Yankees win another one at home
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on May 15, 2010 
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The Yankees offense stayed hot this afternoon, and Andy Pettitte continued his dominant start to the season. With 6.1 scoreless innings from Pettitte, plus home runs from Mark Teixeira and Jorge Posada, the Yankees beat the Twins 7-1 for their second victory in a row. After a slow road trip, the lineup has now scored 15 runs in two games since coming home. Pettitte has yet to lose, improving to 5-0 with a 1.79 ERA.
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Ok, great win – there were so many positives:
1) Andy – pitched well and obviously felt good
2) Alex and Tex – getting hot and staying hot?
3) Posada
4) Jeter
Just a really great day ……..
If Andy had this kind of D behind him for the rest of his career, we’d be talking a lot more seriously about his Hall of Fame chances.
# Carl May 15th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
A-Rod says when he lowers the leg kick he sees the ball much better and his power and production go way up.
Very nice game!
Love the picture of Tex and Swish.
Andy battling Phil for best ERA?
Using Marte v. Thome made more sense than using him v. Mauer last night. Thome isn’t nearly as good and he’s an age cohort with Marte.
Classic Kim Jones: “In these two games, you and Alex, eight hits, eight RBIs. What it does it mean if you Alex get hot at the same time?”
“If Andy had this kind of D behind him for the rest of his career, we’d be talking a lot more seriously about his Hall of Fame chances.”
Phill-
That’s a very good point. He’s pitched in front of some awful yankee defenses.
His BABIP has always been higher than average and that defense is part of why that is.
“A-Rod says when he lowers the leg kick he sees the ball much better and his power and production go way up.”
Well duh, less body movement, he’s a tall man, when Manny does it..it levels his eye to the pitcher’s release point, Al is tall enough to see it straight at 6’3
# Brandon’s Awesome (B/c my AWESOMENESS believes in tasing fans that jump fences) May 15th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
“A-Rod says when he lowers the leg kick he sees the ball much better and his power and production go way up.”
Well duh, less body movement, he’s a tall man, when Manny does it..it levels his eye to the pitcher’s release point, Al is tall enough to see it straight at 6?3
Just typing what he said to Suzyn
re: Kim Jones
it’s like The Chris Farley Show on SNL
Farley to Paul McCartney: “I think we have time for one more question. Remember that time you were in The Beatles. Yeah, that was awesome!”
McCartney: ???
>Just typing what he said to Suzyn
YOU MUST BE CRUCIFIED!
::gathers pitchforks and torches::
LoHudYankees Yankees rotation: Mitre on Sun. Hughes on Mon. Sabathia Tue. Burnett Wed. Pettitte Thu. Vazquez Fri.
‘Just typing what he said to Suzyn’
You know what’s funny it took yrs for AL to figure that out. Last season when Long started using Pujols as the example to shortening his swing and leg kick.
CB,
His defense independant metrics have often painted the picture of an elite pitcher.
Carl-
It’s good to hear Alex say that. He’s suddenly looked like a completely different hitter over the past two days and the light seemed to have flipped on between at bat 2 and 3 last night.
And he’s continued to maintain those solid mechanics in his base today.
He looks great again. Good to hear that he’s identified the problem and has been able to fix it within game action.
::gets all the way to Carl’s and realizes they have pitchforks and torches, but no nails and wood::
NEVERMIND!
jonmorosi Francona, post-bullpen: “All signs point to Beckett being fine for Tuesday.”
lol Pel
You have to bring your A game here. After all, this the LoHud Yankees Blog.
This is serious business!
darn, I was hoping Phil would pitch Tuesday…
Figures Logan is the one sent down when Park gets activated tomorrow. He did go two innings today, and really hasn’t done anything to distinguish himself.
A side effect of this is that it leaves Marte as the sole lefty, which means he should get more regular work.
Mo for the 9th, Joba as his caddy, and Park/Robertson leading up to them, with Marte as the lefty, isn’t bad. Mitre and Nova/Melancon (I think they want Nova to continue starting, hence Scranton) as the mop up, long relief guys. That doesn’t strike me as bad.
hardwired May 15th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
re: Kim Jones
it’s like The Chris Farley Show on SNL
Farley to Paul McCartney: “I think we have time for one more question. Remember that time you were in The Beatles. Yeah, that was awesome!”
McCartney: ???
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darn, I was hoping Phil would pitch Tuesday…
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Why? He will be on national TV Monday
Betsy – Hughes rules (pleading the Fifth) May 15th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
darn, I was hoping Phil would pitch Tuesday…
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Why Tuesday??
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05.....f=baseball
Nick may need surgery
Kim Jones can’t ask anything hard hitting, she has to lob softball questions that generate positive ‘quotes’. It must be frustrating for the smarter baseball people to have to answer those questions
Jerkface, I live in NY, so ESPN is blacked out for me……..National TV doesn’t mean anything for me. I would have liked him to get another day of rest and I would have liked him to have faced Santana on Sunday night. Joe didn’t exactly explain why he kept it this way – I hope it’s not because he wants to avoid Javy against the Sox.
No sense moving everyone around in the rotation. This keeps 4 of the 5 guys on turn.
I like it.
Swisher is day to day every day………per Joe.
Betsy: Makes sense. ESPN should mean something because it means more people get to see Hughes dominate
I wanted that Hughes/Santana match up too, but oh well. Maybe he can catch Johan at NYS
Well, Phil and Javy both pitched on Wednesday, so they wouldn’t be moving anyone around. It actually causes more rest issues this way. Phil pitching Tuesday would mean he’s on 1 extra day of rest; Javy pitching Friday means he’s not going to have pitched in over a week.
Jerkface – I think you’re right. Both Kim and Suzyn are instructed not to ask anything remotely difficult or controversial. I even remember one time, 2007, when Kim asked Joe a probing type of question about a pitching change, and Joe ripped her, right on TV.
I’ve heard Kim on FAN doing her fill-in work there, and it’s like night and day different. It’s unfortunate, but that’s how YES does it.
He is on pace to pitch game 1 2 or 3 of the NYM series at the stadium depending on what they do with off days.
So theres hope
I’m annoyed, Jerkface – I really, really wanted that matchup. I wish at least Joe had given a reason……..
Joe Torre, that is.
It sounded like Joe wanted to keep everyone else on regular rest; Javy was supposed to pitch tomorrow, but the rain messed that up. Basically the path of least resistance. You disrupt one pitcher instead of several.
It’s not a reflection on Javy vs. Fenway.
’m annoyed, Jerkface – I really, really wanted that matchup. I wish at least Joe had given a reason…….
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The reasoning is that all the pitchers but Javy go on regular rest and Javy got pushed to the Mets because he can hit
Well, I’m not that annoyed, but I’m disappointed, lol
Phil pitching Tuesday threw CC, AJ and Andy off regular rotation.
Jerkface, makes sense……….well, maybe the Mets will push Santana up a day (yeah, right, lol).
Betsy: Take solace, Hughes will be with the Yankees for a long time and Santana (unfortunately for mets fans) with the mets. Lots of chances to match up
LOL Jerkface………..
The team is struggling to hit and is suffering from a bunch of injuries.
They are playing their two biggest division rivals and they are arranging the rotation so that the guys who are throwing the best pitch in those games.
With these injuries they are going to need to maximize what they can get out of their starting rotation this week.
Good decision to keep Hughes on his regular rest he is on a role right now dont mess him. And I am more confident sending Sabathia against the red sox than Javy on Tuesday. And pitching Javy on Friday in a big ballpark against an nl east team a division he dominated last year should be good for him.
We’re using our 4 best against the Sox and Rays. That makes all the sense for what we’re trying to do.
CB, darn it – I can’t argue against that logic.
Hughes is going to be big in burying the Sox. I want him to get 4 or 5 starts vs the Sox, 5 – 0
Jerkface, I would be pretty neat to see Phil become a slayer of Sox, lol. I didn’t quite mean what I said about national tv. I sometimes like it if I want to get a national perspective on the team (or Phil, lol)……..
Hughes has it in him to be an ‘everyone slayer’, but I’d take Red Sox Slayer just fine
I hope Hughes can get some of that Pedro/Clemens in him where he just shuts down your rival and any win against them is incredibly hard fought/lucky.
Mets pull Perez from rotation and put him in the pen. A $12M middle reliever?
Well now it is Hughes against Pelfrey on Saturday night (FOX primetime game). That is not nearly as sexy a matchup as it was a few weeks ago when Pelfrey set the world on fire, but it should still be a nice matchup of 2 young NY starters.
CC vs. Santana on Sunday Night is hardly a bad consolation prize
The battle of the 2 NY aces.
After 3 innings Sea 2 Rays 0 top of 4th
Wow, Saturday is a night game?
Jerkface, I deserved that
for suggesting that Phil only become a slayer of Sox. He’s on his way to sainthood – oops, I mean acehood, so that means he’ll be shutting down lots of teams (like he did to Detroit).
I love the
faces. Sorry, I had to………it’s especially funny when Nick uses it.
SJ 44 mentioned Royce Ring. Hard to say with Park ready to come off the DL. Unless Ivan Nova is needed tomorrow, he’s going back to AAA to get regular work. Maybe a switch of Logan and Ring ?
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.....pid=429721
Looks like Perez is a long-man……….who’s replacing him in the rotation?
I like to use those faces even when I’m angry, that guy just looks so angry
Oops, even when I’m NOT angry
Typos 
The lefty out of the pen – Takahashi or whatever his name is.
He pitches a day before we face them, thankfully. We all know how we do against starters who are coming out of the bullpen to make a start.
So the week looks like
Hughes vs. Matsuzaka
Sabathia vs. Beckett
Burnett vs. W. Davis
Pettitte vs. Shields
Vazquez vs. Niese
Hughes vs. Pelfrey
Sabathia vs. Santana
Jerkface, I like the way his mouth is open, like he’s about to yell something. I have a stuffed happy face doll on my desk at work (I’m obsessed with happy faces – I just love them). A few years ago, one of my coworkers drew evil eyebrows on him (like the
face) and now I have to keep a piece of paper taped to them so that I can stare at a 
instead of a 
doll. I still think 
is the funniest emoticon, though.
Al, thanks!
Well, all those who were asking about who is better, Hughes or Pelfrey, now have their opportunity to chime in, lol
Hughes vs. Matsuzaka
Sabathia vs. Beckett
Burnett vs. W. Davis
Pettitte vs. Shields
Vazquez vs. Niese
Hughes vs. Pelfrey
Sabathia vs. Santana
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These match ups are so good that I’m wondering what is going to go wrong to turn them on their head
When some people talked about an enigmic Yankee offence on the latest roadtrip, then watch the Giants and Astros….
Thats terrible offense – no wonder Lincecum has a low ERA and a huge amount of K’s
AL
Pelfry was one of the relief pitchers in the Cardinal vs Mets 6:53 min baseball-athon. It was on a Saturday, and he had just pitched that Thiurs BEFORE.
Sea 2 Rays 0 after 4
Hughes vs. Matsuzaka. HA, That should be a good case study in contrasting mound presence.
I am a little late in congratulating my boy, Andy, on a great game. Glad to see some bats coming alive.
I will enjoy watching Hughes whenever he pitches. I do wish Mitre was pitching tomorrow however.
I’d love to know what’s going through the Devil Rays hitters minds, right now. 4 perfect innings from Vargas.
“# Jay May 15th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
So the week looks like
Hughes vs. Matsuzaka
Sabathia vs. Beckett
Burnett vs. W. Davis
Pettitte vs. Shields
Vazquez vs. Niese
Hughes vs. Pelfrey
Sabathia vs. Santana”
They won’t win all the games but I like those match-ups in favor of the Yankees.
Devil Rays better watch out or Boston might overtake them soon http://yankees.lhblogs.com/wp-.....on_mad.gif
Someone needs to blindfold Hughes when Matsuzaka is on the mound. Don’t want any ideas slipping into his subconscious.
Better off probably sterilizing the mound too after every half inning with Dice-K, just in case nibblelistis is contagious. Can never be too safe with a young arm.
This might sound silly, but why does Phil somtimes lick his fingers after he throws a pitch?
On paper, we have the advantage in every one of those games. I do think Beckett will be much better now that he has some extra rest, so CC has to rebound. Santana also, you figure, would rise to the occasion and pitch well at home like he usually does.
Hughes has a considerable advantage over Dice-K and Pelfrey. Both are basically 5 inning pitchers.
Vazquez vs. Niese – Niese doesn’t go deep into games either, but he’s facing us for the first time and is a lefty so he might give us some problems.
Have slight advantages in both Tampa games.
I’ll settle for 4-2.
Is there a pitcher in baseball who hasn’t pitched a perfect game against Tampa Bay?
LOL LGY, I don’t think there is any chance Phil catches what Matsuzaka has. He really is extraordinarily confident for such a young pitcher; he might have a bad game, but it won’t be because he’s afraid. The Sox can hit, so it’s yet another test for him……..but he keeps passing these tests.
Ken Davidoff
My first-ever #Yankees game was 7/28/78, a 7-5 #Twins victory. I’m pretty sure the Twins haven’t won here since.
about 3 hours ago
Glad they miss Price. He’s tough on the Yankees.
This might sound silly, but why does Phil somtimes lick his fingers after he throws a pitch?
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Tasting the sweet tears of the hitter
Good to see Shields facing the Yanks on Thursday.
The Yanks have hammered him pretty hard during his career.
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After 5 innings Sea 2-0
Only the Twins, Dodgers and Devil Rays have ever had 2 perfect games thrown against them. Though, counting Larson’s perfect game in the WS, the Dodgers have had it done to them 3 times. The Yanks are the only team to have thrown 3 perfect games.