Game 150: A-Rod’s back, yet again
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How can you expect to get a hit ... when you're not even using a real bat? (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
After missing another six days because of that sprained left thumb, Alex Rodriguez is back in the lineup this afternoon, but in an unfamiliar spot. He’s hitting fifth for the first time in the Joe Girardi Era, and the first time since September 6th of 2006. Here’s the box score for that game. Seven innings of one-hit ball from Randy Johnson, neat. Here’s the lineup…
Derek Jeter, SS
Curtis Granderson, CF
Mark Teixeira, 1B – .244/.337/.488
Robinson Cano, 2B
Alex Rodriguez, 3B – .284/.367/.475 … why is he batting fifth and not Tex?
Nick Swisher, RF
Jesus Montero, DH
Brett Gardner, LF
Austin Romine, C
Bartolo Colon, SP
The game is scheduled to start at 1:07pm ET, and you can watch on YES. Enjoy.
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The Mason Williams Watch
One word. Protection
Do you want Tex protecting Cano in the lineup or ARod protecting Cano?
That’s probably the reason why he hasnt been moved down.
Jesus should protect Cano and Teixeira should hit 6th.
/makestoomuchsenseforGirarditodoit’d
Egos, my friend, egos
The next time an ego gets on base, let me know.
Its the same reason why Jeter wasnt moved down earlier in the year. I just calls it how I sees it.
If you base your whole lineup on egos, then you shouldn’t be managing.
Hey man, Ozzie Guillen had Adam Dunn in his lineup for almost 5 months.
Yes, but Ozzie eventually stopped making Dunn an everyday player. Not saying Girardi should bench Teix, just that moving him down isn’t the end of the world.
Yes, because sometimes a slump is just that, a slump before an eventual return to form. Girardi takes a long view, sometimes too long for my taste, but he has done a solid job
And the #3 batter is going to have more PA’s over the #5 hitter in many situations.
Tex has slipped into the .330′s OBP-wise. Per his standards, that is treacherous. For a #3 hitter, that’s treacherous.
Put it together, and it’s a recipe for disaster.
How come Granderson hit so well this if Tex was protecting him and not A-Rod or Cano?
This is probably not the right time to bring up Granderson’s hitting as a counter point
What was it, .188 in September?
[sees trees, can't find forest]
Pitchers have eventually figuredf out not to pitch to Grandy. He’s gotten alot of breaking balls recently. Why? Because Tex has been struggling and they would walk Grandy and face Tex.
Now Grandy has been swinging at these pitches for K’s
Or
Hitters go through slumps and hot streaks through a season.
I guess you wrong on that one…again.
That’s great. What was other in the other five months of the season?
As I just pointed out, pitchers have figured ot not to give him anything to hit, partially because Tex is right behind him.
Then his OBP would be higher, a la Bonds 2004.
He’s in a slump, big friggin’ whoop.
But its partially the reason why pitchers are throwing Grandy alot of breaking balls.
They always throw him breaking balls, why wouldn’t they?
He’s just not hitting them as well now because he’s slumping.
How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read… if they can’t even fit inside the building?
:golf clap:
How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?!?
Well the book says 5 is supposed to be better than 3. But, I don’t think Girardi reads that book.
Montero + Romine = must see TV
BULLSHIT
can someone explain to me why teams that are so far out of the playoff race celebrate walk offs like that? I get it if the game is really important for your season, but these games are kind of meaningless for Toronto.
“We beat the Yankees! We beat the Yankees!”
Why shouldn’t they celebrate? I don’t see a problem with it all.
I don’t have a problem with it, I just think it’s funny that if they win it in 9 they all walk out on the field and just kind of congratulate each other but if it’s a walk off they go nuts. It’s not like winning it in extras was more significant or anything. especially because their season was over at the ASB.
Mike–do you take your Curtis Granderson Bobblehead Doll to bed with you?
I think it’s because they beat the “big bad Yankees”…It sucks, but whatever.
I am willing to bet one hundred billion dollars that they will celebrate a walk off victory against any other team.
These games are meaningless for the Yankees, too.
A $22.5 million 1B should have an OPS higher than .825 and if he doesn’t he should be hitting 6th and not 3rd, 4th, or 5th.
I wonder if things will be a tad more civil in the game thread today. I read some comments yesterday that seemed to be…let’s say, a bit brusque.
I noticed something while perusing Fangraph’s pitching leaderboards. Virtually of the game’s better pitchers have a differential between their FIP and xFIP. The trend appears to be big enough for me to surmise that xFIP does not take into account some things that pitchers do, in fact, have under their control.
I think they mentioned this when they unveiled SIERA.
lllllllllllll here we go lol
So sick of Teixeira right now.
Fuuuuuu
Tex’d
That’s why he’s hitting 3rd, folks.
teix is the worst
And there we go. You want that behind Cano?
You want him behind Granderson?
No matter where he bats, it’s behind someone.
You want him getting more at-bats than everyone but Jeter and Granderson?
I’m open to suggestions.
BAT HIM NINTH DUH
http://riveraveblues.com/2011/.....nt-2845126
He can hit his ground ball into the shift after Cano has already driven home the runs?
At least if you bury Teix a bit against RHP, you stack more of your better hitters in a row to maximize the chance of putting together an extended rally. If you put Teix inbetween Granderson and Cano, you are taking away some opportunities from Cano to drive in runs.
Ooooh, a Matt v. Greg argument. These are classic.
Are they?
Think of it as a platypus fighting a dodo bird.
Never seen by human eyes, but rumored to e incredible.
The problem is that they wont pitch to Cano with Tex behind him. That’s the whole point of having protection.
Nobody said Teix had to bat behind Cano. And what is the point of protection if you are batting with the bases empty?
Hasn’t it been proven that where you bat in the lineup doesn’t really matter??
Basically, yeah.
I like Stanton.
+ 1
Stanton I guess
Um, he hasn’t had consistent at-bats all season… Make him earn the 4th spot, don’t just hand it to him.
His at-bats were fine before the knee injury. Wasn’t hitting for power, but he was hitting for average and getting on base.
What.
Bunting is so cool.
what is Cano doing?
Bad bunt Cano.
Worst bunt ever? Worst bunt ever.
I hate the ones in the ninth inning down by a run or two. But that’s just me.
Get yer free outs here!!
yay
And that’s better than anything Teix has done in the past 3 weeks. Great reasoning, Girardi. Great players deserve better.
damn
Ty-Rod
Awesome.
Good sign to see A-Rod turn around 94 mph down and in like that against a RHP. He was having trouble with the fastball before they sat him down.
Imagine that inning without the bunt.
It’d still be going on.
Great now no one will be on when Montero hits a bomb
Who do you bat 5th if Tex bats 6th?
Swisher? Gardner? Martin? Montero wont happen because he’a a rookie.
Swisher, why not. He’s a damn good hitter.
Montero has batted 5th before.
http://riveraveblues.com/2011/.....-up-55901/
But, Swiaher and ARod were not in those lineups.
That doesn’t matter one bit. If Jesus is hitting well enough to bat 5th, bat him 5th regardless of who else is in the lineup.
That’s true. But let’s be honest, I’m not sure Girardi has the stomach to have either A-Rod or Teixeira bat behind Jesus this season.
Oh and btw, I vote Lowrie for the poll. But all of the choices will be great hitters, IMO.
That’s what happens when you don’t use your best reliever.
I wish Kay would shut up about the walk off losses.
Ah c’mon Bart….
It’s almost like throwing the same pitch in the same location four times in a row is a bad idea.
well this sucks.
This is just like Bartolo’s last visit here. He’s gonna get bombed.
Fuck. This guy was 0-19 and he struck out what, three, four times last night?
According to Sterling, the Yankees “don’t score anymore.” Granted our bats haven’t been great lately but that seems rather a far fetched statement.
Sounds like obvious hyperbole
his entire broadcast has been about how the Yankees are in trouble which it’s a little early to concede the division. The Red Sox and Rays both have to work much harder to win the division than we do.
The offense has been garbage in September except for Cano, Gardner and Montero.
I’d eliminate Gardner from that list.
.363 wOBA
Eh, Gardner hasn’t been spectacular either. He’s batting an even .200 for the month, but he does have a .378 OBP this month which sorta negates the poor average.
OBP’s a lot more important than average.
It is, but still, that is an ugly batting average.
7 for 38. You have a point.
Why the hell is Brett Lawrie batting seventh?
That sucks, Brett Lawrie is past the 130 AB cutoff for rookie of the year next year. Too bad.
that was bad, good this Rasmus stayed at 2nd
They have played sloppy baseball since the Orioles series.
FUCKING CB BUCKNOR!!!
fuck this guy.
I blame this stretch of play on Michael Kay. What business does he have making trips to the West Coast and then to Toronto?
Yeah really, when was the last time he made a west coast trip? When he was writing for the Post?
What did Molina do to his stance? He looks like Tony Batista up there.
I heard he turned his head a little bit more towards center field so he could see the guy stealing signs.
I don’t what they do in Toronto, but it seems like a lot of batters have career years up there. I think it goes well beyond being a hitters park.
why are we getting beat by Jose Molina? please stop it.
Should of kept
I’ll never figure out why we let that guy go. He was a good backup C and is a .300 hitter. He’s killed us.
To be fair, he wasnt a .300 hitter when he was with us.
he only has like a 30 fist pump
Career .240 hitter.
He was a .231 hitter for the Yankees and a .235 hitter before Toronto.
He’s probably referring to Molina’s career .287 OBP. Lol.
Infield in? It’s the second inning and you’re on turf.
Well
shit.
lol at the notion of this offense scoring the minimum five runs necessary to win today.
just got the game on, what’s with Bart?
I guess the Yankees want to choke out the division?
MONSTERO
You don’t fuck with the Jesus.
Montero setting up the inning-ending double play.
7 against the Rays, 3 against the Sox….they keep playing like this…could be an epic collapse
at least they have that one game against the Twins.
Good grief.
no
Yeah, because the Sox are playing lights out, right?
That’s the most distressing part. We could have spearated ourselves for the division lead. At this rate, we are going to lose the division but not the wild card.
They could have separated themselves and they never did. Look at the other side of the coin for once.
actually because all season long when the sox are playing like crap, they still manage to get up off the ground and kick the yanks ass. they were 0-6 this year before they played the yanks…then again the YANKS were the team they beat to finally get to and past .500 for the season. so yeah uh right?
trolol
John Flaharty talks about every hitter like they are a weak-hitting backup catcher.
A weak-hitting catcher who’s proud of his fastball and every pitch he throws is a slider.
The irony.
Melky Cabrera: .301|.334|.469|.803 – 18 HR 82 RBI
just sayin’
Golden Boy: .257|.345|.369|.718 7 HR 36 RBI
Gardner 4.9 fWAR, Melky 3.4 fWAR
4.9 > 3.4
oWar > bWar and fWar because defensive metrics are inconclusive.
You don’t need stats to see that Gardner’s a substantially better fielder than Melky.
He certainly is. But the difference in oWar 4.7 – 1.2, is the equivalent of having Prince Fielder or Carlos Pena.
Outfielders ? first baseman
*are not, not a question mark.
Dude. We’re talking strictly offense here. Learn the stat before you criticize.
What he lacks in offense, he makes up for in defense in a way that Melky can’t and in a way that oWAR won’t show. Also I guarantee that Melky will have a mediocre year next year.
there’s nothing inconclusive about Gardner being much, much, much, much better than Melky defensively
Melky Cabrera 2010: .255/.317/.354 4 HR
So Melky Cabrera at his worst is basically Brett Garnder? kthx for playing?
troll
Melky at his worse is nowhere near Gardner
Thanks for attempting math though. I know its difficult for some.
Brett Garder 2011 WAR 4.2
Melky Cabrera 2011 WAR 2.7
Ok. People who just throw WAR out there without knowing the difference (between fWar and bWar) and how WAR is calculated just piss me off. It’s (A) not the be all-end all stat and (B) is highly reliant on inconclusive data.
oWAR on the other hand is far more reliable.
it just completely ignores that Gardner is an elite defender while Melky is a below average defender
Gardner 2011 fWAR 4.9
Cabrera 2011 fWAR 3.9
Gardner has 400 or so less plate appearances than Melky over the course of his career, yet more than double the WAR. I’ll take Gardner every time, Melky is having a career year.
Again. What WAR are you using? And until a defensive metric doesn’t suck you can’t really rely on WAR in the Melky/Brett argument considering Gardner has accumulated the vast majority of his WAR on defense.
Look at their oWar
Brett: 1.2
Melky: 4.7
4.7 >>>>>> 1.2. Melky is the better offensive player by far. And in LF at the stadium with Grandy in CF wouldn’t have hurt our defense all that much.
LF at the stadium is big, so defense in left is important. Gardner is vastly superior baserunner and defender than Melky.
And Melky was pretty much the worst player in baseball last year. I’ll take Gardy over Melky anyday.
Gardner is clearly a vastly superior outfielder than Melky. As questionable as completely rejecting UZR is, do it and just by watching games you can see how drastically superior Gardner is to Melky as a defender.
Now on to offense,
Melky’s career line: .319 wOBA, 92 wRC+
Gardner’s career line: .338 wOBA, 107 wRC+
Making your decision based on one season vs the bigger sample size is foolish. I’m no expert but I don’t see any significant changes in his peripherals that indicate he’s made a sustainable improvement as a hitter.
That is not sustainable at all for next season. His average is being propped up by a .325 BABIP. Batted ball profile is essentially the same as it was in 2009 (LD% in 2009, 2011: 20.9, 20.3. GB% in 2009, 2011: 49.5, 46.9. FB% in 2009, 2011: 29.6%, 32.8%).
Yankees will win this game.
If you follow all the Yankees beat writers, go watch your twitter feed lol
Two out single for Jeter please.
You know the answer by this point.
Everybody’s in a slide (except for Cano).
so many ground balls
They’re not even hitting it out of the infield anymore. Where’s the power? The Sox and Tigers could be just 3 GB by tonight.
I think Kay’s comment proves he never caught a fly ball in his life.
Shut em down Bart. Thank you.
Yankees score four runs this inning
/youhearditherefirst
Do something Teix.
Yay
Well, there’s a good start to my prediction….
That’s what I want to see from Tex. Hit the ball away where it’s pitched.
LOL
That’s goin’ around lately.
Borjous’d
yes!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bourjos’d
Hahaha Lowen Borjous’d it!
Gotta score more here. This is an opportunity that the Yankees have not had in a long time.
Since a few games ago when it happened?
I mean baserunners on with nobody out.
Fucking Sterling practically launched into his HR call and the next thing he says is that the ball is dropped. He is fucking TERRIBLE.
What the fuck?
omfg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What the sweet fuck is this team doing!?!?
You’ve gotta be fucking kidding.
Unbelievable.
Those idiots. Just stupid. And this team is going to win in October?
I don’t see how anyone can be overly confident that they will. Anything can happen, but I personally don’t see this team going anywhere.
Commence bashing me for having an opinion…
I pretty much agree.
I’ll back you up. I’ve contended for a while now that this doesn’t look like a championship club. Playoff’s…maybe. Championship? A lot of things will have to change or really fall their way in October…which backs up the “anything can happen” disclaimer.
What exactly does a championship team look like?
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Wow. That’s all I have to say about that.
Head explode
What the fuck is Cano fucking doing today? Fucking head up his ass.
what the fucking fuck
Someone check Cano’s brain
My goodness.
That is failure on the ultimate level.
OK, Cano made 3 “mental” mistakes last night, and now this?
Thanks a lot Cano…..
even when they do the things right to score the runs…they still fuck it up
Someone wake this team the fuck up.
seriously, the number of stupid mental mistakes and bad fielding plays in the past two weeks is insane. This is not good baseball.
Fail Jesse. I understand what you’re trying to do there, and it worked, but my hatred of that song/album makes the joke mute.
If the Yankees lose today they can look at that inning as the main reason. SMH
I think Cano is saving his brain for the playoffs. …wow
He also forgot how many outs there were in one of the Seattle games and got doubled up.
At first I thought Teixeira fucked up.
Is Jorge the new baserunning coach?
r u friggin kidding me?
Once again, my theory about Michael Kay being a jinx is spot on. He said that would get down and score runs, and look what happened.
Teixeira’s gotta keep running on that play regardless of Cano. It’s not a force so he has a chance to score if he beats the throw at 2nd.
Cano passed Teix on the bases though
Cano passed him, the third out was already recorded
Cano passed Teixeira on the bases. That is not his fault one bit.
Yes, he passed Teixeira when Teixeira was heading back to the base, when he should have been only going in 1 direction, to home. To be fair, I’d be confused by Cano’s baserunning too.
Couldn’t quite tell on the replay, but I think Tex left a little early to try to avoid being passed, so he had to go back to tag after the catch
Except then Teixeira would have been out. He went back to the bag to TAG when it became apparent the ball would be caught. He couldn’t go home.
He went back to the bag to tag twice. I agree with Jetrer that he probably left a little early to avoid being passed, so I’ll give him that. He generally shouldn’t be going halfway on a ball than deep though.
Tex was supposed to stay at third. He scores on that ball whether it’s a hit or an out. Staying at third is the right play.
Exactly. The only extenuating circumstance is that he left the bag early to avoid being passed. (Being passed would have looked very stupid if the ball hit the gap, for example). Bizarre situation.
Cano is SOOO much better than PEdrOia!11!1!!!!!
But PEdrOia’z gott da grit!11!!11!!!
Why does everyone keep talking about the playoffs? R we in yet? They keep on with these boneheaded moves and they will be no playoffs
And now Bartolo’s gonna give it back against a club that knows how to run the bases, move runners over, and get timely hits.
The one that’s 76-74?
They’re obviously better than us though, regardless of what records say, because we’re going through a rough patch right now and they’ve just been mediocre all season.
Pretty respectable record in the AL East
Team is definitely on the rise, fo sho.
Yeah, but that’s not the point.
Shutdown innings after we score a run; we don’t has them.
The Keystone bombers
Absolutely disgraceful.
If Girardi lets these silly mistakes continue then I would fire him. Immediately.
How is Girardi supposed to control Cano having his head up his ass?
That wasn’t even Girardi’s fault, wtf are you talking about.
You know I defend Girardi alot. But he has to send a message to his team that this type of play is unacceptable.
Go Billy Martin on these guys.
waaaaaaaaaaaaaa my manager lets me make stupid plays…waaaaaaaaaaaa
Touche, but this is an off-field issue. I was doing the fake crying for supposed on field decisions.
isn’t deciding to go Billy Martin on the team and bench Cano an on-field decision
How are stupid plays an off-field issue?
My guess is because he thinks off the field Girardi doesn’t preach smart baseball.
Girardi’s too busy giving the opposing team free outs, free base runners, and watching them celebrate in extra innings while his best reliever sits on a bench.
He’s hard at work.
Weren’t you bashing people for complaining about Girardi the other day? Quit being an annoying little shit head.
For on-field decisions. This is an off-field decisions.
Running the bases is an off-field decision? El. Oh. El.
Imagine Billy Martin was the manager right now. Do you think he’d pull Cano from the game?
Damn right he would. And George would be thundering at this team right now. Absolutely ridiculous.
Shut up.
George would have fired Girardi, hired Buck back, traded away Cano, Gardner, and Nova for Derek Lowe.
if george were here, montero would be gone and ubaldo Jimenez would be imploding for the yankees so stop using the if george were here nonsense
Joe should sit cano for the rest of the game, see if he can dislodge his head from his ass
Martin would have pulled him by the ear
Hey Everybody,
Let’s cut these guys some slack. They have a TOUGH job.
They work 6 months a year. I know, I know. How do they do it?
They also, get this, work 3 hours a day, which consists mostly of standing around on a field or sitting on a bench. They get paid millions to do this.
Also, they don’t have to work if it rains. Tough job!
I don’t know how they can stand doing this ‘work’.
Let’s all salute them and their ‘hard work/being born with a gift to hit or throw a ball’.
Poor guys/spoiled millionaires.
Think up a new shtick, please. That one got old in April.
Poopy Pants is one bitter dickhead.
Oh, and the 100s of hours they spend in the gym, watching tape, in meetings preparing for the next game/team/pitcher. Do you really think the only time these guys think about baseball is when they’re on the field?
dont forget they have to go out after these horribly tiring games and hang out with hot girls all night. cmon these guys just need a hug
They only work 3 hours a day? For 6 months out of the year? News to me.
Don’t feed the trolls, dude. He’s been saying the same shit for months just to get a rise out of people.
pathetic, just fucking pathetic
get beat by Mccoy and Molina? my god.
And that’ll be the ballgame. Good outing, Bartolo. Good performance, offense. Gotta keep hoping Boston loses.
Boston? How about they simply lock up a playoff spot. Seven left vs. the Rays remember. It would be nice to render most of those meaningless. Especially with a seven game stretch heading in where the Yankees arguably COULD have won seven in a row and locked up a slot. As it stands now, they’re 2-2 in that span. I hope we’re not looking back at these games a week from now and seeing blown opportunities.
More shitty hitters killing the yanks.
Cashman needs to order a “Code Red”.
Mike McCoy .304/.333/.435 in 23 AB against the Yankees this year.
Not counting today
I’m assuming we’ll see Bettances today?
Scott Proctor, Aaron Laffey, Raul Valdes.
Don’t forget Ayala
I really do blame this all on Buck Showalter.
Colon sucks pretty bad today. Ouch. I’d blame the sign stealing, but today he just sucks. Another shitty hit gets a big hit.
he throws all fastballs, he saves them the trouble of stealing signs
I’m convinced the Yanks scouting department is paid minimum wage.
Yeah, I guess it’s too much to ask them to remember how many outs there are. The brain can only be taxed so far!
The Yankees are so incredibly hard to watch right now.
As it stands now, their pitching rotation does not match well in a short series.
Montero just got butt fucked
It’s sickening to hear ex players talk about how umpires WILL and DO call a strikezone based on the hitter’s reputation.
One day balls and strikes will be called by laser-tracked baseballs, and it will be glorious.
I’m tired of these umpires. Most of the games I watch the umpires manage to fuck up some sort of call.
But the human element?
The worst part is they say it with an even tone, like “yeah, you should expect this.” when really the only time the size of a strike zone should change is for a player’s height.
Hard to believe it, but I’m missing Frisco. He seemed to be hitting pretty well at the time.
Yeah, lets keep saying this nothing like last September. When this team got ass-canned regularly from the second week on-ward.
In all facets of the game, this team is fricken brutal right now. And playing the Rays and Red Sox is not going to help that.
It’s time we consider the fact that Montero is a bust. Considering he doesn’t actually play the field he only works maybe 20 minutes a day while he’s at the plate. He only has a ground ball and a strikeout today. That’s not going to cut it.
let’s trade him for Jose Molina
I agree, but let’s aim higher and try to pry Wil Nieves from the Braves….
I thought that the old rule was to wait at least 500-1000 at bats ?
Nope. At bat to at bat. If he makes an out he’s a bust. If he gets a hit he’s just delaying bustification until his next plate appearance.
lol
The one difference is last year it seemed like Girardi purposely shut the team down and was using guys like Mitre and Gaudin in big spots to win games. That really hasn’t been the case this time. They just flat out suck.
Nice, Girardi is waiving the white flag. So glad he doesn’t burnout any of the young pitchers and instead goes to the vets.
And the Girardi narratives are just friggen tired.
Blame Joe for screwing the pooch with Sabathia and the rotation lately. It’s not Joe’s fault at all that this offense couldn’t hit a beach ball right now.
Yankee rotation post all-star:
ERA Whip
Sabathia 3.52 1.34
Burnett 7.32 1.81
Colon 4.06 1.35
Garcia 4.91 1.48
hughes 4.76 1.34
Nova- 3.32, 1.14
Nova doesn’t count then? His numbers don’t fit your idea?
It’s funny because you are also missing a point.
what point is that?
Nova’s the exception, not the rule.
but he is part of the rotation, is he not?
Joe G should have rested EVERYONE in Baltimore.
The make up game.
Romine can’t catch Betances here?
Is it really that hard for a catcher to catch someone he’s never caught before? I assume it happens multiple times each week in the majors, but Girardi acts like it’s an impossible mission. I could see if it was knuckle-baller or even Burnett with his wildness, but other than that….
That’s the thing though. Romine caught Betances all season in Double-A.
The Binder says never put in a rookie pitcher to make their debut unless it’s a tie game and you mismanaged your bullpen into making it your only move.
Raul Valdes? Who’s he????
/Kidding
At the rate we’re going, we’ll be lucky to make it to the post season.
We’ll still back in. The Rays can get at best within 6 of us before we play them for seven games. They’d have to go 6-1 against us to have a shot. And that’s if they win the last two vs Boston. Not likely.
Tex with two doubles up the middle? What is this madness?
Grandy getting on base and Teix going THE OTHER WAY! Good things to take from this disaster called a ballgame.
One positive I can draw from this game is the opposite field hitting of Teixeira
stop hitting Robbie. christ.
ARod 3 run bomb
Ha. Called it.
are you a wizard?
Whats next weeks lotto numbers?
ARod go BOOM!
Yay Alex.
I missed you A-Rod!
A-Rod! Suddenly it’s a game.
Alex just killed any sort of rally we had going.
IT’S ALLLIIIIIIIIIIVEEEE!!!!
that is why he’s batting fifth
Because this was obviously planned.
now who’s missing the point?
A-BOMB !!!
CentWAR!
And Raul Valdes just sat down
Way to be ready for the pitch he knew was coming, I forget sometimes how fucking good A-Rod is at baseball
OUR OFFENZE IZ TEH SUKZORZE!!!1111!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah I got enough bro.
Swinging at the first pitch? What an idiot!
lol swish
Laffey warming? Lol.
Oh man. 2 pitches two outs? That’s not good.
Why is Swisher playing if he’s still in so much pain? He’s shaking his arm around in pain after every swing and throw and let go of this bat.
Don’t they have a bunch of people to play RF?
Steal second.
Or prevent that by swinging at the first pitch and abruptly ending the inning. Either way.
When in doubt, and when your argument falls short, merely call it a “career year.”
Stick to one handle, please. You’re working on your second this thread and third in the last 24 hours.
who is it
Won’t tell, but it’s hard to maintain conversations when people keep changing handles.
ok, one of the other handles is obvious
maybe he’s just sharing a computer with his Mom
No, it’s actually not Melky from before.
wow, I thought that was definitely him. My bad.
lol, that’s what i thought too
And unsustainable luck
Romine looks over matched. A-Rod looks great and Montero looks slims.
I’d rather see Valdes than Laffey. I assume Valdes stinks, but we KNOW Laffey does.
I don’t know about you guys but despite leading the Al East right now I don’t see this team going any further than last year’s squad. The listless September reminds me of last year’s limp finish. It just seems like last year with our offense wearing down and stuck with so so starting pitching. I guess miracles can happen but I just ain’t feeling it for this squad as far as winning it all.
If I had my choice, I’d take the 2009 finish, where they kicked ass and took names all the way to the title. But realistically, there doesn’t seem to be any correlation between September and October. The 2000 Yanks for example, and if you want to give them a pass due to being a veteran playoff team, then look at the 2006 Tigers, who limped to the finish yet went on to the Series.
The 2007 Rockies won 21 or their last 22 games or something crazy like that, then got completely manhandled in the World Series.
I kinda think that had something to do with the week off that they have between the NLCS and WS, kinda like what happened to the Yankees between the ALDS and ALCS last year.
*had
yea that week killed any type of momentum they had
There gonna end up not having enough starting pitching just like last year. The rotation got by with smoke and mirrors in the regular season but that seems to be coming to an end.
Anytime you get a scoreless inning from Aaron Laffey you MUST win the game.
I’m going to get stuck watching Mets-Braves instead of Rays-Red Sox because of FOX, aren’t I?
Why are the Mets even playing on FOX?
Why are the Mets even playing?
LOL
indeed
Grandy!!!!!!
What a freaking at-bat.
FUCK YES
Grandy Man!!!
GRANDYMAN! what an AB, wow.
CURTIS!!!!!
Grandy internetheart
hell yeah curtis, way to break out of the slump
in awe
Oh the Grandyman can! Nice, number 40
remember when the yankees weren’t going to make the playoffs two innings ago?
good times
So are we done bashing?
So lifeless.
Epic at bat. NICE!!!!
I wonder where that guy that was saying KKKKKurtis Granderson is now.
Wow, what an at-bat by Curtis culminating with a HR to take the lead!!!
I think Curtis just locked up the MVP over Bautista with that HR.
No Molina…the Jays are now powerless
Noesi to the rotation next season.
I’d be happy with Noesi-to-the-role-Ace-used-to-have. Rotation would be tough because of the low IP this year.
Don’t lose him Hec. You got this bum.
Add some more runs, let Hector close it out.
Hopefully they score another run or five so Noesi can throw the eighth as well. Soriano and Robertson need the rest.
Nice job by Noesi!!!
Montero gonna PWN Drabek.
Or not. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I thought Drabek was supposed to be a legit prospect? Isn’t that what landed Philly Halladay?
He’s pretty legit. Just a young pitcher struggling right now.
He is, but supposedly he has attitude issues or confidence issues or something. He has a one million dollar arm, but a twenty-five cent brain.
Soriano vs. Bautista will not end well. It didn’t a few weeks ago.
Phew.
So does this end up 7-7 8-7 or still 7-6 after Soriano pitches?
Uh-oh, Soriano. *ducks*
Two consecutive strikeouts for Soriano? Time to pull out the shot glasses.
Soriano the Spit Baller lol
F’in nasty
MFIKY
MFIKY
and MFIKY
Struck out the side? I’m chugging the bottle.
He did it yesterday too.
Soriano’s back and now it’s time to get Mo his 601st so he can get the 602nd at home.
Soriano seems to have turned it on at the right time this season. 3 batters (Bautista, Lind, Cooper), 3Ks.
Gotta love it.
Fuck New York and the fucking Yankees.
I hope C.C. breaks his fucking arm, that fat fuck.
That is all,
Blow Me New York.
Hi, troll.
lol, how about that Canadian politeness
could be boston politeness
Proctor to Laffey to Noesi to Soriano to Mo.
Just like they drew it up pregame!
Pro-Aaro-No-So-Mo?
That’s the new Formula.
They pinch hit Chavez for Romine. Jorge will catch!!
nothappening’d
Jorge damn well better be catching Mo’s 602nd.
Will Posada catch the 9th?
I agree with Kyle Drabek in the bullpen.
Sincerely, author of the Joba Rules
Wow, this ump must really want to go home.
If Mo gets that low and away strike like Drabek is getting it, then Toronto might as well not even bother coming out for the 9th.
Umpires shouldn’t have ego’s.
Mo to Po would be nice, but in a 1 run game I want that catcher that can actually throw someone out.
Grandy with a gem of a game.
Shut the hell up Michael Kay
so excited
How could Mo be having an “outstanding season” Michael?? He has a losing record!!!!1!11!!
Bucknor’d
Not a strike, but CB Bucknor just really wanted to do his stupid fist pump.
Whatever, I’ll take it.
Rofl, that was in the other freaking batter’s box.
Holy shit, shut up Kay.
while the explanation of how a Save is recorded was beyond annoying, sometimes we forget he needs to broadcast to the “least common denominator.” guessing you were pretty bored in H.S. algebra class too.
Mo! `#601 in the books!
Mo acts like its nothing.
Boss!
BAWSSSS
601!!!! I am going to cry. That’s amazing. Congratulations, Mo!
i know! me too!
Jose Valverde and Jonathan Papelbon celebrate one save more than Mo has celebrated all 601 combined.
true
God, could you even imagine how douchey Papeblown would be if he set a record like this?
Papelbon has been surprisingly subdued this year. I think he’s focused on getting a big pay day this offseason. I think he’s going to leave…some team is going to pay him a lot of money and I can’t see the Sox doing it.
Silly move if you ask me. I abhor Papeldoutche but he’s pretty darn good. He ain’t no Daniel Bard though!
He wasn’t subdued at all last night. He celebrated like he got the last out of the World Series. I love when the Yankees beat the likes of him and Valverde. I hope the Yankees get a walkoff if they face either guy in playoffs.
Mariano River and Trevor Hoffman stand alone at the top of the all time saves record. And soon, Mariano will be by himself in the record books. Greatest closer of all time.
who the hell is Mariano River?
This was a great team win.
and I’m sure Mo will say it was a team save
I don’t understand why Mo doesn’t do more screaming, dancing, and jiggling of his fat ass for every one of his 601 saves like I’ve done 238 times.
/Valverde’d
A nice win plus Mariano tied the saves record. One game closer to wiping out the magic number.
Nice win. Congrats, Mo.
It’s always fun reading the comments on a come-back win. All the moaning and doom-and-gloom when the Yankees are behind.
Speaking of which, seemed like Greg just disappeared soon as Grandy was having a big game and the Yankees made a come back.
I was watching college football, thoughI did look in at times.
Great win for the Yankees, congrats to Mo and lets keep it going
Nice come-from-behind win for the Yanks. Granderson really knows how to break out of a slump.
Congrats to Mariano for being #1 (tied only for today). #602 tomorrow??? He’s the best that ever did it, but we already knew that.
1st ballot HOFer. The definition of a dominant pitcher.