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Delmon Young was butchering that pop-up in right field at Fenway Park just as we got into Joe Torre’s office after the game tonight.
What struck me is that the Yankees didn’t seem to much care. Not one player mentioned it or bemoaned Tampa Bay giving away another game.
For the last two months or so, the Yankees have stayed focused on the task at hand. Worrying about the Red Sox doesn’t help you beat the Blue Jays or the Royals. Worry about the Red Sox on Friday.
Derek Jeter had no idea what the score was and didn’t seem much interested in knowing.
Why should the Yankees care? They have been the best team in baseball since the beginning of July. They are 40-19 since the break. Whether they enter the playoffs as the wild card or the division champion is fairly insignificant at this point. One victory changes home-field advantage.
Meanwhile, Joba Chamberlain’s scoreless streak ended at 15.1 innings. It was the longest for a Yankee since Slow Joe Doyle started his career with 18 scoreless in 1906. Doyle could not be reached for comment as he died in 1947.
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Chad Jennings
Sam Borden
Joba is my love. Joba is God.
Unearned runs ain’t nothing.
The Yankees will not be stopped!
#27 here we come!
Joe Doyle was seen at Park tonite, i guess you missed him
The division would be great, but the goal is ring number 27. I like it. As long as they are playing efficient baseball heading into the postseason, they will be fine.
Let’s remember that it is Boston that has the inferiority complex with New York and not the other way around.
Joba is so great and cute…
And just learn from TW’s printed media that Jeff Karstens will play for Team USA in World Cup host by Taiwan upcoming November…. Is it true?
this is pretty off topic.
why aren’t the rockies getting any love?? In my eyes, they clearly have the MVP of the NL on their team. i also think troy tulowitzki is rookie of the year (playing a whole season, being fantastic down the stretch, outstanding D.) they are two games out in the wild card. they have more wins than any of those NL central jokes. they are 2nd in runs scored in the NL.
maybe the yankees players dont care, but the sox-rays game was awful. the yankees say they are still looking at winning the division but they need the sox to lose those games if they’re going to have a chance. the yankees are playing as well as anybody but they have a chance for a 10th straight div title and home field in at least 1 rd of the playoffs. how delmon young misplays that ball so badly is amazing. it also lets the sox go on a high note into this weekend with some momentum. oh ya… delmon young = overrated. no plate discipline and worse, seems to have no heart.
eelz: Because they are, quite simply, the Rockies.
Yankees have the right attitude. If they keep this up, there’s no reason they won’t go all the way.
27 in 2007!
The Optimism Era is one of the greatest things to happen to the Yankees…
96-66, Division Champs and World Series Champs #27
eelz,
Bigtime Rockies fan here. I’ve been to a whole lot of Rockies games in the past few years, so it is nice to see them finally winning. With Holiday, Hawpe, Helton, Atkins and Tulowitski, they have a great linep. Pitching has been pretty good too, with Francis and Jiminez. I hope they make the playoffs.
#27 Yankees Win!!!
The Yankees win!!
Boston Dave,
To be fair, the Red Sox came into Yankee Stadium last time after sweeping the White Sox and the Yankees had lost 3 of 4 to Detroit. We all know how that turned out.
Peter:
I don’t know ask this here, is ok or not?
Just learn that Jeff Karstens will play in “World Cup” this upcoming Nov. @Taiwan…
My question is that how the Yankees allow him to play international games, maybe minor leaguers play but Kars, I’m bit confused…
Whatever, counting on the D-Rays to help out is only going to let you down in the end. No matter how much talent they have, they still can’t close a game. Let’s worry about playing good ball headed into the playoffs (just like the teams is).
I have always respected Mussina as player so even though I would have liked to see the Yankees lose I am glad that Mussina got the win. I’m definitely looking forward to the series with you guys this weekend. It would seem that whoever wins between Wang and Beckett would have the inside track to the Cy Young award this year.
“Delmon Young was butchering that pop-up in right field at Fenway”
Pop-up? It went about 20 feet further than damon’s home run that one game one in the last bosox/yankee series.
You’re such a hack/homer writer.
Amen Uncle V.
Needing miracle comebacks on back-to-back nights against an awful D-Ray team isn’t going to do anything for the Blosox’s fragile psyche, conventional wisdom be damned. If anything, it reminds me of last year when they came back twice in a row against an awful Indian bullpen just before the wheels fell off the wagon. It smells like a last gasp, and I say they’re prime to be plucked this weekend.
Yanks only need to tie the red sox to win the divison like in 05
Pete
Do you know when is rookie hazing day and what’s planned this year? Completely forgot about this until my daughter brought it up tonight. Lots of rookies this year so it should be good. We want to see pictures!!!
I channeled Slow Joe and he is very happy to know his record lasted a hundred years. Went on to talk about his friend Shoeless Joe. He asked if the kid pitcher up in Boston named Babe ever made it in the Big Leagues.
Boston is paying Tampa Bay to throw games.
Think about it:
1. Tampa Bay beats Boston 1-0 on Monday night then blows an 8-1 lead Tuesday and loses 16-10. No one can say they threw the game because hey man, they won 1-0 the night before, wouldn’t they have thrown that one? They were great that night maaan. No, Scott Kazmir was great, the rest of that team suc ked, but I could see Boston laying down…and they always seem to lay down for Kazmir. Boston wins in the bottom of the 9th with a walkoff 2-run homerun by David Ortiz last night. Another “How can you say Tampa Bay threw the game? They’d serve up a homerun to Boston’s most dangerous hitter? That’s too obvious.” Riiight, that’s what people in on or down with the fix want you to think. “T.B. couldn’t be that obvious.”
2. The New England Patriots cheated vs. the Jets on Sunday, so would you put it past Boston to give Tampa Bay a million in cash under the table to throw a couple of games so there’s no doubt Boston holds on for the division? I wouldn’t. Oh b.t.w. I’m not a Jets fan, but I think it is utter b.s. that the N.F.L. didn’t give the Jets a forfeit win over N.E. for N.E.’s cheating cuz what if N.E. wins the division and/ or homefield advantage by a game? They did so by cheating!
3. Tell me what other matchups have as many games ending the way Boston-Tampa Bay games end? Yankee-Red Sox games are intense and sometimes dramatic, but name me the last time Boston was up on the Yanks 8-1 and the Yanks stormed back to
win 16-10, or the Yanks lost in the bottom of the ninth to the Red Sox (I count one game last year, maybe one in 2005).
4. When a team constantly blows huge leads and suffers walkoff losses to one team, you have to wonder.
haha trolls make me laugh.
I notice alot of Red Sox fans are a little worried you can hear it in thier messages , BTW yes Young butchered that ball unless to Red Sox fans going right, turning left, then going right again to left and watch a pop up fall in the first row stand is a solid fielding play then I would understand the arguement, atleast it would make understand the love for J.D. Drew
Tampa Bay is not throwing away games. Their pitching just isn’t good. They can hit as they showed yesterday against Wakefield and they smacked around Lester pretty good. If anything I would say even though the Red Sox won two out of three they could have just as easily been swept at home by the D-Rays.
Their starting pitching is deep but none of them scare you. Not one. Not to say that they aren’t good, but the Yankees offense is better than theirs, with or without Manny in the line up. Numbers don’t lie. They can say that we fatten up on bad teams and bad pitching but they play the same teams so that argument gets kicked out the door.
If I was a fan of that shower of sh*t I would not want to face the Yankees in the playoffs. They’ve only beat us once when it counted and even then it took something that had never happened before for them to put the Yankees out of the playoffs.
Red Scum fans know it. The Yankees are better than the Red Sox. FACT!
the rookie hazing is usually the last road trip of the season so this year its probably the last series of the season Baltimore. Wonder what Jeter and Jorge have come up with this year its gotta be hard no to repeat yourself.
If JD Drew took the same route to catch a HR ball like Young did, he would need armed guards to get home, the server would crash on Sox blogs and the phone lines to sports talk in Boston would meltdown.
Well here’s an answer for T.B. jumping on Wakefield:
Wakefield has sucked lately so if he sucks against T.B., would it be a suprise? David Ortiz is still a monster at the plate despite an off-year relative to his past career with Boston, so would him hitting a 3-run HR then a walkoff 2-run shot be a suprise?
Boston and T.B. merely fix games according to constant trends short-term (Wakefield’s struggles) and long-term (Ortiz being a monster at the plate, Kazmir owning Boston) so you never suspect anything.
it was nice to see ross ohlendorf with the pink yankee backpack yesterday. there was a glimpse of him on YES
and rebecca- i get your point. but that’s my point. they are the rockies, and they are, quite simply a great team this year. hell, they swept us! and that sucked! and they don’t even need a squirrel!
dfcash good on ya, coors field looks real purdy.
Oh yeah New England cheated the day before the Boston-Tampa Bay series, the perfect time for a fixed series cuz hey man,
how could Boston dare cheat right after what happened in Foxboro a few miles away? A perfect time to fix a series. Start out with a typical loss to T.B: A dominating game by T.B.’s ace (Kazmir) even though Scott Shields is having a better season. People would say “Boston wouldn’t follow suit cheating, c’mon!” Two dramatic wins the series before a critical weekend series at Fenway vs. the Yanks.
do you really think boston couldn’t beat tb on it’s own two outta three? who cares how dramatic it was. it doesn’t matter. they completely annihalated the white sox and then we swept em.
Tampa Bay has the worst record in all of Baseball and they were playing a team with the best record in all of baseball. Did we all really expect the DRays to win the series?
Although the games showed a lot about Boston.
I can’t say they deserve to have the record they do and if I were a Red Sox fan, I would be worried about the playoffs.
Red Sox are getting into the playoffs one way or another. Yankees would need to sweep the Red Sox this weekend to make the division seem like a possibility. It would put them behind only 2 games, which is a weekend series. Yankees need to win the right games from here on out to move ahead in the division, but the wild card is absolutely acceptable.
I followed the Red Sox – DRays games and knew the DRays couldn’t hold the lead. As soon as I saw Lugo getting walked and Ortiz up after Pedroia, I knew the game was over. Ortiz has a bad habit of hitting homeruns at the right time.
After the Yankees lost 7-1 to Seattle to drop to 76-62, I predicted that we would go 20-4 to finish the season 96-66. I am sure that 100% of you thought I was totally crazy. Now that we have rattled off 7 straight wins…we need ONLY to go 13-4 for me to be right ( and after we win our next 4 in a row…it will only be 9-4 after that ! )…Who’s crazy now ? ( me still, I know…but we’re still steamrollin’ our way into Boston and OUT WITH A SWEEP YOUZ GUYZ ! )
Yea its not tough to do it against a pitcher like Al Reyes. Im not saying I could do it but a guy of Ortiz credentials at home. I mean it was a gimme. The only people who care are the fans. The Yankees are playing like they did after the all star break and hopefully do not stop for the next month. And wwho the hell does he think he is throwing inside to Ortiz. Gimme a break.
mark
September 12th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
“Delmon Young was butchering that pop-up in right field at Fenway�
Pop-up? It went about 20 feet further than damon’s home run that one game one in the last bosox/yankee series.
You’re such a hack/homer writer.”
And you’re a troll. Go correct someone’s grammar or something, creep.
Here is a Brain Cashman’s interview with Phil Allard. Hope you all enjoy it.
http://www.nyyfans.com/article/8693/
#27 Let’s go Yankees!!
Can someone explain what Pete means by this:
“Whether they enter the playoffs as the wild card or the division champion is fairly insignificant at this point. One victory changes home-field advantage.”
What determines where a game is played in the playoffs?
Joba’s probably the only person that can get away with calling Alex ‘Al’. Well, maybe Boras could.
“Ninety-nine times out of 100, Al makes that play,� Chamberlain said. “We won the game, and that’s all that matters.�
The Captain has the right idea: just take care of your own business and don’t worry about what you can’t control.
Carson,
Pete means that in a five game series, if a team wins one team on the road, then they have essentially “stolen” home field advantage for the series.
One GAME on the road I mean. Same applies for a seven game series of course.
Since he’s following in the footsteps of Sloe Joe, do we call him Sloba Joba?
Warning! Do not read while drinking coffee. Management will not be responsible for ruined screens or laptops.
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/s.....ey=7215532
If we play good baseball we can win anywhere, even at Angel Stadium if we must. Home-field adventage in the playoffs is very nice to have but a tad overrated imo. It´s all about getting to the playoffs and be hot. It would be nice to win the division again this year, but I´d be more than happy if we go in as the Wild Card. Let´s not forget where we were in may and how other Wild Card teams have done in the playoffs the last few years.
eelz –
The Rockies’ success this season makes their sweep of the Yankees earlier this year easier for me to take. They are having a good year.
I’ve always contended that home field advantage in baseball doesn’t amount to much, especially in a best of 7 series. Think about it. 2 at field 1; 3 at field 2; 2 at field 1. It seems to me that when you get to play 3 consecutive games at your home field, you have more of an advantage. Of course, winning the games wherever they’re played is the only true advantage anyway.
I’m hoping if the Yankees get to the playoffs they get to play Cleveland, not because of the Angels, per se, but because if they play Cleveland they don’t have to travel to the west coast.
If Yanks win the WC then as of right now, we would face the Angels and we all know how well they play us.
It is not looking good for us!
Mel –
I couldn’t even read the story word-for-word. He’s got to be kidding, right??????????????
Way to get the blood boiling first thing in the a.m.
Mel –
I took the bait and clicked. What a great article. Such tremendous insight: “The Sox shelled out a lot of bucks to sign Matsuzaka, and the results have been mixed at this point. However, he’s only going to get better.” Of course! Wow.
You can have some fun writing about how a particular franchise is “the best”. But this guy comes off like a kid writing for a high school paper. Good grief.
It’s now time to hear from the kiddie Boston fans over the weekend powered by their insecurity and flexing their inferiority complex.
Mel maybe I’m wrong but I think it is tongue and cheek? He rattles off a list of players they drafted but half are gone. LOL
And I’d like to know how they rebuilt while contending. They didn’t make the playoffs last year. Last off season they brought in big ticket, over paid losers like Drew.
The Yankees on the other hand turned over their roster while bringing up kids. We got rid of big bird and replaced him with Hughes. Look at this season alone. We brought up Hughes, Kennedy, Chamberlin all who have been successful and that is just in the pitching department.
I can’t help but think that, that article was satirical.
thanks for the link mel. that does add some extra fuel to the fire. unfortunately even though perry’s bias is obnoxious, i’ve been concerned over the very things he’s saying. the yankees ,because of the steinbrenner situation, are not set up for the future, as well as the red sox organization. the one thing that could change everything is the steinbrenner family selling to a new ownership that would be on an equal financial footing with the red sox ownership. henry is worth about 4 -5 billion dollars. what’s the steinbrenner family worth? no where near that. the yankees need new ownership or an infusion of cash from a partner brought in who can compete with henry’s money. as an organiztion the yankees are the financial underdog right now because of henry’s total net worth.
all the more reason for the yankees to win the world series this year. the yankees may go through an ugly duckling period when the steinbrenner era ends. cashman may have to compete with less money. it’s all speculation at this point ,but i don’t think anyone knows what will happen to yankee ownership when steinbrenner dies. the red sox on the other hand are owned by a reasonably young baseball fanatic who has 4-5 billion dollars. so is there a little problem there? i’d say so.
Wow Jays organization is BUSH LEAGUE!
http://trailfire.com/sportsinbox/marks/148750
For some reason I can’t link articles of other papers. ANy how go to the nydaily news and look at this article. Want to talk about making you sick! Total bush leauge, Bud should look into fining them for these antics.
*Joe Torre brushes back Jays’ A-Rod video game
Regarding home-field advantage, in a 7-game series, it only comes into play IF the series goes the full 7 games. Both teams are guaranteed 2 games at home. Then the team without HFA actually gets game 5. Then it even up again for game 6. Only if it goes 7 does the HFA team realize any advantage.
It’s a bigger deal in a short series. The HFA team gets the first two games at home guaranteed and can potentially clinch having played only one road game.
In general, however, I think the advantage is overstated. It’s entirely psychological, and some teams may actually perform better in the road environment than they would at home.
Mark –
“Pop-up? It went about 20 feet further than damon’s home run that one game one in the last bosox/yankee series.”
Fact remains, it was definitely a catchable ball. And it sure did take a while to come down.
That pitch was right in Papi’s wheelhouse; if he was in top form he would have hit it clean out of Fenway. Dumb, dumb pitch with a one run lead in the ninth. Yo, Reyes! WALK. HIM. You’re no Mariano Rivera.
At least Damon’s HR was a line drive IIRC.
Peter,
First, I want to thank you for this blog! When I am at work now, this is where I come for the play-by-play and scores. I am behind a firewall at work that blocks all sports sites. This site is not blocked.
I also really enjoy your write-ups. I wish I got involved in the comments earlier on, instead of just reading and leaving. There is a great crowd of regulars here.
Now for my question. I hear great things about Mooses return of course, but I have yet to hear the difference. What has he changed? Was it mechanics, was he just sore/tired? Age catching up? Pavanoesque unknown injury??? I haven’t read or heard anything about what the difference was. Maybe we can just relate it to him fighting his way back, but that seems too simple. Of course, it was just one outing…..
Thanks again!
John Spagnolo aka Spags
- Bronx born life-long Yankee fan now living near Philadelphia. Thank God for the internet!