Game Six: For The Sweep
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The Yankees have already (and unfortunately) experienced getting swept this season, and now it’s time to turn the tables and do the sweeping. Last night’s extra-innings win was anything but routine, and it really took a toll on the bullpen. CC Sabathia is going to have to soak up some innings tonight, preferably nine or so. Here’s the lineup…
SS Derek Jeter
CF Curtis Granderson
2B Robinson Cano
3B Alex Rodriguez
1B Mark Teixeira
RF Nick Swisher
DH Raul Ibanez
C Russell Martin
LF Brett Gardner
LHP CC Sabathia
Tonight’s game starts a little after 7pm ET and can be seen on YES. Enjoy.
Update (7:05pm ET): The first rain delay of the year! It doesn’t appear that it will be a lengthy delay, so the tarp might not be on the field all that long.
Update (7:14pm): The tarp is already coming off the field, so we’ll have baseball soon.
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I’d just like to take this opportunity to congratulate Terry Francona on, essentially, singing “The Thunder Song” to the Red Sox.
Good for him. Always had much respect for the guy; Francona was nothing less than a class act, only to get thrown under the bus by those scumbags, so screw ‘em.
That’s the Boston way. Everybody was predicting that the front office would start disseminating scandalous stories about him after he left and, sure enough, about a week later, we started hearing leaked stories about his marriage. The Red Sox has a horrible PR textbook and they follow it to the letter.
They have a textbook for that? Jeez, I didn’t think it was so complicated to smear someone’s reputation.
FUCK YOU THUNDER. YOU CAN SUCK MY DICK.
The Big Man will shine tonight.
It’ll be interesting to see how Joe uses the bullpen tonight. Should we be anticipating a solid two to three innings of relief from a Rapada/Logan combo. Guh-reat.
Im thinking 7 solid innings from the big man. Mix and match the 8th and hopefully Soriano is good to go for the 9th.
He’s got the torn finger nail..hopefully that isn’t a big deal. Is the weather really that terrible right now?
Rain…..
FARC!
Just hope there are no delays during the game. Then we’d really be screwed if CC has to be come out early.
nooooooo rain delay
And here comes the tarp. Damn. After last night’s game went long I was hoping tonight would be a quick 3 hour game.
Girardi did a rain dance to spare his bullpen.
Waldman describing Soriano’s nail injury. It sounds grizzly. Ever since I saw fingernail torture scenes in 24 and Syriana I can’t handle nail-related injuries.
Considering problems I’ve had with ingrown toenails over the years, I also don’t want to think too much about a “torn” fingernail.
Chills up the spine.
I’m stunned. Doesn’t Mother Nature know that she should have delayed LAST NIGHT’s game – it was the one that was on My9.
Jonah Keri, Grantland.com:
“The Indians aren’t necessarily getting a bargain. FanGraphs’ MIKE AXISA looked at four other premier offensive catchers and their earnings over the same five-year stretch for which Santana got guaranteed money. He found that Santana will earn as much as top earners Joe Mauer and Mike Napoli, and considerably more than Brian McCann and Miguel Montero for that same period. It seems the Indians aren’t likely to squeeze huge value out of the deal … even after accounting for inflation, and even if Santana rakes as expected.”
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Axisa getting the credit he deserves for his good work.
A rain out would reallllly help the Yankees today.
The rains of My9 come late this year.
The rain delay was supposed to be yesterday during My9′s telecast. Even the baseball weather gods have to shake off some early season rust I guess.
Just shows their fallibility, which means, naturally, that they aren’t gods.
I agree with Bob Lorenz. Get rid of the sad, rain-delay music. Really, it can drive a man to drink.
No way. Love a good sax solo and this is close enough
Yet another lead-off hit for Jeter; first home run for Granderson—things are looking up!
I don’t know why this appeared as a reply and not a new post, but whatevs!
It’s so akin to the NFL-injured-player music that Fox insists on using whenever they cut to a commercial for that reason.
Very nice. Very nice indeed. I saw what you did there and enjoyed it.
Haha, I thought I was the only one that got it.
I guess I didn’t got it. I’m also not in front of my TV right now, is that why?
No. Bob Lorenz got a DUI during the offseason. Rob is saying it can drive a man to DRINK….
Buh dum pishhh
Forgot all about that.
Maybe you should work for MLB. They love to forget DUIs.
No, I just don’t have the greatest short-term memory about things that have happened to me personally.
First pitch @ 7:25.
Who is this youthful lead-off hitter?
You know 37 is the new 27.
hey, the Cap’n hits righties now too
Grandyman! no doubter
It seems as if the Grandy man can….
THe Grandyman!
Well, I’m enjoying the game so far.
RISPwin
These ain’t the Twins anymore, Arrieta.
I see what you did.
Grandyman, before I can even settle in
Has the captain discovered the fountain of youth?
This strikezone may make for a long game.
I dislike people who use the phrase “ribbie.”
what if it’s a ribbie for robbie?
What if we instead said “An R.B.I. for Rob.B.I.”
I guess that doesn’t work
No. No it doesn’t. I’ll stick with ribbie and Rib-eye and risk your dislike.
Alex doesn’t look to good out of the gate
I thought he looked great in Tampa. He was walking, picked up a couple of hits… I guess he only turns up against good teams. He’s been good in the field, though.
It just looks like he’s in front of offspeed pitches and behind on fastballs…I’m sure he’ll figure it out, it just makes me a tad sad that he’s not on fire out of the gate like last season.
Which gate?
The one that’s connected to the off-fence.
BOOM
/TPIR losing horn’d
I want recognition for my play on words, damn it.
His eye is right. He’s walking a ton and fielding very well. I’m not concerned.
Looking for his pace horse. He’ll soon be moving like a tremendous machine.
Do the O’s have a third catcher on the roster? DHing your backup seems a tad risky.
They don’t, but Showalter obviously wants all the righties he can get to face Sabathia.
Also, because Girardi’s practically been standing in front of Showalter’s office announcing it with a megaphone, Showalter knows that the Yankees bullpen is off limits tonight apart from Logan and Rapada—two lefties. (Obviously, Rivera will probably come in in the ninth if there is a save situation in play.)
Yep, gotta make sure you always manage to the save situation.
Holy shit ! Montero is catching !!!!
Seattle is crazy. Over/under 2.5 passed balls.
Lets see give the kid a chance.
Honestly, I want nothing more for Montero than for him to excel in every way in the Majors but even though I loved is bat as a prospect, from everything I’ve ever read about his defense him doing an impression of Piazza defensively was the absolute ceiling of his defensive abilities.
Agree, but just like anything else I like to see what really is going to happen instead of predicting and projecting shit to death.
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha yay for YES!
ok..can they not show that picture again
That’s going in the recap.
What happened?
Can somebody tell me how the Yankees scored their 2 runs? I didn’t realize the game came back.
Grandy 2 run homer in first
Granderson homered with Jeter at second.
opening double for Jeter, two run homer for Granderson
Raul woth the dreaded OBP smaller than AVG.
Is that even possible? and if so somebody explain how?
Sac flies, maybe?
sac fly
Stretching a single to a double and getting out.
that wouldn’t affect either
That counts against your OBP? I mean you did achieve getting on base then you were thrown out…
It counts against your OBP because you didn’t stay on base. You got the hit but you still got out so it hurts your OBP.
I don’t think that’s true.
it’s not
I found this exchange amusing.
Love this thread – everyone was so nervous about CC, and there’s not a mention of him yet.
Getting the 2-0 lead right off the bat helped with that. Puts us in the driver’s seat
who was nervous about CC?
Seriously. I’m also ready/amped for a big CC start.
It would be nice to see one of our pitchers dominate.
Except for just then.
I view that as a positive. What meaningful things should we be drawing from 3 outs?
“CC didn’t fall apart, huzzah!” ?
Yep!
Has there been any news on whether the Yankees will wear throwback jerseys for the Fenway Park 100th?
They were going to wear them, last I heard.
That’d be a heck of a throwback. We’d have to go back to the Highlanders days.
Not that much different.
http://fineartamerica.com/feat.....anger.html
That’s the year the Highs wore ‘Stripes tho. They went back to the other ones after that until 1915 I believe.
You can see the stripes in that picture, although those are the home uniforms. They’ll be in their road unis for Boston, which also had the stripes.
They will.
http://exhibits.baseballhallof.....ntryid=194
Great marketing opportunity, then. I will be buying that road jersey because I’m an idiot.
There goes the perfect game
This strike zone is bad for both pitchers so far
CC doing Regis Philbin here.
dumbass
CC just let it go. does that every time.
Let’s hope our mole Betemit gets Sabathia out of this
That’s good work Wilson; would have preferred a double play but that will do
Wow CC. Instinct but dumb.
Damn CC. Easy DP man.
Relax your sphincters
Wilson Betemit: True Yankee™
I think I just saw the ghost of Mike Devereaux in center
This is not going as scripted.
epic fail by cc sabathia, way to step like a true ace
CC…you had such a good first inning man…
cant blame Girardi for that
He should’ve pulled him!!
what a garbage inning. 2 out, 2 run hit to the #9 hitter
Shitty man. 0-2 to a full count fastball.
Just throw the damn slider for a called strike. Trying to get cute.
Not with this strike zone. I get what you’re saying, but not in this case.
Cc = overpaid
Joking right?
Gotta be joking.
Ever since that Seattle game last year, CC has looked like crap
do you have stats to back this up?
3.08 ERA and 3.18 FIP last September
absolutely crappy
This is bad. We have no pen. CC just had to let that ball go through and it’s a DP.
Boo Andiño. I would like you better if your name was pronounced with the ñ, not straight -no.
and the bridge jumpers have quickly made their return
You’d think they’d never seen a two-run inning before.
Its both amusing and depressing.
Paradox!
Would it kill one of our starters to have a good outing? Way too many 30+ pitch innings already this season.
Ivan Nova says hi
Him of the 10 hits, 6 for extra bases? I mean, the line looked okay, but it was hardly a comfortable outing.
Yeah. He’s at 50(!) already.
Why, yes, yes it would.
hughes is gotta have to pitch
47 pitches thanks for 4 innings asshole
he will pitch more than 4 innings
I guarantee it
but thanks for playing
60 in the 3rd with no outs
72 and counting as is girardi.
still guarantee more than 4 innings
would you like to concede now?
Its not like he killed your dog man. Sheesh.
I will say right now, CC throws 7 innings tonight.
At least six, probably starts the seventh. It’s amazing how many Yankees have so little appreciation for him.
You have to remember, unless he throws 8 shutout innings with 7-10Ks and like two hits he’s an absolute bum.
Not that I think this will happen but what if CC is only able to go 4 innings? Can the bullpen cover the other 5?
They don’t really have a choice, do they?
We have Cy Phelps for tomorrow guys don’t worry. And lol relying on Hughes to give you innings. He’s the last person to trust to use their bullets conservatively.
There’s no game tomorrow
So what the hell are people bitching for?
It’s what they do.
Are people bitching? The issue is if CC gets knocked out early. Their list of available pitchers for this game is very short. Even shorter if Soriano isn’t available.
Not a huge problem, but something to consider going in to this game.
Shhh…
Regardless of the outcome of this At-Bat this is an excellent job by Brett.
and that’s a terrible job by Jeter…after a ten pitch battle, first pitch swinging?
Dear Michael Kay-
Stop saying pitchers “struck out the side” unless it’s a 1-2-3 inning…for the LOVE OF GOD!!!
But he’s right. You can strike out the side, or you can strike out the side in order.
I suppose you’re right, but in situations like that it makes him sound like he’s trying to make a pile of crap with a few rose petals sound like it’s a bouquet…but hey, that’s just me. Thanks for the correction, I appreciate it. But now, I’m going to be listening for whether or not he says it correctly each time
Let’s go Yankees…turn this thing back around in our favor…
*”rose petals on it…”
that’s what I meant to type, and hopefully makes more sense.
It’s Michael Kay. All models come with limitations built in.
Wow. Great inning right there . . .
5,4,3,2,1
Jeter so un-rangy.
Right on cue!!!!
Oh the range.
2 in a row.
LOL
Okay since it seems to annoy you, Jeter has horrendous range.
A) I really don’t think it annoys him. I think he just finds it funny.
B) Why so surly?
BINGO!!!!!!
Its doesn’t annoy because:
1- I know the other things that Jeter brings to the table.
2- they’re really no solution for it right now.
So I can live with it can you?
If you’ve ever seen me asking for a new SS then show me cause I never had an issue with it. His range still sucks.
Ok it sucks tomorrow or whenever he will go 4 for 4 and make for it.
But you keep complaining about and good luck with it.
Charleston is Charlestoning by the way. Campos is Camposing and all the offense is coming from the non-prospects.
Bichette just Bichette all over the field.
Bichette and Austin have 5 Rbi combined.
Yeah, that happened after I posted. Every player has gotten on base. Every player has a hit other than Williams. Campos has yet to give up a hit.
again? Man, Campos is a fuckin beast
Where’s the velo?
The best part about the complaining about how long CC will go is that if he throws 120-30 pitches, they’ll crush Girardi for letting him throw that many.
part of being the manager in this town.
Get the damn batter. Stop rushing your delivery.
Until Cashman buys this Wieters kid I shall be booing him hereforth. Is there no decent scouting report on this guy, or is he the next Ted Williams and will just hit everything you throw at him?
How do you walk Mark Reynolds twice!? The guy has little contact and virtually no plate vision
Reynolds has one of the best walks rates in baseball year after year.
I never look at facts, that’s how I can just make stuff up
I’ve noticed.
At the bottom of the Cap’n Crunch box…
Why the hell is he worried about the runner on 2nd with 2 strikes? Base hit he scores anyway.
This is the way you expect someone like Phelps to pitch. Not a Vet like CC.
Damn.
Yikes. This is not looking pretty. Who comes in to pitch should CC not make it into the 5th?
Phew!
Ok, can we let CC take more than like a 7 minute break this inning?
I guess not…
Is CC starting or is Freddy Garcia? This ain’t good, folks. We needed 6 innings out of him.
*They* will get the six innings.
This is ugly. CC looks like AJ
I fell asleep the last inning and a half. Seems like it was a good thing.
Avalible pitchers
Logan, rapada,hughes swisher,martin
I think I remember Mike saying some time ago that Nunez can throw as well.
Nunez will hit the guys in the booth if he pitches
Guidry is definitely one of the trivia answers. Moose is probably another. Not sure about the third, maybe Clemens?
Cone, maybe Clemens, maybe Randy.
So will CC even go 5 innings?
He needs to stop trying to strike everyone out… even if he gives up a hit 0-2 or 1-2, let them put the ball in play – even if it means a few runs.
In the 2nd inning with 1 guy on base he doesn’t need to be throwing first pitch and 2-0 change ups to Ronnie Paulino. In the 3rd he threw a first pitch fastball to him and got a quick out.
His change up is his best pitch tonight. You’re asking him to exert control over things he has no real power over. He can’t control what they swing at, only what he throws.
Mike Mussina and David Cone I’m guessing.
What’s the question?
Name three pitchers
Since 1970 only 5 Yankee pitchers reached top 5 in strikeouts not including CC. Who are they?
(And seriously only 5 in 40 years?)
Guidry
Clemens
Mussina
Cone
Pettitte?
Maybe Righetti during his first couple of seasons as a starter.
Oh it’s three, I screwed up.
Campos, no-hitter through five, seven Ks.
send CC to AAA, call up Campos
but seriously, that’s awesome. kid is exciting.
He may be the steal of the trade.
may be? he definitely is, since the montero/pineda comparison is a wash and noesi is no more than a back-end starter.
Good. Montero singles in 1st ab. No passed balls yet. Unfortunately Millwood pitching.
In a similar minor league level this prospect sucked.
1.2 IP, 5H, 8R, 5ER, BB, 4K
This AJ Burnett guy needs to control if he wants to succeed at the ML level. Again anyways.
Trade fight….. Trade fight!!!
Another fly ball from Nicholas that reaches the track. Andruw and A-Rod hit that exact same spot yesterday too.
I’m going with Clemens, Guidry and Johnson for the trivia.
Nice, already saying they are gonna baby the ace of our staff.
Do we have an answer on the trivia question?
It was Guidry, Johnson, and….someone who’s name wasn’t familiar and I’ve already forgotten.
That’s how you do it Carl Crawford!
Ha. Same hitter, too.
His feeble attempt on the Orioles game winning hit in game 162 last year was classic. He basically quit.
Perfect, that’s exactly what you needed CC…what was that? An 8 pitch inning?
Dante making up for break my heart yesterday.
I would have never guessed Melido Perez. I forgot how good he was that year.
Yeah, whenever there’s a question about a top Yankee pitching season recently and you can’t figure out the final answer, it’s usually Melido Perez. A fine season for a horrible team that year.
Eh, not completely horrible. I mean, not when compared to the previous 3 years.
Another way of judging 1992, in June of that year, thanks to the prior season, the Yankees drafted one named Derek Sanderson Jeter.
Thanks to the Astros not listening to HOF pitcher Hal Newhouser, who was a scout for them at the time.
He was so upset the Astros didn’t take Jeter, he quit.
Could have had 100 guesses and I wouldn’t have said him.
Just want to remind everyone that CC traditionally gets off to a slow start. Don’t want people to get all tense and angry from his first two starts.
How is your boy AJ doing ?
AJ…I’m gonna miss him.
If I had a full day to come up with answers, I don’t think Melido Perez would come out of my mouth.
WTF???
Charleston manager takes Campos out with a no hitter going???
I’m outraged!!!
He threw 75 pitches in his second start at A- so it’s understandable. If he left him in and Campos got injured, he would be fired or at least lose track to higher coaching levels.
That said, I, too, am outraged. But that’s nothing new.
I was joking …
My bad. I should have looked at the name. Sadly it’s hard to tell around here sometimes. I’m sure there are posters who would have shared those sentiments. Exclamation points and all!!!
You’re completely correct unfortunately. Sigh.
He was totally joking. When have you ever seen NP use that much punctuation seriously? lol
first pitch bunt I’m calling it
Chances that Gardner doesn’t bunt?!
Sterling informs us that if fielders show any indecision while fielding bunts the batter will make it to first.
wow…he’s not bunting, at least not right away…
i want to take a puke off the top of that building behind right field.
haha…well done gardy.
LOL Red Sox are 1-5. I haven’t spoken with any Sox fans lately, but for those that have, are they all panicky and freaking out?
http://www.overthemonster.com/
They were poor last year after the first few weeks. Could only beat us.
2011 WS favorites.
no bunt > bunt
That > bunt
Thumbs up to Girardi for letting Garnder swing away there. It would have been easy to call for a sac bunt (and it wouldn’t necessarily a bad decision)
Jeter does know he doesn’t always have to first pitch swing(or bunt) with runners on right?
The Yankees do that a lot in general. It’s the whole “the first pitch might be the best pitch because the hitter doesn’t want to fall behind in the count” mentality.
Granderson and Cano as well, I guess the logic is sound…but when you load the bases on a walk and hit batsman, I think you should take a pitch…
Jeter swung at a 93 mph fastball nearly down the middle of the plate?
I sure hope he’s swinging at that with the bases loaded as it could be the best pitch he sees all at bat.
And Granderson hit one one on the screws… it’s not like they are chasing 1st pitch offspeed stuff out of the zone.
With the bases loaded, pitchers will obviously be looking to get ahead in the count with a fastball or a get me over secondary pitch.
I don’t understand the complaint when hitters are swinging at strikes.
Jeter, across 18 seasons, swinging on the first pitch:
.381/.565
Swing away, Derek, swing away.
Jeter with an unintentional Baltimore job.
Derek Jeetuh.
Professional hitter.
fuck…grandy really hit that hard.
Bah, Grandy hit that on the screws.
Well, that was instant karma for Gardy’s hit.
Ugh, I just remembered how much I hate blackouts on MLB.tv. I live in Iowa so I get six teams blacked out: Cards, Brewers, White Sox, Cubs, Royals, and Twins. I wouldn’t mind watching Hosmer and Moustakas on the Twins or some of the teams that play some teams that aren’t listed. As active as Bud was about “fixing” the draft slotting system, blackouts are a far bigger problem IMO.
Ugh smoked right off Andino’s glove.
One “problem” cost the owners money. One problem makes the owners money. Which one do you think they want to fix?
Wouldn’t the owners make more money if MLB.tv reached more viewers? Six fucking blackouts? I live in six teams home markets? The Brewers and Royals are fucking nine hours apart…somehow I’m in both home markets? I don’t see how owners make money off of MLB.tv blackouts UNLESS they’re blacking out areas where their network is seen.
I hear you. It must make financial sense to them otherwise they wouldn’t keep doing it despite it being widely criticized.
Your part of the country and I think Las Vegas get hit the worst by the blackout policy.
Remember how long it took baseball teams to embrace on base percentage? I mean these guys are fucking dinosaurs and they’re clearly not the most willing to jump on the new thing. I get the Fox blackout, because Fox plays a shitload for that, and I get the ESPN blackout…why the regional blackouts? Can’t you just set it so you get that team’s commercials if you’re in their area? Or at least limit it to two or three blackouts?
I don’t know what the answer is. It’s not just baseball that is suffering growing pains with new technology.
Why can’t I watch Law and Order whenever and wherever I want? I would gladly watch with commercials if they let me.
The regional blackout was in effect in an effort to get people to show up at the stadium, I believe. What is the purpose now?
Yup, I’m in Vegas. Both LA teams, Oakland, San Diego, San Francisco, and Arizona all blacked out.
bases loaded no outs – get one run.
I’ve seen worse.
Does it count as RISP fail when Andino makes a play like that?
That was…a bit disappointing.
Yeah, it’s fucking Baltimore…you gots to break it open against them, right?
They made a really good play on Grandy. Not much more you can do.
I don’t have a problem with that. It’s just I was expecting more from Cano because he usually does so well here.
I hate this team when runners are in scoring position.
When Cano has a trip to Baltimore and doesn’t punish the Orioles in at least on game, he’s in a massive slump.
The whole team’s kinda in a funk right now. Exept Jeter and Ibanez.
Robbie had a single and a double yesterday. Cut him some slack.
Bases loaded…one run.
Wasn’t that average with RISP supposed to turn around? That was pathetic. CC’s almost done so we need runs.
it’s .400 so far today
RISP is kinda fluky, some times it seems that some players try too hard on base.
Not the team’s fault Andino made that play. That was 2 runs taken away there.
Is there any team in baseball that squanders chances with runners on third like the Yankees? It drives me CRAZY!
Careful, someone may cite some academically arcane statistic that demonstrates the Yankees are not at all unusual in RISP.
You mean like, you know, how often we got hits with RISP?
they were fifth best in MLB last year at runner on third w/<2outs scoring at 55%
MLB best was 57%
That’s sooooo academically arcane.
I aim to please
They probably put the most amount of runners on third base so it stands to reason they probably leave the most on third base as well.
I used to defend Jeter, now I’d like to see what it’s like to have a good defensive shortstop, how many of those hits would be outs. Sigh…
Probably not enough to make up for the offensive dip if we had most of the D-first shortstops.
Off topic, but if any of you guys play MLB 12: The Show, the guys on the Operation Sports forum just released their Opening Day roster revision—full minors, full opening day 40-man.
Sorry, forgot the link: http://www.operationsports.com.....g-day.html
fuck….
Take him out. Something’s wrong with this guy since late last season.
Get this man out of the game.
On a positive note, I do have Reynolds on my fantasy team. Hey, I’m looking for anything here!
These guys look like shit tonight.
Get logan up
Crappy single past Jeter, ball singled off of CC bounced to A-Rod, stolen base on a crappy transfer by Martin. Jesus Christ CC’s getting fucked here. Next start I expect him to pitch a shutout where allows 27 booming fly balls that die at the warning track.
He hasn’t been great, but that was a flukey inning.
And that’s how you hit with RISP. Pathetic performance by our offense last inning and CC tonight. The big man let us down.
I cannot wait until we comeback in this game and all these nay-sayers go on and on about how they knew we’d win all along.
I don’t see “nay-sayers.” I do see people disgusted by the Yankees’ failure to cash in runners.
And CC’s shitty luck.
I see them. I also see people who only show up to comment on bad things and then disappear or nitpick when something good happens. The first group is not annoying. The second is.
Can’t figure out why a team of the caliber of the Yankees always plays down to the level of weak opponents like the Orioles. At least give an effort.
they clearly aren’t trying and don’t care at all whether they win or lose
Take Sabathia out… and replace him with who? You honestly want Logan and Rapada in there against practically an all right handed side?
(What’s the innings cap for Phelps? He pitched less than three yesterday, right? You add the warm up to that… shrug.)
I didn’t consider Hughes; bringing him in seems a bit funky to me.
Phelps has been a starter pretty much his whole life. I doubt he’s ever been asked to throw in a game on back to back days.
Honestly, what was ARod supposed to do with those pitches?
Foul them off. Spoil ‘em. Keep the AB alive. Stupid things like that.
Well, yea, foul them off. That was about it.
Stop being reasonable. People will start thinking that that’s acceptable.
Arod…..sucks.
Alex didn’t like any of those pitches. Will wait for one he likes. Maybe tomorrow.
There’s MT25, swinging at a slider almost at eye-level…
Arod looks pretty bad right now
lol @Teixeira.
Helplessly flailing away…
That may have been the worst swing I’ve seen Texeria during his Yankees tenure.
Welp there is plenty of other horrible swings to select from unfortunately.
Damn. Our 4 & 5 hitters are DANGEROUS! Good thing the Yanks never paid a king’s ransom for a portly prince . . .
Girardi will end up blowing out CC arm here in cold weather on second start.
He threw 118 pitches on April 10 in Boston last year.
Seems like he survived that just fine.
Alright, I definitely called this.
Unfortunately.
Mason Williams with a double. All RiverDogs now have a hit.
$75 million looked like shit today.
Ibanez saved us last night. Jeter looks good. Grandy had one good swing. Gardner has been good. What is everyone else doing? Alex looks like he’s 46. We should have dumped Teixera and signed Prince. Robbie has no protection.
Unfortunately, I am the only one who will agree with you about Fielder. Although I would’ve advocated they sign Prince at First, move Tex to third, and DH Alex (or play musical chairs between T and A). Had they done that, World Series title #28.
You’re both insane. You’re taking a fantastic 1Bman and a very good 3Bman away from their positions AND commiting us to another ARod contract.
The blind leading the blind…
Haha. You’re funny. A dick, but funny.
Robbie has no protection.
I’m not fully convinced about this “protection” thing, but either way, that’s Girardi’s fault. That’s why your best hitter bats fourth. Why is Cano hitting third? Because A-Rod is spectacular?
Uhhhh. Who would be protecting him if he hit 4th and how is that an improvement?
They’re 6 games in. Relax. They’re just going through slumps, like every other player in the MLB does multiple times throughout the year. It just so happens that they are slumping in the first week of the season, so it’s magnified, especially since everyone wants the team to get off to a strong start.
Let’s not go around declaring certain players bad until a significant amout of playing time has passed.
Tex has a full no trade clause, he wasn’t going anywhere
Also, he almost always gets off to slow starts, it’s a bit soon to write him off
Idiot.
Now, now, no need for that.
Sometimes there is.
No. There really isn’t.
You’re incorrect.
In what universe was that first pitch to Andino a ball?
FiRE EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OUR LINEUP IS TEH SUCKZORZE!!!!!!!!!
Ladies and gentleman your 4-5-6 hitters. Is there any other 3 hitters in a row you would want to see less in this lineup coming up in say the 9th needing to score a run or two? If only tex and swisher would swing harder.
Sure, you can take any 3 hitters at any given time when they’re struggling and make a list of hitters who are currently hitting better. Hurrah SSS.
And yet the same 3 performed just as well in post season last year, and the year before.
Still SSS. Go ahead, hate the Yankees. I refuse to.
Ibanez, Martin, and Gardner. In an ideal situation, I’d want to see the top of the line up but I’d definitely want the middle of our order over the bottom third.
I hear the best way to get a hit in the big leagues is to not swing hard.
Yes corkscrewing yourself into the ground is usually frowned upon. But hey they are putting on there “A” swing as long preaches I’m sure.
Again, I hear the best way to get a hit in the big leagues is with something less than your best swing.
If that’s the “A” swing at this point in their careers, is Arod just gonna throw the bat at the ball when he’s 40? Or maybe he can go All Happy Gilmore and get a running start eh?
I have to admit. I kinda laughed at this one.
Long’s preaching has helped field one of the top 3 offenses over the course of his tenure. Just saying.
Would you rather it be Chavez (.500)/Jones (.286)/Nunez (.400)?
I deliberately avoided the game thread tonight once I saw CC struggling…but I was drawn back. Damn RAB. They’re gonna come back ya know. I’m sure I don’t need to read through the 300+ comments to know there’s been too much negativity going on. So go positivity!
It’s easy to ignore them because they’re not contributing.
In a stunning turn of events, Sabathia completes six innings.
62nd straight start of 5+ IP, btw.
Looks like I was wrong though…I thought he’s at least start the 7th…looks like that ain’t happening.
He’s still a bum!!
…..
Yeah.
If CC only recognized the fact that there’s a group of infielders behind him tonight…
I don’t think they’ll be booing Tex much longer. So he’s got that going for him.
OMG 111 pitches. What must a man do!
You guys gotta lay off the Teixeira hate.
But the Hater-ade is so good. It’s freakin fruit punch flavored man.
+1
I know his BA has slipped and all, but the dude hit 39 homers last year. He’s still really good. As a Yankee fan, I like to think positively about the guys on my team.
But his batting average! And the pop-ups! He’s a terrible hitter!!
can anyone on this team hit a 3 and 1 first, jesus christ
lulz again that Ayala is coming in during a relatively high pressure moment…
Well, CC’s velocity is down…why?
Also, if these guys are struggling to beat the O’s, imagine what Detroit or L.A. will do to them. This is gonna get real bad real quick
I will bet you literally any amount of money that barring an unseen major injury this team makes the playoffs.
Yeah, make the play-offs, but get bounced out by the tigers or angels in the 1st round. Again.
Well, guess the Yanks can just go home now then. Season’s over.
…Seriously? Get over it dude. CC always pitchers better as the season goes on.
Question: If you despise this team as much as you seem to, and have so little confidence in this team as you seem to, why do you bother to follow the team???
If you’ve given up on the season already, what the hell is the point of watching the games?
Oh good, the “they beat up on bad teams and can’t beat good teams” narrative. We were due for that this series.
Yeah, cause that’s what I said…
It actually kind of is. Unless “if these guys are struggling to beat the O’s, imagine what Detroit or L.A. will do to them,” carries a different meaning than you intended.
How do you get “beat up on bad teams” out of anything I posted? The orioles are a bad team. They’re struggling mightily against them.
Ah. So we suck even worse than that. Alright then.
Nice talking to you.
So what? It’s April! Good teams struggle against bad teams at times throughout the season. It is a simple fact of baseball. How the second series of the year allows you to extrapolate so much information boggles my mind.
And the Rangers are struggling mightily against the Mariners. It happens – it’s baseball. Just admit you’re not making any relevant points and move on.
It was implied.
You don’t think either Detroit or LA will struggle at some point against bad teams this year? Someone’s new to baseball…
Verlander > cc
Cabrera / Prince > A-rod / Tex
Different team man, by a long shot.
Someone’s drinking cool-aid
I think you’re drinking the Tiger-aid. So one pitcher the Tigers have is better than one pitcher the Yankees have. Two hitters the Tigers have are better than two hitters the Yankees have.
The other 22 men on the roster have no bearing on who the better team is? Are you serious?
Because those are the only players on either team, right?
Someone’s taking stupid pills.
Actually, I’m being realistic. this is a different year. A different look around the league. This team is the same team that that couldn’t get past Detroit last year, and Detroit has improved since last year. With the yanks, it remains to be seen. Even if A-rod stays healthy, what will that translate to? Aging ex-steroid abusers tend to fall off pretty fast. CC is not an ace. This team doesn’t have a shutdown starter in the play-offs when other teams have 2. Compound that with Girardi’s bone-head moves and it doesn’t bode championship. Postseason, yeah. But that’ll not what this team is supposed to be about.
“CC is not an ace.”
Your credibility after a statement like that: nonexistent.
Ironically, the non-ace and the bonehead manager were good enough to win a championship three years ago. How soon some forget.
Tell us more about 2009… Lol, 3 years ago. Yep, maybe we can get Matsui and A.J back, we’ll win for sure
Matsui and AJ had more to do with that championship than Sabathia, who was lights out throughout the playoffs and had a 1.98 ERA in 36.1 innings? Ha ha ha.
If only non-ace Sabathia could match clutch ace Verlander and his 5.57 playoff ERA. Seriously, “CC is not an ace” might be the dumbest thing anyone has ever said on this website.
Too bad they don’t have a real ace like Verlander, that guy’s money when it counts.
lolz
CC’s not an ace. So there’s what … 5 or so aces in all of baseball then.
No shut down starter for the playoffs, but your in love with the Tigers and Justin Verlander. Who’s their shutdown playoff starter. Verlander ??? He’s never had an ERA under 5 in any postseason series. In fact in his career, he has been worse than Sabathia in the postseason.
point by point:
“Verlander > cc” – maybe slightly
“Cabrera / Prince > A-rod / Tex” – agree 100%, though I’m not sure why your comparing Tiger’s 3/4 to Yankees 4/5 hitters
add to that:
Other 22 guys on Yankees > other 22 guys on Tigers
Not drinking Kool-aid, just judging teams by more than 3 players
You are straight up chugging Jim Jones personal personal cool-aid stash if you think Verlander is “maybe slightly better than CC”.
Pitching wins the postseason usually, and the tigers staff is much better than the yanks. So is the angels, and the Rays.
And fine, Cabrera and prince are better than cano and Alex.
“Pitching wins the postseason usually”
I guess that explains why Verlander, with his near-6.00 playoff ERA, has never helped lead the Tigers to a championship.
Verlander postseason ERA – 5.57
Sabathia postseason ERA – 4.81
“Pitching wins the postseason usually, and the tigers staff is much better than the yanks. So is the angels, and the Rays.”
Which is why those teams, and the Phillies, all shared the WS last season. Angels and Rays definitely have a better rotation, but also weaker bullpens.
And Yankees pitching overall > Tiger’s pitching last year, and the Yankees will likely be better again this year. Verlander will likely be better than any other pitcher on the Yankees this year. Unfortunately for the Tigers, he can’t pitch everyday, and so far he has sucked in the postseason.
Feel free to switch allegiances to the Tigers though, since you like them so much.
I disagree about the first point, and would like to point out that there are more than 3 people on a baseball team.
BTW, two can play this game. Allow me to randomly cherrypick three players of my choosing:
Cano > Raburn
Granderson > Jackson
Swisher > Boesch
I feel like they are going to man-handle Ayala.
Apologies for the ladies in the crowd…person-handle.
Good stuff, this.
As a lady I can honestly say that “man-handle” does not offend me. When I see “man” in that sort of context, I interpret it as “human.”
I do know that there are girls, though, who take that stuff way too seriously and literally. No offense to them, but they need to get over it. It’s just an expression; it’s not an attack on gender equality, so calm down.
Correct!
Props to Plank
Granderson with the B swing!
Grandy!
damn Granderson
ruining the narrative
The Grandymancan!
Wow, that pitch was way outside and Granderson rode with it. Can they teach Teixeira to do that?
(No.)
Wow a hit with RISP!!
It was nice, but from what I’m getting is even though it’s a Yankee blog the natives get a little restless unless everything you type is pro yankee. Don’t mention bad swings or the failures and certainly don’t mention the Yankees are currently struggl– cuz that really gets em goin. Ooops did I type that out loud? My bad mike.
Sigh.
Disagreeing with you and calling you an alarmist for extrapolating 6 games for an entire season is not unreasonable. If you don’t want people to type back to you, often in disagreement, then don’t comment. Most of us are polite enough (we’ll mock you just like you do us if you get too crazy) and use statistics more than anecdotes. Pardon us for that.
Good evening.
For a guy that strikes out a lot, that was one heck of a 2 strike approach by Granderson.
Damn, Cano used his A swing. That was a C swing situation.
IF ONLY HE WOULD SWING EVEN HARDER.
+1
See mike your getting it.
Heard this: Girardi will bring in Rapada if the game is tied in the ninth, will tell him to throw batting practice.
Come on, Robbie. They’re wearing Orioles uniforms. You love the site of Baltimore unis. Crush.
I obviously want the Yankees to win this game…but I’d rather loose in regulation than go to extra innings again…
Nope. Day off tomorrow. Win today.
Jesus Montero has developed some unfortunate Euro-like facial hair.
Here’s some trivia:
Melido Perez was second in the AL in 1992 with 218 Ks. Who was first?
Cone?
He was a Met for most of that year. It’s a future ex-Yankee.
Randy Johnson?
Bingo.
In his age 28 year. Just before he broke out as a legit ace. He always had the Ks, but the next season he was able to get the walks under control and the rest is history.
Ha he’s usually a safe bet for strikeout leaders in the 90′s.
A few months ago I was wandering around bb-ref and I was amazed at how good Kevin Appier was in the 90′s. After RJ, Clemens, Maddux, and Pedro, a case can be made that he was the next best pitcher of that decade.
Girardi found his new 7th inning guy!
Would like to see Arod and Tex quiet some of the folks around here (it would also potentially give the Yankees 2 LOOGY’s two out of their 3 wins)
I must have blacked out. There was no was LOOGY was actually useful. Was i dreaming?
Logan had a good 7th.
Just got back in and missed part of the game – was CC struggling because of location, because he didn’t have his fastball, or because he was getting squeezed?
Fastball was all over the place. In the strike zone, but not where he wanted it. Slider was so-so. Changeup was quite good tonight tho.
The strikezone was crud early (haven’t paid attention lately) and didn’t help, but CC was off. His big problem was out of the stretch. In the windup he looked good.
Logan, not just a LOOGY.
Like this move. Get the speed on base
Thanks for the deflection Andiño!
Not a fan of these veggie juices….
Jeff Karstens is a stone cold fox!
That thing sounded great off the bat tho, and sure looked nice. Not sure if it wasnt hit as well as it sounded or if the wind caught it. Hm.
Swisher seems obsessed with picking on the first pitch.
The Nunez pinch-run is a win-win by Girardi: Nunez has speed and he also enjoys committing errors, so if the Yanks don’t score the Birds will.
Eddie!
That was one of the worst slides I’ve seen in a while.
Wooooooo, I’ll take it!
Great base running by Nunez! Heads up play.
The way Swish is going, he won’t make any money next year.
Swish you suck, couldn’t even put it in play
That pitch was on the border
No, no it wasn’t.
http://www.brooksbaseball.net/.....8;s_type=3
WTF?
http://www.brooksbaseball.net/.....8;s_type=3
Not even close… just an absurd call.
Bullshit call
Laz Diaz, go eat a bag of dicks.
+1
Does he have to eat the whole bag at once, or take out each dick and eat them individually?
Ken, shut up, that was outside.
Gonna need some sweet sweet Coltrane!
Brilliant. Not as good as Johnnys double steal but still pretty good.
Ha, who thought Ibanez would be getting IBB’ed after watching his spring training? Love it.
Ibanez is such a stat padder.
Martin will get a hit.
I lied, sorry guys.
What a horsecrap call that was. Holy hell. That wasn’t even a good job of framing Wieters had to reach up and away. If that’s not a giveaway I don’t know what was.
Ibanez now leads the Yankees in stolen bases.
Gardner is on my fantasy team. Maybe I should drop him for Ibanez haha
Ibanez with more stolen bases than Gardner
Also, who thought Ibanez would have two stolen bases? haha
Seriously, Sterling? His peregrination around the mound?
Jesus Christ.
So in today’s 2012 news:
8.7 magnitude quake off Indonesia.
7.0 magnitude quake off Mexico.
5.9 magnitude quake off Oregon.
I now return you to our baseball game.
DOOOOOOOMED!!
And with the Yankees.
There was also an 8.2 around Indonesia as well. Am I the only one connecting the dots to 12/21/12?
Yankees 3-9 with RISP
6 games of RISP Fail . . . Not much fun to watch.
.333 today. That’s…. bad?
Considering the opportunities and men at the plate, yeah, I’d say that’s less than expected.
The Cardinals led all of baseball last year hitting .290 w/RISP.
Eh .333 with RISP this game is okay. If we lose the blame goes to CC.
Can’t anybody here play this game?
Swisher has to at least swing at the ball on 3-2, close pitch. Runner on 3rd, 1 out. Make contact. He’s worthless. And now Nunez is in on defense. We’re out of pitchers. This is a nightmare.
You’ve forgotten our lights-out man, Mr. Rapada.
A nightmare? You’ll forget this game even happened by the weekend.
Like most actual nightmares . . .
http://www.brooksbaseball.net/.....8;s_type=3
Close, that ain’t. A guy with an eye like Swish’s (and even his detractors have to admit he has a good one) doesn’t swing at that.
STRIKE ZONE fail, this is awful.
Well I guess Soriano’s broken nail is fine.
Robinson Cano oh my lord
WOW. I thought people thought Robbie was bad at defense?
Crazy good
Cano’s sexy and he knows it.
Oh my lord Cano
Boone Logan = the only guy who can get Wieters out.
Boone Logan = ROOGY
Some idiotic defensive measure had Cano in the bottom half of second basemen. I hope someone sends them the tape of that last play. It was incredible. I’ll go so far as to say he’s the best fielding second baseman in the game. No doubt has the best arm, incredible play, love Cano.
Hey. Hey! HEY! Didn’t you know that Pedey’s the wicked tits?! The best guhdamn baseball playuh evuhhh!!! Gud lawd.
I love Robbie and his defense. I wouldn’t say the best, but I believe he is top 5. His defense is severly underrated by non-Yankee fans.
I read the comments in the post mike wrote over at MLBTR about Cano as a extension candidate, and people were saying that Cano’s defense is mediocre and below average. The obviously don’t watch him play.
I oddly have less concern with Logan pitching as a general, all-purpose reliever I live in fear of him being used as a LOOGY.
Good job, Boone. Even if we lose, I will remember you and your weapons-grade slider.
Michael Kay: “I know it’s early, but CC looks sharp.”
*Shit hits fan*
Lol, Kay has no gauge of these things at all. How many times did we hear that after AJ got through the first inning? Could tell right off the bat he didn’t have his stuff.
Girardi let’s Logan face Wieters and Reynolds but takes him out because he’s afraid of…….Ronnie Paulino?
No, it’s probably just a pitch count thing.
Also, Paulino has a pretty drastic split
But you gotta save Soriano for the ninth don’t you? And Logan was on a roll.
Could be a pitch count thing, I dunno.
Every play with Nunez is an adventure
Nunez, it is always an adventure.
Nunie always an adventure
Nunez … yikes
Wow. nothing original about Nunez here. 3 straight adventure statements
I don’t have a video feed, but something tells me Nunez just had an adventurous play.. hahah.
Iknorite?
Its like we all have a script.
At this point you just have to laugh when a ball goes toward Nunez.
Nunez is like a box of chocolates…..
lol
Stupid feed cut out and I apparently missed the greatest 2B play ever.
Sigh.
Lets go Gardner. work a walk
Ayala may get ragged on quite a bit, but, so far, he’s kept the Yankees in check. Although, that may not be such a gargantuan task this early in the season.
Greggs about to get got.
Remember when Kevin Gregg beat up David Ortiz?
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play......9&v=3
Nothing better than watching baseball players attempt to throw punches.
haha
Best part about this clip? The Red Sox ended the inning on themselves because the runner on 3rd abandoned 3rd base so that he could get in on the hugging match.
If only that was a deciding factor…
I’m thinking what the Yankees really need tonight is a nice 16-inning game.
I’m really not sure what would happen in that scenario. I guess Hughes pitchers for the Yanks, but it would be ugly for both teams.
I guess there’s always Swisher for the 17th.
This game is now starting to have that feel of extra innings, where whoever is out on the mound starts throwing up goose eggs, as the hitters swing for the fences.
So we’re good then. Swisher has a 0.00 ERA!
Wonder what the percentage of gardners strikeouts are looking
They just have to swing at the ball away, no? You know its bad when the O’s play by play guys are moaning about a Yankee K.
They’ve been doing that all week. They were very even handed with the crummy strike zone this series.
That was a sweet spin move by Gardener fouling off the 3-2 pitch. Michael Jackson would be proud.
Ok, so if the game goes into extras, just might have to pitch. If that happens, who takes his next start if he can’t? Do they switch Phelps and Hughes for one rotation turn?
“if the game foes into extras, *Hughes might have to pitch.” Sorry about that.
OMG Torii Hunter.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday.....de=gameday
Look at the Twins/Angels latest highlight lol
That cheered me right up
Hahaha wow that is golden.
Wait. I’m confused. I thought Torii was one of the good guys.
That is some wahjah stuff right there man.
Last I checked, Kevin Gregg wasn’t THAT good. C’mon boys (and Raul)!
Nice another check swing by Granderson in a hitters count.
I like how we have one group on about too many half swings and one group on about too many full swings.
What’s up with these delayed strike calls from Laz Diaz? Who does he think he is, Tim McClelland?
Did Mo just pitch last night, or did he also pitch the day before? Trying to figure out who pitches if the Yankees can get the lead in the top half of an inning if we go to extras.
He’s pitched the last 2 days.
Soriano=Steinbrenners don’t get to make any more baseball-related decisions
Giardi feverishly looking at his notebook. Hilarious
Girardi has some nice color-coded charts there. Do you think Girardi spends time in Excel? I guess they just have some assistants do that stuff.
No hit in this series, get ready for the walk off
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IBB
Uncomfortable with this move.
They’re going to IBB Markakis???? HUH????
Binderball
Binder says walk Markakis!
just stupid
This is the dumbest IBB ever.
And it worked
So, out of three games . . . How many times have the bases been intentionally loaded in the bottom of the ninth?
6, sorry.
Well, we certainly know Girardi doesn’t read this blog.
Thank God.
Gotta have those righty-lefty match ups. I guess Girardi doesn’t want this to go into extras.
Gonna walk in the run. Weeee.
This is a better move than walking S. Rodriguez
good start by laz diaz
this game is over
wow
Binder Joe gets it right!!!! How about that!!!
woah girardi was right wtf?
Errr…ummmmm, we never doubted you, Raffy!
Girardi is a genius!
Soriano to Girardi: you may want to lose this game to avoid extra innings but I do not.
I mean, what I meant to writes was, brilliant move.
Well it worked. Guess the binder isn’t useless?
horrible process – good result?
bad process, good results
MFIKY’d
That strikeout will only encourage Girardi to do it again.
That was certainly foolish of Jones to swing at ball 2. Had a good feeling after that.
Girardi is a jackass for walking he bases loaded after Soriano just walked a guy on 4 pitches even though it worked out OK.
Girardi is studying hard to become the next Bob Brenly.
last year was horrible bunting decisions. I hope this year isnt the year of horrible IBB decisions
If we had just been able to score with the people left on,this game would be done already.
Our offense is putrid,simply putrid.
Just…no. The second best (and largely unchanged) offense last year is..putrid? Right, I forgot that 5-6 games determines the rest of the season.
Nice job by Soriano…. got away with that 1-1 fastball down the middle, but that was some pretty good pitching (esp the approach to Andino as they just kept going up the ladder and didn’t mess around with a slider)
Go one more with with Soriano?
Joe is a genius. He knew Soriano could get Jones to swing at his wild heat. The guy just knows baseball.
why was nunez trying to bunt?
wtf Nunez
The IBB didn’t bother me.
Nunie….
This game is like a car crash. Just so ugly, but I can’t look away
He’s safe. That’s a bad call
HAHAHAHAHA!
Ah DAMN IT Nunez. I try to defend you, and you reward my efforts by getting thrown out on the bases in the 10th inning.
wtf…
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dfa
I was about to praise Nunez but then he got picked off. That’s not exactly Andy Pettitte picking-off out there.
Stupid
Nunez looked safe. Umpire was just appealing to the home crowd.
Real stupid of Nunez to not get picked off like that.
I’ve been critical of Girardi… but that IBB was not a bad call.. Soriano is much better against righties.
Folks also need to keep in mind Adam Jones is one of the least patient hitters in baseball and walks less than 5% of the time. Yes you introduce the risk of walking in a run, but Jones is the ideal guy to be facing (as you saw with him chasing the 1-0 pitch)
I’m inclined to agree. Everyone likes to make fun of the binder, but what is the binder really? Just a collection of statistics? What if that collection of statistics suggested that facing Jones offered a greater chance for success? I’m not saying that it was a 100% defensible move, but the idea has more merit than the commenters here are giving it.
And to drive the point home further:
Vlad, Alfonso Soriano, Miguel Olivo
Question: Who are the only hitters in baseball last year to swing at a higher % of pitches out of the strikezone than Adam Jones.
The ump was right there and still missed the call
These umps are terrible.
Damn it Nunez!!!!!!
Opposite field!
Beat the shift!
Nunie would have scored on that.
Fallacy of the predetermined outcome
Guilty as charged. Scroll down, I did it again with Betances.
Nunie would have scored on that one too
beat the shift!
Fallacy of the predetermined outcome I know…but if Nunez doesn’t get thrown out, he might have scored.
HE WENT OPPOSITE FIELD
I can’t see the game but someone is going to have to tell me whether or not Swisher is swinging out of his shoes to “end” the game.
Just needs a single.
Didn’t look like he was swinging out of his shoes…
Haha. He swung out of his shoes and it worked for a change . . . I bow my head to you, Sir Swish.
Um, what part of ‘it didn’t look like he ‘swung out of his shoes” did you not understand? Was a pretty solid, clean, homerun swing.
Now imagine the ump didnt screw up and that happened
Someone tell Nunez he ain’t Brett Gardner. Joe needs to reign him in.
Oh stop. He was 22 for 26 or something like that last season. Dude has wheels and a good eye.
the orioles look like the keystone cops on the field.
Based on the way Betances pitched today, guess it’s good he’s not the guy warming up in the bullpen right now.
Cmon Swish! Pretend the bases are empty in the third!
hehehe tex!
NICHOLAS SWISHER
Garbage time!
Hahah
Good stuff.
WOOOOOO!!!! SWISHA!!!
Garbage Time!
GOODBYE!
SWISHER!
fucking Swisher never ever gets a meaningful hit…
Oh wait
Swishalicious.
SWISHER!!!! Oh wait, nevermind. That was garbage time, almost forgot.
Swisher? In the clutch??????????
Fucking Swisher is such a piece of shit. Hate that mofo.
more stat padding for Swisher
Swish! redemption
Meaningless HR by Swisher, as always.
Swish
Garbage time homerun.
Swish homers, must be garbage time…
My man!
Boy, that Swisher only produces in Garbage Time………
He only hit it cuz he had Tex on base so he cud get an xtra RBI.. You know, so he cud pad his stats… His teammates recognized the selfishness of that play and gave him the slap treatment…
Garbage time homer
This meme continues all year…I can tell.
may as well
you know the Swish can’t hit in the clutch meme will continue all year as well
I mean, why not? It’s enjoyable…
That was awesome. We couldn’t let this game drag out too much, off day tomorrow or no, that’s huge for the bullpen to end it sooner rather than later.
Nick Swish to me: “F U Pay me”
They can’t though.
Swisher redeems himself.
So. I just stopped by.
What’s going on in the game tonight?
Hahahahaha
You got me. That was funny.
This Mariano Rivera kid better not blow this.
See above for about 20 commenters (myself included) coming up with the same Nick Swisher joke at the exact same time.
Cuso would not approve.
The vast amount of “garbage time” comments cause this page to reload at dial up like speeds. Love it.
I love you Mo. Blown save on opening day or not, it just feels so damn good to sit back and have you come into the game. I feel so sorry for every other team in baseball for the last decade and a half.
Girardi lifted Nunez for Chavez.
Good move by Girardi.
Real vote of confidence for Nunez!
Who was the person who said Swisher only gets homers in garbage time?
Cuso.
That was a Garbage Time homerun. Damn you Swisher.
Now the strike zone shrinks
Swisher can never get a hit when it’s important.
Yankees are clutch this year.
Only late in games though.
Is Mo’s velocity down a bit? He’s usually sitting around 91-92 but seems to be 88-90 his last couple of outings.
Third game in a row man.
He must be a overweight. Send him to fat camp with Pineda.
Last year was more 90-91, and that was in summer. We’ll see if it comes back.
Or if it matters.
Nope. It’s right where it was last year at the same time, even a tick ahead.
Hopefully the Yankees don’t get this umpiring crew for the rest of the year. They have been pitiful
sweep!!!!!
I’m somewhat honored for being responsible for “garbage time.”
That’s two years in a row since believe it or not I coined “Stat padding” as well.
Gotta love the shrinking strike zone.
thank goodness for defensive replacements
imagine nunez trying to make that play
Nunez does not make that play
Wait, so Girardi was right again?
Wow, real glad Chavez was in there and not Nunez.
jesus christ. these are down the middle. whats wrong with the ump
Bullpen could really use the day off tomorrow. HOW THE FUCK WAS THAT NOT STRIKE THREE GODDAMNIT!!!!!!!!!
Yanks won. You can log off until the next loss now, Jimmy.
Your screename makes me hungry for some fried tilapia, mmmmmmmmmm.
The pen’s been used pretty heavily the past two nights, and Mo got fucked on a final strike three call to end the game…where is that rooting for the loss?
Oh wait, that’s my mistake, I assumed you knew how to read and form a coherent thought. That’s my fault, I forgot you’re just a mindless homer that always insinuates that nothing is wrong. CC, Granderson, and Cano could break their legs in a car crash and you’d still say they have a shot at the Wild Card.
C’mon Mo, throw strike 4!
Why is the ump squeezing the best ever? How you gonna choke a legend?
3rd straight day and he’s throwing harder than he did yesterday. Amazing.
I ? Mo
SWEEP!
Apart from the IBB, this was a solid game for Girardi. Well done, Skip.
And even that isn’t a call I’d disagree with. Jones likes to hack.
Hell yeah. Good game guys. Nothing erases a wept-by quite like sweeping someone else. Bring on Pujols and the Angels.
Yankees win!!
That was a sweep but it sure wasn’t easy.
It’ll all look the same in September.
Headed home .500. Not bad Yankees, not bad. David Phelps could use the time off, he’ll have some damage to do this weekend. Also, Nick Swisher and Mark Teixeira…wow, you can go from goat to god by the end of the night.
…which is the beauty of this game called base ball.
Curtis on with Susan now – he’s a class act.
This team looks old and tired or something.
Blah blah old, blah blah RISP fail, blah blah v-lo, something something inconsistent…
Some team is looking awfully gritty and gutty for this early in the season.
2012 Yankees, winning and breaking down sportswriters racially biased cliches. Now start winning earlier so I don’t need five cups of coffee at work every day.
I always knew we’d pull this one out. CC sure gutted out a gritty performance. What a game. What a team.
You amuse me.
Logan was the pog for me.
Came up when we needed him.