Believe it or not, tonight is Joe Girardi’s 1,000th game as Yankees manager. Time sure does fly, doesn’t it? It feels like just yesterday we were debating whether the team should hire him, Tony Pena, or Don Mattingly. With all due respect to Pena and Donnie, I think it’s safe to say the Yankees made the right decision.
Girardi is the sixth manager in team history to reach the 1,000 games milestone, and, well, it’s going to be a while before he climbs any higher on the team’s all-time games managed leaderboard:
Rk | Mgr | Yrs | From | To | W | L | G>.500 | G |
|
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1 | Joe McCarthy HOF | 16 | 1931 | 1946 | 1460 | 867 | .627 | 593 | 2348 |
2 | Joe Torre HOF | 12 | 1996 | 2007 | 1173 | 767 | .605 | 406 | 1942 |
3 | Casey Stengel HOF | 12 | 1949 | 1960 | 1149 | 696 | .623 | 453 | 1851 |
4 | Miller Huggins HOF | 12 | 1918 | 1929 | 1067 | 719 | .597 | 348 | 1796 |
5 | Ralph Houk | 11 | 1961 | 1973 | 944 | 806 | .539 | 138 | 1757 |
6 | Joe Girardi | 7 | 2008 | 2014 | 579 | 420 | .580 | 159 | 999 |
Girardi will still be 137 games short of tying Houk when his just-signed four-year contract expires. Sitting in sixth place for another half-decade isn’t all that bad though. It won’t be that long before Girardi has logged more games as a manager than he did as a player (1,277), which is kinda crazy because he played in parts of 15 seasons. Congrats to Joe on his milestone. Here is his lineup for tonight’s game and here is the Rays’:
- CF Jacoby Ellsbury
- SS Derek Jeter
- RF Carlos Beltran
- 1B Mark Teixeira
- LF Alfonso Soriano
- DH Brian McCann
- 2B Brian Roberts
- 3B Yangervis Solarte
- C John Ryan Murphy
LHP Vidal Nuno
The weather was damn near perfect in New York today and the same is true tonight. It’s cool and there are some clouds, but the forecast says no rain. Hooray for that. The game is scheduled to begin at 7:05pm ET, and you’ll be able to watch on YES locally and, depending on where you live, MLB Network nationally. Enjoy the game.
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