Game 140: Hometown Hero (UPDATE: 11pm first pitch)
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They love Jesus Montero here in New York, and they also love him back home in Venezuela. The Yankees wunderkind made the front covers of at least three hometown papers (here’s the third) after yesterday’s two-homer effort, so he’s kind of a big deal back home. As for the homerun balls, Montero did get them back and all it cost were three signed balls. The first guy got one signed by Montero and one signed by the entire infield, the second guy just one from Montero. Not a bad deal.
Anyway, it’s pouring in New York and has been all day. It’s supposed to all night as well, but because of the lack of schedule remaining, the Yankees and Orioles are going to wait this sucker out. Joe Girardi said in his pregame press conference that it’s supposed to lighten up at some point, but I’ll believe it when I see it. Good thing they have a bunch of September call-ups lying around to soak up some innings, pun intended. Here’s the lineup, should they actually play…
Brett Gardner, LF
Derek Jeter, SS
Curtis Granderson, CF
Mark Teixeira, 1B
Robinson Cano, 2B
Nick Swisher, RF
Eric Chavez, 3B
Jorge Posada, DH
Frankie Cervelli, C
Phil Hughes, SP
First pitch is scheduled for 7:05pm ET, but that’s not going to happen. If/when the game does begin, you’ll be able to watch on YES. Until then, talk about whatever you want in comments.
Update: First pitch is scheduled for 11pm ET. Oh yeah.
(h/t Gustavo for the links to the Venezuelan papers)
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I hear it’s supposed to rain in Baltimore on Thursday. Let’s hope we can at least get one of these games in. When else could we make them up? After the season is over I guess?
No way they play this game today. Its going to be raining heavily all night. What are they going to start the game at 3:00AM?
No Jesus?
No Jesus-no temper tantrum.
This is why Yankee Stadium needs a roof!
/hopingyoucanpickuponthesarcasm
I picked up the sarcasm, but I think they should have built a retractable roof stadium, especially if you paid a Billy + for it. Jerry Jones built Cowboys Stadium for practically the same cost.
everything in new york is more expensive.
the new Meadowlands stadium cost $1.6 billion without a roof vs. 1.3 for Cowboy stadium with it’s fancy retractable roof and super video screens.
We need to look into the corruption of construction costs and bidding. The workers and materials didn’t cost $300 million dollars more, I tell you that much……
Real estate in the Bronx costs way more than the dumpy ass real estate Cowboys Stadium is built on here in Arlington. I can tell you it is in the crummiest part of town, full of seedy motels and used car dealerships.
Also, realistically, labor is way cheaper in Texas. Everything costs less here.
I fell asleep for awhile. When I woke up I listened to the last 2 half innings and Sterling never gave the score. Fucking A.
Met Life Stadium looks like the box they shipped Cowboys Stadium in.
I refuse to call it that.
Just because.
No Montero in the lineup? Laaaaaaaame. I know Tommy Hunter is a righty, but Jesus hit two oppo bombs off of a pretty decent right handed reliever yesterday in Jim Johnson.
The heavens are crying for Jesus isn’t in the lineup!
It’s the only explanation for all these rainouts. Before it was because Montero wasn’t called up sooner, and now it’s because he isn’t playing everyday.
/addictedtoJesus
I think that’s the only plausible explanation around…..
if jesus was in the lineup, the game would start on time
I smell a meme…
Totally off topic: I’m looking for a new baseball book to read about the history/early days of the game. I’ve already read Bill James’ “Abstract”, and I’ve been told John Thorn is a good place to start. Thoughts/recommendations?
Heroes of Baseball by Robert Lipsyte is a nice, crisp little summary of baseball’s origins to today.
If you are looking for a comprehensive history that is really start to finish (93 is when the book was published I believe) “Lords of the Realm” is the best non-baseball Baseball book I have ever read. Its about the history of the major leagues, Owners, and the players union. Quality Quality read
The Glory of Their Times by Lawrence Ritter is one of the best, a classic. It’s a series of interviews by the author. Some of the bios include greats like Rube Marquard, Sam Crawford, Joe Wood, Goose Goslin and Paul Waner.
Fascinating, fascinating stuff. A book that should be read by anyone interested in baseball history. You won’t be disappointed, trust me.
Absolutely true. A magnificent book.
I just read “As They See It,” which is about umps and umpiring, and there’s a lot about baseball history in there, viewed through the lens of umpires and their relationships with the various organizational entities that have run MLB over the last hundred years. It wasn’t a great read (like, it wasn’t really structured around a narrative to keep you turning pages), but there was a lot of interesting content in there.
Baseball in the Garden of Eden by John Thorn, just published at the start of this baseball season. It’s about the formation and early days of baseball.
Hey, does anyone know how the Yanks are doing in the Dayn Perry “Secret Sauce” meter against the other probable playoff contenders?
Anyone know a good book to follow Moneyball? I’m thinking maybe Tom Tango’s “The Book: Playing The Percentages In Baseball”
That’s a good one if you’re looking to get into game theory. If you’re looking for a general summation of sabermetrics and their development, check out “Baseball Between the Numbers”. That’s what I read right after Moneyball at least.
I’ll second that recommendation. Great read, it goes into basically every key statistics discussion in a very easily readable style.
The Blind Side
ha
Wonder how Jorge feels about the pity start.
I’m sure ok he has his rings to comfort him.
And Laura…. Wowwww
Damn straight!!!!!
http://www.fantasybaseballdugo.....ra-posada/
I have never seen someone wear the Yankees uniform quite like that.
If the Yankees don’t play at least I’ll be able to view Strasburgh’s start tonight.
So if we can’t play tonight there will just be a DH tomorrow? That’s really the only time you can make it up.
Never. Doubleheaders are disrespectful for Mike Flanagan.
The Mike Flanagan – disrespect lines make me laugh to no end.
Mike Flanagan gets no respect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5FHXnArvuY (sfw)
Watching Lestuh against the Jays. Await the report on Beckett
a poster in an earlier thread made an argument that jesus is not eligible for the post-season
true?
He’s eligible because he was in the organization before August 31, and there’s lots of 60 day DL spots that can be replaced, if that makes sense.
Due to the rule with the DL, they’d be able to get him on the postseason roster if they want to even though he wasn’t on the 40-man before September.
He isn’t eligible. But can be made eligible later on.
doubles on a pop up to short stop?
lol
The other day at the pirates/cubs game I saw a guy double on a ground ball to SS. He beat the throw at 1B, and no one had gone to cover the 2B bag, so he just kept going.
Well, so much for the back to back shutouts Phor the Blue Jays…
Those motherPHuckers….
God damnit Blue Jays…
As long as they tee off against Miller and Wakefield the next two days I won’t be too upset. This was Lester day anyways.
The YES booth is trying to make a case for the Rays winning the wildcard. Meanwhile James Shields gives up a monster shot to Ian Kinsler and the Red Sox are leading the Red Sox 3-0……
*Red Spx are leading the Blue Jays
These typos are killing me…
I know how you feel.
And now they’ve crowned the Phillies as champions.
FYI, it’s Niemann not Shields
My bad. Forgetting to proofread is a bitch.
Shields pitched a complete game yesterday. 1 R, 4 H.
Kay’s an idiot. He doesn’t understand basic math. His co-host on his radio show was trying to explain to him that the Sox still play the Os 7 times so they should be able to go at least .500 which means the Rays would have to go 18-3 to tie the Sox for the WC. The Rays play the Sox 7 times, Yanks 7 times, Rangers 3 times. It’s just not gonna happen.
Obviously. I’ve never heard his radio show. But I can’t imagine it’s much better than what we’ve heard from him in the booth.
Worse. He has free rein and he’s tacitly, if not explicitly, encouraged to bluster. After all, controversy generates ratings.
I feel bad for Don La Greca (his co-host), who’s FAR better and actually can carry the show in a pleasant and funny manner, as he does with Greg Buttle when Kay is off.
Listening to Kay during the rain delay, and he is railing against people who say “complete games don’t matter anymore.”
Who the hell has ever said that?
Kay seems like the type of guy that puts random topics into a hat, wakes up in the morning, blindly picks one and says I’m going to bitch about this today.
They’re all wrong. Jesus will be the one to bless the Yankees with their 200th home run.
Holy Strasburg. This kid doesn’t seem to have missed a beat. He’s living at 97, 98.
Strasburg = thrilling Just can’t miss.
The funny thing is, he is at his best, Verlander. People recognize Verlander’s greatness, but he doesn’t seem to get the buzz Strasburg does, even though Strasburg’s best case scenario is essentially Verlander.
I think Strasburg’s best case > Verlander. Verlander has three swing-and-miss pitches, Strasburg has four.
That would be something to see. I hope you are right, because then each of his starts would become an event. Might help to bring baseball back to one of the east coast’s major cities…
So Strasburg, best case is unhittable, sub 2.00 ERA (esp in NL)
Starsburg has a better second pitch than Verlander and his upside is a little bit more than what Verlander is.
Which is scary when you think about it.
Holy fuck Blue Jays getting hammered.
“And on the 6th day, the manager sat Jesus. Then, the flooding rains came to overtake the land.”
Watching Blue Jays/Sox game. Toronto’s pitcher is hopeless. It’s gonna be a slaughter. No hope for a Sox loss tonight, lads and lassies. This rain seems relentless too, so a DH tomorrow seems guaranteed.
Mike Flanagan is rolling in his grave just at the thought.
I wish Sterling would pull a ‘Flanagan’.
that might be a little bit too far
A Strasburg/Montero battery would be very nice.
Yeah. Strasburg shutting down that 8th inning.
/head explodes
DRob in the 9th?
Best 7th inning guy everrrrrrr!!!!
While Jesus sits, the Messiah (Strasburg) makes his return.
If Buccholz is ready to pitch in the playoffs, do you really think they’ll pitch him? I mean, you have no idea how he’ll perform, and the playoffs really aren’t the place to test that…
True, but I’d rather have Buccholz than Wakefield or Lackey starting a game.
Tim Wakefield has 199 career WEENZ. That’s more than Roy Halladay.
Time Wakefield > Roy Halladay
Fact!
That’s more than CC!
Wakefield>CC+Halladay
Grit will overtake rust….
Is he really going to be back for the playoffs?
That’s what NESN says.
That’s not good.
For whom? Us or them?
Everybody. Anything good for Boston is bad for humanity.
He’ll have to pitch in place of Beckett.
*crosses fingers*
Every Dodger is swinging at Strasburg’s first pitch.
Nobody wants to fall behind and they are all sittin’ fastball but still most can’t square it.
damn this Jays pitch is just terrible.
pitcher*
His stuff would play up in the pen, to the 8th!!
Jeez…8-0 sox…
Any chance there is a game tonight?
I doubt it. Its been raining all day.
According to the radar on weather.com, there’s a window at 11:00. Not sure how long the window is though or if it will actually happen.
A signed baseball by Tex, Cano, Jeter, and Arod? Nice. Two sure-fire hall of famers and two others on a HOF level track.
I doubt Tex is HOF.
Really? The other players to go 30/100 8+ times in the last 10 years are Pujols and A-Rod.
If he can stay at this level for 5-6 more years, sounds like a HOF to me.
To have Posada in the lineup over Montero is CRIMINAL.
It looks like the game probably isn’t going to be played anyway so…
how long are they gonna wait until they call this? haven’t seen any updates in the last hour.
And now … A mass exodus of fans from the Nats game now that Strasburgh’s start is over.
Why? His pitch count was 70. He should be able to go another inning.
His limited pitch count was 70, is what I meant.
The Nats announcers said it was 60 and he’s in the mid 50′s.
it’s stopped raining in philly, they’re starting in a few minutes. Maybe this patch will head north?
The Sox will score 20 tonight.
Marco Scutaro 4-4 with 3 doubles. Guess he doesnt only hurt us.
Don Orsillo just called the Brewers the Bruins.
Since it’s an open thread, more or less, let me introduce a suggestion with respect to the post-season. Suppose we made the following changes to the current system:
1. Wild card plays the division champion with the best record, even if that team is in the same division as the WC.
2. Wild card has to win 4 out 5, not 3 out of 5, to advance.
Consider:
1. In cases like AL East, division race becomes brutally important.
2. In many other circumstances the race to have the best W-L in the league becomes very important, even if the division championships and the WC are locked up early.
Is this unfair to the WC? I don’t think so. I’m old enough to remember when the “post-season” was the World Series. Finish one game out of first place and you go home at season’s end. Why is this worse?
Baseball should, IMO, be looking for ways to make the regular season count. Otherwise you have an NBA-like “season” of what are close to being exhibition games. This would help.
Opinions?
Interesting suggestions, but I don’t care for either of them.
1) Intra-division play happens too much as it is (I’d like to see them go back to a balanced schedule). There’s no need to have the first round of the playoffs be another Yankees/Red Sox series (which is what it really boils down to when we’re talking about wild card vs. division winner). For one thing, more likely than not those are going to be the two best teams, and you want to have the LCS be where that series happens. For another, the way the season is set up, you’ve got intra-division games right at the end of the schedule, and it would kind of suck to have (taking this year as an example) a Red Sox series ending on Sunday, and then another Red Sox series (the LDS) starting five days later after a brief visit to Tampa. I remember two years ago when then NFL had a couple of games the last week of the season that were going to be repeated a week later in the playoffs – kind of took away some of the build-up for the playoffs to have just played the same team. I’d hate for the same thing to happen in baseball, and since you want some division games at the end to make things interesting, it’s probably best not to tempt fate.
2) By making the wild card win 4, you’re essentially making the division winner win only 2. It is a significant penalty to the wild card team, which isn’t bad, but if you compare it to the idea of having a second wild card with a one-game play-in, it doesn’t generate as much interest among various fanbases. Basically, it would still just be the Yankees and Red Sox who cared – nobody else would have a shot. But if you had a second Wild Card team, now you’ve got Tampa and Anaheim caring as well. It would give those teams a reason to push down the stretch also, which is good for the game. But it can only happen if the schedules are balanced – you can’t make the Yankees play so many games against the best division in baseball and penalize them for winning 93 games instead of 94 by putting them on even footing with a team like Anaheim who can only manage winning 88 while playing a lot of games against a much weaker division.
I think all this rain is Baltimore’s way of getting back to playing “October Baseball”
For those of you that haven’t seen this, interesting article about the limitations of WAR as a statistic.
http://itsaboutthemoney.net/ar.....e-new-rbi/
That’s a really good article.
+1. I really gotta agree with the writer on this. I’ve always had an issue with these advanced stats becoming the new “bible.” They are certainly helpful in adding to the discussion, but some just don’t make any sense, no matter how you defend it.
A few things, amongst many, jumped out at me…
“Dustin Pedroia has a real shot at his second MVP, despite the fact that his “traditionals” (.309 AVG, 85 R, 18 HR, 74 RBI, 25 SB) are basically the same as Melky Cabrera‘s (.303, 83, 17, 79, 17).”
“The 2010 Giants and their 40.7 FB% led the majors in outfield UZR by a substantial margin (40.7 to 31.6), despite the fact that they gave more than 1100 innings to Pat Burrell and Aubrey Huff, lead-footed former DHs who nonetheless somehow finished with positive UZRs for the season.”
“The 2007 Cubs had an exceptional 44.3 OF UZR in a season where they handed most of the innings to Alfonso Soriano, Jacque Jones, and Cliff Floyd, all of whom substantially outperformed their career numbers with some help from a Chicago staff that sent 40.6% of batted balls in their direction.
On the other side, the ’05 Cardinals, despite featuring some premier outfield talent in Jim Edmonds, Larry Walker, Reggie Sanders, and So Taguchi, finished with a -6.1 OF UZR, thanks to a pitching staff that put only 29.7% of batted balls in the air.”
Stuck at work.
Any updates as to possible start times? LoHud said still in holding pattern.
If they do play tonight, what are the chances Jesus is the DH because it’s past Jorge’s bed time?
what the heck is going on?
At least the Rays lost, now our magic number is down to 13.
On BB2N, Ravech was in the FanCave and said that Showalter just relayed an 11pm start time.
Sounds like fourth-hand information, but it’s an “update” at least.
This rain is disrespectful to Wally’s memory?
/amIShowalteringitright
Midnight start time?
Anyone up for baseball at 3am?
I actually like Midnight Baseball.
At night, instead of watching Letterman or Conan, I chill out watching one of the west coast games on the MLB package.
Eh, it’ll be just like a west coast game. Except for the 1pm start tomorrow. Might as well send the AAA guys home tonight and tell them to get some rest since they’ll be starting tomorrow.
Do you think if I just showed up at the gate they’d let me in for free if I promise to buy hotdogs and beer…err, hot chocolate.
lol I think they’re gonna play…
Day game tomorrow btw
Ha. I think it’s supposed to rain heaver tomorrow too, so the day game will probably be a night game.
Tonight’s game will turn out to be tomorrow’s day game, current course and speed.
11pm first pitch. ugh.
http://twitter.com/#!/JackCurr.....2194656256
Schilling makes me wanna puke
Midnight Baseball.
I sure hope this doesn’t end up like that Nationals game…
Are they serious with an 11 pm first pitch? That’s…interesting. I hope the players took a nap during this rain delay and are now guzzling Red Bull.
They did this in 2007 versus Detroit.
Game started at 11:06 on a Friday night and the game went 11 innings and lasted 4 hours and 24 minutes.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/re.....38;prov=ap
I remember that game.
3 a.m. baseball all day, errrr day.
They will reschedule tomorrow’s game for the evening won’t they?
They have to.
They have to, as in, it’s required, or as in, any sane person would conclude that a game starting the day after an 11 pm start time and ending circa 2 am requires an evening start so everyone can get some sleep?
Nothing is forcing them to. It’s just the sane thing to do.
Agreed. But sanity would also preclude an 11pm first pitch, or would have concluded the O’s should’ve agreed to that DH before Irene…
Sanity is disrespectful to Mike Flanagan.
Obviously.
Does it also disrespect Flanny to play in the middle of the night?
It needs to not rain all the time. That’s what it needs to do.
Since I live in Texas where it’s been 100+ for 3 months, we would like some of NY’s rain. Please send it on down. We need it badly.
Who knew that when Texas missed out on Cliff Lee, they’d miss out on Tropical Storm Lee as well?
In all seriousness, though, I’ve spent a fair amount of time in that part of the country of late, and it was like an oven every single day. It sucks, and I hope you guys can get some relief soon (if only because I’ll be back in a few weeks, and I don’t want to feel 100+ again).
We caught a break this weekend. It finally cooled off below 100, and yesterday I don’t think it made it to 90. Was amazing.
It will undoubtedly heat back up before too long but hopefully the 100 plus weather is in the past.
I was around the Dallas area last month, and it was BRUTALLY hot.
Think the Yanks are trying to stick it to the Orioles for not rescheduling the DH last weekend?
That would be nice, but it’s not the Yankees call this time around, from what I understand.
MLB making this call and based on the packed schedule in September, they’re going to the matt on this one.
Where did you hear this?
Besides – how many other options do they have? At some point some of these games have got to be played.
Damn right they are. And I can’t say that I blame them.
Watching those strasburg highlights…
I have never seen a curveball that sharp in my life. granted I’m only 24.
Watch Koufax’s bender at the 26 second mark
not a fan of the angle, but it looks absurd
The only way I watch the whole thing is if Jesus gets put in.
this is a Marins-esque crowd at the stadium
Marlins*
Not surprising given the circumstances.
any real chance of this game getting played tonight?
Just wondering why people feel Kevin Russo is not a major league player? Through 6 minor league seasons Russo has a .287/.348/.382 and spent 3 of the 6 seasons at AAA. Eduardo Nunez through 6 Minor league seasons has .274/.318/.369. Nunez has commited more errors (by far) Nunez has more HR 30-17. Also Nunez only spent 1 season at AAA. Please tell me. Thanks
Nunez plays SS.
Not to mention that Russo is 27, Nunez 24.
Also wondering why we need both Pena and Nunez? Both pure SS, while Russo is a pure 2B who can spell Cano. Just my thinking. and Know for a fact without looking Russo’s minor league numbers a lot better then Pena
Really pushed the limit on this one. I thought not way they play this game at this point.
How big is the strike zone going to be in this one?
That was a really good anthem.
If Phil is awesome tonight, all future games that Phil starts must occur at 11 pm.
Hope for a blowout so we can see Brackman.
+1
I just hope no one gets hurt tonight. Unless Luke Scott comes back for the game.
Luke Scott might be The World’s Most Detestable Man.
Seriously?
This is beyond stupid. Someone is going to get hurt out there.
I’m worried about Chavy slipping and breaking something.
And its raining out.
haha, it look me three times before I really got that one. I’m a little slow tonight I guess.
The players are seemingly having fun with it though.
Is it raining still? This is ridiculous.
I really really hope they make tomorrow a night game. How do you expect people to be ready to play again at 1 pm, when they probably won’t leave the stadium until 3-3:30?
The problem is that they then have to travel Wednesday night to Baltimore to play an afternoon game Thursday.
Well then make it a 4pm game or something. IMO it’s ridiculous to play 2 games only 9-10 hours apart.
you know what i realized recently? i love cervelli, it was girardi and cash that made me hate him for using him the wrong way. i love having him on the bench, catching a game here or there. weird. in june i hated him with the fiery passion of a thousand suns.
over under 200 people at the stadium right now
There are way over 200 people in staff alone. Probably 3-4 thousand.
there are probably over 200 workers there working way late tonight.
Something tells me there is going to be a lot of strikes and swinging going on in this game.
Hey this game has a minor league baseball game feel to it lol…
Minor League pitcher vs a Minor League team.
Mixed up.
That looked funny
Curve is breaking pretty good this inning
Yea! Hughes needs that to be an outpitch.
Yea, locate the fastball and hit em with the big breaking curve.
Sure fooled that ump.
Yea, just goes to show how much they really do use and rely on the catcher when making calls.
May all other innings be as quick as that one. Except for the one where the Yankees get enough runs to win.
This is ridiculous.
Have you finished the recap yet?
You’re getting bullet points tonight.
LOL
Are you going to stay up to watch the entire game and do the recap or are you saving it for the morning?
Tonight, got places to be in the morning.
lets just get to 5…im sure thats all the umps are thinking right now
So hit 5 innings and call the game?
Joe should pull the starts and put in the AAA guys. Let the starters play tomorrow. This doesn’t seem safe.
starters* too late for this lol
okay, mom
THis game is not gonna finish. Rain is getting worse.
You know, it probably was better to not play Jesus. We wouldn’t want him to get injured on the bases or anything.
Girardi’s a genius!
It was a blessing in disguise.
See that works because it’s a blessing and we’re talking about Jesus.
I would think the whole -being able to walk on water thing would come in handy tonight.
I wonder what the over/under is for the number of innings John and Suzyn last in this one. They’re probably half a sleep by now…Those old Pharts.
I feel as if cameramen are professional creepers in some small way.
We might just see the quickest game of the year (rain delays excluded) Everyone should just swing away and get this over with.
Hope nobody gets injured.
I know this mostly MLB’s doing, but I bet the Yankees refused a doubleheader for tomorrow because of all the bullshit they’ve been put through with the O’s.
Alos because its supposed to keep raining tommorrow
They can’t play a doubleheader because the team is scheduled to travel tomorrow night. Oddly enough to Baltimore.
The O’s are such a petty organization. Buck Showalter in particular.
Yea, Showalter clearly came into the job with a chip on his shoulder about the Yanks. Maybe it was subconscious, or maybe it was a conscious strategy, either way, it is obvious.
He’s a curmudgeon who gets more credit than he deserves, that’s all.
every ball not swung at should be an automatic strike
Here’s a gem from Twitter:
@PeterBotte This is the dumbest weather decision since Clooney, Marky Mark and the crew of the Andrea Gail tried to make it back from the Flemish Cap.
Yes indeed.
classic
Jesus will!
5. Other (Jesus)
Oh shit, they started the game.
Vladimir Guerrero had some good seasons, but his swing is seriously overrated. Even in his best years, he had a 10% BB rate. He has a 2.8% BB rate this year, and its ridiculous to a player can get away with that because they can hit bad pitches.
Yea, but you gotta add points because it is entertaining as hell to watch him hit pitches in the dirt, or at his eyes, for homeruns.
Watching a guy really work the count with a great eye … not as entertaining, ha
.317/.379/.553 for 16 years is overrated?
No.
.278/.308/.396 playing in Camden yards is overrated. Everytime he goes to the plate I hear about how great of a swing he has, but he’s been absolutely terrible. As you can see, in his good years he could take a walk, but this year is a joke. Kay has to stop bringing up how he can hit bad balls, when the guy can’t even slug over .400 as a DH.
I remember one point earlier in the season where his batting average was also his OPB.
It’s hard to hold this season against him now. He’s old and broken down now.
But you see his career splits and production #’s. Add in the defense for 2/3′s of his career and I think he’s a HOF, so long as he retires soon and doesn’t become the compiler/hanger-on I loathe.
Phil Hughes is a beast in torrential rain
I think I could pitch some decent innings under these circumstances.
Alright, Philly!
Hughes is actually hitting spots today. If he keeps hitting spots, he can definitely get by with 92.
92 and rain in peoples eye
Stadium security should let everyone down to the front rows of the Legends seats.
hahaah, yea right. Good luck with that.
hahahahha
they’re only letting people move down into the 100 sections, not legends seats. you shall not pass through the moat.
they deserve it for waiting 4 hours
Legends charges Yankees for food. Not gonna happen.
HUH???? Yankees are not about entitlements. Pay for play, pay to watch.
With all this rain Tex’s popups might come in handy! lol
Our hitters look like they dont care right now.
Girardi should’ve started his bench and call-ups. I’m sure they’d be enthused to get any playing time whatsoever.
“they don’t care”
Those lazy Dominicans.
/Salty’d
I’m going to bed. Yell real loud if something amazing or terrible happens.
This is laughable that there is even a game. Guess Showalter and the Orioles know who they can bend over in the shower… laughing.
Man, they are going all out with these anti-smoking commercials.
this is stupid, sub in all the aaa’ers and let these guys go home so they can play tomorrow. girardi is wasting this lineup
When they replay the game later tonight/tom. morning, are they going to re run that line Kay just used, “this is not a replay, this is live right now.”
That’s exactly what I was thinking. They should, just to momentarily confuse the few people watching the replay.
Yankees need to play only call ups on Thursday – send starters to Anaheim…run up the score tonight and tomorrow and do what they can to embarrass the Orioles..
Why does it seem like Hughes was just out there not even 5 minutes ago? Oh wait, thats because he was! What ever happened to taking pitches and making them work? I get its late, but come on!
they’re trying to get the entire 9 innings in an hour.
Its not that its late, its that the game will probably be called early. Swing the bats and get some runs NOW before its too late.
Good to see Girardi still running out Tex in the 3 or 4 spot against righty starters… that .219avg and .788 OPS is what you are looking for out of your #3 or 4 hitter.
At this point should he try taking some swings right handed against some right starters? (I’m only half joking)
interesting you complain about Tex vs. RHP, but make no mention of the leadoff hitter’s .322 OBP and .659 OPS vs. RHP (not exactly what you typically look for out of your leadoff hitter)
my mistake, Jeter is batting second today, so not leadoff hitter
So because he starts the wrong guy at leadoff, it’s good that Tex is batting 3rd/4th?
Also Gardner vs righties has a .348 OBP with .747 OPS…
I meant Jeter, my bad. My point is, if your just using this years splits to make the lineup, with this lineup, Tex has been the fifth best overall vs. RHP (by wOBA or OPS), so batting 4th isn’t that bad, it’s only one spot off. Jeter, is 9th in this lineup in wOBA and OPS, and he is batting second. If you complain about where someone is hitting just using this year’s splits, Jeter is much more egregious, and Tex is hitting about where he should be.
Is that the right way to pronounce Betances and Banuelos? I always though beh-tahn-sess and ban-well-ose..
watching on game day, velocity seems not great. how does phil look?
he had really good location the first two innings.
i’ll take it
thanks
He short arms the ball, so from what I hear the ball seems to get to batters a little quicker than everyone seems.
Martin would have blocked that….
Flash is pretty freakin feisty and I love it.
Wow, Cervelli is really showing Jesus how to not catch today.
that’s Cervelli.
Cervelli’s probably like “Jesus, if the ball’s in the dirt, get out of the way, those fuckers hurt when they bounce up and hit you. Trust me, I’m a great catcher.”
In the faaaaaace!!!!
Wow. What a recovery by Cano.
I feel like this game’s going to have a lot of material for future blooper reels
4-4′s face-3 put out.
Good recovery by Robbie. But man, its amazing that Hughes has yet to give up a run here. Cano, Chavez and Cervelli really are not playing good defense today what so ever.
You can’t blame them.
You know those Latins…..
/Salty’d
Would not be surprised if Hunter has a no hitter.
Then again..
Girardi’s a genius!
Perfectly timed
And…go.
Nice timing.
Ha. Jorgie says Jesus who.
Hip Hip!
Jorge oh my!
HAHAHAHAHA sorry I said it was a pity start Posada.
Hip Hip!
Jorge doing his best Jesus impression.
Jorge wants to go home.
Jorge says: I wanna play too
game over! yankees win!
HIP HIP :*)
Jorge says….not yet Jesus
Could that be Posada’s last reg season YS HR?
Nope. I’m calling a walk off home run against the Red Sox to clinch the division.
That will come by way of Mo’s 602nd save.
602nd save to clinch division. Walk-off shot by Jorge to clinch ALCS.
I’m saving my money for Opening Day next year. I’m really hoping he can do it then. I was Phucked when Jeter got the calf injury because I was at Wrigley in June on the 17th and 18th (my birthday) and odds are he would have gotten his 3,000th hit in one of those games if he didn’t get injured. I wanna see a major milestone in person dammit!
Okay, now hold them until the bottom of the 5th and let it rain.
i think i just saw him say suck it towards montero as he ran past the dugout
Yeah, yeah, but if he really wanted to make a point he would have hit it to the opposite field!
Cervelli putting on a show tonight.
You kinda get the feeling that Posada was geared up to do that.
He doesn’t want Young Jeezie stealing ABs.
….live with it, Jorge.
I get the feeling its a battle between Nunez, Chavez, and Posada for the final 2 bench spots Cervelli and Jones have their spots locked up.
I doubt Cervelli has his spot locked up.
I can see Posada and Montero making the postseason. Montero would serve as the backup in a game in Martin was injured, and Posada would be around for a real emergency. Cervelli could be the odd man out.
Nunez is a lock, because he can play SS and PR
Jorge says No! (to Montero)
He didn’t take a base hit away. Hardy was right there.
Wow, I cannot believe this game is happening tonight. I was doing a Dexter marathon, went out for a cigarette and turned my car on and heard John Sterlings voice…
Dexter is fantastic.
90 mph blazing heat
My guess:
Posada
A-Rod
Granderson
Swisher
Jeter? (very unsure about it)
What’s the question?
Tex is one of six players (on the Yankees) with 20+HRs against the O’s, who are the others
Gotta be Chavez
Cano crushes the Orioles, so I’m going with him.
I’m also going to add in Eric Chavez, since he was a good HR hitter early on.
Jeter’s punished the Orioles over the years, so I’ll go with him.
A-Rod’s an easy one.
Swisher destroys Baltimore, especially in Baltimore.
Hmmm, one more….
And they just gave the answer. Posada is the other one of the six (Teixiera was part of the question and is the seventh.)
Chavez is a dark horse.
Chavez has exactly 20 against Baltimore.
Was gonna say Chavez over Granderson.
True, I forgot Chavez had alot of productive years for the A’s, So he’s definitely a possibility.
Oh, and Cano.
I think Cano over Granderson.
Robinson Cano? He mashes the Orioles, not sure if he has 20 HRs against them though.
Posada, Arod, Chavez, Swisher, Cano
Plus jeter. There are 6 plus Tex.
A-Rod, Jeter, Cano, Posada and ?
So is stadium security NOT letting people across the moat into the legends?
Common folk, like people who would wait through a 4hr rain delay, wouldn’t be allowed across the moat. Ever.
If I paid $1,200 for those seats, I wouldn’t be happy with people getting to sit there for basically free.
Let them eat cake? I feel like if you show up, they’ll still have to move, and wouldn’t it be in the team’s best interest to fill up these camera shots a little?
Not exactly for free – they did have to wait out a four hour rain delay.
I used to get in for a nickle in an afternoon game and watch the Mick play from the first baseline.
//Francessa’d
Yah KNOW, back in MY DAY, cars were luxuries, Ma never left the kitchen and had lunch ready for me, and I’d walk up hill, both ways mind you, to the Stadium with 85cents in my pocket, buy a ticket, a soda and a hot dog and come home with change. Men where men, and yadayadayada.
fuggedaboudit
wait, people really thought Buck would turn around the O’s in one year?
Hasn’t he done that already?
/clueless O’s fan’d
Phil starting to lose control a little bit.
Nothing is more stupefying than a Mark Reynolds walk.
Why? He’s got a top 20 walk rate.
The most strikeouts in one season and three straight 200k years kinda has me expecting K
those kinds of players always seem to crush the Yankees. does Carlos Pena come to mind?
Plus of the top 35 BB%guys on FanGraphs only Dunn and Reynolds have K rates of 30% or higher
Jorge tells Jesus…not so fast yung’un….and goes deep. Yanks 1-0.
Nice Change.
A Changeup!
Following the game online…. so basically all 4 seam/curveballs with the occasioanl cutter with no command?
Pitch F/x has him maxing out at 92.9mph and averaging just over 91mph…. how is he not getting lit up?
location my friend, location.
Ok. Without anyone looking it up, can someone guess what Hughes’ changeup percentage is this season?
/poorly word’d
Jesus could have done that
that’s Cervelli.
Davis is out, grrrrrr.
3 run hrmr coming
Hit his back foot.
Goddammit Cervelli.
Andino = Bambino
Grandino slam coming up.
he was out
Adios Hughes. You’re going to the pen, bro.
yeah starters usually lose their jobs when pitching shutouts
Lol
Oh, hey, I’m sorry. I must’ve been speaking of his efficiency. But, please, by all means, continue. Don’t sass me.
He was pitching in complete downpour. He’s going to get another start. What makes you think otherwise? He pitched two straight clunkers and he got his chance to start this game.
he’s on pace for 6 innings, how is that not worthy of staying in the rotation?
frankie goes to benchwood
So Cervelli’s at 3rd now?
/Kay is clueless’d
damn that asshole for making Phil throw an extra pitch
To be clear, that last one was not on Cervelli. Eve if he did argue, I dont know if it would be recalled.
Was there a possibility of turning this into a true doubleheader tomorrow and giving up the gate on one of these games?
Nice job by Hughes to get out of that inning.
What are the chances that this game goes the full 9? Not sure what the weather situation is up there now. Midway thru the 4th at 12:15 am. LOL!!!!!
I love it. Showalter has gotta be steaming in the dugout.
Oh forget it, if the Orioles lose, this is the biggest baseball conspiracy since the Black Sox scandal. On top of this, they’re disrespecting Flanny.
So are they going to call the game after 5 innings, or just play through? I’d like to see the end of the game but not if it’s at 2am.
It stopped raining where I live, and I’m less than a mile from the Stadium (straight line distance). I’m guessing they’ll just keep playing.
Even with a day game tomorrow?
They’re not going to be able to play at 1 tomorrow, it’s supposed to rain all day.
Nvm I misheard Kay.
Why are they still running that Jeter Edge ad? It’s from like 2005…he still has a high fade.
I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure they didn’t run it most of last year when he lost his edge, and then they brought it back this year around mid season, when he got it back. Perhaps Jeter’s channeling his younger self from the commercial, so let it play!
What is the assessment of Hughes? Not watching the game, just radio
Doesn’t have an overpowering fastball, obviously, but he’s had his best curveball all year. He’s placing his fastball pretty well, but he’s keeping his cutter in the middle of the zone, which is moving nicely but it would be a lot better if it was hitting corners.
Thank you. Well done.
Granderson has to get that average up
Oh bullshit
Random question: is there anyway I can set it up so when I refresh the page it goes rite to the bottom and not my last post?
Click on the date underneath the username of the comment on the bottom. Then refresh.
thank’s cause if I go off to another site for a bit and don’t comment then I’m stuck in the middle of the page.
Make lots of comments. It usually loads to your last comment. That’s all I got.
Serious scheduling question, why not move tomorrow’s game to a night game? It really makes no sense to have less than a 12hr turn around…at that rate they should’ve just played two tomorrow…
Because the Yankees have to go to Baltimore tommorrow night to play a day game. That day game is because we travel to the west coast.
Because they have a day game in Baltimore the following day. and a game in California the following day (so the day game in Baltimore is necessary)
It doesn’t matter, they’ll end up playing a night game anyway because it’s going to rain all day.
Fail…I was really hoping the rain was over lol.
Man, Hughes has got to work on pitch efficiency otherwise he is going to be nothing more than a #4 5 inning guy.
Scott of Kazmir
Or he has to get stronger so he can throw 150 pitches a start
Cano is gonna win the MVP based on ranking 2nd in the league in RBI’s. Fucking Kay.
Kay needs to settle down with Robbie Cano MVP 2011. Not going to happen. He hasn’t even been the most valuable player on his own team this season.
he’d need a monster final month to make it happen, he’s close enough that he could possibly do it, not likely though
True. And if anybody could do it it’s Robbie. But in all likelihood it’s either going to Grandy, Bautista (should be the clear favorite, but..), one of the Red Sox triumvirate, or maybe Verlander.
cmon rainnnnnnn
Pitch faster Hughes.
*Phaster
Wow. Yankees suck my chode tonight.
hurry up Phil! get this game official.
Wow, the rain returns three short of an official game.
One more half inning….
Did Felix morph into Hughes?
Would prefer the opposite.
Holy shit, it is absolutely pouring out there. Can’t believe the game is still going.
cmon hughes! lets not nibble….3 outs and this game is over
This is one of the most boring and uninterested games in a while…
Don’t know if Showalter has to be included in the decision, but what if he doesn’t agree to call the game early?
Completely the umps discretion once the game starts
Ah, thanks. They should call it after the next out.
though they often do involve the managers in the discussion.
(similar to the game starting… I think technically it is up to the hometeam but generally it is a group (both managers and ump) discussion)
umpires decision only, teams and managers have no say at this point
Wouldnt It Be Great If Phil Got His Second Career Complete Game Shutout Both Of Sgan Shortened Hands
dude, what?
Sorry Both Off Rain Shortened Games
Not to get all Joba’esque, but could this be the final Hughes start?
come on Phil, 2 more outs.
Phil needs to get these next two outs and the umps need to call the game immediately afterwards. It’s legitimately hazardous out there.
Seriously, now that it’s an official game nobody benefits from playing in this. Does a meaningless game in September really outweigh potential injuries for the O’s?
Surprised Jeter and Tex are playing over Penunez and whomever.
This is it… one more out, game over. Yankees winnnnnn!
Yaaaay, Yankees win.
Okay, let’s call it a game.
the Yankees win? call it, jerks.
How can Gd give us some one as annoyingly voiced as Suzyn Waldman, and somebody as pretty as Kim Jones.
Hooray 2nd career CGSO for Hughes.
“and somebody as pretty as Kim Jones”
meh
Ballgame over! Yankees win! THEEEEEE Yankees WIN!!!
Alright, call it. Another CGSO for Hughes
It’d be his second, and they say he should go to the bullpen, ha!
Official game! now call the game.
No tarp? You’re killin’ me, smalls.
How can I have ‘smore if I haven’t had any yet?
Call this shit now.
Call the damn game, fuck it looks awful out there!
that should be it. if they dont call the game…this is effing ridiculous
Ok, call it now and let’s go to bed.
That WB Mason commercial is borderline racist in its portrayal of the black lady.
Just call this shit.
Reply fail. Sorry.
Have you been to Atlanta?
No, but, if I’m correct, it’s the only major American city whose population has a majority of African-American people.
I also heard that that was an interesting wrinkle to the Michael Vick fallout. His importance, popularity, success and, ultimately, failure had a greater intrinsic impact there than it would have had in any other city.
No tarp on the field? that’s major bullshit.
Out of respect for Mike Flanagan, the Orioles should refuse to take the field and forfeit.
Isn’t it an official game when the home team takes the last at bat?
If home team is leading after 4 1/2 innings, game can be called at umpire discretion.
No. Visiting team needs five innings. Home team only four if they’re leading, which is the case here.
Buck convinced the umps they can still comeback.
does Buck’s contract have incentives for the number of wins he gets or something?
Number of times he pisses off or on the Yankees.
It probably has incentives for headaches/inconveniences/nuisances caused for the Yanks. He’s earning that cheddar pretty well, if you ask me.
No, the incentive is how many times he can fuck with the Yankees.
Saul Tigh, manager of the Orioles really isn’t going to let this go is he.
Are they seriously asking Buck what he wants to do?
I think so, and honestly under normal terms I wouldn’t have a problem with it. However after 4hr rain delay, in the pouring rain, just call the shit.
I think the rain is expected to stop soon, so the umpires won’t call the game now. Its either play through it now, or have another delay and start again later.
This is bullshit.
Fuck you Buck. God this guy is such a prick. You guys are in last place, this game doesn’t mean shit for you. You’ve tried to fuck the Yankees over all season long, just give it up.
I almost hope his team gets hurt because he deserves it, but his players don’t.
He deserves to slip and Phall when he makes a pitching change. Phucking prick.
why does douchewalter get a say?
Bucks says Flanny would have wanted them to play all 9.
I don’t understand why Showalter would do this to his pitchers.
He’ll do anything to beat the Yankees. ANYTHING!
I’m really too young to know what Buck was like as a Yankee. Was he this much of an asshole when he was in NY?
why are the umps even talking to the managers other than to inform them of their decision?
Where’s Joe West when you need him?!?
Maybe they figure if they delay a few minutes, the rain will get even worse and everyone can just hop on the Ark to go home.
What a laughable situation. And I’ve had enough of Buck Showalter to last many lifetimes.
this is worse than the 08 world series when they let the game get tied up and then suspended it instead of calling it after 5 innings
This feels really disrespectful to Flanny to me
it’s disrespectful that the yankees couldn’t send the grounds crew over to lay down some drying agent in the graveyard. Flanny is getting all wet.
This is ridiculous.
It would be great if a hurricane-like drenching occured right now while the infield is uncovered.
For real, this is an exercise in futility…just call this shit. There isn’t a point, somebodies going to get hurt, and nobody wants that.
Yep. The grounds crew will be out there after every half inning.
It’s all good till someone pulls a hammy.
What are considered “premium games?” Mets and Red Sox?
Mets, Red Sox, Old Timers’, used to be the Angels too, but I’m not sure about that anymore.
Probably whoever the Yankees end up playing in the playoffs. Except the Twins, for reasons that should be pretty obvious.
Rays as well last season.
Fuck Prickwalter will do whatever it takes to beat the Yankees, even if it means endangering his players. Fucking asshat.
If an O’s player gets hurt, i bet Buck blames it on the Yankee’s grounds crew.
If the Yankee’s ground crew had put the tarp on, that would have been disrespectful to Mike Flanagan’s memory.
Why the hell are they still going?
God damnit just end this shit already. I’m out.
Here’s what we do. We hit one of their players and claim that the ball slipped.
why bother with the act? just put in Brackman, he’ll do it on purpose for real.
I meant do it by accident, lol.
I’d like to see Swisher come up and let his bat fly out of his hands toward the Baltimore dugout after each swing and then stroll over to the on deck circle and pretend to put some more pine tar on between each pitch and just drag things out.
This is Torre screwing with the Yankees from his executive office in California…”No Joe, doesn’t look like it’s raining hard on tv…”
I don’t BELIEVE this. Hit a home run, Swisher!
Score lots of runs this half inning so they call it.
I Think He Wants To See If Jesus Can Really Walk On Water
So they’re not going to call the game? Sounds like it’s pouring and will continue to do so far into the night. Is Buck actually responsible for allowing this BS to persist?
If I’m Girardi I pull all the good players out in the top of the 6th. Screw this game. Get the september callups out there.
Off the end of Swish’s bat. :/
this will go down as the most pointless game ever
Ball totally not travelling tonight.
Micheal Kay, no you are absolutely wrong. The rule that states that a game becomes official after 5 full innings for instances like this(and the sun going down way back in the day)
I’m not sure what Kay comment you’re referencing, but the game is official after 4.5 innings if the Home team is in the lead:
Jorge is not gritty enough for a headfirst slide into first
ESPN agrees.
Yankee secret weapon. Posada normally very slow, unless it rains. He’s a mudder.
I laughed!
His mother was a mudder.
In the back of my mind I was thinking that would solve the Posada roster problem. Hit him harder next time Hunter… JK!
Rofl that just happened
Oriloles
Jorge doing run-scoring.
Take that Buck!
Haha.
I watch just about all my games on GameDay but this one seems unrealistically pathetic. Is this a product of the weather, a lack of energy/enthusiasm, an urgency to get the game over and done with, or something else entirely?
Of course, the second I type that Cervelli (of all people) hits a homerun… Ugh, I hope they call it a game real soon.
RBI Double* – I’m so out of it.
Error. I think I’m seeing things.
Cervelli didn’t hit a home run.
Not a HR
HAHAHAHAHA that’s what happens when you play in this weather!
oh man what a slide by Posada. this game is a shit show
lol
You deserved every second of this Showalter.
Happy now, Buck?
HIP HIP!
ok, this is just ridiculous. They really need to call this game
this is the kind of slop you get MLB for letting this shit continue
The was a little league play there…keep running Jorge! don’t stop!
Hahahahahahaha! Sweet justice.
Haha, that is what these assholes get. I’m sure the players love their stats getting messed up for no reason
Buck is just trolling us at this point.
You know your team sucks if Jorge beats out a grounder and scores from 1st on a routine fly ball.
Karma Gods say “Fuck you Bucky”
“Fuck you Bucky”
Red Sox fans say that too you know.
And either way is a good way for Yankees fans
Phor sure.
I thought that was out.
any other day of the year it is. That ball was pretty well crushed but the wind/rain killed it.
CERVELLI !!!
Running hard, albeit slowly!
Okay, NOW can we call this?
That’ll teach Buck a lesson.
Sadly, no it won’t.
Hilarious way to score another run though. Just hope no one gets hurt in this.
jorge is a one man wrecking crew! fuck buck
Hughes still in after the layoff?
This game is now officially a mess
i actually laughed out loud. there you go, jorge l o l
Hilarious! They really need to call this game though.
lolrioles
lotzo cat litter
Buck is gonna blame the grounds crew for that.
This is just a shitshow. I’m amazed that they’re going to let this game go on, especially after Angle was slipping and sliding out in left.
Calling this game would be disrespectful to Flanny and his family.
What’s concerning is the Yankee fielders can get bitten just as easily as the Oriole fielders in these conditions. Two run game is nothing, especially with infielders and outfielders having problems getting traction.
Apparently Roberts hurt his back- Showalter is a freaking moron. Can’t believe there were some folks who wanted him back.
No way Jeter plays tomorrow?
Sorry I can’t watch right now. SOmeone please describe what happened Posada came from first on an error???
Angle dropped a fly ball (probably lost it in the raindrops) that would have been a home run, but was brought back by the wind.
First he reached on an error because the wet baseball slipped out of Reynold’s glove, then came around when Cervelli hit a shot(homer if not for weather) and the left fielder just has a shit show with it.
this is unreal…
people are gonna watch these highlights and wonder why the left fielder was even out there in those conditions, poring rain, falling all over himself…and the truth will be, his douchebag manager has him out there to prove some stupid point against the Yankees.
True, but can’t the umps overrule that? I mean, grow a set umps. This is a charade.
They’re so overwhelmed by Boston’s grittiness that they feel compelled to give the Yankees every chance to either lose the game or lose a player (or more than one) to injury.
Showalter is keeping this game going to preserve Flanny’s good name. Such a great manager. He’s really turned this Orioles team around.
umm…Kay knows it’s supposed to rain all day tomorrow right?
Yankees outlast Trollwalter and the Lolrioles (proposed recap title)
Anyone over the age of 32 should be pulled from this game
We need to put the least valuable lineup on the field.
What Was The Error?
Andruw Jones was traded to the Orioles?
Kay confusing the shit out of me with the “here’s Andruw Jones” instead of Adam
Why didn’t the Yankees consider 161 games like the Phillies when they got Irene’d?
Blame Buck.
All of our pitchers should use the wind in left to their advantage
Who but Vlad would even swing at that 0-0? And get a hit?
Isn’t it weird that like 2 years ago, Buck was at Old Timers’ Day getting an ovation? Can’t imagine happening any time soon.
that guy in the white poncho behind home with the strike call made me lol
Wut Da Ph*ck is going on here?
Is it disrespectful to the call a game right now?
If Swish had slipped and pulled a hammy right there I was going to drive to the stadium and have a “talk” with Buck.
talk with the umpires. its their decision, not Buck’s
I’m holding my breath on every single flyball.
Michael can’t verbally acknowledge Francessa’s existence,
Hackasaurus Rex has hit a ton of homers against us this year, good to see Phil get him out there.
BUCK CALLED THE COMEBACK!!!
Well crap.
Fuck you Hughes.
fucking kidding me hughes
Oh goddammit. -_-
well that was a very shitty 0-2 pitch
Fuck. this. game.
fucking Phil are you serious right now? fuck.
Ah Phuck. I blame Showalter.
You’ve gotta be kidding me.
way to prove douchewalters point Hughes you fuck
Damn, 6 innings and 2 runs isn’t good enough for you with a guy with diminished velocity is it?
Fuck everybody, especially you Buckbitch.
Oh phuck.
Damn Wieters and your sweeping swing.
Are you fucking serious…now this shit has to go on even further…
Horrible pitch selection by Cervelli. Why not throw to the outside and force him to throw against the wind? Absolutely horrific.
thanks giradri and hughes
Phucken Phil.
Fuck everybody, especially you, Buckbitch.
Sorry about the re-post.
That was a no-doubter……. Middle-up.
Damn it Phil!!!
You fucking idiot Hughes. 0-2 count. Throw something other than a shitty 90 mph fastball.
Okay, guys. Runs. One hit so far.
Buck is kind of the Voldemort of the AL East.
IETC
If they stop it here, does the score revert to the start of the inning?
yeah, but they won’t
Ah, that would be such an incredible slap in Buck’s annoyingly stoic face.
No. The game would be suspended and resumed at a later date at the current point (i.e. bottom of the 6th).
They changed the rules a few years ago in regards to these types of games.
Oh right, the phillies game.
UGH SHOWALTER. If he gives a smug interview I will smack the screen.
This is the only time the west coast is good for sports — I get home at 9:45 and the game’s still in the 6th inning. Of course then the Orioles tie it as soon as I start watching.
Please turn it off and go back to whatever you where doing before.
/superstition
hughes as a starter is a bust
yes, 2 runs in 6 innings is horrible
Not to mention the fact that the two runs were from a home run where he missed his spot in a driving rain storm at 1am in a start delayed 4 hours. Not exactly ideal or typical conditions.
Strasburg throws 99 mph. Even he does’t throw that many 0-2 fastballs.
Trade his ass to the NL West.
Fucking Wieters. Why the fuck would you throw him three straight high fastballs?
crooked number here
Buck Showalter is such a senile, bitter, petty old man. I almost feel bad for him
I feel horrible for the guy. Really the Orioles. It’s not that he has to manage a deplorable team but it’s that he actually had optimism that they could hack it in the AL East for 162 games. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I laughed too soon. Hughes left that belt high tight over the middle.
Jeter should not be in this.
PHIL PHUCKIN HUGHES IS ABSOLUTE GARBAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SIX INNINGS AND TWO RUNS IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!! ESPECIALLY WHEN BOTH RUNS CAME OFF OF A HOMERUN AND HE SAT AROUND FOR 4HRS!!!
/sarcasm.
teix should bunt here
What break, thats a strike-em out throw-em out
thats what you get Showfuckter
Wow RAB posters….haven’t seen so many F bombs in my life.
It’s Karma for the BS run we scored before.
The only BS runs the Yankees score come from home runs.
I hate runs from homeruns!! So un-gritty!! Youk and Dustin would never stoop so low.
BS Meaning Buck Showalter Because That Was On His Ass
We played no role in Angle having a tough time coming up with that ball. As such, there’d be no “karmic retribution” coming our way.
Yeah, I’m being that guy.
Damn. I really though TWO RUNS would enough for Phil Phuckin’ Hughes.
This game has no winners. MLB looks stupid. Showalter is a prick. Concession workers,cameramen,umps,fans,cops,security guards are all tired and wet from being in the rain for 6+ hours.Players risking injury for a meaningless game. Fucking Jack Curry wont be home until 5AM. Suzyn’s birthday is basically in the shitter. Bad times
Well, Phil Hughes might get something out of it.
A win and another start, and “maybe a spot in the 5 man when the rotation gets cut down” like it was supposed to 3 weeks ago now…
Haha it’s Suzyn’s birthday? Is there any better way to celebrate it than this shitfest against the lowly Orioles
time for one of those line drive bullet homers
pretty damn close
about five feet too short.
That was a single?
You want him slipping and getting injured?
No, it was just surprising to see him on 1st.
Nobody get injured here.
Suck it, Buck
That might be a homerun on most nights.
All right, Tex!
haha this doesn’t feel like a baseball game. Did anyone else enjoy Cano’s “throw” to end the inning?
A swim-off single….
+1
ok maybe not
I say it’s time to LOOGY up and start with the matchup pitching changes.
Nice one by Tex stopping at first – no need to push it.
Let the damage continue.
Hmmm that didn’t work out quite as we hoped.
time to call the game now
awful at bat by cano
Please don’t bunt the runner to 2nd Swish.
He did worse.
RobbieFAIL.
SwisherFAIL.
cmon swish
can we please call this game…
If it was a 10-0 game Swish would have hit a home run.
Cano has as much plate disliplimce as Vladdy.
Who would close this game?
A Hector Hoesi sighting, in a close game no less(I was going to say meaningful, but it’s really not so much.)
You play to win the game.
Do you ever play to lose the game?
Every time you bunt in a situation in which it’s not absolutely imperative to score exactly one run.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs1lCSzMnl4
sorry anytime somebody says the phrase “you play to win the game” I think of this commercial.
Except when there are runners on 1st and 2nd, no outs. Then it actually increases the chances of scoring.
It actually increases the chances of scoring one run, while decreasing your chances of scoring more than one run.
So in the long-run it still decreases your chances of scoring.
Did anyone catch Cervelli getting hit there on the backswing? Looked painful.
Sorry didn’t mean to reply here.
The Fallen Phoenix beat me too it. It increases your chances of scoring one run, not multiple runs.
Yeah, what we’re looking for here is that it decreases run expectancy, which is what a team should be avoiding except in very specific close/late situations.
I.e. here http://www.tangotiger.net/RE9902.html
This is from 1999-2002, but you see going from 1st and 2nd no outs to 2nd and 3rd 1 out changes your run expectancy from 1.573 to 1.467
Girardi just called Steve Trachsel on the phone and asked him if there was any way he could get to the stadium, sign a contract, and pitch reeeeealy slowly.
Make Buck suffer for as long as possible?
Is it still pouring at the stadium?
yes
another 0 and 2 cookie, yanks in full choke mode
nice hanging slider
So what Noesi Phor one inning? two?
showalters playing for the tie to keep the game going
slippery ball…almost a broken arm for Cano….cmon….lets be done with this game
Do we see any of the big 3 tonight? Or is it gonna be Noesi, Logan and Wade?
extra innings for Suzyn’s birthday present, followed by a twilight zone appearance of Roger Clemens around 3 am who will announce his return…except he will be lying
I still can’t comprehend how this game wasn’t called after the fifth inning. Buck just loves playing the spoiler doesnt he?
I don’t feel like Buck owes it to anyone to call or concede the game, but I don’t understand the disregard by the umps for the danger this poses to the players sliding around out there.
He owes it to his players’ health.
forgot how much I like Hector
Boonie is gonna blow it
Don’t think I’ve ever seen Yankee Stadium so empty
Boone Logan baby!
fuck
Oh fuck this game.
nice job logan
Boone fail.
lol…the lefty specialist that cant get lefties out
YHGTBSM.
Logan vs. lefties = disaster.
How does Girardi not know that Boone stinks against lefties?
He’s been better of late.
If true, my bad.
fail.
Busting out booneno.jpg for this one
Ugh just no one get hurt PLEASE!
Should have left Noesi in. I mean damn.
cant wait for the Os to get the go ahead run and call the game at the next at bat
before this game started I could have dealt with the Yankees losing…felt it was a pretty good chance Hughes was gonna get tagged…but after this whole deal…with the umps refusing to call the game and the way buck has acted…this is now a must win
As opposed to the games where the players DON’T try to figure out how to win the game.
Where’s SoRoMo? Still not available? We can’t win close games without them.
Not worth risking injury in this mess.
True. Not even an important game. But it still pisses me off.
Buck Foone.
Cory is awesome though
I guess it’s an appropriate night for a guy named Wade.
+1
Where’s Chris Waters when you need him.
http://www.baseball-reference......ch01.shtml
Honestly what else is Girardi supposed to do? Boone Logan is on the team for one reason. And if he cant be trusted, then why dont they cut him?
Pitch him against righties – he does fine then.
shes like, I WILL get my moment…..
omg it sounds so bad
Is she really going to drag this out as long as possible??
Lovin’ the crown.
Anybody here remember a game like this vs. the O’s in like 2001? I believe it was Ripken’s last game in NY and it poured the entire day. I think they called it a tie in the 14th or 15th.
Teix’s face was classic listening to her.
Wonder if Jeter has her number yet.
lol you know that girl though wow how cool is it going to be singing in front of 40k people
yep not so much
40k? Try 40.
I’ve never heard the stadium echo like that with some one singing…damn the place must be empty…
There she is… Miss America…
/bert parks’d
Hunter’s only thrown 81 pitches? He can go ten or eleven innings at this pace.
Is there a way to give Posada every AB in this game?
Damn, NVM.
this game is a fucking joke
only Posada, just amazing.
knew he was going to do that
The fuck?
Doesn’t his turn have to cross the line?
Guess not.
You just have to make an “attempt” to advance, but I think it is still questionable that he did that. Whatever
that is so effing ridiculous
so much fail
Yep. That happened also.
Ok we need to win this game.
chavez so good
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Thats fan interference.
Cervelli with the power
Cervellian! HOME RUN? holy shit!
True Yankee(tm)!
Cervelli chea!!
That’s a good call there, but even if it wasn’t it’s inexcusable for Posada not to get back to the base when he can do so easily, just to be safe.
This game’s got it all!
Awesome.
If that’s fan interference I swear to God…
#LOL
That’s a HR.
Jeffery Maier’d
lol
Of course.
thats totally a homer if the fan didnt get involved
I’m not convinced. I think it might be off the wall. It’s also worth mentioning that if you, as the fan, have reach over the wall to catch the ball…
fucking buck.
low class, loser.
You said it.
Cervelli has been so hot, I blame Cano.
Home fucking Run.
Cervelli’s on a tear!
Technically, to overule the original call it has to be clearly wrong, which it’s not. It should be a HR.
So ow did Hughes look as his numbers looked fairly respectable.
it would have been much better if he could throw faster than 90mph
how about the fact that the fielder was about 4 feet away from even catching that ball
Cervelli lol…
Could have gone either way, but the call on the field being a HR definitely helps the Yankees here.
yeah, replay was inconclusive if it would have gone out or not, so they stick with the original call
They’re going to call it interference.
So glad to be wrong.
can’t wait to see Buck’s reaction when they call it a HR
The way things are going, you have to figure this one is being called back.
Pleasant surprise FTW.
Can Buck please argue and be tossed? That would make my night/early morning.
YESSSSSSS
HAHA someone (Buck?) said “bullshit!”
I heard someone say “bullshit”
I always find it amazing that there aren’t a few cameras specially set up with better angles since replay is now a part of the rules.
Also, I have a feeling one of the managers might get run here.
Who said bullshit? Buck?
I am glad I just woke up to see the game winning HR, this game can’t go much longer can it.
Fuck you Buck, stop, just stop it.
Fuck Buck
Buck Fuck
No indisputable evidence.
Love how no one’s getting censored tonight…that’s the second bout of colorful language.
Anyone catch Swisher’s f-bomb?
yanks should be up 2 runs, idiot posada
Hooray! Screw Buck!!
Yanks Lead 4-3!!
Good call by Umps!!
Buck, Buck, Buck-COCK
damn i was hoping for buck to make a giant stink and the umps call the game
just think Buck, if you had let the game be called after the 5th, you wouldnt have been around to be screwed….lol
Please just call this stupid game already
This game has everything. Now we just need a balk and some ejections.
Throw in a couple of interference and obstruction calls for good measure.
Oh, and Brett Gardner hitting a ball off the foul pole.
add in running out of the base paths too. also reversed on field calls.
Thats 2 hrs for Cervy tonight without the wind.
Nice work by the Yankees fans who stayed at the game!
This game is CRAZY.
Double HAHAHAHAHAHA!
200th bomb chea!
Gardy!!!
Cervelli and Gardner homeruns? Well I’m done.
The grittiness!
So, who had Gardner in the text poll?
GARDY!!!!!!! #200!!!!!!!
Gardner’s had enough of this shit.
lol gardner nice
Gritty Gardner!!!
And #200 to boot!
Yanks 5-3!!
hahahahahahahahahah back to back homeruns from Cervi and Gardner!!! oooooooh sweeeeet justice
Brett fucking Gardner!
what is this madness?
This game has entered Bizarro-world. Next thing you know all the Yankees will have mustaches and Buck will not be a prick.
FUCK YEAH GARDNER. GO FUCK YOURSELF BUCK.
Back to back! Belly to Belly for Cervi and Gardy! Gardner got 200 lol.
wow i thought it was off the pole thats a decent shot
Yankees are still hitting too many home runs.
/ESPN’d
There is no way they can sustain this throughout the season.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…..breath..”….”Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
review that buck! lol
Yep.`
It’s amazing how I should have seen none of this game, now I’m seeing most of it, and it’s been one of the oddest games ever.
I need to be awake in 4 hours, but I can’t pry myself away from this bizarre game…
The results not withstanding, it’s incredibly stupid to give Gardner the green light on a 3-0 pitch.
today is backwards day
Oh, it’s like that “pitch backwards” thing. Here Brett was “hitting backwards” Next we will see Vlad and Cano take their first pitches for the same effect.
You have the lead, it’s a meaningless game, why the hell not?
Hard to argue with you there. Two outs I guess it’s slightly less terrible than with 1 or 2 (but still so)
2 outs, already have the lead, why not??
Respectfully disagree. I trust Gardner’s plate discipline, strikezone judgment, and pitch recognition enough to let him – and not the dugout – decide whether or not he should swing at a 3-0 pitch.
I thought it was a 2-0 pitch.
this is the beat game all year. gardner is not a pussy. he was pissed, look at that face.
That was a bullet too, not one of his lofted homers into the front seats in right.
Cervelli with a HR. Gardner with a HR. Biblical floods.
I’m concerned.
…and I should add, all has happened after Jesus showed up in the Bronx.
Now praying for all my past sins.
The Jesus abides.
FUCK BUCK FUCK BUCK FUCK BUCK FUCK BUCK FUCK BUCK FUCK BUCK FUCK BUCK FUCK BUCK FUCK BUCK!
Keep piling on boys! Add to his humiliation.
Poor buck, he looks like an idiot version of Anderson Cooper running around in the rain
This game has been so bizarre, so surreal. It’s as though they’re playing in the Sandlot and none of this actually counts, as though this game never actually happened… My mind… It’s gone. I’m wasting away.
now Grandy needs to snap this mini slump with an exclamation point
Love how with Gardner’s HR, it didn’t matter if Cervi was on second or in the dugout.
Lets blow this open and bring on Brackman!
Brackman for the Save!!
If grander son hits one out, we might see a flood of replacements
Get. Jeter. Off. The Basepads.
Weirdest Yankee game in a while. As long as we win….
grandy man with the hat trick
Mike, I have very high standards for tonight’s recap. How about “Yankees beat the Lolrioe’s, just for shits and giggles”?
How about “Buckster’s Last Stand” or something about “Nature Being a Mother Bucker”
The Buck Stops Here
Grandy has been slumping for a bit, but i feel like he’s going to have a huge week coming up. Seems to be like that for the season now.
the complete dbagness of Buck has lit a fire under the Yanks…they dont care about the rain, the fact that its 153am…you cant tell they want to win this game
This slump could very well cost Granderson the MVP.
Just sayin’.
Granderson hits homeruns in spurts….he’s about to have 4 in 5 days…
I agree. Also, the K’s are horrendous. I have absolutely NOTHING to base this off, but when was the last time an MVP (candidate) struck out as often as Curtis? It’s be nice to see both Tex and Granderson explode in the playoffs, although I’m almost confident that it will not happen.
Ryan Howard, off the top of my head.
Yeah, but his line read something like .315/.415/.650 that year. Whether he struck out 200 times or not, he had one hell of a year. And he almost had 60 HRs… Curtis can’t touch the season that Howard had back then.
Howard’s OPS+ was in the mid 160s vs. 150 for Curtis, so that favors Howard, but Granderon’s fWAR is 6.7 vs Howard’s 6.2, so yes he can touch his season, and by some measurements Grandy’s season is better.
But if your argument is that there will be a segment of the BBWAA who will hold his BA against him, you are correct. There are sadly a lot of BBWAA members who not that bright and really don’t understand how runs are created, or who actually think hitting a soft fly to center is a “better way” to make an out than a strike out.
No matter. Bautista is the MVP.
Matt Kemp, this year.
Ryan Howard
Per #PeteAbe Pete Abraham
Jose Bautista is 36 of 150 (.240) with 43 strikeouts since the All-Star break. Yikes.
Those who focus on how outs are made, such a strike out vs. a pop up, have little understanding of baseball and hitting.
Bautista’s .260 average last year certainly doomed his MVP campaign, and an average in the .260′s for Curtis would very likely do the same.
If he goes on a tear next week, his numbers will sky rocket quickly and we’ll forget about this slump like with Gardner.
Is Gardner’s slump over? Didn’t he have an Ofer yesterday?
He had a decent toronto series
WWWCGW, lol.
here’s Grandy’s game by game
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/pl.....sMRZGFCLcF
notice the trend in BA.
how I feel about this game: http://i.cdn.turner.com/dr/teg.....shot1a.jpg
Once a game goes past 1 am they should let the ump call his own strike zone without consequence.
Everyone calm down, Vlad swung at the first pitch, we’re back to normal. Phew
Anyone else think they should take out Grandy, and put Golson in left right now?
question is mo still up at this hour?
It’s crazy that this game has accrued this many comments. I think the tally was around 130 when the game started, so there have been 750+ comments for a game that began at 11:00.
Pacific
Would you leave Robertson in for the save?
Robertson restoring order.
The only think I’m wondering here is how Reynolds will k.
The world just exploded.
Love Cano.
Let me guess, Buck is going to ask the game get called in the top of the 9th with 2 outs, right?
that makes absolutely no sense. the orioles would lose
But it would stay in line with Buck’s mantra, which is, “Be as much of a dick to the Yanks as possible.” Everything after the 5th would then officially be an unnecessary nuisance.
Smooth
wieters…big home run swing….slow as fuck running
beautiful play
With that pc, he def goes back out. No?
Garardi: “Fine buck, You want to be a douche? Guys, we’re winning this fucking game. All hands on deck ::Picks up BP phone:: Get the big guns ready.
Can’t wait for the brawl in the ninth.
I usually don’t condone beaning a guy but if we score some runs here and it’s a blow out, get two outs, bring in Brackman or Kontos to drill a guy. Frustration is let out, and one of our kids throws a big league pitch. Two birds, one stone.
I think the only game that I have seen gone later than this one was a game versus Detroit in which Roger Clemens was starting.
/nostalgia’d
I’m almost certain there have been West Coast games later than this
That 12 inning game against the Mariners earlier this year comes to mind.
That Detroit game went to about 3 am EST which is really late for even a west coast game. I am doubting you I have not seen one in the eight years I have watched the Yanks.
Come on blow this open, we don’t wanna use Mo in this shitty weather.
Mo? Mo should be resting.
Well, I guess he hasn’t pitched since Monday and it is now Wednesday.
Let’s not make this interesting tonight, Mo.
So tomorrow’s game is the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees vs The O’s right?
Plus Arod
A-Rod, Martin, Jones, and Montero will play. I can’t imagine Jeter will.
Start manny and we would probably still win
ARod, Jesus, and Martin should all be available
that’s enough to beat the O’s
Dickerson CF
Nunez SS
Montero DH
A-Rod 3B
Jones LF
Martin C
Laird 1B
Pena 2B
Golson RF
Gardner cf
Nunez ss
Montero dh
Arod 3b
Jones lf
Martin c
Posada 1b
Dickerson rf
Pena 2b
Posada won’t play. He’ll be in his wheelchair.
Montero doesn’t bat third.
Put Laird or someone at first, hell why not bring up Jorge Vasquez? (not sure if he’s on the 40 man)
who else is a better option to bat 3rd?
They’d put Jones there first. Batting third and fourth are positions that generally go to the veterans who have produced in the past. Montero for all the hype is still just a rookie in his fourth or fifth game. They’d put Andruw there, especially the way he’s been hitting.
perhaps laird at 1st?
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Off to never-neverland
It’s amazing how much longevity Mo has given that song.
Drunk wet girls.
No additional comment.
This game actually happened….. right?
Ugh, Mo shouldn’t be out there. Hopefully a quick 1-2-3
Where was that?
Oh great here we go
Officially getting ridiculous
eff you cornhold
What Was Texerias Error?
Hard hit groundball took a weird bounce off the first base bag. Shouldn’t have been an error if you ask me.
Ballgame!
HELL YES.
Take that, Buck.
seeing these guys behind the plate reminds me of old yankee stadium when commoners could afford those seats…when it used to be rowdy and exciting
Greatest Game Ever? Greatest Game Ever.
Theeeee Yankees win! TAKE THAT, SHOWALTER.
598 saves. save some for the Red Sox series!
so for the day game, no mo,rob, no jeter?
not the prettyiest win, weird game
Most annoying win of the year, hands down.
Game over. Fuck you Buck!!!
Finally!
So instead of New York New York does the PA come on say “please xit quickly we have a game in a few hours to prepare for”
SWB lineup will pound out 8 runs tomorrow.
All was well.
yay we won. Go fuck yourself buck.
6-0 in September
6-0 in the Jesus Era.
34 games over .500
come on back in 11 hours
Yankees out troll lolrioles, just for shits and giggles.
Dickerson CF
Nunez SS
Montero DH
A-Rod 3B
Jones LF
Martin C
Laird 1B
Pena 2B
Golson RF
tomorrow’s line up.
maybe. that would be fun
If I had to use one word to describe that game, I would use (drumroll) GRITTY
Tonight’s recap:
Waterworld
Phil deserved the win!!! He gutted this one out and kept us in the game on a truly nasty night.
IF it were an AJ start,….(fill in the dots).
Thoughts on Hughes?
All things considered, I think he pitched fairly well…
Not his best stuff overall, but showed heart,
Other than one bad pitching sequence, after several delays, he had to earn the respect of the entire clubhouse. Not often does a game start at 11:00 pm.
6 innings, 2 runs in a torrential downpour, I think the kid did well.
decent stuff but good results espchily considering a four hour delay
major props to the fans who stayed at the game