Game 132: It Ain’t Easy
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The Yankees were thoroughly manhandled in their own stadium by the Orioles last night, who managed to climb to within two games of the top spot in the AL East. Baltimore simply did everything better and frankly the game didn’t feel as close as the 6-1 final score indicates. The Bombers juggled their rotation to avoid having Freddy Garcia start this afternoon, so now the stop-the-bleeding onus falls on David Phelps. He can’t do it alone though, the offense has to do a better job than it’s been doing since the start of the road trip in Chicago. Here’s the starting nine…
SS Derek Jeter
1B Nick Swisher
2B Robinson Cano
RF Andruw Jones
CF Curtis Granderson
C Russell Martin
3B Jayson Nix
DH Eduardo Nunez
LF Ichiro Suzuki
RHP David Phelps
This afternoon’s game is scheduled to start a little after 1pm ET and can be seen on YES. Enjoy.
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Jones cleanup? Good time to break out of it. Thought he had smashed his fingers
and it’s ONE — TWO — THREE strikes, you’re out at the old ballgame!
Hope so!!
It seems that with two quality righty bats out of the lineup (Alex and Tex) Yankees are seeing a lot of lefty pitching. Lefty pitching is killing them
If I remember, didn’t the Os actually go find lefty pitching just for this team?
(Sees Eduardo Nuñez in the starting lineup. Sheds a single tear)
Has long as he’s not playing the field, they’ll be fine.
Why? He’a a great hitter. His defense is crap. In fact, DH is probably the perfect spot for him.
“Great hitter” is a big stretch.
Fine. Good hitter
Also a stretch
Hits with a bat.
That works.
Nuñez may become a good hitter. Now he’s a avg hitter.
I saw another lineup where Jete was DH and Nuney was at short
It was at first, but they changed it Jeter at SS and Nunez at DH.
Good move. Thanks Mike
It was supposed to be that way. Then Girardi switched them around after talking to Jeter.
Watching 30 Rock while waiting for the game to start. I demand Cerie get all the screen time!!!
Could I call this a must-win game without being drenched in rhetoric about what a literal “must-win” game is?
Oy Vay!
Not a must win, but critical to their division crown hopes. There are very few instances in which I would call a non-playoff game a “must win”, and this isn’t one of them.
It’s be really fucking nice to pull out a W though.
*It’d
Contraction fail
By the way…
The Red Sox gave up 20 runs to the A’s??????
Oakland has won 13 of 15 and 47 of 69 games.
They’re ripping the hell out of everybody.
I understand that. But 20 runs in that park is ridiculous.
When you get a chance, look at which players did the biggest damage last night.
You’ll sense a very amusing theme.
Except for Donaldson, I see your point.
Moss
Kottaras
Reddick.
Who else was sort of relieved to hear Phelps is starting instead of Freddy?
It is a must win. If we lose we’ll cede control of the division to the Orioles tomorrow and it’ll just keep going downhill. Phelps needs to be the stopper today because our two aces sure as hell haven’t done the job lately. I’ve been saying Tampa’s offense just isn’t consistent enough to win enough ballgames. Unfortunately, it’s looking like we have the same problem.
You are really certain that we are being swept.
Oh wait. It’s Eddard.
Just because Kuroda has pitched to a 3.5 ERA the past two starts instead of a 0.5 ERA, doesn’t mean he’s not doing his job.
The poor bastard can’t buy run support.
Just imagine how good it would feel to win the next 2 and send the Orioles out of town down 4 (and the Rays at least that much as well). Let’s make it happen!
Just win baby, just win.
I’m only listening on the radio, but the location of Phelp’s first 3 pitches according to gameday are telling me he’s flying open a little bit.
Umpires already
Bounce back day. Let’s go
Very good point by Kenny. Those computer guys don’t know a damn thing. They’ve never managed. Best hitter should bat 3rd as Girardi does.
(a) Computers don’t in fact say what he claimed they say. They agree that power hitters should bat 3rd.
(b) Saying computers have never managed is like saying binders have never managed or game film have never managed. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be used to help managers make decisions.
off to a good start….smfh
Excellent start =/
Familiar start
Well, another stellar start to today.
Are you friggen kidding me?
when the O’s score first this team will probably roll over and die again. hope they can avoid the sweep tomorrow.
My goodness. I figure they lose every game until game 162. Let’s hope they can avoid that last loss on Oct. 3.
Buck’s managing circles around Girardi right now. Buck is being aggressive, forcing the action. We’ve been waiting for a HR that hasn’t came. This already has the making of a disaster.
You’d be the first person to crucify Girardi if he played hit and run and it resulted in a strike-him-out-throw-him-out double play.
Didn’t you see Joe just manage circles around McLouth on that double play?
sending a runner on a 2-1 count is running circles around another manager?
2-1 is the quintessential steal count
I guess that’s worth the trade-off.
Just gotta wonder if the dead bats will show up today.
I’ll take that double play. Excellently turned by Robbie.
Just get that feeling that they’re gonna have to drop out of first before they get hot and retake division lead
This is a fact that should be recognized. Yankees went 20-7 in June.
They are 55-49 in the other months combined.
We have to start to think that maybe June was an outlier (maybe NL induced) and that the team really isnt that good this year.
The Yankees are 75-0 in games they haven’t lost.
Hot streaks are always outliers, for every team.
So are cold streaks.
But the Yankees have been basically had .500 records in the other 4 months of the year. I wonder if that is more of an indicator.
They had a .591 win % in April, how is that basically .500?
I would think overall record would be a much better indicator than any small sample. They are worse than their overall record now, however, because of the injuries.
I’d wager they’d be faring much better if not for all of their debilitating injuries this season. Those have an affect on not just the team’s performance but it’s morale as well, whether or not you feel that really affects their play
Now that is true. Which is why we should give this team a break.
Can you name a team that is better if you take out their best month?
You mean better than .500? Oh yes.
Nationals are 61-41 outside of their best month, winning percentage wise.
I wish Phelps would throw more strikes… at least they have the callups if his pitch count gets too high early on.
Besides Phelps noticeable struggles, Markakis probably should’ve been K’d considering I think Markakis even thought it was S3.
come on phelpsy
Are they really this awful?
They may be if the stat I pulled up is correct.
55-49 isn’t even awful
It’s not awful, but it’s around the pace they are playing at right now.
They’ve lost 7 of 10. It’s not even remotely close to the pace they are playing at right now.
But remember they went 5-2 against the Rangers and Red Sox .
That’s not the pace they are currently playing at.
But when you combine the 2…
Detroit is 9 games above .500. TB is 10 games above .500. The Angels are 8 games above .500. The Cardinals, Pirates, and Dodgers are 10, 9, and 8 games above .500 respectively. Any of those teams could make the playoffs/would make the playoffs if the season ended today. You’re saying that basically if you removed the Yankees hottest month, they would still be basically as good as those teams? That doesn’t sound like the Yankees are awful.
Nats are 20 games over outside their best month.
Reds are 62-45 outside their best month.
Congratulations. You picked the 2 teams having the best records in MLB who are playing in the NL (where the Astros have a -200 run differential, etc.) So if your argument is that the Reds and Nationals are having better years than the Yankees? I don’t see many people arguing against that.
Can you find another team that isn’t true for?
Nationals:
61-41 outside their best month.
Nationals:
61-41 outside their best month.
June definitely looks like the outlier, record-wise anyway.
wtf
fucking embarrassing
That’s the second botched pick off attempt this week.
Is Freddy available in relief? The kid is pitching scared right now. Too many balls and now the throwaway. Calm him down.
Man, how can this team look so awful at the fundamentals.
Any idea what Phelps’s pitch limit will be today?
He should be good for 100+
They scored so obviously a 123 inning is coming.
hopefully they get Chen to throw double digit pitches. small victories.
too much to ask
lol of course.
god dammit
Man, just can’t catch a break.
And that is just how things are going right now for the Yankees.
Jesus.
I’m sorry… the Orioles look like fuckin world beaters right now.
Every team that plays the Yankees look like world beaters.
Except Seattle and Boston.
You have got to be kidding me, we slap a ball hard and get robbed…AGAIN
Mike Francesa just came.
+1
Orioles came to play. Yanks need to match their intensity
When it rains it pours.
of course, again.
Jesus christ.
unreal
…and another diving catch.
This is gonna be a long day if that keeps happening.
Go fuck yourself, Mclouth.
Oh, and Markakis can go fuck himself too.
Seriously? Some of these should be able to drop eventually…
When it rains, it pours.
We should bunt every at-bat, maybe they’ll throw one away.
9 pitches? God, the Yankees are really good. Here’s hoping they get blown out today and swept tomorrow. It’s always darkest before the dawn. I’m hoping for pitch black by Sunday night.
2 amazing plays in the outfield otherwise this game would be tied. But they’re no trying!11!!!!
It’s a strategy. We tire out the outfielders early. Then we reap all the benefits.
Genius, I love it. Can we also load the bases with no outs and not score. We are really good at that.
If these line drive out are not a sign this team does not have mojo, only means the worst is yet to come.
Phelps is all over the fucking place. ARGH
Yeah. I feel like it took a few innings for him to settle down the last couple of starts as well.
Phelps just doesn’t have it today. 3 walks already? Not good.
strikes please
Would nice if Phelps stopped walking these guys.
If Phelps is gonna walk/hit people, he should stop doing it after he gets two strikes.
What the fuck is this, Phelps? I thought you were a quote unquote “strike thrower”.
they’re gonna need to score like minimum 6 runs to have a chance to win this.
Phelps is looking dodgy today.
He’s pitching scared. They better start getting someone else warming. We need this game.
Freddy might want to start stretching
With all the fresh arms, I hope they won’t hesitate to take him out if he doesn’t have it.
Wow. This game is already getting ugly.
Anyone know how to avoid baseball for a week? I’ve tried before and always fail within 20 hours . . . I can’t watch this shit anymore but I have no means of walking away and NOT looking back.
…and another walk.
Every move Joe has made lately has either turned to shit, or is in danger of turning to shit.
Thanks for the free out
Call me a troll but it’s time to get the bullpen going. Ventura did it to Floyd last week maybe Girardi can do something now!!!
But that was not the conventional move. It worked, but it was not conventional
And that’s why Ventura is a manager of the year candidate
Girardi won the damn award so you cant use that against him.
For those of you who don’t believe in choke, well here it is
I saw choke last year. I never thought I’d see it with this team.
Phelps has got to find this strike zone quickly or its gonna be a long long day.
Now the O’s will play small ball and get two into scoring position
throw fucking strikes. my god.
I miss Big Member. Was he banned?
I sure hope not! He was fantastic.
I’ve seen enough.
This is fucking hideous. I may start drinking now.
I already took a beer out of the fridge. It’s time.
Lovely.
Get this bum out of the game. He wasn’t ready to pitch in a pennant race. Ball, ball, ball, hit, ball ball. HBP. He’s scared.
Yes, I’m sure the problem is that he is scared.
“don’t want this game to get away early”
too late, it’s already gone Kenny.
If your assumption is that the Yankees can’t score 3 or 4 runs in a game, the game is pretty much gone before it even starts.
Without Teix or ARod? Yeah 3 or 4 runs aren’t automatic anymore.
They got 1 last night.
Thanks for coming Phelpsie
I would say bullpen but I can’t take watching Lowe again.
totally getting swept. No doubt about it. This is an epic choke of the division we all get to watch.
Hey but wait Cory fucking Wade is back to save the day
Rapada and Eppley are supposed to save the day? Oy.
Man this is just textbook 2 teams headed in different directions. O’s making all the plays and getting all the big hits. yanks can’t beat crappy teams, hit or even throw to 1st base
The Orioles broadcast is making this much worse by claiming that the reason Phelps isn’t pitching well is that he is scared of the Orioles offense.
I don’t know if it’s the offense but he certainly doesn’t seem up for this moment. This is a big game and he’s shrinking in a big way.
Nate McClouth sure sends fears up and down Pitchers across baseball. #homers
They really don’t offer any baseball analysis. It’s all just cliche. Pretty standard for broadcasters.
I know there are injuries and some bad luck with balls in play, but this team has given up and knows its defeated. Pretty shocked the Yankees would go through this.
That’s what injuries do to you. Lower morale and confidence.
Disagree. IF that is true, the these players are pathetic. Their paid to do a job and do it well, not curl up into a ball and pout.
I get your response but it is an excuse like every word from Girardi to Jeter, not an explanation.
You’re looking at the wrong place if you want the team or the manager to give you truthful answers.
Just like listening to politicians. Not sure even when they say their names they are telling the truth .
That helps!
So when people were predicting sweeps they meant the Orioles right?
Nice job. Let’s score some runs.
That could have been a lot worse… small gifts.
Thank you Jeter, Cano and Swish.
That was huge, Cano at his best on the turn.
But we still have to get Phelps out of this game sooner rather than later.
First chance he gets even on a borderline call Joe should get out there and light a fire, try something.
My preference is a benches clearing brawl. It helped in 1998 with Benitez, but this team isn’t really fight prone.
The worse part about all this isn’t the losing but all the experts here claiming that the team is full of chokers, that they have quit, that they don’t care, etc.
+1
You forgot that they “aren’t trying”.
Hooray for the double play. Now could the LOLffense please score a run or two?
How the he’ll was at first pitch to Jones a strike?
This is Mike Estabrook, I am not expecting anything consistent. (aka he sucks. Tomorrow is even worse with Jerry Layne.)
*Hell
Stupid Apple products and their auto-spell check bullshit.
Jones in the 4hole batting .207 just about says it all
I hope Lou will be in the booth for the Tampa series in Florida.
I wonder if Orioles fans are bitching and moaning that they only have two runs given how crappy Phelps has been.
Fans everywhere complain about everything, so yes.
Granderson struck out?
It was high.
This ump can kill himself.
that’s high
That doesn’t look like a strike to me… yet the Orioles are getting those calls. It’d be nice to see the Yanks get a break during this series.
What? The Yanks look like shit and you blame the ump. Sure.
For that one particular call, yes.
Andruw “sitdown“ Jones
Andruw jOnes fans unite.
Bad luck again. Everything going against the Yankees seemingly since they went out to Oakland
Russell Martin hitting a fly ball not hard enough to leave the stadium isn’t bad luck, he just sucks.
What’s the team’s Babip?
Irrelevant since 50 percent of the time they get a run off a homer which isn’t in BABIP calculations.
They will live, or die by home runs, not BABIP.
.291, don’t forget bad hitters drag down the babip.
Agreed, “bad luck” is something a Mets fan would say.
Dumb comment for a guy with a Master’s. The Yanks have looked like shit since the A’s series.
Granderson is just awful. Don’t see how the Yankees can resign him.
He’s our version of Mark Reynolds. But at least he has a higher OBP
He’s a one dimensional player. He hits for power and that’s all. He’s an awful centerfielder, his speed is really only slightly above average at this point, will only get worse, and he certainly doesn’t steal bases anymore, he strikes out a ton and doesn’t make contact. He takes walks, but that’s negated by his quickly declining contact hitting skills that will also only get worse.
Another foot and that’s out… just getting beat by inches it seems on every play this game so far.
Looks like it’ll be up to Nixy, Nunie and Ichy to get us going. Problem is, even if those guys get on base the top 3 won’t drive them in.
That was what, 2 feet from being out of the park? Talk about a game of inches. They’re not catching any breaks.
Somebody get the Al Pacino speech out.
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Why not? Girardi should have the whole clubhouse watch this speech.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ata_player
Hey it would have been out in my son’s Little League field.
Our 4-5-6 currently has an OPS of .735…Alex, Tex, please get back. And now Granderson’s down?!?!?! Jesus Christ!
And Curtis Granderson just went down.. great…
What the fuck happened to Curtis
Looked like his arm.
Herpes
Granderson hurt? Give me a fucking break.
Where is Curtis?
Oh good, another injury.
I wonder why Grandy got taken out.
Oh good god… Granderson injured now too?
What the eff happened to granderson?
Just nothing the Yankees can do when the injuries pile up at this rate.
Tex and now Gramdy might just be the tipping point.
Exactly. Which is why this shouldn’t be a considered a choke or collapse.
That was odd.
And now pierce in the 5 hole? Wow Jones, pierce, Martin. Just wow
It was odd that he collected all his shit before he left. He took his bat and helmet with him to the clubhouse.
OK, bad news on Curtis.
Does anyone know what happened to Casey McGehee? Wasn’t he supposed to return? No offense to Pearce but McGehee is a major leaguer w/a track record. Is this a case of Girardi doesn’t like him or what?
sup girl
McGehee can’t come back until Tuesday, after Charleston’s season is over.
Thank you. And there’s the answer-
No idea, and a better question is why is he in the lower levels of the minors?
So they can get him back quicker. Charleston’s season ends earlier.
Gotcha, thanks man.
maybe they undid the trade and Ajax and IPK are coming back to NY.
Haha +1
Granderson injures himself striking out, Yankee luck right now.
This umpire is awful. That wasn’t a strike.
Well at least the Giants are back in action soon.
Maybe Granderson is sick?
maybe he had a little bit of diarrhea like Chan Ho Park after that K.
Wow. I really hope this precautionary. Girardi looked a little like he was trying to hide concern in the dugout, though.
Nice of Phelps to join us
Now let’s get some bats going!
Ok, I’m stuck with Gameday…what happened to Granderson?
Still no word.
Thanks…just spotted Axisa’s brief blurb.
Nice job by Phelps to take advantage of the large strike zone
This ump is horrible. The same pitches in the 1st and 2nd were called balls now they are strikes? Means by the later innings, they will be back to being balls
At what point can we start using all these injuries as an excuse?
I think when Tex went down.
Now?
Never. Every team has them. We have the highest payroll and can afford more depth than most. The team is 30+ so of course we were going to have injuries and guys breaking down.
Really none of the injuries had to do with our guys being old.
Every team has injuries. Not every team has the same quantity of injuries and quality of players injured.
Every team does have them but not at this rate to so many key players.
We’re talking
Rivera
Pettitte
A-Rod
Texiera
Pineda
Gardner
Swisher (partly)
and now possibly Granderson
I forgot Robertson and Joba too.
And Sabathia
Higher injury rate correspondes to older players, Pettite/A-Rod, did you really expect A-Rod to stay healthy all season long? This an effect of us making long term ridiculous deals. Other injuries we had were flukes but what team doesn’t deal with injuries?
But both of those injuries were freak injuries.
Pettitte gets hit in the foot with a batted ball. A-Rod gets hit in the hand with a pitch.
You serious? Do you not know that when players are older their bodies do not hold up as well, therefore younger players might have had the same things happen to them and their body would have been able to sustain those injuries, or the damage wouldn’t have been as high. Don’t undervalue the denigration of the human body, after you hit 21 years old your body starts to rot (literally).
The same thing could happen to a 21 year old player.
Your arguing semantics and not statistics.
Show us the statistics then.
If your going to make an argument against an original statement, YOU are the one who has to refute it, basic law 101.
But if you want me to scour the internet since there are no sites fangraphs etc that host these type of things ill throw the links out as I find them.
http://www.orlincohen.com/news.....9be233b6f8
http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/38/1/36.full And don’t argue its NFL blah blah not MLB, its the basic question in answer, older players/people will suffer injuries in a greater correlation than younger players.
“Athletes who are not yet fully mature have more laxity in their joints and less muscle mass than older athletes. Because of this, adults may sustain injuries different from how young athletes might.”
http://www.upmc.com/Services/s.....uries.aspx
Very well, I concede to your being correct on that front. However A-Rod’s injury would have forced him to miss an extended period of time regardless of age. The fifth metacarpal takes on average 6-8 weeks to heal and A-Rod’s recovery has gone without a hitch.
You’ve also failed to acknowledge all of the injured players who aren’t at an advanced age in baseball terms. Pineda, Gardner, Nova, Texiera, Sabathia, and now Granderson. All of them have yet to reach or are currently in the prime of their careers age wise and yet have fallen like flies.
“You’ve also failed to acknowledge all of the injured players who aren’t at an advanced age in baseball terms. Pineda, Gardner, Nova, Texiera, Sabathia, and now Granderson.”
That wasn’t my argument though, I did not say younger players do not get injured, my argument was that older players simply are more susceptible to injuries than younger players.
“The fifth metacarpal takes on average 6-8 weeks to heal and A-Rod’s recovery has gone without a hitch.”
Again my original argument was that older players are more susceptible than younger players to get injuries and when the original injury occurs it could have had less damage on a younger player, nothing about A-Rod recovering from than the injury after he already had the injury.
Thanks though for conceding at least one of my points, I have great respect for someone who can do that, as that now in the internet age, people comment without thinking a whole lot.
“If you are wrong. Admit it quickly and emphatically.”
-Dale Carnegie
Love that quote! I’ve read it many times but never knew the source, thanks!
Agreed, if Pineda was 20 instead of 23, then he would have been fine. Dumb Yankees are always bringing in old players.
You do realize I am not saying younger players can’t get hurt, its that the ratio increases as players age, but I guess that the concept is very hard to grasp with someone named DERP.
…you do realize that both Pettitte and A-Rod suffered the definition of fluke injuries right?
I understand that but you have to understand older players get injured more often, fluke injuries or not, their bodies do not hold up as well as they age.
Yes, but in the case of both of these guys there is no way you can say with any sort of confidence that in the same circumstance a younger player would not be injured.
No, I can’t say 100% but its an argument that can be made, older players bodies are more susceptible to injuries.
I know what you’re saying, but getting hit in the hand (Arod) has nothing to do with age.
Right, agreed but the way his hand responds to the injury does, no matter what shape he’s in.
From everything that’s been reported it hasn’t delayed his healing. Age is only one factor in the healing process.
Of course, my argument wasn’t the healing process it was the ability the body has to sustain injuries, not only to heal from injuries. Yes I’m not saying age has EVERYTHING to do with it, all I’m saying is that it has to be taken under consideration, since it is a major factor when you start to get in your mid/upper-30s.
The Pettitte/ A-Rod/ Mariano injuries were freak accidents and had nothing to do with their age.
CC twice, Pineda for the year, Pettitte for most of it, Gardner for all but six games, Mo for most of it, Alex for a long stretch, Tex multiple times, Robertson for a while, Nova, Swish for a bit…Romine in the minors causing Defensive Catcher Chris Stewart being on the big league team, yeah it’s been a tough year Injury wise.
BUT EVERYONE HAS INJURIES. THE ORIOLES LOST TSUYOSHI WADA FOR THE YEAR? DO YOU SEE THEM MAKING EXCUSES?
So when Phil is pitching, if he has a pitch count above 50 in the 3rd Suzyn can’t shut up about “Herp a Derp Hughes throws to many pitchers derp a derp.” However when golden boy Phelps has thrown nearly 60 through 3 not a word.
My advice to you would be to stop listening to them. My life and overall demeanor was much improved after I did.
I’m a generally happy guy, and deal with them for the most part…I just hate that they favor certain players and don’t hide how much they dislike others.
They are so completely delusional about everything, when I listen to them, all I hear is the Peanuts’ schoolteacher.
Just score like ten runs in the next hour so I can go watch the football game.
Meredith is getting a little chunky
Do all these injuries to yanks have anything to do with gene monihan no longer being the trainer?
No, more likely that older players are a tad more injury prone over the course of the season.
And when injury-prone players get hurt, you have to lean more on other players. When you lean too much on other players, it increases their likelihood of getting hurt.
Which is just proving all the more what a machine Jeter is this year.
Thank yewww!! Finally someone who recognizes fairly known science.. It’s the basic laws of human biology.
How’s Stuart A today?
They should put Meredith down in the dugout to get the team fired up. She’s got a good voice.
Looks like Granderson twitched his arm when he left the box, but he didn’t really move his arms much when he took that K looking. Perhaps his back locked up?
Sigh are there no other options for DH? Why not try something new to spark SOMETHING.. anything… what about Ronnie down there in triple-A? Anything better than Nunez in my opinion, I’m sick of him, not just his defense , but his offense as well.
Heck, I’d even take McGhee over him.
You’ll have McGehee back in a few days.
Mike Gonzalez & Wei-Yin Chen = Randy Johnson & Curt Schilling to this team.
What can you expect when the Yankees have a AAA lineup essentially out there?
Granderson is an avg center fielder who hits 35-40 HR bats .230 and strikes out a bunch of times. He can use the rest.
Granderson’s been pretty terrible for three months now and certifiably awful for all of August.
Ugh. Afraid this one is done.
for sure. they’re not scoring 4+
Shhhh…Greg’s on here today.
gah
I felt things were going to get better cuz Jeter & Swish hit the ball hard and great plays were made on them but then, well…they have a bad lineup. Andruw Jones can’t ever see the field again and his hitting…? I know this happened when he was w/Dodgers and then Chicago didn’t want him back but he looks done.
Really, Robbie is so important to this lineup and he seems (I know he isn’t ot just feels like it) so dienganged.
Nevermind 3-0 O’s
Yup. Hitless after 3. Just as they wrote it up.
No comment.
Right now due to injuries this line up has 3 non-platoon major league caliber hitters…can anybody really be upset they’re having trouble scoring runs. Just because you’re angry doesn’t mean that there is anybody to direct your anger at, some times it’s just the circumstance.
Thank you.
When those three players make more than the entire O’s payroll yeah I’m pretty pissed.
Yes, because money prevents injuries.
And people who even dare to compare this to last year’s Red Sox are unobservant trolls.
Stop saying stupid shit PLEASE
It’s worse simply because it’s the division and it’s the Yankees. Choking has always been the red sox m.o.
A choke is a choke. Deal with it. If the Yankees don’t make the playoffs then comparisons can and should be made. Not quite the same caliber of collapse, but a collapse nonetheless. As another commenter noted . . . Highest payroll in baseball – they should be able to absorb a larger share of injuries. It was a poorly constructed team to start the season, filled with mostly swing or miss, all or nothing type players. I would not have predicted this back in April, but I actually think that it’s entirely appropriate, almost deserved. This would’ve been an excellent opportunity to show off the young guns and hot cocks but because AAA has nothing to show for itself, the ill-stretch continues to dig itself ever so deeper. The Red Sox collapse was epic and hilarious, but don’t fool yourself into thinking that just because the NY roster is riddled with pussies and geezers that they should be held in a different regard. They’re both collapses of a unique character. And, well, I think I may be enjoying the Yankee’s a bit too much, as if only to prevent myself for setting the forest on fire or driving a bus into the ocean.
Team’s a joke. The New York Chokees!
1 observant troll
*unobservant
I’m sure the Mets have an opening for you in their fan base.
LOL!!!
Is there anyone that doesn’t miss Jorge now? If nothing else there would be some fire in that cluhouse.
There would also be terrible production. Not worth the tradeoff.
Posada’s last year hit .235/.315/.398 with 14 HR and 89 wRC+
Martin is hitting .198/.301/.366 with 14 HR and 84 wRC+
Posada was also a DH.
Another Girardi special. Girardi spent an inordinate amount of his Yankee managerial time trying to dis Jorge.
Oh, Cashman did too all cuz of the exta year on his contract;actually,the entire Yankee organization did a heck of a job w/the way they treated Jorge and
Jeter…oh, and that Bernie guy.
Bernie was very loyal to the Yankees, like when he was going to sign with the Red Sox until Steinbrenner stepped in to make him the highest paid outfielder ever.
He did that as the DH. His numbers would likely go down if had to catch everyday. That is not even counting the terrible defense he would play.
That’s right he was a DH. Totally forgot about that. My point goes out the window.
We all miss the player he was from 2000-2009. Not the player he was in the twilight of his career.
I still haven’t regained my respect for Jorge after taking himself out of the line up. That told me a lot about him.
What did all his years of switch-hitting power behind the plate tell you? What did his leadership all those years tell you?
You didn’t think the manager of the team should have told his 15 yr vet before that he was batting him ninth – against the Red Sox on national TV?
What did all his years of switch hitting power behind the plate tell you? That he was a very good baseball player.
What did his leadership all those years tell you? Give me one instance where he actually showed he was a leader, took a young player under his wing (a la Alex w/ Cano). Just because we like to believe a player is a leader doesn’t make it true. Pitchers hated throwing to him, how can you say he was a leader if his pitching staff didn’t get along with him?
Also, the manager is in charge. I don’t give a fuck if you’re Joe Dimaggio plus Walter Johnson in his prime.
He showed so much leadership by walking away from his team in a game against their biggest rival.
Yeah, it’s hard not to command all of my respect when you just turn your back on your teammates and manager because you don’t like your line-up spot. Especially after you had done soo much to prove that you should totally be in the starting line up to begin with.
Eppley…
And Rapada…
I’m not going to complain about leaving Phelps in since I have no interest in seeing Eppley here.
Reynolds was mesmerized by how bad the Yankees are.
It’s only 3-0. It feels like 10-0. We need a damn spark, something.
I think a new manager will help.
Better hope that manager has a bunch of bubble wrap or that manager ain’t doing shit.
Changing the manager almost always makes this worse, at least for the first year or so.
It really worked for Boston.
That was a sick pickoff.
Still waiting for some offense.
Gotta say, at least Phelps has a very good pick off move.
how many 1 pitch ab’s can cano have?
again the guy is a overrated sack of sh-t. stcuk on 70 rbi’s….he stinks…
phelps doing it all today. great control… TRAIN WRECK………
i like nix striking out on a pitch at his shoulders…
cano 1 pitch pop fly to left he is great give the sweet swinger a 7 year deal. he is a guy to build around!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How’s Mick Taylor today?
I’ll bite.
Who do you want on the team?
Getting rid of flawed good players and replacing them with flawed inferior players doesn’t make the team better.
Clutch players.
They should have got that second baseman who hit .320 with RISP and drove in 227 runs over the previous 2 years.
Snide comments like the one above me are demeaning and show a lack of intellect. How about a simple “I disagree with you and this is the reason why” instead of being a smug ass.
Reynolds knew the game’s over and was thinking about which club he was going to tonight.
the yanks have a good chance of not making the playoffs. it is a reality…they are in deep sh-t….they do not win the division they are watching pon tv the playoffs……….
I know. And with these injuries its to be expected.
you’re…….allowed……to say……shit…..
The Rays have lost 11 of 12 one run games. Don’t know how I missed that.
Yanks are getting no hit today…
And I wouldn’t be surprised due to this lineup.
Well we were both wrong.
with this strike zone and line up I wouldn’t doubt it.
Nah…Jeter will pop a single in a bit.
If we can somehow get 2 men on for Pearce we have a chance to tie the game with one swing.
Let’s just worry about getting 1 man on for now
The Orioles offense is not good. Count me as disappointed in Phelps so far.
agreed :/
ROBBIE!!!!!!!!!
YEAH!!!!!!! The zombie Yanks are ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cano against a lefty
damn, that ball had some carry. just kept going.
I feel a little better now.
Finally something happened.
parade… cano got a rbi…..
notice no 1 was on base….
give him a raise, cano is up to 71 rbi’s.. HE IS GREAT.
you really have a thing for parades…..perhaps something to explore with a therapist……
How is it his fault that no one was on base though?
stuart…you must really…like…parades…I mean…you’re always wanting to throw them….. Maybe you don’t realize…the Yankees…unlike the Mets…only hold parades for…winning the World Series…
As ridiculous as his RBI arguments (with himself) are, he does maintain a sliver of a point . . . Cano may very well be a different player with men on base . . .
This year? I believe it. He’s reverted to his 2009 self. But in a contract year next year he’ll go back to 2010-2011 Bob.
I miss productive 7-9 hole Robbie, back when the lineup was stacked . . .
You mean 2007? Because he was terrible in 2008 and couldn’t hit with runners on in 2009. I miss last year’s version. Hitting grand slams all the time and whatnot.
I mean, Cano’s June this year was the stuff of legend, but he hasn’t been able to drive runners in.
Cano late on an 0-2 but sneaks one over the fence. Yay
There’s 1!
Enough of Andruw Jones already.
seriously. just give Dickerson a chance, even against lefties. His defense alone will make up for any platoon advantage Jones has.
I’m up for anyone not named Andruw Jones.
Cano padding his stats!!!!
stuart’d
he’s….a…..sack……………of sh-t…..give him a contract like arod 7p rbis pff……..
cano’s next big hit will be about his 3rd of the season…..
Shut up, Meg.
Vibration off the bat during home run broke canos arm. Out for season
When is the last time the Yankees hit a home run with someone on base? Swisher’s in Cleveland?
I see people have started calling for Girardi’s head.
Who do you want then?
Paul O’Neill. he would fuck shit up when the Yankees play like this.
“What we need today guys, are some milkshakes…”
win = milkshakes
loss = gatorade tub to the skull
OMG. That would be the greatest move in the history of baseball.
You cannot blame Girardi for the product he puts out on the field. He has to put in what he was given. If you want to place blame put it on Cashman. He built this team. Moreover,the season is not over yet.
working the heck out of the baltimore starter. he is up to about 48 pitches…..
andruw jones sucks…1 stretch against boston and since then he has been horrible and the guy cannot move in the outfield at all…..
Just of note from Rays/Jays. Despite having the 4-run lead, the Rays starter (Niemann) was out after 3.1 IP due to injury.
Niemann is not one of their top starters, though.
He’s actually really good.
Not as good as Moore, Price, Shields, or Hellickson.
He’s at Cobb’s level.
He has a better ERA/FIP than Shields, Moore, and Hellickson.
So why wasn’t he in the rotation?
Cause you’re not allowed to be in the rotation while you are on the disabled list.
I know our offense stinks right now, but it ain’t heiping that this strike zone is ridiculous and all over the place
The other team has the same strike-zone, adapt and conquer.
Tight right hamstring for Grandy
Tight right hamstring, great. Remind me why Dickerson is not in this game?
Lefty is pitching.
Report is that Granderson has a “tight hamstring”.
Crap.
Well we can add Grandy to that list of injuries as hammiess are very unpredictable.
The way Ichiro ran after than made me think it was gone. I didn’t see it off the bat though.
good news on grandy’s hammy. tight hammy could have been worse. hopefully they were smart and got him out of there before he could have hurt himself….
That’s not good news.
Hammies are very difficult to judge and to wait on.
So this week we lost two of our best hitters while in the batters box this week? Wow
It’s about time that we replace the grounds crew.
Granderson was one of the best hitters? Ha. Yeah . . .
. . .
Umm . . .
. . .
No. No, I don’t agree.
Productive hitters in driving in runs.
My limp willy could drive in more runs than the Grandyman.
I’m intrigued. Go on…
My penis is a demi-god. His name is Hercules.
4-2 Rays now (Encarnacion’s 36th HR of the season).
Aren’t all of these crappy platoon players supposed to do something on occasion? Like I don’t understand…they have batting averages and OBPs so they are supposed to get on base once in a while.
hurry up and walk him already.
It is going to be so bad if Phelps walks Markakis.
Brutal
What a shit AB… except for Markakis, of course
Granderson needs the rest. Sit his slumping ass.
I liked Markakis better when his hand was broken.
Phelps is giving us a preview of what we’ll see tomorrow when Phil Hughes pitches.
Hughes doesn’t walk many
they’ve got like 15 guys in the bullpen. might be time to take him out already while it’s still 3-1.
My guess Yanks will play it safe, sit Grandy for at least a week. Hope the Yanks can hold onto a wild card spot, get everyone back and make a run in the playoffs.
this team seems fucked, legit, thanks to these injuries. this is insane
YOU CANT COMPLAIN ABOUT INJURIES! THE ORIOLES LOST TSUYOSHI WADA AND STU POMERANZ AND YOU DON’T SEE THEM COMPLAINING!
2 runs scored in 13 innings for the yanks both on solo jacks. what a shock….
6 free baserunners today for the o’s.
not a good effort by phelps..
Can’t wait for flying balls Phil tomorrow.
Phelps was given a run last inning so it’s only natural that he would give it away this inning. Get him out now.
Dat throw
Do all these injuries to yanks have anything to do with the loss of gene monihan?
It’s the Mayans.
I thought Andruw was gonna fall down and the ball would go by him for an inside the park homer.
Phucking Phelps.
Six walks. Epitome of choking under the pressure
This comment is the epitome of choking under pressure. Couldn’t come up with a real explanation, went for the easy one. Choker.
At least my comments and my teams’ play are in lockstep with one another. Is that good enough for ya?
Choke on this, Mike!
ZING!
But I thought the pressure was on Baltimore, playing in front of a sell out crowd!!!!!
I blame Mike for quoting his K/BB ratio as a starter earlier this week.
How do you walk 6 people?
You choke.
Only if it’s September.
If you do it in May, you just have horrible command that day.
And now Eppley. Other than D-Rob and MFIKY, there is not another arm in the bullpen that inspires confidence.
Greg, just got back to the game thread, so just wanted to say that you were right above about the Nationals (and the same is true of the Reds). Of course, 55-49 is not an awful record, and you don’t just get to ignore when a team has played well in figuring out how good they are.
Its not awful. It’s just not great.
I see I missed one run apiece.
Seriously, these home games vs. Baltimore feel just like the home games vs. Boston from last year.
Despite the bad game I like Phelps. It’s part of the learning process. He’ll be fine. His pick off is awesome.
Phelps pitched poorly. I’m sure it has nothing to do with him being a not very heralded rookie and everything to do with him being a choker.
Bringing in Eppley? Really?
Do they really have better options for the 5th inning?
You could say the same thing about anybody they would possibly bring in there.
The entire bullpen other than D-Rob and MFIKY stinks.
That is true. I honestly would have just left Phelps in. Eppley has been crap.
Holy fuck
I already have seen enough of Eppley for the weekend.
Jones just saved Eppley’s shitty ass. Why is that fucker on a major league roster?
I have no idea.
Because he made a lame MLB Fan Cave promo with Kirk Nuwenheis?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ata_player
Damn…we were lucky to get out of that w/o a run scoring. Can we actually take advantage of that? I really wish Tex and Alex and Grandy where healthy. Even if they were all in the most dreadful of slumps w/ a line up that includes Jeter, Swisher, Cano, Alex, Tex, Grandy as the top six guys, 2 runs doesn’t feel like alot…with Jones, Pearce, and Martin in the middle of the order it feels like we might as well be down 10.
Let’s face it, y’all . . . It’s all Axisa’s fault. Fire Axisa!
FIRE AXISA!
Sam Pearce blows.
Was that a frustration grunt on Martin or a pain grunt?
Is there any way of researching whether or not this is truly the worst lineup in recent Yankee memory?
The only ones I can think of that might have been worse are games where the Yankees already wrapped up the division and gave the entire team the day off.
The Yankee’s High-A or Trenton lineup would be better than what’s on the card right now.
is there any doubt that this team is going to blow the division? what a pathetic job by those overpaid chokers
2 unobservant trolls
So like a troll is anyone who posts something you don’t like. The Yanks do have a pretty bad lineup out there…
They do BECAUSE OF INJURIES.
SOMETHING THAT IS COMPLETELY OUT OF THE YANKEES’ CONTROL.
So to call them overpaid chokers is not scceptable.
Have your gripes but take everything into account.
Greg, wouldn’t a troll be considered someone who responds to every one else’s comments with some shade of negativity? Just a thought . . .
I’m a troll. I know my troll shit.
As long as the negativity is not exaggerated and that it is backed up by the circumstances and the facts, then its fine.
6 walks 3 hits and a hit batter. Maybe not a choke, but he didn’t get it done either. Meanwhile Chen rolls along…fuck this
As I understand the term, choking is when an athlete fails to perform at their usual level in a situation where they should expect to due to excessive nerves or anxiety. A rookie pitcher who makes it nearly five innings and gives up three runs, while appearing to maintain his composure quite well, cannot possibly be said to have “choked”.
Niemann (TB) – injured arm (vague but that’s the Gameday thing for you.)
Also, yay a baserunner.
Niemann’s gotten hurt both times he’s pitched in Toronto this year.
That team is contagious.
Well Price plays tomorrow. Maybe we can hope a little bit on the contagion.
I know I asked about him before – and honestly it isn’t because I have any great love for McGehee but if he doesn’t or wasn’t called up by today does that mean he can’t be on the post-season roster (yes, I’m still a believer) if there are still injuries? Wouldn’t he have been better than Pearce although I know Pearce can play the outfield.
While I am in general down on Yankee management they know more than I do so I should just go eat cookies.
No, maybe
As long as he is in the organization before September 1st, it doesn’t matter whether he gets called up or not. Plus, he can’t come up until the Low A season is over.
He’ll be back up in a few days.
I think you have to be on the 40-man roster to be eligible…which he is.
Nunez will be clutch
Tillman is awful right? Right?
Last start he shut down the White Sox for 7 innings and 1 hit, I believe.
We hung 5 on him last time, but Ivan Nova was pitching.
All five were in the first inning, but the Yankees went dead after Nova surrendered the lead.
Did Girardi really bring in Logan so Wieters could bat lefty? WTF
I mean righty
Boone’s in. Joe thinks the game is close. But it feels like a blowout.
So Girardi brings in a lefty, which makes wieters switch to righty where he actually has a better average.
walks for everyone!
WTF, that was a good pitch.
Thanks Boone.
I didn’t think Phelps walked enough batters today.
That was also a borderline pitch that didnt go our way….again
It was a pitch that was slightly out of the strike zone, and the other 3 balls were clearly not in the strike zone.
Are you really complaining that balls aren’t being called strikes?
With this umpire, yes.
Oh good, more walks.
What is Singleton talking about, “it did have the plate”? It looked on the shot that he said that, that it was an entire ball diameter off the plate.
It was low and inside. No doubt
Then has him face a lefty who is 5 for 8 against him.
And the ump just sat there as strike 3 crossed the plate. Joe should have gotten tossed there.
I don’t want Reynolds facing a lefty.
These DPs have saved the Yanks’ asses.
Saving asses implies that they’ll end up winning. They’re not winning.
Don’t give Reynolds a fastball, please.
Estabrook is near the top of a long list of umps that seriously need to have their jobs question. This crew has 3 of them. I have some others that are just terrible.
Baserunners, please.
Not a strike you tard!
Don’t call me names.
Nice pop-up, Ichiro!
He really shouldn’t be playing against LHP.
But that applies to several other Yankees as well.
He needs to learn how to take a goddamn walk. But as the old saying goes, you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
Ichiro works a full count but can’t help himself. He just has to swing. He fucking sucks.
He does know about walks right?
I hope this ump dies a slow death.
Dead Men Walking
that was a ridiculous call
Wow at this strike zone.
I dislike Mike Estabrook strongly and am on the verge of hating him outright.
You actually just have to sit in awe at this team’s performance. They’re straight up getting owned. Not an ounce of fight in this team. It’s a Greek fu*king tragedy.
we has baserunner??!?!?!?!
there’s the bloop. now we need the blast.
The Captain should have got himself tossed there. Someone needs to do something.
Always a good idea to take our hottest hitter out of the game.
Bloop and a blast, let’s go
Holy shit, a hit.
How ’bout that?
Garbage time!
amidoingitright?
no, see it’s only “garbage time” when he hits a homerun. We want him to a be a .330/.340/.300 player.
HOLY SHIT A BASERUNNER!!!!!!!!!
2 feet short: the 2012 Yankees.
Dammmmmmmmn it
Damn!
I need a ride to the Bronx so I can kill John Sterling. Like right now.
What’d he say?
See my response to Kramerica Industries. When Cano hit the ball he made it sound like it was only a matter of time before the ball landed and the game was tied.
Ha, I wish there were an alternate audio source for Yankee games when I’m in the car.
Yep
It’s not their year guys. Accept it.
Fuck off with this holier-than-thou attitude.
You’re not any better than the rest of us.
I don’t give a shit.
If I get called out on my behavior, you should too.
You get called out on your behavior because it’s ridiculous and contradictory.
I’m calling out your behavior because it’s childish and annoying.
This isn’t about me it’s about you. You’re a cool guy but you rub people the wrong way with your “FALLACY” and “THIS MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING” horseshit.
He’s a walking contradiction. Declaring bad luck throughout the game and perhaps understanding a bit of the uncertainty of baseball, yet somehow expressing certainty that a team, which is still in playoff position, will not win that year.
When luck is bad its a sign that it is not your year. those two are not independent.
You know how, even if you flip a coin 50 times, and it lands on heads all 50 times, that doesn’t mean it’s any more likely to be tails the 51st time?
Same applies here.
The main essence of luck is that is random and non-predictive.
I swear, you must be bipolar.
Seriously, Greg? Accept on Sep. 1 that it’s not the year for a team that’s either 1 or 2 games in first place? Fans like to root for their teams, and I’d be rooting for them even if they were not in first place.
If you want to have low expectations and be pleasantly surprised when they’re not met, that’s up to you. Don’t tell other people to do it.
Hallelujah!
Ughh I hate that homerun posturing, even more embarrassing when your ball does not go out. Oh well, still have time to get back into this game!
I can only laugh, not only at the fact that it didn’t go, but all the poor schmucks in the ballpark who initially thought it was gone.
If Michael Kay doesn’t even have the slightest feeling it’ll go, then it’s not gonna go.
For 3/4ths of Sterlings call I really thought he had hit it into the RF bleachers, like over the grandstands or bullpen.
It was high and long?
That’s what she said!!!!!!!!!!!
One of these days, the masochistic me will take a listen to his call on Jeter’s long fly out in the playoffs last year.
That wasn’t foreshadowing or anything
The Orioles announcer made it seem like Markakis made some ridiculous catch rather than a routine one.
Can’t we send something over Markakis’ head?
Sterling needs to be given severance pay right after the game. His faux HR calls are a horrendous daily distraction.
Cano gives Joe his postgame excuse.
3 unobservant trolls.
A’s and Rays for the WC? O’s, Rangers, and WS?
Well, we face Chris Tillman tomorrow and Hughes has been good his last couple of outings. And then we have CC and Kuroda throwing against the Rays so who knows.
Tillman has been good this year.
I’m not watching what happened? Cano flew out to the warning track? The short part in right or right-center?
Believe it was in right, if we had an objective announcer they would have not made it sound like it was heading out of the stadium.
What a catch!
And that’s why you want to keep cano
Defensive excellence to Defensive nightmare.
Yankees hit line drives and make out, Machado gets a bunt double.
If the Yankees bunted for a base hit every once in awhile they might get one.
A guy who was cut by the. Astros is starting for the Yankees. That makes sense.
He didn’t start.
He wasn’t cut by the Astros.
He was traded (for cash).
Did Kay just say Job’s up?
He did. I think Joe’s making the right call here.
Sorry, Joba
I hope not, this game is too close to bring in Joba.
We are really walking JJ Hardy. Really
He sucks, but somehow kills the yanks
That .280 OBP is something fierce.
Sean Rodriguez says hi.
Platoonzzz for the win!
(the batter and hitter are irrelevant once you know what arm the pitcher throws with and what side of the plate the hitter bats from)
Though in fairness McClouth is bad (not sure why Buck didn’t pinch hit)
I’m glad he didn’t. I might have killed myself if Lew Ford got a hit against us.
Yeah, it’s right there in the binder, p 254.
If Joba gets into the game we won’t just need 3 more runs to win, we’ll need 7.
Would Corban Joseph really be worse than half of our lineup? With Granderson our for a week or so we could use another left handed bat to face some of the right handers coming up.
Dickerson will play everyday if Grandy is out.
Right. But we could have CoJo DH since Ibanez is terrible.
They could still use another lefty bat.
Ichiro, Dickerson, Ibanez OF
Swisher 1B, Chavez 3B, DH ?
Or this. Better than Jayson Nix DHing against a righty like yesterday.
Jones, pierce, Martin coming up. Over under 10 pitches
I’ll take the over. 11.
Welp…I take that back.
We’re tying the game this inning.
9 outs to go
let’s impose our will on this game, and not go out like last night
We will impose our will on this game. We will force this game into a taxi and choke it if it tries to call for help.
Well done, Andruw.
He hasn’t done shit since the last time the Yankees were in Fenway, for cripes’ sake.
not that we’ll ever find out, but hypothetically, what would sterling’s hr call be for pearce?
Jones should be cut. He offers no value to the team at all. It’s pathetic.
What does he do that Mustelier couldn’t? Just wondering.
Veteran presents.
He could suck less. Maybe not, but you just have no idea how Mustelier will fair against ML pitching.
Well I know how Jones fares against ML pitching. And it’s not good.
Pearce!
Fierce Sam Pierce.
Dear Girardi .137 since the all star break is not good therefore Jones is not good stop fucking hittting him cleanup
Yeah, wouldn’t want to give Frankie a shot to give the team a spark. Martin ain’t doing shit anyway.
Cervelli’s fist pumps won’t do anything for the team when he’s throwing balls into centerfield.
Too bad they don’t give you anything extra in this game for popping out.
I swear the first time I read this it said pooping out. Fuck yeah dyslexia.
On the bright side, we’ll be able to re-sign Martin for like 2-10 after his performance this year.
Not sure there’s any bright side to having Russell Martin on this team.
Please don’t.
Some nice ABs from Nix
We need to score another run so the O’s can win another 1 run game.
I’d get excited about finally having a man in scoring position… but I just can’t.
Take that back. Atta boy Nunee.
We need to do something soon. Strop and Johnson are nearing, not a good sign.
Nunez time to shine!
Come on Nunie. Give the team the spark it needs. Show the big leaguers how it’s done.
Nunie!
NUNEZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nunnie?!?!?!??!
Nice Nunez making me eat my own words!
Life!
Get some more.
Nunez already has more hits with RISP than half the current lineup.
I take back what I said about you before, Nunie! Now let’s get one more!
Chavez please
Dickerson would make more sense
w/ the expanded roster, should be Chavez hitting then Dickerson coming in.
I fucking love Eddie Noonz.
Nice bit of hitting, stonehands Nuñez bloops an RBI single.
See it’s clear!!! We need infusion of youth!!! Nunie proves right that old guys suck!!
/sarcasm
This whole slide could have been prevented if Nunez was here the whole time.
Strop allows his fair share of walks and Ichiro probably can’t take advantage.
It makes no sense. He has a great eye and could easily take a lot of walks if he showed some patience. However, he just insists on putting the first ball in the zone in play every time, so he never gets to a 3 ball count…
Just kidding… 3-0
Well…
Don’t swing.
Biggest AB of the season.
Honestly, this might not even be an exaggeration.
Derek..please for the love of god TAKE A PITCH!!!!!!
Thank you. If he had swung first pitch I would have lost my mind.
Come on Jeet!
Jeter, I beg of you, do something good here.
If Jeter doesn’t get a hit here, he is an OVERPAID CHOKER
Crunch time. Let’s go Cap’t
“Strop ready to deal 3-2 to Jeter, and the pitch is high. The count is 1-2″ John Sterling
It’s like Steve Brule is calling the game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lty7RAHKT9E
Maybe Strop will be tired when he comes out next inning.
Ready to deal 3-2 to Jeter…
John what are you on…
DO ITTE!!!!!!!!!!
Stripe is huge for a pitcher
Gremlin?
Tied.
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TIE GAME!
walks in the tying run! we FINALLY get a break.
Wow…what an AB…
BALL 4! AN RBI! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Stope is huge for a pitcher
R
Fuck Yeah! Awesome at bat by The Captain!
I thought the ump would ring him up.
So did I
As did I. Madness would have ensued.
Wow! Things just got interesting.
Jeter works a walk 0-2 definition of clutch?
A ball in the gap should easily clear the bases w/ two outs.
This whole rally was started by Pearce, continued by Nunez and the MVP, and hopefully finished right here by a rare Swisher hit.
Alright Swish, let’s take the lead now. For as many bad innings as the Yankees have had, the Orioles should have had more than 3 runs. Let’s be thankful for that, and hopefully they take the lead now.
Let’s go Nick. PROVE ME WRONG
If I was a woman, I would be all over Pedro Strop.
I wouldn’t swing the bat until he proves he can prove he can throw more than one pitch over the plate at a time.
That one was a strike
C’mon, Swish!!!!!!!!!!
IPK for Tim Reddings (formerly Brian S.) says:
September 1, 2012 at 3:16 pm
We’re tying the game this inning.
DO THIS MORE OFTEN!!!
ERROR WIN
YES!!!! thanks Hardy!
YAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ll take it
CHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOKE!!!!
I’ll take it!
AN ERROR! WE’LL TAKE IT!
Fuccccccccccccccck yes. That’s what we needed to turn the mojo around!
One of the best fielders in baseball just booted a grounder. And it benefited us. OMG
Thanks for the help JJ
YES!!! FINALLY!!!!
Ha! Finally things are starting to go our way!
Hardy is my hero
Pedro Strop just choked on DAT YANKEE DICK.
You have exceeded your sexual references towards Pedro Strop for the day.
It almost seems like they should have called Nunez up much sooner. He at least gets hits with RISP unlike half the current offense.
We are playing so scrappy but hey, that’s a-okay with me. LIFE HAS BEEN RESTORED.
Garbage time error for JJ.
Nick Swisher DOES suffer from one adverse effect . . . The Hero’s Syndrome.
We’ll look back on today as Eduardo Nunez’s single that turned the season around.
credit to Nix for working a walk after being down 0-2 too to get it started.
So what!! Soriano will blow it in the 9th!
- Randy Quaid from Major League 2
So long as you’re not quoting Major League 3 things won’t get violent.
Man, need that one hit to break things open.
I bet you there are people on Orioles fan boards talking about how Hardey sucks and how is he on a major league roster and send him down and he’s not trying and the Orioles are not a playoff team because playoff teams don’t make errors.
Matsuz is their de facto LOOGY? What about that other guy that they have?
Patton is hurt. They have Randy Wolf (lol)
We can’t let this lead slip away. BRING IN DEREK LOWE!!!!!!!
I wonder where JJ, Erica, and R-Tils are for the biggest game of the season. It makes me sad that they aren’t commenting, it makes me think they aren’t watching.
At the game?
Maybe they’re doing something more important than watching a bunch of rich clods.
Yankees caliber bullpen effort by the Orioles today.
Let’s go Robbie. All you.
D-Rob, and then MFIKY. Let’s do this!
DRob and Soriano have to take of business now.
C’mon bullpen do your job
While it would have been nice for Cano to get a hit there, I’m really happy with how things went. We actually got a few breaks there that inning for once. Let’s hope Ro and So can hold it!
Patience at the plate paid off.
Soriano doesn’t have much room to make things interesting (assuming D-Rob gets the job done)…. Sori better show up tonight.
he’ll get 7-8-9 in the 9th, no excuses, he has to seal this win.
and the 7-8-9 of the Baltimore Orioles, mind you… this save is practically gift wrapped
Baseball player!
If anyone wants to read how Orioles fans reacted to the last inning, here you go:
http://maryland.247sports.com/.....1827945/47
The one I liked was “here comes Jeter with his typical lucky hit.” Hey it’s the O’s fan version of Greg
This would be a great time for Jeter’s syphilis to compromise his eyesight.
that was my favorite.
It’s even worse on Camden chat.
Who knew O’s fans were soooooo………..homophobic?
Welcome to the internet.
Yeah. That’s why I try to stay away from ESPN boards.
Except for when I can’t help myself of course.
Have you ever read the comments at RAB???
Homophobic and or racist comments are almost never posted here and are always deleted immediately after they are
“The big swinging dick that is Oriole Magic is about to smack across the face of all that is evil.”
They’ve won a whopping ONE World Series title in the past 29 years. Such magic!
I love the fans declaring the season over BEFORE the game was even finished.
Yeah, a team that has a chance to take 2 of 3 from the Yankees in the Bronx, and then face them again in 2 weeks at home, they’re done. Cooked. Season over.
Clearly this one game defines their season, not every single other preceding game.
If anyone is interested in seeing the playoff probabilities for each team including general playoff probability, division, and wildcard, check this link out, think you guys would enjoy it, I did!
http://www.coolstandings.com/b.....2&v=d
I’ve been checking coolstandings for several years, and check it almost daily during the season. May be part of the reason I don’t panic at every loss.
Hah! Well yes it is comforting that the Yankees still have 90% chance to make the playoffs… though tell that to Boston and Atlanta.
It is amusing, but the predictions are based on the assumption that teams will play for the rest of the season statistically identically to how they have played up to now. Based on things like injuries, return from injuries, strength of remaining schedule, home versus away games, etc, there are identifiable factors that can make that assumption not so valid.
True, but it still gives you a reasonable guess at these things.
Good job, D-Rob!
Jones up first. So now do we PH Dickerson or Ibanez. With the way Jones is producing, I’d expect it.
gotta at least get Dickerson in as a defensive replacement.
Nice drob
Nice and easy performance by D-Rob.
One of my favorites:
“I love how we’ve hit 10 bullets in this game and Andruw Jones spins around 45 times and somehow catches them and they’ve hit a cheap home run and a bunch of nothing and are winning the game. Good times.”
from the Orioles site.
Just one inning away from maintaining our lead in the division for another series, buying us more time to get Alex and Teix back.
how is Andruw Jones batting here? is this a joke?
Why?
Why is Jones in there?
I would guess the only other option would be Dickerson.
or Ibanez, then put Dickerson in LF
We have Dickerson and Ibanez now.
Anyone know how Dickerson is when it comes to defense?
Better than Jones or Ibanez
Why not Ibanez there?
or Dickerson….or a tree stump?
That’s why, He’s pinch hitting for Pearce.
Should have pinch hit for both of them.
Then the defense wouldn’t work.
Dickerson, Ichiro, Ibanez OF
Swisher 1B
Chavez 3B
Sure it would.
Now I really don’t get it.
Why the fuck was Jones batting?
Okay… Swisher back to 1st and Ibanez & Jones into the outfield? Maybe Dickerson for one of them?
It comes down to Andruw Jones vs. Steve Pearce. Who would you rather want up.
Pearce…at least he contributed today. More than we can say for Andruw in the past month.
Dickerson AND Ibanez.
I don’t Ibanez in the outfield.
Soriano bringing the heat today. Thank you, Mo.
Not really…you’ve got both Chavez and Ibanez on the bench you can pinch hit for both of them.
I forgot about Chavy. Yeah him over Iboonez.
Problem is that he has been shaky at first. Plus given our luck with injuries…
I could understand if Ibanez had spent any stretch of the season being as bad as Jones since the all-star break..but when used properly (as LHH platoon) he’s been perfectly average this season. I can’t understand your hatred.
But he stopped being useful a month ago too. Look at his August performance.
You’ve also hated him all season.
Yes
Yes.
Pearce is a better fielder than Ibanez.
Please just close this out Soriano… extra innings would be really painful to watch today. I think I’d almost rather a quick loss…
Russ will never get to the Mendoza line will he?
I bet he doesn’t.
Bases loaded one out for Toronto down one in the eighth. Two runs already in.
I feel like I’m watching a Rays game with all these position changes.
MFIKY time. Hope he shows up.
There’s a mouthful for Michael.
Exactly. I don’t want Ibanez in the outfield at all and Eric Chavez is iffy at first base. (Monday night was a case)
Dickerson, Ichiro, Ibanez OF
Swisher 1B
Chavez 3B
sure Ibanez is in the outfield, but it’s one inning, and it’s not like he hasn’t been out there most of the season.
Face it, this is not the Yankees year. Accept it. Move on.
MFIKY apparently doesn’t share Greg’s logic.
Not like Jones is good in the OF either.
No Chavez at 3rd?
ONE AWAY!
Wilson Betemit ugh
I have a feeling someone’s uniform is about to get untucked.
95 with movement. So far so good.
Just don’t let anyone get on in front on Machado. I might shoot myself if he daggers us.
He’s hung 2 of em russ. Don’t be stupid man.
TWO AWAY!!!!!!
2 down.
ONE MORE OUT
Fernando Rodney is having an insanely good year #massiveunderstatement
Yeah, he and Jim Johnson both. Both are very impressive closers.
Of course the Yanks don’t give Soriano many opportunities to get save amounts that high.
Machado’s got an ugly mug.
Yeah…. no more breaking balls please.
About time the Orioles lost a one run game.
BOO YA
#untuck #thankgod
WIN!!!
Huge win!
#UN-MOTHER-FUCKING-TUCK MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!
YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome fucking win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
a very desperately needed UNTUCK
#UNTUCK
#MFIFKY
#DISRESPECTFUL TO FLANNY
UNfuckinTUCK.
Great win, great win…
One run loss for the Woes!
It feels great to see the other team not capitalize on their chances and then come back and win.
Big win, or biggest win?
Yes
Face it, this is not the Yankees year. Accept it. Move on.
They won the must win. If they can hold a couple game lead till Teixera and Alex get back they should be ok. Tomorrow’s game is big, a 4 game lead much better than 2.
A 5 game lead is better than 3.
Wait. Did the Yankees just beat the Orioles in a 1 run game?
Impossible.
Now Tom is going to get on me and rightfully so. I was just prepping myself for disappointment. It’s what I always do.
And I am pleasantly surprised.
Well done Yanks.
UNTUCK!
4.1 innings, 1 hit for the pen
So Baltimore gave this one away. We’ll take it.
I mean…bullpen held them down and they scratched a few runs. Sure, error was huge, but credit to Yanks here too.
This was a gift. We will not get this every day which means that we must start to play some serious baseball the rest of the season.
All of the Orioles extra innings losses and 3 of their 7 one-run losses this year have been against the Yankees.
Let’s win this motha fucking series tomorrow!!!!
Ugh…Vizquel thrown out at home to end game.
Did you just see that?
Could you argue that Derek’s At Bat was the biggest of the season depending on what happens from here on out?
You can if they turn themselves around after this.
Biggest win YTD.
good news on grandy… made the damn pitcher work and good things happen.
cano still is overrated and unclutch… helps having extra players on the bench down the stretch….
Since the Orioles lost this win means nothing…. But had the Yankees not won, the O’s wouldn’t have lost. So it means something. Or it doesn’t.
You have no idea how relieved I am they
wonstole this game.Actually, you DO all have an idea. Really, really relieved right?
Let’s be fair to the Yankees. They only gave up 3 runs, the bullpen was outstanding, and Jeter did work an outstanding at-bat. The O’s had every chance to win, but it’s not like every run was gift-wrapped.