Game Nine: More Rain
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The Yankees and Indians were rained out last night, and unfortunately tonight’s forecast isn’t looking any better. If anything, it actually looks worse. Timing is everything though, so maybe the rain will hold off long enough for them to squeeze the game in before returning back to New York.
Because the Yankees do not make another trip to Cleveland this year, I wouldn’t be surprised if they waited as long as possible to get this game in. Remember two or three years ago when that game against the Orioles started at like, 11:45pm ET? Something like that. Then again, it is only April, maybe they won’t wait around as long and instead worry about the scheduling later. I just don’t want an older roster to lose too many precious off-days during the summer. On the other hand, every game postponed this month is one fewer game the Yankees will have to play without Derek Jeter, Curtis Granderson, Mark Teixeira et al. Here’s the starting lineup…
- CF Brett Gardner
- 2B Robinson Cano
- 3B Kevin Youkilis
- DH Travis Hafner
- LF Vernon Wells
- RF Ichiro Suzuki
- SS Eduardo Nunez
- 1B Lyle Overbay
- C Frankie Cervelli
And on the mound is the one-time All-Star, Phil Hughes.
Tonight’s game is scheduled to start a little after 7pm ET but the rain, blah blah blah yadda yadda yadda. You can watch this one on YES locally and MLB Network nationally whenever it does begin. Enjoy.
Rotation Update: The Yankees have already sent CC Sabathia, Hiroki Kuroda, and Andy Pettitte back to New York so they wouldn’t have to wait around for the rain with the rest of the team in Cleveland. The trio is scheduled to start against the Orioles this weekend.
Mark Teixeira Update: Teixeira and his injured wrist will be re-evaluated tomorrow and he hopes to be cleared to swing a bat. If he is, he’ll start with a fungo bat and gradually work his way up. He’s optimistic he’ll be able to take full batting practice next week and play in Extended Spring training soon thereafter.
Update (6:39pm): The game will not start on time, it was just announced. It hasn’t started raining yet in Cleveland, but it will soon. No word on a tentative start time. This … might be a while.
Update (8:07pm): They’re saying the game will start at 8:30pm ET.
Update (8:34pm): Apparently the ceremonial first pitch has been thrown and the lineups have been announced, but the tarp is still on the field. Okay then.
Update (8:55pm): Indians closer Chris Perez said the game has been postponed on Twitter. No official word yet.
Update (9:02pm): Yep, the game has officially been postponed. Same deal as yesterday’s game, meaning no word on a makeup date.
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Please dont rush teixera i cant take a reinjure report.
Jeter and grandy will make this line up crank soon enough.
Rain out
Not a bad thing will have a better line for make up games
For anyone confused by Pasta’s comment, afaik the game hasn’t been postponed. He’s just commenting about if it’s rained out.
Unless he has inside info that’s not online.
I understand why teams don’t like weekday matinees but they make sense early in the year.
TV $$$ I suppose
The North side of Chicago & Yawkey Way disagree.
The North Side? Pffft. Everyone knows that the South Side of Chicogo is the baddest part of town.
/JimCroce’d
I remain optimistic- fanatically so- that they’ll get the game in. The weather report actually makes it seem doable.
Just when the club was gaining momentum this had to happen two days in a row. They could have went into the Os series on a 5 game win streak with how the bats have come alive against bad Indians pitching.
If the weather channel has it anywhere near right at the moment they’ll get the game in. Supposed to start raining around now, clear up before 7:45, then not start up again until 9 (35% chance) and clear up within 20 minutes for the rest of the night.
Here’s hoping they’re correct.
I said before that by late May we’ll have Jeter, Teixera and Granderson back and I believe it. Teixera thinks he’ll be playing in games in 2 weeks so certainly he’ll be back by late May unless there’s a setback. Granderson will be back in early May. Jete’s already running and fielding, he’ll be back before we know it.
Hope that doesn’t mean Tex’s normal April/May will now be June/July.
I was hoping he’d leave his shitty April in Miami during the WBC, but here we are.
At least the Knicks play tonight if it gets postponed.
Rain. A key enabler of life. Bah!
So….how ’bout that Josh Johnson start today?
Funny how so many people thought they were just so awesome and locks to win the division. Early in the season and SSS and all, but the Jays are now in sole possession of last place. So, suck it. Go Yanks.
It leaves me wishing that I’d watched some of their games so I could see if it was a case of bad luck/slumping or if their guys just look as lost as the SSS stats indicate.
I haven’t watched either. But it’s hard to call the Dickey and Johnson starts bad luck by looking at those lines.
Yeah, but neither of them looked THAT bad the first time out. Or in ST from what I understood.
It’s entirely possible that they both just look lost and overmatched but I’ll lean toward it being SSS noise for at least one more turn through the rotation.
I am going to enjoy their suffering for as long as I can, I know that much.
In fairness they weren’t facing real life big leaguers in March.
Can anyone name every year the Yankees have won the world series by heart?
I’d have trouble in the 30s and 40s, I think.
Same, it gets a little confusing.
1923, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1977, 1978, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2009.
Were this most people I know on here, I’d at least be open to the possibility that they actually knew this and typed it up rather than looking it up and copy-pasting.
You, however, are far too sneaky (and lazy) for me to believe that.
I am hurt and offended. I can name every World Series matchup, winner and loser.
0_o
Agreed. Pat totally Google’d that.
The hell I did.
You’re a bad liar, Pat. Even over the internet.
Does anyone actually know it though?
Yes, I fucking do! I did not copy that list.
This is pretty hilarious.
………
FALLACY
The ultimate argument.
Poor Pat, he’s like Rain Man with those dates and you guys are calling him oout on the Google carpet!
In fairness, Pat… you are way sneakier and lazier than most give you credit for.
However, I would be hard pressed to find a website that has them laid out like this instead of in a column (spreadsheet style), so I am banking on you having some sort of plaque or poster in ManTown that you were abble to just look to the left and copy away…
#irresponsiblermormongering
When did this “Pat is lazy” meme begin?
About here…
Havok9120 says:
April 11, 2013 at 7:27 pm
Were this most people I know on here, I’d at least be open to the possibility that they actually knew this and typed it up rather than looking it up and copy-pasting.
You, however, are far too sneaky (and lazy) for me to believe that.
That can’t possibly make it a meme!
Of COURSE it can.
We are, after all, the Controllers Of Memes. Nothing more is really required.
Proof?
Hehehe
How the hell could I prove it? Unless you see me telling you in person, there’s no way.
And even that would no longer work since you’ve “obviously” looked it up now by our theory.
Absolutely!
Oh well, there is The Masters to watch.
Yeah, I guess you could just take a nap until game time.
Ouch. See, that’s just rude.
No it’s not.
Well, maybe.
My freshman year roommate (and junior year for 1 semester, and house mate for senior year) was real into golf. I definitely did fall asleep every time he put that on the TV.
Haha, I’m sorry Havok, but I knock out when golf’s on.
Uncultured barbarians.
As much as I get suckered into watching golf in certain circumstances, I’m of the Mark Twain/George Carlin opinion of golf overall.
Golf? Ya jokin’, right?
Totally.
Well this is bloody nice. I get like maybe 20 regularly scheduled Yanks games a year (waaay out of market here) and two of them gets rained out.
Not springing for MLB.TV?
My computer is a tad old so it can’t handle me doing something else other than stream a game, and my attention span is too short to do nothing but sit and watch something for three hours. So until I get a computer that can take the heat (somewhat literally) I will only buy MLB.tv if there’s a september discount campaign during a tight pennant race for the Yanks. (Last year for example).
Fair enough. This makes me love my xbox so much. Yay multitasking.
My computer (any of them) could handle it…but my apartment’s internet can’t. Boo.
Sub-legal means it is.
That’s lame. And also not an option for me, so I’m glad my internet is good.
There used to be free online radio feeds for the Yanks (better than nothing) but unfortunately I’m out of market for those too.
So am I. Can’t say I miss having to listen to Ma and Pa Pinstripe though.
LMAO! thanks 4 that one Havok
I wish I could take credit for inventing it. Then I’d seem so much more witty.
Better them than waiting anxiously while looking at MLB game day.
That’s very true. I’m glad I can usually avoid that, too.
Worst case scenario there are roughly…seventy-eight bars within 5 minutes walk of my apartment and I can always get the game at one of them if none of my other sources come through for me.
I’m in a worser position. Other than the fact that I live in the sub-urbs with little night-life, I live in an enemy territory that also prefers other sports over baseball.
Oh well, I’d never get anything done between 7 and 10 if there’s a Yanks games on TV daily. Lucky me, in a way.
That radar did not look promising. There’s a big storm band going their way
It’s actually going directly north at the moment, which should give them an opening within the next hour that will last awhile (’till after midnight).
We’ll see.
Didn’t look that way to me. Looked like it was going a bit northeast. Not totally in line with Cleveland, but it looked in that direction.
For now I’m going with:
http://www.weather.com/weather.....H0195:1:US
Either way I’ll not be able to finish the bloody game thanks to the crappy “regular scheduled programs”, but I do hope they don’t burn another off-day, against Cleveland of all teams.
No kidding on the latter. I’m hoping they manage to do a doubleheader on the 17th of May or whenever they were talking about last night. 13th? Something like that.
Don’t think I recall any doubleheaders that are both make-up games. Then again, I got a short memory. Of course, we know Selig hates the Yanks, so he’ll probably try to make it two off-days.
Yeah, I’ve never seen it either. Still, I think it’d be preferable to any other scenario I can think up.
hate to see the rain, especially when we’re rollin’
and this series sure was feeling like it might’ve been a 4 game sweep, wasn’t it?
A bit off-topic, but since game isn’t starting soon, Josh Johnson got rocked today. By my personal count, so far this season, Johnson, Buerhle, Dickey and Morrow all got rocked at least once. Great time for some schadenfreude.
I am thinking they are not NEARLY as bad of a pitching staff as their April has let on, however somewhere between the SSS and thier lofty expectations as the best in the history of forever…. Is a pitching staff full of Ryan Dempsters.
Would you go all in on a rotation full of Ryan Dempsters? Yeah, me neither.
I’d say their rotation is above average at best. And with their weak-ass hitting, I think there’s a sizable chance that they don’t even make it to the playoffs.
I mean, look how the big three in Philadelphia are doing. And their lineup was much more potent than Lawrie+Reyes+Bautista+Encarnacion.
Above average is a MAJOR stretch. Buerhle is consistent but won’t wow your pants off, and Dickey/Josh Johnson are the epitomy of banking on lottery tickets. Johnson CANNOT stay healthy, so much so that I dont’t remember seeing him in “good mode”… and nothing scares me about a knuckleballer in the AL East.
So we’re playing ball! Great news. Pick up another W against a weak team and head back to face the Os.
So with the game on a rain delay, I walked away from the set and let my family catch up on back episodes of The Voice (nopenopenopenopenope). Boy, are they gonna be pissed when (if) the game starts and they get thrown off.
On another note, I need to know has there ever been a make up double header? Is that even a thing?
nevermind, apparantly we were on the hunt for this when I was typing
Well, no one’s “hunting” for it unless Bob has taken far more of an interest in the possibility than I have. I’m just chilling here, reading and drinking until the game starts.
I was hoping we trolled Pat enough by calling him lazy to whip up an answer…
He’s gonna resign in protest if this keeps up.
Pat is watching Community right now.
Don’t talk about yourself in the third person. It rots your brain.
Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores are willing to give you a discount if you know how to pole dance.
Pat not understood yer wurds.
Well I went hunting after seeing this, and it doesn’t seem like there is one.
Granted, I only went to wikipedia for “double header (baseball)” and only googled “two make up games in one day”.
You know, now I’m wracking my head to remember what Baltimore game Mike is talking about.
Even my photographic memory is failing me here. I don’t remember this.
Ah, this must be the game:
http://espn.go.com/mlb/recap?id=310906110
Now it’s all coming back to me.
I remember a ridiculously late first pitch which I insisted on staying up for 2-3 years ago. I couldn’t be more specific than that though.
Huh upon reading the summary I think I actually remember a bit. Mostly about how the game didn’t even finish when I went to bed at 1.
As a night shift worker that game was the greatest thing ever.
Boom. Game on for 8:30.
Time to freshen my drink in preparation.
awesome. NOw to scare up my TV back from shitty singing reality TV time.
The scheduling is ridiculous, whether or not they get this game in.
Having a series where it is the only visit of the year to a bad weather city in April is just poor scheduling. Doing it twice within the first 10 games on the schedule is doubling down on the foolishness -the Yankees were fortunate there was no weather issues in the DET series.
For a one time visit, early in the year and potential bad weather – at a minimum MLB should put in an off day after the series. The better bet would be to have the city that has multiple series that season be the one that does the early games (so at worst they could do a double header later without extra travel).
Either that or have more divisional games early as there usually is a better chance to make up those games on a day after or before a future series.
While rainouts happen and aren’t preventable, the scheduling can be done in a way to account for the possibility and make it far less impactful. Not counting the standard day off after opening day, the Yankees had one off day scheduled in Apr.
/end rant
FWIW, I would rather they get screwed up in April then have to be in Cleveland in midge season.
You have a point there…
Though the way Joba is currently pitching would it matter? (kidding)
He woulda got some bugs and shit caught in that soup strainer had it been last week though…
Only 6-7 games against the AL Central teams? Thought it was usually 10 (3 series) . Must be the interleague impact I guess.
With only one series in each city, MLB is just rolling the dice early on when there are no off days built in.
Even if it IS three series, it’s possible that this is the year in which two of them are in NY. At which point we’d be in the same situation.
While I certainly agree on the surface, I really don’t have any idea what kind of arcane processes go into forging a 30 team, 162 game schedule. So I’m not really gonna complain that they should do “better,” at least not as long as the divisional system exists.
FWIW there’s actually a rule prohibiting a team going 23 days without an off-day, as per wikipedia’s article on double headers.
Cleveland isn’t nearly as bad as it being a west coast city they would have to fly out for. Cleveland is easy stopover from Detroit, Chicago, Minnesota, etc is they have an off day.
In hopes for a sweep, I offer you a Cleveland based sacrifice. Here we go (I know its old as shit, but it is my absolute favorite thing on Youtube. I laugh every time I see it):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM
Well.. It’s now my favorite video on youtube…
about cleveland.
Not to brag, but regarding what Pat claimed he can do earlier…
I can do the same thing, and have been able to do that since I was in middle school. Furthermore, I can name how many games lasted in each series. I stop short when it comes to game-by-game scores and World Series MVP’s, however.
Waiting for it…
hahaha…
I’m not kidding. It actually spooked people in the past that they would mention, say, 1969, and I’d answer by saying Mets in five over the Orioles.
Or 1940 – Reds over Tigers in seven.
Or 1983 – O’s over Phillies in five.
Or 1908 – Cubs over Tigers in five.
How about you tell us when you are ready to refresh your page every 5 seconds. A few of us lists 2 WS each. You get 1 minute.
…Go!
71,82,90
71 – Pirates over O’s 4-3
82 – Cards over Brewers 4-3
90 – Reds over A’s 4-0
Well I believe ya now. Didn’t even know the Cards and Brewers were in 82.
Yeah, Harvey’s Wallbangers had a 3-2 lead going back to St. Louis, but couldn’t bring it home at Busch.
In the present Cardinals-Brewers rivalry, the Brewers have no way of matching that series. And it’s even harder now after their 2011 NLCS defeat to St. Louis.
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised people can do this given the historical trivia I can rattle off at need.
Errmm… Umm… I could do European capitals and countries… I feel stupid.
1947
Go!
Yankees over Dodgers in seven.
Don’t ever mention a year when the Yankees were involved. That’s just way too easy.
1947
That was that one year that made Al Gionfriddo and Bill Bevens famous.
My Uncle can name the batting average, home runs, OBP, slugging percentage, strikeouts, career ERAs, walks, and IP of every single player in the HOF. I’m not kidding. I’ve tested him on it.
There was a book I received as a gift in July of 2004.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Base.....1412710758
Seriously, the most amazing baseball encyclopedia I have ever read. I read that book on a daily basis for at least a solid year. I haven’t read it too much in recent times (though I still have it handy, literally three steps away from where I’m typing this comment), but I learned a ton from it. Also gives me a stronger appreciation for the Timmy Kurkjian’s of the world, an outstanding journalist who deserves better than the garbage of ESPN. We as baseball fans need to cherish having people like Kurkjian out there, who are literally living embodiment’s of baseball history through all the research they have done on the sport.
That said – I can’t match your uncle’s feat (yet). That’s just a tad bit too absurd.
Prediction on Hughes line: 6 IP 6 H 2 BB 5 K 2 ER
I would KILL for that. I think he’s going to give up more than 2 HRs tonight personally, but I’ll tkae 6IP and 5K.
Well it would help if you go ahead and kill Asdrubal and Bourn.
Where’s Cesar “stairs” Cabral when you need him?
HEY STAIRS! Michael Bourn and Asdrubal Cabrera said the Yankees should use Vidal Nuno and Josh Spence before they try you out!
Now, we wait.
ietc
I’m worried that by the time Iron Man 3 is actually released I won’t want to see it because of that FIOS commercial.
Backfire marketing…. I agree!
So now they’re not starting at 8:30? What the hell is going on?
This is pretty good stuff now. No one has any idea what’s going on.
YES running a Centerstage episode with PJ Carlesimo. Not a good sign.
Back to MLB Now… Excuse me, I am going to go mix meself a bleach cocktail
Want some peach vodka for that?
GREAT callback to a previous conversation.
Radar looks like crap. I don’t see much of a window.
De Paula had nothing today, he lasted two innings (because he walked a ton of guys) one hit, 4 walks (three in the first inning) on 55 pitches the vast majority were balls he gave up two runs both in the first inning, he also hit a batter and threw a wild pitch.
bright side, he still managed to strikeout 5 batters. He’ll get a mulligan from me because it’s becoming obvious that the only thing that is actually a threat to him at this level, is his own mechanics.
The actual breakdown was that he walked 3 straight batters, and it wasn’t until the third batter that he threw his first two strikes. He then struck out the next three batters. In the second inning he struck out two, induced a groundout but he also hit a batter
Prediction: Hughes perfect game, 1-0 win in 14 innings, 38 strikeouts. And he’ll be REALLY pissed about that broken bat groundout by the last batter in the 14th too.
Also, three pitches per at-bat, except for the final batter. He took one pitch.
Then, after the game ends, Hughes retires from baseball forever, having accomplished a feat he would never be able to top. The baseball world mourns, but respects his decision.
The End.
But the real important question is – does he feel claustrophobic on the pitcher’s mound???
I’d believe it if you said that about the Astros.
So is there a game today?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxIgXTDKXsg
1:13
Here you go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxIgXTDKXsg&t=1m13s
Thanks. Never knew how to do that.
Kay is saying its rained out, but not official
According to Indians’ closer Chris Perez, the game is cancelled.
Nothing has been announced beyond “first pitch at 8:30.”
So….yeah.
Lineups have been “announced.” If they’ve turned in lineup cards then it’s in the ump’s hands now.
April Fucking Showers.
OK, that commercial for Surface Pro or whatever it is…everyone involved with the concept, development, and making of it needs to be killed. Brutally killed. In front of their loved ones. On cable TV. Live.
Cleveland better hope it’s ballclub is managed better than this rain delay. They said they were starting at 8:30, announced the lineups, threw out the first pitch but never intended on starting the game. What a bunch of clowns.
I guess the game is about to get rained out again. And its supposed to rain tomorrow here in NYC.
just called it, i see.
Hahahaha
As disappointed as I am, this is hilarious.
What, is Cashman running the show over there in Cleveland? AmiRite? Huh??
Sigh.
Also, Sergio Romo with 6th save on the season so far. Someone let Dalek Jeter know. (Facing him in Fantasy this week)
Boo
Fracking momentum killing rain outs…
i recieved an update report from one of my inside sauces that the game may be called because indians closer tweeted that “they banged it”. however im prety sure that that tweet can mean a variety of things and really has nothing to do with the state of the rain dealay. its more likely something hapening in indians bullpen
i will keep everyone updated
Thank you Member, I look forward to your insight on this any other anally driven dialogs.
Yes…you do that.
So now we have to go back there in September or something and play a doubleheader? You know they’re going to try and reschedule it during midge season. Can’t we just send SWB to play them?
Send Joba in for 5 innings. You wanna be a starter, asshole? Have at it.
Holy shit!
Could this mean TWO separate trips to Cleveland to make up these games??? That would be brutal.
Im for the rain out. Hopefully we can use the makeups as potential slump busters, or keep a hot winning streak going vs a weak indians team…
Be careful what you wish for. They might have their shit together by then
very true, but they may not have the luxury of facing early season nova and hughes….
I’d much rather have banked another win or two (which I have to think we would have done) now rather than hope the makeups are strategically located enough, purely by chance, to help us out later.
Also, a non-zero chance you will want to get your old guys some rest on the off days instead of making them play a meaningless game against the Tribe. So the fallacy of the predetermined outcome here when your starting 9 will be mediocre… Well, more mediocre.
Yankees had won their last won their last three games by a combined tally of 32-7.
You want to keep that kind of momentum going.
2 rainouts in the past 2 days is better than missing 2 games in the past 2 days.
/selfish
I don’t know what I would do without my DVR. I start work when they start normal night games, so it’s radio (if I’m not out) and then catch up on it after work or later in the week.
I’m not a DVR person for any sort of sporting event. If I can’t watch a game I’m happy with Sterling or gameday on my phone. Although this season I’ve only watched 3 games start to finish. That should change in a few weeks though so yay.
I hiss at you, good sir.