Sep
16
Game 149: Home Stretch
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No Ricky Romero this weekend, thankfully. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Here we are, the home stretch. There’s only 14 games and 13 days left in the season, and exactly two weeks from today, CC Sabathia will be doing exactly what he’ll be doing tonight: starting for the Yankees. The stakes will be much higher in two weeks though, that will be Game One of the ALDS. Here’s the starting nine…
Derek Jeter, SS
Curtis Granderson, CF
Mark Teixeira, 1B
Robinson Cano, 2B
Nick Swisher, RF
Eric Chavez, 3B
Jorge Posada, DH
Russell Martin, C
Brett Gardner, LF
CC Sabathia, SP
Hooray for a 7pm ET start! The game will be on My9 locally and MLB Network nationally. Enjoy. Oh, and go Rays.
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No Jesus? booooooooooooo…
Blame Cecil
Feel the heat! The Rays!
Can’t stand my9 games
Me neither. They’re so cheap they have the same scoreboard as yes but covered everything up with my9
And to make matters worse Flash is doing the game
When is this stupid contract up? The Yankees should pull their games from my9 until they get HD.
Don’t know when it’s up but I’m sure someone on here does. The sooner it ends the better.
My9 doesn’t have HD? I live by Albany and I live these games because I get My4 (Albany station) in HD, but nit YES in HD.
I get My9 in HD. Time Warner in NYC.
I have Martin and Montero as my catchers in my fantasy league.
I prefer when Montero plays.
I understand Yankee and Red Sox fans rooting against each other, but doesn’t it seem kind of wrong right now for Yankee fans to be rooting for the Rays? Aren’t they asking for potential trouble?
In order for the Yankees to make the postseason they at least need to secure the Wild Card. Their competition right now for that are the Rays. A Yankee win and a Rays loss brings the Yankees closer. A Yankee loss and a Rays win brings the Rays closer to the Yankees, and the Yankees have seven games remaining against the Rays, including the last series of the year. Meanwhile, the Red Sox have seven games remaining against the Orioles.
Be careful what you wish for Yankee fans. If things break the wrong way, the Yankees might be feeling the extreme pressure the Red Sox are right now.
Agreed, Urban. But why not hope that the Rays win, but it’s close enough that it keeps the Red Sox from allowing their players/pitchers to rest and heal as they’d like or maybe even line their pitchers up the way they want?
I’m not disagreeing. As a Yankee fan, I’m enjoying this mini-collapse by the Sox. I’m just wondering when it starts to become counter productive on the Yankees side.
The best scenario is the Yankees sweep in Toronto, and the Rays sweep the Sox, and then the Yankees sweep the Sox in the head-to-head competition, while the Yankees do mediocre enough to allow the Sox to fall into third, but the Yankees never lose first. The other scenario is a full-blown collapse by the Sox, including losing four or five games to the Orioles. Not sure I can see all this happening.
…mediocre enough against the Rays.
The chances of the Yankees not making the playoffs at this point is insignificant. For the Yankees to not make the playoffs, they’d have to have what is probably the worst collapse in history at this point in the season (the Mets were 6.5 games up with 17 games to play in their 2007 collapse) *and* the Red Sox would have to also beat them out. Given that the Rays and Sox play each other, those chances are outrageously slim. Coolstandings’ 99.7% estimate for the Yanks, which doesn’t even account for the fact that the Sox are a debilitated team now compared to the rest of the season, is probably about right.
And even if you don’t think the Yanks should prefer one team over another in the playoffs, making the Sox play more meaningful and stressful games down to the wire is a tangible benefit because they won’t necessarily be well-rested and lined up for the playoffs. The best case is a 1-game playoff, which would be beneficial for the Yankees even if they don’t play the winner immediately.
I know the odds.
I also know there’s a lot of head-to-head matches.
I fully expect the Yankees in the postseason. I’m just doing a gut check on Yankee fans. How uncomortable are you willing to be for the sake of the potential of the Red Sox collapsing all the way out.
The extra stress on the Sox team is nice. This is a question about stress on Yankee fans.
The odds include head-to-head matchups, which make it easier to make up ground. It’s not just that it’s a near certainty that the Yankees will make the playoffs, it’s that the uncomfortable scenario you describe is also extremely unlikely. It would take a collapse similar to what the Red Sox just did (which was outrageously unlikely, plus the Yankees don’t have the same fundamental problems the Sox do), except with fewer games to do it in, and that’s just for them to get uncomfortable.
Basically, I’d say that given a Rays sweep, the chances of the Yankees even being uncomfortable about making the playoffs is around 5%. I’d easily trade a 5% chance of being uncomfortable for a high likelihood of the Wild Card team needing to play stressful games down the stretch, and possibly needing a 1-game playoff.
You realize the Yankees have 14 games left and as long as they play .500 ball over that time, it doesn’t matter what Tampa does?
Even if the Yankees go 4-10 in those 14 games, Tampa would have to go 11-2 to pass them. I’m not worried. Go Rays.
Oh, and this doesn’t even factor in the Red Sox. Even if the Yankees were to go 4-10 and Tampa were to go 11-2, the Red Sox would have to go 8-5 (not entirely unlikely, but still) to tie the wildcard and 9-4 to win it.
It’s pretty much next to impossible for the Yankees to not make the playoffs at this point.
and StanfordBen basically said what I said before I said it.
Late to this. I think both you and StanfordBen missed what’s being said.
He seems to believe that the chances of the Yankees missing the postseason are quite small, yet one of the likely ways for the Rays to pass by the Red Sox would be for the Yankees to play like crap. If the Yankees play well, Tampa is dead.
In other words, it’s pointless to be rooting for the Rays, because it’s almost rooting for a Yankees collapse.
That’s my take.
Winning 2 of 3 in Toronto will be good. It’s 2 more games toward the magic number and more if the Rays do damage in Boston.
Agreed. I don’t expect the Yankees not to make the postseason, but when I look at the schedule, it’s going to be tough for the Rays to pass the Red Sox, unless the Yankees doing poorly against the Rays. Yet that’s a horrible scenario as the Red Sox are playing the Orioles.
If the Yankees were to have a bad series in Toronto this weekend, and the Rays were to have a good series against the Sox, I’m not so sure Yankee fans are going to be comfortable realizing they have to play the Red Sox and the Rays heading into the final games of the season, while the Sox have seven against the Orioles.
In order for the Rays to knock the Red Sox out of competition, Yankee fans are going to have to live with a lot of discomfort about the fate of their own team, at least potentially.
I think you’re overestimating how likely a collapse is by a lot. Realize that it would probably be the most unlikely collapse at this time of year in the history of baseball. They’d have to be caught by BOTH the Sox and Rays, and the closest they will be by the end of the weekend is 4.5 games with 13 left to play, which is still a comfortable lead when you need to be passed by both teams.
I’m actually going to watch the TB/BOS game more than the Yanks game tonight. I’ll check in on the Yanks but this potential Boston collapse is a must watch.
Keep us apprised on the action. I may do so flipping myself.
Will do.
Here’s a bold prediction I say either Brackman or Betances makes their MLB debut tonight.
Why is posada starting and not jesus?
gotta get Po Po some ABs
The Sabbath starts at sunset
Right Handed pitcher. Gotta use the old guy once in a while.
My9 might suck, but for the thousands of people who don’t get YES it is a godsend. Yanks would anger a lot of people if they pulled them off the air completely.
Beckett putting on a LOL fest right out of the gate
Lol Beckett, bunt double.
Is this gonna be one of THOSE games? Fuck, I hope not.
Rays gotta score just one and Shields will pitch a CGSO.
/wishfulthinking’d
just getting a hit is great for them.
Beckett 2 starts 17IP 2H 0ER against them this year.
Well they just got 2 runs on 1 swing. Gotta love baseball.
LONGO! 2 run BOMB off the monstah!
over not off
2-0 Rays.
Two run home run by Longo.
LONGORIA! 2-0 Rays, suck it Beckett.
Oh and this ump crew in the Yankees game is terrible.
Longoria bomb 2-0 Rays
Wow Joe Mauer has pneumonia now? Seriously not his year.
Haha, home run off Beckett. This is so fun to watch.
Fuck you Francona, even Orsillo and Remy think it’s a homer.
Longoria’s home run was not well struck, just a high fly ball. Beckett is still unhittable.
ESPN’d
laughing
He shouldn’t have hit a homer, that’s selfish of him. Only singles should count.
/ESPN’d
what the fuck Robbie?
What the hell was that, Robbie? He always flips that over to first.
I think Chavez should have gone home. He would have been out
Instead of the inning ending double play that gets turned 99% of the time?
That’s true but McCoy was dead to rights at home.
And if he gets McCoy at home, there’s runners on 1st & 2nd w/ 2 outs and Lawrie coming up.
If he delivers a hit that scores a run, you (and everybody else) would be bitching and moaning that he didn’t turn two.
Chavez made the correct decision, it just didn’t work out that time. It happens.
Don’t see Cano do that very often.
Cano is dealing with 3 different thirdbasemen, all with distinctly different ways of throwing the baseball, especially on double plays. Chavez tends to sling the ball almost sidearm, and his throws move significantly from left to right. Timing is also a factor, as well as the difference in speeds for the three guys.
Could someone please describe that play?
the run scoring play? Chavez fields, throws to Robbie, Robbie throws it wide to the RF side, looked like he might have rushed after trouble with the transfer and just yanked it.
thanks.
Grounder to third, Chavez to Cano but Cano’s throw sails to the left of Tex.
Think ima make this a Sons of Samhorn night.
GL CC!!!!
Jennings bunted Beckett threw it away are you watching Mr. Torre are you watching?????
Please don’t bring up Game 6 of the 2004 ALCS.
/stillpissedoffaboutthatstupidseries’d
It sucks that any-time there is a bunt against a hobbled pitcher, that’s the first thought that comes to mind.
Probably true for the majority of us.
Hard to forget the epic stupidity of that night.
Hahaha Casey Kotchman with a stolen base.
Jorge Posada could steal a base off Varitek.
But he’s teh captain!1!!111!111!!
You gotta be fucking kidding me with that call.
Eh, I guess it was the right one. I begrudgingly tip my cap, Mr. Umpire.
Robbie you’re killing me tonight.
Bad break for Cano.
It looked like he slowed down a couple steps before 2nd.
bang bang play
Robbie slowed down around first and that cost him.
Damn good tag…
all i know is they better start pounding this guy the 2nd time through…
Offense has been struggling since last week. They better wake up
Shields with a 2-0 lead before taking the mound, am I the only one who smells a CGSO??
leadoff double. ewww.
Then an RBI single down the line by Pedroia.
You jinxed it.
2-1 Rays now. ugh come on James.
Ah fuck, so much for that shutout.
Then an RBI single by Ortiz 2-2
2-2 off a Papi double. wow. come on Shields.
make that a single. forgot how insanely slow/lazy Papi is
James Shields not on top of his game thus far.
To say the least.
Gardy gone wild
All fuckin day Brett. THANKS!
Gotta admit, I’m really impressed with McGowan’s movement and velocity so far, we’ll see how he does going deeper into the game and on his 2nd and 3rd time through the lineup, but he looks pretty sharp
who would people rather see make the playoffs right now, rays or sox?
I’d pick rays, just because that offense seems to be overachieving big time right now and no one is that line up scares me. Yea the starting pitching is better, but I’d take my chances against shields price and hellboy (or niemann).
If Beckett is healthy I’d rather see the Rays as the Sox are better. If Beckett is not healthy then I’d rather see the Sox because they’d have to field a rotation of Lester, Bedard, Lackey, Wakefield and might not even make it out of round 1.
3-2 curveball nasty.
Where for art thou offense?
Sucks that the offense is still cold.
Just makes you wonder why Girardi continues to bunt Gardner over to 2nd when he can just steal 2nd and 3rd. Hopefully Joe isn’t that dumb in the playoffs.
I wonder if it has to do with the fact that Gardner doesnt steal immediately.
Yankees have mentally checked out
Yankees are playing stupid right now.
Smart throw by Grandy. GIDP is still in order.
Shields looks so bad right now…ugh.
And CC doesn’t look that stellar thus far either.
yea, CC looks like ass too, not encouraging.
Man, it feels like nice and smooth CC games have been kinda rare in the second half.
In this stretch of games, CC’s location has been all over the place. He’s not being efficient with his pitches.
6 day rotation maybe?
CC has been going every 5th day
WELL THEN I GUESS HE JUST FUCKING SUCKS!!!!!1!!!!!
this is also a common theory.
That’s the common theory.
nice GIDP
Tex is bitching that Encarnacion was running inside the line.
I wouldn’t call it bitching, Mike. It’s a legitimate complaint.
Oh I know, I didn’t mean it to sound like he was wrong.
No worries, Mike. Tex is a right-handed fielding first baseman. It’s tougher for him to give Martin an angle when the runner is inside the baseline.
Why isn’t Big Game James pitching like it’s a Big Game?
Red Sox are a very good team.
LOL Sox just bunted into a double play.
That was not a gritty bunt.
that was the dumbest bunt ever. Girardi-esque. Shields looked like shit and they give him 2 free outs and then they get no runs. lol.
He also had just walked the 1st 2 guys of that inning… while 1st/2nd no out is one of the times where a bunt is good, you have to consider the situation and the possibility of a big inning.
How? MLB.tv not working for me. 1-5-3 or something?
5-4-3
er 5-6-3, my bad. bunted way too hard right to Longo.
Impressive. Twitter tells me Aviles didn’t run hard out of the box either.
Bunted in the air and Longoria got it on the short hop, threw it to 2b, then got the out at first on a bang bang play.
I thought it was just me that was having trouble, its working for me now, but its been laggy and takes a few minutes to load. Very disappointed.
I’m watching it on MLB.tv (Rays broadcast, I don’t know if that matter) took like 5 minutes to load but it’s been fine since it finally did.
I still can’t get it. The loading wheel just keeps spinning. Can’t get any game.
tried a different browser? I’ve been having that happen in chrome lately, working fine in firefox though.
Last time that happened I fixed it by lowering the video quality. Worth a try if you haven’t already.
THey are stealing signs again flucking cheats
As Granderson stands at first base watching.
PEDroia had a chance to make a gritty play and failed? madness.
Why no montero tonight?
could someone tell me why they keep hacking at the first pitch? His control has be shaky at best when they don’t swing.
Flaherty, don’t let Kay walk all over you, put him in his place.
Swisherian!
Yay swishies.
Swihy nice
Well done Swisher.
No pressure!
all of a sudden these Yanks look like a well rested team
Steal the signs swish
Lulz Varitek is so terrible.
lol Varitek airmailed one trying to get Jennings, he goes to third.
ZOMBIE!
I APPRECIATE YOU ERIC CHAVEZ!
Zombie.
Chavez revine
CHAVEZ!
WOO CHAVEZ!!!
CHAVEZ!
Holy fuck Chavez!
the Yankees heads are really in this game
Zombie.
The Zombie hits one out to dead center. Perfect.
ICWYDT…nice
Love when you turn on the game and good things happen right away
And the Rays take the lead!!
Steal signals die by it
America Runs
On Varitek.
3-2 Rays on a Longo single
Late to the game today why no montero
Where was Cano going on that single by Lind?
Mauer reminds me of when giambi broke down after the roids
That’s a hell of an implication.
CC needs normal rest.
I just dont understand how one extra day of rest can affect a pitcher’s location so much.
lol what the hell was AGon doing?
WHEWWWWW Thanks Gardy!
Gritty catch
wow what a play, Gardy!
UZR goodness.
Gardy wearing his PF Fylers.
Who said White Men can’t jump!
What baby!
That might have hit the wall before going in the glove.
I thought so, too, but I rewound it on DVR. Definitely hit the glove first.
BTW, who do you think will pitch the split DH on Wednesday? I have tickets for the nightcap.
The blue backsplash behind the wall made me think it was gone.
nice jump by Brett, Dave Winfield would have caught that at his shoelaces (kidding)
Hank Arencibia
It looked like Pedrioa was out for anybody watching the Sox game…
Yep. And Jerry Remy is completely oblivious to that.
To say something nice about Micheal Kay: If the umpire makes a bad call that goes either way, he calls the ump out on it.
and he does a true home run call when the opposition hits one…Hawk just goes silent
UZR’d
and Shields gives it right back 3-3.
Jamie Shields defiantly not on tonight…
He sure is showing them!
Does anybody else hear that god damn noise in the background of the broadcast?
Btw, Papi go yard or something?
doubled in Pedroia
ahhh…gotta give credit where it’s due…they have a really good line-up.
To me, WWOR’s mics sound worse than YES’. Also, the roof being closed may have something to do with the reverb that you are hearing.
It’s not a re-verb I’m hearing…it almost sounds like somebody playing with a synth machine at a really low volume.
I don’t hear it, but I probably got some hearing loss from the Big 4 concert!
Michael Kay once again not knowing what the hell he’s talking about.
Aceves hasn’t saved shit. They’re 3-11 this month.
In terms of eating innings, Kay is absolutely right.
mike mccoy (.204 hitter) and kelly johnson (.214 hitter) are 4-4 off sabathia tonight combined.
Batting average climbs 100 pts when you know what is coming.
Did Beckett get plumper all of a sudden? He seems rounder…
He’s been fat for awhile.
2010:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eXQh.....eckett.jpg
I know he has always been, but he seems swollen tonight… like a bloated corpse.
That was gross. Put him away 0-2.
CC looks so bad.
CC struggling now. No control
He’s starting to lsoe it again.
“Victor Martinez might be the best off-season pick up”
-Buck Martinez
Adrian Gonzalez says hello
Cliff Lee wasn’t so bad either.
CC burnett
CC sucks
Cant blame the offense tonight.
No one has blamed the offense.
Preepmtive strike
Cheating bastards
CC just isn’t very sharp. Get the big man back on regular rest. Oh wait, they can’t with how they’ve screwed this up.
Frankly if one day of extra rest bothers you that much, you dont deserve to be an ace.
Frankly, if you don’t understand pitching, you shouldn’t criticize. You don’t just magically have your command any time that you want to throw the ball. It’s maintained by repetition and routine.
I guess we should expect CC to be lights out in his first spring training start as well? After all, if he can’t deal with extended rest, then he’s not deserving of the ace label?
All I know is that I have heard of pitchers going on 2 or 3 days rest and being fine.
And if one wants to blame the extra days, blame Phil Hughes for not pitching AJ Burnett out of the rotation.
That’s ridiculous. It’s up to the manager to set the rotation, and to keep his pitchers on their normal rest. Who cares if your #5 pitches on turn if it throws off your number #1?
Also, just because some pitchers have happened to pitch well once in a while on extended rest, it doesn’t magically extend it to all pitchers in baseball. The majority of pitchers don’t like throwing on extra rest, unless they are abnormally fatigued or coming off a high pitch count outing.
Certain kinds of pitchers are also better on short rest than normal rest. For instance, sinker ballers struggle when they are too strong because their ball ends up too high in the zone. Throwing them on short rest is like having them pitch with 15 or 20 pitches already on the arm, and most sinker ballers struggle early in games.
Shirley, you can’t be serious.
He’s been struggling, hope the innings aren’t starting to catch up….
Cc is just not the same since that mariners game. He has been good since then, but he was just absolutely dominant before that
Shields sucks too, HR to Aviles.
The same guy they had bunting when Shields was struggling early on.
Speaking of fat where did CC weight loss from spring go?
Ha ha, reminds me of a joke my dad would say when my sister would say “I lost 10 lbs” – He’d reply…”turn around, you’ll find it.”
If cc does this in the playoffs we are folked
Ugh enough
and so here on September 16th, let’s assume the absolute worst possible scenario for the yankees, and start panicking now.
No the worst is the Angels getting the WC WEAVER and HAREN is deadly to us in a 5 game series
100 pitches in 5 ininngs WTF
He was almost out of it in the Bautista AB with 82 pitches.
And that should be it for CC. Shut him down and bring in Wade.
CC pitches to a 2.56 era on normal rest.
Unacceptable from CC. In a period where we are struggling to score runs you need the ace to pitch like an ace and dominate.
And if he’s bothered by one extra day of rest, then I dont know
I hope this is a joke.
Sadly, he is serious.
No I’m not joking. This is what George would have said. I want to win, that’s it.
LOL at this.
You know its probably true.
That doesnt mean it’s not really stupid.
look…George was an idiot – did he make the best investment of the 21st century? Yes!! But, he got very lucky.
Exactly, you don’t know.
It’s a pretty big difference throwing on extended rest when you are used to pitching on less. You are used to pitching with a certain level of fatigue, and if you are too strong, then you tend to overthrow and miss location up in the zone.
Which is happening tonight? Good velocity and overthrowing, or diminished velocity and a lot of balls in the dirt?
Then waste that excess energy doing something on the side.
What do you expect him to do? Throw a bullpen the day before his start?
You just don’t get it.
MAybe an arm exercise or something.
I just have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that extra rest can hurt pitchers.
Go to your local baseball field and throw a baseball when you haven’t in a few weeks. You’re likely going to be rusty with your mechanics, and feel so strong that you are throwing it farther than expected (and over your friend’s head).
Now apply that to a pitcher, who needs to have pinpoint location and very consistent mechanics to execute his pitches.
Now go out there a few days later and do the same thing. You’re going to probably feel fatigued, but you’ll be getting your throws down a bit more, instead of airmailing it over your friend’s head. You may not reach at longer distances as well, but you are allowing him to knock it down still.
Matt, he is not going to understand it. Save your energy and use it somewhere else.
Very good explanation. Probably wasted, but spot on.
Also, look at Matsuzaka. He was used to pitching on an extra day of rest in Japan, but still tried to maintain his throwing regiment inbetween starts. He ended up with arm trouble because he couldn’t make the adjustment.
Look at CC’s season line before running your mouth.
He pitched so well on short rest for Milwaukee in 2008. Maybe the Yanks should go with a 4 man rotation. J/K
It’s surprising that CC’s mechanics have been so out of whack lately. Is it because of the extra days rest that is a result of a 6-man rotation?
To me, Teixeira has been the most frustrating Yankee to watch this year.
tex’s pop up swing is one of the ugliest swings on the team… I think its time for him to work on his mechanics too
Wow. Sabathia has been trash lately.
Bronson Arroyo has allowed 44 homers this year. How does that happen?
How does his contract happen? Remember the trade rumors to the Yankees in mid ’09, that was terrifying.
That was Mike Francesa screaming that garbage.
Really bad pitcher + Great American Ballpark = lots of homers
Being shitty?
at least he’ll have a great post-baseball career throwing batting practice for some team.
He’s also walked 44 this season. Very odd.
The sad part of the 6 man rotation is, they are basically doing it to accommodate AJ and Hughes over big CC, the franchise pitcher.
Freddy hasn’t looked as good either.
isn’t the extra day off because of the travel day? I thought they were keeping CC on his normal schedule
Yes. But it was actually his turn to pitch tomorrow.
Now Bartolo is on 6 days I think instead of CC.
The whole situation is dumb.
well I’m not sure giving bartolo & freddy some extra rest is a bad thing, fortunately this little cushion should give us some flexibility. it will be interesting how the stretch plays out… I think whoever has the hot hand will determine who #2 and 3 are for the playoffs
So he’s on normal rest now?
no
Clutch Swish.
Refuse to lose baby
so unclutch Swish
god damn that unclutch Swish.
Damn,no pressure again!
I kid because I love, Cuso.
Swisher getting out the forklift
Swish!!!
hell yea Swisher!
CC back out there. 99 pitches
Joe really makes me scratch my head sometimes. I like him as a manager overall but this makes no sense at all…
He’s trying to get CC his 20th win. I know, I know…
Meh, he’s trying to save the bullpen an inning.
Kay reading the theads
CC and extra rest
Jeter! with the D!
Every time I get mad at Tex for popping up, he goes and makes a monster scoop at first like that.
Which is why I can’t stay mad at him for more than two or three minutes after a bad at bat.
A guy named Kelly has four hits…
/joking
*three
Johnson now 3-3 every time he swung right
Just tuned in. I see that Teixera’s still sucking ass and Granderson’s MVP hopes continue to slide. Also, what’s up with CC? His pitch efficiency has disappeared of late.
So in other words you haven’t missed much.
So has Girardi said what they are doing with CC between now and the playoffs?
They should look for a Sunday start with Game 1 on Friday, no?
Does that mean a short start during next week? (which is also complicated by having a DH on Wed)
It’s obvious they don’t know what the hell they’re doing. CC should not have started this inning. Might cost us the ballgame.
I would let him face Thames and thats it.
Let Mike McCoy beat you again, CC. Get that pen up, Joe.
Its the Fugitive!
CC is done, just take him out.
Go get him joe
come on CC, no more runs plz
I didn’t even want CC to start this inning.
I figured once they went up 3 – 1 CC would take it home, not so much
He hasn’t been sharp the whole game. Don’t know why you thought that.
The Rays opened the sixth with a lead off single, down by one run, and they didn’t sacrifice…I really hope they score this run. Zobrist totally didn’t go around btw.
that call on Zobrist was BS
They should be straling off Varitek with guys like Damon, no excuse not to…
3 SBs so far.
I agree, but Zobrist was behind in the count almost from the get go, so I kind of understand him not going in that situation.
Damon just stole, should have done it with Zobrist AB.
Finally changed the signals
CC is really staying away from the fastball.
Damon steals 2nd again, gotta get him in here.
Also, this is probably Beckett’s last inning, hopefully they can work over the pen again.
I really don’t understand wasting your 100th pitch of the night on an 0-2 count with a runner in scoring postition like beckett just did. It makes no sense…
why is cc acting scared of a guy he has OWNED until tonight
maybe CC misses cervelli back there with the fist pumps
Look how the guy on second goes back to second on fastballs
Protecting your ace by allowing him to throw 120 pitches.
Tell that to the Brewers.
Get in there Ayala and give up 3 runs without raising your ERA. That’s why he’s on the ballclub.
Ayala’s gonna give up a bases clearing double, and his ERA will remain the same.
Please score Tampa.
They can now score and tie it w/o a hit..
Not when Joyce pops it up. God he’s been terrible for the last three months it seems.
kinda bummed it’s not Boone Logan.
A page from the Joe Torre book on managing pitching changes. Wait until bases are loaded and bring in a guy who doesn’t have excellent control. And I’m sure letting CC remain in the game to throw 120 pitches is really productive.
And now Damon steals 3rd. I just don’t get why every single runner that gets on just doesn’t take off on Varitek.
Biggest reason Crawford’s stolen base totals have gone down, well outside of actually getting on base, is that he no longer gets to face Super Catcher.
He has 3 steals in this game, didn’t he have only 8 steals his final year with the Yankees?
Nope, he had 12.
I’m not complain about Damon, they had plenty of chances to do it early, with Longoria and I think Zobrist and didn’t do it. just don’t get that…
They pretty much have been… they have 6 steals (Kotchman has a steal) and they’d have 8 or 9 steals had batters not fouled off pitches with runners moving.
Ayala has given up runs before in this role . Pray for a pop up
Raise your hand if you thought Ayala would be with the team all year. And be pretty useful at that.
Ok. put em down liars.
i’m not going to tell you where my hands were, but they weren’t raised.
Laffey really JOEY!
oooooofff
BABiP WIN!!!!!!!
Ayala farts in your general direction
/Holy Grail’d
Bautista, your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries.
Anybody know why there are CDs stuck to the dugout walls in Toronto?
I’m triple platinum, bitch!
What is this batter’s eye seats thing? Is this for real?
Strike 3 to Jaso was outside: http://www.brooksbaseball.net/.....type=3.gif
I think that’s what Maddon is saying to Wendelstat.
I didn’t see that, I flipped back to the Yankee game once Jaso went down by way of the K
/Orsillo’d
Wow “by way of the K” I’ve never heard that before, thats worse than “put it on the left side”
He says it all the time, it’s pretty stupid.
I found this awhile back: http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2.....-game.html
It’s pretty hilarious that it was posted 4 years ago since he still says the majority of those phrases. Here at RAB we should create a list like that for Michael Kay, haha.
“Put it on the left side”
“DRILLED to right field…and caught”
“Player X’s struggles continue”
“”Not in love with that call”
We’d die. No like seriously, people would get alcohol poisoning and die if they were to play a drinking game using any ONE of those phrases, let alone THREE.
Haha I know, but it’s funny to imagine since there’s a number of phrases he says ALL THE TIME.
“He gets into and out of trouble”
“He ties a record held by many”
And also something to do with him overvaluing wins for individual pitchers.
Also, “Do the Yankees have a rally in their bones?”
“DRob for MVP!!!”
It would be awesome for a manager to get a printout from brooksbaseball and show it to the ump. Someone is going to do that someday, and earn my respect for life.
The bench coach or whoever should have a laptop in their hands the entire game with Wifi and check Brooksbaseball after every close strike/ball call.
Sad thing is, these horrible umps won’t face any repercussions at all. They’ll just continue to do their jobs the shitty way.
And not as bad as the punch out of Upton earlier in the game:
http://www.brooksbaseball.net/.....type=3.gif
There’s no way Pedroia or Gonzalez get punched out on those pitches (heck Pedroia walked on a 3-2 pitch yesterday that was even close to a ball)
Since Aug. 1, Sabathia had gone on extra rest in 7 of 9 starts entering tonight. He was 4-3 with a 4.04 ERA in those 9 starts.
–Mark Feinsand via Twitter
Not terrible, but not very Sabathian.
They’ve essentially turned an ace into a mid-rotation innings eater. Good job!
Yeah, and it’s only to give guys like AJ Burnett extra looks. Go figure.
He’s given up more than 3ER just twice over those 9 starts…. the #’s are a bit impacted by 2 bad starts (12ER allowed)
this team have any lefty relievers? jonesin for Jesus.
Josh Beckett is getting every call.
Such a joke.
This homeplate ump hasn’t given Shields a single call and Beckett has gotten a huge strikezone.
http://www.brooksbaseball.net/.....8;s_type=3
woah what did Maddon get tossed for? arguing balls and strikes?
Those last few comments just answered my question
http://www.brooksbaseball.net/.....8;s_type=3
All night long, Beckett gets the close calls outside the zone and Shields gets balls when he hits corners.
It’s the Fenway strike zone. Umps are scared of calling strikes against Sox pitchers because the fans are right on top of them.
/conspiracy theory’d
Must be because Beckett’s had a huge zone all night and he was arguing about something
How many fucking times has he done that this year? That’s at least the third.
This is why I have no sympathy for him and don’t subscribe to this stupid fucking thought that some of you have developed that he “deserves” to catch Mo’s 602nd save.
Girardi wanted to see what this kid Posada could offer the team in the post-season. Not much apparently.
So when’s the blessed event for the Litsch family. Looks like Jesse’s around the 7 month mark.
I would think they, yes they (definitely twins), are coming late November.
You would think the black top would be slimming
Joe G didn’t use Brackman or Betances with a 9-1 lead.
So we have one player who only hits pop ups and one player who only hits grounders to the left side of the infield.
5 hits to 10… Where’s this monster offense I’ve been reading about all year? No more blacks holes. No more Jorge and Martin. I want Jesus and Austin! Also, my prayers go out to Mo that ARod comes back and lights the world on fire, and by “world” I mean Beckett. I hate that guy.
*Black holes* . . .
Captain Varitek has been pinch hit for
Don’t they know how awesome he is behind the plate?! Tito must not know about the 4 no-no’s he’s caught…only a great Captain and Field General, and not somebody extremely lucky, could ever hope to accomplish something like that…
Great to see the Umpires continue their love affair with Beckett, the gave him two punchouts on strikes no where near the zone
Hughes should hang out with Shields this off season. He’s allowed four runs over 5 2/3 innings and has thrown 89(!!!) pitches against the redsox.
Hughes could learn how to throw 3-1 changeups from Shields.
Who does Boston go to if Beckett doesn’t go 8?
Ace
As Kay said, the savior of that bullpen.
Still wish Cashman kept him.
hand the ball to Bard and cross their fingers. Or hand the ball to Aceves, cause he’s saved their season
/Micheal Kay’d
Aceves for like the 8,000th time.
I swear, it seems like he at least warms up just about every game.
He’s getting Proctor’d
It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if he starts next year like Phil Hughes started this year.
Me neither. They have Beckett, Lester, and Buchholz, and they’ll probably stick with Lackey. But they should just lose Wakefield, or at least put him in the bullpen. The Red Sox should realize Aceves>>>>>>>>Wakefield.
8,000 appearances this year? Cash will sign him for 2012.
Meals is so short you’d think he’d give you the low strike.
Gas.
Ace in
He must have gotten into big pappys protiein shakes
Don’t call him Ace. He’s not on the Yankees anymore.
Moron
He throws mid 90 s now never had that when he was here.
He has added some velo this year: http://www.fangraphs.com/pitch.....position=P
Lets bottle that for the playoffs.
strikes out the side
side K’d by Soriano?! That’s kind of what I expected this past offseason.
struck out the side
BJ Upton has one of the most flawed swings I’ve ever seen…It’s no surprise to me he’s hitting in the .220s
The timing tick with his front foot is definitely … unique … but when he’s on, there’s no righty that looks prettier.
It looks like he’s almost constantly late on the ball because of it. Idk if you saw this at bat just now, he got a hanging slider at 81 on the inner half of the plate and was wayyy late on it.
I saw it. I think he just decided to swing after he’d already decided not to and it looked odd.
Yanks can’t go extra innings. They can’t win in extra’s this year.
Jeets swings at a ball on the 2-0 count. Mr. Hit streak!
and how is the MVP making out with his “hit streak?”
dude, your reply to Mike ealier in the thread had me believing you passed through puberty in 7 days, guess regression was inevitable.
and Dude your reply each and every time you do reply causes me to believe that at midnight tonight you’ll be out there with lipstick on, heels, and a nice blonde wig.
Go take a bath with a toaster.
and thanks to you for proving my point…
what point? That you’re an idiot asshole who decided tonight to come after me without any justification?
LOL
Really???
nah, i’m 6’4″ so I wear flats
2 on 2 out for Kotchman, please do something here.
damn you Tex
Dammit we’ve been struggling this month. We need a win.
Blue Jay crew attibuting all of the success against CC to the Jays Vs. CC being off tonight … nice narative.
Need a montero bomb to win this game
If this game goes to extras we’re losing.
Why is Tex still 3rd in the order against right starters?
/thatsthewayitsalwaysbeen’d
Twitterverse is blowing up against the six-man rotation thing. Harming CC? I’d say a definite maybe.
My God, this strike zone is terrible in Boston. Even Orsillo thought it was a ball.
+1
Kotchman got royally fucked up that AB.
come on D Rob
Is it just me, or have our pitchers given up a lot of leadoff hits the last week or two?
yanks against the 9 players on the field and the dbag in the stands tipin pitches
Come on DRob, dont turn into Bard.
Ugh. Take a free out.
nice way to take away the bunt
walk him
Drob way off
Are you fucking kidding me? Whats worse: walking the guy who is trying to bunt or bunting when a guy is trying his best to walk you?
Robertson is such a choker. Demote him to the 7th!!!
fuck you rookie
It’s been a long road trip and guys are tired so Girardi decides to rest Montero.
D Rob owned him
This Proctor stuff is getting really stupid.
Bunting fail.
how do you walk a guy trying to bunt then go back and strike a dude out trying to bunt
Procter and laffey up as girardi ready to raise the white flag
I can’t wait until September is over so I never have to see Proctor and Laffey up in the bullpen at the same time again.
horrible throws all night long! damn it
The dangerous McCoy finally retired. Wipes brow.
Sloppy game tonight.
play good defense you stupid idiots.
It ain’t called a Glove Arm, boys.
Gold, not Glove. Whatever.
nice job jeter
Come on jetes wtf
Just walk Jose, go after Encarnacion.
Walk Bautista
Yea one of the few times I agree with an IBB.
Yeah … definitely not liking this walk.
Do you ever like IBBs?
Generally not. Now a walk or HBP forces in a run.
dude is not superman anymore hes only batting .240 something since the ASB
man in stands to Bautista…..”4 wide”
Right call.
That was some swing by Encarnacion.
notice how these guys are swinging hard…like they know whats coming….
Been stealing signs all night bro
Girardi can’t figure it out.
HOLY LONGORIA! wow. just a spectacular play.
I missed it…what was it?
line drive that he snagged on a dive and then tagged 3rd base to get Aviles taking his secondary lead.
Yeah I just flipped to NESN and saw the replay. that was amazing.
I completely understand walking Bautista but as to Kay’s comment “you’d walk him if it was 2nd and 3rd, why not 1st and 3rd?” I’d say it’s because you don’t want to put that second runner in scoring position.
Knew it and was still late on strike 1. Not late on strike 2.
Houdini does it again
D Rob….un b fucking lievable
and he does it again!
Is there any way to explain the enigma that is David Robertson?
he’s a riddle, wrapped in a mystery inside an inigma
enigma? that was 6th grade, Einstein
hahhah, you do remember.
News just came in, D-Rob is actually Houdini’s great grandson.
Great decision to walk Bautista. Now let’s cash in and bring in Mo for #601.
Bard time!
So, Mr. D., where in Del.are you from? I grew up there, in the 50s.
Girardi needs to give DRob some time off after this… 4th appearance in 6 days. (7th appearance in 11 days)
I know they are resting guys, but I cant watch another walk off win
Please pinch hit for posada with jesus
+ A billion.
So once again the Yankees fail to do a fucking thing against another lackluster bullpen… This is pathetic. Knock the starter out early and they proceed to do nothing? This team needs a kick in the ass if they hope to stay afloat in the playoffs. Fact.
Actaully the Blue Jays bullpen is not that bad
but..but..but…the Yankees have to hit 1.000 against every bullpen with nothing but homers or they’re terrible!
Do your research, twat. No need to insert your useless, asinine comments into statements that do not require them. You’ve created your own narrative and implied I was saying something else entirely. You can do better. Just being honest
Ehh, Jays bullpen not as good as Orioles’ bullpen. Now those guys are killers.
Wow, how many blow jobs do these umps get up in Boston?
Probably many from Heidi Watney.
/Joking
No longer mad, just jealous.
Don’t blame you one bit.
Bob Davidson sucks so hard.
The Red Sox couldn’t get anymore calls tonight. FFS with these umps.
Rays have been getting calls against them all night from behind the plate and on check swings.
fucking bullshit
Any news on who is starting Sunday for the Jays?
This is just stupid. At this point I can’t believe they didn’t rule Longoria isn’t allowed to leave his feet to make a catch.
oh my god, another awful call against the Rays on that 3-1 pitch.
at least he got the walk any way.
Will gladly eat my words but I’m predicting a walk-off loss here. They haven’t been themselves since that 6-7 game win streak ended.
Looking that way, since they apparently fold against any and all bullpen pitchers.
Yup, that’s what I’ve been saying for quite some time now. I don’t know who’s fault this could be, but something HAS to be corrected here.
wow so youre going out on a limb on that one huh?
Haha, pretty much. All I’m saying is that they’re going to lose… Don’t want to ruin the ending by tellin’ y’all what inning it will be.
Damn, it should be first and second with nobody out in Boston.
Fuck you Balkin’ Bob.
I don’t know if it’s been mentioned, and I’ve only seen Tex’s last AB, but he looks like he closed his stance a lot. That seems to be another K-long trait. Anyone else notice?
Blue jays playing hard for team out of it wonder if Theo has a favor in with Farrel
Well, since the Jays are 4-2 vs the Sux in the last 10 days, I kinda doubt it.
Absolutely not. This has been how Toronto has played NY since the 1970s. It’s some kind of Toronto vs. NY thing. All of Canada gets excited at the prospect of knocking off the Yankees, and it passes even to the Jays’ American players.
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And that should be it. Chances of the other clowns in the bullpen holding the tie are slim.
Last time I checked a strike zone is one end of the plate to the other, not batters box to batters box right?
this is an unreal strike zone that first pitch to jaso was 4 inches outside!!!
this strike zone is disgusting. Jaso is getting fucked
Bahd is wicked back!
Walk off homer coming here the guy in the stands with an asst
Almost
Oh, well. We have to worry about the Yankee game right now, Sox/Rays is secondary.
Logan, how bout not giving up a walk off ok?
Now that I think about it, I’m really surprised that the umps didn’t overrule Longo’s first inning homer.
top 10…Jeter game winning hit…Mo saves 601. Mark it
http://www.brooksbaseball.net/.....type=7.gif
Amazing, not a single red triangle out of the zone, but plenty of red squares out of the zone. Meanwhile, checkout all the green triangles that were easy strikes.
The umps were probably given orders directly from the MLB offices, keep the Red Sox in the playoffs.
ESPN will go crazy if the Sox win- Beckett dominates- Aceves, Bard, Papelbon best 7-8-9 in MLB.
Fucking Hunter Wendlestat is giving the Red Sox staff every single call.
Cant really blame the offense tonight. You score 4 runs with your ace on the mound that should be enough.
having ace on the mound is no excuse for the offense to continue to suck against bullpens
Not to mention the starter was no great shakes either.
Fuggin Logan.
Another leadoff double, right on schedule…
NOBOONE.jpg.
Boonie’s arm looks kind of dead.
lolgan
How many walk-offs has Logan given up this year?
fucking boon logan
Stupid IBB.
This dude has had a dead arm for three months now, but he’s still out there getting hammered. What am I missing?
Hunter Wendlestat = Tim Donaghy
HAHAHAHA! Fuck this team. They suck extreme amounts of dick right now. This offense has been non-existent. If you can’t hit a bullpen then you deserve to lose. Simple as that.
Damn you need to work on your trolling bro. Getting way too obvious.
How about a reality check? Maybe that will help your perspective. Excuse me for stating the obvious truth. And trolling? Come on now… Such an idiotic comment to make.
And yet they have the best record in the league. Imagine that.
Bring in Wade please.
Too late to take it back.
Overall so far a pretty shitty night of baseball. I guess losing ANOTHER 1 run game is the icing on the cake.
If I’m the Jays you HAVE TO be bunting.
Well at least this sets up a chance not to lose in extra innings. Damn it!
LOVE THAT PLAY…..please take notes Nunez
Someong shoot me. IBB with no outs?
meh, that runner makes absolutely no difference
Watch and learn, Nunez.
Bunt again bitches lol
see how Chavy backed up and stayed at 3rd? take notes Nunie.
Wow, look at that, Nunez goes to field that ball… thanks Zombie.
Credit to Logan and Chavez knowing what to do there.
Underrated nice play by Chavez there.
Nice play by Logan. Nunez would have tried to field the bunt instead of being at third.
bum logan
Chavez > Nunez on that play there
Hunter Wendlestat = Red Sox’ 10th Man on the field
Wouldn’t that be Ortiz?
So does that make the 3rd base ump the 11th?
Great IBB. An essential part of the game. Just like last inning
Molina loves to hit against the Yanks
My God, that was nearly an eephus!
Molina really
fail Wade…fail..
Go Rays.
Ew.
Molina?
and Cory is killing me.
Damn you Jose Molina…
Kelly Johnson, Mike McCoy, and Jose Molina beat us. This bullpen needs work, lineup needs work, we aren’t ready for October.
/overreacting
Worst 90 win team evahhhhh.
We?
that’s us
I know my wife isn’t. Only has maternity clothes for the summer and you can’t get away with cardigans over dresses once the really chilly weather hits. We’re totally screwed.
huh?
Blue jays acting like a high school team.
We throw desserts at each other.
Take off your homer glasses. You remember how the Yankees celebrated a walk off win against the Jays on May 24th this year, like a girls hs softball team?
http://espn.go.com/mlb/photos?.....Id=1325063
At this time of the year, that’s pretty much all Toronto has. A win against the best team in the league is the way they motivate themselves.
Wade is quickly turning back into a pumpkin…
DAMN IT!!!
OMG Wade Suckz cause he’z given up 2 walkoffz in a row!!!1!1!!
Well, that anti-climactic.
Un freaking real.
This fucking team. Give away stupid wins a great way to enter the post season.
I’m guessing you don’t remember the 2000 Yankees.
They didn’t exactly play great last year down the stretch and how’d that turn out?
It worked out in the ALDS, that’s for damn sure.
Difference, this is just stupid fucking managing by Mr. What does my binder say.
down and away down and away down and away….Wade….”nah, I will give him a fat ball right over the plate”
Eh, it was all Logan’s fault anyway.
Right?
Well, hello 3.5 game lead
3.5! NOOOOOO!
This is getting old.
I miss winning.
Girardi does know Wade actually gets lefties out better than Logan right?
This addiction to handedness is ridiculous… does Girardi’s binder have actual PERFORMANCE stats and splits of his pitchers or does it just say left=left, right=right?
Does he even think about who gets lefties out best or does he just blindly assume any lefty is going to be better?
Shhh…don’t let Greg hear you.
Girardi does know Wade actually gets lefties out better than Logan right?
Not really, Wade vs. LH 4.80 FIP, 3,62 xFIP, 1.93 HR/9
Logan vs, LH 3.63 FIP/ 2.98 xFIP, 1.46 HR/9
Using FIP with relievers? Not so sure about that.
While avg and OPS against are flawed stats over smaller samples I’ll take that over a modelled # which assumes all balls in play are created equal.
I don’t mean to say Logan is definitely better, just that Logan is better than Wade in some stats, so overall they are fairly close in performance against LH, so it make sense to use the lefty considering Lind is much worse against LHP.
Jays hyped up for a running out the season game huh Little boston north of the border
An asst to the guy in croud tipping pitches all night
Yeah shame on them for enjoying that walk off.
what do you expect when you get outhit 13 to 5…cant hit a mediocre bullpen and the jays know what pitches are coming?
Well you can’t expect to win by giving up leadoff hits in 6 of 9 innings.
Am just glad Michael Kay explained what a walkoff is. I was really wondering there………
*I’m
Am worked fine too. Subject was assumed.
A lot of these late September ballgames you aren’t gonna win because you put out a lineup full of AAA kids or you’re starting a spot starter. But when you’ve got your ace on the mound and your regular lineup in there you damn well better beat an inferior opponent.
I take it you either only get the MY 9 games or you’re overreacting.
I’ll take the latter.
All AL opponents are technically inferior. Baseball teams lose, that’s how the sport goes.
So using the closer in a tie game is against the rules. MLB has to change that rule. It is unfair to teams to not be able to use their closer in tie games in the 9th inning.
Players Union should protest.
It’s unreal how this team loses so many games at or after the ninth
Careful what you say. Speaking the truth will have the regulars accuse you of trolling! Apparently only a few of us can see that this team is seriously reeling right now. No offense for miles.
You are correct. They do possess an ability to not close out games properly…
You mean being in first?
Yankees get the starter out of the game then fold up against another shitty bullpen.
Grandy and Tex aren’t doing a damn thing.
They’re both painful to watch.
LOLGonzalez
C’monnnnnnn Papelblown.
4 hits Wednesday; 5 hits today; maybe we can scratch out 6 hits tomorrow if pattern holds?
This is where it would be nice to have AROD carry us for a few games.
Also they need to keep Montero in there.
Anyone else worried about CC’s return to mere mortal?
boone….. nic work boone..
watch out below tex popping up to short..
btw tex sucks and gets no grief.
the guy is hitting 245!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m always amused by how this site reacts after a loss like this.
Same here. I thought RAB separated the men from the boys if you will.
nah, no separation, leave the door open and anyone can walk in
At least if Tampa loses our magic number gors down
Would still rather Boston lose.
So would I, just looking at the positive.
Jennings: “Was that a strike?”
Wendelstedt: “Do you mean was that a strike or would I have called it a strike?”
Fucking Hell…walk off losses when Mo doesn’t get used is EXTREMELY frustrating.
Two run homer Longoria please.
I hate Papelbon almost as much as I hated Rocker
I assume Papelbon is racist too.
Well we all know Salty is.
Right, and Papelbon is blonde and I think from Mississippi.
Louisiana. Your point stands though.
Assuming non-New Orleans, its the same thing. Maybe worse.
Baton Rouge according to wikipedia
Yep, the Stooge from Baton Rouge.
Bottom line, this loss is on CC and his inablity to put batters away after an 0-2 count.
Papelbon will get a lot of money for a lot of years to pitch in Philadelphia and everything I hate will someday be in one 3×3 area.
Don’t watch ESPN tonight, folks.
ESPN: 8===[) – - – the Red Sox
no, i’ve already flipped to msnbc
Would like to see Granderson and Teixiera start hitting again…like soon.
Well, the magic number drops to 6, yet somehow it doesn’t feel like a successful night.
Two thoughts:
I guess others have said this before, but it really does seems like that rain-aborted would-be perfect game drew a line in CC’s season. He just hasn’t had his mojo working since.
This Yankee bullpen is absolutely stellar at holding onto a 6th-inning-or-later lead. But it seems like they have a very difficult time winning in a battle-of-the-bullpens/late inning tie situation. A good part of that is on the offense, of course, but still there’s a sense that the other team’s bullpen is always capable of holding out longer than theirs. On the road, that’s logical (even mathematically likely, I believe). But they’ve been failing just as convincingly at home.
And losing so many of these games — in defiance of Pythagoras — is costing the team an easy coast to a division title.
Yep, and man think if we just won a few more of those Sox games. Different story.
So, do they make us sweat this out or what?
The reason we win when we have a lead is because Girardi is willing to go Robertson, Soriano, Mo, etc. to win. But if we’re tied, or even down by 1 or 2 runs, Girardi is much more apt to go to Ayala or Wade or the world’s worst excuse for a LOOGY, Boone Logan. This is so he can “save” his more effective relievers for later innings, when they’re winning. It never works.
FWIW, This isn’t a “blame Girardi” thing, because literally every manager does this. You can not find a manager who doesn’t do this, because if they actually do the smart thing and pitch to leverage, they receive criticism.
Mostly agree. But does this mean the Yankees’ second-tier relief corps is inferior to most other teams’ second-tier? Because, as you say, nearly every manager does this, yet somehow, just over the past week or so, the Orioles/Angels/Mariners/Jays have all managed to win with their lesser relievers over the Yankee equivalent. You’d think by happenstance you’d get the opposite result once in a while.
No, I’m saying our second-tier relief corps is a second-tier relief corps; they’re going to give up runs.
That’s fine if you have a comfortable lead, but if you’re tied or behind, why widen it?
Girardi must not want to overuse or tire out Mo so he can get his 601st save.
I wouldn’t have brought Mo in tonight.
Picked a bad night to quit smoking.
Then, none of the regulars should have played either. Get the win and get it done instead of stringing this shit out.
Plus it is really about the piss poor patter that Girardi displays that carries over into the post season. He starts going all Joe Torre and leans heavily on a few people but then never makes the right call until its too late.
He’s 4-1 in Post Season Series.
He normally doesn’t bring in Mo in a tie game on the road, in the regular season at least.
I don’t like the look in CC’s eyes in this interview.
CC is gassed and should be skipped in his next turn…Of course that would require the Yankees being in the playoffs already… so scratch that.
If we take the next 2 in Toronto, we’re good whatever happens in Boston.
WTF Teixeira? WTF offense? WTF CC? Fuck Boone, piece of shit LNOGY.
Mike Zagurski was juust DFA’d. I don’t think he’d be a bad option as a LOOGY to try out.
CC has nothing…six days rest, five days rest…he’s gassed.
I feel like we’re living the anti-2009. If it’s a close game in late innings, or goes to extra innings, the Yankees seem to lose. Amazing the Yankees overall record is as good as it is considering their record in one-run games and extra-inning games.