Game 116: The Fill-In Ace
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The Yankees got a nice if not unexpected pitching lift from David Phelps and Derek Lowe yesterday, and tonight they hand the ball to their de facto ace Hiroki Kuroda. With CC Sabathia on the shelf, Freddy Garcia a shell of his former self, and three kids in the rotation, Kuroda is the guy Joe Girardi & Co. are going to lean on for quality outings every five days. A win tonight guarantees at least a split with the other best team in the AL. Here’s the starting nine..
DH Derek Jeter
RF Nick Swisher
1B Mark Teixeira
2B Robinson Cano
LF Andruw Jones
CF Curtis Granderson
3B Casey McGehee
C Russell Martin
SS Jayson Nix
RHP Hiroki Kuroda
Tonight’s game is scheduled to start a little after 7pm ET and can be seen on My9 locally and MLB Network nationally. Enjoy.
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This is one I feel confident in. Kuroda is a tough man to beat at home.
Here’s to hoping for a Yankees win & the always welcomed, never failing to deliver negative reports coming from Boston clubhouse.
The gift that truly keeps on giving, year in & year out.
Yes, the Fried Chicken & Beer Committee went to see J. Henry to complain.
“One player who spoke on the condition of anonymity was present at the meeting but told ESPNBoston.com, “it was just like any other meeting.”
Indeed it was.
Bobby V. is toast. Whenever an owner says publicly that your job is safe, it’s time to dust off the resume. “Hello, MLB network…”
It scares me to say this but….
I feel good about this game.
Kuroda pitched well in Texas against this lineup. Harrison is not a strikeout pitcher. The offense has been loaded with righties…
The fact that I feel reasonably well about this game scares me a bit.
Mets just did us a favor by taking Shoppach from the Red Sox. Maybe they’d take a flyer on Ciriaco, too…hehehe
“CC Sabathia on the shelf, Freddy Garcia a shell of his former self, and three kids in the rotation”
6 years of MLB experience and still a kid?
only about 3.5 months older than Phelps and about 7 months older than Nova
An experienced kid?
“6 years of MLB experience ”
I guess reading comprehension is no longer tought in schools
For a second, I thought you were referring to Kuroda.
I guess it’s hard to believe Hughes has been in the majors for this long.
Well, how much has Philip Glass actually pitched in that time, though?
Oh don’t encourage me. I’m working so hard to view Phil Hughes with equanimity.
By Age, yeah. He’s got more MLB experience, but Hughes hasn’t exactly been stellar until June of this year, and now he’s coming off back to back terrible starts.
Okay:
“A shitty Freddy Garcia, some piece of shit that allows too many home runs, and two kids”
Better?
You really think Hughes is a “piece of shit?”
Damn, that’s harsh.
Do we root for Josh Beckett tonight?
Nooooo. I hate that guy.
Why? I have a feeling the Os will take care of themselves.
kuroda – 7 innings, 3 runs. yanks win 6-4
Bah, easy way out tonight.
MLBN with Vasgersian and Kaat.
Totally.
Kay, Coney and Paulie on My9. I won’t complain.
One of the best booth’s YES can have.
Don’t care at all for Flash or for Lou. Leiter’s barely ever around with his duties a MLBN.
That leaves Coney, O’Neill, and Ken. Honestly, those three in the booth with Kay out isn’t too bad either.
Away games with those three are the best. That’s my ideal lineup too. I feel like they don’t let Kay get away with saying as much dumb shit so he’s not too insufferable.
Get ride of Cone, add either Singleton or Flash and then its a good broadcast. A lot of you may complain about Michael Kay but the only 2 YES guys that suck are Cone and Leiter. Both of them are unbearable to listen to because every other word out of their mouths is about those stupid statistics that have ruined baseball known as “sabermetrics”. I will forever hate Bill James for creating those and ruining the way people should judge players.
Lol.
Yeah! Who want’s to judge players by how they actually help the team win. If a guy looks like a baseball player, than god damnit he’s a baseball player!
This was literally written by Clint Eastwood’s character from Gran Torino. He was even making gunfingers as he typed it.
Throw pitch, get out. Me likey.
The Yanks are currently playing with a 25 man payroll of $126MM. DL payroll is $80MM.
Nice win last night, great job by D-Lowe. Bullpen’s fresh and ready to go, hopefully Hiroki can get it to them with the lead.
I don’t get why everybody love’s Kuroda so much, Nova’s got more wins than him.
/Kay’d
DON’T HURT MY HIROKI
horribly executed rundown
Yeah, but at least it got the job done. Surprising it was so bad with Teix in on it.
Where was Cano? Shouldn’t he have been backing up the 1B and taking that throw? I could be wrong though.
Nevermind. Cano was going to 2B
Remember Hamilton was hitting. Cano was probably on the grass.
I think Tex’s part was OK. Nix just held onto the ball way too long.
Yeah. I think Nix tried to fake a throw to get Andrus to run back towards second, but it was pretty unconvincing. The throw he did make looked like an emergency “OH SHIT” shovel pass more than a legit throw to me.
But he is a BASEBALL PLAYER , so there’s that.
Lucky Kuroda didn’t hurt himself there
Forgot to sit Harrison tonight. Shit.
No offense, but I really hope you regret it.
None taken. Real team>>>>>>>>> Fake team.
Of course. I usually do start pitchers against the Yankees (unless it’s my worst guy) just so I have a silver lining in the event that the Yanks lose. But I will always root for the real team. It also helps when you have a very comfortable division lead, so a fantasy pitcher shellacking doesn’t bother me really.
Cano’s starting to slump again, That might have been ball 4
Over what time period has he started to slump? 3 days? He has a .958 OPS in August.
He swung at two ball four’s.
guys ichiro kinda looks like kuroda
ohhh shit that was racist
Great inning there by Kuroda.
Two well-ish hit balls and nothing to show for it.
Jeter got a hit on a ball that should have been turned into an out. Evens out.
Harrison’s thrown more balls than strikes at this point, I feel good things happening tonight.
That’s creepy how Mike Maddux touches his shoulder like that.
OO that 0-1 looked like a strike.
As much shit as I give Nix, he’s been more than acceptable against lefties.
Of course…as soon as I give the dude some props…
Yankees are hitting .345 with RISP in the last 45 games? And that’s the best in baseball over that span. Pretty sweet. Thanks, MLBN.
but…but teh RISPFAIL!!!!
And yet we haven’t been that great over that span. Let’s go back to RISPfail and start winning 70% of the time again.
Funny how that works. Maybe there’s no such thing as too many homers?!?!?!
Or was it .322? I may have gotten graphics mixed up. Either way, it’s sweet.
It is .322, and it’s still sweet.
is greg maddux a coach of any kind? i’d imagine so
I think he works in the front office with the Rangers.
interesting…the guy’s brother is great at it, but i figured a legend like maddux would also be a good pitching coach if he wantd to be one
What the hell does Greg Maddux know about hockey?
It surprises me that Harrison doesn’t strike more people out.
I bet Maddux said “get the breaking ball down” He did it twice to Nix
I bet Maddux said “Ron is going to start doing coke again if you keep walking people.”
I haven’t seen a Nix fail like that since the last ten years of New York basketball.
This is going to make me sound like a straight up terrible human being, but when John and Suzyn said that Johnny Pesky’s funeral was today and they’d both be there…I kind of thought that meant they wouldn’t be calling the game tonight and I got really excited.
OH man… then nobody would call the game… because the replacement would actually be calling the game and it would just be… weird.
Right, I was really curious as to what it would be like if the Yankees home broadcast actually called the game and gave me a mental picture as to what was happening on the field…instead of using 50′s Broadway segue and metaphors.
Radios would explode. I guarantee it.
This guarantee brought to you by Geico.
That doesn’t make you terrible.
The real question is how are they taking the death of Marvin Hamlisch?
Don’t walk Moreland.
>>>:(
No but to be fair, Moreland is not your average number 9 hitter.
Kuroda: big Scott and Todd fan. Walks Moreland to keep the inning going.
Did they just saw that Thurman Munson was a “fireball”? Poor choice of words.
I’d say.
Anyone else here think we should trade for Alex Gordon this offseason?
I don’t like Jimmy Fallon or Rudy Guliani.
You’re not American.
NOT. AMERICAN.
I like Fallon, but Guliani can shove it.
Fallon isn’t funny but he thinks he is. Also I hate all comedians that start doing annoying commercials.
Has Fallon ever been funny? Ever?
I enjoyed him at the White House Correspondance Dinner. Though Obama was funnier than he was, so I’m not sure if that’s a plus to Obama or a minus for Fallon.
Oh David Cone just took the Sox to School
Haha. “Nothing a little chicken and beer couldn’t solve.” Did Cone say that?
Ohhhhhhhhh… he did. He did, that rascal.
Are you serious? If he did, Cone just went from being my favorite announcer and second favorite SP growing up to the greatest person in the history of history.
Cone is the best. I wish Cone and Singleton did all the games and they fired Kay and Flaherty.
Cone and Singleton are definitely my ideal set up. I like Leiter too, but he’s not around much anymore.
Yeah, I could listen to Cone all day.
I’d love for YES to give Cone and Leiter their own talk show.
Hells yeah, I’d watch that show every day. Even though I can’t get YES. I’d find a way.
They made too much money during their careers for that kind of commitment. They do a handful of games a year to keep busy and that’s pretty much it.
OH MY GOD, or at least a show teaching us about pitching. YES YES YES!
Yeah, it was awesome. They were talking about the Red Sox player meeting where they wanted to fire Valentine. I just wasn’t sure it was Cone or O’neill who said it.
Hey Boston
First: http://assets1.medhelp.org/ada...../19598.jpg
Then: http://www.examiner.com/images.....andage.jpg
Nice piece of hittin’, Tex!
Fuck I wish that was fair.
Double in the gap Robbie.
Great at bat by Robbie
And its’s shoulder time
Come on Jones. Do something for the first time since the All-Star break.
Granderslam?
IM THE ONE WHO ASKS QUESTIONS AROUND HERE
Or not…I can’t even get on Grandy for swinging at that. First pitch fastball right down the middle.
I knew they were going to walk him.
Break it out Grandy
That’s so nasty whenever a pitcher’s hat is dripping with sweat like that.
Granderslam coming up?
Good lord, how hot is it in NY that Harrison has sweat dripping off the bill of his cap? That’s a hell of a lot of sweat.
It was pretty gross out today. Thick, soupy, gross. Bad hair day.
I envy the weather up north.
nice AB Grandy….
Ugggggg Grandy
Dammit. Another hard hit ball down the middle right at somebody
Hard hit? Or a can of corn?
Look at him sweat. He’d give Sweaty Freddy a run for his money.
back to back walks
swing at first pitch
That pitch was right down the middle though. Grandy missed it
couldnt be anymore down the middle than that.. Granderson is absolutely awful right now.
Ughh… good idea (sit on a fastball right down the middle), bad execution.
Walk, walk, swing at the 1st pitch. Brilliant.
the pitch was right there… Granderson sucks right now, still it was THE pitch to hit
Seriously man. Take a friggin pitch.
Nah, that was a damn good pitch to hit…Grandy just didn’t get it done.
I am starting to hate Granderson more and more with every game.
Hate?
Yes. I hate seeing him come up. If the Yankees are smart they will trade him this offseason for something.
Smart? (I can play this game too!)
Can?
? ?
Heh. Trolling at its finest.
A rough patch doesn’t speak for his entire season, though. That’s quite brash.
It’s annoying. He’s not young, can’t steal bases, can’t play good defense, getting less hits, and striking out more. I like him a lot. But I hope he goes after this year.
I would trade him too. He’s an all or nothing hitter.
I agree with you. He’s a 2-3 win centerfielder at this point in his career. If he finishes around 40 home runs they should trade him to Seattle for James Paxton and then include Paxton in a deal for Justin Upton.
Why would Seattle want him? Impending FA and they’re probably not gonna be contending next year.
They need offense and a right fielder and they could extend him. They have two other pitching prospects that are also legit and pitching isn’t a concern for them anyway.
Weak defensive OF, offense mostly based on power, wrong side of 30 = probably a very bad fit for Seattle/Safeco.
You can still hit home runs to right field in Seattle. Besides they are moving the fences in this winter anyways.
I could never. Grandy is super easy to like. Can be frustrating sometimes as a player, but I love him as a person.
Yup, he’s easy to root for.
I can see people getting all pissy and wanting to get rid of A-Rod when he doesn’t hit, but I think part of it has to do with his monster contract.
I find A-Rod easy to root for because half the fanbase hates him.
Same here, hahaha. I even named my car after him, just to be obnoxious.
I find it easy to root for because he’s a great teammate. He stays late in ST to run extra drills with young guys, invited them to his off season work outs, is a legendary batting cage rat. I find him very easy to like.
Guys saying that he should have taken, it was a fastball right down the middle.
Make him do it more than once. He just walked two people.
Hate to agree with Greg, but that was the best pitch he was going to get on that AB. Unfortunately Granderson sucks right now.
There are two reasons to work the count. One is to try to walk, the other is to try to get a good pitch to hit. You’re probably not going to walk when the bases are loaded and you’re down 0-1 in the count (even if the pitcher has walked 2 in a row), and there’s no point in waiting for a better pitch to hit if the first pitch is down the middle. You’re supposed to swing at meatballs, he just didn’t hit it well enough.
God dammit Granderson. He walks two people in a row so of course you let him off the hook.
The real problem is that once again, we are starting rallies with two outs.
If that hit by Grandy wasn’t with two outs, it would have been a sac fly
The problem is Granderson is the worst outfielder on the Yankees right now.
Ichiro says hi.
Still worse right now. I’d rather have Ichiro up at any time in any situation before Granderson.
Andruw Jones wants to take you bowling.
the real problem is that a guy that you count on to drive in runs HAS to be able to hit a straight fastball right down the middle.. with 0, 1 or 2 outs, it should not matter with that pitch
Well if the Yankees were facing Phil Hughes all these two out rallies would lead to runs.
When does Granderson’s “slump” become something more?
Something more as in….?
Last year was the outlier and he’s a sub 120 wRC+ hitter with bad defense.
Carl motherfucking Crawford
Overpaid bum that plays for the red sox? i didn’t know he was playing in this game.
Rangers are swinging at absolute dogshit pitches right now.
Lol, Josh Hamilton. I love seeing him fail.
Nice Hirok. Get this man some damn runs!
This is starting to get interesting…
You shut your whore mouth! Don’t say it! Don’t even think it!
Texas is getting absolutely Seattle’d.
In which inning will Hiroki allow his first hit?
Next game. He’s gonna throw a no-no.
Chavez should be hitting 6th not Kranderson
He hit fifth yesterday.
Playing CF too?
A single!
Jeter makes that play
Casey McGehee – true Yankee. No, really, I like this guy.
I hope the Yankees acquire Doug Fister at some point in his career so I can change my handle to Doug Fists-Her.
You’d watch
If the her is Sasha Grey or Stoya, in a heartbeat.
Wow . . . Talking about catapulting yourself over the line there, buddy.
Deviant.
Creep.
Oh relax.
I lost my line years ago in /b/
???
4chan.org/b/
don’t ever go there. It’s nowhere near as bad as it used to be, but that’s a good thing. Every meme since the existence of the internet started in some form/some way on /b/ but it there was so many bad and dark things…
4chan is scary. I checked it out a few times and ran far away.
You had a handle about the Plouffe, so I mean… does it have to be Yankee-centric? Just change it now.
I only had that for about a week, and one of the reasons I changed it was because it was about a non-yankee player, and that felt weird.
Really? You were The Plouffenator for only a week? Felt like longer. What was it before that then?
Chin Meng Wang
Oh right, I remember now.
I didn’t know that was you! haha, awesome.
But it was funny!
Fister? I barely even know her!
I still refer to the trade as the Fist Her Fur Bush trade.
Well done.
Liquor in the front, poker in the rear.
A Rod is gonna have to work very hard to get games at 3rd…Chavez and McGehee platoon is the 2nd best 3B in American League…
A-Rod should DH. He has a 150 wRC+ as a DH this year, just get it over with and have him hit there.
Better than Beltre? A healthy Longoria (until he gets hurt next week)? Cabrera? Encarnacion?
Send him 3-2
Hey offense, fucking do something already.
The Mets / Reds are stuck in the same situation. 0-0 Young and Latos keep working themselves out of trouble. The sad fact is that the defense barely caught a probable Young RBI…
Shhhh! Latos is on my fantasy team. Don’t jinx it.
From my point of view, I would prefer a jinx.
Why, do you have Young?
I am a Yankees / Mets fan, flipping between both games. I always want to see the Mets win for a change.
And yes, I do like Chris Young. He’s a fun character.
I might do my first fantasy next year.
You…you’re BOTH? I don’t know what to say. I hate the Mets.
How are you fans of both teams?!!?
Mets are dumb.
Def not a fan of the Mets, I don’t mind when they win, nor do a root for them to lose…they’re just there to me.
I guess I know more obnoxious Mets fans than you. The ones I know hate the Yankees because we have more fans and are more popular, and my only response is: “Asshole, you moved in to OUR city. We were here first, not our fault.” But they still talk shit. So therefore, I hate the Mets. For me it goes Red Sox, Phillies, Mets.
I guess it’s weird that 2 of my top 3 are in the NL, but I really, really hate those teams.
Of the few Met fans I associate with, only one hates the Yankees and she’s hot as hell so I allow it.
That’s fair. Most of the one’s I know are just overweight dudes. So, not okay.
this is a pitcher they should be handling easily.. the guy has no command at all
Harrison is quite good, but he shouldn’t be inducing so many weak popouts.
DiMaggio had 8 more strike outs than home runs? Holy fucking shit.
Joe DiMaggio was good at baseball.
DiMaggio to teh eighth inningz
1941 season:
621 PA, 30 HR, 12.2 % BB%, 2.1 % K%(!!!), .287 ISO, .357/.440/.643, 183 wRC+, 10.6 WAR
Absolutely nuts. I don’t care how much the game has changed, having 8 career strike outs more than career homers is INSANE.
Ridic, right? Like…I have nothing to say.
Yeah dude, guys never used to strike out like they do now.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07.....wanted=all
Anyone watching the MLB broadcast?
They showed a clip of Gentry talking to Nelson Cruz about how little DiMaggio struck out (just 8 more K’s than HR’s in his career)
Cruz: “that’s like 20 strikeouts a year?”
Gentry: “yeah”
Cruz: “I probably have struck out 20 times in 1 week”
I’m watching. It was awesome.
Flat-out mindblowing.
time to score some runs
It feels like we’re up 3 -0 except we’re not. Let’s get Kiroda some runs for fuck’s sake
Hiroki 5 inning no hitter so far…
Let’s hope the Yanks can put some of those hits they are getting into the run column soon. I’d like to see Kuroda at least have the chance at a shut out.
I’m just saying, if anything happens I’m coming after you and Sterling.
You’re right. I mind blanked on the jinx… nothing to see here.
And the MLBN crew.
Kay just said it too.
Get a leadoff double or triple so he can sac him in and put a run on the board.
Some runs would be nice.
Been a quick game so far.
Fuck Mark Reynolds
WORK THE FUCKING COUNT
Ahh yes, the “let him off the hook inning” awesome.
ANDY!
Cano needs to take a pitch or two here… ~80 pitches through 4, you cant let him have a 6 or 7 pitch inning.
That was, like, a six pitch inning there.
Through the middle of the order…
They took 1 strike (which ironically was Cano)…
I get trying to be aggressive, but with his pitch count up that high, work him over a bit.
Hey offense, go fuck yourself.
You know who Harrison is, in terms of pitching?
He’s Chien Ming Wang from the left side.
Not quite. Wang had like 65% ground ball rates.
But their repertoires are almost the same.
Power sinker and breaking ball
Wow, it always seemed like he was a fly ball pitcher.
You’re being sarcastic right?
And CMW was reaally good when he was healthy.
Our big RBI guys looking like Chris Stewart this inning is sad… although Stewart has looked better. I was at the game he hit his first home run, I went huh? He hit one?
A 6 pitch inning off the guy who doesn’t have any command. Great.
Again, all of their real scoring opportunities have started with 2 outs. They need to get leadoff men on with doubles
Do you think that that’s something a team can control? Are their leadoff men not trying hard enough? When the hits happen to come during the inning is pretty random.
YES CANO. YES.
Cano’s underarm throw is always mind-boggling.
Wow Robbie, you make that play look waaaaay to easy. So smooth.
LolRobbie. There is not a better way to make that play. Unreal.
Robbieeeeeee
“It whispers across the outside corner.” – Kay
Whispers.
lol
Kuroda looks so damn good.
Get him a run please.
Dialing it up to 95mph with that much downward movement and command?
Ridiculous.
Score some runs for the guy……
More car commercials should have Judas Priest. Just because.
And less Train, please!
No amount of Train is a good amount. “he” should be banned from making “music.”
I wish the yanks would score a run or two (for more than one reason).
Love that exchange between O’Neill and cone. Coney the pitcher comments on how Kuroda has been getting that slider outside all game and because he’s been hot he deserves the call. Paulie the hitter on the other hand, just bluntly points out it was in the other batters box and you’d need an oar to hit it. Hah.
Can someone please take a pitch?
Kill yourself, Andruw.
Dear MLBN Crew,
STFU about what it is you keep referring to!!
Love,
All Yankee fans everywhere
Kay feels the need to lecture everyone on being superstitious in addition to talking about the event
Sounds perfectly in character for Michael Kay.
The way he talks down to the audience can really get on my nerves at times.
C’mon Grandy!
Curtis is my dog, but he can strike out against anybody.
How are there 2 outs already?
what a pathetic effort from the offense this last couple of innings..
Well he threw more than 6 pitches this inning. Progress.
Come on True Yankee (TM) Casey McGehee, make things happen!
He IS.
GOOD JOB!
See?!?
Time to sit Granderson for a couple of games . . .
McGee parks a hanging change.
Or blasts it at the SS. Great job Russel. Goddamn it.
lol Andrus
No no, Russ. Not what you were supposed to do.
I wish McGeeHEE would have hit a GROUNDS rule double.
FUCK YOU OFFENSE
Offense is really now starting to let Harrison off the hook,
The Red Sox offense can go kill themselves.
Good grief… how many damn first pitch outs before they take a pitch?
I could understand the approach if these first pitch swings were producing rockets right at people… but a lot of it is weak contact against a guy who had (or used to have) a high pitch count.
They have actually made a bunch of solid contact, but it’s been right at people.
Damn it.
It was always going to end like that.
BOOOO ANDRUS BOOOOO
fucking cheap ass infield hit
FUCK YOU ANDRUS
Of course it’s an infield hit
that’s unfortunate
Coulda predicted it would be fucking Andrus that breaks it.
Wow, I really hate you right now, Andrus.
They should give Nix an error.
I’m sure Jeter would have made that play.
Why is adruw jones on this team?he is a 220 hitter who in2 years has not delivered a clutch hit to win a game. In fact, he has usually killed the yanks when they needed a hit to win a game, like last years playoffs, the Toronto game Sunday the July angels game and too many others.
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAA
like last years playoffs
He had ONE at bat in the playoffs last year.
Make that one PA.
Jones had zero at-bats in the playoffs last year.
I know the jinx isn’t real but it really is annoying when Kay or Sterling go “HE HAS A NO-HITTER! HE HAS A NO-HITTER!” for the whole game and then bitch when people tell them to shut up.
Nix should have booted that and have it scored an error.
Nah, he laid out. That’s a hit no matter what.
So, who goes on the kill list?
ANDRUS. And…Andrus?
Okay, now that we can stop thinking about a no-no…let’s get this man a fucking run please!!
Andrus has managed to get on base twice in this game. If he got hurt it would be nothing but perfect games against this team.
If he got hurt I would be happy because fuck the Rangers.
My fault. I turned the game on RIGHT as the hit happened. I was like ‘really?’
You go to hell, you go to hell and you die!!
/south park’d and joking, don’t die.
YOU TURN YOUR TV OFF RIGHT NOW!
Done. I’ve got the munchies. I’ll be back around 10:30.
Kinda smarted when I first saw the ball leave the bat.
weak ass throw from swisher there..
Yeah, that was an easy one for a lefty to make.
Yuck.
Shite shite shite
Wild pitch, but Martin’s got to block that… he reached with a backhand and didn’t shift. He’s seemingly done that a lot more this year.
Phew!
Bravo, Kuroda. Get some runs for the guy, he deserves a win tonight.
Mo bless America, motherfucker
Let’s just rip their fucking throats out right here.
No matter the results of this game (bullpen blows it or something), Kuroda worked his ass off. Can’t ask for anything less.
The Red Sox decided to take it up the ass tonight. Let’s just win this.
You’d watch?
Beckett was starting… surprised he only gave up 4 runs
Red Sox
closer,setup man, 6th inning guy Mark Melancon will keep it cloes.As he serves up a 3 run HR…
(and tacks on 2 runs onto Beckett’s total for 6ER)
6 runs.
Andruw Jones is last on the team in WPA. Like twice as much negative WPA as the next guy. He does kinda suck you guys.
This just showed up on my Twitter feed… I thought Michael Kay couldn’t get much crazier…
Of course it embeds even though I didn’t want it to. How do you stop that? I’m not using the embed link.
This is amazing.
That’s fake right…like oh. my. god. I’m in shock. That…how did that happen? I’m seriously in shock…like I joke about things, and I’ve told my fair share of Hitler jokes and racist things…but for a “professional” broadcaster to equate “baseball edicate” to Nazi Germany and Slavery…I lied before Mr. The Troll…this crossed my line I didn’t know I had.
I think it is fake… towards the end, it didn’t sound like Kay to me. I hope I’m right.
It’s real.
http://www.firejoemorgan.com/2.....rfect.html
Michael Kay has always struck me as an uptight and proper, stick up his ass type of guy. I would have never expected a rant like that out of him.
I’ve heard him rant before and he can get personal with some callers calling them names and shit, but this was just way out of line.
I’ve never listened to his radio show but his in game broadcasting is so G rated he could do play by play in a Disney movie.
On the other hand I could totally see Coney flipping out and cussing someone out on air.
THE HECK IS THIS
What was the guy arguing about? I honestly need more context here.
Someone tweeted it because Kay was getting pissy on twitter because people were getting on him about jinxing no hitters.
We just need one of those notorious Yankee HRs. C’mon.
The offense got Kuroda here.
What exactly does Jones provide that Mustelier couldn’t?
I’m with you that he’s useless but you don’t need to repeat in every other comment
Yeah, and let’s stop pretending Mustelier is a sure thing. He’s had exactly zero MLB at bats, let’s temper the expectations.
I once fell in love with a 28 year-old Cuban in AAA. *sigh*
LOL another Mark Reynolds homer
Kelly Shoppach to the Mets?
What?
That would be correct.
So hoping it gets Rob Johnson out of the catcher lineup.
Does this help the Mets at all? CAN anything help the Mets at this point?
I just… I hate to say this. I just feel bad for them – not their fans, no – but the fact that the team always seems to have something good going and they just TANK.
Yes. The Sux want to get Ryan Lavahnaweigh more playing time.
Now maybe we can get him from the Mets?
apparently, Yankees weren’t interested
Red Sox would never give the Yankees someone like Kelly Shoppach anyway.
I agree. They could have claimed him just to block a trade.
(Not that Shoppach to the Mets hurts anything)
D-Rock.
11 more to Murray. 10 more to Lajoie if you believe Elias.
A hit, a palpable hit.
Thank you for taking him out Ron.
Well they got Harrison out of the game
Prediction – we do not see Soriano pitch because “it’s not a save situation” – Yankees lose as a result.
Soriano will pitch if it’s tied going into the 9th.
Why does Ogando chew on his chain?
Who knows, nerves?
When did Swish start rocking the high socks?
Draw the walk Swish
Or not.
Hell of an AB by Swish for some GARBAGE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SWISH! NO 16
Monster at bat
SWISHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Swisher is on fire! Ever since Girardi moved him up to 2nd. Brilliant move.
HOLY CRAP SWISHER HOLY HOLY HOLY CRAP
GARBAGE. TIME.
HELLZ YES!!!!!
I just showed up in time to yell out “GARBAGE TIME!”
Nick Swisher.
Nah, not a clutch hit.
some garbage time runs of course.
Garbage time, baby!
SWISH!!!
Saw that coming.
Doesn’t get anymore GARBAGE TIME than that.
Garbage time is the BEST!
That was an absolute monster at-bat from Swisher, who obviously can’t hit in the clutch.
man I hate stat padding
Garbage time!
How much are Ranger fans hating Nick Swisher this series?
lonestarball is pretty salty
I loved reading their World Series game 6 thread.
That’s gotta be one of the worst losses any team has ever suffered. The game was OVER if Cruz makes that play. It was not an easy play, but it still has to be made.
The rest is history.
But it’s the Rangers, so fuck them.
He went up to get that too, well done Swish.
Man a bomb I’m gonna have to eat Heisenberg’s hat for trashing Swisher last week
Wilfredo Ledezma once DID eat his hat.
http://www.detroittigersweblog.....-at-twins/
We all make mistakes.
Nick Swisher should go to jail for raping Ogando.
Really tough 2-2 pitch to hold off on too.
LOLgando.
TEX! NO 23
Is this real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Ogando caught in a landslide …
Caught in a landslide…
No escape from reality.
NEXT!
AND BELLY TAH BELLY!
TEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TEX!
Man this game is awesome right now.
Damn…too many homers.
BACK TO BACK AND BELLY TO BELLY
Swish! Tex!!
MARK AND SWISH!!!!!!!!!! TEXTING ABOUT BEING SWISHALICOUS WHILE BACK TO BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND A BELLY TO BELLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TEIX!!! We need to face Ogando more!
The Tex message!
You guys all know this home run approach won’t work at all in the playoffs.
Amirite?
Am? I? Rite?
I just got home and turned on the TV and it was 0-0 and 10 minutes later it’s 3-0.
You’re all welcome.
OMG! Homeruns!
Quit hogging the credit.
I had to switch from MLBN to the YES crew 20 minutes ago. So, observe…
I love pulling a pitcher and then having the guy at bat hitting a home run off the reliever.
Ron Washington: still terrible.
But…I thought homers couldn’t beat good teams!!!11!!1!
AHAHAHAHAHA
On that note, I hope I don’t miss the bus, good night gentleman and Erica!
Later d00d!
Peace Plouffy.
Too many damn HR’s… get some doubles guys… let people bunt you over for the sac fly
Three in a row too much to ask?
For your info., andruw came up in the 9th inning of the second game with the game on the line and made out. Please get your facts right or watch the games. Jones sucks.
One PA? Really? Hell of a sample size there bro.
He’s our newest troll!
There can be only ONE!
Unfortunately, there are many.
You must destroy him!
He had one PA in the playoffs and it ended up in a sac fly.
He made out!
He drove in a run with a sac fly to make it a two-run game. Jeter and Cano did nothing after him with the game on the line. Please get your facts right or watch the games.
Are we randomly screaming about Andruw Jones again?
Seriously, using one Sac Fly as the basis for your argument is very, very weak. There are plenty of legit reasons to complain about Jones. No need to make ridiculous arguments.
Thank you, Mr. Washington, for taking Harrison out.
belly to belly!!!!
Cano trying to hit a homer, grounds out weakly..
Why no PH?
Well, Ibanez doesn’t play good defense and the odds of Ichiro jacking one are not good.
How do you know the odds of Ichiro jacking one?
Are you really asking me that question?
How many have you seen him jack?
Did he ever borrow some porn from Matsui?
Because up more than 2 runs, Girardi doesn’t care about offense platoon situations.
He’ll probably put Ichiro in at the top of next inning for defense though.
Plus there were two outs, so really the only impact one could make was to hit a home run
Sure… getting on base and the ability to steal a base would have provided zero value.
Better to have a righty who doesn’t hit very much against righties hit instead.
2 out rallies do occur from time to time, and Ichiro does rarely hit HR’s anyways.
The second playoff game that Garcia pitched.
Hit “reply” to what you’re replying to. It’ll make you sound more like a fool and less like a fool AND senile old man.
stuart a reincarnated …
jones sucks ike davis has more rbis……….
Celeste?
Andruw flies out to right fielding game two at Yankee stadium. Memo to Robinson how about a bet you a years supply of tacos andruw does nothing in the playoffs. I can drive from my east side apt. And meet you in the hood honey.
ZOMG teh reply button???!!
I heart this reply, tacos, hood, and all.
I mean…..where would the tacos be from? Did you know that I actually HAD tacos in the hood today? I bet you didn’t!
Garcia didn’t pitch in two playoff games last year, or at all in his Yankee career.
/that guy’d
Both Swish and Tex turned 99 mph fastballs around. Impressive!!!
Imagine the Swish at-bat if it was Granderson — wild swing nowhere near the ball, wild swing nowhere near the ball, wild swing, you’re out. Nice to know that somebody on the Yankees can work an at-bat and do something with it. Granderson might have more raw talent than a guy like Swish but he sure squanders it these past few weeks
a.k.a Slump
It is nice that people can use back to back home runs in an awesome game to bitch and moan about Jones and Granderson.
Ichiro should had been brought in after the 5th. His support would have helped Kuroda with the pressure
What?
I can’t think of a counter to that. I’m trying.
Racism?
Tell me which game in two years son has andruw got a hit to win a game or at least contributed to a come from behind victory, there are none. I ‘d rather Johnny Damon or jack cust even if they are leftys.
I don’t like Jones anymore either but he’s better than Damon. Also last year Jones had like a 13 pitch walk against Aceves that lead to an eighth inning rally in Boston. We won that game and they collapsed. Therefore, Andruw Jones caused the Boston collapse.
This is awesome.
Cust? What, have you never heard of Ike Davis?
At least you use punctuation.
BOBINSON
Got Him
Reading over the game thread. We’ve come along way from discussing Doug Fister and Stoya.
Did you enjoy the Youtube video where she orgasms while reading a book?
That exists!?!?
That was pretty awesome can’t even lie.
Good god Robbie, you are so damn smooth.
Kuroda is so fucking good, just wow.
Let Kuroda go for the CG?
I say yes.
Yup yup yup yup!
8 shutout innings. Now does girardi give him a chance for 9?
Leave him in.
Brilliant. Big ups to Hiroki. Let’s hope Girardi leaves him in.
Four outs away from a CG shutout! HIROK.
Bah, I can’t count. Thought it was the eighth.
And it is. God.
Please girardi let hirok finish this game.
I’d go batter to batter again with Kuroda in the ninth.
CGSHO
Swisher is such a better hitter in the 2 hole.
no shit! I’ve been saying that for 2 years!
Wow Cano is just ridiculous – he should be getting a lot more MVP talk.
It will either be Trout (if the Angels stay relevant) or the new ESPN storyline Miguel Cabrera. Hamilton’s probably a hot streak away from that bandwagon getting going on him again.
I have no problems with Trout but if Cabrera or Hamilton get it over Cano that would be maddening.
How can Trout win the MVP if his team doesn’t make the playoffs?
/trollface
Insurance run would be nice.
oh, Curtis….
Lol Granderson is batting .236
Granderson needs a week off, at least
Curtis needs to hit where every other 30 home run guy hits, 3rd or 4th. All this line up scuffling is screwing him up
I really don’t think hitters care that much where they hit in the lineup.
Didn’t realize this Scheppers kid threw so hard.
Yeah . . . Curtis is in dire need of a 3 day hiatus/sit-down with the Klong.
I’m kinda tempted to link back to one of the various April threads where it was deemed Kuroda was incapable of pitching in the AL.
Don’t bother. At this point, all rational thinkers know how wrong they were.
I already looked at the May 16th game thread against Toronto. Good shit. Not just about Kuroda.
http://riveraveblues.com/2012/.....der-68647/
Skippy Espinosa. I’m funny…..sometimes.
http://riveraveblues.com/2012/.....nt-4087361
“Kuroda will be the long man by the all star break…”
Hahaha.
Plus a Duh Innings appearance! Gold.
I’m still reading it. I remember a ton of this thread.
Haha. Teams that are better than the Yankees: http://riveraveblues.com/2012/.....nt-4268349
Sheppers impressive
Take that Scheppers!
MFIKY better not come in. I want Kuroda for the 9th.
I was there on YSIII Opening Day and the crowd gave him a standing O and he didn’t tip his cap. Has he done it yet this year? I think it’s a cultural thing. He seems very humble.
Who, Kuroda? Probably cultural. I’m not too versed on Japanese culture, though – just some of their food.
Yeah Kuroda. He was doing well and Girardi took him out though ppl were screaming to leave him in (and no one really knew him that well). But he took him out and the crowd gave him a standing O and he just walked into the dugout and of course ppl started saying they didn’t like that. I didn’t think it had anything to do with Kuroda except that some Japanese players are uncomfortable with it.
Looks like Kuroda’s gonna give it a go
A hit for Martin? OK, I’m good.
Never ever did I expect I’d be waiting waiting waiting for Martin’s average to get to .200.
All other teams: We’re not doing well because we’re all banged up.
Yankees: STFU
To be fair: $200,000,000.
I thought that was long gone.
Oh I thought that was gone
MLBN puts up a graphic for what’s coming up next on MLB Tonight. Number one? “Red Sox Drama”. So awesome.
A GEM FOR KURODA
Masterful.
Hirok!!!!
THAT WAS SO STINKIN’ AWESOME. Yay Kuroda!
BOO-FUCKING-YEAH!
Wow Kuroda. Masterful performance, very well done. I am so glad the Yanks got him the win, he really deserved it.
And against Texas, no less. This was so great to watch.
CG shutout against Texass. Well done.
Great job Kuroda!
Beastly
Win! Fantastic game by Kuroda
Tex gave Kuroda the ball from the last out! Oh!
Great pitching performance against the high-powered Rangers by our current “ace.” Impressive.
Required viewing for Hughes and Nova.
Is Kuroda an ace? (This comment has nothing to do with CC)
Kuroda for CY Young.
2 hitter against the Rangers. Hirok is the fucking best.
what a great game by kuroda
Total domination of the highest scoring offense in baseball.
Have yourself a game, Hiroki-san.
Tonight’s game put me in a great mood, so I’d like to share this with all of you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCiY1y3uJ3o
Damn, that cracked me up.
Second great outing for Kuroda against Texas this season.
The best part was that it came against Yu Darvish’s team.
What a fantastic game.
Kuroda is not our fill-in Ace. Kuroda is our Ace.
Best deal of the off-season, rivaled only by Chavez.
Well played Cashninja.
Nick Swisher (on Kuroda): Hiro is my hero!
I love this guy.
4 of the 11 stories on ESPN MLB are about the Red Sox . . . Apparently being last place garners far more attention . . . . . Whatever happened to the practice of letting sleeping dogs lie?
Orioles are 12-5 in their last 17 vs. Boston.
Doubly impressive win tonight considering Girardi ran department-store mannequins out there to bat 5-6-7-8-9. This team misses ARod really bad. And Granderson. Boy, this team misses Granderson *terribly*. …Say, does anyone know when Granderson is expected back from his DL-stint with a badly sprained suddenly-I’m-a-gigantic-douchebag?
OMG you are hilarious.
It’s true, you are a gigantic douchebag.
I know he’s struggling horribly, but that seemed a little over the top.
reply fail.
I’m not too thrilled the Red Sox lost. Fun and all, but the O’s won.
After Boston, the Orioles go to Detroit and then Texas. I’m hoping they slip up there.
I’ll kill the next poster who posts that Andy should start Game 2.