Game 57: Subway Series
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I’m not sure how often this has happened or even if it has ever happened before, but the Yankees open the 2012 edition of the Subway Series with fewer wins than the Mets. They come into tonight’s game with a 31-25 record while the Amazin’s are 32-26. Of course, winning percentage (.554 vs. .552) and run differential (+29 vs. -8) still favor the Bombers. Johan Santana is coming off his 134-pitch no-hitter and has had a full week to recuperate, plus he’s thrown back-to-back complete game shutouts. Let’s hope his scoreless streak ends soon. Here’s the lineup…
SS Derek Jeter
CF Curtis Granderson
1B Mark Teixeira
3B Alex Rodriguez
2B Robinson Cano
RF Nick Swisher
DH Andruw Jones
LF Raul Ibanez — against the lefty? whyyy
C Russell Martin
RHP Hiroki Kuroda
Tonight’s game starts a little after 7pm ET and can be seen on both My9 and SNY locally as well as MLB Network nationally. Enjoy.
Joba Chamberlain Update: Joba (elbow, ankle) threw 25 pitches off a full mound in the batting cage down in Tampa this afternoon. He’s also resumed running full sprints in the outfield. “Is that even a question?” he replied when asked if he’ll pitch this season. Just remarkable.
David Aardsma Update: Aardsma (elbow) threw 40 pitches in his third live batting practice session today and he could throw a simulated game as soon as early next week. Reinforcements … they are coming.
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No but really…Joba isn’t human. Great news though!
They want bats in the lineup I guess. The limb is mine: Ibanez will get one hit off the lefty.
Ibanez 348/380/500 vs. Santana
and Nix is still Nix
shoulda read down further before replying
D-
D-Rob, Joba AND Aardsma?!
Head is spinning.
I guess Ibanez as opposed to Nix/Wise or having Chavez, another lefty, play.
Oh, and because Ibanez is .348/.380/.500 with 2 HR’s in 46 AB’s vs Johan.
Oh, yea and Chavez is .152/.194/.333 in 33 AB’s vs Johan.
I was actually just about to post these numbers…that makes it make a little more sense.
Why would Ibanez play LF rather than Jones?
Four innings in the field in the team’s last 19 games. I wonder if the knee is barking again.
The numbers back it up. Ibanez has hit very well in his career against Santana.
.348 with 2 homers and 10 rbis
The vast majority of those plate appearances came a long, long time ago. When Ibanez was with the Royals and Santana was on the Twins. Hard to consider them meaningful in 2012.
Fair enough. Cut it down to 2007-2012.
.286/.318/.476 with 1 HR and 3RBi in 21 at bats
Sorry messed up years.
2008-2012
.250 1HR 2 RBI Medium
I think the question was why DH Jones and LF Ibanez as opposed to it being reversed…. as opposed to why is Ibanez playing.
Yeah. I don’t see any problem with Ibanez starting against Santana (is Jayson Nix really a substantially better option? Santana’s platoon split is pretty mild historically), it just seems obvious that as long as both players are in the lineup, Jones should be playing the field provided he’s not injured or anything.
Gardner better not fuck up his elbow again.
and ibanez has looked better out there lately. then again, how could he look worse?
Hey, is it alright if I ask a fantasy question here?
No, you can never ask anything relating to anything other than the current pitch happening =P
So, I take it that’s a yes?
Haha, I mean I hold no actual authority on this website, but as I’ve come to understand Game Threads=open threads.
Who do you think wins a trade of Gardner, Cargo, Lance Lynn, and Jason Kipnis for Pence, Latos, and Pedroia?
Whoever gets the CarGo package and I don’t think it’s all that close.
I’d say team getting 4 guys. I think Pedroia is going to hurt himself more.
I’m hoping they will undervalue gardner and not trust kipnis. I don’t it will go through, but this is a counter to a ridiculous offer they made me.
What was that? I love seeing ridiculous offers.
They wanted Votto, Pence, and Latos for Matt Adams, Alex Gordon, Wade Miley, and Pettitte. Maybe not as ridiculous as I thought, but I still think it’s bad.
the first package
Just some quick movies notes for everyone.
Prometheus is pretty good, definitely worth seeing.
If you’re looking to depress the shit out of yourself, however, go rent a movie called We Need to Talk About Kevin.
This is going to be fun.
First Yankee game in the new D.C. apartment. Kill them all, Yanks.
Strasburg in Fenway tonight. Thank goodness for MLB.tv.
6-8IP no more than 4ER with at least 7Ks
4 ER? That’s safe. C’mon. Balls to the wall.
I’ll name that song in 3 earned runs or less.
I was going to say 2, but that’s hubrus.
Haha. I jumped on 3. 2 is crazty talk.
I’m gonna go out on the limb here and say he only gives up two runs, while striking out 13 in just six innings for the win.
At this point the next bullpen-injury news I expect to see is Rivera’s ACL magically healing and Feliciano not being totally useless.
i vote we give Hiroki some solid run support.
jetes is up there hacking.
Santana is aggressive.
hooray for swinging at ball 4 and then taking strike 3 down the middle
That what happens when a pitcher has a great changeup. You get frozen on a fastball in the zone
not at all
change fools with speed, not location
It makes no difference in this case. If the fastball was dead center, Tex would have taken it. That’s what the great changeup dows
no it doesn’t. If he though it was a changeup, it would still be down the middle
A great changeup messes up a hitters timing, not whether or not they swing at a pitch down the middle
*thought
Okay, but the location of the pitch makes no difference in this case. Tex was expecting a changeup and Santan threw a fastball. Before Tex could react, it went for Strike 3
he didn’t react at all. Even if he though it was a changeup, he would have swung. He just would have swung late.
Hence the guessing part- With 2 strikes you have to expect a fastball and adjust… he clearly was looking for a change with 2 strikes.
3-1 change in the dirt…. swing, 3-2 fastball down the middle… take
I thought Arod was on deck? Looked like Tex was guessing big time there.
As I said, that’s what happens when a pitcher has a great changeup.
And the pitch to Jeter wasn’t in the dirt.
Andre 3000 feels like a viking
Hairstons love YS3
Strasburg is ridiculous.
What’s he doing?
I wonder if surgery these days can actually impove an arm?
TJS can in some cases.
There have been some studies on this – it really doesn’t improve the arm, but some pitcher prior to TJ can be working at a reduced level (as opposed to the arm just going out on one pitch like Strasburg), so it seems like they are better than before.
There was a good story (I think maybe Sports Illustrated?) a while back about young pitchers who were healthy actually trying to get TJ surgery in hopes they would gain on their fastball. A couple of doctors who were interviewed on this said this is not a real effect for a pitcher with a healthy elbow.
It was the NY times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07.....rgery.html
The “better” is just perception and often involves a comparison of a pitcher who was operating at deteriorated levels prior to the surgery and the surgery basically retruns them to a healthy state.
It’s not the surgery itself, it’s the rehab that actually helps.
And . . . . Cano!
Ba-ba-boo-yah!!
No no-no for you Johan!
DING DONG!
Boooooom!
No need for RISP.
Welcome back to the AL, Johan.
that swing is beautiful
+1 on that. Prettiest I’ve ever seen.
Yup. Although A-Rod when he’s right can challenge that.
Fair enough, I won’t argue against that.
The smile just fell from Griffey jr’s face.
Heh also won’t argue on that. That man was just born to swing a bat.
God damn it, MLB.TV, your lag made RAB spoil that for me. I should only refresh in certain situations. Gotta learn to adapt.
Yeah, I’ve learned the refresh rules with my poor-quality streams.
My stream is HD quality, the premium service, and the game itself doesn’t lag like the connection is bad. It just plays like 5-10 seconds behind the TV service apparently.
Oh, I’m not saying quality as in picture-quality. I just mean the delay.
Yeah. I had MLB.TV when I was an undergrad, but that was over two years ago now, forgot about the delay. I’ll get used to it. Guess I could just only refresh right after a better or in between innings.
Also, I didn’t comment on RAB back then, so I knew there was a delay, but never had to worry much about spoiling it besides the occasional text from a friend watching a delay-less game.
Robbie the best.
we hit to many homer.
Hey Ibanez got a hit!
True to form, Raul.
Voldemort scoffs at lefty splits.
Bonus!
Martin’s been en fuego lately.
Who is this guy, and what has he done with Russel Martin? and can Russel Martin never come back?
Johan is looking for a pitcher to get in the garter’s box about now.
Batter’s*
win win for us here whatever happens
You can always count on Jeter to snuff out a rally these days. Sheesh.
That was anticlimactic, to put it politely.
they could be putting together great ABs but as soon as the runner gets in scoring position they forget how to hit like a big leaguer.. amazing.
Derek’s been ice cold lately. Like .245/.302/.286 in his last 107 ABs cold.
Called the Law of Averages.
0-15 with 14ABs either a K or groundball. Ouch.
He probably needs a day off. He was getting a lot of off days early on (or at least DH’ing), but I can only remember him getting 1 day off since Nix went on the roster.
Of course the Yankees have had a couple of scheduled off days, so maybe my theory isn’t the best as I think a bit more about it.
I think there is a little bit of something to it though, because he was getting at least half a day every 4 days or so with Nunez on the roster.
They’ve had a lot of days off lately, but they were travel days. Can’t imagine he’ll sit when they go to the NL parks next week.
The soccer people are excited.
Holy crap..I typically record the YES (Kay & Co) thru Direct TV, when at work and FF thru the breaks to get caught up around the 6th or so. YES was blackout when trying to set on the iPhone, so I grabbed the feed by MLB and the SNY reminds me of baseball in the 80′s with real shitty quality and monotone voices and hair.
Gotta get caught up and switch to the Costas feed ASAP…I’ll be back.
mets have one of the best booths in baseball.
It really isn’t bad at all.
After listening to them for the first 4 innings…good content but not interesting voices/excitement. Video quality is really bad…really, really bad.
you don’t enjoy ron darling’s james woods-like lispy thing?
mex is the best (i love when they catch him sleeping during the early games), and when they get kiner in there for an inning or two they really click.
By the way Philly is kicking the crap out of Baltimore. Up 7-0 in the second inning
Not surprising, Jake Arrieta is awful.
Well…so is the Phillies offense.
Good pitching beats good hitting and sucky pitching outsucks sucky hitting.
Except against the Yankees unfortunately.
But Baltimore is a legit threat for the division everybody.
They’ve outdeveloped the Yankees, clearly.
There are way too many people who truly believe that.
They’re going to be around all season! I’ll bet anything!!
Blanton on the mound…. 7 might not be enough
/Only half kidding
Huroki looking good so far.
Is Kuroda attempting to take a dump on Mets history?
I would be willing to hold his hand if he needs something to squeeze during his final push.
Grandy has struck out 5 times in a row or clost to in a row
dang Grandy’s just looking awful…
i switched over to the Mets broadcast – holy crap – leaves the Yankee booth in the dust in terms of quality, focus and game notes.
ROBBIE CANO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =D
CANO!
Don’t be so mean Robbie.
He’s gotta mix in some more singles!
Robbie!!!!!!!!!!!
(too many HR’s)
A-rod/Cano, a lethal combo tonight.
just keep getting on base Alex… Cano will take care of you!
Dammit Robbie… stop swinging at the first pitch!
I love you Robbie.
Garbage time!
BACK TO BACK!
they got him now!
Bang bang!
bang bang bang
Garbage time?
GARBAGE TIME!!!!!!
Haha. If the shoe fits….
Bob Costas:
“If it’s fair…”
Really Bob?
Haha, that’s honestly one of my favorite calls. “If it’s fair,” on a ball that’s clearly fair. To me it means there isn’t even a chance that it’s not long gone.
Sadly this wasn’t one of those Sportscenter guys doing it to be funny, I think he was being serious.
But yeah I love that call….especially on a no doubter to straight away centerfield.
Was that 2 swings on 2 pitches?! I think it was.
2-0 pitch to Swish.
But….swinging at the first pitch is bad!
Johan’s still in line for a no-hitter with RISP, though.
I am looking very smart for not starting Johan in fantasy tonight.
Everyone gets worked up about back to back home runs, but the second home run is just a solo shot. Sure it’s exciting, but it’s about the worst way you can hit multiple home runs.
Well yeah, but it’s better than a homer and a single back to back. That’s the point, that it’s back to back.
How about back to back to back?
so, robbie, if your dad’s busy allstar weekend, maybe take johan?
lmao
GARBAGE TIME!!!
Those are all routine flyouts in Citi Field! YS is a little league park!
Someone will say it.
You spelled Yellowstone National Park wrong, NESPN.
HOT DAMN!!
Wow!
Haha
ANDRUW JONES!
Holy HRs!!!!
bahahahhahahahahaha
TO MANY HOMERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Johan’s so gonna pull a Chase Wright here.
C-C-C-C-COMBO.
C-C-C-C-COMBOBRAKER
Amateurs.
(giggle)
Jesus. Welcome back to the AL Johan.
This is me, loving it.
Hernandez on SNY just said as Swish went down the dugout with his arms raised, ‘Well, the Yankees like celebrating.’ Yes, Keith, they do.
Yeah, I heard that too. Tho he was only talking about Swish.
This inning was awesome.
If your at the game, YOU SUCK. Because I can’t be at the game. But it is only Santana pitching…Bwaaaahhhhhhh
So I come into work late and because there’s no basketball, they have the game on. I have to start pulling up my systems, so as far as I know it was 2-0. Then I see Jones rounding the bases and the score 6-0, and check the PBP.
I am disappoint.
I don’t even know what the question is but the 2014 Super Bowl should win.
Agreed, and I don’t even like football.
How many times does a pitcher have the chance to tie both Johnny Vandermer AND Chase Wright in the same start? What’s the record for most HRs allowed in one start?
6
(not a BRef subscriber, so I can’t find out who, its happened 8 times)
http://www.baseball-reference......ubmitter=1
Cool, thanks.
Whew. I thought Raul was gonna have to jump for that.
I was genuinely terrified.
Man, I check my email and the Yankees score four runs? Bye, guys. Off to check my email again.
YOU’RE NEVER ALLOWED TO LEAVE YOUR INBOX!!
Jeter cant be any slower on the field.
Jeter breaking up the perfect game opportunity… no hitter still intact
Flying bats!
That was DAMN impressive by ARod.
That’s redemption there.
Lol at Dubrant giving the lead right back to Washington in Boston.
Jeter didn’t look tired on that swing. Just a normal slump
Still, a game on the bench couldn’t hurt.
SNY trivia question has to be Yogi Berra, no?
Played for the Yankees until 1963, managed a year, then played 1965 with the Mets.
Those who watch SNY more often than I do – how long do they take to answer the trivia questions?
It’s been an inning now. These fuckers are starting to annoy me.
Marvelous Marv.
Oh well.
I hope someone else saw that changeup Strasburg threw to strikeout Pedroia.
gorgeous. hot nady catch too.
Not fair
Even with his recent slump, Derek still OPSing 1.150 against lefties this season.
That was ridiculous. Unfair.
Starting to get veeeeeerrrrrrry interesting
so…guess what Sterling’s talking about lol
Do the words “no” and “hitter” have anything to do with it
you know it.
Shhh!
*knocks on wood*
Oh Well
Boo. I thought that was gonna get down.
Darn you, reply fail.
HiroKruisin’
Kuroda looking sharp… moving the ball in and out, good movement on the fastball and good command of his offspeed stuff.
Maybe he’s starting to settle in? (not that he has pitched that poorly – just a couple of bad starts)
joey votto is insanely good
sober josh hamilton good
“Sober Josh Hamilton good”
I probably shouldn’t have laughed so hard at that, but that is pretty damn hilarious.
Boo. I thought that would get down.
Bryce Harper just murdered a baseball.
Damnit, get him fitted for Pinstripes already! Gut the Farm! Trade Everybody!!! I don’t care, get this man in a Yankee uni!
He’ll help in our quest for 31 in 2017.
Damn, Bryce Harper.
he’s gonna feast on hughes and nova.
Watching the TWC raw feed with no commercials. They were showing a guy getting helped out of the seating area and into a wheelchair with blood running down his face during the break. Did someone lose a bat into the stands or foul one off into the guys face before the break? I just got in so I didn’t see what had happened.
Not that they’ve mentioned on SNY.
Yes didn’t mention it either.
Félix Doubront getting lit up by The Nationals.
Good to see.
Apparently my current man-crush had a lot to do with it.
I am happy.
Maybe everyone will lose but us tonight. That would be nice.
Boston’s pitching is…underwhelming to say the least.
I could’ve sworn I saw people saying Félix Doubront is better than anybody on the Yankee’s staff as recently as two weeks ago.
Boston’s pitching is awesome….for a Yankee fan.
I streamed Doubront today so that I had two starters going today.
Little did I realize that:
a) Doubront was facing Washington, and Strasburg was my other starter
b) That’s the third time this week I’ve made that mistake! Monday I streamed both Samardzija and Vogelsong, but that’s probably defensible since they were two of the best pitchers going that day. I picked up Harang for yesterday, when I already had Hamels, and now Doubront when I had the Stras.
Oh well. I’d rather see Boston get lit up 11 times out of 10.
Somebody call the DEA, because Kuroda is dealing.
nunez and phelps for bryce harper
get it done, cashman!
Nah, Melky and IPK gets it done.
And Giambi!
Gardner gets there.
Bah, Gardy might’ve saved that
Inconsistent Kuroda allows a hit after five hitless innings.
Yu is so much cheaper and younger and will be around so much longer. Nolan Ryan has raised the standard and knows what pitchers are worth investing in and the Rangers don’t jerk their young guys from starters to RPers. Yada, yada, yada…
And now Holland is on the DL, Feliz is on the DL…
but Rangers pitchers don’t get injured
how could this be?
I know you’re being sarcastic, but for all people who believe thisz:
CJ Wilson, Neftali Feliz, Derek Holland, and Alexi Ogando all say hi
I don’t know how the ‘z’ got on the end of ‘this.’
Might be fat finger syndrome with the z being the low fruit to the s.
Well it was fun while it lasted.
Missing Gardner right now
I’m kinda glad the Mets got a hit because I’m kinda tired and didn’t want to spend my night writing about a no-hitter.
The pressure would have been intense. Also his pitch count would have been up there
I like that Kuroda went after him there on a 3-2 count on the double.
He might have gotten him to chase something offspeed, but up 6 runs, no sense possibly walking him. If it was the 8th or 9th (or a close game)… I could see him trying to get him to chase.
Jack Morris would have grooved every pitch with a six run lead because thats how the game was meant to be played.
he pitched to the score!!!!!!!!!
“True pitchers know how to pitch to the scoreboard.”-Actual Micheal Kay quote.
Mercy Strike
Lord Voldemort blows it even further open right here. Calling it.
Not calling anything ever anymore.
Meh about 10-20 ft short
You jinxed yourself.
Coney the best.
michael kay: “math is hard!”
Cone: Do you want me to explain the pythagorean record?
Kay: Umm…I mean…if you want…
I was cracking up.
3 walks to load the bases.. it’s pretty much a lock that Jeter will swing at the first pitch and GIDP
Wasn’t on the first pitch so you lose
sorry
Didnt mean to be that harsh. Sorry
half right
of course a Jeter GIDP with runner on first is about as sure a thing as there is in baseball
10-1 Jeter swings at the first pitch
No.
too late to take that bet?
Jeter breaks the bases loaded failure right here
Or not
this is beyond ridiculous.. at least we are winning.
That might’ve been the most shocking GIDP w/RISP I have ever seen.
/Texting language for the victory
//And sarcasm
You forgot to misuse “literally”… (you know when people think the word literally means “I really want to emphasize my point”)
Expected. Hard thrower gets on the hands and gets a ground ball
Even in a game they are kicking butt, they still find a way to fail with the bases loaded. I miss April/May Jeter.
Jeter’s stat line since late April: .266/.335/.331
So unless I’m mistaken over the last 7 games, the shortest outing by a Yankee starter has been 6.2IP.
Good timing with Roberston on the mend.
He needs a day off and a new “A” list hottie or the golden Giambi thong.
rally ‘stache.
Strasburg is at 10 K through 4.2 IP.
Starsburg tonight: 5 IP 2H 2R 1BB 10K on 86 pitches
bizarre pop out
hope Kuroda is OK
I’ve never seen that before!
Nor I.
‘Tis awesome.
Damnit HIROCK!!!!!! you better be ok!
He needs to charge that ball.
Be okay Hirok.
Now that was cool.
That ball got some lift off Kuroda’s foot.
So unless I’m mistaken over the last 7 games, the shortest outing by a Yankee starter has been 6.2IP.
Good timing with Roberston on the mend.
(I’ll try this not as a random reply this time)
Gonna have a big bruise there soon, but he was able to walk off on his own power
Hopefully they’re just taking him out because it’s 6-0.
O noes!
Runner on third.
Bring forth the Doom Song.
Well. I’ll take it.
Harper is killing the Red Sox tonight. 3-4 with 3 RBI
gotta give kay credit, making the moneyball points.
who was the actor who played zito in the movie? oh yeah, that’s right.
Philly up 5 over the O’s, The “Natinals” up 5 over Boston, Atlanta up 1-0 over Toronto in the 5th… just need Mia to run things around against TB (down 3-1) to turn this into a truly great night.
w00t!
RISP hit.
Hits with risp. That’s all we want.
RISP HITS??!! Though it was garbage time…
Holy crap!
That’s 3 hits in a row with RISP
ummm, 2
MOAR RISP HITS
….
You scared the bats.
You’re right, I shouldn’t have roared. My bad bats…COME BAAAAACK!
13 K for Strasburg. Most by a visitor at Fenway since Moose’s near perfecto.
Haha Youkilis is such a D-bag.
Strasbeast
Wow.
Bases loaded, 1 out for the Sox against Strasburg. He K’s Salty and Youkilis.
6 IP 4H 2R 2BB 13K
Ultimate revenge. Igarashi pitching against the Mets
Damn, Miami has had all sorts of runners against TB but can’t push them across.
Hellickson went 4.1innings with 5 hits and 7 walks…. and allowed 1ER!
Holy cow.
Is this Poll question a joke?
What the fuck happened to Kuroda???? I just got home from a goddamn french restaurant and missed the whole game. Nice score, though!!!!!!!
Took a line drive off the foot.
Calm the heck down, man.
Hahahahah. Trying to calm down. All that french restaurant crap got me all agitated.
Is his foot going to be ok? Just a bruise? What inning?
Left foot contusion (bruise) after 7 innings. It was the third out of the 7th.
Thank you. I am feeling calmer now.
Left foot contusion for Kuroda. X-Rays negative
love these 9-0, ninth inning walks
What inning did we eject Mr. No-No?
Darn.
I. Am. Mad.
0_o
Who got sent down for Igarashi?
Garcia is on the bereavement list
Garcia on restricted list due to death in family
WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For a Friday night Subway Series that was been a pretty mellow game. Good one, Yanks.
WOW! Just two hits the whole game for Mets! AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
Huzzah!
Mark me happy. Good game.
Igarshi is gone when Garcia comes back…
Almost a one hit shutout. . . . . . . stupid Igarashi.
So was Strasburg as ridiculous as his 13 k’s through 6 looks? Man I hope that guy stays healthy because its gonna be fun watching him.