Game 11: Restoring Order
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The Twins beat the Yankees in the Bronx in a regular season game for just the sixth time since 2002 last night, doing so with Carl Pavano of all people on the mound. It was a bitter pill to swallow, but the best part of baseball is that they play everyday. Both teams are right back at Yankee Stadium tonight and the Yankees have a chance to restore order and beat the Twins like they’ve done so many times before. Here’s the starting nine…
DH Derek Jeter
1B Nick Swisher — Mark Teixeira is out with flu-like symptoms
2B Robinson Cano
3B Alex Rodriguez
RF Andruw Jones
CF Curtis Granderson
SS Eduardo Nunez
LF Brett Gardner
C Chris Stewart
LHP CC Sabathia
Tonight’s game start a little after 7pm ET and can be seen on YES locally and MLB Network nationally. Enjoy.
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does girardi hate chavez?
I would imagine he doesn’t.
I’m pretty sure he thinks Andruw Jones is better at baseball than him.
Yeah, well. Girardi may still need Chavez to play some of this here baseball.
I believe he referring to no Jeet at SS, with Arod DH, etc…
so why Nuney playing versus Chavey?
Probably because they’re facing a lefty.
You can ask him that via Facebook or Tweet this Sunday on the Joe Girardi Show.
No. He doesn’t hate Chavez. I think he’s discovered the secret of keeping him healthy. Never play him.
Lefty on the mound?
When Nunez is playing 3rd base for ARod with a righty on the mound than you should ask the question.
Great picture. Derek welcoming to the Yankees three new Cashman signings. I’m sure one of them is a LOOGY.
The one shaking with the right hand is Mitre replacement, but you are correct with the other two being LOOGY’s. Repada is scared!
Stairs sure has aged since the surgery.
I think the guy in the middle might be Raul Ibanez. Not sure.
I think Cash should send a scout to the Hebrew Oilers. There’s an older guy there named Hobbs. Roy Hobbs. I think he can help our DH situation.
#CliffLeewasright
There’s a reason they play 162 games. I’m pretty sure one of them is “so we can forget yesterday ever happened.”
April’s halfway done, which means the big man is about to enter Beast Mode. Let’s do this.
Stewart instead of Frankie still baffles me.
Gardner not batting 2nd?
It is one of the stranger decisions of the season, isn’t it? I miss Frankie’s mug every few days.
this team sorely lacks fist punmps. that is the key to the season.
Nunez at SS? When will Girardi learn he can’t field? I love Nunez and I’m not trying to bash him, but Jesus Christ, he is the worst defensive player on the Yankees and might be the biggest liability on the field in all of baseball.
Geez, I’d hate to see what you’d say when you are bashing him.
I don’t bash any of the players. It’s hard to when I’m sitting on my ass in college classes and they get to play with the Yankees.
I get irritated and might throw my remote when Tex pops up with 2nd and 3rd with nobody out or something like that, but I don’t bash any players.
As one of the writers pointed out during the series at the Trop, he’s valued because he can hit the ball better than most UTIL guys.
He does have a bat, but he doesn’t have a glove. I have no problem with him DHing, but at SS? I’m going to cringe every time a ball is hit in his direction.
I tend to agree with you, but as Axisa replied to me sometime back, if you value defense more than offense you end up with the Seattle Mariners’ lineup. I’ve resigned myself to hoping that Nunez can at least fake it enough to survive the game without doing too much damage. Hopefully he makes up for any mistakes with his bat.
Seems like that bug is going around the clubhouse:
First Gardner, then Nova, now Tex
Who’s next?
That’s what happens in locker rooms. One person brings it in, and everybody gets it. Even Sterling has it lol.
Me. I got sick to my stomach during the game yesterday.
A funny thought struck me last night. So This American Life just did a segment about Steve Blass. And then I got thinking about Freddy Garcia’s five wild pitches. And while his control wasn’t that bad last night, it certainly wasn’t sparkling. I’m not seriously suggesting that Garcia has suddenly lost control of where he’s pitching; it was just a weird serendipitous moment that struck me.
I’m going to look up that episode.
Here’s the link:
http://www.thisamericanlife.or.....orst-enemy
It was good because I’ve been sending TAL emails about once a month for the last two years BEGGING them to do a show about baseball. Can you believe that prior to Sunday’s show they’d not done even a single SEGMENT about baseball? This is a show that calls itself “This American Life” by the way.
Sorry, I have to add one thing to that: Ken Burns did an effing amazing job relating American life through his documentary. You could do hours about Pete Rose and all those troubled guys; you could make it about humanity… blah blah blah. I’ve pitched that to them several times, but nothing doing—at least until now.
On a semi-related note, I pitched some ideas to Radiolab a few months ago and got a response the next day saying they liked all of them and would start preliminary research. (That doesn’t mean they’ll necessary do them; their intern said they’ll look into them.) In other words, This American Life: thumbing its nose at the common people.
I like TAL, but, yeah, if you can’t make a show about baseball and American life, you ain’t trying.
I no get see baseball game.
=’(
WHAT! That’s insane!
Hmph. Your sarcastic lack of sympathy is noted.
I shall remember this affront.
Allow me to paraphrase something Waldman just said: we don’t like to give numbers here, apart from the statistics that are utterly meaningless, like W-L, saves, and batting average, and statistics that are sort-of-but-not-really meaningful, like ERA.
That sounds like her.
Classic… Inteirnet pizza ordering all over again.
Tex, Gardy and Nova do/did not have the flu. Whatever they have only lasts a day. Tex is sitting in the dugout. If you ever have the flu, you will never again say you have the flu unless you really do. It will knock you on your ass for ten days.
In what I heard, it was referred to as “flu-like symptoms.”
Some 24-hour bug. I developed a “respect” for the flu when I got it as an adult. I used to use the term flu whenever I felt sick for a day that is until one day I actually got the flu. Even after you’re up and moving around in a few days, food is not appetizing. A 24-hour virus is a firecracker on the Fourth of July. A flu is an atomic bomb on August 6, 1945.
Ouch… Too soon, dude
How’d the top of the first go for CC?
Two quick and easy outs, then Mauer put up a good fight before grounding out.
Sounds good, unless Mauer had like a 14 pitch battle.
Nah. Full count then he fouled off a pitch or two.
Not that I doubt CC at all, but lets hope this is were he starts turning it around. I’m tired of hearing about how our rotation is garbage and CC is over rated…
April is not CC’d best month. His arm strength and command improve a month or so into the season.
he gets stronger with the sun. Sorta like Superman.
Can anyone explain this lineup to me?
Tex is out with flu like symptoms, plus there is a lefty on the mound so we go very righty heavy at the top of the lineup. and we have to keep the old guys fresh, Nunie is playing short.
2 words. Joe Girardi…
Swisher was supposed to DH before Tex got sick. I guess Jeter was supposed to have the night off?
Alternative answer: It’s the twins
Whats the problem with it?
Didn’t know about tex, so sitting him against a lefty didn’t make sense. Also Grandy who is heating up and hits lefties well at 6spot? Then of course Nunez playing the field always makes me nervous.
He’s been 6th all season (and quite a bit of last season IIRC) against lefties. I see their position, especially since Swish rakes against them.
The rest makes sense, though you need to get used to the Nunez sightings in the field. They’ve decided to see what they have in him.
Yeah, this started being the regular line up against lefties since about June last year I think…
Poor Robbie can’t catch a break. Hopefully he’ll start to get going, though.
Well when your going bad, you hit a rocket right to a defender.
If ESPN is any indication, this is one heck of a strike zone we have going here tonight.
Colby Lewis has given up two runs to Boston in the 1st.
Fastball location. Dang.
David Ortiz has been in beast mode straight out of the gate . . . This is a fluke, right? RIGHT?! Please, someone tell me that he’s washed up. I put my fork in him a long time ago. The Sox offense . . . I thought they’d be toast without Ellsbury too, but, sure enough, the continue to score runs by the dozen. I want them to go away. WHY WON’T THEY GO AWAY!?!?!
It’s eleven games into the season.
I’m aware. I just don’t like when they get production out of players that are, by most accounts and metrics, supposed to suck. Remember when Darnell McDonald was killing it? I fear that Ross, Sweeney, Aviles, and co. will do rather well in red socks . . . That team is NEVER out, and, well, it’s frustrating to me.
i’m pretty sure people say the same thing about the Yankees. I was told Derek Jeter is washed up.
Because they’re good? Just like we are but with less pitching?
Ummm, because they have a good hitting lineup even without Ellsbury, and three quality starters? And, of yeah, they season is ten games old. Ortiz will cool.
This. All of this. I can’t believe Yankee fans really want to write of the Red Sox two weeks into the season. That’s just a silly thing to do. They have enough talent to win 87-90 games by rolling out of bed.
Fastball command is way better tonight than it has been.
Better than it has been yes, that pitch Willingham him missed though by a bit though.
auto correct, I hate you…
The worst start of CC’s career was probably 2008. He won the Cy Young that year.
Related:
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs.....just-fine/
I cant be the only person who thinks Trevor Pluffe is the least manly name in the history of baseball, can I?
Hmmm, that would be an interesting question. What name is less manly than Trevor Pluffe. Nothing is hitting me yet.
Dickie Thon.
I thought Tom Verducci’s column today was pretty good. It’s about the greatest statistic of all, the Save.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.c.....=hp_t11_a0
Is it okay to like T.V.? I’ve been seeing some hate recently, but I like him.
“Is it okay to like T.V.? I’ve been seeing some hate recently, but I like him.”
This sums up all the commenters here. LOL.
Napoli just destroyed a pitch like he was swatting a fly. Sent over the monster.
Been watching that game (can’t see the NY game)… it was on an 0-2 pitch no less (and Hamilton hit a long double on an 0-2 pitch before it)
I saw that bunt coming from a mile away.
listening to Burt Blyleven almost has me muting TV and listening to Suzan Waldman. Now that’s bad…
Be thankful you have such options. I have the Gamecast and this chat.
+1
The Grittiest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
why don’t people understand that they shouldn’t reach over to take the goddamn ball.
Seriously, am I the only one here tonight?!
I don’t care if I am…Stewart absolutely hast to put the ball in play right now.
That’s not what I meant god damnit…
Need to be more specific next time….
No soup for you.
I CAN’T SEE THE GAMEEEE.
Bah.
Neither can I. Lol, I’m at least listening to it though
Brett wit teh POWERZ!
This has strikeout written all over it
There are just certain announcers that just grind on you, I’m sure tops on that list (for me) is Hawk Harrelson, but right behind him is Burt Freakin Blyleven.
Resting Russell will be a hell of a lot easier if the backup could manage at least a .320 OBP. Don’t blame Girardi for wanting someone who isn’t completely incapable out there.
Blame Romine for getting hurt.
Liriano’s thrown 49 pitches… they just need to keep grinding the AB’s and not give him any quick innings like they did Pavano last night.
Yes that is a reply button… doh…
You think Sabathia had control issues? Lestah couldn’t hit water from a boat right now. Bases loaded, one out. PROCEED, TEXANS.
Cervellie would’ve gotten a run home….shit.
Cano slam?
HR Cano callinh it
If it doesn’t happen, its because of your misspellings.
Damn!!!!
Its all your fault.
I’m a sad mustang.
ffs
This team is trash right now.
That’s an understatement.
Trash >>>>>>>>>>> Yankees
Ptui
Wait.. Even worse.
Trash >>> Pirates >>>> rubbish >>>> Astros >>> Excrement >>>>>>>Yankeees
Ptui, Ptui
Trash doesn’t cost $200 million.
I had to leave for dinner, so thought I’d check back to see what the ledge-jumpers had to say. You didn’t disappoint.
There was no reason not to pitch around Swish to get to Robbie right now, he looks terrible.
Thanks to that fan for costing our side a run.
The ball went out anyway before the fan hit it, the fan actually put it back in play.
it was going into the stands anyway.
WTF offense? Stewart sucks.
Wow, super frustrating watching this team with a runner on 3rd and less than 2 down.
Just imagine if they could actually hit with risp
They’d average 9 runs per game instead of 5?
What’d Span get tossed for? I thought players can argue balls and strikes a little bit? As long as they aren’t showing up the umpire?
Yeah, what the baseball happened there?
This is a glorious inning by the Rangers. Still the top of the 2nd, Lester at 56 pitches, bases loaded, two outs. (Sorry for commenting on another game, but it’s orders of magnitude more interesting than watching the Twins.)
Stewart bound and determined to make “the move” look even more questionable every time he steps on the field.
Well, that was mildly entertaining.
what did Span do? lol.
For the Yankees hitting with runners on base puts more fear in them than death.
yeah, cause 5-6 runs a game isn’t good enough. go be a fan of the mariners and then complain about yanks scoring “problems”.
There is the rub, expectations of those teams is not what it is for the Yankees so…
Why are you responding to him at this point?
it’s like an itch…you know not to scratch it. but it just won’t go away! ah…i need to chew some gum or something.
I miss Billy Martin.
Anyone else wishing Girardi would do that every once in a while?
Do what?
The Yankees are a pretty disciplined team. We don’t really have any Milton Bradleys in our ranks. According to Earl Weaver, the master of getting ejected, the manager is only supposed to do that if a player gets fired up and is in danger of being ejected.
Agreed, but Denard Spann should not be mentioned or referenced in any way shape or form to Milton Bradley. Spann did not deserve to get tossed. Gardenhire may have been pissed about something, but even the perception he was sticking up for his player is something you NEVER see Girardi do.
Thats total horsecrap.
I mean…what?
He goes out all the time to get guys away from umps on the rare occasions when they’re freaking and argues for them. And have you ever seen a press conference after a rough game? All he DOES is stick up for the players.
What did span call his mother?
That ump is a little sensitive.
What the balk is going on here?
Balkfest ’12
Balk? For realzies? Didn’t see what happened.
lol CC sucks
Really looked like Gardner could have caught that if he kept running.
You disgust me CC
and you disgust me.
So did Liriano commit a balk in the second or something? I was on another channel.
Good grief CC.
I think someone needs to give CC a box of captain crunch. Slimmer CC isn’t pitching as well as huskier CC.
Somebody get this man a burger!!!
OMG CC IZ TEH GAWD AWFUL!! GIRARDI IZ THE WORZT MANAGER!!!! FIRE BILL CASHMAN!!!!
Bill Cashman is a pretty good name. Would totally be better if Cashman changed his name to William and then went by Bill.
Also, am I the only one who wishes that CC stood for Christopher Columbus? What an effing rad name that would be: Christopher Columbus Sabathia.
OMG other fans are upset that their team is losing! Must make completely original joke about their spelling!
I thought it was funny.
“OMG other fans are upset that their team is losing!”
Yes, but instead of just saying “Damn this sucks” They say stuff like “This team is trash” or “CC sucks”.
Do you not see the difference?
I do see the difference. What I don’t see is any spelling mistakes or unnecessary exclamation points. It’s a meme that has beaten to death, reincarnated and beaten to death again. CC sucks tonight. That’s a fact. Why is one post on a message board any more valuable than the next? What does this idiot’s “parody” add to the apparently Mensa-level discourse going on?
Wow, I haven’t gotten somebody on the internet worked up enough to start directly calling me names since I stopped trolling to explicitly piss people off(I was messed up when I was younger) thanks for letting me know I can still get that reaction out of people
I hear you. I did think it was funny and I think the gist is just the over reaction. The spelling and punctuation is for (hopefully) humor. I thought it was funny, you didn’t.
All posts are fair game I suppose.
I mean, you could call me douche and really it’ll just disappear into the ether.
Go ahead, call me a douche, It won’t be hurt.
Yes, the spelling and punctuation were all for humor. I actually take great pride in my proper spelling and grammar.
A!l xc!am8!on po!ntz arrrrgh necess!ry!!!!!1!!!!11!1one!!
I’ve got no problem with people being upset, I’m not happy that the team is down right now, but I’ll never say that CC is garbage, or that our team is terrible. I’m upset because I expect more, but I’m not angry because I expect my team to come back and win.
Wow is it ever frustrating watching the Twins cash in on RISP opportunities as soon as they present themselves.
Mike, this one might be on you! You posted up about how the Twins weren’t scoring runs…now they’re the big purple and red machine. Half way kidding…
Jeez, this is getting really annoying. This team isn’t supposed to be able to hit, I thought.
I could be doing countless other things right now, like watching M:I 4 or dusting my room or something.
My time is valuable, dammit, I expect to watch wins!
Seriously, I only get to watch 2 games a week right now, so this gets to me.
Can’t see the game but is CC really throwing a 2-0 changeup and 3-1 changeup to Jamey Carroll?
Cc shitting the bed now wtf the money he makes he has to pitch better than this.
sarcasm? hope so.
91-92 with the fastball and not locating like normal. Very odd.
even the announcers know it, been saying it. CC, starts, slow. every year, his first few games are a little rough, then it get’s warmer and he improves.
I’ve seen that since we signed him, however isn’t it like 81 in New York right now? He does start slow, but I don’t think I’ve seen hime struggle with commanding his pitches 3 games in a row, and he didn’t finish last year real strong either. I’m not in any way saying he’s done, but a little cause for concern for sure..
i have no concern what so ever. it’s not 81, especially not now at night. mid to upper 60s. last year, they went to a 6 man rotation, and if you remember, his season slip coincided with that. he likes to pitch a lot. you take him out of that rhythm and it messed with him. again…no concern at all. cc is a beast and will be just fine.
we can’t buy a hit with risp and fucking Carrol is killing it only basbeall
Almost had a Matsui flashback there.
I miss Matsui, at least he could hit with RISP.
I was referring to his injury, but, yea, he was fairly decent in the cobra clutch.
hoor-fucking-ray!
You did that wrong. Unless you were trying to say “whore” or something.
No, just putting an expletive in the middle.
Right, so it should have said “hoo-fucking-ray” then.
Do you really want to bother?
Yes. My friends call me “Syntax Man,” so I’ve got to live up to the billing.
Gritty play.
Anyone remember what CC’s fastball was like LAST April? He seems to be getting Hughes-type numbers this evening, 91, 92, now and then maybe a 93.
Rolled his wrist on that one.
Just checked on the wind report in the box score—13mph out to RF, practically as bad as Nova’s game vs. the Angels. Would it kill the wind to blow towards home plate for just one game?
Or at least just when the other team hits.
Larry, your starters need some work.
Flaritty sucks make me miss pinella. Where is cone?
Today I emailed the mail bag here and just asked of CC is really an ace. He’s a great pitcher and I am glad he’s a Yankee but he’s no Halladay or verlander or even cliff lee. His response was “I should spend more time watching them instead”
After another “ace” like effort from CC maybe if I want to see an ace I should.
He always struck me as a Summer Ace, and, possibly, a Post-Season Ace.
Cc needs to beer down more
I’m not even going to bother doing the research for you, go check out all of their Baseball Reference pages and come back and talk.
That’s insanely annoying . . . even childish. Why even respond if you had nothing at all constructive to say? If you want to prove him wrong, go ahead, but then it’s your duty to do the research, not his. His initial question was whether or not CC is an ace. He is curious. His eyes, early in the season, are telling him otherwise and by comparison to the Astronomical Aces, CC, to him, appears to be the lesser god. So, instead of offering up an asinine comment that holds absolutely no value, do yourself and HIM a favor by giving a rebuttal that may, in fact, answer his initial inquiry . . . Just a thought . . .
He however seems to have already made up his mind that “he(Sabathia) is no Halladay…” but still feels the need to ask the question. I’m telling him to simply do his research before making that conclusion.
I am on it thanks
CC is an ace. if you pay attention, you’d know he starts of slow every year, then picks it up in may. cc is an ace, but by all means, go watch some other aces. nobody will mind.
Like I said in the response, go watch those guys for a full season then come back and talk about ups and downs.
Liriano’s at 63 pitches. Is the Twinkies pen any good? We missed a big opportunity in the 2nd.
They’re not supposed to be, but they didn’t give up anything last night.
Lester pulled after 2.0 IN. Top of the third, bases loaded, no outs. Bad times for starters across the majors.
Lest-ah done….
2 IP, 8 hits, 4BB, 4Runs and leaves with the bases loaded, 80 pitches
(suddenly CC’s outing doesn’t seem so bad so far)
Don’t jinx it!
Words can not describe how much I hate it when players slide into first base.
Wade Boggs got his 2000th hit that way. Just happened to see the highlight a day or to ago.
very much agreed.
The ultimate false hustle play (unless there is a tag play involved)
I vote we permanently nickname Nunez “the good, the bad, and the ugly”, or GBU
Awesome
And who is on deck? Chris “lucky if i hit .200″ Stewart. Oh boy..
Crow tastes good…
3 run HR?
OK scrath that, grand slam.
Just got home and checked the score… what is going on?!
Ok, Chris…Please for the love of god hit this out of the infield. Actually, no never mind. Just take pitches till the ump sends you to first or back to the dugout…
Bold Prediction: Stewart does not hit the ball with authority here
#freefrancisco
my reverse jinx worked
loser
This has double play written all over it.
Here comes the black hole
Yum good tasting crow here.
Stewart will strike out.
My foot tastes good.
Liriano right over the middle I miss blue eyes
Boo hoo Chris Stewart crew.
+1
That will work!
Stewart needs to go to Nick Johnson’s School of Hitting…
STEWART
Holy shit. Stewart got a hit. Hooray for blind squirrels everywhere.
Well played, Stewart.
Chris Stewart is DA MAN!!!!!
Behold: Stewart’s first (and probably only) Yankee highlight
Well I’ll be damned.
Fist pump.
Chris Stewart… True Yankee?
Is Liriano getting pulled? He only gave up four runs. That’s not unusual for him.
Chris, I’m sorry. That was fucking glorious.
Gotta love that hustle by Gardner.
Keep the hits with RISP coming boys. One things for sure, we are certainly due for some.
Jeets w/ the sac fly
but he didn’t get a hit with RISP, so he’s terrible, right? I’m sorry I’m being such an asshole, it’s just fun sometimes.
I was going to say this same thing.
Where does he get off hurting his OBP?
If we score a runner from 3rd with less than 2 down, I’m a happy man. Don’t care if it’s an error, passed ball, wild pitch, suicide squeeze, safety squeeze, single, double, triple, HR, sac fly, or in this game even a balk is perfectly fine. Biggest pet peeve in all of baseball.
I agree for the most part. However I just want the Yankees to score roughly 5-7 runs a game. I don’t care if they do it by sacrificing or hitting a bunch solo shots. Just score runs.
I prefer endless home runs.
Because then the media will just start gabbing about how they hit too many home runs. Never gets old.
That is my favourite narrative of all time. Seriously, why is hitting homers a bad thing.
Because the narrative is they’re hard to come by in the postseason. Yet I’ve never heard anyone say this in regards to the Rangers the last two years.
+1
They’ll also talk about how the approach will never work in the playoffs (when apparently MLB outlaws HR’s)
and I agree with you for the most part, but you cannot expect a team in post season play to hit a bunch of solo HR’s off the Verlander’s, Weaver’s, Lester’s of the league to win games. Have to be able to get runners in from 3rd, move runners over when your facing solid pitching in post season play.
You can’t expect a solo homer, but you can expect a rally of multiple singles? The Verlanders and Halladays don’t allow extended rallies, if you get a pitch to hit, you have to make it count.
This. I’d much rather take my chances of a couple people over the course of a game hitting a ball hard then multiple hits falling in against an ace.
Again, my point being missed, if Gardner works a walk, steals second, they have to be able to move him to 3rd hitting to the right side of the infield. Not necessarily a hit, but move him over. Then we need a ground ball up the middle, or sac fly to get him in. Multiple hits off Verlander, not a high rate of that happening. Also, 3-4 solo shots are just as unrealistic off him. Either way you have to be able to score runs when presented the opportunity. If you feel the odds are better hitting 3-4 dingers versus moving runners over and getting runners in via sac flies, than we can agree to disagree. That’s what makes this game so great, we all agree scoring runs good, we just disagree on the philosophy of how to get that done.
I prefer being able to score runs without making outs.
I think that’s a simple concept to understand.
Yes, Pat D, simple concept to understand that s what YOU prefer. Also a simple concept to understand some baseball people think otherwise, simple enough?
So you’re saying scoring a run while making an out is just as good as scoring a run while not making an out?
No, I’m saying hitting a 3-4 solo HR’s off a frontline starter in post season play is (in my opinion) more unrealistic than scoring 3-4 runs by other means like single, stolen base, moving over to third via ground ball the other way, getting the runner in via sac fly. Maybe have an inning stringing a few base hits back to back.
If you went into a game against Verlander and it was a foregone conclusion that if you scored 4 runs you would win. Do you think the odds favor 4 solo dingers, or scoring 4 runs in another fashion?
I happen to believe in scoring runs, however necessary, but you BETTER have the ability to move runners over, and get guys in from 3rd with less than 2 out, especially come post season play.
Fine then.
Actually, you can expect it off Weaver. He’s a definite FB pitcher.
That will do, Sanderson.
Unfortunately, CC will have to pitch deep again tonight (unless Dave is available; he’s had about enough rest to pitch one or two innings, right?)
Everyone is good to go except maybe Logan and Wade. Soooo….we’re all good.
And Phelps. Forgot about him.
Lester’s final line: 2 IP, 8 hits, 4 BB, 7 ER
Liriano’s final line: 2.1 IP, 7 hits, 4 BB, 5 ER
I hope Sabathia fares better
he already has.
Watched the Giants v Phillies last night and while I don’t know their final lines both Lincecum and Halladay struggled early on.
wow Nunez hit Teix on the throw, not the second row of fans… someone call the Post.
Hit tex on the shitter?
swish is playing first and he’s done it before, in case you didn’t know.
Deep breath on balls to ss
Any less manly names than Plouffe yet? Seriously…it sounds like he should be marketing loofa’s to Valley Moms.
Yea, it doesn’t sound like a name of an athlete.
Sounds like a womans fart.
same as yesterday, i’d love to poll who thinks the yanks will win or lose. still think more then half say they lose.
77.8% win expectancy right now for the Yankees.
i don’t care about that. it’s more about people on this site. it used to be a very confident site, with a few downers. now it seems the opposite. i love the articles here on rab, but the comment section can drive a sane man mad.
So right.
I still think they’re going to loose yesterday and win the series
Brett Marshall 6 IP, 3 hits, 1 BB, 0 ER, 3 K
Not too shabby.
Caleb Cotham 4 IP’s, 4 hits, 0ER, 5 K’s in Charleston. Tyler 1-2 with a BB, dudes rakin…
Off topic alert:
So I am sorta excited now that Johnny Damon has signed with the Tribe, I am somewhat looking forward to by business trip to Cleveland in May now.
Hoping I can get back in June for the Yankees Series. But for real, I am looking for ANY reason to to look forward to going to that town.
You didn’t hear, it’s always been his dream to play for the Indians, since he was a little kid
I laughed.
They don’t play a series in Cleveland till late August. I’m hoping to catch at least one of those games.
SHIT. you’re right. they play in the Bronx.
wellllll, maybe the Mud Hens will have a good eries going… or somethin
Pujols and Carpenter/Wainwright never won?
Leave friends house 3-1. Get home 5-3. I guess I should shut the game off.
Yes
kidding. I’m wearing my Yankee cap. That’s why we lost yesterday, I forgot it. We haven’t lost a game this season where I was wearing this cap.
Andruw bringing the powah
He’s 2-3 tonight. Nice.
Andruw-motha-fking-jones. biotch.
7-2 Rangers over Boston. Nothing makes me happier than that team turning into pumpkins.
anytime I wanna feel better about some of our starters bad starts I look at a Sox box score
I personally want the sox to be competitive. i like it when the yanks duke it out with them and come out on top, which has happened more often then not.
I wouldn’t mind seeing Fenway Park spontaneously combust.
The Rangers have very quickly become my #2 most hated team.
i agree with both of those statements, but still want the redsox to be competitive.
I don’t. I always feel extra stressed when watching a Yankees/Sox game because they’re so unbearably long and no matter what channel you’re watching the announcers make every game seem like it’s a playoff game.
again, i agree with that. the games can be painfully long, but one of the best games i’ve ever seen was in 2003 and the yankees were one game away from the world series. still, to this day, i believe that we won it all against the sox and the actual world series was just a formality that had no bearing.
My antlers and beast hands take offense
Regardless of whether the sox are competitive or not, they are a team that gives us fits.
That said, living in the Boston Metro area, I loooooooove having the Sox be an afterthought to the Bruins of all teams right now…
Like I told my kid, You don’t have to love the Yankees, so long as you hate the Red Sox.
Jones yes get that man some playing time. Give swisher a catchers mask.
Hahaha. Hey, why not . . . ?
I missed the rally so I checked out how it happened on ESPN. Just had to come back here to see the comments on Stewart.
LMAO!!!!
You guys NEVER disappoint.
That was yet another monster shot from Andruw.
definitely a moon shot.
What is our platoon dh hitting so far mike and is it better than last year?
No idea. I’ll look at that tomorrow, thanks for the idea.
Is there anyone else in baseball, besides maybe Verlander, you’d feel comfortable running 115+ pitch counts every five days except for CC?
king felix. he’s good for 120 or so.
I always forget about Hernandez when I’m thinking about aces.. and I feel bad because he’s one of the top pitchers in the AL it probably goes Verlander, CC/Felix, everybody else. At least in my head.
i think i would take felix over verlander. like him that much, plus he’s younger.
Yeah, but he has a lot of innings on his arm already. Because of that I can see his peak coming a little earlier than most pitchers and him being above average but not great from age 33 on.
it possible, but you could say something similar about verlander. not many pitchers can throw as hard as he can and who’s to say that will last much longer?
Halladay, Felix, Lee, Cain, Shields … there are a few out there.
does lee usually give that much. agree on the rest, but i guess i never noticed it with Lee. always felt like he was a 100-105 guy.
I thought the same thing about Cain too. but I don’t really see alot of Giant games, so I could be dead wrong.
It’s because the last few times you saw him, he chumped this lineup in 8.1 IP in 95 pitches.
that could be it….ouch
That was a disappointing streaker.
has cc settled down enough for you folks?
Nope. Not until he pitches so well they take a Twins run OFF the scoreboard.
that happens when gets through an inning with 2 pitches.
All those people watching on TV, via Mark Fiensand, idk if RAB’s had anything about this, Pineda feels great after his bull pen yesterday. They’re planning on him going again tomorrow, then if he feels good after that he could get a minor league start a few days later
Great news.
Finally fartboy misses one.
hehe, I like it.
Hehehe
Gardner against lefties.
Frankie better not be feeling sorry for himself, if he knows what’s good for him.
Too late.
I dont know why fans here are whining about Chris Stewart when last year they wanted Cervelli gone pronto
The grass is always greener growing on the other side.
Because many just want something to complain about.
For the rest, they actually prefer Cervelli to Stewart. Which really isn’t at all unreasonable.
I’ve always liked Cervelli, and was always confused by the hate against him.
I’m in the same boat. Of course, I didn’t get the absurd amount of love either.
Its important to take him for what he is: a backup catcher on the mold of Jorge Posada.
Confused?
Did you watch him last year throw out runners
Granderson did.
When the hate ignores the positives he brings, yes, its confusing.
Good to see you bring the A game tonight.
Cervelli on the bus tour must suck for him.
Aaaaaaaand the Cap’n.
Yankees with a case of the runs tonight.
Should have been montero
Thank you brian cashman.
Wut?
you can thank him again when pineda is killing it in the second half.
I love the positive thinking, but with our luck with young hard throwing righties…let’s get him pitching again first.
i love montero. think he’s a beast and will be for a long time, but i think pineda will have a bigger impact on us winning this year and beyond.
Then who would DH?
Back up catcher right handed power off the bench
Someday you’ll……ah, screw it.
Oooooooo, Alex said a bad word
He’s been a bit frustrated in the early going.
can’t believe cc is getting outs on 2 pitches. a true ace would be getting them with one.
I know I’m probably jinxing this, but Nunez has looked like a competent shortstop tonight. Nothing to make you gasp, but usually he’s butchered a routine throw by now.
He gave his yips to ARod
Arod with nunny moment.
Meanwhile next AB Nuney thought about throwing it, thought better of it and touched the bag.
See, he can be taught
eh, that was a little league moment. Nunez wouldn’t of even done that.
Stewart’s rocking the chin-beard in his photo. Not feeling it. It doesn’t look right with the Yankee cap.
Wait, he didn’t show up for photo day, did he? Maybe MLB or someone just photoshopped the Yankees cap on.
Be nice to see them put this one out of reach.
CC may have cost himself the 8th inning with that 5 pitch walk to Plouffe (the ARod error also cost him a few pitches). I wonder who’s pitching if this isn’t close. (the B-squad pitched yesterday and Phelps may need another day)
Robertson. Hasnt pitched since Friday
except when he pitched on Sunday
You didn’t take the fact that Greg actually lives in Micronesia, time zones, yadda yadda.
They should match up al and coney in the booth i would pay to hear those two do the game.
there’s just something beautiful about stolen bases.
Stewart > Montero
Hey cheng ming..
I always thought Taylor Teagarden was pretty sissified…not as bad as Plouffe though, which sounds like the name of a vaginal jelly
Great on English muffins, but not quite as good with the peanut butter in a sammich
Penis butter and vaginal jelly…
Ok, now this is getting weird. and I absolutely approve.
Speaking of… Bobbie valentine sound like the waitress at a Bowling alley bar or a go go dancer from the 1920s.. Not the manliest name either.
Ok I laughed.
Yeah, Teagarden is bad. but Plouffe? You’re right…it definitely sounds womanly.
Like a quif but louder and funky.
When it has that fromunda cheese smell?
I keep on thinking of David Plouffe, Obama adviser, when I look at him. I reckon he wouldn’t make a good baseball player. David Axelrod, on the other hand, scrappy as hell.
Not a political comment.
Chris Stewart’s got something to prove.
to rab commenters. bunch of silly nannies.
Hey, I understand how, when you’re used to an offensive catcher, you grumble at a black hole in the lineup.
i don’t. he’s a backup for a reason. if he was good, he’d be starting for someone. when cervelli is a free agent, i think someone will give him a shot as a starter…not saying they should, or he could handle it, but I think someone will.
But they also grumble when Cervelli, an offensive catcher, plays. And the two groups have several people in common.
That may be more his point.
Good point.
but can he fistpump?
STEWARYT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, well, well,
Chris Stewart laughs in the face of the RAB comments.
As he should.
Stewie stewie!!!
Chris Stewart is very quietly auditioning for my fantasy team. Looking at you Russell Martin!
you’re much cooler on nomaas
Don’t comment there, but thx for playing
look, the crappy backup is doing a good job. without him, it would still be 5-3.
Did Flash just say a career high 3 rbi? Too funny.
Girardi post game will it be chrisy or stewie as the girardi pet name.
Stewie is the safer bet.
Melancon just entered the game in beantown…with that fancy 22.5 ERA…and promplty gives up a double.
i’m rooting for him, just not when he’s playing against the yanks.
Ah the melancon days in fenway back in 2009. Boy him and Aj almost gave me alcohol poisoning.
former Eighth Inning Guy™
it’s not often one can enter a game with an ERA that high and then proceed to more than double it
watching Boston game, and Aviles struck out looking — he then threw his bat down and stood at the plate and jawed away at the ump and nothing happened to him.
Boston pulls this shit all the time and they get away with it.
Cause they’re scrappy, and just playing with their emotions on their sleeves…it’s only when everyone else does it that it’s showing up the ump.
I don’t understand how seemingly classy players go to Boston and just… change.
well, they do fill the cooler with coors light and milwaukee beast.
The Rat says Thats how we do things here.
Always just possible the umpire has thicker skin.
http://a.espncdn.com/combiner/.....#038;h=254
Cannot be unseen. Yikes. I’m not even sure a mother could love that face.
hamilton just crushed a 3 run bomb.
And then Beltre went yard 12-2 Rangers
and so did Cruz…
melancon’s era has tripled
poor kid.
Get that man (CC) a standing ovation.
Why are you cheering him? He sucked the first three innings and that can never be undone!
i loled
I laughed out loud, like legit giggled.
i just laughed out a little….
I know RBI are pretty dumb to judge a player by, but this is only the second 2+ RBI game of Chris Stewart’s career. That’s kinda sad when you think about it.
meh, he’s only started 65 career games
That’s the CC I know and love. The one who you might get a couple of runs off early but, once he says “you’re not getting a damn thing off me the rest of this night,” shuts it down. It may take him a few starts to get there every spring, but he gets there.
Mark Melancon isn’t playing with the same type of intensity that he used to…
Well maybe in japan its different but thats how we do it here.
: the rat
The sniveling little rat-faced git.
Sorry, I’m going to try to get this to catch on. Thank you, Monty Python.
You really are giving it your all.
Which is that from anyway?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtyO4tmpPdk
Can’t remember exactly which episode, but that’s the clip.
dude…melancon gave up three bomb, 2 doubles and 2 walks without getting an out (i think). that’s just, oh man i feel bad for that kid.
same, even though he’s on the Sox now still feel bad for him. he is getting absolutely destroyed this year.
Bobby V. kind of hanging him out there eh?
I think Valentine will be fired by June 1st.
Guessing the guy that was saying the Yanks will be humiliated when Melancon is closing games for the Red Sox this summer won’t be coming around anytime soon.
i hope he is closing games for the sox…holy crap. 6 batters faced, 25 pitches, 2 walks, 1 double and 3 bombs…
that has to be the worst pitching line ever.
Chase Wright wants in that conversation.
nah, Chase Wright actually managed to get 9 outs that game
I laughed.
Fans in Fenway are chanting “let’s go Blue Jays” lol.
It’s going to be embarrassing if the Yanks don’t smash Boston in the upcoming series. It’s like last year when they broke their losing streak against the Yankees. Bad form.
I’ve learned to expect anything in a Yanks/Sox series.
Didn’t we just have this exact conversation yesterday when Pavano was on the mound?
Holy bejeesus, Melancon’s ERA is now 49.50.
I feel sorry for him only to an extent.
but he saved 26 games for the Astros last year??? I don’t get it.
AL > NL
i was joking…that was the sox media and fans response to letting papelbon go…
I want Aceves and Melancon to implode because I think the Sox were stupid not to resign Papelbon. I hated that Plouffebag more than anyone but he was a pretty effective closer for them and he was never hurt.
I loled at plouffebag
They could easily got away with letting Papelbon go if they let Bard close. Also I think that giving away Scutaro was a very underrated stupid move.
All of this. Their off season was a giant ball of confusing to me.
well, here’s the other thing…their media and fans crap all over Papelbon but he took that closer role when offered and did a great job.
Bard should’ve recognized that his highest value to the team was the closer but he’s selfish and wants to start…then, Bailey goes down and he sticks with starting. Yet Bard doesn’t get any flack.
I agree on Scutaro..I read that some thought he may have been one of the snitches..
Plouffebag… Clever!
hopefully the rangers beat the tar out of Beckett tomorrow. Of all the a holes on that team, he’s the chief.
Red Sox couldn’t buy an out right now.
That baby was reacting to the Yankees’ record thus far.
I love this bullpen. Not to state the obvious, but they just shut it down every time.
Don’t quote me small sample sizes; I’m enjoying this.
Well….there WAS yesterday….
*plugs ears*
Can’t hear you, sorry
15-2 rangers lol how long till bobby loses that team
More chicken and beer for the team.
Ha, WCBS played an ad for some restaurant, and ended it with with “Wings… beer… sports”. I’m still laughing.
I think he’s lost it. those comments about Youk were pretty bad and then this is how they respond? holy crap…that’s a thrashing.
Also, how fitting that Plouffe makes the last out.
Redsox are plouffed.
nice…Plouffe Sox
wade pitching the 9th? must be the future closer.
I went on ESPN expecting the Live Headline to be “The Boston Massacre.”
I was initially disappointed that it wasn’t, but then remembered that it was ESPN and they were the Red Sox. I’m gonna be kinda irked when the narrative from the game is “the Rangers have the deepest offense in baseball” as opposed to “the Red Sox’ pitching is terrible.”
Red Sox
playerswriters were complaining that it’s unfair for Boston to face the rangers after facing the rays.Their whining never ceases.
Yeah, no one else’s April schedule is tough, right?
Are you fucking shitting me?
Were they complaining about how the ball is too small?
Or how the bats were a bit too heavy?
Or how the other team has the same number of players as them on the field?
Melancon needs to grow some facial hair.
He’s not gritty enough.
Stewie it is! And a Nooney and a Gardy!
Phelpsy and Booney! Hahahahah!
Jonesy! Gardy! Grandy!
I always liked Melancon so much more as DOTF fodder than as an actual pitcher.
He called him STEWIE lol chris stewart the family guy lmao
Whoever had “Stewie” in the Joe Girardi pet name pool just won. Collect your prize at the front desk.
YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!
*sends girlfriend backstage*
Is that you, Daniel Bryan?
Quit mocking me.
YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!
*”Flight of the Valkyries” plays*
YES! is the new What?
Pretty much.
I must have gone to an ROH show at the Elks Lodge in Queens about five, maybe six years, ago. Unbelievable what some of the folks I saw that night have gone on to.
Whoop! That was me!
*dances a jig*
“Phelpsie”??? Alright Joe stop the madness.
Has Kuroda been named Kurody yet?
Hiroki-y?
H-Rod? (H-Kur doesn’t have the same ring to it)
Kur-y?
Or just ‘Rok with a long O sound maybe?
Wow… I hate the rangers slightly less right now after the ass pounding they are giving the sox…
Youk with another “unemotional” strikeout (4K’s on the night)
Now where’s that rat bastard… he needs to inject some grit and scrappiness into the team.
Couldnt happen to a nicer guy… Fuck em
Great game Im out the wife just plouffed.
you better go deal with that…
I’m going to go read the comments at Over the Monster’s Game Thread.
Its gonna be great.
It. Was. Glorious.
holy crap..Napoli just hit a 2 run bomb…