for what reason???
boston kicks our ass again…..
If you’re trying to make friends you’re doing it all wrong.
we did beat em yesterday no? and we can score 2 runs
Since when do the Yankees play 6 inning games?
For fucks sake people, baseball is a 9 inning game. There a 2 run deficit with 1/3 of the game left in a little league park.
I don’t blame the binder guy. Hughes got to show some guts, he finally gets a lead, the Yankees finally hit Beckett and he gives it right back in the bottom half of the inning. Everybody critiques Burnett (rightfully so) for having no guts, but Hughes is just as bad. Its a bad, bad job by Hughes.
That’s a ballsy (read: asssinine) comment to make after the Yankees put 4 on Beckett in a heartbeat last inning. Let’s finish the game first, ‘kay? Then you can wallow all you want.
Seriously, huge start tonight by Phil.
Can’t wait to see him progress as a Yankee. He has many, many more bright years ahead of him. He’s just a kid. Let him progress.
Golden gem of the Yankee farm system.
/2yearstillfreeagency’d
This Phuckin’ sucks..
Phuckin’ A.
Ellsbury’s secret is that he tries to drive the ball on hitter’s counts? Thanks for that nugget, Buster.
Well, back to being down 2. Let’s go Boone. Close out the inning.
Now our MVP hitters need to show up in this series.
No game is over against this Red Sox bullpen
Relievers give up runs; it happens. Boone has been solid for a while.
Like Soriano’s homer the other night. He was good before the homer, he’ll be good going forward.
It sucks balls, but it happens. Don’t overreact about it.
Now I remember why I hate Boone Logan so much.
Let’s get Aaron Laffey up here!
feliciano is shut down for the season. like the 4th setback the other day.
he has paid off as much as about 8 previous lefty relievers they tried. that has been a 10 year search since stanton…..
Beckett back out for the 7th. they better pound this douche.
Don’t count on it. Luck isn’t on our side tonight.
The Yankees just give in over and over again to Boston’s best hitters, even in spots in which they are under no obligation to do so.
Pedroia is on deck, that’s nice. Logan has been lights out against lefties and righties of late. Which is more likely to beat you? 3-1 fastball out over the plate to Ellsbury, or a fresh count on Pedroia?
Who is more likely to beat you? 3-2 fastball out over the plate to Ortiz, or Jed Lowrie who hasn’t hit a lick from the left side since coming off the DL?
So much credit is given to the Red Sox hitters, but do they really deserve it? If you don’t battle out there on the mound, you deserve to get beaten when you face a good lineup. They aren’t hitting good pitches, they are hitting cookies.
Pedroia owns LHP this year I’d take my chances with Ellsbury.
Rule #1 of RAB: Never talk to Matt.
Again, stop twisting the argument to suit your point.
He gave in to Ellsbury. He decided to just throw it right down the middle instead of risking the walk. Pedroia has hit lefties, but Ellsbury has as well. If you give him a cookie in a 3-1 count, he can beat you just as much.
Take a shot at a 3-1 slider, and if you make the pitch, you have him set up for anything on 3-2, or you get him lunging and hitting a ground ball. If you miss, you go after Pedroia. You don’t just give in and throw it down the middle.
How is that twisting the argument? Do you think Logan tried to throw it down the middle?
Nobody is trying to throw it down the middle, but he was throwing more of a “get me over” pitch to avoid walking him than trying to shoot for a corner and missing off the plate if you don’t get it. You have to be more careful in that spot. 3-1 slider, and if a fastball, you have to make sure you miss off the plate.
not sure how you can tell what his intention is. Maybe he was trying to hit the corner and missed in the wrong direction. that happens sometimes too. Not like Logan or Hughes have exceptional command
Did you by chance miss the outcome when they walked Ortiz to get to Lowrie?
Did you by chance miss the outcome when Hughes hung a changeup right down the middle to Lowrie, and he could muster nothing more than a single?
Lowrie has been terrible since coming off of the DL, and especially against RHP. I didn’t say intentionally walk Ortiz to get to him. You COMPETE, you don’t just lay a 3-2 fastball in there to get a strike, you try to make a perfect pitch and if you miss, you go after the weaker hitter.
It would help if pitches in the strike zone were called strikes:
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Well, lets see if these Yankees can show the 2009 grittiness again.
That’s the difference between the Yankees and Red SOx this year. The Red Sox have gotten many more breaks than the Yankees have.
Lead baseball with a .313 BABIP.
Please stop with this.
Why? My team is being beaten the slimmest of margins by my archenemy. Why should I not be upset?
Maybe because your entire point of reference for this franchise began in 2005.
What does that have to do with it?
You live and die on every loss, every down moment for this team, way too much. I am convinced that, if you had been around to root for this team in ’91, you’d be posting on some other team’s blog right now.
We have to live through every game so its very hard to say this doesnt meant anything.
It’s called “the national pasttime”, not “the national this contest means everything and every loss should tear out and shit on a piece of your soul”.
Relax, Greg.
Be upset, whatever, but talking about breaks and showing 2009 ‘magic’ is almost meaningless.
Greg, that’s the closest I’ve ever seen you come to recognizing that ’09 was shitful of luck for the Yankees. I’m nearly proud of you.
I thought the Mexican Traitor was warming up?
i have gameday were those balls to ellsbury really strikes?
They looked like balls to me.
Josh Beckett might get the win. I think I’m gonna puke.
And it will prove he “owns” the Yankees.
Leaving Beckett in to pitch the 7th (and leaving Lackey in for 120 pitches last night) is why Sox fans used to call their manager “Francoma.”
Let’s get at least one off Beckett while he’s tired.
hughes doesn’t deserve to start at the mlb level. he doesn’t have the off speed pitches to get the job done. put hughes in the pen
By all means, blame Hughes for that double and homer.
And leave AJ in the rotation?
Hey, look, everybody, Teddy’s here!
Did you bring the guac?
its giradri’s fault
/teddy’d
This. His time has come and gone. He is a shell of his former self. I don’t know if its that the organization ruined him or he just doesn’t have the makeup and doesn’t work hard. Probably a little of both. Straight fastballs and curves with a little break won’t cut it in the AL East, especially when those are your only two pitches.
he throws 4 pitches (FB, curve, cutter, change), and his fastball has been the 7th most effective of AL starters
His secondary stuff definitely needs improvement, but he still has a shot to develop into a mid-rotation starter, I seriously doubt he ever becomes a top of the rotation starter though
As a side note, I like the way the Yankees finally got to Beckett.
Take your fuckin’ positivity and clarity and get the fuck out of here, RCA! We don’t need ya’, y’hear?! WE DON’T NEED YA’!
[Falls to knees, crying.]
[Scene.]
Oh come on Grandy that was right there. Damn it.
You never take anything for granted, ever, when watching a game between these two teams. No lead is safe on either side. You don’t say “we got this.” You don’t say “we’re doomed.” Not until the last strike.
I remember the Yanks coming back and knocking Clemens out of the game after being 9-0 to him and scoring, what was it, 11 in the 2nd? I also, unfortunately, remember 2004. Strange things happen between these teams.
When I got to my seat Rice hit a grandslam to make it 9-0
http://www.baseball-reference......6260.shtml
The great Cecilio Guante.
pop up king pops it up. now I have to go pour a shot, thanks.
I hate cunt ass Beckett, but that’s what Hughes had to do. Pitch a shutdown inning after your team gets you the lead. But thats why Beckett is what he is, and Hughes is trash. I am so down on Hughes. All this hype for nothing.
He got an out, gave up a walk, gave up a fluke seeing-eye-double on a practically unhittable curve placed in the opposite batters box, and got a second out.
Hughes did not pitch poorly in that inning.
But then he gave up a two run homer to Ellsbury.
That was Logan.
Really? I thought Hughes had just started throwing left handed.
Oh, right, I forgot that.
#playsalong
Of course, he’s a switch pitcher!
a walk after getting him 0 and 2 .
hughes doesn’t have a strikeout pitch, in fact he got 1 good pitch, he a reliever
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What a gamer what a gritty dirt grit dog. Just look at beckett get er done!!!!!!! he deserves the cy young cause he’s a man!!!
/ Fat Fuck With a Ketchup stained Sox
Ugh. Way to make Beckett work.
not sure how many people here read it is high…. but tex really needs to enable his pop up blocker. he is a black hole against the sox
When did Boston start doing “God Bless America”?
Wow, only 1 pop up rant after that???
Another great at bat by Teixeira. 1-0 fastball down the middle, and he pops it up to the pitcher’s mound.
He is an easy out from the left side of the plate, as long as you don’t throw it at the knees or hang something offspeed. It’s really incredible how bad he has been, besides the home runs. His swing is so bad that he physically cannot hit pitches that every other hitter in the league would crush. He physically cannot get on top of a fastball higher than the middle of the zone because of the uppercut.
It’s not a “slump,” and it’s not “bad luck.” His BABIP is so low because he doesn’t make much solid contact. His swing is a disaster right now.
If by disaster you mean, the third best power bat in the AL, then yup, nailed it.
By what metric? Just HR? Certainly not ISO, SLG or even wRC+
Try reading next time. “His SWING is a disaster right now.”
His swing is DEFINITELY a disaster right now. He pops out on pitches that nearly every other hitter in the league would smoke. 93 mph straight fastball down the middle in a 1-0 count, you’d expect him to at least hit it hard somewhere.
Going into tonight, Teixeira was hitting .220/.322/.469 from the left side. Almost 1/3 of his hits from the left side are home runs. For comparison purposes, last season he had about 1/5 of his hits from the left side as HR, and in 2009 it was about 1/4.
The home runs are deceptive, because they come on the once in a while that he does get his swing right. His swing though is so erratic that sometimes he does absolutely nothing with those same pitches, even when he is sitting on them.
How’s your major league career working out, bro?
So watching Texshita pop up for another 4 years is a recurring nightmare. I am really really starting to dislike this azzhole.
he has 5 years left on his contract
Even Better. Something has to change with his hitting, its the most predictable outcome in baseball for me. I wonder if anyone could put up a stat on most pop-ups in baseball this year and beyond if possible. It could just be my perception, but Tex has to be up there.
38th highest Infield Fly % in baseball @ 12.7%
he does hit a lot of outfield pop ups as well though
Shoot me in the face Michael Kay
If I wasn’t watching with my family, I would have this game on mute and John and Suzyn on the radio. I am so over Nomar and Curt. Confidence, momentum, intangibles. SHUT UP.
And, in Nomar’s case, pouting in the dugout until he got traded. That’s true grit, right there.
I love the Yankees but I can’t listen to John and Suzyn.
John: There goes Swisher.
Suzyn: You mean Granderson.
John: Excuse me….there goes Granderson, here’s the 1-0….and there it goes to deep right, IT IS HIGH. IT IS FAR. IT IS…..CAUGHT by the (Left fielder).
At least those two cunts have a play-by-play guy that can accurately describe the play.
How do they have those two doing a national broadcast over Yankees-Sox?
Don’t forget about Dave O’Brien the Red Sox radio broadcaster doing it with them, its like ESPN isn’t even trying to hide their bias anymore.
We need momentum.
Nomar agrees.
I guess KLong and Tex dont get along very well.
It could be worse. Burnett could be pitching. Oh wait, he starts tomorrow. Time to get stinking drunk.
this team will make the playoffs, but they wont have the twins as their first round bye this year. Girardi will manage his way right out of the first round by leaving in pitchers too long…pinch hitting for hot players for guys who will hit a first pitch pop up and continue to over manage the bull pen.
Is that you Doc Brown? You back from the future so soon? Can you bring me back a hoover board next time you go? I can’t believe I’m talking to someone from the future.
How can he leave pitchers in too long and over manage the bull pen. If anything, he is good with the bullpen and sometimes the players just have to perform. Tex has to hit better, Hughes has to pitch better and most importantly their LOOGY MUST get the lefty out.
This game: not the playoffs
lol
I liked your posts until this very moment.
Hector gets know love
Hector is in Scranton.
stupid me!!!!
Hector is currently starting in Triple A.
3 shutout innings for Hector in SWB tonight.
Hugehs had Reddick in a 0-2 count..and ends up walking him. Unacceptable. And Logan..yes he saved us last night but your job is to get lefties out, not serve up homeruns to them.
Ah, I almost like it like this. Nothing better than coming back against Paps.
If the outfield wall were in the sky Tex would have broken Bonds’ HR record by now.
I still think the Yankees win this game.
It’d certainly help if Ayala could hold them here though.
There you go.
We need to get to Bard here.
That right there is why I don’t whine about Teixeira’s pop ups.
Well, that and the 35 homers.
At least Teix has his defense going for him
I can feel the momentum… its rumbling in my stomach. That could also be the burritos I ate.
Did you microwave them before eating them? I always do.
Momentum Burritos™
But I never let them finish cooking; it takes too long.
Nice play by Texierapopsitup.
0-2
1-2
2-2
3-2
WALK
RE: that stupid Cervelli shit from yesterday. The Sawx had a problem with Cervelli clapping (and Saltalamacchia made it an ethnic issue; he should stick to baseball and not try to be a social theorist) but how happy are they when Papelbum pumps his fist 500 times and screams and yells like some schizophrenic tool.
The inconsistencies astonish me. And douche ass Saltalamacchia, last time I check Papelbum is NOT Latin.
¿Juanathan Papelbona?
Wait, what happened with this ‘latin players’ stuff? I heard something about it, but I couldn’t check it out.
He made it an ethnic thing? What did he say that I missed?
actually i was shocked by this
of all people peter gammons said so let me get this straight its ok for a closer to celebrate when he strikes someone out but not ok for a hitter to celebrate when he hits a home run?
I know it’s anthema around here, but I’ve oftten found Gammons fairly reasonable. Yeah, he’s from Boston, he’s a fan, but he’s not as slavishly devoted as the ESPN crowd. I’ll always remember the day of the Pedro/Jorge/Don Zimmer brouhaha in in the ’03 playoffs, he was all over TV saying Pedro embarrassed himself.
possible 3-11 record against Boston is hard for me to comprehend. That’s the type of record you expect to see out of KC against Boston or the Orioles. But the Yankees? Fucking weird. I’d love for shit to even out if they meet in the ALCS.
It already has evened out. In the last two series, these teams have played every game right down to the wire, with all the games coming in Fenway Park. The games in May and June are not predictive when the teams are playing different brands of baseball in August.
The Yankees were 3 outs away last series from taking 2/3 in Fenway, and even if they lose this one, they were right there all night and came back.
If anyone thinks that the head to head record is indicative of anything, then they are clueless. Anyone watching these games can very easily tell that these teams are almost perfectly matched, and the Yankees haven’t had A-Rod in either of these 2 series.
If the Red Sox were “in their heads” or “dominating” them, then why have none of those things been happening these last few series? If the Yankees were intimidated, then why do they keep coming back against Lester and Beckett?
The scores are incredibly misleading. Girardi left in Ayala here because he knew the game was likely over. Noesi imploded in one of those games in the 8th to turn a close score into a blowout with meaningless runs. Every one of these games has been very close, with the home field advantage making a difference for Boston.
Matt — you’re talking reasonable. I like it.
Very much agree…it would have been stupid to burn Robertson here on the off-chance they’d score twice against Papelbon. And, even with the arsonist on the mound tomorrow, you never know what you might need late in the game.
Also agreed on the past two series. All quite close, and, if they were the first two series the teams had played all year, no one would think it odd if the Sox were to win 3 or 4 of them, based on home field tendencies. It’s just because of those (truly) long-ago losing games from early season that the Yanks are expected the dominate (like they did in late ’09) to prove their manhood now.
Babip fucked’d again.
And again.
Phuck you Scutaro.
Cano does not run hard at all.
yea we’re cursed this year
What I said earlier. Difference between the Sox and Yanks this year are the bounces and breaks.
Don’t forget the 5 aces.
Difference between the Sox and the Yanks this year is literally only that Boston has played 1 more game than us.
Yes, and despite the .23 higher BABIP by Boston, they are tied in the loss column. Yankees offense is a tad better than the Red Sox. The question is all about the pitching though.
Not if we lose tonight.
Is there a cosmic force that causes these breaks and bounces? Maybe the Sox are getting them right, but maybe that changes tomorrow or the next inning or whenever.
WHAT THE FUCK
You’ve betrayed me BABIP. You best get out of town before I wrangle up my posse.
Isn’t that the truth. BABIP and I have been on the outs for a couple weeks. It might be time for a roughing up.
Thats it, waterboarding in 5 minutes.
I’ll watch.
I blame Girardi.
Ugh.
The only bright spot of that Pedoria pick was that I didn’t have to watch it on ESPN’s cult of personality.
These aren’t gonna help Bard’s xFIP
That’s not a great play. It’s a relatively routine play that Pedroia made to look really difficult.
He ALWAYS does that shit. He’s like the guy that dives when he can easily run through the ball and catch it. So fucking dramatic for no reason, I swear he wants all the attention because he knows Cano and Kinsler is better than him. That’s why Kinsler wanted to snuff him in college.
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There’s the luck again.
Hitting the ball hard and can’t buy a hit.
If only the Sox would have been guarding the lines on those hits by Cano and Swish, amirite?
/Greg’d
If the Yankees could bail out on pitches like Varitek, they wouldn’t have this issue of hitting hard line drives to the infielders.
Those hits were to the infielders. SS and 2nd.
Logic and reason never stop you from making your comments, why should they stop me?
1st and 3rd aren’t infielders??
Bounces and breaks. That’s why the Red Sox are great and Yanks lack that amazing grittiness of 2009.
Hey. The SOx didnt get the breaks for 86 years.
We got most of the breaks for 86 years.
Tex is worthless at the plate.
No one who hits 35 home runs is worthless at the plate.
Eh Dave Kingman hit .204/.285/.432 with 37 HRs in 1982. I don’t know if that’s useless, but it’s close to it.
the Red Sox own the Yankees…period. Better hitting in the clutch, better pitching in the clutch….manager not a douche…you know the intangibles
I’m really excited to see the meat of our order against Papeldouche. The Red Sox better watch out! Nunez, Cervelli, and Gardner are animals!
All I got to say is….Boone “Fuck’n piece of Shit” Logan…Sucks Big Time.
Hughes or AJ…not really much of a choice there is there? Can we send Noesi or someone to the rotation?
I GIVE UP! FUCK YOU BABIP
Fuck Hughes also.
How, I mean HOW in the hell do you challenge Ortiz with a fastball 3-2,
But you pitch around Reddick when you’re up in the count 1-2.
THEN he throws Varitek a curve.
Everything is dropping for a hit for the sox…wow
Glad to see the ump realized where he was and changed his call appropriately.
For fuck’s sake. When a ball lands as perfectly as that, it’s not your night. (Though I’m sure someone here’ll find a way it was Girardi’s fault)
Oh What. The. Fuck.
fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this
seriously, fuck this team.
Scutaro, Crawford and now Varitek? I give up…
Well there’s that game.
TV off.
2010 ALCS all over again. I can’t stand games like this.
Ayala being brought into a game just gives me the impression that it’s game over for the Yankees.
This is how I feel.
But he has a sub-2.00 ERA.
Ayala’s a piece of garbage. Thank God we get better relievers up tomorrow.
OK, I’m just gonna go ahead and leave before the trolls make me too angry.
/the09teamwouldnevergiveupahomertovaritek
I can’t believe Hughes just gave up that home run to Varitek.
Is this a joke I don’t get?
Yes.
why isn’t Robertson in the game??? Girardi is such a hack!
He’s pitched in 3 of the last 4 days.
Horrible. At least we won’t have to see Papeldouche now.
Getting beat by the most useless members of the red sox this serious…Wow. With the way everything is going, i wouldn’t be surprised if AJ somehow pitches a shut out.
That would be ok with me.
I’d sign up for that as well.
Well, we blew our best chance to win the series. With the worst pitcher in the league on the mound for us tomorrow at least our 7-8-9 bullpen guys will get another day off.
Hughes vs Beckett was hardly our best chance. I expected Hughes to be shelled. I’m just glad we showed that we can hit beckett hard. Which is good going forward.
Winning isnt everything. Its the only thing.
off course i wanted a win..just looking at the silver lining. right now i’m putting hughes in the shitter with AJ.
Greg, if you had a chance to spend a day with Vince Lombardi, he’d probably end the day by saying, “Buddy, seriously, chill the fuck out. It’s just a game. Relax.”
Seriously fuck these games. Sick of getting beat by the bottom of their lineup.
What are you talking about jorge…Hughes got pulled in the 6th.
You and your technicalities.
Ayala is not ready. Hughes is not ready. AJ is… let’s skip it. We got: CC, Ivan, Bartolo and maybe Freddy. Decent but not dominant bullpen except for Logan, who is I think quite terrible. We will be in postseason, this is nearly certain, if not certain. But can ANYONE see us going all the way this year? I just can’t see it.
I’ve been saying this for the last few weeks.
If Greg agrees with it, you know it’s batshit insane.
Yeah, well your comment is just the batshit. If you ever think of anything intelligent (unlikely, I know) maybe you could come back for a visit.
Hughes was actually pretty good today. I can’t evaluate him until September ends, since this is still April/May for him, but if he doesn’t have an outpitch I don’t think he’ll be the Yanks #2. As for the bullpen, not only is it dominant, its the best in baseball. Its only been weak today because its been used for the last 4 days.
He was worse than his awful ERA today. Howdya figger he was “pretty good?”
why maybe Freddy? He’s been better than Ivan and Bartolo
Yes, you’re right! And I admire Freddy and as far as I know he may have a better shot at the 3 hole than Bartolo.
One of my staff is a big Sox fan. Last night, she apparently had the very clever text message, “CC you tomorrow” ready for me before we won the game. If I hear from her tonight, I’m firing the bitch first thing in the morning.
Oh yes, plz! Kick the rank ho to the curb!
Fire her anyway. She can’t be trusted.
She would deserve it. I mean, really, anyone who could love that team is probably really damaged somewhere internally anyway.
I make her hold the Mariano bobblehead sometimes….and, by that, I mean….
Good news is that the yankees have shown that they can hit Beckett. (Yay) Off course bad news is that their pitching was worse. (Fuck Phil Hughes/ Boone Logan)
Time for the calm, collected, non-Latin Jonathan Papelbon to come into the game and calmly pitch to batters with no histrionics or attempts to show up the opponent or celebrate in any demonstrative way.
Such a classy closer compared to the flamboyant Mariano Rivera.
I dunno where Mariano Rivera is from, but he’s definitely a white guy. Look how composed he is at all times.
He’s probably from Wisconsin or something.
You know us Venezuelans. We’re douches.
Another fucking blowout. Everything is hit down the line. Luckiest fucking team in baseball. Painful to watch these games. The curse has reversed and now I am paying in multiples for a century of Yankee domination over the red sox. Nightmare.
Most overreacting of all time, and it’s not even close.
The curse has reversed and now I am paying in multiples for a century of Yankee domination over the red sox. Nightmare.
Please tell me you don’t actually believe this crock of shit.
The amazing thing is how many people have bought into this shit since 2004. They don’t seem to note that the Yankees came from a ways back to take the division from the Red Sox in ’05, ’06 and ’09, keep them out of the playoffs in ’10, and of course win a Series just two years ago. It’s a media narrative that “2004 changed everything”, and a sadly large number of Yankee fans swallow it whole.
Because there is no counterpoint. Where is the counter arguement on television or in the media?
Why do you let the media have such a large effect on your life?
I believe the Yankees cant beat the Redsox. I cant stand this. I can not pretend that it doesn’t bother me. There is just that bully bravado thing the redsox have going against the yanks. 3-11 record speaks for itself and when you throw in the dis-likable personalities of redsox players and fans, it makes it so much more painful. I shouldnt take it so personal but i do.
Just stop it, Greg.
even the old crusty dinosaurs of the Sox get jacked up for these games… Varitek almost had to ride a motorized scooter around the bases but there he is smacking home runs while the Yanks look defeated cause they know they cant win these games unless CC throws 128 pitches.
Exactly. Why play the games? Yankees are a bunch of losers with no fight.
RIGHT???????????????????????
So tomorrow is the Red Sox Championship parade correct? Cause you know Papelbon is gonna river dance all over that mound after tonight is the biggest game evah!!!!!!!!
AJ: “shit I’m gonna get rocked tomorrow”
I bet you he pitches better than CC did. Thats just how AJ rolls.
Again, I will take that. If AJ wants to show us how great his stuff is, I would be thrilled.
Perfect game for AJ. Book it.
I’ll bet money against that. AJ has to go. I have
Big Game Allan James.
Papeldouche sucks so much cock his mouth is permanently in the shape of an “O”.
You people have completely unrealistic expectations of how this team should play against Boston the rest of the season.
When you have two evenly matched teams, it’s very likely that you’re going to lose series when you play in the opposing team’s ballpark. There is no such thing as “evening out” over such a small number of games. You don’t pull off a 8-1 every time that you go 1-8 against a team to reflect the true talent level.
The first 9 games are a sunk cost. These last two series, played in Fenway Park, have been very close, and have shown that the Red Sox hold almost no “edge” over this team. The Yankees have shut them down some nights, and given up big hits others. The Red Sox have seen the Yankees come back on their best starters sometimes too.
Do any of you remember what it was like playing the Red Sox back in 2002-2005 when the teams were equally matched? You felt like every series against the Red Sox in Fenway was a guaranteed 2/3 to Boston, and quite often that happened even with the Yankees winning Game 1.
This is… very rational and well thought out… it’s missing something…
It’s not missing anything. It has the Matt Touch™.
Our only 3 wins have come in Fenway. Explain that.
Okay, I see the trees, but where’s the forest you guys were talking about?
You don’t know how to read, do you?
“The first 9 games are a sunk cost. These last two series, played in Fenway Park, have been very close, and have shown that the Red Sox hold almost no “edge” over this team. The Yankees have shut them down some nights, and given up big hits others. The Red Sox have seen the Yankees come back on their best starters sometimes too.”
Oh, fuck, Matt is talking to Greg. We may have to preemptively shut RAB down, this will end badly.
Why does that have to be explained? The Yankees have played these last 2 series as the two teams were expected to play all season- very evenly.
In May and June, these were two different teams. Every hitter in the Red Sox lineup was on fire, and the Yankees couldn’t buy a base hit with RISP. The bullpen was short due to injury and ineffectiveness, and CC had a few blow ups that don’t normally happen.
If you match up these two teams as they are now, it’s very likely that the Yankees grab a few of those games early, whether with a clutch hit, CC not melting down, the lack of sloppy defense, etc.
Like somebody else said earlier. If they played these two kinds of series in May and June instead of getting swept, nobody would be saying these things now. The Yankees swept Texas at home at the beginning of 2010 when they were a completely different team, and it had no bearing on the rest of the games or the postseason when they were a better team.
3-11 record. You have more excuses than tex pops up. 3-11 and you talk about even steven here. wtf
This is so funny right now…
Again, it’s not very relevant.
Since August 1, that record is 2-3. The more recent games, with the teams getting healthy and starting to produce, are far more indicative of how these teams stack up than games in May and June.
The answer is not that the Red Sox “own” the Yankees, but rather that these teams are pretty even. That the Red Sox lineup is not “unbeatable,” but can be shut down by good pitching (which the Yankees have). That Lester and Beckett are not “the best 1-2 punch in baseball,” but rather prone to meltdown type innings themselves against a good lineup.
Without A-Rod, the Yankees have fought Boston right to the end almost every night in these last few series. That’s more telling. If they were getting beaten 10-2 every night with Beckett twirling 8 or 9 innings, that’d be one thing. But that’s not the case.
It desnt matter. They find a way to win and the Yanks lose. It was a miracle that they stranded so many runners last night. Every team is capable to match up with any team at some point in a season, but you still have to win. You cant say that it only seems like its domination because of the 2 sweeps, its reality. Enough excuses, its pitiful no matter what you say. 3-11 is 3-11 is 3-11 (with AJ going next)
Again, those games don’t matter anymore. Nobody cares about them except you, and the Red Sox fans.
If the playoffs came along, I would feel confident matching this club with A-Rod against them in a postseason series. If the Yankees went out there and beat them in 6 or 7 games, the regular season is irrelevant.
None of the games since June have been played at home. When you play an evenly matched club in their ballpark, it’s not easy to take series from them. In 2009, 7 of the remaining 10 games against Boston were at home. Expecting 8-1 is just asinine.
They are 2-3 against Boston since the beginning of June, with all of the games played on the road. That is fine. If the Red Sox “find a way to win,” then why couldn’t they do it last night, or in the first game of the last series?
Some nights, the Yankees have came back against Lester and Beckett, and some nights, the Red Sox have come back against the Yankees. Some nights, the Yankees have shut them down with runners on base, and other nights, they have given up big hits. They haven’t been playing great ball against them, but it’s definitely not the case that Boston has their number. A healthy A-Rod can also completely change the dynamic of these clubs.
Also, in 2009, was the 4 game August sweep irrelevant because the Yankees were still 4-8 against them?
The Red Sox struggled to beat the Yankees at the end of 2007. The Yankees won 5 of the last 6 against them and almost took back the division. Who won the World Series that year? Was it the Yankees?
Actually, I feel the Yankees have a better team than the Red Sox, if only slightly better. And yeah, the Yankees have battled fiercely in a few of those games. But here’s the deal: losing 10-2 or losing 10-9 is still a loss, and in terms of a team positioning itself for winning the division, the unfortunate truth is, games you almost won don’t advance you towards the ultimate goal. Bottom line: the blowouts, the missed opportunities and the fiercely fought losses all go under the “L” column. Maybe what upsets some folks here is being 3-11 vs the Sox, b/c even if those losses had all been tight, one run ballgames, at the end of the day you’re still 3-11.
Bill O’Reilly?
100% spot on. Two evenly talented teams tend to play close games like these.
Exactly.
Eh.
SO they lose, no biggie cause tomorrow is TEH REZZURECTION!!!!!!!!
Papelbon fist pumped, kill that fucker
OH MY GOD A FISTPUMP FROM THAT LATIN DOUCHEBAG PAPELBON WHAT A BEAN-EATING ASSHOLE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT
/Saltalamacchia’d
What ethnicity is Saltalamacchia, anyway? Not that anyone would want him.
Not Latino.
Sounds like an Eyetye
Q: What ethnicity is Saltalamacchia, anyway?
A: American. Regular, clean, plain, respectful American.
I laughed, and pooped a little too.
I blame Girardi. Just cuz.
How quickly these folks forget that Montero will be up tomorrow and help them all ascend to the heavens.
Game’s over. That sucked. Oh wait, we’re 1.5 games out and god knows how many games up in the Wild Card. Oh wait, we actually haven’t played the Sox in the postseason wince 2004. What time’s the game tomorrow?
I have such a love/hate relationship with Brett Gardner. Love his defense, speed but hate his noodle bat and inability to square up a baseball.
Quite inaccurate. His “noodle bat” has a 106 wRC+ and a 95% contact rate.
You got me! Well done sir. Seriously though I wish that when he made contact it wasn’t a pop up (cough Teixeira) or grounder (cough Posada).
Again, it’s a slump. The last two weeks have been brutal with the pop ups (Oakland), and the bad luck BABIP (lately).
Guy is having a nasty slump, but generally has been very good.
Also, who do you want instead? Carl Crawford for a stupid some of money?
There’s no edit. That should be “sum” not “some.”
DEAR GOD! The Yankees are about to have the Rays on their asses, 7.5 games behind them. They’re a full 1.5 games out of the Red Sox, 1.5 games! Thats almost as far back as the Mets are to the Phillies. This team can’t beat good teams, its obvious, whens the last time they beat a good team like the Red Sox?
At this point i’m starting to advocate we bring up a AAA guys for the rotation rather than go with hughes and AJ…like we did last year with Nova.
Papelbon..classy way to close out the game.
So, predictions on the outcome of Montero’s first AB?
Smash single through the chest of Pedroia. Literally through his chest, like flaming baseball shaped hole and everything.
I would die. I would never watch another game again because anything after that would just be disappointing.
Can you even hit Pedroia in the chest? It’s so small, how do you catch it?
He’d end up severing Pedroia’s arm, and then Pedroia would continue to play one armed. Imagine the grit!
Somehow, he’ll be able to guide the ball just by looking at it.
Unacceptable!
I’m finding the silver lining:
- Gardy had a hit.
- Chavez can hit Beckett.
- Cano can still hit Beckett.
- Phil is still better than AJ.
That’s all I got.
Things to be sad about:
- Jeter’s lame ass bunt in the 1st.
- Tex and Grandy with no power.
- Ayala. Eeesh.
- Boone. Too much to hope that Boone would be good against the Sox in two series in a row?
- BABIP. Where do I make an offering to the BABIP gods so they will stop hating our hitters?
I thought Hughes outdueled Beckett. He ran into bad BABIP, and is still not 100%. If he can find his outpitch in September, he’s gonna starting some playoff games.
I hope so. I want Phil to succeed.
he did not outduel beckett. looking at his Pitch f/x he was leaving his fastball up all game. Beckett got unlucky with BABIP too with the chavez hit, but at the same time he also struck out 8 guys while hughes struck out only 4, couldn’t put batters away, gave up a ton of fly balls and served up a homerun.
Chavez would have gotten 2 rbi’s regardless of the misplay by Reddick, and remember that the scorer ruled it an error anyway. If Varitek’s ball hadn’t been some ridiculous double, it would have been a ground ball, which would have sent Hughes to the 7th inning with the lead.
Even without the varitek hit..i did not think he look good outside the 1st where he was dominant. He gave up a lot of long fly outs for my taste and nibbled a lot when ahead in the count. Hughes has a long ways to go…
I don’t think its a long way to go, the balls he “left over the plate” were cutters that drew lazy fly balls. He’s still in April/May like form, he needs to get his curveball going.
http://www.brooksbaseball.net/....._type=.gif
too close to the middle of the plate IMO. He’s playing with fire. Look at the in play outs. Not many on the edges or close to it.
“leaving his fastball up all game”
that’s pretty much how Hughes gets outs, he’s a flyball pitcher, not a sinkerballer
He just need to refine his secondary stuff so he isn’t totally reliant on the fastball and hitters can’t sit on it
It’s fine if it’s up and out of the zone or close to it. But a lot of his fastballs were belt high. Haren is a comparable flyball pitcher, but his success comes from not leaving the ball in the middle of the zone but near the edge and getting them to hit it weakly. Meanwhile Hughes today was more of the hard hit type.
I bet if we burned Mark Teixeira alive, BAbip would give us our hits back.
For all the thing that sucks about a loss to the Red Sawx, I’m actually quite optimistic. We finally got to Beckett, so that gives the hitters confidence next time we face them, we figured out how to get Adrian Gonzalez out again, and they showed some grit coming back from 4-1 down.
The biggest downside is three-fold; Tex has to get out of that home run or pop up mode (the Red Sox know better than to give him a pitch to hit in his happy zone, he must adjust), Logan has to get the job done and Hughes has to show some moxie, getting out of that bottom half of the inning. I firmly believe we would’ve won that game if he shut them down that bottom half. But whatever, maybe we can hit Lester tomorrow and AJ show some god damn guts instead of being our version of Lackey with his gestures , etc.
After watching all of this season so far, I’ll take my chances with our 14 best position players, 4 best starters, and 7 best relievers against Boston’s 14 best position players, 4 best starters, and 7 best relievers.
Our team is slightly better than their team, regular season head-to-head record notwithstanding.
You cannot prove it. Its just denial. They play games to measure which team is better. After 14 games, when one team wins 11 games and the other one wins 3 games, the person who says the team who won 3 games is better would seem slightly delusional to others.
If the Phillies go 2-7 on a roadrip facing the Rockies, Mets, and Pirates would you say any of those 3 teams are better than the Phillies? No, right? The Yankees are better than the Sox on paper but not playing like it. Which makes it even more frustrating.
So was this performance by Hughes shaky enough that if AJ actually pitches well tomorrow, AJ stays in the rotation?
Are we also forgetting that this is another series against the Red Sox with no A-Rod? That can’t be forgotten.
And the sox didn’t have Youkilis and J D Drew. So no excuses.
4 man rotation, anyone?
A couple of things
1) Jeter’s bunt in the 1st was asinine. I hope Giradi didn’t call it, but he must’ve.
2) Hughes’ stuff was good enough tonight, but his command was terrible.
3) Logan isn’t really to blame for the Ellsbury HR; according to Brooks’ K zone, he fanned Ellsbury on 4 pitches:
http://tinyurl.com/3fc88lg
4) Last hit Hughes gave up to Varitek was sheer luck for Sox. Happens sometimes.
That’s about all I got here.
2) Hughes’ stuff was good enough tonight, but his command was terrible.
He was good the first few innings, but his control started to slip as he got up into the 70s/80s in pitchcount.
He’s probably still just lacking full arm strength. He’s obviously better than he was in April, but he probably needs a full winter off to have any shot of regaining his previous form.
Verducci dead arm is a bitch.
I agree, I think his arm strength will be back after the off season.
Yeah, maybe so.
I’m just guessing here, but maybe he needs a Clemens-to-Schilling verbal kick in the ass about year-round conditioning, preferably without PED.
I know I’m assuming, but his dead-arm was there from the start of spring training, and maybe more year-round conditioning work would help.
I dunno, maybe he is already. Maybe he should do more. Or less. Or something.
5) The walk proceeding the Varitek double on the 3-2 pitch to Reddick, a moth Phlew into Hughes’ eye. That’s why he yanked it.
I had to go to my grandson’s little league game, while his brother stayed here to watch the Yanks. Just now catching up with the posts on the game. I’m afraid I can’t see any silvery linings, based, e.g., on close games or notions of evenly matched teams. The Sox know how to whup the Yankees. Their pitching, with Lester and Beckett especially, is good enough to stop NY regularly now. If they face off in the playoffs, you’d be nuts to bet against Boston. Grandie and Tex: still held under control. Gardner scaring no one, although to be fair it’s not clear that Boston has anything in particular to do with his misery. Without ARod hitting at full tilt, it’s hard to see a Yanks-Sox series going very far. Well, maybe they can straighten themselves out for the series in the Stadium.
My grandson tells me Nomar and Schilling were “announcing.” Is there really no shame at this network?
There were plenty of silver linings in this game. Hughes had pretty good velocity. And the Yankees were able to rally against Beckett after falling behind 4-1. The pitch selection on the 3-2 pitch to Ortiz which he hit it out was questionable, Hughes even said so now looking back. On the 3-2 pitch to Josh Reddick, a moth flew into Hughes’ eye which was ball four, and while Reddick was going on the pitch, Varitek just sticks his bat out and hits a double down the left field line which nearly was a ground rule double then Reddick would have had to stop at third. But oh well, enough of the excuses. Hughes didn’t pitch all that well, the offense wasn’t bad though. In Girardi’s presser he said Hughes threw the ball pretty well, so looks as though he’s defending him for what it’s worth, which isn’t much because he defends A.J Burnett every fifth day.
Unfortunately the media will not see the silver linings and just dump on the Yankees. Strange how the image of the Yankees in the national media has changed since the 1920′s or even the 1950s with the exception of “Damn Yankees”
Greg, stop obsessing with the media. Please.
The problem is I have a degree in broadcasting so I hold the media to a higher standard.
No, that’s not the problem.
This all sounds like a you problem.
Yeah it does. Doesnt make it aby less true.
The media is full of shit. It’s amazing how they’ve overblown this series. Even if the Yankees had swept the series (god forbid) they’d only be one game up on the Sox. Likewise if the Red Sox end up taking two out of three they’ll only be 2.5 games down which is well within striking distance of the division and with a comfortable wild card lead which we all would have been happy with at the beginning of the season. You need to stop putting so much stock into what the media says. They’re just feeding the clueless masses.
Greg needs to stop obsessing with everything. The media, the Red Sox, even the Yankees, possibly baseball altogether.
Seriously, Greg, you’re over-fanning. Fan less. Things will be okay, I promise.
You should never tie your personal confidence level to how a baseball team plays. It’s a baseball team. Playing a game.
I know, its just I discovered that I could use sports to interact socially with other people. It’s how I interact with other people
Interact without taking things so personally, obsessing so much about things, and being fatalistic.
Love the Yankees without getting so pissed about the bad moments and injustices. Use sports to interact with people without getting so despondent and negative about every non-excellent moment.