ALCS Game 5: Yankees at Angels (Part III)
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UPDATE, 10:28 p.m.: A fresh thread for what should be the final few innings. Have at it.
UPDATE, 10:34 p.m.: The Rally Monkey and Damaso Marte are now in the game.
UPDATE, 10:35 p.m.: Marte does about as well as you could want. Gets two outs, one on a grounder that scores a run. Now it’s Hughes coming in to get out of this inning and get the ball to Rivera.
UPDATE, 10:44 p.m.: After getting Guerrero to swing badly at the curveball in the dirt, Hughes tried to get a fastball by him and it wasn’t nearly up high enough. Vlad goes up the middle and it’s tied, 6-6.
UPDATE, 10:48 p.m.: Phil Hughes grew up about five minutes from Angel Stadium. This has got to be brutal for him.
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Why let AJ start the inning?
This team NEVER QUITS~!
come on AJ
because he shut it down since the 1st.
I’m surprised Joe isn’t going lefty, righty, lefty, righty in this inning.
BP time
marte for figgins?
Staying too long with Burnett.
Dumb managing at it’s finest.
I wish the Angels would go quietly into the night….
Be quiet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
marte???/?///??? you can’t do this to us
why Marte? Really? this is just comical Joe….we only trust Hughes and Robertson, how can you see it any other way?
Marte. Who knows what to think about that? This guy has been so hot and cold.
No reason to leave A.J. out there.
You work so hard to come back, and now you put in Damaso Marte.
He had that guy and then walked him! Gah!!
Now we hope that Marte can get an out.
AJ cruised for 5 innings. There was no reason to not let him start the inning. I would rather have him out there than Joba
I don’t mind AJ starting the inning, but he needed to throw a strike for that last one. Tried to get a couple of chasers but Aybar didn’t bite.
Hold the lead Marte!!!
Losing with Marte would be brutal. He’s gonna bunt, then it’s Marte vs. Abreu
Get aj outta there…. He was way better when he was pitching from behind …. Damn bum got to comfortable…. Get Him outta there….
Why didnt Giradi start Hughes this inning???
Why all the Marte use instead of Coke? I don’t like it.
dumb managing?
give me a break.
burnett was at 80 pitches and fine since the 1st.
if they put the pen in and they blew it, you would complain about that too. just be happy. we are winning.
I don’t understand why Burnett faced Aybar with a bullpen full of fresh arms, they just need 5 outs and bring in Mo. Girardi really overthinks things sometimes.
From up 0-2 to a walk, meh
Made little sense anyway to bring him back out. For one he’s been sitting on the bench awhile and 2 the pen is rested. And he’s a 6 inning pitcher.
From the other thread….
The bullpen is the Yankee strength. Girardi better not screw this up. I don’t like AJ being in still.
What is Girardi doing? Bring in Hughes for at least 3, then keep him in as long as he can go… with Mo backing up. This should not be difficult!
omg this is going to be wild. LETS GO BOYS!
Girardi is an idiot, 9 outs away u go to the rested bullpen from the start of the inning
Why Marte? You worked too hard to come back.
Who feels good about Marte?
Marte did okay the last time he was in, right? Let’s hope for the best!
this is where Marte earns his ’stripes’
The game is on the line here.
There is no reason for Marte to be in there.
Righty lefty. Doesn’t matter. Phil Hughes is simply a much better pitcher.
Coke, Joba, Hughes, Aceves and Girardi elects to go with AJ and then Marte…this is just great.
Why did AJ start the inning? A rested pen and Girardi sticks with AJ.
Now pressure on the reliever with 2 runners on base. Bad move by Girardi.
I realize that I’m just a fan and not a baseball “mind” per se, but I’m not stupid, and isn’t Joe tired of making moves that he’s getting 2nd guessed for over and over again?
Figgins is lost against lefties so far. I understand the move, but don’t agree.
Figgins weakside is RH.
Problem is, so is Aybar.
AJ should have been out after the Mathis.
Hard to understand Girardi’s confidence in such a fragile guy.
What in the world was Girardi thinking?!! After the first hit get him out of the game. You get the lead go to the bullpen. Terrible move by Girardi.
Girardi should have pulled A.J. after Mathis got on. Could be a fatal mistake.
Terrible job by Burnett walking Aybar.
Bobby Dumb Dumb is up.
Like AJ or not, it took some mental toughness to pitch 5 inning of shut out baseball after that terrible start.
they wanted marte for abreu, and knew figgins would bunt.
Pitch to Bobby here, or put him on and look for the DP?
AJ put the team in a hole again.
Hughes should of started the inning. Girardi is a moron.
good lord, just get out of this
This is when I start asking myself ….. Why Do I Love This Game????
mccarver rippin on marte.
Marte /= Circle of Trust
I take back my accolades for AJ for keeping them in the game despite shaky stuff. That is just completely gutless to pitch well only when the game looked like a goner and then put on the 8-9 hitters once they fight back to the lead. And he only started the inning with 80 pitches and cruised through the middle innings so should have plenty left.
Yankees sure do win despite Girardi, don’t they?
is Coke hurt or something?
Need a big strikeout
Buck and McCarver are just brutal with Joe’s decision too!
I’d rather see Bruney.
Mo, please help Marte to get out of this.
IBB and a force at any base?
Hughes should be in the game…
Come on, Marte! We’re rooting for you!!!
Hughes is pitching with teh bases loaded.
In the immortal words of Bon Jovi “Lord we got to keep the faith”
8 more outs
Happy to be up??? I wanna win and stay up
AJ and mental toughness should not be in the same sentence.
we had 5 minutes of sanity here before the bridge jumpers recovered and stepped back on the ledge.
I have a bad feeling about this :-/
I agree with Michael, you have to challenge the bottom of the order!!! Nut up AJ!!!
Girardi had to pull AJ after the first hit. I am glad your best guy Hughes is sitting in the bullpen. Just terrible managing.
we need marte to hold a lead…with a shot at the world series…wow
i can see why aj was brought back out but now were in trouble w/ one out 2 in scorin position
7 more outs.
This guy has one big out in him.
“In the immortal words of Bon Jovi “Lord we got to keep the faith”
Good one NYY626
Come on Huuuughes! Hold the lead!
time for the phranchise…
Marte did his job. Outs are big. Only 7 more to go!
Marte, job well done
Way to get him Marte! LETS GO PHILLY FRANCHISE! ONE OUT!
Hhhhuuuuggghheeessss!!!!
This couldn’t be easy could it? You guys gotta admit, this is fun!
productive out for Abreu. Guess both teams will take that outcome. This next batter might be key for the game.
Okay, Hughes…1 out to go to get out of the inning, he can do this.
Hughes will carve up Torii Hunter like a Christmas Roast.
now one run lead w/ hughes comin..its gettin tight
Let’s go Phil! Hold them here!
this inning is a microcosm of joe g’s perceived flaws!
That God Erica had the foresight to shower in the 1st inning. Her streak is alive.
no more cushion for error here…geez. was there a reason for not starting the inning with Hughes?
as long as Hughes gets Hunter it’s OK but I really feel like Girardi gave the Angels a run this inning by leaving AJ in at least one batter too long.
so who now? Hughes?
“IBB and a force at any base?”
you put the go ahead run on base…can’t do that
WHAT A JOKE!, we give AJ six runs, put him in a position the get the win and he gives up a hit and walk….THAT IS PRICELESS!
HUGGGGGGGGGGGGGHESS…marte did his job…
Huuuuuughes! Get it to Mo!
I think those Space Jam creatures appeared this inning and stole the managerial mojo!
We need a lil help from the offense or our bullpen to step up big time!!! We can pull this out! Keep the faith!
hunter has been hittin well today though..hope he gets him out though
let us be clear here. if the yankees win this, it will be in spite of girardi not because of him. he definitely gave that run to the angels by leaving in burnett to face another batter.
Girardi is more of a threat than the Angels in this series.
He’s already cost them one run this inning by staying too long with Burnett. Scared to see what he will do next.
why didnt hughes start the inning? seriously.
Yanks are into the Angels bullpen. Hughes holds the lead, bats get a couple of insurance runs, Mo gets the save.
Get out of this with the lead and tack on more runs.
any chance they can put up some more runs in the 8th?
I don’t get the decision to leave Burnett in. He was already in line to get the win, and even though his pitch count was low, he sat through a long inning while the Yankees put up 6 runs. Whatever rhythm he was in before that, I’m not surprised the layoff affected him.
Besides, THIS is the game to overmanage with the bullpen.
if yankees win and go to the world series, i want no negative comments about girardi.
That was a free run for the Angels. Girardi is confounding sometimes, no reason why AJ had to start the 7th AT ALL!
We could be observing a double Grady Little situation here.
I think Hughes gets Hunter though.
Fake SJ back?
And to the Marte whiners? He did his job just fine. It’s up to Hughes to get Hunter out and get through the 8th inning.
It’s time to : SHOCK the Monkey! Shock the Monkey tonight!
Out please.
Thanks.
Here comes the Bull out of the pen. Strikeout here. Phil one more inning. Then Mo.
Phillip Hughes back in his hometown, I’m feeling a big K swinging…
MG
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:36 pm
as long as Hughes gets Hunter it’s OK but I really feel like Girardi gave the Angels a run this inning by leaving AJ in at least one batter too long.
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He did, but I know why he did it. AJ is vital to the Yankees winning this thing (as in, the whole thing). Even though you manage for today, and the need to GET to the WS, Girardi was showing an act of faith.
I woulda pulled AJ, but only because of the long, long top of the seventh. Late in the game it gets tougher and tougher to handle those types of innings.
I liked using Marte because it saves Coke for potential extra innings… it shows Girardi learned from his mistakes in game three.
Seven more outs!
Gotta love the second guessing. AJ throws 5 scoreless innings and has a low pitch count yet people want to yank him for Joba who has been overall pretty shaky this postseason.
why not rivera after burnett? clearly the most important at-bats remaining in the game and against the heart of the angels’ lineup. saving him up to pitch the 9th with noone on?? how bout some more creativity? only sport when the best player doesn’t play in the most important part…
c’mon guys…Marte did his job. shockingly.
Can we all jusit wait to criticize Joe. 7 outs to go
Lets all just root for the Yankees.
Lets go Phil.
Let’s go, Phil.
“Besides, THIS is the game to overmanage with the bullpen.”
RS – exactly!
Tarheelyank October 22nd, 2009 at 10:36 pm
“In the immortal words of Bon Jovi “Lord we got to keep the faith”
Good one NYY626
Trying to puke over here ( I love October!)
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Thanks
Hughesy!!! what a mental stud he is!
OMG! Hughes just spit when he exhaled! He’s a cheater!!
Maybe an explanation for bringing in Marte- Abreu and Giambi were the biggest proponents of picking up Marte last year, they both said they couldn’t see the ball well with his delivery, I remember that very well.
SJ44 ??? Is more of a threat to this blog.
srill looking for a-rod to break that rbi in a game record.
Come on Phil. Lets please deprive those third world trolls of a donation by DT.
Marte did okay. Maybe next time we can reserve judgement on him for just a few minutes?
STRIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and can I say that I hate that smurck Girardi has on his face in the dugout when he knows he screwed up and he stands there like he’s God or something
Starting out 2-0 to Hunter is never good.
Biggest batter Hughes has ever faced.
Not worried about the walk, just don’t give him a fat one to hit…
livin on a prayer
You really have to wonder what goes on in Girardi’s head? You have a great bullpen and he managed it like he was scared to go to the bulllpen. I hope his moves don’t hurt the team.
He has a base empty, it’s all good…
Hughes pumped up. Settle down. A walk to Hunter, OK. Get Vlad
Angel – A tale told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Come on Phil. Lets please deprive those third world trolls of a donation by DT.
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I am still laughing that DT is the dumbest poster ever
C’mon Huuuuuuuughes.
just walk him and move on
its gettin to close for comfort
Uncle Ellsworth
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:40 pm
livin on a prayer
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We’re halfway there??
How about Mo for a 7 out save?
Do you throw through on a steal?
Come on, Hughes! You can do it!
Yanks score 6 and AJ lets the first 2 batters get on. AJ is not a big game pitcher.
Was that intentional? Seemed like it.
And it gets uglier with Guerrero coming up.
Pitched around Hunter, trying to get him to chase. Not good, but don’t really mind. Guerrero is a free swinger and would swing at that junk.
it’s ok. only one that matters is at 3rd. get vlad.
DT is the troll slayer!!
Its never easy.
let’s go, Phil. You can do it. Keep throwing slop. Vladi will bite.
Either he jams him or Vlade chases or Phil makes a mistake and he destroys a hit… 2 out of 3 aint bad!
Phil really has nothing left on his fastball at this point
come on Youuuuuuuuse
Seems a little Jinxy to me:
@JeanneZelasko: The bubbly was just wheeled into the NYY clubhouse
yeah, why can’t we bring out Mo with these base runners and then Hughes to keep them off base? this is when we really need Mo
I hate to say this, but walk him?
Get out of this you go to Mo for 6 tonight.
This entire inning has been mismanaged.
They now lead luck to get out of this.
Hughes is yanking the ball.
We’re halfway there??
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2/3rds?
Obviously that is not the real SJ…..
I just got back from dinner…..I take it AJ struggled in the first and shut the Angels thereafter? That’s a good job by AJ – lol, so after 5 SO innings ,maybe he gets tired and gives up a couple of baserunners. He kept the team in the game – that’s what he was supposed to do. At least he didn’t buckle and let the game blow up
I’d say don’t give Vlad anything to hit, but you’d have to toss it 3 feet outside for that to happen lol
got to get it near the plate.
“I am still laughing that DT is the dumbest poster ever”
only because I two things that trolls don’t have –
Faith and a 2009 calendar.
I’m not sure Hughes is the best matchup for Vlad. Hughes pitches near the strike zone, and Vlad can hit those pitches. Joba’s sliders in the dirt are probably the best way to get him out.
That said, going to Hughes against Hunter was the right move.
Rishi-very jinxy.
Phranchise looking shaky.
Beautioius 1-0 pitch!
It is the Cali clubbies doing it. Not Yankees. They are trying to jinx us.
NYY626
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:42 pm
We’re halfway there??
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2/3rds?
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Take my hand and we’ll make it I swear
Man, doesn’t Boras look evil chomping on his wad of gum behind home plate?
As good as Hughes has been, this is a tough spot for a young pitcher.
This is painful
And another one!!!
Stop walking people! This is so frustrating. I’ve gone from anger, to sudden happiness, to this.
Filthy curve
Nice hook
Great curveball. That’s how you have to pitch to Vlad.
I think Hughes is a great matchup. He can’t throw a strike
Only one that matters is at third? Vlad’s got power. An HR can make the others “matter”.
Throw that again…No strikes…
wicked curve there. I’d double him up.
got to get it near the plate.
DT – OPPC member (blood type – Positive)
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:42 pm
“I am still laughing that DT is the dumbest poster ever”
only because I two things that trolls don’t have –
Faith and a 2009 calendar.
*****
Tonight I’m gonna party like its not 2004
make go fishing…
I want to be 2/3 there
gotta go with another curve.
Hughes missed his spot by a foot
Crap!
pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft
Horrible pitch. WHY would you give Vlad a fastball?
I can’t watch. that just got by Jeter.
Hughes shaking off Posada killed us.
oh damn, can’t do extra innings tonite, so hungover and ready to go to sleep!
well then….
dammit
want to meet hughes under the o’neill banner
Argh. Still tied. most important batter is the one at the plate.
This is all on Girardi for letting AJ start that inning
Get out of the inning, Hughes!!!
well that f’ing sucked
Great idea there. Vlad waves at two breaking pitches, so they go to a fastball
Terrible terrible pitch selection again. He’s fishing in the dirt again for sure.
Right down the middle.
I D I O T
those walks were awful
Of course a fastball right down the middle. That was the worse pitch that Hughes can ever throw. 0-2 fastball right down the middle. TERRIBLE…
bad location..oh well..new ball game
Throw Vlad pitches in the dirt. He swings at garbage!
Horrible pitch selection, horrible pitch
Darn.
Missed badly…
fastball? is baseball that hard?
Burnett to Marte…
Girardi’s machinations…
Halos hurtin’ Hughes…
well, this has the makings of an epic game. the only thing that scares me is that we’re in their house, which means they’ll get last licks.
Are you kidding? Tied?
Dammit…
I hate past a diving Jeter’s
Any other normal player and that a grounder to short, but, Guerrero is STRONG.
Why did Posada call for a fastball down the plate on a bad ball swinger?
What a putz@!
Posada continues to call a bad game!!! WHY Jorge!!! Cus it’s easier to catch???
should only throw those curveballs.
There is no precedent for two showers in a night.. DT????
Girardi has tried everything he can to loose this series
Hughes is just about done at this point. He’s been shaky the entire playoffs.
Hughes has looked real good this postseason
I know, Erica. That was crazy.
Damn, a fastball down the middle? Ouch. Those two runners of AJ’s come back to bite them.
Oh well, game is still tied.
Never want to hear that Posada is a good catcher ever again. You hear that Lohud? Never. What kind of call was that? Right down the middle with Vlad? That’s 2x Posada let Vlad off the hook
2 more strikes
Terrible pitch calling. How do you throw a fastball 0-2 after he just swung at such garbage?!!!
After that nasty curve he almost broke his back on u throw him a fastball!!!!!
I will still take a tie going into the 8th as a huge win given the start to this epic.
This is what happens when you have Posada catch in a big game.
fastball????????????/
this is just too much, I feel a heart attack coming on!
The manager kills this tram.
He has no idea how to close out a game.
Dumb baseball all around.
Now he is staying too long with Hughes.
Girardi will never learn.
He will cost this team this series with this nonsense,
Can Burnett get a W without the drama already!?!?!?
Whatever.
That pitch by hughes was not on posada…hughes just missed his spot..that ball was supposed to be way up in the zone..but came down the pike
Hughes has nothing.
their last licks have to come off rivera no matter what the score is.
Hughes missed the glove by a mile on that pitch to Vlade, he never should have shaken off Jorge and thrown something down and away.
How is that Posada’s fault? Hughes shook off two pitches before the fastball he wanted. It’s on Hughes.
great, why dont we hand deliver the game back to them.
Take my hand and we’ll make it I swear
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Do you REALLY swear or are you just trying to make me feel better? AHHH this game is gut-wrenching.
Hughes can’t find the plate
Baseball is fixed.
What is Girardi smoking on the bench????
How does he call for a fastball there? Shameful stuff from Jorge, might be the turning point…
This is the craziest game ever
I no longer know what to feel
get out of this
yes becuase Jorge called for a pitch down broadway and for Jeter not to get it.
Phil Hughes shook off the curveball and probably the cut fastball.
And then missed his spot horribly on that pitch to Vlad.
Hughes shaking off the curve ball there after Vlad looked so horrible on the curve.
come on.
WHats Phils deal?
Hughes has no command of his fastball. He looks way too amped up.
and Robertson sits in the bullpen wondering what he has to do to get in a game…
Hughes = nerved up
Hughes sucks! He hit a wall this year. Was soo good for a period then turned to crap!
Hughes shook Posada off so not sure we should be blaming Jorge.
All Posada’s fault.
Aura
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Never want to hear that Posada is a good catcher ever again. You hear that Lohud? Never. What kind of call was that? Right down the middle with Vlad? That’s 2x Posada let Vlad off the hook.
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How about you STOP making this whole stupid thing about AJ/Posada/Molina and start actually, oh I don’t know.. rooting for the team???? Novel concept, I know.
hughes doesn’t have it tonight
get out of this……….
Stop blaming Posada. Hughes is crapping the bed
Gah!!! This hurts!
oy
“There is no precedent for two showers in a night.. DT????”
there’s a first time for everything.
That is no good. 6 more outs, for us now!
Yuck!
P. Hughes
P U
U STINK
Why wasn’t mo coming in to get 7 outs?
And we have officially entered Grady Little territory.
time to take out phil
No negative comments until the end of the game. Keep the faith.
I hate this team. More than the Sox.
Hughes has not looked good all post season.
So who’s fault is this inning?
Girardi
Burnett
posada
Hughes
I honestly don’t know.
Girardi will 100% be fired if they lose this series. He has no idea how to manage.
wow! this is just insane – Hughes doesn’t need to be out there any longer either, and now what???
Hughes is done.
fastballs down the chute..bad pitching
Robertson is better then Hughes.
ok who do we go to next?
At least it stayed in the park.
This is becoming increasingly worse, how did the bullpen implode this bad???
I cant believe this! This is Joe and AJ’s fault…what a complete meltdown.
Leaving him in….?
Leaving him in….?
Now I’m back to anger.
This man can’t manage this team.
Fire him before Game 6 or they have no chance to win this series.
He’s incompetent.
this blows ……..
Aura
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Never want to hear that Posada is a good catcher ever again. You hear that Lohud? Never. What kind of call was that? Right down the middle with Vlad? That’s 2x Posada let Vlad off the hook
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you must be the dumbest baseball fan in captivity. Hughes shook him off 3X and then missed the glove by about 2 feet. I love Hughes but that hit is on him.
This manager is completely lost.
enough hughes..good bye….good bye get out
gutless, gutless performances
Shower #2 coming up. I no longer know what to do
Nice managing Grady Little Girardi
Well now this is on Hughes. He has been Terrible.
Hughes is missing terribly… Why is he still in??
Well Angel fans, you’re getting your monies worth, enjoy it now, your season is very close to being over.
The bullpen picked a horrible time to suck.
Girardi leaving Hughes out there? what is he on crack???
Great job there Hughes.
I hate California.
bummer
Girardi
It’s not Posada’s fault, Hughes missed location
Posada just blew this game by calling for a 1-2 fastball down the middle of the plate to Guerrero!!
The Dumbest call a catcher has EVER made!
Go to hell Hughes.
2 straight fastballs right down the middle. Unreal.
total crumbling under pressure
Hughes is having a serious meltdown
joba next? i say, robertson should be next. maybe after joba.
Girardi playing musical chairs with the pitching decisions wiped out the feel good momentum the Yankees had going. They’ve got it in them to do it again.
if we leave it at 7-6, we’re going to score again. no doubt.
I think we can score 2 runs…
we are still gonna win this damn game
GB7–at least it stayed in the park? are you kidding? at a time like this, that’s all you have to say?
Rivera is sitting in the bullpen, as helpless as you and I.
Hughes, you can pitch much better than this…get out of the inning so we can come back!!
Stop the bleeding and we’ll still get licks against Fuentes with the big guys batting.
A fastball to vlad near the plate was just wow, are you serious!??????
even mccarver knew to throw the curve again to vlad…
Now we have to face weaver…what a joke!
“Hughes has not looked good all post season”
good point
I think we can score 2 runs
Girardi is going to get absolutely ripped apart in the papers and the sport talk shows. Can’t wait to hear his excuse tomorrow. 7th inning should have been Joba’s.
This would be a cataclysmic loss. It really would.
If he cant Izturis out…..
stick to the curveballs. no more fastballs!!!!!
painful.
2 batters to late
We choked.
get the champagne out of the damn clubhouse
Okay now we have to score 2
Really hard to get over how gutless AJ was tonight. Just awful.
Puts the team in a huge hole right off the bat. Settles down when they are down 4 runs.
And then starts his second meltdown of the game right after the bats give him the lead back.
Just a gutless performance by AJ. He gets the lead and just melts.
Evan
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Posada just blew this game by calling for a 1-2 fastball down the middle of the plate to Guerrero!!
The Dumbest call a catcher has EVER made!
quit blaming the catcher when hughes was the one who kept shaking off the catcher
I would love to know 0-2 how in the world you throw Vlad a fastball?! That was the worst pitch calling I have ever seen.
Why do young pitchers think that in their first year in the playoffs they should shake off a catcher who is a veteran of more than a dozen of them? Sheesh, that makes no sense.
Why didn’t throw his best pitch?
SJ44
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:47 pm
This man can’t manage this team.
Fire him before Game 6 or they have no chance to win this series.
He’s incompetent.”
a fake SJ is equal to a troll.
I love this team and I think they are going to come back…but Girardi is a loose cannon.
I hope that the offense did not blow their load in the 7th
everything hit was on fastballs.
I guess that was Vlads curveball.
OK
Melky, Posada and Jeter.
SJ
STHU
seriously…how is this girardi fault???
Rishi
I read that I was so ticked! It was too early. they jinxed us!
Working around Hunter hurt us.
Oh well, can’t undo it.
Still have 6 more outs. And Fuentes on the horizon.
We are going to win this…..watch.
That was painful, but now we can stomp on the Angels again and take back the lead. I have faith.
That was on Phil and Jorge…WHY NOT STICK WITH THE OFF SPEED? He couldn’t locate the fastball!!
Let’s get 2 and win this
don’t u think Eiland is saying to Joe, “go get him” and what does Joe say, no I’m sticking with my guy? I mean really
Well, we gotta come back again. It can be done. Lets go Bombers
Let’s have a little more of the Yankee magic.
Giarrdri is an idiot
Unbelievable. Truly.
Not unbelievable was the sound of true pure excitement from Joe Buck with the 7th run. None of that fake raised voice when Tex or Matsui or Cano came through.
I would love to have Buck’s stuffed head on my living room wall, to use as a nice dart board.
Aweful !!!!!!!
Gee imagine that- swinging at the deuce in the dirt for an out. Live and learn Phil.
Imagine is he broke off that curve to vlad! Im still fuming over throwing vlad a fastball!!!!
We can still do this…Jared Weaver?
“Rivera is sitting in the bullpen, as helpless as you and I.”
it is the 7th inning…
Girardi has blown two games. They lose this series, it’s on him. Awful.
OK, you mean to tell me we can’t scratch out a run or two against this BP.
Run around naked in the shower? I don’t know.
girardi made a gazillion pitching changes in game 3 and leaves hughes and aj in to blow it tonight. thanks joe.
MG, when a rookie is shaking off a 3 time WS winner. You call time and go to the mound, shove the ball down his throat and say throw a curve.
Joba and Hughes both bad in the playoff. Yankees bullpen not good at all now.
“I think we can score 2 runs…”
I don’t. It’s not in the cards tonight.
That was disgusting. From Girardi, to Burnett, to Hughes. All three of them contributed to that embarrassing 7th inning.
i love it. everyone wanted hughes. he comes in and melts down and now it’s on girardi?
give me a break.
This loss is on Posada
He’s a great hitter, but he can’t call a game.
A 1-2 fastball down the plate is the worst pitch since Mike Torres threw Bucky Dent a 1-2 fastball in 1978.
That’s what they always say about Posada. I root for him to fail because I think he’s a loser. I don’t want him on this team anymore.
I would humbly request some timely hitting with runners in scoring position from the Yankees. That is all.
Is it Posada’s fault that Burnett was ahead 0-2 on Aybar and walked him?
Is it Posada’s fault that Hughes shook him off several times, then missed the spot and threw a fat-ball right over the middle of the plate to Guerrero?
Is it Posada’s fault that Hughes then grooved a pitch to Morales?
I’m tired of this “Posada can’t call a game” crap. If Hughes hits the mitt, this inning is probably over with Guerrero, and the Yankees still lead by one. Instead they trail.
Burnett and Hughes both crapped the bed. It’s their fault.
The overmanager has really been exposed this series.
You have to like our batting order coming up in the 8th and 9th.
Can you imagine how deflated the offense must feel after coming up with 6 runs only to see the pitching give back 3 of them?
Wait, if they fire Girardi in the middle of the game who takes over?
I know AJ put 2 guys on to start the inning, but this is on Hughes. Marte got the job done and Hughes choked once again in the postseason. He is not even close to the same pitcher he was during the regular season.
Cataclysmic??
bloop and a blast time people – please!!
good lord
Dumb pitch selection, and that was on Hughes to Vlad, not only was a stupid pitch to choose, it wasn’t thrown where it was supposed to be.
If the Yankees come back this inning and retake the lead, it really doesn’t seem right that Hughes gets the win.
Um ….. For the record, Phil shook off the curve to Vlad.
Girardi is such a bad manager. Both of Burnette’s baserunners score…should have started the 7th w Joba, followed by Hughes and MO
Watch A-Rod win it for us.
SJ: so you really think Girardi should be fired before Saturday?
you people make me sick some time…you have to understand baseball and that sometimes this stuff occurs…We have two more innings, our team hits HRs, lets get two or three runs right now and then bring in Joba and then go to Mo…you people who lack the faith that they will come back and get so upset with everything Girardi does and everything Posada does (even though Hughes shook him off twice), need to grow up.
I can’t see how anyone blame Giardi for…he made moves he would of pretty much made during the regular season. The only ones to blame is the pitchers that didn’t execute. Give it a break already.
Time for the bats to do their magic. If anyone thinks this is going to be a 7-6, is truly mistaken. Let’s Go Yankees!
I still don’t understand how you don’t stick offspeed, low and away to Vlad. That sucked. He was ALL over the place with the fastball. Come on now Jorge
Out of the shower
so much for that
there was a lot wrong that inning..hughes has had a tough postseason..he has not been sharp…am i the only person who likes robertson..
We did not have that 7th inning to lose this freakin game. No way. We score again now.
Evan are you not watching the game? Posada told Hughes to throw a curveball and he shook him off. He should have known better.
This blog is so much better during the grind of 162 games rather than when all the bandwagon fans show up
You all stop killing Girardi, this time is on the players. Burnett was facing the 8th and 9th hitter and gave up a hit and a walk. Marte did his job and Hughes did not
how many pitches can Weaver go?
Starter for 6 (especially shaky AJ) then Joba, Phil, Mo. How hard is this? Can somebody kidnap Girardis stupid binder?
Redemption for Weaver – Fuentes tonight.
Let’s rally
Posada didn’t call a fastball down the middle to Vlad. He wanted it up. You saw how far he had to reach over to catch it. Hughes had no control today.
Way to throw straight fastballs right in the middle of the damn plate Hughes!
Come on. Come on. Come on.
f?xk, I have been only happy for 5 mins…
That fastball was supposed to be at Vlad’s neck, which he would have swung through. Poor execution but its not like Posada set up for one to split the plate, upper half. And how cane jeter not even get a glove on it?
Come on melky
well I guess Scoscia doesn’t trust anyone in his pen
I hate Joe he is a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s all on Hughes. He walked Hunter then grooved a fastball to Vlad. Posada called for it up, Vlad probably would have swung at it. Girardi brought Marte to turn Figgins around and get Abreu. It worked. Then Hughes flopped.
No, it’s Posada’s fault. He has a reputation of being one of the worst catchers in the history of baseball. Looks like he’s living up to that bill.
We have to pull this off. As of last night, a lot of Dodger fans became Angels fans …. I need peace in my world!
So far the great Girardi has cost them 1 game in the postseason. This could be the second one. Amazing that this team has to continue to overcome his joke manager. I thought he actually had a brain.
Jesus. Some of you are really ridiculous. Hughes shook off Posada TWICE. He WANTED to throw the FB and wasn’t going to throw anything else. Posada wanted it at the eyes. Hughes threw it down the pipe.
It’s Girardi’s fault. It’s Posada’s fault. It’s AJ’s fault. Give me a break.
Dearest New York Yankees,
You are a special team. This has been an exciting series. Please come back and win tonight so it ends. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Sincerely Yours,
Erica
girardi is a bad manager?
yeah the 103 wins and the 3-1 lead in the alcs would say otherwise.
Jorge’s gonna take Weaver for a ride.
Umm Evan? I know it doesn’t suit your logic, but they haven’t lost the game YET.
Just sayin’. There isn’t a predetermined outcome to this game.
I hope everyone is ready to grind another comeback. We are coming back in this game.
Old Guard – you’re up.
I don’t believe in “must win” games, but if we let LAA win this game, that will give them a level of confidence that I don’t want them to have.
“A 1-2 fastball down the plate is the worst pitch since Mike Torres threw Bucky Dent a 1-2 fastball in 1978.”
What game are you watching? Posada was set up high and inside. And that was after Hughes shook him off several times.
Blind idiots, blaming Posada for a pitcher missing the spot. Unbelievable.
bummer…just a huge bummer, our bullpen has been weak this post season.
If anyone missed it Hughes shook Posada off. Posada called for a curve (which I agree with) in favor of a FB.
Posada wanted the pitch to Vlad up high in the zone….Hughes missed location…that was the pitcher’s mistake
Somebody needs to tell me what the sign that a catcher uses for “down the middle of the plate”. Anybody? Evan/Aura? You two are either the same idiot or you room together.
Drop dead punks.
The man has no idea what he is doing.
Another idiotic handling of an inning.
He will cost them this series with this stupidity.
He’s given the Angels 2 wins in this series.
The Yankees have to make sure he doesn’t give them 2 more.
He’s incompetent.
When Hughes shook off Posada, Jorge should of went to the mound and slap some sense into him, you throw Vlad a fastball when you can’t locate your fastball, pathetic! Lets go offense!
The Yankees need to sit on the slow stuff.
Girardi should be fired tonight.
Joe should have pulled AJ out once he lost the first man.
Swisher didn’t drive in the 7th run
So much for Hughes, he SUCKS!
I’m absolutely sick about this now. I could’ve handled 4-0. But getting up 6-4 only to give up 3 runs the next inning, it’s just terrible. Absolutely pathetic on everyone involved.
Absolutely sick watching the Yankees go down here in the 8th.
So hoping you’re right S.A. and Trisha . . . Phil’s been fantastic for so long, but unfortunately really didn’t have it tonight. Yankee offense, please please please show up bigtime and Mariano too . . .
two quick annoying out
“I would humbly request some timely hitting with runners in scoring position from the Yankees. That is all.”
you got it last inning..then aj burnett and phil hughes pitched
Apparently the trolls have returned and are trying to push the jumpers off the ledge. Please jump. I beg you.
Do the Angel pitchers ever throw fastballs?
Come on Capt.Clutch.
this board has to be full of the LEAST knowledgeable yankees fan si have seen in my 39 years. truly.
HA, we are set up for an a-rod special in the 9th.
How can you not bring in mo with the game on the line. I don’t understand that
Just such a deflater to score that many runs for nothing, what a terrible job by our pitching staff to relinquish the momentum ASAP and we might not recover, Girardi can do no right the man is the antithesis of King Midas…
Hey everyone get of gyaos. He didn’t disappear the whole time the Yankees were taking the lead because he’s a stinking coward. He had a date with his mother to have sex. Now he’s back and very relaxed.
Erica–how many showers is that? 100?
Can someone at least hit Weaver with a liner so he can’t pitch game 7?
For a moment the last inning felt like Showalter’s management in ALDS games 3-5 in ‘95 and Torre’s in that “other” ALCS in games 4-7. “Ouch” is too much of an understatement.
Boy, even if the Yankees get past the Angels, they can not win without a good Phil Hughes. I am really surprised at his struggles…is it the mechanical flaw cropping up again? How disappointing
Erica – always OPPC
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:39 pm
>( Rally Monkies >(
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& Thundersticks! Grrrr
Joe,
AJ had no business even starting the 7th, that is on JOE! and leaving Hughes in too long too, yeah Hughes was bad, but Joe let him be bad too long when u have options in ur pen
because mo is the closer. not the set up man
I’m sorry, but with the best bullpen in the game and a 2 run lead there was no reason for AJ to see the 7th.
who called that right down the middle fastball pitch vs. Vlad with 1-2 count?!
Goats:
AJ
Hughes
And Posada for not slapping some sense into hughes!
Enough Pitching Changes
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:49 pm
“Rivera is sitting in the bullpen, as helpless as you and I.”
it is the 7th inning…
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It’s that kind of thinking that loses games. This isn’t the middle of May. We win, we have 5 days off. What is he saving him for???
Come on Yankees hit like you’re hitting against the Yankees.
I really thought they were going to win… they could very well lose this series because of this. Perhaps he should have brought, hughes in at the beginning of the inning.
Exactly Joe has done a piss poor job managing.
No way AJ goes back out there.
Girardi is brutal!
weren’t these supposed to be the NEW NY Yankees, who didn’t choke when up by 2 games? Same old garbage
“So far the great Girardi has cost them 1 game in the postseason. This could be the second one. Amazing that this team has to continue to overcome his joke manager. I thought he actually had a brain.”
Okay, maybe I’m a little dense, but how is it Girardi’s fault that AJ (who was cruising) gives up a walk and a single after watching his team scratch out 6 much needed runs to give him the win? Do tell!
looking in my crystal ball…
a Yankee will go deep.
yes, I see something splashing in the rocks.
oops.. wait.. that’s just another stupid Angel fan.
I thought SJ dealt with his impersonator?? I guess not.
aj had every business starting the 7th. he was at 80 pitches
SJ44 – I totally agree. He’s been absolutely terrible this postseason. It’s maddening.
The important thing is that Hughes threw the pitch he wanted with conviction.
That post by stinky pete needs to be removed.
I hate phil Hughes
Thanks for the robotic counsel, guys.
so so so annoying
People not blaiming Girardi are nuts. AJ did not have good stuff and toughed it out threw 6 innings. You get the lead now go to the bullpen. Especially after the hit why in the world would you leave the starter out there??? You go to your best.
and Joba is up in the pen? he has NOT earned his way to pitch in the 8th inning in a playoff game down a run, NO WAY!!!!
Valerie G.
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Erica–how many showers is that? 100?
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Two. I am very clean
We had the lead for a blink!!! What a terrible job by our pen, totally stripped our golden opportunity away!!!
why Hughes fail?
because he doesn’t have BALLS to pitch at key situations!
Got to admit…. Joba warming scares me.
I’m actually just slightly annoyed with Burnett for that 7th inning effort. I’ll get over it, but that was just annoying.
I just can’t, no I can believe they choked this game away.
Geez, gutless? LOL……..Phil Hughes is gutless, too. Anyone that ever struggles is gutless……If the Yankees lose tonight, they are gutless.
DT–haha. That was funny
Thanks for lightening the mood.
Does Girardi’s managing of the postseason remind anybody of his managing of the 2008 regular season?
Come on, Jeter! We need you!
I for sure thought this was going to be one of those yankees classics, I guess not to be.
i don’t care what anyone says… joe girardi gave the game away again…call me a troll…i just love the yankees
Arod to tie it with 2 out in the 9th?
“I’m sorry, but with the best bullpen in the game and a 2 run lead there was no reason for AJ to see the 7th.”
It could have gone either way. AJ was pitching well before that.
God do I hate this Angel team
blaming Girardi
Hughes had his card pulled. Big time.
2-3-4 coming up for 9th. We still have a chance
Damon and Tex need to get on or score before Alex comes up.
No, no, that’s not it, Yankees. Hitting, not whiffing.
damon tex and alex are all on top of things now. they can make the 9th interesting. go to mo now to hold this to one, not joba.
if a weaver saves this disgusting loss then i’m going to join the bridge jumpers
We should have swept this series, but now it looks like we’re going back to NY.
If we lose this series, fire Girardi the next day. I’m furious about him right now.
2-3-4 up next inning. Hold them here and I think they come back to win. A-Rod does it again.
tex’s friend,
who cares about AJ’s pitch count, he didn’t bring his best stuff to the stadium today – you get the lead, you bring in your best, your bullpen, period end of story!!
Think Weaver pitches the 9th to the big boys?
I cannot believe it – can a rod do it in the 9th?
And 3 quick outs
damon-tex-arod next inning
they have a shot if joba holds it here, but what a bummer …
I for sure thought this was going to be one of those yankees classics, I guess not to be.
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You play in the playoff the way you play the regular season. Have faith.
well, at least we’ve got the george lopez show to watch during the philies angels ws
i HATE HATE HATE this direct tv commercials.
This loss makes me want to throw up.
““Rivera is sitting in the bullpen, as helpless as you and I.”
it is the 7th inning…
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It’s that kind of thinking that loses games. This isn’t the middle of May. We win, we have 5 days off. What is he saving him for???”
Have you watched any baseball the last 10 years..when do you bring in a closer in the 7th inning?????
When they win on Saturday, this will all be forgotten. I wish everyone wouldn’t turn so quickly. You like this team, remember?
Enough Pitching Changes: Who cares if it’s the 7th? Why does that mean you don’t bring in Rivera? 2 on and no out in the playoffs- you bring in your best player at the most critical moment. Why wait to bring him in up 1 or up 2 when noone is on base in the 9th? Have Mo pitch the rest of the 7th and maybe 8th and finish with someone else.
A cataclysmic loss? LOL
Blaming Joe for Phil’s struggles? Ok….
Posada lets a kid boss him around behind the plate. Pathetic
Did that just happen?
YFiB: How about you watch this game rather than consider firing Girardi after Sunday?
Either that or just kick the chair out and end it already.
swish October 22nd, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Exactly Joe has done a piss poor job managing.
No way AJ goes back out there.
Girardi is brutal!
I guess I’d just have to observe would it have been much better if Hughes started the inning?
Joe Girardi is not a capable manager!!!! I’m sorry, how does he keep AJ in this game when he’s totally overreacted the rest of this series! This man is unstable and not consistent with his pitching decisions, it’s embarrasing and it’s enough, fire this shmuck!!!
Come on Girardi. You get criticized for taking out starters too soon and now you try and make up for it and leave them in too long. Its a simple formula – starter for 6, Joba in 7, Hughes in 8 and Mo in 9. No way they win this game now.
Posada’s horrid game calling has been completely exposed.
Maybe now the posada groupies will stop their school gilr-like whinning and make amends.
Yes, Arod can do it in the ninth. I hope he does.
Erica–go have another one. Those aren’t working.
tex’s friend
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:55 pm
aj had every business starting the 7th. he was at 80 pitches
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not after such a long top of the inning.. mathis was 2-2 off him.. I was expecting someone in the 7th.. definitely not AJ.. and to go from 0-2 to walk him was inexcusable..
Pete is right. He said this when he was still here that Girardi would cost the team at least one loss w his bonehead managing…even Macarver pointed his dumb move in game 3 and today
Never thought the day would come when the sight of Joba warming up would scare me. I’ve never been big on bridge jumping or manager critiquing, but I have to say this has been more than a little puzzling. If it all works out to a Yankee win, great, but so far, golly …
Everyone gets on Joba for shaking catchers off how about Hughes?
He did the same and in a big spot. I mean you don’t want to throw Guerrero a FB. He just previously swung at a curve in the dirt.
He had no shot on the curve. And Hughes decides he wants to throw a FB. Nice call kid.
I completely blame Girardi for this. He put his players on a position to fail. Sometimes a pitch count is not a tell tale sign of how a start has gone. AJ had to work really hard during his 80 pitches and he should have been out of the game.
There is not much to gain there. He gets one out, okay great now you are still bringing in a fresh rested bullpen to finish an inning.
Stupid Stupid Stupid.
honestly, this isn’t on girardi. if he pulls burnett before the inning, and the same thing happens,everyone would be saying how he should’ve been left in. this one, up to this point, has to be on hughes for nothing throwing strikes, and not getting the 1-2 high enough to vlad.
I don’t post very often, but this is absurd. What could Girardi have been thinking?!?!?!?
Clearly you go to the pen to start the inning. Unreal, just unreal.
MT. October 22nd, 2009 at 10:58 pm
When they win on Saturday, this will all be forgotten. I wish everyone wouldn’t turn so quickly. You like this team, remember?
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So… you’re new to game threads then?
“I just can’t, no I can believe they choked this game away.”
Brandon didn’t you learn with 44-1 nonsense. Damon. Tex and Alex.
This sucks…we had them, we just gave them too much life. Rally Monkey owns.
There’s no way Scioscia goes to Fuentes with Tex and Arod due up in the 9th. Weaver will get that inning.
Evan – you are not a quality individual.
Laura you are right, but not with the bullpen the Yankees have.
Everyone was well rested and they are strike out pitchers throughout…the 7th was the shut down inning.
That is why you go to the bullpen, IMO.
I’m sad now. 2004 ugh.
and Robertson rots on the bench
oh this sooooo scares me, Joba
Well, now I am a bit worried. You do not come back from down 4 runs, score 6 in the 7th inning after being shut out for the first 6, and then blow the lead immediately.
I wonder how we will come back from this, in the 9th inning, of course.
We have the worst manager in the game.
Bullpen hasn’t pitched for 2 days, and with a loss, have 2 days off anyway. So instead we go with a pitcher who leads the American League in walks who battled through 6 tough innings.
This guys sole job is to not screw up the bullpen and he stays two batters with the AL walk leader and then goes to a lefty that had a regular season ERA of 9.
HOW BAD IS THIS GUY? He makes Joe Torre look like a brain surgeon. Girardi’s only job is to not screw this up, and he does it?
Joe Giradi did not give the game away, the idiot that gave the game away was the idiot or two idiots that thought throwing Vlad a 1-2 fastball after he just broke his back on a nasty curve was a smart idea
“Can you imagine how deflated the offense must feel after coming up with 6 runs only to see the pitching give back 3 of them?”
You can thank AJ and Girardi. AJ should have never started that inning.
Girardi had a rested pen. Robertson should have started the inning.
Hughes has not been pitching well in the post season.
Ariel Bachar October 22nd, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Posada lets a kid boss him around behind the plate. Pathetic
First of all he’s not a kid, second the pitcher decides what the pitch to be thrown is.
our pen is really startin to stink
awesome. next!
Game 6 Saturday.
Our shutdown bullpen has been terrible, actually. Really terrible. I dont have any confidence in it, at all.
Memories of Tom Gordon throwing up in the bullpen in 2004, Phil really couldn’t handle the pressure, can’t believe Joe left him in after the single to Vlad
The biggest problem the Yankees have going forward is their manager.
Unless the players can get a lead big enough to keep him from showing his incompetency, they will lose this series.
You can’t manage an inning any worse than he did in the 7th.
Still, no David Robertson in the game.
The man is completely incompetent.
u have Robertson and Mo on the freakin bench, just sitting there useless….Joe wake up and look at what’s happening in front of you!
is this a jokE?
seriously, so much about our GOOD bullpen.
what a f?xking joke
Oh this is the Joba impersonator that’s been around all year.
Worst manager in the game. It’s indefensible. He is terrible.
This is just bad managing.
It’s been a long year for Hughes. He’s probably a little gassed. We should have seen Rivera.
It’s a series-clinching game, it’s the highest leverage moment in the decisive game. You hand the ball to Rivera. He shuts it down, maybe you tack on. Then you can bring in D-Rob.
Girardi has given up on this game. Which we trail by one run, for the moment.
So much for this bullpen. What choke artists.
this game is over
Bullpen, set match. Cya saturday. If they don’t turn it around. It’s not even going to matter. The bullpen can’t close out games.
good ol’ joba
Ohhhhh I’m having painful flashbacks to 2002 and 2005.
I read an interview where Scioscia said in New York that the series was coming back to New York, that he wasn’t even taking his briefcase with him, he was leaving it at the Stadium.
I don’t know what irritates me more, the fact that he thinks he can always beat us, or the fact that he appears to be correct.
Wow..now let the Angels tack on some runs there Pudge Boy…throw a hanging slider to Juan Rivera (BA .133)…rookie
after Hughes shook off Jorge 2 or 3X Jorge called for the fastball but wanted it out of the high and out of the strike zone. If it’s ball 2 it sets up the curve ball away. You can’t figure Hughes would miss location belt high and down the middle, that’s the last place a pitcher would miss on that pitch.
not only is this happening, we’re going to lose to a weaver.
we must win!
Where is D-Rob!!!!! Does Giradi not like him!!!
im a big Giradi fan . .but this one is on him . .And this team please LEARN HOW TO HIT A CURVEBALL
im a big Giradi fan . .but this one is on him . .And this team please LEARN HOW TO HIT A CURVEBALL
im a big Giradi fan . .but this one is on him . .And this team please LEARN HOW TO HIT A CURVEBALL
Remember when Joba was a lights out pitcher? Me either.
remember when joba was to be good? yeah, me neither….
Girardi did everything right that inning. If they lose this is on AJ and more importantly Hughes.
AJ was cruising for 5 innings and then puts the 8 and 9 hitters on base. He did not execute at all. That is not Joe’s fault
Joe did the right thing and called on Marte
And Joe did the right thing to go to Hughes. Unfortunately Hughes comes in and is and epic failure once again in the postseason.
While you guys would like to think we have this shutdown bullpen, in the postseason we really have not. Mo and Robertson have been carrying this bullpen. Hughes, Joba, and Aceves have been awful.
mathis has killed us this series.
I have no doubt the Yanks will still win the series but I hope this bullpen is not pitching that many meaningful innings against the Phillies
The Yanks ‘bullpen edge’ appears to have been a myth. The kids can’t get it done.
I still can’t get over Marte.. MARTE??!? WHY?!??
I’m gonna go take a walk.
Phil Hughes actually put that pitch middle of the plate width and height to Vlad. I cannot believe how that is possible.
The Angels are just a better team overall.
Better pitchers, far better and deeper bullpen, better offense all around. The hitters come right back after the other team just scored, unlike the yanks who always go down 1,2,3.
The Angels deserve to go to the World Series more. Congrats to the Angels for winning this series.
when your catcher is Jorge Posada, or Jason Varitek. He calls the pitch. You listen
If they can get Halladay for a package including Joba, you have to do it, Joba is basically useless at this point
What a terrible job by Girardi!!! How has he managed this thing so quickly in the pan!!! As soon as the team did well, he took over and it has all been down hill, I’m so embarrassed for this loser!!!
Another reason why Girardi can not manage. Joba has not earned a freaking thing and he gets brought in the most important innings in a play off game. Girardi is an absolute moron.
UPDATE, 10:48 p.m.: Phil Hughes grew up about five minutes from Angel Stadium. This has got to be brutal for him.
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Yeah it must be, but he still had no right to shake off Posada. That was unacceptable.
the best ones in our ‘pen haven’t seen the mound! now tell me that this isn’t Girardi’s fault? morons!
come on Jobber
I REALLY hate Hughes
yanks r lettin angels get back on track w/ the offense
if they lose tonight, I wish pOST AND dailynews punch Girardi like no tomorrow
Has any reporter asked Girardi why he refuses to bring Robertson in for anything but the most desperate situations? Roberston has been brilliant this year and in the post season and Joba/Hughes have not. I don’t really understand why you dont’ stick with the hot hand.
I wonder if somebody on an Angels blog has the name, Weaver to the bullpen.
Posada = Goat
Some how Joba has been trusted more then Robertson. Unbelievable!
Yes, hughes shook him off and went to the curveball the prior pitch. Posada just has no rhyme or reason with the pitch calling.
Simply put, posada is not a good catcher and there is really nothing more to it. He’s a good defensive catcher when he hits a 3 run homer. That’s about it
Watch the game. Hughes shook off posada multiple times and got lite up. Girardi mis-managed the whole series. hopefully new manager n ext year
Well, sure isn’t our night tonight.
I hate that they scored 6 runs only to lose it all right away. I thought after the 1st guy got on that AJ would be gone, but he was doing well, and he had been getting some dp balls.
Poor Hughes. He’d be money till now.
And now Joba.
3 outs to get at least 1 run to tie.
I did leave the room before. didn’t help me or the Yankees. So, here I am. But I feel like crying.
I know there’s 2 more chances in NY, but this game stinks.
E-gawa
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:01 pm
I still can’t get over Marte.. MARTE??!? WHY?!??
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What the hell are you lamenting over Marte for? He actually got outs.
Bullpen crapping out. Swisher stinking. Just ugh.
Hughes was too pumped pitching in front of his family and friends.
The young buck can’t handle the spotlight.
Nice job Phil. Good to know you can be counted on when it really matters
Why is Joba in this game
m
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:01 pm
mathis has killed us this series.
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Well, it hasn’t helped that they don’t take him seriously and throw him beer league pitches.
NY media is going to be all over Joe after this game, bigtime
regarding Hughes, back in regular season when he was ‘awesome’ I said he would suck in key spots against quality playoff team.
He just sucks.
Please tell me how Joba who had a 5 era this season earned the right to pitch the 7th or 8th inning? You just have to laugh at the moves that Girardi makes because they make absolutely no sense.
If we do indeed lose this game, it is on Jeff mathis. This 211 hitter, is nothing but an out against any other team. This guy has actually decided to show up at the plate. Almost makes you wonder if Molina has ever gone 6 for 9 at any one point in his career.
Why doesn’t anyone blame the pitching? AJ came back and let 2 guys on. Than Hughes let the tieing and winning runs in.
Expectation:
The Yankees have the bullpen advantage.
Reality:
The Angels have the bullpen advantage.
I guess it’s a prerequisite for Joba to give up a leadoff double everytime now?
Hughes sucks, Joba sucks, they all SUCK.
Come on, Joba! Stop thinking so much and just throw!!
Interesting the Jorge talks to Joba but lets Hughes dictate.
Intercept Bobby V’s plane to Cleveland!
as the john sterling bizarra would say, “Ballgame over! ALCS Over! The Angels win….thhhhhhhhheeee Angels Win!
We can all thank Girardi who has a timeshare next week in florida.
How come nobody can get this guy out?
you people are such morons.
girardi mismanaged one time (aceves)
you make moves and expect your pitchers not to choke.
if hughes started the inning anf f-ed up, you all ask why he took aj out after 80 pitches.
“When they win on Saturday, this will all be forgotten. I wish everyone wouldn’t turn so quickly. You like this team, remember?”
Still hoping for tonight but agree about playing at the Stadium. If the Yankees did this in Anaheim, are you really worried that they can’t do that and more in NY? I’m not.
time for Joba to give up a 2run homer?
No way that was Posadas fault. Hughes showed he was nervous from start. Looked like he wanted to vomit. Maybe his high school sweetheart was in crowd. Anyway, it happens and we get more baseball now before WS. Sweet.
It’s about time!
there someone got him out.
This is more of a vent. how does girardi come out with pettite pitching and 2 strikes on vlad to make sure they knew how they were attacking him and not do it with a young guy like hughes. hughes throws a belt high fast ball out over the plate. i have said all year, this team will win on it’s talent. girardi will wind up costing them.
Dont know if anybody said it yet.
But instead of Phil or fail, it was Phail.
I want to tug on Joba’s not-a-soul-patch and yank him back into reality.
Ohhh a strikeout!
Nice K there to kill mathis.
Wow, the mighty Casey has struck out!
If Posada had started, Jeff Mathis wouldn’t have been conceived.
look at that – AN OUT
wonder what cashman is thinking right now? “man i need to sign lackey” or “wow joe is really screwing us”
Argh
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:02 pm
I REALLY hate Hughes
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Take a hike.
I am so very sick of the people on here who “hate” this one and that one.
Just go crawl back under your rock, please.
All that said, if these BOYS Chamberlain and Hughes could actually execute we’d be much better off!!!
Did Robertson get caught with Girardi’s wife or something?
Please, what did Joe do wrong? Hughes had a bad outing…..I don’t trust Joe, but that is NOT his fault.
get rivera warming up
Don’t get down on Hughes. We’re gonna need him on Saturday.
The bodies are piling up under the bridge.
carlo
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Yes, hughes shook him off and went to the curveball the prior pitch. Posada just has no rhyme or reason with the pitch calling.
That pitch is 100% on Hughes. Dont blame Posada, dont blame Girardi or anyone else. This is on Phil Hughes.Posada didnt call for a fastball. Hughes shook him off. Posada didnt tell him to throw the pitch down the middle. This is on Phil, period.
Congrats to the Angels. They showed more heart than us and deserved to win the series.
Remember 2004
get Joba off the mound, this is just stupid
Did D-Rob kill Joe’s puppy the guy only saved the Yankees from loosing 2 games this post-season, The has shown that he does not get rattled! And on Marte vs. Coke, Coke is more is the strikeout lefty, why Marte, again where was, and is D-Rob!
Good news is that we have Damon, Tex and AROD up next inning.
I can understand why you let AJ start the seventh, he had been cruising. Maybe you take him out after giving up the single but I can understand letting him start the inning.
Hughes should have thrown the curve instead of shaking off Posada to throw the fastball. Stop shaking off the catcher youngins!
If the Yanks lose they will be gutless because their guts have been ripped out.
Regardless the Tanks have done their jobs so far, they won 1 game in Anaheim so far, that’s all they really needed to do. A loss tonight means they clinch at home Saturday, no biggie, the Yanks are still in control.
What excitement by Joe Buck on an infield single. More than on a Super Bowl winning catch. Hmmm, wonder where the excitement goes when a NY team succeeds.
I have no words for how angry I am right now. Joe Girardi should be fired. Tonight. Just stupidity.
anyone but Aybar is out on that
Are there really people that wanted Mo to get 7 outs? Wow. The stupid have gathered in force.
DUMB move by Joe letting AJ pitch after sitting for the 6-run inning. Dumber move not taking him out after Mathis leads off with yet another hit. I just don’t understand the bullpen moves by him. Why wasn’t Hughes pitching after Mathis’ hit? This is going to be a TERRIBLE LOSS if this score holds up.
MO warming up?
people it was a friggin infield single.
Media: “Joe, why did you send AJ out in the 7th and then leave him out after putting one on base?”
Joe: “The binder told me to do it.”
And thats 5 consecutive ALCS title claiming losses.
Angel – A tale told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:03 pm
E-gawa
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:01 pm
I still can’t get over Marte.. MARTE??!? WHY?!??
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What the hell are you lamenting over Marte for? He actually got outs.
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On a sac bunt.. wow. He needed to come in the game for that!
so Joe is bringing in Mo now but not when it was at worst tied? I just don’t get it
The Yanks got dammit! stupid iPhone.
Why wasn’t Hughes pitching after Mathis’ hit? This is going to be a TERRIBLE LOSS if this score holds up.
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yeah.. hughes did really well.
NOW he wants Rivera.
But NOT when we were protecting a 6-4 lead.
Why on earth would you bring Rivera in to do that?
No matter what, this the FINAL home game for that f?Xking rally money’s team.
Everyone blaming Girardi for not going to the pen earlier should watch how the pen is doing. Players must perform. Hughes didn’t and Chamberlain isn’t either.
Girardi has no idea what he’s doing
So play-off (relative) newbies Burnett, Hughes and Joba can’t get it done
How this team treated a two run lead for the chance to go to the World Series so cavalierly is unsconscionable, Girardi should be fired just by the way they were prepped for that origninal situation, Girardi messed up mammothly!!! Terrible job!!!
gyaos–if you’re going to talk that way, go post on an Angels blog. Or stay and support your team. If this is your team.
It was pleasant while they were winning on here. The troll quotient dropped significantly.
This is amateur manager night in Anaheim.
We need that 97-98 heater here.
They are complaining about us taking time to get Mo ready.
What is wrong with Joe Buck. Has he got no pride.
His anti-NY bias is about as opaque as a front windshield.
final score 6-8
I’m not jumping off any bridge, but probably do need a couch to lie on and discuss tonight’s game…
so Joe is bringing in Mo now but not when it was at worst tied? I just don’t get it
You wanted Mariano to come in in the 7th? Get a clue. Your as bad as Girardi
My stomach hurts, anyone else?
buck sounds way too mad about the stalling…
“who cares about AJ’s pitch count, he didn’t bring his best stuff to the stadium today – you get the lead, you bring in your best, your bullpen, period end of story!!”
So true.
Leave it to AJ. Yanks go ahead and he puts 2 runners on base. Can he ever have a shut down inning after his team scores? Not.
Mo now?
Girardi using Torre’s old playbook.
“Regardless the Tanks have done their jobs so far, they won 1 game in Anaheim so far, that’s all they really needed to do. A loss tonight means they clinch at home Saturday, no biggie, the Yanks are still in control.”
I hope you’re right but how can yo be so confident after ‘04? Weren’t you thinking the same things then?
This just validates that jobber sucks as bad as any other option in the 6th/7th inning.
LOL at Girardi. Mo should of started this inning. Now you bring him when he isn’t even warmed up??? Girardi makes me sick.
I really am just incredulous that people here wanted Mo for 7 outs. So if he gets to the 9th and blows it, they kill Girardi and say WHY DID HE USE HIM FOR SO LONG!?!? Wharglll!!
Girardi is a fecking idiot, bringing in Rivera now for 4 or 5 outs up in the series 3-1, while down by one run.
This is the first mistake by Girardi. I hated that Joba was just handed a high leverage spot in the bullpen and he still has it. He has not even pitched well this postseason and he is not even close to the same pitcher he was in 07.
Yet because Joba has a big name, he gets the 8th inning and our second best reliever this postseason sits on the bench
Hughes looked like he was going to cry, lol. Just what you want out of your 8th inning, guy!
2004 is repeating itself before our eyes and I’m loving each and every minute of it. Bringing in Rivera when you are LOSING!! Classic Girardi!
Joba and Hughes = Ugh
This man is a quivering idiot, I have no confidence in him whatsoever, Joe Joe is a big loser!!!! He can take that N’Eastern education and shove it, it’s just pomp and dissapointment… TERRIBLE MANAGER!!!!!
Why didn’t mo start the inning?
57 outs to make the World Series. I think we can do it.
igotid88
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Don’t get down on Hughes. We’re gonna need him on Saturday.
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No. We won’t. Game 6 will be postponed.
Check the weather.
If they fire Girardi before the 9th inning, Tony Pena probably becomes the manager. So I would like to point out that the firetonypena.com domain is still available.
Joba choked against the Indians, and he continues to coke in the big spot.
it was still the 7th
What did Joe do wrong?
Stayed too long with Burnett. Should have been out after the Mathis hit.
Stayed too long with Hughes. You can’t have Hughes get you beat after he gave up the lead.
No Robertson, instead going to an ineffective Joba.
He couldn’t even manage to get Mo ready properly this inning!
He’s clueless out there and unless these guys start hitting, he will blow this series and his job.
He has no idea what he’s doing.
On a sac bunt.. wow. He needed to come in the game for that!
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It was an out wasn’t it? Something Hughes and Burnett didn’t get enough of in that inning.
anyone who thinks joe is blameless is this is ridiculous. burnett should’ve been out after that FIRST BATTER. this a man who thought of nothing to take out robertson for aceves in game 3 and NOW, in an elimination game, he chooses to have faith with the pitcher on the mound?!
burnett, girardi and hughes are the goats if we should lose this game in that order. if we win, it will be despite girardi, who i don’t care to see again after this year.*
*and don’t give me regular season nonsense. this team was healthy all year and has a ton of talent. they would’ve won regardless of joe.
The Other Phil (Don’t feed the trolls)
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Are there really people that wanted Mo to get 7 outs? Wow. The stupid have gathered in force.
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It is you who isn’t smart.
Why wouldn’t you bring in your best reliever at the moment of crisis, in a game on the road that will give you a series-clinching win?
Who says he’d have to get 7 outs? You bring him in the highest leverage point in the game, there.
But really, NM.
let’s not forget aj…he gives up 4 runs…expectations go down he pitches great..yanks take the lead..AJ has some pressure on him…He melts….
I’m sure if we get past this, it’ll be Robertson in the 7th, Hughes in the 8th then Mo.
lets hold the lead to 1 here somehow and pin our hopes on damon, tex, a-rod and matsui..
Please someone teach Girardi how to manage before game 6. He is clearly lost.
ALL TRAITORS TO THE YANKEES PLEASE LEAVE IMMEDIATELY!
if he throws Mo in, he’s total panic and retarded, seriously.
Girardi is doing everything he can to lose this series..Luckily this team is good enough to overcome in Game 6
Arod WILL HR in the 9th, so lets hold them here.
If we do blow this game it is 2004 all over again.
interesting fact:
in every pre-series analysis i read, the yankees were picked to win due to one advantage – the bullpen.
all analysts agreed that the teams are even in the line-up and SP’s, the bullpen was our edge.
if we lose tonight it will be the second loss in the playoffs – both attributed to the bullpen.
that’s not a good sign – and puts tons of pressure on andy.
“who cares about AJ’s pitch count, he didn’t bring his best stuff to the stadium today – you get the lead, you bring in your best, your bullpen, period end of story!!”
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are we watching the same game? hughes came in and choked.
terpbomber October 22nd, 2009 at 11:08 pm
I’m not jumping off any bridge, but probably do need a couch to lie on and discuss tonight’s game…
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Haha so true!
Exactly right about treating a 2 run lead so casually.
Like it was no big deal.
It’s only a trip to the World Series.
Why not make decisions that reflect that Joe?
dp here MO, please, and the broken bat will just be gravy!
I hate to panic but this has the feel of epic choke allover again. We come back from down 4 in the 7th. 6 runs with 2 outs. Then our manager decides to let Burnett put 2 guys on without getting an out when he has clearly shown he can’t hack the pressure. Its just senseless.
Gayos are you a Red Sux fan or Mets?
Why not bring Rivera in in the 7th inning. The guy pitched 2 1/3 innings a couple games ago on only 24 pitches.
The most important time of the game came with those 2 runners on in the 7th inning. The game may well have been lost in that inning. Use your best.
Valerie, “GYAOS” is definitely not one of us. He went on a long excursion when the Yankees took the lead and conveniently showed back up when the Angels took the lead. He’s like the guy on the Titanic who dressed like a woman to get into the lifeboats.
But karma is a blitch. Let him hang around. He’ll actually bring us good luck.
I have tried to be positive. But I just have to say to Joe
#@^%$@T&%^&*()*^%^%$!@#%(&^%$
ok I am better now.
Joba did not choke..he just is not that good..
Angels have been pretty lucky this game with a call going their way and several ground ball hits down the stretch. Giving me many nightmares of their total suckouts in 2002, 05, etc.
“Joba choked against the Indians, and he continues to coke in the big spot.”
come on now….
I thought SJ had dealt with his impersonator. Apparently not. Must be some good wifi or 3G coverage from that steakhouse in Cincinnati.
I really don’t know where Hughes comes off shaking a veteran catcher off in that spot.
Clearly his FB was not being located well but he’d insisted on throwing it.
I guess he thinks Mo can do his magic act again.
Good thing people are saying AJ should not have started the 7th inning. B/c our bullpen has been lights out and all…….
Not for nothing, but Mo should have been brought in with no outs and 2 on in the 7th.
This is asking too much of Mo. No way he gets out of this without giving up a run.
sunny615
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:09 pm
bodhisattva – Destiny Wears Pinstripes October 22nd, 2009 at 11:07 pm
NOW he wants Rivera.
But NOT when we were protecting a 6-4 lead.
Why on earth would you bring Rivera in to do that?
it was still the 7th
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WOW. Sorry you can’t think outside the box, pal.
I’ve explained it twice already. If you don’t get it, you don’t get it.
How many mgr’s bring their closer in on the road for this situation? Girardi wants to give his team a chance to win
I am so unhappy with Girardi tonight. After the debacle in game 3 he goes brain dead in this one. A 2 run lead shoul have been handed to Joba, Coke if needed, Hughes, and Mo. Instead he handed the opportunity to LA and they pounced. Just terrible.
DW October 22nd, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Mo now?
What else could he do? He has the one option to get it to the big guys in the 9th for the Yanks, and then still be able to pitch the 9th if we catchup.
If you have to use Phil in the 9th or a mixture of the bullpen, maybe Robertson, so be it.
Use Mo in the most important situation.
Jed Pain,
that’s the way you have to look at it. Realistically the Yankees needed 1 win in Anaheim and they got it. In 04 there was no Andy and no CC. This team is much better equipped pitching wise this year.
Angel – A tale told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:09 pm
On a sac bunt.. wow. He needed to come in the game for that!
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It was an out wasn’t it? Something Hughes and Burnett didn’t get enough of in that inning.
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So why use Marte over Coke now? Why sit the better pitcher and allow one of our middle guys enter the game? Why is now the time to be cute and gutsy?
What can you say? They had it, and Hughes just completely imploded. He should be ashamed of himself, he didn’t go after the hitters and he completely missed his spot on Guerrero with 2 strikes and gave it up.
Going to game 6 after that 6 run rally is scary. You just can’t keep giving the Angels this many chances, they are a good team and eventually they will make you pay. When you have a chance to finish them off, you have to step it up and shut them down. Just a terrible job by the Yankees pitching at the end.
trisha–hear ya loud and clear
from now on, please do NOT expect Hughes and Joba do anything good on the road.
The Other Phil: No, we wanted Rivera for 2 outs (not including sac bunt) in the 7th.
It’s possible Hughes would still have imploded if he had started the inning, but with baserunners already on, the margin for error was even thinner. And running out Joba instead of either going to Robertson, who has done well this postseason in pressure-packed situations, or even Mo, seems like a tough way to preserve the lead your offense fought so hard to get.
Doreen
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:08 pm
My stomach hurts, anyone else?
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Nah….even if the Angels should happen to win this game, they still have to win twice in a row in NYY and they haven’t shown that they could this year.
WTH at McCarver. Just stop talking.
Girardi asking Mo for a magic act here. Someone get Girardi a diaper…
wow swisher contributing
I think Joba’s shoulder is still messed up. Hopefully he will recover the 2-3 mph on the fastball over the offseason.
Good play Swish.
Nice play by Swish.
tex’ friend,
yup watching same game as you clearly-however Hughes imploded, AJ still had no business on the mound in the 7th, not one other person on this blog will agree with you that Girardi was right to stick w/AJ b/c his pitch count was only at 80! AJ not big game pitcher, can’t handle it! and consequently, we learned that Hughes can’t either
nice job swish. he finally showed up to do something.
Mo warms, mute witness…
The Halos jabbing Joba…
Girardi gestures…
How do we clone Rivera?
and thr Angels make another mistake. That is their nail in the coffin…
Not running on Swisher…who gave them that scouting report?
Joba didn’t choke. He’s simply not that good. Hasn’t been all year.
Agree that Mo could have/should have been used earlier. But Sleepy Joe Torre would have left him on the base and let this thing get out of hand here in this inning- saving him for the lead that will likely never come.
if we did get this one we need to get sat..we dont wanna mess cc up for world series
He left early. I could tell because I wasn’t looking at it.
Nice throw by Swisher.
One more out.
Then the ninth. It comes down to the ninth.
Let’s go Mo.
Pretty please. Pretty, pretty please.
it was still the 7th
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But it was the position of highest leverage in their favor in the game. Why not use your best weapon then? You don’t win wars playing it safe like that.
denise,
no aj, no hughes? someone had to pitch the 7th.
Our talent is so much better but their manager is so much better, we just need our talent to survive the cornucopia of mistakes Joe Girardi is bound to make, he’s a bane to all Yankee fans existence, lets just hope he’s fire before he harms us any more…
in fairness to giradi..if hughes did the job…everything is fine…hughes killed the yanks there…although not sure who called a fastball to vlad guerro
Who’s this guy impersonating matt? 2 weeks ago, i saw a fan who was willing to refresh his phone gameday to see the game in class, and now every post is negative. come back real matt!
I told you we were fated to lose this game because I have tickets for Saturday. Try not to freak out in the 44 hours or so until Saturday. We will make the Angels take a worthless trip across the country just to lose Saturday night and watch the team party at home.
Don’t you just love how Swisher has become a very accurate and solid arm in right field as the season has gone on? Now if he can only get a hit with RISP!
Why does Abreu always have a smirk on his face?
Oh look, Bobby Dumb Dumb is up.
come on 1 more out.
2 strikes until 2-3-4
The Other Phil (Don’t feed the trolls)
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:13 pm
He left early. I could tell because I wasn’t looking at it.
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But you know it in your heart
if rivera pitches in the 7th, he doesnt pitch the 9th.
Honestly, what did you want Joe to do? Burnett was pitching well and he wanted to get to Hughes in the 8th. Hughes basically blew up on himself.
Easy to pick this apart after its all happened.
Mo the amazing!!!
joe girardi becomes the first manager to win the alcs mvp from the OPPOSING team!
When did Abreu’s sweet smile turn into a smirk?
Nice job, Mo.
Mariano the magician.
Is it really that devastating to you people if the Yankees lose? It’s just a game losers.
Mo should teach all our pitchers to throw spitters
Let’s do this!!!!!!!!!
Angel, the most amazing thing is that everyone here knows that the nighttime SJ is an imposter, yet they continue to post to him like it’s the real SJ!
damn, the whole pen I only trust Mo. sad
Okay. This inning all depends on Damon and Tex.
if damon or tex dont get on, no way fuentes pitches to a-rod.
Mo is unbelievable…
If I’m Scoscia Weaver pitches the 9th but managers get so locked into closers they use them most of the time.
Goats;
AJ
Hughes
And Joe for again forgetting he has D-Rob that guy that has helped won two playoff games in his pen!
Burnett had proven he was not to be trusted all season. You take a lead in a game of this magnitude, in the manner that they did, you wipe the slate clean and pull Burnett. No stats outweigh the common sense here. Girardi is killing them.
you can’t bring in rivera in the 7th inning…no one every brings a closer into the 7th inning..it was huges job to get out of that inning..he could not do it..
I’m looking forward to hearing from CB, randy, the real SJ44
This game is not over yet!
there is NO DOUBT in my mind we score of of Fuentes he is HORRIBLE
And that is how you pitch. Can only hope Our guys come up big.
It’s not over.
GB7 -
I know this isn’t do or die, but they had the lead. They had it. And so now I feel sad. And I’ve got a pit in my stomach. Yuck.
damn, the whole pen I only trust Mo. sad
AND ROBERTSON
Jockomac
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:11 pm
I guess he thinks Mo can do his magic act again.
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Too bad he didn’t ask him to do it when we actually had a two-run lead.
However, Fuentes was warming.
Hope springs eternal
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Fuentes is getting redemption tonight. No way he screws up twice.
This will be fun. Make Fuentes throw some strikes. JD will do that
Who thinks Arod is going to tie this game for us?
Mariano is just incredible! No closer is like him, now or ever.
OK let’s all dial this back to the early innings of this game when we would have given our first born to get the tying runner to the plate in the 9th, in the person of Alex Rodriguez. News flash- its gonna happen
“Everyone blaming Girardi for not going to the pen earlier should watch how the pen is doing. Players must perform. Hughes didn’t and Chamberlain isn’t either.”
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a lesson in rocket science for some of these bridge jumpers.
thank you!
gotta love the random mccarver flashback to 01…
imback–please post on a red sox blog. to us, this is not just a game. that’s why we’re real fans.
“Is it really that devastating to you people if the Yankees lose? It’s just a game losers.”
You need a life. You are on a Yankees blog. People are passionate about it. Some more than others. No reason to bash.
You’re the real loser.
This is why some people say put your best reliever (Mo) in to stop the rally in the 7th.
Not conventional, but it is when he was needed. He could have totally deflated the Angels and it would still be 6-5.
Someone made a really good point, that replacing burnett doesn’t look so hot with the way our bullpen pitched.
However, it’s a lot different pitching with people on rather than no one on. Also, you dont get put in the situation of giving up a run when you bring in Marte like that.
We got beat by smallball tonight in the bottom of that 7th.
So why use Marte over Coke now? Why sit the better pitcher and allow one of our middle guys enter the game? Why is now the time to be cute and gutsy?
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So you’d prefer him to take the easy way out and go by the book and not make gutsy moves?
I honestly think you’re just not seeing the forest for the trees in this instance. You’re focusing on the move that had the LEAST impact on that inning.
This game isn’t over by a longshot. A bloop and a Tex message upcoming. Followed by an ARod walk and Matsui HR. Mark my words.
CR9,
that’s what I’ve been saying, Mo should have been brought in for the 7th instead of Hughes, you had lead and 2 runners on, seems like most important situation to me….and Mo seems like only guy in the ‘pen that can handle it, it’s PROVEN!
RUNS please!
Fuentes vs. Damon(0.00), Tex (0.00) and Alex (.500). Matsui (.667) if it gets there.
At least tie this game up somehow. Please
We can’t ask for a better situation with the sluggers coming up. C’MON YANKEES! GO GET THIS!
like I said, let AJ pitch the 7 is OK, but once he lost the first guy, it’s time to change.
“if rivera pitches in the 7th, he doesnt pitch the 9th.”
THANK YOU..someone with common sense…
Our young pitchers, outside of David Robertson have really come up short this postseason.
I said it after game 2 vs Minnesota, Hughes does not look right. Of course all the dopey Yankee fans around here ripped me for it but there you are. Hughes does not look right. His fastball command is very suspect.
I was listening to the Japanese announcers who follow the Yankees all year long and they say with Burnett and the Yankee bullpen, they couldn’t believe that Giradi went with him in the 7th.
If Damon and Tex make out then Arod will be put on 1st. Since Matsui is batting after him and is a lefty. Posada should be batting 5th but that is another story.
Anyone else besides me think that Robertson should have the bridge role to Mo in the playoffs? Both Joba and Phil just cannot find the plate.
There’s no way Fuentes will pitch to A-Rod.
its now or never
Boogie Down October 22nd, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Who thinks Arod is going to tie this game for us?
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I like the idea of it…
Thank you MoMo!!! Your skill overwhelms the poverty of decision skills that afflicts that worthless minion Joe Girardi!!!! His futility depresses all New Yorkers, we all expect productivity and ambition while he inspires trepidationa and failure, get rid of this loser!!! I think his routine is well worn out, show him the door… GREAT DONUTS!!!
“This game is not over yet!”
Dude it’s not our game tonight, you honestly think Fuentes chokes here?
Hughes is so young, his “package” is still growing, so the lack of bal1s doesn’t shock me
Boogie Down-
Don’t think Arod is going to tie this game for us. If its 2 out no one on Greatest Overmanager of Alltime Mike Scoscia is going to walk him again.
“We can’t ask for a better situation with the sluggers coming up. C’MON YANKEES! GO GET THIS!”
Leading 10-2 would be a better situation..
I would have went to Hughes to start the 7th for 4-5 outs then MO…….I know AJ was pitching good but he sat for a long time….Hughes coming in with men on base wasn’t as good and he hasn’t been as good this postseason…. or would he not been good anyway starting the inning either…we will never know…….
I dont think the Yankees have lost a game this season in which there weren’t 1000 anti-Girardi posts.
It’s pitiful.
“Why wouldn’t you bring in your best reliever at the moment of crisis, in a game on the road that will give you a series-clinching win?
Who says he’d have to get 7 outs? You bring him in the highest leverage point in the game, there.”
Great point, but Girardi goes by his book and never the 2 shall meet.
tim mccarver, “you gotta be thinking of 2001 and luis gonzalez”.
really tim? dont think anyone was thinking about that except for you.
I realize Hughes screwed up but starting the inning clean is real different than coming in with 2 on an no out. Now Damon or Tex needs to get on or they walk Arod again.
Fuentes not exactly lights out…
Inscrutable Mo…
Relentless Rivera, risk…
Averted again!!!!!
The bunt is on?
Wow! Weaver was lights out. This could be a bad move.
Boogie Down.
Who thinks Arod is going to tie this game for us?
If Damon gets on Arod can win it for us.
Let’s look at it this way. Three innings ago I would have been happy to only be down by one in the 9th.
This is your 2004 Johnny!!
It’s Fuentes, so we still have a chance
I think that park is very very loud. It’s a tough place for a veteran to pitch. I’m not making excuses but I think you need some lion’s den success under your belt before you become a trusted playoff bullpen hand. It’s one thing to pitch in that situation in friendly confines but quite another in one of the loudest ballparks in baseball. Unfortunately the Yankees only have 2 veteran pitchers in their bullpen.
3 balls from a Tex message
“if rivera pitches in the 7th, he doesnt pitch the 9th.”
If we dont score now Rivera wont pitch the 9th. If Rivera pitched in the 7th, that would be a nice problem to have. Dont you think.
We got this
Doreen
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:15 pm
It’s not over.
GB7 -
I know this isn’t do or die, but they had the lead. They had it. And so now I feel sad. And I’ve got a pit in my stomach. Yuck.
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If I can live with Rivera giving up walkoff homers to Scutero and Suzuki, I can handle a loss. Besides, it’s the meat of the order.
Angel – A tale told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:16 pm
So why use Marte over Coke now? Why sit the better pitcher and allow one of our middle guys enter the game? Why is now the time to be cute and gutsy?
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So you’d prefer him to take the easy way out and go by the book and not make gutsy moves?
I honestly think you’re just not seeing the forest for the trees in this instance. You’re focusing on the move that had the LEAST impact on that inning.
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A run was allowed to score with that decision. Remove that run and it’s a different ball game right now.
Hey Tim, how about a Byun Young Kim flashback?
he tried to get on base there.
How do you not lean into that one?
tex’s friend
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:14 pm
if rivera pitches in the 7th, he doesnt pitch the 9th.
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Except if they don’t get a run here, there’s no ninth for Rivera to pitch.
“Anyone else besides me think that Robertson should have the bridge role to Mo in the playoffs?”
More robertson..less joba…
Joe Buck. Really. Get off your knees for the Angels. Damon did NOT try to lean into that.
“Dude it’s not our game tonight, you honestly think Fuentes chokes here?”
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why not?
best comeback team in the league vs. a sub-par closer
can anyone make their closer choke?
nice grab
This forum has a love-hate relationship with Girardi. When Yankees win, you love him. When they lose you hate him. That’s real stable.
Fuentes has blown some big games this post season
You don’t bring in Mariano in the 7th on the road. That’s just nonsense.
well that sucked
come on Tex, do it again boy!
Horrible luck.
Brutally unlucky….
Can’t hit it any harder.
Come on Tex. Homerun
not his lucky day
Love Damon trying to pull a Ben Ogilsvie. Maybe Arod will have to go Kelly Leak on their butt.
Wow.
sad, just sad
“Everyone blaming Girardi for not going to the pen earlier should watch how the pen is doing. Players must perform. Hughes didn’t and Chamberlain isn’t either.”
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a lesson in rocket science for some of these bridge jumpers.
thank you!”
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The manager still has to put his players in a position to succeed. Girardi did not. He let Burnett start a mess. Its tough to a guy as young as Hughes to come in with a guy on third and Torii Hunter, Vlad and Morales due up.
OK, AROD!
Tex swings at the 1st pitch. You have to laugh
My last post got sent before it was finished – meant to say I’m looking forward to hearing comments from CB, randy, the real SJ44, Rebecca and other mainstays about the bullpen decisions.
They’ll walk A-Rod.
Well the 9th inning is going quite fast.
Great job swinging at the first pitch, Tex
Arod will be walked here….
How is Tex first pitch swinging? Little case of yips there.
they’re going to walk Alex. Then it’s up to Matsui.
Walk to Rodriguez?
No way they pitch to him or do they?
A-rod’s going to hit it out so he can break the RBI game postseason record.
turning it off, i don’t watch the opposition celebrate us giving them games
If we’ve ever needed Arod, it’s now. Come on Alex!!
IBB…see you on Saturday
Belt one out Hideki.
pitch around a-rod, and finish Matsui
What a bunch of you know what
Or not. I guess they don’t want to chance it.
ok come on matsui
pus$y’s
I cant belive we treated a two run lead with a chance to go to the world series with such disrespect… Joe Girardi needs to be canned for this relaxation alone, it’s shameful!!!!
DAMN that was out at the Stadium by Tex
… matsui can hit those lefties as everyone knows
He’s going to walk him. Matsui for the win.
I really, really, want Matsui to hit a bomb off this coward.
not even a question about his move.
C’mon Hideki – keep it going. Keep it going, man.
there was no way they were pitching to A-Rod – now if situation was reverse, Girardi would pitch to him, up and away!!!
Let’s hope Hideki can pull one out.
Matsui can do it.
Steal-Rod?
You knew the free pass had to be coming. Nobody sane would let Fuentes pitch to A-Rod
Fuentes not fooling with Arod. Go Godzilla!!
I don’t hate giradi…however..i do not love him either…
You would think that Fuentes would be embarrassed to walk Alex every time he faces him. It’s like saying “I’m not man enough to face him”.
Well if there is a lefty who can hit a lefty it is Matsui
Of course the actual protection in Posada is not batting 5th. Another terrible mistake. What is Matsui who looks like he is 50 years old going to do?
We just lost our big shot there.
what a lousy game, game 6 finish them!
Can’t not like matsui up here.
Matsui will crush one!!
took a rod out?
100 pitches of fun…
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Tex swings at the 1st pitch. You have to laugh
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his bases clearing double was on the 1st pitch also, champ.
A Rod is out of the game, now that is over managing.
Girardi put his players in a position to fail. From AJ all the way through the bullpen. That was a long layover and AJ had no business going out for the 7th. Let the bullpen start the inning fresh.
Wow if thats not an indictment of Brett Gardner what is?
Go Go Godzilla!!!!!!!
“I cant belive we treated a two run lead with a chance to go to the world series with such disrespect… Joe Girardi needs to be canned for this relaxation alone, it’s shameful!!!!”
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you mean for sticking with the pitcher who was on cruise control for the previous 5 innings instead of putting in Hughes or Joba…
who didnt get the job done tonight?
sounds like a great idea.
guzman for a-rod as pinch runner?? wow……..
caught steal to end the game?
Matsui, redemption for a poor alds???
A pinchrunner here is ridiculous. Arod’s a good basestealer and great baserunner ast time I checked.
He just took Arod out for a PR.
Amazing.
Pinch running for A-Rod is an almost completely indefensible move
The team continues to show up, the decisions continue to be very disturbing and dissapointing… what the hell happened here??? Some of kind of sick desire to relive ‘04?
I would’ve left Alex in.
Why pinch run for Arod? What if we tie, and go into extra innings?
Pinch running for A-Rod. What?
First move I disagree with. Never take arod out. Ever.
Interesting move…so if they tie the game we loser our clean-up hitter?
1995 – Back Page = Clueless Joe
2009 – Back Page = Clueless Joe
gardner is 0-his last 2 on SBs
Strsnge move, taking out Rodriguez.
that’s a ball
ugh
I’m sweating!!!!
He’s going to walk Matsui to get to Cano
Terrible call!!! That’s inside!!! Come back to earth!!
Pinch running is flat out assinine.
how do you PR for Arod for god’s sake
only team that puts in fast guys and they never run
that should have been called a ball. Ever notice the Fox guys never mention there little graphic?
Not one of GI Joe’s PR moves have worked. And Guzman is still at 1st.
“Why pinch run for Arod? What if we tie, and go into extra innings?”
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I’d be one happy camper if that happens.
that’s what.
Cano does NOT want to walk to the plate!!!
weird move
disagree with taking alex out
What is Joe doing takin A Rod out?!? He’s such a joke
great job putting in guzman to WALK to 2nd joe
it always comes down to Cano don’t you know?
JasonR
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:19 pm
You don’t bring in Mariano in the 7th on the road. That’s just nonsense.
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Its not nonsense. Just because its outside of the Tony LaRussa school of thinking doesn’t necessarily make it nonsense.
I’ll grant you its not really done, but the Yankees being ahead 6-4 was their highest leverage point in a road game. By the time they brought Mo in, that had gone. So you tell me when he would have had more impact?
Matsui has had a great year against LHP so you don’t run with him up… bizarre
Should already be 2 on. I’d love to see that IP bite them.
jeff NJ,
sure they do.
they talked about the inside pitch to Posada 3 times.
That was the pitch…
No Joe…..A-Rod gone..
what is with all the PRs who don’t actually run
Why do we PR when they do nothing w/ it.
He won’t see a 3-2 fastball
all right, swing strike to end
Can’t believe Tex swung at first pitch.
Rishi October 22nd, 2009 at 11:22 pm
how do you PR for Arod for god’s sake
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Especially with a guy that has shown he can’t get a good jump.
If Gardner isn’t going to steal on the Angles with a good jump, then Guzman certainly isn’t going to steal with the jumps he gets.
“you mean for sticking with the pitcher who was on cruise control for the previous 5 innings instead of putting in Hughes or Joba…
who didnt get the job done tonight?
sounds like a great idea.”
I’m with you BD.
a rod is one of your best baserunners and is pretty quick..did we need to lose him if we tie the game???? i don’t have a problem with pinch running for matsui or posada..but arod????
I have no faith that Cano will get another clutch hit.
so if we tie it and we don’t have A-rod any more, smart Girardi! you da man!
Nice eye baby!!! Just a little single!!!
matsui’s got balls of steel taking that one
C’mon Robbie, you can do it.
I can’t believe Girardi put CC in to run for Arod.
That’s just crazy.
Guzman finally runs, on ball 4.
This nick picking but Swisher left a runner at third after Cano made it 6-4.
I love how that pitch is “JUUUUUUST outside”
brilliant Joe Buck
lets make this a VERY HAPPY birthday for you Cano.
Come on birthday boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Make it a WONDERFUL birthday!!!!!
Well…Alex could score from second…can he put him back in?
Cano, Mr RISP?
They haven’t done crap w/ these PRs.
now we need one f?xking single.
they can do it, we can do it!
That was not “just outside”. BTW, how disturbing was the 80 yr. old with the rally monkey on her face?
cano up with RISP… good luck
i want to smack scoscia sometimes. i cannot stand his facial expressions.
three run shot Robbie!!!!!
Joe Girardi and Jorge huff whiteout.
Now all we need is another 2-out RISP from Robby.
REDEMPTION ROBBIE. REDEMPTION.
The Yankees have won 5 games in this series. Their own manager gave 2 of the wins away.
Two more days to find a way to keep the manager from blowing this series.
Taking Arod out of the game is the final straw.
He has no idea what he is doing.
Cano with a chance to shut up the haters
Robby is capable of getting the job done. Let’s hope he remembers that.
He can hit that slider or curve bending away provided he has some form of nuts at this point…
If the Yankees can pull this off, I will in fact run around the blog naked
Taking right down the middle *groan*
can cano get two big hits in one game??we shall see..
Prediction…Cano grounds out..
Cmon cano
Yay, now if the Yankees have the pleasure of tying this game, we get to see Guzman and Gardner protecting Tex in the 11th inning.
trisha,
I can’t say which decision was the right one to make, but there is absolutely NO way that the decision was obvious.
It didn’t work, and people are crucifying Girardi with no cause.
High drama
I think A-Rod can’t believe he was taken out of the game either!
BAGS JUICED!!! HERE COMES LOSERTOWN!!!
And it comes down to Swisher…
nick swisher??????????
and it all comes down to swisher! I knew this was going to happen
So what happens if they tie the game and it goes to extra innings? No A-rod??
SWISH!!!!
YankeeKid
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Prediction…Cano grounds out..
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WRONG
swish for brains. joy
Nick Swisher TIME!!!!
SWISH. THIS IS YOUR YANKEE MOMENT.
Swisher redemption time.
Here comes the grand slam!!!!
nice.
swisher. time to make yourself relevant please…
Nice job Fuentes… Come on Swish! Break through!!
swiaher will ground out to 2nd that clown lazy bum good for nuthin
This comes down to Swishy? He will deliver. Be patient, Nick.
Wow, taking Alex out? Thats interesting.
oh damn, Swisher, we are done
Swisher is the Most Due Guy Ever now that Matsui already delivered.
come on swisher … if ever there was a time …
Cano shut up the haters with his should have been game winning triple in the 7th.
now Swish needs to be very patient – possibly walk in a run, TYING RUN!
“The Yankees have won 5 games in this series. Their own manager gave 2 of the wins away.
Two more days to find a way to keep the manager from blowing this series.
Taking Arod out of the game is the final straw.
He has no idea what he is doing.”
SHUT THE F UP YOU FRAUD. Enjoy your last night here in fact.
Nick Swisher? game 6 Saturday.
0 for swisher up… christ – is there anyone left on the bench???
come on swisher, do SOMETHING for once this postseason
Swisher , time for redemption
I wonder if he did that because he wanted to face Swisher.
I have a Swish Wish right now.
Ah hell, the black hole of offense that is Nick Swisher is up
Jesus Christ. And now Nick Swisher. I might as well go to bed now.
Here comes Swish who will swing for a grand slam like he does in every at bat. Of course he never thinks small ball.
And it comes down to Swish-alicious
all we need is a single.. that should score 2…please swish…..
Maybe the best eye on the team…com’on Swish
Swish is soooooooo due
He strikes out a lot and hasnt done anything right from the right side in a good decade, I like his chances!….
Well if anybody was overdue it’s Swish
Swisher up and you can’t PH for him because the roster construction stinks.
Just draw a walk here Swish.
OMG.
wow!!!!!!!thought that was fair.
Thanks Nick!!
first pitch again?
“if rivera pitches in the 7th, he doesnt pitch the 9th.”
really? you’d rather have marte/hughes pitch with 2nd and 3rd occupied in the 7th and 1 out instead of rivera in 7th and marte/hughes with noone on in the 9th, up 1 or 2?
“If the Yankees can pull this off, I will in fact run around the blog naked”
and like a good team player – I will chase you.
swish better come through
btw, joe g is an idiot……
why PR alex?
what if we tie it? who’s going to hit now
“Taking Arod out of the game is the final straw.”
It’s not like A-Rod is slow. What happens if they tie it up? That’s just annoying.
Laz
Swisher may walk here
Think Swish is anxious?
My stomach ulcer is forming an ulcer
disgusting swings
“Swisher up and you can’t PH for him because the roster construction stinks.”
who would you use????
Swisher in a big spot here…
swinging at those pitches is assanine Swish, make him throw strikes!!
WTH Swisher, don’t be so anxious.
Come on Swish! Please !!!!!
McClelland would have called that fair, game over.
weak swings?
That was a tepid swing.
Breathe Erica, breathe
this is going to end ugly, be ready.
Swish just doesnt look too confident up there.
Cmon Nick!!!
Win the Belt tonight!
No pressure Nicky.
It’s Robi’s birthday… right?
C/mon swishy
Not a promising start. I thought Nick could at least work a full count.
Swish is expanding his strike zone. Not good. That last pitch was a ball he hardly swings at. Too overanxious there.
wild pitch or HBP will suffice.
DT-
That is very kind of you.
we lose with base is loaded
i have no air in my lungs left
BREATHE.
wow
Please, Swish!
wild pitch please
calling on the 09 Yankee magic…
swish not giving anyone confidence here
take that change-up..back up the middle…stop pulling off of it..
he just looks terrible, its as if he hes been out 3 times this AB – come on run into one
Best hope is that he bounces that change.
“# Boston Dave – 5 wins til 27 October 22nd, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Swish just doesnt look too confident up there.
Cmon Nick!!!
Win the Belt tonight!
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YES, agree!
“So what happens if they tie the game and it goes to extra innings? No A-rod??”
Selig might let him come back into the game, exercising the “in the best interests of baseball” clause.
The biggest joke in the game, Nick Swisher, up with the game on the line! LOL!
I think my heart’s exploding.
yeah KG,
If Mo pitched the 7th, we would have the lead still! imagine that!
the pressure is on Fuentes…
keep it that way Nick!
Never wanted to see a wild pitch so bad in my life.
now another changeup
Would have been nice to have Hinske as an option here, maybe.
what a joke
This at bat is killing me.
Swishalicious!!! Briniging the stress ball across the pond!!!
Swisher is not calm, doesn’t have guts
just draw a walk is all we ask!!!!!
the pressure is on Fuentes
the pressure is on Fuentes
Take the walk Swisher.
Mo should have started the game!!
I can’t stand this…
Come on Super Swisher!!!!!
do you hvae the guts to throw a fastball or off speed here
Wow…is all I can say
seriously, they closer sucks
Um, fire Joe right now because there is NEVER any reason to PR Alex. First of all, it’s a complet panic move because even with a loss, the Yankees are still up in the series 3-2. It completely smacks of desperation. How I despise this man right now.
Don’t swing at Ball Four dude
dont swing at a bad pitch
Great job by automatic out Swish….
swisher is killing..just killing the yankees.
Oh crap
well, get ready Yankee Stadium, here they come!
not your fault swish its joes
Fire swisher!
Ouch.
Yuck. Where was that pitch?
Swisher is garbage.
time for him to be benched
Nice job popping up a BP fastball choke artist
And he didn’t take the walk.
Sam…you better ask the hard questions
that certainly looked hittable, hes a mess
DARN! Disappointing. Poor swish.
Wow. Ny game six. Frigging sweet.
no
another bullpen abortion by Joe Girardi. Thanks, G-man!
mr. automatic does what he does best
“if rivera pitches in the 7th, he doesnt pitch the 9th.”
THANK YOU..someone with common sense…
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Right, common sense. What 9th?
Swish can’t get a hit for anything!
oh well, I have awesome tickets for the coronation Saturday night. Stay positive over the next 44 hours, we’re still going to the series soon.
Swisher you LOSER!!!’
Batting practice fastball. Where is Luis Castillo when you need him? Swisher has been garbage.
F U Hughes!
F U Swisher!
F U Girardi!
what is wrong with him? he couldn’t have been swinging at any pitch that was thrown, period! Didn’t Girardi tell him that? and if he didn’t, why didn’t he?
I would have rathered that they lost 4-0. I just worry about their mental makeup after that comeback.
There was no one who could hit for Swisher?
The veterans on the Yanks have to absolutely be laughing at their manager right now.
Swisher is off the roster in the World Series… we have to ride him for game 6, but he’s off if we make it to the world series, also Joe Girardi is out as manager, this team is too good to make it this interesting!!!
2004 redux here we come!!! The noose tightens…..
Mick Swisher and Joe Girardi, the gifts that keep on giving for the Angels.
Two days to muzzle the manager before he blows this series for the Yankees.
That was a painful game. It’s going to be a long plane ride back to NY for them.
Can I replace Swisher in next game?
Killer
Good night Yankee fans. Well get em next game.
Sorry that my prediction was plum wrong.
So we win it at the Stadium. I now will not watch any more television for the night nor read the papers tomorrow. I will pass up that treat.
I also don’t need to hang out and read all the negative stuff I know is on its way, so all I can say is we’ll take it in New York.
Swisher stinks it up again. This was a tough loss.
Angels have to win 2 in NY. That won’t happen. No way Yanks are gonna lose 3 straight.
We have a bad manager. What more do you want. I have seen no evidence that he is any good, and he doesn’t have a history.
I hate Hughes and swisher
44 hours and 26 minutes until Game 6!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, well. Yanks will polish it off in NY. Not many better than Pettitte and Sabathia in crunch time.
Regardless of the outcome…this was like watching a heavyweight fight and slugging it out until the bell. Two champs get up off the mat late. Somebody was going to earn a win…just wasn’t NYY this time.
I cannot believe that Fuentes didnt throw that pitch to teh backstop. Nope, right down the middle.
Freezed that pitch on my Tivo. You couldn’t put it on a tee any better. 89 mph. You suck Nick.
Lackey sounds like Kermit the Frog.
I wish they would have just lost 4-0.
The Angels would have gone home pleased, but knowing it was all because of a dominant performance by Lackey. Nothing that can carry over into the rest of the series.
Then we had to go and make their hitters feel all confident for mounting a comeback. And how bad do you think Hughes feels right now?
AJ you suck. Swisher you suck. Girardi – you suck.
Just a crushing loss.
After I go throw up from shaking so hard, I’m going to try and get excited that we can clinch at home.
Dang.
Disappointing, but we knew that the Angles wouldn’t be held down for the whole series.
Fail by AJ (2X), the early offense, and Hughes
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Got 2 more games to clinch, we get it done. Silver lining, we won’t be sitting around for a week.
I’ll leave the post-mortem to those who want to dwell on it. Too ugly for me to witness.
Good night, folks.
I wish Swish would have stepped out one more time on him to throw off his rhythm
that pitch was right there too….
9/10 hitters that’s a grand slam.
Time to eat my pizza. That was a tough one. Angels, we’ll see you in NY. Get your stocking caps and cold weather gear ready. Rats.
Imback,
What team do you root for and where are they now?
They have to hope that their manager can find his brain in the next day. 3 wins for the Yanks, 2 losses for Girardi. What a dope.
Anybody else frustrated by fake yankee fans and open yankee haters on this blog?
another bullpen abortion by Joe Girardi. Thanks, G-man!
Who else u gonna bring in there? I would have brought Hughes in to, with the exception of Mo he has been the best BP arm you have, hughes didnt make his pitches tongith welcome to baseball
Game over.
Series over.
Choke in progress.
Enjoy it, DT, you know nothing nimrod.
Girardi *shakes head*
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I cannot believe this guy has done it again. I can’t believe it. I don’t know what we’re gonna do gang. I still believe The Yankees will advance to the WS but I am seriously worried about this manager and as lowly fans there is really nothing we can do except watch this manager waste our season away with these terrible moves.
I mean this is twice now that we are going to have to wake up and the main story in the papers tomorrow is not about any position player or pitcher on our ballclub but about our manager…our manager!!! It seems that whenever we’ve lost this postseason he’s been right in the eye of the storm so to speak…he’s been the story and he never has any great explanation for what he does to boot.
I mean I could accept AJ Burnett having a bad outing and the Angels scoring 4 runs and writing this off as a bad game for The Yankees but the thing is The Yankees had this ballgame won and again this manager comes in and manages to grasp defeat from the jaws of victory. I can’t see how we bring this guy back for 2010 if The Yankees don’t advance here, what he’s doing is absolutely infuriating the fanbase right now.
Man oh man…I mean my opinion can change if the circumstances do obviously but am I all alone in my feelings that this manager hasn’t inspired much confidence in this series. Seriously what is this guy thinking?
Who keeps telling this team’s relievers to throw the fastball to Vlad?
I mean nothing else to say they choked, and these PR moves just does nothing, absolutely nothing.
Bottom line, girardi screwed us over with his mismanagement of the pitching staff. again.
According to Gameday, Swisher swung at strikes and the last pitch was a 91 mph fastball down the middle that he popped up.
Can’t wait for the post game quotes. In particular I would love to here was Swisher has to say. He had two absolutely huge opportunities tonight, but failed both times to bring a runner home. Only way Swisher should be able to see Game 6, is if he buys a ticket and seats with the bleacher creatures.
I’m shaking. I need to get to sleep because I have to drive to LI in the morning, but I’m wired. And shaking. I really thought Swish was going to come through there, with at least a walk. I thought it was his time.
But not to be I guess.
The bullpen, the jewel of the team, jsut didn’t have it (aside from the G.O.A.T., Mo.) tonight.
Umps tried their hardest to end this series tonight…. but to no avail. Angels & Hughes wouldn’t let them do it.
unless fuentes started throwing 100, no way swish was gonna be able to wait on anything.
Jeff NJ
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Lackey sounds like Kermit the Frog.
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I was thinking Bert, but Kermie works too
“There was no one who could hit for Swisher?”
I know he’s not a power hitter, but thats a time Ramiro Pena could of been very helpful.
The LA Angels of Anaheim would like to thank Joe Girardi for leaving AJ Burnett in the game once he allowed a base runner in the 7th inning.
Memo to Joe G: AJ cannot pitch on the road in late innings with guys on base.
only one game but still disappointin..
I would have rathered that they lost 4-0. I just worry about their mental makeup after that comeback.
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The fact that they came back is why there’s really no reason to question their mental make up.
AJ Burnett however..
Amazing game. Unfortunately the Yanks were on the wrong side of it. Oh well. On to the Stadium. Have a good night, real fans. To the bridge jumpers, please jump. To the trolls, die.
Good night!
Swisher swung at all strikes too. His swing seems really off.
Wow, two days of bridge jumpers and trolls. I can’t wait
Why PR for Alex? If they tied, they’d lose his bat….should have left Guzman off the roster and batted Hinske for Swisher there.
Hughes had better get it together before Sat.
Good thing we have CC ready for game 7.
who thought brining Phil into the game,would be a bad idea?
I so wanted to be rid of the Angels this year tonight.
That was awful. I’m afraid the comeback, that then turned into a chokefest, will just lead into a disaster at home. We had better start fast on Saturday, or 2004 is going to be haunting us. I just feel sick right now.
We need to beat up Saunders in Game 6 and end it there. I don’t think I can bear a Game 7.
SWisher has to sit, hairston gets a shot
Joe G’s fault. How do you bring AJ back in that game? How do you leave him in after the first hit?
swish was definitely not the guy you want up in that spot and i hope to see gardner there on Saturday…
Tex, Matsui, Cano, Damon, Melky all got it together. Swish has not, so he needs to sit.
“I know he’s not a power hitter, but thats a time Ramiro Pena could of been very helpful.”
Well… I’ve seen it all now.
Girardi is awful, but everyone get off of the ledge, there is no chance the Yankees lose Game 6.
The team came back from four runs, they did their part. The manager let them down again. LA is a good team, but we will take Saturday if someone kidnaps Girardi before the game.
Gay os
Why don’t you chill ?
I don’t blame Hughes – if AJ hadn’t crapped his pants in the first inning, the Yanks celebrate their WS berth with a 6 – 3 win
Andy’s good in tough situations, so I think we’ll be all right. At least tomorrow is Friday, so it’s okay to be a zombie at work.
Denise
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:30 pm
yeah KG,
If Mo pitched the 7th, we would have the lead still! imagine that!
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No worries. Mo’s coming in to pitch in the all-important ninth. Oh…wait.
That was an incredibly exciting baseball game. Back to NYC and a win at home.
at least we have BIG GAME ANDY P going, he’ll get it done
Too bad a good hitter wasn’t up instead of Swish. That was a fastball right down the middle. A good hitter wacks that pitch.
Where is the real SJ44?
If we lose game 6 they should just go ahead and fire Girardi. Also, somebody break Swisher’s leg and bring Hinske as an injury replacement. Swisher is a choker much like wonderboy Hughes.
Valerie G. October 22nd, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Anybody else frustrated by fake yankee fans and open yankee haters on this blog?
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Pay them no attention. Unfed trolls die of starvation.
Joe G’s fault. How do you bring AJ back in that game? How do you leave him in after the first hit?
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Yeah you are right, bringing in hughes one batter sooner would have made all the difference, with him getting hit like it was mlb 09 or something.
gyaos
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Game over.
Series over.
Choke in progress.
Enjoy it, DT, you know nothing nimrod.
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Sam, is this kind of stupidity really productive to the comments section of this blog? Seriously.
So, basically, the bullpen doesn’t do it’s job (which it’s done all year) and it’s Girardi’s fault. Adn the only way Girardi is not a numbskull is if he only uses Mo.
Okay….
CC game 7 means no CC game 1 against Cliff LEE game 1.
Not good.
I think bc phil had an upper class upbringing he can’t pitch in playoffs.
Tough one to take. Girardi will be ripped until the start of game 6. Hopefully the Yanks can finish off the Angels in front of the hometown fans.
“We have a bad manager. What more do you want. I have seen no evidence that he is any good, and he doesn’t have a history.”
Oh I’m sorry 103 wins, a sweep in the ALDS, a 3-2 lead, is just not enough evidence, huh?
We’ll win on Sat. ‘Night everyone.
i’m glad i’m exhausted or i’d have trouble sleeping – yankees will win in 6 … this team showed their mettle in the top of the 7th
what girardi showed us in the bottom of the inning is another story – in 6
Girardi is a moron. I can’t believe he gets away with this crap.
Please no game 7, the Giants have a Sunday night game!
I’m signing off now. Good night to you all and go yankees! There will be a Yanks Phillies WS!!!
Betsy October 22nd, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Um, fire Joe right now because there is NEVER any reason to PR Alex. First of all, it’s a complet panic move because even with a loss, the Yankees are still up in the series 3-2. It completely smacks of desperation. How I despise this man right now.
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Umm, get a grip. Stop watching the games.
Trisha,
Yes, we’ll win on Saturday.
This Angels team is not very impressive, and their BP is god awful.
It’s still vexing to blow this game, however.
I have no concerns about losing Saturday to these guys though. It’s just a pain to have to chase out there, and I was looking forward to some of these guys getting the five days off.
Oh, well. Best laid plans…
Doesn’t matter, these next 2 games are the angels. This is 2004 all over again, We will be blown out to finish this off. Simply embarassing
I don’t blame Hughes – if AJ hadn’t crapped his pants in the first inning, the Yanks celebrate their WS berth with a 6 – 3 win
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If the offense doesnt crap their pants in the first, this is all moot.
How do you miss a FB right down the middle? Swisher has been beyond awful.
look at it this way.
at least jon lieber isn’t pitching this game 6.
it would not surprise me at all if the Yankees lose the next two…
hughes doesnt do well when u put him in the middle of an inning.
WHY DOES GIRARDI HATE ROBERTSON?
Thanks Doreen. Finally some clarity in this circus.
I don’t blame Hughes – if AJ hadn’t crapped his pants in the first inning, the Yanks celebrate their WS berth with a 6 – 3 win
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AJ certainly is a big culprit, but did you MISS the amount of times Hughes shook off Posada and it came back to bite him? I’m not about to defend that.
“Girardi is awful, but everyone get off of the ledge, there is no chance the Yankees lose Game 6.”
Really? I guess you don’t remember that ALCS from 2004. They are on their way to another epic choke job.
When Phil knelt down to pray before the 1st pitch,I KNEW HE WAS nervous.
A shame to lose this game. One might even feel devastated. But I think it’s for the best. Our team can not feel complacent after this game. We’ll go home and get ‘em. And hopefully, we will not even let the Phillies win a game.
Was anyone thinking Wade Boggs circa 1996 during that at bat? Wade was having a horrible series too and worked a bases loaded walk. It just wasn’t meant to be, some times the breaks beat the boys. Gotta love the fight in the 7th.
The other phil–thanks. you made me feel much better
Was Ken Rosenthal interviewing Kermit?
What Coney just said! That’s the way to view this.
The 1998 Yankees went 6 games in the ALCS…fear not.
MLB Network beating up Girardi too
haiku-man October 22nd, 2009 at 11:40 pm
CC game 7 means no CC game 1 against Cliff LEE game 1.
Not good.
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Win in 6 and Cliff Lee will be ripped apart by AL bats.
Phil probably had 50 friends and relatives at the game, he’ll be better back in NY.
100 pitches of fun… October 22nd, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Too bad a good hitter wasn’t up instead of Swish. That was a fastball right down the middle. A good hitter wacks that pitch.
Not making excuses for him, but he just got under it. If you think back the big play was the Damon shot right at 1B that was caught.
It’s really unfortunate that my team is playing in this unbelievable series. I would enjoy watching so much more if these games were the NLCS.
I like my teams to sweep.
Oh well. Winning it in NY is the right thing to do. Unfortunately this series is taking years off my life (and nails off my fingers).
I’m so much more confident than in years past. Did I see Saunders warming in the pen? Throwing a side session? He is emminently hittable. He already got his good start out of the way.
I see this will be mass hysteria central.
Come soon Saturday 8:07pm
GI Joe was afraid to over manage and he got caught under managing by leaving AJ in to start the inning wake up JOE!!!
Is that the true SJ? Man, what a bridge jumper he’s turned into.
You can’t second guess a game after the pitching cant deliver. Hughes had the opportunity and didn’t get it done. Not Joe’s fault.
haiku-man, Phil always kneels down and does that before he pitches.
hughes is still young in a big spot..hes only human…now we go back home..hope yanks can draw from the crowd..but saunders can be good..hope they beat up on him..
On the one hand, I was calling for Joba to come in for the 7th after Yankees took the lead, on the other hand I’ve been critical of Girardi with his excessive reliance on matchups. I suppose, however, the “overmanaging” in the early games looks better now. Neither Hughes or Joba are shutdown guys right now that you can just put in there for the whole inning. Right now they might be a bit exposed. That’s why Scioscia had to bring in Weaver, because their bullpen is exposed. And that’s why Mariano is so great.
AJ sat too long, Hughes misses Jorge high target by a foot, Swisher skies a bp fastball……Dammon hit a seed to start the 9th, an atom ball
I can not believe people are blaming Girardi for this. People killed him the other night for overmanaging and tonight for undermanaging.
He did everything right.
I also do not understand how you can kill Joe for leaving AJ in. You do know that Hughes pitched awful right? Hughes blew the game again.
So I ask, what did you want Joe to do?
Go to Phil? came in and failed
Go to Joba? came in and failed
Go to Mo? He can not pitch 3 freaking innings.
This loss is on Phil. Simple as that
In this series the Yanks are being asked to overcome the Angels and their manager. It’s hard enough just trying to beat the other team but now they have to deal with Girardi’s idiotic bullpen moves. He already cost them 2 games will he cost them anymore and the series?
Is it “cool” now to bag on Joe?
Girardi has just made some pitching moves that defy logic in this series:
-pulling Robertson for Aceves in game 3
-letting Burnett face Aybar in the 7th inning tonight
-letting Hughes face Morales after Guerrero tied it when he could have brought in Coke to turn Morales around adn make him bat right handed.
And pinch running for Arod in the 9th inning bordered on the ridiculous. It’s 2 out, Arod would be off and running on a ball in the gap and would score anyway.
The Yankees will win this series and most likely the World Series as well but this one should already be over. If the Yankees somehow lose this series they will have a new manager next year, there is no way Girardi can survive a loss like that.
Pettitte will come up big in game 6. It’s a good sign that at least Tex was making solid contact tonight. I’d more concerned about Hughes and Joba being useless and Girardi refusing to use Robertson first.
Supersonic
Swisher is just useless, everywhere-what does he have on Girardi? gotta be something!
it’s supposed to rain saturday
The Yankee Stadium atmosphere will help a lot, I think the Yankees will finish it off on Saturday.
Girardi is messing up. Posada screwed this up too. Bench him.
and the temp is supposed to drop again..
i think that anyone who mentions 2004 should be immediately blocked from the blog.
You listening SAM and co???
Ok guys, I had such a long day at work and Im finally out. I was following a few updates in my cel but couldn’t really follow the game until the bases loaded fail by Swisher. I see AJ threw a stinker today in the beginning but we came back. Now, what happened that you are blaming this one also on Girardi? Over-managing again?
Please, somebody who can explain to me what happened?
hairston for swisher? what do you think?
hey everyone, recap on ESPN!
Sorry. That wasn’t funny.
all that champagne back on the plane to NY
Doreen
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:42 pm
What Coney just said! That’s the way to view this.
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Exactly. Especially given he’s been there and done that, and knows what he’s talking about.
5 wins away. I can not believe the amount of people on here ready to give up. The Yankees are up 3-2. We won 1 in LA, that is all that we needed to do. Even if we lose game 6 the series is NOT over!
yanks really need to end it saturday…rest up for phillies who will be tough
I still think we’re going to win. The Yankees are the better team.
lets go yankees (formerly lets go twins)
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:43 pm
I can not believe people are blaming Girardi for this. People killed him the other night for overmanaging and tonight for undermanaging.
He did everything right.
I also do not understand how you can kill Joe for leaving AJ in. You do know that Hughes pitched awful right? Hughes blew the game again.
So I ask, what did you want Joe to do?
Go to Phil? came in and failed
Go to Joba? came in and failed
Go to Mo? He can not pitch 3 freaking innings.
This loss is on Phil. Simple as that
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I agree Phil didn’t do his job there. But AJ not getting the first 2 batters out pretty much set the table.
I’m already over it. Let’s get them on Saturday.
By the way, can’t say this enough. Phil Hughes has crumbled under pressure. He simply can’t take the pressure of pitching important innings in the playoffs, he has been awful this whole postseason and should not be counted on to get important outs. Not anymore.
tex’s friend October 22nd, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Joe G’s fault. How do you bring AJ back in that game? How do you leave him in after the first hit?
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Yeah you are right, bringing in hughes one batter sooner would have made all the difference, with him getting hit like it was mlb 09 or something.
He should have went to Joba
what did Cone say?
“AJ certainly is a big culprit, but did you MISS the amount of times Hughes shook off Posada and it came back to bite him? I’m not about to defend that.”
I saw that too. Just listen to your catcher.
Is The WHOLE ANGEL TEAM ON roids?
That’s how bosox did it back then.
A team of roider remember?
igotid88, he should have replaced AJ after he gave up single
Man,
I sure would have liked to have had Posada in the middle of the order there. Instead, he was batting ninth.
The mistakes are compounded by mistakes compounded by mistakes by the manager.
It’s wrong to lose to an inferior team. I’ll give the Angels that Game 3, because even though giving D-Rob the hook was a terrible move, we’d have been tied at best in extras on the road….
But this…..
This was just wrong….
saturday wont come soon enough though after this bad taste in out mouth
2004 again ? Another epic choke by our Yankees ? Hope not.
What did Cone say?
I mean him no respect whatsoever, thanks for the regular season Nick Swisher but that is long gone!!! Get lost BOZO, you’re uselessness is no longer needed, bite it!!!
If the Yanks don’t win game 6 then it doesn’t really matter if hey win game 7. Not having CC for game 1 of the WS will kill them in the series. Then he can’t pitch game 1 or line up right to come back on 3 days rest.
“Is it “cool” now to bag on Joe?”
Yeah, until the Yanks finish off the Phils. Then there will be a honeymoon period.
You can mark it here, and bring it back on me if I’m wrong, but the Yankees gave these guys life.
If this goes 7 games, the Yankees will lose, C.C. Sabathia or no C.C. Sabathia. Just like in 04, you have to put the team away when you’ve got them by the throat, and the Yankees failed miserably.
Look, when your team scratches, and claws their way back into the game, and takes a two run lead into the bottom of the seventh, and your pitcher gives it right back, it is absolutely demoralizing. Add to that a right fielder who is obviously in over his head at the plate right now, and you have a potential choke job on your hands.
Yankees need to come out Saturday, take the lead, and hold that lead to the end, then get ready for Philadelphia. They cannot play a seventh game, not after a loss like this.
Too bad Cano couldn’t get out of the way of that pitch. I would rather have Cano swinging with his eyes closed in that situation over Swisher.
I keep telling you guys Girardi is not going to bench Swisher. Even when was going through his slumps. He would not give him a day off.
It’s baseball, win some lose some. We’ll get em next time.
hairston for swisher? YES!
haiku-man October 22nd, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Is The WHOLE ANGEL TEAM ON roids?
That’s how bosox did it back then.
A team of roider remember?
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I do, I was there for games 4 and 5 ALCS 2004. I was also there for WS games 1 & 2 and it was no fun.
Game 6 clinch at home. I like it
I have always been a big Posada fan but I have to think he should be going out to the mound and telling young guys like Hughes and Joba that they need to throw what Po says.
No one can say what would have happened if Joe went the bullpen to start the 7th.
However, you can question it and IMO there was no need to let AJ go more than one batter after he gave up the hit to Mathis.
For a guy who has had a quick hook all post season, to all of a sudden change that way of managing is questionable.
igotid88,
you’re clueless…no AJ should not have pitched the 7th, however, Hughes hasn’t proven himself in the playoffs at all, so u bring in Mo to protect the lead with 2 runners on and when he can’t go anymore, Robertson can be trusted to finish it off, with the lead!!!!
Well, that was a acceptable loss that the Yankees managed to turn into an agonizing loss. To go up 6-4, in the top of the 7th, only to give it up in the bottom of the inning is just incredible.
The first bad call wasn’t so much in sending Burnett out there, because yes, he was cruising. It was leaving him in for the second batter after the first got on. At that point, you bring in fresh arms and make the hitters adjust. Put your pitchers in when they have the advantage, not when they’ve got zero margin for error.
After that was Hughes throwing that meatball to Vlad. You watched a young pitcher get schooled there. He’s been bad all postseason, and it looks like he can’t handle the pressure of postseason baseball. He’s overthrowing, causing his fastball to miss by a mile. This isn’t poor location, this is not releasing the ball correctly.
I’m not fence jumping, but I worry about the pressure this puts on the team now. There are good ghosts and bad ghosts, and the good ghosts showed up in the first 2 games. Are the bad ones coming back now? Does the impetus to win cause our bullpen to falter again? Where are the hits with RISP?
We lost game 3 by hitting 3 home runs, all solo shots. You put ANYONE on for one of those home runs, we win the game. It’s that simple. That’s how we won game 4. People on when the ball goes out.
Teixeira finally came thru, but where is Swisher? He’s a hole in the offense.
I actually like Posada batting ninth, but Molina’s done for the rest of the games played, period. Put Posada in 5th, 6th, or 9th. It’s all better than playing Molina, which is pretty much giving up the DH spot.
A-Rod is not going to see any high leverage situations anymore. They’re not going to let A-Rod beat them, so that means other people need to step up.
The Angels look like they have a plan for the Yankee lineup, and it’s working. The amount of times in this series I’ve seen strike 3 swinging at ball 4 in the dirt is pathetic. Anyone who remembers the ‘03 series will remember Soriano: down and away. It was like clockwork. Throw it low and away to Soriano, and his bat never came within 3 inches of the ball. Same thing appears to be happening here.
I’m concerned about this team going back to New York. We blew two winnable games out here. We won games in NY maybe we shouldn’t have. The Angels batters are worse, pound for pound, than ours, but they’re getting the timely hits. We’re not. We don’t seem to have an effective plan for them, and they do for us. These are all big concerns.
Wow I’m not even going to read some of these comments. Anyone one even suggesting Posada screwed up this game, or Posada should be benched, is completely ignorant, & needs to be banned from this board immediately
“gyaos
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Game over.
Series over.
Choke in progress.
Enjoy it, DT, you know nothing nimrod.”
Thank you troll. I’ll always hold the award you drew for me with your little troll crayons, near and dear to my heart.
No matter what happens, I still have faith, because unlike you little troll, I don’t have a heart filled with hate.
The pressure of the series now shifts back to the Yankees.
I am praying so hard that this doesnt go to 7.
I. Hate. Game. 7’s.
Now the Yanks have to hit Saunders who they didnt touch in game 2. Also Andy wasn’t great in game 3 against them he had guys on base every inning. I hope I am wrong but I don’t like the match up for Andy again.
that hughes was allowed to shake posada off and throw a straight fastball on a 1-2 pitch…damming….not good
I’m not sure what more Robertson has to do to prove to Girardi that he’s capable of being part of the bridge to Mo.
Swisher should have been benched in Game 4 and in Game 5, and he cost them today.
It’s almost a good thing the game didn’t go into extra innings… no A-Rod or Matsui, way to remove the big bats.
Basically Cone said being up 3-2 is a good place to be. If someone told you that after 5 games teh Yankees woudl be up 3 games to 2 and going back to NY for two games in a stadium where you have a solid HFA, you’d take it.
Down 7-6, bases loaded, 3-2 count against a guy who can’t throw more than 89, a soft 89ish one right down the middle and he pops it up. GOAT #1; Swishalicious.
Phil Hughes is young, and when Vlad looks terrible on a 1-2 curve, why not throw him another? Especially when you can’t locate your fastball? GOAT #2; Hughes.
AJ, you get your team in a 4-0 hole without an out in the game. They rescue your sorry behind and you have a 6-4 lead going into the 7th. OK, Mathis is unreal right now, and he gets a hit. But walking Isturis on 4 straight pitches when you’re up 0-2? With the last one being nowhere near the zone? When your pitching coach and manager ask if you have anything left, if you are 100%, TELL THE TRUTH. You waited all yuor life for this moment, and you came up short, brother. Hope you pitch in the WS, and you’re not getting Molina. GOAT #3, AJ.
Finally, your team comes back in the game after your starter looks atrocious. You need 9 outs, or maybe 4 until the greatest closer of all time can come in. You have a young guy in your BP, Robertson, who has been lights out in the postseason. So what do you do in the 7th? Let your emotional wreck of a starter go the 7th. OK, he sucks wind (no surprise, since he’s OVERTHROWING THE BALL), but you still can get out of it. Why not go for the jugular, pitch Mo, come what may after Marte. A 7 out save to go to the WS. You have 2 days rest. No, instead you go to someone who should get it done, but does not. GOAT #4, Girardi.
They should have lost this game, and did. Still up in the series 3-2. Great pitchers for likely Sat and Sun. If the Angels can beat Andy and CC in Yankee Stadium, they deserve the pennant.
Bonus: Yankees can win at home. Despite the goats, this team really showed something, as did the Angels. Everyone thought this would be a dog fight.
Nick in SF
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:46 pm
hey everyone, recap on ESPN!
Sorry. That wasn’t funny.
Did they show 2004?
Looks like the number of posts for the next game will be down given all the people jumping off bridges tonight.
Halos deserve some credit, they didn’t fold up and came through with timely hits. Was it ever in doubt they were a great team? Did anyone really expect the Yankees to just roll to the World Series unchallenged?
Giardi is just not up to the task. Please have the other coaches make the moves because he is so stupid. He has given 2 games to the Angels, and almost gave 3. The players need to step up and win because Girardi is hurting this team.
“2004 again ? ”
I don’t remember Andy and CC pitching games 6 and 7 and the opposing manager intentionally walking the tie run in the 9th in 2004.
I don’t feel at all devastated or consider this a crushing loss. It’s obviously an unfortunate loss but it also shows that down 4-0 in the later innings, the Yankees came right back. The Angels were playing for their lives – and they almost lost them.
Give me the 10th player all the time – Yankee Stadium. Andy Pettitte on the mound? It’s impossible to worry. A six-game series isn’t an embarrassment.
We definitely choked, the pressure was on the Angels, these guys are going to try to do too much on Saturday. Guys there’s going to be a Game 7.
Doreen October 22nd, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Basically Cone said being up 3-2 is a good place to be. If someone told you that after 5 games teh Yankees woudl be up 3 games to 2 and going back to NY for two games in a stadium where you have a solid HFA, you’d take it.
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Thanks Doreen.
Come soon Saturday
Why does everbody forget about of David Robertson. Just cause hes not a big name instead of phil i would have used robertsen.
Once the Yanks suffered through their early season bullpen woes, the Yank bullpen became practically invincible when Girardi settled on Robertson-Hughes-Rivera to close out games.
It worked great for half a season.
What happened to that simple formula? Why are we experimenting in the post-season?
some of you people just make me sad…terribly sad…
Game over.
Series over.
Choke in progress.
Enjoy it, DT, you know nothing nimrod
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Thank you for your appreciation
Hughes is flat out choking the ball. The pressure is too much. He hasn’t been Phil Hughes all post season. It was obvious after the first batter he faced.
“Is that the true SJ?”
No
I don’t believe a choke.
The bosox were all roiders in 2004 calm down.
Yankees fans will be behind the bombers.
Sat night is supposed to rain and thunderstorm. Figures.
Yankee Fan in Boston- The Angels look like they have a “plan” for the Yankees hitters? Well, somebody should probably tell the Angels, because 16 runs in 2 games (not to mention the 10 additional runners LOB tonight by the Yanks) suggests otherwise.
One more thing, Hughes and Chamberlain do not have the experience to pull off something like that that seventh inning. Either leave Burnett in, and hope he gets out of it, or leave Marte in.
Veteran experience is huge in playoff pressure situations. Hughes was so nervous out there I could see his teeth chattering.
The Angels had everything in their favor, and they still BARELLY hung on to win:
– playing at home
– Lackey pitching beautifully
– 4 run first inning
– Molina starting the game
– the worst hitter in the big leagues, Jeff Mathis, turning into
Mike Piazza
– questionable decisions by Girardi (but not awful)
– generous umpiring (but the ball call in the 7th helps)
Best thing about the next 2 in NY? No more of that infernal, idiotic, POS rally monkey. I hope that thing breaks out of his cage and infects Angels fans everywhere with some sort of Outbreak type disease. OK, mabe that’s a bit harsh… but you the point.
I cannot believe that a 6 run inning down 4 runs in the 7th inning was wasted.
“A six-game series isn’t an embarrassment”.
It’s a ticket to the Wold Series
I’m afraid of Nick Swisher!!! Gravely! I trust him with nothing…
This one absolutely hurts
But we get it done in 6…
Why Joe Girardi should be fired
1. Assembling an idiotic Playoff roster.
Three Catchers, 2 pinch runners (Guzman and Gardner), a Pitcher who doesn’t pitch (Gaudin), no pinch hitter???
Hinske couldv’e been a perfect candidate to pinch hit for swish there.
2. Poor Bullpen management
In the previous games Girardi was burning through the bullpen like a kid opening toys on christmas. Now he brings back in Burnett after a long 6 ip and a long rally? Clearly he was tired and the long wait didn’t help him. He just can’t get a feel for his pitchers or when to make a change.
3. Why pinch run for A-Rod?
Let’s say that swisher walks and the game goes to extra innings. Don’t you think that the hottest hitter in baseball, a hitter that the Angels intentionally walked to put the tying run on base, be useful in a long extra inning game? And is he really that much of a detriment on the base paths? Also, by not pinch running for A-rod, Guzman could’ve pinch run for Matsui and therefore Gardner could’ve been used to pinch hit for a struggling swisher.
Just a few things to think about
i thought sj44 liked girardi?
Pettitte & co are going to win this. Have some faith.
Denise
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:49 pm
igotid88,
you’re clueless…no AJ should not have pitched the 7th, however, Hughes hasn’t proven himself in the playoffs at all, so u bring in Mo to protect the lead with 2 runners on and when he can’t go anymore, Robertson can be trusted to finish it off, with the lead!!!!
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Were you around in 2007? I’m not saying AJ should not have pitched the 7th. I agreed with letting him pitch. He was in cruise control. But he fell apart again. I’m not letting Hughes slide. But to say he hasn’t proven himself is not true.
Look, supposedly the Yankees gave the Angels life after the Robertson/Aceves game and then came back adn won teh next game 10-1. They have a day off. They have been able to put bad losses behind them all year. I am not worried that this game gave the Angels life.
If this series has showed anything it’s that it’s a set of one-game series.
And the Angels are a good team. I always thought the games would be close, and except for Tuesday, they have been. What I think did hurt was yesterday’s off day after a 10-1 win.
How did Phil Hughes implode this bad!!! Very dissapointing!! He has to get his act together for the next post season…
Girardi, Scioscia…
Second guessing the guessers…
Genus genii…
We win game 3 if it was at the Stadium
We win game 5 if it was at the Stadium
Good News! Game 6 is at the Stadium!!
No way should Giardi brings back in Burnett after the Mendoza line hitting Mathis took him to the house for the entire game. He should have been gone before he starting choking on himself with the the walk to Aybar….he managed like scared the entire game.
Denise
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:49 pm
igotid88,
you’re clueless…no AJ should not have pitched the 7th, however, Hughes hasn’t proven himself in the playoffs at all, so u bring in Mo to protect the lead with 2 runners on and when he can’t go anymore, Robertson can be trusted to finish it off, with the lead!!!!
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You really should not be calling people clueless if you are calling for Mariano in the 7th inning on the road.
Again, no one has given a valid reason why AJ should not have started the 7th inning after cruising for 5 innings.
Is it because we have a shut down bullpen? Well, we have had far from it in the postseason. Hughes and Joba have been bad the entire postseason. Mariano has carried this bullpen.
“i thought sj44 liked girardi?”
That is an SJ imposter
wow, you can tell YES network people don’t like Swisher at all.
He sucks
Girardi over-managed the entire series and tonight he decided to stop when they actually needed it.
Nick, I told you to get your #$@ to John Wayne IMMEDIATELY. You said you could’ve made it by the 7th. We needed you, buddy.
At least the game went over, huh?
Girardi needs to do the right thing and take Swisher out of this lineup, jarry hairston jr. is looking good right about now. And I don’t know what the hell was wrong with AJ in the first inning but if we only have two reliable starters at this point, we might get swept by the phillies, provided we close this series out on Saturday, which I believe we will.
“The pressure of the series now shifts back to the Yankees.”
Only 1 team can home Saturday and it’s not the Yankees.
THIS WAS A HORRRRIBLE LOSS….HUGE momentum for the Angels.
With that 6th run inning, game should have been OVER. That shows that our bullpen is NOT really as good as people say it is.
AJ should not have came out in the first place, Hughes may have done better if he started the inning off…idk if i’ll even be able to get to bed after this loss…PAINFUL
Now that cheap strike 3 to Tex in the first inning is costly.
Everyone needs to relax. We are still up 3-2. We all new this was going to be a long series. It looks like our bats are waking up, this team doesn’t give up until the end. We go home and win it in NY on Saturday and still have a few days off before the WS. Andy is a big game pitcher, Saunders is hittable. Shut up about 2004, it was 5 years ago, and this is a different team. Wow, talk about a soap box for my first post here!
I’m chapped at Hughes right now.
The only pitch that was working for him was the curve. He didn’t throw 1 good FB.
But decides to he doesn’t wanted to throw his curve for some strange reason.
effing awful job.
Girardi said a missed opportunity, sounds so positive like it was no big deal to lose the lead, way tooooo nonchalant for my liking. Defending Hughes, said he’ll get it done-I’m just disgusted with Joe right now
On a side note…there is no other sport that can do what baseball can do in regards to getting this type of reaction from it’s fans.
That is why this is the best sport.
I can’t believe I’m saying this….
I wish Hinski was available on the bench
As much as girardi didn’t throw a single pitch this game, you have to pin this loss on him.
He only made one mistake but that mistake cost us the game. Leaving Burnett in for the 7th. Even though AJ had only thrown 86 pitches, every single one of them was a high effort pitch, with men constantly on base.
I thought bringing Marte instead of Coke was another bad move, one that surprisingly didn’t back-fire.
Finally, he could have brought in Jerry Hairston Jr for Swisher. Forget a baseball, Swisher couldn’t have hit a beach ball.
Oh well, I hope Andy’s home ERA doesn’t come and bite the Yankees in Game 6. Something tells me that we had better count on another deep outing from CC to wrap this one up.
Hey, Guess what, Swisher had a chance to overcome his postseason and didn’t. Now we have to face Saunders, who shut us down in NY already. Andy is big time, but who do you trust in that bullpen now?
Hughes? has been awful!
Joba? worse!
Coke? seriously?
Maybe Robertson, but even he has been shaky.
If Andy doesn’t win its over.
CC will shut them down but then we have AJ, Andy, CC, Gaudin in the first 4 games of the WS?
“We win game 3 if it was at the Stadium
We win game 5 if it was at the Stadium
Good News! Game 6 is at the Stadium!!”
Exactly. The Yanks very easily could’ve won 5 games already. Of course they could’ve easily only won 2 games. This damn game is so fragile some times.
In the AFL, Michael Dunn pitched a perfect 8th inning with 2 strikeouts, including Yonder Alonzo. He through 10 pitches….all strikes. Colin Curtis is 0-2 with a walk. Nobody else from the Yankees have played, yet.
Montero was 0-1 with a walk tonight in Venezuela.
I thought the plan was that the Yankees only needed to win one in their park. They did that. The train is still on the tracks.
Thinking positively: 1) We can clinch in the bronx and see the stadium absolutely erupt and 2) Andy can get the win which would give him the most post season wins of all time
It’s absolutely mind boggling how Girardi keeps bringing Joba into these big spots. I absolutely can’t understand it. Joba’s stuff is terrible and he keeps hanging pitch after pitch. Girardi’s bullpen managing just makes absolutely no sense.
If Swisher doesn’t sit for the next game or bats 9th, we are in for a long night. We will win the next game in spite of Giardi, Swisher and bad calls by the umps!
Petitte knows how important Game 6 is, enough said.
He ***threw*** 10 pitches….all strikes
jake,
our bullpen is good, Joe didn’t pick the good ones to the mound tonite! left them sitting out there on the bench to do nothing
Everyone, we gotta breathe a little. We weren’t even supposed to be in this game. We generated 6 runs with 1 out left in the 7th inning! That’s incredible.
Phil struggled and didn’t get it done. But we have our veteran leader on the mound Saturday and he will get the job done.
Keep the faith!
I’m just tired of hearing ppl say when we play the Phillie…blah blah blah…hey this team has to first beat the Angels, and so far they can’t.
GreenBeret7
Isn’t Montero coming back from a hand injury?
Charlie Manuel will out manage Joe,hhe goes by feel,Joe runs to the book!
OUCH
@keithlaw There is no way A-Rod would have gone first to third on a walk and an HBP. Good pinch-running, Joe! #ALCS #Angels #Yankees
4 minutes ago from web
“The Angels had everything in their favor, and they still BARELLY hung on to win:”
Same as the Yankees had and did in Game 2. No style points in baseball. You win or you lose. Halos deserved it. Lot of teams would have died like dogs after that 6 run 7th. Certainly Burnett gets an assist on LAA’s 3 run 7th, but they still had to get a couple key hits and six outs.
I think this series is done for the Yanks. They needed to win this one and they can not go to a 7th game because then CC will not start game 1 for the WS. I knew they would lose this game and I think they will lose the series.
Kruk sees it going to seven, says Joe Saunders is ‘up to the challenge.’ And Andy Pettitte isn’t????
Chris Singleton says the Yanks close it out in six — tonight he is cast as the voice of reason on BBTN.
Wild, wacky stuff.
Hey, it’s October excitement, don’t let it phase you. We’re still the better team and we have Andy and CC at regular rest on deck. No more Molina starting. The stars are still aligned.
“It’s a ticket to the Wold Series”
Bingo KF!
And the Yankees WILL get it done.
Guys, the main reason why the Yankees haven’t won this series already is because Girardi is helping the Angels. He has made one dumb move after another. You have to wonder if Joe is on the Angels payroll. The players need to step up so Joe has no say in the game because he is killing us.
There was no one on the 40 man roster that was going to pinch hit for Swisher. Hinske, and Gardner are lefties. Swisher has a great eye, and did a great job getting it to 3-2. Yeah, he missed a hittable pitch no doubt, and I was begging him just to try to get a single and not go for a homerun. Fuentes got lucky this time, I’m not worried about him going forward.
No more Thunderstix. Cano came through in the clutch. Tex has a bat. I love my team – the rest of you can lose all the sleep you want – we’re winning on Saturday.
“He ***threw*** 10 pitches….all strikes”
That’s impossible. Dunn?
And to all the “momentum” fanboys. This series has shown there’s no such thing as momentum. If anything, the team that loses comes back even stronger the next game and ends up winning. So we have that going for us as well.
Doesn’t Girardi usually bring in his relievers to start an inning?
Letting AJ start the inning was a mistake. He walks too many batters. He let the 8 and 9 place hitters get on base.
AJ is basically a .500 pitcher with bad control.
Don’t expect him to be like CC. It will never happen.
I trust CC and Andy but not AJ. He implodes too much.
Girardi is doing a very poor job. He is. If they can’t take one of the next 2 games, he deserves to be fired for some of the most blatant mismanagement of a championship roster we’ve seen here.
If’ I’m Mattingly, I wait until this series is over before taking any offers.
Girardi aside, the real problem in this series is Swisher and how the game keeps finding him in key situations.
The way he has performed, this team is going to need 2 corner OF’s next season.
He’s by far the worst hitter in this lineup. If he has to start, he needs to bat 9th.
Has anyone forgot that the Yanks didn’t touch Saunders in game 2?
Why would Hinske pinch hit for Swisher? Hinske is a lefty and Funtes is a lefty.
This isn’t such huge momentum for the Angels. Anyone saying that is a rally money troll, and stay in LA, Monkey Boy.
The team is finally hitting with men on base. When they do, you get 6 spots with two outs. Of course, it could have been a 7 or 8 spot, but guess who made the final out of the top of the 7th? Our man Swish.
The team is resilient, has great pitching, and great clutch hitting. The Angels are good, but not as good as the Yankees. I said before the series started Yankees in 5 if AJ can control his emotions, or Yankees in 6 if he can’t. Guess what: he couldn’t control his emotions.
OK, let’s do this at home.
why u all think Hairston batting instead of Swish is so brilliant is beyond me. Hairston looks out of his league up there, esp against a closer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwLAh8qhOqI
How does Hughes throw gradpa Guerrero the ONLY pitch he can hit when he had him wiffing at a curve on the previous pitch…I smell consipiracy! (Jst kidding but still!!)
Nick,
Well if Kruk see’s it going to 7 with Saunder over Andy who are we to argue?
2004?
Are there actually people who are concerned about the Yankees blowing this series?
The Angels can’t win at the Stadium.
Worry about something else.
The Angels had so many things go right for them tonight – and they still barely won. There is no reason to believe that they can go to the Bronx and take 2 against Andy and CC… and of course Mo.
100 pitches for fun. Have you forgotten that we won that game?
This losss is on Girardi. I was praying that Burnett would not come out for the 7th. Might the pen have blown the game anyway ? Maybe, maybe not. But this was by far Girardi’s biggest mistake of the post season. Amd will you please put Swisher on the bench and start Gardner. Let Swisher take care of the pies which he’s better suited to do than hitting in the clutch.
Joe just refuses to go to Robertson though he has been the best guy in the pen besides Rivera. He just does not have a feel for the game. He has to be on the most idiotic managers in the game.
“Has anyone forgot that the Yanks didn’t touch Saunders in game 2?”
Pettitte wasn’t exactly thrashed in Game 3 himself.
Hughes missed with a fb. Posada set up high, Phil threw it low. It happens. It’s the right pitch, and he was the right pitcher, just missed on the location.
AJ, AJ, AJ: Not so much for the first 4, but for the 7th inning. Dude… This game should dispel any remaining illusions about any particular catcher having much to do with AJ’s performance in any given game. The best bat the team has who can hold down the catcher’s job will do just fine going forward, assuming the Yankees are able to win one of the next two games. No more need to weaken the much-needed offense on his account.
Phil – he blew it for sure, and it was awful, but somehow his contribution doesn’t upset me quite as much, probably because he’s been so good. But he was brutal.
Joe G: Maybe I’m wrong, but something wasn’t quite right in the 7th. The offense gave them a lead with 6 runs in one inning and they couldn’t hold it because of the bullpen. Maybe starting clean in the 7th would have ended the same way, but it’s hard to understand how it could have turned out much worse. It’s also hard to imagine why Joba and Marte threw a pitch when you had a chance to put it away. Again, using Phil I can understand, but those two, not so much.
I can’t give enough credit to what the offense did during the comeback inning. It was a thing of beauty. (Swish, however… sigh.) All the more disappointing then to have it undone by the pitchers (except Mo). Unfortunately, the Yankees have now let their opponent up off the canvas, so now they’re going to have to come through bigtime on Saturday to avoid the hot mess that would be a game 7. Cold weather won’t be enough to vanquish these newly-revived Angels. Andy’s going to have to shut them down and the Yankees are going to score enough to take them out of it early. I hope they’re good and mad enough to do it.
I’m sorry – so far they’ve beat the Angels 3 out of 5 times.
Hughes has post-season experience. Saved Clemens rearend a couplefew years ago.
Girardi is doing fine.
Swisher is cold as ice, and I like what Kenny said, basically that Swisher should have pulled a “Bernie Williams” – step out of the box a lot and break the pitcher’s rhythm. Swish is supposed to be able to draw walks. A walk there would have been great.
All these EXTRA games because Joe pulled Robertson for Aceves in game 3.
Obviously Andy is a monster and should give us a quality start Saturday. The Yankees can’t lose the series but being up 2-0 and then 3-1 you do not want to play game 7.
What you have to worry about if it’s time for Pettitte to give up a stinker and the if it’s time for the Yankees to get destroyed in at least one playoff game.
Two run lead with 9 outs to go how do you mess around with that? Joe Girardi goes out of his way to embarrass himself, terrible stuff!!!
Hey Keith Law, if your reading this, where are your Sox? Home, lonely, and cold.
Nothing wrong with pulling ARod. You go for the win, or die. He went for it. I wish he had brought Mo in after Marte–that would have taken guts, but a 7 out save with 2 days rest after 2 days rest was doable.
Jeter totally holding back to the press, you can tell what he really wants to say
it is now the players 3 and girardi 2. The players won 3 and girardi lose 2.
Denise
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:03 am
why u all think Hairston batting instead of Swish is so brilliant is beyond me. Hairston looks out of his league up there, esp against a closer
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There’s no one on the bench for his series that is an upgrade over Swisher.
Monday everyone was on Melky and now he’s hitting .381 in this series.
Swisher stinks. He can’t hit. Play Gardner. That should guarantee Swish at least a hit on Saturday.
It should have been Robertson to start the seventh, Hughes to start the eighth, Rivera to start the ninth.
We won two-thirds of our games in the second half of the season with that simple formula.
No, in the playoffs we have to push AJ, put Hughes out there in the middle of a fire and bring in Joba.
Sigh…
Posada = Goat
This LOSS is on Jorge
Facing Vlad, he called for a 1-2 fastball straight down the middle of plate.
Jorge’s game calling skills have been thoroughly discredited.
It’s time for the posada groupies to put their school-girl-like crush aside and face the truth — Jorge stinks.
Any SJ44
No the extra games are Andy throwing Vlad a meatball in the 6th inning of game 3.
No, all these extra games because the hitters in Game 3 didn’t hit at all with RISP.
not to be crazy but…
Yanks now 0-5 in their last 5 chances to close out the ALCS. 3 one run games, 1 two run game, 3 blown leads in the 7th inning or later…..yikes
“There’s no one on the bench for his series that is an upgrade over Swisher.”
We had a great bench in the last half of the season, but we always lacked a solid RH hitter to come off the bench.
There was no one to PH for Swisher even if we had our late August roster out there.
The reasons the Yankees lost this game:
1. Girardi has some sort of love affair with AJ. He never should have let him stay in after the walk.
2. Rivera should have been in this game sooner. I know, I know, your closer is for save situations. But this game needed to be “saved” in the 7th. He’s the best there ever was and he should have been in the game.
3. In a game where Girardi should have made more moves, he didn’t.
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I’m seeing shades of ‘04 here. Everyone punched their ticket after the 3-1 series lead. But now, it’s two one-game series’ and the Angels are the best team in baseball at beating the Yankees.
Girardi better wise up and start managing these games better or else, the Yanks will be watching from home.
KF
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:01 am
GreenBeret7
Isn’t Montero coming back from a hand injury?
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Yeah, he’d been out for nearly 2 monyhs with a broken finger. He’ll be fine, though.
Flaherty trying to tell us they tried to set up Guerrero with a high inside FB.
Okay BUT Hughes wasn’t locating his FB. and chances are he was going to throw a cookie and he did.
Right there you have to go after him and double up on the curve.
“Facing Vlad, he called for a 1-2 fastball straight down the middle of plate.”
You clearly didn’t watch the game.
PeteAbe would have never left the blog hanging like this for so long. Just sayin’
“Posada = Goat
This LOSS is on Jorge
Facing Vlad, he called for a 1-2 fastball straight down the middle of plate.
Jorge’s game calling skills have been thoroughly discredited.
It’s time for the posada groupies to put their school-girl-like crush aside and face the truth — Jorge stinks.”
Yeah! HAHA! The Jorge devotees think he is actually good! I love that he is failing!!!
Saunders can be beat. The Yankees just need to drive his pitch count up and get him out of the game.
I am just really fed up with Girardi. He has cost this team two wins. You have to take A.J. out of the game when he wasn’t that good, and you need to have Rivera ready for 2 innings to close it out. Even a retarded person can figure that out but Joe can’t.
Pettitte is due for a stinker, so is Al, so I’m going w/ Kruk Game 7 Sunday.
““Facing Vlad, he called for a 1-2 fastball straight down the middle of plate.””
“You clearly didn’t watch the game.”
Instead of saying something that anyone can say, why don’t you give an explanation?
Posada called for a fast ball UP, not right down the middle.
Hughes blew that one.
I just can’t believe that Robertson never entered the game. Let him start the 7th or after the hit then bring him in. There was absolutely no reason to go that long with AJ. I didn’t even realize that he sat for 30 minutes in the bottom of the 6th. Girardi is going to get absolutely killed by the media in the newspaper tomorrow and he deserves it.
Oops – 2 posting misfires in one thread is a sure sign of a need for sleep. Meant to ask if any of the SJ44
“No, in the playoffs we have to push AJ”
He was only at 77 pitches thru 6 and cruising. Not exactly pushing him by bringing him out for the 7th
Classic…Dodgers owner Frank McCourt going through a divorce fires his CEO wife. LOL
If Hughes had missed with his curve. Guerrero would’ve probably hit a home run.
Trevor
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:09 am
Flaherty trying to tell us they tried to set up Guerrero with a high inside FB.
Okay BUT Hughes wasn’t locating his FB. and chances are he was going to throw a cookie and he did.
Right there you have to go after him and double up on the curve.
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It wasn’t a “cookie” and it’s not like it was ripped. Guerrero’s a HOF hitter and strong enough to get it through the middle. It was the walk that hurt.
Evan
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:07 am
Posada = Goat
This LOSS is on Jorge
Facing Vlad, he called for a 1-2 fastball straight down the middle of plate.
Jorge’s game calling skills have been thoroughly discredited.
It’s time for the posada groupies to put their school-girl-like crush aside and face the truth — Jorge stinks.
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When I read comments like this I really wonder if half the people on here even watch the games.
Did you miss Hughes shaking off Jorge 3 times?
I just don’t get how we PR for Al, then Guzman doesn’t even attempt to steal a base, I don’t get those moves. Really I don’t.
Poor Swish he can’t even hit a fastball right down the middle.
Billy D-
But we know AJ and when he gets in trouble (a la the first inning) he can get in deep. After the walk, he should have been yanked for Robertson.
“Instead of saying something that anyone can say, why don’t you give an explanation?”
Sure.
If you watched the game, you saw Jorge stick his glove hand up high, That’s the way he calls for a high fastball, always has.
They wanted to show Vlad the high fastball, then come back and get him out with the curve down low.
But Hughes didn’t locate it, he missed low by about a foot.
That’s what I saw.
Man, Swish is hurting in this interview.
Let’s pick him up boys on Saturday.
He made a true throw to the plate w/Rivera on the mound.
There are some guys on this team who need to get over the threshhold.
Swish is one of them.
D-Rob will never be GI Joe’s most trusted, IDK how he wasn’t pitching that 7th inning.
Hughes is not the Hughes we saw all year. He just isn’t. The pressure is burying him.
Joba has lost some on his fastball since 07 and he is hanging slider after slider this post season.
Our bullpen going into these series was looking perfect, but at this point it is certainly not what we thought it was going to be.
For the offense to come from down 4 and score 6 in the 7th and then lose the game is tough no matter which way you want to slice it.
I’m goin to NY for this game 6, can’t miss it!
these next two games will be a real test for the players because girardi’s management skills have been abominable this series. there is no excuse whatsoever for replacing a-rod with guzman. none. no excuse. girardi’s only job is to NOT do stuff like that! he’s not hired to make the team win–the team can only win on it’s own!–he’s hired not to get in the way of their winning. that’s it that is all he has to do. i know joe g. is not on the take, but that is something someone on the take would do.
so this team, in order to win the world series, is going to have to beat girardi. they are goin gto have to become phillies style men and tell joe g. to shove it when he tells damon/jeter/swish to bunt or other such nonsense. only real men win the series, not obedient pansies. (and i say this as a feminist so don’t try to say that’s sexist). i’m sick of joe’s obedient passive “yes master” masculinity that he is trying to breed into his players. it’s like he’s afraid of his players without it. so when i say real men i mean they need to be the professional players they are and not the silent pansies joe wants them to be.
to sub a-rod for guzman isn’t even good base-running judgement. A-Rod is a professional! Guzman is in AA! I don’t care how fast he is! (or how much A-Rod has slowed down) There is more to base-running than speed and you can’t suddenly bring a fast guy into the ALCS from AA and expect it to go smoothly. A-Rod woudl have done a better job!
Girardi has a team full of professionals. And the move to this Guzman (who shouldn’t even be on the roster) is indicative of a larger strategy in which he is trying to replace the professionals with amateurs who will listen to him, instead of winning games.
Joba shaked jorge off constantly.
i hope andy can come up big…and the pen needs to pitch well too
Burnett wasn’t anywhere near 100 pitches and had been pitching well after the 1st inning. The bullpen didn’t have it tonight, and it’s not like the Angels lay down at home for the Yankees. Blaming this loss on Girardi doesn’t make sense.
The bullpen is supposed to be a strength for the Yankees, and it wasn’t tonight. That’s why they lost.
Nick Swisher has been really frustrating to watch. It seems like everyone else came through tonight except for him.
Too bad tomorrow is an off day, the off days stink.
I have every confidence in the TEAM…the Manager is a different story. I believed Jeter and the rest of the guys who have been through the ‘04 debacle did not want this to go to a game 6 because it opens up the media, the fans, the Angels that we can’t close out a series.
Well we did it against the Twins and we can and will do it against the Angels. I think the reason I wanted to see it ended tonight was maybe it would get rid of this ‘Rally Monkey’ business and make them like any other team we typically beat.
We should crush them every chance we get…leave no doors open!
I meant to say that Joe has to be one of the worst managers in the game today. He has been worse then grady little. Even he didn’t give up 2 games to another team.
“You have to take A.J. out of the game when he wasn’t that good”
He had retired 18 of the last 21 he faced heading into the 7th. His pitch count wasn’t high and he was rolling.
My take on the game…. I stayed away from the blog in game trying to enjoy it so I apologize if this has all been stated before.
Once they took the lead Girardi should have been thinking…”We are 9 outs away from the World Series, how can I get these 9 outs?”
I have no problem with Burnett starting the 7th, although I would have been fine with either Robertson or Joba in that spot also.
Once the first guy got on I would have had 2 guys warming and obviously you take Burnett out after the walk. Marte did a great job, can’t fault him at all.
Now here is where I would have gotten radical. You only do this on rare occasions. There are 2 outs in the 7th, so they have 7 outs to go, they are up 6-5 with Hunter and the meat of the lineup coming up. I go to Mo. And its not even something I think twice about.
He hadn’t pitched in 3 days and Girardi said before that Mo could get 5 or 6 outs if he needed today.
Well here was the game. Even if Mo can only get 4 outs and finishes the 7th and pitches the 8th, you have Joba, Hughes, Coke, and Robertson to get 3 outs in the 9th against the bottom of the order.
That was where the game was in the balance. Up one run, your best reliever in the game facing Hunter, Vlad, and the rest of the heart of the Angels lineup. That was the game.
When you’re that close you can smell a World Series berth you have to think outside the box. I almost threw something at the TV when he brought in Mo in the 8th with 2 guys on and the Yankees already down a run. It was too late at that point! Even if he shuts them down (and of course he did) you have 3 outs to tie the game, you’re behind, and you saved your best weapon until the game was already decided.
You have to seize the opportunity. Up 6-4. 9 outs to go. A fully rested loaded pen. And a frustrating failure occurs.
Now game 6 becomes very important. When you step back and look at it, this loss is not that damging except for the way it occured. But you have Pettitte going on Saturday at home and your potential WS rotation is still intact.
If they lose game 6 that really hurts, because not only do you have the possibility of blowing the series, you have to throw CC in game 7 and then even if they win you can’t bring him back until game 3 of the WS.
Can’t wait until Saturday.
Gaudin would’ve done a better job in the 7th!! What was Girardi thinking!?!?!
LOL
Oh, and thanks for ignoring my post, people. Geez….
Gaudin would’ve done a better job in the 7th!! What was Girardi thinking!?!?!
LOL
Oh, and thanks for ignoring my post, people. Geez….
I know it wasn’t a cookie but he sure missed his location badly.
Very questionable. He was not locating his FB at all and Guerrero just swung and miss at a curve. and really swings at anything close to the plate. I would have doubled up on it considering it was the only pitch he had been locating.
to clinch in ny could be good thing..hope yanks come out swingin..
Here are the big faults
1. PR for Al, really? is this Gm.7? Who’s a better baserunner Al or Guzman?
2. Guzman doesn’t even steal. What’s the point there!!!
3. Where was Robertson in the 7th? What DOES HE HAVE TO DO!
4. Stayed w/ AJ too long.
This Angels team has new life, this will go 7 games and this is looking like choke city right now.
Mother nature is going to have a say in how this series plays out.
“Too bad tomorrow is an off day, the off days stink.”
They are brutal. The postseason schedule sucks. Yankees had 19 off games during the 162 game regular season. Since, they’ve played 8 games and tomorrow will be their 11th off day.
lets go yankees (formerly lets go twins),
this blog is reserved for people who know what they are talking about! You clearly do NOT! That is not the pitch Jorge called for, Hughes missed!!! you should stop blogging, really, you’re embarrassing yourself a bit
Ed in SF
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:10 am
PeteAbe would have never left the blog hanging like this for so long. Just sayin’
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true
I like the Yankees chances on Saturday with Andy on the mound, he has tons of experience in big games, but he has to have a lead early in order to keep those Anaheim hitters off balance. I am not worried about him, he will be ready.
But, like I said, the Yankees have given them hope, and that is something you cannot do in postseason games, no matter what the sport. If there is a seventh game, the Yankees will lose.
Trevor-
I don’t think the call was bad. It’s not hard to locate the high fastball, it doesn’t need to be anyplace in particular, just too high to hit.
It looked to me like Hughes just messed up. But I dodn’t see the interviews – maybe Girardi talked about it.
Now here is where I would have gotten radical. You only do this on rare occasions. There are 2 outs in the 7th, so they have 7 outs to go, they are up 6-5 with Hunter and the meat of the lineup coming up. I go to Mo. And its not even something I think twice about.
He hadn’t pitched in 3 days and Girardi said before that Mo could get 5 or 6 outs if he needed today.
Well here was the game. Even if Mo can only get 4 outs and finishes the 7th and pitches the 8th, you have Joba, Hughes, Coke, and Robertson to get 3 outs in the 9th against the bottom of the order.
That was where the game was in the balance. Up one run, your best reliever in the game facing Hunter, Vlad, and the rest of the heart of the Angels lineup. That was the game.
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Miggs,
I’ve been howling about this since the 7th.
Good luck selling it to this community of robots, who are still waiting for Rivera to pitch the ninth inning for the save (exceptions on this board who understood the logic of Mo in high leverage are among the few).
Nick Swisher has been a huge disappointment. Joe needs to get a clue and move him to the bench. It’s time to give Brett a chance.
Brandon Downer (BECAUSE TONIGHT IS NOT AN AWESOME NIGHT)
Andy already had a stinker. He was grinding that entire game in game 3. You can tell he didn’t have good stuff. I expect Andy to bounce back.
ok Girardi great joke new lineup
Derek Jeter
Johnny Damon
Mark Tex
A Rod
Matsui
Jorge Posada
Robinson Cano
Melky Cabrera
Jerry Hairston
OK, I give up lol. I meant to ask if any SJ44 posts tonight were the real thing. Imitators are so tiresome.
Enough fun for today. Yankees: please, please, please get your collective act together. Andy: Eight strong and give the ball – and the lead – to Mo. The offense should take care of itself – early and often. Please. Joe G: easy does it, big guy. Go Yanks…
Trevor
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:18 am
I know it wasn’t a cookie but he sure missed his location badly.
Very questionable. He was not locating his FB at all and Guerrero just swung and miss at a curve. and really swings at anything close to the plate. I would have doubled up on it considering it was the only pitch he had been locating.
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You must have decided it was a cookie. It’s second time you said it. One can assume that you don’t know what you’re talking about. I don’t think I’ve you post anything without whining about something…..and, you’re usually wrong.
Hughes couldn’t have hit water from a boat tonight. He was all over the place. Jorge did not call for a fastball down the middle. It looked like he wanted it up to get Vlad to chase. Hughes missed and thats what happens when you cannot locate your pitches.
Whatever GB7. I guess you never heard of an opinion. And if you don’t like what I’m saying ignore me.
I really like Tex
bodhisattva – Destiny Wears Pinstripes
I said the same thing but some on this board thought that Mo should only be used in 9th inning. Torre did one thing right and that was using Mo for 2 innings to close out a series. Girardi has no idea how to manaage in playoff games, and you would think that being on the team during the Dynasty years he would have learned to use Rivera in big situations.
Knicks,
PR for Alex downright bizarre. Unless his hip was hurting or something, it makes no sense.
Overview:
We maintain the HFA, getting one of 3 on the road, so we have 2 shots, if we need them, to close it out at home.
The Angels are not in the Yanks’ league.
Ed in SF
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:10 am
PeteAbe would have never left the blog hanging like this for so long. Just sayin’
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No, he would have figured out how this was another choke job by Rodriguez and Cano. Never mind that Jeter struck out twice and Posada and Swisher did zip and Burnett had an ugly fiest inning.
“He hadn’t pitched in 3 days and Girardi said before that Mo could get 5 or 6 outs if he needed today.”
Hadn’t pitched in three days AND would not have had to pitch again for another 6.
Who is to blame this year if we don’t win. Before it was Al, but obviously its not on him this year.
Let’s look at the positives:
1) Andy is pitching Game 6 at home
2) The Yankees are due to hit Saunders
3) Extending the series to Saturday means less off days before the WS (off days mess up the hitters’ swings).
4) Another game at YS gives hitters more time to get their hitting on track (especially Tex and Cano, who look ready to break out)
5) Clinching the pennant at home would be sweet.
it’s not the bullpen as a whole that failed, it’s the choices that r made out of the bullpen. It’s who you pick to come out of the pen in these situations, this is not the time to boost Joba’s or Hughes’ confidence, who cares about that right now. When you posess the greatest closer of all time, Mo, and why u don’t bring him out in the 7th to get out of the inning is just beyond me, TOTALLY INEXCUSEABLE.
Colin Curtis is 0-2 with 2 walks and a stolen base in the AFL.
bodh and miggs-
Outside of a game 7, you just aren’t going to see Mo coming into the seventh. I know that’s the approved move under the most modern baseball theory, but managers who would do it are few and far between.
Girardi needs to be fired if he blows this. I am so sick and tired of him giving games away.
“There are 2 outs in the 7th, so they have 7 outs to go, they are up 6-5 with Hunter and the meat of the lineup coming up. I go to Mo. And its not even something I think twice about.”
That is the move to make. But most managers don’t have the guts to do it. And it is probably not in Girardi’s “book.”
Trevor
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:25 am
Whatever GB7. I guess you never heard of an opinion. And if you don’t like what I’m saying ignore me.
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Presenting opinions as facts ain’t cutting it. some things are just too stupid to ignore.
Jeremy
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:26 am
bodhisattva – Destiny Wears Pinstripes
I said the same thing but some on this board thought that Mo should only be used in 9th inning. Torre did one thing right and that was using Mo for 2 innings to close out a series. Girardi has no idea how to manaage in playoff games, and you would think that being on the team during the Dynasty years he would have learned to use Rivera in big situations.
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Yeah, I saw yours and Denise’s.
I like Joe as a personality, he’s a very good man, and he does some things very well. But his intelligence, so apparent in the broadcast booth, doesn’t seem to include emotional intelligence, intuition, or “feel.”
He just seems like an utter slave to formula. Is it because he is “playing not to lose” as a rookie in the postseason? Will he become more intuitive if we win the World Series?
Because I have to agree with you – if we don’t bludgeon a team, the prospect of his finger prints on a must-win, close game – which we haven’t actually been in yet – is scary.
New thread ->
I can’t believe people are upset that Rivera didn’t pitch in the 7th inning. Then again, it just goes to show how great he is that fans even feel that way. What the heck is the bullpen going to be like when he retires? Yikes.
Girardi needs to be blamed if this team fails. He is the # 1 person hurting this teams chances. He should be getting paid by the Angels.
I am still dumbfounded as to why Burnett was out there to start the inning. I am even more dumbfounded as to why he wasn’t pulled after walking Figgins…
and what does David Robertson have to do to get in a game before the 11th inning?
Wave Your Hat
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:29 am
bodh and miggs-
Outside of a game 7, you just aren’t going to see Mo coming into the seventh. I know that’s the approved move under the most modern baseball theory, but managers who would do it are few and far between.
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You’re right Wave – right that managers who would do it are few and far between.
Here, it made ultimate sense. Coming off the off day, and looking at five days rest until the WS.
And it doesn’t mean Mo has to pitch through the ninth, not that he couldn’t, but we might have tacked on and Girardi could have worked backwards.
I know formula rules the day – I just emphatically don’t agree with it.
One more thing: bodhisattva, AGREED about bringing in Mo in when it started to unravel in the 7th. Hold the lead for 2 and maybe the offense even gives a cushion to D-Rob or whoever they bring in the ninth. Or not, but still, you’ve got a 2 run lead and maybe Phil or Robertson could have held that. It’s the postseason, if you have to go outside the box, go for it. Easy for me to say, of course, but the Yankees had a chance to step on the neck of a demoralized opponent from whom they had stolen a lead, win the game and move on to the World Series. The worst that could have happened would have been a loss. After all, don’t they always say if you’re going to get beaten, you want it to be with your best pitch or your best pitcher? If it had been one inning later when this happened, wouldn’t Joe have gone straight to Mo?
lil’ m,
The closer-in-the-9th indoctrination just can’t be overcome.
Again, those people screaming about Mo needs to be saved for the 9th?
Where did they go?
And where did the 9th go?
Both seem to have disappeared…
migs wrote:
I almost threw something at the TV when he brought in Mo in the 8th with 2 guys on and the Yankees already down a run. It was too late at that point!
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don’t you just love how managers do this? Do you know why? Because no one ever second guesses that move. Just once I’d like to see a manager go to his closer with the game on the line in the 7th. You use your best pitcher when the game is on the line, it shouldn’t matter if it’s the 7th 8th or 9th. It boggles my mind how many games could be saved in this fashion yet no one in baseball will even attempt it. Not even teams that are out of the race in September.
one other thing about the 7th – the place is an absolute mad-house at that point – hardened veterans have folded under that kind of heat – all the more reason to bring the coolest pitcher on earth to face down the pressure against the heart of the lineup.
bodhisattva: It’s strange, because in the dynasty days, Joe T used Mo for 2 innings without hesitation because he was (and is) the best pitcher in the pen if not the game. And who can forget game 7 of the 2003 ALCS when Mo went three scoreless innings before Aaron Boone did his thing? I’ll bet Casey Stengel, about whom I admittedly don’t know a whole lot, would have put Mo in as soon as they got the lead and slammed the door shut on the Angels. Who knows, he might even have had Mo go three to close out the game. To paraphrase a line from the movie “Bulworth”, you find an edge, you gotta exploit it. I’m not into sports other than baseball, but if there’s any greater edge in American sports than Mariano Rivera in the postseason, I’ve never heard of it. One day maybe someone will be brave enough to make that move and win. In the meantime, we’d all best pray that the Yankees lay the smackdown on the Angels this Saturday. Wipe that smile right off their faces and move on to dethrone the defending world champs lol.
I am Sorry but Joe Girardi is the main reason the team Blew it! Here’s my points.
- 7th inning, you don’t send AJ back to the mound after almost 30 minutes [without stretching - Did you see CC stretching a few times while waiting on Tuesday? - Well, AJ did nothing] getting Stiff.
- Game on the line, 9 outs away from getting to the WS…. Please surprise and SHOCK the world bringing MO in the 7th. I can guarantee that would ended up killing them [that is streategy] Let MO get the 7th & 8th and watch the pitch count if he’s around 20 bring him back to finish the game, if he’s @ 30 bring back to close the game Dave Robertson.
- Neither Phil Hughes or Joba are having a good Postseason, please Stop using them in key situations, they looked completely in PANIC!
- DO NOT PINCH RUN FOR A-ROD!!! What are you doing? besides that, Guzman did not even try to steal second, so what’s the logic to that substitution?
- Last but not least, please, please, please PINCH HIT FOR SWISHER, Jerry Hairston was more suitable to hit a line drive 10 times, before Swish gets a hit. I am Sorry, but with the game on the line and having already Swish missed in the 7th, you just have to remove him.
Overall, very, very, very poor managing by Joe Girardi. He just don’t have a feeling for what the game calls for, and that is hurting the team so bad.
Also, where’s the bench coach??? Tony Peña is not even near Girardi when he has to take critical decisions, only Eiland is right next to him. Please Somebody Slap Girardi and tell him to wake up!
The idea with PR for Alex is to tie the game first. You leave Guzman at first because they were holding him on. With a Lefty hitting, it opens up RF. Girardi made good moves all game. Everyone was squawking for Hughes – they got Hughes, they squawked for Joba – they got Joba, etc ad infinitum, ad nauseum. Swisher has been swinging for the fences all playoffs, looking for FBs and looking bad. He finally got a FB and overswung again. All he needs is a dinkum single and Mo is waiting. Sciosca gave us the runs by pulling his starter and that was great for us. No one is calling him an idiot. These are two well matched teams.
Yankee fans eh? Frankly I doubt it.
You fans should leave your swisher alone. He made a scrapbook at the start of the year didn’t he?
And he smiles.
Those are intangibles.
Girardi is a complete failure in these playoffs.