Game 11: Yankees at Athletics
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- April
- 15
Here are the lineups:
YANKEES
Damon CF
Jeter SS
Abreu RF
Rodriguez 3B
Giambi DH
Posada C
Cano 2B
Cabrera LF
Mientkiewicz 1B
Pettitte LHP (1-0, 1.64)
ATHLETICS
Stewart LF
Swisher CF
Kielty RF
Piazza DH
Chavez 3B
Ellis 2B
Walker 1B
Kendall C
Scutaro SS
Harden RHP (1-1, 1.38)
Pregame chatter: Kyle Farnsworth, Brian Bruney and Luis Vizcaino are not available. Then again, that may not be the case if we get extra innnings again. … Reggie Jackson is here and wearing a 42 jersey. … The Yankees are 3 for 20 with runners in scoring position the last three games. … The bullpen has thrown 18.1 innings the last three games. … Alex Rodriguez had a 15-game hit streak dating back to last season.
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Peter Abraham
no point in panicking. they’ll either get through the injuries or they won’t. the angels are missing colon, escobar, figgins and rivera, and will just be getting weaver back tomorrow. teams go through this stuff. if the yankees can’t weather it, then they can’t. it is what it is.
today’s rainout in boston allowed them to line up their rotation for the weekend series. the yankees will face schilling, beckett and matsuzaka.
i’d expect that mussina’s hamstring will keep him out longer than planned, but it’s not like he’s done for the year. they’re getting wang and karstens back shortly. maybe chase wright helps out. maybe somebody else steps up. maybe they sign clemens.
maybe none of the above happens and they miss the playoffs this year. it was bound to happen at some point, right?
it’s a drag that they seem to be snakebitten in this way, but no team’s going to win forever. at some point, the law of averages lines up against you, be it injuries or whatever.
had or has?
kasey: the Yankees are going to win forever
April games against Boston mean nothing. Sox fans and uninformed Yankee fans get all riled up for them and they don’t mean a damn thing.
Its a LONG season. Those games will offer no indication of the season ahead for either team. Especially since the Yankees will be without Moose and Matsui, two important members of the team.
I would guess Moose misses a month in order to get the hammy 100%. By then, the weather will be warmer and (hopefully) his velocity returns. Having a guy like Moose miss a month right now is actually a good thing, IMO. Its makes it more likely he will be able to finish strong. Something he has had trouble doing the past couple of years.
Pavano? Means nothing to me. He is a non-entity on this team and his spot can be easily filled. I would be shocked if he pitched again for the Yankees this season. The guy is the poster boy for gutless.
This is an “important” week, not for the games being played, but for the rehab assignments of Wang and Karstans.
If both come out of their rehab starts starts well, they will be in the rotation.
All this means is that Roger Clemens will get $25 million instead of $20 million for his 4 month tour of duty. Hopefully, its with the Yankees.
The Boston series is NOT meaningless if the Yanks get swept.
Will Pavano share some “what to do while you’re on the DL” tips with Moose?
It’s unreal that Carl Pavano is on the DL. Can’t we get rid of him once and for all?
I have only seen black players listed as wearing Number 42 this week. There must be whites and hispanics that are wearing Jackie Robinsons number too isn’t there?
It seems that we can’t catch a break – although that might happen to one of Carl’s bones, next.
I didn’t expect much out of Pavano, and unfortunately this fulfills that expectation. That win over Minnesota was a bonus. Moose will get through this.
This is the reason that Cash stocked up on pitching over the winter. We have alternatives. As others – Kasey, SJ44, etc. – have pointed out, you make do with what you have, and go on. Pettitte today, and Igawa, Wright(?), Wang, Karsten, Rasner, Clippard, whomever as needed. As long as the the regulars hit in the clutch and play defense (please!) we will survive. It is only April, and Game #11. At some point it will be too late, but this is not it.
Awfully funny that they both go on the DL together.
Looks like some of that old Pavano magic rubbed off on the Moose during their spring training meeting.
Why would it be meaningful if the Yankees get swept? Would that clinch the division for the Red Sox? If it does, then I must have missed the memo.
When I read posts like that, I often wonder where people were when the Red Sox started out 42-17 a few years back.
Or, where were they last year where, after exactly ONE month of the baseball season, ESPN declared the Red Sox winner, the Yankees “done”, Josh Beckett the Cy Young Winner and Big Papi the MVP.
Aside from Red Sox fans coming out of the woodwork, ESPN shutting down programming to cover every nuance of the “sweep” and predicting ARod’s imminent departure from New York, and Yankee fans calling for mass firings, the games don’t mean a damn thing.
All the Yankees have to do is stay within 5-6 games until they get their full compliment of players back. At that point, they will be well within striking distance to make a move.
151 games left after today. Sorry, but even if they get swept in Boston next week, its not going to decide a damn thing.
By the way…I just saw on YES (the crawl on the bottom of the screen) that BJ Ryan just got placed on the DL, for elbow problems. This may be why he’s struggled lately, and last night lost.
What do you think this does to Toronto’s chances? EVERYONE has problems. It’s how you deal with them that is the key.
Kasey,
Regarding Boston, tomorrow’s 10 AM game will likely get rained out too. If it does, that would push Beckett or Matsuzaka back, and we’d miss one of them. Unless the Sox just hold Beckett out til Saturday which would seem silly. Let’s see how things play out.
Hello?offense?:
Why are you so scared/concerned about Boston? If you care so much about bragging rights, we gave them a 5-game spanking last season. At least if they sweep us they can’t do it over 5 games.
Here is a chance for us to evaluate the prospects. We can finally stop clamoring for promoting prospects after good spring trainings. We can finally see how they do in real games.
Ryan also has back problems. Some in Toronto believe that he injured his elbow trying to compensate for his back pain.
If that elbow is bad (“bad” as in TJ Surgery) how would you like to be stuck with that contract and no pitcher for the next 18 months?
Skippy April 15th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
“Will Pavano share some ‘what to do while you’re on the DL’ tips with Moose?”
I don’t think it is possible unless Pavano will share his hot girlfriend with Moose.
All this “boston fear” cracks me up.
Yankee fans should just worry about their own team. I could care less about the Red Sox.
All the hype and all the nonsense, let the Sox deal with it.
Right now, as a Yankee fan, I am excited about some of the things I see. Yes, the defensive is AWFUL and NO its not because of the weather.
However, I believe veterans pace themselves during the season and can fall into some bad habits. With all the injuries hitting the pitching staff, it wouldn’t surprise me to see guys get their heads into it sooner than they want to and play much better.
Also, I am EXCITED about seeing what Chase Wright and Chris Britton can do. This team needs to change and Cashman smartly recognized that this off-season.
This Step One toward that goal. If both guys don’t get the job done, then they are hardly out of playoff contention.
If both guys do well, then they have more viable options from within, making them a deeper and better ballclub.
When Cashman traded Randy Johnson and Gary Sheffield for prospects, and we saw how long Wright, Ohlendorf and Hughes stayed with the parent team in ST, it was pretty clear to me this is a team in transition.
Doesn’t mean they can’t win. Just means they are going to do it differently than in the past. I say, its about time.
“Right now, as a Yankee fan, I am excited about some of the things I see. Yes, the defensive is AWFUL and NO its not because of the weather.”
I am actually glad that the players struggling on fielding are Cano and Jeter. There is no reason for fans to worry about either of them. They are both mentally strong. If there is nothing physically wrong with them, there is no reason for them not to snap out of this. I don’t know about Minky, so we will see how he reacts.
Jeter made another error!
man, Jeter is killing the yankees so far b/c all of his errors are coming around to score. his mistakes are being compounded by bad luck. this is what happened to a-rod last year during June when all of NY turned on him.
can’t wait for the myriads of articles questioning jeter’s psyche and turning his fielding woes into a character flaw.
just kidding.
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