Game 56: Yankees at Blue Jays
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Gameday Thread on Jun 05, 2010 
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YANKEES (34-21)
Derek Jeter SS
Nick Swisher RF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Robinson Cano 2B
Jorge Posada DH
Francisco Cervelli C
Brett Gardner CF
Kevin Russo LF
LHP Andy Pettitte (7-1, 2.48)
Career vs. Blue Jays
BLUE JAYS (33-24)
Fred Lewis LF
Aaron Hill 2B
Adam Lind DH
Vernon Wells CF
Jose Bautista RF
Alex Gonzalez SS
Lyle Overbay 1B
John Buck C
Edwin Encarnacion 3B
LHP Ricky Romero (5-2, 3.14)
Career vs. Yankees
TIME/TV: 1:07 p.m. / YES Network
UMPIRES: HP Gary Darling, 1B Bruce Dreckman, 2B Paul Emmel, 3B Bill Hohn
WEATHER: The roof is open, so it’s obviously a nice day here in Toronto. Plenty of sunshine pouring into the stadium.
BIG SAMPLE SIZE: Most hitter vs. pitcher numbers are fairly meaningless because of small sample size, but Vernon Wells has 46 career at-bats against Andy Pettitte. That’s quite a bit, and he’s hit .348/.400/.500 in those at-bats.
AT THE TOP: Now that Ken Griffey Jr. has retired, the Yankees have both the active hits leader (Derek Jeter) and the active home runs leader (Alex Rodriguez). According to Elias, it’s the first time a team has had the active leaders in both since the 1995 Indians with Dave Winfield (3,110 hits) and Eddie Murray (479 HR).
MINOR NEWS: Hard-hitting third baseman Brandon Laird has been named the Eastern League Player of the Month for May. He batted .339 with nine doubles, one triple, six home runs and 33 RBI. The month included a walk-off home run, a franchise record seven RBI in one game and hitting for the cycle.
UPDATE, 1:14 p.m.: Randy Winn has signed with the Cardinals.
UPDATE, 1:20 p.m.: Pettitte starts the game by striking out the side. Pretty good, eh?
UPDATE, 1:40 p.m.: Wouldn’t you know it? Another Blue Jays home run, this one by Vernon Wells, has given Toronto a 1-0 lead. Wells has a 13-game hitting streak, the longest active streak in the majors.
UPDATE, 1:56 p.m.: Nick Swisher doubled, but Mark Teixeira and Alex Rodriguez left him stranded here in the third inning. It’s still a 1-0 Blue Jays lead.
UPDATE, 2:00 p.m.: What a catch by Swisher. Seeing it live, without the help of a television camera, it was honestly hard to tell he had actually made the catch. Probably saved a triple, and maybe a run.
If I may… Right about now, one of my oldest friends, Megan Boyer, is getting married back home in Missouri. I texted her last night to tell her how sorry I am that I’m missing it, and I’ve been thinking about her most of the day. I couldn’t be happier for her, and I’m sure the city of Sikeston is in for a celebration like it’s never seen. Congratulations Megan!
UPDATE, 2:20 p.m.: Two can play this home run game. Jeter just went deep, a two-run home run to put the Yankees ahead, 2-1, in the fifth inning.
UPDATE, 2:52 p.m.: Another Blue Jays home run, this one from Alex Gonzalez, has tied the game at 2. Of course, a tough luck line out and double play didn’t help in the top of the seventh. Pettitte still looks dominant.
UPDATE, 3:06 p.m.: After a GIDP from Alex Rodriguez, the Yankees 3, 4 and 5 hitters are now 1-for-11 with five strikeouts this afternoon. We’re still tied at 2, and that’s a big reason why.
UPDATE, 3:12 p.m.: After back-to-back strikeouts, Pettitte is out of the game in the eighth inning, turning it over to Joba Chamberlain for at least the final out of the eighth. Pettitte was dealing, but as we mentioned earlier, Vernon Wells has a long track record of success against him. And Wells was already 1-for-2 with a walk and a home run this afternoon.
UPDATE, 3:41 p.m.: Chamberlain got the Yankees through the ninth inning, striking out three and stranding two. We’re now into extra innings, with Curtis Granderson set to pinch hit for Kevin Russo.
UPDATE, 3:51 p.m.: That’s four straight strikeouts for Teixeira. Brutal day for him. We’re still tied with Damaso Marte coming in for the bottom of the 10th.
UPDATE, 3:57 p.m.: Another big time catch from Nick Swisher, this one saving Damaso Marte and getting the second out of the 10th inning. Dave Robertson is now in to face Vernon Wells with two outs and a runner at first.
UPDATE, 4:00 p.m.: Robertson gets a ground ball to get the Yankees out of trouble. We’re moving on to the 11th.
UPDATE, 4:15 p.m.: Since the eighth inning, John Buck has taken a foul ball to the crotch, broken a bat across his knee and very nearly won the game. He just flied out to deep, deep left field for the final out of the 11th inning. Here comes the 12th.
UPDATE, 4:20 p.m.: Brett Gardner has been on base four times today, including a one-out single here in the 12th.
UPDATE, 4:28 p.m.: Granderson smoked a ball that caught at the wall, Gardner stole second after 374 pick-off attempts, and Jeter wound up grounding out to end the inning and strand the go-ahead run. Chan Ho Park in for the bottom of the 12th.
UPDATE, 4:45 p.m.: Mark Teixeira has struck out five times in a game one other time in his career. It was in 2003, his rookie year.
UPDATE, 4:52 p.m.: The No. 3 hitters in this game have combined to go 0-for-12 with nine strikeouts.
UPDATE, 5:02 p.m.: Jorge Posada was 0-for-5 with three strikeouts before a one-out single in the 14th. Ramiro Pena has entered as a pinch runner.
UPDATE, 5:12 p.m.: Pena stole the base, but Gardner flied out to leave him stranded. And so the game continues. Chad Gaudin is now in to pitch. Assuming Sergio Mitre is not available, I’m pretty sure this will be Gaudin’s game until the Blue Jays win it or the Yankees take the lead.
Ok, off to my nie ces birthday party; see you later!
Lets Go Yankees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have a great time, Betsy! You shall return to a Yankees victory!
Roger-
Saw your comment on Robben in the last thread. The Oranje have been extraordinarily impressive in preparation for the cup. Just fantastic.
Crushing blow regarding Robben. Just awful. Especially after the season he just completed. He just cannot stay healthy. It’s the only defect in his game. I suppose they’ll play van der vaart on the left and kuyt on the right? Kuyt is just such a different player than Robben. Good at what he does but not even close to Robben. He’s become so defensive minded at liverpool.
It was still unclear if van Marwijk was going to be bold enough to play van der vaart along with the big three or if Kuyt was still going to start. Robben was brilliant on the left this season but he can obviously play on the right as well. But it’s one thing for Kuyt to be replacing van der vaart – it’s an entirely different thing for him to be taking the spot of Robben. Just very bad news. The depth the oranje have in attack however is now going to really become valuable.
The other area where I’d worry is van Bronkhorst – he has very limited pace at this point.
Hard to believe van der saar has retired from international competition. It’s difficult to imagine that side playing without him. A little like it’ll be to look at the yankees playing one day without Jeter at SS.
That said – Gregory van der Wiel is simply a revelation. He is a truly brilliant right back. I absolutely love his game. It is difficult watching him play and not think of Dani Alves. Van Der Wiel has the capacity to function as the entire right flank.
If they could have played van der vaart on the left and Robben on the right – the flank of Robben and van der Wiel would have been perhaps the most dangerous in the entire Cup.
Hi CB! How ya been? You as excited for the WC as I am?!
Brandon Laird has a future as a Yankee. He caught the attention of Girardi and coaches in the spring and seems headed for AAA sooner than later.
The world kup is about as exciting as NASCAR.
Why is Bob Lerenze in the booth?
Speaking of Laird, he is the 3rd leading RBI man in all of the minor leagues. He’s all over the Eastern League offensive leaderboards. Among the leaders in average, slugging, OBP, doubles, hits, runs scored and adding a few triples and steals. Still needs to clean up his defense at third a little more, though.
All right, so I was exaggerating. The world kup belongs on a lower level of boredom even compared to NASCAR.
Laird’s immediate future with the Yankees would be as a corner (probably right field) outfielder.
Let’s go, Yankee offense!
Posada still plays DH?!
Oi, Cy Romero.
Go Yankees.
Let’s go Yankee bats.
I am looking forward to world cup US vs. England match next weekend, smell a big upset.
well, at least they made contact
Joba
It’s not that big of a game. As long as both get out of the group stages, that’s all that counts. And there is no way England loses the first game of this World Cup. They have too much heartbreak in their history. They wont be putting any fear in their fans’ hearts by coming out with an immediate loss.
Good luck with the boatd today regs. Looks like the idiot trolls and whiners are starting early. I’m out.
CR9, if US can win the match vs. England, almost certainly they will advance to the next round.
Well, tie game is also ok.
Looking forward to the cup.
Have a good afternoon everyone.
Holy Geez! Andy!
oh my, strong inning by Andy!
andy strikes out the side!
O- K-K-K!
So I enjoyed that inning. 3K’s for Andy. Wow.
CB
We still have a very good team but Holland without Robben is like Argetina without Messi.
I don’t know if you have the time but there was a good artical in the NY Times about Ajax.It’s a good read:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06.....ref=soccer
Russo is over matched
Does that mean Randy Winn gets paid both by the Yankees and the Cardinals.
Wow, I guess that DFA turned out nicely financially for Winn.
this place is much better after some morons left when the game starts.
This is another tough game. Romero looks good, and I am tired of the home runs already.
I do think the Yankees need another outfield/DH bat. Either Thames or Russo or both will likely be replace in July.
HGH ruling the day in Toronto.
Did CB left??
Romero looks very good.He’s gonne be hard to beat
“…there was a good artical in the NY Times about Ajax.”
Haven’t you gotten the memo? This blog has had enough of these Austin Jackson articles and updates. It’s over, good luck Ajax, but we’re happy with –
What? Ajax the Dutch soccer club? Not Austin Jackson?
Never mind.
O TIME!!!!!!!Lets Go Yankees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yanks doing better job with Romero than they did wit Cecil. They are taking more pitches, not chasing the change up. With Cecil, they were jumping out of the box swinging at his change up.
Maybe NYY can run u Romero’s pitch count and get him out of the game earlier.
Jays r legit. Dismiss them at ur own peril
Let’s Go Yankees!!!!
3-0 count, ball 4 called strike 1, and it turns into an easy out.
TEX MESSAGE SEND IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Didnt even throw a strike in the AB, what a terrible AB.
Offense struggling against lefties. They are not doing anything against his mediocre fastballs.
So whenever you guys said you wanted A-jax to do well you guys didn’t mean Ajax Amsterdam..?
Good recovery ANDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Probably not too many Ajax Amsterdam fans among us, no.
CANDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2-0 count and a pathetic groundball. What’s wrong with them?
The ball is jumping out today the yanks need to start hitting the ball in the air.
3-1 count to Jeter, 2-0 count to Cano, etc.
Why not TAKE a pitch? You are trailing in the game and this is a tough pitcher on the mound, why are you just hoping and praying he throws it down the middle?
He is walking some hitters in this game and this season. Let him get himself in trouble.
It’s been the same story in each of these two games. Chasing pitches off the plate in hitter’s counts, where is the approach? Zone in on a location and if you don’t get it, take it, don’t just swing at everything expecting him to just lay it in there.
Cano last night in a pivotal at bat was up 2-0 in the count, and he chased 2 balls in a row and completely missed a changeup to get himself out. When you keep getting the same hitters out in the same ways every at bat, that has more to do with the lack of adjustments from the hitters than what the pitcher is doing.
Again, they made him throw 40 pitches in the first 2 innings, and 21 in the last 2. The Blue Jays bullpen has been terrible, but they refuse to work the count and continue to get themselves out by swinging at balls… IN HITTERS’ COUNTS.
The pressure is on the pitcher in a 2-0 count, not you. Why are you helping him out? Where is the approach? It almost looks like they are swinging at anything remotely close to the zone regardless of the count, it doesn’t seem like there is any approach.
….the bluejays are stealing signs…look at their takes…
Then you guys are really missing out
It certainly did look like Pettitte was tipping his pitches in the last few innings. Look at the pitch that Lewis hit as a primary example. A 2-seamer down and in at least 2 or 3 inches inside off the plate, no lefty hitter could possibly hit that pitch as hard as he did unless they knew it was coming.
Good Job ANDY!!!!!!!!!!O needs to WAKEUP,Andys pitching his tail off.
Well said Matt. Hitting weak ground balls all day is pretty annoying and doing it in hitters counts is even worse. The only patience we have displayed in this series so far was the 2nd inning today where both Cervelli and Gardner worked counts and got themselves on base via the walk.
If BG can get on to start the inning, maybe it can cause trouble for Romero.
YES!
nice start gardy
Can Russo bunt?
If KR can get a hit, maybe it can cause trouble for Romero.
There you go GARDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He didnt advance the runner! UGH!
Yes, CR, maybe it can cause trouble or maybe we will ground out to short 3 more times and Gardner will never leave 2nd base
nice jeter!
oh yeah!
Jeterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Jeter!!!!!!
C YA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THAT WAS WELL STRUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why wouldn’t you bunt your #9 hitter in that position? Makes no sense against a tough pitcher.
Guess I put the game on at a good time.
Oh YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!JETER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Atta baby jete!
Derek Jeter.
Gardner is great, so much better than I ever expected him to be….
….and Tex is worse than I expected him to be.
it’s time to drop Tex to 5th or 5th.
It’s already June, isn’t ?
So much for 3 straight ground balls to the SS, with Gardner never leaving second base, eh?
‘or 6th’
Come on ANDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Keep it up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Gardner is great, so much better than I ever expected him to be”
No he isn’t, we need to get Melky back because everyone likes him so much!!! Put Gardner on the bench so he can pinch run in the 8th inning, he’s a 4th OF ya’ know.
/sarc
Mark Teixieria is a freakin joke this year and I am sick of him getting a free pass… he should not be hitting 3rd anymore and should be boo’d at the stadium.. his at bats have been horrible all year long, especially with RISP.. but even not with RISP.. GET IT TOGETHER MARK THIS TEAM IS COUNTING ON YOU!!
and don’t even get me started on KEVIN RUSSO.. YOU’RE 15 MINUTES OF FAME ARE OVER!!!
I hate excuse me swings.
Kevin Long worked with Swisher to have him get quieter at the plate and it’s paid dividends. I wish he could do the same with Teixeira. Wiggling his bat around can’t do anything but disturb his concentration.
Alright! That was quick and easy!
WHEN IS POSADA GOING TO DO SOMETHING? THE GUY HASN”T DONE SQUAT SINCE OPENING DAY, GOES THROUGH A LONG STRETCH WHERE HE DOES NOTHING, TAKES A VACATION FOR 3 WEEKS, COMES BACK AND STILL DOES NOTHING..AT WHAT POINT DO YOU SAY THE GUY IS DONE?
Nicely done. Quick inning for Andy.
Can someone verify something for me. Is Tex 0-3 with 3 whiffs on 10 total pitches? I know he is 0-3 and whiffed his last two at bats on no more than 7 pitches but can’t recall this first at bat.
Do you guys or gals think when Russo goes down Curtis will come up. I believe Curtis is back from his injury.
Way to go ANDY!!!!!!!!!!! Lets do this AROD!!!!!!!!!!
Romero is much better than Cecil
their offense is back to the old form again? oh my.
CANDO!!!!!!!!!!Hes heating up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good job 4-5-6
typical Yankee offense, there’s only a couple of guys in this lineup who can hit GOOD PITCHING..the rest load up on bad pitching and then DISSAPEAR when the pitching gets tougher. too bad we let go over Damon and Matsui.. they were two of them.
Nice 9 pitch inning gentleman. Do all u can to allow toronto to pitch their starters 9 innings every game because that vaunted pen of theirs that allow about 60 runs to tampa last week sure is frightening.
Wow. Just wow. 3 ABs took less than 2 real-time minutes.
Joba Tips His Cap=depressing posts
whatever=equally depressing
Where the Byfuglien is everyone?
Every SP can learn from how Andy battles
You have chased eveyone away C R
The batter, the catcher and the 3rd base ump knew he swung; everyone but the home plate umpire.
I havent even done anything wrong!
That was hilarious, but its why alot of people probably don’t like Cervelli. He was so sure of that strike out he was stunned the HP umpire either didn’t call it or appeal to third.
That’s why Gardner and Swisher in the lineup is so important. These two alone drives up the pitch count of the opposing pitcher. The others in the lineup just hack away immediately.
Without Brett and Nick, the Yankees would be in trouble this year.
# CR9 June 5th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
I havent even done anything wrong!
LOL,
John Flaherty sure is a dynamic color guy. His broadcasting ability rivals his offensive ability as a player.
Were gona get Romero nxt inng in the. Wait for it ,The 7th inning.
Alright! Jerkface is back! A familiar
facename! Pretty funny stuff from Frankie, indeed. Still not sure if he went. YES replay did not confirm it for me!Nice Job ANDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Posada about to strike!!!!!!!!!!!!
Andy at 80 pitches through 6. A few insurance runs would be nice. Please.
Nice hustle Shervelli!
all right, cisco
Good hustle for Cisco. Bunt for a hit for Brett?
He definitely went. The camera they showed was really far away but he took almost a full swing
How about we have Russo bunt this time?
Please movee the runners RUUUSSSSEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice job by Daniel-san!
Good job Ruuuuuussssseeeeeeeeee.
Only us. 2nd and 3rd with 1 out. A line drive. Right at somebody. This is why the Yankees are underdogs.
how could cervelli run there….even if it was a short hop hes dead at the plate..and if its a single he scores easily
lol @ this team with risp sometimes
tough luck
WTH!!! That was Weird play!!!!!!!!11
Definitely looked like he dropped that and had to pick it up. How in the world could that be on the transfer? He dropped it before he even turned to throw to third!
Stole a huge run from the Yankees there, these umpires are unbelievably incompetent.
“Only us. 2nd and 3rd with 1 out. A line drive. Right at somebody. This is why the Yankees are underdogs.”
underdogs lol?
Now that blown call may have just cost us the game. UNBELIEVABLE/
it’s HARD to make 2 outs under this scenario.
Matt
Hill clearly caught it. Then reached his right hand to the glove and dropped it.
And here we are, working to get runners in scoring position, dont get them across, and 1 batter later, an easy HR to tie the game. Terrible luck.
“Now that blown call may have just cost us the game. UNBELIEVABLE/”
dude thats not a blown call…he clearly caught it and dropped it on the transfer…clearly
When your offense continually lets pitchers off the hook, you force your pitchers to be perfect and that’s not going to happen against major league hitters.
2 solo shots, but when your offense refuses to swing at strikes and continually bails out the opposing pitcher, you keep the other team in the game and make them think they can win, and then you’re going to pay from any mistake.
Was that jeff weaver or andy
Someone needs to test this Jays team. How do so many nobodies all have career years at the same time?
That’s not a blown call. It was an easy call.
Cervelli made the mistake there; ball caught, dropped on transfer.
Gotta freeze on line drives, basic baseball 101.
It’s amazing how economical Andy is compared with last season. It seemed pretty common for Andy to be laboring with high pitch counts by the 5th or 6th innings last year, even in his better starts.
This year it seems like he just cruises along deep into games before he gets close to 100 pitches. How does he do it?
Tex, Rod, and Cano need to get the lead back the next inning. I don’t quite trust our bullpen.
their no.9 batter got on base 3 times.
It”s bad baserunning. Not bad luck.
Matt
2:50 seems like an imposter?
You freeze on the line drive. Like BG did.
Who hit there second HR ? was it Bautista again? I cant stand that guy.Sory I was Smoking a cig and missed it. Thanx
Nice job Andy!
Swish single, Tex dp, A-Rod homer.
# Sacfly June 5th, 2010 at 2:56 pm
Who hit there second HR ? was it Bautista again? I cant stand that guy.Sory I was Smoking a cig and missed it. Thanx
Alex Gonzalez
I don’t like Joba against these fastball hitters. I hope we can score and have Pettitte get to Mo.
Another solid start for Pettitte, and he may even be able to pitch the 8th inning.
This is Tex’s inning.
Yankees BIGBATS need to get us the lead NOW!!!!!!!!!!!ANDY has been great and deserves this WIN. Time for the BIGBOYs to Step it UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Lets Go Yankees Clap,Clap,Clap,Clap,Clap
Carl 2:57
thanx
ouch!
when will Posada catch?
pat,
are you suggesting it will take tex 4 pitches to strike out?
Carl June 5th, 2010 at 2:56 pm
You freeze on the line drive. Like BG did.
——-
Gardner is/has been playing good baseball; sure is making it hard for the BG haters to take shots at him. They are down to “too many pitches before he steals a base”
Its SWISHER TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And BOS is playing Balt then Cleve. Losses matter.
For a non-strikeout pitcher, andy Pettitte is sitting on 2199 strikeouts. Not bad at all for a contact pitcher that never struck out more than 180 in a season and 9 away from @2 on the all time Yankee list. It’s all about quality consistancy.
And Swish swings needlessly at ball 3.
Yes. He takes the walk anyway.
# Ken June 5th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
And BOS is playing Balt then Cleve. Losses matter.
We play Baltimore next. Then Houston. Then the Indians.
Good job Swish.Keep it going Tex!!!!!!!!!
TEIXIERIA IS A JOKE
Tex is terrible.
LOL, Tex is pathetic.
Holy Geez! That was another gruesome AB. Romero pitched him the same in each of the ABs.
Remind me why Teixeira is still batting 3rd?
He has been consistently bad this season save a week or two here or there.
Three straight changeups, three straight terrible swings, and most of these are not even close to the strike zone.
at least he didn’t make contact for dp, give him credit.
I am waiting to hear its only (enter the month) Tex will have the same numbers he always has
tex has 3 k’s on 9 pitches. that’s gotta be a record…
Just Bad!!!!!!!Lets go AROD!!!!!!!!!
what a joke.
Offense goes to sleep on the road.
LOL, A-Rod finished what Tex left: dp.
team is a joke
CR9,
That is exactly my point with some of these guys. He has struck him out every at bat with almost an identical pitch sequence, finishing him off with 2 or 3 changeups in a row out of the strike zone every single at bat.
When you refuse to make an adjustment, it’s not that the pitcher is pitching well, but rather that you refuse to adjust your approach to what the pitcher is trying to do to you every single at bat.
Does anyone remember the last time Teix hit a curve ball or changeup for a hr? Ever since the playoffs the guy has been a disaster vs. breaking pitches.
they will lose this game, by 1 or2 runs.
How bad is Tex this yr? Just brutal
Well, I came back too soon. Yanks must not be leading. The two whining piss bags Whatever and Matt are on.
seriously they get back Granderson and Posada. Pretty much the whole lineup is there and they still don’t hit
in case you’re wondering, the Blue Jays are on pace to hit 330,659 home runs this season. would that be a new record, Chad?
I was wrong.
Tex sucks right now, he must be moved down in the lineup, it’s 3 mos now that he’s hitting 220 and that’s absolutely unacceptable as a 3 hitter for the Yankeea. Move Cano up, Tex down until he figures it out, he’s kinning us.
It’s time to hit Cano 3
this sucks
Teixeira’s last 3 ABs were all 3 pitches, ending in swinging strikes
He saw 2 fastballs and 1 curve, and 6 changeups
I love Tex but he is like a black hole in the line-up these days. Yes, I know, he is supposed to eventually return to the form on the back of his baseball card but he’s been in a slump pretty much since the playoffs started last year. Tough to watch sometimes when you know how talented the guy is.
something tells me another solo HR makes this a 3-2 TOR win.
The Yankees have barely been .500 on the road this year, mainly due to an incredibly inconsistent offense.
You need to be able to slug on the road, especially when you are facing teams that are typically better in their own ballpark and are not facing the same kind of pressure as they would in your home ballpark with the crowd breathing down their necks.
Beating up on teams like Baltimore and Cleveland is nice, but they still cannot hit against decent pitching and the offense has once again gone back to sleep. It’s the same nonsense every time, I don’t know how they can’t figure this out. When the hitters all start hacking away at everything, they never score many runs. Take a pitch once in a while and at least make the pitcher think you are going to be a tough out.
#2200 career strikeout.
Alex was safe at 1st.
# Triple short of a Cycle June 5th, 2010 at 3:06 pm
seriously they get back Granderson and Posada. Pretty much the whole lineup is there and they still don’t hit
yeah, so injury is not the excuse. The big guys cannot hit consistently.
another solo HR makes this a 3-2 TOR win.
A-Rod looked safe at first on that replay. I’m not even surprised anymore to see such.
Keep it up ANDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Triple short of a Cycle says:
June 5, 2010 at 3:06 pm
seriously they get back Granderson and Posada. Pretty much the whole lineup is there and they still don’t hit”
guess you just started watching games yesterday?
tex is a joke. he is like aaron boone in the WS in the day. Tex is hitting 219 or so it is june.
he is killing the team…………………
10 Ks!
It says something when it is better for us to have 5, 6 & 7 coming up next inning than 3, 4, 5.
Joba is warming up.
Andy left the game with 1 man on, and Joba gives up a game winning HR?
why take him out? Why?
CR9 3:08
Agree.Tie goes to the runner.
Pettitte just struck out the first two hitters of that inning and has 10 on the day. Why are you mixing and matching here?
Girardi overmanaging once again, hope it doesn’t come back to bite him as it usually odes.
Oh no! Leave Andy in!!!!!!!!!!!!!
damnit joe leave him in there
Joba Tips his Cap,
Exactly. I laughed when people kept on saying wait till we get this one and that one back then we will start hitting. The fact is the numbers 3 and 4 hitters in the lineup haven’t hit consistently all year
Teixeira is completely lost at the plate. Until he snaps out of it, a lineup change is in order.
What is Girardi doing? Leave Pettitte in, he deserves a chance at a win and a few more pitches won’t kill him. And now Joba might have to get up in 2 innings if he holds it here but the Yankees dont score.
girardi over managing as usual.. NOW WATCH JOBA GIVE IT UP… since when is JOBA better than Pettitte at this point? I THINK I TRUST PETTITTE MORE THAN ANYONE ON THIS STAFF TO GET THAT OUT… STUPID GIRARDI
Joe Gym overmanaging again. Numbers over eyes and gut.
the yanks lead baseball in runs scored with texiera being an out and out joke.
remember that whiners.
pretty sure if wells didnt have a homerun off Andy this game he’d still be in there…
Should have kept ANDY in.Look at that fire he wanted to get Wells OUT,lol.Love it
raymagnetic,
Thats right. Yesterday was the first Yankee game I ever watched. Good knowing things
Hmmmmm.
If Joba gives up a bomb to Wells, there will be blood in the water.
Great job by Andy, baseball is a cruel game.
“they get back Granderson and Posada. Pretty much the whole lineup is there and they still don’t hit”
Granderson isn’t playing so that doesn’t help your argument today.
Girardi shouldve kept Pettitte in. Especially since he asked to stay in. JMO
Tex should be batting 8th or 9th right now. He’s terrible.
Second guess time?
Is there a more astute poster on here than Matt?
The kid is incredible. Every analysis is spot-on.
He clearly sees the game on a level above us all.
He makes CB, SJ and the rest look like children.
Someday he is going to make an incredible t-ball manager.
I have a bad feeling here with Joba coming in to pitch to Wells. Hope I’m wrong.
Pettitte was over 100 pitches and facing a righty who has already homered this game and drew a walk last time after being down 1-2
Can’t move Tex from the 3.
joba already shook
stuart,
Which proves nothing. They score a ton of runs against Cle and Bal to pad the stats yet they struggle against average to slightly above average pitching. Sorry but Brett Cecil is not Pedro Martinez. Romero is better but he still isn’t elite
A bit nervous
“Andy left the game with 1 man on, and Joba gives up a game winning HR?”
What did that mean? What was its purpose?
Great performance by Andy today!
Teixeira needs a change of gloves ? What about his bats with holes ?
Nice move Joe.
Pettitte gets screwed out of another chance for a win, in comes Joba, look out. Would have liked to see Andy get 1 more out, Joba scares me, when he’s bad he sucks.
Glad to see that Joba doesn’t mind getting beaten on hanging sliders when he throws 95-96 mph.
how ugly is joba chamberlain? the guy is fat and never cleans his fingernails.. i notice these things.
tex vs. ortiz
tex is several years younger, with a bat several miles slower.
ortiz on last year of contract, which gives his manager flexibility.
we are STUCK with tex for 6 more years…
Come on JOBA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
have to love the nibbling set-up man
6 sliders in a row to open this inning. Wow.
WOW THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN PETTITTE, RETARDI
u can tell Joba is nervous.
Joba will retire Bautista to end the inning!!
— how ugly is joba chamberlain? –_–
Umm. Have you seen Randy Johnson????
Bautista is annoying
Got him!
oh, thank God!
How does he not get tossed for that?
Bautista is cranky.
JOBA JOBA JOBA!!!!!!
you lucky bastardo
97 down in the zone…tough pitch
The Yankees lead the league in runs scored. But let’s ignore that fact and continue to say they’re struggling to score runs.
Good job Joba
Interesting pitching sequence, but it got the job done. Still wish Andy could have finished the inning and had a chance at a win.
Bautista better have gotten thrown out of the game? If he didn’t these umpires are a joke
ABOUT TIME.
He’s throwing 97 mph, and 7 straight sliders to open the inning. When your set up man doesn’t trust his 95-97 mph fastball, it’s no wonder he’s shaky.
# RalphieD (OPPC) June 5th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
97 down in the zone…tough pitch
Joba should warm up in the pen throwing only sliders.
Beautiful Pitch!!!!!!!!Good Job Joba!!!!!!!!!!!
# whatever June 5th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
WOW THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN PETTITTE, RETARDI
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Typical spoiled brat comment.
No wonder people hate Yankees fans.
Middle of the plate and still arguing…pffff
I think we’re all fairly certain that all umpires are a joke; sans Jim Joyce.
I agree with all of you.
DFA Tex!
DFA Tex!
DFA Tex!
What I said earlier: “Joe Gym overmanaging again.”
What I say now: Way to go Joba!!
Bautista is a dead red fastball hitter…. That is why they gave him a steady diet of off speed stuff
Very disappointed that Joe robbed Andy of a chance to win the game
Now Joba is going to get the win if we score. Disappointing.
Other Phil
whatever = Red Sox fan
now what? expose Jays’ pen like Rays did?
Must be a tie game. The moron element in here has doubled since Gonzalez’s HR.
who has a lower ERA, Andy or Clay Butt-Hole-z?
raymagnetic,
Runs scored
team 1 -1,2,4,8,9,2,1,0 = 27
team 2 – 4,3,4,3,3,2,4,3 = 26
I’ll take team 2. I’ll take a consistent offense over a boom or bust offense anyday
How come Bautista wasn’t thrown out?
MEMO TO POSADA, START PERFORMING AND EARNING YOUR PAY CHECK OR GET LOST.
GOD TO THE BLUEJAYS HAVE ANY PITCHERS WHO THROW RIGHTHANDED?
ump is a joke
SJ,
Sometimes if I want to know the score I won’t even turn on the TV or mlb.com. All I need is to look at some of the comments in here lol.
Does team 2 exist?
I hope team 2 has amazing pitching.
“Very disappointed that Joe robbed Andy of a chance to win the game”
Andy will be happy as long as the Yankees get the win.
Jerkface,
So team 1 wouldn’t need good pitching? They have scored 1 more run
The Red Sox offense beat down on the Jays’ bullpen, something that the Yankees can’t never do.
TOR is just not this good.
Hard hit. Right at him.
Triple short of a cycle,
they lead the league in runs scored. They have a +80 run differential. But keep telling yourself they’re struggling to score runs if that makes you feel better. K.
I’ll take the team that wins ballgames myself.
Yanks crushed LHP last year. What happend?
How is team 2′s pitching? I notice they haven’t scored more than 4 runs all season.
Ugh, I really hope the Jays dont get a walkoff.
Tyler,
Very true! lol
Memo to whatever…..you are the dumbest person on this blog and that’s saying something.
You make a fool out of yourself with every post.
Get lost. You add nothing to this forum.
This is an automatic loss for sure.. ARROGANT Joba to give up a homerun in 5 .. 4. .3 …2 … 1
and then after the game he’ll say he pitched well.
I predict the Blue Jays will win it on a walkoff homer. Do you see the same?
So team 1 wouldn’t need good pitching? They have scored 1 more run
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Team 2 seems to only ever score 3 or 4 runs. Which means they are going to have to pitch lights out to even win a game. Team 1 can obviously mash, they’ll beat team 2.
— The Red Sox offense beat down on the Jays’ bullpen, —
As did TB: 5+ runs in ninth inning on two consecutive days.
whatever adds something to this forum. whatever adds the presence of a Red Sox fan!
Keep it up JOBA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bat Cano 3rd.
it doesn’t seem like that difficult of a call — it’s where your most consistent hitter should bat.
Even with the Yankees pitching, Team 1 would have had probably 5 games in which they had little chance of winning the game unless the pitching threw a shutout. Team 2 would have probably won at least 4 or 5 of those 8 games with the Yankees pitching staff.
The inconsistency is killing them more than anything. 6 runs on Thursday and then 3 runs in the next 2 games combined. Hard to win any game in which you score 2 runs in the American League.
Taking all bets …… now
Joba will go 1-2-3 in the 9th inning!!
raymagnetic,
Consistency wins in baseball. The Yanks are were they are today because of their pitching and not their hitting
I don’t know, the batters don’t want to compete today.
hughes and pettitte with 9 games of 2 runs.
Matt,
At least someone sees my point
How come the Red Sox can sustain hot hitting for basically a month and we can’t even sustain it for a week?
Runs # of times scored
0 2
1 2
2 3
3 9
4 8
5 2
6 8
7 9
8 4
9 1
10 2
11 3
12 1
14 1
Yankees run distribution
Joba about to blow it to the blow jays. You can see it coming light years away.
Seems like the yankees will score 3 or more runs 90% of the time
This Blue Jays team is just swinging hot sticks right now. They are so feast and famine with the homerun. They will hit their slump and really struggle I have a feeling.
Cecil and Romero are impressive though. 1st round picks so you know they have talent.
# Mark June 5th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
How come the Red Sox can sustain hot hitting for basically a month and we can’t even sustain it for a week?
I think they will save for the more important games in July, Aug. and Sep. LOL
that’s a nice strike out pitch.
lucky one
Nasty Curve! Keep it up Joba!
The Yankees can’t contend if they only score 9 or 5 runs once all year.
/Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda’d
How did Alex Gonzalez become Barry Bonds/Mickey Mantle in 5 months?
Nice Pitch.
Joba!
Joba has made some lights out breaking balls, but he’s also hanging a lot of them.
You can’t continue to get beaten on your 2nd and 3rd best pitch when you throw in the mid 90′s. Hitters are starting to sit on the slider and it shows whenever he doesn’t throw a perfect one.
Out-hit, out-pitched, out-powered by the Blue Jays.
We need a dp ball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Come on JOBA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yankees score 3 or more runs 88% of the time. Suck it team 2.
Looks like he went. Jeez.
98. The velocity is definitely there and has been now for a while. He just needs better location.
Before the game yesterday, I believe I predicted that the Blue Jays would sweep.
I think John Buck snapped his bat over his knee in anger.
wow…he made that bat snap look easy…
LOL, he did! You could hear it live while Robi was settling under the popup.
did Buck break his bat over his knee after popping up?
this no.9 batter again?
Jerkface ,
So you would rather have team 1 then team 2?
Joba!!!!!!1 more!!!!!!!!!!!!!Come on Joba!!!!!!!!!!!
Location is obviously important, but if you are a little unsure of where the ball is going, it’s a lot harder to hit a 98 mph fastball over the plate than a hanging belt high slider. That’s why it frustrates me so much to see him going with as many sliders as he does, especially in close games where a bad one could result in a home run.
I will give ‘Triples’ this, the yankees are very inconsistent at scoring the right amount of runs in their losses.
So you would rather have team 1 then team 2?
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I would rather have the Yankees, who are better than Team 1 or Team 2
nice pitching by joba
Nice pitching!
Ralphie,
I was always too scared to do that lol. When we played woodbat tournaments, besides having to pay for my own bats lol, I was scared of embarrassing myself and giving myself a dead leg.
good!
give credits to Joba, 2 scoreless innings
I guess there’s an idiot that light years away from this world.
Is it just me, or did Joba put on a few, and I’m not talking about mph…?
he has to pinch-hit granderson for russo… no?
give credits to Joba, 2 scoreless innings
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No. Try again.
There you go Joba!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Nasty slider,Fast ball hitting 98.WOW
Let’s see what we can do against Gregg and his 4.50 ERA.
The Yankees can outslug team 1 and outpitch team 2. Woo hoo!
Good job by Joba..
Now time for Brett to get on base and take the lead.
Lets Go Yankees…..
“Tyler June 5th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Ralphie,
I was always too scared to do that lol. When we played woodbat tournaments, besides having to pay for my own bats lol, I was scared of embarrassing myself and giving myself a dead leg.”
i did it once in high school, i didnt make it look as effortless as buck though lol
“Out-hit, out-pitched, out-powered by the Blue Jays.”
As long as they don’t get outscored, I’m good with that.
The Yankees will score 2 runs this inning!!
Why hasn’t some ML manager scooped up Matt as his bench coach yet?
It’s a baseball travesty. He’s being black balled.
Jeff in Canada, why aren’t you at the game? Or are you?
Alright they have to get to Gregg. Gardner sets the table right here.
Gregg has been awful lately. Prime chance here
Any more predictions whatever?
Moron.
Jerkface,
That’s irrelevant though because he’s trying to prove a separate point that you clearly are missing. The inconsistency kills you more in terms of winning games than the “average” or “total” number of runs. Scoring 0-2 runs is usually a loss the majority of the time in the American League, so while 10 runs over 2 games may be “on average” 5 per game which is pretty good, you’re probably going to go only 1-1. If you scored 5 each game, you are likely to win both of those.
Lets Go Yankees clap,clap,clap,clap,clap
*Only 1-1 that is if you score them like 2 and 8.
The lineup is dreadful.
A better team like the Rays would have hit a Grand Slam against Gregg by now.
Grandy Man Can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Grady Sizemore out for the year now? Man, his career is going downhill. Still young but he was being touted as the new face of the game like 2 years ago.
balls are way outside
that’s too easy for them
This is a joke. Kevin Gregg is awful
All of a sudden, the strike zone for our hitters has enlarged. Strikes 1 and 3 to Grandy were not strikes.
That’s irrelevant though because he’s trying to prove a separate point that you clearly are missing. The inconsistency kills you more in terms of winning games than the “average” or “total” number of runs. Scoring 0-2 runs is usually a loss the majority of the time in the American League, so while 10 runs over 2 games may be “on average” 5 per game which is pretty good, you’re probably going to go only 1-1. If you scored 5 each game, you are likely to win both of those.
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But his thought exercise isn’t proving anything about the yankees. The yankees consistently score a lot of runs. So whats the point?
Gameday had all those pitches to Granderson as outside.
Nick in SF – I would if I could. Western Canadian Yankees fan here..I try to go to TO once a year for a series with NYY though…
what was that swing from our captain?
let’s get going!
We better hope for a Swisher BB here, because he AINT hittin a HR here.
The Red Sox score 2 or less runs twice as often as the Yankees. The Rays score 2 or less runs twice as often as the yankees.
Why is Jeter not stealing?
Didn’t Jerkface already prove that the Yankees score at least 3 runs 88% of the time? Therefore there struggling offense us a myth. Is that difficult to understand?
Jerkface,
The Rays don’t have a good lineup. The Red Sox are top heavy
Just gap one Swish.
Jeff, what the heck, you’re already in Canada, how far can it be????
Just kidding. Are you closer to Seattle than Toronto?
The Rays don’t have a good lineup. The Red Sox are top heavy
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Ok, but what is your point? The yankees are already better than both your hypothetical teams
Swisher better get Jeter in since the human out machine is coming up
Jerkface,
That’s where you’re wrong though. Before they took 6/7 from 2 awful teams at home, look at the run totals they had scored in the previous week’s games:
2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 2
And in this series: 1, 2
Baltimore and Cleveland have some of the worst pitching in the American League, so while it’s nice that they were pounding them into oblivion, it’s hardly a representative performance of what this team is actually doing.
The offense has had some outbursts here and there, but they have not sustained consistent offense performance over the last few weeks, and a few good games make it look “on average” like it’s a good job, but in reality they are losing a lot of games by not scoring enough runs despite adequate pitching.
” Yankees score at least 3 runs 88% of the time? ”
But how many of those are against good teams? Like 1%?
Everybody does realize the Yanks faced 2 pretty good pitchers so far this series. Cecil and Romero are both former 1st rounders who have solid ERAs this year. They get no credit because they pitch in Toronto but if they were in New York they would be recognized more around the league. I would be the Yanks absolutely explode tomorrow against Morrow. Stay patient and he’s out in the third.
Cmon Tex!
pitching around Swish to get to Tex.
time for tex to earn his millions
Well, better luck next inning. Tex the Auto-Out is here.
We better hope for a Teixeira BB here, because he AINT hittin a HR here.
Matt, is your point that the Yankees don’t score many runs in losses?
Hmmm, maybe they should score more.
sombrero time
Tex just a double!!!!!!!!!tahts all we need!!!!!!!!!!
LOL
pathetic…..
I’m sick of Tex
just terrible. I got to go. GL Yanks.
YOU SUCK!!!!!!!
Damn it.
oh my, how predicative!
another breaking ball to strike out TEX
And Tex wears the Golden Sombrero today.
They are just killing him with offspeed junk this series. He’s gotta make the adjustment on that stuff. It will come.
That’s where you’re wrong though.
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Unless you’re assuming that the yankees not scoring runs recently is their true level of production, you’re the one who is wrong.
The Yankees score a lot of runs. They have played more than 7 games against good teams, so to suggest that they only don’t score against good teams is stupid.
For crying out loud they scored a few amount of runs against the mets!
Here is the yankees last 2 weeks
1,6,9,3,11,7,11,8,2,3,1,4,3,2,6,6,6,11,3,7,8
Just ignore Matt. He’s a moron.
Dang IT!!!!!!!!!!!
Tex will hit? Right guys? Its only April. Its only May. Its only June. Name another number 3 hitter with worse stats
Wow absolutely disgraceful day from Teixeira 0-5, with 4 strikeouts. Just awful.
They continue to get Teixeira out in the same way every at bat with the changeups down and away.
When is he going to make adjustments to his swing and stop sitting dead red on every pitch? He is killing us consistently at the top of the order.
Yes the Red Sox order is top heavy, but I’d rather have guys strung together who feed off each other than a lineup like this one has been lately where there are black holes inbetween your best hitters that kill every rally.
When the Yankees lose this game it is all TEIXIERIA’S FAULT.. I WANT THIS MAN BOO’D AT THE STADIUM. HE IS NOT WORKING HARD ENOUGH.. AND WHERE ARE YOU KEVIN LONG?
it really baffles me how tex can look so bad…he is a tremendous hitter and to see him struggle like this just doesnt make sense…i really pray for him to come around, this team needs him and he needs himself!
Mark Teixeira is the most pathetic sports figure in the history of athletics — in this world and all other worlds and beyond.
What does Tex have to do to be dropped in the lineup? Cano should be hitting 3rd!
Well here comes Marte and there goes the game. Thanks very much Mark!
After the playoffs i was afraid this would happen to him this year….. THey killed him with breaking pitching all post season.
tex can’t hit slow breaking balls. it’s a wonder he’s ever thrown a fastball.
“# Triple short of a Cycle June 5th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Tex will hit? Right guys? Its only April. Its only May. Its only June. Name another number 3 hitter with worse stats”
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I’ve cut this guy every slack in the world by excusing away his performance to this point of the season by saying he will turn it around, but this is just pure disgrace to look at.
I’m running out of months to say he will turn it around. I keep believing it, but sure as heck am not seeing it.
Yanks cannot wait to give walkoff chance to Jays
Jon June 5th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Mark Teixeira is the most pathetic sports figure in the history of athletics — in this world and all other worlds and beyond.
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Did you watch any baseball last year? He tied for the league in homers and won a gold glove. And he’s playing gold glove d this year.
Go play in traffic.
Teixeira will get red hot.
it may be in 2012, but at some point he will hit.
Just leave Teixeira alone. He’s doing his best out there. He’s human. Maybe something is wrong in his personal life. Give him the benefit of the doubt.
Incredibly Adam Lind has actually been worse than Teixeira this season to answer your question Triple, but it isn’t a good excuse for getting beaten the same way every at bat.
If he can’t hit and isn’t going to make the adjustment, then he cannot continue batting at the top of the order behind Jeter and Swisher.
Marte is just terrible
Tyler,
You happy with the way Tex has hit this year?
Teixeira is killing them.
Cano has carried this team this year. When he’s gone into a little slump, the Yanks offense has disappeared. He needs some help!!!
CR9 posting as Trisha 28 on the way for the moment,
You know Trisha is not here, stop attacking Trisha, she is great, does no wrong, she’s always right!!!!
No one could ever replace her all knowing and humble posts.
Please give her the total respect as the number one blogger not only on this blog, but in history of the blogging.
Stop attacking Trisha and mocking her, if she leaves the blog it will just die. Who will tell us who are the good and bad posters.
Please stop attacking Trisha.
Jeez Schiavone who won the French is one fugly woman. Yikes. I thought Venus and Serena were bad. They would win Miss Universe over Schiavone.
Either Tiex has to recognize those breaking pitches as balls so he doesn’t constantly put himself in pitchers counts or he has to change his approach to go with those pitches opposite field.
Real easy. Hit cano 3
CR9, so Tex should get free pass, correct?
I bet this 214 hitter can hit one out…….
Matt,
I agree. He should at the least flip flip with Cano. This way Arod can break Bonds record of walks
Triple,
Of course not. But it’s also still June. I’m not discounting his whole career for 2 months. Its frustrating but I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt. He works his butt off and has not let his struggles affect him in the field where he’s been great. If he comes up huge and July, August, September I’m happy.
Lind is hitting .105 against LHP with a .284 OPS. Increidble.
Swish! we are lucky!
I heart Swish
He’s a Yankee. An All Star. A gold glover. A World Series Champion. Yes, he should get a pass. Nice catch Swishy!
Bat Tex 6th or 7th and take some pressure off him, move Arod, Cano, and Posada up. That bunches up 4 highest ops players on the Yanks with Swish, Arod, Cano and Posada. Bat Grandy 6th vs rightys and Tex 7th, vs leftys bat Tex 6th . Maybe it’ll take some pressure off him. He’s not only doing badly for himself but kinning Arod and Cano’s numbers. Gotta make a change.
There’s no escaping the fact that we’re hitting real bad on the road at the moment. How many games can you expect to win when you score 3 in 19 innings?
wow what a defensive game for swish
Now I do think it wouldn’t hurt to bat Cano 3 and Tex 5. But I’m not giving up on Tex. Thats purely idiotic.
Well it’s been fun, bbl.
Let’s go Yankees!
Surprising that Tex has not been able to make an adjustment and is still struggling with the breaking stuff. But it’s silly to say he’s not trying hard. In actuality, he’s probably pressing, trying too hard, because he knows the team needs his bat.
“1,6,9,3,11,7,11,8,2,3,1,4,3,2,6,6,6,11,3,7,8″
That is a lot of 1′s. Pretty bad.
Lind is hitting .105 against LHP with a .284 OPS. Increidble.
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Unless it’s against a chump lefty like Marte. He could have killed us there if not for Swisher.
Robertson will show us all that he’s worse than his 7+ ERA.
Tyler,
Which would be fine if this was a number 6 or 7 hitter. You can’t have an All star in the prime of his career take 2 months off and counting. Its bad enough he takes April off every year. Its lucky Swisher had the April he had last year or we would have been buried
You bunch of babies ! $$$$ doesn’t guarantee performance, he’s in a slump and that’s all there is to it !!! He’s not using the “whole field” and needs to do so. Trying to pull too often. Just a couple of hundreds of a second early way too much !!!
D-Rob will extend the game to 11th
lol Nick! Yeah all those ones are terrible especially when there are 2 between those commas. This team is such a waste! Should just book tee times now. And maybe just go to Reno to catch the Golden Bears while they are at it!
Nice play Jeter!
Great play by Swish. The bats need to wake up. They look dreadful in this series against off speed pitches.
Time for 4-5-6 to do something
dave Robertson, start earning those millions!
oh wait.
Time for an a-bomb
Good Job DROB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You want Alex swinging for the fences or looking to make contact this inning?
Tyler, it’s not idiotic. Don’t bat Tex 5th and Cano 3rd, see the lineup I proposed, it’ll take pressure off Tex and give him a break. Just move everyone else up 1 spot. It won’t embarass him maybe make him relax.
Hector Lopez,
Name another in their prime all star who was healthy have a 2 month slump. Before you say Aramis he is most likely playing hurt
A-Rod is going to crush one now!
I wish there was a way to block certain people here. I’d love to block joba tips, Matt, whatever, Trisha,CR 9
I can pitch !
Triple,
And “we” (because you’re such a part of the team) aren’t buried because his teammates picked him up just like he did last year. Ask the players. They believe in Tex. That’s enough for me.
The Yankees are hitting .316 as a team at home and .258 on the road. At home they have scored 6.69 runs per game, and on the road only 4.62.
The offense has noticeably been having trouble on the road, and while you guys will keep citing that those are good numbers usually, which they are, they have been inflated by the early season hot streak.
April is one month out of six, so while it’s nice to see you can do that with this lineup, you also need to eventually start getting it done again to prove it is real. They have struggled to put together consistent offense since the middle of May, so this has been an extended issue now that needs to turn around soon.
If Abreu were in RF today then this would already be an L.
When oh When are they going to flip-flop Cano & Tex.
Tex is killing the Yankees in the #3 spot. He is hitting .215 in JUNE!
REWARD Cano for his .360+ avg., homeruns, & rbi’s.
If the BOSS was still running things, he would be all over Tex. for being the highest paid 1st baseman in the league & hitting the way he has been since the playoffs started LAST YR!
Drop him to 5th already.
We will go 1,2,3, with 2 strikeouts. What a surprise.
Good job Alex
can i just politely ask why this team is CONSTANTLY swinging at the first pitch?
Damn!
The only way you can move Tex in the lineup is if you then put arod ,cano,posada Up in the order no flipflopping the guys just slide them up like PistolPete has said.
The only way you can move Tex in the lineup is if you then put arod ,cano,posada Up in the order no flipflopping the guys just slide them up like PistolPete has said.
wow its a good thing we pa Arod 35 mil to have at bats like that
In an extra inning game with a new pitcher in, why in the world would you swing at the first pitch?
That’s not a strike.
pistol,
I didn’t say that moving Tex maybe to 5 is idiotic. Giving up on him and blasting him and calling him pathetic off of 2 months is though. I think Cano could handle the 3 hold for now.
I support that move. Just think that absolutely blasting Tex is idiotic. I guess most of those people hopped on the bandwagon last year and don’t remember watching Giambi struggle and the plate and be absolutely awful in the field.
Arod swings at the 1st pitch? The at bats are absolutely pathetic today. Make the other pitcher work.
CANDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HES ON FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3-4-5-6 gave been brutal
Extra innings against a team at home that hits a ton of hrs
The Yankees really don’t hit very well on the road. Its strange.
Posada!
Grow up kiddies ! It’s baseball and it’s still a game ! Win some, lose some !
Most of you 13 yr. old babies wouldn’t know a “bad” team if they were in your backyard !!!
The Yanks look like they are sleeping. It’s like they can’t wait for the Jays to win the game. Terrible..
What’s downside of hitting Cano 3?
Posada Going Yard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I thought that was gone.
Why would the Toronto pitching staff even think about throwing the Yankees hitters strikes if they refuse to show any plate discipline? Praying for a mistake on the first pitch is not a quality approach at home plate, sometimes you have to work the pitcher and wear him down a bit before he makes one.
Tyler,
Tex was invisible when they needed him in April with Arod out. He was invisible during the playoffs and this year has been invisible this whole year. I am sure off the record Cash is stunned that Tex has been this bad with the bat
Changes will be made when necessary; you can’t get too excited because a guy’s in a slump.
ACe 4:03
Then you have no coverage for AROD. He will get walked constantly.
crystal ball says jays start next inning with double
Wow, well fair to say the lousy Indians and Orioles made this team look extra good, this is just horrendous to watch what they are doing at the plate.
How do you look like they did against the Orioles and Indians at the plate and then come to Toronto and can’t even get a decent rally going.
Clear to say that homestand was about the level of competition than the true merit of the team finding itself.
One Jeter HR has been their scoring and a double play ground out yesterday.
U earn spots in the lineup. Tex isn’t earning it
Here comes steroids leading off the inning….
Nick – closer to Seattle…love Safeco, and fans are better there than in TO. Skydome is a veritable den of fools..
This may be a bad match up for Robertson
Home run by Bautista!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rocky Colavito,
So right because I didn’t suffer during the Stump Merril days. I loved those great rotations with Scott Kamanicki (sp) and wade taylor. Good knowings
If u don’t think Tex can protect at 5 y the hell would u hit him 3?
5 or 6 guys in the starting line-up are hitting .300 or better and Cervelli is close. What do you guys expect ? The whole team to hit .300 ?
WHat a joke Bautista is still in this game
Keep It Up DROB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No outside pitch being called strike 3 for us. The way 5 feet out of the zone was a strike for Gregg.
“# Triple short of a Cycle June 5th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
I am sure off the record Cash is stunned that Tex has been this bad with the bat”
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Who wouldn’t be, he has been perhaps the worst #3 hitter in baseball statically this season to date.
I keep saying he will turn things around, but today is just horrible to watch what he is doing, 0-5 with 4 K’s and leaving men in scoring position when the team needs a pick me up.
Robertson can’t throw strikes now.
See. the Jays don’t go down 1,2,3.
“I am sure off the record Cash is stunned that Tex has been this bad with the bat”
Bad with the bat???!?!?!? He finished last year around .285, led the league in homers with Pena and finished with over 100 RBI. There was talk he’d win the MVP if Mauer didn’t have his absolutely sensational year. He’s never been a .300 hitter. Look at his career average. Its .286. I usually stay away from internet arguments because they are so dumb but you are just getting their facts wrong. Yes. he struggled in the playoffs but he also won game 2 vs. Minnesota and hit the homerun to tie game 2 off Pedro and give us momentum back when it looked like Yanks were in trouble and played great D. Oh yeah, and “we” won the world series.
Teixeira is better off not to read any Metro NYC papers tomorrow. He won’t like what’s written.
Not looking good.
I don’t know how u walk a guy in the btm of 11
Anyone that dismisses Tampa and the Jays as real contenders, refuse to see the truth. The Yankees are in trouble and both teams smell blood!
Of course Gregg gets 2 pitches not even close to a strike called a strike. Yanks can’t get the same.
Ace
You throw 4 balls. That’s how.
nice dp!
Teixeira has struggled since last October, so this is nothing new.
In the playoffs last year, he had 71 ABs & only 11 hits.
The scouts saw something, obviously.
Nice pick at 1st by Teixeira!
Nice David
This team really could use a reliable Robertson.
both teams just wanna play more extra innings. good
DP!!!!!!!
A quality fastball will still get a fastball hitter out. Can’t go away from your strength because it’s their strength.
DROB!!!!!!!!!1Nice DP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL @ ball 1. Kevin Gregg can get whatever he wants called a strike. But not us.
Tyler,
Name another all star vet in the prime of his career hitting worse then Tex this year?
For those who aren’t math fans, that’s a .155 avg in the playoffs for Teixeira.
Robertson allows too many base runners
Of course, winning the WS overshadowed that performance (and rightly so), but the red flags have been up for a while now for those who’ve been paying attention.
The Yanks should get Tex’s eyes checked. You never know… I know Girardi doesn’t want to move him down but sooner or later he will have to. He isn’t even having good at bats and swinging at strikes. He has been swinging at anything off speed in the dirt and looks dreadful.
It’s true,
Yes after 7 years of playing and being productive, the holy scouts who know all picked up a flaw after 71 at bats. Tex is just going to be terrible now. Let’s trade him.
Should we try for Nate Mclouth or David Dejesus?
ce June 5th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
I don’t know how u walk a guy in the btm of 11
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4 balls will do it every time !
one more strike, come on!
Wow, I thought that was gone!
Hanging curves.
WHEW!!!!!!
Whew! I thought that was gone.
Wow that was scary…
phew..thought that was trouble
WOW. almost had a heart attack. I thought that was gone
oh! lucky one. They are getting closer and closer.
I thought it was game over.
Wow, Robertson wasn’t fooling anyone.
<10 pitches easy 1,2,3 coming up
Whew. Dodging bullets.
Here comes Cervy, Gardy, and Grandy!
The pen has quietly been coming around in the last couple of weeks.
yanks terrible road team starting to look like mets
# it’s true June 5th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Of course, winning the WS overshadowed that performance (and rightly so), but the red flags have been up for a while now for those who’ve been paying attention.
oh no. the games before July (or Aug) don’t count.
JM
Good point. Joba having some nice outings, etc.
Tex will be fine. He just needs to hit 5 for now
Dodging bullets.
..
he pen has quietly been coming around in the last couple of weeks.
..
# Triple short of a Cycle June 5th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Tyler,
Name another all star vet in the prime of his career hitting worse then Tex this year?
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Someone has to hold down that spot !
in Gardy we trust
Yankee POSITIVES from todays game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!DROB looks like hes getting back into form.Joba hitting 98 and having that nasty nasty slider.Were still going to win this game .Mariano will handle that.
Cervelli is getting exposed playing daily
two pitches, one out
Ugh, Chan Ho Park warming up.
# Michelle June 5th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Wow, Robertson wasn’t fooling anyone.
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Neither are you !?
Can someone on the Yanks please hit the ball hard??!! Besides Posada. Oh great Park is warming up. Talking about meatballs.
“Name another all star vet in the prime of his career hitting worse then Tex this year?”
Carlos Pena.
OMG: CHP warming up. I’d rather have Ollie Perez.
lol Park and his propensity for giving up the hr ball against the team with the most hrs in the league.
Tyler,
My only point is that continually batting Tex 3rd is insane (doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results and all that jazz).
I am Teixeira fan, believe it or not. His D at 1B has been huge, and I’m not saying he’s a stiff w/the bat (under normal circumstances).
I’m saying something is obviously not right w/either his approach, his mechanics, or both.
Until the problems are resolved, bat him in a lower leverage spot in the order.
I can’t wait until he gets it back in gear, and I’ll be the first to call myself out.
Jays probably can’t wait for Chan Ho’s fast balls.
pat,
Are you joking??? Carlos Pena isn’t an allstar Vet. Plus he isn’t a number 3 hitter. Guy is what a career 240 or 250 hitter
Ok now steal 2
Nice! How bout a stolen base now?
nice gardy…..maybe a hit and run with grandy, or a straight steal
RRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
Gardner needs to steal 2nd, 3rd, and home if we are going to win this one.
Please don’t get picked off Gardner
Hmmm. Base hit. Almost forgot what it looks like.
Pat,
Dont inject knowledge into the debate.
Let the morons continue to whine and cry.
It’s all they know how to do.
Gardy!!!!!!!!!!STEAL!!!!!!!!BUCK SUX!!!!!!!!!GRANDY MAN CAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This umpire is an absolute joke
Whew! He stumbled back there.
I’m gonna have a heart attack!
wow all these pickoffs are too close for comfort…
Way to give him a shot to steal CG
It’s seems like Gardner is too fooled to run
Gary darling has been terrible today
# it’s true June 5th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
Teixeira has struggled since last October, so this is nothing new.
In the playoffs last year, he had 71 ABs & only 11 hits.
The scouts saw something, obviously.
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Sounds like he’s done right ? Maybe we can get Heyward and Hanson from Atl. for him ! And they’ll probably throw in Cabrera, right ?
Fastest Statue at 1st base!
GRANDY gona hit this hard.
Go away SJ. Bloviate somewhere else.
Well hit ball, and Wells easily tracks it down. Thought that was gone, or a gapper at the least.
Damn, I thought that would drop in.
How didn’t he steal
Just Missed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SJ44,
Keep on spouting your fake “insider” knowledge. I remember you saying there was no way they would let Molina catch Burnett in the playoffs.
# Dylan June 5th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
I’m gonna have a heart attack!
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Please don’t, I’m sure you’re needed for something !
# Long time fan June 5th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
# it’s true June 5th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
Teixeira has struggled since last October, so this is nothing new.
In the playoffs last year, he had 71 ABs & only 11 hits.
The scouts saw something, obviously.
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Sounds like he’s done right ? Maybe we can get Heyward and Hanson from Atl. for him ! And they’ll probably throw in Cabrera, right ?
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way to stay cogent.
I put out legit #s, and you counter w/some crazy retort?
I win.
Anybody who rips on SJ is a clown.
camp has such a quick move for a righty
Gardner should work with a good base stealer in the off season. He needs to be able to read pitchers better.
A statue at 1st
Gardner really has shaky instincts at 1B
“Are you joking???”
You didn’t say anything about batting 3rd in your question. Pena is a vet, has been an all-star and tied for the HR lead last year so that met the criteria you asked for.
Tex hasn’t been good but what does harping on it accomplish?
Have to steal here.At least let Jeter start off nxt inning.
Time for a Jeterian hit down the RF lines.
gardner looks absolutely worn down….hope hes not hurt
Finally!
Some things never change.
People needlessly attacking SJ again.
First, it’s probably fake SJ. Second, we’re all Yankees fans. Yet most of you get off on attacking other Yankees fans. How sickening.
Good but it still took Gardner 20 pitches to steal
SJ is as much of an insider as the hot dog guy at the stadium.
There you go GARDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m not going anywhere mikeY.
Maybe you can sack up someday and make me.
If not, shut up.
Just a single come on Jeter
ugh
Don’t worry SJ44 has CR backing him up.
pat,
Then you need to scroll up when I said number 3 hitter and Matt mentioned Lind.
What the Byfuglien? I dont know how that was not a closer play at first base.
Damn, now here comes Mr. homerun Park.
both teams have left 16 guys on base…
Now we should dump Jeter, right ? After all, he didn’t come thru !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Jays for sure will score this inning.
Name the time and place blowhard. U r such a phony bloviator.
Can only hold a home team down for so long
Jays are gonna win this here.
Sj44 doesn’t do game posts… That is an impostor
Now we have the same 3 gutless twerps changing names writing the same stuff.
How “original” and how “brave”. lol
How doesn’t Gardner steal with 1 out? Run!
ok cross your fingers.
Oh no! Chan Ho “out of the” Park is now pitching!
This is going to be scary Park against this homerun lineup
How many HRs will park give up?
1? 2? 3?
I’ll say 2 here.
Chan Ho will make everybody go home
Rocky Colavito,
Talk to me when Tex does 1 percent of what Jeter has done. Second Jeter is not in the prime of his career anymore yet he is still a batter hitter then the human out machine
Chan always gives up at least 1 run , sigh!
This team is absolutely awful.
That didn’t answer the anytime anyplace SJ. Chicken phony
I was hoping Jeter could foul off enough pitches to keep the AB alive long enough for Montero to get out of his AAA slump and mature as a catcher and then get called up and then… sorry, I dozed off, what’s up in this game?
Be quite, SJ44!
Come on PARK!!!!!!!!!CHOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Park…… 13 innings, 5 hrs
they go on the road and face a decent pitching staff and all of the sudden they can’t hit their way out of a paper bag. it would be a shame to waste some of the best bullpen work we’ve had in a while- especially if even Chan Ho can work a scoreless inning.
I’m sure some of you members of the intelligentsia will get drafted next week and will be up with the Yanks in no time and show us all how it’s done !
When Gregg Kevin threw that first pitch of Ho’s against Lewis, it was a strike.
No one ruins the blog flow like good old sj44.
Triple short of a Cycle June 5th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
pat,
Are you joking??? Carlos Pena isn’t an allstar Vet. Plus he isn’t a number 3 hitter. Guy is what a career 240 or 250 hitter
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Just so you’ll finally know something…Pena was an All-Star last year.
Park can go multiple innings, if needed.
With Ace down, CHoP will be an important piece.
Two balls missed way out. You never see that from Jays’ relievers.
Do some homework moron mike. I’m an easy person to reach.
joe please explain how chan ho could give up two home runs this inning? idiot
Park has been fine lately. He is a quality major league pitcher who was rushed back from injury and didn’t quite have the stamina and arm strength to sustain his stuff throughout an outing. Now that he’s more removed from the hamstring injury he is looking better with each outing.
# chan ho’s runs June 5th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
This team is absolutely awful.
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Did your parents have ANY kids that lived ?
This sucks. Every other team feasts on the Jays’ bullpen and we can’t do sh**. Don’t deserve to win.
Not a strike 3, lol.
Put him away
GreenBeret7,
Missing the point. Anyone can make the all star team 1 time. I am talking about a proven vet all star
Texas up 3-0 on Tampa! The tide is turning! All hope not yet lost.
Still avoiding blowhard SJ.
I’m still bumming — I thought Granderson had at least a double on that shot in the top half of the inning.
Curtis has been making great contact lately.
SJ,
Think we can get Mclouth or Dejesus for Tex? lol. Hell maybe we can get Casey Kotchmann for him!
one more out Park one more
Park walks a guy hitting .200….
Had him at 0-2.
ugh, terrible walk there on multiple levels, let’s hope he can bounce back
damn, I hope the bad thing doesn’t always happen with 2 outs
Don’t understand walks from relievers.
“I am talking about a proven vet all star”
Isn’t it pretty stupid to completely lose faith in a ‘proven vet all star’?
finish him!
Yup, it’s Gardner’s fault again.
Something like 12 throws over to first, a pitch out and he still steals the base. He gets a hit and steals the base to get into scoring position, but it took him too long, what a loser.
He’s only been on base 3 times today (two hits, walk); he is definitely holding down an otherwise awesome offensive display by the Yankees.
GreenBeret7
I was wondering if you could give me some info about Collin Curtis. Is he back from his injury.? Do you see the Yankees calling him up before the trade dead line.See what he can do type thing? thanx 4 ur info
Nice! Now can we please get a run?
Good job by Park. Now can the bats please wake up!!!
Nice pitching Parkie!
I thought it was supposed to be CHP pitching. Sure didn’t look like him.
Insider SJ thinks we can still trade Cano for something.
Nick,
Not one who’s just stinking it up in the “prime” of his career! I mean the guy si just atrocious. Bring back Giambi.
how many pitches will be needed for A-Rod out?
# Triple short of a Cycle June 5th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
Rocky Colavito,
Talk to me when Tex does 1 percent of what Jeter has done. Second Jeter is not in the prime of his career anymore yet he is still a batter hitter then the human out machine
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If I’m not mistaken, most would think he’s had a pretty good career so far. You’re only crying because of his contract.
ok, even Chan Ho was borderline dominating for our bullpen, we cannot waste this- honestly with our pen i hate to admit it but i thought we were done in like the bottom of the 9th. it’s now the 13th w/ the heart of our lineup up- is one run too much to ask for???? lets do it
“He’s only been on base 3 times today (two hits, walk); he is definitely holding down an otherwise awesome offensive display by the Yankees.”
four times actually…two hits, two walks
one more shot
How great would it be if Tex hit a game winning HR this inning?
Gee, no one gonna knock Park ?
This is our inning. #13 Baby!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDt42Vs-teI
Sacfly-
I’m not GB but I don’t think Curtis is back yet.
7 scoreless innings by the Toronto relievers.
Yankeeeeeeeees!
Just got in. Looks like it’s been quite a game! Anyone popping antacids?
TB aggressiveness cost them there. CS cost them a run as Rodriguez hits a HR.
100% chance Tex will make an out.
Let’s go Swish!!
Triple short of a Cycle June 5th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
GreenBeret7,
Missing the point. Anyone can make the all star team 1 time. I am talking about a proven vet all star
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Typical from a know-nothing. You get proven wrong….AGAIN…..and change the parameters of your non-argument.
CHOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!LOOKING GOOD! I hope to everything that TEX hits a homerun now to make half of you eat your words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Aftr SWISH gets on base.
# Tyler June 5th, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Nick,
Not one who’s just stinking it up in the “prime” of his career! I mean the guy si just atrocious. Bring back Giambi.
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Go get him, see ya’ !
i think my friend’s bro who is 10 and just started kid pitch could have better swings then Tex yesterday and today. he needs to wake up and realize he’s too talented to even have a two game stretch like this. yanks need him to pick it up in a big way.
Is it too much to ask for bad pitching from the other team?
“100% chance Tex will make an out.”
I’ll spot you 1% and put my $1 up against your $99.
Rocky,
Uh, I was just joking. Look back at this thread. I have about 15 posts defending Tex.
The Jays pitchers are really living on off speed pitches. But it’s working…
Get the leadoff guy on
I loved Giambi but the thought of him and his golden thong botching plays at first gives me a serious headache.
wow.
Sacfly June 5th, 2010 at 4:35 pm
GreenBeret7
I was wondering if you could give me some info about Collin Curtis. Is he back from his injury.? Do you see the Yankees calling him up before the trade dead line.See what he can do type thing? thanx 4 ur info
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Yeah, Curtis came back this week. He’s hitting pretty well, but, not yet driving the ball like he was. DHing and playing the outfield.
malaise
Damn Swish..That is a big out leading off the inning
Tyler thanx 4 the info. Any idea when hes coming back!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GreenBeret7,
Yes thats right I’m a know nothing. Typical response from someone incapable of having a discussion with someone who doesn’t agree with them.
strike out # 5?
walk
Y would someone slumping like Tex take that 3-0 pitch?
“malaise”
Cardigan?
shock
rofl Tex
Alex it is up to you
You have got to be kidding me…
sacfly-
I stand corrected. Looked it up on milb.com and he did come back this week. I lost touch this week and it looked like he is back! Thats good news at least!
embarrassing. this team doesn’t deserve to win this game.
Who still wants him hitting 3?
Tex sucks, drop him down, please!
Unbelievable futility.
Rays destroy the Jays bullpen, Yankees can’t do a thing. Pathetic.
can tex just wait for breaking balls?
I don’t think I have ever seen a major leaguer K 5 times in a game.
Tex really needs to sit for a couple of days. I don’t think he is seeing the ball at all.
Tex is pitiful at this point
Folks this is simply ugly, he got ahead 3-0 in the count and still struck out
0-6 with 5 strikeouts. Wow
Late on the fastball, early on the changeup, out in front on the cutter?
What in the world could he be looking for at the plate there? That last pitch was asking to be hit for a home run.
What comes after a golden sombrero?
Now, Teixeira has more strikeouts than I do.
How about that.
Teixeira is a rancid hitter right now. Just awful.
Pathetic
Do 3-4-5-6 have a hit today?
# Tyler June 5th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Rocky,
Uh, I was just joking. Look back at this thread. I have about 15 posts defending Tex.
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Ooops, my bad !
Cardigan – don’t understand.
maliase as in wearysome and sick
I got to be honest. I would love to see this game go 20 innings just to see Tex wiff a few More times. Funny stuff (hurts so much it is funny now
)
Seriously. How in the world do the 3-4-5 hitters go 1-18. It’s pathetic.
Yanks will never score. I’m ready for the Jays to just end it so I can go on with my life.
And another Arod ground out to 3rd. These guys are past predictable at this point. He has done that about a million times this series.
Toronto Blue Jays > Yankees
Baltimore Orioles > Yankees
Boston Red sox > Yankees
Tampa Bay Rays > Yankees
Its only June. Tex will… sorry I can’t say it
The Yanks have been fooled 2 days in a row on off speed pitchers one after another. It seems like the Jays throw a change or curve in every fastball count and the Yanks look lost.
# Ken June 5th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
What comes after a golden sombrero?
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This site !!!
and A-rod takes a fastball right down the pipe on a 1-0 count, then swings at a curveball low out of the zone and grounds out. solid approach. this team has some smart hitters on the road. jesus they leave yankee stadium and they forget how to strategize completely. i know it’s just one game today, but man, combined with last night what a terrible showing from our lineup.
It’s officially time to worry about Texeira.
For those of you expecting some sort of change in the lineup, just be aware of this: it would take an act of God for G.I. Joe to move Teixeira out the the 3 spot.
Platinum sombrero.
My little league team > Yankees
GreenBeret7 4:40
Thanx 4 the info. Just trying to see when moller our Ruuuussseeeee goes back dwn wht our options are. Does he play all the of spots like cfld to?
Park for 2 is playing with fure
well, 3 pitches are needed to make A-Rod out.
That’s it, Yanks will lose this game.
alright, not including today’s game. Park has given up runs in 7 of 9 appearances.. I hope Lady Luck is on his side.
The Yankees offense is pretty putrid at the moment. The Jays bullpen is not good.
“# Kevin June 5th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Seriously. How in the world do the 3-4-5 hitters go 1-18. It’s pathetic.”
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The Yankees as a team should be ashamed of that stat after this game. That is simply horrendous baseball, sounds almost Baltimore Orioles like.
This might be it, I’m sorry to say !
Ken,
The one with the little pompoms on it.
How did he not swing at that? This is getting ridiculous.
now Park vs. the Homer run Kings.
asking a lot from Park here
one more inning!
getting real tired of Teixeira’s act. Brady Anderson pointed out on the MASN broadcast how Tex’s weight shift is all off and it’s producing a huge uppercut in his swing.
Urban sombrero
What’s more unbelievable Tex futility or Chan Ho Park not giving up a run by now?
Keep It Up PARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
what’s so frustrating is that this is probably the best performance of our bullpen of the season so far. and our touted lineup can’t even manufacture one run.
CR-
I was thinking more of a “day on the bench” coming after a golden sombrero lol
please end it to put us out of our misery.
Chan Home Run Park
you can ignore it all you want.
tex has very little bat speed and a long swing.
he keeps cheating on fastballs, so he’s miles in front of the off speed.
If they lose this game the Papers already have their lead story for Sunday waiting. Teix is going to get roasted.
no walks
The Yanks can continue to bat Tex 3rd and pretend like nothing is wrong or they can do something about it. Sit him for 2-3 days and work with Long then bring him back and bat him 7th. He looks terrible and it started during the play offs and now teams know how to pitch to him. All off speed pitches and he swings at them in the dirt and swings and misses over the plate. It’s not like he is hitting the ball hard, he is lost.
# Name (required) June 5th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
For those of you expecting some sort of change in the lineup, just be aware of this: it would take an act of God for G.I. Joe to move Teixeira out the the 3 spot.
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You want change ? See Obummer !!!
Nice pitch! Boom!
The funny thing is all the everything is fine in Yankee land hitters can’t even admit a little worry about Tex. They are perfectly happy with the production since the playoffs last year
Tex is another 180MM joke of Cashman’s imagination, ripping off the Yankees. He’s on vacation now that he has a guaranteed contract.
chan ho finally remembering how to pitch again
Lorenz think bautista is mike schmidt
good pitch by Chan Ho!
Thankfully, even were they to play 18 innings, it will only count as 1 game in their run matrix.
Former Red Sox will end it.
Cervelli will win this game with a HR.
bullpen lookin good
Maybe CHP will discover the inner pitcher within.
A-Gan normally is pathetic
There’s no politics on this blog. And leave Obama alone. We wouldnt have won the 2009 WS without him in office.
CHoP’s pitches are moving.
In fact, one might say, “They’re really running.”
one more out!
Runner on…… 2-0 count…… dangerous
Park. Come on
3-0 damage pitch
Mr. Park is probably tired now.
stop your effing whining everyone….
**** me. Mistake in superstition. Negate.
2 out destruction?
Walks. Always kill.
uh-oh
The real Chan Ho Park just had to make an appearance now with two outs. :angry:
no matter how this game or series turns out, F the blue jays. every year it’s the same story with them. they get off to a decent start the first half of the year then they fizzle out. when it’s all said and done this season they’ll be on the outside looking in again. things even out in a 162 game schedule. guys like jose bautista and alex gonzalez and people like that are not going to play like this all year. it’s all good. let them play well over their heads now. the yanks will be in the playoffs at the end and the jays won’t.
Part of me wants to see if Teixeira can K six times in one game.
John Buck got more HRs than A-Rod has
should be able to get this dude out
Park will probably hang something now. He looks finished.
“TB aggressiveness cost them there. CS cost them a run as Rodriguez hits a HR.”
You’re lucky Michael Kay is no longer with us!
Uncle, I thought your ‘malaise’ usage was a reference to our 39th president, who also wore a cardigan. Oops.
just one more strike!
Let’s go park
Joe get somebody up now.
Nice job Park
cmon chop.
SUPER CHOP!!!!!!
come on yanks
we escape
Come on. Lets get some runs
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Parkie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Park makes it interesting. This team needs another good reliever
Dick Vitale: CHP Bay-bee!
stellar performance from chan ho so far. our bullpen has given us EVERY CHANCE to win this game. every chance.
chop gets out of the jam.
If nothing else, this game will help the team ERA.
Nice Job Mr Park.
If the Yanks do not score This inning, Mr Park will be back in the game.
seriously, u only can ask pen do this much.
Good pitch. Now someone please call the bats…
Still, no one gonna knock Park ? WOW !!!
Great job PARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1way to go CHOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Would be nice if someone in this lineup could put up a quality at bat and not chase a pitcher’s pitch.
yanks are gonna hang a 5 spot this inning out of nowhere
Forget the HR. How about a single?
Whos up next inning? Hopefully Mo, but maybe Gaudin….
2 pitches for Cano out
After Park there isn’t much left in the bullpen. I guess Mitre but I think he pitched 2 days in a row and then Mo. The bullpen can only shut them down for so much longer. The bats either need to wake up or come back tomorrow.
Why are the hitters having 1-2 pitch ABs?
UGH. this is painful. cano’s avg taking a hit the last cpl games
The story of this game indeed for the Yankees.
Mark Teixeira has struck out five times in a game one other time in his career. It was in 2003, his rookie year.
The No. 3 hitters in this game have combined to go 0-for-12 with nine strikeouts.
Nuff said folks.
Hey Zeus! Swinging at the 2nd pitch!
We better hope for a Posada BB here, because he AINT hittin a HR here.
No one has ever SO 6 times in a game…… Teix can get into the record books folks
Torontos pitching is impressive
All these Toronto pitchers have to do is throw an offspeed pitch and these guys are lunging trying to drill everything.
Atta Boy George!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Baltimore and Cleveland were really bad, because they made the Yankees offense look like it had woken up, but this is some reality for us that we are watching today.
They couldn’t get a run if it was given to them.
Too bad posada can’t run
uhhhhhhh wow how do u not get to second on that…. awful
great. now we’ll need 3 more singles to score Posada.
Nice hitting!
We better hope for a Cervelli BB here, because he AINT hittin a HR here.
cervelli has realllllly come back to earth lately…… need a big hit here tho man
# Michelle June 5th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Park will probably hang something now. He looks finished
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Thank goodness, we have you !
The Toronto relievers are successful because they don’t live off of their fastball. At least against the Yanks they haven’t.
the slowest runner in the world, but at least he got on base.
Cervelli market correction past 2 weeks
They were probably pinch running Posada even if he got to second, right?
Cervellis needs to make up for the blunder
Youve Been CERVD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
now the offense gets even better with Pena in it.
Michelle
any good reliever lives off their fastball.
Nick that is exactly what i meant but did not realize it
I wonder if that’s what David Ortiz took. Or Jose Bautista.
Booster Juice?
Has Tex turned into the hitting equivalent of Rick Ankiel? A guy who forget how to hit?
# H.K. June 5th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
the slowest runner in the world, but at least he got on base.
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Molina x 2 ( either ) Yadier is avg.
This is physically painful to watch.
Looks like the Detroit, Mets, series of games that we had during that down stretch when it comes to atrocious hitting.
Get healthy quick posada. Need u catching
Of course another strike out on an off speed pitch
I remember the good old days when people wanted Cervelli over Posada on a daily basis. They got their wish.
Moeller tomorrow?
Long day for ‘Cisco.
Why have you not stolen already, Ramiro?
i’m tired of cervelli in there everyday. his holes in his swing are really showing lately. Posada can run- that is the biggest test on an injured foot. if he can run, he can play catcher. i’m sick of cervelli. he has faded somewhat. he needs less playing time.
Rick Ankiel never really knew how to hit.
Pena isn’t very fast…
No. Day off on Monday. No need for day off for Cervelli tomorrow.
Pena needs to run here – get into scoring position. If he is thrown out Gardner leads off (hopefully) next inning.
Denge Fever
# Michelle June 5th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Of course another strike out on an off speed pitch
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20-20 hindsight ! Tremendous !
Bengie Molina is now the slowest player… have not seen Jose run lately, so maybe Molina X2 is the slowest, but Bengie has lost more steps than he ever had lately.
Y pinch run if ur not gonna run?
# Macfan June 5th, 2010 at 5:05 pm
This is physically painful to watch.
Looks like the Detroit, Mets, series of games that we had during that down stretch when it comes to atrocious hitting.
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911 !!!
Cervelli is a stop-gap.
One of the stud catching prospect will eventually be the everyday catcher. ‘Cisco will be a very useful back-up (he’s being mentored by Posada, and will pass that info along when the time comes).
Ace,
So he can score on a double.
yeah agreed on pena. there is no reason to pinch run unless u steal or hit and run or something. what are you expecting- double in the gap? two or three straight hits? c’mon joe. think.
Flaherty for once is exactly right here.
How do you expect to score runs if you put no pressure on the opposing team? What is the point in pinch running for Posada if Pena is just going to stand there? Now you have lost Posada’s bat and gained no advantage from Pena’s speed if you don’t get it done here.
In a hitter’s count you have a perfect opportunity to take advantage of a pitch out over the plate.
I miss the circular lineup and not having bums like Gardner, Cervelli, Pena batting in extra innings on the road when we need a HR…
ok, one hit. one hit w/ RISP. c’mon Brett.
Gardner needs to swing the bat earlier in the count. He takes way too many fastballs
Brutal.
Joe doesn’t want to run himself out of an inning here. I can understand the logic. Hope for a double in the gap
Michelle r u baseball dumb? Gardner has an OBP of 390. What he’s doing is working.
This team is begging the Blue Jays to beat them.
lol, hanging curveball in every sense right there. hanging curve right over the plate, just pure meat. and he gets overexcited and pops it up. tries to do too much. real shocking development there.
# it’s true June 5th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Cervelli is a stop-gap.
One of the stud catching prospect will eventually be the everyday catcher. ‘Cisco will be a very useful back-up (he’s being mentored by Posada, and will pass that info along when the time comes).
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Exactly right
Gardner is a singles hitter. Cervelli is a singles hitter.
Waiting for a double in the gap against hitters who try to slap the ball the other way is just stupid. If you sit around and wait for the home run you will not win this game.
It has now been a complete game since we last scored a run.
“Michelle June 5th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Gardner needs to swing the bat earlier in the count. He takes way too many fastballs”
i feel that way sometimes too but how can you argue with the results he has had
I am not feeling good about this.
Gardner just took 2 fastballs over the plate and then with 2 strikes had to swing at a pitcher’s pitch off speed. Not being aggressive early in the count hurts him often. Other teams know this so they throw fastballs early in the count.
Now we get to watch Gaudin and his 8 ERA give up a walkoff HR
awesome
Our only runs came on one tremendous swing by Jeter.
Joe needs a leadoff guy to get on.
Here comes another homerun pitcher….
Our stud catching prospects have a lot of POTENTIAL.
Cervelli is up and doing the job now.
I hope Jesus & Romine mash the ball & earn their ticket up, but for now the future catching job is Cervelli’s.
If we had Soria in the pen, we could extend this game 2 innings. Now, the game is pretty much over.
Go Dan! Go Dan!
that was NOT a pitcher’s pitch to gardner. that is simply dead wrong. that was a mistake off speed pitch that hung over the inside part of the plate. watch the game closer.
# Michelle June 5th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Gardner needs to swing the bat earlier in the count. He takes way too many fastballs
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Yanks await you call !!!
“# Rocky Colavito June 5th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
# Macfan June 5th, 2010 at 5:05 pm
This is physically painful to watch.
Looks like the Detroit, Mets, series of games that we had during that down stretch when it comes to atrocious hitting.
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911 !!!”
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Actually it isn’t but what we have seen today has been utterly disgusting from the Yankees on offense. They have had opportunities in this game and unable to cash in, 1 swing of the bat by the Blue Jays and this game is over.
The Yankees can’t even cash in on the limited chances they got.
No one is saying its an emergency, but it has been pathetic to watch their swings at the plate even when men are on base.
Gaudin. Throw strikes.
Lets Go CHAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good job Chad…
1- Pena should have been running.
2- the problem is not Cervelli’s and Gardner’s bats; it’s Tex and Arod.
game over gaudin
Did he really just walk #9 hitter?
I love our “by the book” manager who refuses to use his best pitcher (Mariano Rivera) in a tie game on the road before he’d go to Chad Guadin.
Do not get how u walk the leadoff guy in the btm of 14
And unlike our guys, their guys are up there taking. Bat on shoulders. No swinging.
We have a collection of the best hitters in the game. And they dont understand the value of taking pitches in certain spots.
gaudin will prob blow this, but can u blame whomever blows it at this point? no. 14 innings, two runs, stellar bullpen work. this one is entirely one our offense if the jays scratch one across here.
good golly
Just end it. I don’t care anymore, I just want it to be over.
4 pitch walk to the #9 hitter isn’t the ideal way to start an inning.
I’d rather see Park again.
Why can’t Mo go 2?
I would love to trade Joba Chamberlain and Brett Gardner for Joakim Soria and David DeJesus. Sign Cliff Lee and bring back Pettitte in the offseason.
And thats the game….. lead off walks always score
“i feel that way sometimes too but how can you argue with the results he has had”
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He has been really good. I am just saying something that will help him in the future to get even better. He even said himself that in the minors he was very patient and he knows he needs to be more aggressive.
This game is blamed on 3-4-5.
Gardner is better n cheaper than dejesusq
Game over. Good job offense
lol Gaudin, another worthless scrub.
and rivera is left on the bench. thanks girardi
As i said game over….. lead off walks means the pitcher has nothing
craptastic
Good job Chad…Of course it ends with a walk and then a guy hitting .200
thank you Jays for ending this misery.
rough game…all on the offense
Why bring gaudin in? Why not Mo for 2?
Blame 3-4-5
chad is the human white flag. complete garbage. and tex has had a historic bad year.
Drat!
Enjoy the rest of your days, good people.
Like I said, the Blue Jays will sweep.
Unleash the media hounds on Teix…… AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL Game
I’m not gonna blame Gaudin for this loss. This game never should have went 14 innings. Tex, A-Rod, and Cano are entirely at fault.
this doesn’t surprise me at all. Yanks are deserved to be swept tomorrow.
LOL
but who cares, those early season games don’t count.
# GeorgeInJax June 5th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
4 pitch walk to the #9 hitter isn’t the ideal way to start an inning.
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That’s been the problem with Gaudin : WALKS
Time for Teix to start getting some heat
Why not walk Hill there…
Can’t hit, walk the #9 hitter and get beat by a .185 hitter and you don’t deserve to win.
Bret,
The Royals aren’t making that fantasy trade. They can get a lot more than that if they put both those guys on the market.
This offense cannot hit vs decent to good pitching. Sure they feast on Bal and Cle pen.
Nite ladies !
Never understood the logic of hiding your best reliever in a tie game on the road. What if next inning was the inning the Yankees scored 4 runs? Then you could bring in Gaudin and it actually might not hurt you. It’s stupid to lose a 14 inning game when your best reliever doesn’t even get a chance to pitch.
Pathetic..another great move by cashman picking up a another waste of a player
to me, Yankee batters don’t want to compete in this game. Probably they all have plan tonight in TOR?
just pathetic.
No offense = no wins, doesn’t matter how good your pitching is. I was convinced this lineup doesn’t need another big bat, but clearly they do.
I’m not blaming Gaudin for this loss. The way the offense looked today, we would have been here another 4 hours waiting for them to get a run across.
That sucks. Yes, Gaudin failed. But not as badly as the 3-4-5-6. 2-for-24. That’s hard to do, if you think about it.
Just hope that Texas can hold a lead and that the O’s show up.
Not the end of the world, but extra inning losses hurt more.
Disgraceful walking the leadoff guy in the btm of 14. Gaudin is brutal
Can you say sweep, Javy isn’t better than Andy!
gardner + joba for dejesus and soria would be a horrible trade for the yankees on multiple levels and lol at cashman even thinking about that….. go play fantasy trades w ur friends that don’t know baseball people…. that is so stupid from the yankees standpoint it’s laughable
With the way the Yanks are hitting I expected a Jays walk off. You couldnt ask for anything more from the other pitchers but that was pathetic from Gaudin. The lose isn’t the problem its the way Gaudin beat himself. A walk to the #9 hitter and then an 0-2 hit to a .200 hitter. Wonder why the A’s released him.
would logan have done better? probably.
CHP should have gone another inning. Gaudin was released by Oakland!
U can certainly blame gaudin. Walking the leadoff guy is a disgrace.
PATHETIC.
PATHETIC.
PATHETIC.
PATHETIC.
Let’s get beaten with our worst pitcher before we use Mariano Rivera. Just idiotic managing by Joe Girardi, but what can you do when Teixeira is a joke? Oh wait, how about we don’t bat him THIRD in the order? Stupidity is doing the same things that consistently fail over and over again and somehow expecting different results.
Losing this game is beyond terrible. Toronto may not have been for real before, but you’re certainly going to make that team believe they can hang with you if you give away games like today.
The series against Boston in May and the series against Toronto right now we will look back to when we lament the fact that this race is coming right down to the wire. When you can’t put away a team when you hold them to 2 runs in 14 innings… there is really no excuse for losing this game.
Offense coming around? Yeah right. The same hitters continue to have the same pathetic at bats over and over again and get beaten by the exact same pitch sequences. It’s not rocket science, if a guy is throwing you only changeups maybe you need to stop sitting on the fastball?
These are the kinds of games where you can silence a team like Toronto and take them out of the race, but instead the Yankees don’t show up to play either of these two games. Where is the intensity? Pathetic.
Michelle,
I agree he needs to swing earlier in the count, he could of taken the pitch that Pena ran on to left field, but, he has been on base 4 out of 6 times today. He is doing what he is supposed to do, get on base. Anytime he drives in a run it is a bonus.
I curse out load a few times each time he bats when he lets a down the middle fastball go by. I am sure Long is talking to him about it.
But, Gardner is not the problem with the offense – he is getting on base and into scoring position. Brett needs to just keep on doing what he is doing.
3rd and 4th place hitters need to just be average and it would be a big improvement.
CHP should have gone another inning.
Doesn’t matter if Javy pitches a no-hitter tomorrow, if they can’t score runs.
New Post: Blue Jays walk off in Toronto
We can say what we want.
But when decent teams come in, this team has folded.
That doesn’t make anyone less of a Yankee Fan because they point out the truth.
Yankee’s weakness got overlooked in CLE and BAL series.
I mean, Indians and Birds?!
Yep. This team is awful. Almost on same level as Indians and O’s.
You see before long, the Red Sox will zoom right by us, and we will be 7, 8 games back of them.
we’ll be fine in august. see ya later everyone….
Teix is killing the team the yanks need more from there number 3 hitter.
Hobbs, awful? Really? Second best record in MLB and we’re awful?
Seriously, go back to playstation.
This offense was an absolute disgrace today in every sense of the word, I don’t blame this loss one bit on Gaudin,its entirely on the Yankee middle of the order that looked like worldbeaters against the Indians and Orioles and small timers against the Blue Jays mediocre bullpen.
The Yankees didn’t deserve this win today based on that atrocious display of offensive baseball.
Nowhere to hide anymore for Teixeira. The NYC media will unload. The honeymoon is over.
Why is Gaudin on this team???
“# XLJ June 5th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Teix is killing the team the yanks need more from there number 3 hitter.”
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We have been saying this forever and ever but to no avail.
What Teixeira is doing can no longer be termed a slump but a legitimate concern as to why he is not a consistent middle of the order run producer for this team, that is his job and to date he is not doing it consistently at all. Far from it.
What he did out there today deserves the Goat of the Game Award, 0-6 with 5 K’s, luckily for him the game ended or he would have probably struck out again.
He has been playing very poor from the start of the season to now. I can barely recall key hits from him, you can count them on 3 fingers max.
This offense is pathetic. What is our record against teams above .500?
Seriously? We couldn’t do any better than this POS? Really? How about next time we just wheel the pitching machine out there, same results but at least we won’t have to look at his ugly face while he blows another game.
Two Saturdays in a row…two terrible losses. In between we beat up on teams a Little League outfit could win against. Not resigning Damon was a huge mistake. Basically, if ARod and Cano are not hitting, no one is. Right now, we’re looking fourth best in the American League East. This lineup is full of players who STINK right now.
HMMMM! JUST WHO DID WE GET WHEN WE DUMPED TYLER CLIPPARD ? SURE WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE TO SEE HIM IN THERE INSTEAD OF CHAD GAUDIN
Is tomorrow Sunday ?
Just got home from working all afternoon.. Ugly to see that Tex had an 0-6 with 5 K’s.. I am really concerned for him in the 3rd spot and since he’s never had a slump this long. He is god awful right now and making a ton of money.. How about Swisher there with Granderson 2nd?