Partial schedule for Game 3
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Oct 11, 2009 
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It’s not the full list like we were given when the Yankees were home, but here are the important times that were released this afternoon. (Times are local/Eastern)
3:25/4:25 p.m. Twins Batting Practice
4:30/5:30 p.m. Yankees Batting Practice
6:07/7:07 p.m. First Pitch
It’s not everything, but it’s what we have.
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Also, I was going through my notes and such from Friday’s game and found Nick Swisher’s explanation of that fourth-inning play when he threw out Carlos Gomez at second base to keep a run from scoring. That play was huge at the time, but wound up lost in the excitement of extra innings. Since it’s an off day and there’s not much else going on, here’s Swisher…
“I kind of caught him out of the corner of my eye,” he said. “He’s so fast, I don’t think he knew if he was going to be able to stop or not. I kind of saw him slip and fall and Jeet just happened to be standing there right on the bag. I just tried to throw as hard as I could.”
Asked whether he considered throwing home, Swisher said, “No. If I had a cannon like Melky or something, maybe, but not with my arm. I’ve got to be smart.”
Best Yankee introduced by a conference call ever?
When Swisher made that play at home and the umpire signalled no score, half of us thought he was saying safe. Ahhh!
BTW the times listed are Central. The game actually starts at 7:07pm.
Rebecca- at the bar my friends and I screamed! We couldn’t believe it!
Just watch Jeter. He knows the score.
MLB Gameday showed run too,but didn’t change the score to reflect a run.It was a great throw.
As the play was happening you could tell the run wasn’t going to score, really heads up play by Swish & Jeet.
oh chad…need to do time conversions my man.
Times are central time zone right? The game starts at 7:07.
Fyi – the times listed above are Central time.
Good thing the Sox got the 12 o’clock game time and not the Yankees. That is way too early for play off baseball.
If you want to laugh your head off,go to,
http://www.bostondirtdogs.com
Some really funny stuff,the pictures of the Socks are telling.
On the bostondirtdog site th Guy in the Flintstone outfit,with a Cowboy hat I’m speechless…
what is it now, 1-16 for ortiz and youk? my my my how the tables have turned. nothing i would like the see more than the sox get shut out tomorrow. poor pete abe will get an early vaca.
To all those moronic writers who wrote stories today about how Teix learned how to be a big time playoff performer with the Yankees 5 years quicker than Arod – all they had to do was check baseball reference to see that ARod went 4-6 with 3 rbi and a home run in his 2nd playoff game in pinstripes. It takes more than beating on a AAAA team like the Twins to prove your playoff mettle. I’m not faulting Teix here just the lazy writers who obviously have an axe to grind with Arod.
The mets have upset the Dodgers, accusing their doctor of misdiagnosing Reyes’ calf injury (which happened before the LA trip). Actually, they’re livid.
They can’t do anything right.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10.....f=baseball
Wait, how does that work? The throw is already on its way, when Gomez slipped. How could Swisher see Gomez slip, and then throw it to 2B in time before Gomez ever got back? He was already throwing it to second base because Jeter was standing near 2B, and raised his arm up. The MLB Network I believe had a review of that play, which showed that Jeter was running towards 2B incase Cano got to that ball, and if it wasn’t for that, then Jeter would’ve gone more towards 3B to act as the cut off man. But I don’t get how Swisher saw him slip and fall. He threw it before Gomez slipped.
But no big deal, who cares.
Haiku-man
I never laughed so much at the Sawx as I did on the site you linked.They are worried they will be swept.
The Dodgers are livid. The mets are just a mess.
Andy Dandy vs. Carl Pavano.
I don’t know. You know how hard it is to have a good pitching performance against the Yankees 3 games in one season? We’re talking Halladay, Burnett, and Kazmir. Not the Pavanos of the world.
I’m not underestimating bubble boy or the Twins. But I don’t know why people assume Carl will do it again. I think the Yankees will be over their initial shock that it Carl was actually on the mound in those first two games.
All we need is a split.
Who wants the Angels more rested than the Yankees?
Yankees need to sweep!
Thanks for the times! Im driving 4 hours from madison to minneapolis, watching the games, then heading back. Completely worth it! Go Yanks!
Chad: By first pitch at 6:07, you mean 6:07 Central Time?
Why does the wikipedia page have Pavano in a Yankees uniform?
this is great. this is the kind of information that you can only get here that brings yankee fans closer to the yankees.
what a play
Here is a videoclip of Cal Ripken analysing the Swisher-Jeter play:
http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.....id=7037041
Good morning all.
First, even if you thought the Dodgers would prevail, did anyone expect a sweep?
And, I’m sorry, but Manny’s dreadlocks (whatever you call them) are ridiculous again. Last season on joining the Dodgers, he was allowed to keep them, but they were at a length that allowed you to see his number and name. I guess having a section in left field named after you after less than a full season of actual playing time allows a bit of leniency. (I know this is picky, btw, and has nothing to do with his performance.)
My complaint with umpires this season (aside from balls & strikes) has mostly been that they didn’t always seem to be in the right position to make the calls as right as they can be (because humans aren’t perfect). That is something that can and should be addressed. And since it is a fairly athletic profession (or should be, since they have to move around agilely on the field if they expect to be in good position, or avoid balls hit into play), I don’t understand why there are so many MLB umpires who are out of shape.
As bad as some calls have been, I am still amazed how many they are able to get right with the naked eye; plays that on replay, with slow-mo and stop action are only barely discernible. And you have to give credit for that.
I’m okay with replay on HRs, because they are fairly easy to reverse. If baseball were a station-to-station game, maybe replay could work. But if you reverse a call on a fair/foul double, (the kind hit just past the bag) and you have a speedy runner on first who scored or could score or who normally scores, it complicates things to reverse the situation.
Carl Pavano’s season stats are very similar to Andy Pettitte’s. Pettitte has fewer losses, but a lot of no-decisions he should have won. Andy’s ERA is one full run less. Their K’s are almost identical. Pavano has walked half as many as Andy. As long as the pitch to their ERAs, the Yankees should win the game.
Anyway, the point is it could be a close game.
Oddly enough, the way Pavano has pitched for the Twins has helped out Brian Cashman, I think. This is the guy the Yankees thought they were getting. That he’s turned things around to be a leader on the Twins, and a mentor(!?) for their young players is quite amazing. He must have done some serious self-searching after experiencing his black period. More power to him I guess, but it just leaves me wondering where was this guy for 4 years?
And I can’t believe they’re playing the late game in Colorado. Couldn’t they switch it yesterday? Neither they nor the Red Sox nor the Yankees were playing yesterday. There was full day to notify people of a time change.
I like that the bostondirtdogs.com photos-of-failure show Yuke the Puke has p00ped his pants.
Surely that’s metaphorical for his having p00ped the bed in the ALDS.
They are an insightful bunch up they-ah in SawxNation.
Baseball scheduling always does an incredibly poor job. It is as if they allow a computer to schedule without regard for real-life weather and travel issues.
I think the bigger story about that play that got Gomez was that Jeter was actually not in position where he should have been. He should have been heading to back up third, he didn’t look toward home, he ran to second putting up his arms for the throw.
The thing is Jeter has some deeper understanding and reading of the game so he ends up being in a place that technically he shouldn’t be and ends up making a big play.
Somehow he even seemed to know that the runner hadn’t scored before he tagged out Gomez, even though he still hadn’t looked to home.
I don’t think Swisher was seeing Gomez slipping, but he did see Jeter and saw Gomez heading around second.
It was a great play that will be probably be forgotten in the silly overblown issue of the incorrect foul ball call, but it was a play that changed the game.
Funny quote by Francona in today’s Star Ledger regarding the 12 noon start:
“We’ll do what we always do for early games. Have 12 pieces of bacon, a Red Bull, and go get ‘em.”
By the way, in spite of Kazmir’s good record against the Red Sox, even at Fenway, I don’t expect the Sox to go down easily, if at all, today. Their offense has disappeared on the road almost all season, but when they get back to Boston, it has often been revived. I will be surprised if Boston is swept.
In the strange case of the American Idle, I don’t think that he was dogging it the whole time. I am sure that he was hurt, but with him it seemed as if the slightest thing would shut him down.
The only time it seemed as if he were totally serious about pitching was when his contract was almost over and then he seemed to be fine with pushing himself to return.
The car accident, the buttocks injury, the sore arm that lead to him having to have surgery (which it seemed that the Yankee medical staff didn’t believe)… it really leaves you wondering what really happened with him.
I don’t think he is “tough”. I think that is what his teammates picked up on. Every excuse seemed magnified so he couldn’t play.
That said, I hope the Yankees can figure out how to get to him early and often.
Swish couldn’t have seen what he says he saw, but it’s a way to take credit for initiating the play, when in fact he was simply responding to Jeter’s urgent signal to get the ball to him.
Jeter can be relied on not to contradict him.
That’s Swisher.
That’s Jeter.
It wasn’t all about the Cards’ collapse, it was also about the Dodgers’ steady, focused, confident, error-free play over the three games.
I’m hoping for the Yankees to score often and early, take Pettitte out with a commanding lead, and let the bullpen get in some innings to get back on track with pitch location.
Suspect Marte will be out and someone , Bruney? , will replace him in the ALCS as he can’t even get lefties out, even though he had a .120 batting average against in a very small sample size over 13.1 innings this year.
“It wasn’t all about the Cards’ collapse, it was also about the Dodgers’ steady, focused, confident, error-free play over the three games.”
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They also pitched around Pujols and it worked [ had 1 RBI entire series], which will probably be the way they’ll attack A-Rod if we meet in the WS.
Yankee Trader, the problem with trying to duplicate the strategy of how they worked Pujols is the Yankee lineup can hurt them.
Pitch around Alex, Hideki is there. Posada, Cano… You can’t pitch around everyone.
Holliday is not the threat of hitting that the Yankees have behind Alex.
While they might try pitching around Alex, if they put him on there is no letup after him that can be gotten. What do they do when the bases are loaded because of pitching around Alex?
And Alex seems fine with taking a walk over going after the glory of getting a hit.
Abdaba – I’m not sure about that. I can only think of one instance when a SS is supposed to back up third base…if a runner is on second going for third and the throw is from the catcher or maybe the LF. A throw from any other position and the SS doesn’t have the angle for the backup and it is the pitcher’s job. And I am doubting a throw from the LF because the SS would be out in the OF already. So really only a play at third from the catcher.
“I think the bigger story about that play that got Gomez was that Jeter was actually not in position where he should have been. He should have been heading to back up third, he didn’t look toward home, he ran to second putting up his arms for the throw.”
right when it happened i got in a big beef with mac daddy with me saying it was another example of jeter seeing the whole game and being right where he needed to be to make this unusual play.
mac daddy said it was routine and spent the next 3-4 innings arguing with me about it.
it’s a strange play. there were runners on first and second with 2 outs. what i don’t get is that the runner on second had time to almost score advancing almost two bases from second base but the supersonic gomez was only just rounding second base advancing only one base .
here’s how i think the cutoffs would go. if there was a throw to home teixeira would have been the cut off to home, cano would cover first, jeter covering second base.
but if there was going to be a throw to third jeter would have been the cutoff to third and cano would have had second base. this is where it gets dicey. there could have been a throw to home and there could have been a throw to third (if gomez would have been farther to third than he was which you would have expected him to be considering how far the runner on second had run).
the genius of jeter is that he saw it all happening and while he had several choices where to be positioned depending where the throw was going to be, he was at second and aware that the runner hadn’t scored yet.
the runner,gomez, was not aware of the runner scoring at all. he was just thinking of himself. gardenhire was all over him because of this. this is the difference between jeter and a player like gomez.
jeter sees the whole game at all times. he’s like a larry bird or magic johnson who see the whole court at all times.
now maybe i don’t have the cutoffs correct. pat m or someone else may have other ideas about what they should have been. i think all the possibilities of places a defensive player has to be depending on what happens when men are on base would surprise even the astute fan.
it’s the reason a team that runs well and plays small ball can wreak havoc on a defense because there are so many things a defensive player has to think about before the pitch.
the defensive player has to know what he’s going to do before the pitch and when there are multiple possibilities it gets complex especially for middle infielders. not knowing what to do can freeze defensive players.
i think jeter always knows what to do. that’s why he’s jeter.
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I’d like for the Yankees to send Pavano into another “Black Period” for good.
“…which will probably be the way they’ll attack A-Rod if we meet in the WS.”
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If Rodriguez continues to make himself a factor in this postseason, I wouldn’t be surprised if any of our opponents take that approach. Though our regular lineup is so circular that pitching around one guy, when we have the normal complement of hitters coming up, isn’t such a sure-fire tactic against us. Of course if it should happen that we put out both a pitcher and Molina, our sturdy circle could be awfully compromised.
mooch-
great link. i didn’t see it before i posted. cano was going for the ball so he wasn’t covering first on a ball to the plate.
ripken said, as i thought ,that jeter should have been the cutoff to third.
he also said something along the line that i did about magic johnson and larry bird that these kind of players have eyes in the back of their heads.
they see things that they shouldn’t.
I’m not sure ARod can be pitched around in the same way he’s been in the past. ARod was less discriminating at the plate, and could be enticed to swing at very bad pitches – and and 0-2 count was death. He’s a lot more patient, And he’s not swinging for the fences, either. More discipline. And, as stated above, it’s not like there’s only one or two good hitters in the Yankees’ lineup.
So it won’t be as easy. Not that it can’t be done. But it won’t be easy.
The Yankees lineup is stacked. Just about every guy can crush the ball into the seats. Just nasty.
randy l.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
mr intangibe strikes again.
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randy l.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
jeter totally knew that he had to get him tagged fast and looked right at the plate to see if it was in time.
every shortstop doesn’t make that play.
jeter is like a larry bird or a magic johnson.
he sees everything at the same time.
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Mac Daddy
October 9th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
tag a guy out who overran a base 3 feet from the base you are supposed to be covering?? happens all the time!! please stop posting…sound ridiculous.
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well mac daddy.
still want me to stop posting?
Im a huge fan too but the $200 million dollar payroll has a lot to do with it we have to be fair here. Id love to see the Yankees win on a more even scale. Even in the late 90s the payroll discrepency wasnt so out of whack and it made it a lot more fun. Theyve brought so many hired guns in ths year. If they face the Rockies you are looking at a $125 million dollar advantage and approximately $90 million if its the Phillies or Dodgers. I really wish there was some sort of payroll sliding scalde in MLB with a cap and a floor.
Ken -
Yes. Better the Yankees should have let Tex go to Boston (who were offering just a tad less, I think). And AJ go to the Braves (again, for either just a tad less or one less year). And CC go to Anaheim.
And then you could complain how the Yankees, who were mindnumbingly cheap in the offseason in order to get the payroll in line with the rest of the league, missed the playoffs for a second year in a row.
mooch-
another video came on that was great after the one you posted of the jeter play.
http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.....id=7037041
it was reggie doing a lengthy chatty interview with jeter as jeter walks along the yankee monuments and talks of the yankee greats. really good.
Here is a snippet on Arod’s hip from CNN column by Joe Posnanski.
“That’s the good short-term news, but Rodriguez also recently received a good bill of health from Dr. Marc Philippon, the surgeon who repaired A-Rod’s right hip before the season. Philippon attended Friday night’s game at Rodriguez’s behest and made a few comments to the media beforehand, none more promising for the Yankees third baseman than this: “His power is excellent, the rotation in his hip is excellent. … At this point in time, based on my clinical exam and what I saw in batting practice — and I’ll need a few more tests — but so far I don’t think he’ll need surgery,” Philippon said.”
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.c.....z0TdI5iqQj
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Vrsce -
I am holding out being totally joyful about ARod. The “so far” and “I’ll ned a few more tests” just makes me say, wait for those results. However, it really is good news that he’s come so far, so close to total rehab.
Not much response to Peter Abe in Boston. What response he does get is luke warm at best.
With an early Sox exit on the horizon, maybe Pete is wishing that he gets to cover his beloved Patriots.
Doreen Im not knocking the Yankees. They are playing within the rules but part of me loves the “underdog” and thats the one thing I dont think I’ll ever get to see in my lifetime again while watching the Yankees… Im blaming the Union here not the Yankees. For the good of the game I love, I think we should have a floor and a ceiling.
Chad, as I begin to set by DVR to watch it later, ESPN snnounced the Yankees/Twins game begins 7PM EST
“It wasn’t all about the Cards’ collapse, it was also about the Dodgers’ steady, focused, confident, error-free play over the three games.”
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They also pitched around Pujols and it worked [ had 1 RBI entire series], which will probably be the way they’ll attack A-Rod if we meet in the WS.
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If Matt Holliday leaves the Cards via free agency then the St Loius lineup will go back to being “Albert Pujols and the 7 Dwarfs”. Its time for the St. Louis front office to step up and get some top-notch talent to play with Pujols.
I’m also worried about what would happen if Tony LaRussa decided to leave St. Louis and take his act (along with Dave Duncan) to Boston. They would leapfrog us again.
on that link to jeter and reggie.
you have to click on the video with jeter and reggie strolling among the monuments
http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video…..id=7037041
I think Francona is safe in Boston, no matter what happens this postseason. I really, really don’t think LaRussa is the type of person Epstein would want to bring in to Boston.
i’ll get it
http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.....id=7037041
I think Francona is safe in Boston, no matter what happens this postseason. I really, really don’t think LaRussa is the type of person Epstein would want to bring in to Boston.
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I hope that you are right…a Theo Epstein/Tony LaRussa combination would put the Red Sox back on top. The Red Sox have reverted back to their typical form (shaky defense and too much reliance on the long ball). Thats why they struggle when they leave Fenway Park. The first few years that Francona was in Boston they played tighter defense and a little more small ball. Now Francona is too loyal to old hands like Varitek, Lowell and Ortiz. They need an on-field shakeup. If they don’t choose to make any changes then thats OK with me, though.
LaRussa is overrated as a manager and so is Theo as a GM.
Ken -
Okay, I get that. But the Yankees were underdogs for a good part of the season. There were people who, in spite of the payroll and the big name players, didn’t think the Yankees would make the post-season at all. It wasn’t until the Yankees pulled ahead of Boston by a fairly wide margin that they became more or less favorites.
“on that link to jeter and reggie.
you have to click on the video with jeter and reggie strolling among the monuments”
that was excellent!
I wonder why Reggie skipped over #1 ?
ps: I cracked up when Jeter called Reggie a regular Phil Donahue…
Id love to see LaRussa hired as a bench coach. I like Girardi but he isnt the best technician of the x’s and o’s. If he does get the axe in St. Louis I wouldnt mind the Yankees taking a run at him as a bench coach.
La Russa would get booted out of beantown.He hates the press.
In St Louis,many reporters have lost access to him because they printed the truth.STL has 1 large paper,and a few small papers.Tony runs the press,and tries to run the Sports Tv reporters.
If a reporter ask a question that puts him on the spot,he ignores them.In that field no access nothing to report,no job.The St Louis sports radio tells it like it is and won’t let him or his antics go uncriticized.
Beanton’s press would pulverize the drunk.
I rec’d a series of emails from friends and family in St Louis.One theme ran through the emails.They all said it differently,but thought after the game 1 shutdown of Carpenter,Pujols,and Holliday,He was drunk the rest of the series,by his game mgmt deciions.
I personally never liked him when he was in the AL with the A’s.He looked the other way as the then Mgr, when Conseco,Mcgwire,both Giambi brothers ,et al juiced.
As long as they were winning as a team,and racking up win totals for him as a mgr,and helped him win a world Series,he didn’t care.
When he came to St Louis,he brought his favorite roider Mark McGwire.We know how that played out.
There’s a running joke about him in St Louis.
The reason he boast the most wins as Mgr,is he’s never found a roider he didn’t like!