Game 3: Yankees at Red Sox
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Gameday Thread on Apr 07, 2010 
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YANKEES
Derek Jeter SS
Nick Johnson DH
Mark Teixeira 1B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Robinson Cano 2B
Jorge Posada C
Curtis Granderson CF
Nick Swisher RF
Brett Gardner LF
LHP Andy Pettitte (14-8, 4.16 in 2009)
Career vs. Red Sox
RED SOX
Jacoby Ellsbury LF
Dustin Pedroia 2B
Victor Martinez C
Kevin Youkilis 1B
David Ortiz DH
Adrian Beltre 3B
J.D. Drew RF
Mike Cameron CF
Marco Scutaro SS
RHP John Lackey (11-8, 3.83 in 2009)
Career vs. Yankees
TIME/TV: 7:10 p.m./YES Network and ESPN2
WEATHER: A few clouds in the sky, but this has been another beautiful day in Boston. It’s hard to believe, but Tampa will have a hard time beating the weather we’ve had here the past few days.
UMPIRES: HP Paul Schrieber, 1B Rob Drake, 2B Joe West, 3B Angel Hernandez
COMING UP SEVENS: The Yankees won last night after being tied at the end of the seventh inning. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the Yankees have won 16 straight games in which they were tied after seven innings. That ties the 1906 Giants for the longest streak of winning such games.
ACE IN THE HOLE: Alfredo Aceves improved to 11-1 with last night’s win. That’s the best start by a Yankee — at the start of his career or with prior decisions with other teams — since Bob Wickman from 1992 to 1993. Wickman went 14-1 when he started his career with the Yankees. The last pitcher to start his career 11-1 (with any team) was Matt Capps. Jesse Crain was the last to start his career 12-1.
CANO CAN: Robinson Cano has a hit in each of his past 13 games against the Red Sox. It’s the Yankees longest individual streak against Boston since Derek Jeter had a hit in 18 straight from 2007 to 2008.
UPDATE, 7:24 p.m.: Not sure anyone is going to be happy about Andy Pettitte being knocked to the ground on his first play of the season, but it’s hard to fault Ellsbury for that play.
UPDATE, 8:08 p.m.: Nice little play by Teixeira. Nothing too fancy, but an in between ball like that could get tricky.
UPDATE, 8:19 p.m.: The AP just moved a picture of the first-inning play at first base.
UPDATE, 8:49 p.m.: As you probably imagine, the crowd here at Fenway was not psyched when Youkilis was hit by a Pettitte fastball. The TV broadcast here in the Boston, the one showing in the press box, immediately cut to Joba Chamberlain. Of course.
UPDATE, 8:57 p.m.: Both benches have been warned, but no one seems too upset about it. Jeter’s having some fun with it, giving Youkilis a shove at first base.
UPDATE, 9:10 p.m.: Tomorrow’s headline: Mark Teixeira avoids being impaled; completes double play.
UPDATE, 9:15 p.m.: John Lackey is out after six scoreless innings. Welcome to the rivalry, John. Pettitte has been terrific, but he’s at 94 pitches and there’s action in the Yankees bullpen. That AP shot is Pettitte’s reaction after the Ortiz strikeout in the fifth.
UPDATE, 9:28 p.m.: Swisher didn’t draw a walk and he didn’t hit a home run, but he got the hit the Yankees needed. Of course, it helped that Drew’s throw was up the line and Martinez couldn’t hold onto it.
UPDATE, 9:29 p.m.: Chan Ho Park in for the Yankees.
UPDATE, 9:48 p.m.: Nice work by Park in these two innings. Here comes Papelbon.
UPDATE, 10:07 p.m.: Park survived a tightrope of hard-hit balls that inning, but he got out of it with the game still tied. Three scoreless from Park. That’s big.
UPDATE, 10:10 p.m.: That was pretty Grandish.
Lets go Yankees!!!
C’mon, bats! Make it easy for Andy!
I miss Bob Wickman.
Let’s get the Sox tonight!
will mariano be coming in for relief duty in the 9th, if his services are needed?
Enough said about soccer.
Who can we expect to pitch in the 7th or 8th inn.Is Girardi really gonne let Park pitch after openingsday.Let him have a fresh start in the next series,right?
yanks get a huge break with Joe West not having any control of balls and strikes and more importantly, check swings. I have never seen so many non-swing check swings called in one game as he did last night.
Melkman, 2008 is when Joba started his shaking off the catcher routine……I recall during a game thread ( I think it was vs. Cleveland ) that it was mentioned about him shaking off Molina that night, and it cost the Yanks the game
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Pat M, you are correct. Cleveland, Joba the reliever in 2008. Let 2 guys on and then shook off a bunch and gave up a HR to David Delucci.
Bob Wickman had a rep as being one of the nastiest people to ever walk into a clubhouse. And if I, a non-baseball professional, have picked up on that….
“yanks get a huge break with Joe West not having any control of balls and strikes and more importantly, check swings. I have never seen so many non-swing check swings called in one game as he did last night.”
AGREED!!!!!!!!
Tom from NJ-
Thanks for the explanation.
Why are they so many Bostonians at ESPN? Nomar, Schilling, Ravech, Berthume, Olney, Keith Law, etc.
And why did they assign one of those to call our game tonight (Nomar)?
These guys are making me miss John Kruk. At least he is a Phillies homer and not a Bostonian.
GB – 1. Hello 2. Mark Feinsand, on the radio broadcast last night, expressed doubt that the 1st and 3rd umpires even pay attention.
With Joba and Ace (potentially) unavailable, it looks like Park will get an inning, if needed.
Joba really rubbed people the wrong way after that Delucci HR.
He was like crying in the dugout after that and the next day he had this hysterical fist pump after striking him out and Dellucci said it was “bush league and not the Yankee way.”
Joe, I counted 8 appeals on check swings last night and not one was reversed. It really cost Burnett at least two strikeouts and two runs. I’ve never seen a less enthusiastic umpiring crew. It was like that didn’t care if they were there or not.
Because the last game I saw Andy pitch before he left for the Astros was his last start at Fenway, and because he won the game (and also because I don’t think Lackey is all that) my prediction is that Yankees take this game and get to Lackey by/in the 5th inning.
Enjoy the game all. I’m taking my cold to the couch.
Because the last game I saw Andy pitch before he left for the Astros was his last start at Fenway, and because he won the game (and also because I don’t think Lackey is all that) my prediction is that Yankees take this game and get to Lackey by/in the 5th inning.
Enjoy the game all. I’m taking my cold to the couch.
And if you don’t see ANY OF THIS tonight, tip your caps to your hosts. If you do see it creep in, contact your hosts.
Go Yankees!
Somebody pointed this out on this boards or the ESPN boards earlier this week:
The Sox have a payroll of around 165 million. That’s 100 million more than a team like the Rockies.
Why is the luxury tax threshold at 170 million? It was specifically instituted for us and is specifically designed to hamper us.
The luxury tax threshold could be around 100-120 million, but it just happens to be about 5 million more than what the Red Sox spending is!!!!
How appropriate. Thanks for the fairness MLB.
Tex, Arod, Cano – the most devastating 3-4-5 combo in all of baseball.
There, I said it.
Gonna be fun!
CR9,
MB stands for Major League Boston.
wrap them in plastic and take them to the carwash and hose them off
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GB7,
Do you have this bass ackward? Wrap them up and wash them? How do you get all the crap off them? I can understand why they just never got clean. Well i guess the bright side is you can recycle the plastic now that you washed it off.
I say hand them to mommy and let her take care of it.
GB, I responded to the Munson / Posada piece on the last thread….I don’t know how to repost………Fce, you have an outstanding memory, yeah ex-Yankee Dave Delucci went yard…….Let’s hope that Lackey hangs a curve and becomes gun shy with that pitch on the inner corner
Jason
How True.
I am watching this game on YES, rather than watching Dan Boston Schulman and Nomar!
Oh boy, from the warm up, Lackey looks unhittable.
Game Over.
Just kidding.
Why are all red sox players so ugly…is it something you have to be before you sign
S.o.S, LMAO. I unwrap them first. I don’t want that stuff all over my leather seats. First time I took them to a McDonald’s when they were 4, the girls all wanted chocolate shakes. You guessed it…within 2 minutes, all three had dumped their shakes and it was 100 degrees outside and there was the mess and three squalling little girls and one squalling male adult.
Jeter needs to make an adjustment. 1 millionth groundball to short in the early goings of this season
GB7,
Got it!! Put the plastic wrap before they start making a mess. If your out of plastic wraps, find some trash bags and cut 3 holes in them. Problem solved.
Is there anything better than a bar that has Guiness on tap?
Happy Days!
Shed a tear….
lol, lackey goes after NJ and easily gets him out. just like i told you earlier today!
Lackey looks like a great signing for Boston. I guarantee he will be better than Javier Gopherball Vasquez.
“That’s where John Lackeye usually lives in the upper 80′s”
-Rick Sutcliffe.
Lackeyey’s average fastball last year was 91.6 mph. For his career it’s 91.1. He’s never had a season in which his fastball is less than 90mph.
Joe Morgan has gotten skewered for years over his ESPN broadcasts.
And he’s much, much better than Sutcliffe. Sutcliffe is horrendous – amongst the worst in all of sports for national broadcasts.
He’s wrong on facts. His analysis is little more than cliches. He’s just awful. How is he employed?
Roger,
I look at it this way. If your good looking. You dont have a problem being butt faced and play for the Yankees. Youl look good no matter what. But on the other hand. If your fugly, Bostons the place for you. Make sense?
Here we go Andy here we go!!
Good inning for Lackey. Nah, the Yanks couldn’t use a great starter like that, so they get Vasquez, lol!
Yankees have taken some good swings off the Red Sox all series.
Arod needs to welcome lackey to the al east.
The Forbes Business of Baseball rankings came out today. That could explain all the owners suddenly chatting about money and payroll again.
http://www.forbes.com/lists/20.....Value.html
yeah, great swings in the first inning…
–easy groundout to short from Jeter (how many groundouts to short is that so far)
–NJ with a feeble groundout to second
–Arod with the can-of-corn to CF
Lackey looks like Gomer Pyle and sounds just like him. Golleeee !
“Yankees have taken some good swings off the Red Sox all series.”
Agreed. They’ve squared up a lot balls. ARod had a good swing on the fly ball to center as well.
can pettitte handle the pressure of the series-deciding game at fenway?
CB, Rick doesn’t do his prep work at all….He rolls into town, finds his favorite watering hole, and gets to the park the next day…Now, at least that was his MO when he was calling games for the Padres…..Not sure if he changes his gig since his cancer recovery
I mentioned it earlier, but, how shocking is it in 15 Fenway starts, Pettitte has allowed only 4 homers?
LOL AT THE YANKS ALREADY!
WHAT FOOLS!
GONNA BE A ROUT TONIGHT!
Not the best way to start a game. could have been ugly.
belial April 7th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
can pettitte handle the pressure of the series-deciding game at fenway?
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Me thinks the guy who won all of the post season clinchers last year can handle the “pressure” of the third game of the year
Oh no.
Tailbone, ouch
PETTITTE THE DOOFUS!
HE SURE LOOKS READY TO PITCH THIS BIG GAME! HAHAHA!
GIVE ME LACKEY ANY DAY
Pat M.,
Sutcliffe just mails in games.
And Red Sox fans are hoping with all hope that Andy is injured.
YANKS REALLY CAME TO PLAY TONIGHT
what happened? watching on gameday
random ??? of the day:
who gets a higher % of 1st ballot HOF votes:
Derek Jeter
or
Mariano Rivera
Where was that pitch?
Ignore the trolls. Please.
I see the tulips have bloomed in Boston early.
Looks who is back !!! Danny Boy, I thought you were grounded
ANDY LOOKS DANDY!
Still at work- whats going on?
Bring out the body bag.
A Yankee gets hurt while playing against the red sox.
What A Surprise.
what happened? im watching on gameday it said there was an injury delay
GONNA BE A BLOWOUT IN FENWAY, FOLKS!
PETTITTE IS WASHED UP.
ORTIZ KILLS PETTITTE
Chad-
Can you do anything at all about this troll that posts every other comment??????
‘what happened?’
Andy & Ellsbury in a foot race to 1st (w/expected outcome)
Andy took a tumble/spill, but he seems OK
2 pitches were right down the middle, and called balls
Where was that last pitch?????????
OH THIS IS FUN
Just one scary offense the sox have.
NOW THE WHINING ABOUT THE UMPS!
that’s hardwired.
work really gets in the way of being a yankee fan
Way to go PEDitte. Get back on the HGH already.
thanks hardwired! is pettite ok??
where was that?
damn that ficking ellsbury. gonna score again.
Pettitte looks A-OK
thanks for the dp, victor. now go sit down.
wow, if that ball was hit came a foot or two closer to the foul line, they could have turned a triple play.
DAN IS A TROLL – DAN IS A D0UCHE will be posted everytime Dan the baby posts anything
BOSTON IS RELENTLESS
AND HERE COMES PAPI, WHO DOMINATES ANDY
DAN IS A TROLL – DAN IS A D0UCHE
CB, Rick is a good guy, likes to have a good time and talk baseball…..Great tales and always buys the rounds……But he does mail it in……..Andy’s endurance and sharpness will be the storyline tonight……
Good decision there. No reason to give Youk anything to hit. People were talking about protection for A-Rod being a concern. But protection for Youk is much more of a concern for the Sox.
Wow…Ortiz had a lot to say last night…
How small is this umps strike zone?
Nice Andy. Good job getting out of the early jam….
Ortiz: 0 for [bleeping] 8
Cano was in the perfect spot. Great pitch and great advanced scouting.
This is the player the Minnesota Twins released – pre-milkshakes.
Am I the only one feeling like Lackey just got corners that Andy wasn’t?
What a joke. The final pitch to Youk was a strike and another pitch could have been a strike, but I think it was a ball.
Let’s see the HP umpire be John’s Lackey Tonight!
David “BIG PHONI” Ortiz.
CD April 7th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
Ortiz: 0 for [bleeping] 8
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lol
getting squeezed much? or does this dude just have a tiny strike zone? I guess well see as the game goes on but he called some high pitches against Tex
thanks david.
Big Puppy
What we just saw is quickly going to become a major storyline for the Sox.
There is simply no reason to pitch to Youkilis now that there’s no one to hit behind him.
Donnie
No. Donnie. That is accurate.
Cheat City once again.
At least we got a decently fair called game yesterday, aside from the check swings.
Teams are going to be pitching around Youk all season. He is just so much better than anyone hitting 5-9 on their team.
This game thread is going to get ugly really fast – with the Sox trolls here. Sam and Chad need to be notified about this; they don’t read the game threads.
Is Andy ok? What happened?
Still too many pitches for Andy.
Lackey probably gets out of the next inning with less than 9 pitches.
Anybody else listening to Nomar?
Erica – shoot off an email to Chad and copy some of the offending posts.
it’s interesting how ortiz has a big negative spotlight on him in boston.
the writers have no clout at all unless ortiz lets it get under his skin, which he has.
teixeira is off to the same start as ortiz, so it’s kind of silly for the boston press to be on ortiz so early.
that said he’s not the hitter he was a few years ago.
My audio feed on the MLB app is so behind the action.
You guys are probably in the bathroom and I’m on the edge of my seat waiting for Ortiz to pop it up.
Betsy – Hughes rules (pleading the Fifth) April 7th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
This game thread is going to get ugly really fast ? with the Sox trolls here. Sam and Chad need to be notified about this; they don?t read the game threads.
Is Andy ok? What happened?
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I just e-mailed Chad. Something had to be done
Difference between PAPI and AROD
When AROD comes off the juice he is still one of the best players in the game.
When PAPI come off the juice he is nothing but a washed up discusting BUM!!!
Betsy – Hughes rules (pleading the Fifth) April 7th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
This game thread is going to get ugly really fast – with the Sox trolls here. Sam and Chad need to be notified about this; they don’t read the game threads.
Is Andy ok? What happened?
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He’s ok…long story short: he collided with Ellsbury trying to tag him out at first…he hit his elbow and he was moving his neck around. The trainer came out but he seems fine.
i think i heard today on nesn that the red sox have 24 million tied up in the dh spot between ortiz and lowell.
If a Yankee had done what Ortiz did, he would be getting slammed by fans and the media; I don’t know if he could live it down.
Did john henry’s wife just said the f word?
By the way, I’m happy I’m not the only one who felt Andy was getting squeezed. NESN isn’t showing the strike zone after the pitches but it sure looked it on two or three pitches.
lackey really is going to be an asset for boston
Valerie, thanks! Poor Andy – it’s been one heck of a spring for him.
Erica, I will e-mail them as well. It’s easy to point to the game threads; if they don’t do anything about it, I will be very disappointed.
Another good at bat for Cano. He was patient again and ran the count to 3-2. Lackey executed on that pitch and got Cano out. But Cano put up a good at bat.
trisha – even gameday shows them right down the pipe that were called balls
LACKEY IS THE KIND OF GUY THE YANKS SHOULD HAVE SIGNED. NOT THE STIFF VASQUEZ
Except I can’t find their e-mail address, lol
Boston writers are pushing for Mike Lowell to replace Ortiz.
Betsy–no prob…I bet we’ll prob hear that he’s a bit sore for the next few days, but hopefully he’ll be good as new for his next start…we can’t afford to lose him.
California April 7th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
Still too many pitches for Andy.
Lackey probably gets out of the next inning with less than 9 pitches.
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Perhaps if you bothered to check, you’ll notice that both pitchers threw 16 pitches.
Ortiz just got back on the juice that was roid rage last night. Unfortunately for him it is not helping him with his hitting anymore.
LACKEY IS DOMINATING
Betsy-
cjennings@lohud.com
Chad said he took care of Dan, but another seems to have popped up….
Lackey is getting the high strike and the strike off the plate.
Breaking News:
John Lackey has a no-hitter through two innings.
Betsy if you go to the top of the page where Chad’s name is, it serves as a link to his email.
That 1-0 pitch to CG was a ball, but called a strike.
Otherwise, not too unfair an inning.
When reading a post from a Red Sox fan, it’s always fun to read it aloud trying to mimic their idiotic accent.
Much like hillbillies, it is impossible to take them seriously.
the truth
Of course.. But that wont be speculated by the Boston media.
ROID RAGE!!!
Dan – here’s an update : your DH is a washed up Former PED addict.
Theos cell phone bill is going up as we speak.
It’s Lowell now or….????
california = red sox fan!
I see us hammering Lackey second time through the order. We will have 4 runs by the time they record the final out of the 5th inning.
Why is the Boston media not asking when Ortiz is going to get back to them on what he tested positive for?
But our media is asking why Galea.
Who cares about college basketball !
What a waste of screen pixel !
Erica, Trish – thanks! I emailed Sam (had his address in my address book) about Dan and this Boston troll…………
Um, Lackey is a very good pitcher so if he beats the Yankees, it will hardly be a surprise. Woo hoo – let’s end the game right here. The Yankees have never hung in against good pitchers and won out in the end.
Dan – the yankees didn’t sign vazquez to a huge free agent long term deal like the red sox did with Lackey. So in short, what u should be thinking about is that the yanks dealt melky cabrera for one year of vazquez and payroll/rotation room for cliff lee. U still psyched about Lackey?
where does andy need to put it?
Theo has publicly stated that the Sox don’t use UZR to measure defense. They use a proprietary system they’ve developed internally.
ESPN announcers at their best…
Other then Lugo and Renteria does every player the Sox bring in hit?
Dan – the yankees didn’t sign vazquez to a huge free agent long term deal like the red sox did with Lackey. So in short, what u should be thinking about is that the yanks dealt melky cabrera for one year of vazquez and payroll/rotation room in 2011 for cliff lee. U still psyched about Lackey?
Where were these last 2 pitches. At least one was a strike.
This is absurd.
That was the same pitch as the last one.
Andy is getting squeezed
Exhibit A, the ‘walk’ to Pedroia:
http://www.brooksbaseball.net/.....v_size=500
Is it just me or is Andy getting squeezed?
Just curious, do Yankee fans invade the BoSox blogs, or are we just blessed to have such friendly and knowledgeable guests here at The LoHud
Sheesh – what does Andy have to do to get a strike called?
LGY
YES!
I think it’s fairly obvious this umpiring crew is anti-Yankees!
Andy is getting squeezed big time…
dont kick Dan off or get him banned. let him stick around so when can see what he has to see when the Yankees win tonight
A cheap strike call for us!
Schreiber seems to have a floating strike zone tonight.
Remy agreed (as did the strike zone graphic) that the total loser behind the plate is calling balls on some of his strikes. You know what, in terms of what this is all about, that’s pretty outrageous. I want it called correctly for both sides. People pooh pooh that stuff, but having to throw 5 strikes to get out a hitter can lead to runs for the other side can lead to a loss that might not have been there can lead to the difference between making the postseason or not. If you get my drift. It’s just wrong.
YES!!
Out of trouble!
Speaking for myself, I don’t visit Red Sox blogs.. I haven’t had the shots required to make it a safe trip.
Just curious, do Yankee fans invade the BoSox blogs, or are we just blessed to have such friendly and knowledgeable guests here at The LoHud
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This implies theres a red sox blog worth visiting
Who else hates watching APettitte pitch? Baserunner after baserunner, walk, nibble, walk , nibble….it is maddening.
The crafty lefthander gets out of another jam……
Not so impressed with the ball/strike calls so far.
Pat M
Never go to Boston blogs. Don’t understand why I or any Yankee fan would.
Don’t understand why they come here at all.
I hope never to see Country Cow Dung Joe West and his crew again this year.
Do all crews stay the same, or do umpires alternate among crews?
Pat M – my guess is that the invasion is one sided.
Dan says:
April 7, 2010 at 7:35 pm
LACKEY IS THE KIND OF GUY THE YANKS SHOULD HAVE SIGNED. NOT THE STIFF VASQUEZ
if you knew anything about baseball which you don’t you would know the yanks did not sign vasquez. They have him for one year via trade. The red sox signed lackey to a long term deal. I would rather vasquez for one then lackey for many
Good for Andy, there, getting out of that inning.
I thought someone (who shall not be named) mentioned that the Red Sox always execute w/RISP. Hmmm…
I really enjoy talking to Ray and Dennis and other good Sox fans who enjoy a baseball discussion, but I would never invade their turf and I would never bait them – that’s just obnoxious. I don’t even know why anyone would do that – get a bigger kick out of annoying Yankee fans than enjoying the Sox do well? That makes no sense.
I for one have never gone on a sox blog and mouthed off, or did anything rudely.
It would be cool if YES got a K-zone.
Holy teacup sized strikezone Batman.
Yeah, NH – I’ve hated watching him for 15 years..
NHYankee says:
April 7, 2010 at 7:47 pm
Who else hates watching APettitte pitch? Baserunner after baserunner, walk, nibble, walk , nibble….it is maddening.
I like the fact he has the most postseason wins in history
Andy is changing speeds very well tonight……
“Who else hates watching APettitte pitch? Baserunner after baserunner, walk, nibble, walk , nibble?.it is maddening.”
What you’re watching is Andy trying to figure out exactly where he has to throw the ball for it to be called a strike. If you think it’s maddedning for you, imagine how he feels. He’s been in enough games to know where the strike zone TYPICALLY is!
It was not really mentioned much since the Yankees won, but the strike zone in game 6 of the WS was atrocious for Andy.
Looks like the trend continuing into this year. lol.
A one-sided invasion would tend to indicate an inferiority complex, of some degree.
I actually love how Pettitte always works his way out of jams. Must make the opposing team SO frustrated every time!
Ah- piece on the blog
Its like someone just kicked out the unruly houseguest!
Umm no. I love watching Andy pitch. Always have – always will.
Pettitte is one of the smartest pitchers I have ever seen
LGY
I mentioned about Game 6. The umpires were doing their best to take away a WS from us.
Trisha
I think Pettitte knows where he needs to put the ball for it to be a strike, right down the middle.
GO YANKS
Betsy cool. Hopefully the troll will be disappeared soon.
I really find it disheartening to see umpire bias. In fact, let me not sugarcoat it. It really ticks me off. I am fighting a cold, or it is fighting me is more like it, so I am not able to either post or watch with rapt attention. Is Lackey getting the same poor treatment by the umpire? If so, then at least it’s an even playing field.
Still a pretty decent at bat by Gardner.
Yeah, good AB by Gardy.
Anybody know if Jeter has different walk-up music this yr?
The Mets really should have gotten Lackey
SoSH can be a great site to get your Schadenfreude on. They have zero filters…it can be filthy brilliance (talented posters).
“The crafty lefthander gets out of another jam……”
This from Pete Abe about Andy and his history with the Sox. Some amazing stuff…
“Pettitte will be making his 35th career regular-season start against the Red Sox, the most for a Yankee since Mel Stottlemyre made 36 against the Red Sox from 1964-74.
Counting the postseason, Pettitte is 20-9 with 3.74 ERA in 39 career appearances against the Red Sox. He has thrown 233.1 innings against Boston in his career.”
http://www.boston.com/sports/b.....tra_bases/
The umpires are not bias just clueless.
trisha
No trisha, Lackey is not getting squeezed a la Andy.
Not a level playing field.
No hitter ova!
Hey, there’s a (non)play Lowell could have made!
The umpires are far from clueless. They KNOW what they’re doing. Dont kid yourself.
Nice…we got a baserunner…I smell some runs here.
I swore beltre was the greatest barehand fielder of all time? He looked pretty ordinary there.
watching Lackey work is certainly better than the old Varitek-Beckett pat-a-cake game.
We’ll get treated fairly after this series, up until our next series against the Sox.
I look forward to Friday.
“A one-sided invasion would tend to indicate an inferiority complex, of some degree.
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“I think Pettitte knows where he needs to put the ball for it to be a strike, right down the middle.”
Time to run Jeter.
That’s not a strike!
Jeter must try to steal second.
Wow.. 200+ innings, thats like almost a whole season alone pitched against just the Red Sox.
BEAT LACKEY!!
Those are amazing #s for Andy; it’s not just that he’s started a lot against them, but that he’s done so well.
I feel like Andy was never gone, like those years in Houston didn’t exist. They did, though, and the proof is wearing #65.
That was the pitch that was called a ball against Pedroia!
bs he didn’t go
Carlo, I think Beltre is a very special player. Of course give him enough time in fenway and I’m sure my animosity toward him will grow and grow and grow.
lackey already at 50 pitches.
Third and First base umpires are horsesht
Did NJ go?
I missed the replay.
I kind of think he held up…
John Lackey has a
ONE-HITTER
through 3 innings.
Lackey is very slow to the plate. He keeps throwing those slow curves. Martinez can’t throw.
But there’s two outs so I guess the text book play is to not run.
CR9,
Stop with the conspiracies. Its like in Hockey, I have never met a hockey fan that didn’t blame the refs when their team loses.
At least they’re makin Lackey work
if Andy hadn’t signed w/Houston, the Yanks wouldn’t have Phil Hughes.
now they have both.
that’s awesome.
After last night, Tex went around??
But last night, we got cheated repeatedly on check swings, in which there were no replays to see for sure if we got cheated. Thanks YES Network.
I don’t understand, either Gameday ppl are smokin the good stuff or Yankees are not complaining enough (it being to early in the season) but I’ve counted 7 Lackey pitches that Gameday is showing off the plate that are being called strikes. Not insinuating any bias by umpires but certainly accusing them of ineptitude
At least Lackey is getting worked. 50 pitches threw 3 innings and our bats haven’t done anything yet. If we get just a couple more baserunners here and there, he should be gone after 6 innings easily.
Betsy -
Otherwise known as (a) every cloud has a silver lining, or (b) everything happens for a reason!
(Andy to Houston, that is).
(But I hated that Andy left. Could you imagine what his numbers would be, what records he’d be approaching?)
California–the important part of that sentence is 3 innings. We’ll be fine. Say that again after 6, then I’ll be worried.
Triple
I am more than willing to accept when my team loses fairly, as the New York Rangers have done much of this season.
And I’m sure we’ll be treated more fair after this series.
CB, Those numbers are mindboggling on Andy and The BoSox……….Lackey is getting away with a few hangers so far…..It’s just a matter of time before someone ( Alex ) turns on one , hangem and bangem…..
the swing, or lack thereof really could go either way
CALIFORNIA = RED SOX TROLL !!!!!!!!!!!
‘California’ is most-likely ‘RDM’.
A name that shall live in infamy.
Not a good pitch by Pettitte
“200+ innings, thats like almost a whole season alone pitched against just the Red Sox.”
That’s what so amazing about that. He’s basically pitched an entire season against the Red Sox alone over his career and has done so during the steroid era.
And in that “season” he’s won 20 games and had an era of 3.74 and did so during a time when the yankees had some awful defensive teams.
Hardwired, I’m so happy about that, lol. Doreen, yep…the story had a happy ending, didn’t it?
It’s frustrating seeing the Yankees not doing much against Lackey, but hopefully Andy will just keep hanging in there and give us a chance.
What’s his pitch count?
I don’t get jeter not running there.
Michael Kay said something about avoiding rodents in the Green Monster.
Hey, Michael, if you want to avoid rodents, avoid the state of Mas sachusetts!
Does anybody know what is wrong with Gene Monahan? I’m guessing its prob some type of cancer?
Tex w/ great catch but does he have a hit yet this year?
iKen pitching for Arizona tonight?
That last pitch absolutely ate Martinez up.
No, Teix does not have a hit this year.
But no worries, he’s not a habitual user like Sleazy Orteezy!
That was terrific camera work on that play by Tex – showing Ped in the background.
Terrific play, also.
blake-
I think it’s just by the book baseball yet again. Keeping the “hole” open for the left handed hitter, two outs and the heart of the order coming up.
Jeter also may have been guessing that he should give Johnson a chance to push him to second by drawing a walk obviating the “risk” of stealing.
I also don’t get it. They should run wild on the Sox. It will get in their heads over the course of a season.
Youkolis gets some many strikes called balls its not even funny
Triple
It could just be the uniform he wears
Betsy I am hoping that by the 5th inning the Yanks will have penetrated Lackey’s armor.
Thankfully Andy is succeeding despite the home plate umpire’s fervent effort to have it happen otherwise.
Did he go?
No replay of course.
CB, i’m sure thats it as well, but I would love to see them make Victor throw somebody out there.
Angel Hernandez has always jammed it to the Yankees. That’s been a longstanding grudge match on his part.
I love watching Pettitte pitch, he might have rough days here and there but you can always trust him to keep his team in the game even when he doesn’t have good stuff
Ortiz swung right through that.
CR9 April 7th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
Michael Kay said something about avoiding rodents in the Green Monster.
Hey, Michael, if you want to avoid rodents, avoid the state of Mas sachusetts!
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Having spent 5 yrs in Boston, I’ve seen a lot of rats in the streets . Not to say that NY is rat free lol, I was just surprised because Boston looks like a clean city…
I hate getting caught up in the MPH game, but Andy hit 92 mph.
That has to be a good thing.
Ortiz got a bleeping hit.
Andy got that pitch up, he’s lucky it wasn’t deposited in the seats
Now Ortiz hits. Perfect. We really need to get to Lackey. Just need Andy to keep us in the game…
All right, he got one. He’ll run into one every now and then.
If Hernandez had called that correctly (Ortiz did appear to go around) Andy would have been out of the inning.
See what I mean?
NYY626
I was talking about the inhabitants of Mas sachusetts!
Of course, excluding the Yankees fans that live or lived there such as yourself.
Ortiz for MVP
Well, at least Ortiz put an end to his personal story there. And we don’t have to hear about it anymore.
The Yankees will get this run back.
Trisha
Yes. Umpires change the complexion of ABs all the time. It’s nothing new.
i agree with angel hernandez having a grudge. I also remember him being a pain or even unfair, and I dont normally remember the names of umps
Left the hanger inside to Ortiz. It’s kind of tough to pitch against the Red Sox and a no strike zone umpire.
The Red Sox will throw Ortiz in the gutter like they do to every other ex player
That’s what so amazing about that. He’s basically pitched an entire season against the Red Sox alone over his career and has done so during the steroid era.
And in that “season” he’s won 20 games and had an era of 3.74 and did so during a time when the yankees had some awful defensive teams.
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Yes. They’re really impressive stats – a lot of Yankee fans don’t truly appreciate just what a great pitcher he’s been for the Yankees. Added to that, the Red Sox has some pretty impressive offensive teams during that time period too.
Guarantee 1 run won’t win this game. Andy is pitching well considering he has to throw it down the middle to get a strike call.
NJ, Tex and Arod need to wake up
Ortiz was sitting on that fastball, opened up early cause he saw it coming and wanted to pull the inside pitch, and the best he could do is hit it infront of swish.
I’ll take it!
No doubt in my mind the yanks will come back
Trisha =
Only if Andy threw the same pitch next that Ortiz swung and missed on. But, I get what you’re saying.
“Andy got that pitch up, he’s lucky it wasn’t deposited in the seats”
Andy made a mistake on that pitch. 90mph flat fastball right in the wheelhouse for a left handed hitter.
Mistake pitches are the ones Ortiz can hit. But Ortiz should have damaged that pitch more than he did.
LET’S GO YANKEES!
Nice strike 3 call there. Looked outside to me.
Tex is painful to watch in April, just like last season
ESPN guys raving about Vmart’s improved catching….please…?
god i hate lackey
Teix will be fine!
*sigh* I have to like Aerosmith, despite Steven Tyler being a Red Sox fan now.
This is really quite frustrating.
CR9 April 7th, 2010 at 8:10 pm
NYY626
I was talking about the inhabitants of Mas sachusetts!
Of course, excluding the Yankees fans that live or lived there such as yourself.
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LOL. Well now you know that if you are ever walking around Boston at night to be aware of the rats ( both the people AND rodent kind).
The downside to NESN
While the game goes on, I get to watch Howard Stern and Steven Tyler being interviewed.
They do the same thing with Heidi Watney and totally meaningless in-game interviews.
The Yankees need to get out of fenway.
anyone know what’s Lackey’s pitch count is so far?
wow you talk about hard it
watch out lackey
The cheering for VMart’s imaginary improvement as a catcher is implicitly yet more praise for varitek.
That’s what that’s about.
robinson almost hit lackey!
Yeah Robby! Let’s get something going…
LMAO. Cano rocked it. Lackey just saw his life flash before his eyes.
tampayank,
He’s right around 60 or so.
“While the game goes on, I get to watch Howard Stern and Steven Tyler being interviewed.
They do the same thing with Heidi Watney and totally meaningless in-game interviews”
That was Peter Wolf of J Geils Band, not Stern.. Hope you were joking..lol
Paul Schreiber, oops, John Lackey is looking good tonight.
Ninja Cano!
It’s entirely possible John Lackey’s father is a small-mouth bass.
Wonderful. Simply wonderful. Can’t buy a friggin’ break tonight.
douhhhhhhhhhhh!
too bad he was safe
Ugh.
Maybe V=Mart has made some improvement.
At least they got that call right.
But they could have botched it the way they do against us.
thanks donnie
hopefully they can get him out after 6
The cheering for VMart’s imaginary improvement as a catcher is implicitly yet more praise for varitek.
That’s what that’s about.
LOL they went there too… at the break
# Doreen – 2010 GTLU April 7th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
Maybe V=Mart has made some improvement.
Or Cano is slow
Doreen – 2010 GTLU April 7th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
Maybe V=Mart has made some improvement.
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I think so lol
Terry, wasn’t joking. I actually thought it was Stern. Wasn’t listening to the blathering.
Carl -
It was a good throw. I hate to say it, but it was.
Cano has 17 SB in his career.
How many Caught Stealing does he have?
Closest guess wins. No cheating!
Cano isn’t slow. He just doesn’t have an explosive first two steps. Watch hum going 1st to 3rd or on a triple. Once he gets going, he can move.
lackey at 66 pitches, 39 strikes
that should be #22 caught
Lackey at 67-
I’d love the Yankees to start hitting him. Please.
LGY -
I’ll guess 8 caught stealings. but I really want to say 3.
Cano took off on a very slow breaking ball to Jorge who swung to protect him and still got thrown out…..Had to be a bad jump, even though the throw was on the bag, he should have stole 2nd without a sweat
Pettite is so classy
LGY, 30 caught stealings.
I would like Lackey to be out after 5
No quality start for Patrick
Michael Kay is just an idiot
I love andy. He just knows how to pitch.
I think Andy has done a yeoman’s job considering that he has had to fight both the Sux and the umpires.
time 2 score some runs…
Andy has been pitching really well. I’m very happy with his performance tonight. Very happy. So far.
21 cs!
Erica – always OPPC – Sesame Street Mafia and GTLU supporter April 7th, 2010 at 8:22 pm
Lackey at 67-
I’d love the Yankees to start hitting him. Please
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I think we learned last year that the yankees really dont like hitting until the 7th….
Erica and her can of bug spray chased Dan the Sox fan away……Derek threw that one flat footed, nice to have gold at first base…..Yanks stir it up this time around, Jorge, Granderson, Swisher make some noise
Can’t say much bad about Lackey’s performance. Not a lot of hard hit balls.
Here’s an idea. Let’s everyone swing at the first pitch!
At least if they keep this up, it’ll give me plenty of time to do other things before I have to go to bed tonight.
2 guesses, that’s it?
This is your Lohud Trivia Contest of the night. Get guessing people!
The answer will be revealed at the start of the bottom of the 5th inning.
Not even making him work. Pathetic showing by our offense, once again.
it’s shaping up to be long year in LA for Joe T.:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.co.....ptics.html
Grandy..with the single
Granderson has got to run
Lackey doesn’t appear to have any problems pitching in Fenway, unfortunately.
GB, the reason there haven’t been a lot of hard-hit balls off Lackey is because he hasn’t really been hitting the strike zone with his pitches. Don’t be fooled by the pitch splits!
Awfully quiet on the blog tonight for a Yankees-Red Sawks game.
crickets
He heard you GB!
Pat M – there’s the speed we love so much.
lackey wont make it past the 6th.
All right!
Yankees need to get off their timing a bit or something. They are hitting everything back up the middle.
Damned. Nice catch and swisher gets turned away.
That 2-1 pitch to Swish was a CLEAR ball. 2 feet outside.
I will admit that was a strike .
Betsy,
it’s one game. How about we wait until he pitches more than one game at Fenway to determine his effectiveness at Fenway?
I hope Gardner swings at a good pitch
Nice play by Cameron. Good AB by Swish.
SJ, I made one comment.. it was about tonight’s game only. Why are you jumping on my back?
why couldnt that drop?
The pitch to Swish in which Grandy stole was a strike?
It was a curveball 2 full feet outside!
Oh, Jesus Tapdancing Christ…
I’m not big on knowing every player’s uniform number but seeing Granderson on second wearing number 14 makes me think of sweet Lou wearing that number for the Yanks.
No quality start for Lackey aka Patrick
So much for the fifth inning prediction.
What a witch that balls and strikes can’t be argued. What is THAT all about? Kind of gives immunity for umps to do what this joker has done tonight, no?
Robinson Cano has 22 CS in his career.
Carl with the closest guess at 21!
“Betsy,
it’s one game. How about we wait until he pitches more than one game at Fenway to determine his effectiveness at Fenway?”
Bingo. It’s 80-some degress out there right now. Wait until he’s pitching in the frigid cold, and his curveball doesn’t move like it does in this heat. It’ll go flat, and he’ll get hammered.
# LGY – Child Prodigy/GB7′s Bestest Buddy April 7th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
Robinson Cano has 22 CS in his career.
Carl with the closest guess at 21!
He needs to stop trying!
Wow, LGY, I didn’t realize he ran that much!
Not sure Granderson could have scored on swisher fly to Cameron. he’s got a pretty strong arm and Granderson is probably held at third. Might have scored on Gardner’s if he breaks right away.
Donnie, I made one comment that wasn’t at ALL bad and he gets on my case. What, it’s not unfortunate that Lackey isn’t getting smoked tonight like we wanted? This is really getting ridiculous….
By the way, I find it interesting that Lackey on the Angels was well-respected, but on the Sox, he’s now not that good.
Again, my comment was absolutely harmless; I can’t believe I have to defend myself again.
My first memory of # 14 was Moose Skrowen…..Never though Lackey’s Fenway debut would be a night game where it’s 80 + degrees……He’s going to hang one and it’s going to cost him…..Alex will be his undoing
Go back and look at your original post. I had 22 up a minute later.
Betsy
It could be an impostor SJ44.
For now, the biggest positive out of this game, and it’s a BIG positive, is that Andy is okay after that nasty fall and is looking quite good.
Where was that pitch?????????????/
This is an incredibly small strike zone.
Andy is looking sharp.
If Pettitte is missing, he’s just missing.
CR9, it’s not. Lately SJ has picked apart my posts with a fine tooth comb. I really don’t want to get into an argument with anyone and especially not SJ, who I respect. I sometimes overreact, but this was not one of those times
Much better throw, Jeter.
I also don’t see anything wrong with expressing a LITTLE frustration on a night when the Yankees are not hitting.
Woops. Looks like we need a recount….
How good is Andy Pettitte?
This guy is unbelievable.
He works and works. He’s been cheated most of this game, and he continues to win most of the battles.
Betsy,
I’m not getting on you, honest. I’m just sayin’…if THIS is the Lackey we see come fall, I will be 100% shocked.
Your statement was accurate (that he’s not having his normal troubles) and it’s incredibly frustrating to watch.
Upon further review, GreenBeret is the winner of tonight’s trivia contest. Nailed it, very impressive.
Sorry Carl, tough luck. I have no affiliation with LoHud but Chad will send a consolation prize
NESN just showed that Andy just got jobbed again and Remy, gentleman that he is, said that Andy has gotten “quite a few of those tonight.”
Betsy I’m pretty sure that Lackey’s ERA at fenway hasn’t been very good. So tonight could be a combo of help from the ump and good luck, or it could be a new way of doing things in fenway. Time will tell.
Betsy…sit back and enjoy your 27-time Champs. It’s early…both in the season and the game. The Yankees will score tonight.
Donnie, we’ll see. He’s a very good pitcher and I never underestimate the Sox.
“Yankees suck” chant? Really, Boston? Really?
Stay classy.
He has to know that Andy is not throwing at anyboyd’s head.
Captain, I’m perfectly relaxed; have I expressed one ounce of worry about the 2010 Yankees tonight?
Take your pick on who gets nailed.
(1) Too bad that wasn’t 97 MPH.
(2) Too bad that wasn’t right between the eyes.
tough times here, youk got hit in the head and now papi is up.
if this was 2007, it might be worrisome
Cano will get nailed
I am incredibly impressed with Andy, though to me this is vintage Andy. He is a battler through and through. What’s most impressive is that he has had to work around that ludicrous strike zone to get his job done, and he has done it in style.
May it continue.
C’mon California. That’s just not right.
Andy hit Youkilis in the head?
Finally leaving work now (only a few more days of this nonsense)
Bye for now everyone!!
Ortiz can’t catch up to a 92 mph fastball out over the plate.
To me, Yankee batters are very lazy tonight, looks like they are eager to get out of there.
Tell us how you really feel about Youk, California.
Betsy,
He has, historically, been a very good pitcher. However, a lot of his success has been due to him having a KILLER curve. It was so devastating because it moved a LOT. When the temperature drops, so does the movement on pitches. If his curveball doesn’t move like it normally does, it’s not going to be AS effective of an out pitch, which lessens the effectiveness of all his other pitches. I would guess that this probably has something to do with WHY he’s struggled in Boston so much.
But you’re right. We shall see.
have a good one, Erica!
YEAH!
jz…that’s ridiculous.
ortiz is slow
HOW NICE IS THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m not a hitting coach…but Ortiz looks cooked.
And Andy Houdini gets ut of another straight jacket.
NJ and Tex hitless. that needs to change.
Andy is doing great for his first time out. Dear Jete, Nick, Tex & Co, some runs would be nice
That Gardner is some kind of threat. He has an incredibly explosive bat. For a wiffle ball game.
Captains blog
CALIFORNIA = RED SOX TROLL.
He is trying to make Yankees fans look foolish.
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Yes, Andy hit Youk in the head unintentionally.
Donnie, of course, but you could say the same about AJ or anyone else who throws a curve. I’m not directing this to you, but if I can’t even make that kind of comment (my original one), then I’m sunk as far as posting because that was incredibly mild.
I’d like to publicly (sp? – I always have trouble with that word) thank our hosts for helping to keep the forum free from trashbags. Thank you Chad, thank you Sam, thank you Josh.
If you build them a case, they will help.
Wow……I hope he’s ok.
If they thought that was done on purpose, they’re nuts, but, they won’t hit the first two batters and if there are runners on base, nobody gets hit.
Lackey now at 82 pitches. Can we please work some ABs and get him out of this gorram game?
Anybody catch Pettitte asking Martinez “How you like that”?
andy just told the runner on second to tell youkilis he said he’s sorry. i read lips. no bad intentions there.
Bret, just assume that Tex will not hit in April and you’ll be fine; still, it is only 3 games and no one else is hitting Lackey tonight
Guys, you need to get used to the fact that Tex starts slow. It happens. He’ll heat up. He’s not doing it on purpose. Some guys historically start slower than others.
“GB, the reason there haven’t been a lot of hard-hit balls off Lackey is because he hasn’t really been hitting the strike zone with his pitches. ”
“What a witch that balls and strikes can’t be argued. What is THAT all about?”
hopefully you are on cold medicine.
We needed warnings for that?
Really?
Come on now. Seriously.
Jeter must run. He must run.
Its always Jeter and Arod who get hit
It looks obvious, but I doubt that was on purpose. Youk dives. Jeter dives.
They aren’t going to hit the leadoff batter. Calm down.
I hate when Kay ask “you think that was on purpose?”
is there some reason why jeter isn’t stealing second to expose martinez?
not intentional. Thanks for the free pass.
That had nothing to do with Jeter diving. Not saying it was done on purpose. Just interesting how the very next batter Gets hit especially with Lackey’s command tonight
martinez isn’t even getting ready with his feet to be ready to throw
nasty pitch.
Remember when Joe was hired and everyone thought he was going to be aggressive on the basepaths? I recall that people were surprised that he was the opposite. Didn’t they run ragged on Varitek late last year?
Betsy,
You are absolutely right about that being said about anyone. In fact, I remember a game last year (though I honestly can’t remember the location or opponent) where AJ had a rough outing because he couldn’t get his curve to move at all in the cold.
As to you being able to make comments…I think you’re fine. You’re a regular here, and I think everyone knows that you aren’t a total moron. That said, I think that a few of the regulars around here might be a little punchy due to the influx of trolls. Who knows.
he running now
I wanna see Tex do something tonight
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They obviously don’t share the blog’s philosophy about running here, the question is why.
over/under 20 AB’s before Johnson gets his first hit
Yankees got no luck this series
Yankees hitting in some bad luck tonight.
Smoked and caught
nick cant get a break.
Nice play by Drew… Lackey probably won’t go past this inning as he’s nearing 100 pitches
We are catching absolutely NO breaks tonight. None at all. I want to punch something right now. Not out of anger, but out of frustration.
# Benny Blanco April 7th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
nick cant get a break.
Sure he can his leg
Is it just me or do they catch everything Johnson hits? The guy can’t catch a break.
if jeter is simply going to let johnson walk to get him to second, that seems a very passive way to do things.
a lefty was up . jeter should have put pressure on right away.
they are giving martinez a free pass.
it makes no sense.
Still surprised that Jeter isn’t running early in counts
Jeter has a red light to run from Girardi. Jeter is the one making the call not to run.
This reminds me of when Jeter decides to bunt and “given himself up” for the team.
Donnie, lol – I hope that’s all it is.
no green light.
Here comes a 3 run jack
now Mr.A-Rod
This is mine tito….this is my game tito.
This is mine tito….this is my game tito.
Tex and Arod are coming up…the last thing the Yankees need is a CS.
This might be the ball game right here. Best chance we’ve had all night to get to Lackey. He’s on the ropes, we just have to get him OUT of this game.
Alex time
This is the “defining moment” of Rodriguez’ career, right here.
Or, maybe just in this game.
How many times, in the past, do you think a runner has taken off for second and the umpire loses concentration on the pitch – watching the runner instead. Then he forgets to call a strike and, because he didn’t say anything in time, he just stays standing there, letting the batter walk instead.
I bet at least 15.
He just missed that pitch.
Jeter , Gardner, A-rod, and I’m sure Granderson all have greenlights. Gardner might get some stop signs , but the veterans are all good to go on their own.
Jeter doesn’t want to mess up the rally.
fxxking sucks
ugh
unreal
Nooooooo!
It’s not our night, lol. Lackey has pitched a great, great game.
damn.
After what Arod did in the playoffs I can never knock him again
Everything hit hard is right at the fielders. That hurts. Hit it hard is all you can do.
Pathetic..
Probably Lackey’s last inning but the Yankees need better situational hitting.
The yankees probability of winning this game right now is around 48% generically.
The game is going to be decided by the bull pens.
Not a good at bat – that was terrible. I guess Bard will come in for the 7th and 8th now.
SMH
Don’t see us winning this game. We can’t catch a break in any way, shape, or form. That was our chance, and we blew it.
This early in the season, I’m just glad the pitching looks good, and we didn’t get swept. If they come back, great. But if not, this would be a loss that was more frustrating than angering, because we’ve had a few chances, and really stung the ball, just right at someone.
Bring Pettitte back out and go batter to batter? I think yes.
I dont think Lackey hit him purposely, but you never know.
It is possible that Lackey was trying to endear himself to his teammates, in his first start.
That was the inning the Yankees had to score. Lackey put Jeter on base. His first pitch to Tex and first pitch to A-rod were also really poorly located but neither guy made good contact. And of course the rip by Johnson.
what is pathetic? NJ hit a rocket that was caught and arod hit a screaming ground ball…its not like NJ popped up and arod rolled over an outside curve
This has been a really good game considering Andy has had to throw more than 3 strikes to get a hitter out.
i think by the time a third game of a red sox yankee series comes that the yankees should be in martinez’s head. he should be so stressed that he can’t even call pitches. he should be afraid to call anything but a fastball with base stealing threat on base.
if girardi just wants to play station to station baseball , he’s letting the red sox not pay a penalty for putting in a good hitting catcher who can’t throw.
he didn’t even call the double steal in the first game.
that was jeter as i understand it.
What a play by Alex. No way he could make that play last year.
As good an effort as one can make on that ball. Beltre runs very well.
Betsy, Rodriguez did nothing wrong in that at bat other than location.
just matter of time Sux will break open
“That was the inning the Yankees had to score.”
That was the 9th inning?
Another break goes Boston’s way. It’s just one of those games, man.
BABIP is an ice queen
That was a pretty DP.
Nice DP!
Leiter with the nice insight on Andy changing up the speed of his slider to get Drew out in front
While Rodriguez and NJ ripped balls, and their outs were a product of bad luck, they could have taken walks, as Lackey lost his “control” that inning, and wasn’t getting cheap calls from the umpires.
Donnie, I’m definitely not conceding this game just yet. If we end up losing, so be it. I don’t think a lot of us get thrown by early season losses. But at 1-0 in the 6th, there’s plenty of game left to be played.
# CR9 April 7th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
“That was the inning the Yankees had to score.”
That was the 9th inning?
gotta love this place on game day
The big story of this game – early in the season – is how good Andy looks.
Win or lose that’s the story here.
If Andy can pitch this way this season this team is going to win an enormous number of games.
Remy just pointed out that once again Andy didn’t get a call.
great game tonight.
Terry Francona channeling his inner Mike Scioscia: Lackey set to give way to Scott Schoenweis…
half a minute ago via web
One 3-2 pitch to NJ was a ball 3 feet outside, but I guess NJ had to swing because of all the cheap calls this game.
See how cheap calls in other ABs can affect future ABs.
He went!
Anyone else realize our 2-3 hitters are now 0-for-19 on the season?
CR9,
Relax. My point was that Lackey was out of gas and served up easily hittable balls to our 3-4-5 hitters. They should have scored that inning.
Dandy Andy.
I feel badly for Andy – he’s done everything he can, but the Yankees haven’t been able to muster anything on offense.
The only thing that I thought could slow the Yankees down on the basepaths comings into this series was the weather. But it has been beautiful every night. It really is surprising they are not running more. Jeter in particular.
Both pitchers have pitched really well tonight. The Yanks could have easily scored a couple that last inning but hit a couple of atom balls. Maybe their luck will change
Trisha,
I dunno, man. Just feels like one of those games where we keep coming and coming and just can’t break through. Maybe they change that. You’re right, there’s still time. Like I said, I’m not saying there’s no way we win, or that I’m conceding. I just don’t see it happening. Plenty of time to change that, though.
What a great 6 inning pitching duel. Pettitte looks to be in mid-season form. Outstanding performance by both pitchers.
Got shutout by the sox third game of the season.
This is just unacceptable and utterly embarrassing.
Any old-schoolers out there have a problem with Pettitte apologizing to Youk and Jeter and Youk playfully pushing each other after Jeter got hit? Pettitte’s hbp obviously wasn’t on purpose but isn’t the point of pitching inside to players like Youk to put the fear of God into them? In the old days pitchers used to think of it as an advantage if a player thought they wanted their head, nowdays it’s all about not hurting a guys feelings. Maybe I just watched that Bird/Magic documentary too many times but I have more respect for players who consider their opponents enemies than just some guys they go to work with. It makes the competition 10x better.
Andy = beautiful job tonight. 6 innings 1 run at Fenway? Yes Please.
The Red Sox do not have anyone in their BP outside of Bard and Paps. This is their inning to really expose the Sox BP.
I have no problem with Andy apologizing and I have no problem with Youk and Jeter engaging in horseplay of some sort. I hate the Sox and I hate the fans, but why should the players hate each other? It’s a given that they are going to go all out to win – they don’t need to kill each other to do that.
If we can’t breakthrough against a guy that was cut from a National League team, then we don’t DESERVE to win. haha
Pettitte made a couple of mistakes tonight and only one cost him. a lefty in this park can’t do much better than that.
Yep, if the Yankees lose, it is all on their offense. Andy was brilliant.
Too many left handed pitcher have terrible throwing mechanics. They push the ball more than they throw it.
Schonweiss just looks awful.
But they can get away with it because they are left handed. At the same time, a lot of left handers are leaving stuff on the table they never tap into.
That’s as bad as Cano has looked all year, including ST.
showenweiss looks like sparky lyle so far and they picked him up the last week of spring training
“Jeter , Gardner, A-rod, and I’m sure Granderson all have greenlights.”
jerkface-
i know they have green lights, but girardi can still tell them to steal on any given pitch.
he’s not doing it.
you’re a stat guy.
martinez is horrible at throwing out runners.
the point i’m making is that the yankees can pick on him.
get in his head.
jeter will steal 9 out of ten times with martinez catching and lackey on the mound.
once a catcher feels pressure when they know they can’t control the running game it changes the way they call pitches.
the pitcher starts to feel it.
the batter knows a fastball is coming.
unless jeter is not feeling well with his legs and keeping it to himself, it’s just letting an opportunity go by.
the running game is fairly predictable.
9 out of ten times if jeter stole early when johnson was up, the yankees would have had a runner on second with no outs.
Posada HR calling it
best offense in the majors my ass
Posada, hit that!
“But they can get away with it because they are left handed.”
you know the old saying…if you’re left handed and breathing…
Posada is locked in right now.
Posada rocks one off of the top and just misses it.
CB, I didn’t know what to expect from Pettite tonight consider how little work he had in March……Changing speeds and location all night……
CURTIS, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DO NOT WASTE THIS. I DO NOT CARE THAT THIS GUY IS A LEFTY, HE GOT CUT FROM THE GORRAM BREWERS. HE IS NOTHING SPECIAL.
c’mon curtis
Betsy, I didn’t say they should hate each other, just not be so outwardly jovial toward each other when an umpire is warning both benches. Show some respect for the fans who legitimately HATE everything in and about Boston.
Another “Almost Homerun”.
We have the worst luck ever.
Damn. So close.
Sorry. It was just off of the top of the door.
Who would you rather have up in this spot? Melky or Granderson?
Randy: I agree they should be running wild with Grandy, Jeter, Gardner, and A-rod on the Sox. We don’t know the circumstances on the field, its possible that Girardi has never given jeter the straight steal sign.
We need deeper insight here at the field level.
I only have a problem with Jeter playing around with Youkilis because I Hate Youkilis lol. Usually I think its cute that Jeter’s friends with everyone…
Curtis just does not firm up his front side well against lefties. He needs to work on that.
wear that Curtis.
Facepalm.
FacepalmFacepalmFacepalmFacepalmFacepalm.
Listening to ESPN after a night of Costas and Smoltz is very jarring.
Melky!
Girardi is going to be pinch hitting Thames in these spots by late May…
He couldn’t hold up and he couldn’t pull the trigger.
Bad ab Curtis
Lefties should really just be throwing slider, curve to granderson nonstop. He looks lost on any offspeed pitch from a lefthander
….. And we thought they don’t have anyone in their BP outside Bard and Pimplebutt …..
“Listening to ESPN after a night of Costas and Smoltz is very jarring.”
seriously..last nights game was so nice and not just because they won.
Granderson blows…I want Johnny back
showenweiss is the pick up of the off season so far lol. Actually I think Lackey could be the best signing assuming his elbow holds up for 5 seasons.
Schoenweiss has done a great job, that’s for sure. It’s hard to root against him given the tragedy he’s endured.
My brother lives in CA and said that Lackey was miserable, hated being on the Angels and was bad in the clubhouse.
Granderson is on pace to reach 300 strikeouts.
‘Who would you rather have up in this spot? Melky or Granderson?’
I’ll go w/choice C.
jerkface-
i’m venting a bit because i ‘m a big believer in going after the weak link on another team.
martinez at catcher is a weak link for the red sox.
if he can actually be a catcher for the red sox he’s a huge plus because of his bat.
it’s the yankees job to take his bat out of the catcher’s position.
What about Granderson’s disappearance down the stretch last year in Detroit’s Met-like collapse made Cashman say “I gotta have this guy on my team”
1st pitch almost hit swisher and he swings at it
Granderson is scary vs leftys, I mean he doesn’t even foul off balls, we’re very very left handed suspect in late games vs leftys. There will be a time when Thames pinch hits for Granderson and Winn finishes in cf. He really really can’t hit leftys, he’s not close. Cashman has assembled such a killer bench he could have gone to Cervelli(and not had a catcher left), Winn (who also can’t hit leftys), Thames(who hit 150 in st) or Pena. What exactly did Cashman do to address the bench in the off season. There’s no one to go to.
If he throws a hook, Swisher will break his back.
Oh boy, it’s getting to be that time on the game thread. I won’t even bother defending Granderson (who shouldn’t need to be defended).
Swish!!!!!
Thank you Victor Martinez. Seriously, THANK YOU
SWISH!!
people dumping on Granderson.
how predictable
lol, run posada run
WE FINALLY CATCH A GORRAM BREAK.
Posada should’ve been out by about a mile and a half.
Somewhere David Spade is saying: “That was pathetic”
great hit and what a set of wheels on “The Diver”.
Great going swisher!
Posada is sloooooooowwwww.
posada’s fastest rate of speed comes when he’s falling down. lol.
Game tied…
Look at swish. He has made huge adjustments.
Bard got lit up last year during the 4 game sweep. He throws hard but the Yankees have hit him hard a couple of times.
wow. swisher with the RBI on a 91 change up down the middle..
Drew could have walked to home plate and beat Posada there.
Swishalicious!
posada is so slow its funny. Drew should have just thrown to the cut off man first and then home for the out lol.
Posada’s foot touched HP
Bard did Swish a favor there I think.
Nick looks like a completely different player. Kevin Long is a genius.
No way Nick is taking a pitch like that back up the middle to score that run.
This game was always going to be decided by the bull pen. You just knew it the way Pettitte and Lackey were throwing and the Yankees capacity to come back.
Swisher’s been just terrific – I love Kevin Long, lol
Another great at-bat by Swisher but honorable mention to V-Mart for the botched catch
Gardner’s approach this game has been what everyone wants, but no results. He might want to try slashing the ball some more like game 1 and 2.
Why did BG swing at a 2-0 count and chop it into the ground, with Jeter on deck?
I hope Posada is all right.
Give Kevin Long a nice, long term extension for lots of $$$$
A better throw and Posada’s out. Shows you gotta to chance it sometimes.
Well my Yankee friends.
Looks like another game that will be decided by the bullpen.
Any predictions?
Swish was on fire last April too but he really does look like a completely different hitter right now. Last year when he was on a hot streak he would still K a lot but he’d run into a lot more HR’s and doubles. Right now he looks like a great hitter, not just a home run hitter that walks.
I do not have DVR but if you go back I am almost positive Posada dragged his back foot over HP as he was falling.
If Kevin Long is a genius, then I have faith that Grandy will turn it around vs. lefties.
“Kevin Long is a genius.”
its starting to look that way, at least with Swisher. He K’s right there last year I’m almost positive.
I’m not even going to ask Gardner to hit a ball out of the infield. I’ll just ask that he hit a HARD ground ball. Or maybe that’s too much.
posada and pettitte will both be sore tomorow after their little tumbles, good thing they are off lol.
Donnie
Gorram? Is that Firefly?
The last time that Posada’s foot touched home plate was when he scored last night. It was his Greg Loganis dive that did it tonight.
“Bard did Swish a favor there I think.”
He did. Very perplexing pitch selection by the incredibly improve defensive genius that is Victor Martinez.
“A better throw and Posada’s out. Shows you gotta to chance it sometimes.”
It was a good throw, right on the money. V-mart just didn’t catch it.
time for Nick Swisher to bust out Thunderbolt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS9OOPnQQTw
Oh boy, here we go.
Geez I want to root for Granderson to do well against lefties, but I feel it’s the big elephant in the room at this point. That AB was ugly.
park can prove himself today?
I just saw the Braves highlights a few minutes ago…Heyward hit a double that broke the sound barrier when it went over the first baseman’s head.
Doreen, I think Granderson will be ok, too. There’s no way hard work doesn’t pay off – I really believe that.
I’m a little surprised that Girardi didn’t go to Mitre but I probably prefer Chop anyways
Why did BG swing at a 2-0 count and chop it into the ground, with Jeter on deck?
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The one thing no one ever talks about is that Gardner has minimal baseball instinct. He’s very fast but he just seems to rarely have a feel for the game or what needs to be done in any given situation.
CR9,
You are correct!
LGY -
Nah, he didn’t touch it. Gardner right away told him to go back, too.
I’m not loving Park, but….
chan ho park?? r u kiddin me!
man, the so called yankee fans on this thread make me LMAO. literally. they complain about everything. i mean EVERYTHING.
How was that throw on the money? It was up the line.
can one of the catchers tell us if the play by v-mart was one that he should have made?
btw, park looks good
“He did. Very perplexing pitch selection by the incredibly improve defensive genius that is Victor Martinez.”
if you’re going to throw a change right there then it better be down and out of the zone 0-2. Otherwise you’re taking a 99 Mph fastball that the hitter is late on and turn it into a 91 MPH fastball that gets hit hard for a single.
“Right now he looks like a great hitter, not just a home run hitter that walks.”
Right now Swisher is starting to become the player that a lot of quantitatively inclined yankee fans were trying to make him out to be last year.
You watch Swisher hit now and you see why batting average really does matter in context.
Last year Swisher at best draws a walk and would pass the baton and the guy after him is not a guy you want to pass the baton to…
Park was brought in here to be a high leverage reliever. One bad game does not change that.
Remember when Jim Leyritz was fouling those fastballs straight back in Atlanta in ’96, and then got the slider?
That’s what happened to Bard. Swish fouled that 99 fastball straight back, was making contact and he got Bard to go off-speed.
Granderson took a bad route to that ball
Aldo -
Believe that has been covered here at the Lohud.
Park’s pitches must be moving in on the hands. Those are 2 weak flies.
“I just saw the Braves highlights a few minutes ago…Heyward hit a double that broke the sound barrier when it went over the first baseman’s head.”
Saw that before. My goodness. What a laser. His swing. It’s really hard to get over.
When I first I saw Justin Upton play I thought he would be the player of his generation.
Might have been premature on that one…
Chan Ho Park flashing much better stuff than his last outing.
Another bad route. Jeez. Terrible job by Joe G to put in Park.
Way to go, Chan Ho.
chop chop chop!
chop chop chop!
How was that throw on the money? It was up the line.
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Watch the replay. It was right in front of the plate into V-Mart’s waiting glove. The ball hits his glove while it’s still in front of Posada. V-Mart screwed up and couldn’t hang on to it.
Park comes back after the game 1 problems. Good to see.
Good inning for CHOP! Nice job of bouncing back.
Amazing!!999111!! LaTroy, err, err Park just pitched in the AL in Fenway and didn’t die of an ebola like plague.
How did he survive after he was predestined to doom given his prior appearance.
Sounds like Heyward is having a great start. I’m really interested in seeing him play. As a baseball fan, hope it’s not just beginner’s luck.
Ok, I was wrong………and very glad of it.
Donnie
I loved that show. A friend made me watch it for the first time, about 2 months ago.
One of the best series I’ve seen. Sad ending for Wash in the movie.
“Saw that before. My goodness. What a laser. His swing. It’s really hard to get over.”
He swings as hard under control as anybody I think I’ve ever seen.
Yankees going to finger-less sign system in fenway with no one on second… interesting.
What is Park’s ERA now?
“Got shutout by the sox third game of the season.
This is just unacceptable and utterly embarrassing.”
I’ve never found anything unacceptable and utterly embarrassing about a 1-0 game.
But now your post is the thing that is unacceptable and utterly embarrassing.
California, we all know you’re a troll. Rock on pal.
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Time to roll in all the Chan Ho Park detractors and ask their opinions now.
In the words of the song, what a difference a day makes.
Right now Swisher is starting to become the player that a lot of quantitatively inclined yankee fans were trying to make him out to be last year.
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Nice jab, you know I was one of those people
I brought him good luck by being negative, sort of reverse mojo
Tex takes Bard deep*
You know what’s interesting about Bard going change on Swisher – that towering home run Tex hit off him in that magical series in the Bronx was the same thing. Tex was having trouble with the heater and Bard hung a slider that Tex knocked out of the park.
“Sounds like Heyward is having a great start. I’m really interested in seeing him play. As a baseball fan, hope it’s not just beginner’s luck.”
Joe, I really don’t think it is. He’s the real deal.
CB April 7th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
“I just saw the Braves highlights a few minutes ago…Heyward hit a double that broke the sound barrier when it went over the first baseman’s head.”
Saw that before. My goodness. What a laser. His swing. It’s really hard to get over.
When I first I saw Justin Upton play I thought he would be the player of his generation.
Might have been premature on that one…
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O haven’t seen him play for a couple of years, other than a handful of ST games, but, always thought he could be a young Andruw Jones or a young Gorman Thomas. Either way and not much in between.t
I’m not dumping on Grandy for not getting a hit, it’s not a crime. I also think he’s an upgrade over Melky. That said now I know why he’s a 211 hitter lifetime vs leftys, he can’t hit them, simple as that. That’s why I don’t understand why we don’t have a better and more versatile bench. No where to go when Grandy and Gardner come up late that’s all I’m saying.
Patrick April 7th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
Thank you Victor Martinez. Seriously, THANK YOU
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Lackey = Not Eligible for the Win
LOL It’s not as simple as that. He’s going to work at it until he becomes decent; with hard work, you can do anything.
“He swings as hard under control as anybody I think I’ve ever seen.”
His swing reminds somewhat of Hanley Ramirez’s in this regard. But Hayward is even more controlled than the fury that is Hanley’s swing. Hanley’s is controlled fury. Heyward is furiously controlled.
Go Yankees!
NJ ?
So who pitches the 9th if the Yankees don’t score, Park?
Johnson my god
Hard hit balls right at them.
“Lackey = Not Eligible for the Win ”
You think I’m unhappy about that!? Yankees first, fantasy second
Matt Garza on the other hand can go blankity blank blank blank himself
that’s a hr in the summer when he’s locked in
welp guess not
tex is working back. did he go through spring training any way?
Hit it hard. The best swing he’s had in 3 games. He’ll be on it in his next at bat.
They better not pitch Bard v Teix in NYS. Thats the second fly ball Tex has off of bard this series that would be gone in NYS
Please let Cano hit 3rd.
Patrick,
Not a dig at you at all. There were way too many people on the “Swish” train last year to focus on anyone.
Bat control and contact skills really do matter. Batting average is very important in the context of games.
That somehow is getting lost.
geeze there is a handfull of hits that we just missed already in the last 3 games!
Patrick April 7th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
“Lackey = Not Eligible for the Win ”
You think I’m unhappy about that!? Yankees first, fantasy second
Matt Garza on the other hand can go blankity blank blank blank himself
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Are you not enjoying Matt Garza’s masterful performance as much as I am??????
Orlando Cabrera even hit a HR… YAY!!!!!
Wonder if teixeira has any lasting affects from the ST hit on the elbow?
Jerkface, but that’s life – each park is different. There are balls that go out in NYS that wouldn’t go out elsewhere. I’m not directing this to you, but I’m not getting the complaints about Fenway – it’s been like this forever, so teams just have to deal with it.
CB,
I was just kidding around. I admit, I was (and still am) on the Swish train. He’s the man. But it’s true, he is better right now than he was at any time last year.
I’m also interested in watching some Braves games this year just to watch Jason Heyward play
Maybe, GB, but Tex just stinks in April; that’s just something we’ll need to accept from him.
Betsy: I complain about Fenway because the park should be burned to the ground. It has retarded dimensions and the Monster – CF – RF configuration is far worse than any other park gimmick, even the flag pole in houston.
Park looks great tonight, so far.
CR9,
I didn’t LOVE the movie, honestly. It’s very good, and I would absolutely recommend it to anyone, but that said, it felt almost like fanfiction to me. I felt like Mal was a bit too aggressive, and the job they pull initially was not really a job they characteristically WOULD have pulled.
I also felt like the characters were tweaked to fit the fact that it was a movie, and were just a little too different from their TV counterparts. Jayne, for instance, was a bit more…reasonable than on the series.
Also…not enough Kaylee. I love me some Kaylee. haha
Overall, you are correct, one of the best series ever, and it’s a shame it never got a real chance. Then again, anything Joss Whedon touches is gold as far as I’m concerned.
Tampa’s on the verge of sweeping Baltimore; they’re very very good.
Tampa’s on the verge of sweeping Baltimore; they’re very very good.
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if by, on the verge, you mean… playing game 2
Granderson took a terrible route on that one. He went straight to the ball instead of turning around three times and going to both foul lines.
Jerkface, maybe so, but it is what it is. The Yankees haven’t played great so far these 3 games, but it has nothing to do with the park.
Patrick,
In two months, I might be buying a ticket from you to hop on that train!
It’s the nice part of being able to talk baseball with people. Everyone has the chance to learn.
The problem would be for people to not appreciate how Swisher might be evolving and simply say he was “great” last year and “great” this year.
We’ll see. It’s early. But he looks like a quaitatively different player. As you pointed out – even last year when he started off on that torrid streak it was very obvious that he was simply on a streak that would end.
It’s very different now.
atta boy chop
Thank you Park; great 2 innings.
Jerkface, this is their 3rd game, lol
Chan Ho Paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark
Chop stick!
DFA this guy. He’s terrible!
chan ho just made papi look like an aa player
yeah chan ho
5 bucks says arod hits a hr rite now
Betsy – Hughes rules (pleading the Fifth) April 7th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Tampa’s on the verge of sweeping Baltimore; they’re very very good.
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TB only rocked tonight cause the fantasy baseball gods really, really wanted me to get a win!
Must be hard to have any kind of bat speed when you have a giant fork stuck in your back
The game thread has been a pleasure tonight…
Ortiz looks lost up there..Andy sat one on a tee for him but other than that he’s looked terrible.
That was impressive run through the top and heart of the line-up by Park.
Chan Ho says “How Ya Like Me Now, Suckas!”
THE TRUTH: chan ho just struck out big slapi on three straight pitches.
Where you at Dan???
The Yankees haven’t played great so far these 3 games, but it has nothing to do with the park.
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They have had great AT BATs and very good swings. A combination of park + defense has held them. If this was NYS we’d have outscored boston 20 to 5
People said Ortiz was done last year and he ended up having a decent year…
Wow… the Mets have a shot at this.
Rays third game is tomorrow, hopefully it’s a bullpen game so they’re worn down when the Yanks come friday
Betsy,
It’s the second game between the Orioles and Rays. Their opening day was yesterday
Betsy – Hughes rules (pleading the Fifth) says:
April 7, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Maybe, GB, but Tex just stinks in April; that’s just something we’ll need to accept from him.
It is the third game of the season…
Randy ( The Original Tin Cup ) I’m too taken back by the Yanks lack of aggression on the basepaths…Especially when you factor in that Lackey is not only slow to the plate, but he was tossing off speed pitches all night……Maybe picking a better time to expose what we already know……I mean last September Giradi had them running at will, and I think they stole 7 or 8 bases that game……Alex time once again…..Yard time
Chan Ho Park has good stuff out of the pen. He’s not just an NL wonder.
He might not be as good as he was last year. He’ll definitely give up more long balls.
But his stuff is good for a relief pitcher. It’s not smoke and mirrors.
He’ll get in a ton of trouble if his pitches are up but if he stays down in the zone he has a real chance to help.
Leave Park in for another inning?
Donnie
Agreed on everything you said.
I loved Kaylee, but liked Inara more.
Fillion is great in the new show Castle. Inara is in V, which is terrible, and Adam Baldwin is basically Jayne in Chuck, great show!!
Kind of loving Chan-Ho-Park right now
Let’s go A-Rod!!
“Leave Park in for another inning?”
Sounds like that’s what their going to do based on Dave Eiland lip reading
Jerkface, I do not believe in blaming any park for the Yankees success or failure. The SP has not been good outside of tonight (but obviously I’m not worried about that) and the D has been bad; the clutch hitting has been lacking too. They’ll be fine, but this hasn’t been a well-played series by any means – even on the part of the Sox.
In Fairness to Tex, there’s a lot of April left.
“People said Ortiz was done last year and he ended up having a decent year…”
He’ll probably have a descent year this year as well, but the bat speed isn’t there right now and he’s having to cheat. You can go through good streaks like that but its hard for any consistency to be there when you can’t catch up to fastballs. They really need him to be more than that.
This is Tampa’s second game tonight.
I think the Yankees have played well in this series so far. Especially for April in Boston.
Jose Veras about to blow it for the Marlins.
6-3 Marlins
Bases loaded, 2 outs and Wright is batting.
I thought Tampa had 2 walk offs already….
“Ortiz looks lost up there..Andy sat one on a tee for him but other than that he’s looked terrible.”
He does. He looks like he really doesn’t know how to approach an at bat given the downgrade in his physical tools.
How could he not know that Park would go off speed away on that pitch? How could he look that lost?
On those swings it looks like he’s trying to cheat so much to make up for lost bat speed that he’s going to wave through anything that’s not a mistake.
Kind of loving Chan-Ho-Park right now
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I think at Yankee stadium he gives up a go-ahead hr on that Youk shot.
Patrick, thanks! Oh boy – that’s what I get for staying up until the wee hours on this blog.
Enough, I’m well aware of that. If you notice, I said it was just 3 games.
Betsy
Ortiz is done ! Look at the trends from 2008 and 2009. The guy is on the decline.
No one throwing in the bullpen?
Park going for a third? Yeesh. That…might be tempting fate.
In other news, this inning sucks.
Georgy Juice one, Please!
I can’t stand Papelbon !
Betsy,
I got confused on the same thing. I have no idea why Tampa/Balt started a day late
Someone please make Sutcliffe stop. How much dumb can fall out of a mouth.
How can anyone get on Morgan and not pummel sutcliffe. This is horrendous.
1b is now the key to team defense rather than up the middle play?
Really?
Who need Ozzie Smith when you have Jack Clark?
I agree Ortiz is on the downslide. I also think it’s due to his lack of those good healthy milkshakes.
CB,
Why ESPN and not YES? Guessing you aren’t in the tri-state area?
Aldo
I don’t think so. That was to Center field and Center field at Yankee Stadium is deep. That would have been a fly ball out.
“He looks like he really doesn’t know how to approach an at bat given the downgrade in his physical tools.”
Unless he miraculously recovers some bat speed, he will likely have to learn to guess more and guess better to be successful.
How about Mitre for the bottom of the 9th? Is CH good for three innings generally?
5 hits in 9 innings, what a joke
So who will hit the walk off?
Donnie, Joe wasn’t going to use Joba…Aceves has his back issues. Not sure about Robertson and Marte is now apparently just a LOOGY.
Patrick, I assume they spent the day off buying up all the cowbells in Tampa. Man, that’s tacky.
CB, I’m sure Rick is on his 5 th Greyhound by now……
espn vs mlb netwrok is not even close. it makes me very sad for america
Patrick,
Just easier for me to watch as I can’t watch on my computer tonight.
“Maybe picking a better time to expose what we already know…”
pat m-
that crossed my mind, but i dismissed it.
you might be right though.
i also thought that maybe girardi doesn’t want any pulled hammys or any other injuries from running.
even though it’s a regular season game, it appears that girardi is managing like the team isn’t really in shape yet to go all out.
And Papelbon only threw 10 pitches, which means he will be available for a 10th inning if there is one.
Where has the patience gone?
“5 hits in 9 innings, what a joke”
Actually I think the Sux have 6 hits.
Hard to believe that Maddon allowed garza to go 8 innings and 114 pitches the first night out.
Well…that made my heart stop.
that was too close
Is joe going to leave Park out there ?
every out is fxxking fly out?
geez
jerkface you still wish we were in NYS?
“Someone please make Sutcliffe stop. How much dumb can fall out of a mouth.”
I just block him out for the most part. He’s the worst announcer on TV by a mile. He did say he thought Phil would be the 2A starter for the Yankees by the end of the year…whatever that means.
Forget that. Joe is really pushing him.
Sux really wants this game.
Drew walk off?
just missed..
just missed..
Paplebon does look better than last year, but come on – expecting the Yankees to clobber a terrific closer is asking a lot, don’t you think, Jake?
Perhaps the key play in the entire game was Victor Martinez not being able to catch a ball.
This after the long lectures from Sutcliff on how great Martinez’s defense has become.
Team run prevention has a catcher that can’t catch a ball and can’t throw out a runner.
There’s endless snark about Morgan and has been for years. Morgan makes mistakes in fact that are egregious but he also has nice moments when he breaks down the game.
Victor Martinez plus defensive catcher?
Can he mean the things he’s saying?
I really don’t want to see a walk off win for the Sox. I rather have a regular loss.
where are these pitches?
Cameron is going to hit a walkoff
Hope it doesn’t happen but i have a feeling
Get somebody up quick. He’s losing it.
Blake, either that Phil will be really good or our pitching will stink.
This ump sucks behind the plate, strike zone is a tea cup for Chan Ho, 2 strikes called balls, guess they don’t want extras.
It’s the beginning of the season and the yankees starters haven’t been able to give them a lot of length.
The bull pen is short tonight and Park is trying to gut out this inning for Girardi.
Can’t blame him if the Sox score here. Just circumstance.
Park’s losing it. No matter what happens here, he’s pitched a SPECTACULAR game so far tonight.
Those were two good swings. One more like those and he has to come out.
I know these close games are more “exciting” but just once against the sox I’d like a blowout….
jorge needs to flip the mitt , drop to his knees and block the ball with his chest if necessary.
he got away with back handing that one.
yanks need to stay on him .
he can block it the right way if he works at it.
My heart cannot take these long fly balls. haha
I am surprised that Girardi is asking Park to give him another inning. Every batter is getting the ball closer to the wall or over the wall.
Get Chan HO out now. Thanks for the great effort but hes tired.
If they make it to the 10th I wonder you pitches for the Sox….I thought Cameron got that one for a sec.
“This place is special” because people got up for a deep fly ball?
Hey kids, almost doesn’t count. We had quite a few deep ones also. Ask Drew.
Park doing a great job. May it continue.
If that goes 2 feet further it scrapes the wall and Beltre maybe scores… whew
geez, anotherscary fly out? u won’t be this lucky for long
theyre hitting rockets off chan ho
Park giving up some long outs. If he can just eek out this inning, it would be a heck of a bounce back from Sunday night.
Err I mean “Drew scores”
routine flyball in every other ballpark almost was a walk off.
I hate Fenway.
Why is Joe keeping Park out there. You can tell that he is running out of gas.
Matt Garza got the WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chop!
Wow that was a gutsy performance. I can’t believe Chop got through 3 scoreless innings.
Living Dangerously.
Kenny I was this close to whooping YES announcing a..
Excellent job by Park tonight!
park had a good atom ball going in that inning.
Dang ! Joe really was pushing him. You could tell that he was running out of gas.
Girardi had a premonition that this one is going 26 innings and he doesn’t want to blow out Swisher’s arm early like he did last year.
Take a lead here and go to Mo. Then an off day tomorrow.
Last night the Sox were a bit short in the pen. Tito made the right call in using Bard to throw the seventh because that was when the yankees best hitters were up.
But after that he had to go to Scott Atchinson.
Girardi has a similar issue and he is able to turn to a guy like Park. And Park can give the yanks a third inning.
The yanks have a very deep and flexible bull pen.
Hopefully the panic can stop.
Granderson against a right hander.
Time to swing for the fences, Curtis. Run in to one, and get Mo warmed up.
Jeremy – you just saw why Joe kept Park out there.
I didn’t see him running out of gas. I saw him throw some though!
4 well struck balls and Park comes out of it shakey but safe.
Wow, I was so wrong………..MAJOR props to Chan Ho Park.
*you YES announcing*
Great job by Chan Ho. Got a bit of luck there at the end but really good outing. The Yankees score here then they can still go to Mo, Boston has burned there 2 best already.
You knew a Yanks/Sox game couldn’t go sub 3 hours.
Good job Chan Ho, nice rebound from the other evening’s sand wedge dinger…….Where’s Miltre tonight ????/
Whew
park was great, hope Paplebon’s out so we can attack their weaker relievers.
Erica you’re lucky I don’t have Kinsler and Reyes this week…
Let’s go guys…Get some runs…
Betsy, you happy Girardi is go long with Park tonight?
I know you don’t like mixing and matching and constant calls to the pen…
Girardi used so many relievers the 1st 2 games so Joba isn’t available tonight and who knows about Robertson. Too bad Hughes isn’t available.
Fenway fans suck. They jump up for every stoopid fly ball as if it’s going out.
Yankees v red sox. Even the low scoring games go long!!!! Ugg!!!
The must be gofers, They have depth perception.
Granderson!!!!!
Ian Kennedy starting tonight in Arizona
Patrick April 7th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
Erica you’re lucky I don’t have Kinsler and Reyes this week…
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And your lucky that I have Carlos Lee as active instead of Chipper Jones!!!
Curtis is clutch.
WHO CALLED THAT!?
CURTIS thats ur Yankee Moment
GRAND CENTRAL IS NOW OPEN!
3 innings was pushing it, Stuckey, but I understand why he did it.
C GRAND!
GRANDY!!!!!!
A Grand Slam
HATERS GONNA HATE !!!!!
Granderson, Damon who?
This Granderson might be a keeper.
Sweet swing and a bomb.
Granderson is no good, no good at all
Curtis!
There’s my man, Curtis!!! Have I mentioned he went to the U of I at Chicago?
GRANDY!!
The Grandy Man Can
Or at least according to John Sterling- YIPES! LOL
CG!
If he hits like that against Papelbon I don’t care if he gets 0 hits against lefties this year!!!
Johnny who?
Wow, Grandy smokes rightys, what a shot, crushed Paplebon, love it.
Yankee fans and LoHuders are going to love Curtis Granderson
damn, I was in bathroom and I missed it
guess that’s why you don’t pinch hit for granderson earlier in the game.
Woohoo Granderson!!!
Where are the Granderson bashers now?
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
where are all those AJax groupies, now!?!
Ok if pettitte wont have me, I might have to marry granderson lol
Would that be considered a clutch at bat?
Jerkface April 7th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
HATERS GONNA HATE !!!!!
Granderson, Damon who?
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Careful there Jerkface. Careful
Grandy!!! Yes, that was his nickname in Mo-town….. I’m so happy for him!!!
GRANDERSON BABY!!
Yeah, baby.
Curtis Granderson….welcome to the Yankees!!!!
Guy’s going to be huge this year.
Granderson haters
sup now ????????????????????????????????????????????????
blake April 7th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
Would that be considered a clutch at bat?
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Nah- LOL
I’d love to see 2 more runs here with their top of the order coming up.
Go back and look at all the garbage written about this yankee team – a season after the yankee were relentless and refused to die late in games.
Look at all the garbage written about Granderson already.
This yankee team still has more guts than many individuals in the yankee fanbase.
Curtis says “How do you like me now?!”
I love watching anytime Papelbum gets hit. Hopefully Mo can close this one out.
Let Girardi manage and just accept that sometimes it’s not going to work out. I am infinitely grateful that Park got through the inning because I guarantee you that those of you who were already getting on Joe for not pulling Park would be all over it like white on rice, convinced that you could manage the game better than Girardi!
I’m in the group who isn’t bothered by early season losses. Therefore I wouldn’t have mourned if we lost the game and would have taken it for what it was. A great effort by Andy and great pitching by Park.
Just sayin’
Now bring in Mitre to close it!
Is Granderson gonna try to sell the “I’m not a HR hitter” in the postgame again tonight?
His homers haven’t been cheapies either. He’s going to destroy that short porch in YSIII.
I’m not feeling so “grand” right now.
“BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
where are all those AJax groupies, now!?!”
Right here! But I like Granderson too.
I’m so happy for him because of the grief he’s taken.
Gardner should bunt.
Wow ! I missed that homerun. And people were saying that Granderson was going to be bad.
Ray, it’s not over until it’s over!
mitre is warming up
taking 2 out of 3 in fenway versus their “three Aces” at the beginning of traditionally slow month is pretty cool way to start the season.
I think Erica might even want to divorce Johnny for Curtis tonight.
Careful there Jerkface. Careful
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“I’m so happy for him because of the grief he’s taken.”
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only on this board. Which in real life, doesn’t matter
There is literally nobody in MLB right now who I’d rather seen beaten than Papelbon. Absolutely nobody.
Can you have your Michael Kay-patented “Moment he became a Yankee” on the road?
Dude the sound on that Granderson homerun was so nice. He hammered that ball
RUN, BRETT, RUN!!!
Gardner has to steal right here, has to.
Time to steal 2nd base
over/under on granderson 40 hrs?
i go over.
gardner has to run now
“Where are the Granderson bashers now?”
It is too late in the night with extra innnings game…Their mommies have put all those children to bed
Now get Gardner going here. Always can use another insurance run…
Granderson needs to run on first move.
Oh god, apparenty Sterling used his stupid “grandish” call and then added “the Grandy man can, the Grandy man can”…..
Lots of gutless posts on here from people killing granderson before now basking in the glory…
Really gutless.
Granderson in his first series as a yankee facing Boston in Fenway takes Josh Beckett and Papelbon deep – and not just garden variety deep – he absolutely crushes their stuff.
Beckett and Papelbon – two guys who have been in the heads of way too many yankee fans.
And Granderson gets trashed over and over because all too many people do is focus on what he’s not proficient at.
Same goes for way too many people in the media.
SJ, CB, et al.
Unfortunately it isn’t going to make any difference. You would hope that the posters who freaked on Park and freaked on Granderson would see how ridiculous they looked doing so and would take a lesson from it, but you know it’s not going to happen.
I still don’t get how they don’t see how foolish they look by making pronouncements after one game. But they don’t.
trisha,
Girardi can’t win. He tries to play matchups and people say he is ‘overmanging’ and is burning out his pen.
Then he leaves in a reliever with a low pitch count who was cruising and people say he is pushing it.
We have a short pen today as it is – No Joba or Aceves. Mitre sucks. MO only if we have a lead. We essentially only had 3 relievers today (though if the game had gone longer, we would have had to go to Ace or Joba)
Girardi has done fine as usual. Micromanages when he has to, leaves guys in when he has to.
CD, games not over yet….
Freaking sand pit over there at 1B.
Its Grand!!
gardner should be able to steal 99 out of 100 times against papelbon and martinez.
if he doesn’t steal second i give up.
ya know, if Girardi didn’t screw up game one, we would have swept the “three Aces”.
Gardener will be caught
The Gardenhoser is in Pap’s head during this whole ab.
Dude the sound on that Granderson homerun was so nice. He hammered that ball
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Granderson is a lanky, 6’1 guy, but his power is legit. When he hits it, he hits it far close to 400 ft average on his HRs. Love that sound.
CB, I was going to give a shout out to our favorite NY Post columnist, but remembering my promise from last night, I didn’t. Granderson has been treated like garbage – he hasn’t been given a fair crack by fans or the media. So, it works like it worked for Alex : boo the heck out of him, then cheer him when he does well. Gutless is right.
“Oh god, apparenty Sterling used his stupid “grandish” call and then added “the Grandy man can, the Grandy man can”…..”
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that man is mentally ill.
gardner may not be an instinctive base stealer.
he’s making it awful close over at first
Gardner has reached his safe limit on his leadoffs.
“# Brandon’s Awesome (So full of AWESOME that you wish you could be me) April 7th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
GRAND CENTRAL IS NOW OPEN!
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ha I like it
It’s nice to see guys like Cano, Granderson, Swisher, and Posada swinging hot bats when it seems like Tex is getting off to another slow start.
And Gardner may not be a great hitter, but he sure seems to have Papelbon’s number.
This is why Granderson should not bat #2……
All people care about are his struggles against lefties; I really hope he doesn’t read the papers.
I don’t get the sense Granderson has been given a hard time by fans. Let’s not mischaracterize the blogs as representing the fans.
All internet discussion forums trend negative.
Randy, maybe it’s time to run, 2-2 count
Happy now randy?
Swipe!
SAFE!
v-mart has a poor arm
Man, granderson has a ton of bat speed. His swing is effortless – really graceful and relaxed and he generates huge power given that swing.
Really fast hands and does a fantastic job of transferring power from his hips and tors to his hands.
Jason, Girardi has earned the right to not be second-guessed with his pitching decision. He made MANY out of the box decisions last year that all turned up roses. He’s proven time and again he’s the smartest guy in the room when it comes to pitching decisions.
and that’s how you take care of Victor Martinez and the Sox, at the catching position.
run, run, and run
Papelbon wasted 5 minutes of everyone’s lives with the pick off throws. jete’s got to drive him in now
“gardner may not be an instinctive base stealer.”
Has the speed but doesn’t know what to do with it?
An insurance run would be nice.
Papelbon was crazy slow to the plate on that steal. V-Mart called for a slide step and Papelbon did not oblige.
Awwwwwwwwww.. Papelbon doesn’t have it tonight
If Kevin Long can get Granderson to use half the swing he has vs righties on a lefty breaking pitch he is going to hit 10 HRs the opposite way.
“Girardi has done fine as usual. Micromanages when he has to, leaves guys in when he has to.”
Jason, an absolutely amen to that. And I’ll go one step further and say that I have no trouble with Girardi leaving CC in, in game one. The guy is one of your horses, and he had a reasonable pitch count. He was not running out of gas. He was pitching too carefully and got burned. He said so himself. Whenever a pitcher starts to get into trouble, the “he’s running out of gas” mantra is rampant here. But that isn’t always the case.
Ellsbury and Gardner are both extremely fast but it takes Gardner a lot longer to read a pitcher. Usually like 4 to 5 pitches. Hopefully he can get better at that.
Stuckey, it’s all we can go by. Obviously we haven’t played a home game yet, so I can only judge by the internet community. Plus, the media has been patently unfair, IMO. Then again, they’ve outdone themselves this whole week with Grandy, AJ/Jorge, etc…
LOL ! Paps is a failure. I love it when that guy fails. I wish they would show the ALDS game 3 blow up again.
Hit and run or a double steal? Call it. Not usual to see a one out hit and run, though. I can’t see a double steal, though. Maybe a run and hit?
oh my god.
gardner stole a base. it’s a miracle.
now he should take a really big lead off second and mess with martinez and papelbon.
Wow, didn’t think I’d see Papelbon getting pulled. Logically, though, he’s thrown 28 pitches, and it’s two lefties coming up. Leaving him in wouldn’t make much sense.
My boy Milton Bradley just jacked one. Haters gonna hate…
Pete Abe says Atchison
This is really sweet. Papelbon has to walk off the mound at Fenway before the game is over so that Scott Atchinson can replace him.
What a moment.
Papelbon did not have that great a season last year given his past accomplishments. His command really deteriorated and he became overly dependent on his fastball.
Him blowing that save to the angels did not come out of left field.
Betsy – Hughes rules (pleading the Fifth) April 7th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Oh god, apparenty Sterling used his stupid “grandish” call and then added “the Grandy man can, the Grandy man can”…..
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That is correct
He actually SANG “The Grandyman can”
“Awwwwwwwwww.. Papelbon doesn?t have it tonight
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Erica, don’t go upsetting California now!
CB, Curtis is so quick with his hands the ball just explodes of his bat….I mean he cleared the bullpens twice
Not a good night for ex-Yankee pitchers Jose Veras and Ian Kennedy.
pat April 7th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
“gardner may not be an instinctive base stealer.”
Has the speed but doesn’t know what to do with it?
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Much like Bernie Williams.
Ellsbury and Gardner are both extremely fast but it takes Gardner a lot longer to read a pitcher. Usually like 4 to 5 pitches. Hopefully he can get better at that.
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When Gardner finally realizes he doesn’t need to have the perfect jump to steal on anyone in the league he’ll become a dangerous base stealer.
This would be a nice spot for Johnson’s first hit
“My boy Milton Bradley just jacked one. Haters gonna hate…”
Why is he playing the field?
And why is Figgins playing 2b?
What is team defense doing!
Brandon’s Awesome (So full of AWESOME that you wish you could be me) April 7th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
I think Erica might even want to divorce Johnny for Curtis tonight.
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Incorrect!
Another run here would be really nice. Perfect spot for the slow guys, Johnson or Tex to get a hit.
gardner doesn’t have to steal to disrupt the red sox.
he just needs to make them think he might.
Nothing better than watching mo pitch a 1-2-3 inning.
Jerkface April 7th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Careful there Jerkface. Careful
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I knew it’d step on your toes but I was in the moment
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LOL- okay, but as long as you know I am paying attention
Girardi might not do a double steal because it’s better to just let NJ take pitches.
Regardless of whether the Yankees hold on for the win, this game really highlights the difficulties the Sox will have in closing out games. Their starter gives them 6 scoreless, and Tito still has to push his only two reliable relievers for more than an inning–not because of unavailability, but because of the quality (or lack thereof) of the rest of their bullpen. This game has also served to underscore the Yankee’s depth. On a night when Aceves (multiple inning reliever) and Joba (likely set-up guy) are unavailable, the Yankee pen is still able to match-up favorably with Boston (without even using Robertson). The Yankees may or may not leave with a series win, but in my mind they have looked like a far superior team. Right now you have to feel great about the composition of this team.
cb,
is there a physical reason for his lack of command? mental?
he seems to have gained some weight
Come on tex…
Just keep on walkin’
I feel bad for Atchinson. Isn’t he the one that gave it up last night?
‘gardner stole a base. it’s a miracle.”
Yeah, what a joke… 2 in 3 games. At this pace a guy with his speed is only going to end up with 108…
Oh, waitaminute…
Does Francona really want Scott Atchison here?
Has anyone ever had more walks than hits in a season?
GJ Tex
Pat M.,
I’ve seen Granderson play i don’t know how many times… and I didn’t really pay attention to how fast his hands are and how effortlessly he generates massive power.
Those aren’t only home runs – those are almost ARod type shots.
His home road splits last year were huge – that park eats up lefty hitters.
Man, he could do a lot of damage at the stadium.
I’ll take the RBI! Thanks Tex
BIG, BIG run there.
That’s good enough for me
it’s uncanny how pitchers can’t throw strikes to nick johnson.
not bad, Tex.
Now A-Rod finishes them
One thing that has jumped out at me in this series, Giradi has gone multi innings with Aceves & Park, Terry Francona doesn’t have that Luxury ….Youk has saved several runs tonight at 1st
“Has anyone ever had more walks than hits in a season?”
Barry Bonds
Will Tex even get a hit this April?
Let’s go Mo!!!
Alex doesn’t like tack ons anymore
A-Rod is way too anxious
Well I called the couple of runs. Now Mo do your thing plzzzzzz…..
Well, I’ll take the run, but man, Tex and Alex look stiff at the plate. I can’t wait until they heat up, haha
I would have been fine going into the bottom of the inning with a one-run lead. I like living on the edge.
Mo time…
As long as the Yankees win, he won’t care……..HaHa
Not a good at bat by Teixeira (although it was a big producer like Cano’s last night) or by Rodriguez.
Beantown’s swan song sung
By a Bard, a Troubadour
And a Papelbon
So what is it now?
Johnson/Tex/Arod one for forty-two so far this season?
Tex will be fine and Alex will be triple fine.
kd,
I really don’t know. I don’t think the Sox know either. He wasn’t crisp last year. And for whatever reason he just kept throwing fastball after fastball. He keeps talking about mixing up his pitches more but then hasn’t been doing it.
His shoulder has always been an issue so who knows. His velocity is good. I don’t know. Relievers frequently deteriorate suddenly and for no reason.
There’s a reason why they haven’t offerred him a contract extension.
DYNASTY IS DESTINY! April 7th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Beantown’s swan song sung
By a Bard, a Troubadour
And a Papelbon
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I missed you
“Will Tex even get a hit this April?”
Guess you’ll have to wait to find out. But doesn’t it do your heart good that they can do it without his hits? I’m just sure it does.
Why is he playing the field?
And why is Figgins playing 2b?
What is team defense doing!
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Not sure but it’s either him or Griffey out there.
Eh, I’m torn about Figgins at 2B. He’s a better 3B but apparently they think Lopez will be better at 3B.
hahahahhahaahhahahah
Theo must be pulling out his frosted hair tips over Paps
Arod is back to his old tricks…sucking.
nice little nugget from Pete:
“Yankees have won 16 straight games when the score was tied after the 7th inning. That’s a modern record.”
Sterling keeps giving this stat-
Right now the Yankees have 16 consecutive games of winning when tied after 7.
If they win tonight, it will break the record set in 1906
nice – 1 pitch 1 out…
Question: is Winn really a defensive upgrade over Swish
trisha – OPPC member who sees, hears, and knows all. 28 is on its way!!!!! April 7th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
I would have been fine going into the bottom of the inning with a one-run lead. I like living on the edge.
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Be quiet there, Cliff Dweller. I’m not a fan of small ledges.
hardwired April 7th, 2010 at 10:26 pm
nice little nugget from Pete:
“Yankees have won 16 straight games when the score was tied after the 7th inning. That’s a modern record.”
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Sterling said that earlier tonight!!!!!!!!! And just repeated it!
Wow, I thought we were over that with Alex; I guess not.
leave AROD alone!
Rishi,
I think he is.
Thanks Erica!
Is it me, or is Mo getting squeezed?
Home plate ump flipping a coin back there…
I’m late to the party. Where is our boy Dan?
He get banned?
wow, that was close.
“Yeah, what a joke… 2 in 3 games. At this pace a guy with his speed is only going to end up with 108…”
if gardner were stealing against papelbon and martinez all year , he should have 208 stolen bases at the ends of the year.
Nice game going on between KC and Detroit. KC 1-0 in the 8th.
thanks, Patrick – I do’nt know much about Winn
Also not happy with all this assumed win stuff…let the game end and we’ll see what happens you ding dongs
Do they allow called strikes on Pedroia, please.
The plate has been very small tonight
SJ44 April 7th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
I’m late to the party. Where is our boy Dan?
He get banned?
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YES
Rishi -
A considerable upgrade. Especially here at Fenway with its spacious right field.
1 more out
SJ – it appears he got banned. Kudos to our forum hosts.
One more!
thanks cb. it’s very odd from the outside looking it. maybe the shoulder, maybe the head.
makes you appreciate what mariano is.
man, arod has a strong arm
trisha – OPPC member who sees, hears, and knows all. 28 is on its way!!!!! April 7th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
Nice game going on between KC and Detroit. KC 1-0 in the 8th.
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I’d really, really like Soria to get (me) that save
nice play by alex
Shot-gun!
Must have, SJ. It’s been pleasant and instructive here.
There are a couple of other folks I wouldn’t mind seeing banned, but boy – it’s nice without Dan.
ok – so I guess Damon was so bad we took him out first and left Swish in last year
Winnis a very good defensive outfielder.
Thanks for the Munson/Posada link this morning. Definately a must read, Rishi.
That’s a great move. Enough was enough.
Start spreading the news,
I’m leaving today.
I want to be a part of it -
New York, New York.
was that not a strike 10 mins ago?
Squeezing Mo should be a crime…
“Sterling said that earlier tonight!!!!!!!!! And just repeated it!”
I’m not listening to Sterling tonight.
This post brought to you by NY Life.
NY Life, the company you keep.
Suzyn, what just happened?
“Be quiet there, Cliff Dweller. I?m not a fan of small ledges.”
I need something to get my blood pumping, especially with these early season games.
Sutcliff is losing it, he must be on his 6th greyhound
A good game tonight by Andy and Park, clutch hr by Curtis.
Nice way to begin the season winning this series.
Yankees win
woot woot – game over
ballgame!
Mo!!!!
SJ44 April 7th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
That’s a great move. Enough was enough.
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Occasional trolling is tolerable, but he was posting every other comment
If I can make it there,
I’d make it anywhere
Come on, come through,
New York, New York.
YAWN!!!
All in a day’s work.
GRANDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“The Yankees may or may not leave with a series win, but in my mind they have looked like a far superior team. Right now you have to feel great about the composition of this team.”
tk’s post above is spot on. Agree completely. This series has exposed real structural deficiencies in the Sox team.
Even when the yanks lost game one, to me, what was most glaring in the game were the structural deficiencies the Sox are challenged with.
Big Papi really has no bat speed. Now you can say he turned it around last year – but he really wasn’t close to what he was or close to a balanced hitter. And remeber last year they didn’t need Papi as much because they had Bay. This year no Bay. Papi is hitting behind Youkilis. And there’s no reason to pitch to Youkilis.
That is a major issue. And that was exposed time and time again. Papi can hit mistakes right now but that’s it.
All spring we’ve heard about how great the Sox pen is. Well Scott Atchinson and Scott Schonweis made this team out of spring training.
They have a staff full of “aces.” Well their third ace just got matched pitch for pitch by the yanks 4th pitcher at Fenway.
Defense and run prevention is the big matra. Ok. Your shortstop isn’t a great defender and you catcher is horrendous.
These are issues that aren’t simply “small sample size.”
Even losing that first game, I thought that game showed the yankees to be the systematically stronger team right now.
Regardless of the outcomes of these games that’s what we’ve seen.
WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Yankees Win!
Yes! 105 more towards my prediction of 107 wins.
This beats the hell out of last year’s first games against the sox.
Now for the awesome Granderson interviews
I am so happy for Granderson – give that man a wrestling belt!
Nice win…Doing it against Papelbum makes it even better.
Anyone freaked out that we won a series against boston in April? LOL
Munson/Posada article, huh?? Wouldn’t happen to still have that link handy GB or Rishi would ya? Missed it this morning…
Rivera really spoils us. 2 of 3 at Fenway to open the season isn’t too bad.
Very nice way to start the season.
If they stay healthy, this is a juggernaut team.
What a marvelous game to close the series. I doubt that anybody would have picked this game as the pitching duel of the series.
hardwired April 7th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
“Sterling said that earlier tonight!!!!!!!!! And just repeated it!”
I’m not listening to Sterling tonight.
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LOL- My DVR is working double duty. So I had to turn the radio on at home
man – Granderson doesn’t stop talking – each answer is 45 mins long
Erica, your boyfriend did nothing to help me out tonight!
If this were last year, I’d have 2 saves already because I had Mo. This year I wasn’t so lucky.
Jonathan oh Jonathan did you watch Rivera, you should have, that’s how it’s done. It’s always amazed me how much disrespect Paplebon has shown to Rivera. Sweet win.
rodg12 April 7th, 2010 at 10:33 pm
Munson/Posada article, huh?? Wouldn’t happen to still have that link handy GB or Rishi would ya? Missed it this morning…
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Sure thing, rodg. I’ll locate it and put it on here. Great piece.
Aside from Bard and Papelbon, Boston’s pen looks pretty terrible to me.
I can’t say enough what a great great game Remy calls, beginning to end. I’m beginning to think he’s better at it than any of our crew.
I would have been happy with 1 out of 3.
2 out of 3 is great.
Interestingly the media punidts were saying Sox starting three are superior. But our three showed they are on par or better.
Based on what we have seen so far, this team will be great when all cylinders are clicking. Dare to say they will be close to 1998 kind of team.
Great job by the bullpen.
Is Granderson officially a Yankee now that he had the game-winning HR?
I think SO!!!!
“It’s been pleasant and instructive here.”
The game thread went very well once the trouble makers were banned. Appreciate it Chad and Sam.
Congratulations you guys.
Contrary to the trend of recent years maybe the Yankees will not start out slow at the beginning of the season.
I have always said that just two or three games into the season is too early to state categorically about the state of a team, but at the same time I will say that with just these few games the Yankees have a stronger team than the Sox.
Great start – 2 out of 3 in Boston.
Don’t understand all the shots at Gardner; overall thought he had a good series.
He worked Papelcrap for a walk, distracts him, steals second and ends up scoring a very big insurance run.
So far, so good.
“man – Granderson doesn’t stop talking – each answer is 45 mins long”
Very Cashman-like.
Granderson owns, he really wanted to say that papelbon threw it down the middle, but caught himself and changed it to ‘strike in the zone’
I’m so happy. I thought we would get swept by Josh, Jon, and John.
Like I said Granderson is one heck of a trash talking plyr., he hides it well but you can tell.
“Yankees have won 16 straight games when the score was tied after the 7th inning. That’s a modern record.”
Which SHOULD put the question of Girardi’s bullpen management to rest …
… but it won’t.
OMIGOD
How can this team compete without Damon, Zilla, and Melky!?!
Fire C-Money!
Granderson sounds like a Yankee already, lol. I love this guy.
Here you go, rodg. compliments of and to Rishi.
Rishi April 7th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Has anyone posted the Posada-Munson article:
http://sports.espn.go.com/newy…..id=5062675
it was a great read
“I’m beginning to think he’s better at it than any of our crew.”
Remy is not a total homer, which is obviously a positive, but he’s no Ken Singleton.
It’s like having Lou Rawls call Yankee games. Silky smooth.
Anyone surprised to not see one AB from two certified Yankee killers (Tek and Lowell) in this series? Tek I can understand because of Martinez and I guess Francona can’t afford to give up on Papi this early in the season.
ray,
As always you’re a stand up guy. Appreciated.
It’s a very long season – and at the start of 2009 it looked exactly the opposite only 10 fold.
It’s always hard to appreciate how long the season is.
Flaherty, you punk – with or without the HRs, Granderson was a Yankee
What Granderson really wanted to say when the YES cameras went off
“Mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnn I haven’t seen a pitch that fat since little league! I SMOKED THAT S… I SMOKED IT! GOOGLE ME!”
Ray, thanks – and you have a terrific team; Lackey pitched wonderfully.
Granderson’s home run was so clutch that a throng of reporters from Japan are now flying from Anaheim to New York to follow his every move…
Two of the newbies are stars of the game. Great game.
BBFan. I’m with you. I was content to take one game and just look for good things in the other two. So this is very nice.
Ray, let me say this. Just as I wouldn’t have been thrown if the Yanks didn’t take this game, so am I not over the moon that they did – meaning, I don’t think that these early season games say a lot about much. So you just take whatever positives that you can.
“If they stay healthy, this is a juggernaut team.”
sj44-
they are loaded.
“I can’t say enough what a great great game Remy calls, beginning to end. I’m beginning to think he’s better at it than any of our crew.”
remy is very good and very fair to opposing teams and funny.
one of my favorite announcers.
Bwahahah, Papelbon was beaten again. 2 OUT OF 3 NOT BAD AT ALL.
Heck of a win tonight. Andy and Chopper were FANTASTIC tonight, and allowed our offense to finally chip away.
And while Granderson is going to K a lot, and probably not have spectacular numbers against lefties, he’s going to absolutely murder the short porch once we get home. He’s going to be a VERY big pick up for this team.
Outside of the kinks out of the bullpen, and CC going on inning too long in the first game, this was a great series.
“All spring we’ve heard about how great the Sox pen is.”
CB – I’d be interested to hear how you think this will impact the usage patterns of Bard & Papelbon. They’ve been awfully conservative with Papelbon in the past and given Bard’s age/experience and future importance you think he would also be conservatively used. However, judging from this game and their lack of quality options, it looks like it will be a struggle to piece together the final outs otherwise.
It’s nice having Curry on YES on a regular basis….
Hmmm, I can understand sentiment for Park, but I would have given the player of the game to Granderson.
Soria blew the save
OUCH!
BTW,
iKen has 7 strikeouts through 3 innings for Arizona.
Do you guys mean Orsillo? Remy is an ok color guy, but Orsillo is the better part of the NESN crew. Fair and balanced and a good voice.
The Yankees have always played well on the road, unlike the Sox or some other teams; they just don’t get intimidated. Um, I loved seeing Paplebon with that depressed look on his face……where’s the jig now, Pap?
They just showed a graphic on baseball tonight comparing Tex to Ortiz so far this year. Tex is 0 for 11 and Ortiz 1-11, but the interesting thing is that Tex’s swing and miss % was 9.5% in the 3 games while Papi’s was 40.9.
Just want to say that when some of the Yankee fans were trashing Park the first night, I said that I was willing to give it over to first Yankee-game jitters, adjusting, or whatever else.
For impatient Yankee fan types, it is TOO EARLY in the season to be flipping out over things you think you don’t like. Chill and let the season unfold.
JMO
Thanks GB and Rishi as well…
If it weren’t for Andy, the Yanks wouldn’t even have been in this position…
I’m telling you don’t buy that nice boy act from Granderson, he is not nice at all. I guarantee that guy is talking trash in the locker room right now. No one is that polite.
Papelbon’s era 7.71 he spent so much time trying to pick off Gardener that he lost focus. The look on his face said it all !!
Papelblown.
I think Orsillo is hideous. He’s an overblown homer and I hate his voice. He makes Sterling look like the height of calm. Every one of his calls is like the last game of the world series. He annoys the crap out of me. Remy is the brains of the group, and he is entirely objective and on the money with his calls.
I’d just like to take this opportunity to point out that Jonathan Papelbon has more losses than David Ortiz has home runs.
ray (sox fan) April 7th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Congratulations you guys.
Contrary to the trend of recent years maybe the Yankees will not start out slow at the beginning of the season.
I have always said that just two or three games into the season is too early to state categorically about the state of a team, but at the same time I will say that with just these few games the Yankees have a stronger team than the Sox.
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Evening, Ray. Hope all is well in the (sox fan) family….well except for your Pawtucket…..errrr Boston Red Sox.
Classy remarks as always, Bud.
say, have you seen Killer around there lately. Last I heard, he was laughing so hard at “yaz”, he didn’t make much sense.
Rodg12 – if the link doesn’t work (sometimes copy/paste is an issue), it was on espnny…
there is another great article on Mo, too
What a great series, the Yankees beat Beckett and Lester, and Papelbon, and are in their heads.
“I don’t think that these early season games say a lot about much. So you just take whatever positives that you can.”
Yup… no predictive qualities to be found, but the games count so it’s good to get a game up on the Sox.
I love it when Paps blows it. None of the other teams like paps. He’s a arrogant smug punk.
That made this victory even better.
This team is terrible!
Granderson as soon as he got into the dugout
“WHAT! WHAT! GOOGLE ME!”
I can’t believe they didn’t sweep.
Brandon, I believe that with Granderson what you see is what you get.
I think Orsillo is hideous. He’s an overblown homer and I hate his voice. He makes Sterling look like the height of calm. Every one of his calls is like the last game of the world series. He annoys the crap out of me. Remy is the brains of the group, and he is entirely objective and on the money with his calls.
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Are you thinking of Joe Castiglione and Dave O’brien on the radio? The NESN play-by-play guy is Orsillo. He is very fair. Remy is the color guy, and I don’t know what ‘calls’ he is making? Are we talking analysis? The play-by-play guy makes calls.
The next time we see Joe West, Paul Schreiber and Angel Hernandez as umpires will be TOO SOON!
Brandon, that goes contrary to everything I’ve read about him out of Detroit, and what they say about him on Chicago campus, U of I. I obviously don’t know him personally, but, I have yet to read anything of what you’re suggesting. Maybe I’m wrong, but this is what I’ve read from a number of sources.
Heck, Singleton is saying similar things about Granderson right now.
“Brandon, I believe that with Granderson what you see is what you get.”
Trisha I guarantee you he’s not that polite…he caught himself in that interview, after gm.2 or 1 he said how he couldn’t believe the Red Sox fans don’t hate him…you have to be pretty sure of yourself to be that outspoken.
Park showed a lot of guts getting through the 3 innings; Eiland asked him if he could give them 3 (so probably we were fairly desperate) and Park came through.
Will Ace not be able to pitch back to back ?
Brandon is excessively polite, but I think he would trash talk to his friends. Even polite people loosen up around friends. I don’t think he would be rude or mean, but granderson was probably talking smack on the bench after that HR to Jeter/Arod.
Not to get ahead of ourselves here but they got Javy, CC and AJ going for this next series in Tampa. That’s pretty sweet.
I don’t like the Rays very much.
Flaherty and Kay already giving Joba the 8th inning role. Even if that were the case, Joe made the right move not pitching him 3 in a row
Another 2 ESPN employees/Red Sox fans!!!
Dave O’B and Joe Castiglione’s son, Duke!
Park deserved the TPTG, tonight. Without those three shutdown innings, the bullpens gets worked harder and those two runs in the 9th may not have mattered. I’m really shocked that Rivera did his job. He’s always so unpredictable.
Joe I hope he is like that, you need stones and attitude to be that outspoken and good. He prbly hides it well.
lol I said brandon, I meant GRANDERSON. brandon is correct. He caught himself tonight wanting to call out papelbon on throwing it right down the middle. You know he was saying that on the bench.
Can’t say enough about the job that Ace and Park did last night and tonight. They may not have won these games without the multiple innings these guys provided.
Somebody suggested the Yanks might trade Ace down the road, making room for Nova or someone else. Cash might have to fight Girardi on that one
If Mitre can give the Yankees something that just straddles the line between last year and how he looked this spring, the Yamkees bullpen is going to be ridonkulous.
GB, I’m fine with that – the team won, that’s all that counts. Mo is looking goooooood.
jerkface, that only makes me love him more, if he is.
Just got a chance to watch some highlights.
So what happened to the Tex that would break to the bag in any ball was more than a foot to his right?
Now he goes for it and nearly takes out our #3 in his first game.
Betsy – Hughes rules (pleading the Fifth) April 7th, 2010 at 10:54 pm
GB, I’m fine with that – the team won, that’s all that counts. Mo is looking goooooood.
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Great? He allowed a fly ball to the outfield and no strikeouts.
Yeah, he still looks like the Rivera from 10 years ago on the mound. If he doesn’t take his hat off, you’d swear it was year 2000.
Big win. He’s a Yankee Doodle Grandy! Nice bounce back performance from Chan Ho! Great work from Andy! Big RBI from Nick! Big walk from OBP Jesus!
Yanks are gonna be very, very good this year.
Granderson’s nice reputation is a known fact, Detroit LOVES him !!
Andy Van Slyke, (former Cardinal OF and former Tigers 1st base coach) lives near some family of mine in St Louis, said if he had a daughter, he would want Curtis first in line. Granderson is the real deal!!
tK,
Don’t know how Tito is going to handle their pen. They should have tried to bring Saito back. He was good for them and his arm looked ok at the end of the season.
I think Delcarmen might be hurt. His fastball has lost a lot of velocity and life. No Wagner.
Papelbon can only pitch so often given his shoulder.
Ultimately, like all teams the effectiveness of their pen will depend on how many innings their staff give them.
They’ll be ok with their top 3 – as long as Beckett and Lackey stay healthy but that’s a real if.
On the back end of their rotation – that’s where the problems for their pen could develop as Buchholz, Dice-K and Wakefield won’t provide a lot of length.
Tazawa is hurt. They don’t have much pitching at all in AAA.
Tito has a number of challenges there if that staff doesn’t given them huge innings. But again, that was Theo’s strategy this off season so we’ll see how it goes.
The Rem Dawg getting the love on the Lohud blog! Who would have ever seen the day… He’s pretty funny and actually quite fair. Like all the Sox announcers, he’s a TOTAL homer. As a side note, his son (one of the Sox assistant trainers?) was apparently caught up in the Sox steroid investigation which MLB pushed under the rug a few years ago.
It’s only game three, but top to bottom this team is deep with the best pitching they have had since 98–in fact, the pitching may be better. Stay relatively healthy, and only good things are going to happen. Winning the WS last year relaxed everyone, fans included.
Who would have thought they take 2/3 from Boston with their 2-3-4 hitters going 3 for 43?
GB, plus Mo also threw a few balls; what happened to his control?
Ledger_Yankees After getting tangled up with Ellsbury, Pettitte said he felt whiplash and had a headache. But he pitched through it. #nyy
8 minutes ago via web
I like Andy’s performance tonight.
Boston could be in trouble this year. Papi is done, no juice, no bat speed. Their outfield is suspect. Ellsbury is a punch and judy hitter, Cameron stinks, and Drew is only a bit above average. Beltre won’t hit much, Scutaro had a banner year last year but is a lifetime part timer, and Martinez is a better hitter than catcher. Other than Paplebon and Bard their bullpen is suspect. Okajima seems like the league is catching up to him, Delcarmen stinks, the rest are has beens. It will be hard for them to hold off Tampa Bay for the wildcard. Their starters are going to be good but I don’t think they’ll hit much, their defense is only average, and their bullpen is suspect. Why doesn’t Paplebon ever throw the split finger anymore.
The scary part is, Johnson, A-Rod, Tex, aren’t even close to being themselves yet.
Mo is throwing 92-93 again, he wasn’t used to the speed
Also the umpire was terrible
I got fed up with Remy when he’d bring in his sidekick “Wally” for 5 years. Between that and the President of RSN and that annoying “talk through his nose” whine, I can’t deal with him.
Whiplash and a headache? Ouch – poor Andy. They should check him out thoroughly to be sure he’s ok….and yes, I know he pitched through it.
With their rotation, the RS will be good enough to make the playoffs almost no matter what, and they have the assets to add a big bat if necessary.
What was so great about this series of games with the Roid Sux , besides winning, is all the newbies GOT THEIR FEET WET IN THE RIVALRY! They NOW know what level of play is necessary.
Papelbon looked ill when he gave up the run. Andy looked good tonight only 1 run.
I wouldn’t say Boston is in trouble–it’s a long season and they are deep in starting pitching. These games could have gone either way. I’d say the teams are close but the Yankees have a clear advantage this year.
Chan Ho Park is interesting. A flyball pitcher in New YS–very interesting…
http://www.newsday.com/sports/.....-1.1851689
BOSTON – Mariano Rivera steadied himself against his locker as fits of laughter escaped his lips.
The images flooded his mind all at once, transporting him back almost two decades; back when he was still dreaming of his major-league break and Derek Jeter was only a few years removed from adolescence.
“When I saw Jeter, he was only like 150 pounds,” Rivera said in between giggles. “So skinny, oh my God. He was skinnier than me. No doubt about that.”
Rivera had come to see his cousin Ruben play in a minor-league game in the early ’90s. But it was Jeter who caught his eye.
“I said, ‘Wait a minute, who is this kid?’ ” Rivera recalled. “He was so skinny, but he hit the ball good. Hard. I was impressed by how he hit the ball, how he conducted himself. He wasn’t something on the field – he was making errors and things like that. But you could see the potential. And in baseball, that’s what hits you.”
Rivera never could have imagined that the scrawny, baby-faced kid from Kalamazoo, Mich., one day would become the captain of the Yankees – and more importantly, one of his closest confidants.
On Tuesday, Rivera and Jeter, along with Jorge Posada, made history, becoming the only trio in any major sport to play 16 consecutive seasons together. In the era of free agency, one player – let alone three – rarely stays on one team for that long.
The trio has been playing together since Bill Clinton’s first term as president.
“They’re like my brothers. We’ve played together here for 16 years, but we also played together in the minor leagues,” said Jeter, 35, who met Posada and Rivera in 1992 and 1993, respectively, on the Class-A Greensboro Hornets.
“We’ve been playing together for a long, long time. You spend more time with your teammates than you actually do with your own family.”
Said Posada: “To tell you the truth, the early memories are fun because we were very naïve, very different, and now we’re very similar. It’s kind of strange that we were so different from each other. We were naïve about everything: the world, baseball . . . just life.”
Asked to share funny stories from their youth, the 38-year-old catcher chuckled and said: “We like to keep those to ourselves.”
Their bond is about more than just familiarity. It’s about common goals, common values, and above all else, trust. They support each other on the field and off – in times of joy (Jeter was the best man at Posada’s 2000 wedding) and personal tragedy (such as the accidental electrocutions of two of Rivera’s relatives in 2004).
“We’re always there for each other,” Rivera, 40, said. “Always, always, always.”
Had it not been for Andy Pettitte’s three-year stint in Houston, the history-making trio would have been a foursome.
Said Posada: “Andy and Mo, I know what they’re thinking with a look. And with Derek it’s the same thing. They don’t have to say much and I know exactly what they’re thinking. It’s kind of strange that we are in sync with even saying a word.”
Rivera said he’s more than “just lucky” to have these relationships.
“I consider myself blessed,” he said. “It’s something special. We all have talent, but God has blessed us with a relationship that a lot of people don’t have.”
Even after 16 seasons and five world championships, Rivera said he can’t believe how quickly time has flown by. “It doesn’t feel that long,” he said.
Then, after a slight pause, he smiled again.
“Well, sometimes it does.”
Yanks are a very loose and confident ballclub for this early in the season….Since Acveves cane in last night , the pen has been lights out…..Betsy, Rivera threw some chaser pitches tonight as he does when he up in the count…….This is a very good Yankee ballclub…Can’t say they’ll match the 98 team in wins, because the league is much better than it was back in 98…However they are capable of going on some nice runs…..
Looks like Ian O’Connor is putting out some good stuff for ESPNNY. Will have to keep an eye on his articles in the future.
Well that was a nice ending to the game … really nice that Granderson got to be the hero tonight, that has to feel good – he crushed that ball.
Nice to see Andy getting some well-deserved love here too.
Taking 2 outta 3 from the Sox @ Fenway. Pretty nice start to the season.
Andy showed up big time tonight. I love seeing that. Figures he turns in the best start of the series for our guys.
Granderson already is proving he has ice water in the veins. Walk into Fenway and take Papelschmo deep? Love it.
Park was, to us a Boston term, wicked.
We’re seeing how the so called “supporting cast” of Granderson, Swisher and Gardner will win games for this team this year.
Anyone still picking apart Gardner because they’re boo-hoo’ing over Melky needs to get over it. Just shut it and give him a chance this year. He makes things happen on the bases.
The Red Sox pen is a mess. You can see it already. If Bard has any kind of setback and can’t hold down the role, that team will implode since the pen is only 2 deep and we beat up both of them already in this series.
Ortiz looks done. The Boston media will only make it harder for him to get going since they are already harping on every at bat with him.
Boston threw out their perfectly scripted game tonight. Lackey, Bard, Papelbon and great defense by Beltre and lost because they couldn’t muster more than a run.
Things are going to get ugly in Beantown this season folks.
“Why doesn’t Paplebon ever throw the split finger anymore.”
http://www.safepitching4youth......age013.jpg
Park didn’t give up a run, though he just shared with the world that he had the runs. #nyy
7 minutes ago via web
**I think Park might want to share a little less….
Baseball is about playing well almost daily for six months. Every player will go 0-20 this year at some point. Every good pitcher will give up critical runs. Let’s show we know baseball by showing patience and understanding for bad at bats, bad innings and bad streaks.
Pat, I was kidding about Mo, lol – he looks terrific. This is a very good club, but the Sox and the Rays are also very good; this is going to be a dogfight.
Is Andy stoned?
rodg12 April 7th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Looks like Ian O?Connor is putting out some good stuff for ESPNNY. Will have to keep an eye on his articles in the future.
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Rob Parker’s been posting some good stuff too
It’s funny because before the series started, I would have guessed that the Yankees would win Game 1 and drop Games 2 and 3 of this series. So glad that they were able to bounce back after a tough first loss.
I’m not at all surprised by how good the bullpen has looked the last two games, but I am pleasantly surprised that it happened so quickly and early in the season. I was preparing myself for the status quo April Red Sox sweep, so winning a series against the Sox in April is huge.
So far, Cashman is 3 for 3 on his offseason moves (Johnson, Granderson, Park)…now it’s Vazquez’s turn to shut up the haters.
Pittsburgh yankee fan…..Remember that Chan Ho pitched in Citizens Bank Park last season, he’ll be fine at The Stadium…Besides, it should be interesting how the carries now that the place is almost gone…..
“… and they have the assets to add a big bat if necessary.”
rich in nj-
i don’t know.
aren’t they right below the luxury tax threshold ?
they have 24 million tied up in the dh spot with ortiz and lowell.
they’ll have to eat most of lowell’s salary to move him.
there’s some things with the red sox that make it possible that tampa bay could catch them.
Betsy, thanks for posting that.
“haha April 7th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Granderson blows…I want Johnny back”
Fail.
randy l.
They’re close, but they do have a highly rated mL system.
Joe, you’re welcome! These guys aren’t just teammates, they are like family; I get all warm and fuzzy reading about their relationships.
How Nick Johnson manages to get on base with an .000 era is remarkable.
The Red Sox at some point this season are going to have to deal Bucholtz for a bat.
They better hope he pitches well in the early months and puts the spring struggles behind or they’ll have trouble convincing an opposing GM he’s a future top of the rotation starter.
“luis April 7th, 2010 at 9:27 pm
chan ho park?? r u kiddin me?”
So after one game you’ve decided C-Ho is no good?
You’ll be singing Hosannas after tonight’s performance.
Fail.
That’s probably the most talking Pettitte’s ever done in an interview.. a regular motor mouth tonight….and giddy as a schoolgirl at her first dance.
Well, guys, that does it, I’ve got to get up in the morning. Thanks for the discussion tonight.
Friday night in Tampa. Let’s go Yankees.
GLove, Buchholz finished the spring well……….and he’s still very highly regarded
Night, Joe!
“Carl April 7th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Another bad route. Jeez. Terrible job by Joe G to put in Park.”
Sorry, Carl.
Busted.
# Chuck58 April 7th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
“Carl April 7th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Another bad route. Jeez. Terrible job by Joe G to put in Park.”
Sorry, Carl.
Busted.
I was being sarcastic. The ball Granderson caught was a pop up. Chan ho park finished up his 1st scoreless lol
Obviously I hope that Ryan Westmoreland is able to make a full recovery, but I don’t think his brain surgery can be discounted when speaking about the Red Sox making a major trade. He was one of their best chips and if his baseball status is up in the air (at least for the next few months) they are going to have to turn elsewhere for the centerpiece of a deal. For Adrian Gonzalez, that could mean giving up Buchholz, Kelly, and/or Ellsbury. Locking up Beckett certainly makes it easier to let go of one of their young pitchers.
Betsy -
You can post articles like that all the time!
It brought tears to my eyes. It’s a great story.
“Carl April 7th, 2010 at 9:43 pm
atta boy chop”
Redeemed
Man it’s great when Your Coach, Captain ,and Closer are all in CONTRACT years. Should be a great season!!
I’ll keep doing it, Doreen – never you fear!
I’m so glad we have a day off tomorrow, lol.
# Rishi April 7th, 2010 at 11:11 pm
Rob Parker’s been posting some good stuff too
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Thanks for the tip, Rishi. I’ll check him out as well.
new thread
Pretty impressive showing by the Yanks (and the bullpen) in this series.
They were forced to come into Fenway to start the season and face the alleged top three best starters in the history of the game and still beat them 2 of 3.
Could very easily have been a sweep. Outstanding bounce back outing for Park (and the bullpen in general the last two nights).
Here’s hoping the LoHuders will stop with the ridiculous obsession with the Red Sox for awhile (or at least until they meet again in a few weeks).
I’m glad the series is over. Too much nonsense when these two teams meet.
Now we’ll have to hear the chicken littles (trademarked my SJ) whine about the Rays this weekend.
The schedule-makers were not kind to the Yanks this year the first few weeks of the season. Lots of tough games still ahead (TB, LAA and TEX).
“California April 7th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
So what is it now?
Johnson/Tex/Arod one for forty-two so far this season?”
2 for 3 in the stat that matters most: wins.
Fail, Californication.
“The Red Sox pen is a mess. You can see it already. If Bard has any kind of setback and can’t hold down the role, that team will implode since the pen is only 2 deep and we beat up both of them already in this series.”
I said a few days ago that the advantage the Yankees have with their bullpen is that they have quite a few guys who are used to pitching multiple innings and staying effective. Joba, Aceves, and Park can all go 2+ innings and maintain a strong ERA, which makes it easier for Girardi to mix and match with Robertson and Marte. Mitre is also valuable as an innings eater in mop-up relief.
The Sox have some guys who can be lights out for an inning, but I don’t think Francona has anyone who he can trust for 2-3 innings at a time. Bard might be that guy, but I think they’re afraid to overuse him, and Okajima, Delcarmen, and Ramirez are most effective as short relievers.
Aceves was the underrated weapon for the Yankees last year, and adding Park to the mix just makes the Yankees bullpen even more lethal. It’s nice when you only need 2 relievers to lock down 4 shutout innings.
Kennedy had a mixed night for ‘Zona tonight, but, not that bad. 5 innings, 6 hits, 3 runs (all earned), 0 walks and 8 strikeouts.
Matsui is 2-2 so far.
Jackson is 2-5 with a triple but 2 strikeouts.
Damon is 0-5 with 2 strikeouts.
Cabrera was 1-4.
Andy, Curtis, Mo: Get it done tonight.
Matsui now 3-4