Game 133: Win It For Robbie
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For the first time this season and the first time in 175 games dating back to last year, Robinson Cano is not in the Yankees starting lineup tonight. He is day-to-day with a left hand contusion after being hit by a J.A. Happ pitch last night. With the off-day tomorrow, it’s no surprise they’re resting him tonight and hoping the two consecutive days off have him ready to go for the Orioles series come Friday. Assuming he won’t come off the bench at some point, this will be Robbie’s first full game off since August 15th of last year, when a stiff neck sidelined him for a day. #lazy
Here’s the lineup Joe Girardi is running out there against right-hander Todd Redmond:
- CF Brett Gardner
- SS Derek Jeter
- DH Curtis Granderson
- LF Alfonso Soriano
- 3B Alex Rodriguez
- 1B Lyle Overbay
- 2B Mark Reynolds — Eduardo Nunez and his sore knee didn’t make it through batting practice
- RF Ichiro Suzuki
- C Chris Stewart
And on the mound is right-hander Hiroki Kuroda, who is coming off his worst start of the season. The Yankees need him to get back to pitching like a true ace if they want to have any chance at the postseason.
First pitch is scheduled for a little after 7pm ET and can be seen on YES. Enjoy.
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Hiroki vs Redmond must be won 100% of the time if this team wants to make the postseason. It’s a good night to make up some ground with a W – Tampa is out west, Cleveland has a tough match up, maybe Detroit will show up and BOS and BAL play each other.
Did you just copy and paste this from the other thread?
This is pretty clever
ARod and NonoRobots
http://www.billjamesonline.com.....l_scandal/
Reminds me of a guy called Edgar Davids, he had to wear tinted lenses to aid with his Glaucoma rather than take the relevant medication that was deemed to be performance enhancing.
Ha! That’s gold. It touches on something I always wondered about HGH. All HGH does is shorten injury time. Shouldn’t it be a personal medical decision? It’s not a PED in the traditional sense.
We’d better hope Jeter doesn’t get hurt because then we’d be looking at Soriano at 2nd and Reynolds at SS. And also then Jeter would be hurt.
If we can just …make it…to Saturday without anybody else getting hurt, we can bring up some bodies.
Chris Stewart post all star break:
.503 OPS, wRC+ 37 (thirty freakin’ seven!)
For reference there are 10 PITCHERS with a higher wRC+ than Chris Stewart’s 2nd half #’s
Yeah, but no stat can measure heart.
Sincerely,
Nomar Garciappara
Speaking of Nomar, why hasn’t he been on every steroid watch? His career ended because of tendonitis.. That doesn’t happen unless you juice so much that your body literally cannot handle its own muscle mass.
For reference there are 10 PITCHERS with a higher wRC+ than Chris Stewart’s 2nd half #’s
And one starting RF who can match that second half wRC+.
(Hint: he’s on the Yankees)
“Romine” is Italian for “sure to lose” so Joe can’t bring himself to play him. Other than that, who can imagine?
nice Jeter
Captain!!!
With range!!
pretty sure that’s a great example of him diving and having to make that difficult play on a ball that any decent shortstop would easily get to.
PASTADIVINGJETER
Rigatoni? Linguine? Gnocchi?
Mmmm…Gnocchi. Not Linguine though, I grew up having long pasta 3 nights a week. I freaking hate long pasta like Linguine, Angel Hair, Spaghetti, etc.
Mmm, Tortellini
OMG YES.
Very nice.
Weird seeing Cano on the bench.
I wish I was as confident as Eddard about this game.
Even half as confident.
ughhh
Dammit Hirok
We’re in big trouble. Hiroki hasn’t done a damn thing to rebound.
Urrp
Yup. Kuroda is out of gas. Forget the post season.
Kuroda has nothing
Actually, that might have been intentional. It looked like a perfect time.
Kuroda in August. ARGHHH
Season over. Good night, all she wrote. Somewhere a pregnant woman is signing.
That’s what happens when you rely on a 40 year old pitcher coming off of a career high in innings to be your ace.
The innings speak to CC’s decline as well.
this is their season going down the tubes tonight.
Chris Stewart is fucking awesome.
Disaster. Thanks Stewart
Ballgame over. Hiroki doesn’t have it and Stewart should be cut immediately.
Chris Stewart is a fucking bum. That’s something you learn in Little League ffs. He just cost us at least 2 runs AND tack on more pitches for Kuroda. Great job, backstop!
That has to be the first ever 2-run K in baseball history, right?
Ballgame over. Season Over. The Yaaaaaaaankees lose.
/ Sterling’d
Thanks Joe for continuing to play Stewart.
This organization baffles me.
wow. thats… sad.
What happened? Did he drop a foul tip?
Passed ball on strike 3.
Then hit the runner trying to throw him out at first.
2 runs score on what should have been K to end the inning.
aka, Chris Stewart happened.
Wait a minute. How could Stewart hurry a throw with a catcher running?
Passed ball. The ball went to the back stop and rolled a bit.
Even though, The ball is on turf so it would get there quickly. How far is the backstop?
It deflected to the side on the 3B side. Almost all the way to the dug out.
This guy has killed us this year
That is probably the worst play I have ever seen. My eyes are still hurting.
It was beyond stupid of him to do that. It was bad enough that he got crossed up on the pitch. But then to fumble around to find the ball and fire it when he had no chance to get the runner at 1st…it made no sense. If there weren’t runners on base then you make an attempt, but TWO baserunners were on. You just don’t do that! The only way that could have gone worse is if he threw the ball into the stands or a player got injured. Kuroda could have gotten flattened at home and Overbay could have hurt his arm on the play ala Brian Roberts.
Pretty much every part of that play is the first thing one is taught NOT to do in Little League.
This team scored seven runs yesterday. This game isn’t over, much less the season.
This season is over broseph. Not only that… it’s BEEN over. CC and Hughes are pitching like minor leaguers, which is an insult to minor leaguers. If Kuroda joins them, it’s over.
kuroda in full meltdown mode. 3 or 4 straight games… stewart with a terrible terrible play.
joke…yep that defense has been tremendous…
stewart cannot hit and a fielding play like that cost them 2 runs
…8 minutes. I was away from the TV for 8 minutes. Apart from Miracle Catcher (TM) Chris Stewart straight missing that ball, what did I miss?
Stewart worse yankee catcher ever
Bring in jorge tomorrow you get a better defender jeesh
Is this how it ends?
Can someone please tell me what he did?
Stewart got crossed up on the 3rd strike, let the ball get passed him, then threw the ball to 1st when the runner was practically standing on 1st. Ball got away and allowed the 2 base runners to score. Kuroda was covering home and — had he received the ball sooner — was set up to get completely flattened by Raji Davis since he was standing ON the plate and not in front of it. So Stewart missed the 3rd strike, threw it away, let 2 easy runs score, worked up Kuroda’s pitch count, and almost got a bunch of teammates hurt.
Is Arencibia that fast? I don’t know how that could have worked?
Jesus fucknuts, just when I thought I couldn’t hate Chris Stewart more. All Yes was showing when I got back into the room was the cross up.
It would have been nice to get to that Os series with a shot but if the offense doesn’t come back the season is over, RIP 2013 Yankees.
I would trade a loss for you not commenting the rest of the season because you feel like the season is over.
I would pull him but girardi doesnt have the stones with a short bench
Still 8 innings left don’t give up.
But we don’t have Cano.
You’re right, but Kuroda looks like shit.
That’s true. I’m just trying to remain confident. On the bright side Redmond has been very hittable especially against righties this year.
Good God, what the fuck????
Meh… Stewie will get the runs back with his bat.
“He’s had some good swings of late”
I would love to see some of these so called “good swings” of his
He’s just down right useless. Let’s see more of Romine to get an idea of how much potential he truly has at the MLB level. He’s no worse than Stewart. Take away that 1 awesome double-play that Stewart had (against Boston) his entire season is a big “meh”.
A’s are probably gonna win tonight, season is definitely over if (when) they lose tonight.
Yes because coming back from 5.5 back with a full month is completely unheard of.
Losing today doesn’t mean the season is over but they have to win like 2 out 3 minimum going forward. So they need to pick it up.
I guess I picked the wrong day to tune into the game a few minutes late.
Picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.
Ha! That, too.
Picked the wrong week to give up PEDs
Fire cashman
For allowing stewart to wear pinstripes this long.
You can’t blame Cashman entirely. I think he was hoping that Romine would be better. I think that the whole “Get under $189 mil” thing fucked with Cashman’s early plans. If he knew that Hal was going to scrap the idea then I feel that Russell Martin would still be in pinstripes.
Or he would have been more creative and signed Pierzynski (who’s had a good year in Texas)
Cashman is to blame for starting a season with Chris ‘Career Backup/Quad A’ Stewart. Don’t blame Chris Stewart for being Chris Stewart.
Yogi is better catch right now than stewart
I’m just trying to picture it. They’re playing on turf which means the ball won’t slow down. Wouldn’t the ball bounce off the back wall and come back to him.
Plus Arencibia’s a catcher. He doesn’t have great speed.
I think it hit off his glove and skipped off the ump’s leg/foot. He definitely slowed it down. It was a terrible judgement call on his part because the runner was like a step away from reaching 1st. If there wasn’t anyone on the base paths then I’d have no problem with him making an attempt…but 2 guys were on. TWO! It was bonehead to the extreme. He made 2 goofs in 1 play.
By the half ass effort of ichabad crane to get the ball and then the stupid idea to throw it with runner rounding third.
No, the ball deflected wildly off Stewart’s glove to his left.
The ball rolled to the side, almost all the way to the dugout.
Gameday has the video.
Of for fucks sake.
I saw a runner on 2nd, 2 outs, 0-0.
I finally get in, and it’s 4-0. More two out problems for Kuroda, and perhaps even some more awful defense from the defensive wizard himself.
Unfuckingbelievable.
The first two runs are on Kuroda, and the second are on Stewart.
I’m pretty sure the defensive ineptitude all happened on a 3rd strike that would have ended the inning, so fwiw if we had a major league catcher back there instead of a AA back up, Kuroda gets through the inning unscathed.
And who do we blame for that? Brian Cashman, once again.
Oh g-d, that was worse than I could’ve imagined. Stewart flat out dropped it AND fucked up the throw. I mean, holy shit, how the hell does that happen?
Yup, it was fucking ridiculous.
http://www.theonion.com/articl.....ids,33583/
Without Kuroda pitching well, win or lose, we’re totally fucked.
Even if they come back in this game, it doesn’t bode well.
A disaster year for Brian Cashman.
You’re still blaming this on Cashman?
E-2
Does this assclown lead the league in past balls?
That’s actually his second error of the year.
No. His Toronto counterpart has 13.
Yeah but he had to catch a knukleballer who started the year lost
I agree.
Though Stewie’s “just” tied for 4th worst now. Blanco and Castro have 10. Rosario has 9.
No bueno.
Ooof.
May as well get Hirok some rest and utilize the 2 long men.
can’t make the playoffs with Kuroda doing his best Hughes impression every start now
So much for looking forward to tonight’s game.
Nice 2-4 roadtrip at this crucial juncture.
Ballgame over, Season over.
We just aren’t a very good team.
I figured that when we were swept by the Mets.
And that’s when I called the season over. And it appears that I was right.
No, you weren’t. We made a run and got back into the race late in the season to give us a shot. You might as well say we were out…
Why am I doing this again? I’m going to not do this now.
We weren’t a good team for 3/4 of the season. We are now a good, but not a great team. it would take a sudden reversal of our starting pitchers fortunes to get back in. It probably wont happen, just as we probably wont win this game. I am not ready to give up on this game or the season yet.
C’mon man be honest. You disappeared when they tanked and came back when they started picking it up. Inasmuch as every team has a shot, they had/have a shot. But the probabilities are too low to get too excited about. S
Hirok should just start plunking guys now
Is warren up yet
Well now its easier to relieve Stewart of total blame and put it more on Kuroda.
Speechless.
Wow, wow, and wow. . . . . . . . . game over. Kuroda has caught Hughesitis. We’re fucked.
When the kids get up here on Sunday I’d just start playing them to see what we have. Romine should be playing anyway. Sit guys like Overbay, Ichiro, Hughes and see what we have in the kids.
Who would you pitch instead of Hughes?
Huff
He’s not a kid.
That would be more of a “WIN NOW” move.
lol.
I’d go with Huff, Warren, Marshall and Bootcheck all before Hughes.
Postseason hope decimated. Bring up some young’uns for September so they can get some experience.
You use that word, decimated, but I’m pretty sure you don’t know what it means.
There’s a one in ten chance he knows what it means.
decimated – destroyed, done, over with, no hope, no chance, fuggedaboudit. Next question?
Actually it means “to reduce by 10%” Hence, Turbo’s play on words that there’s a 1 in ten chance you would know.
Jr murphy and romine should catch the rest of the year.
Ok. Score some runs here, start chipping away.
Stewart
25 wp
8 pbs
Shit catcher who shouldnt be in the bigs
Is it too early to PH for Stewart here?
It is never too early to PH for Stewart.
A cookie
Al just slamed the stew
I go out for some takeout Pizza.
I get home and rush to the TV.
As the picture comes on, they are showing high up in the LF seats.
The camera pans down to show Grandy on the field.
The score flashes briefly.
I thought it said 6-0, but… ya know, I’m older, and the first thing to go are the eyes.
As home plate is touched, the scores comes on again.
Long enough to get a good look.
WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING??????
It was a shitstorm of epic proportions. I hope your pizza tastes good anyway
Oh my god, just got on, wtf is happening with Hirok??
it’s a condition known as “more than 25 starts”
wtf was that ARod??!?
Mike A’s game summary should take a page from this thread and just be titled
“WTF?”
hurry back michael pineda
You guys are just spoiled whiners! Chris Stewart’s pitch framing alone makes him worth keeping around. Read a book!
Pitchout with 2 outs and a 7 run deficit?
Can’t afford to let this game get out of hand.
Meanwhile, Bud Norris is on the verge of a full-scale implosion right now.
Man, if Hirok can’t find his former self, this stretch run is going to flat out suck. I feel like everyone’s been operating under the assumption that he was just going to remain his phenomenal self (me included), and that CC and Hughes were the ones to worry about.
This is his August 2012 former self.
Welp, I should have specified, I meant regain his form from the first half. All things considered, it does seem unreasonable he’d continue it given his age and pre 2013 track record. But I sure was hoping he would.
Redmond has been extremely ineffective in the 4th inning this year.
girardi (evoking 96 world series torre): let’s cut the lead in half!
jeter: how do we score 3.5 runs?
Thank you Tim Redmond. Nothing better than a pitcher walking the first two guys with a 7 run lead.
4 more walks and they will have the tying run to the plate in the form of Chris Stewart. (who will then promptly hit into a triple play on the first pitch)
chip away
Ok. Let’s go
Overbay sucks
Holy crap is Overbay horrible.
Fucking incompetent send.
Bonehead move ARod.
??? That’s on Robby Thompson. Coach knows better then throw up the send sign. Could have had at least 3 runs there and clear Stewarts spot
ARod is SLOW.
What a stupid decision.
They sent him? I thought he was held up.
A stupid decision on A-Rod’s part.
Where you talking about? That’s not A-Rod’s fault.
What*
Ok relax, I was wrong.
Check that, all on Thompson. Jesus
I also thought Thompson held him up.
Jeez Chuck E. Cheese! What the f*ck happened, I look at the game and it’s like 1-7?!!!
Boy has this been a fun
seasongame…So did Arod blow through a stop sign or is this another boneheaded send by the fantastic 3rd base coach?
Another boneheaded send. I miss Bowa.
I miss Bowa too. He would’ve handed Cano is arse whenever he doesn’t hustle to 1st base.
He was waved in.
Absoulutely awful send.
Rob sent him home.http://riveraveblues.com/2013/.....44#respond
One of the things yanks need to do is fire rob yanks of runs thompson
Now that’s something I bet George would do.
This might be a close game if Stewart wasn’t playing and the Yankees had a competent 3rd base coach.
Both are easily fixable, yet for some reason it isn’t being fixed.
We have NO breaks going our way in this one.
Disagree. It’s bad play not bad breaks. Mental errors have probably cost us two runs on D and a couple of offensive.
It can be both.
If mr steinbrenner were around he would fire rob yanks of runs Thompson he has been a horrible 3rd base coach . So many games where he makes a terrible call on sending runners. And he would fired cashman by now and the people in charge of scouting and drafting
Well, Hal held a meeting.
this game is winnable. hiroki has been picking up the offense all year. time to return the favor
Exactly what I was thinking. Running out of time though.
Yankees better have a rally up their sleeves tonight, because otherwise they’re dropping a game on both the Rays and A’s.
Yeah then they’ll go from a 7% chance to a 5% chance of getting in.
Holy shit, do they need to make a ridiculously awesome play on EVERY hard hit ball?
Mike Trout, 22 years old.
.331 .427 .575 1.001, 23 HR, 81 RBI
Missed him by one turn.
Cabrera maybe the best hitter in baseball, but Trout is the best all around player right now.
Saw a replay of the send home… what the hell was Thomson doing?
It looked like he was way down the line (like he should be) but then started running AT Arod. And then after Arod passed him he continued running past 3rd base toward the OF (in foul territory)
He should be 1/3 or 1/2 way down the line and stationed there. There is no reason for him to be running at the the baseruner (which would also make it harder for the baserunner to figure out what the hell he is doing).
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen that before.
Not sure why he sent A rod either. Close game, I could see. Down by 6? Yikes.
RALLY HATS BOYS
King Felix 3IP, 9 runs (8ER)
Wainwright 2IP, 9 ER
Kuroda 5IP, 7 runs (5ER)
Not a good day for some of the top pitchers.
Wish they could just start this game over.
ARod is striking out at a rate that would equal about 170 over the course of a full season.
This is a serious problem.
I really, really hate this Red Sox team.
They’ll tank in the playoffs. It’s a Boston tradition.
’04(Greatest comeback in sports history) and ’07
In five of their last six games, they’ve scored three runs or less. CC, Kuroda and Hughes are bad, shaky and shitty, respectively. Hope they turn it around, like right now.
Yeah, like turn it around yesterday. 29 games to go and they probably need 22 wins or so to make the playoffs.
Yanks are done, I’ve been in denial up until these past two series losses, but they are finished, time to start thinking about next year.