Game 90: Yankees at Devil Rays
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Jul 15, 2007 
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Here are the lineups:
YANKEES
Damon DH
Jeter SS
Abreu RF
Rodriguez 3B
Matsui LF
Cabrera CF
Cano 2B
Phillips 1B
Nieves C
Mussina RHP (4-6, 4.62)
DEVIL RAYS
Iwamura 3B
Crawford LF
Harris SS
Pena 1B
Young RF
Upton CF
Norton DH
Wigginton 2B
Navarro C
Jackson RHP (1-9, 7.23)
Pregame chatter: Joe Torre mentioned today that he had lunch with George Steinbrenner, Hal Steinbrenner and Felix Lopez on Friday at Legends Field. … The Melkman is feeling better and hitting sixth with Jorge Posada getting some rest (well, at least for a few innings). … Derek Jeter said he is missing his 15th high school reunion today. So a lot of women back in Michigan are telling fibs in a hotel ballroom someplace. … Bobby Abreu is 6 of 11 in the series with two homers and eight RBI. He is 17 of 33 in his last nine games with five homer, four doubles, nine RBI and 10 runs scored. … Hideki Matsui is 12 of 35 over the last nine games with five homers and nine RBI. He has at least one hit and one run scored in each of the last nine games.
Wild card standings
Cleveland 53-37
Seattle 51-37 -1
Minnesota 48-43 -5.5
New York 44-44 -8
Enjoy the game. Back later with some updates.
UPDATE, 2:36 p.m.: Nice game so far by the Yanks. Edwin Jackson is one-hitting them and Mike Mussina is pitching like he had 100 days off, not 10. That said, Yanks win. The lefty hitters have crushed pitches from Jackson to the track. They’ll get to him.
UPDATE, 3 p.m.: Will Nieves has allowed 14 stolen bases in a row. He’s also 0 for his last 13 at the plate and 6 of 51 (.118) for the season. At this point, anybody from within the organization as to be better, no?
UPDATE, 3:07 p.m.: Here’s an exclusive photo of the Dunkin Donuts Ice Coffee Guy who was walking around the field before the game. As Sweeny Murti said, the Pack of Cigarettes Guy had the day off. I only wish Diet Coke or Red Bull Guy had been around.
UPDATE, 3:16 p.m.: That Wil Nieves, he’s the next Johnny Bench.
UPDATE, 4:08 p.m.: So much for Ron Villone’s long scoreless streak. Coming out of this series 2-2 would be a huge failure.
UPDATE, 4:27 p.m.: Good for Andy Phillips, who has had several personal hurdles to overcome in the last two years. He’s taking first base and running with it. … Matsui has scored a run in 10 straight games, which isn’t easy to do.
Krazy Kyle is warming up, so the Yankees could use an insurance run or six here.
UPDATE, 4:35 p.m.: I’d love to see a stat for beating out a grounder with the bases loaded and two outs in a close game. Derek Jeter has to be the all-time record holder.
UPDATE, 4:48 p.m.: What a day for Andy Phillips, who saved the game in the eighth inning with that diving stop and throw to second. He’s 2 for 4 with the go-ahead RBI and the defensive play of the game.
Now it’s up to Mariano Rivera to determine whether it’s a good series or a disaster.
I still can’t believe that in less than one year they’ve gone from Stinnett to Fasano to Nieves. It’s like someone is trying to get the worst possible option. I wonder who?
guys if the mayor of beverly hills offers you his gf just say no
jorge deserves the rest. i know its the mussina thing but he really deserves it
1:40 start time? ugh.
Yey for entourage tonight!
rocco! hes back. cannes tonight whos pumped?
ben, I agree…but wouldn’t you feel better if our backup catcher had just a LEETLE pop in his bat ? I just think that we can do better at that position, although it will NOT stop us from STOMPIN’ the DRays today……POSITIVE, POSITIVE, POSITIVE !!!! (wink)
haha funny alan and of course i would be happy but he needs a rest every fifteen games or so he isnt superman. hes good but not that good. plus the sox have dougie it could be worse
and yea its safe to say if we lose this game… then when can we win!
i bet the cannes ep will be similar to the utah ep. Hopefully there will me no crossing of swords.
err be not me LOL
Rod Barajas could be our catcher if we trade with the Phillies. We could give up some relievers for him. Anyway, I got us winning 14-5. I think Mussina will come back to earth but I’ll offense will wake up against Edwin Jackson. I’m predicting a breakout game for Nieves because Derek Jeter gave him some more advice.
haha that was a hilarious scene though the look on turtles face. why does harvey come around whenever they go to a film festivel
Nieves: .120 .154 .120 (50 AB)
Belli: .182 .259 .312 (77 AB)
Actually, it couldn’t get any worse.
i don’t like harvey. hopefully we never see him again. I doubt he’ll go to cannes.
i dont think thats the last well see of him. hes coming back. i predict that moose goes the full 9 or atleast gets kicked out in the ninth but hes going the distance or close to it
Jason Giambi (foot) is in Tampa Bay and is expected to begin working out at the Yankees’ minor-league complex this week.
He has told people within the organization he might need two weeks to get ready – however, it’s more than likely Giambi won’t return until the middle of next month. He’ll probably share most of his time with Johnny Damon at DH when he is able to return.
Doug Mientkiewicz (wrist) is hoping to be back in the lineup the first week in August, but realistically it will probably be closer to mid-August.
“I’d have to see significant improvement to get back that quickly,” Mientkiewicz said. He is scheduled to be examined in New York on Thursday and hopes to be cleared for baseball activities at that time.
ALL FROM ROTOWORLD
Darrell Rasner (finger) was finally able to play catch on flat ground, throwing from 75 feet Saturday.
Rasner will do so again Sunday. “It feels fine,” he said. “It’s just a matter of building my arm strength.”
ROTOWORLD
Why does everyone care so much about the backup catcher? According to Jim at 1:22 Nieves has 50 ABs with 6 hits. If he had 12 hits, he’d be hitting .240 – then presumably we’d all be happy. How many wins could those extra 6 hits possibly be worth? Especially considering that he will almost always be pinch hit for in close and late situations anyway.
C’mon Moose, win one for all the little kids out there tossing their cookies, win one for ‘da Melky!
ben from boston
July 15th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
and yea its safe to say if we lose this game… then when can we win!
What do you mean by that, ben ???
Bronx-
_If he had 12 hits… then presumably we’d all be happy._
No, but if he had _zero_ hits, then I wonder if he was related to Bush.
Bronx- Nieves is nearly an automatic out. Our offense isn’t consistent enough to overshadow Nieves’ shortcomings so his AB or stats will stand out more than they should. We had Sal Fasano and we do have Raul Chavez in the minors.
Bronx-
_If he had 12 hits then presumably we’d all be happy_
No, but if he had zero hits, then I wonder if he was related to bush.
Bronx…I admit that it is NOT our #1 need,,,just that it would be on my WISH LIST…..I know that we have bigger fish to fry, admittedly….GO YANKEES and GO BRONX MAN ! My uncle was from the Bronx and he was an awesome man. He lived off Morris avenue and when we would visit him, we would get REAL Italian Coffee and awesome NY Pizza at places that were a walk from his APT….those were the days !
Bronx -
What if those six hits meant one win? And the Yanks lose out on a playoff sport by 1 win?
Of course, no writer would present that story, but every hit *could* mean something. Indeed, watch how many times Nieves comes to the plate with a runner on base today. ANd if they lose by one run, then those ABs mean something.
Worse, the fact that Nieves has only gotten 50 ABs means something for Jorge. He’s about to be 36 years old. And every extra inning he plays just increases the chances he gets hurt.
And who would step in for Jorge in that case?
Wil Nieves.
that were playing a guy whos era is above 7 and we have our number two guy out there. if we cant win today then idk… and its not a very good team behind the pitcher either
E-ROC
Sal Fasano is 8 for 45 this year with Toronto. Do you really thing having him instead of Nieves would have won us any more games?
Remembering the days when Edwin Jackson was one of the top pitching prospects in the game.
MAN…Bobby is smoking the ball lately,,,,I would keep him at #3, unless he goes into a super slump again…He just seems that he is swinging the bat WAY better and with a lot of confidence at #3 …
yes alan i agree and for the answer to your question is above
on fsn florida for mussinas profile it said: Invents pitches, good fielder. Then the line drive they go WOW I GUESS HE DOES FIELD WELL
Bronx -
So Fasano has more hits in few AB, and you’re asking if that would help win any more games?
Meanwhile, Fasano has more hits, more doubles (3 vs 0), more HR (1 vs 0) and has scored more runs, etc.
Indeed:
Nieves: .120 .154 .120
Fasano: .178 .229 .311
Yes, unbelievably, Sal Fasano is a better option than Wil Nieves and thus would be more likely to help the Yankees win.
And I can’t believe I’m actually arguing this point.
Here we go again.
heads up play
Jim – Agreed Fasano’s numbers are better than Nieves’s numbers. My point is that difference between them is so small that it probably would not make much difference. It seems to me that the lack of production from Nieves is very far down the list of the Yankee’s problems. On this blog (in general – not just today) I think it gets much more attention than it deserves.
OK…MOOSE…NO Excuses…finish off this inning and let’s get back to hitting the COVER OFF THE BALL, YANKEES !!!
But Bronx, it’s such a dumb move. Nieves never showed he was worth the roster slot – not even in the minors. If they weren’t going to get anything better in the off-season (Lieberthal or even a Molina) then there’s no reason not to keep a Fasano around.
And if they lose out on a playoff spot by 1 win, all the wasted ABs by Cairo, Nieves, and Doug certainly will add to more than one win.
But…
Playoffs? What playoffs?
Pavano could not pitch because of injuries. What’s Mussina’s excuse? For a guy complains so much, he is not producing.
jim you butured it. and yea i could see this going either way moose just shutting them down or being taken out next inning but i doubt its normal after this either side of the spect5rum
moose looking uncomfortable in the firs, hope that changes
I hate inconsistent umpires
sigh
Is there anything worse than watching an Over-The-Hill, ineffective, 83 MPH ,Whining, Bitching MIKE MUSSINA pitch???????
UGH!
Who is watching the game? What was the deal with Carl Crawfords single? Listening to Sterling and was not clear, except that Matsui should have made the play. Just like Abreu’s first inning hit, initially called a home run…
Help. Sterling has me soooooooooooo confused.
can we hit the ball on the ground
it was in no mans land colorado nobody could have gotten it
we are crushin’ the ball and soon the balls will find the holes….yankees win today 7-5 !!!
would bet they get to this jackson in the next inning or so
Latham, agree. Mussina is the worst when he thinks that his defense let him down he quits. Could have gotten out of the inning with only 1 run.
Jeter normally catches that popup. I think he had trouble picking it up under the Dome.
playoffs = when the yankees shock everyone but me & ben, the place the yankees will be this year !!!!
it was good of the yankees not to give a pena shot. because the one thing we DON’T need is a slick-fielding, power-hitting first baseman. nice work!
alan thats not how you win these contact hitters need to stop swinging for the fences and need to hit it on the ground let the big boys hit it out
Thanks ben… completely different than sterling’s assessment.
haha thats right alan we got this sh!t
colorado, it was the old triangle play: the ss running back but he needs to make a willie mays catch to get it and the cf, and the corner fielder busting in but neither getting to it
The Yankees are hitting Jackson hard but right at players… Tampa is getting bloops, bunts, and seeing eye singles. Weird game.
this game isnt coming easily like i stated. theyre going to have to earn this win
Bring the bullpen in, let’s get Ramirez out there for a few innings.
Jim – I’m not so sure choosing Nieves over Fasano was such a dumb move. Fasano is an 11 year veteran .220 hitter. You pretty much know what you are getting with him. Nieves hit .289 and .259 in AAA the last to years – not tearing it up but respectable. It was a gamble that he might do more than Fasano this year. So far that gamble has not worked out, but I wouldn’t say it was obviously dumb to take the chance.
Moose is kind of reminding me of someone’s dad who won’t really yell at you, but you know he’s disappointed in you.
haha good synopsis andrea but hes only got one person to be mad at
Moose will be his usual whining complaining excuse self after this game.
I had 11 days off blah blah blah..
the guy needs to step up…
Wait a second, I thought the pitcher with the 1-9 record pitches for the devil rays. What is he doing in Mussina’s body?
i agree with stuart the pitching staff needs to step up. offense comes and go, but pitching takes hard grinding work. i hope nieves gets a 10 RBI day to shut you guys up
Good day finally got some time to come to watch the game with my online pals. Just looked at the score. I think Yankees can come back. Thanks for the update on Doug.
Guess when my buddies saw Giambi at the club in Vegas last weekend he was relieving stress. I’m anxious to know how it turns out for the guy. Hope it goes in his favor.
wil nieves,
cant hit, cant throw out runners. why on the team?
ben–I thought it was pretty good myself. And you’re right. Though Nieves could do a better throwing out stealers. I can’t tell if that’s Moose’s problem, though, or NIeves’s, because I’ve only seen Nieves catch Darrell Rasner and I don’t really recall those games.
Hate to ask but how’s our pitching been so far today. At work and just getting around to getting the game online
ytheyre hitting the ball hard its just not landing. god i hate these games they are the worst
ben…is THAT you being positive ???
I agree Ben. Because there’s not really much they can do to change their approach cause they’re hitting the ball well, just not in the right places.
Though Jeter’s strike out just now wasn’t too pleasant.
Gat damn…my man Moose is stinking up the joint big time.
I thought giving him 10 days off COULD actually be a good thing if he did a couple innings worth of throwing on that 5th day. Does anyone know if he did?
Ya know, when the All-Star break came, the Reds sent their top prospect Homer Bailey down to the minors so he could stay on a regular schedule. I know it sounds ridiculous to compare a rookie and a 38 y/o vet. But given that we all know what happens when Moose gets off schedule would it have been so crazy to have him pitch at Scranton or something on that 5th day?
Meanwhile we’re making this big ole pile of suck Edwin Jackson look like freakin Cy Young. This is truly nauseating.
Boston down 2-0…
I’d like to take this game and be 9 back
It seems like whenever the yankees win, Boston wins. Oh well.
alan im trying man. unlike a lot of these animals im hoping for success i think they enjoy the yanks losing so they can “female dog” about it. i think i take this too seriously. when the yanks lose im miserable. BUT THIS GAMES NOT OVER. HOORAH!
Ok watching this game now… Yankees look a little flat that inning.
How many batters has crybaby started 1-0 with? Anyone know?
“Meanwhile we’re making this big ole pile of suck Edwin Jackson look like freakin Cy Young. This is truly nauseating.”
That’s not true… there have been a lot of hard hit balls today. Just right at the Rays. They’ll get to him dont worry.
ben: the game is FAR from over! It’s only the third inning! Moose is going to have a 1-2-3 inning and we’re gonna come back with a 6 run 4th.
seem doable?
meanwhile the devil rays announcers are comparing joe maddon to young frankenstein. this is horrible
Moose is gonna get thrown out.
yea except they got a hit. but thanks anyway andrea. you me and alan we are the positive crew
that upton hit courtesy buckner, he is just lousy today.
Also I saw Greg Zaun is off the DL and the Jays’ original BUC is that Jason Phillips (?) dude correct? We need to re-acquire Pisano Fasano, stat!!
I do agree with whoever wrote above that it wasn’t a crazy idea to choose Nieves over Sal in the offseason. But Sal’s avg would at least be .220 as opposed to .120, he might actually hit a couple of homers, and he’s got a helluva arm on him. Barroid Bonds wouldn’t have stolen off him in that game @ SF a couple of weeks ago, that’s for damn sure. Bring back Sal!
upton was out on the previous pitch.
Maybe Moose isn’t the disappointed dad. He’s the disappointed mom. Dad (home plate umpire Buckner) got angry with mommy and their son, little Wil, had to diffuse the fight. Poor Wil. He’s gonna have a lot of therapy.
Joe Torre arguing with a black umpire? He must be racist!
andrea = 0 for 2
nieves has some fire in him, think he thinks enough is enough
Ok… CB Buckner needs to go.. The guy is always more about showing he is the boss than umpiring…
haha rocco i was thinking the same thing ump : “gary and kenny were right. YOURE OUT OF HERE”
trying to save a hispanics butt i think
Bronx –
At the very least use OPS – please. Nieves is a singles hitter. Fasano will hit doubles and homeruns. Doubles and homeruns are much more valuable than singles, right?
I’m officially done with this topic. I’m about to throw up.
Best thing is if Buckner kicks Moose and Nieves out. Posada and Villone could come in.
Buckner didn’t give up that single, Moose did and he is looking for excuses like always…he will be talking about his 10 days off in the post game.
“That’s not true… there have been a lot of hard hit balls today. Just right at the Rays. They’ll get to him dont worry.”
My fault Rocco, I just turned on Gameday and hadn’t had the heart to put on MLB Audio once I saw what the score was. I am working my nerve up to do so right now
In the meantime I appreciate your optimism and am normally one of the more positive fans myself…it just made me ill when I saw Edwin Jackson of all people had only given up 1 hit!
I didn’t like the move when the Yanks did it, and don’t like it now.
Giving a 38 yr. old fading Mussina a two-year deal was a bad move. They are stuck with him for next year too, and he is fading badly.
I would not have minded if he walked.
Ben–well, if you ask me, Moose did just get that 2nd guy out…he just wasn’t called out. So it’s a 1-2-3 inning with a slight hiccup!
I decided a while ago that even if the Yankees are completely craptastic this season, i am going to be the biggest fan of a crappy team there ever was!
for those of you that can’t read lips….after moose gave up that single after he thought he had strike 3….he ignores the rest of the play and says ” that’s f*ckin’ horse sh*t” to the home plate ump…that is the BEST way to conduct youself on the mound…right?
WOO OHOO
upton out on throw from matsui, yay. buckner gets one right.
haha buckner wanted to call him safe
Let’s hope that put out by Matsui gives us a little momentum in the next inning.
we will come back to win this game though…and toronto is on their way to beating boston, too !!! bank on it !!
Can mussina stop making excuses and pitch. We should of never resigned this baby. Find a taker on before the
deadline. Someone needs to tell him hes no longer in
the 90′s. He isnt as good so shut up and pitch.
andrea i assume youre a woman and i know that its a faux pa but how old are you? and i sense a turning point. im not liking buckner he wanted to stick it to wil on that one
I guess those ballet lessons paid off for nieves… =)
CB Buckner? That’s the guy who danced around after he called a Strike 3 pitch way outside against a Red Sox batter for the final out this year. Reminiscent of Naked Gun!
Good times good times, he’ll always be AOK in my book.
alan im positive for us but dont be sure about the sox. im watching the game and beckett is doing better than the score indicates and those two runs werent earned. after i dont think beckett has given up a run so.. i love your enthusiasm, i feed off positivity but idk about that.
Rocco, you are right… Buckner’s press people just released a statement saying that Torre argues more and differently with Buckner than he does with other white umpires…
This also just in the fat umpires association is now saying Torre targets the fat umpires, even offering them green tea over liquor…
What a shame the Yanks have become.
yanks are hacking not hitting
“I decided a while ago that even if the Yankees are completely craptastic this season, i am going to be the biggest fan of a crappy team there ever was!”
Great attitude! I think I’ll join you.
We don’t ditch our beloved friends and family members when they are going through hard times in life, we support them even more. Should be the same deal w/our beloved Yankees!
I do hope the craptasticness ceases and desists soon though.. but I’ll be there cheering em on either way, every step of the way.
so bbb joins the club. andrea, alan, bbb, and i are all positive. anybody else want to join?
and here come the red sox
hmmmmm, two yankee fans who don’t bandwagon, there is hope
i’ve been positive
sui, sui, well done
thinking there is a future in the beverage distribution bus, for the melkman, oops that was arod.
rocco!!! yes sorry i forgot my entourage buddy. we got the rock, big al, the one and only andrea, the b-b-big man, and i. who else. GUYS DID YOU SEE THAT POP UP THAT WAS A NICE SWING!
ben–yes I am female. And I am 23. Why? is that bad?
LOL nice inning from the SOX
runners on 1st and 2nd and no outs… bunt to move the runners over and toronto throws to 3rd for one out. on the next pitch ortiz grounds into a DP… good job.
“we got the rock, big al, the one and only andrea, the b-b-big man, and i.”
Boston Ben, I’m a chick, lol.
yey chicks!
Why is Nieves on this team again?I havnt seen him throw out
a runner this year.
“UPDATE, 2:36 p.m.: Nice game so far by the Yanks. Edwin Jackson is one-hitting them and Mike Mussina is pitching like he had 100 days off, not 10. That said, Yanks win. The lefty hitters have crushed pitches from Jackson to the track. They’ll get to him.”
That’s exactly what i’ve been saying Pete.
i know they blew that that was great. and andrea i thought you were going to say youre 80 you are wise behind your years.
if phillips went down… oh
ooooooooo, collision between phillips anc crawford, lucky no one hurt.
Nice hustle by moose…. never knew he was so fast (sarcasm)
beyond* your years
well at least cabrera can run and catch at the same time time
Melky CF “08″
HERE WE GO…Only Chasing 3 to a pitcher that is livin’ on BORROWED TIME !,,,,,That play by Melky is gonna get the bats hot and we are gonna get at least 2 this inning….GO YANKEES !
yanks really need to break through this inning. Granted, the Rays pen is garbage but to be this inept against a 1-9 Rays pitcher is bad. Somethings gotta give when moose is coming this close to really letting the game get away. Meanwhile, Jackson hits spots and (for the most part) is throwing 1st pitch strkies
Ben: thanks! Maybe deep down I really am 80.
I was so scared just now that Phillips wouldn’t get up. Who would they put at 1st? Cairo again?
gritty AB by Cano here….way to make Action Jackson work for it…
nice at bat by cano so far
trying to get to the pen on this ab
CANO at first haha. WHAT ALAN SAID GO YANKEES
Need to capitalize on boston losing.
good ab for cano
wow uptun didnt even try on that ball.
CANO CANO CANO!!! guys boston is going to win this game. theyre playing well
wow cano actually fights off to get a blooper in to short center.
THAT was a very good start…Let’s hope that the other Yankees follow suit and let’s show this 1-9 BUM to be the pitcher that he REALLY IS !!!
We were down yesterday and came back and won the game. Too early to put this game away.
This team have given us no reason to believe that they can mount a comeback in the late innings. Therefore, this season when they are losing after the sixth inning, I pretty much write the game off. I still watch for some reason though.
Andy needs to show some power here.
alan youre my favorite accountant youre on my fantasy team!!! CUT THAT MEAT
Are we going to generate some offense? I’m starting to feel ill with anxiety. They can’t afford to split this series. So who do I owe for naueating me: C.B. Buckner or Mussina?
The Yankees need to go at least 20-9 over the next 29 games.
benbow…MUSSINA is the obvious answer to your question…
its safe to say locakes is not invited to the positive club
oooh misplayed in center run in phillips on third
THANK YOU BJ!
what a play
Wow Phillips lucked out after looking foolish at a ball 4 pitch.
Ok, Nieves need to bunt squeeze here. I don’t think he is capable of hitting a Sac Fly
Just the break we needed.
didn’t seem to be uptons fault, just got victimized finally
god is with the yankees
Ok, possible sign things will change for the Yankees, in the first half that ball would have been caught… that is a lucky break that prenotes a long winning streak.
Bronx -
You want to put on money on whether Nieves gets this run in?
One out, runner on third – chances look good -
Except Wil Nieves is at the plate.
Here comes the offense….We can still win this game easily…and Boston is well on their way to losing their game…with over 70 games left in the season and the Yankees just starting to both hit their stride and a very soft schedule…the WINNING KEEPS GOING TODAY…( oh and Triples by the man hitting 8th don’t hurt either !!! )
Well, that was our big break.
Jackson’s 7.00 ERA is going to catch up with him now too…
Odds that Cash-man’s backup catcher strikes out
If Nieves doesn’t get this run home, I’m writing Cash-man a poison pen letter.
What is BJ Upton’s deal?
phillips smacked the stuff out of it too
Squeeze Phillips….
wowowow…that 11 pitch AB by Cano was a total thing of beauty. Robbie and Andy rawk!!!
76 pitches for Edwin “not even close to Cy Young” Jackson now…as they’d say in the movie Almost Famous, “it’s all happening!”
LOL….i love that the D-Rays announcers are chalking this up as a wierd ball (like a bad hop) rather than Upron just flat out misplaying it
“that ball somehow changed directions in mid flight”….damn those Trop SouEasterly winds.
DFA NIEVES!
I recant.
nieves doubles, hah, go figure.
Dear god what just happened? I don’t believe it.
Ok it’s time to go pick up a lotto ticket.
NO way….
take that you nieves haters
andy scores
Holy crap… Nieves doubled and got in a run.
My god! First extra base hit of the season! on July 15th!
NIEVES!!!!
the bats are OFFICIALLY AWAKE….Top of the lineup is now OBLIGED to follow suit here… !!! YOU ARE RIGHT ON THE MONEY, WeMissPaulie !!!
johnny dont blow it
so much for the Yankees hacking.. those were legit hits, very hard and on a line.
Wil Nieves FTW!!!
Damon… at the very least, move the runner over…
Meanwhile, Damon can’t hit the ball out of the infield.
They go from the worst 1B in baseball to the worst DH. ANd the latter is hitting leadoff.
nieves hits the ball just as hard as arod, just doesn’t go as far.
jster goes yard, yeehaw.
el capitan!!
jeter goes yard i mean
JETER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALANNNNNN ALANNN YOU ARE A LUCK CHARM
JETER 4 PREZ!!!!!
WOO HOO!
I told you guys… they were hitting jackson pretty hard, they were just not dropping…
Now Moose should be taken out if he shows signs of trouble.
and THAT is why I love Wilbert!
K.C. mounting a comeback. WIN,WIN.
GO YANKEES!!!!!
wheres lolacke or whatever
Anyone know who is pitching for Boston today?
WMP -
Beckett.
Let’s hope Mussina doesn’t give back the lead
dang… another hard hit out.
BLISTER BOY
bobby just missed that one a bit
Beckett is pitching for the BoSox
lmao Andrea, is his name really Wilbert? I woulda bet the farm on it being Wilfredo..
Captain Clutch to the rescue once again
“the yanks have proven they cant come back late in the game”
I have a Nieves t-shirt. I’m gonna wear it proud the next game I go to!
Somebody, somewhere, must be eating a lot of pizza
arod looks bad, maybe that hammy is worse then they are letting on. give the dude some rest i think
Damn, that’s the second time my boy, Bobby, wuz robbed. Still, the hard hits bode well for the second half.
Let’s get this guy’s pitch count over 100 in the 6th and get into that TB pen.
Alex, what’s wrong? All this contract nonesense adversely affecting him or is it the hamstring? That was an awful swing on a ball way out of the plate.
What’s amazing to me is that here you have the game’s best player and yet when he’s in a slump he can look no better than Will Nieves at the plate. The disparity baffles me.
FYI: Phillips has 6 rbis in 51 AB. Nieves has 5 rbis in 52 AB. 1 homerun by Andy is the difference.
Now the question is whether pussina can give us another two scoreless innings . . . ?
BBB–it sure is Wilbert. I saw his rookie card and it said Wilbert Nieves. Hysterical.
I love him. It makes me so sad when everyone hates on him. And anyone who can deal with Moose on a regular basis is ok by me.
disparity = baseball and vicea versa i think
If Mussina gets in trouble in this inning, llok for Joe to go to Villone.
If not in this inning, then in the 6th or 7th.
We’re going to see Villone or Vizcaino next; it’s just a question of when.
Wilbert Nieves came through BIGTIME there.
Now we wait to see how long it takes for Moose to give the lead back.
And for those non-believers, that Phillips ball did change direction in mid-air. It was almost like somebody turned on a fan in right and blew the ball back towards left. I thought the ball was knuckling but it somehow just made a left.
LOL I just noticed that the game caption on yankees.com has a grammatical error…”Yankees gives Rays fits..” …ohh the irony of incorrect grammar right under Moose’s picture! hahaha.
upton is the player of the game for the yanks today
463, gets moose in dugout
“And anyone who can deal with Moose on a regular basis is ok by me.”
I love Moose regardless of anything…and I can definitely deal with that DP he just induced. MOOOOOOOSE!!!
has anyone noticed the game has changed tempo since torre bailed out nieves a few inning ago
4-6-3,,,,swinging that BP was huge…I’d like to see MOOSE come out and pitch 2 more innings of shutout ball, then let the pen take it to the end…you KNOW we are gonna score more against either a tired Action Jackson or a SUPER POOR DRays Pen…time to put some distance here, boys !!!
mel -
Andy also 3 doubles and a triple and 2 more walks – that’s the difference between .808 OPS and a .321 OPS (Nieves).
of course I meant…swinging that DP…
nice play by rays ss harris, need more of those.
…and the sox waste a lead off double…
still 2-0 Jays.
David (in Seattle) …..you have a keen sense of reality !!!
Guys who is pitching for the Jays today? Is it a lefty? Whoever he is, doin a pretty good job so far!
Hey, anyone here about what’s it’s like to deal with D-Rays. I heard their GM is a little 30-year-old snot who made big bucks on Wall Street screwing the working man.
You think the Yankees could pry away Carlos Pena– yes I know he was in our minor league system last year (thank you Cashman’s scouting: also check out Jesus Colome’s numbers)– do you think we could pry away Pena without surrendering anything more than a B-level or C-level pitching prospect.
I know the D-Rays need pitchers. Would you trade Chris Britton for Carlos Pena?
nice bunt by cabrera to move matsui to second
walking cano to get to phillips, hmmm.
Yo BBB, enlighen me on the irony of that grammatical error. Cause I ain’t smart enough to get it.
BBB he actually isnt doing too well (stats-wise). but i guess hes 2-0 so hes doing his job. but the job hasnt been pretty
well that paid off, for the rays.
what a bad call. this ump things we go out to watch him. this is a bad epidemic that you see in the nba and mlb all the time. its so irritating
nieves is still nieves, go figure
BBB–I like Moose too, but after the last couple days, he’s been kind of ornery. Scary.
Chris Britton for Carlos Pena? Thought anyone. Is it feasible; is it fair; is it prudent?
Ron Benbow, I’m not sure I’d want to trade anyone for Carlos Pena, because he’s never really hit anywhere else he’s been, has he? But if we did trade a reliever I think it’d be Sean Henn. Supposedly the Rays are pretty interested in him.
And the irony of the incorrect grammar by Moose’s pic is that Moose is s-m-r-t SMART. It’s kind of like if they had a caption full of 10-cent words under Farnsworth’s picture.
cabrera cuts down wigginton trying to stretch one into a double great play
and you manage to work in a simpsons reference BBB. nice
Melkman delivers another great throw!
he was safe at 2nd but I will take it. Moose has given up only 3 runs but he has been lucky. the out at home and the play at 2nd.
his day should be done. how would bernie or damon have done on the wiggington hit????
Man at 2nd easily with 1 out that is my prediction.
please pen hold the lead.
Mussina: I haven’t seen a pitcher get hit harder for 6 innings and only yield 3 runs – Time for the relief corps!
Yeah Britton for the power guy straight up. I got some beachfront property in Kansas also…
guys the sox scored 2-1
crap 2-1 now in the red sox game.
Moose had zero strikeouts and I can’t really remember a ray batter swing and miss the ball the whole game.
that is not a good thing at all..
he was houdini today….
rocco im on top of it
ok Ben
Damn, I guess the Jays’ pitcher’s luck finally ran out there. Time to score some more runs Toronto! Go V-Dub..he is my favorite non-Yankee by far.
OK so who comes out for the 7th? I vote Viz.
villone
wells is sucking this year lets go rios hes due. id all for back to back to back to back. make them all shut up about what they did to the por rookie. WHAT A GRAB BY PHILLIPS. TAKE THAT SOX
lol the toronto catcher is having an interesting day with pop flys
ORTIZ OUT ORTIZ OUT ORTIZ OUT AT HOME!!!SOX RALLY DIES NO MORE RUNS
big sloppy thrown out at the plate! woo hoo
yea rocco did you see that play?
what a play i told you rios is my bohoy
Ortiz is a funny runner.
villone gives up single to oki
viz is warming
andrea you should have seen the slide it hurt me all the way out here in the burbs
arod, cano, phillips for two
real nice stretch by phillips
Yeah Villone with the DP!! That’s my Bergen County homie…Dirty Jersey represent!!
Have the Yankees been playing superb defense this since May or is it my imagination?
haha yeah I’m surprised ortiz didn’t hurt himself on that slide.
Aww. Poor empty comment.
What I was saying is that I love Andy Phillips.
villone gets bailed then puts one right back on, not good.
Damn you, Ron Villone.
pena goes yard for two, thank you villone
that sound was ron villone crashing back down to earth
and then theres that
an absolute no doubter, hit that one a ton
Yanks will still win…
as Alan would say, “Bank on it!!!!”
Let’s go optimists! We can get it back!
Let’s Go Yankees!
That’s what happens when you let the likes of Ron Villone pitch high leverage innings
It seems like gone are the days when the Yankees could tack on a few insurance runs without running up the score and show a team up. Torre loves to manage dangerously.
maybe we need pitchers whose last names start higher up in alphabet, some one say something to cash about this, couldn’t get worse.
there’s a tear in my beer. :{
Still though, only 1 run down, let’s get a comeback goin. GO YANKS!!!
did matsui catch that one or no? i don’t think he did.
are pen is great.. that is why we have 8 strike throwers out there..
nice walking harris on 5 pitches..
classic, there pen sucks and it has sucked all season. Ramirez has not seen the field in weeks..
Our lefties give up big hits to lefties like no one else.. crawford slam off mr myers and VIllone did it up.
how can a team win with a pen like this???Ramirez got 2 outings,,…..
another crusher if we do not come back, they only lose tough games………..
there goes the win for mussina and my fantasy team
that is what happens when you have washed up bums running out of your bullpen instead of young guns because Torre is an A$$
Ditto for my fantasy team, Ben. Boo.
arod, doubles, leading off
why VIllone has potential!!!!He is a 38 yr old journeyman……..to go along with myers and the rest of the scrap heap…
we have Britton and others wasting away in the minors and expect pigs to turn into princes…
Hey Pete,
Going 2-2 against Tampa would NOT be a failure, it would just validate this team’s status as a mediocre ball club this season.
free edwar
I’d love to know the reason why Torre hasn’t used Edwar Ramirez in the entire series. The Rays have seen Villone many times but never have seen Edwar. How much does it take to build up “trust” with Torre ?
i have it locked in,,,have no fear…7-5 yankees !
And that’s why A-Rod is my boyfriend.
looks like fossum coming in, against matsui.
so lets go win for rivera! or atleast get him a save
The YES Pre-Game had a pieche wtih manager Joe Madden on how nicelt BJ Uption has taken to centerfield. He looks absolutely lost as an outfielder!
Good start ARod! Now 5 & 6 hitters need to get him across.
7.52 era reliever…i see the yankees salivating !!!!
praying we can knock fossum around. If i close my eyes, he’s still in a Sox uni.
arod giving someone else just like matsui a chance to pad stats, can’t get in on matsui single, i and 3rd
time 4 a melky jack & all will be well in yankeeland !!!!
yeah alan,
just like the 7+ era starter jackson..its all good.
i agree, where the hell has edwar been? you gotta belive hes a better option than villone and I would rather keep him than farny as well. im glad tore will be done at the end of the year
the game is never over with this lineup
melkman down swinging.
aww melky…that thing was cheese.
great AB by the melk man. here comes a double play by robbie
guys stop predicting b ecause the opposite hapens
Thanks Melky, this team is pathetic at advancing runners from third base with less than 2 outs.
NICE
Good base running by matsui also.
tie game, good for robbie, sf, matsui advances to second.
ill take it
“Thanks Melky, this team is pathetic at advancing runners from third base with less than 2 outs.”
eat your crow
fossum leaving,
Thank you Robbie!!
that was good baserunning by arod cause if matsui gets thrown out, no run
gary glover pitching
Andy Phillips for president!
very nice baserunning all around this innning. Aggressive and timely. Cant ask for more.
i love baseball
phillips scores matsui, on single makes second on throw toplate, cut off by catcher throw to second late.
Got to wins, folks. Splitting with the Rays = big time suck up.
6-5 Yanks lead
posada, cant rest.
int wald to posada
THAT IS BULL SHERFEREFIT
hit posada in make them pay
here here, Ben.
FARNSWORTH?!?! AHHHHHHHHHHH
yay farnsy time.
Phillips coming through with two outs! How many people in this line up come up with that hit besides ARod and Jeter?
He looks very good. Relaxed. No white knuckles. If he can hit even 260- 270 he’ll be fine in the line up and they may be fine at 1st base for this season
damon drwas a walk loads them up for the captain
Bases Loaded for jeter
phillips lead the yankees last season in the month of june and then went downhill. lets hope he can stick this year.
we need opponents to be afraid of the yankees again. no mercy jeter. blast the hell out of it
whats with rover’s play by play?
UGHHH farnsworth warming up.. USE EDWAR TORRE
Way to pad your OBP Jorge.
Pete,
Can you please ask Joe why he insists on bringing in Farnsworth in one-run games despite the fact that he has, what, two 1-2-3 innings in 40 appearances?
The guy can’t consistently get people out and yet here he is, day after day, put in situations where he can lose the game with two meaty fastballs.
Though I’m a big backer of Edwar (and Britton, FWIW), I’m not even saying he should put the untested rookie there (though it worked for Mo, no?). These are the situations Proctor is here for, not to get his daily workout in 5 and 6-run games. Torre’s bullpen management is just so amazingly frustrating.
Hopefully Derek will get a hit here and make this whole argument moot.
Farnsworth….NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
jeter singles in a run , hard hit to third, and nowhere to go with it.
YEAH JETER!!!!
more cushion please!
YES!!! MY MLB TV cut out i was furious. i had to switch to gameday
OK…is the score really 7-5 ???
The 7-5 prediction could come true.
rover haha i love the enthusiasm but i assume everyone here can see the game. dont need the play-by-play
Farns is going in because Torre is omnipotent and knew that Jeter was going to knock in an insurance run.
alan i have to hand it to you a little bit
Britton for Pena? No. Farnsworth or Bruney for Pena? Yeah, if it convinces Joe to USE EDWAR! Then Bruney or Farnsy for Barajas? Phils need bullpen help and Barajas better than Nieves. At least then you’d have Pena, and have Edwar and Britton, who have done more than the clowns Joe keeps throwing out there. But Joe keeps throwing out the same people instead of giving others like Edwar a chance. Kind of like continuing to beat your head against a brick wall & you keep doing it, no matter how much it hurts or how badly you are bleeding.
sorry i do get carried away,
Bobby K’s to end the inning 7-5 Yanks lead
its alright hello took over where you left off. but this is a loving environment. no worries
for the life of me I cannot understand why Farnsy is in right now. pleeease let it work out…
Mike S., interesting trade ideas but I bet Barajas would cry about being a backup. I would actually rather have Ruiz or Chris Coste from the Phillies.
i freakin hate farnsworth
Farnsy on back to back days?
Get my heart medication and a shot glass!
You’ve gotta be kidding me.
WHY IS FARNSWORTH PITCHING?!?!?!?!?!?
WAIT A YANKS FAN WHAT!!!
..and Joe uses g/d Farnsworth. Bleep you, Joe. Use Edwar.
he doesnt waste time give him that
Leadoff double for Upton..Farnsy loves to make the game interesting.
Farnsworth:
Get him OUTTA THERE!!! I want him OUT, OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yank him now!!!!!!!!!!!! This game is too weird to leave to Farnsworth.
Did Scott Proctor’s arm finally fall off…wtf. Why is Farnsworthless in back-to-back days?
Why must Farnsworth wear such tight pants? He looks like a ballet dancer.
Maybe he just wants to give up a leadoff double, then walk one, strike out 2, then give up another walk and get the third out via a long fly out?
B.J. Upton has tremendous bat speed. A Farnsworth Upton match up was a disaster in the making.
All I can say is I hope my fellow smokers have their cigarettes ready and the non smokers have their Pepto ready.
please no more farnsworth. my god torre should be fired soley based on the way he uses/abuses/doesnt use the bullpen personell.
bring in MO NOW
jesus
7-6 Yanks lead
Why Farnsworth?? Why??????????????
britton for wigginton
F-U Farnsworth…Go throw your glove in the dugout!
a-Hole!
As I wrote, F you Torre. Use Edwar. Screw Farnsworth(less). But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Keeps losing with the same g/d guys.
Rocco , i agree with you. i hate farnsworthless!!!! Torre either has no regard for Yankee fans or Torre owns shares in a medical company. i cannot take Farnsworthless anymore.
aaaahhhhh get him out of there!! Time for Mo!!!
Hm, but he wants to keep Farnsworth in there so he doesn’t hurt his precious feelings again…
phillips you go dude
Thanks, AP!
andy MVP
wow. what luck.
Regardless farnsworth needs to go. NOW.
I do not want to see him ever.
AND HE’S STILL IN. unf’nbelievable.
I would have brought Proctor in. Farnsworth got LUCKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Totaql luck.. Farnsworth really does stink…
god damn, unbeleivable………..
LUCK>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Phillips has had a big game….
Mo faces the top of the order…..
Wow. Farnsworth owes Phillips a couple drinks.
Can Farnsworth and Villone please switch roles? The only time I’m comfortable seeing Farnsy is when we’re up/down by 10.
Andy freakin Phillips…why was he not on this team all year…He has some fire, and comes up big in the field.
man, I miss Josh Phelps……
Great play Andy Phillips!
Phew, inning over the D-rays score one though
great out of smokes, in the ninth, not the time to quit.
We should trade Farnsworthless for a bucket of nice balls or something. Geeze
Crazy Kyle needs to take Phillips out to lunch, dinner, by him a new Mercedes… Game was tied on that hit…
Unbelieveable.
Pete, are there/is there any rumors or chance the Yankees can dump this guy? I would take Mike Stanton over this bum.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
Or perhaps just Andy Phillips. My dawg!!!
Let’s tack on some insurance for Mo here plz!
That was a game-saving play, but seriously, why was Farnsworth in there to begin with and why was he still in there after those 2 hits? Questions to ask after the game to Torre Pete!
Good play Andy!! If that had gone thru I was going to pour gasoline on myself and flame on. Hey Brian Cashman: Get rid of Farnsworthless!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah….Farnsworth needs to be traded at the end of today’s game. I frankly don’t care what we get back for him, I just never want to see him again on the mound in a yankee uniform.
whats worse pavano who isnt there or farns who is and sucks…. hm. its a debate for the ages. but phillips with a mient-like grab
Gorgeous play by Andy to end the inning. TRADE FARNSWORTH NOW.
Edwar hasn’t pitched in over a week. Not saying he should pitch today, but are we ever going to see him again?
I’m generally a Torre supporter and don’t think any of the options in the pen besides Mo are very good.
That said, Cashman has to trade Farnsworth so Joe stops using him.
Hey Pete,
We all know you don’t like Farnsworht, and neither does any Yankee fan with a clue. But I think it’s time to lay some of the responsibility at the feet of Torre, who continues to use Farnsworth in close and late situations. What’s that old saying about the definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results?
I know the options aren’t exactly plentiful, but there are options, and given Farnsworth’s track record for this year, it’s really not fair to say that anyone in the Yankee bullpen isn’t able to do at least as well as Farnsworth in these spots.
Of course, Farnsworth is responsible for his own performance, but Torre is equally responsible for continuing to throw out a crappy pitcher in an important situation when he’s yet to prove he’s capable of getting the job done.
This is my thoery about Fransworth.
They want to trade him at the trading deadline.
Torre and Cash have an understanding to build up Fransworth before that. They keep sending him hoping he will do some good so they can trade him, but it is not working out.
Once again, it is both Torre and Cash in it together. I can not imagine that Torre is that dumb to use Fransworth on his own like this.
RUDY RUDY RUDY. i couldnt agree more
A-Rod, in case you forgot, it’s the 9th inning, what happened to putting it over the fence dude?
Now, I wonder if Torre realizes the agonies he puts the dear readers of this blog through, every time he runs Farnsworth out there (FWIW, I totally called the DP (although I envisioned a tag) in my roome here
) )
straighten it out matsui
Which was the better signing…
Farnsworth or Karsay?
At this point I am even wondering which was worse, and that is hard to believe.
BBFan,
I think that’s a very good theory. Why would they use him back to back days when they haven’t done that all year.
They may be trying to feature him as an 8th inning guy whose on the upswing after a rough start.
If that’s the thinking it needs to stop. They can’t afford to risk games anymore. The season’s too short.
Trade Farnsworth to the Long Island Ducks for Carl Everett and John Halama… Danny Graves can be the player to be named later.
I want Cashman to send Farnsworthless to the most primitive province in China. I want him to suffer as much as Yankees fans have, because of F.I have never disliked a player as much as this guy. He had the audacity to criticize Clemens.As we say say in Spanish Farns… ” es grande para nada”. Good for nothing
a desperate team i.e. the phillies would take farnsy off our hands. ship him back to the NL.
Don’t worry, Joe will use Edwar soon enough, he just wants to make sure Edwar is rusty enough that his changeup is hittable.
Which was the better signing – Pavano or Farnsworth. That’s a tough call.
BBFan –
I think your theory is right on. I’m listening to the game and Suzyn W. was saying that there are a ton of scouts at the park today (possibly doubling attendance)
Farnsy drives me nuts but I don’t know who takes over the eighth – - – Can Wil Nieves pitch?
Since the Yanks are close to Walt Disney World or whatever it is called – here is a song – HiHo, HiHo, Kyle Farnsworth has got to go!! – leave him in Tampa!
The Farnsworth Follies are now solely Joe Torre and Brian Cashman’s responsibility. Kyle has proven to anyone with half a brain that he cannot pitch in big spots. He simply doesn’t have the talent.
Torre bears the burden of running him out there, and Cashman bears the burden of not unloading this man for a bag of balls.
i want a save for my fantasy team… cmon MO!
Vizcaino should have pitched the eight, and he should continue to do so for the rest of the season. The starting pitcher has to go 7 innings and then Viz and then MO. I don’t really want to see anybody else, unless Joe actually decided to use Edwar once in awhile.
arod the decision maker.
TKinDC, supposedly Cairo can pitch. Hopefully we’ll never have to see it though!
Can the yanks gain a game on xos? I’ll believe when I see it.
A-Rod should get another $2 million just for that play. Awesomeness.
smart play
why not cairo does everything respectably
A Rod, with the always heads up play at 3rd. He is a different man this year.
BBFan
you might be right about building up Frnsworth but the Yanks are no longer in a position to experiment. The Yanks have to win games to make the playoffs. Farnswoth is a poison pill. He most be getting a second check under the table from Boston (sarcasm)
One good thing about Joe Torre this year so far (I know it is heresy to be positive about him) – he has not brought Mo into the eighth inning more than a handful of times.
If we are lucky enough to go deep this year that could really pay off.
What ARod play are you guys talking about? I only have Gameday on.
rocco me too
They have to get rid of Farnsworth. It wouldn’t be surprising if he did ok in the NL. After that it’ll probably be 8th inning by committee. Vizcaino, Proctor, Bruney – all are very streaky especially with their command.
Iwamura is a terrific player. Does everything well, sound fundamentally, plays multiple position and can run
$3 million dollar signing bonus.
Iwamura, Okajima and Dice-K and the Yanks wind up with Igawa.
Oh man, 1st and 2nd no one out.
when was the last time youve seen that
this is getting ugly quickly
According to baseball-reference.com, Paul O’Neill pitched an inning one time many moons ago.
What the hell. These are the Devil Rays.
but notice Mo isn’t getting all pissed at everyone else. Hence, Mo is a gentleman.
fugly actually
BBB
Iwamura laid down a nice bunt to the third base side that would have been a near-impossible play. It hit the lip of the grass just as A-Rod got to it, so A-Rod let it go by him, letting it go foul and knocking it away before it could be a bunt single.
Of course, now, it might not matter given 1st + 2nd and 0 out. But still a cool, heads-up play.
What the heck happened with that catcher’s interference?
I remember when Wade Boggs pitched an inning… I want to say 96 or 97.
just what the doctor ordered. DP!
Thank you again, Alex.
whew!
and Boston just lost!
Red Sox lose!
one out and its nine games sox lost sox lost
Clutch DP’s abound!!!
Final in Boston, Jays win 2-1.
Kevin: Of course it matters! Beause one of our guys made a great play.
HOORAAAAAY GREAT PLAY!
Where are my other optimists out there?
Blue Jays Win! Blue Jays Win!
I guess it isn’t too early to scoreboard watch.
Oh, how BEE-YOU-TEE-FULL the double play ball is, huh ??
Um… why not walk Pena?
Carlos Pena.
Cashman should have signed him just so we can win this series.
thats another rule where it was created a long time ago for a good reason and has run its course
Lugo hitting
Andrea,
It was a great play – did you miss where I said he should get an extra $2 million? But Iwamura did end up with a single, so it was pretty moot.
One more Mo!
Whew!
YEY!
Theeeeee Yankees win!!!!
I love Mo!!!!
whew! again
See what happens when you’re optimistic?
optimists unite
the worst ninth inning of mylife, without smokes.
I’d say though that the Rays lost this game versus the Yankees winning.
Nowadays, Mo is the new Todd Jones.
Kevin, I see what you’re saying. I’m just trying to be Captain Optimism and say that every play matters.
“I’d say though that the Rays lost this game versus the Yankees winning.”
either way the yankees get a win.
Ben, we should come up with a secret handshake.
Why did Joe take me out for Mo in the 9th? What was the problem?
KENNY
you might be the dumbest poster of all time.
Mo allowed a bloop hit (on a 1-2 pitch) and had a second man reach base via catcher interference. If that was Todd Jones in the Bottom of the 9th & two men on with no outs, the DRays win 9-7 at best.
Well consider yourselves lucky Yanks fans. Thanks to a terrible decision by the manager to not bunt with first and second and nobody out in the 9th and a blown call on Wigginton at 2nd in the 6th, you held on to beat the lowly D-Rays. You should feel proud!
Huge win today…take 3 out of 4 in ANY Series is a HUGE POSITIVE and we are now only 8 games back in the loss column to the Dastardly Red Sox !!
This just in: Cashman announces a five-year extension for Farnsworth, said he also wants to negotiate to extend Igawa next.
the cant and won’t all be pretty, w is a w
You have to give Andy Phillips tremendous credit for this win. Both at the plat and in the field. Phillips and ARod were great, especially at crunch time.
No way Josh Phelps make those plays in the field. Don’t even know if Cairo would be able to make that last stab so cleanly.
It’s concerning that taking 3 of 4 from the Tampa was so difficult. Hopefully this is the start of something that last and not just like the 9 game win streak where they beat up on weaker teams.
With the Sox losing that leads wears away that much more. More importantly, the Red Sox just aren’t playing good baseball and haven’t for a couple of months. They’ve got that cushion – now the Yanks will need to play as well as the Sox did to open the season.
For those who are still positive about htis team:
In four days after ASG, we made up one game in both Division and WC races.
Now we are out in the loss column, 7 games in the WC and 8 games in the Division.
Let the negative Nancies continue to feel miserable, but this team is going to make it to the playoffs for those who believe in it. Of course we will experience quite a bit of anxious moments like today in the process!!!
don’t be so hard on the yanks, the d rays are young fast and aggressive, with some contact hitters, on any given day they cause teams fits. they are always up for the yankees, like everyone else
Wanna talk about the games we LOST due to managerial decisions and umpire’s calls, Austin?
Hey Austin,,,,yes we are SO LUCKY…we have had SO MANY breaks go our way this season. I know you must be a BoSox fan,,,so GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM….It is going to be SO SWEET to come back and win the division and put all the Yankee Haters IN THEIR PLACE…but of course, WHEN we do that, it will be because we are lucky and NOT GOOD…right ??? (dink!)
Yes, Positive Pollyannas unite!!
Negative Nancies, go somewhere… especially that rocket scientist who just compared Mo to frickin Todd Jones. Blasphemy!!!
who the heck is todd jones
BTW, who was the Player of the Game? My man and I were just quibbling over whether it should be Jeter or Phillips.
Rover,
Todd Jones is some scrub who isn’t good enough to hold Mo’s jock! That’s basically all we need to know
Quite frankly, I don’t even look at the standings until (if?) the Yanks are 10 over.
I’m a diehard Yankees fan, but consider them lucky today. Torre brings in Villone and Farnsy, who give up 3 runs. Meanwhile, Britton is still in SWB and Edwar rots on the bench.
Come on, Joe. You don’t know what you got until you USE it!
its a team game, it took big things from both, as it should
I wish Cashman had traded Farnsworth for Lieber. That way neither is on the team.
Alan- Actually I am a Twins fan. We just completed a sweep of the A’s. I know we have a long way to go, but there is no way you should have won the game today. I realize that you guys are still a realistic threat in the wild card race and that is why I am watching your game on MLB TV. With that said, you got lucky as heck to win this game today.
Wouter-
Why don’t you whine some more about ump calls? You clearly got one today. Why don’t you just admit it?
Phillips.
Hey Pete,
Can you ask Torre why he put Farns in this game after he was clearly saved yesterday by the defense and again today. He has been the second worst reliever out of our bullpen. I mean Torre cannot really believe that Farns is still reliable as an 8th inning or 7th inning pitcher, can he?
I wonder if Austin saw the game where seattle stole 2nd and was out by 2 feet but was called safe. That runner ended up scoring and winning the game for seattle.
Yanks have definitely had more calls go against them then for them this season.
BBB–it was Phillips. I personally voted for Wilbert.
Phillips should be player of the game.
also Phillips deserves to continue to play.. hillebrand cannot field like that..
big win… the yanks were lucky today but about time they got some luck…
they need to dump Myers and bring up one more bat…. make a trade with the cubs for a catcher!!!!
Austin
is that the same twins team the Yankees took 3 out of 4 right before the break?
CB Magnificent Miguel Cairo would make those plays blindfolded and on 1 leg.
Andy deserves some credit though
I would imagine that Moose is probably angry he didn’t get the W again. Oh well, he pitched a good game, 6IP 3 ER, will take that everytime from him.
Farns…typical, can’t wait til we get rid of this guy and the start of Chris “GREAT” Brittons soon-to-be *illustrious* Yankee career begins.
Lastly I’ll continue my campaign against Johnny Damon. He’s hitting around 240 now. His slugging a putrid 330. OPS siting pretty at 680(A Career *LOW*). That is disgusting, vomit-inducing, preposterous!
Damon please take your injured self to the DL and let Shelly Duncan rake as the teams DH. I’d rather have a healthy Damon in mid to late August than this player for the rest of the year.
That is all and good day!
Rocco- Once again, there is more whining. Things even out over the course of the season. Also, last time I checked we were still 2.5 games up on the Skanks.
oh guys, don’t forget the yanks have a win pending vs baltimore… so really they are 8.5 back.
I doubt they’ll lose that game.
Austin
I’m just saying that it seemed like all the calls went against them earlier in the season. I’m sure they will even out and today was a good day for calls for the yanks.
The composition of team will be different after the trading deadline of 7/31.
No doubt, Cash is working on some deals for reinforcements, but they will not happen until that deadline as no one (other GMs) wants to pull the trigger so early. I do believe that both Myers and Fransworth will not be part of the team after the trading deadline. Hopefully by then Giambi and Menky will be back as well and we will have a resilent team.
Austin said..
“I realize that you guys are still a realistic threat in the wild card race and that is why I am watching your game on MLB TV.”
…lol, watching the Yanks instead of your own team? The inferiority complex lives! Keep sweatin’ the Yankees dude, they can smell your fear.
Austin, I don’t *whine* about calls. To be honest, I just had GameDay on today. But, if you go look back to the blog when the yanks were playing Seattle, I didn’t complain back then too. Sure it evens out (although, at that point, it didn’t feel like it), but when YOU say it evens out, how come you come in here complaining about the blown call? It evens out, right?
“Can you ask Torre why he put Farns in this game after he was clearly saved yesterday by the defense and again today. He has been the second worst reliever out of our bullpen. I mean Torre cannot really believe that Farns is still reliable as an 8th inning or 7th inning pitcher, can he?”
Seconded…this really has to be asked already.
Overall this is a good start post All Star break.3 out of 4 and a game picked up on Boston.
read Feisands blog about the truthfullness of kenny lofton.
he does not appear to think much of him..
Torre just said that he will have to “rethink” pitching Farnsworth a day game after a night game. He was dancing around with it though. He is as frustrated with Kyle as we are. I’m thinking that Torre was told to keep it calm with him because Cashman has something in the trade works.
The main competition for the Yanks to make the playoffs are Boston, Cleveland and Seattle at this time.
Just like Yankees, all of them have soft schedule for the next seven days. So, it is important that Yanks do fall behind during this one week and make the move the following week when some of the teams face tougher opposition.
btw, funny thing if you look at the calculated Expected W/L standings:
BOS 56-35 (div)
DET 54-35 (div)
NYY 52-37 (wc)
LAA 51-39 (div)
CLE 51-40
MIN 51-41
OAK 48-44
SEA 46-42
Now, not to start up a whole discussion on the value of these things, but if the theorem is somewhat correct, then it appears that we still have a lot of reason to hope, as it seems that both the Indians and Mariners are overachieving (although i think the yankees’ variability has played a huge role in them underachieving compared to their ExWL).
Let’s go Yanks!
… I meant do NOT fall behind….
So the Yankees win a game in which Abreu did nothing with his bat…me thinks he’s not the key (at least not the only)to the Yanks being successful in the 2nd half.
being a team sport there must be someone whos shines daily or you don’t get to far in this game. it has to be someone, today, jeter and phillips did their thing.
So who are the Yankees calling up to be their LONG reliever for Igawa’s start tomorrow night? Better be somebody who can throw 5-6 innings.
hello,
it could also be that we played the Devil Rays.
I knew Yankees could come back and win. They did it yesterday and I had faith with them today. Phillips had a great day. This dude has really been effective when we needed him to be.
could be, but they’re only a pitcher of two from competeing, they are fast and aggressive and if you didn’t notice a couple of them can hit.
Rover,
I am aware of how close they are in talent. But they still made some extremely inexperienced mistakes today that cost them the game. Extrapolating that Abreu’s success is not correlative to the success of the Yankees is foolhardy as the statistics are clearly contrary.
Some thoughts on the game:
• There are some certain things in life. Death, taxes, and Farnsworth giving up a run in the 8th.
• I hate that chicken McNuggets commercial
I also hate that Chicken McNuggets commercial. It is irritating.
i’m into nuggets y’all
Andy Phillips had a great defensive game today.
At the same time, it is small sample, but in 53 at bats he is hitting .302 with an OBP of .362 and five extra base hits. If he continues this, Cash does not have to worry about 1B as high priority and concentrate on backup catcher and a very reliable arm in the bullpen.
Agree on the commercial. What is McDonald’s thinking? Annoying as heck.
The only commercial I like during the games are the Miller Life commercials with the dude delivering beer to the fancy restaurant.
” $11.50 for a hamburger Y’all must be crazy”.
that dude always crack me up.
The Mercedes commercial is annoying too. Anyone else notice how big that kid’s head is?
I am so happy to see Andy Phillips making the most of this opportunity. I’m with you, BBFan, 1B is no longer a priority. Back-up catcher is only in that they need someone more reliable to be able to give Posada more down time, especially as the “dog days” approach.
That McD’s commercial is one of the absolute worst, ever. I think they filmed it outside of Wrigley Field in Chicago. There’s a McD’s right across the street from the stadium, and when we lived there we went to a Cubs game and had to park in the McD’s lot. No stadium parking.
Nice to see A-Rod starting off the 8th inning with that double. He’s been a little quiet lately.
Can’t wait to see what they end up doing with Farnsworth. He’s too aggravating and only semi-reliable, if that, and there is no wiggle room for the entire rest of the season. Nice DPs by Phillips and A-Rod today. Good D all around, I think.
Such a huge psychological difference (at least for us fans) being 9 games back rather than 10.
The only thing I don’t like about the Mercedes commercial is that, of course, it’s a boy. They never show little girls with cars. Very sexist.
I don’t remember that particular Miller commercial. I’m just relieved they seem to have stopped the anti-smoking commercials. I do like the Verizon with the little boy though.
My favorite commercial lately is the Cingular text-messaging one…”IDK, my BFF Jill? TISNF!” lol. I don’t know how often they show it during games though.
What makes me really happy about both this series and the game Igawa started vs the Twins is that we’ve been winning 1 and 2 run games. In 2005 the Yankees started the season something like 1-27 in games where they scored 3 runs or less. They were able to turn it around and win the division because they started winning with scores like 1-0 and 2-1. Similarly, if the Yanks can continue to win close ones this year, our postseason hopes look much brighter! Granted, we have a bigger deficit than in 2005, but still.
BBB –
Do you have a teenage or tween-age daughter? I do. So, that commercial drives me completely up the wall!
It was good winning a 1-run game, wasn’t it????
Giuseppe Franco agrees, the McDonald’s commercial sucks.
Today we saw the value of strong team defense, a quality that’s been devoid from the Yankees for too long, last year in particular (Giambi at first, ARod with his problems, and Damon’s and Bernie in the outfield).
Phillips in the field today was outstanding. Saved the game as simple as that.
ARod continues to sparkle. The difference between him in the field between this year and last year is startling. He’s back to playing like a gold glover and today made several critical plays.
Melky isn’t the perfect player but he’s 22 and does so many things well. The relative advantage of him playing center not only over damon but over a league average center fielder is enormous and those two assists were fantastic. He has a plus arm in center and that’s very hard to find (as we’ve seen with Bernie and Damon).
Finally there’s the much maligned Robinson Cano. Yes he can be unbelievably frustrating at moments but he also deserves credit for the marked improvement he’s made in the field over the course of this year. After that terrible 3 error game where he looked so nonchalant in the field I believe he hasn’t made an error. That’s a string of nearly 50 games.
And hard as it is to believe, Cano has the highest zone rating of any second baseman in the AL.
He’s 24, hit .342 last year and leads the league in zone rating this year. Yes he has absolutely no plate discipline, has been terrible with men in scoring position and never walks so his OBP isn’t going to be great. But even hitting 272 there aren’t that many second basemen better than him. It’s just not a premium performance position and if you look at who the top second baseman in the minor leagues are few project to be able to do even close to what he’s shown in flashes.
Trading him would be a mistake, especially given the improvements he’s made in the field.
CB very strong comments.. Cano is frustrating great 11 pitch bloop hit AB and a good sac fly deep to left with an 0 – 2 count.. I give Cano alot of grief which he deserves but today he played well.
the Yanks need to improve the bullpen and that is it. they will get minky and giambi back soon that will help there bench a ton….cairo will be utility guy.. minky and phillips can share 1B giambi can Dh and so can Damon who can play the OF on occasion..
they do need a backup catcher and pen help top priority….
CB
Thanks for that analysis of Cano. I happen to agree with your conclusion, but more on a gut level.
I agree about Cano. I’m a big fan of his. He’s still young and needs to learn discipline. The pitchers in the league adjusted to him, that’s all, after his .342 year. The last thing we need to do is trade him and create yet another hole to fill.
I’m into nuggets ya’ll. I’m into nuggets ya’ll. McNuggets McNuggets yeah! McNuggets McNuggets yeah!
I can’t edit my previous post, but you can all watch the commercial whenever you want now!
As Pete would say, the long national nightmare is over. We can finally watch it on-demand!
The team definitely brightened up my weekend. I thought this was another grey sunday with them losing three of four to the “mighty” rays.
I can’t edit my previous post, but you can all watch the commercial whenever you want now!
As Pete would say, the long national nightmare is over. We can finally watch it on-demand!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSZ6k3QIsAk
omg i forgot to attach the link last time. i promise this is my last post.
I think the commercial is supposed to like like these two kids made it themselves, like a YouTube job. Actually, it probably is on YouTube now.
UPDATE !!!!!!
Is Boston folding like a cheap suit ? It looks like it. Some injuries and lack of depth are glaring. Fasten your seat belts. The annual Boston fold is in the making. Yanks better take full advantage and the clock is ticking ……
And Ortiz is only 1 turn, twist or step away from ripping his knee apart. If that happens, they might as well as go home now and forfeit the rest of the season.
BBB-
Don’t worry I wasn’t watching the Yankees INSTEAD of my own team. I would never do that. Unlike you, I actually get cable and am able to watch my own team on the tube while watching other games on the internet.
wtf is the internet?
I sincerely believe eating those nuggets will make you act like that.
Doreen,
I’m actually from the generation immediately before the one that that Cingular commercial pays tribute to. I think that’s why I like it so much, it makes me feel better about my own age group! lol
Austin,
What did you say? Sorry, I couldn’t hear you over the sound of your heart pounding at the prospect of a serious second-half Yankee ascension.
In other news, the overperformariners lost today, so we gain a game on them in WC race as well…
not sure if this was mentioned earlier today..
but tomorrow’s start by igawa is critical. he has to come through some how… we cannot have this win one – lose one streak
I’d rather be a fan of the overperformariners right now than a fan of the seriouslyunderperformfyankees…
Pete,
GIve us an update. Where is fan favorite Nick Green. THis guy was a monster with risp during day games in august. What happened to him.
Thanks,
Jock
Igawa’s start tomorrow is nothing short of a nightmare ! I will expect an early HOOK,,,some great middle relief and LOTSA Yankess runs to offset THAT BUM taking the mound…and ANOTHER YANKEES WIN !!!
Igawa will surprize you tomorrow with a good outing. It is about time he has a good game!
I agree with a previous posting that Torre was not killing Farnsworth after the game too much.
He will be traded by 7-31-07 to a National Lge team.I really think all of our hopes and dreams will come true,and someoneelse will be wearing #48 soon.
Peter-Please tell me we can trade Farnsworth somewhere. Anywhere. I dont care what we get for him. I hpe its something helpful but at this point dumping Farnsy is more valuable than getting something.