Game 68: Stop the Skid
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Second rounder Gosuke Katoh was with the team yesterday. (Jeff Gross/Getty)
The Yankees are playing no good, very bad baseball these days. They can’t hit and their rotation has gone from outstanding to average of late — 3.96 ERA over the last 30 days and 4.09 ERA over the last 14 days. The bullpen has been dynamite, but there’s only so much those guys can do to help the team win. Someone needs to hit and someone needs to hand the relievers a lead. Here’s the lineup that will faced the mushy shoulder of right-hander Tommy Hanson:
- CF Brett Gardner
- 3B Jayson Nix
- 2B Robinson Cano
- 1B Mark Teixeira
- DH Lyle Overbay
- RF Ichiro Suzuki
- LF Thomas Neal
- SS Reid Brignac
- C Chris Stewart
And on the mound is the rotation leader with a 9.1 K/9, right-hander David Phelps. He is actually starting tonight, I don’t have my days mixed up again.
More perfect weather in Anaheim, but no surprises there. The game is scheduled to start at 7:15pm ET and can be seen on FOX. Sorry to those of you who will be blacked out, but then again the other teams might be more entertaining at this point. Enjoy.
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Man, Alex Cobb was hit in the head by a screaming line drive in the Rays-Royals game. Scary
naturally, he’s on my fantasy team, which carries a warning: Caution! May be hazardous to your health
My team too…
They seriously need to do something to protect those guys, kevlar lining in the caps; something, anything because its frankly a matter of time before someone gets killed
Some source from Grantland said the ball was tracked at 102 MPH when it hit him in the head.
I pray he’s doing ok
Now I feel bad for being happy he only went 4 and a third for my fantasy opponent.
Excuse me but the increase in starter ERA has nothing to do with tonight’s pitcher, BGDP. Phelps has the 2nd lowest ERA on the staff and is the most underpaid #2 starter in baseball.
It seems like whenever Girardi needs a big game to stop an ace like Felix Hernandez or to stop the bleeding of a losing streak he hands the ball to BGDP. In baseball we call that a stopper. BSDP.
I perversely enjoyed this comment.
eddard’s wheelhouse.
sterling’s diamond notes went “something, something, milton berle, something, matlock.”
i’m not kidding.
heh-heh
well, he can’t go on much longer.
Living in NY has one advantage, I almost never listen to the games on radio
i affirm all the censure and condemnation, but i can enjoy them, their ridiculousness, most of the time. even when i watch television broadcasts i tune in for pre-game.
so you’re local; i’ll put you on the city-and-surrounding roster. i want to have a rab party at my bar this summer. i’ll buy a couple rounds and we can bicker in person.
Sounds great!
you will miss pa and ma when they retire. the cheesy radio broadcast is the last remaining non-corporate aspect of the franchise
again, don’t tell that to ralph nader.
http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/.....roadcasts/
sterling is unsafe at any screed!
/tip your waitress
winner.
Haha, you’re kidding right? When was the last time you listened to a broadcast? Every other pitch, swing, inning, scoreboard, and update is sponsored.
but it’s cheesy-homespun-corporate. like branson, missouri. i dig it. maybe it’s just me…
Agreed, remember Paul Harvey?
“page two…”
i’m with you guys.
“Something something, Gilbert & Sullivan, something something where’s my pipe and slippers, something something what do you think about these dadgum horseless carriages?”
at this point, 3 words : just. fucking. win.
Katou looks taller than 6’2, Ichiro is what 5’10? Also he is really skinny, he could easily put more weight on that frame
ichi’s listed at 5’11”. you know what that means.
It means… Muggsy Bogues, watch out?
oh, he’s tower over 5’3″ muggsy. by a good four inches.
Really should bat Ichiro 2nd and move Nix down.
i’d try thomas neal or even, kill me, chris stewart there.
Nix has a .610 OPS; there is a righty on the mound. Girardi is one damn stubborn son of a gun.
Is it the high strikeout rate, the aggressiveness early in the count, or the bad hitting that makes him the ideal guy to give the 2nd most AB’s in the lineup to?
It really is absurd. I’ve lost so much faith in him with some of his moves/non-moves this season.
Hey I understand that under ideal conditions Cano is batting 3rd, but when you don’t have a #2 hitter, you just bite the bullet and put your best hitter in the 2nd spot.
oriole magic brewing.
Not with that ending.
BTW, since we discussed it briefly 5 days ago, you notice Kenley Jansen and the Dodgers bullpen just blew another win for Kershaw?
i’m watching. so it wasn’t brandon league, it’s the universe.
Dalek or GPU (or anyone else who wants to offer input) if you’re around and so inclined to grace me with your expertise:
http://riveraveblues.com/2013/.....nt-6404813
Thinking about it more overnight, I’m really leaning toward taking it. Ramirez is still short power, but I didn’t really account much for him having missed the first month of the season. We also don’t know what Pineda will still become, or if he’ll even be in the majors, and Ramirez will certainly help solidify my 3B situation so I don’t have to think about that anymore.
Really, I’m not too sure there’s a reason not to do it other than potential and youth that are slightly on Pineda’s side when considering the keeper league aspect.
The only reason I can think not to is even in fantasy, you can never have enough pitching. My top two pitchers from the draft were Cueto and Gallardo. Cueto has been hurt almost all year, and Gallardo’s been terrible. Meanwhile you probably have a top 5 third baseman in Beltre.
Yeah, I hear ya on the pitching, especially since I may have just lost Cobb for awhile today. But, it’s probably still worth taking the shot.
One of the worst parts of FOX/ESPN games?
Listening to Suzyn try to vamp for an extra 10-15 minutes till the game starts.
Just watched Mariano here in Anaheim sign autographs for an hour. It’s the understatement of the century, but man am I gonna miss this guy. I think he means to us what Mantle meant to my day’s generation, it transcends baseball. I just hope I can make it out to NY before the season ends to see him one last time. Hear that music come over the speakers and see him run out to the field. Nothing like it.
I understand his speed is one of his weapons, but he’s also one of the very few guys actually hitting. Not a fan of bunting there to start off the game.
dreadful decsion by gardner, hansen is trash
Man, I just noticed this…but does Mike Trout have a neck?
He did last season, he seemed to lose it over the offseason.
gardneresque.
No, John, the reason you can’t walk Trumbo is it’s almost statistically impossible for Trumbo to take 4 pitches, balls or strikes, over the course of an AB.
wow.
Wow indeed.
Helluva play there by Ichiro.
Nice play Ichiro!
Apparently Ichiro has a patented slide now.
AND OMG HIS GLOVE WAS ON THE GRASS!!!
Jeez listening to the beginning of that call it sounded like Sterling was making the call from Dodgers stadium with a pair of binoculars and by the end he was basically in tears about how great it was.
Somebody should tell John that he has a monitor like directly in front of him with the television broadcast. That follows the ball. Seriously, I know I’m in a shitty mood and sound like I’m complaining but christ Sterling is in rare form.
Sterling doesn’t like the monitor, he always gives it to Suzyn. “We’ll let Suzyn look at the monitor and tell us what happened…”
Why? because watching the monitor prevents him from being able to make up what’s happening on the field by showing him what’s actually happening. When ever he says “we can’t see into the corner because the stands jut out, so I don’t know if it’s fair or not” I’m screaming at my computer “JUST LOOK AT THE FUCKING MONITOR!!!”
it was weirdly emotional for me too, to be honest. i’m just looking for something, anything, to be awed by. and it was awesome.
You better hope he was crying, because the alternative would give you nightmares
Well, I’m never sleeping again…so much more time for activities now!!
That 2-1 pitch to Pujols and the 1-1 pitch to Trumbo is what separates Phelps from Hughes… the ability to throw a fastball inside for a strike or just off the plate and induce a swing.
The only thing Hughes seems to be able to do is throw it way in off the plate (where it’s an easy take) and then go back outside (or up). Hitters against Hughes don’t have to respect the inside of the plate and that leads to his marathon AB’s.
Am I reading this right that Manny Machado has 31 doubles in 69 games?
i noticed that too. look out earl webb (i think)
Man Hanson has some ugly mechanics…
Looks almost like he’s flipping the ball to the plate.
Fantasy experts: I’m up 12Runs, 11 Hits, 2 HR, 10 RBI, 33 Points of BA, 36 Points of OBP, 71 Points of SLG, 25 IP, 4 Wins, 7KS, 1.50 in ERA, .08 in WHIP, and up 3 in QS.
Should I just bench my entire team tomorrow to not risk going like 0 for the day with Cueto blowing up in his return from the DL or are my leads in counting stats too small?
Maybe just start a few of your best players and sit the iffy ones with poor pitching matchups.
Here’s one for you, put these three starters in order for who you’d try to get added to a trade:
David Phelps, Homer Bailey, Julio Teheran
Obviosuly, I have a bias toward Phelps (you may too), so it’s tough. Bailey’s pitched the best, probably, but will that hold up over the season and in his ballpark (Phelps too).
I just lost my Phelps bias…
Taking the Yankee bias out of it:
Bailey
Teheran
Phelps
I’d put Teheran first, but he’s not getting any run support, so he’s not getting many wins.
Am I the only one who felt like Hanson threw like four pitches that inning?
6 up 6 down on 22 pitches yay offense
How did Overbay miss that 1-1 fastball? It was belt high and 90mph with absoulutley zero movement and he fouled it off. These guys coulden’t hit a little leaguer! Fucking bums!
At this point nothing should be surprising about the ineptness of this offense.
True, but still very frustrating.
I don’t know what Cashman was thinking when going about filling the DH role. He honestly thought Hafner was going to be good the whole year?
My father and I went and saw the new Superman film (superhero/starwars films have always been our tradition bonding thing) I strongly recommend it. Good movie
I wonder if Alvaro Espinoza would be starting at SS on this team if he’d been playing now?
f-ing mike milken. how is this guy not scorned by the public?
Because no one remembers that any of that shit happened back in the 80′s.
And probably because all his “philanthropic” work makes up for his crimes?
yeah, i just read up on the philanthropy. makes up for a lot, and i guess he served his time
i retract my comment!
Well, Howie Kendrick getting hits is obviously one of those things we don’t see enough of.
I was just finishing my dinner and contemplating something. Tim McCarver is apparently retiring after this year, at least from Fox. So obviously Joe Buck will have a new partner next year.
I have noticed that Fox and MLBN seem to share some on-air personnel. Now there are plenty of guys on MLBN that I absolutely can’t stand, but there’s one that stands out above all. I know he’s worked games for Fox in the past, too, so I don’t think it’s a completely impossible proposition.
So, to finally get to my point, won’t it actually be far worse to listen to a booth combination of Joe Buck and KEVIN MILLAR?????
Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know.
That’s my point. I listened to part of game Millar broadcast and it was a fucking abomination.
And don’t even get me started on that “show” of his on MLBN.
Better than Buck and Reynolds, or Buck and Williams, or Buck and Migraine…I mean Magrane.
Maybe, probably yea, and maybe.
tits
Whose?
Fucking Erick Aybar? Seriously?
Ugh…
Erick freakin’ Aybar!?!?!?
That shit barely made it.
HR to Erik Aybar? give me a fucking break
Wow
Erick Fucking Aybar.
Theres the pitch that overbay fouled off.
Don’t panic guys, we can still score 2 runs!
But then we would have to win a 2-1 game which this team has seemed incapable of doing.
2 runs? let’s just get a base hit first. baby steps.
Whao, slow down there. Let’s get a walk first.
That we are, which is why I don’t sweat whatever happens when it comes to this team.
Bwahahahahahahaahahhaahhahahahahahaah!!!!
wipes tears from eyes
(I’m kidding)
Lol. We’re all in this together…
Just remember, every time the life of someone like Mike Milken is saved through cancer research, the life of some poor inner city kid ends.
/rich is rich, poor isn’t
but the research trickles down!!!
/i love the eighties
Snooze fest yet again.
I haven’t watched TV for 2 weeks, it’s only natural that Dunkin Donuts reminds me of how F-ing annoying their commercials are.
deep, real hate for mike scioscia.
starting to look like rush limbaugh
Heh.
Starting to?
and they’re both geeeeeeniuses.
I think/hope that is sarcasm.
come on, pat.
we have a base hit. I repeat we have a base hit. offense is scorching hot.
One of our best hitters! Stewart! LOL
THE GRITTIEST AND GUTTIEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice Gardner!
And that’s why you shouldn’t be bunting at this point…
mvp
he missed the bunt sign
Gardy! Hes done his thing this yr.
Nice Gardy
good news is… think we’re all expecting this team to come home 37-32 so if they even win ONE of these next 2 it’s a bonus
and there goes our best hitter with a booming triple
Gardner is the best power hitter on the team right now.
Scary thought.
by far, lately.
gauntlet’s been thrown, thomas neal.
If Gardner makes an out, Chris Stewart will have the best batting average in this lineup, not counting Neal’s SSS.
Sorry, Scioscia, this isn’t a reviewable play.
That’s not a reviewable play, whether the guy touched it or not, that’s not a “boundries” play.
if your stupid fans interfere with the ball you shouldn’t get a break
STFU tim mccarver
You know your offense is in a sad state when Chris Stewart is likely your best option to hit #2 against righties.
he touched that.. if they review it we lose our run
It’s not reviewable.
Nice Gardy and Stewie
Also has anyone noticed Hanson looks like a fat Ian Kennedy?
The pitching should not be implicated in the team’s woes whatsoever. If the Yanks’ season ended today they’d have the lowest ERA in a 162-game season since 1980.
The pitching needs to keep doing what’s it’s done all year, the bats need to wake up, and Cashman needs to wake up and realize hoarding pitching is not the way to go.
Neither is drafting a player so the Yanks can bolster their Japanese fanbase like they re-signed Ichiro for. Who the fuck is that guy in the picture with Suzuki, his successor? And WTF is with Matsui retiring a Yankee by being a Yankee for a day? Hideki I love ya but you ditched the Yanks for a paycheck after 2009 and you do not deserve a day at the Stadium when Paul O’Neill never got one.
The Yankees don’t need four fucking starters for the fifth starter job when their rotation is set with Sabathia, Kuroda, Pettitte, Phelps, and Hughes.
They should trade one from Nova, Warren, Nuno, and Pineda for a SS or 3B and trade Heathcott and Austin in a package for a corner outfielder and be done with it.
Your first paragraph was so good, I really thought you were going somewhere…but then you just kind of fell apart.
W. O. W.
The wheels really came off that wagon.
I’m not sure they were ever on. Or at least on properly.
True.
Okay, Mr. Ballplayer-who-always-does-something maybe do something?
Thank you, Jayson
could fox have worse camera angles? You can’t see anything on that replay
Ma and Pa must be going nuts
There ya go Sciossia, we’d have the 2runs anyhow you baby!
WE ARE ALL WITNESSES!!!!!
lol
Alright seriously, time to run the train on Hanson.
nix will now bat second for another month
Callaspo with the Davey Lopes Ole! Defense.
here we go! 2 runs! way to go nix!
Beat a dead horse, Fox.
If the fan had caught that and it was ruled a homer, then it would be reviewable.
if they don’t score again and don’t win 2-1 now Greg might implode
Yeah runs!
However this is only going to serve to convince Girardi that batting Nix 2nd is somehow the right thing to do.
Typical Fox. Not giving up on something somewhat questionable where the Yankees benefited.
AS game reps for yanks- Cano, MO, and Gardy.
Texiera Sucks
And you’re not as good as Ronnie Wood, nor do you have the versatility of Brian Jones.
Ron wood sucks too
Yes he does.
Wow, Nix is actually doing solidly this yr.
Not really, one good inning won’t change his overall numbers but ok.
Meh.
.251/.314/.301 with 18 RBI as a backup guy forced into duty
Hes also stolen 10outta 10 bases. Hes done solidly(as far as who he is as a player and what hes done overall for us this yr)
Methinks Suzyn needs to look up what “Emulsified” means…
lol what did she think it meant?
She said an Angels beatwriter caught the foul ball and “saved Mark Feinsand from being emulsified by that ball”.
lol that was good for a quick laugh
Gee, thanks Mark.
Nice job Tex…
…
first pitch of the AB….
really?
/facepalm
Great, now it is up to teix.. fuck him
BGJN?
Tex needs to start hitting or Cano may never get a pitch to hit again this season
Amazing how Tex has devolved. And very quickly too. Absolutely baffling.
Tex baseball’s biggest bust
Try Pujols, he’s got 8 years left and can barely even take the field.
Seriously, he has an injury that makes it hurt to stand! And it’s a chronic injury too, that’s going to be a long eight years for Angel fans.
2016: Pujols DHs, hits from his knees.
2015: Angels push for the use of Designated Runners and Fielders.
Not gritty enough. Needs to field from his knees too.
Apparently you’ve never seen Prince or Cecil Fielder without a shirt on.
You win the thread.
However, Tex can’t be considered a bust because he helped get us a ring. Yet the point stands that he has been disappointing.
Yea, I think the “bust” label is thrown about way too much.
Is he going to fully earn the money he will make? Of course not, at this rate. But I think “bust” is a tad extreme.
Tomorrow’s lineup:
Nix
Stewart
Gardner
Neal
Cano
Ichiro
Adams
Hafner
Tex
/onlyhalfkidding
damn, that pitcher can field.
That was a really cool painting.
Walking Trout is like walking Ricky back in his hay-day. It should basically be a walking double for him.
Heyday, son.
…shut up.
NEVAH!!!!
And to think that if had lost a few more games that year than the Angels that he could have been ours.
WILL YOU NEVER GIVE UP ON THIS SHIT??????????
And if King George had allowed colonial representatives in Parliament, we could still be part of England.
This comment really wasn’t that serious, people.
And mine was?
I was just pointing out the logical fallacy of saying what could’ve happen years ago. Say we do wind up getting Trout for whatever reason, there’s nothing to say that he would have developed on the same path. Maybe his first day in the RGCL he runs into a wall making a catch and breaks his wrist and never plays a game for the Yankees.
Exactly. Given the way the Yankees develop, he probably would be only a third of a player he is right now.
checkmate
CASHMAN FAILED!!
If my brother had a penis he would have been my sister.
Err….lol EPIC FAIL
tex with another great ab. hit the ball somewhere is his strategy.
I especially like his ability to make adjustment. not hang on his back leg and swing for the fences all the team.
he is a true pro..
what a joke..
Well, I guess all those pickoff attempts were completely useless, eh?
Stewart strikes again?
Nah, breaking pitch in the dirt, Stewart had no chance.
No.
He ran on a slider down and in. There would have been no shot.
Stewart still sucks.
that lead was fun for 2/3 of an inning
Has Cano ever dove for a ball in his career?
Yes. Quite a few times. You can only dive if the ball is movin slowly enough that you’ll actually be there in time. That wasn’t such a time.
Stop asking stupid questions.
Have you ever seen the rain?
You gotta be fucking kidding me with these two out run scoring hits.
Every run scoring hit for the Angels in this series has been with two outs.
THERE IT IS AGAIN!
Two straight games, Yankees offense actually scores two runs to take the lead, starting pitcher goes out in the bottom of the inning to immediately give the lead right back…
Exactly.
3 straight the Yankees have given their starters a two run lead and they have proceeded to blow it. Kuroda blew 2 innings after they took the lead.
Greg, two runs IS NOT A LOT OF RUNS TO WORK WITH. Stop it.
You’re given lemons, you make lemonade.
WRONG!
When God gives you lemons, you FIND A NEW GOD!!
yes!
Almost no team ever does what you complain about them not doing (the idiotic 2012 Yankees reference you make amounted to 4% of the season) but keep reaching for that moron star!
I was given a pack of smokes.
The Yankees never had a two-run lead tonight or last night.
This is what my friends and I commonly referred to as a “Mussina”
(Yes he was great, but it felt like he LOVED giving up leads in big spots)
game over. yanks scored there 2 runs.
pujols he stinks and is injured is better then Texiera.
pujols a shell of his former self is still a better hitter then marky..
phelps is a starting verison of robertson, they hate clean innings. like to do it the hard way…
Is that you, Vicente Padilla?
I can’t be sure about this, but I think Pujols has been better than Teixeira since he got to the majors.
So his shell should be better than Mark’s shell, too.
Really stuart? You think first ballot Hall of Famer and 3 time MVP winner Albert Pujols is a better hitter than Mark Teixeira?
I sure hope someone is paying you for such stellar analysis.
Ichiro XBH? woah.
what an atrocious AB
“Hanson and his step-brother shared a room since they were 9″
Not to be creepy or insensitive but…um…wut?
I wonder what Sterling’s call would be for our young Mr. Neal.
That’s Ichiro’s first XBH since May 26th. He’s been hitting over .300 since them, but zero power (obviously). First double since May 20th.
Go, Girardi, Go!
….you’re fucking kidding me, Ichiro.
Not even close. What bullshit.
The team can’t hit a lick and Ichiro gets an out on the bases. Get tossed Joe and fire up the club.
He is safe by a mile
Fuckin moron ump
Oh, what a terrible fucking call.
NO MORE REPLAY! NO MORE REPLAY! IT WILL TARNISH THE GAME!!!
it would slow it down about a minute and the morons like selig don’t want that and after all people come to the games to see the umps dont they????
It’s scary when we agree on something.
Right?!
that call was so bad, that’s embarrassing.
Lololol
what a fucking joke..
bullshit ump
Clearly safe. This team does not need help from the umps in not scoring runs. Blind as an effing bat.
That is just horrible. How could he not see that he was safe? He was right there in good position
the ump was not behind the 3rd baseman, he had a pretty good view of the play. What a fucking joke of a call.
I always love the “ball beat the runner” ideology.
You know, the fucking idea is for the TAG to beat the runner.
nice call fro mthe ump at 3rd. no big deal he got the call wrong..
they only get 25% of the calls wrong….joke
apparently David Adams is now at 1st base
see you in 2014 Tex.
More injuries! Yay!
Well, there goes Tex again…
So, he can be out until maybe mid-July, then ST will end up stretching into August for him…
So I’m sitting out in right center and this kid with a blank Angels jersey is telling his Yankees fan grandpa he wants to get Jeter on the back of his jersey.
I…I have…I want to be angry…but I’m more just confused.
He’s like 4, I don’t think he really understands
His grandfather does. That’s like…putting Piazza on a Mariners uniform. It makes zero sense. There are plenty of great Angels, Tim Salmon comes immediately to mind.
Reggie.
“I must kill…the queen.”
His grandpa isn’t actually going to let him dude, the kid’s telling him he wants to do it
When the fuck will they ever find a way to get Kendrick out?
Fucking Christ. Can we just IBB Kendrick whenever he comes up?!
No. This has been proven to not be a good move.
teix out, is it the wrist?
Sounds like it could be.
Damn, please Robby don’t get hurt, you and Gardy are all that’s left. If you get hurt season over
Ok, so they’re taking Teixeira out with a “batting like crap” injury.
the next 3 years of Tex’s contract are gonna fucking suck
At least it’s not 8 years.
Only in Anaheim with this bullshit.
but hey give cano 8 years it is a gamble worth making!!!!
if you are a moron….
If we lose Cano, our offense will be Marlins-esque. Hell they would have a better offense than us
No one wants to do that. You are lying.
Jeez, I can almost hear the M*A*S*H theme playing.
girardi = frank burns
cashman = henry blake
hal = winchester
nunez = klinger
Suicide is painless.
Depends how.
Yeah, the sadist, Havok came up with some real brutal ways for me to do it using only office supplies.
Tex apparently said he doesn’t have any strength in his wrist…
/insertjokehere
Well it is a sheath-related injury.
also it’s pretty fucking hilarious that the one day Overbay DHs Tex decides he need to check out of this game so they have no 1B to replace him with
Why did Hafner not DH today? Now they can’t even put Lyle at 1B. And maybe Joe should have given Teix a day off before this. He was just coming back from injury.
5 for his last 52 I think they said.
Because he’s 0 for his last 23.
That is such a dumb fuckin ass comment, the announcers need to be ashamed
Surprised he didn’t blow that call.
Oh, that’s right, the ball beat him.
Love any and all plays high,igniting the stupidity of sacrifice bunting.
In any case, thanks for 2009, Mark.
One year of getting what you pay for is better than none, I guess.
Albert agrees.
Oh you know and a well above average 2010, and 2011, but whatever; no avg=no production.
So I made the statement when Mo blew the save against the Mets that the season was over.
Since the start of the Mets series, the Yankees are 7-12. They have lost both Youkilis and Tex(for a certain period of time).
And Tex has a partial tear in his wrist? Why the hell is he playing?
He doesn’t have it any longer, the season is far from over, go to the hospital the piece of sky hit you.
very nice play by Nix
I was cleaning out the attic today and I had left a 2005 Bernie Williams card as a bookmark in one of my old books. Bernie Williams certainly didn’t seem like a very important player in ’04 with Matsui, Jeter, Sheffield, ARod, etc., but look at his numbers:
-.795 OPS
-22 HR
-70 RBI
What I wouldn’t give for a .795 OPS in this lineup. Only Gardner and Cano are the full-time players with that good of an OPS.
check out 2009′s starting nine slugging percentages
insane
good times.
yea McCarver he’ll just start batting RH against RHP because that’s so easy to do.
Well, now I anxiously await the two-out run scoring hit here.
Do it, Bourjos.
I think we are about a week away from learning that Teix has to have surgery and will miss the rest of the season..
What an idiotic move by Ichiro. You don’t steal third with one out and your team struggling to score runs!
The Yanks should release him or bench him until he pleads for a trade.
If the Angels can eat almost $30M of Wells’s contract, the Yanks can eat Ichiro’s remaining 2013 salary and $6.5M salary for 2014. If it means Japan hates us forever so be it. Business is business.
He was safe.
You do know he was safe by a mile right?
I see the wagon still doesn’t have wheels.
You are wrong. You don’t make the 1st or 3rd out at 3rd base. That was Out #2.
At least the early 90s teams had a fucking direction and with Stick at the helm they were in good hands.
Now, there is no positive outlook. There is no hope coming. There is no direction
Well, thank heavens they didn’t send down Overbay just yet.
Fingers crossed on Tex. This season just gets uglier.
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Eric Jagielo is hurt already. Out a few weeks with a hamstring injury.
Why the hell not….
heh, all you can do is laugh now.
Should we have expected anything else right now?
rub some faygo on it
Fucking serious?
This curse is attacking guys before the ink is dry, what the hell
Great job by Adams working through that.
i’m developing aaron small love for him. but i’m cautious, because my early crush on romine had a delilah-like effect.
Brignac is so fucking useless offensively.
Is there any truth to this argument Buck and McCarver are making that the way modern baseball players are built makes them more susceptible to injuries that were virtually non-existent in baseball just a few decades ago, or is this just another one of their crazy, unfounded rants?
Ehhh somewhat true, mostly crazy rant. The true part is that these guys get bulkier and bulkier losing flexibility and increasing susceptibility to injury.
That is a stretching issue, if you stretch properly a lot of injuries can be avoided.
True but lack of flexibility does become an issue.
which is why you stretch, I’ve been to games and watched players warm up, its frankly a joke. To call it half assed is an understatement. Weight training should go hand in hand with a ton of stretching. It’s not the fact you have muscles it’s the fact your doing too much in some areas, and not enough in others.
I’m a dilettante when it comes to weight training, but your explanation makes a hell of a lot more sense than BuckCarver’s.
It’s a stupid ass comment, it’s so idiotic I feel like my IQ has dropped 20 pts. It’s like saying being muscular affects speed, it has no basis in what actually happens.
I agree. As David Wells used to say, you can’t pull fat.
In the old days (pre 90′s maybe), guys almost never worked out. Mantle, Maris, Mays, Aaron did not pump large amounts or iron.
Guys would have played regardless of whether they were injured or not, using the old players as paragons of health is not a good assessment. Mantle played his entire career on torn ACL for Christ’s sake, doesn’t mean you should.
I don’t want to start any blasphemous rumors but I think the baseball gods have a cruel sense of humor and when a yankee player comes off the DL they begin laughing.
Tommy Hanson is drunk.
hilarious
what the hell was trumbo doing?
Wow…. we already scored our 2 Runs. We must play for the tie.
HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT! Sterling excited for that Stewart hit.
“You won’t see that again in 100 years!!!”
Take a pitch, Jesus.
Jayson Nix. The #2 hitter. Kill. Me.
Our offense sucks so bad a #9 hitter is hitting #2.
first pitch pop ups are always awesome
Hanson 4.2 innings 55 pitches what in the fuck
Stewie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is Stewart doing trying to steal there? Safe or not that’s a terrible move because it leads to a guy with a .312 OBP if he’s thrown out. And he’s a catcher.
Again, outcome more important than process to most outlets.
Parody recognition fail.
That’s pretty much the Yankees’ offseason strategy.
No the offseason strategy was go to the bargain basement and the old folks’ home.
No process; just see what happens.
Honestly I’m starting to believe a bit of Mike’s “hubris” theory. Cashman had been so good at bargain basement pickups the last couple of years that he thought he could to the well fully.
And it has backfired.
That’s because he went to The Well of the Souls.
Any business approach that condones disregarding process is a business that will fail.
Tell that to ESPN.
Doesn’t matter, he was never going to score.
If only the Angels could get negative runs, because now that we have 2 runs our offensive battery has been exhausted for the day.
1st pitch – out
1st pitch – error
1st pitch – poup
1st pitch…. sure swing away!
It’s like Little League… Are there any coaches in the dugout?
*popup
Jeez, Robbie, make yourself look worse.
That was a good curveball though. And it would have been a strike.
John, if this is the first experience they have with baseball and their listening to you, don’t worry, you don’t need to explain the rules. They won’t be coming back soon.
That one was not a good curveball.
ladies and gentlemen, the $200mil man lol
Hanson toying with this lineup. They reach a new low every day
I hate that Mike Sciosia is winning against us. Hate it.
Wait… a tie means the other team is winning?! Fuck. Just when I think I have this sport figured out.
Its delaying the inevitable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5d5jxJ5vbM
Because I’m watching a team that quite frankly is not interesting, listless, and has enthusiasm.
Lacks enthusiasm. Even the Royals, while they may suck, have enthusiasm.
This is an example of why you need to proofread before you post.
You’ve also been like this for as long as you’ve been posting on this site.
*slow clap*
We’re tied…
4 hits through 6 innings. We’re on fire.
And 2(!) XBH.
so you cut kelly shoppach and sign henry blanco? why bother?
Apparently he hit a grand slam.
I know the injuries are going to be the main discussion after this season, but it should be clear that this organization is very flawed in its structure and mechanisms.
The Yankees need a new direction/vision. A fresh outlook.
Whether that be getting rid of Brian Cashman, clearing out the draft personnel or talent evaluation, something needs to be done.
The Red Sox were at this point a few years ago with the collapse. Their response? They fired Francona and Epstein.
And now they’re back. Relatively quickly, I might add.
Because they somehow convinced the Dodgers to take half their payroll so they could just sign other guys to fill holes.
I mean, I guess you missed the first year without Francona and Epstein where they absolutely sucked.
They did. And they got a high draft pick out of it.
And the new GM came in and made that Dodger trade. A fresh eye and outlook.
What I’m saying is that it takes two to tango. If they hadn’t been able to make that trade, they might still suck.
I doubt that Theo Epstein convinces not only the Dodgers to take those players but the Blue Jays to give them John Farrel which has been the second major coup for the Red Sox this season.
My point is that they got fucking lucky to find a trading partner who was desperate to acquire big names to erase all the bad feelings generated by their previous owner.
I understand that. But for the new GM to even THINK about executing this trade and finding a patsy takes thinking outside the box.
A quality the Yankees could use right now.
“But for the new GM to even THINK about executing this trade and finding a patsy takes thinking outside the box.”
Really? A move to unload over 150 million of bad albatross contracts for a group of has-beens and underachievers, no strings attached, takes thinking outside of the box? I’d think that’s a no-brainer for any GM. Face it, the Red Sox got lucky that there was a team out there actually stupid enough to take on all of those bad contracts and players.
it was a pretty good move for the dodgers.
They’re still 9 games under .500. And those guys aren’t getting any younger.
once more: they looked at the last year’s, and next’s, free agent classes and saw little to spend their limitless budget on. crawford and agon are two of their best and most valuable players. beckett has a very low xfip and his best k/9 in years. he’s much better than his 0-5 record. (for perspective, kershaw has a 1.84 era, a sub-1 whip, about a k/inning; his record? 5-4.)
the dodgers have problems (bullpen! injuries!) but they haven’t looked back since the trade. they didn’t even give up their best prospect.
yes, yankee fans seethe with envy that the sox ditched their big-buck long-term contracts. but the trade was good for LA too.
So yes it does take two to tango. But would Epstein have even considered that move?
Cashman isn’t perfect by a long shot, but a lot of the terrible acquisitions and contracts this team have made in recent years are the fault of the Yankees going back on Cashman’s so called “autonomy” in team affairs. The Yankees’ front office has a lot more to do with the Yankees current state than Brian Cashman.
Epstein left he wasn’t fired, and Francona was a scape goat for a team suffering from internal disfunction from idiot players and a shit ton of injuries. Making moves for the sake of making moves is not a smart way to do anything and rarely does anything but make things worse. You also forget to mention that clown show they had last year.
And actually thinking about it, that year is almost mitigated by the Dodger trade and the fact that they get a high draft pick.
High draft pick which may never amount to shit.
And what are the chances of something like happening again? Heck its incredible that it happened a first time that someone came along and literally bought their headaches giving the RedSox a clean slate. That was a twist of fate. Firing Cashman isn’t going to magically fix this roster, it’s not going to do anything but create another headache
it did happen for miami too.
Leadoff walk in a tie game… this should end well.
/hoping for reverse jinx
another walk on a slider.. Let’s hope this one doesn’t score
I just don’t know what Phelps has to do to get some support. He matched King Felix inning for inning and didn’t get anything to show for it and now he’s giving us another great chance to win and they can’t buy a hit.
yes, tim. tommy hanson has been terrific. against the worst offense in the game.
It’s weird how Dillon Gee was also terrific against us.
CY Young tonight
This Howie Kendrick bullshit is unreal.
All of Howie Kendrick’s hits have gone the other way. Interesting
I wish the same could be said for Cano.
predictable.. here comes the game winning run
I refuse to believe Howie Kendrick is hitting less than .900 against us for his career.
“So in steps Jack Parkman who’s hitting just over .900 against Vaughn.”
That kind of feeling?
We can’t get the fucking guy out.
they can’t even play D, what a joke
Yeah, with this shit-tastic offense, that will just about do it.
Erik fucking Aybar. You’re not being serious.
Erick Aybar again, of course.
game over.
Erick Aybar’s yellow teeth come through again.
Game over. They reached the magic number of 3.
3-2 Angels thats the game we can not score more than 2 runs so ball game over.
I’m going to be terrified when the all star game comes along, my big baseball fear is that Cano in the derby fouls a ball into onto his foot, breaking it in some freak accident. That’s how bad this year has been
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Agreed.
Don’t worry guys. We got this.
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Must. Resist. The. Need. To. Bunt
FUCK YEAH ICHIRO!
Nice Ichiro!
Fucking give up baseball neal! Jesus!
Wonder how they can screw this chance up…
2/3rd’s of the way there. Chris Stewart, you’re our only hope…
Three strikeouts in a row, that’s how!
Ichiro is single handidly trying to win this ballgame for us. He should steal home if he gets an opening.
lol Neal.
Bringing in the lefty blocks Hafner but Girardi can use Wells.
The problem is that they have nobody to play 3rd base.
And that bringing in Wells is bringing in Wells.
They can easily move Adams to 3B and Overbay to 1B. But, all the options on the bench suck almost as much as Brignac. Hafner would still be the best option, despite his recent complete suckiness and left-on-left.
Lose the DH and have pitcher risk getting injured at the plate a la Wang. Not such a good idea.
There’s still a guy left to PH for that spot when it comes up.
Who cares who plays 3rd if you don’t score another run you lose!
Everyone and there mother knew Brignac was gonna K. Play wells at 3rd for a few innings. Its stupid to worry about who plays 3rd when your losing.
the frenchman is due for a hit… otherwise he gets the guillotine
PH here? (it would mean giving up the DH)
If it weren’t nearly 100% guaranted that one of our pitchers would get hurt batting, I’d probably rather see them hit more than most of our regular hitters.
Do they dare try a squeeze play?
May have to give up the DH. Hitting Reid is not a good idea.
Brignac will probably strike out, Stewie your our only hope
Probably?
Of course with this team, having the pitcher risk himself swinging a bat might not be a good idea.
Why the fuck would you let brignac bat here? It don’t matter whos gonna play short if you can’t score another run.
That’s just it. They have nobody else to play short.
The only way it would work would involve losing the DH.
It doesn’t matter if they lose the DH. It’ll only come up once more this game and they’ll still have either Wells or Hafner on the bench for it.
Again. Pitcher at the plate. HBP broken wrist. Out for the year.
Would you not be surprised?
Do you not know how to read? Here, I’ll put it in big bold letters to help you out.
It’ll only come up once more this game and they’ll still have either Wells or Hafner on the bench for it.
Only takes one time to ruin a career and a season.
And with this team’s luck, do you dare take the chance?
Oh my god.
THERE IS NO PITCHER BATTING THAT TIME. IT’S EITHER HAFNER OR WELLS, WHOEVER ISN’T USED FOR BRIGNAC.
Could you hear that?
And have Hafner get hurt too.
Again, would it surprise you?
Then why ever play him? He might get hurt.
Why ever play any of their Major Leaguers? Can’t risk getting any of them hurt. Better pull Cano out of the game, he might get hurt his arm throwing someone out.
Take out Gardner. Don’t want to pull a hammy chasing down a flyball.
Well Cano and Gardy don’t have the injury history that Hafner has.
Hafner has probably already played too much given his current ineffectiveness.
then the what you do, giradri playing to lose. thats their best chance to score and as usual giradri fail
Actually it does because who’s going to play short?
Seriously I’ll just sit here and wait. Give me your master plan since you’re just a baseball genius.
Move Nix to SS, Adams to 3B, Overbay to 1B, PH whichever guy is left the last time the DH spot comes up.
It’s not rocket science.
The only guy left is Romine. What if Stewart gets hurt? Who catches then?
God, you are so freaking dense. You use one of Hafner or Wells to hit for Brignac, meaning one is still available. That one PH’s for the DH/pitcher spot the one time it will still come up.
Except Travis Hafner is an absolute corpse. And given his injury history he might get injured too.
Who gives a fuck? You can’t win this game unless you score at least 2more runs and more impotant, tie the game. PLay anyone at short. Put Nix at Short and Wells at 3rd. Is it that hard to figure out for you?
wells at 3rd and Nix at short.
Unfuckingreal with this team.
giradri didn’t play to nice, pinch hit wells, move overbay lose the dh.
fire this dreadful manager
And have a pitcher get injured. Good idea.
right, or what about hafner for oneill. is 1 at bat, i bet they be ok,
The worst part, and something that I think we’re all in agreement about, is that this impending blown opportunity isn’t even the least bit surprising.
Yup. That’s the scary part
It was like a 95% probability.
The only surprising thing was that there wasn’t a failed suicide squeeze involved.
Was anyone expecting anything else. I rather they not even get on base than to watch them fail in these situations.
no, and no.
this team is such a fucking joke. how many times have they had a man on 3rd with less than two outs and not scored on this road trip?
now might have been a good time to PH with a LH batter
Well, Hafner is god awful right now so…
With two outs it’s not really a great gamble, because then you need a basehit and we’d be stuck with Romine.
How many rock bottoms can they actually hit?
seriously, fuck this team. man on 3rd no outs and 3 K’s in a row. just fuck off.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
So in one half inning we get a guy to third, follow that with 3 straight strikeouts, and then receive more injury news. If that’s not a microcosm of this season I’m not sure what is.
I hope people understand the reasons for not making moves there. Otherwise, I can’t help you.
There are no moves to make
You’re so clueless it’s unbelievable. I can’t believe you’re willing to make yourself look this assinine just to keep your blind support for Girardi.
Hey, He’s got a corpse team over .500.
sigh, you’re not even worth it anymore.
Adams to 3rd. Nix to SS. Overbay to 1st
PH either Wells or Hafner for Brignac
And before you say “oh the DH”… you still have either Wells or Hafner to PH when the pitcher’s spot comes up. And if you saved Wells for that, you could even have done a double switch to push the next time it comes up even deeper into the game (11th inning or so)
And have Hafner get injured.
Hafner would PH and then be out of the game…
Or are you projecting him getting injured while he hits.
Hey with this team’s luck, you just don’t know.
From what?
He’ll spontaneously combust, of course.
I must give you props for the pretend use of intentional humor to disguise your complete lack of knowledge of how losing the DH would work.
huh? How do I have a complete lack of knowledge of how losing the DH would work???
Crap – meant as a response to Greg’s comment
My apologies.
Ok, no problem, I kind of figured that but you never know.
At this point, and moving forward, we really shouldn’t be optimistic and now it’s just a matter of who really supports this team and who doesn’t. It’s gonna be a test of or mettle and willpower boys!
Confidence poll on Monday should be real interesting…
Can Mike include negative numbers?
-10. no immediate impact prospects for the next year or so and all these old overpaid fucks are breaking down while ownership engages in their circlejerk because they’re saving a few million dollars by getting payroll under $189mil meanwhile they’re losing that money anyway because YES ratings are cratering while attendance at YSIII is literally 7 people, 4 of which have suite seats they bought off stub hub for $5 so they’re don’t even buy any concessions because they have the free buffet included in with their ticket.
for on’eill is either hafner vs hansen or wells vs downs. giradri should be fired
Now the PH means absolutely nothing because the Angels scored another run. In hindsight of course.
FALLACY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s a completely different pitcher on the mound instead of Phelps/Kelley if they had tied the game.
You’re just making yourself look worse and worse.
If it were the 8th or 9th you would be absolutely right
Who’s the 7th inning guy?
Jobber or Claiborne. Situationally, Logan might appear too.
Claiborne I think would have been the choice. But since that role has not been defined and Kelley was not a garbage pitcher going into that inning, it’s not like he raised the white flag.
might have lead to big inning, highly unlikely atleast try something. they likely wouldn’t gotton the run in earlier
The reason they couldn’t make any moves is because that idiot Girardi DH’d his only backup 1B. He knew Teixera’s wrist was shaky at best. Neal, Brigniac, Stewart. If that’s what Girardi is banking on to win ballgames he’s going to lose his job faster than Donnie Baseball.
Getting swept by this Angels team is like baseball suicide.
Tomorrow is the rare time I am going to be overjoyed by the fact that I will not be able to watch the game. That rarely happens, it should rarely happen, and I don’t like when it does happen. But this team has left me no choice but to celebrate it.
At this point I’m not even feeling that unhappy or frustrated. I’m learning to just deal with it now.
The Mets sweep was painful. Oakland hurt. By this point, it’s just more of the same.
Blaming almost any of this on Girardi is missing the forest for the trees
Exactly.
My only complaint is he left Phelps in too long. That’s about all he could’ve done differently, and judging by the way the team plays I doubt it’ll be of much consequence in the end.
Why don’t you put the blame where it goes…on the bats.
Agreed. It’s all down to Cashman, correct? Cashman fail!
(Sorry, in gallows-humor mode now…)
guess it dm kelly having a bad game
Better than giving up a grand slam, I guess.
Now they’re trying to take a save away from my fantasy team too.
Someday we’ll score than 2 runs, and then we’ll have a big laugh.
Hitting with risp seems to be a fundamental problem for this team over the last few years. At some point, you have to trace that somewhere. It’s good players, bad players, average players. Pretty much everyone
hey, guess what. 2012 yankees were third best in the majors with risp. woba, wrc+, pick a stat.
and 2011 yanks were best in the league.
Jason Nix’s name reminds me of Johnny Knoxville of Jackass fame. Those guys have some good ideas. I’d love to subject Tim McCarver’s bare ass to an alligator snapping turtle.
This team is about to be held to 2 runs for the 4th game in a row.
they score in only 1 inning again, that got to be a fluke
For as bad as this game has (predictably) been, Ichiro has had a damn fine game.
YOSSHA!! ICHIRO!!
We’re finding out what it was like in Seattle in the latter part of the decade.
Ichiro and company today
2 catches like that. And should have had 3 stolen bases. The morgue is missing a body!
Is it my TV or does Trout have a bucket head?
So I decided to listen to some music on the bus, apparently I missed some situation…from what I understand there was a runner on third when we were still down one, with no outs, and Brignac was allowed to hit. I guess this happened in the top of the 7th. And if Brignac was up with less than two outs it was some combination of the bottom 4 hitters up or on base.
Why exactly wasn’t Brignac pinch hit for? Sure you lose the DH, but odds are, unless there is some kind of offensive explosion the DH slot only comes up once more and you just use whoever you didn’t PH the first time the second time. And if the DH slot does come up again it’s because we scored an ass ton of runs, in which case let the pitcher take pitches until he strikes out, or it’s extra innings and if you’re playing to win the game (which you should when you’re facing a 6 game losing streak) you cross that bridge when you come to it.
IT would probably be Hafner and with the luck this team has had he would get HBP and out for the year.
In the end, it really means nothing because the Angels blew open against Kelley who had been pitching well of late so there is no “raise the white flag there”
Plus it would have been Vernon Wells who would PH.
Could have always moved Vernon to 3B (not like it’s not happened before!) and shifted Nix to SS.
I did not think of that. That’s entering emergency territory
Yes, but Wells is at least capable of lifting a fly ball to the guy in right field, deep enough to score a runner.
Brignac… ugh.
I’d wonder what John Sterling’s HR call for him might be, but I expect it’ll be a cold day in hell when I hear it.
For that matter, why wasn’t Stewart pinch hit for? I mean Romine is on the bench and the odds of a catcher getting injured catching 3 innings is close to zero.
With this team, would it surprise you?
Also there was two outs and they brought a righty in.
Only lefty on bench is Hafner who is a corpse.
It was an obvious move… but one that required more creativity than Girardi has. As you said, he also would have had another bat on the bench for the pitcher’s spot.
Greg’s now trying to turn it into comedy because he’s hellbent on defending every Gitardi move and couldn’t grasp the concept of how losing the DH would work (and I assume thought Hafner would go in at 1st? So he defended the move by claming there was an injury risk to Hafner).
When pointed out that Hafner would not be in the field, he moved on to the “could have been hurt hitting the way this team is going” joke to disguise his ignorance on the move.
ok calling it a night….don’t kill one another.
oh, and happy father’s day to all the dads out there.
Are there any other non prospects we can bring up to try, other than Adams or neal
If the injury turns out to be minor, Mustelier. That’s about it.
Yes, all of us.
The Benny Hill theme shall echo throughout the stadium as we “play.”
Right now I think “Another One Bites the Dust” might be even more appropriate.
Is it too early to play Mozart’s requiem?
Yea.
But since it played during the end credits of a movie where the last line was, “I’m finished,” we could play this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev45Knhdlp8
Good AB’s, ladies
This game is being managed by dumb and dumber.
I hope using Fieri to lock down a 4 run lead against an explosive Yankees offense means he will not be available tomorrow.
I do like yet another night of down 3 or 4 runs let’s try to hit a HR with noone on base approach in the 9th
Waste of time and money, not sure why I even came out. Could’ve spent the day playing The Last of Us. Relative to this, it’s a game full of hope and joy.
THE YANKS SHAKE-UP THE lINEUP BUT WHY IS lONG STILL THE HITTING COACH WHEN THEY HAVE ONE OF THE WORSE BATTING AVERAGES AS A TEAM IN BASEBALL.THE OTHER DAY I SAW LONG LAUGHING IN THE DUGOUT AND THE YANKS HAD LOST 5 STRAIGHT!!! STEINBRENNER ,TIME TO GET COMMITTED TO THIS TEAM BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!