Apr
29
Game 21: Win the series
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The Yankees have won just one of their last three series, but today they have a chance to take two of three from the Tigers before embarking on a pretty favorable stretch of the schedule. The right guy is on the mound too, and the Yankees really need CC Sabathia to step up and help set this disaster of a rotation straight. Here’s the starting nine…
SS Derek Jeter
CF Curtis Granderson
3B Alex Rodriguez
2B Robinson Cano
1B Mark Teixeira
RF Nick Swisher
LF Raul Ibanez
DH Eric Chavez
C Chris Stewart
LHP CC Sabathia
Today’s game starts at 1:05pm ET and can be seen on YES locally and MLB Network nationally. Enjoy.
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I guess the focal point of that picture was to capture a time that those lux seats are actually filled; otherwise the focus should have been on the Grandyman.
Well it WAS a one-time only event. AND there are minorities at YS!! Crazy!
Soooooo, Chavez at DH and Stewart, the defensive specialist, at C.
Yeah, there was no place for Montero to play…
I don’t think anyone has ever seriously said there wasn’t a place for him.
You don’t read the comment threads around here? It’s been the running theme among more than a handful that there was no place for him…
It’s still amazing to me that Cervelli was CC’s catcher last year while Montero repeated AAA.
So now the defense-first backup is CC’s personal catcher. Awesome.
Bah, you can’t trust commenters. They change the truth after the fact to make their point.
ICWYDT
No one said there was no place for him. They mostly said its a fantasy to think he could catch more than 30-40 games per year which is true.
Where does Montero play in a year or 2, when ARod is the fulltime DH?
I did. There would be a logjam at DH in the future with all the old dudes getting over-paid for years to come.
…what? Nobody ever said there wasn’t a place for him in the lineup. It’s the fielding position that was sketchy. And seriously, enough about the Montero comments. It’s getting to a point where I’m starting to hate the poor kid because I’m so sick of hearing his name. Get over it.
Mike Silva taking shots at the blog on twitter. The guy is a pathetic troll mad at the world.
In other news, it’s Sunday.
Who is Mike Silva?
a douche
…I’m serious that’s all you need to know
Hahahaha. Loved your retort.
I love how he pretends he is being victimized by the man, and that’s the only reason he isn’t on WFAN.
Well, that. And talent.
Brown nose much?
Maybe I actually like the guy’s work on the site? Could that be it, Mr. Silva?
Seriously, Mike A., keep doing what you’re doing here. Screw the haters.
Yankees killer on the mound that era will go down real fast after today.
I always liked the Stewart decision more than most. Not only he’s way better than Cervelli defensively, but he also has a history of hitting lefties well. He has a career line against lefties of .288/.377/.424 in the Majors (small sample) and .304/.370/.435 in the Minors (from 2005 on, couldn’t find splits before that).
I imagined that the Yankees, aware of that, would try to limit his appearances to games against left-handers (as much as possible, anyway). That way, he might have a chance of bringing some sort of contribution offensively. But instead, it seems Girardi is simply assigning him as CC’s personal catcher. If that’s the case, I’m really starting to change my mind about that deal…
You make too much sense.
Good points. But I can see the argument of having him catch CC. If you’re going to take an offensive hit by sitting Martin in favor of Stewart, you might as well do it with your ace on the mound.
My problem with the personal catcher thing is that it sets them up for second guessing, especially come playoff time. Are they really going to start Chris Stewart in Game One of a series? If not, how is CC going to respond? Unnecessary distractions.
Yeah, true. But I think at this point, Martin knows CC well enough. They don’t need to make Stewart his personal catcher 100% of the time either, but I get the argument that they can do it a majority of the time.
So… we’re definitely in the PS?
Of course not, but I have a real hard time seeing five better teams in the league. A lot has to go wrong for the Yankees to miss the postseason. Two sucky rotation spots in April would just be the tip of the iceberg.
Scherzer’s eyes never cease to freak me out.
fantasy question, someone in my league wants to trade for miguel cabrera. What should I ask for in return. I also have Arod and Fielder on this team.
Well it depends on what the guy has, right? Throw some names on his roster out there.
He has Halladay, Hamels, lance lynn, Tex, A. Ramirez, Hunter Pence, Jay Bruce.
My Pitching staff has Gallardo, Shields, Beckett, and Daniel Hudson as its headliners.
I dunno, maybe Halladay. Plus someone else. Does your league have UTIL spots so you can play A-Rod, Fielder, and Cabrera? Because I might keep him in that case.
There is a UTIL spot, I just dont know if should trade him unless I get Halladay, Hamels and 1 of Tex/Pence/Bruce
Oh, no doubt. Ask for Halladay and two of that group. If he says no, ask for one. If he still says no, walk away. If you have Fielder, you don’t really need Tex though. Who’s your outfielders if you want Pence/Bruce?
Beltran, Melky, and Luke Scott, with LoMo on the bench. I have asdrubal as SS, pedroia at 2B and Miguel Montero at C. So OF is my weak spot.
Fair enough. Try to get two of those guys, but you probably will have to settle for one.
See if you can get Halladay/Hamels (I personally go Halladay) and two of the three of Tex/Pence/Bruce. Your probably going to have to settle for one of the three but it’s worth a shot.
Matt Kemp?
If our ace can’t win a big series at home against a playoff rival then we’re in serious trouble. The pitching staff has been dreadful and it’s always up to the ace to eat up innings and right the ship. CC needs to win today.
This has to be the earliest someone has ever broken out the #playoffpreview narrative.
Somebody had to bring it up during the Texas or Boston series…
While partly true, it’s also April. If this was August, sure. But this series isn’t as “big” as you make it out to be.
According to RAB, wins don’t count until August, right?
“The Yankees have won just one of their last three series,” While 100% true, I find this slightly disingenuous, because it makes it seem they lost the other two when they split with the Twins.
A. Split with the Twins is losing the series.
Atta boy Carsten. Good way to set the tone.
Stewart should catch CC all the time. If that’s what he’s comfortable with, why not? Stewart has been good with the bat, as good as Martin in fact. They seem to work well together and I’m guessing that CC doesn’t really have a good rapport with Martin. He prefers Cervelli or Stewart.
Boesch owns the Yankees.
How?!?!?
I dunno, but he’s punishing my fantasy team for sitting him again.
I was all over him as a breakout candidate coming into the season and he’s made me look rather foolish so far.
I know, me too. He’s become a little more important to me team too, since Gardner is my left fielder and he’s obviously out. At least Logan Morrison is raking right now, so that helps.
Cabrera 9-17 off CC? I thought good pitching beats good hitting?
CC hasn’t been good this year. And Miggy isn’t good… he’s the best hitter in the AL.
Those are lifetime stats, not just this season.
If it gets beat, then it wasn’t good pitching!
GOod pitching always beats good hitting if you define good pitching as “a pitch that just got someone out.”
NICE, CC.
No first inning runs? Glorious day.
And that’s how the ace sets the tone for the game. 2-3 runs should be good enough for CC today.
CC and Prince should be facing off in a Sumo Dohyo, not on a baseball diamond.
Or maybe a hot dog eating contest.
No runs in the top of the first! WOOOOOO!!
I feel like the day is already a success no matter what.
Tight strikezone today benefits our patient hitters. Make this guy work.
srsly
Bunting already…sigh.
a bunt? you gotta be kidding me
What a stupid bunt.
Smart play, if Cabrera fields that it’s a hit.
A guy who can hit 40+ homers bunting in the FIRST INNING is never smart.
Apparently I’m alone in that thought.
Eh, kinda. Its a huge power threat at the plate and the first inning.
No, Girardi’s binder apparently agrees with you.
Was it a legit sacrifice though? I’m only listening to the game, so in my minds eye that was a bunt-for-hit attempt.
Looked like a sacrifice to me.
Even if he was bunting for a hit, it was a bad play. Scherzer gives up a lot of homers and Grandy … well he hits a lot of homers.
definitely a bad play … just a question of was Granderson the dumbass or was Girardi the dumbass
If he was bunting for a hit, it could have been his own decision too.
I’m thinking Granderson may have been bunting on his own
God job giving the tigers an out for free. With Granderson no less.
I’m watching this on gameday…did Granderson really just sac bunt?
If so, time to get my ‘don’t f*cking bunt’ t-shirt out of the closet (courtesy of the RAB shop, of course.)
I don’t think it was a sac bunt, as much as it was a bunt for a hit that didn’t work out and goes in an a sacrifice.
I can’t believe Alex let that 2-2 pitch go.
Great! That bunt has seemed to awaken Good Max Scherezer.
What? He walked A-Rod right after that.
Robby, I would have ripped my hair out if that was a double play.
I can predict exactly what’s gonna happen here. Yanks are going to make Scherzer sweat here but not score, then Scherzer will settle down and retire the next 14 Yankees via strikeout.
We didn’t score any runs, but something tells me Scherzer is not long for this game at all.
As long as they stop f*&#ing bunting, yeah.
TRADETEX!
CHONE FIGGINS LEADOFF HR
GRAB THE CANNED GOODS AND HEAD FOR THE BASEMENT
I forgot my end of days survival kit at home.
hahaha
lol
Man… Teix just looks bad. How many players got big money then turned to shit?
2009 was not shit. And he’s still not shit. He’s very good, just not elite.
don’t you understand, unless he’s hitting .330/.460/.675 while playing a stellar first and hitting 47 bombs (all to the opposite field to beat the shift obvi) he’s garbage?
Ha yeah really. I get that big money comes with big expectations, but the Tex haters are exaggerating how bad he is.
Yes, but looking over that triple slash line again…I want that from somebody on the Yankees…that would be a fun season to watch.
Right. He’s about a single a week from great. If he could add that in, we’d be happy.
I am amazed that Tex with all his apparent talent can not do more than just continually pull everything. wouldn’t you think he has the ability to make adjustments? Apparently not.
It’s so strange too because in 2009 he was an all fields hitter which was awesome. Looks like he’s selling out for power and looking to validate his huge contract with homeruns. I don’t know about you guys but I’d rather have someone hit .315 20HR 130RBI with an all fields approach than .250 40HR with a pure pull approach.
.250? That overrated piece of garbage will never hit .250 again. He will be lucky to ever hit .240 again.
I like how guys characterized as “piece of garbage” can be considered overrated at the same time … lol
With Tex I’m much more concerned with his OBP than average, if his average is .250, but his OBP is around .360 or higher and 40 HRs I would rather that.
Sure, but he’s been drawing the same percentage of walks as always. It’s the singles that are coming.
Agreed. I tend to look at OPS, not HRs. His OPS as a Yankee has been .870, while well over .900 elsewhere.
CC’s change looks nasty today.
CC looking really good!
Am loving the strikeouts.
Suzyn Waldman “Girardi says that Stewart isn’t CC’s personal catcher, but Girardi likes to give the back up catcher just one guy to focus on so they can know each other really well.” Does anybody else see the irony?
CC is Stewart’s personal pitcher!
Kay said that Girardi wants to limit a BUC to two pitchers, just to perserve familiarity. I think Waldman was mistaken with the one pitcher thing.
It might be because CC is about as low maintenance a pitcher as they come, so that might be why CC alwasys seems to get the “personal catcher”
This is sacrilegious, but I really want a GIF of David Ortiz sitting in the washing machine. Hilarious.
Haha yeah I like that part of the commercial.
Is Delmon Young banned from Yankee stadium for life like Ronin Tynan?
Dude, I remember when that story about Tynan broke. I’ve never had a more complete “…dafuq?” moment
Is Tynan really banned for life? Like if he buys a ticket and shows up for a game, they won’t let him in?
I think he’d be shot on sight.
I think so, as soon as that story broke the Yankees ran in the opposite direction of Tynan faster than the Flash.
Life would be so great if we could all just fall back on our ready-made excuses.
“Sorry for losing all those accounts, boss. You know how it is, I just can’t do anything right in April.”
Sacrifice by Chavez now?
I’m glad they brought Chavez back.
I hate to cast a pall on the game, but apparently there’s been a very serious, deadly accident at the Bronx Zoo. NYT is tweeting about it.
7 Reported Dead as Vehicle Falls From Parkway at Bronx Zoo
Jeez that’s terrible…
NY Times report is on Bronx River Parkway south of the zoo, not AT the zoo. (Still tragic, but nothing to do with the zoo.)
40 pitches already. I like it.
Car accident on the BRP.
With the first inning double the Yankees have played 20 games and retired the side in order in the first FOUR times. FOUR.
Wow..jeets got really lucky.
and then took advantage of the opportunity
Real tight strike zone today.
You had to know Jeter was getting a hit after that.
C’mon, Grandy!
DON’T BUNT!
The Scout on Gameday finally said something I like. after his 45th pitch hitters are tagging Scherzer to a .520AVG!!!
Wow that’s pretty crazy.
WOOOOHOOO.
Haha I love it! Good eye Grandy!
YESS! I love patience!
That’s rough…he’s one bad strike away from falling apart Garcia style.
Alex, the bases are loaded and you are one grand slam away from tying Lou Gehrig for the MLB lead.
Too many walks!!!
Need an Abomb
…An Adribbler works
Well, not the way I drew it up in my head, but I’ll take it.
YEAH!!!!! Another infield hit!!!!!!
hooray for cheap runs
lol Scherzer is getting some terrible luck
Wow. Scherzer is Leyland’s Hughes. At least Phil pounds the strike zone.
this.
To be fair, the strike zone is tiny and the Jeter and A-Rod hits weren’t exactly scorchers.
2-0 and the ball hasnt left the infield.
For some reason, I always laugh my ass off every time the booth refers to “YES-mo”. It sounds so goofy.
Wow, Robbie…come on buddy.
I miss the good Robinson Cano.
Ahh damn Robbie. You’re better than that.
It really is time for cano to start producing enough is enough already
Chavez should be DHing more vs righties. Dump Ibanez and get someone with more range as the 4th outfielder.
It sucks, but I’m not worried about Robbie. He’s the kind of guy that will go out and hit like .500 for two weeks and absolutely carry the team. He’ll be alright.
…are NOT coming.
Interesting.
If we win this game, on this tough stretch that we had, we would have gone 5-3. I think people would have signed up for that.
Yep, I would have. The Tigers are generally overrated I think, but knowing that Verlander was pitching one of the games, I would have totally signed up for 5-3. Texas is just in beast mode.
After winning the game with Verlander I thought we had a legit chance to sweep and go 6-2, but yeah at the beginning of this stretch 5-3 sounded good.
im sick of cano hes so impatient come on man wait for a good pitch and stop swinging at everything if he doesnt pick it up they should drop him in the order and forget about resigning him his skills are gonna erode
I liked how Jack Curry in the pregame said Cano should swing MORE.
he is actually swinging less than normal this season
Career Swing % 51.7, this year 45.9% (which would be a career low)
I can understand being sick of Teixeira…but Robbie? You know he’ll turn it around soon enough.
Cano will be fine. He’s always been a hacker, and has put up MVP caliber numbers doing so. Every play looks old, or slow, or impatient when their slumping. He’ll come out of it.
And there is no way he gets dropped in the order.
I’m sorry, all I heard was trolltrolltrolltroll
CCC (Carsten Charles Cruisin’)
Girardi should drop Tex to the 6th spot, and let Swish and Grandy platoon that 5 hole.
Oh no, please don’t tell me Swish pulled a hammy or something.
Guess he’s okay, nevermind.
Well, no he’s not because he’s coming out
Scratch that. Hope Swish is alright, or we’ll be seeing a whole lot more of Ibanez in the field.
nope, they’re pulling him. and instead of acting concerned at all about it Sterling and Waldman are patting each other on the back for seeing that he was hurt.
Hopefully they caught it early enough that he just needs the day off.
Ouch, 70 pitches for Scherzer now.
Please be OK Swish.
Tonight: “We’ll see how he feels tomorrow.”
Tomorrow: “Swish is day-to-day. He says he feels fine but we’ll take it one day at a time.”
In the manager and GM’s offices: “Ohshitohshitohshitohshitohshitohshit” along with sacrificing much rum and many cigars to Jobu.
*sigh* What a week…
And now Swisher’s out of the ballgame. Sure would be nice to have a 4th outfielder that could play good defense as we have the lead. Now there’s no defensive replacement for Ibanez in left.
They put Jones in
Mo wants CF
For one game. I gotta believe if Swish is going to miss more than a day or so, they’d bring Wise or someone up.
Or sign Bobby Abreu for the pro-rated portion of the league minimum.
That too.
I thought we wanted somebody who could even fake playing the outfield better than Ibanez.
I think his point is that we could use an OF
/boobyandraulare thesamesadoldgloves’d
we should trade for scherzer he has serious heat and sweet control
We just had Scherzer. We traded him to the Pirates.
If somebody told me that we’d have Scherzer at 78 pitches in the 3rd, and that he will have thrown more balls than strikes, I would imagine we’d score more than two runs.
I’d like that, but I’ll take a 2 run lead with CC apparently in beast mode any day of the week.
The walks are spread out, two an inning, and last inning, the runner was walked into scoring postiion with 2 outs.
First inning: Failure to take advantage
Second Inning: Took advantage
Third inning: 2 outs when runner was in scoring position
With Swish out let’s sign Abreu to play right, Ibanez can play left, and Andy can convince Bernie Williams to come back and play center.
I wonder how much longer Hughes’ leash is with Phelps, Mitchell, and eventually Pettitte looming.
I think that Phelps will start in Garcia’s place and then Hughes will get bumped for Andy when he comes back unless he shows drastic improvement.
That’s what I think too. Guess your new handle is appropriate then, since Phelps will likely replace Freddy haha.
You might need another handle change. Might I suggest, “Phelps the fifth”
Philthy Phelps? Since we can’t use those fun “ph” names with Hughes anymore, let’s run with it for Phelps.
I hope not long. I just don’t think he has it to be a starter. Not enough pitches, not enough command. Put him in the pen and let him empty it out for an inning or two. He did great most of 2009 in the pen.
Yeah, well…Prince will do that from time to time.
That was up and in!
Yeah, it was a slider though. Gotta keep those down.
Still though, mistakes happen. He still looks real good outside of that pitch.
Ah shit. I guess it was inevitable that Fielder would hit one out in this series.
we shud have signed fielder instead of that bum teixeira whos doomed to hit 210 and 25 bombs thats not great value for your money we should trade him for brandon belt hes a young phenom
I’m…not sure if this is sarcasm. I’m going to pretend it is.
I’m sorry, all I heard was trolltrolltrolltroll. Which is funny because you’re an Ogre.
I’ve been trolling for two days and you’re the only one who has replied that noticed… Congratulations plouffenator!
P.s. trolling is fun.
If we lose this game, it’ll be really disappointing because the Yankees had a lot of baserunners on and could only squeeze 2 runs out of a wild Scherzer.
These TBS announcers are idiots!
I hate Sterling.
Haha I’m sure that call was an adventure with Pa Pinstripe.
You have no idea. IT IS GONE! NO, IT IS CAUGHT! NO, IT IS GONE!
Haha nice. At least Kay paused while he figured out what just happened.
Not Sterling, he just had a continuous word vomit going as it was happening.
You’re not alone. I was about to go on a tirade bashing him, but I decided Grandy hitting a homer makes me happier than Sterling’s annoying shit makes me angry.
should have bunted
HOLY CRAP JACKSON
Holy crap I thought A-Jax had that for a second. Great effort by him.
Wow that replay is crazy, he kinda had it for a split second then rolled off the glove against the fence.
Grandy!!!!!!!!!!
Holy shit, I thought he caught that.
OH HE DROPPED IT
Holy shit Ajax had that thing in/on his glove
I’m almost mad he didn’t make that catch. That was amazing.
Would’ve been one of the greatest catches ever.
I had the same feeling
WOW he had that ball
What a great non catch.
Ajax has glove though.
That was one hell of an almost catch there.
Wooo 95 pitches in the 4th. Let’s feast on that bullpen.
Grandy getting fat this series on Coke and over A-Jack.
I can’t prove it with science but I think Teix and his pop ups do more damage to the ozone than pollution and all that other stuff
That wasn’t a pop up. It was proper fly ball the other way.
I left the room and came back to see the ball in play, my initial thoughts was “Teix is hitting”
Question: If Phelps get the start in KC, who does Girardi go to when he gets an itchy trigger finger and has a quick hook because he has zero confidence putting a rookie on the mound to start.
Probably Mitchell.
Depends on what inning it is and what the score is, right?
Mitchell unless he is spent from Hughes start. If so, Clay or Cory.
Yanks need to give rookies an actual chance. I hope Phelps doesn’t get pulled if he gives up, say, three runs by the third.
I agree, but we both know he’s going to be on an incredibly short leash with a choker collar.
For all the concerns about Tex’s bat, he can still pick it a first with the best of em.
I finally got video of the almost catch…would’ve been hands down play of the year.
Without a doubt. Home run robs are rare, but that one would have been awesome.
I was looking at the Red Sox White Sox box score and was shocked to discover that their lowest batting average was Cody Ross with .261. That’s nuts
The Sox offense isn’t the problem. That game we came back 9-0 to win 15-9 has been called a microcosm of the Sox season so far because the hitting is there, but the rotation and bullpen have been really shaky.
Hitting is definably not their problem, though guys like Aviles and Sweeney are due for some regression.
? What about Punto (.250) and Byrd (.164)? And their regulars Saltalamacchia (.245) and Youkilis (.219) who are on the bench today.
Ouch, Youkilis.
Byrd’s hitting .333
just for the Sox, not for the season
With Boston. His season BA includes his time with the Cubs.
Aaaaand he’s at 100 pitches.
Interesting article on the Rays’ increasing use of shifts, something I thought might become more of a story based on what I saw in the opening series.
The Rays led the league in shifts in 2011 with about 1.3 a game. So far in 2012 that is up 600%! Also of note, the Yankees are second in the majors in incorporating defensive shifts. Although well behind Tampa, they are using shifts at a higher rate than Tampa did last year.
http://espn.go.com/blog/statsi.....s#comments
Jeez, Jason Hammel is 3-0 with a 1.73 ERA?
How about some regression tomorrow night, eh?
…and by some, I take that you mean 5 outs outing giving up six runs.
Yup.
Chavy
Now that’s a pop-up
Benoit warming up already? I thought he was the set up guy?
Wow, that’s two infield hits for Jeter today.
I’ll take them.
It’s always been part of his game. In addition to his opposite-field, line-drive stroke, those infield hits are one of the reasons he produces high BABIP throughout his career.
never seen so many infield singles
it would be nice if one of these RISP hits actually got through the IF and knocked in runs
Well Grandy is due up
Ron Darling with the quote of the day:
“4 more outs and Scherzer can actually have a ‘quality’ start” (he was obviously mocking the stat)
Yeah, it’s a terrible stat.
Yep. Quality starts say that 6 IP 3 ER (4.5 ERA) is better than 9 IP 4 ER (4.00 ERA).
I guess it’s useful for talking about a collective pitching staff over the course of a whole season though. Team X having the most quality starts in the league does tell you something useful. But it could certainly be improved.
If it was 6IP/2R and 7+IP/3R, at least it wouldn’t be as laughable as it is now.
That’s a small positive step in the right direction
I think it just needs to be in-game ERA. If your game ERA is 4.5 or below, than it’s a quality start. That way those 9 IP 4 ER scenarios count as quality starts.
Both of those would be excellent starts. That’s not what the stat tries to measure. It’s trying to get an idea of how often the starter gives a reasonably good performance. People love to point out the 6 IP, 3 R games as the weakness of the stat, but they make up a very small percentage of quality starts.
My problem isn’t what it includes, it’s what it excludes. 8 or 9 IP and 4 ER is a quality start in my opinion, but not according to the stat.
There were 2268 games started by AL pitchers last year. Of those, 1200 were quality starts by the current definition. There were 17 games other games where the starter went 8+ innings and gave up 4 runs. There were 97 games where the starter went 6 innings and gave up 3 runs.
Yankees 3-10 with RISP, which is .300 including that Grandy out
all 3 hits IF singles, amounting to a total of 1 run scored
But RISP fail by definition
But NOT RISPfail by definition
…illustrating why it’s pointless when brought down to individual games and SSS.
If we were loosing this game, I’d be screaming about guys being left on, but CC has been great, and we’re winning so, it’s not as bad.
This ain’t good. Against a lineup like this you want more of a lead so that a bloop and a blast can’t tie you. Too many men LOB. Good thing CC is on his game today and will get us to Robertson and Mo with ease if they are needed.
And this is why you score more than 3 runs against this lineup, especially when you’re given 7 BBs.
NOT RISPfail by definition
Damn it, that slider was right over the middle.
Wow. Eldred has 240 minor league HRs. Rarely see those kind of cumulative numbers for a minor leaguer. Must be a AAAA guy.
Yeah, that’s kind of like how Igawa set the SWB record for wins. Not the kind of records you want to have.
Call Gieco, and get us some insurance runs, damnit!
hooray, base hit for Robbie.
Tex smoked that the other way. But it was an out and no one will notice.
I did. If Tex is gonna make an out, an oppo field out is at least encouraging.
Didn’t seem any different than his other at bats. Other than he flied out opposite way.
Now we’re in hedgy territory. 3-11
¿3-run jack por favor?
And here’s Chavez to put the game away. Thankfully, this won’t come down to Chris Stewart.
They’re trolling us.
We’ve left a small village on base today lol.
Feels like 300 men LOB
3-11. Starting to enter RISPfail territory. Get under .250 and it will be
Having only 3 runs as a result of all the baserunners the Yankees have had is already RISP fail territory. Especially when all 3 hits were little infield singles.
Not according to numbers.
.272 is an okay average with RISP
but a horrible SLG
Correct.
Until they separate RISP hits that drive in runs and RISP hits that dont. .272 is a good average
and yet another example of why BA without any context is a weak stat
Yeah, but all 3 hits were infield hits which are pretty random. Not a very reliable way to score.
Again, until they separate RISP hits that score runs and RISP hits that don’t, this is the stat that is used.
.272 is also an okay average with no one on base. The situation doesn’t change anything.
Exactly. So they haven’t gone into RISPfail….yet.
ANother bad factor is that they are not doing this with nobody out.
Its always with one or two outs which lessens the chance of runs scoring
Three times bases loaded and nada. This is why runs scored is in effective as a counter argument to the lack of consistent offense.
Every team in baseball lacks a consistent offense. Every team ever.
Right. Baseball is a game of failure. As a hitter, you can fail 2 out of every 3 times and still make the Hall of Fame.
Now let’s just hope CC can go 8/9 and Fielder/Cabrera don’t catch hold of one. The Yanks could load the bases again, even with none out, and I’m not expecting any more runs.
Stewart is like Cervelli with out the fist pumps
Better on defense. Cervelli never seemed to keep a ball in front of him, everything bounced away.
And he seemed to have an affinity for throwing the ball into CF on stolen base attempts.
beat me to it
but he was good at playing catch with Granderson during SB attempts
SSS I know, but maybe Stewart isn’t the complete black hole we thought. If he can get hits every once in awhile with great defense, that’s a pretty valuable BUC.
Play for one run=one run
Usually less, actually.
IBBs and bunts.. awesome strategy Joe.
They better not have Curtis bunt.
please don’t bunt
please don’t bunt
please don’t bunt
please don’t bunt
Granderson needs to end this here….
can you have a walk-off in the seventh inning?
Yes… a bomb here would end this.
Angels lose again. 7-15 now!!
Awesome. Also, Boston is losing 3-0 in the 6th.
Insane.
ITS ALBERTZ FAULT!!!!!!!!!111
So close…
Juuuust missed that.
Essentially works as a bunt, but now 3-12
Phil Coke is rubbing off on his fellow relievers
yanks offense has 9 walks and only 4 strikeouts… damn!
Did Susan just tell me that the Red Sox are getting no-hit through six? Did I hear correctly?
Yup. Floyd on the mound for the Good Sox.
Would be pretty crazy if they got a perfect game and no-hitter in the space of about a week.
Can we get some real hitters in the lineup please? Preferably ones who hit with RISP.
So one of the best offenses in the league has “no real hitters”?
I’m clearly overreacting. I’m a Yankee fan. I make outrageous statements then look back at them and wonder what I was thinking.
I resent your assertion that being a Yankee fan is synonymous with making outrageous statements. That’s a “you” thing.
No, they’re holograms like Tupac.
LOL I heard “Tupac” might be going on tour.
A little 2 run single up the middle…that’s all we’re asking for.
Stewie with the ninja slide.
He got his foot in
lol whatever.
Nice! Like I said earlier, this is not how we drew it all up, but I’ll take it. He got his foot in, good call by the ump.
Safe by a six-pack
Some slide by Stew.
The great Gazoo doesn’t do what Stew does.
I don’t know if getting no-hit by Gavin Floyd causes the Red Sox clubhouse to fully implode, but I’d love to find out.
Considering how quickly it took for tension to arise with Valentine and the players, I have a feeling this will end badly for them. I can’t wait for the drama to explode.
Gotta give the ump credit.
Usually when the ball beats the runner and throw is on target, they give the defense the benefit of the doubt. But clearly that was the right call.
Cowboy Joe would have been ringing him up (to speed up the game).
a few more feet Cano
Chris Stewart 2012 fWAR: 0.1
Albert Pujols 2012 fWAR: -0.5
This makes me smile, SSS be damned.
173 pitches by Tiger pitchers through 7 vs. 88 for CC. Good thing they wore out Valverde last night.
midget broke up the no-no
Awww. It had to be him, didn’t it.
Came across this again earlier today. It still cracks me up.
http://www.google.com/imgres?q.....:156,i:143
awesome
I should save this link and post it at OTM every time the Red Sox are losing haha.
They’d ban you in about three seconds but it might be worth it.
There are 4 computers in my house and several wifi connections around my neighborhood I can jump on. I have several bullets.
please let us know if/when you do it. I would love to read the reactions.
Of course. I’ll probably save them for Yankee-Sox games. So the next time the Yankees beat the Sox, it’ll happen.
Is anyone else hearing the Bronx Zoo accident update?!
All 7 people in the mini van were killed. 3 children (girls), 3 women and a man. No one at the zoo was involved.
Not an ace CC Sabathia with another un-ace-like performance. Too bad the Yankees couldn’t sign a real ace, someone like Justin Verlander who never has an off night.
He’s no Johan!
Haha I laughed. I had quite the argument with my girlfriend’s friend’s boyfriend (kind of confusing, I know) about whether or not CC was a top 10 pitcher in baseball. It was hard to be civil.
Why not let CC finish the game
Let CC complete this thing
Andruw is such a beast. jesus.
Yeaaaaah Andruw! Guy still has crazy power.
Nowwww its OK to smile, Andruw.
Sterling: They’d never get Mariano Rivera up and not use him!
Andruw Jones: Care to test that theory?
Now I would sit Mo down
If pretending there’s no one on base helps you guys to hit, fine by me.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
I’d definitely let CC finish this, but I didn’t see what his pitch count was.
106
I think I’d still let me at least start the inning. 1-2-3 inning on 10 pitches would be great, and if not, he at least would get a standing ovation as he walks off.
I’d like CC to finish this, but D-Rob is on my fantasy team, so I won’t complain too much.
no cc with 2 lefty coming up
Ain’t the ninth inning without a bat broken by a Yankees reliever.
“Why did he use Mo 2 days in a row!”
(Doesn’t see Mo for a week after)
Yankees about to finish 5-3 during what was acknowledged as a tough stretch, originally nine games before the last Boston game rained out.
Well done.
So you won the game, and the series. Nicely done (seriously). But next time you put that many runners on base, I want blood. And entrails. And at least 10 runs.
nuff said