ALDS Game One: Tigers @ Yankees
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Let’s try this again. Last night’s game was suspended due to rain that was apparently heavier than expected, so the two teams will pick up right where they left off. The score is tied at one through an inning and a half, and Jorge Posada is scheduled to lead off the bottom of the second inning. CC Sabathia allowed a solo homer to Delmon Young and struck out four in his two innings while Justin Verlander walked two and allowed a run on a ground out in his only inning.
The lineups below are the same ones as last night since this is just a continuation of that game. That hurts the Tigers somewhat because they loaded their lineup with right-handed bats against Sabathia, but now get the right-handed Ivan Nova. Here’s the problem though: it’s supposed to rain again tonight. MLB has already said they will not play a doubleheader in the postseason, and if they have to suspend the game again, they would simply push everything back a day and forfeit Wednesday’s off day, if need be. What a mess.
Detroit Tigers
Austin Jackson, CF
Magglio Ordonez, RF
Delmon Young, LF
Miguel Cabrera, 1B
Victor Martinez, DH
Alex Avila, C
Ryan Raburn, 2B
Jhonny Peralta, SS
Brandon Inge, 3B
Doug Fister, SP RP
New York Yankees
Derek Jeter, SS
Curtis Granderson, CF
Robinson Cano, 2B
Alex Rodriguez, 3B
Mark Teixeira, 1B
Nick Swisher, RF
Jorge Posada, DH
Russell Martin, C
Brett Gardner, LF
Ivan Nova, SP RP
The game is scheduled to restart at 8:37pm ET, and you’ll be able to watch on TBS and listen on either WCBS 880 or ESPN Radio. Remember, we’re trying to win a ring around here.
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The Mason Williams Watch
The radar looks promising. The rain is moving away from the Bronx.
Am I the only person who thinks Fister is gonna get rocked tonight?
You may well be, although I hope your premonition works out.
It’s a real shame Chip Caray is not calling this game.
I just hope MLB didn’t cost us this series with their little fiasco last night. Torre is still screwing us even though he’s not managing anymore. Nova should be ok. Offense needs to get to Fister early.
It’s not MLB’s fault that the Yankees are choosing to only have CC pitch once, when they could have pitched him twice while Verlander only pitches once.
When else can they pitch him besides game 3 or 4?
Games 2 and 5.
I’m not sure I would agree with that given how many pitches he threw adding warm ups. I’m sure if Girardi and Cashman thought he could go they would let him.
Verlander said as much when he talked about how he wasn’t sure how he would feel the next day given the warm ups he threw and the intensity of the pitches during the game. It would be tough to come back after one day.
OldHossRadbourn’d
So….is this game happening or…?
Man we could have crushed these overrated Texas lefties with our heavy righty lineup. Rays are destroying these clowns.
It’s amazing… I don’t think many “experts” do their homework or look at the match-ups much before they make predictions. They Rays have the superior pitching and can run some guys out there that hit much better vs LHP.
Cano has a UUUUUGE game tonight. Cano.
Wow you called it!
O/U Fister jokes?
Zero from me. I’m feeling very serious tonight.
200 and I’m taking the over.
2009 was the last time every hit was “fisted.” That was a very good postseason.
And Chip Caray hasn’t been heard from since.
Aw man, I was too late!
Most Yankee fans were so ecstatic the Rays beat out the Red Sux. Now they’re on fire and look like they’re gonna be a tough out.
No matter what ends up happening, I still loved every second.
And it doesn’t matter if the Yanks don’t beat Texas.
+10000000
If they beat us in the ALCS they deserve it.
Of course, we and they need to get there first.
Momentum shifts in an instant…
Let’s hope the change in pitchers means that Randazzo doesn’t give Fister the way wide outside strike on lefty batters that he was giving Verlander.
Randazzo made news earlier this year for tossing Papelbon and Varitek for complaining about a tight strike zone in a game against the A’s. I saw that game and thought his calls were mostly good, if tight. So he knows where the strike zone is; we’ll see if not having Cy Young/MVP on the mound gets him back on track.
I’m still amazed that Suzyn Waldman is an announcer for the Yankees.
I’m still amazed that Suzyn Waldman is an announcer
for the Yankees.Does it look like its going to start on time? No near a TV right now
It has started, so yes.
Jorge! Leadoff hitter!
Let’s go baby!
20 years from now someone will look at this box score and say WTF?
Here we come
Russel hustle!
Fister doesn’t look so scary now that he’s pitching against >.500 teams, huh?
Not a bad start/resuming
Gotta get the ball out of the infield here to score Posada.
Thanks for playing Jorge.
God he’s an idiot. Does something good then terrible.
Fuck
What the hell…. he could have just went back to 3rd
what the fuck are you doing Jorge?
…
Posada goes first to third, miraculously.
Somehow, it seemed like a given that would be atoned for.
It’s not a game without a stupid play from Posada.
Posada is the worst fucking baserunner ever
Even by Jorge’s standards, that was brutal.
Jorge Posada is the worst baserunner in the history of baseball, or close to the worst.
you have to be kidding me Posada.
Jorge… gtfo.
but also gardner can’t swing at that first pitch
It doesn’t Matter wether Jorge is 20 30 or 40 yrs old.. He’s a bad base runner.
I will not miss Jorge’s baserunning.
Thank you Fister. Now we got 2nd and 3rd again. No thanks to Jorge.
lol. a balk.
He’s gotta be one of the worst base runners in the history of baseball.
Balk bails out Jorge.
And a balk takes Jorge off the hook a bit. Back to 2nd and third, one out, as it should have been.
Fister can’t handle the pressure of Mystique and Aura.
Nice balk.
The stupidiest mother fucker to ever play baseball strikes again….exhibit number one why Jorge isn’t a Hall of Famer.
Being a bad baserunner doesn’t make a person stupid. It’s a skill too.
Jorge is a fucking imbecile.
Gotta take advantage and get that run in though.
WTF POSADA!!!!
THE GUY IS 40 YEARS OLD AND HE STILL DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO PLAY BASEBALL??
Is Fister’s fastball usually about 89-90?
yes
Captain Clutch
This would a brutal situation to blow in the early going.
DEVASTATING.
Not sure if sarcastic…
How much confidence will he gain if he gets out of this? We need to make him pay.
Looks like the ump is giving Fister the outside a bit
come on Granderson, drive these runs in
3-2 curveball
or change
Nostradamus I am not.
RISP fail. But maybe they rattled him.
Complete choke job.
That was a shit-ton of fail.
Womp womp
2nd and 3rd no outs. Jorge is an idiot and the two at the top flail away. This has been our problem all year.
cant blame Jorge because of the balk.
Fallacy and all, but that balk could have scored a run.
Umm, yes you can. He made a little league baserunning mistake in a postseason game. Also, if he were to have balked in that spot, it would have scored a run instead of just advancing them.
Again fallacy of the predetermined outcome.
The balks not guaranteed to happen if he didn’t make the baserunning mistake,.
I never said that it was. “IF he were to have balked.”
Just because a balk happened to come afterwards to move the runners up to the same spot, it doesn’t mean that Jorge is off the hook. It was a little league baserunning mistake. That should never happen in the postseason, and especially not from a veteran.
Well by that logic, if he had balked again after the first balk a run would have scored, too. There’s a pretty different mindset for a pitcher with 1st and 2nd than 2nd and 3rd.
Please try READING before you post. Do you realize how ridiculous you look right now?
But we don’t know if he would have balked had it just been 2nd and 3rd with Posada at 3rd, so it’s a moot point.
Again, THAT IS NOT WHAT I SAID.
I said that the balk is IRRELEVANT, because Jorge still made a HUGE MISTAKE. The main poster in this thread said that it doesn’t matter because the balk happened to make the situation identical.
It made the situation identical, but with Jeter already in the middle of an at bat. It changed the entire complexion of the inning, and he may not have attacked Jeter in that situation.
We are saying the SAME THING. Please try reading my post before you respond next time.
Good God, settle down and just watch the fucking game.
0-6 with RISP, according to Anderson.
It took only two innings to accumulate that number.
That sucked
Hmm… Fister’s fastball seems to be quicker.
Cant blame Jorge for that
They are soooooooo losing this game.
Everyday I’m trolling.
not great right there
damn, got bailed out
Disappointing inning. Oh well. As long as they don’t make a habit of stranding runs.
Shit.
It would have been nice to have Nova pitch with the lead.
That is downright pathetic. You cannot let opportunities like that slip away in the postseason, and especially not because you made a little league baserunning mistake. 0-6 with RISP and this game is already in the 2nd inning. The offense needs to start showing up.
0-6 with RISP and this game is already in the 2nd inning
lol
You’d think it was the 8th inning and the game was almost over.
It’s funny because it’s two separate days.
Even worse! They should’ve scored overnight!
Except everything that they did last night affects their ability to win tonight. If they got some hits in those spots last night, they might have a lead right now. It doesn’t matter when it happened, it has just as much an impact.
And if no Yankees hitter makes an out and the Yankees’ pitchers strike out every Tiger batter, the Yankees are guaranteed to win.
When games are over in the 2nd inning, why is it that the Yankees are always losing???
It’s the 3rd inning and they have one run, I don’t think it’s time yet to say the offense isn’t showing up
How many times have we seen posada blow it on third base? Unreal!
Actually consecutive games where a runner on 3rd got caught napping like that.
Just no one will ever confuse the speed of Jorge with that of Golson.
The difference is Posada has been a knucklehead on the bases for 15 years.
Not getting runs in with less than 2 outs and RISP is a recipe for disaster in the postseason. We missed a big chance to rattle Fister there. Now he’s settled down and will probably get in a groove.
Awesome job by the offense. Lets hope they stop choking soon or this could be a long night
“Hey Thompson, you see that, I got a hit, now I’m at 3rd! I’m so fast, I can’t be stopped. I think I’ll go home next play just for shits and giggs.”
- Jorge Posada
One pitch, one out. Me gusta.
The Yankees are tied after two. The sky is falling, the world is over. Don’t even bother playing the rest of the game or series. Just let Detroit through. What is wrong with people, really?
They want the offense to score runs every inning. They are afraid of another Bryan Bullington appearance.
Doug Fister >>>> Bryan Bullington.
Well people have that attitude for games in April, so it’s only intensified in the playoffs.
1-2-3 for Nova! Very good.
If he’s not going to give that low strike Nova might have problems as that’s his game. Fister got a 1st strike call vs Granderson that was high and outside. Lineup will have to adjust.
Let’s see it called a few times before calling it a pattern.
Yankee Stadium has become so tame. The quietest crowd of all the games I’ve seen today and it’s not even close.
Yes, I agree – watching Milwaukee, Texas, and Philly our crowd is way behind in noise level and excitement. I wonder whether opposing players also now see YS# as no biggie in terms of intimidation.
I think that’s more of a “that narrative was never true” kinda thing.
Ask B.Y. Kim about that.
It’s horribly subjective, but I’m sure opposing crowds can get under some players skin. Whether they should be mentally tough to tune that stuff out is an entirely different matter.
Did BY Kim give up those runs because of the Mystique and Aura? He’s said that?
I was just talking about opposing crowds possibly having an influence.
I never gave thought to mystique and aura.
Probably become playoff home games are much less common in Milwaukee or Texas, and everyone in Philly is more than likely drunk.
Think of Atlanta late in their playoff run, but still with the ability to sell out the stadium. Just getting to the playoffs and what-not almost certainly means more to a Brewers fan than a Yankees fan, and it reflects in their collective buzz at the games.
Not a criticism, just what I suspect is the case.
If the Yankees keep averaging 3 baserunners an inning, I like their chances to score runs.
nice Nova
Nova will kill them for 5 innings then ro to mo
jorge with his usual brilliance on the basepaths. 15 year vet and still no clue.
way to go Jorge…….
Just imagine if Doug Fister signed with the Yankees when he was drafted in 2005..
Screwed by innings limits, bullpen back-and-forth, followed by TJ surgery?
hahahaha
No, he wasn’t a first round pick or highly touted, so he would have been treated normally like Ivan Nova.
LEGGOOO, Yanks!!
This freaking inside strike.
That’s why Jeter struck out.
Jeter struck out because he swung at a pitch almost a foot inside
Two. Swung at the same pitch for strike two and three.
WHy did he swing in the first place? Because Fister had gotten the inside strike call? Dont you see?
he got a called strike 2-3 inches off the plate so Jeter has to swing at 2 pitches a foot off the plate????
http://www.brooksbaseball.net/.....type=3.gif
That pitch was not a strike.
Try to make that distinction in 1 second with the ball coming at you.
that’s his job, and those pitches were nowhere near the strike zone
This feels really weird. I always follow the pitch count of the opposing “starter” but it’s pretty irrelevant tonight. Weird…
Yikes, I hope Arod doesn’t swing through many more fastballs like that.
Oh ARod…
how are these guys missing his fastball?
Late movement.
Nice AB, Tex.
fister looked sharp that inning
YANKEES: Stop striking out, please.
Offense looks lost. Nova’s going to have to keep them down.
Hell of an AB by Mark Teixeira. Good to see him pick it up in the postseason.
And you think Posada’s base running is bad, watch this!
Has Teixeira ever hit a changeup?
Jeez.
Remember we had trouble against Fister when he was with Seattle this year.
If he keeps getting that inside strike, he will be tough to beat.
Really?
http://www.baseball-reference......7260.shtml
Seems to suggest we won.
He pitched well in that game though, but not a “lights-out” performance by any means.
They did a representative job against Fister the one time they faced him.
Three runs in 5-6 innings isn’t all that bad.
Jesus Christ we are making a pansy named Fister look like Walter Johnson.
Look at his ERA this season.
He’s pitched two innings, and the Yankees had 2nd and 3rd 1out in one of those innings. Relax.
Supposed to be a reply to Dalelama.
I’m just saying that Fister is not a pansy by any means
(insert joke here).
Look at the teams he faced since joining Detroit.
He had a 3.00 ERA when he was with Seattle too.
Look at the teams he faced in Seattle.
In the AL West.
Team has a chance to break the game open early, fails miserably, opposing pitcher settles in and shuts them down. I’ve seen this movie before.
Wow nice inning guys
Was there beer being consumed in the club house pre game?
Oh wait thats the redsox.
awesome choke job by the offense so far
It’s only a choke job if you believed all the comments saying that since the Yankees beat Detroit in the regular season then they’ll easily sweep them now. Regardless of how quality Fister or Verlander are.
Fister has a 3.00 FIP it was never going to be easy.
Im actually going by what Im seeing and thats a bunch of hittable pitches left down the middle and a bunch of missed opportunities in only a couple of innings.
Yanks had a losing record against Detroit. (Only team other tnan Red Soz)
Jesus I thought the Yankees easily swept Detroit based on how ‘easy’ this series was going to be.
Choke job? What were you expecting? 15 runs already?
0 for 6 with RISP
Is that choking or not performing? They’re tied, I’m not worried right now.
this umpire fucking sucks, the zone is so much smaller for Nova than it is for Fister
I was just going to say that.
Yeah, seems he’s getting squeezed a bit.
theres no strike called in the bottom of the zone
Probably won’t stop guys from pounding it into the ground.
Don’t do it Delmon.
Nova should really be trying to find out if the umpire will give him that pitch off the plate inside to righties. Still, he looks good.
I hope noesi is half as good as nova has turned out to be next year.
Stadium looks kinda empty for a playoff game.
My guess is there’s people that had tickets yesterday and couldn’t go today.
Thats gotta be it, but its amazing how many Legends seats are empty, seems like you can still buy them for the other games on ticketmaster too.
Hey look there are fans at the game!!!
Good thing for us Nova looks good. Offense needs to get him a few runs then it’s over.
Seriously. I for one can’t breathe until the Yankees get their first lead in the playoffs. Then I can relax.
whoa… struck out the yankee killer!
It’s hard to believe that at one point this year, Nova was sent to AAA because there wasn’t room in the rotation for him.
The announcing is always terrible with TBS but how many times have they talked about Magglio like he’s early 2000′s or 2007 Magglio…the guy was a -1.0 fWAR last year….think about that
WAR? TBS is still explaining WHIP to the audience.
Ok, well he’s got a .634 OPS and 5 HR and 32 RBI this year. Old school or sabermetrics, it doesn’t matter.
Yeah he’s terrible by any measure. But he hit the HR that sent the Tigers into the World Series!!! Five years ago…
Nova looks good so far. We’re gonna win this shit.
How is it possible that despite the Yankees having the best record in the AL this year, yours is almost the only comment that is optimistic. Is there something that makes Yankees fans (or the ones that post here) so pessimistic?
Is it just me or does john smoltz clearly want the tigers to win
He used to play for the Braves when they lost in the World Series to the Yankees twice, and he spent a small part of his career in Boston, so I’m not surprised if he even has a little Yankee hate in him.
Not to mention he is from Michigan and was drafted by the Tigers.
I think the entire MSM media wants the Tigers to win, and thinks Fister is Cliff Lee.
John Smoltz just wants the yankees to lose no matter who plays against them
I’m feeling Jorge might juice one tonight.
To refresh everyone’s memory, Randazzo was behind the plate for the Yanks-Twins ALDS game last year where he called literally two dozen outside pitches by Twins pitchers as strikes, but also missed a strike to Berkman on the inside corner which was the greatest travesty in umpiring history.
No, that was Wendelstedt.
You’re right. I confused it with the Colby Lewis debacle in the ALCS last year. In any event, Randazzo has a very wide strike zone and batters just have to deal with it.
Hah, which debacle?
They sucked in both games he pitched.
“He’s like Warren Zevon’s ‘Excitable Boy’…”
Yes. He’s just like the sociopath rapist murderer character in that song. But you know – the baseball equivalent.
IETC
That makes sense. More strikeouts against the guy with a career 5.52 K/9.
He’s been striking out a lot more recently – recently struck out 13 in a game.
He has 2 really high strikeout games against Cleveland and that is fueling the narrative of he’s more of a strikeout pitcher since coming to Detroit….
Minus thoes two games he has 2,5,5,6,5,7,5,0 K’s (obviously not 9 inning outings but a K rate in line with his #’s in Seattled)
Its like they are swinging with their eyes closed
Well at least he saved us some time and made the out before he got on base
Someone please put Posada out of his fucking misery.
Why the F**K is Posada on the roster! He Sucks!
Of everything Fister might be, he’s not a K pitcher.
So nice job striking out a fricken ton against him.
9.0 K/9 in September
Huge sample size..
34.0 IP, meanwhile 6 at bats seem to be ok with.
Clevland Indians 13K’s, 9K’s
Take out those 2 games and his K rate is 5.6/9 with the Tigers.
Fister is doing a fantastic job of locating his pitches in and getting the Yankees off balance.
As opposed to “Boo our offense sucks” like everybody else says around here.
Yeah, sometimes its the pitcher’s fault the offense can suck.
Unpossible. If they Yankees don’t hit, it’s because they’re chokers.
They absolutely blew a chance to take the lead, guys are completely missing or taking pitches in the zone and swinging at pitches out of the zone. A lot of it has to do with Fister but a lot of it is due to a bad approach at the plate.
It’s fucking Doug Fister for fuck sakes!!!!!!!!
I dont care if its Sidney Ponson! Sometimes the pitcher needs to be given some credit.
Go on. Is Doug Fister a terrible pitcher or something?
Fister must be Seattle’s way of saying “I’m sorry” to Detroit for the Jarrod Washburn trade a couple of years ago.
Is it me or do the TBS crew have on their Tigers cheerleading outfits?
So is OS something that’s used only at one’s convenience?
i didn’t think the offense would strike out this much so quickly. i just hope yanks get another opportunity before the tigers get ti nova
John smolts and ron darling both huge yankee fans. At least big ernie isnt here this year.
When are the yankees going to start looking inside for the ball
All of our hitters are wiffing against Fister, not just posada
Good game this far
Nova getting a little Joe Pesci there.
3-2 slider, talk about confidence
Dear TBS,
Please stop stalking about Doug Fister when Ivan Nova is pitching.
Thanks
*talking
Nova looks good. If I have to hear the word “fister” one more time I am going to break something.
Nova is not a Randazzo fan
If he reaches to grab it, then it could have been called a ground-rule double instead of a double that scores Grandy. Don’t risk the run; right move to not touch it.
Ugh. reply fail obviously.
Oh God…that isn’t going to help the zone.
New strike zone, sweet.
Poor ump, I dont wish any serious injury to him but hopefully he wont be able to continue behind the plate tonight and we get a REAL umpire with a fair strikezone
Poor Umpire
fake Mike Francesa on twitter:
“DA UMPIYAH IS DOWN FA DA COUNT! Settle down Nover!”
lmao.
This makes me wonder. If Fister hits somebody…. Do they call it “getting fisted?”
oh shit, here we go.. settle down Nova
please get out of this
WOOOOOOOO
Jeter!!!!!
Fuck Yea!
Wow
JETER!
No speed on the bases = hard to score from second. Heh.
Great play there. From Granderson, to Jeter and of course Martin. Well done.
awesome play Jeets!
Martin especially
Agree. Martin is so damn tough.
When did Posada get traded to the Tigers?
No talk about jeters great throw nice TBS
The Yanks are getting the Washington Generals treatment by the TBS guys.
They only want to talk about the dude with the pornstar name
Beautiful play there.
Now get noted Yankee Killer Wilson Betemit out.
Scary situation, good hitter at the plate and Nova has lost his command
Uhoh, not Betemit.
Exhale.
Good.
So both teams waste an opportunity
Great pitching there. Hopefully we can get something going now.
So awesome.
phewwww that woulda sucked if they scored
Hope Nova wasn’t showing signs of having those old second-time-through-the-order blues
.
that was close
Who are the announcers for this game on TBS right now? Don’t recognize the voices…
Lead guy is the Brewers announcer.
Brian Anderson (Brewers announcer) Ron Darling and John Smoltz.
Thanks
I want Gardy to lay down a bunt and get on base here.
Not what I had in mind.
Take the damn lead. SoRo(for 2 innings)Mo.
If they scored it could have been over. Somebody has to get something going off Fister. Gardner get on base and disrupt him. He’s too locked in now and our righties are just flailing away at that inside pitch.
Momentum.
Big Games James gives up 7ER…. hopefully that series goes the distance.
It’s time to score like six runs
Betimite without him we have no Swiher,
Gardner get this mothafucker started now.
This strikezone is just dumb.
haha that 1-1 pitch is a ball???
Lets hang a snowman.
I think Darling is dating Fister.
If it was the daytime, that’s one’s gone
Thought it was gone, damnit.
But Delmon Young’s is a homer but not Gardner’s smh.
it looks like Jeter of the beginning of the season
Fister has put 11 straight.
Brutal.
*put down
**in moments before Granderson’s single.
Steal please.
Finally a baserunner.
Comon Cano, more than grounder to second please
Dontcha know
It’s time for Cano to get going.
ROBBIE!!!!
That ball was gone. Take a look at the replay.
Hows that not a HR???
ROBBIE!
CANO! That ball had to be gone.
CANO!!!
They gotta at least review that.
My reaction to that was YESSS. NOOOO. YESSSSS.
That looked like a homer…
JUST missed it.
Great piece of hitting in any case with the oppo power.
That’s soooooooo sickening
LOL. It was an RBI double. I wish all hits were that sickening.
yes now that’s what im talkin about Cano!
hit the top of the wall, totally a HR.
it has to go over the wall for HR
Meh, it was a double.
Whats the rule? Is it a HR if it hits that white on top of the wall?
Thank you smart fans…. if they touch that Granderson’s probably stuck at 3rd base on a ground rule double.
Does TBS even know what the fuck they are talking about?
Looks like a double
why did the fans back away instead of catching it?
Damn.
Can’t a fan grab it once it touches the top of the wall?
Damn kid shoulda grabbed it
Weak. Fans in the front row gotta pull that in.
They all must’ve watched the Bartman doc.
Help the home team
Or didnt know who Jeffrey Mair was?
Seriously.
and if they rule double… Granderson’s stuck on 3rd.
No, because it’s not a ground rule double.
Yeah and Granderson was on 1st when the ball was hit. By letting it play out he scores from first on the double.
If they rule fan interference and just a double it’s 2nd and 3rd no run in.
If he grabs it before it hits the fence, it looks like a dinger, and they call dinger. It would be reviewed because of how close it was. If they then rule double it would have to be a double where they don’t allow Grandy to score…
Awesome!
oops… reply fail.
If he pulls it in, there’s the possibility they rule he reached too far and call it a ground rule 2B. Then no run scores. I doubt he had time to think about it, but it wound up being the right move not to grab it.
That guy in the NY jacket needs to catch that. I would boo that man.
How the hell did that ball bounce backward onto the field?????
That ball goes out what 98 or 100 times if you hit is there? Sick sick sick
that ball touched the fan and came back
Fan should have made a grab for it.
or maybe not, not sure
Isn’t that white line a HR? What are the announcers talking about?
That’s not a white line. That’s the flattop of the wall.
Oh ok got it.
Just our luck Robbie hits the ball to the only wanker in YS that won’t try to catch the ball.
Once it hits and still is in fair territory and then bounces, if it bounces off fan isn’t it then a grounds rule double?
dang! how does he not try to catch that ball??!
Still have the lead, in any case.
Insurance would be nice – one more inning and this game is in the late inning ‘pen’s hands.
Comon A-Rod, time to get over your suckiness
not today… 0-7 with RISP
they are going to miss those runs later
Oh well, keep it movin Alex!
ok now lets score 7 more runs.
Arod, Cano, Grandy, and Gardner all got good swings off him. Keep em down for at least one more Nova and we’ll win this ballgame.
AROD CHOKED!
Do the Yankees get a HR review every postseason? Seem like it.
arod just missed that one
Longo with a three run shot.
Cripes. There’s no killing that team anymore. Suddenly a 7-6 game with nine long outs left for Texas.
See if that vaunted bullpen can get it done.
I think that’s awesome. My parents are at that game (I was supposed to go but my stepmom who does not like baseball decided she wanted to go).
Texas new crack bullpen personified by Koji Uehara comes through -LOL
A Rod with the warning track power.
Good baserunning by Grandy to keep running otherwise we wouldnt have scored.
Longo hit a 3 run bomb off Koji Uehara. do not want to face him right now.
3 well hit fly balls and a clean liner that inning
I really thought Darling was going to cry if they called that a HR.
SImple solution. Paint a yellow line at the top of that wall.
Why do you walk him?
How the hell does he walk Jackson? Please dont choke now Nova… Shut them down
If Nova gets through the 6th unscathed, do you go SoRoMo or do you give him another inning?
Another inning. Do not want Soriano at all.
Nova looking really shaky right now
Nova has no command of his breaking stuff right now.
Evan Longoria is a beast. That is all.
Ugh, that’s a bad job there by Nova. You can’t lead off an inning by walking a guy with a OBP less than 32%, after the team gave you a lead.
Could really use a DP here..
TBS just switched me to Rays-Rangers. Get it right.
Wow…TBS pulling out all the stops in the postseason…
Walking Austin Jackson after an 0-2 count is grounds for demotion.
I love that Gardy has more SB than the entire Tigers team.
I almost had a mini heart attack when they switched to Rays/Rangers there for a moment.
YES BABIP!
Wow, that worked out well. Good job Nova.
That was fortuitous.
better to be lucky than good…
Right place.
YES!
Hahahaha nice.
AJax is going to be a premium basestealer someday?
As he runs into a double play. Awesome.
that was epic.
Awesome break for the Yankees.
Holy BABIP!
Haha. epic fail.
Thank you baseball gods…
That turned into the luckiest, and easiest, DP in baseball history.
No complaints.
Sweet, sweet luck
Holy moly what a break!
Lucky and good!
WTF TBS. I wanted to see that.
So smooth, Robbie. Way to miss the catch, TBS.
Swish!
Nice camera work TBS. HOLY SHIT WHAT A CATCH SWISH.
nice double play
Well. Inning over, then.
That exact thing happened to me as a hitter during my senior year and first AB at state except it was a linedrive that was just like a throw down to second…easy DP. Sucked. ALMOST as bad as TBS and their “coverage”.
HUGE break Jackson was running. Otherwise it’s 1st and 3rd with no outs.
Wow, nice camera work TBS.
At least they showed the replay.
TBS is the worst.
Swish with the D.
Epic fail by TBS
I did not even see that 3rd out. WTF TBS?
GJ TBS camera crew.
TBS BLOWS how do they keep getting post season ball?
A lot of this: $$$$$$$$$$$$
Money
$$$$$$
That worked out well Austin.
Also I’m glad TBS allowed us to watch Jackson walk back to the dugout and totally miss Swisher’s catch.
Good going TBS.
You don’t like shots of the opposing dugout when a ball is put in play?
1.) Whoever is in the TBS truck must be getting a handjob.
2.) Swisher didn’t need to dive.
3.) Nice shut-down inning right there.
Game directed by my distracted 4 year old nephew during that Swisher play
TBS is really great. First, they confound their viewers by switching it to the Texas/Tampa game unexpectedly, and then miss another great defensive play by the Yanks.
TBS…very funny (camera work)
Seriously next time someone bitches about any aspect of a YES broadcast, think of what watching this would be like all year.
They make you miss Michael Kay.
Time for the bottom of the lineup to do something
All of the right handed hitters have made the adjustment and are taking the sinker away to the opposite field or back through the middle.
Now it’s time to start recognizing that and adjust back, and throw some pitches inside to get them off of that pitch.
The results have been good, but there have been a lot of hard hit line drives and lucky balls hit right at fielders. Need to start making the adjustment now before somebody gets a real hold of one of those pitches.
We’re getting to this guy now. That’s another guy with a good swing. Get him home.
Nice oppo double Tex.
Yay Teix
Tex the other way!
Wow that swing the other way was Tex in his Texas days.
I think I’d go to the pen to start the 7th. Nova is starting to look shaky the last 2 innings.
Absolutely with the middle of the order due up.
If we get another run, I’d go batter to batter with Nova.
I think you still start the inning with Nova, however go batter to batter with him.
Yanks figured Fister out: go the other way.
I can’t believe Tex went that far the other way with power
Do…. not… bunt….
Please dont bunt
Does anyone know why Swish always looks up at the scoreboard (I’m assuming) right before pitches? really odd
Says a prayer to his grandparents.
Thanks!
salute to his grandmother.
….and he sucks.
He looks up towards the sky to pay respects to his Grandmother–who has passed away–who raised him.
TBS(Total BS) is dreadful
Not as bad as CBS (Can’t Broadcast Sports).
or F(ail)OX.
Pinch hit with Jesus here please.
You know Posada got a hit off the guy right?
His 2011 persona is a sucky hitter regardless.
BS Strike 3.
That was a HELL of a pitch.
Agreed.
Swisher kills bad pitching but anything good and he is a black hole.
Bullshit strike call
“Hey, this computer graphic that we control is going to show you how awesome Fister is”
Pitch f/x had it good (the TBS graphic is crap though)
http://www.brooksbaseball.net/.....type=3.gif
Swisher complete and utter futility in postseason continues.
Does have a .197babip in the postseason
Tino was a horrendous postseason hitter too. Not everyone has it I suppose…
Posada leans away from a changeup away???
don’t waste the leadoff double please. Thanks
Can I get a pinch umpire?
Ha.
Every time the yanks gain momentum listen to how the announcers voice change
Fister is living on that low outside corner.
Cap Anson currently has more speed than the Yanks baserunners LOL.
He wanted no part of Jorgie. Make em pay, Martin.
It must suck for Smoltz to be sitting and watching the same players in the playoffs now who used to beat his team’s ass into the ground in the World Series.
Granderson needs to get with the program now.
Is it too early to pinch run for Posada? (I say no)
Pitching coach for Tigers looks like…well, let’s say he’s not in top shape.
So he looks like Josh Beckett?
Russ wants that pitch back.
Squeeze!!
Speaking of black holes gardner up..pitch hit nunez please.
You must feel terrible.
lol
This crow taste delious.
Shoot one past Betemit the other way. FIST IT THAT WAY!
BRETT GARDNER!!!!!!!
letz ggooooooo
HUGE!!!!!!
FISTED!!!!!!!!!!
I laughed.
Boom.
Gardy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GARDY!!!!
GARDY!
Now steal 2nd.
Gardner is hot!
CLUTCH!!
My bad that was gritty.
BG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Chokers are managing to score somehow.
LMAO I know, right?
What the hell are these chokers trying to prove?
Not cool.
Change your handle please, we already have a V.
Gardy!!!!!!!
Atta keeeeeeeeeeeeed!!!!!!!!
Gardner!
Brett mother fucking gardner
fucking huge hit…that was a god awful 0-2 pitch though
That’s a back breaker for Detroit. HUGE hit for Gardner.
yes Gardner!!
GARDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
COmon Jeter, stop watching that pitch..
Now there’s even less reason to bring in Soriano
See Fister is getting the calls inside on Jeter.
3 inches inside, not a foot inside
On Martin’s ground out I thought they could have gotten Jorgie at 2nd. It’s almost as if Jorgie slowed up. That cost them a run.
Really? Avila threw out less than a 1/3 of would be base stealers.
Finish this one off Grandy.
Jeter fists it through the hole!!!
My God I have such a dirty mind. hahaha
Jeter’s clutch as always. Great piece of hitting.
Funny, we steal 2nd and it leaves a hole….they steal second and it’s a tailor made DP
Haha where was the 2nd baseman??
Fortuna is favoring the Yankees so far.
Let us put them away so we can save the pen for tomorrow
The pen is WELL rested. Any more rest would equal rust.
looks like they might be locked on Fister
Asked last night to little response, Who wins the Gold Glove at catcher this year? Gotta be between Martin and Avila right?
So hard to compare. Martin was great, but since I only watch the Yankees, it’s hard to compare catchers defense.
I meant to say it’s hard to say how we was compared to Avila
he* goddamnit
wow, gift 1st strike
WOW that was 8 inches outside
Cannot keep giving that pitch to Fister, Randazzo!
It’s getting a bit absurd as it seems to keep moving outside a bit more.
That first pitch was garbage:
http://www.brooksbaseball.net/.....type=3.gif
IT would be nice to blow this open and save Ro and Mo for tomorrow.
With the 3 run lead the Yanks should start Nova in the 7th, IMO.
I agree. I’d let him pitch at least until someone got on base.
Even in a compliment Smoltz takes a shot. -______-
That’s the first -_______- I’ve seen since being at RAB.
First time for everything
Is that an edit? Was a bad word uttered?
Guess they pull Nova? Kinda sucks, would like to save the pen for tomorrow/the rest of the series.
The bullpen is well rested. None of the main guys have pitched since Wednesday.
Check that, Tuesday.
The Grandy man can!!!
Come on Grandy, fist one over the wall.
I like this plan.
Someone needs to punch Randazzo on the right side of his jaw
Where is the TBS crew Fister love?
bases loaded, gotta for Robbie. oh yes
They are going to bring in Coke.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE bring in Coke to face Robbie
Ooooh they’re bringing Coke in for Cano??
*licks chops*
3 runs in 4 2/3 innings….all hail the mighty Doug Fister, right TBS?
Let’s see Cano make it 6 runs….
Bring in the lefty to face Cano!
Mwahahahahahahahahahahaha
Not just any lefty….
If we get any more here you leave Nova in for the rest of the ballgame as long as he doesn’t get in trouble. Huge AB because we can save our big 3 relievers for the next three ballgames.
How much rest do they need? They haven’t pitched in ages.
whos afraid of Fister now
No they are going to go with Alburquerque. Interesting
The Yankees have figured out “#2 starter” Fister tonight. Some of us were saying that he hadn’t faced many good offenses on his run. It shows tonight. They are just waiting him out now and/or taking him to the opposite field. Fister mystique over.
Granderson just worked one of his many long at-bats. 8 pitch walk. FYI, Granderson led the AL in pitches per plate appearance.
No one better to have up here.
Al Alburqurquequeque?
Isnt Al Alburquerque just another copy of Carlos Marmol.
NO WAY!!!
ROBBIE!!!!!!!!!!!!
ROBBIE CANO DONTCHA KNOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!
Ohhh… baby….
pass the salami
He hit that shit to Albequerque
Oh Robbie dont be SO MEAN!
Let’s go Cano.
DONT YA KNO ROB CANO
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Fisted into right field….AND GONE!!!!
Prince of the city!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Take that bitches!!!!! ROBBIE!!!!!!!!!!
Fuck ya Robbie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dontcha Know, Robinson Cano!!!!!!!!
MVP MVP MVP MVP MVP
Stay with Nova? Stay with Nova. Thanks Robbie!
yup. Nova has three innings left easy. Nothing else even makes sense.
HEY GUYS, ROBBIE HEARD WE WANTED A SIGNATURE POSTSEASON MOMENT FROM HIM!
CANO! B E A utiful!
tigers manager should get fired for that one
Dancing in my cubicle. W00t!!!
Robinson mothafuckin Cano.
ROBBIE CANO! Remember when this guy couldn’t hit in the clutch?
Robbie fuckin’ Cano.
What a titanic blast.
hahahahahahaha i knew it damn!!
Yeah he might do OK in the #3 spot…
I feel better now.
Robinson Cano puts an end to the Detroit bullpen comparison to ours. Boom. 8-1.
#FistersERAfail
Oh Cano. He’s like, I told you I can hit anything.
Perfect time for an ARod solo shot, Tartabullesuqe
I leave Nova in.
Now I agree. Leave him out there until he shows that he’s fading. The bullpen will get some work in the next couple of days. No need to burn them now.
52 pitches? 7 run lead?
I let him finish unless he gets into trouble.
Let Supernova take us home. Save that pen for the next 3 games, especially tomorrow with Freddy and Tuesday with AJ.
Doesn’t count
It wasn’t gritty
Guys it’s freakin’ insane how good Robbie Cano is.
Look at his numbers the last two seasons with the bases loaded. Holy Fuck he’s amazing.
I thought Al Alburquerque was the best 7th inning man?
He’s the Best Setup Man*
No no, that’s Benoit. Albuquerque is The Best Strikeout Reliever In Baseball***.
Also happy to see Alex has hit the ball hard a couple of times.
Agreed. Very good at bats. No results yet. And that is so key because no one is gonna pitch to Cano after tonight.
yes
Yankees are a bunch of chokers who can’t hit with RISP
/Most of the people here an hour ago.
And like that, they’re all quiet.
That inning was ridiculous!
So much to like in this game.
One more inning for Nova, then let Hughes and/or Wade finish it?
Nova only has 55 pitches, let him finish it
sexiest swing in baseball… and perfect form on the bat flip
Little Dougie just got Fisted.
If these guys are this locked in we’re gonna crush HR Scherzer tomorrow. He’s a bad guy to pitch in Yankee Stadium.
Hopefully no SOROMO tonight if so a double victory.
Nova needs to do what he’s done all year and pitch with a lead. No dicking around, take us to the 8th at least with no more than one more run.
Derek Jeter and A-Rod has handed down the keys to Cano and both have said, its yours now.
I don’t think ARod will be saying this before he sees what next year brings for him.
ALL with 2 outs that’s a back breaker
I AM SO HORNY
I laughed.
You know, there’s websites that can help you with that….
It’s all Robbie’s fault, that SLAM!!!!
With a 7 run lead let Nova finish it out (if he can of course).
1st post-season grand slam for the Yanks since the epic one that Tino hit in the 1998 WS.
Didn’t Ledee hit one?
Yes, 1999 ALCS against the Red Sox
http://www.baseball-reference......0170.shtml
Wow thats kinda hard to believe.
Well the ESPN radio guys let me down. LOL
Robbie Cano #3 hitter for years to come.
And we get to save SoRoMo. I think we’re likely to need more pen help with Garcia in game 2 and AJ in game 4. And even with CC in 3 you expect a close game with Verlander. Now we don’t have to worry about having to pitch them 4 straight days.
Murderer’s Row and Cano.
/2006′d
That’s what you get for having a CRAP strikezone.
This ump is getting a message from the baseball gods about his performance.
Right in the pills
that grand slam, I called it at the pizza shop
did you order your pie with Salami?
I did order 2 pieces of pie!
I had a feeling he’d hit a grand slam, does that count? haha
that was an epic at-bat by vmart
Comon Nova, throw strikes and bring us home
Avila hits it to Gardner. Just like they drew it up.
I was just thinking that. Gardy hardly moved to catch it.
Great job by Nova
Like I said earlier, we’re gonna win this shit. Finish them Nova.
Kindly go the fuck away.
http://riveraveblues.com/2011/.....nt-2945785
The line to high-five me is a half mile long.
If only the redsox’s and yankee’s could switch 2nd basemen to get a real gritty mvp.
If Pedroia played for the Yankees he wouldn’t be gritty. Only Red Sox players are gritty.
/ESPN’d
He’d have to lose that facial hair. It gives him the grit.
he also has to be shorter
I call blown save for Feliz.
A great idea. If only for the dashed hopes of Rangers fans.
Only have one out to go, but we’ve seen this movie before..
Dammit, didn’t blow the save. Oh well, Tampa took one and they have Price and Hellickson with home field against Harrison and Lewis.
Yeah I like their chances. If nothing else, they can send the series to 5.
Going with the long version…. nice….
I miss the fat bigot guy he had better pipes
I was about to say…is this not the playoffs? Where is Ronan Tynan?
I think he got deported for making an off color remark about Jews.
I know I wish he still sang, but he no longer does it because he made some racial remarks and so the yanks didn’t want to get involved or have any thing to do with the situation….to bad
I just read the Wikipedia entry on what he said. Speaking as a jew who went to college in the UK…that was just him attempting to make banter, and he just said it to the wrong person. Too bad.
“God Bless America” is a lousy song*, and doesn’t belong in the seventh inning stretch.
*solely as a song. There are much better patriotic songs, such as, say, the freakin’ anthem.
It’s pure jingoism.
She’s no Ronan Tynan.
They probeley wear the same underwear.
Big Game James did not come up big tonight…
Neither did Mr. Fister.
Mister Fister.
/petergriffinlaugh
Texas ties the series at a game a piece
Hell yes!
Now let’s get Jesus some post season experience with a pinch hit for Jorge and all will be complete.
That would be a forward thinking move from Girardi
unfortunately Joe’s mind seems to be stuck in reverse
annnnnnd… he’s not thinking that far in advance…
And that’s why it didn’t happen.
Jesus is BC he is not pitching for Po this series. If martin goes down no replacement
Martin has made sure he isn’t going down by providing a baseball uppercut to the chin and balls of the ump.
Smart guy.
Hopefully that single is a sign of whats to come
I thought the same thing after his strong 2010 ALDS.
Hey look, Swish got a hit!
If anyone told me before this series that we’d have an 8-1 lead in a game started by Verlander…
YCPB
Great now we get to hear TBS talk about how Verlander can only pitch once.
But isn’t Fister, the stud # 2 pitcher going twice vs Nova a huge advantage?
/narrative’d
Verlander threw 8 shutout inings againt the yankees this season?
I think they are talking about Scherzer.
In spring training maybe?
2 starts, 6IP each, 3ER each, 2 Detroit losses.
I doubt a starting pitcher would ever go 8 innings in a Spring Game. But they’re talking about Scherezer: http://espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=310504106
Smoltz has said, “assuming [the Tigers] don’t come back” 4 times in the last 2 innings. Idiot.
If only I could come back…
TBS tells us tomorrow Garcia is supposed to throw batting practice to Detroit?
Thanks guy why even play it?
Everyone (MSM) said that Fister would out-pitch Nova.
I’m sick and tired of the MSM making these predictions that go against the Yankees, especially since they’ve been wrong pretty much all the time.
0-45
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/.....xpertpicks
Who cares? As long as the Yankees keep winning.
http://riveraveblues.com/2011/.....nt-2947078
word.
The TBS guys took pointers from ESPN sunday night guys
LOL, they may hit Freddy but we’ll hit too. I do give them credit for mentioning that Scherzer isn’t the type of pitcher that will fare well in Yankee Stadium against this power lineup.
Kill them all, Nova
Honestly, Chrysler making Detroit the centerpiece of its new ad campaigns is pretty dumb. Does anybody have positive associations with Detroit anymore? It’s not 1955, Detroit has been a cesspool for more than a generation.
lol I can’t believe the Red Sox’s pen had the 4th best ERA in the AL.
Bard and Papelbitch were two of the very best relievers this season, at least before september lol
Yeah but they sucked at beer pong agaist slacky and slosh beckett.
But, but, they had Daniel Bahhhhhd, and Jonathan Papelbon AKA The Greatest Closah Evahhh!
One worry for tomorrrow- they may start intentionally walking Cano (unless bases loaded) – putting pressure on Alex. ARod did have one deep drive to ceneter but otherwise has not looked very good at plate.
Jeter
Grandy
Cano
Tex
Arod
Swisher Fixes that.
Yes, but I expect Arod to be in clean-up spot tomorrow since righthander will also be starting.
Good job by Girardi moving Ribbinson to 3rd in the lineup against RHP. He deserves credit for that move.
It should have been done a long time ago, but I do give him credit for doing it at all. It would have been very easy for him to just leave it because that’s the way it had been all season and he didn’t want to disrupt anything. Good move.
Right, you can say it should have been done earlier, but I doubt many managers would make that move at all. But it was a necessary and proper move to make, considering Teix’s decline as a LHB.
+1
Evening would not be complete without another Austin Jackson strikeout.
Too bad he didn’t get on base so we could see his premium base stealing skillz.
Those premium skills will be coming soon.
Next year?
Nova continues to impress.
Nova is pitching great but of course the sports networks will say he had a big lead to work with.
That’s just how it works. I’ll take the winning over the media loving the Yankees. Ask Boston fans that.
He’s a product of run support.
Now Fister…. there’s a genuine #2 if we look at 10 starts against so-so competition.
/Narrative’d
They already started that narrative by (paraphrasing) stating that he’s made the most of the leads given to him. He’s lucky that it was his turn.
Meanwhile, he wasn’t given that lead until the 6th inning. But I guess that ruins their narrative.
Cano is trying to become the new Mr. October. 6 RBIs tonight??? Wow!!!
If nova finishes this games does he get the win or a save??
It’d have to be a win, because if it was a save, who’d get the win?
Yeah, CC can’t qualify for the win — by reason of not having gone 5 and of not being on the mound when the go-ahead runs scored. Just think of it like a pitcher getting taken out for injury in the 2nd inning.
Another oddity: had those extra 4 runs not scored, and SoRoMO had completed the game, Nova would have earned the win despite throwing only 4 innings — not meeting the usual starting pitcher’s mark.
Should have continued “Just think of it like a pitcher getting taken out for injury in the 2nd inning” and his replacement picking up the win.
win
Ivan “I must break you” Nova.
Can Nova start tomorrow too?
Some failed narratives from tonight. Nova getting few props. #shame
“BobKlap Bob Klapisch
Fister gets hitters to swing at almost 40 percent of his pitches out of the strike zone. Delivery is long, complicated, lots of angles.”
“Joelsherman1 Joel Sherman
Walk, long pitch count which so big to #Yankees attack even in 1 inning v. Verlander is useless v. Fister (4 BBs in last 57.2IP) #Tigers”
“Joelsherman1 Joel Sherman
Remember ALCS last yr all talk of how will #Yankees cope with Lee and were done in by Colby Lewis? Maybe Verlander/Fister will be same”
“Buster_ESPN Buster Olney
Weird situation for Joe Girardi to judge: Nova throwing well, but when does he go to Soriano/Robertson/Rivera, as usual?”
Thing is, Nova isn’t Gritty.
Smoltz: You look at Fister’s line and think he got bombed, unfortunately, but he really pitched good…
Or something like that.
I couldn’t believe he just said that. The icing on the cake of a Smoltz evening.
Well if the runners were stranded…. his line would be:
4.2IP, 7 hits, 3ER, 2BB
That’s good right?
/Smoltzcompletingthenarrative’d
As good as Smoltz pitched for the Red Sox.
Unbelievable. Just when you think it’s an improvement over ESPN, you get this level of crap.
Funny how he pitched good: (should be he pitched well, sorry for nitpicking but the guy is on National TV)
4.2, 6 earned. Oh and two walks, didn’t he have like 5 in his last 52 innings or something like that?
Wow, Smoltz is totally oblivious to those events?
Looks like Jeter hit that ball past …Jeter
Is this guy really questioning if the ball Jeter got back is real? I quit.
Smoltz sounding bored talking about Jeter’s 3000.
at this point, it’s not THAT interesting of a topic.
He’s not “talking about Jeter’s 3000.” He’s sneering at it.
Think Michael Kay will say “This series is over!” on the post game show?
Didn’t he say that last year after Game 1 of the ALCS?
(Btw, thanks for bringing that up, I may have forgotten to watch the postgame.)
Yup, he said it after the Yankees came back and stole the first game of that series…
Did you know the YS3 = Coors Field? Give me a break. I may have to switch to the radio.
Smoltz grew up in Detroit. The Tigers were his first team. He was traded for Doyle Alexander in midseason and helped them win a pennant with a 9-0 record. Alexander only had one good year after that opposed to Smoltz’s good 15 year run. Probably some hometown bias.
he’s also a redneck ex-Brave
he’s also a gritty ex-Red Sox
After the Yankees swept the Braves in 1999. He was the only Brave that came out for an interview. He congratulated the Yankees and he said they were the superior team and tipped his cap to them. I thought that was very gracious of him and the memory stuck with me.
#Aware
They will never pitch to Cano again after that one
Cano is good at baseball isn’t he.
this Cano kid is a pretty good hitter
Lol AJax. Also Cano is a beast.
Grandy would have caught that.
robbie is just a beast
Cano should start getting the MVP chants soon…
Keep throwing Cano sliders…
Robbie Cano is amazing.
arod looks lost.. we really need him to step up
he did hit the ball hard twice so thats seems to be a good sign
It would be nice if Arod got hot.
as much as im loving what this offense or (gardner/cano) are doing please save some runs for tomorrow. i dont want this turning out to e=be 2006 again. win bug game one and then get shut out the rest of the series
Why is it that these national broadcasts love to take shots at YS3′s dimensions, yet they orgasmed over Tampa’s two 300 foot HRs in Tampa on Wednesday? Not a word said about that.
that was definitely not a strike
thats a “I want to go home” call
How did this guy get elected as a post season umpire? Terrible.
So why does Darling hate us?
Don’t Mets fans hate the Yanks.
Mets bias.
Grew up a Red Sox fan and played for the Mets.
He’s a Mets guy.
Well he should have been happy on those long plane rides back in his Mets days. Plenty of coke for everyone.
cough… Strawberry, Gooden, Cone… cough… cough…
How many people could have predicted at the beginning of the season that Nova would be dominant in a Game 1 playoff start (yes relief appearance, I know, but whatever)
Jesse Barns went 7 innings in that game not 8.2, way to do your research TBS.
http://www.baseball-reference......0070.shtml
yes, I dug up a game from 1921 to prove TBS wrong.
Ah, I was wondering if you saw it yourself! haha
Look later in that series. They are correct.
Even in that game it was 8.1 IP, not 8.2, but I am nitpicking this waaaaaaaaaaaaay to much…
http://www.baseball-reference......0110.shtml
It’s National TV, they should be right on the money with these things.
He was, rewind it if you have a dvr.
He said 8.1, not 8.2.
I honestly think the announcing team has been pretty good and unbiased. Too many people are hearing bias without it being there. I guess we need something to complain about since the game is going so well
I’ve liked Darling and Anderson, but Smoltz has been dreadful.
With Smolts, it’s all about track record in my head. I can’t not hear bias when he speaks.
They did everything but lick Fisters balls tonight.
Really? I think you’re overreacting a little bit.
I don’t think this announcing is bad at all. If you guys are gonna complain about it now, just wait for the FOX games.
Wuh ohs
Hit him right in the butt
3 more out and the yanks win and Smoltz could call the redsox and tell them he tried to do his best.
Will Smoltz shut the fuck up?
“Hurr Nova can’t get a complete game.”
He’s butthurt about not having as many rings as Jeter and the guys.
I’ll still take him over Buck and McCarver IF the Yankees make the ALCS.
ha hit him in the ass
Is that Mo throwing in the pen? Really?
Please tell me Rivera’s just warming up just to warm up…
Ok Ayala is warming, sorry for the mini panic.
Yep.
Ayala is up in the emergency spot.
IF Nova keeps this up, he’ll be almost as good as Casey Kelly
/KLaw’d
KLaw not as impressed with Casey Kelly this year.
It’s only because he was traded from the Sox
/inevitable comment accusing Klaw of loving the Sox.
I still let him finish the game though.
Nova should have been taken out after he got hit. We could maybe use an inning from him on Tuesday ( his threw day) after AJ gets bombed and hughes flames out in relief.
Just got out of work….I only have three words: Ivan Fuckin Nova.
Three more words: Robinson Fuckin Cano
3 hits, a Grand Slam, and 6 RBI
I love it, I actually got to watch the grandslam, everybody at the restaurant I work at is a yankee fan and we went nuts.
Nova’s neck action reminds me of Richard Widmark playing bad guys in the movies.
Ok settle down, finish this off por favor.
What an awesome job by a pitcher not as good as Doug Fister.
I have no doubt in my mind Ayala is gonna give up at least 2 runs, possibly 3 or 4.
Would be good not to have to test the O’Neil theory tomorrow…
I dont know why but Ayala is a pitcher I do not trust at all even though he has good numbers (in low leverage situations)
He’s the best mop-up man in the history of the game.
You called it.
Clap for that man.
Nova ran out of gas!!!!! Great job by the kid!!!
Just bring in Mariano to get these last 2 outs and end this game. No Ayala.
Yes, bring in Rivera with an 8 run lead, the tying run 4 more baserunners away, and 3 straight games coming up without an off day, just to symbolically shut down a game that is already long over.
Really? In an 8 run game?
What were you guys saying???
The save category is overrated. Mariano is the ultimate game finisher.
We were saying that it was a dumb thing to do, which it still was. It wasn’t even a save situation yet at that point.
Blruhwihh- lwrheuuouu -camerrraaaa!ozoi
/TBS Director
For some reason I always get chills when a starting pitcher gets an ovation like that.
Obviously this game’s on ice and it’s not going to matter, but Girardi always seems to wait at least one batter too long to take a pitcher out.
3 pitches and the ump is 0 for 3
fuck this ump
That pitch track thing in the corner is only making me angry at the ump. He is being consistent both ways but it is dreadful.
Kind of sad that Ivan looses the shutout…
Ball not hit hard enough to turn 2?
Not at all, broken bat 5-6 hops to get to jeets
TBS terrible
10 more wins boys and its parade time
Ayala is just awful..
This is why Ayala’s era is so low
…..Ayala gives up a seeing eye single and he’s having a hard time closing it out?? REALLY?
hes having a hard time throwing a goddamn strike..
Anyone else wish that this was Bartolo instead of Ayala?
Ayala is not good. Not a major deal but I would have preferred Noesi in the roster.
Ok, at least if more runs score it’s not on Nova.
I wish we had another fireman like DRob in the pen. Not because it matters but because I hate watching Ayala.
Get Mo in this game right now. End it, Joe.
Jesus jumped up Christ. Please no more momentum for them late in the game.
SMH
Why is Mo coming in? What the hell?
Good God Ayala, just get one out! That’s it, one! C’mon!!!
Ayala sucks. I can’t believe they have to go to Mo.
jesus… not montero… sigh.
Wow, way to completely shit on Nova’s start and make us use Mo. Thanks Ayala.
Fuck You Ayala…there is no reason for Enter Sandman to be playing in the bronx tonight.
Waste of Mo.
Excellent plan, Joe.
No need for Rivera here. not after a couple of dinks
Disgusting that he had to bring in Rivera.
Terrible move by Girardi that could have ramifications going forward in this series.
The tying run is still 2 batters away, and both of the balls that Ayala gave up were perfectly placed. No need to use Rivera here, and especially with the lack of off days.
meh, only one batter, and he was throwing anyways, shouldn’t have any effect going forward
I agree that that it was unnecessary given the circumstances though
This is damn ridiculous there should have been no need for Mo in this game! Ayala sucks and better be left of the ALCS roster and not see the field again this series!
Let’s worry about having an ALCS roster before worrying about a garbage mop-up guy making said roster.
Ugh….Last thing you want is Mo wasting much needed bullets in blowout in the postseason.
3 pitches
Way to go Ayala. See, he really wasn’t purposely letting Tampa come back the other night.
I don’t think we’ll see Ayala make another series. BUT HIS ERA IS SPARKLING LOW! That’s because he always comes in with other people’s men on base and in garbage time.
To be fair to Ayala, a bloop single and two soft ground balls
Wow, losing the game for us in the finale, now this Ayala?
You’re great. Clearly you can only do well in non-clutch situations. Take a seat, don’t get back up.
I’d rather see fat boy Colon in the pen, and he pulls his Manny act and I’d still rather see him.
Ayala needs to go to the same kitchen as freddy garcia so we can get his roster spot
Mo is great
That’s how you do it, Ayala.
That was fast.
Damn lmaooooo that was easy.
Oh well. It was only 3 pitches.
10 more wins, folks.
Ayala should pay attention. Mo throws a first pitch strike.
I love Mo so very, very much!!
3 pitches.
that’s good, will ensure Mo is sharp tomorrow.
Well, that was easy.
Game one in the books…ten more until party time.
Just end it on 3 pitches.
Good morning, Good afternoon, Goodnight!!!
Any questions about bringing in Mariano now???
Game over. We win!!!
Nice job, guys!!!
Umm, yes. It was a 6 run game and the tying run was not even at the plate yet. Even Ayala would have probably gotten out of that jam without it even getting close to scary if you gave him the chance.
The goal is to win the game. One game at a time.
Mo, Boss.
Fuck you Luis Ayala.
That is all.
But, but, but, he had an ERA of 2.09 in the regular season!
His WHIP must be like…2 or 3. He’s terrible at stranding runners.
Surprisingly, he has a 1.27 WHIP this season.
I swear, usually the numbers don’t lie, but this is definitely one of those occurrences.
YAY! We win!
One down, 10 to go.
10.
Sounds as if Ron Darling is hopeful about there being residual effect from Tiger mnini-comebacka nd then forcing to use Rivera – Phillies had to bring in Madsen after Cardinals narrowed 11-3 to 11-6 so I guess theer should be “residual effect” on them too.
I just hope ARod gets it together because I see them pitching around Cano. He looks so lost.
Favorite comment: Yanks did not use Rivera on Wednesday to close out game much to the disappointment of Red Sox fans (that’s right!)
Darling that Yalie throwing his vocabulary around…residual…ha!
So, I blinked — did Mo pitch?
That should barely count as an appearance.
The complaining about it (and I did too) lasted longer than the appearance.
1 down, 10 to go.
That’s now 17 wins in the postseason for the Yankees since the last time the Red Sox won a postseason game.
/HadTo
We play today, We win today. Das it.
/MarianoDuncan’d
Ten more wins!
Was there anything more predictable than Ayala allowing the inherited runners to hurt Nova’s line but then having the next reliever not allow Ayala’s runs to score? Nice shiny 0.00 era still.
That 9th inning was a definition of Ayala’s season.
A good reason why ERA isn’t a great stat for relievers.
Mo like a BOSS out there!
How good is Cano? Can we talk about that?
I think everyone will be talking about it. We already knew how great he was.
They will be pitching around him with A-Rod looking lost out there. Should be interesting tomorrow.
“Such a Uuuge, Uuuge performance by Nova.”
/Kay’d