Sep
03
Game 137: A-Rod’s back, again
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After missing all that time with the knee injury and then all that extra time with the thumb injury, Alex Rodriguez is back in the lineup and playing third base today. Oh, he’s also batting third for the first time since September 4th, 2008. Look who batted cleanup that day. Ay caramba. Here’s the lineup…
Brett Gardner, LF
Curtis Granderson, CF
Alex Rodriguez, 3B
Robinson Cano, 2B
Nick Swisher, 1B
Andruw Jones, RF
Jesus Montero, DH
Eduardo Nunez, SS
Frankie Cervelli, C
Bartolo Colon, SP
The game will start a little after 1pm ET, and you can watch on YES. Enjoy.
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WHEN will Jesus catch?
Are we gunna see Montero behind the plate at all during September or is he strictly a DH for this year ?
Mike ashmore is working the game today and he tweeted that a scout told him that the YES gun is very accurate. Just an FYI.
Based on girardi’s comments, I think montero won’t catch until the yanks have things locked up. And if they’re going all out for the division, he may not catch at all.
I can see him bumping Cerv’ to the pine in a CC start, late inning replacement in a blow-out…or a Nova start against the O’s (or some other loser team).
I think nova is your best bet.
For some reason, the phrase “some other loser team” made me laugh.
In seeing the X-man batting cleaning on that scorecard and Rasner pitching made me realize a few things;
1) That was before Joe was given a binder.
2) That was when Jete got really hot in Sept’08 and got to .300
3) YS2 last year:-(
4) Miserable year…missing playoffs
5) Gardner was a September call up.
My o’my, how things have improoved in three years.
RAB team there has been something that has been bugging me for a while. When you click a link in comments it uses the same tab as this sight. You have to use CTRL + click but when I forget its annoying. Can you just manually change the settings like how the links are designed in the articles?
I’ll look into it, I know it’s annoying which is why all the links in the posts open in a new tab.
Cody Ransom went 3 for 3 that game!!! Should have kept him over A-rod!!!1!!!11!!!
It was the box jumps
I hope the Yankees can start to run away with the division while the Sox free fall, and when Boston visits the stadium Montero can catch.
lol scott kazmir- 6 innings, 1 hit 5 bbs
Sheesh, that text poll isn’t even an opinion question. There’s a right answer, and it’s yes. Pitchers should be considered for MVP because there’s nothing in the voting rules that say they aren’t eligible.
I agree. But I’ll never vote for a pitcher though.
Because you don’t have a vote?
I do have a vote. Do you?
If he gets to 25 with a near 2 ERA, Verlander will be hard to beat out as MVP.
Joey bats, Grandy & Agon all are real close. Joey doesn’t get the press and may not end up leading the majors in dingers (which will take away from his exposure)…Grandy doesn’t have the average that most want and doesn’t get enough credit with the glove and Agon teammates (gnome & Elfberry) will suck some votes away.
Pitchers shouldn’t be considered for mvp because they fail to influence the amount of games as batters do.
/RAB’d
Then give Kimbrel the Cy over Halladay.
Bill Simmons made a case for Verlander over Bautista in an article on his site.
At the same time, the article basically comes down to “most valuable” against “most outstanding.”
Still an interesting read.
glad to see Girardi who said these are like playoff games rolled out his A roster
Well, there is no pleasing you.
Tex is hurt, Martin isn’t gonna catch a day game after a night and Jeter is 3-23 lifetime off Romero. what exactly do you want changed about that line up?
guess its not gonna matter anyway with the way Bartolo pitches in the day and the way he handled that first inning
Great points
It’s not the “A” lineup, but it still has to grade out as a “A-”, doesn’t it?
I just don’t think some fans realize how long the season is and that you can’t play most players every single day, especially older ones like Jeter or catchers like Martin. And why even risk breaking them down a month before the real games start. Any slight injury will be treated with great care because of how big a lead we have.
At this point of the year too. No reason to push Martin, Jeter might be banged up, who knows.
I totally get it…I just like to find things to bitch about
That is ridiculous how Colon has a losing record considering how well he has pitched this year.
Bartolo looks sharp
me gusta.
Bautista has the most homers therefore he is the best player in baseball so at least we go that issue all cleared up.
Dominant.
Jebus Bart.
Colon is blowing shit out of the water!
Wow
wow he just completely blew away Bautista, that was awesome.
Wow Bart looks awesome today
He is only pitching to protect his third spot in the postseason…lazy bum.
Romero is the Bizzaro Burnett in August
Yikes on those two pitches.
Lets do this Grandy.
I will be really impressed when A-Rod has 16 homers and 47 RBIs this month.
By the by, since I didn’t see his name mentioned in the series preview article, is Colby Rasmus hurt?
Signing Brett to an extension after this year would pay huge returns for the Yankees.
Why?
Yankees Junkie = Ruben Amaro Jr. ?
Ouch that hurts. By extension I mean something along the lines as 5 years/25 million which he could easily return the value in one season with surplus coming in the next four seasons. In addition, he has an undervalued skill set so its not like this will be a deal he could necessarily turn down and he is also only signed through his early 30s.
Given that he’s heading to arbitration for the first time next year, you’re risking a big overpay there. A guy with that skillset doesn’t scream “must lock up early”.
Naw, he’s got an undervalued skill set, he’ll remain cheap for a long time
#40 for Brett!
I missed it (stupid MLB.tv not working properly), did he steal #40?
Man, Gardner is such a game changer when he’s right
Fuckin’ A, Robbie.
Sadface.
Ramiro Pena wouldn’t have GIDP there.
Nor would have the Queen of England, whats your point?
Ugh Cano, you look so good and then suddenly look so horrible
God, I can’t stand a player like Adam Lind.
Fucking box of chocolates player.
Too predictable of a pitch…he is cold up-n-in…misses there and comes right back getting the same pitch in the zone.
Hughes and Colon seem to repeat the pitches the miss for the out pitch, wish he would of went slider down-n-away on the 1-2 count.
/Short porch’d
Dumb pitch selection by Cervelli.
Knew that was coming when he set up.
4 seamer away would have been a better choice.
/Matt’d
Nah, Matt would have written a 5 or 6 paragraph essay.
I miss ignoring him.
Well he set up really early. Lind has an open stance and likes the ball down.
It wasn’t good pitch selection 1-2.
well this sucks.
Colon seems to be losing velocity
Well this is a surprise isn’t it? Colon dominates the first inning and is now getting touched up in the second, and he’s already well past his innings mark of the last few years. Sounds like bullpen Bart to me.
Then we have two guys who are not doing well.
Touched up? A home run that barely went out, and two runners barely safe at first. He could be out of the inning scoreless, or 1 run at worst.
Excuses, excuses.
you obviously know what you’re talking about
Don’t make excuses.
Don’t talk about our #3/4 starter like that. We need him come October to start as Phil & AJ are the anti-starters.
He won’t be the 3 or 4 starter come postseason, so I can talk about him like that all I want.
and maybe he’ll throw 5 more effective innings
Jays getting a week’s worth of breaks in this inning.
Outside of the Home run ball, its not like Toronto is hitting stingers all over the place.
Outside of that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
Oh baseball. Your lack of predictability can make me angry sometimes.
Andruw doing his best Derek Jeter impersonation.
Not exactly. You know-if you watch the tape of Jeter’s catch, he actually catches the ball well before he gets near the stands.
You have to be the biggest anti-jeter guy around.
I was thinking of his play in the 2001 ALDS, not the one against the Red Sox.
Yeah but he had no way to pull up before he hit the stands
Exactly.
He was still in fair territory when he caught it, but considering how fast he was running and how far he was running, he only had about 2 strides before the wall.
The catch was pretty good, but I think it’s overrated because of the aftermath. If YS had more foul territory, it would be just another pretty good catch, not one that’s constantly replayed.
True.
Like A-Gon yesterday. Stupid fans man.
Why are fans so stupid?
I find it quite funny that almost every scout thought that Lawrie was going to stick at catcher and of course didnt, but those same scouts gave Montero no chance to stick at all…
That inning kind of pissed me off.
2 runs, no big deal.
Well against Romero its going to be tough.
Melky!
Michael Kay slowly discovering the idea of replacement value, completely misinterpreting it.
Baby steps.
That might have been the most intelligent thing I’ve ever heard out of Kay
Kay making sense?!
I dont know about you guys, but considering the lead the Yankees have in the WC standings, I just want to enjoy watching Montero play point blank. Enjoy the honeymoon.
tie this bitch up, Jesus.
C’mon Hey-Zoos, rapture a Ricky Romero fastball over the short porch.
Montero yet to have a PA with the bases empty.
Love how Jones is working pitchers these days. I guy couldn’t lay off low breaking balls a few years ago, now he does and fights off the junk. Tough choices ahead on who gets PT.
God, he’s so unclutch.
Jesus….that was horrible
To be fair to Jesus, he has faced two of the best lefties in the AL.
good thing he gets Jo-Jo Reyes on Monday.
Montero is usually a slow starter at every level…he will turn it on.
Ugh, not a good at-bat by the savior.
Nunie ftw
Noon-ey!
followed by “fist pumps gazoo”
Cervelli with the POWEEERRRRR!!
Mr. Noodle Bat strikes again.
SEE YA! 2 HOME RUNS IN THE PAST 3 GAMES FOR CERVELLI!!!!!
Who is this man and what has he done is Francisco Cervelli?
WHAT IS GOING ON?
I like it though.
Damn Frankie!
Hey Mike outside of this season, wasnt Montero numbers against lefties compared to righties were kinda of the reverse.
Yep.
Nunie and Cervelli, folks.
Holy Shit, Cervelli!
Cervi!!!!!!
Francisco Cervelli: the next Bautista.
/kidding
Cervelli doin Montero’s job of hitting homeruns!
Cervelli on FIRE
Frankie Goes to Homerwood! Or something.
I always knew Cervelli was the better player than Montero.
He didn’t clap. I am disappoint.
Cervelli and Montero role reversal
stop diving head first
I stopped asking. He’ll have to break some fingers or have his hand stepped on before he stops doing it.
lol, sterling just said “John lackey is full of prunes”
Our bottom of the order does damage also.
Eric Thames left with sideburn issues
Frankie’s first YS homer comes in the same inning Montero strikes out. YCPB.
Gardy is going to get severely injured one of these slides at 1B.
+1 for your name!
Granderslump
Grandy’s got to get that average up to put a lock in this MVP race.
Montero and Grandy strike out. Cerv homers.
Amazing.
O well, Gardner padded his stats a bit at least, small victories
Girardi smart and playing righties vs Romero? (Romero has a reverse platoon splits due to the changeup)
Of course other than possibly playing Chavez (for Nunez or Montero) and Dickerson (for Jones) he’s probably just rolling out the lineup without that much thought?
Rewarding the YS crowd with Montero…plus seeing what he can do. Much rather have Jones than Dickerson as well.
The Yanks have seen Romero enough, and I would assume Girardi knows the splits.
Not to mention Chavez doesn’t play SS… oops (I forgot ARod was back at 3rd)
I wonder if it’s Girardi knowing the splits or Girardi going with the gut.
I think that maybe, just maybe, Girardi isn’t dumb, stupid, or the worst manager in the league.
Shut-down inning time, Bart.
why are we getting BABIP fucked like this today?
Hurry back Tex. Tough play but you would have made it.
Really?
A few inches from Swish’s glove on the backhand=a catch by the taller, MUCH better fielding Tex.
really.
I would ask how you supposedly know that he would have made it but I don’t think it’s worth it
Nobody knows for sure but I would ask who is a far better fielder (Gold Glove), who is taller, who wears the glove on the left hand etc. but it isn’t worth it either.
Seriously? It took an odd bounce off the first base bag that Swisher couldn’t have seen coming. I don’t think even Keith Hernandez would have made that play.
Yay shut down innings.
Gardner not looking perfect in LF! Panic!
The RANGE
John and Suzyn are telling me that the “Baby Bombers” are doing all the hitting today.
Not yet.
Jesus has not awakened yet.
He’s the baby-est bomber of them all. If he awakens today, John and Suzyn are going to be pretty excited about the baby bombers.
So Montero will lead off the 3rd. First time in his career he’ll come up with the bases empty.
Check that 4th.
/Brain fart
ninth inning AB against Boston, 1 out, nobody on
Bart is too old to waste an 0-2 pitch.
Bart still throwing pretty well, but all those pitches in the tough innings are going to mean another shortened outing.
Well, he doesn’t have Gardner’s speed. We know that for sure.
Damn.
Just give him the hit.
Montero IS faster than Jorge!!!!
His speed doesnt seem bad for a catcher(obviously he’s young) but that wasnt bad
Cervelli feels threatened I guess
cerv’d up a single!
frankie’s on fire
So, how many hitless AB’s for Montero to start his career is it gonna take until someone calls him a bust? What’s the over/under for someone to wildly overreact? 15? 16?
You’re giving the masses too much credit.
What? He still doesn’t have a hit? BUST!
“Someone?” No one of any significance will call him a bust if he hits .180 for the entire month of September, but by the definition of “someone,” someone probably already has!
Go find me that someone then wise guy.
My name says it all.
There we go. So, which ab was it? The strikeout against Romero, or the weak grounder that did if for you?
Ummm, that was me.
…but seriously, I don’t expect anyone of note to call him a bust if he starts slowly.
Not uncommon at all for young players to start slowly and to press hard to get that first hit.
I don’t care if it’s anyone of note. I’m just talking about anyone who is living and breathing who has watched this kid. And by anyone I mean ANYONE.
Ha. On that I wouldn’t even attempt to guess, although I do believe that on some blog/board somewhere, someone already has.
Cut Cervelli!
Cerv still a 5 tool player.
/not
He obviously didn’t want to clog the bases in front of Gardner so he is letting Gardner lead off the next inning and get steal #42
The Cervelli giveth, and the Cervelli taketh away.
Alfonso is no Gardy out there in lf.
Watching Montero run now for a few years I am convinced he could use some coaching to be more efficient in his technique. Track coach anyone?
lol
Dwane wise?
Dewayne Wise? really? come on now.
Paul O’Neill just called Dewayne Wise a young player.
I’m guessing thirty-three is a young player when you’re a retired forty-eight-year old.
What seems clear by O’Neill’comment if he has no memory of Wise playing against the Yankees and O’Neill five times in 2000.
lol???
Dewayne Wise hurt the Yankees last year too. I think he got a go ahead hit against Mo.
Ugh. Does it seems like every light hitter in the league hits their first homer of the season at YS3?
Anyone could have hit that hanging slider.
It wasnt really a hanging slider. It was a low slider.
k
And all of a sudden Burnett might actually pitch game two of any series.
?? Garcia and Nova are both way ahead of AJ
Yeah I wish but we’re supposed to smoke the objective pipe…
Which is still telling me that Nova should be it but I think they still high Burnett in a higher regard.
Objective pipe didn’t mean AJ as #2, it meant AJ wasn’t as horrible as people were making him out to be. Even Cash said AJ is not #2.
At this rate, Bartolo might be competing with AJ to see who’s the long man on the ‘pen come playoffs time.
Jesus blows
-Satan (David Ortiz)
I’m angry that you have compared me to that PED user Ortiz. My powers are all natural.
Forgive me my master you know how i like to brag
Gatekeeper to Hell (David Ortiz)
55 percent voted yes? I hate people.
Gardyslump over? I hope so.
+1. I think it is. Of course, now the slump has moved to Grandy and Swish.
I’m going to throw my fucking sat radio through the window if I hear Sterling say “you just cant predit baseball” one more time. Jesus.
You just can’t predict baseball, Suzyn.
Now, c’mon, he was after all being self-ironical today.
Grandy needs a day off.
Yeah, really.
I concur. If Swish were to move back to RF, Jones could go to LF and Gardy could play CF for a day to give Curtis a day off. But I guess with Tex on the bench, and only LHP this weekend, unlikely to happen.
Granderson needs to steal here, he’s falling behind in his pursuit of 30-30.
Serously why didnt gardy steal again
cmonnnnnn!
dreadful AB by Alex..
ARod is just a bit more due for a big contribution than Jesus I would say.
I’m going to call this one early. Jesus gets pie today.
That would be nice. Pie for any Yankee would be nice.
I would have murdered Kay if that was a HR.
Colon’s last inning?
Not a bad outing for the Colonic Stem Cell.
solid job by colon, too bad he gave up that hr to wise
4 runs and 7 hits in 6 innings. That’s not solid.
Yeah it is.
Someone get on so I don’t have to wait like an hour for Jesus to come up.
Maybe Scott Proctor will make an appearance today.
Can Jesus get a hit here please?
Yes, thank you sweet baby Jesus!
I’m a witness!
JESUS!
Jesus!
HEYZEUS!
Congrats Jesus!
Jesus! way to go, hopefully he can relax now that that’s out of the way and start mashing.
Relax? How can one relax when one is bored?
and there’s his first hit!!
Okay, everyone can now relax.
Much better to get a hit on a line drive than that dribbler his last AB.
That’s gotta feel good for Jesus!
jeeeeeeeeeeeesus
Sweet Jesus
Congrats! May there be a lot more of those to come!
alright jesus!
gj jesus not a virgin nemore
Jesus clapped when he got a hit, it must be because he’s latino.
/Salty’d
Salty didn’t take long to adjust to that city and their customs.
Boston racist nooooooooooooo
Lol thanks for the laugh
Nice job Jesus. First of hopefully many, many more.
Could it be the second coming has arrived?
helmet off, he was safe!
Hooray jtesus!
gotta push colon, kinda suprise
bad decision to leave bartolo in there
4 runs in 6 innings is an all star performance per Brian Cashman. Colon still holding steady as our #4 starter for the playoffs.
good job colon.
Good job Bartolo. kind of got f’d by the infield hit, pop up that fell in CF and the triple off the first base bag. Could easily have been 6 1/3 2ER.
Doesn’t matter. He’s not in position to get the win. Bad outing.
/MichaelKay’d
Love how Kay is all about defensive metrics now though. Because those are sooooo accurate.
I love the stopwatch game.
Bartolo is hilarious.
Definitely. I crack up at his dugout antics.
holy shit gif that please.
that old dude is awesome
time for Alex to do something
Romero has been way too comfortable throwing in at Grandy
Cano vs. Janssen 3/7 with a 2B.
Odds that Cano puts the first pitch in play?
Zero.
that was the pitch to hit… 91mph fastball right down the middle
…or the one that he hit for the two-run double.
Cano two run double please.
ok, now ask for a 2 run HR from Swisher
there u go now please wish for a Montero homerun!
Make that a grandslam
Rob Cano.
ROBBIE awwwwww yea.
Called it. Thank you Robbie. Always will be my favorite.
holy shit I love you Robbe
Ribbinson is too good for mere mortals.
hugggggggggggggggggggggge
Robbie has been so clutch this season.
RBIinson Cano!!!!!
gargantuan
USA chant? now that’s funny
love cano, great at bat
Who pitches the 8th? Logan? Wade? Share?
DRob was warming up
Odd, because apparently Mo and Soriano are unavailable so I’d assume Robertson would close.
from what the announcers were saying earlier, it sounded like Soriano may be available, not sure though
Either way…. DROb vs heart of the lineup is better than him pitching the 9th just beacase it’s the 9th.
Even if it’s Wade… putting DRob up against the better part of the lineup is the right move
I agree with that completely, but I haven’t seen Girardi do anything like that before. I’ll give him much credit if that is what he’s doing.
me likey
Insurance!
Swish stat-padding again
me gusta insurance runs
a-rod: frying pan
cano: fire
Way to block that ball at SS.
just misssssed
Dear bullpen,
please make this easy.
great job by swisher, now up by 2 and batista up nice
If Drob is going in the 8th (which he should), does that mean MO is available for the 9th?
Maybe Joe’s doing the smart thing by bringing in his best available reliever to face 3-4-5 and will bring in Wade to close against lesser hitters. One can hope.
Agree with the choice even if So or Mo are unavailable.
They can add to the lead in the 8th and may not need a closer. One would think that So or Mo may be used however…the only bad choice would be Proctor.
Laffey would be worse
D-Rob? I guess that means that Mo/Soriano is available.
Or maybe Girardi is letting Robertson face the 3-4-5 hitters so Cory Wade or whoever gets the bottom of the order.
That makes sense.
makes sense, but Girardi has never managed like that before
Yes he has.
http://www.baseball-reference......7180.shtml
He brought Robertson in to pitch in the 3rd inning with 2 runners on after Pettitte injured his groin. He proceeded to escape the jam, throw another scoreless inning, and Girardi went to Chan Ho Park afterwards.
DRob had a 5.01 ERA after that appearance, not sure that situation qualifies as going with best reliever in biggest spot. I guess it slightly qualifies because he’s better than Park though.
Robertson had allowed 5 ER in 13.1 IP since the beginning of June at that point, with 4 of those 5 ER coming in one blow up game against Toronto, 3 of which were allowed to score by Park.
Robertson at that point in the season was one of their best relievers. His ERA was only so awful because he had a few blow up games early in the season.
yeah, it’s a slightly similar situation, and IIRC they’ve used DRob in other spots like that as well.
It’s not exactly what I was referring to though. I meant in terms of using the absolute best available reliever in the biggest situation, which today meant DRob in the eighth. In that game, it would have meant Mo in the third. I was thinking more along the lines of using Closer to start 7th or 8th because of where the other team was in the lineup. I don’t recall Girardi doing anything like that before, unless maybe it was trying to get the closer to finish the game, as today’s game turned out.
Not necessarily. Robertson is coming in to face 3-4-5 in the order. They could still use Wade to pitch the 9th against the weaker hitters in the bottom half.
who’s closing? can’t imagine Mo is available.
Scott Proctor!
I’m guessing Soriano.
can someone please start telling Bautista whats coming so he can get to 50 homeruns again
Lance Pendleton to close.
Scott Proctor!
Pants Lendleton*
I think he will bring in Wade to close. Robertson is much better suited to face Bautista and Lind.
too bad future closer Hector Noesi isn’t with the team
Think we can get anything for cervelli in the winter?
Plenty of teams would want him.
Since Montero will serve as DH/part-time catcher, they will need a third catcher for those games with Martin’s catching and Montero is DHing. That means there’s a high chance Cervelli will be back.
Arod and jeter and tex will have to dh too. No way three catchers
they could, Montero would just be taking Posada’s DH spot, not a bench spot
They’d still have room for Nunez, Cervelli, Jones, and Chavez (or whoever they sign to replace Jones and/or Chavez) on the bench
That’s right. Montero takes Posada’s spot on the roster and many of the DH ABs. The difference between how Posada and Montero were/will be used is Montero will be encouraged to catch, which makes having a third catcher critical. On the days when Montero DHing and Martin is catching, the Yankees have to have a third catcher on the team in case something happens to Martin; otherwise, they’ll have to move Montero to catcher and then lose the DH spot for that game.
I’m wondering if they’d use Cervelli for that role though. If Montero is the BU catcher, the third catcher likely wouldn’t get much if any playing time. Might be better to use someone like Gus Molina, and either trade Cervelli, or stash him in AAA for depth.
Hard to say. Certainly the Yankees wouldn’t hesitate to trade Cervelli as part of a deal that they believe will bring back a player who can help the team more. What I don’t think they’d do is send him AAA (does he still have options?). He’s served the Yankees well since 2009, so I don’t see them sending him to AAA and rewarding a player like Molina who probably can’t even hit .150 on the MLB level.
Montero will cut into Martin’s PAs, which may not be a bad thing since he could probably use a little more rest during the long season. Montero will also reduce Cervelli’s PAs, but that doesn’t mean they have to send Cervelli to AAA. Fransisco is a back-up catcher and some years that means he’ll get more ABs than others. In 2010 he got way too many and in 2012, if he’s still with the team, he’ll probably have a career low. He shouldn’t be a starting catcher, but he’s one of those guys that’ll still be in the majors ten years from now. Experienced backup catchers have as nearly a long of a shelf life as LOGGYs! He’s cheap and he has skills, so there’s no reason for the Yankees to part ways with him unless they get something back that can help them more.
My point
As I noted below, it’s very workable, and even necessary. Let’s say Montero plays in 140 games in 2012. As part-time catcher he appears in 30-40 games where he gets the opportunity to learn the Yankee pitchers and work with Pena/Girardi on his catching skills.. They can also use him another 10-15 games at first so that the kid gets to play about 50 games in the field. He can then DH another 80-100 games depending on how things shake out. That means the Yankees still have 60-80 games open at DH to slot in games to rotation in A-Rod, Jeter, Tex and others for rest.
Normally a third catcher is not a luxury team’s can afford, that is, of course, unless one of the catchers is also an offensive-minded DH.
Cervelli becomes necessary, and since he knows the team the pitchers and comes cheap, I’d expect him back.
nasty
If Scott Proctor closes I’ll puke.
D Rob = Money
Insurance runs plz.
Damn it.
NO! You can’t pinch hit for Jesus. Damn you Girardi!
ewww go away Jorge. moar montero.
Jesus, Notre Dame can’t catch a break.
Notre Dame WHO??
You’re not TSJC.
Well obviously since I don’t know who/what TSJC is.
Don’t worry about it.
Move along.
Well, now I’m curious to know what TSJC is.
Posada, go sit down
Jesus would have beaten that out, no doubt.
Jesus could have done that.
posada for montero lame
Jesus to jorge litterly Holy Shit
the game is already 6-4, why not let us watch Montero?
I guess they wanted to throw Jorge a bone
Because that would be a fan’s decision, not a MLB manager’s decision. A two-run lead is nothing.
Posada against MLB RHP is hitting .272/.348/.465, .813 OPS. Montero against AAA RHP is hitting .273/.330/.398, .728 OPS.
just odd that they didn’t do it with a 2-run lead against a RH reliever against Boston, but they do here. NBD, but odd.
Part of Girardi’s job over the next month is to keep his players fresh, which in some cases means rest, in others it means looking for opportunties to get ABs. He also needs to figure out who is going to make the postseason roster.
We’ve already read that the Yankees are thinking about Montero as a postseason option. Some may think that means Posada won’t make the postseason. What I haven’t read yet is that both may make the postseason roster. A strong lefty/righty platoon is a good thing, especially if the Yankees make it to the World Series and need options to pinch hit for the pitchers.
Anyway, we’re going to see this more as September rolls along as Girardi has to see which player can do what, and the only way to do that is to find playing/hitting opportunities.
yeah, I don’t have a problem with it. I realize Posada is better vs. RHP this year than Montero has been. I was more suprised that Montero was left in against Boston, than being PH for here. Really no big deal either way.
montero could done that
Steal Nunie
When you look at Posada’s stats leading off an inning (and/or with noone on) vs hitting with men on base… that was the solid move.
/small sample sized
Nice double play…sorry to say!
god damn babip.
That’s some game for Frankie, he’s hitting everything hard
I said damn
super models! whatta model, gloves? classic
Cervelli – 4 AB’s
# of pitches…. 4
Of course since he was hitting them hard and not popping up you can’t fault him too much for it.
not ideal, but it certainly worked for him today
I have a feeling that Girardi was waiting to see how many pitches Robertson threw before he decided whether to have him pitch 2 innings or just 1. If he threw 20-25 pitches, I bet you he gets Wade up for the 9th instead.
Good call on the Drob in the 9th as he had only thrown 12 pitches.
Lawrie is a menace.
We’re going to have to get used to it. He looks like he’s going to be a menace for the next decade-plus.
The same way Montero will be a menace to Toronto for the next 15 years…
time to break off the nasty curve
they wouldn’t actually bring in Laffey, would they?
They don’t make it easy.
Just throw the curve.
Lawrie for Marcum seems like a good deal for both clubs, though the fact that Casey McRegression fell off a cliff makes it less so for Milwaukee.
fuck YES
And Cervelli with the Latino fistpump
DRob! great job getting the save
Goose Gossage approves of David Robertsons save.
Jesus = son of Mo
DRob = heir to Mo
Game ova
Robertson>Bard
/Captain Obvious’d
What is it about David Robertson that makes him so much damn fun to watch?
The socks?
K’s and fist pumps.
He’s 5’10″ and makes 6’4″ 230 lb. MLB hitters look foolish?
We can sweep with CC tomorrow.
great job drob
No Go Rangers!
/Jumping on Rangers bandwagon until after Sunday’s game’d
*Now
Don’t forget to use your claw and antlers!
Wonder if Montero has ever been pinch hit for in the minors?
Fucking Texas.
Without Cliff Lee they won’t make it out of the ALDS. Nice bullpen, eh?
Forget the cleanup hitter. How about the first baseman going 3-3?