Sep
22
Game 151: Hoping for a blowout
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The Yankees play nothing but close games these days, it’s been nail-biter after nail-biter for roughly two months now. They need a big blowout win in the worst way, just to rest the core relievers and maybe get some of the older everyday guys off their feet for a few innings. Plus, you know, I would like to not sit on the edge of my seat for nine (or more) innings for once. I could use a laugher win. Here’s the lineup…
SS Derek Jeter
CF Ichiro Suzuki
DH Alex Rodriguez
2B Robinson Cano
RF Nick Swisher
1B Casey McGehee
3B Jayson Nix
LF Andruw Jones
C Chris Stewart
RHP Ivan Nova
This afternoon’s game is scheduled to start at 1:05pm ET and can be seen on YES. Enjoy.
I remember blowout wins.
Bubble baths at night. Breakfast in the afternoon and love by candlelight.
Oh, wait, that’s “I Remember Romance,” not……never mind.
Very well then.
Hopefully Novacaine can replicate what he did last week.
Gonna miss it. Assistant coaching 7U team.
You need to get your priorities straight, son.
Based on how batters 6-9 look I’m going to make a wild prediction: this game will not be a blowout. Or maybe Jayson Nix will get 3 hits and an RBI while Chris Stewart knocks in 2 with a double.
Rather have Grandy than Andy
Especially since there aren’t too many relievers available – rephrase…too many relievers I feel comfortable seeing.
But the lineup doesn’t exactly instill confidence. Where’s Nunez? Granderson (I can see he may need a break) I guess A-Rod can’t play 3rd today. Oh well, let’s go Yanks because if Lester who had never lost to the O’s before yesterday lost…well, not much faith in the Sox feeling that old pride/fight to beat the team that kept them out of the playoffs last year.
Joe said Soriano and Robertson are unavailable. Should there be a save situation, I guess it’s Joba.
Interesting with Ichiro batting #2. I hope he stays hot and some of those groundballs don’t find infielders for double plays. Then again, he and Jeter are probably interchangeable at 1 and 2. Jones playing at all is probably the biggest concern to a blowout win.
The groundballs can find infielders all they want. As long as said groundballs also work their way into the shirts of those infielders.
Too funny.
I know nothing about Blackley…but I personally guarantee that Andruw Jones will strike out at least once lunging trying to pull a sinker down and away out of the strike zone on every swing of the AB.
http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com.....8;c_id=nyy
What’s my drinking game today boys? Andruw swing and misses? Ichiro stolen bases? I hesitate to say Yankee runs because I had an epic hangover the last time I tried that one. I could always take one for the team though.
Looks like doubles by the A’s. Try not to end up in a coma.
So lame. Damn it Nova, keep me alive!
It’s a day game. Drink every time the Yanks hit a Grand Slam.
only get to watch about an hour of this game. would love to go into work with a crazy lead.
I just read the piece on Torii Hunter’s likely re-signing w/the Angels.
Oh well, it was a nice thought for a bridge to the kids.
Leadoff double? Yuck.
Pretty annoying that they can’t keep Stephen Drew off the basepaths.
Wonderful start for Ivan.
oh mother.
wtf
what was that about a blowout?
Well, “extra base hit” Ivan is back in full form.
Best pitcher in the world.
Ok – blowout — maybe in the wrong direction.
Nova’s back…
fuckin Jones. They should release his ass
Umm, this is not good
so this game is probably an L.
Is Phelps lose?
Welcome back, captain XBH
Surprise surprise…Novas given up more extra bases than CC did all of last night 5 pitches in.
paging derek lowe…
Nice buzz-killing, Ivan.
Or buzz inducing, if you’re playing my new drinking game.
A shot for every XBH Nova allows? If so, you must be all warm and fuzzy already.
http://riveraveblues.com/2012/.....nt-4847419
And yes, I have had 3 shots. Fuck it, I got nothing else to do today. Already ran my errands this morning.
That said, I hope that was my last game-related drink.
I hope Rothchild just screams at him for all of us
WTF Nova.
I guess last start was just a tease.
3 doubles off Nova already. Oh fuck.
Get Phelps up?
I haven’t seen him post yet, no.
Not available today.
I was making a joke about the commenter GPU’s handle.
Funny.
Marcy, Idk if you were continuing on jj’s joke, or if you actually read something that said Phelps wasn’t available today. If it’s the second can you post a link?
DFA Nova, start Phelps.
Yay an out, at least it’s productive.
*but it’s productive
Not “at least”
A’s had a ton of extra base hits against Nova last time as well.
Fucking Nova.
Big out. Keep it at 2 please
I hope Nova doesn’t sniff a post season start. The XBH is killer. At least with Hughes you can expect a HR per start, not back to back to back doubles.
i fucking love you ichiro.
im shit with this reply thing apparently
Orioles already have the lead?
Unreal.
It’s a Freddy Garcia game. He’s gonna get at least 3 innings
Sheesh. Now let’s hammer these fuckers.
Good bounceback Ivan
Well..it’s only two runs. Small victories I guess.
the coefficient is 2x for every lineup that Andruw Jones is in…..so really it’s 4 runs
Ahhh!!!!!! Math!!! RUN AWAY!!!!!!!!
do run-run
I think the Yankees baseball world has been very patient with Jones, at ths point cut your loses, start Mesa or C-Dick.
At least Nova didn’t implode.
Just looks like he wanted to use the fastball too much early. Breaking out the curve seems to have made a difference so hopefully he settles in now.
Damn it Nova. Right the ship starting now. Let’s hope the offense brought their bats today.
Not a lot of confidence when Nova leads league in XBH allowed (Hughes, by the way, is third) and he was on DL for three weeks.
wow. that was easy, huh?
A first for me, 3 doubles to open a game.
Fucking ICHIRO!!!!!!!!
WOW
Wow Ichiro!!!
ichirooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Ichiro, just wow.
ICHIRO IS ICHIBAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fuckin Ichi!!!
Ichiro again?!
Yikes.
His swing looks so funny, how he gets his whole body into it.
Where would this offense be without Ichiro right now?
ICHIIII!!! 103 career HRs. 4 with the Yanks in a month.
Ichiro has been a fucking blast to watch lately, crazy.
Holy shit! Ichiro is on FIRE!!!
The only bad part about Ichiro’s recent success, I’m pretty sure that John and Suzyn are dislocating their shoulders patting themselves on the back for being right about him.
Jeter, Ichiro then A-Rod. Three first ballet hall of famers? And and average age of 37 but who’s counting?!
i thought that was a balk
Facing A-Rod after that homer had to scare the shit out Blackley.
Yeah…it can’t feel good facing one of the great right handed home run hitters of all time after serving one up to a slap hitting lefty.
COmpletely changed the complexion of the inning after the one-pitch out to Jeter.
Ichiro slaps one and cuts the lead in half, then Blackley (whether subconcsiously or not) doesn’t want to throw a strike to the Big Bad Yankees.
Was about to start yelling at A-Rod…but getting picked off on a Balk isn’t a runner’s fault.
Michael Kay is an idiot. You can argue a balk without automatic ejection
No, he’s right. It’s the same as balls and strikes. But obviously if the manager can phrase it in a way where he’s just asking for clarification, he can usually get away with it.
that wasn’t a balk but i’ll take it
Balks are weird.
Have to listen to Sterling, so can someone please explain why it was called a balk and why the 2nd base ump had to call it? And was he right?
From the first pitch he threw without anyone on base I thought Blackley’s delivery was whacky.
He has a stutterstep before he goes into his wind-up
Robbie: TAKE A GOD DAMNED WALK.
It’s almost like he’s happy pitch 4 was a strike so he could start swinging.
Yikes Robbie. Take the fucking walk.
Or do that. Nevermind.
I had the same exact combination of thoughts.
Didn’t look like a balk….
It was, his front foot went behind.
WOW what a slide!
I take it back Robbie, nice hitting!!!!
YEAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! RISPHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow. Got luckt there. A-Rod slowed down then sped up rounding 3rd
Ken: “Robbie’s been pulling the ball more…”
right as Robbie goes oppo.
I love shit like that.
Wow. With a decent throw, he would have been out by a mile.
Nice slide.
This game is starting off really weird. Now Nova has to be able to hold them in check.
Stuart? Any thoughts?
….parades…and raises….but mostly parades….
7 year extentions……ike Davis…. Rbis….
very aggressive send, for 1 out in the 1st inning…
robbie and YAY-rod
Did A-Rod even touch the base?!
Yes, I saw it on replay. Beautiful slide!
Yep. It was a nice slide.
New ballgame. Now short leash Nova Joe. No screwing around
Are we playing baseball or fucking around here?!?
Blackley seems to be falling apart here, keep the pressure on.
Yeah, he’s unwinding like a cheap sweater. Make him throw strikes, look to make good contact.
Nice job of avoiding the tag by Arod. What an awful throw though.
Boston’s tied it as well, 1-1 top 2 there.
Maybe a good match up – Nova & Blackley
I’d walk Swish to face a guy with 20 ABs over the past month.
And now O’s right back out in front
hooray for offense, but i’m still not confident in nova at this point. may be getting ahead of myself. super glad it’s tied, whole new ball game, all that – but there’s a little voice in the back of my head reminding me “nova is pitching….”
Granderson > Jones. We’re in a pennant race, why is Jones playing?!
Girardi is a dingbat.
Also because Granderson has had like 2 games off all season.
Fuck knows.
oh casey…
You bailed him out on that pitch.
ugh…that was ball four Casey. Stay within yourself, take a walk. I know you wanna do something to open some eyes, but dude, take what your given.
Fucking Mcgaheheheheheheheeeeeee.
That’s why he’s fodder. I miss tex.
Just woke up, hungover as hell, turned on the game, and I’m already anticipating needing to start drinking again….come on, boys, win this one for my liver’s sake, if nothing else.
Casey…..have a seat. You won’t be playing in two weeks anyway. No parades, no extensions.
Shock me please, Andruw.
That’ll do.
40 pitch inning, make it happen boys
This fame is really getting more odd by the pitch
Sorry, that was supposed to be game.
Take the walk Andruw
Well…at least we got him to throw 32 pitches this inning.
now would be a good time for Andruw’s bimonthly hit.
Is that two a month or once every 2 months?
please no green light
This long inning is great and all, but it makes me nervous for Nova. He was definitely not sharp in the 1st and now he’s sitting and his arm is getting cold.
Or he’s getting ready for three quick groundouts.
The bottom half of this lineup looks worse than the Red Sox and or the Blue Jays. Jesus Girardi!
YEAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow…Literally the last person I expected to have an RBI today. I seriously would look for Stewart to have an RBI before Jones today.
So help me God, if Jones swung at a 3-0 pitch I was dropping everything and learning how to make a voodoo doll.
yesssss. work some magic stewie
Why on earth is Andruw Jones starting? WTF.
Shit when you can’t time any pitch over the past two months, go all Manny and DO NOT remove your bat from your shoulder! Well done Andruw!
HAHAHAHA
BLOLackley
Start the merry-go-round!!!
yay! 40 pitch inning! thanks guys :p
I hate you Chris…so much.
excellent.
goddammit. how do i keep messing this up. im not even drunk yet.
Maybe that’s your problem right there.
40 pitches
LMAO Sterling thinks Chris Stewart has “a controlled swing.”
I shook my head at that. Then when Stewart hit a ground ball he straight up forgot Blackley’s name and just stopped calling the play for a full 5 seconds.
Then he said “Stewart gets a lot of hits, well not a LOT of hits, but he gets his hits.”
Can’t you pretty much say that about every baseball player, even the ones who barely hit at all?
I mean, even Justin Smoak gets some hits.
Chris Stewart has a Smoak-like bat.
Damn. Stewart almost beat that one out. That could have been a potentially huge inning if it got to Jeter with a guy who can’t locate his offspeed stuff.
Please Nova, please have settled down.
Hopefully Ivan took that time to recenter, refocus, and comes out and has a quick 8-12 pitch 1-2-3 inning.
He still hasn’t mastered the art of not getting pissy/depressed after giving up some runs. Once he gets the “OK, that happened. Let’s move on” attitude he’ll be fine.
Part of him gives up the moment he gives up any runs. It’s really apparent in his body language
Looks like he saw this post!
He did look pretty solid, after the doubles
is Kottaras’ name pronounced KO-tare-ass or ko-ta-RAS?
The second one, Koh-tahras (the A sounds like an spanish A, no inflection, just a solid A sound with no change).
Nova looks alot better.
Nice bounce back inning!
Nice bounce back inning.
Keep piling on the runs please.
Nova with the bounce back. Still have to guard against the 5th inning implosion though.
Nova has really settled down… *drinks a shot*
lol
Ichiro is just a whole other level of hot right now.
Lol
Its amazing the past week Ichiro has been having. Good for him.
Ichi’s playing a little cricket.
That’s classic Ichiro.
unbelievable
Incredible.
dammit
ok that was silly
Dang!
what was Ichiro thinking? that was just plain dumb.
How did Ichiro make contact?!
Ichi…that’s the second time in 2 days he’s gotten thrown out by Cespedes.
Might be high time to stop running on Cespedes.
Why ..the FUCK…are they running against Cespedes?
i really hate blackley’s delivery.
rather, his “move”
I don’t understand first pitch swinging against Blackley right now…unless the pitch is legit down the middle of the plate and straight make him come over the plate.
So it’s okay to block third base?
on a non-force play, why wouldn’t it be?
He would’ve been out anyway, but I thought is was boderline obstruction. Then I remembered Cespedes, accurate laser strong arm. I was just bitching,
Ichiro should have put a spike into his thigh.
He had the bag covered with his leg, I would have loved that.
Exactly, that’s the risk you take if you want to block the bag like that.
Fuck Robbie. Take a walk.
Lol A’s defense.
lol wow.
oof
I like Robbie, I really do. He’s one of my favorite players right now, BUT if I was an opposing pitcher I wouldn’t throw him anything over the plate ever. He’s proven time and again that he’s to impatient and will eventually swing at anything that even begins to threaten the strike zone.
Wow. We really need to capitalize on these errors.
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice f-bomb.
Thanks A’s.
lol at melvin
That’s why you run hard Robbie. fucking loafer.
Ha..wow. If it wasn’t for that sweep back in July and the tightness of the wildcard and divisional races I’d kind of feel bad for Blackley right now.
Yes! Capitalize!!!!
Haha silly A’s.
Before that pitch Blackley had exactly a 1/1 Strike/Ball ratio. Hopefully we continue just building runs off of him, taking our walks and such, and we can get another run or two off him next inning before Melvin goes to the pen.
Sawks have 2 on and 1 out.
Rooting for them makes me feel so dirty.
…and don’t score.
God dammit Nova.
Can anyone get Stephen fricken’ Drew out?
Ok now, don’t pitch to Drew and don’t run on Cespedes.
What the deuce man? Drew has been garbage for like all of his career, but now he’s a freaking yankee killer.
C’mon, Nova! Try not to suck!
aaaaand randy fucking wolfe gets out of the jam
Ivan Nova:
“I don’t always give up hits, but when I do….they go for extra bases.”
*takes a shot*
I laughed, then cried.
This is going to be a long game.
stephen drew broke my internet apparently.
Get Freddy up.
All of a sudden, he can’t find the strike zone.
Get Phelps up. No fucking around with Ivan the terrible.
Dammit, Nova!
Stephen Drew is the new Mark Reynolds…
That was almost another shot for ya jj!
At this rate if I stop posting….you all will know why.
Meanwhile, Reynolds goes deep…
Double play here boys, stop the FUCKING bleeding!
Get Phelps up!!
Rapada, really? wtf, get Phelps up.
Probably not available, at least not for many innings. He just threw over 100 pitches on Wednesday.
That and Girardi probably wants a lefty for Reddick before turning to a righty long man.
Was Swisher playing the wall?!
reynolds solo shot
3-1 Baltimore top 3…
Everyday Clay?
He’s pitched once in the last week.
Done with you, Nova.
Take him out NOW. BEFORE Reddick hits i out.
Get {insert any pitchers name here} up.
Way to go, Ivan.
I think Nova’s the odd man out in the playoffs. And he should be in the rotation. Phelps has earned these starts. Nova has not.
The bullpen needs an arm transfusion. Thank god for CC last night.
Looks like Nova is already thinking about 2013
Here comes LOOGY!
*sigh*
HOOK PLEASE!!!!!
Ivan Nova sucks. Give his spot to Phelps.
Say what you want about Hughes and his propensity to lose it. He’s got nothing on Ivan the Terrible this year.
nova better not get a whiff of a postseason start
http://riveraveblues.com/2012/.....nt-4847461
great minds…
Everyday Clay, oh Kay you’re so clever!
Buckle up guys. It’s gonna be a kick ass ride.
Another humongous mistake by Girardi.
Who does he have available in the bullpen today? Without Robertson and Soriano, would he rather mix and match his way through 6 innings than at least give Nova a chance to work out of it?
Nova’s stuff has looked good, he just has been erratic with his command. He’s clearly overthrowing, and his shoulder is flying open. It is on Rothschild to go out to the mound and calm him down, which he did not do the entire inning.
What a blow this must be to his confidence, for his coaching staff to have so little faith in him, and to make no effort to help him through the start.
Even though Rapada got out of it, Girardi now needs to get 6 innings out of his pen without Robertson or Soriano available. The implications of this move are hardly known yet.
The implications of this move are hardly known yet.
So then stop complaining.
So stop calling it a success as well. The move could be a tremendous failure if any one of the crap pack comes in and gets their brains beaten in.
Even if you think Nova gives up 5-6 in his start by the time it’s all said and done, the bullpen could allow just as many given who is available.
I’d rather go with the guy who has shown he has good enough stuff to shut down a team if he pulls it together, than the guys who consistently don’t get the job done.
“the guys who consistently don’t get the job done.”
Perfectly describes 2012 Ivan Nova.
Ivan Nova has changed his pitching delivery substantially since earlier in the season. We honestly do not know what kind of pitcher he is now because we haven’t seen him pitch enough.
What we do know is that Rapada, Eppley, Wade, Logan, etc are incredibly shaky, and that nothing has happened which would suggest otherwise.
Since you need to get 6.2 innings out of the bullpen when you take out Nova, you are going to use pretty much every single one of those guys.
Nova has been shaky all year. Nova was shaky again today. Maybe the change of delivery did some good. Maybe not. Now’s not the time of year to risk games to find out. Everyone on your list (except Wade), has been less shaky than Nova this year.
The implications are several innings of Sweaty Freddie. And honestly that’s no worse an option than Nova right now.
This isn’t the time of year for confidence boosting. Moral victories don’t outweigh actual victories.
Nova wasn’t giving the Yankees much of a chance to win with what he was doing out there. The BP might implode. Probably will. Gonna need a lot more runs to win this game.
But if Nova were left out there, the odds of implosion were much higher.
Nova was not getting hit hard. He was walking guys, which was very clearly because he was rattled by the home run.
Rothschild never went out to the mound and calmed him down. What do you expect with a younger guy like Nova who has shown in the past that he has a lot of emotions?
Ivan Nova is a better option at this point than the Eppleys, Wades, Jobas, etc who will be paraded out of the pen now that you yanked him. One well-timed mound visit could have turned around his entire game, and they panicked instead.
“Nova Wasn’t getting hit hard” tell that to the 3 doubles and homer he allowed.
Except all 3 of those doubles came in the first inning, and he had settled in pretty well outside of the 1 solo shot to Drew, which was not even on a mistake.
The jam in that inning was set up by 2 walks and a bloop single. We have seen it in the past where Nova can turn it around very suddenly by having one good pitch sequence.
If Nova gives up 1 run in that spot, you’d happily take it. It’s not like going to the bullpen to hold the lead guarantees that they can shut it down the rest of the way. Nova is a better option than most of the pen that is available today.
You act like he settled down magically after the first. He had a good 2nd inning, then gave up a homer, and allowed 2 walks. Just because the walks weren’t baserunners that hit the ball hard doesn’t mean he had settled down. That’s actually even more dangerous: he’s putting runners on AND getting tagged.
He did settle in. He was clearly rattled by the home run, and it affected his next set of pitch sequences. His stuff was still great, and he was getting really good break on his curveball.
In the first inning, his fastball velocity was down and his pitches were hanging. That is not what was happening in the 3rd.
He did settle in. Against the bottom of the order. Until he immediately got unsettled in the very next inning.
He also retired the 4-5-6 hitters in order after allowing the 2 runs in the first. You’re picking at straws.
Ignoring 3 doubles, a homerun, and 2 walks isn’t? Did he not immediately get unsettled in the third? If he’s that fragile that he falls apart because he gives up a leadoff HR, he has no business being on the mound in a pennant race.
No, his stuff was all over the place in the 3rd. After the strike out he walked Cespedes on 4 straight, then allowed the bloop single then walked Carter on 6 pitches. He had one good inning in the 2nd against the bottom 3rd of the order. That’s taking advantage of the situation, not settling down.
…
Which is EXACTLY what I was saying.
His control was erratic, but his STUFF was very good. He had good velocity and excellent life on his pitches. The life on his fastball was so good that it was hurting him at times because it was breaking out of the zone after starting out as a strike!
He had retired the 4-5-6 hitters in the first pretty easily after allowing the doubles. Since you are not watching the game, it’s no surprise to me that you can’t see these things. Don’t try to make judgments about how a guy is pitching based on John Sterling.
“His control was erratic”
Not a winning formula. Regardless of the reason, he wasn’t getting the job done. That’s not a reason to leave him in the game. In a big game. In a playoff race.
His control was only erratic AFTER the home run. His control was fine before that, including in the at bat in which he gave up the home run.
He pitched poorly for 3 straight batters there, but those was 3 OBVIOUS chances to see what was going on and to settle him down. He is not a veteran pitcher, and he is having a tough season. You can’t be surprised if he needs to be coached a bit more through these spots.
And after the 3 doubles, he retired the next 3 hitters in order in the first, including a strikeout to keep a runner at 3rd with less than 2 outs. So it wasn’t just 1 inning, it was 2.
“Nova was not getting hit hard. He was walking guys, which was very clearly because he was rattled by the home run.”
This is just hilarious. Giving up a homerun isn’t getting hit hard?
He wasn’t giving the other hitters a chance to hit him. That’s not a positive.
He wasn’t getting hit hard, he just allowed three doubles and a homer in the span of the first ten batters he faced.
You’re ridiculous. The home run was the only ball he had allowed since the 3rd double that went more than 120 feet.
If the guy is getting smoked, you take him out. If the guy is walking hitters but showing some really good velocity and movement, you give him a mound visit and a chance to work through it.
If this were last year’s bullpen, then they could yank him for all I care. But it’s not. You have to compare it to your alternatives, and the alternatives today are worse than Nova.
You mean the better part of the order were the only ones to hit him hard, and the bottom of their order isn’t very good. Shocking.
No. He retired 4-5-6 easily in the first and gave up a bloop single to Moss in the 3rd.
I would hardly call Steven Drew one of their “better” hitters. Sometimes a few guys just get to you. He had no problem handling every hitter in the lineup besides the top 3, and those were the guys who were due up in the inning.
Rothschild already went to the mound in the first.
And you know what happened? He retired 3 straight hitters afterwards to hold it at a 2-run deficit.
He did not visit the mound once in the 3rd inning. Walk, single, walk, no mound visit.
“One well-timed mound visit could have turned around his entire game, and they panicked instead.”
This is magical thinking.
No, it’s not.
When the guy is overthrowing and rushing his delivery, it’s an issue of emotions. You try to go out and calm him down before you yank him from the game.
If Rothschild goes out there and doesn’t like the vibe that he gets from Nova, then he can tell Girardi to take him out. If he thinks that Nova has refocused, then he can give him a chance.
Nothing has to be done in absolutes. But what happened here was they never even gave him a chance. They just yanked him right away, and since they yanked him as they did, they probably severely damaged his confidence while gaining little from the move.
Also, where was Rothschild after the first walk, or the bloop single? There were a ton of times they could have gone out there and settled him down before that inning got out of hand.
It’s too late in the season in a tight pennant race to coddle Nova and let him work things out on the mound. If there was a managing/coaching mistake, it was starting him in the first place.
You can’t be serious. He’s a major leaguer. This is a pennant race. He wasn’t getting the job done.
They stuck with him all season while he was getting his brains beat in. They showed far too much confidence in him this year, if anything.
Making up for one mistake with another does not solve the problem.
Nova was not getting hit very hard today outside of the first inning. Nova was a bit rattled after the home run, and nobody went out there and helped him calm down. You could see him rushing his delivery, and overthrowing his pitches.
If you had the A’s bullpen, it would be a no brainer. But they don’t, and they also don’t have either Soriano or Robertson.
Would you rather give Nova, a guy with good stuff who could turn it around at any point, a chance to work out of the inning, or bring in Wade and Eppley in the middle innings, who are consistently mediocre?
Nova was not getting hit very hard today outside of the first inning….was a bit rattled after the home run.
He’s not getting hit hard but he gave up a homer. You can try to rationalize your opinion all you want but I’m having trouble getting past the part where a guy who allowed 5 hits over 3 innings, 4 of which going for extra bases, wasn’t getting hit hard.
You’re probably not watching the game if you continue to say this.
Nova was inducing a ton of weak contact in innings #2-3. The home run was not on a mistake pitch, but a really good piece of hitting by the hitter.
And what a shock that they are already giving it up. Like I said, Ivan Nova was a better option than the bullpen today. Getting out of one inning is irrelevant because they have 6 more to fall apart.
LOL.
Inducing a ton of weak contact in innings #2-3.
He faced the bottom of the lineup in inning 2. You think maybe that plays in to the weak contact?
Inning 3:
Home run – not remotely weak contact
K – no contact
BB – no contact
Single – weak contact
BB – no contact
So one instance of weak contact in that inning. And horrible command. Of course they should keep him in. He was definitely getting the job done.
And he retired the 4-5-6 hitters in order after the 3 doubles in the first inning, inducing a ground ball, a strikeout, and a weak fly ball.
He was very visibly rushing his delivery after the home run and his shoulder was flying open. Every pitch was tailing way out of the zone on the arm side.
If you can’t see that, then I can’t help you. What they did to Nova was criminal today, and could affect his performance down the road.
Criminal! Criminal to take a pitcher out of a game after allowing seven of the 14 men he faced to reach base! Poor Ivan Nova will never recover, he might as well go back to the DR and become a fisherman.
Now I’ve heard it all. Thanks for the laugh.
No. What was criminal was knowing he was rattled, doing nothing to try to calm him down not once, not twice, but THREE times (mound visit), and then yanking him from the game when his emotions were highest and destroying his confidence possibly for the rest of the season.
All they had to do was go out there and visit him after he walked Cespedes, or after the bloop to Moss. Maybe he gets it together, maybe he doesn’t. At least you tried.
“He was very visibly rushing his delivery after the home run and his shoulder was flying open. Every pitch was tailing way out of the zone on the arm side.”
In other words: He wasn’t getting it done. Shoulder flying open and rushing his delivery are reasons to take him out, not leave him in and hope he settles down before he destroys all chances of winning the game.
This is the pennant race. This is not the time to baby mediocre fifth starters.
This is the pennant race. This is not the time to baby mediocre fifth starters.
This. repeated for emphasis. There is a time to let a starter work through troubles. 12 games to go in the regular season against a possible playoff opponent with a one game lead and 5 game lead in the division and W/C respectively w/ possible tie breaker implications on the line is NOT that time.
I’m not asking them to baby them. And leaving him out there to work out of his own mess would be the complete opposite of babying him.
I’m asking them to support their pitcher. Nova is a young pitcher still, and he’s in the midst of a mentally frustrating season. You have to go out there and calm him down when he starts to get rattled.
Nova was the best option for the rest of the game, because Rapada may have been better against ONE batter, but as you saw he blew the lead anyway in the next inning when he had to face a bunch of righties. If Nova gets out of that without too much damage, maybe he gives you 6 or 7 innings.
If you were going to yank him so quickly, you should have at least given him one legitimate chance to work out of it after a mound visit or something, instead of letting it snowball.
Like I said, there are times to support your pitcher and let him work through their messes. You know when that time is? In the middle of summer when you have a huge divisional lead. They did. How did Ivan reward their support? Leading the lead in extra base hits, barely preforming well enough to be considered a 4th or 5th starter. He has done NOTHING this season to convince me that he was all of a sudden going to turn it around, be able to go over an inning today w/o giving up an XBH or walking more guys.
I agree there should have been a mound visit.
But that ship sailed. He wasn’t getting the job done. It’s entirely possible the bullpen won’t either, but this time of year, you have to take the risk of someone who might have a bad day over somebody you know is having a bad day.
I’m not even saying they should have left him in after the walk to load the bases.
What I am saying though is that they so totally blew that inning that they probably missed a chance to get something out of Nova there.
Nova was the best option, but they completely lost him mentally. Given how much he was imploding, they may have had no choice. But they never even gave themselves the option of doing anything else.
It would have been gutsy to leave Nova in, but they were so worried about getting him out of there in time that they didn’t take care of him while he was in the game. It’s stunning given the bullpen today that they let him fall apart without even a visit.
I’m actually listening on the radio. I guess the people who are watching the game and agree with me are just wrong then, cause apparently you’re the only person on the boards that disagree w/ going to the bullpen when a starters line is 3IP 5H(4XBH) 1HR and 2BBs
See you next year Nova.
Fucking huge!
LOOGY brings home the bacon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
miraculous
Fuck yea!!!
Great play by everyday Clay.
I was totally expecting Rapada to throw that away.
CLUTCH CLAY!
and he didn’t boot it for once!
Clay was far too smart than to think about going to second with that throw.
Sweet DP!
Good Loogy.
I got real nervous with Rapada throwing the ball. Good thing he had the option of throwing to the plate.
fucking beautiful job clay. josh reddick needs a haircut.
LOWE REALLY Joe REALLY Derek Lowe is going to be your first long man?!?! Not Phelps, not Garcia (two guys who have had decent success as starters) but Derek Lowe?! If he puts Lowe in to start the 4th I am going to blow a gasket.
Lowe would be my third choice too, he’s the king of giving up the base hit per inning pitched, Nova is Lowe in several years, if he’s lucky. I’d prefer Phelps, then Garcia then Lowe.
Way to step up there, Clay.
Well done Joe!
Clay turning it much more caution since his error costing game.
Nova just looks lost.
‘Atta boy, Clay. You can have your cookies now.
Phelps to teh rotationz
Danny Valencia ties the game in Boston.
Sawks tied it up on an HR by Valencia.
Can’t figure out why Jones and Stewart are playing. The O’s are going to sweep the Sux, so these games are like, very important. ???
Girardi likes catchers who can’t hit.
sox tie it up!
I just woke up. Did Chris Stewart really swing at a 3-0 pitch with the bases loaded?
I don’t think so.
Like earlier in the game. When he awkwardly ran into first base.
I think that was 3-1 or 3-2.
Umm…
no?
words I never thought I’d say (prior to the Valencia dinger): ‘god damn it why do the Red Sox have to suck so much.’
Let’s go Boston!
:takes shower:
Why were Nix and McGehee batting against a righty?
I mean, do the Yankees have better options right now? Ibanez looks cooked, Chavez is Chavez and slumping. Maybe Nunez for Nix though I’m not sure that’s a big upgrade and Nix has a better glove.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Rapada pitches the next inning. He has pitched multiple outs in the past few weeks, if I am remembering correctly.
Only if they are left handed
it goes Righty, Lefty, Switch(who can’t hit lefties), Lefty, Lefty according to Sterling.
I keep Rapada in.
He has pitched to righties in multi-out appearances.
Yup.
So much for Grandy getting a day off, at least Jones got an RBI.
I do want to see Dickerson at some point.
But for who I’m not sure. It’s not like they will sit Ichiro.
That’s too easy.
Isn’t that Scott Brosius?
Yep.
Rapada still in. I was right.
Phelps must not be lined up to pitch today since he was seen throwing last night. Otherwise, why would mix and match for 6 innings and burn the whole bullpen.
I’m thinking we’re going to have to see Garcia in this game.
That doesn’t help.
Need another DP here Clay.
C’mon, Rapada!!!
That’s annoying.
Well, Rapada had giveth, and now he’s trying to taketh away.
LNOGY
Joe realizes Clay is a Loogy, right?
Here we go. bunt, single and we’re down by a run.
fuck I was wrong…
Crap.
Well that really didn’t work.
I don’t blame Girardi, but damn.
fucking ridiculous that Rapada faced 2 righties.
what pitcher do you want to burn? let’s hear it?
Garcia?
Lowe?
Phelps (if he’s available)?
Phelps.
Since DRob and Sori aren’t available, they’re probably leaving Phelps for last. So it’s oh-no Lowe or Sweaty freddy…
Freddy everyday of the week and twice on Sundays over Lowe once in my opinion.
Knowing Phelps could finish the whole game since he’s still stretched out seems preferable if he can be used at all. I’m guessing he’s not available today. The weather is too cold for me to have any confidence in Freddy not being able to throw his sweat ball.
Phelps threw 110 pitches two days ago. He’s not available.
Hehe, seems alot longer ago than that.
Phelps is not available – he just pitched a game.
you realize they have more than 25 players on the roster right now? It’s not like the pen is short on fresh arms..
The extra arms are probably not an improvement in a close game.
Fucking idiot Girardi.
Clay giving up hits to non-lefties. What a shock.
Yep.
This is gonna be one long-assed day. Hope the bats are up for it.
Just have to shake your head at this BP management.
whyis Girardi trying to lose the game?
This is what happens when your starter only gets seven outs.
hah. it’s almost comical.
Girardi keeps showing faith in guys who just don’t deserve it.
Really. A guy with a .221 BAA and a 2.92 ERA doesn’t deserve it?
I was thinking more of Andruw Jones and Chris Stewart.
But if it makes you comfortable to fill in all the parts of my conversation, go right ahead.
Welp…I hope Freddy is ready to impress for a good couple inning. Also: I still hold by bringing Lowe in after Rapada is the wrong move whether Joe does that or not remains to be seen, but if he does it’s a dumb decision.
Ugh…it’s Lowe, fuck. I really hope the offense is ready to score some runs today.
Could(‘ve) be(en) worse.
Why in the world did Girardi let Rapada get hammered just so he can have him pitch to the lefties later in the order…
It’s the 4th inning.
Lowe vs. Cespedes? Excuse me while I go vomit.
Why Lowe? I don’t get it.
Great play!
Jete!
May have been safe.
But we’ll take it.
Safe or out?
jeter’s leading off this inning…
just sayin
/no way it’s a 1 in 9 liklihood, maybe 1 in 7
he was out
Jeter’s first pitch hacking is getting really fucking tiresome.
agreed… except for those 4 out of 10 times when it results in a base hit..
I know what you mean, but he has like a .340 average on the first pitch. So hard to get on him.
He’s hitting .376 in 0-0 counts.
Doesn’t mean he should keep swinging at every first pitch or will continue to do that going forward.
Career .383/.403/.565 on 0-0 counts over 1615 at bats.
Well, now I feel better. If 29-year-old Jeter did it, 38-year-old Jeter can too.
His numbers this year are better than his career numbers. If you want to dismiss this year’s numbers as too small a sample, what better reference do you have than his career? Even saying that, let’s see:
(on 0-0 counts)
38-year-old: .376/.393/.523
37-year-old: .414/.431/.557
36-year-old: .292/.327/.375
35-year-old: .448/.467/.667
34-year-old: .372/.375/.605
33-year-old: .322/.358/.422
(that’s as far as the splits go back on the site I’m on)
I don’t really see the numbers to back up you’re gut feeling that he will suddenly fall off a cliff of 0-0 swinging. Those are pretty decent numbers and I don’t especially see a particular decline in them by age)
Ok, maybe his numbers aren’t *better* than his career, but not a huge drop off (and also your, not you’re– whoops)
Unless you are trying to work the starting pitchers pitch count then the first pitch is likely the best pitch you will see in an at bat. All pitchers try to get ahead in the count as far as I know.
.376/.393/.523 when he puts the ball in play on the first pitch (coming into today, if I’m reading things correctly)
That’s twice in this game Jeter’s gone one pitch-one out.
Leading off an inning too.
At least that means no patented one pitch-GIDJ’s.
Has Jeter seen three or four pitches today?
lol guess whos on base again
run Ichiro, run.
Can’t buy a break right now.
Robbie’s starting to look like Swisher.
Cano has been pretty bad down the stretch.
wouldn’t it be nice if our middle of the order could get even vaguely warm?
I can’t stress enough how much I disagree with Derek Lowe being in here.
They don’t want to use Phelps so this is the best we have.
I prefer Freddy honestly.
Agree. It should be Freddy to Phelps with some matchups as needed.
VETERAN PRESENTS
*Garcia cries as he searches for his gift receipts*
O’s with 2 in scoring position, 1 out
I think only the 2nd inning has seen the A’s not get the leadoff man on.
Then you wonder how they’ve scored four runs so far.
ryan flaherty cashes in…lol
5-3 baltimore
amazing how they can plug literally any scrub into that line up and he instantly starts hitting.
2012 Orioles…luckiest team in baseball since…?
2010 Giants?
the Red Sox really are BAD at baseball.
Againist Randy Wolf to make it worse. Puke.
Some schmuck named Flaherty drives in two for the O’s.
Somehwere, Flash is smiling.
Say what you want about him, Lowe’s got terrific movement on the sinker today.
Lowe NO!
http://tinyurl.com/8qgbla9
excellent job by Lowe here.
Lowe is actually good today.
How we doing?
this offense.. can’t get anything going against jim miller
raul so cool!
VOLDEMORT RETURNS
old man strength!
LORD VOLDEMORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
now that’s more like it RAUL!
Ibanez!!!!
Doing something useful!!!
Just shocked that Ibanez did something.
RAUUUUL! perfect timing haha. i feel much better goin to work with a lead!
He’s so cool (once a year)
Whoops … typed too fast, meant: once a month
I know Nix has a 3-1 count but Chavez isn’t hitting for him because…why?
Because that.
So, in 5 days who pitches? Nova or Phelps?
Voldemort…goes YARDEMORT!
It’s been way too long since I’ve busted that out.
Pinch-hitting for McGehee was criminal. He hit a ball to the warning track in his last at-bat. They probably hurt his confidence by showing no faith in him. Criminal.
Someone call Greg’s police to make an arrest.
Can you believe Girardi? Putting winning an important game over the feelings of McGehee?! His confidence might be shattered for the rest of the year!!!!!!!!!
You’re insane. There is a huge difference between leaving your young starter out there to implode without even one mound visit, versus pinch hitting for a veteran whose role it is to bat pretty much only against LHP.
Nova is going to get 2 more starts this year. You have to be careful about how you treat him, because you may lose him for those 2 other starts as well if you mess with his head too much.
If you visit him and he still can’t get it done, then the guy will certainly understand why he is being removed. If you leave him out there to fall apart when his emotions are high, he’s going to feel like you didn’t give him a fair chance.
Arm chair psychology at its best.
I’m trying to draw a parallel to the real world here…I think I’ve got one:
I used to work for a catering company, if I had one really good year w/o any mistakes, never getting lost, food was never late and always set up neatly then the following year I was almost constantly late, food always looked a mess, and showed up late on a regular basis then the day of the biggest catering of the year I dropped a tray of chicken marsala right outside the door of the hall but did a bad(but not awful) job of setting up the rest of it. Would my boss not have every right to send me home early even if I was under contract w/ the company for the foreseeable future and I still had a couple more important jobs over the rest of the year?
Except you are missing one key part of this analogy.
Your boss would probably have the decency to ask if you are feeling alright before shoving you out the door. If you are usually reliable, but are suddenly not, they would give you the benefit of the doubt.
The coaching staff never went out to the mound to check on Nova in that 3rd inning. They never checked to see if he was still upset about the home run or some other pitches he made in that inning. They left him out there to fail, and then shoved him out the door.
“If you are usually reliable, but are suddenly not, they would give you the benefit of the doubt.”
Seriously? You’re making it sound like Nova was an all-star all year and is having a bad couple of games. He’s been bad for most of the year, there is no “sudden” going on.
So in Plouffy’s analogy, his boss would have approached him several times over the last few months to ask if he’s okay. And after he continues to shit the bed opportunity after opportunity, he gets sent home.
That last paragraph sums it up perfectly. I actually saw my old boss do it to somebody which is how I thought of the analogy. It was well known that one of the drivers/caterers was having some personal troubles…the boss kept him on cause he was a hard worker. Then one day after a few months of not being up to par he screwed up big and got sent home.
What do you not get?
There was not even ONE mound visit in that inning. NOT EVEN ONE.
I’m not asking them to leave him out there until he gives up 10 runs. I’m asking them to give him a chance to succeed, which they didn’t do. And by “chance to succeed,” I’m referring to the entire inning leading up to that point when he was very visibly starting to fall apart mechanically.
No, it’s what you’re not getting. The Yankees need to make sure the TEAM succeeds. If Nova is sucking, take him the fuck out while the team is still in the game. This is not an isolated incident, stop acting like it is.
You’re an idiot. Please try reading.
“by “chance to succeed,” I’m referring to the entire inning leading up to that point when he was very visibly starting to fall apart mechanically.”
He was visibly starting to fall apart mechanically for 3 batters before they yanked him from the game. They had multiple chances to go out there and get him back on track, and didn’t.
They left him in there until he loaded the bases with 1 out on walks. I’m not questioning whether he should have been left in for more batters after that. I’m asking why they did not take the opportunity to get the MOST they could have gotten out of those batters? They had a ton of chances to try to straighten him out BEFORE they felt compelled to yank him, and they sat on their hands.
Haha you’re funny. At least you’ve brought us new memes to play with, I appreciate that.
Please, try to make a bigger mountain out of a molehill. I’d love to hear it.
The only one making a fool of himself is you. You still continue to harp on points that I have not once made in this entire thread. They had 2 chances to give him a mound visit, and then yanked him without ever trying to straighten him out. That’s pretty terrible.
No it’s CRIMINAL!
lulz
Your boss would probably have the decency to ask if you are feeling alright before shoving you out the door.
Not in a result’s driven industry, like a pennant race or a catering company in a very competitive market. He would’ve said, I can almost see it in my head “You’re obviously not right, and haven’t been for a while, take the rest of the day and come back tomorrow ready to work.”
You’re talking like Nova is a fragile rookie or something. He is a 25 year-old grown man who went 16-4 last season for the Yanks. He knows intellectually what it means to pitch well, and obviously has the emotional solidity to have pitched an entire good season last year. He was getting rocked today in a key game and couldn’t find the strike zone, and he got pulled. I really don’t know where you are coming up with this nonsense that he is going to have some kind of adverse emotional reaction to being pulled other than “I was pitching like shit today in an important game and I got pulled”. Which, hey, that’s baseball.
How many times this year has Nova allowed innings to completely snowball after they scored him some runs? He is not the guy from last year who was nails with runners on base and in crucial spots.
When a guy is young and only used to success, it’s tough for him sometimes to deal with failure. Nova’s confidence is visibly down this year. When he gets in trouble, he starts to overthrow. When he gives up runs, his body language is terrible, and he looks discouraged.
It’s up to the coaching staff to help a young guy through his struggles. The way they coached him today, they completely missed the fact that he was losing control of the situation until it was too late.
“t’s up to the coaching staff to help a young guy through his struggles.”
Not in a tight playoff race in September, it’s not. Nova has been mostly bad all year, if he had half a brain he would know why he’s getting pulled without several coaching visits to make it obvious. Work on that shit in the bullpen in a couple days, not the the big league mound in an important game.
I’ll go ahead and repeat myself: “Arm chair psychology at its best.”
“Helping him work through his struggles” could be as simple as visiting the mound after he allows the tough luck bloop single to Moss after battling back from down 3-0 in the count.
They did NOTHING.
And I am not even saying they should have left him in to throw 100 pitches no matter how bad he was. That’s what you do in June or July. It wouldn’t have taken much to at least TRY to help Nova get back on track before it got out of hand.
They’ve been trying to get him on track all year. I’m sure he and Rothschild have talked a ton over the last few months. Maybe Rothschild said all he had to say in the first inning/before the game/in bullpen sessions/any other time throughout the season. What makes you think a coaching visit just for the sake of it would accomplish anything? Maybe Nova has was just bad, like he has been for most of the year, so the pulled him quickly. This is not the time of the year to have the coach go talk to him and pray to Mo it works.
You clearly don’t know much about baseball. A mound visit is not just for giving him a scouting report or telling him what he is doing wrong.
Sometimes they go out there and crack a few jokes to get the guy to stop overthinking things. Sometimes they’ll point out a pretty girl in the stands. Anything to get his mind off of the bad at bat he just had.
What do you not get? They didn’t even give him ONE mound visit in the inning. Are you going to try to argue that September is too important a time of the year to give the guy a freaking mound visit? Does Rothschild need to conserve his energy because his legs are tired from going out to the mound too many times in April?
You’re the kinda guy that thinks a team gets fired up when the manager gets ejected, aren’t you?
You’re the kind of guy who thinks that the mental aspect of baseball has no impact on the players’ performance. A guy never gets upset when he makes an error in the field. A guy never gets upset when the umpire calls him out on a pitch in the other batter’s box. Guys never go into slumps or rough patches because they always recognize that it’s just one play in a 162 game season. The only thing that matters is whether he is getting “lucky” or not.
Ah, the old “you must not know about baseball” defense. Funny.
So they give him another visit to the mount. Nova gives up 3 more runs. The Yankees are in an even bigger hole. But it’s okay, because they didn’t hurt Nova’s ego, right? Please, stop acting like a coaching visit is some sort of magical cure all to shitty pitching.
Matt’s been the best pitching coach/manager not in MLB for three years running now. Didn’t you know that?
And it is not armchair psychology. It was very obvious what was happening to any astute observer.
And whether you want to call it “emotions” or simply “bad pitching,” it was a correctable mechanical flaw. Rushing his delivery and having his shoulder fly open.
Especially for a guy who just recently changed his pitching delivery, it is stunning that they didn’t even make an attempt to help him through it.
It’s not arm chair psychology? Mkay.
You said in your earlier comment: “You have to be careful about how you treat him, because you may lose him for those 2 other starts as well if you mess with his head too much.”
Right then.
It’s speculation. I’m not saying he WILL be lost. It’s pretty clear that his confidence is at the lowest we have ever seen it in the big leagues. Why would you risk losing the guy mentally for the rest of the year by treating him so terribly?
Hahahaha alright, the lack of a coaching visit to the mount in one particular inning before getting lifted is being “treated so terribly”? Man, I couldn’t make this stuff up.
Yanking a starter who is not getting lit up in the inning without even a mound visit is pretty disrespectful.
I’m guessing your new to the 2012 season. Welcome.
His confidence is low because he has been pitching like shit pretty much all season. You’ve got the causality backwards. He needs to figure out how to pitch better and that will improve his confidence.
Pulling a pitcher from a game who is pitching like shit in that game is not “treating him so terribly”. Are you remembering this kind of shit from little league or something?
The causality runs in both directions.
If you give him a mound visit and get him focused, you may get a lot more out of him than if you leave him out there and let the frustration build.
I figured it was common sense that if the guy is struggling mightily, that it’s better to at least TRY to give him a chance to succeed than to wait until he implodes. But who am I kidding? Anyone who dares question the wisdom of the Great Joe Girardi and his coaching staff is immediately labeled a troll.
Rothschild went to the mound in the first inning. He continued pitching like shit without any ability to find the strike zone and got pulled. I don’t see what is so remarkable and psychologically sensitive about this situation and what more should have been done.
You really think Girardi and Rothschild don’t know how to handle a pitching staff, and you know better?
Wrong. When Rothschild went to the mound after the 3 doubles in the first, Nova retired the next 3 hitters in that inning without allowing a run, including a strikeout of Chris Carter to strand the runner at 3rd with less than 2 outs.
He then followed that up with a scoreless second inning, in which he was not only facing weaker hitters but also making much better quality pitches to get them out.
Rothschild did not go out to the mound ONCE in the third inning. NOT ONCE.
Jones and Ibanez with an RBI each…looks who’s gonna get more playing time…
fail.
I hope I’m wrong and we see the okd DH platoon as more of a PH platoon.
Raul saved me- and you- a rant.
what a difference a year makes.. Grandy and Cano
Who here is for picking up Granderson’s option and trading him for minor leaguers? Or, for not picking up the option at all?
4.69 Strikeouts per HR…ouch!
I pick up his option. We are going to need to keep some power especially with Swisher walking.
It’s not just Curtis who swinging at those high fast balls to strike out – it’s Jeter & Swisher — Robbie’s just not going well right now so he’s just swinging.
Curtis needs more days off – this year’s been a killer for him. It might also help if Garner is really okay to put Granderson in left though left in YS is still huge.
.230/.320 ditch him. his 40 HRs don’t compensate the 200 Ks
I cannot begin to describe how idiotic that thinking is.
Yes, 200 grounders to 2nd makes all the difference. smh
200 ks ! 200 Ks !
Last year of his contract after an year like this one? What kind of value does he have?
at this point Granderson’s swing is tailored for Yankee stadium. and he’s not the liability against lefties he used to be. No, he’s not Bernie Williams. Or Carlos Beltran. But he’s one of the better hitting CFs in baseball.
you guys are so quick to give up on players that have been vital to the Yankees’ success this year.
With the schedules lined up as they are, there is at least a shot that the best 2 records in the AL could finish 1-2 in the AL East. The 2nd-best AL team having to play a 1-game playoff to make it into the ALDS would epitomize the stupidity of this new Wildcard system.
I agree; there shouldn’t be divisions, just leagues. And, 4&5 play the play-in to face 1 while 2&3 play each other.
I suppose you’d need to balance the schedules.
Can you imagine if this happened under the new system? http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/standin.....season.jsp
The 102-win Athletics would have had to play the 85-win Twins in a 1 game playoff. It’s absurd.
Yes because good fielding 2nd baseman with OPSs around .900 and center fielders with 40-HR power and OPSs around .800 even after a titanic slump are so easily replaced.
It’s thing to not resign them but trade them?
And I still think they should resign Cano and let Grandy walk.
I don’t want Curtis around long term. But next year? We’re still contending and he still looks like the best option for CF on a 1 year deal.
Agreed. I’m in the “Pick up Granderson’s 2013 option, keep him, then let him walk in 2014″ camp.
Although it would be nice if they could convince him to shift over to RF.
Don’t think he has the arm for that. Maybe LF, with Gardner in CF. I would rather have Swisher to be honest, I feel like his contract will be smaller. Swish in RF, Gardner in CF, and go out and trade for/sign a LF.
Or trade for Justin Upton and let them both walk.
With similar performance in ’13, would you give him a qualifying offer for 2014 (taking the payroll issues into account)?
Really depends on the market, I think. If there is a viable alternative, then no. If not, and Mason’s not ready…
I would. Granderson will be at an age where he is likely looking for his last big contract, I doubt he accepts a 1 year deal.
Likelihood this game ends 5-4?
6-3 Fightin Showalters
Derek ‘relief ace’ Lowe.
Lowe steps up, Hats off to him.
Stephen Drew is starting to believe he’s not terrible and is doing his best Jeter impersonation.
RA Dickey trying to CG SHO himself to the Cy Young.
How many pitches does Jeter see in this AB, over/under 3.5?
See, he took a pitch
Why is the hottest hitter in the world bunting?
I am on the fence about a red-hot Ichiro sacrificing there.
We need a big inning.
And, that’s why you don’t sacrifice in that situation. They pitch around a HOF’er to get to a lefty-lefty match up.
Girardi isn’t the best manager in the world.
So the bunt takes the bat out of Ihciro and ARod’s hand and gets Cano up against a lefty.
I realize Cano is a really good hitter but wouldn’t you want Ichiro ARod and Cano all to get swings when you are up by a run in the SIXTH inning.
…Can Baltimore just lose a game or two while we’re hot?! I’m serious…it seems like they’re matching us almost win for win right now.
It’s not just appearance.
They’re on their way to a sixth straight victory. The same number we have enjoyed over our last six.
The only problem … They just seem to have an easier time of it (even with the extra inning games, they seem in control).
I’m sure the Orioles fans have the same complaints about the Yankees.
take that personally, robinson
ROBBIE TAKE A GOD DAMNED WALK
Go the other way for fucks sake
that hurts
well that sucked.
it’s so painful to watch this line-up right now.
fucking unwatchable.. Cano sucks right now
Robbie and walks just do not agree at all.
Saw that coming. Cano rolls one over
All the other problems aside, Cano is the main reason they are in a pennant race. They would’ve won it hands down if he had produced to expectations, especially with RISP.
True. Agreed. (All the other problems aside being the proper condition . . . but I definitely concur on Cano’s lack of clutch to be the largest contributing factor to the Yankee’s penant race.)
Remember last August? The guy was hitting a grand slam like every week and driving in runners with two out doubles and shit.
at least the Sox are threatening right now
maybe they’ll score some more now that Randy Wolf, his 6 ERA and 84mph fastball are out of the game
They scored 3 runs in 5 innings off him, almost exactly in line with his ERA.
Draw the line in the sand at 5/90 with Cano. Blame the austerity budget.
I’d tell this offseason, listen here’s an offer sheet of 6/115 if you don’t sign it the best you’re getting from us next season is 5/90
That’s more than fair, I fear they will offer something crazy.
Cano now has the team lead in GDP with 22
Kay, O’Neill, and Singleton talked about Cano during his at-bat as if he were one of those intellectual hitters, like Cobb or Williams.
great job by Lowe!
Lowe’s out of gas. Can’t screw around much longer.
And there’s the hook.
He’s done a glorious job!
Nice job, Lowe!
Good effort by Lowe!
Hate to see walks while leading especially when up 0-2, but up 1 run against a hitter like Cespedes better to miss off the plate and walk him rather than hang something.
Veteran Presents for everyone.
Trying to get a 5 out hold out of Logan and then Jobber in the 9th I guess?
Fucking run, robinson
Cano thought Swisher had that.
Cano jogging to the ball, can’t get there… what a fucker
He was moving at a medium pace, stereotype fits!
Do not feel good about Carter-Logan.
Nope.
Lowe I take back the bad things I said about you. You pitched very far beyond my expectations.
He’s been terrible except for like two outings.
I know, but he came up big today when we needed him to. I don’t want him put in this situation ever again, don’t get me wrong…but I’m happy he got the job done today.
Tex starts the DP on that one.
dont hang that slider Boone
Frig!
William Perry!
hahahah
I loved The Fridge!
JJ, no cookies for Boone. ALL the cookies for Lowe though.
he got a weak grounder that Cano didnt feel he had to run to get it…
My cookies are poisonous to right handers, unfortunately. LOOGYs only.
Thanks for putting him on third, cano
bench him
That lousy “single,” that Tex would have sucked up.
what a joke of a throw by Granderson. Grandy and Cano don’t help on offense or D right now
Wow, who didn’t see that coming?!
Wouldn’t have gotten Cespedes. Throw is to 2d
no easy wins. ever.
Sac fly wouldn’t happen if runner weren’t on third – runner wouldn’t be on third if Cano hustled. SECOND time this game the YES announcers talked about Cano not hustling — first time on the error that got him on base. And he does this just after a TERRIBLE at-bat -> GDP. He is a disgrace. Not only a loser but doesn’t play the game the right way, teaches kids the wrong lessons. Everything the Yankees aren’t about. It’s too bad the race is so close, otherwise Joe could bench him to teach him a lesson. Of course the race is only so close because of Cano’s terrible RISP and production over the last few months.
Cespedes > Granderson
Terrible play by Cano. He gave up on the ball because he thought Swisher was going to make the play, and of course it leads to the tying run scoring.
I don’t get why Cano can’t consistently hustle out there. He almost blew a chance to get on base earlier in the game when the guy bobbled not once, but twice, because he was jogging down to first.
He lacks grit.
Boone didn’t let a slow grounder past him, and Boone didn’t call a letter high pitch over the middle of the plate a ball.
Boone induces a weak grounder
Swisher alligator arms an easy ground-ball to look flashy on a “dive”
Cano doesn’t go hard after it until he remembered that Swisher is an idiot.
An 0-2 pitch should have been a strike on the plate, not on the check-swing
A pop-up 20 feet behind second base is deep enough to allow a Cuban fire-hydrant to tag up from third….and incidentally for a guy to tag from 1st to 2nd..
any other cluster-f&^&s I miss that inning?
Boone induces a weak boner.
nope…that about covers it.
How is Swish on 1st?
Because the superstars don’t feel like running today.
why do they feel like they dont have to run? Swisher should have been on second..
Pinch hit with C-Dick, he’ll squirt one up the middle!
I hope he fists one past the mound.
A he is only on first base.
WTF man.
Swish … why aren’t you at second.
Tie game in Boston
Red Sox tie it off of “Vote for Pedro” Strop.
Boston tied it up in the bottom of the 8th
Don’t worry, the Orioles will take care of that in a half-inning.
Bad base running Nick. Why don’t they just hand us this game on a silver platter
This LAZY ASS brand of baseball is sickening.
go Ciriaco
Pinch run for Ibanez!
That would have all but ensured that ball in the outfield was caught.
Naturally, the Sterling makes no mention of why Swisher was only on first. Did the TV guys show video of him just lollygagging?
Wow…Melvin is Joe on his worst day dumb. If he leaves Blevins in the obvious play is to have Nix bunt and then Granderson is up to face a really tough LHP.
If they get the bunt down, they’re not pitching to Granderson.
So you intentionally load the bases to face Chavez or Martin?
Okay maybe not.
Apparently not.
And Blevins trying to strike out Granderson seems like a much better idea than Cook.
That bastard. How dare he hurt Blevins’ feelings like that? Criminal.
Swisher’s so used to striking out or popping up he just figures fuck it.
Suzyn just said maybe the plan is (from Oakland’s perspective) is to let Nix bunt, walk Granderson, then go after Chris Stewart…If that happens I HIGHLY doubt that Stewart bats for himself.
Interesting decision for Girardi:
- He could leave Nix in to bunt
- PH Chaves
With Granderson and Stewart on deck, I don’t think you bunt here.
nice bunt, let’s hope it works.. ACtually, let’s hope they walk Granderson
We get a break if they don’t pitch to granderson
There goes Girardi … Thinking with his tits again.
No way is Stewart batting this inning, unless Granderson jacks one.
You’d watch
Curtis swinging for the fences how bout a base it Grandyman
Fuck, Grandy.
thanks for nothing, fans
blame Granderson’s sorry ass
Granderson please be more useless.
Huge fail there by Grandy…HUGE fail.
they didn’t, and it worked… FUCK YOU GRANDERSON
Horrible defense.
Bad situational hitting.
Yankee baseball.
I take back what I said. Get rid of Granderson.
Girardi is crushing Chris Stewart’s confidence. Criminal.
GIVE NO QUARTER!
How dare they not send K-Long to have a friendly chat with him!
The more you say this, the dumber you look. Just because somebody says something that you disagree with, it doesn’t mean that you have to try to mock them by completely distorting what they said.
Yes, such a thing would be…criminal. I’m sorry Mike has treated you so terribly. Would you like to have someone visit you to talk about it?
He’s not trying to mock you, he’s succeeding. You can tell by the way you’re responding w/ attempted insults.
Enough with the sacrificing! Either these guys are in the majors because they can hit or you shouldn’t be putting them on the field!
JMO: Girardi should be fired if the Orioles overtake us.
the bunt was a smart decision… having Granderson on the team, not so much
Possibly your stupidest comment ever. Possibly.
AGH
Just an easy win…please.
That was fucking RISPFAIL. Sheesh.
this offense fucking sucks
oakland tries to hand us the game on a fucking silver platter…unfuckingbeleivable
There you go Chavy, swing at crap and watch one down the middle
Swing the damn bat Chavez.
Nice choke fellas. Now don’t tell me: Jobber’s coming in
another walk off win is fine.
Wow, you could even hear the disgust in Kay’s voice when he sent it to commercial.
Maybe Granderson is bored?
Bunting in back to back innings.
Hooray small ball.
are you fucking kidding me
Donaldson got to 2nd
Why was Donaldson running? You’re supposed to be lazy.
this fucking team… pathetic job by Ibanez
Why is Dickerson not out there?!
Yeah, where is Dickerson?
Come to think of it, why did we keep Andruw and get rid of Mawell?
Ibanez is a terrible outfielder.
They threw this one away.
That’s an error.
i want to laugh but it hurts too much
No more ibanez in the outfield please
Always the easy things that come back to bite this team.
All Granderson had to do was hit a lazy fly ball, and he couldn’t do that. Then Ibanez drops a routine fly ball out in RF, and all of a sudden they are teetering towards another heartbreaking loss.
Granderson is difficult to watch right now. His noodle arm isn’t helping either.
Fucking ibanez…
all you have to do is get the ball in the outfield, not swing for the fence
Oakland seems to understand this. apparently the Yanks don’t.
Oakland has the second fewest sacrifice flies in the league.
Why is Ibanez even playing defense?
Clearly, he’s not.
Probably because Girardi doesn’t want to play Ibanez at first base. I don’t get though why they don’t have guys like Ibanez take some ground balls there though. With Teixeira injured, this would be a better way to get some of these guys into the lineup.
GO RED SOCKS!
Eppley warming up.. time to lose this one!
My heart sank when I saw him warming up…
Chris Dickerson and Melky Mesa sit…on the bench…when Defense is needed.
That pitch looked pretty close.
Ouch.
here comes drew, game over
Boone at almost 30 pitches… this is where things tend to go south
Well here comes babe ruth
One more big out Booney and I’ll allow JJ to give you ALL THE COOKIES
Phew. I thought that was a hit through the gap.
I have a very bad feeling here
Pick your poison: Logan with 30 pitches or Eppley.
how about Phelps? Freddy? heck, even warren here would be better
Warren would most certainly not be better.
Girardi is asking for it right now leaving Boone in.
Living dangerously with Logan
Louie CK just got hit by the ball!
0-2 HBP… they do everything they can to lose
Eppley vs. Cespedes. lol this should end well.
Eppley vs. Cespedes. lol this should end well.
A lot of very tight games around the league…5-5 here, 4-4 in Chicago, and 6-6 in Boston. I really wish we had the division wrapped up so I could enjoy competitive baseball.
I wish they’d put Dick-erson in this tight little game. Ohh yeah!
Eppley versus Cepedes (sp?) with the bases loaded.
lol really Logan?
here comes the dagger by Girardi! Eppley with the bases loaded against Cespedes
0-2, hit by pitch … could have been worse
Just wait, Girardi will find a way to make it so.
Yes back in time to catch the final innings!
Seriously! How the fuck do you hit a guy in an 0-2 count?
And not even in the back leg! In the front fucking shin. On an 0-2 count! Are you kidding me?
Bases loaded and here comes Eppley to face Cespedes. Oh boy
gotta save Joba for the 9th when they’re losing
Id feel much better if it was joba here
Here comes the bases loaded walk.
Please, Eppley!!!!!!! WE LOVE YOU AND AFFIRM YOUR ROOGYOSITY!!!!!!!!!!!!
So this rally is:
- Ibanez goodness
- A walk to Cliff Pennington and his .583 OPS
- An 0-2 HBP
Yankee baseball!
I try to be as supportive of this team as I can – slumps happen. But the number of things they have done to hurt their chances of a win today boggle the mind.
DO NOT WALK HIM! I’d rather him hit for it!
one more big pitch Epp!!!
Mike Gallego is gritty.
I don’t understand why Girardi left in Logan to face Gomes in the first place, but hopefully Epply can throw enough strikes to get out Cespedes.
Probably worried about the A’s pinch hitting a 2nd time and replacing Gomes with a lefty bat (though with first base open, you can pitch around the lefty had he brought Eppley in)
In a tie game though, I get the opposing manager to burn as many players as possible.
The only lefty bats on the bench were Weeks (has been terrible this year), Crisp (has Pink Eye), and Barton (has barely played this year). Doesn’t seem likely that they would have pinch hit for Gomes.
Gomes was hitting .214/.328/.388 against RHP and .285/.400/.543 vs. LHP.
RHB vs. Eppley- .234/.286/.303
RHB vs. Logan- .241/.365/.340
just a short list of pitchers I’d use before Eppley in this spot: Phelps, Freddy, Warren, Joba, Nick Swisher, Soriano throwing with his left hand…
FUCK YOU JOHN get fucking glasses or something!
My heart can’t take this shit!
LOOOGY!
ROOOOOGY**
Rogan?
I thought you were happy about Epply, The Righty One Out GuY
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you!
Unclench.
RISPfail, A’s
YEAHHHHH!!!!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!!!
I feel like some runs are coming in the bottom of this frame.
that’s not good for my health, but nice job Eppley!
IF the Yankees get anywhere in the postseason this year, I nominate 2012 for the Year of the Kitchen Sink. Because really.
Haha, I agree.
This!
Kitchen Stink!
That’s if they miss the playoffs. Or get knocked out in Game 163. Otherwise they’ve had a ridiculous number of injuries to key guys/guys have played hurt and the Orioles are playing out of their minds and somehow they still lead the division thanks to contributions from places none of us were expecting.
Amazingly opponents are now 4 for 24 against Eppley in September. Who knew?
Unclench the sphincters …
Big ups, Epp!
Eppley threw 7 pitches at the same exact speed. I thought Rothchild was a good pitching coach? Shouldn’t he take something off at least one of the pitches to put something in the back of the hitters’ minds?
Whatever works man. I don’t give a shit what Eppley throws if it works. And it did. That’s all I care about at this point of the season.
Can’t get beat with your second or third best pitch there. If that’s what feels good, throw it.
Not really like Eppley has much else to go to besides that sinker. His changeup is mediocre, and his slider is usually flat and hard to control.
Let’s go Ichiro!! Continue being other worldy!!!!!!
please Alex, run into one.
Come one Alex
Ew! LOL!
If A-Rod could find the baseball it would make things so much easier.
Hell of an eight inning boys!!!!
what an offense
Looked to me like Derek is still feeling the ankle a little bit the way he ran to 1st and then the way he walked back to the dugout.
O’s/Sox going to the bottom of the tenth tied.
Is this inning where Bobby V actually uses a pinch hitter? Thanks for the effort, Bobby…
Extra innings? O’s probably win knowing their luck.
Solid work he’s doing… why would one want to bring in any lefty bats against Luis Ayala.
For the 2nd time late in the game he has Danny Valencia and his sub .200 average hitting righty on righty.
I would say we should bat A-Rod 6th but, who would go in his place?
This is why you can’t bench Cano either. Missing Tex/any meaningful production from the DH slot is making things really difficult.
So, in the brief time I had to head off and miss this game, I see Granderson fucked up a 2nd/3rd, 1 out situation.
Unreal with this team.
God forbid he runs to first on a dropped 3rd strike in the bottom of the 8th of a tied game. douche…
Joba’s been looking a lot better his last few outings.
Joba. Oh fuck. Why not Phelps?
Because he started on Wednesday.
He threw 110 pitches two nights ago.
So!? Isn’t it his throw day?
(I’m kidding)
OK yeah obvious. I forgot.
So did I till somebody brought it up. I was calling for Phelps over Lowe then some one pointed out he just started lol.
JOBA K.
Soriano’s blown save last night is now affecting today’s game since Robertson is not available. Hope it doesn’t burn them.
At least yanks have power coming up in the 9th. Hopefully Joba can keep it tied.
Fooled him!
You know, I’ll admit, I thought Joba was going to come back and be the answer.
Though that was a sweet slider right there.
He’s up there in MPH. Mid 90′s.
Win this sucker.
Rothschild was smiling there! Gotta like the changing speeds.
Good inning Joba!
Awesome inning for Joba!!
WHY IS IBANEZ STILL OUT THERE?!?!?!?
He won’t get up.
I’m calling Swisher dinger.
heckuva job by Joba.. some nasty sliders
Cano-Swish-Ibanez
I’d rather just bring Martin up and let him hit the walk-off.
Sox have runners on 1st and 2d w/2outs
Joba just dropped his ERA a third of a run that inning. Gotta love SSS.
Walk off.
Last night I said CDick. Martin hit it. Today I say Swisher. That means Cano will hit it.
Boom.
2 men on for Boston against Matusz… unfortunately Podsenick due up
It would be huge for Boston to win today.
http://www.overthemonster.com/.....0/game-134
reminded me of this.
Robbie hasn’t homered since the last series at Fenway.
He’s due.
Or not.
I’m rooting really hard for the Red Sox and it’s confusing. Really confusing.
Come on Robbie, redemption time.
He’s peaked.
It’s not like until this late August-September stretch he was having the best season of his career or anything.
Fucking Bobby V… is he just refusing to pinch hit and make any substitutions?
He runs up 3 righties to hit against Luis Ayala in the 10th inning and with the lefty Matusz on the mound and the winning run at 2nd, he keeps the lefty Scott Podsednik in to hit?
(who strikes out)
To be fair, Scott Pods was 2-4, has hit .300 as in Boston, and is probably one of the best hitters on their team right now. I wouldn’t pinch-hit for him either.
another out
I wonder if Cano’s hip is still bothering him.
He has to pull that shit.
Physically it feels like this whole team is tired and hurting right now.
There’s something. Pinch-run now?
It’s a long fucking season.
Well with the two off days in a row thanks to the rainout, a lot of these minor dings should be getting better.
A lot of guys are simply not hitting. Cano was not really hitting before the hip injury either.
I missed by about 3 total bases. Nice Swisher!
Good job, Swish!
nice AB nick.. nice!
There’s a baserunner.
Get him home.
Raul, positiveness twice in one day?!
Good AB Swish.
Dickerson can really run and Norris can really throw (despite his MLB CS%). This will be fun.
If Norris can really throw I doubt Dickerson actually runs…
Yeah Dickerson’s more of a ‘score on a ball in the gap guy’ than a SB guy.
Raul I give you permission to aim for the second deck.
Well this is why Ibanez was kept in the game….make it count Raul.
Counting on Russ to provide all the walk offs this year.
Should have PR with Nunez… Dickerson needed to go like 3 pitches ago
You really want Nunez in right field? Because I don’t.
Bad call Blue..that was low. At least C-Dick got into scoring position.
Well that wasn’t a strike.
And I’m glad I was wrong about the steal.
Come on, end it here.
Not liking the backwards K at all.
Do it again, Russell!
Fastball right down the middle.
The hell are you looking for Ibanez?
That was not even close to being down the middle. It was probably not even a strike.
maybe it wasn’t a strike, but he HAS to swing the bat there… fucking moron
if he’d whiffed you’d have yelled at him for chasing. He can’t do anything with a ball like that.
it wasn’t a slider in the dirt… it was a FB pretty close to the zone. He has to protect
This is not Brett Gardner. It’s Raul Ibanez. It’s a FB low and away. He’s a pull hitter. He’s definitely not quick enough with the bat to wait on it and line it the other way.
80% of umpires do not call that a strike.
80% huh? So now we are pulling numbers out of our asses? That pitch was really close and I’d say it’s probably 50/50 that the ump calls it a strike, he HAD to protect the plate, but didn’t.
SWING THE BAT! hanging slider and Russel simply took it
fuck! that 2-1 pitch should have been hit hard..
$#@$@!#$
Shit.
Hanging slider pull that man come on Russ!
Dammit.
No Martin magic, and no Castillo magic.
Extra innings again?! On a day when two of our relievers have been announced as unavailable…HOORAY!!
Cue the Sweaty Show!
If they need them you can bet they will be in. It is down to the wire, they need any wins they can get.
This team man…
If you want to talk about fastballs right down the middle…
Freddy?! Already? I would’ve tried to squeeze another inning out of Jobber.
certainly. Only at 12 pitches and 2 of the batters he faced were K’s.
Since when did Tommy Hunter throw 100 mph?
Surprise me, Freddy.
Not sure why you take Jobber out after that inning.
This is what this team’s failure today has cost them. They are relying on a junkballer and the worst team in the AL East to hold down their division lead.
So Pearce to first and Dickerson to the outfield? Please tell me Dickerson to the outfield. Please tell me they didn’t leave Ibanez in defensively. Just please tell me they didn’t burn their 2nd best defensive outfielder to just pinch run.
Holy fuck, that’s exactly what they did. smfh
Wow…I seriously don’t understand that. Can somebody who supports that decision explain to me why it’s a positive move?
I’m not sure you can find someone who supports it. The only thing I can think of is that they like Pearce’s bat over Dickerson’s defense. I wouldn’t have done that, though.
I’m saying keep both of them in, Dickerson hits in Swisher’s spot and Pearce hits in Ibanez’s spot.
You’re telling me that they left Ibanez in the outfield?
yes, unless Gameday is just trolling us.
I don’t think it is, cause it replaced Swish at 1st w/ Pearce…
That is incomprehensible.
This is one move of Girardi’s I simply cannot fathom.
HOLY MOLY!
That started to really scare me.
Ichiro makes everything look so damn…cool.
that was kinda scary..
Wow. Liking Sweaty Freddy so far!
Now going to the 12th at Fenway.
The longer it goes, the more likely the O’s win.
Leading 9 to 6 in 12.
Twenty-two combined players used, if Phelps, D-Rob and MFIKY arent available then it looks like its Garcia and Thomas!
Hey, Warren’s still there! And Swisher can pitch.
I forgot about Warren, I think Girardi has too. Swish has a 0 ERA alas they pulled him for a pinch runner. I’d love to see Nunez or Ichiro pitch.
Based on his SS, Nunez pitching would be a hazard to batters.
All Randy Johnson type fear in the box, I like it!
Yeah!
atta boy Freddy!
Better win it now. Freddy’s luck isn’t going to last forever.
Granderson-Chavez-Jeter
No comment.
Nice!
I wish I could grow a beard as glorious as Norris’!
Kay is comically behind the BAL-BOS game.
Please end this now.
SAM PEARCE!!!
Adam Jones doubled to start off the 12th
MESA PLEASE.
Ace comes in, gives up a double. The Yankees need to win right now, because BOS is about to blow their game.
Aceves has been truly awful since about mid-season.
If you want a long relief pitcher on the postseason roster, I think it has to be Lowe at this point. Garcia feels like a ticking time bomb with all of those offspeed pitches he hangs. Lowe’s ability to induce the ground ball makes him a much less dangerous proposition.
Nah, my money’s on your boy Nova or maybe even Phelps. I’d go w/ Phelps because he’s had success both in the rotation and out of the bullpen in multiple roles this season. Where as Nova’s been all sorts of awful, Garcia’s been up and down, and Lowe’s had two really good relief appearances and the rest where…not that good.
Why would it NOT be Phelps? He has done absolutely everything the team has asked of him, and been pretty effective. He deserves it.
Agreed. Go with Phelps.
Because Phelps is probably going to be used in a set up role and won’t be left to rot in the bullpen as a mop up guy.
Phelps will be there for anything in the postseason. You don’t really need a mop up guy in the postseason, you are trying to win every game.
Phelps is more likely to be used as a short reliever in the playoffs given their shakiness in the middle innings.
If you’re going to take Nova, you’re not going to bury him in the mop up role. He still has very good stuff, and I think they’d be more likely to just leave him off the roster since he doesn’t have much bullpen experience.
Lowe has experience going in both short and longer stints. He gives you more flexibility.
You don’t really go with a traditional “mop up” guy as your long man in the postseason. You usually want some one who can hold a lead, where as your traditional Sergio Mitre type “mop up guy” just sucks up inning regardless of how well he actually pitches. W/ Logan, Joba, Robertson, and Soriano at the end of the game if they use Phelps as a long man and he only pitches two or three times the entire post season but throws 3-4 innings at a time and gives the Yankees a chance to comeback, I’d be fine w/ that.
If they want a guy to hold a score, they’re going to go to Phelps for 2 or 3 innings, not Lowe.
Lowe is for the case where your starter gets knocked out in the 2nd or 3rd inning and you don’t want to burn through the entire bullpen in a blowout situation. The same reason why a guy like Gaudin was on the roster in 2009, and Moseley in 2010, and Burnett in 2011.
Lowe also hasn’t been very good outside of 2 appearances. They already have Joba/D-Rob/Soriano for 7-8-9. Is having Phelps as the 6th inning guy really more beneficial than being the long man?
If you take 4 starters, the bullpen starts to shape up like:
Soriano
Robertson
Logan
Joba
Phelps
Rapada (Since Girardi can’t resist)
Eppley
If Teixeira is healthy, you don’t need a ton of bench players. Stewart, Chavez, Nunez, and the other half of Ibanez/Jones/Mcgeehee. You can either include Dickerson as an extra defensive replacement, or you can go with someone with more length out of the pen. That leaves pretty much Lowe, Garcia, or Nova, and I’d take Lowe out of those 3 unless Nova starts to pitch well down the stretch.
Is it all setting up for a Cervelli walk-off in the 17th?!!
Redemption time Curtis.
Grandy walk off.
Chavez is going to end this.
Where was that before Curtis?
Pull da ball
Damn. Just missed that one.
Sure as hell looked like he was off the base.
Oh I really don’t think so, Blue.
Aceves coughs it up. We’re in trouble.
an umpiring robbing the Yankees… unheard of!
Aceves not a true Yankee.
Looked to me like he was out on the replay.
He was safe on replay, the first angle it was hard to tell but the second one clearly showed “daylight” as Singleton put it.
Thanks. I was judging based on the view from foul territory.
What the fuck! Twice now we get screwed by the umps
Baltimore pulls ahead of Boston … hello tie atop the east.
Aceves disproving the theory Sawx fans had about him being an embedded Yankee by giving up another run.
Okay, Boston is completely worthless. Let’s just win this and keep out one game lead, and get Gardner’s number up on the side.
Girardi : “All I’m asking is you ask.”
Bulshit.
Fuuuuuuck. And Baltimore has a two-run lead in the top of the inning.
another inning, another failure.
No one ever told you baseball was a game of failure, I take it?
1-10 with RISP, 11 LOB… it’s a game of failure but not this bad
Look at the A’s. 3-16 with 13 LOB
WTF!?!?!?
of course
oh my god! Girardi left Ibanez in right when he could have had Dickerson … Hal! Fire him tonight!
just a comedy of bad baseball out there right now.
fuck Granderson
Curtis Granderson: not a centerfielder.
Brett Gardner: Still on the DL.
Ichiro: 38 years old.
the Yankees have the pieces they have and they have to win with them. or not. but this is not going to be pretty either way.
No IBB?
By the way, that’s the correct situation for a sacrifice.
No wonder Girardi got fired the same year he won NL MOY.
Yanks let this one get away.
Following on line – was there a mound visit there? Before an IBB?
Yes, Girardi came out to talk to Garcia.
I think Freddy’s getting tired.
Oh, jeez.
not feeling good in this matchup… Reddick is due
Reddick is beyond due
If Freddy walks in a run, that’s my cue to start drinking hard liquor.
This game is OVA!
that IBB really screwed Freddy… he was pitching great and now he cna’t find the plate
PEARCE!
Gets Phelps up!
STEVE PEARCE.
Well this has been interesting hasn’t it?
RISPfail by both teams on a massive level.
and STEVE PEARCE SAVES THE DAY!
Steve Pearce!
PEARCE!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!! NICE!!
PEARCE-ING THIS ONE TOGETHER!!!
oh thank god. now win this and lets all go home happy.
I guess Pearce isn’t that tired.
Really think we have to win it here. I don’t know if Garcia’s got another Hudini act in him.
Holy Ichiro. Hallowed art thy name. Deliver us from Girardi.
http://riveraveblues.com/2012/.....nt-4848911
Oh my Mo. Thank you Pearce!!
Please end this NOW. My heart (and liver) can’t take many more top-halves of innings.
PEARCE great play, two innings in a row and Freddy got away with a hanger to Carter. Time to put up the W let’s goooo
Short porch it Ichirosan!!
Best thing about Ichiro leading off the inning?
Girardi can’t call for the bunt. (or can he?)
Freakin Red Sox can’t buy a win even with all that salary cap relief!
Boston sucks.
Ichy…that was right down the middle!!
HOLY SHIT THIS GUY IS FROM MY HOME TOWN!!!!!
That curveball messed him up.
Yea i just noticed he is from CT.
oh…it’s that New Milford. The New Milford that the New Milford, NJ calls the OTHER New Milford. Never mind…all excitement out the window. No longer care.
I can’t believe the Yankees have only struck out 7 times in this game. It feels like 20.
Seriously though…
When you’re cold, you’re cold: a story of the 2012 New York Yankees Offense.
hanger, can’t do anything with it
Come on Scribner!! Put New Milford on the map (by allowing a walk off to Cano) We’ll all love you for it.
…or not.
My ex-girlfriend’s brother was friends with Rick Porcello!
Haha, a friend of mine had a hit off of Porcello while he was in college.
Whenever I was over at their house, her mom would always gush about how they knew a star. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that Rick Porcello was terrible.
ugh
Fans of Freddie Garcia are in luck!
Roll-Over Robbie.
If Voldemort hits a walk off, this move will make sense. If not…
Smoke and mirrors…
Who gets the ball the next inning if not Garcia?
Honestly? Why *would* you pull Garcia for Justin Thomas or Adam Warren?
David Phelps.
He threw 110 pitches a two or three nights ago.
Phelps started the other day and threw over 100 pitches.
He started on Tuesday right?
Wednesday.
Wednesday, they were rained out on Tuesday.
Okay then you probably are right.
What are we at…9 innings of bullpen now???
How about a run now, eh?
Nice job, Freddy!
Now, let’s score some motherfucking runs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CDick going yard.
John’s lamenting that calling extra innings is getting away from his social life. John Sterling has more of a social life than me. Excuse me while I hang myself.
oh god that is brutal. on the other hand your friends probably actually like you.
He’s probably just going home to cry in front of his Marvin Hamlisch shrine.
“Well I’ll tell ya, random prostitute: You can’t predict my penis.
And that was the 15th money shot, and 15 minutes or more can save you on your pregnancy tests.”
I have no idea why I went there. But I did.
Idk…I’m laughing. Not sure why.
My couch would miss me if I had a social life. I tell the ball and chain, if I didn’t hold this couch down, it would float away! I’m still awaiting my pilot to be picked up, “Real House-husbands of Suburbs near Atlanta”, so I can quit my job.
It’s not as great as you think.
http://deadspin.com/5933101/jo.....s-bathrobe
I lol’d just from the picture! Oh My. That is priceless.
We’d all better hope that sash is tied tightly. Or it’ll be JOHNNY JUICED ONE! EL COCKITAN! HANGING LOW, DONCHA KNOW?! LIMPALICIOUS!
Six pitches, three outs. Me likey!
Freddy with a nice stress free inning.
With the top of the A’s order due up next inning, now would be a good time to end this thing..
Oh, the Orioles won?
Go. Fucking. Figure.
An interesting move…
Everyone knew that was coming except Nunez
that’s not a strike
Nice of Fielden Culbreth to forget the dimensions of the strike zone now that we are in extra innings.
Somebody please explain the substitution of Pearce for Nunez.
Nunez is a better batter.
This dude has a nasty curve ball.
VOLDEMORT WITH THE HUSTLE.
GOOD HUSTLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ibanez! Hussle up!
OH HEY, look what happens when you HUSTLE out of the box!
Ibanez with the hustle!
RAUL!!! that was very nice
Think they’re frustrated?
Raul!!!
(I seriously thought he was going to be dead at 2B)
Didn’t think ibanez could motor like that! Pinch runner?
Nice Hustle. Take notes, Robbie.
lol Ibanez.
They just cannot time this guy’s curveball.
I’m surprised that he can throw one that slow without giving it away with his arm action. It looks like they are starting to adjust though.
THAT’S hustle!!! Take note Swisher and Cano!
Was that a slide or a collapse? LOL
Seriously though, if Ibanez could come back to life? It would be a HUGE help.
In hindsight the Nuney for Pearce move was dumb. Could have saved Nuney to pinch run for Ibanez.
They could just use Mesa if they wanted to PR.
Knowing Joe, never.
Nunez is a much better batter than Pearce.
That’s true, but in hindsight Nuney got out.
Thank you!
Oh, YEAH!!!!!!!
Get him in Russ.
Tough here to expect him to get the run in since he’s already at 2 strikes, but man…
END. THIS.
Russel…don’t need to hit it out tonight…just hit it to the outfield. Preferebly left.
Sigh. Nice try Voldemort.
Fuck!
Damn…what is that a good send TV people?
He went on contact.
He was going on contact. Out by a mile.
With Ibanez you really don’t have a choice.
fuck.
Ok, NOW is redemption time Curtis.
fuck… they can’t score. This offense sucks
Even Martin can’t get that winning run home.
Sickening.
Like that play by Ibanez. Norris stepped up.
doesn’t the C have to touch Ibanez with his glove? he never did..
“The ball beat him.” Nonsense. I agree with you, but these umps make their own rules.
Damn it. Great effort though, Raul.
Just hit a dinger.
This team is just fail.
You have to get them to make the play in this situation. Even though he was out, it was a good send. If he yanks the throw a little bit in the pressure of the moment, you score.
Agreed.
I agree 100%
I’m okay with it.
Run Russell, run!
Gotta give credit to Ibanez for hustling.
Good send just didn’t work out, great hustle
C’mon! RISPHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!
See I thought that WAS a strike.
Eric I would really really love you right now.
Let’s walk off please, only so far Garcia can go with his Bardol and Vagisil pitches.
One more of those please.
Chavez, just single!!!
Only chance yanks win is another wild pitch
Jeter!
Holy shit. C’mon, Jeet!
No first pitch hacking, Derek.
this is like an anti blowout.
Where was that pitch? I mean, not complaining.
Umps trying to go home, he’s hurting!
C’mon Captain.
JEETS, if you wanna be the MVP, come through right here. I’m throwing down the Gauntlet.
ALSO DON’T SWING FIRST PITCH
Lets go cap’n CLUTCH.
Jeter hasn’t had a walk off in the new stadium
Swing at the first pitch after two straight walks. I dare you.
Thank you Michael Kay for that intro. Idiot.
take the first one Capt
Kay that was a horrible excuse for Jeter if he gets out. I mean it’s true, but that can be said for all batters. Especially Alex.
Lean *into* that pitch!
Damnit Derek! Lean into that!
I smell a walk-off walk.
TAKE TAKE TAKE
Take a strike.
Ball 3 possibly
No. It was a strike
The pitch was borderline high. It could have gone either way, but there was no need to even take the bat off your shoulder in that spot. Make the guy earn it.
Darn.
Dammit. I want to eat!
Those were both strikes
N O P E.
I hate this game.
DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT
This game makes the 18-inning Ms/Os extravaganza look not so bad.
I understand that the 2-0 was a hittable pitch, BUT Scribner had walked two straight guys, the ump has shrunk the zone dramatically, and he had missed badly on 2 straight pitches…
That was their chance.
Not clutch.
Only one pitch in that at bat was plausibly a strike, and even that one was not a pitch Jeter could hit.
To be honest, I don’t trust Jeter up there with the bases loaded. He is always caught inbetween being patient and aggressive. He should have been straight taking on 2-0, but he took a half swing instead. That pitch might have been ball 3.
No reason to help the pitcher out there. Jeter is too aggressive in these spots.
Jeter career WBL .329/.395
Its just the team at this point.
And that’s that.
Win tomorrow.
Fucking damn it.
seriously, fuck this offense. Jeter got 2-0, 89mph fastball up in the zone and couldn’t even make contact.
the numbers are off the charts: 1-12 with RISP, 14 LOB
A’s have been worse. 3-16 with 13 LOB
That’s better, not worse.
You have to make him prove he can throw a strike, Captain.
Hasn’t Jeter made the last out in extra innings twice thus far?
I’m tired of this game.
Freddy for the 4th inning of work with IBanez in RF and Nunez in 3rd base…
Wow I think this game is actually over.
They had so. many. chances.
prove me wrong Freddie.
I hope he does hold them, but if he can’t,it really feels like ball game over for this team.
And there it is.
Fuck.
This game is 100% on the inept offense.
I feel like the A’s come through here, I hate to say it but Freddy’s gotta be tired.
Well, when its not your year, its not your year.
Well, when you make stupid fucking tautological statements, you make stupid fucking tautological statements.
Over and out.
predictable
That was fucking hideous!
You can only extend Freddie so long.
Yep. I am disgusted.
uggggggggggggggggggggggh
embarassing
That ball was tattoo’d, dayum.
seriously, Girardi needs to be fired ASAP… why is he sticking with Freddy? FUCK YOU GIRARDI AND FUCK THIS TEAM
Cant blame Girardi with the other guys in the bullpen.
I blame Cashman before Girardi
Girardi has other options. He decided not to go with them.
Garcia was getting smoked in the last inning, and falling behind on every hitter. You can certainly blame him for leaving in a tired pitcher who is also not very good.
WHO ELSE WAS THERE?
Cory F****ing Wade?
Justin F****ing Thomas?
Adam F****ing Warren?
Better gamble on those guys than leave Freddy out when he clearly was gassed.
As Justin Thomas gives up a home run.
Yeah sure.
He had David Phelps in the bullpen. You do know who that is, right?
I brought that up earlier but was told by the others that since he started on Wednesday, that he wouldn’t be availible because he threw over 100 pitches.
Probably not available. He did throw 110 pitches on Wednesday.
Fire Girardi. What the fuck is this shit. Why is Freddy still in the game after the last inning?
man, Girardi is gonna get chewed out by the media for leaving freddy in for THAT fucking long. not to mention his other questionable pinch hitters/defensive changes.
This team is a joke.
That was a home-run derby ball.
ugh…we all knew it was only a matter of time. but that still sucks.
Annnnnnnnd there it is. Girardi leaves in a pitcher for too long until its burnt down beyond reach
Stunning. Not.
All they had to do was put the bat on the ground and they would have won the game in the last half inning.
Losing this game with all the chances they had to score a run on an out would be crushing, and may cost them the division. Absolutely disgraceful.
Citing Oakland’s RISP numbers is incredibly misleading, because many of those spots came with 2 outs. The Yankees had chance after chance with less than 2 outs and couldn’t get it done.
Girardi would have bunted his # 2 hitter there.
That is why you don’t bunt just simply because there’s a guy on 1st base. This small ball shit has to stop… he killed 2 innings with it earlier in the game.
Screw this team. They’ve been done for quite some time. I’m done.
There goes first place and there goes playoffs. Fantastic day of hitting.
“There goes first place and there goes playoffs”
Huh?
They’re still in first place (at least for now).
And it would take a minor miracle for them to not make the playoffs.
What the fuck? We’re still in first and at worse we’re still up by 4 games in the wild card. Are you fucking stupid?
The Yankees had their chance, this game is over. The Yankees deserve to lose this game. With a 1-12 w/RISP performance, a loss is typically the outcome.
FIRE GIRARDI NOW AND DON’T WAIT UNTIL HE CAN SCREW UP THE PLAY-IN GAME!
Blaming Girardi for leaving Garcia in?
Blame this shitty ass fucking offense.
David Phelps sitting on his ass in the pen.
He started two days and is unavailable. You have a brain for a reason, try using it.
NOT AVAILIBLE
Blame them both.
Freddy was done.
Jeter gave away that last at-bat. Martin couldn’t get the runner in from third with one out. Neither could Granderson. Cano’s in a dreadful slump, etc, etc.
Once they lose first place to this O’s team–which is proving themselves to be the best team in the AL East–it may well be over for the 2012 Yankees.
All of you blaming Girardi have to use your heads and think about who else is in the bullpen.
This is Cashman’s doing. He has had a horrible year. Maybe his worst year ever in terms of trades and picking up free agents.
David Phelps.
HE WAS NOT AVAILIBLE.
Mike’s right, Do you have a brain?
Blame everyone but Jeter for failing to get the run in last inning against a pitcher who had no idea where the ball was going.
Derek Jeter is not going to succeed every time. That’s a given.
He could have not swing at every pitch until the guy shows you can hit the zone with some consistency
Mike – I think you said, he can hit + never forget the intangibles.
Blaming Cashman is just plain fucking stupid.
What about payroll limitations and other teams not being completely stupid and giving talent for talent do you guys not get?
IT’S NOT THAT EASY TO BE A GM.
Now I’m remembering why I’ve avoided RAB for a while.
Three run home run?
Fuck me.
Fuck me, fuck me, fuck me.
Haha. Look again . . .
Another “Worst Game of the Season” kind of day . . . . Offense still sucks with the best of them. Please, for the love of Mo, please win tomorrow!
Girardi is the dumbest fuck in all of baseball, this offense is one of the least clutch, and the Orioles will apparently never lose again.
You know Jeter really should have tried working a fucking walk when the bases were loaded with a pitcher who had no control. If ARod pulled that shit, the stadium would have booed him out of here.
I put this loss on the offense, not the pitching. Way too much RISPFAIL, and what can you expect from the dregs of the bullpen?
So everyone is now saying “screw this team they have been done for a while” I was unaware we had not won our last 6. I suppose those wins don’t count. I mean shit we weren’t going to run the table. Get off the fucking ledge. I’ll go 6-1 every 7 games if you’d let me. If you’re going to quit and bash the team every loss just go jump off the bridge. Honestly. Yeah it blows that we will lose this game barring a miracle but shit it’s not the end of the world.
All true. It still sucks to lose a game like this, and in this painful fashion.
When Baltimore is on the same kind of streak, you have literally NO room for error.
Every one of these “it’s just one game” situations is why they are here right now. When you are in the situations they were in today, there is absolutely no excuse to lose this game.
I remember when the yanks hit homeruns
You mean like earlier this game? And to win the game last night? Do you have Alzheimer’s?
Wish we had some young hitters in the farm.
So everybody calling for Girardi’s head, who do you want in there this past inning instead?
Phelps, who threw 110 pitches two nights ago
Soriano, who admitted to being “sore” before the game
Thomas, who before the HR to Carter had and ERA of 5.63
Wade, who hasn’t been good since last August
Who should’ve been in there instead guys?
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would say fire Cashman.
Fire Cashman because the September mop up guys aren’t good enough?
That’s a bit of a stretch.
No bullpen is built to shut an offense down for 13 innings when their starter doesn’t complete 3 innings. The fault here lies w/ the offense and Ivan Nova, who couldn’t get out of the god damned 3rd inning
Why? Cashman didn’t cause the pen to be overworked. Poor performances from Hughes and Nova did. Also that rain out didn’t help.
And that would be equally, if not more, ridiculous. Tell me, did you call for Cashman’s job last night?
There was nothing Girardi could have done any better with the pitching moves. He got the best anyone could have expected out of the bullpen given who was available. This loss in on the bats.
The Mythical Gets Everybody Out Reliever
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! Hilarious! What a waste of damn time.
Everyone knew they were running out of pitching.
You had to score in these last few innings. Jeter should know better than to even risk bailing the guy out on 2-0. He should put the bat down on the ground and take a stroll down the third base line while the 2-0 pitch is delivered.
This is on the offense. How many innings in a row does the pitching staff have to throw up zeroes? Nobody on this team is willing to be patient with runners on base. Every time they get to 2-1, 3-1 they chase garbage and get themselves out.
I cannot believe I’m saying this…but I agree w/ Matt 100%
I will go further to say that Ivan Nova should shoulder some of the blame though. If he can get through 5 innings, there’s a big possibility Lowe is still available before Garcia.
Agreed 100% this loss should be attributed to RISPFAIL. The bullpen did as well as they possibly could.
They need a new hitting coach. I blame long for their approach. Everyone seems to chase the garbage.
There is the expectation that they will always get a fastball when they are ahead in the count.
Good pitchers, who trust more than just their fastball, will NEVER give these guys a fastball over the plate in those counts.
They would rather walk the bases loaded than give up a homer run. These guys don’t understand that.
i agree with this…also Nova sucking didn’t help.
I cannot believe how stupid and entitled and unreasonable you guys are sometimes.
THE OFFENSE ISN’T HITTING.
THAT’S NOT GIRARDI’S FAULT.
NEW MANAGER =/ MAGICALLY WINNING.
NEW GM =/ BARGAIN FREE AGENT SIGNINGS AND ADVANTAGEOUS TRADES.
Like he’s made a few questionable moves but the offense could have ended this 3 or 4 times.
Don’t you understand? A new manager would make the hitters get clutch hits every time up. A new GM would only sign relievers who got everybody out. It’s so obvious.
Put Warren in, better than the alternatives.
I’m still holding out for a comeback here
Wow, this game went from thoroughly interesting to down right pathetic. Honestly, it should have been over last inning. Was it 2 passed balls we had? Offense NEEDS to take advantage of that. You really can’t blame the bullpen for this one. The pen has been so overworked, and then the SP can’t last 3 innings? Something like this was bound to happen. We should have taken it in the 12th.
And the Orioles continue to win.
1 for 12 RISP. thanks bats. Fuckfaces
I wonder what will be the downfall of this team in the playoffs this year…
Why does everybody demand blood from upper management during games in which the Yankees offense suffers collective paralysis? Who’s fault is that but the fuckers in the batter’s box?
the offense and nova lost this game. Just go out and win tomorrow and hope the Orioles lose. This team is who they are, I just want them to avoid the wildcard. The one game shit is a travesty.
I agree I hate losing so much it’s painful and it blows. But to say fire girardi and cashman and long and trade the whole team after every loss is starting to get old.. I mean where were you all this past week.. Dare i say everyone was happy? Then one loss opens the flood suicide gates. It’s unreal.
Why am I still watching this game?! I know, to get my feelings hurt in the bottom of the inning when the biggest dick tease team leads me on some more.
I can’t wait for stuart’s synopsis of this one.
Yanks had plenty of opportunities to win today. Girardi didn’t have much to work with in the pen to begin with and then the offense and defense choked in game situations.
Old man Nova stunk up the joint like a turd in a dry toilet.
Trying to push my RAB game thread record to 5-0. Ichiro is starting the comeback!
When Ichiro and Jeter alternate being your best player, your team is garbage.
Dare I hope?
Let the tease begin
Please don’t get me excited for nothing guys. If you’re not going to win, just stop teasing me now.
They had their chance in the bottom of the 12th. So many things could have gone their way. The big failure was Jeter’s over-aggressiveness, when Scribner could very well have walked in the game winner.
Or they could have made some shit happen. Which they always fail to do.
They’ve had 2 chances to drive in a run from 3rd base on a fly ball and have failed both times. What more do they need to do? Granderson’s AB earlier in the game was probably the reason we even ended up in extras.
Once again, CC is not an ace.
lmao
It’s not like aces do things like shut down hot offenses for 8 innings with 11 punchouts. Nope.
Fat sack of shit has 0 rbis………..