ALDS Game Two Thread: Yankees @ Orioles
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Joe Torre used to always say that Game Two was the most important game of a playoff series because if you won Game One, you’ve got a chance to really take control of the series. On the other hand, if you lost Game One, you’ve got a chance to get back in the series and tie things up. I respectfully disagree — I’m in the “the most important game is the next one” camp — but it wasn’t a coincidence that Torre always lined Andy Pettitte up for Game Two. He trusted him to either give the Yankees a 2-0 series lead or tie it up a 1-1.
Pettitte will be on the mound in Game Two tonight after CC Sabathia pitched the Yankees to a win in Game One, with a big assist from the offense for their five-run ninth inning. Andy made three regular season starts after coming off the DL, allowing just two runs in 16.2 total innings. He stretched his pitch count up to 94 last time out and should be good for 100+ offerings tonight, especially after eight days of rest. The entire bullpen is fresh as well following Sabathia’s outing. Here are the lineups…
New York Yankees
SS Derek Jeter
LF Ichiro Suzuki
3B Alex Rodriguez
2B Robinson Cano
RF Nick Swisher
1B Mark Teixeira
C Russell Martin
CF Curtis Granderson
DH Eduardo Nunez
LHP Andy Pettitte (5-4, 2.87)
Baltimore Orioles
LF Nate McLouth
SS J.J. Hardy
RF Chris Davis
CF Adam Jones
C Matt Wieters
1B Mark Reynolds
DH Jim Thome
3B Manny Machado
2B Robert Andino
LHP Wei-Yin Chen (12-11, 4.02)
It’s been raining in Baltimore most of the day, but things are supposed to die down later tonight. Whether the rain dies down enough for them to get the game in without a lengthy delay remains to be seen. Hopefully the can get a full nine innings in and there won’t be a mid-game delay. Anyway, the game is scheduled to start at 8:07pm ET and can be seen on TBS (or TNT if the Nationals and Cardinals are still playing). Enjoy.
Update (7:51pm ET): Guess what? They’re in a rain delay. A start time has not yet been announced, but appears that the delay will be shorter than last night’s. At least I hope it will be.
Update (8:10pm ET): The game is scheduled to begin at 8:45pm ET.
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i sure hope yanks hit chen good. they hit him pretty good in 2001
Big Member is back! And with a short but amazing post.
chen’s 27 and a rookie,
hence the joke, i imagine.
Come on mannnnnnnn!
The last time Pettite pitched against Baltimore in the postseason was October 9, 1996, almost 16 years to the day. In that game Maier snagged Jeter’s HR to left and Bernie ended it with a walkoff HR in the 11th. I feel magic in the air tonight boys. P.S. Wei-Yin Chen was 11-years-old that night.
excuse me, to right field.
I hope Nunez has a great game.
He made a great play from 3rd last night as the pinch runner. Love that kid’s grit.
Do you guys think Jeter’s ever been with Kate Upton?
He taught her the Cat Daddy
Last night turned this game from “must win” to “extremely want to win”. I trust Andy Pettitte to give us 5-6 good innings.
Please, not another fucking rain delay.
The last time we batted against Chen we smacked the shit out of him.
My inner child is giddy as all hell to see Andy take the stage once more in October Baseball. A win tonight would be HUGE. I mean, it would be in any scenario, but a win tonight means the Yankees just have to win one of three at home.
Bring it, Andy.
Can you believe here we are again with Pettite pitching in the postseason? It’s like deja vu all over again.
RT
I hope the Nats Cards game 2 isn’t an omen.
i’d like to apologize to carlos beltran for saying his career was all but over.
They should be good tonight. Lowe, Logan, Soriano, Joba, Phelps all have not pitched in game since last tuesday. If they can get 5 innings out of andy with the lead I would be happy.
Fuck. Meredith M just tweeted that the start of the game is gonna be delayed.
TBS just said 8:45 start time.
Baltimore sucks. The best thing that ever was connected to Baltimore was the show Homicide.
Baltimore is a nice city.
Compared to what?
Newark
Camden, NJ.
Compton.
All kidding aside, Baltimore has some nice areas to live–like Fell’s Point–and the people are pretty friendly. I’ve visited there several times over the years, and always had a good time.
Baltimore was the original home of the yankees
The Pier is nice but outside of that it’s pretty fucking soul crushing.
The 11th circle of hell
I’m surprised that it’s not Baghdad’s sister city, yet it is paired with Odessa (Ukraine)
Bridgeport CT
Greatest comment of all time right here.
And ‘The Wire.’
Um… The Wire? Hello?
You misspelled “The Wire”
The Yankees and Babe Ruth were both born in Baltimore.
That counts for something.
Son of a biatch. Another damn delay…
Pretty good speed there, grandy, nunie, jeter, ichiro, arod all in a row. Didn’t think Ichiro would be 2nd, but I still think its a good lineup.
The Cardinals must’ve missed the memo saying that they can’t hit homers in the palyoffs.
Wasn’t just the HRs. They trounced the Nats.
Hmm..another Delay. I approve. Hopefully the game doesn’t start till I’m home from work at like 9:45. No, I don’t care about the rest of your schedules =P
Fucker.
Hey man, insomnia and a non-traditional schedule makes me love this rain delay. I’m going to be awake anyway, so I might as well be watching the Yankees.
Completely off topic, has anybody ever played the game Flow? It’s a Smart Phone puzzle game and it’s infuriating and addictive and I hate myself for not listening to my sister and downloading it.
I’ll be awake, I just want to wait around for the game to start.
Netflix for the win. I’m watching the office, I have to say, it feels as if the quality has dipped after Steve Carell left. I mean he only left four episodes for me and I already feel the quality as dipped.
I enjoy a number of these games: physicsgames.net
I actually have a night off to sit back and watch a game on TV. I want the damn thing to start so I’ll still have a chance to get lucky later.
Hahahaha.
BOO.
Hey man, like I said, insomnia and nontraditional work hours.
Goodtimezzzz.
Really want to watch the game. Sadly my prof gave us an absolutely brutal advanced macroecon assignment. So very nice of him.
Lol macro blows
don’t have to tell me. And the prof blows too. Makes for one truly terrible class.
If you like economics like I do, you might get a little chuckle out of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVp8UGjECt4
That is fantastic! Do you have a degree in econ, studying econ or just a fan?
My first major was political science, so I dabbled a bit in economics. My interest was kept alive by a few very special professors.
Ah my second major is Poli Sci. I’m an Econ- Poli Sci double major in my senior year. Thinking of getting a masters in Econ as of right now.
Brilliant.
Few things in baseball aggravate me more than a delay with no or very little rain and no tarp even on the field. Such a waste and BS.
It’s raining in Baltimore, baby
But everything else is the same
8:45 start. ugh.
What a complete waste. Wasn’t even raining (or at least not hard) and they never even bothered to put the tarp on the field. Completely pointless.
8:45 start according to the Radio.
They just said the start time is supposed to be 8:45PM.
YES WE’RE GOING TO PLAY! Time to stack up on food.
Chicken francese, Frosted Flakes, Yogurt, Cookies, and pizza hot pockets.
That is a very…interesting combination.
Yea it is!
Add pot… And it works
Wow… You smoke a lot of pot, huh…
I was about to say Damn Joe…those are some extreme munchie cravings. Not judging at all btw, I love me some weed.
Never smoked in my life bro.
They just announced an 8:45 first pitch. Sweet, didn’t want to sleep again tonight either…
It’s so hard to stay up for these games after a whole day of work! Wah. But at least the rain delay isn’t as bad as yesterday’s.
Yeah, and they say if Viagra keeps you up for 4 hours, that you should go to the hospital …. oh, you meant hard to stay awake … Never mind.
Hahaha, I feel like this comment thread can go down so many avenues
I was tired at work today after last night’s game and now another delay. It’ll be another late night but it’s worth it. Guess I’ll just load up with caffeine again. It could be a lot worse though. They scheduled Nats-Cards at 1 PM ET on Wednesday. That would suck if I couldn’t watch my team in a playoff game. Doesn’t MLB realize that people work during that time?
RIGHT? So brutal. At least we have the chance to see the game… even if we can barely make it to the end. Last night was a struggle. Tonight? Oh goodness. Let’s just make ourselves a pot of tea and settle down with the game.
Ohhhhh, look who it is. Who will FIP you tonight?
I’m hoping Pettitte.
I would gladly be FIP’d by Pettitte any time. Any. Time.
Oh, so you want him to “stare you”. I got ya.
Really? objectively, he kind of looks like a vampire, plus the Good Ol’ Christian thing…
FIP vs. Anti-FIP….FIGHT!
Why do I bother talking to people? I just annoy them all.
Good thing I have you guys.
What’d you do now?
Misunderstanding. Reason I hate texts.
Dude, people suck. General rule of thumb: ignore all but the best of them and you’ll be happier for it.
Word. Great advice.
It’s interesting to see how Girardi fills out the lineup card and makes pitching selections in the playoffs because you see where his confidence in this moment lies. Never in the regular season would Granderson hit 8.
If Andy gives us a good 6 innings we should hit Chen and I’m smelling a sweep. go Yanks.
Damn towel-wavers.
Smoltz sneering at Andy Pettitte’s mention
Oh good, glad to see that the O’s fans are waving the white flags.
Lets rock Chen.
I wish Joe would move Old Purple Lips out of the three hole it doesn’t help when the most you can get out of your #3 is a walk and if you are real lucky a single.
Nice of you to mix up the content!
*sigh*
Your welcome….someone must hold our $25M per year slap hitter accountable for his atrocious performance.
You’re so brave. The only one willing to speak out against A-Rod.
He’s not paid $25M…
@Buster_ESPN All along, the legions of O’s fans have been hiding out, waiting to be inspired. They’re out in force again tonight at Camden Yards.
this is the most ridiculous twett I’ve ever read.
If he said this before Game 1, it would have been fine. Not game 2.
Is the tarp off? My cable has decided to stop working.
The tarp was never on.
I paid for Tarp with my taxes! Oh, wait. That’s a different TARP.
I wouldn’t know since I can’t see anything on my TV. I thought I could watch it on MLB.tv since I have a subscription, but once again I can never see the games I want to see. It says I have to pay an additional $4.95. MLB just doesn’t get it…and sadly, for tonight’s game, neither do I.
Let’s see how the luck swings tonight.
As well thought out as Phil Hughes’ molestache
yankees need to finish these clowns.
Finally, let’s get this thing going now. Quiet the crowd again Yanks!!!
Nuney DH.
Do it Yankees.
Our time.
I would prefer greatly if the Yankees outscored the Orioles today, and as such were declared the winners of this contest.
I declare the Yankees winners of tonight’s game. Sadly, they will still have to go out and play.
Oh no. Angel is behind the plate. He always screws us.
Angel Hernandez behind the plate…
Fielding Culbreth looked like a priest when they showed the umpire head shots.
Fieldin*
who ever told me about physicsgames.net why would you do this to me? blow things up 2 is too addicting.
Hernandez behind the plate tonight. Great.
Atta boy, Jeet
Nice, Jeets. Good start. Let’s get Andy an early lead!
Cap’n!
That’s what he does
Strike… YAAAAAA
Strike….YAAAAAA
Hit… *Silence*
its pretty funny
Drop a bunt ichiro
Please, please just keep pouring fastballs in there.
Haha! Shut the damn crowd up.
All right. We’ll take it.
Regression to the mean for Reynolds there.
Suck in, Renoylds.
That’s how Mark Reynolds is supposed to field.
Nice. Reynolds finally fielding as he should.
Reynolds couldn’t just fall on that one.
Now there’s Mark Reynolds!
two on no outs let’d give Andy something to work with
See THAT is how Reynolds is supposed to field.
Who uses Sports Yapper? That’s a joke. RAB over all.
Just keep the line moving Alex.
I’d love A-Rod to just bunt.
Ok, A-Rod, bunt!
/onlyhalfkidding
Productiive out please
Horrible strike 1 on Arod it was inside.
strike according to gameday
The pitch tracker on TBS showed it inside.
What the hell? No effin way.
wait what the fuck is going on?
They didn’t find all the horseshoes.
Bullshit!
Luck shot number one goes to Baltimore
Really?
Did you not see Ichiro bat… good grief man – give it a rest already.
He’s special. He’ll never heed your request. I tried for an entire season. Just ignore him or view his posts as comical, because really, that’s all they are.
Wow…incredible catch.
Fuck you BABIP!!
Shit luck
wow
That’s just great
Poor A-rod….
Ok seriously, Ripken just said that he would take the double play.
ARod can’t catch a break, scalded that one into a dp.
I know Arod’s results have been terrible through 1 game and 1 at bat, but he just missed crushing 2 balls right there, a few others last night where he had good cuts and ripped that ball. I don’t think he’s been as bad as we think he has been.
He rarely is…people just love to jump on him.
Im not saying it’s his fault, but it had to happen off A-rods bat.
ICHIRO!!! lmao
What a play
How’s Arod supposed to walk with a pitcher who throws that many fastballs.
OH MY GOODNESS ICHIRO
How the frak did that happen?
Holy shit that was amazing.
ICHIRO!!!!! AMAZING!
Ichiro…what the fuck was…that?
Holy crap
wowo wowow owow wowo wow wow
No way did that just happen
Holy shit, how the hell did he score on that?
lmao
ICHIRO!!! THAT WAS AWESOME!
Holy shit Ichiro!!!
Holy shit Ichiro!
Amazing that looked like a movie
PS, they are smoking Chen.
What am I watching
WTF OMG LOL HOLY SHIT
This was mt thought process.
Also fire Rob Thompson.
This is painful to try and listen to on the radio.
Wow yeah, Sterling must have imploded.
Seriously. I want to beat my face into the desk right now. I have literally no idea what happened that inning.
yes! ichiro with moves!
I mean that is easily the best slide I’ve seen.
Wow ichiro, clearly out of the baseline but I’ll take it
And now we’re even in the luck department.
2
Am I going to have to read your stupid luck comments all night?
Just be thankful he’s not talking about Satan yet . . .
HAIL SATAN!!!
That… was… cool.
Samrai shit!!! Btw is that legal?
Awful process but holy crap ninjary.
Ichiro = Ninja
Only Ichiro.
What? ICHIIII!
Holy shit, Ichi!
Amazing play by ichiro!
Ninja VANISH!
Spider-San
Swisher being swisher with risp.
He was really good with RISP this year.
So if I go by Sterling, Andino made a great play on the ball A-Rod hit (he originally said it was a trap) to turn a double play, and then Cano hit a double, Ichiro should have been out, but made a great slide? Correct?
It wasn’t really a slide. More of a avoiding jump around the plate followed by a great swim move.
Ichiro ran past home plate, avoiding Weiters tag. Then Ichiro came back to home plate, Weiters tried to tag him again, Ichiro avoided it and got his hand on the plate. Safe.
Understatement on the slide. Ichiro danced around Wieters, moved for the plate after running past, and then pivoted around Wieters’ tag again and got his hand n the plate.
Thanks all above. Sterling doesn’t do all that good a job at painting a picture!
Yup. Ichiro made a ninja moven to avoid the tag. Must c tv
Correct. TBS commentators were on Weiters for not just jumping on the plate and blocking it right off. Instead he lunged for Ichiro twice and missed, got his hand on in time. Great call by Hernandez.
Picture break-dancing instead of a slide and you’d get a better idea of what happened.
Fucking assholes in the booth. Instead of admiring an incredible maneuver by Ichiro, they’re looking for 18 replays to show the Orioles got screwed. They still cant find it.
I usually dont care about announcers and all but i have never seen anything like this before. Quite possibly the worst announcing crew i have ever heard.
PS, big time credit to Angel Hernandez.
Absolutely, we rag on him all the time, but he made a great call. Weiters missed him twice, and Hernandez caught both of the misses on a very close (and crazy) play.
+1, so many times they give the call to the catcher when the ball beats the runner even if he never tags him
Poor A-Rod.
Holy shit Ichiro.
I love Ichiro.
I love Ichiro.
Had A-Rod not PURPOSELY lined into a double play we’d have more than 1 run.
My god, what athleticism. Still can’t get over Ichiro.
Good send by thomson he knew swisher was on deck so we were not scoring.
+1
All Pettitte needs is one run #gameover
Adam is right…a very rare call that Angel Hernandez actually got right.
Fuck the relay. I turn to smoke, bitches.
So it sounds like, regardless of how many runs they scored last inning they tagged Chen pretty good in the top of the first.
Every hit ball with the exception of ichiro and swish was tagged.
Jeter, Alex and Cano all hit bullets.
Yeah Arod smoked a ball that was a nice/lucky catch by andino. Everyone hit the ball pretty hard, he didn’t fool anyone.
I can’t explain how many idiots are calling for Alex’s head after last night.
Completely objectively: Alex’s power is shot. Instead of just realizing this and understanding his value can now be as a .370+OBP guy with 20HR power with a decent glove at third people still DEMAND a .950+OPS with 40HRs and a 120 RBIs, and even then he has to do it they way they want him to do it (AKA hitting 1.00 w/ RISP.)
I agree with you that he has value.
But to be fair, part of being paid that much comes the justified criticism of being overpaid.
It’s simple. One side has to admit he’s still an asset. The other side has to allow that he’s going to be constantly (and justifiably) harangued for underperforming on his contract.
To be fair i too am not expecting much from arod in these playoffs however if even hits just .275 with a couple of key hits we will win the ws. As sad as it is i am not expecting much from tex and arod. We will win only if cano jeter ichiro carry the team on offense. It would be nice to get something from swisher as well.
Andy! great 1st.
Sit.
Need to get a nice crooked number with Chen out there.
wow just saw a replay of Ichiro…he’s seriously a ninja!
Nasty cut fastball
Can someone tell Cal to stop saying “Um” every time he opens his mouth. Super annoying.
OK now more runs for Andy ….
Andy picks right up where CC left off. Angel’s doing a great job behind the plate. If Chen is gonna throw fastballs all they time they should be able to get to him. Curtis can hit a fastball out of the park if that’s all he’s gonna throw.
The Ichiro slide: http://www.mlbgifs.com/2012/10.....-ever-see/
Can you do a tutorial on how to make gifs. You’ve gotten pretty good, Axisa.
Three separate moves. The last one was the most impressive.
Almost surprised the umpire didn’t call him out just on anticipation.
I’m saving this link forever.
o’s fans = pissed
I wonder if second time through the order Chen is going to mix in his breaking ball a bit more to fool the Yankees?
You can bet on it.
A drama-free Andy inning, and ten pitches at that.
TBS, FIX YOUR FUCKING MICROPHONES.
It’s not their microphones. It’s the stupidity of the announcers putting their cell phones next to the mics.
Heh, I run my TV speakers through stereo speakers for better audio quality (since flat screens have speakers in the back and just generally suck). This happens to me if my phone is left close to my stereo speakers, and all throughout the inning I kept checking my phone, thinking “WHO IS GHOST TEXTING ME?”
This makes more sense.
Just missed that…
Solid at bat by Martin. Gotta love how patient our hitters have been.
I hate fans who scream on every pitch taken (yes, that happens at every park).
Here comes the best #8 hitter in the league…
first K of the night for Chen had to be on Granderson.
Curtis needs to use all fields man.
It sucks because he can do it.
That’s what the short porch does to your swing.
It is bad luck that Granderson happened to be the sort of person whose swing would be affected by happening to play in a park like Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees (who happen to play in Yankee Stadium) just happened to sign him. All just luck! Things happening to happen!
He needs to use any field more. Just make some damn contact.
So so far, only Grandy has had a bad at bat. Tex and Russell just missed.
If some of these balls can start to fall in, we can put up some big numbers.
Yeah, if only Tex’s millionth pop-up of the year had fallen in. It was so close, just bad luck…
You obviously have no understanding about the physics of baseball
lol, these kind of posts coming from you just makes them that much funnier. Popping it straight up like that isn’t just missing on his bat, it’s a massive underswing in terms of the size of the hitting spot. That’s not luck, that’s indicative of how a batter is seeing a ball and swinging.
I didn’t say that was luck. I said he just missed it. You can just miss it and have the ball go in many different directions.
Tex is going to have alot of these because he hasn’t played much of late and needs to get his timing back.
lol
That Grandy K is fine with me…just as long as we see the obligatory 3-run HR in the 6th inning to break it open.
Lol +1 yessir
DFA Grandy.
Andy had an easy 1st hope the second is as economical.
Wait…Josh Charles threw out the first pitch?
so the orioles hitting report on cano is throw a lot of fastballs over the plate?
Mark Reynolds a rookie? lol.
It’s just blatantly unprofessional how downtrodden the booth is every time Pettitte records an out.
I’m walking around the apartment listening and I can’t even tell an out is being recorded.
that’s because they were hired to call the game for the orioles. i wouldn’t be surprised if someone was weeping last night in the 9th during the rally.
I was skimming through an Oriole’s game thread and they are saying the opposite…that TBS announcers are constantly kissing the Yankees’ ass. LOL
so they think cal ripkin is a yankees fan? wow
They say he is “over compensating”.
It’s BS. They’re more excited for actual game outcomes or the Orioles.
They compensate with the vanilla narrative on Jeter to appear “balanced.”
That’s not balance. Everyone admires Jeter. Big stretch.
Their “ass-kissing” is limited to admiring Jeter and Pettitte because they’re still playing well at their age. Has nothing to do with the actual game.
That Orioles site has been completely unhinged since last night.
Yea – every announcer does that – doesn’t mean they don’t want the underdog to win.
Andy’s looking pretty Andy-ish.
The old boy looks SHARP!
Nice start to the game by Andy.
“That was definitely a strike, but the ump only called it a strike because Andy is a veteran”
- John Smoltz, finding things to complain about
Andy looking good so far. Seems like he’s got good command of the breaking pitches.
Andy looks great. 19-10 vs 0-0. It’s just a matter of time before they hit Chen’s fastball.
This Andy Pettitte guy is not bad. <3<3<3
Great 2nd inning for Andy, now let’s get some runs.
Solid beginning for Pettitte!
has yankee stadium ever done the towels?
Not that I can remember. Granted they also had to get rid of ball day because fans were trying to pelt Albert Belle with them. So perhaps there is a liability concern.
i find it a bit cheesy, but then again ive never been ot a playoff game.
I don’t even think they put up with that nonsense in Citifield.
Aggressive Nunie at the plate. Calm down, kid.
Come on bro wait for your pitch
anyone else getting interference on their speakers? Mine keep making that noise that speakers make when an iphone gets too close….only I don’t have one.
I’m wondering if the apartment next to me has a phone near the wall?
It’s the jackass broadcasters with their phones next to their microphones.
It’s coming through in the broadcast.
Thought it was craig seegars vibrator
As foresnic pointed out above, it’s the dumb TBS booth that has their phones too close to the mic. I thought the same thing as you, at first.
Wow. Terrible. Proof they have no business in our living rooms this evening. I miss Kay.
This is an awful strike zone
Nose to toes baby
This strike zone is getting wider and wider.
Is the strike zone that bad or is the TBS blue box jacked up?
The box is always wrong, it’s never adjusted for each hitter.
Up and down, yes but side to side should be the same. That’s where it’s the worst, side to side.
It appears that Andy was getting the high strike called and the Orioles want that low strike called. There can be a margin of error of up to a couple of inches there.
I can see that, based on the height of the player but Angel has also been inconsistent inside and outside too. It’s like freaken roulette up there.
lol, yep, inconsistent at best.
low strike has been called inconsistently
There’s the Angel we all know and hate.
It might be an awful strike zone but he has called for both pitchers.
And that was a strike
I think 1 run is all andy will need tonight
should I be surprised that Angel Hernandez’s strike zone is a joke so far? A lot of pitches in the same location are being called strikes sometimes but ball other times. What a fucking joke.
gonna happen all night – let’s hope it works to our advantage.
i know were trying to cut down the payroll and all but how can the yankees have nunez as the DH in the playoffs
Because he’s the best option?
Who else starts against lefties? His speed and hitting actually add a nice component to the bottom of the lineup.
This zone looks inconsistent. Yankees better not repeat what they did last night.
Angel Hernandez, zone is guaranteed to be shitty
What, win? I’m cool with that
I really hope they repeat what they did last night, actually.
Jeter struck out on two pitches…. Angel Hernandez everyone!
How the F does he even make the postseason? Clearly it’s not performance, he should have been Andruw Jones-a-did.
He either has some incriminating evidence on someone, or he’s sleeping with someone important, because I don’t get it myself
Angel Hernandez should be umpiring little league games in Central America.
You kill little league and baseball in general in Latin America,
Ichiro Reacheros
GOD DAMN IT PUT YOUR FUCKING TOWELS DOWN!! YOU THINK IT MAKES YOU BETTER FANS IF YOU WAVE A FUCKING TOWEL????
Sorry. /end rant. I just really hate the towel thing.
I wipe my butt with them.
+1 I’ve thought that about 10 times since last week
I believe, A-ROD!
At what point is a player no longer due?
Two bullets from Arod. Great sign.
Fuck A-Rod haters. Swinging the bat well.
Amen bro. We gotta be behind all our boys this time of year.
I’m always advocating Alex.
And every Yankee. There are too many commenters (and fans in general) that actually seem happy when a Yankee does poorly because it proves their point.
And by too many, I mean more than ZERO. Nobody should ever gloat about the failure of a guy on this team.
Thank you.
Isn’t it a little late at night for a parade?
Booooo….singles hitter!
Give him a raise!
Did you say boo or boo-urns?
I was saying boo-urns.
lol
Alex breaking the ice
Am I a bad person for cheering Ichiro’s hit so that we can clear Arod batting this inning (like we always hope 8th place hitter gets on to clear the pitcher in NL?)
Two good ABs so far -there you go, AROD.
Two hard-hit balls in one game for A-Rod? Some semblance of progress at least.
two hard hit balls for a-rod. good start
Hey Greg ARod got real lucky
Come on Cano. Do it up!!!
I bet ichiro is a hell of a twister player
With naked hot american women
Or men. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I like to think that he might have more than a few little Suzuki’s running around hitting linedrives around parks everywhere, choosing not hit homers because they don’t want to.
Way to hustle it out Cano!
Sigh
Two out rallies. Ugh.
Andy is in the zone
Real Texas leaguer there, Andino. Good work.
Granderson needs to move his ass he just ruined it
If only he was Plastic Man.
Or Backwards Man.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v.....YHbzMiDHEA
Granderson can never read a ball off the bat. Always take a step back.
2/3rds of the O’s hits are broken bat bloops
The crowd is cheering like the first hit won them the World Series. Congratulations.
4. Count em, four replays of a broken bat single with 2 outs. And analysis about how he did it too.
They do that on any of our rockets yet?
Shaved mccloth there.
shut the hell up Birdwagoner’s you were cheering when that shit happened to Martin last night
Boo. I don’t like these bloop singles at all.
Two straight singles since I started reading this thread.
stop reading
R-Tils, GO AWAY! (for a couple minutes)
Pure superstition was about 30% of the reason I stayed away from yesterday’s game thread.
I’m telling you I make Greg look like Foofa from “Yo Gabba Gabba” come playoff time.
here we go, a rally because Granderson can’t play CF
Andy is pitching move in outfield fuck.
So is it ok for us to cheer for Andy putting it in Mclouth’s earhole too?
No
damnnit
Geez, Andino and McLouth again…
That zone is so freakin inconsistent.
Those were strikes last inning.
Get the pen up, Andy’s just a LOOGY at this point. He’s toast.
Settle down Andy.
…Andy…settle down now.
Loogy this giant freak.
Well, this is less than ideal.
Stare a freaking hole into their hearts, Andy… get this done.
All because of a stupid bloop hit.
Unbelievable. another bloop hit.
that wasn’t a bloop
3
Fuuuuuck. I blame Tilapia.
I blame Angel, Grandy and Pettitte. In that order.
No. Blame me.
It’s easier that way.
I blame Tilapia, R-Tils, and Robinson, in that order.
A lefty c’mon
Fuck.
Deja vu
FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oy.
Ugh…
It will be a glorious day when Swisher’s arm is no longer in RF.
It will be glorious when Gardner moves to CF and we have real D out there
I don’t see it happening soon though.
Both of THESE!
Swisher according to UZR has the worst arm among every MLB right fielder except for one who ties with his suck. So sarcastic remarks don’t negate the fact Swisher has a bad arm.
Let hope his bat makes up for it while he pretends its garbage time.
Two out rallies are hard.
I hate you granderson
Gardner catches that bloop
Figures the only hard hit ball would be with the fucking bases loaded.
pathetic. All of this because Granderson is a shitty CF… fuck his sorry ass
TBS Booth: “They did it! They did it! The impossible dream!”
Major sigh
The real question is what happened at second? Did Jeter whiff? Was the throw far off?
It was high
Throw way off.
Swisher suffers from cranial-rectal inversion.
Can this game (so far) be any more similar to last nights?
Right down to the hanging breaking ball hit for the two run single.
Highly annoyed.
De Ja Vu…
Yup.
Yankees have had some hard hit balls off of Chen. Still a long way to go.
Did not see this coming.
Just limit the damage here Andy.
It’s likely going to take a bunch more than 2 runs to win this game
Is it the 9th inning already?
Wow. There was a lot of horrible from both teams on that play.
WTF was that Jete?
What the hell Jeter!
Et tu jeter?
Wow. Two at-bats in a row where Jeter hasn’t given full effort.
not a matter of effort, he’s simply terrible at SS. Everyone knows it.
WTF Jeter?
Thank god Hardy is an idiot.
can this inning be any more pathetic?
I am beginning to feel physically ill.
Nice job, Hardy.
Geez Jeter, that was pitiful…
You know what they say: When it rains, it fucks you sideways in the skull.
Get out of this.
Who say this?
Greg, probably when his toast gets burnt.
Well it reminds me of something my 3rd grade teacher used to say. She would say, “You show me a tropical fruit, I’ll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala.”
Wait, wait. That wasn’t her. That was some guy I met in the army. I always get those two confused.
At least by us dinner first
…can I buy some K Y first?
All of that and down just 2-1. All good.
well thanks for saving us a run JJ
Phew.
Wow thank you there JJ.
You’re…welcome?
Holy shit. Like the twins series all over.
Great deek by Alex.
Finally!!!
Jeez. Well thanks, Hardy. That could have been worse.
Don’t give Chen a shut down.
I actually can’t decide who i dislike more this tbs crew or the fox one.
This crew sucks.
Without a doubt I dislike the Fox crew much more. It’s not even close.
That could have been A LOT worse.
Got a little lucky there. Jeter is looking quite statuesque these days.
Granderson should have caught that ball hit by andino jeter should have fielded thatthrow and jones grounder they are playing like they are asleep grandy sucks in center this year
Can’t you hear me knocking?
That sure sucked.
I guess the Yankees will score one this next half inning now, since this is exactly like last night.
Runs please.
You have to think Hardy was worried about getting picked off 3rd (had Jeter actually fielded it)
Good thing he was dumb enough not to look at his 3rd base coach for help
Got a good feeling. Both Jeter and Cano had big smiles on their face there. They’re playing loose.
Here come more runs.
This game was like a fine dinner at the four seasons
And someone was just seated next to you with a case of the farts.
Considering the average age of people who dine at the Four Seasons (does that even exist anymore?), I’d say that’s every meal there.
I caught Dinosaur last night. He was cooking, Jack.
FAIL
Dammit, lol. (Dinosaur was supposed to be “Dino”)
They just need to clobber Chen. He’s just throwing a 92 mph fastball. Destroy him and get Andy some runs. He could give up 2-3 more after that last inning.
That was rough.
fucking shit. that could have been even more awful. i seriously hate the o’s.
Yikes, that was a terrible AB Swisher.
Andy was not getting those pitches, be consistent Angel, not consistently shitty
I’m watching that companion MLB.tv thing. It’s completely useless, but one positive is that one of the random camera angles zoomed in on a sign that said “MISO HARDY.” Somehow I doubt that’s going to make it to the main TBS telecast.
I saw that too! hilarious
You’re on the Mark, Teixeira…
I watch the game with the radio on and TV sound off. Last inning was Alicia Keyes Keep Falling In and Out of Love With You. Appropriate for Yankees and their fans inning to inning.
Swisher enjoy your new team next year.
Harsh.
What have you done with October Teix? Where is he dammit?!
All these fucking bloop hits and smashes right at people…… When are we going to have a season when things go like that for us?
The 9th inning yesterday?
In bunches, I mean. Only one of those hits was lucky.
The Orioles had maybe 2 in that last inning?
Yes, our seasons are horrible. We totally suck.
I am no longer pointing out that this is a 9 inning game. Someone else figure that out.
Foofa! She’s pink and happy!
I don’t understand orioles fans. Why do they boo Tex. I know it’s cause they thought he might sign there but given the last 2 years they should be grateful he didn’t. Tex would have still commanded a ton of money and is declining quickly.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Ever work in customer service? Most people are stupid.
It’s Baltimore. It’s either that or go to the aquarium.
I loved the “Baltimore is a nice town” thread earlier in this game thread, especially the comparison to Bridgeport.
A-Rod actually pulled off a clever trick there on Hardy.
Wow, Arod deked him it looked like? Made a fake tag?
Holy shit TBS, we get it, we’ve seen it a million times already, MOVE ON!!!
russ is taking some good hacks
I see we’ve entered the “ridiculous hatred of Nick Swisher” portion of the evening. Free wings at the bar.
Just wait…Arod still has another two at bats for people to be irrational about.
I find the Swisher stuff even more unnerving. I get Alex frustration.
Annoying how Cal and Smotlz continue to try to come up with excuses for Hardy’s gaffe.
And they really missed that ARod made a great play.
Both Smoltz and Ripken defending not looking at the third base coach, fuck man, you learn that in little league!
here we go again…
Time for Nunez to step up!
hah, even martin thought hernandez would give him a shitty strike call
Grandy need to launch one here.
Granderson, my bad.
Grandy: you don’t have to swing for the fences you know
Well, I haven’t been able to catch a computer yet, but here I am now.
Time for some runs to regain this lead.
I hate you Rob Thompson.
He was correct to stop Tex.
He would have been out by 30 feet
Was absolutely the right play.
I know. I saw the replay. But in general not a fan of his.
He would have been out at home by plenty.
At least Hernandez is calling a terrible zone for both sides. That was a strike.
And, right on cue, the inevitable RISP hit that doesn’t net a run.
Slowest guy on the team at second
If Tex didn’t have a hamstring issue, that would be 2-2.
Time to shine, NunEEE.
Gotta capitalize now!!
time for Nunie’s signature moment in pinstripes
Huh…would not have expected to hear “Melky Mesa” during this series.
sooooo slow…
Tex with his two gears: slow and slower. Calf injury I know.
Jorge Molina holds at third…
sigh… If only they hadn’t decided to keep Posada’s speed around even after he retired.
Come on Nunez, gotta get at least one of these home.
Never mind. He would have been gunned.
well Teix is a terrible runner so i’m ok with that but goddammit, get runs in.
ugh…listening to the bottom of the third on the bus was fucking brutal. Between Andy missing spots, the fans and Sterling I wanted to bash my head into the window of the bus.
“Mark Teixeira around third, and he’ll be held there.” Ha. More like he barely made it to third by the time the ball was back to the infield.
Come on nunie this is your time
Good hold there. Now if Ichiro was running/dodging/deking…
NUNIES TIME TO SHINE BABY!!!
Just get it to the outfield, Nunie. Tie the game.
…not what I had in mind.
That is a ridiculous second strike.
agreed.
Stupid zone.
stupid ump
Fuck Angel.
Fuck you Angel hernandez.
that is a ridiculous strike call. are you kidding me?
fuck this strikezone, fuck angel hernandez
Angeled
Way inside WTF
That strike was 4-6 inches off the plate…
terrible strike call
That wasn’t even close.
fucking Hernandez, I knew this was going to be a frustrating game.
Horrible strike call. Wow. That’s inches inside.
Unreal. Angel Hernandez.
Hernandez gave them that out.
And ps he has to swing at that pitch after the second one was called a strike.
Eduardo Nunez: Sparkplug.
No consistency to Hernandez’s strike calls.
Nunie needs to tighten up his swing; it’s too long and unbalanced.
YOU HAVE TO GET THAT RUN IN FROM 3RD!
smfh
Get it done Captain.
that pitch was right there… 90mph FB right there. Terrible fucking swing
Of course he pops it up. My God….
Jeter, make up your shitty 3rd inning here.
man a classic jeterian double would be sooo nice right now.
cmon. chen already at 70+ pitches. eat him alive cap’n.
The umpire single handedly took the bat right out of Nunez’s hands there. Outright disgraceful. Calls a pitch 4 inches inside on 1-1, then he’s forced to swing at that same pitch when he throws it again and it’s not hittable.
If 99/100 people performed their job as awful as Hernandez they’d be unemployed. Alas he not only has a job but is rewarded with a postseason assignment.
crap
Well that sucked.
Figures.
Fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck.
Good work, Jeter
Fucking Angel Hernandez
Excellent job gentlemen. F*ck.