Game 139: Yankees vs. Orioles
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Gameday Thread on Sep 07, 2010 
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YANKEES (86-52)
Brett Gardner LF
Derek Jeter SS
Mark Teixeira 1B
Robinson Cano 2B
Nick Swisher RF
Lance Berkman DH
Jorge Posada C
Curtis Granderson CF
Ramiro Pena 3B
LHP CC Sabathia (19-5, 3.02)
Sabathia vs. Orioles
ORIOLES (52-86)
Brian Roberts 2B
Felix Pie LF
Nick Markakis RF
Ty Wigginton 1B
Adam Jones CF
Nolan Reimold DH
Craig Tatum C
Robert Andino SS
Josh Bell 3B
RHP Jake Arrieta (4-6, 5.11)
Arrieta vs. Yankees
TIME/TV: 7:05 p.m. / YES Network
UMPIRES: HP Wally Bell, 1B John Hirschbeck, 2B James Hoye, 3B Laz Diaz
WEATHER: High 70s. No real chance of rain. Little bit of wind blowing out to left field.
WELCOME BACK: This will be Baltimore shortstop Robert Andino’s first big league game of the season. He was one of their September call-ups, but he’s played in the big leagues in the past.
NOT HIS FIRST TIME: Baltimore starter Jake Arrieta made his big league debut against the Yankees in June, and he got the win. Of course, it was the Yankees first time seeing him, so it’s only natural that they couldn’t beat him.
FOUR AND O: CC Sabathia has four wins against the Orioles this season, and a win today would make him the fourth Yankee to beat the Orioles five times in one season. The last to do it was Andy Pettitte in 2003. In his career, Sabathia is 13-1 against the Orioles. Elias says Sabathia’s .929 winning percentage against the O’s is the second highest among all pitches with at least 10 starts vs. Baltimore, trailing Boston’s Jon Lester, who’s 13-0 in 16 starts.
UPDATE, 7:17 p.m.: Did anyone see this coming? Five straight batters have reached base, the Orioles have a 3-0 lead and Sabathia still hasn’t gotten an out.
UPDATE, 7:25 p.m.: All things considered, 26 pitches isn’t too bad for Sabathia. Could have been a lot worse giving the four hits, one walk and three runs. He retired three in a row to strand two runners and keep it a 3-0 game.
UPDATE, 7:34 p.m.: Yankees so far doing their best to pickup Sabathia. Cano has singled in a run and there are still two on with one out for Swisher. It’s 3-1.
UPDATE, 7:45 p.m.: I have no idea how to make my computer type the symbol, but right now Felix Pie’s name on scoreboard is Felix and then the math symbol for pi. I love it.
UPDATE, 8:02 p.m.: Two-run home run by Nolan Reimold, and now it’s 5-1 Orioles.
UPDATE, 8:32 p.m.: Sending Berkman with no outs is a risky decision, but Berkman had a great slide to avoid the tag and cut the lead to 5-2.
UPDATE, 9:01 p.m.: Off the bat, Mark Feinsand and I both thought Cano’s ball was out of here. Instead, it was caught at the wall and the Yankees are still trailing 5-2 after six innings.
UPDATE, 9:11 p.m.: Sabathia is finished after a rough start. He leaves with two on and one out in the seventh inning. He’s allowed six runs — five earned — which is his highest run total of the season.
UPDATE, 9:30 p.m.: Hey look, it’s Alex Rodriguez. He’s pinch hitting for Ramiro Pena with runners at the corners in bottom of the seventh. It’s 6-2.
UPDATE, 9:38 p.m.: In an inning that included an 8-4 fielder’s choice and a 5-6-4 fielder’s choice, the Yankees couldn’t get a run in the seventh and still trail 6-2.
Just don’t lose!
No, Doreen, you’re not the only one. Unfortunately, those that take issue with her clothing are just close-minded individuals. Venus owns her own fashion line and does a phenomenal job of advertising her work. She deserves all the credit in the world, and not to be questioned by such close-minded people! To be honest, it’s arrogant to question her tennis wardrobe. Venus should be recognized for her talents on the court, and not questioned for her wardrobe on it.
Doreen,
I agree about Venus and Nidal also looks like a “horse’s patutte”.
CR9…….
Cool it.
Nadal is beauty personified, as is Venus, and Serena!
Well, the sparkles are too much, and the fact that she has to adjust herself constantly is ridiculous. If I were an opponent I’d object because the clothing is a distraction.
If she’s going to design clothes to wear to play tennis, they should probably be more functional than flashy. If she was going for clothing to wear to pose for ads advertising tennis, they’re great.
Well I’m home safe and sound…the “wrecker” (Southern for Tow truck I guess) did their job and got me out of the middle of the road. Now gotta see what’s wrong with it.
CC throwing a gem would do a long way towards making my day better.
I agree that all 3 are wonderful tennis players.
Singleton & Kay look like they just came from a funeral.
Blake …
Glad you are OK. Welcome home
The Yankees are -400 tonight behind our big Ace.
Ridiculous!
And – I didn”t judge Venus as a tennis player – I just don’t like her clothes for this match – which are out there and she obviously wants them to be noticed.
I am not closed minded and on second reading I take great exception.
20 for CC tonight…its the O’s right the best opportunity to win the big 2-0
blake -
I don’t know anything about what happened to you today, but glad you’re home and safe.
AHH CC, AHHH CC
In a big spot they can’t let Roberts beat them espeically if 1st base is open. I have seen enough of him already.
Blake
Getting your car fixed is as painfull as having a tooth pulled.
Thanks Doreen.
If m and I agree, anyone who disagrees with us must be wrong is the way I see it.
My mom had the blues when I went away to college because I was the only girl and my grandmother told her “a son is a son until he takes a wife but a daughter is yours for the rest of her life”. Your daughter may be venturing out on her own but she’ll always know where home is.
Come on CC.
UH OH :/
wow not the best start ever for CC…..
Ugg. Not a very good beginning to the game. Bases juiced and no outs.
Doreen..
My stupid car just died in the middle of the road and I had to have it towed…nothing major, just inconvienient and a pain in the rear.
Enjoy the game folks
Good grief what an atrocious start.
Damn CC. Hopefully he can get out of this with very little damage.
thanks, pat.
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What’s going on here?????????
No one out?
Crap.
CC doing his best AJ impression?
CC picked a bad night to be human.
This looks like it could be over early.
Especially with the bats in deep freeze mode.
It’s why it was ridiculous to leave Burnett in the game yesterday.
You can’t expect CC to win every start.
I always get statistically “nervous” when someone says, “The O’s are 0-4 vs CC this year”.
After this inning CC will probably allow 2 more hits for the rest of the game. No worries.
Wow, this is about as bad as I’ve seen C.C. look to start a game. Just awful.
His command is really off. It will be at least 3 runs after this inning. Come on CC!!
Great play, Posada…
Can’t he buy an out?
This is pathetic to this minor league team. 3 runs and he doesn’t even have an out yet.
Damn it Posada catch the ball!
I am not happy and how did Posada not get the tag!! ridiculous
Well, then take great exception
I said that Venus should be judged for her talents on the court, and not her wardrobe. If you have a problem with her fashion sense, great, but nothing she wears is inappropriate. The U.S. Open has always been a place for athletes to express their fashion sense.
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We had him out at home, and per the usual, he just couldnt make the play. He had all day to catch that and make that tag. Not a good start. Luckily, we have 9 hitting innings.
posada is a disgrace.
This strike zone isn’t going to favor CC either.
Posada has to be the worst defensive catcher in baseball.
What is it like to have a good defensive catcher?
He’s got to stop the bleeding here to give the team any chance to win the game.
Posada with a passed ball and couldn’t come up with that hop. Stellar defense from the catcher so far.
Orioles always start playing the Yankees tough this time of year, they took a series at NYS last year in September and look prime to do it again.
This is the exact same outing Sabathia had last year when he had a chance at 20 victories. Maybe everyone should shut up about it.
yikes. this 20th win gets him his head. remember the tampa game last year where he was shelled going for 20th win?
finally an out….a few of those hits were like bloops in no mans land and then Posada shoulda had that out at the plate….hope the Yankees bats are alive tonight
With the way the Yanks have been hitting CC has to stop it here. Also Posada has to wake up back there.
Game over. Posada has been awful tonight. Try Moeller behind the plate tomorrow. Between 3 catchers, hopefully one of them can catch the ball.
Pull CC now and save some innings on his arm.
Can’t expect him to win every game.
Hopefully Nova shows up tomorrow.
Getting swept at home by a last place team in September would be inexcusable.
“What is it like to have a good defensive catcher?” I dont know, but I do know what it’s like to have an above average offensive catcher for over a decade
# GoldGlove9486 September 7th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
This is the exact same outing Sabathia had last year when he had a chance at 20 victories. Maybe everyone should shut up about it.
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I was about to say the same thing. He got shelled during his last start before the postseason.
Why does granderson play so deep with cc pitching? Its not like u should expect the o’s to be hitting doubles over ur head. Great pitcher, play shallow, and both those bloops are outs.
I know its too early to say it but I have felt all week that the orioles would finally get the best of CC. Hopefully the offense has been saving their runs from the past 2 games and they really bust it out tonight.
CC will limit the damage at 3 runs this inning.
This Yankee team is like night and day. If the Yankees miss the playoffs or the division title, it falls on the manager. Think of how many “throw away” games we have seen this year. The top that comes to mind was the Sunday in Tampa with A-Rod on the bench, Tex at DH, and Berkman flopping around at first base.
This Yankee team is like night and day. If the Yankees miss the playoffs or the division title, it falls on the manager. Think of how many “throw away” games we have seen this year. The top that comes to mind was the Sunday in Tampa with A-Rod on the bench, Tex at DH, and Berkman flopping around at first base.
This Yankee team is like night and day. If the Yankees miss the playoffs or the division title, it falls on the manager. Think of how many “throw away” games we have seen this year. The top that comes to mind was the Sunday in Tampa with A-Rod on the bench, Tex at DH, and Berkman flopping around at first base.
Way to go Gardy! Good job by CC to stop the bleeding.
So let’s just assume that CC doesn’t give up another hit for the rest of the game.
Can the Yankees score 4 runs?
They aren’t going to miss the playoffs.
GoldGlove9486 September 7th, 2010 at 7:23 pm
This Yankee team is like night and day. If the Yankees miss the playoffs or the division title, it falls on the manager. Think of how many “throw away” games we have seen this year. The top that comes to mind was the Sunday in Tampa with A-Rod on the bench, Tex at DH, and Berkman flopping around at first base.
here come the OMG WE ARE GOIN 2 MISS THE PLAYOFFS moron brigade
Nice job to minimize the damage by CC. With 9 innings remaining and Arietta pitching, I fully expect our team to come back. And for those that haven’t noticed, this is nothing more than Brian Roberts. He cost us yesterday, and he started this inning off as well. This guy is nothing more than a Yankee killer and a Red Sox shiller ; that’s the sole reason for his existence.
SJ44 September 7th, 2010 at 7:21 pm
Game over. Posada has been awful tonight. Try Moeller behind the plate tomorrow. Between 3 catchers, hopefully one of them can catch the ball.
Pull CC now and save some innings on his arm.
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Don’t we usually wait for the Yankees to have an at-bat first before declaring it all over?
This Yankee team is like night and day. If the Yankees miss the playoffs or the division title, it falls on the manager. Think of how many “throw away” games we have seen this year. The top that comes to mind was the Sunday in Tampa with A-Rod on the bench, Tex at DH, and Berkman flopping around at first base.
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get over it. they need rest sometimes. the team is fine without arod in the lineup so relax.
If CC doesn’t look better in the 2nd and 3rd inning I would pull him. Let Mitre and Gaudin pitch. He has thrown a lot of innings this year and if the Yanks don’t hit Arrieta they should save his arm for the down the stretch.
this is not a throw away game…i think even losing a series to Baltimore is inexcusable…I think that CC will settle down the rest of the way…I just hope the Yankees can put together some good at bats
The Yankees won’t miss the playoffs, but they might go in as the wild card.
let’s see if the Yankees can solve Arrieta this time. Pena at 3B isn’t helping, a Casey Blake type player would have been nice to haul in, but at least Cash did make up for the Chan Ho Park mistake and got Wood.
“If the Yankees miss the playoffs or the division title”
LOL For them not to make the playoffs would require a complete and utter collapse. They can sleepwalk their way to the Wild Card.
Does Gardner read the blog?
HA! He bunted
I LOVE seeing Gardy bunting for a hit!
nice bunt by Gardner, let’s see if he does more than just be a statue at 1st base with Cap’n DP up.
Yankees are currently on track to get an infinite number of hits this game
nice bunt brett, here comes a jeter special
Gardner reads the Lohud Blog?
Cmon guys, we didn’t even bat yet and there are talks of a loss already? WE lead the MLB in runs scored… remember? Also as I have mentioned before, chances are that CC will allow like 2 hits for the rest of the game. Try to stay positive
That was a nice bunt!
Wow, he can bunt.
How can they sleepwalk against Texas, Tampa Bay, Boston, and Toronto? LOOK at the schedule and our starting rotation.
Gardner took bunting lessons last night.
Roadrunner now steal 2nd before the dp.
SJ
Didn’t ever expect you to call a game over in the first.
SJ, are you ok????
Bad first inning for CC, but I think he’s going to illustrate — again — how he’s different from AJ as he can still give the team some quality innings. This game is far, far from being over.
As Garder shows that he was up late following the LoHud ‘why can’t Gardner bunt more???’ discussion.
RUN, BRETT, RUN
If the Yankees miss the playoffs or the division title, it falls on the manager.
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What are you on??? They are 8.5 games ahead of the White Sox.
i hope Brett knows that he has to steal base
I’m getting really tired of hearing Michael Kay say “Jeterian.”
after gardner’s bunt debacle yesterday, he was sure he would bunt today.
Tough to use up the bullpen tonight when you don’t know what Nova is going to give you tomorrow.
Gardner should try to figure out when Arrieta’s going to throw the changeup
How many pitches does it take for Gardner to read the pitcher? 11 or 12?
d@MM jeter can’t catch a break
If he runs earlier, he’s at third with one out. Don’t know why he’s so timid on the basepaths.
seems like Jeter should have beat that out
Alright, at least he grounded out to the right side
Let’s just pretend he sac bunted
Jeter is soooo slow. A year ago he beats that out..
GoldGlove9486 September 7th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
If he runs earlier, he’s at third with one out. Don’t know why he’s so timid on the basepaths
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If he steals all the way to third base, he probably scores on Jeter’s ground out.
just get 1 run here to get back in it. lazy deep fly is all we need here.
Nice now all I need to hear is “Robby Cano dontcha know.”
Why not send him? Pie is fumbling the ball. Cano has been a mess lately.
Jeter doesn’t have the legs he used to. That tends to happen when a players gets older…
Lets go redsox? Weird
Come on Yanks lets pick up a game.
IIOIIOIIO September 7th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
I’m getting really tired of hearing Michael Kay say “Jeterian.”
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im tired of michael kay period. how do other teams have such great broadcasters and we are stuck with this yammering chump??
It’s 3-0…..get off the bridge.
Gardner should of came home on that. You have to test the LFer.
# Frozen Rope September 7th, 2010 at 7:33 pm
IIOIIOIIO September 7th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
I’m getting really tired of hearing Michael Kay say “Jeterian.”
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im tired of michael kay period. how do other teams have such great broadcasters and we are stuck with this yammering chump??
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The Yankees have terrible announcers on both tv and radio IMO
love you Robbie….glad to see you getting your swing back
If Gardner would just steal home then it wouldn’t matter what the other batters do.
Come on, Brett, why did you wait for Cano to bat you in??? You should have already been in the dugout you slug.
3-1…..get down from the ledge..
Best swing for cano in a little while. Nice approach.
There we go, Robby
just watched game 2 of the 1995 LDS from the Essential Games of Yankee Stadium DVD pack (highly recommended) – saw a clip of Buck Showalter on the field cursing and calling Randy Johnson a “M.F” during Yankees-Mariners beanball wars. have to say, that really made me miss Buck-o.
you knew somebody was going to ground into a double play
Dammit Swish what a lazy at bat.
frozen, llollollo
In tribute to Michael’s inadequacy… from now on anytime you are about to type stupid for some reason on the blog just replace if with “Kay.” Instead of “stupid play,” it’s “kay play.”
ARRRRGH
Real nice AB and approach from Robbie….this game is far from over. If CC settles in, the Yanks will score more than 3.
# syd_cash September 7th, 2010 at 7:36 pm
you knew somebody was going to ground into a double play
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I did?
IIOIIOIIO September 7th, 2010 at 7:33 pm
# Frozen Rope September 7th, 2010 at 7:33 pm
IIOIIOIIO September 7th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
I’m getting really tired of hearing Michael Kay say “Jeterian.”
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im tired of michael kay period. how do other teams have such great broadcasters and we are stuck with this yammering chump??
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The Yankees have terrible announcers on both tv and radio IMO
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pretty much – when it’s just Flash, O’neill, and Leiter or Kenny Singleton – those guys are all good, but Kay and Georgie Girl are the worst.
again with the DPs.
Yanks have lost their work the count approach. Swisher hacks on 2-0….probably would have swung no matter where it went. Why are the Orioles winning these games? Better managing.
2-0 fastball right down the middle. If arrieta settles in the yanks could regret wasting that great opportunity.
According to the latest MLB power rankings,
Baltimore Showalters == Best Team in the Major Leagues ?
Grounding into way too many double plays in hitter’s counts.
The Yankees are 18th in the MLB for GIDP, with 40 less than the Twins (Twins have ~140, Yankees have ~100)
I didn’t know we had it so good
This team is not looking very good, especially with Jeter an automatic out
# GoldGlove9486 September 7th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
Yanks have lost their work the count approach. Swisher hacks on 2-0….probably would have swung no matter where it went. Why are the Orioles winning these games? Better managing.
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This is a very Kay thing to say
Either he’s an impostor, or he was taken over by seed pods, but the SJ44 we all know would never … NEVER … declare a baseball game with C.C. Sabathia pitching, over in the first inning!
cc has covered the offense so much this year, it is time for the offense to cover him and get the lead back for him…
Alright enough bashing of Jeter! We all know he is not having his normal season. Let’s wait till the end of the season and then judge. He’s our man and let’s give him our support.
sad 2 and 0 and swisher rolled over a pitch
C.C. won’t let us down. One bad inning… forget about it.
# Pepitone September 7th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Either he’s an impostor, or he was taken over by seed pods, but the SJ44 we all know would never … NEVER … declare a baseball game with C.C. Sabathia pitching, over in the first inning!
He was complaining all yesterday, which was shocking.
At this rate, the bullpen will have to start every game in the post season.
Settle in CC!
That is why I didn’t want Swish batting 2nd since he just came back and it’s expected that he will be rusty.
llollollollo
lol it’s in effect.
At least they got one back.
CR9 -
Enough already. You push your BS here on a nightly basis and I have to get crap from you because I had the nerve to criticize Venus Williams fashion sense????? You have a nerve, you know that?
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I missed the rest of the bottom of the first – I had to take care of some things – did Swisher hit into a DP?
Imagine if SJ44 were a major league manager. You would need 40 relievers because SJ calls for every pitcher to be pulled if they give up a couple of runs early.
The fact that he wanted CC pulled so that they could save his arm after 1 inning is disgraceful.
Why couldn’t Roberts come off the dl after the Yankees series. Or the Yanks just learn how to pitch to him.
Sabathia doesn’t have that mid to upper 90s velocity lately. He can still be very effective without it, its just easier when its there. Hopefully his velo trends a little higher nearing playoff time.
Faiaz —– I see your girlfriend waitress behind the Yankee dugout. She’s pretty HOT.
I know CC will settle down, but this team has gotta stop hitting into DP’s. Seems like every situation with less than two outs and there’s a DP. Big rally killer! Arod will probably make an appearance at some point.
Faiaz September 7th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
llollollollo
lol it’s in effect
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Nah SJ44′s words usually make sense when it’s regarding baseball. I’m just gonna assume that was someone else.
Truth is, the only thing I saw in the bottom of the first was Cano’s hit and rbi. Gardner bunted? Great!
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
# Captain Clutch September 7th, 2010 at 7:41 pm
Why couldn’t Roberts come off the dl after the Yankees series. Or the Yanks just learn how to pitch to him.
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He’s been back over a month now.
how can someone take SJ names without hacking into his account?
jack
She is something else man.
Faiaz,
That was the real SJ44.
# Doreen September 7th, 2010 at 7:43 pm
Truth is, the only thing I saw in the bottom of the first was Cano’s hit and rbi. Gardner bunted? Great!
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Gardner’s bunt made me laugh out loud.
just turn on the game, already 1-3?!
Posada will drive you crazy. Why did he not throw his mask away in order to receive Granderson’s throw. A rookie knows the mask will obstruct your vision. Maybe he thought he was going to get spiked in the face.
CC is going to have to get by on his off speed stuff tonight. The fastball command is just not there, so far. When CC does actually struggle that seems to be the problem.
2-0 sox
ray,
Just doesn’t make sense because he is usually one of the people that tells the others to stop panicking when they start complaining when we are losing early in the game.
MPF Lance Berkman = Awesome
Swings have been good against this guy. More runs coming, hopefully.
Good job Berkman. Just have to stay out of the dp’s.
Berkman’s getting hot
I approve
jobatips,
You are lucky you didn’t have to watch the top of the 1st… U-G-L-Y. But it’s OK, C.C. will dominate till he is pulled in the 7th or something. Only one bad inning.
Captain Clutch September 7th, 2010 at 7:49 pm
Good job Berkman. Just have to stay out of the dp’s
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You were saying?
look at that another double play…they really better shake this annoying habit come playoff time
thanks jorge
you give balti a run, then hit into a weak dp.
great job jorge
REALLY!?!?!
No way.
Absolutely no way.
This is going to be one of those games in which Jorge is deep in the LoHud doghouse until he lashes a big double or homer.
Inexcusable to hit into that many double plays.
Brutal. Keep letting big league pitchers off the hook and it will prob end up costing you.
Damn Posada. Arrieta seems very hittable but he was up there hacking away. When the Yanks are losing or lose you usually see 2 or 3 dps.
Another rookie pitcher having his way with the Yankees. Somehow, the Red Sox still have a better lineup and hit bombs all over the place. Unreal.
Geez, every time Jeter and Posada are up, a double play seems likely.
# GoldGlove9486 September 7th, 2010 at 7:51 pm
Another rookie pitcher having his way with the Yankees. Somehow, the Red Sox still have a better lineup and hit bombs all over the place. Unreal.
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Easy, child.
Whenever I get mad at Posada, I think about his wife and I get the respect back for him. The fact that he has done what he has done for the team over the last decade has a little to do with it also… just a tad.
Arrieta is not impressive and good for 5-6 runs. But no more dp’s!!
Jorge has been struggling a bit at the plate lately. He looked pretty bad against Matusz yesterday.
The DP’s have piled up since the ASB and when this team is in deep freeze mode, they hit into them almost every inning.
They can’t expect Sabathia to have to hit and pitch.
Pretty poor effort so far against a kid pitcher who shouldn’t be a GB machine against this lineup.
“the Red Sox still have a better lineup and hit bombs all over the place. Unreal.”????????
Kay comment.
i hope cc is still in the game when the yankees catch up.
I really want Jeter at the bottom of the order. Sorry if that’s taboo, but he kills so many rallies.
Another rookie pitcher having his way with the Yankees. Somehow, the Red Sox still have a better lineup and hit bombs all over the place. Unreal.
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The same red sox who are 10 games back?? You guys are funny when you give up in the yanks.. It will be funny when the yanks take the lead In this game
Somehow the Yankees have scored more runs than the Red Sox this year. Unbelievable but true.
Still, if cc can keep these guys at 3, which is a very real possibility… Yanks can come back against arrieta. The big guy has to shut down the o’s from here on out.
Come on CC, shut down this lineup and Yankee bats, PLEASE WAKE UP. (I typed in caps so they might hear!)
# Faiaz September 7th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
“the Red Sox still have a better lineup and hit bombs all over the place. Unreal.”????????
Kay comment.
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Very, very Kay.
LOL! So you have the right to criticize Matt anytime he tries to engage others in discussion, but you cant take it when others criticize your arrogance. Makes sense
Also, C.C. isn’t as consistent as Clay Buchholtz.
Goldglove is a moron or red sox troll or some combo of that. Just ignore him
# YankFanCA September 7th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
I really want Jeter at the bottom of the order. Sorry if that’s taboo, but he kills so many rallies.
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I don’t know anything about “killing rallies,” but Jeter probably should be batting 8 or 9. That said, this will not happen anytime in the near future.
Andy in game 2. There you go mickster!
True story, the Yankees have as many hits as the Orioles despite having scored less runs and displaying such a poor effort.
Ty Wigginton is like Lou Gehrig. Diving all over the field and making these plays. We didn’t need him as a backup…we’ve got Ramiro Pena.
Yeah, the mighty Red Sox are a great team. A great team that will be playing golf come October.
Another 4 days of spit and glue after CC.
yummy
Faiaz -
What are you saying? Because Jorge has an attractive wife you find respect for him? Some nights I can’t believe the garbage I read here.
Jorge is going to run up to the booth and punch Kay in the face.
They have to throw Wigginton more off speed pitches. He can only hit fastballs.
… the shirt
# Doreen September 7th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
Faiaz -
What are you saying? Because Jorge has an attractive wife you find respect for him? Some nights I can’t believe the garbage I read here.
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Jeez, I think he was kidding around.
unbelievable. cc gets to 19 wins, then he gets rocked
yikes….
GoldGlove — You are the only rectum to ever combine Wigginton and Gehrig in the same sentence. Congrats on the most insane analogy ever.
And ballgame. Go Red Sox a tleast tonight.
You’re kidding me
That ball went a really long way
not good for CC’s era….he’s going to have to pitch shutouts in his next 3 starts prolly to win the Cy Young…even if he wins like 23 games they prolly still won’t give it to him with an above 3 era
Not CC’s night, I guess…
Posada sucks.
Jeter sucks.
CC sucks tonight.
Granderson sucks.
Girardi sucks.
Cashman sucks.
That pretty much sums up the content on the LoHud blog the past two nights. Actually, it’s the LoHud blog that has no freaking clue.
Um – what is going on with CC tonight? I can only “watch” on gameday and this is unbelievable!
Sox are now tied at 2.
My positivity scale just dropped drastically but it is still above 5. Cmon yall, lets not get all negative. I know that this should not happen with “ZZ” but hey the Rays are losing also
I hope Nova can get this team out tomorrow.
Get CC out of there and save some wear and tear on his arm.
The offense is too busy hitting into DP’s.
No reason to burn Sabathia anymore tonight.
Well this isn’t going very well.
That one to a scrub was right down the middle and inexcusable. CC pulling an AJ, also a VazQ, and lately a Hughsie!
I don’t think cc has lost at home in like over a year. I guess it has to happen sometime. Maybe its tonite. The offense could still bail him out, though.
More 2 out bs. I would take CC out and let Mitre start the next inning.
I’m not looking forward to this long road trip.
doreen
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Oh well. So CC just doesnt have it tonight. No big deal. Maybe our offense will pick up CC like he has done countless times. If not, it’s just one game.
let’s go yankees!!!!
SJ44 September 7th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
I hope Nova can get this team out tomorrow.
Get CC out of there and save some wear and tear on his arm.
The offense is too busy hitting into DP’s.
No reason to burn Sabathia anymore tonight.
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Come on. Who is this really?
There is no longer a need to follow the Red Sox, so they feel the need to follow the leader. Even if they heckle, they come to the leader board.
Ditching the zero’s and bloggin with the hero’s.
cc will go at least 5 tonight..
He just isn’t competing out there. oh wait, maybe CC is competing with AJ for who can be the worst
CC leading by 1.
Kay on the show 24 coming to an end… “well there’s a shorter version called 12″ Really Kay? CMON you bobblehead.
i swear when the Yanks are behind they just mail it in swinging at the first pitch and what not….
First attempt at 20 wins problematic. Not over yet, however.
Apparently YES is mailing it in with its most inane text poll ever?
Rays and Sox are tied at 2.
Still early. Four runs can be made up in a hurry.
Everyone, that is the REAL SJ44. You guys must have never seen SJ comment when the Yankees are losing early.
So, wh are you idiots blaming for the pitching tonight? Regardless of what Posada did or didn’t do, those 3 runs in the first were scoring, Also, Posada is well down the list of GIDP with 5. And Swisher is only 4th with 10.
Wigginton playing 1st base like its game 7 of the world series.
This is going to be a long night. We can score and get back in it. Venus is in the semi’s.
The MASN announcers are talking like they have a WS champion here. Every play is “spectacular!” I guess it is after looking at crap for most of the year.
The ballon will pop soon enough.
you gotta love that Berkman signing….he has proven to be SOME GOOD HITTER, huh ?…..Good thing he doesn’t stink it up like Johnson….uh, wait a minute….
Hard hit balls right at people.
Nick in SF -
what’s the poll?
We’re flipping to tennis.
Venus won in straight sets, but it was a really, really good match.
# BJK September 7th, 2010 at 8:01 pm
SJ44 September 7th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
I hope Nova can get this team out tomorrow.
Get CC out of there and save some wear and tear on his arm.
The offense is too busy hitting into DP’s.
No reason to burn Sabathia anymore tonight.
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Come on. Who is this really?
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He’s right. CC doesn’t have it tonight. That’s clear. Why would you have him go out and waste innings he could save for later when the offense has hit in to 2 DPs in 3 innings, and haven’t had a good, solid hit off this kid yet? Throw in towel, and try again tomorrow.
god forbit this team helps cc for once.
CC is entitled to an off night.
Unfortunately, you can’t expect him, or any one player, to carry an entire team.
The other four guys in the rotation have to be better than awful and the offense has to have less deep freeze moments.
It can’t be all on CC every night.
Don, Berkman’s actually pretty good right now
way to take some pitches.
Don Vito A. Bellamo September 7th, 2010 at 8:05 pm
you gotta love that Berkman signing….he has proven to be SOME GOOD HITTER, huh ?…..Good thing he doesn’t stink it up like Johnson….uh, wait a minute….
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Weird thing to post after the guy gets a hit.
Don Vito A. Bellamo September 7th, 2010 at 8:05 pm
you gotta love that Berkman signing….he has proven to be SOME GOOD HITTER, huh ?…..Good thing he doesn’t stink it up like Johnson….uh, wait a minute…
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What in the hell are you talking about?
That would’ve been a DP if anyone was on base
Pathetic display by the Yanks tonight.
Time to wake up again guys….The O’s looked up for the game. The Yankees look half asleep. Too many day games, richboys? Man up and win it.
Doreen
Which show will you miss the most 1)24 2)law and order 3)lost
So i guess CC’s wife didn’t make dinner tonight – since he attributed his success at YS to her cooking……curse you amber!!!
CC put up a real stinker last year too for his first (and only) shot at win # 20.
Gehrig27 September 7th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Time to wake up again guys….The O’s looked up for the game. The Yankees look half asleep. Too many day games, richboys? Man up and win it.
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Richboys. Good one.
Good thing Girardi showed so much faith in AJ yesterday.
Can’t assume CC is going to win every night out.
@Doreen: The text poll was asking which TV show you will miss the most, 24, Law & Order, or L
ST.
I am not kidding.
Uhh Fat Elvis has actually been doing pretty good… how is he not doing better than Johnson?
I guess we are looking at another long slump for the lineup. They need to work the pitcher more instead of making another 5 era pitcher make it look easy.
I don’t think I can miss any of those shows, because I never watched them in the first place.
The MASN announcers said the croud is stunned.
“How dare the Orioles treat our potntial 20 game winner this way…hahahah”
Laugh it up. It’s lonely at the bottom…isn’t it?
SJ44 September 7th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
CC is entitled to an off night.
Unfortunately, you can’t expect him, or any one player, to carry an entire team.
The other four guys in the rotation have to be better than awful and the offense has to have less deep freeze moments.
It can’t be all on CC every night.
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Yeah, well everyone else can’t be blamed for his pitching tonight, no matter what anyone says. He’s throwing the pitches that the hitters are tattooing.
It is no coincidence that CC is laying an egg AT HOME against the worst team in the AL, he DOES have the 20 games on his mind, I don’t care WHAT he says….Forget the recent win streak, if they get swept by the O’s at home, then they are in some trouble with the schedule they have coming up. Granted, Tampa has a tough road, too….but these games they have to win, if they want to win the AL East, plain and simple !
4 runs, they should be able to come back
Law and Order will be in reruns for the rest of our lives.
It’s not so much that losing tonight would be lousy . . . it’s what the next 4 games have in store. This team needs to score 7+ runs when CC is not on the mound.
We need Bubby Crosby at first base for these games…..
The steroid boy is gittin’ some hits.
ChokeXOnXFailure September 7th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
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He’s right. CC doesn’t have it tonight. That’s clear. Why would you have him go out and waste innings he could save for later when the offense has hit in to 2 DPs in 3 innings, and haven’t had a good, solid hit off this kid yet? Throw in towel, and try again tomorrow.
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Because it’s not wasting innings. If he’s not pitching well enough to stay in the game, then fine, pull him. But otherwise, he’s the ace and its his job to keep the team in the game.
It’s the 4th inning. Against the Orioles. I can’t believe after every thing we’ve seen from this team over the past couple of years, you’re ready to surrender in the 4th inning to the Orioles.
That’s sad.
http://stats.masslive.com/mlb/.....p?rank=029
I feel better now. Miguel Cabrera, probably the best hitter in AL has only hit into 3 DP’s less than Jeter and one more than Cano! lol
Tomorrow’s text poll: what’s your favorite Jewish holiday?
I kinda like LOST for all of its Yankees/Redsox ties.
This is not the time for the Yankees to start playing like the Orioles, and the Orioles to start playing like the Yankees.
Come on Yankees, play like World Champions!
Christmas?
I don’t understand the panic in here when things go a little wrong. If the yankees lose tonight, whether its 15-1 or 6-5, all of us will still wake up tomorrow. The yankees will still have the best record in baseball and people are all slowly getting healthy. No team has proven they are better than the yankees this year, so let’s see what happens come playoff time and just be happy they have a shot.
Problem is though, CC has pitched great in 90% of his starts this year.
Burnett has been awful for virtually the entire season. As has Vazquez.
That makes CC’s starts “must win” all the time and that’s tough for any pitcher to continue to do.
He was due to have an off night.
You would like to see the other guys in the rotation pick up CC for once.
The Yanks have to play the AAA teams with the same energy that they have against the good teams. They were dead against the Royals and now the Orioles. We know the dreadful teams play the Yanks like it’s the world series but they have to match that. Obviously the pitching hasn’t been good but there is no excuse for the lineup not hitting 5 era pitchers.
Well in all fairness… coming up with a text poll for every YES is sort of hard… I suppose. Still, it could have been baseball related at least.
every YES game* sorry
-Clutch
Exactly…
Those getting on CC are lost. He has been great, but you expect him to win EVERY game. He is human.
3-1 game, 2 runners on, the pitcher falls behind 2-0 with two pitches that are nowhere close to home plate.
Young pitcher on the mound in Yankee Stadium, he’s probably rattled since he’s starting to get hit around and he doesn’t know where the ball is going.
Clearly you should take a pitch and make him prove he can throw a strike, since he may be on the verge of really opening up the inning?
Nope, swing at anything close and guess what, he got lucky and threw his only good pitch of the inning and you GIDP.
Wonder why the Yankees aren’t hitting these no name garbage rookie pitchers? At bats like the one I just described. These pitchers are on the verge of getting themselves in serious trouble every night and the Yankees just can’t stop themselves from beating themselves.
nice at bat Texeria
I’m not saying that Sabathia was due to have a bad game once in a while. It’s not not everyone elses fault when he does.
We should treat this game from CC as we treat Rivera when he blows a save.
How dare this piece of human garbage strike out Mark…
Nick in SF——–Purim is my favorite.
offense doesnt look eager to help cc out at all.
Faiaz -
I apologize.
At 5-1 the lineup has officially mailed this one in. No effort from them at all what so ever.
Really, guys?
6 pitch inning to our 3-4-5 hitters…
what was that – a 5 pitch inning? not going to get it done
tell me that wasn’t a lazy ass inning…..(I’m not really mad at CC…how can you be he’s been amazing)…but this will be the second straight game of poor hitting by the Yankees
I’m not going to rant and rave or anything, but it would have been nice for the Yankees to make the kid work a little more than inning.
5 pitches? you have to be kidding.
Pathetic inning. One team has dinner plans.
that*
Faiaz September 7th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
We should treat this game from CC as we treat Rivera when he blows a save.
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You mean we should declare him in decline and start wondering who his replacement will be next year?
6 pitch inning. Solid effort.
They are just wasting Sabathia in this game.
The offense is in full deep freeze mode.
Take him out and give him a break for once.
It will save some bullets for his next starts.
Given the state of the offense, any break you can give Sabathia will help him the rest of the year.
Faiaz -
That was the poll question? Okay…….. I guess YES is mailing it in tonight.
So many people on here just can’t handle it when the yankees play a bad game. Too bad no team in the history of sports was ever perfect. Its honestly disgusting to talk about a team that has the best record in the game the way some of u do.
Teams not playing well at all the last few games. Too bad these games count and are crucial. Starting pitching has had a pretty bad week. We’ll see how the bats do the rest of the game, but it’s not looking good at the moment.
All three hitters got themselves out on balls out of the strike zone. Hell Teix’s SO was in the dirt, Cano reached out on a terrible pitch and Swisher, oy. Six pitches. Totally brain dead. Slap some guy upside the head. Poor Joe, he must be sizzling inside.
# theREALkevin September 7th, 2010 at 8:22 pm
So many people on here just can’t handle it when the yankees play a bad game. Too bad no team in the history of sports was ever perfect. Its honestly disgusting to talk about a team that has the best record in the game the way some of u do.
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BUT WHAT IF WE MISS THE PLAYOFFS!!!
BJK
LOL I had that one coming but of course I was meaning that we have to understand that they are both human. Humans that are extremely skilled when it comes to pitching, but still human.
Arrieta doesn’t have garbage stuff, but he is a garbage pitcher because he has no ability to make use of it. He has walked more batters than he has struck out and has allowed opponents to hit .280 against him this season, presumably because he does not know where the ball is going.
Yet the Yankees have allowed this pitcher to easily make his way through 4 innings on 44 pitches with NO WALKS. Arrietta has walked about 4.5 batters per 9, and the Yankees have not drawn a single walk off of him.
When you refuse to take some pitches when you are facing a guy you haven’t seen much of, what do you expect the results to be?
TB on the verge of blowing it open in Boston
Girardi did a terrible job in not giving Cano off days. I know he got a hit earlier but he has looked like he is sleeping out there the last couple of days. For the hitting coach to say he is completely worn out from playing everyday you know the manager was wrong. Since when does age determine that you don’t need off days? Unreal…
I don’t like that the Yankees are losing, but I cannot work up any amount of “upset” with CC. None whatsoever.
The offense has to do something. There’s innings left.
The problem is that despite some middlin pitching the NYY should be able to put some runs on the board against the very ordinary pitching of the Orioles. The last two days the offence has been AWOL.
It doesn’t matter much if this team reaches the post season because they are flawed. The starting pitching beyond CC and possibly Andy is a mess. The offence despite the great statistics is very much hit and miss. Will they be able to pitch and hit against the best teams when they can’t beat a team like the Orioles when they need to? This is not 2009.
Sure things can change but the question is will they.
Kay is talking about what A-rod is eating now? MUTE.
# IIOIIOIIO September 7th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
# theREALkevin September 7th, 2010 at 8:22 pm
So many people on here just can’t handle it when the yankees play a bad game. Too bad no team in the history of sports was ever perfect. Its honestly disgusting to talk about a team that has the best record in the game the way some of u do.
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BUT WHAT IF WE MISS THE PLAYOFFS!!!
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If the Yankees go 12-12 over their last 24 games, the S*x would have to go 22-2. Not going to happen.
And if the Yankees do play worse than 12-12? Still nearly impossible for the S*x to catch them. Breath. It’s not the end of the world.
I hope Matt isn’t watching the Rays game. Matsuzaka just loaded the bases with 2 walks and an error and then walked in a run and then Jaso struck out swinging on 3 pitches.
According to the Jewish calendar, AJ Burnett will be a Yankee until the year 5,774!
The bad game is not the issue.
CC is entitled to a bad game.
Losing a home series to Baltimore at this stage of the season, isn’t good.
Giving away AB’s the way they are tonight isn’t good.
Staying with Burnett too long yesterday to throw away a game under the assumption CC would win today is just foolish.
It’s September. You can’t play like this in September and excuse it.
It’s a poor effort and they now need a rookie to have to win tomorrow, and have to carry a dead offense, in order to not get swept by the Orioles.
That’s not good.
Nick in SF -
Thanks.
Usually the questions have at least a marginal connection to baseball, though most are pretty lame anyway.
“Given the state of the offense, any break you can give Sabathia will help him the rest of the year.”
I agree, but I don’t think Girardi does.
Better hope that the Yankees offense that shows up come October is the one we saw last week and not the one we saw this one.
This team is so inconsistent, and it’s very scary. Home/Road splits especially make it even more important for them to win the division and pick up homefield advantage, which is why games like tonight and yesterday hurt even more against a team like Baltimore.
If the offense does not show up come October, this team may not have good enough starting pitching to win it all unless someone beyond CC and Pettitte steps it up.
# Rob B September 7th, 2010 at 8:26 pm
# IIOIIOIIO September 7th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
# theREALkevin September 7th, 2010 at 8:22 pm
So many people on here just can’t handle it when the yankees play a bad game. Too bad no team in the history of sports was ever perfect. Its honestly disgusting to talk about a team that has the best record in the game the way some of u do.
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If the Yankees go 12-12 over their last 24 games, the S*x would have to go 22-2. Not going to happen.
And if the Yankees do play worse than 12-12? Still nearly impossible for the S*x to catch them. Breath. It’s not the end of the world.
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Dude. I was kidding.
Time to turn it up. Kick it.
Let’s giddy up.
According to the Christian calendar, AJ should be thrown to the lions any day now.
Is Remy as annoying as Kay?
i actually like remy
WHOOOOOO HOOOOOOO!!!!
hopefully the Yankees will see more pitches in this inning…….either way its lame to lose a series to Baltimore…I wonder when the last time that even happened
Remy is a cheese best served with warm turd.
Posada no more dp’s!!!
What are you talking about Jerkface?
He got ahead of Jaso and threw him another strike that he fouled off. Arrietta was behind Swisher on 2-0 and had shown no ability to throw strikes in the game.
If you are going to make such ridiculous black and white comparisons in your weak attempt to attack me, you’re going to look like a fool.
Matsuzaka is a veteran pitcher who at any moment can totally lose it or totally find it. Arrieta is a young pitcher who can probably get rattled and lose control of the game. There’s a significant difference.
comet September 7th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
The problem is that despite some middlin pitching the NYY should be able to put some runs on the board against the very ordinary pitching of the Orioles. The last two days the offence has been AWOL.
It doesn’t matter much if this team reaches the post season because they are flawed. The starting pitching beyond CC and possibly Andy is a mess. The offence despite the great statistics is very much hit and miss. Will they be able to pitch and hit against the best teams when they can’t beat a team like the Orioles when they need to? This is not 2009.
Sure things can change but the question is will they.
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Every team is flawed. If it were possible to be perfect, there’d be no reason to play the games.
Teams get hot and cold. The season is a marathon, not a sprint.
Once it’s playoff time, it’s usually the hottest team that wins.
So get to the playoffs, and then hope we’re playing our best baseball come October.
Ready for another DP?
llollollollo
They should have an official “sarcasm font.” I guess the CAPS on is not enough of a sign for a statement to be sarcastic.
So who finishes with a higher average: Jeter or Berkman?
ya see, what is THAT ?…Berkman stinks ! ( it is called the Reverse SIKE, folks ! )
Stop looking at just the yankees. Face it- every team is flawed. And honestly none of us really know what’s gunna happen in the playoffs, so what’s the use complaining? No other team has stepped up and proven they’re obviously better than the new york yankees. And how can you ignore all their playoff experience? Just see what happens and know they have at least as good a shot as any other team, if not better.
Posada has one job in this at-bat: don’t disappoint Matt.
SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH to the JOPO haters.
What a slide by Berkman to end up safe at home plate, but why in the world are you sending him down 4 runs?
IIOIIOIIO:
After posting, I second guessed myself and thought that you probably were kidding. You usually aren’t one of the doomsday type posters. Sorry for jumping to conclusions too early.
YEAH! A fair call! Why send him home with nobody out! But we got a fair call!!!!!!!!!!
There we go
Lance looked like he was running up a steep hill
FAT ELVIS with the hustle!!!
I just get home from playing golf and I was shocked to see the yanks losing 5-1 especially with cc on the hill. Every time he sniffs 20 wins he coughs one up. But I can’t get on the big guy. Thats why AJ needed to shut the o’s down yesterday.
whew that was close…should you have really been sending him down 4 runs!!!!
“In the backdoor” says Singy. LOL! The backdoor!
Berkman was sloshing the gas tank to squeeze out the last drop of fuel.
and Granderson can’t hit his way out of a paper bag !
Berkman is lucky he wasn’t out at the plate. What wheels he has lol
Great slide by Elvis
Puma getting it done… catlike slide.
Solid base hit and we’re only 2 out
Or we can just witness another GIDP
we should at least get one more run this inning
Matt, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Strike 1 was high and away, probably a gift call. Strike 2 was even higher and likely a ball if Jaso doesn’t swing because the umpire isnt giving anything to a guy who just walked 3 out of the last 4. And the pitch he swung through was a foot off the plate.
And I wasn’t making any kind of comparison, just that you’d have written a novel about that AB if the Rays were your team.
Just getting in but I was listening to the game(s) on the radio and a thought crossed my mind regarding CC’s outing. Obviously the man is entitiled to pitch a not-so-great game. It happens to every pitcher. But what I thought about was the fact that he was going after number 20, something he has never achieved in his pitching career and it made me wonder whether that affected his outing at all.
For those who remember the pain of watching Clemens trying to win number 300 (not quite the same thing, but still an achievement for him), it was just a horrible experience watching the Yankeers lose game after game that Clemens started – until he managed to get #300. Unequivocally he was dealing with major jitters and it showed. I’m just wondering if it’s possible that #20 was playing with CC when he started the game. It would be certainly understandable if that were the case.
2-0 and Granderson swings at that garbage. Where is the patience??!?!
Why are they swinging like they are behind in the count? You’re up 2-0. Wait for your pitch.
PH for Pena here.
# Faiaz September 7th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
llollollollo
They should have an official “sarcasm font.” I guess the CAPS on is not enough of a sign for a statement to be sarcastic.
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It must be the absolute insanity of some posters that ruins sarcasm for the rest of us.
Has to move the runner over there
WHOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!!!
like THAT was a strike…come on !
And Matsuzaka does not ‘lose it and find it’ , he is perpetually lost, just depends on if you wanna swing at his garbage or not.
WTH ???? what plate is this ump looking at ?
both were way outside.
Apparently, a strike for Arrieta is anything from batter’s box to batter’s box.
If the pitch locations in Gameday are any where close to accurate, this umpire needs to be fired.
While rounding 3rd, Berkman started to run like Enrique Wilson did on that playoff game against us in 97. He also scored unfortunately.
WHOOOOOOO HOOOOO!!!!!
Rob B September 7th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
IIOIIOIIO:
After posting, I second guessed myself and thought that you probably were kidding. You usually aren’t one of the doomsday type posters. Sorry for jumping to conclusions too early
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Yeah, it’s not your fault. Like I said, it’s the insane musings of those “doomsday” posters that really ruins sarcasm for the rest of us. No need for apologies!
Considering the poor outings by C.C.,
C.B. can lock up the Cy Young award tomorrow against the Rays.
No?
The first pitch was definitely a strike, the second one was borderline and down in the count he can’t afford to be as patient. Strike 3 that he swung through was a product of the count, you have to be defensive when you are down 0-2.
The entire point is that when you are behind in the count, it’s a totally different approach than when you are ahead. When the pitcher gets ahead of you, you have to expand the zone sometimes to swing at pitches you normally wouldn’t, and when he’s way behind you it’s not a situation in which you are under much pressure to swing.
When the pitcher is way behind in the count, you can take some pitches and let him get himself in trouble. When he is ahead 0-1 or 0-2, you lose that luxury. I have no problem with a guy striking out if the pitcher gets ahead of him, but when he falls behind and gets himself out that’s frustrating.
The strike zone for this putz is not the same as CC’S
at least Pena is making this guy throw pitches
lame job of no one being able to get the runner over on outs….
for all the times SJ b!tches at posters here who complain, he sure has done a 180 tonight. Its depressing to watch
well it’s a bit more of a ballgame if Gardy can find a gap !
When this offense struggles, it’s when guys expand the zone.
Aside from Gardner, it seems the entire lineup expands the zone at the same time this year.
We have seen it quite a bit again the past three days.
That’s a departure from previous years when the entire lineup was more patient.
I write this as Pena chases a ball in the dirt to meekly pop out.
It’s why the offense has been inconsistent all year.
Yankees are last in the American League at advancing runners from 2nd base with 0 outs.
Have to be able to manufacture runs if you expect to chip away and rally in these kinds of games. That’s a huge run out at second base, and if they let Arrieta off the hook they are going to most likely regret it big time later on in the contest.
They need to score Posada from 2nd base. 2 very poor at bats with a runner on 2nd and no one out.
Important duck on the pond right now
What is the pitch count for the “Miracle Worker?”
This is September, and not June, or even August.
This is not the time to have “problems” or “struggles.”
This is the time to fine tune the machine for the second season.
Losing happens, but losing to the worst team in the AL, and the way they are losing, is worrisome.
I like Gardner. I really do. But some of the pitches he lets go by him….
Like the 0-2 pitch after his failed bunt attempts (straight fastball right down the middle).
Like that 1-2 pitch there in that AB (hanging curveball)
Arreola walk on water before the game too? Unreal. Is the ump his lover?
The first pitch was definitely a strike, the second one was borderline and down in the count he can’t afford to be as patient.
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Matt you’re the king of hindsight. 0-1 is not down in the count. There is no incentive to swing 0-1 unless you want to. 0-1 becomes 1-1 becomes 2-1. You should be taking rips 0-1 where you feel good.
Face it, Jaso had a bad AB and you’d kill him if he did it on the yankees.
Matt September 7th, 2010 at 8:38 pm
Yankees are last in the American League at advancing runners from 2nd base with 0 outs.
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Source?
cc has 2 innings tops
and the yankees need to take the lead for him so we dont have to hear about cc and his problems getting to 20
I AM a Source.
That was a total failure of an inning offensively.
Very few hitters in this lineup seem to be content doing the little things that are necessary to manufacture runs. When you watch the approach that hitters in this lineup take, it is no surprise that the Yankees rank dead last in the American League at advancing runners from 2nd base with 0 outs.
That is a potentially huge run in this game, because the Yankees could very well hit a home run or two and get right back in this. How many times do we see it where they lose by 1 or 2 runs because they have terrible at bats in situations like we saw last inning?
When this team does not hit home runs, it feels like the offense disappears completely. Their numbers are good, but they are inconsistent and it very well has the potential to burn them big time this year. When they do not hit home runs with runners on base, they look very lost up there.
Showalter show up with a bag of peds and cash for umpire bribes?
Who would have thought in March that on September 8, Ivan Nova would be starting a game to keep the Yankees in sole possession of first place?
As John Sterling would say, “You can’t predict baseball”.
Why are they chasing so many pitches??? Arrieta has garbage and they are up there hacking away at anything they see. When this lineup is cold they are absolutely dreadful. I don’t know why Granderson is swinging at ball 3 when he is up in the count 2-0. Unreal..
Tampa just lost a series to the Orioles also. The Orioles are 19-13 under Showalter. So they are really not as bad as the last time we faced them. Regardless, we should not be losing this game and hopefully we won’t.
Rob,
http://www.baseball-reference......ting.shtml
They also rank 9 out of 14 in productive outs.
Only 2 in left? Come on! Everyone time someone hits it up their, they claim they never seen it before.
A-Rod went 2nd deck 3 times. Werth went 2nd deck. Jesus Christ.
The next two best teams in terms of advancing runners from 2nd base with 0 outs are Seattle and Cleveland.
“i think even losing a series to Baltimore is inexcusable”
Seriously? And why is that? Number one, these are no longer your mother’s Orioles; number two, this is the time of year that teams not in contention typically play spoiler; number three, the Rays just lost a series to Baltimore.
That’s not inexcusable in the least. Any team can win on any day. In case you haven’t been paying attention, Showalter has turned the Orioles around, the Orioles who went into the season with the players to get the job done, by the way.
Game isn’t over yet.
Win need more runs to win this game. If not we won’t win.
Yea, I think that’s right.
Pena has real soft hands
League average is 41%, Yankees are 35%. Yankees in bottom of the league, but Red Sox and Rays are also in the bottom half. Angels and Royals are at the top, so its dubious how effective moving runners is in terms of scoring runs!
cc is a fighter. he has settled in and may even get out there for the 7th.
Trisha,
You typed up almost exactly what I just did but longer. Maybe I had you all wrong and we can get along… sorry for whatever the other day
The Yankees have scored 5 runs in 14 innings against the worst pitching staff in the American League.
It doesn’t matter whose Orioles they are, it’s hard to win any games in which you score a combined 5 runs. When you combine it with the fact that their pitching is terrible, it makes it even more unacceptable.
Its painfully obvious that some posters here simply cannot look at the big picture.
Do they keep a stat that shows how the Yankees relate to the rest of the league in wins and losses?
Nothing Over until We say it’s Over!
We win this….we win this NOW!
I can smell it. Can you? It’s in the air…it’s called a Yankee Victory.
BJK:
“Every team is flawed. If it were possible to be perfect, there’d be no reason to play the games.
Teams get hot and cold. The season is a marathon, not a sprint.
Once it’s playoff time, it’s usually the hottest team that wins.
So get to the playoffs, and then hope we’re playing our best baseball come October.”
You are right of course but some are more flawed than others. Last year’s team had fewer flaws than this years IMO. What you are talking about is getting lucky. Any team as you say can get lucky. Last years team not only got lucky but they made their own luck. Can this years version do that or do they have to depend on luck?
Yankees are very good at scoring runners on 3rd with less than 2 outs. Only the orioles, angels, royals, and white sox are better.
# Nick in SF September 7th, 2010 at 8:47 pm
Do they keep a stat that shows how the Yankees relate to the rest of the league in wins and losses?
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What are you, insane?
Yankees also lead the league in taking the platoon advantage. And are near the top in executing sacrifice bunts.
“Losing happens, but losing to the worst team in the AL, and the way they are losing, is worrisome.”
Pep – are you worried for the Rays too? They just lost a series to the Orioles.
I think you guys may be underestimating the talent on the team. Time to forget their record under Tremblay and look at who they are under Showalter. They had the talent all along.
Having said that, if you want to complain about the way the Yankees have been playing, the Orioles notwithstanding, that’s a different thing altogether. Just don’t let the Orioles be a major factor in your thinking here.
Pat M
A former infielder would appreciate that.
Nick in SF
I think it’s under “standings” on MLB.com and we are up there with the top ten at least.
Losing a home series to the Orioles right now is inexcusable.
It’s one thing to lose a road series to a bad team. That happens.
This is something you can’t excuse at home.
Especially the way it’s happening.
Chasing pitches out of the zone, bad managing, poor pitching.
Sure, any team can win any game.
However, if they can’t win these games, they make it much tougher on themselves since their schedule the rest of the way is much tougher than Tampa’s.
“Pena has real soft hands.”
Pat M- Uh, how would you know that?
Nick in SF- I am laughing! Too funny.
Jerkface,
Nobody is saying that it is a huge part of scoring runs, but it allows you to steal runs that make a difference in close games.
If all you do is sit around and wait for home runs and extra base hits like this Yankees team does, you are going to be inconsistent offensively because you won’t be able to score in the games in which those do not come.
It especially makes a big difference when you make it to October and have to score runs in situations in which you may be facing good pitchers who are not going to serve up a ton of hits and home runs.
You have to be able to capitalize in situations like that, and it does make a difference in many games. How many games have you seen the Yankees lose by one or two runs because they could not get in runs like this?
I blame Derek settling down with Minka Kelly for his decline. He just let go. J/K cap, I know you will get em’ next year.
Faiaz – it’s all forgiven and forgotten. If you wrote something similar to what I did, you are obviously brilliant and have the ability to look at the big picture. I like hanging out what that kind of person!
Was Matt here during the eight game win streak when the Yankees were pounding the ball and manufacturing runs. No. But one off game tonight, and here he is singing doom and gloom again. Best record in baseball folks, no matter how many flaws that may appear here and there. I’ll still lay money on them to take it home this year.
CC has only made one mistake really since the first inning. Aside from the first he’s pitched pretty well. Offense needs to pick him up like he’s picked them up many times this year.
Do any of you guys follow Tennis? Sam Stosur is so buffed out she’s got to be on PED’s. They test in Tennis, don’t they?
comet September 7th, 2010 at 8:47 pm
Any team as you say can get lucky. Last years team not only got lucky but they made their own luck. Can this years version do that or do they have to depend on luck?
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I think they can, have, and will.
There were some dark moments last year too that a Championship tends to erase from memories. The ’09 Yanks were flawed as well.
ok start there
You’re right. These aren’t your mother’s Orioles. Your mother’s Orioles were GOOD. This team AINT!
And a good record over 20+ games doesn’t signify any sort of turnaround.
By June of next year, this team will be in 4th place or last place, right where the belong. They are dirtpiles and nothing more.
Trisha,
It’s not a talented team. Half the guys Buck is playing in this series won’t even be on the team next year.
There is no way to spin how poor they have played the last two days.
Girardi won’t be happy about it, that’s for sure.
Unfortunately though, even unwillingly, he’s contributed to this latest malaise.
Every team that loses games can say the same, Matt. Unless it were really an issue, there is nothing to complain about.
Every team in baseball is within 10% of the top and bottom in terms of advancing runners or scoring them from 3rd.
And its less than 50% at the top. So its not like its especially easy to do.
Why even complain about it? you’re talking about 10 extra runs maybe. And who knows when you would get those runs. Maybe they come in blowouts????
And ‘small ball in october’ is absolutely overrated. Last WS has the 2 largest balled teams in the league facing off. The WS the year before that was very similiar (because, believe it or not, the rays went to the WS because Upton and Longoria had 15 HRs in the postseason).
Games not over yet, Yanks can put a crooked number up quick.
Matt, all u do is complain about the yankees and pick fights with other posters. Every post u make has a negative tone. Its not a coincidence.
Tex Msg: LONG BALL COMING
Let’s go Tex!!!
SJ, they are no longer a bad team. You’re going to have to reckon yourself to that fact. And I have vivid memories of the Mariners playing the role of spoiler season after season – and they WERE a bad team. The only thing inexcusable is the inability of some posters to understand that baseball happens.
AGAIN – if you want to talk about the way the Yankees are playing in general and say it’s not a real good thing, that’s one thing. Framing it around the Orioles is ridiculous in my opinion. Buckle your seat belt. They know how to play baseball too and play it well.
THATS NOT A STRIKE.. That was in the other batters box!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good job helping out the pitcher ump
# Matt September 7th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Rob,
http://www.baseball-reference&.....ting.shtml
They also rank 9 out of 14 in productive outs.
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Thank you.
Question I had was this: Even though they don’t advance the runners that well, how many of them end up coming around to score? The Yankees are tied for 3rd in percentage of baserunners that end up scoring at 15%. But I guess since the league ranges from 12-16%, that isn’t saying much. Just think how many runs they could score if they were able to get more runners to 3rd with less than 2 outs?
Jeter got a hit – they need to take advantage of this
Also, not being able to score 3 runs in the 6th and 7th off of the Orioles is a little embarassing
Trisha -
I don’t care if the Orioles were being managed by Casey Stengle, with Walter Alston and John McGraw as coaches.
Tampa Bay are not the defending World Champions, the Yankees are.
I realize they cannot win every game, or every series, but to lose in the manner they are to the hapless Orioles – in September! – is inexcusable.
2007 was large ball red sox vs large ball rockies.
2006 has been erased from the records.
2005 had a slugging white sox team face a very good astros team with Berkman, and Morgan Ensberg.
2004 SLUGGERS.
Seems to be, you wanna be a patient team with power and good pitching to go to the WS.
That wasnt a strike either!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That’s 5 balls in the plate appearance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yankees are getting hosed on some of these calls
Cano desperately needs a good AB here.
“It’s not a talented team. Half the guys Buck is playing in this series won’t even be on the team next year”
Are you serious? It’s a VERY talented team!!! They weren’t playing good baseball – until they were. And Buck turned it around. They went into the season with high expectations because of the talent of their offense and starting pitching.
We just got cheated out of a walk.
a 5-0 count; a 5 ball walk and it turns into an out.
Tex looks awful tonight
Why is this guy getting gift calls? Who the hell is he?
would be nice to get within 1.
um – crazy strike zone!
CHEATED! CHEATED! 5 pitches, 5 balls, and yet 2 were called strikes. Cano up at the plate as the tying run. CHEATED CHEATED CHEATED!
“I realize they cannot win every game, or every series, but to lose in the manner they are to the hapless Orioles – in September! – is inexcusable.
I love you Pep, but the only things hapless around here are you and SJ. It sure ain’t the Orioles!!!
Glad to see the umpire forgot where the strike zone was in one of the crucial at bats of this ballgame.
Teixeira should have walked twice and got totally screwed by this joke of an umpire. Sabathia has thrown pitches much closer and not had them called than Arrieta did in that at bat.
And Rob, the percentage of runs scored is high because the Yankees have a good offensive club. But they would be a dominant club offensively rather than simply a very good one if they could get in some of those runs that they continue to strand by not moving runners up.
Trisha
LOL, I wrote…
# Faiaz September 7th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Tampa just lost a series to the Orioles also. The Orioles are 19-13 under Showalter. So they are really not as bad as the last time we faced them. Regardless, we should not be losing this game and hopefully we won’t.
…four comments before yours, so we were probably writing it at the same time and yours showed up later because you wrote more. I read the comment before looking at the person’s name, then when I read it was you I had to put our hostility aside to give you credit
Cano swing at strikes!!!
Carl – Who the heck is he? He’s opposing the Yankees, that’s who he is. He’s an umpire’s creation. Hard hit balls all night long against this no talent loser, and so the umpire has decided to take the game into his own hands.
Captain Clutch September 7th, 2010 at 8:57 pm
Cano swing at strikes!!!
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According to this umpire, everything is a strike.
Orioles are a good young club on the rise……
Cano is swinging at strikes. Every pitch from this HP umpire is a strike
Weren’t the 2005 White Sox the team that had four complete game wins in the WS?
The Orioles have not been hapless for the last few weeks. They handled the Rays, no problem. And the Yankees may be the defending World Champions but that’s relative to last season. They are 2009 WC. 2010 TBD. It’s actually irrelevant that they’re the defending WC.
The Rays lost a series in Baltimore, big difference. Losing games like this at home are huge missed opportunities given how much harder the schedule becomes in a week or so.
Almost made it a one-run game but almost doesn’t count.
You don’t have any idea what you are talking about Trisha.
A “very talented team”? Really, that’s just nonsense.
They aren’t anything close to being a “very talented team”.
If you don’t believe me, ask Pat M.
They are a terrible baseball team.
And check it out – teams lose in September, even first-place teams!
I won’t take exception to your feeling nervous about the sluggishness of play in general. I absolutely will not give your or SJ any wiggle room for sloshing about it because it’s the Orioles. The Orioles are a DAMNED GOOD TEAM. If you don’t believe me, watch them play. If you and SJ aren’t aware of the way they’ve been winning under Buck, I have to believe you may be the only two who are not.
Baltimore will sweep. Just as I had predicted.
That Teixeira at bat changed the entire tenor of the inning, Arrieta should have been in big trouble and he got bailed out big time by the home plate umpire.
I don’t understand why a pitcher is handed gift calls like that in counts like 2-0, 3-1 when he hasn’t been around the plate consistently in his career or in the game.
They aren’t even bothering to throw Cano strikes. He is just getting himself out swinging at garbage. Maybe he needs a week off since Girardi burnt him out.
oh well, we’ll still come back and pick CC up his 20th, if CC pitches this 7th inning.
And it’s not just Showalter coming aboard; it’s getting a couple of key guys off the DL.
The Orioles were not expected to play as badly as they did for most of the season. They are now playing how people thought they would.
And how the Yankees play these games against this team is not a predictor for how they’re going to play the rest of their games.
Matt,
The yankees scored 15% of their base runners last year. Its not the % of base runners scoring which matters, its the amount of base runners you put on. The yankees don’t put on as many as last year, therefore, they score less.
i dont complain about umps..but some of the strikes calls to tex..were just silly..
CR9
Agreed
A team that is 34 games below .500 just can’t be “claimed” “very talented”..
Is there anyone who can drive in a damned runner from second? Really poor play.
#Ruby Tuesday September 7th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
Baltimore will sweep. Just as I had predicted.
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Since you’re so great at predictions, could you please give me tomorrow’s lottery numbers and also next week’s football picks? I could really use the money. Thanks in advance.
The Orioles have some good young talent, but they not a good team. Most of their guys have underachieved. Jones, Reimold both down years. Wieters also.
another sad inning that started out good..
SJ44 September 7th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
You don’t have any idea what you are talking about Trisha.
A “very talented team”? Really, that’s just nonsense.
They aren’t anything close to being a “very talented team”.
If you don’t believe me, ask Pat M.
They are a terrible baseball team.
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Agree the orioles are not good….just not good…sometimes bad teams win series..however this game is not over..because as you and I just said..the orioles are not good..not good..
Can you image an AL East with every team competitive? This division is getting even tougher!
With both species of birds playing this way, the AL should be real exciting next season.
“They are a terrible baseball team.”
I know I know. And Toronto was a terrible team according to many on this forum. You guys can’t see the forest through the trees. You get so involved in pulling out the play-by-play microscope that you miss the big picture. The Orioles started out the season with very good players with a lot of promise. Pitchers like Matusz were losing game after game after game. And along came Buck. And now history is in the making.
But think what you need to think. I’m good to go.
The O’s have as much talent as the Mets do.
They look sick.
This is just a pathetic performance tonight. You can’t lose series at home in September to last place teams in the middle of a pennant race. Better win tomorrow, or it would have been a 6-4 homestand.
Trisha,
Winning a few games under Buck does not make them a “very talented team”.
They aren’t a good team.
They have a couple of talented players like Markakis and Adam Jones.
Brian Roberts is playing at 50% with a bad back.
The rest of the guys playing tonight won’t even ne on the team next year.
hope cc has a quick inning and gets the 8th too.
Error.
But they won’t score it that way.
That was not so grand.
“Agree the orioles are not good….just not good…sometimes bad teams win series..however this game is not over..because as you and I just said..the orioles are not good..not good..
And then some of us actually watch the games so we know otherwise.
Ruby, its really pathetic to troll another teams blog for christ’s sake. I mean it honestly doesn’t bother me, keep wasting ur time, its just kinda sad. I hope u are like 12 years old, because if not your life is probably devoid of a lot.
Oh, so now that Showalter came aboard, they’re suddenly a good team? No friggin way. Stop rationalizing the Yankees poor play.
Are the orioles now historic??
I am sick of hearing about the so called upcoming “tough schedule”. In a 162 game season, all teams have the potential to be tough for stretches and lousy for others. The orioles are not a good team, but they have been winning lately. Tampa is a good team, but has endured stretches where they have not played well. The upcoming schedule has no bearing on whether or not the Yanks will play well. They are just as likely to rip off another winning streak as they are to struggle.
About time a real error was called.
Trisha,
Get off your high horse and wake up to reality. We understand that you can never think anything negative, but you don’t just tip your caps to everyone who ever beats you.
The Orioles are a terrible baseball team, that is a fact. 33 games does not erase an entire season worth of performance. They are playing better now than they have for most of the season, but a team like the Yankees should more than be able to overcome a “hot” last place team.
A last place team is in last place for a reason. They are at the bottom in runs scored and the top in runs allowed in the American League. Every team “plays hard” and “tries to play spoiler,” but a team like Baltimore is not that good.
If you lose 2/3 in Baltimore, tough series but not the end of the world. If you lose those same games at home, that’s a huge missed opportunity and a failure.
# Rob B September 7th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Error.
But they won’t score it that way.
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Wow. They did.
E8. Deserved.
yes orioles and talented..should not be in the same sentence…unless the sentence is:
the orioles are not talented or do not have many talented players..I mean brian roberts is solid and nick m. is okay…but I mean come on Felix 3.14 Pie is on their team…
Good job Granderson. He has to catch that. Especially since he contributes nothing with the bat every other week.
The Orioles were in first place for 2 months in 2006 iirc. They werent a good team then, and they arent a good team now because of a 20+ game stretch. And they’ll never be a good team, as long as they have to play the Red Sox 18 games a year
Kays a moron. That was an error 100 percent. This guy knows nothing about this sport.
well guess that cc just isnt going to get help from his team tonight.
Orioles have to be a good team. I mean, they have a .377 winning percentage!
Toronto is a fourth place team a few games over .500 Trisha.
That does not make them a “very good team”.
Yet, a team 34 games UNDER .500 is a “very good team”?
Ok, whatever you say.
The orioles have 1 hitter with an OPS over .780, its Luke Scott.
1 pitcher with an ERA under 4.7 and it isn’t even Matusz.
They’re really bad. Near last in fielding metrics. Bad relief pitching.
Wow, just awful. Completely uninspired baseball.
well see how the Orioles will capitalize on the Granderson error here. This could be the game right here.
Faiaz
Ive got a friend that went to the Barca/Sevilla match in August; bought a Messi jersey too.
Just in case Ive confused you into thinking Im a Barca fan, Im actually a Madrid supporter, as they are like the Yankees. But I hold great respect for Barca.
CR9, that was 05
If Posada raises his average a point, the Yankees will have an $93M full house!!!
Jeter, Posada and Berkman at .264 with Tex and Arod at .267!
Embarrassing that these guys get paid all that money to hit .260. And so many on this board finding whatever stats they can to defend those putrid, half-hearted, mailed-in seasons.
The offense is full of overpaid, old, lazy, pampered bats and the rotation has become a big question mark. Take all the solace you want in beating out Boston because this team isn’t going to see the ALCS.
I mean earl weaver could manage this team and they would be in last place
Nice time pitch around walk Roberts. You can’t continue to let him beat you. I can’t blieve CC is still in this game.
Girardi needs to get ejected so the team can find a spark like last season in that game when Cervelli hit a homer right after. Then again why do we even need to go that far to find a spark for the defending world champions?
Ok Trisha, now you are just delusional.
Toronto has some really good young starting pitching and leads the league in HR.
What assets does Baltimore bring to the table? Every starter with an ERA approaching 5.00? The worst bullpen and offense in the AL?
You’re losing more ground with every post you make.
There’s a difference between predicting how a team will do in the season and seeing their actual performance on the field. In many divisions in baseball Toronto would be good enough to make the playoffs, while Baltimore would probably be a 4th or 5th place team in every division in the league.
“mailed-in seasons”
Clownthrowindown…with the dumbest post of the night..CONGRATS
Ya know, if CC has to lose a game at home and break his streak, Id rather it happen now than in October. Because that would be bad luck if he lost his streak in Oct.
Trisha never had any ground to begin with.
Felix Pie – very good player with a lot of promise
Nolan Reimold – very good player with a lot of promise
Matt Wieters – very good player with a lot of promise
Caesar Izturis – knows how to play the game
Julio Lugo – knows how to play the game
Ty Wiggington – knows how to kick ass
That’s in addition to the ones you named AJ.
“Winning a few games under Buck does not make them a “very talented team”.”
Absolutely correct. Because they came into the season “a very talented team.” As Doreen pointed out yesterday, the surprise was that they DIDN’T play well this season.
Matt-
To call This series a failure is overstating a bit. Disppointing, yes. But a failure? Not unless it was the last series of the year and it directly cost them the division title. Hopefully the outcome of the head to head match ups will prevent that situation from even being in the realm of possibility.
Losing 2 games to the loser Orioles has nothing to do with Showalter or how “great” he or his team is. It’s Girardi letting AJ pitch the 7th inning and then pitch to Roberts plus the offense being pathetic. There is no excuse for the offense to not be able to hit the Orioles pitching. Especially today against Arrieta who has garbage.
“But one off game tonight, and here he is singing doom and gloom again.”
Actually, it is now 3 “off-games” in a row.
And we’re relying on a rookie with 3 starts to spare us from a 4th in a row… at home, in the thick of a pennant race against a last place team.
Can’t put any kind of positive spin on this series, even if we do win tomorrow.
106 pitches for CC and he’s on the verge of letting the is game out of hand. There’s no reason for CC to pitch in this game much longer.
CC didn’t do his job tonight when he gave up runs 4 and 5 with a monster homerun off the bat of a hitter with a .209 average. SJ is right, this team has two, maybe three position players that would start on most ML teams and that’s it.
CC will get his 20 wins sometime this month, but IMO David Price will be the AL Cy Young.
come on DP
That’s just bad luck there.
“The Orioles started out the season with very good players with a lot of promise. Pitchers like Matusz were losing game after game after game. And along came Buck. And now history is in the making.”
Trish you’re cool..but come on..what exactly does “history is in the making” mean? what history? please explain???
ok now there is no point in overworking cc.
The Orioles were underperforming all year. They are not underperforming now. Perhaps they are overperforming. Doesn’t matter, really. I just always remember that even in games that the Yankees beat the Orioles, they’ve been a real pain.
CC’s having a lousy game. That’s the story of tonight.
Offense isn’t doing much, either, true. But it wasn’t CC’s night.
If he likes to go to the opposite field, why don’t the Yankees know this?
Look, all the Orioles have done in this series is put the bat on the ball and they’ve gotten lucky and found holes.
The Yankees are a better club, but if you are an all or nothing team like they are and you don’t do little things, there are going to come games where you don’t get home runs and you don’t score many runs.
Have to be able to score runs in many ways to be consistent offensively, and this team is home run or nothing most of the time.
The orioles have a terrible roster but they have been playing much better under showalter, its pretty hard to deny that. They’re like 20-13 since he arrived. Its no excuse, the yankees are clearly more talented, but its not exactly fair to say the orioles are complete trash because they’ve been playing well for like over a month now.
That was stupid pitching. We know Markakis can hit the ball on the outside corner to LF why aren’t you pitching him inside or show him a pitch inside? They pitched him the same exact way every at bat.
Cristiano Ronaldo #9
I knew that user I.D. possibly meant that you are a Madrid fan but it’s cool. The reason I am a Barca fan is because of my loyalty to Argentina. I’ve been an Argentina fan since the 1990 World Cup when they lost to Germany. Anywhere Messi goes, I go. Talking about Spain and Argentina, did you get a chance to watch Argentina demolish Spain 4-1 today?
“Felix Pie – very good player with a lot of promise”
What? What promise???
Zman-
I blame Girardi more for yesterday’s loss. And sweeping a good team like the Jays was unlikely. Tonight is the real crapper of the three games.
Felix Pie – very good player with a lot of promise .743 OPS
Nolan Reimold – very good player with a lot of promise .600 OPS
Matt Wieters – very good player with a lot of promise .714 OPS
Caesar Izturis – knows how to play the game .550 OPS
Julio Lugo – knows how to play the game .585 OPS
Ty Wiggington – knows how to kick ass .744 OPS 1 HR since May
Nice list of bad players???????? How is this supposed to suggest the orioles are very good??
just stupid to leave him out there.. 6-2 losing and throwing 109 pitches.. Just an all around bad game tonight. So now our ace has a stinker and we now rotate through the other 4 starters who are reeling. Not a good time right now for the Yanks.
Felix Pie – very good player with a lot of promise
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Yankee Trader September 7th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
CC didn’t do his job tonight when he gave up runs 4 and 5 with a monster homerun off the bat of a hitter with a .209 average. SJ is right, this team has two, maybe three position players that would start on most ML teams and that’s it.
CC will get his 20 wins sometime this month, but IMO David Price will be the AL Cy Young.
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You mean the David Price that has given up 10 runs in 12 2/3 innings vs. the Yankees this year? You mean THAT David Price?
And keep talking about what a hitting guru Kevin Long is. He’s got Granderson all the way up to .247. He’s got all those guys batting .260. And Cano is hitting near his career average again. Oh…Swisher!…how long are you going to talk about the exception? Basically, the whole team is having an off year yet everyone thinks Long is a genius. He needs to follow Girardi to Chicago.
Felix Pie – career underachiever who’s played decently
Cesar Izturis – LOOOOOSER!
Julio Lugo – LOOOOOOOSER!
Ty Wigginton – good role player, can play all positions, high OBP, but not young and not special.
I’ll be damned… the Rays are winning by ten?
Matt, sorry child you many not be in the minority of thinking in terms of this forum, but this forum has the penchant for being extremely limited and provincial in its thinking.
The current thinking in baseball (oh with the sportscasters who talk about it every day, not as smart as you granted, but maybe they know a little something) is that Toronto would probably be on top of any other division but the AL East and Baltimore certainly would not be in the basement. In fact I think the term used yesterday when I was listening to real baseball people talk about it was that Batimore could probably be “a contender”.
I’ve been around this rodeo long enough to know that SJ has a short fuse at times when it comes to patience with Yankee players and some of the other posters would have DFAd about the whole team by now.
Matt, you might be a nice boy but your baseball savvy doesn’t impress me.
Now I’d love to obssess along with you but I have to shine my shoes. Ciao now!
Basically the orioles are bad and lose games because they are bad. It is disappointing that the Yankees might lose 2 out of 3 against them, but they have handled them all season it was unlikely to sweep the season series or come close.
“Felix Pie – very good player with a lot of promise”
Drop the ‘very’.
“Nolan Reimold – very good player with a lot of promise”
Uh, you do realize he is hitting .207? And is a career .264 hitter?
Matt Wieters – very good player with a lot of promise
“Caesar Izturis – knows how to play the game”
“Julio Lugo – knows how to play the game”
Knows how to play the game…yeah, I think that applies to EVERY player who makes it to the majors? Duh, they MUST know how to play the game.
“Ty Wiggington – knows how to kick ass”
Decent player. Journeyman. Not one I would label as above average by any means.
They are a collection of mediocre players, with a few good ones sprinkled in (Markakis and Robers), plus a bunch of guys who have “promise”; some who have had “promise” for quite some time (Jones).
And the hitters have never really been the issue. It’s their pitching that is always below par.
Faiaz
Yes. I saw the match today. Argentina!!
And Im not a huge huge huge fan of Madrid as I am Manchester United – mainly because I dont get to see all the Madrid games live.
CC already had a bad game 2 starts ago, but was bailed out by the offense.
It is September… it is not unreasonable to ask him to pitch well in all his starts down the stretch. If he wants to win the CY Young, he has to win these types of games when his team needs him. He’s not going to get 10 runs every game.
Not criticizing his overall year at all, he has been terrific, but can’t give him a pass for a start like this, against a last place team at home in September. Especially since he wasn’t “due for a bad start” considering he had one 10 days ago.
as usual at some point the yankees will get the tying run up.
Trisha,
Uh, what? Izturis “knows how to play the game?” Izturis is one of the worst offensive players in all of major league baseball. He’s OPS’ing .550 on the year as an everyday shortstop with over 400 AB.
Lugo “knows how to play the game?” He is OPS’ing .585 with 0 HR in over 200 AB’s.
Reimold is hitting .207 with 3 HR this year in around 100 AB’s. He had a good rookie season, but how do we know he is for real?
Wigginton is hitting .252 with a .748 OPS despite his home runs.
The Orioles have only a few “talented players,” and none of them are the ones you named.
Markakis, Scott, Roberts, Matusz, Guthrie, and possibly Uehara. That’s it. The entire rest of their team is league average or AAA quality players.
The orioles could contend in a division of The Pirates, this years Indians, the Astros, and the Royals.
Trisha-
I love ya back, but for you to think this team is “good”, esp. with a pitcher with an era of 5, is just too far off the cliff for me to follow.
But, I appreciate far more your positive outlook than the doomsday scenario painted by Matt everytime the Yanks struggle!
I think they’ll be ok, but, still, losing to the Orioles? Come on.
Are we really even discussing how “good” the ORIOLES are here? I’m gonna go listen to Michael Kay now.
“Matt, you might be a nice boy but your baseball savvy doesn’t impress me.”
Don’t think anyone can argue with that.
Trisha,
Out of the six players you mentioned, only Matt Weiters will be with the Orioles next year.
You really have no idea what you are talking about.
Pie isn’t a “very good player”. He has been a bust his entire career and has an OPS lower than almost every starting LF in the league.
Wiggington hasn’t hit since June.
Julio Lugo? lol Are you serious? He is an awful players on his last legs.
Cesar Izturis is the worst everyday SS in the AL offensively this year.
Honestly, stick to cheerleading.
Trying to sell that list of players to call the Orioles a “very good team” has shown every poster on here you are completely clueless when discussing the respective talents of baseball players.
Nasty Curve jesus
CC wasn’t great, but we shouldn’t ignore the fact that Gardner has only bunted for a hit once tonight.
we know that if the Yankees played like the Yankees, then the Orioles would be irrelevant these first two games. This has been the Yankees games to lose. The lack of hitting RISP and the DP’s. Not to mention the lack of consistency all together.
still 4 runs, damn.
9 outs left. Overall the offense is still too inconsistent.
Izturis CAREER numbers in nearly 4000 career AB’s:
.257 AVG
.296 OBP
.325 SLG
15 HR
CAREER numbers over 10 years in the big leagues.
Kerry Wood has been unreal.
Only run allowed was a solo HR in his first outing against the Blue Jays.
I do agree that they are going through a nice little stretch right now but I doubt it will last through a whole season. However right now they are much better than the last time we faced them. They have a certain confidence in themselves because of their new-found success but I am almost certain that it will not last.
Matt, its funny that u totally excused the rays for losing a series to the o’s just cuz it was on the road. The rays have the best road record in the league the last time I checked. And the o’s suck right? So why do the rays get a pass? Why do some of u never compare the yanks to other teams? They are competing with the league, not by themsleves. The truth is, even great teams can lose a series to a bad team. Its just different to some of u cuz its the Yankees and you’re pulling for them. You ignore all the positives and all the other teams negatives. Its a joke, really.
There is not a division in baseball in which the Orioles would be fighting for a playoff spot. The Twins, White Sox, Rangers, Angels, Phillies, Braves, Reds, Cardinals, Giants, and Padres and Rockies are all superior.
This team doesn’t have the SP to overcome a bad CC outing. Puts a ton of pressure on the rook tom
I like Baltimore’s young arms,not only on the parent club but down thru the lower levels…..They should have been better than this in 2010…..
# NYY fan in NH September 7th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
we know that if the Yankees played like the Yankees, then the Orioles would be irrelevant these first two games. This has been the Yankees games to lose. The lack of hitting RISP and the DP’s. Not to mention the lack of consistency all together.
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That’s for sure. Today’s game is due to CC struggling. Since he doesn’t do that very often, it can be forgiven. But the game yesterday was one where the feeling was that they should have won it, but lacked that little bit of effort that would have made the difference.
in october, i think wood is basically our 8th inning guy.
Matt September 7th, 2010 at 9:19 pm
Izturis CAREER numbers in nearly 4000 career AB’s:
.257 AVG
.296 OBP
.325 SLG
15 HR
CAREER numbers over 10 years in the big leagues
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But does he KNOW how to play the game?
There is a difference between being optimistic and just flat out crazy. Baltimore is a very weak team, to expect the Yankees to at least take 2/3 from them at home is not even close to bridge jumping or “doom and gloom.”
Losing a series to Baltimore at home in September when you are in a race like the Yankees are in right now with Tampa Bay is a huge missed opportunity to cushion yourself against the harder part of the schedule coming up.
And yes, last year’s team lost a home series to Baltimore too in September, but they were up like 7 or 8 games in the standings at the time with 2 weeks to go. That was also the only home series the Yankees lost last year from pretty much June through September.
with the o’s in last so much, they should have good young talent.
PUMA!!!!
Anyone saying the Orioles r good doesn’t watch baseball.
Let’s go Liberty!!!!
Berkman is a beast. 8-15 nice.
Puma is pouncing tonight…
MPF Lance Berkman = Really Awesome
Berkman has a lot of life in his body since coming off the dl. Hopefully they don’t strand another runner.
yes MG- The David Price who will be 17-6 after tonights game with a 2.89 ERA and a .226 BA against. I love CC but Price is probably your Cy Young.
As long as you know how to play the game, that’s all that matters.
Hey, if you bat .000 with a .034 OBP, it’s all good! As long as you know how to play the game! Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRILLIANCE BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Look, there is no doubt they have looked very bad the last two or three days. But they looked very good for the eight days before that against average to good teams. Yes, you do not want to be losing series in September, especially to Baltimore. But I’ll gladly swap that for series wins against Tampa later this month. The way they are playing now is not predictor of how they will play in those series.
I remember when the Mets went on a roll after they got a new manager….how did that turn out. I bet the same way…..
Faiaz, I’d rather the Rays win than the Sux win. Or at least at this point we’re back to a wash since the Sux won yesterday.
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I’ve always been pretty incisive when analyzing baseball stuff because I don’t get so emotionally involved that I can’t look at the big picture. In fact I look at so many facets that others absolutely do not that I am able to get a pretty good pulse on thing. I swear to you that after the 2004 season, I had a ton of arguments with members of RSN when it came out that they were sipping Jack Daniels before their playoff games. I argued that the Jack Daniels acted as a sedative of sorts, or some kind of calmative, and gave them an edge because it helped them past the adrenaline rush and the nerves that happen in the playoffs. I was laughed out of town. But I still knew I was correct.
Today I was listening to the WEEI broadcasters talk to one of the baseball pundits and they were talking about 2004 and to a person said they had no way of ever being able to predict what happened in 2004. Until the baseball pundit (whoever it was) said – yes, but if I had known about the Jack Daniels ahead of time I would have predicted it.
SCORE!!!!!
I knew it. I am light years ahead of those who can’t look past their noses in figuring things out. I knew the talent of the Rays when other people were calling them trash. And you know why they were calling them trash?
Because lots of fans don’t have the thought processes to be able to look beyond the W-L.
Those are the same people who just KNOW the Orioles are a terrible team.
To which I say –
YAWN!!!!
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See ya all later. I’m the one who was clear-headed enough last season to call the Yankees going all the way while so many of the forum experts were puking and calling it over. Just remember that cowboys.
Berkman’s swing looks a lot less noisy than it did pre-ankle
therealkevin
Couldn’t have said that any better. People say “The Yankees aren’t as good as they were last year.” Well, neither is the rest of MLB and comparatively the Yankees don’t need to be better than last year’s team to be better than the rest of the MLB this year. Ooo the puma is kickin’
Good lord, please don’t strand him out there…hits, please
“This team doesn’t have the SP to overcome a bad CC outing. Puts a ton of pressure on the rook tom”
This team doesn’t have the offense to overcome a bad outing by anyone really. They are just too streaky. Their hot streaks and cold streaks are pretty much even now… the pitching has been fine for the most part and that’s what has carried us.
We’re 0-13 when AJ gives up 4 runs or more. 4 runs? Come on…
really need to get these runners in from second.
I like Baltimore’s young arms,not only on the parent club but down thru the lower levels…..They should have been better than this in 2010…..
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The orioles entire system and major league team crashed and burned. Set backs everywhere. Instead of seeing improvement, even incremental, they saw complete setbacks all over. Markakis lost his power and some of his patience, Adam Jones cratered, Wieters hasn’t been the MVP type bat predicted. Their entire farm system has sucked with the lone exception of I think Zach Britton, who is not to be confused with that fat guy.
Is it just me or has Adam Jones’ defense out there in Center Field not been quite up to the quality that we are used to seeing?
It seems like he’s getting bad jumps on a lot of balls, and missing some that are landing just over his head that we’re used to seeing him catch.
It could just be bad breaks that they are hitting a lot of line drives at him, but I’ve been surprised that some of these balls are dropping.
The yankees ARE up 7 or 8 games!!! Its about making the playoffs, period. All this talent is going anywhere. I know, its shocking.
If the offense was decent against a pitcher throwing garbage we wouldn’t be talking about how “great” the Orioles are. Where are the days of scoring 7-8 runs against a 5 era pitcher? I guess a record of 52-86=great. This series is the world series for the Orioles they never show this much effort against other teams.
*isnt going anywhere
Erica-
Isn’t it time for you to take a shower, and turn the game on after with the Yankees leading? Didn’t that work before?
We need some more night games…
Os are the most talented 86 loss team ever.
we know that if the Yankees played like the Yankees
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The Yankees ARE playing like the Yankees. This is who they are since the AS break. Inconsistent, disinterested on offense and poor starting pitching (though tonight is definitely the exception in CC’s case). They haven’t been consistently competitive for awhile. And they roll over once they’re losing.
Have to plate a couple this inning
Man on first? Prepare for DP
ok make this count
Showalter’s 15 minutes will be over very soon. By next year they will be tired of him when the team is still in last place with 50 wins.
POFFF….Arreola turns into a pumpkin….
He better sent the ump a gift basket for the calls tonight.
Wait, never mind. Granderson’s up. Maybe he’ll line into a DP.
Will Girardi be tempted to PH Alex for Pena?
Yankee Trader September 7th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
Erica-
Isn’t it time for you to take a shower, and turn the game on after with the Yankees leading? Didn’t that work before?
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I am overdue for tonight’s shower- but that superstition hasn’t been working its magic.
My new superstition is that the Yankees cannot take a lead until I have accomplished everything I need to for the night. I am glad to report that I have made tomorrow’s lunch, thrown out all garbage, done my cleaning, and have the laundry in the dryer,
This entire team is a bunch of pissants. WE WILL COME BACK AND WIN THIS GAME. WE WILL.
clownthrowindown September 7th, 2010 at 9:27 pm
we know that if the Yankees played like the Yankees
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The Yankees ARE playing like the Yankees. This is who they are since the AS break. Inconsistent, disinterested on offense and poor starting pitching (though tonight is definitely the exception in CC’s case). They haven’t been consistently competitive for awhile. And they roll over once they’re losing
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Sometimes I drink too much, so correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the Yankees just have an extended winning streak? Or was this an alcohol fueled dream?
You can’t call yourself an “astute” observer of baseball and call the Orioles a “very good team”.
“YAWN” is right. It was an idiotic comment to make and you know it.
Faiaz- exactly bro.
KABOOOOOM!!!!! IT’s Outtta heree!!!
The magic has Left the building…..
bad luck. the ball bounced right from the SS to Jones. It could have bounced all the way away, but it didnt. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
OK here we go… cmon team, shut these nay-sayers up.
Another great at bat for Granderson. He’s back to normal.
A-God!!!!!!!
A-Rod goes big fly here.
Damnit, posada should have seen he was having trouble with that. He should have been inching closer to 2nd.
Yes.
i knew A-Rod would pinch hit.
Another sterling play by the historically great Baltimore Orioles?
Clown-
Haven’t been consistently competitive? Are you kidding? Look at the wins and losses you moron.
Arreola with an Ump assisted game leaves the field.
“I like Baltimore’s young arms,not only on the parent club but down thru the lower levels…..They should have been better than this in 2010…..”
Absolutely Pat M. And that was the expectation of these young arms going into the season. Until Buck took over I think it was Matusz who hadn’t won since April!
Thank you Pat M!!!
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I am not arguing that the Yankees are playing great baseball. I’m only taking exception to your using the Orioles as your team to point it out. Hell the Orioles always knew how to score runs!
This loser Arrieta is a piggy pig. He did nothing tonight but get hard hit balls right at people and get aided by the umpire and a couple defensive plays by his defense. Piggy Arrieta, Piggy Arrieta!
Boy, I don’t know what game I’m watching. I could have sworn Granderson hit that ball in the air, but Gameday just told me that he “ground into a force out”.
Maybe I need to get my eyes checked. Or drink less.
What in the world is Granderson swinging at???? Every at bat today he has swung at garbage. Swinging at a 1-0 pitch like he has 2 strikes on him. I guess this is the week that he does absolutely nothing with the bat.
One thing Girardi has to do starting tomorrow……
Rest time is over for everybody.
Put the regular lineup out there for the next three weeks and perhaps there won’t be so much offensive inconsistency.
MASN braggin about this bullpen…
Like the fat chick at the dance bragging about her braclet.
OK listen guys I really despised Trisha the other day but I kind of feel bad for her now because she is like a little gazelle being ganged up on by a pack of wolves. I’m sure she had her views about the Orioles but I am also sure that she understands how she might have been a little off after reading all of the comments so let’s focus on how we are about to get the lead back now
“Another sterling play by the historically great Baltimore Orioles?”
I pointed out that the promise of the team is being realized under Showalter. They fielded a talented team in 2010. Deal with it. Or don’t.
Granderson has been the most frustrating player to watch this season. Today’s at bats were a disgrace. How do they trade for a player whose swing needs to be fixed?
darn a bullet. and only 1 run
I dont believe it. Hard hit ball. And ball didnt bounce away from the guy. BAD LUCK again.
What INCREDIBLE luck by the O’s. A-Rod DRILLED that.
#%$#%
on 2-0? come on….
Is it just me or has A-Rod changed his swing lately?
It seems like he starts now with the bat sitting on his right shoulder and his hands closer to his body. I wonder if that’s a mechanical adjustment that is allowing him to be quicker to the ball, kind of like what they did to Granderson recently.
It definitely seems like A-Rod is turning on fastballs a lot more easily since he’s been off the DL.
WHY DOESN’T LANCE SCORE ON THAT? The Yankees are a complete joke.
oh he didn’t score. darn
This is a joke.
ooo that was scorched, at least it wasn’t yet another double-play.
More bad luck. Some night you just don’t get the breaks.
Sj44 has turned into matt before our eyes.
Sj44 has turned into matt before our eyes.
i knew A-Rod would pinch hit.
Knew that hours ago!.. Let’s see how this turns out.
NYY fan in NH September 7th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
I know CC will settle down, but this team has gotta stop hitting into DP’s. Seems like every situation with less than two outs and there’s a DP. Big rally killer! Arod will probably make an appearance at some point
# igotid88 September 7th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
darn a bullet. and only 1 run
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run?
Can’t catch a break tonight.
Berkman should have bluffed for home to save granderson. Can’t blame him for not trying that though.
This just doesn’t seem to be the Yankees’ night
Berkman should of came home on that. In a 6-2 game they weren’t throwing home.
Now A-Rod 0-11 as pinch hitter. Granderson should have tried to steal earlier and draw a throw.
i like to thank arod for a usless at bat. way to go
anyone cringing at the impending possibility of jeter up with the based loaded?
# Matt September 7th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
Is it just me or has A-Rod changed his swing lately?
It seems like he starts now with the bat sitting on his right shoulder and his hands closer to his body. I wonder if that’s a mechanical adjustment that is allowing him to be quicker to the ball, kind of like what they did to Granderson recently.
It definitely seems like A-Rod is turning on fastballs a lot more easily since he’s been off the DL.
He did
This ump is ridiculous on the outside corner to LH.
off the plate. Gifts that keep coming…
It’s just not a good game and I see no comeback tonight. NO clutch hits whatsoever!
ac1 September 7th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
on 2-0? come on…
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Yeah, hate to see A-Rod, you know, the homerun hitter, ground out weakly on 2-0….
did Granderson not run because he thought the 3B caught it???
Anybody who thinks Berkman should have scored on that is a moron.
Gehrig
LOL “fat chick bragging about her bracelet at a dance” LOL
# GoldGlove9486 September 7th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
Granderson has been the most frustrating player to watch this season. Today’s at bats were a disgrace. How do they trade for a player whose swing needs to be fixed?
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I don’t know. Ask Swisher.
these outside ‘strike’ calls are ridiculous.
Two pitches in the other batters’ box called strikes yet again on Gardner in a crucial at bat in this game with him way ahead in the count.
This home plate umpire is a joke.
Are these pitches to Gardner as outside as they look on Gameday?
They fielded a talented team. Relative to say… a minor league team. Relative to the rest of the league they are in the bottom third of talent. They just aren’t very good.
Crazy lucky inning for Baltimore.
Yes a-rod appears to have made a minor adjustment to his setup, or at least I noticed it the game he immediately returned.
think it is time for joe to stand up for his team and get in the home plate umps face?
2 strike calls in the batters box.
2 strikes in the other batters box. This ump blows. He has cost the Yanks at least 3 walks tonight. Then Gardner swings at garbage because he couldn’t forget about the umps calls.
un real…..they keep showing that pitch on MASN, being low and off the plate…joke…
two on, no outs no runs :/
There is no such thing as “luck”
Put the ball in the seats… then you don’t have to worry about luck.
No idea how Berkman doesn’t score on that. Still scratching my head. Girardi needs to be fired after this season.
2 for 11 now with RISP tonight, and one of those hits did not score a run.
As bad as CC was tonight, once again the offense has had chance after chance after chance to chip away and make this a tight game and have failed consistently to have quality at bats.
If Berkman attempted to go home on the A-rod hit, we would have men on 1st and second instead of a man in 1st and 3rd because he would have been out easily.
NOT.EVEN.CLOSE
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“because she is like a little gazelle being ganged up on by a pack of wolves”
Faiaz – never feel bad for me. Being ganged up on by the gang who couldn’t shoot straight doesn’t threaten me. It rather amuses me.
There was a poster here last season who used to point to that my take turned out to be right more often than the takes of people who are looked to here by some as the gurus of the forum. And the guy was right.
“I am also sure that she understands how she might have been a little off after reading all of the comments”
Uh, no. I’m dealing for the most part with a bunch of boys who can’t see beyond W-L. I feel sorry for them actually. They’re missing out on so much about baseball.
But yes, concentrate on the come back.
that 6 and o homestand start is going down in the toilet
You don’t give teams automatic double plays on line drives! Watch more baseball.
The Orioles did not field a talented team in 2010.
The only person having a hard time dealing with that fact is you.
The offense isn’t that good becasue people don’t hit for average in this lineup. Look at Cano since June. Other than Thames, no one can hit .300. And Thames is a horrible defender. The team just isn’t put together all that well.
sure enough, nothing will be done to change the umpiring which has been beyond awful in ever aspect this season across the entire league. i think i even saw one bad strike call in boston too.
anyone cringing at the impending possibility of jeter up with the based loaded?
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Not now, I’m not. Goodnight all.
Who are these guys dressed up in Orioles uniforms? This team used to get rolled over.
Baseball is played by the top 1% of baseball players in the world. That doesn’t make the Orioles good at Major League Baseball.
Orioles fans were hoping to get close to .500 this season. They recognized their teams weaknesses, why can’t you?
Granderson has turned into a pumpkin again… 1 for his last 13.
Why can’t this offense get hot for more than a week?
Better question… why do their cold spells last multiple games, and happen in multiple stretches every month?
Stop with the bad luck nonsense.
You make your own breaks by having quality at bats with runners on base.
Granderson tried to hit a 1-0 pitch at the knees on the outside corner into the 3rd deck in right instead of taking it back up the middle or the other way and hit it weakly off the end of the bat. The Yankees were lucky that the runner advanced and that it wasn’t a lazy pop out.
The ball A-Rod hit should have been a lineout to third base, the Yankees were lucky it didn’t turn into a line drive double play it was hit so hard.
When you chase pitcher’s pitches in hitters’ counts in situations in which the pitcher is in trouble, like Swisher in the first inning, you’re going to need luck because you aren’t going to hit the ball hard.
Wow, Girardi took out A-Rod?
You are wrong Trisha. Just stop.
Tampa Yanks won game #1 of their playoff series, 3-0. Graham Hall pitched 5 innings of 3 hit shutout ball, 3 walks, 4 strikeouts. Brad Suttle with a solo homer.
Sj44, I agree with you about trisha’s comment, but stop acting like you have holier than know knowledge when it comes to baseball. You called cano a dog with fleas, and consistently soured on him, and you said the Yankees should trade montero and jobs for soria. I have never commented before but have read the blog for about 3 years
Trisha, I like some of your opinions and attitudes about the yankees but you’re just wrong about the o’s. They’re playing with more effort and purpose under Buck but talent wise they are still miserable.
I can’t belive that Girardi took Arod out of the game. If his spot comes up in the 9th he will look like a moron.
Who watches the Orioles and goes, “you know what? These guys are good!”
Someone who doesn’t watch a whole lot of baseball, which Trisha admits to not doing all the time.
IIOIIOIIO September 7th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
# igotid88 September 7th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
darn a bullet. and only 1 run
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run?
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i corrected myself
And Faiaz, I probably missed 90 percent of the comments because that’s what happens to me during a game thread. But I somehow feel I’ve missed nothing by missing them!
Seriously, it’s all good.
Focus on the comeback. I’m going to catch some of the Rays game.
oh well, today was a bad luck game. and a HP umpire game. CC didnt receive the same calls that Piggy Arrieta received. Such is life. That’s why I’ll never understand Trisha cheering on teams like the Orioles or Blue Jays – especially against us. She thinks they are the underdogs. When in actuality, the Yankees are ALWAYS the UNDERDOGS. Even if we face a team with a $20 million payroll, we are ALWAYS THE UNDERDOGS! ALWAYS! Hopefully not forever.
Straw and HOHOHO…
Are you guys delusional??? The Yankees are barely over .500 since the beginning of August despite the win streak. You guys have NO objectivity at all. A line-up full of .260 hitters, one or two dependable starters and a serious lack of fire in the belly.
And Girardi who does his best to make things worse.
Trisha,
Do you have a lot of brothers? Sure are a tough cookie. Good for you
would help the yankees to not have to swing at anything thrown because the righty batter box is also a strike .
Trisha is so desperate for affirmation she makes up someone in the past who once claimed she was correct and then agreed with her imaginary friend. Hilarious.
Lou Piniella needs to be the next manager of this team. Someone tell me I’m wrong. Girardi is too laid back. Some of these players need to be screamed at.
# igotid88 September 7th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
IIOIIOIIO September 7th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
# igotid88 September 7th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
darn a bullet. and only 1 run
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run?
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i corrected myself
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I noticed.
“Uh, no. I’m dealing for the most part with a bunch of boys who can’t see beyond W-L. I feel sorry for them actually. They’re missing out on so much about baseball.”
A good team doesn’t play to a .377 winning percentage, Trisha. Even underachieving teams don’t go from challenging for the division to playing that poorly. Yes, the Orioles have a lot of potential, and young guys with “talent”. But a lot of players in the past have had talent and never panned out. That’s the point you seem to be missing.
Girardi has no idea what he’s doing.
He has contributed to this losing slide as much as anyone… maybe he already decided to go to the Cubs and has already checked out.
Not looking good tonight.
I hate giving girardi 15 extra men to play with. This using the B lineup every night is wearing thin
# EA September 7th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Granderson has turned into a pumpkin again… 1 for his last 13.
Why can’t this offense get hot for more than a week?
Better question… why do their cold spells last multiple games, and happen in multiple stretches every month?
Why are you calling out just Granderson? You want to add Swish, Posada, Jeter, and Cano to your pumpkin list?
When you do you will understand why the offense has been cold.
1.5 games ahead of Tampa. All the Yankees had to do was take of business here with Orioles and they haven’t. We knew Tampa and the Sox would go back and forth, but NY has played poorly here and now the team is not looking like a championship caliber team. The bullpen-yes. Offensively-bipolar.. Starting pitching-spiralling out of control!
She will also be sure to say how much she doesn’t read the comment section, but she’ll always be lurking for posts about herself so she can get the last word.
# clownthrowindown September 7th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Straw and HOHOHO…
Are you guys delusional??? The Yankees are barely over .500 since the beginning of August despite the win streak. You guys have NO objectivity at all. A line-up full of .260 hitters, one or two dependable starters and a serious lack of fire in the belly.
And Girardi who does his best to make things worse.
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You’re an idiot.
“Someone who doesn’t watch a whole lot of baseball, which Trisha admits to not doing all the time.”
Before I YAWN in your face, try getting it right. For once. I watch a WHOLE lot of baseball little boy. Just more of the AL brand. And I guarantee you that I watch other teams games more than probably anyone else on this forum. Okay? Now, I will do what you’ve earned.
Y-A-W-N!!!
They look old and slow. No clutch hitting against mediocre pitching. Good luck.
GoldGlove9486 September 7th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Lou Piniella needs to be the next manager of this team. Someone tell me I’m wrong.
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You’re wrong.
This is a perfect game for Girardi to get thrown out. The ump has helped the Orioles out in every 2-0 count. He just gave Albers 2 strikes in one at bat that weren’t even close. Girardi is not even close to what I expected as a manager. Where is the temper and standing up for his players? His team is playing like garbage and the ump is taking baserunners away from them and he just sits there in the dugout.
I hate giving girardi 15 extra men to play with. This using the B lineup every night is wearing thin
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are you on crack?
besides arod, the rest is the a lineup. even posada is in there..
Its kind of hard to ignore the W-L record when the team you are trying to sell as a “very good team” is over 30 games under .500.
Especially since, unless they have changed the rules in the last 24 hours, W-L record is what determines who makes the playoffs and who can be called a “good” or “bad” team.
Instead of standing on a completely insane point, its probably smarter to retract the comment and say, “Buck has them playing better”. That’s a more accurate statement than trying to sell a bad baseball team as being a “very good team”.
Rays game? It isn’t even interesting anymore, they are up by a dozen. Poor MatsuSUCKA. Outings like these by him almost makes me not regret the retaliation signing of Kei Igawa by Cash. Almost.
# BJK September 7th, 2010 at 9:43 pm
GoldGlove9486 September 7th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Lou Piniella needs to be the next manager of this team. Someone tell me I’m wrong.
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You’re wrong.
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You’re wrong x 2
Just curious:
Can anyone find one baseball analyst who thought the Orioles would be any good this season? Just one?
Clown, if the yankees suck so bad, can u tell me why they have the best record in baseball and have most of the season? Does every team suck and the yankees suck the least? Admit it, u are angry and venting and u know nothing. You’re utterly clueless. Every word u type is more useless than the previous.
Before I YAWN in your face, try getting it right. For once. I watch a WHOLE lot of baseball little boy. Just more of the AL brand. And I guarantee you that I watch other teams games more than probably anyone else on this forum. Okay? Now, I will do what you’ve earned.
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Let me make up a series of quotes from you , which are 100% true:
“Now I didnt watch the game but it seems like…”
“I was busy so I didn’t watch the game…”
“I was out so I didn’t see it…”
“Now I don’t watch all the games but…(a stupid opinion usually follows)”
I assure you, that I watch or listen to more games of baseball than you’ve seen in the past 3 seasons.
Run a long, little girl, go be crazy with your boyfriend, CR9.
yankees can still take this, but how do they know what is a strike? basically swing at anything from the righty batter box to the line on the other.
My biggest beef with most of you guys is that you don’t realize just how consistent they are. Fact is, they have not had a losing month all season, have won the vast majority of series they have played, have not lost more than three games in a row (hopefully that is not in jeopardy). To say they are inconsistent is to ignore the overall results of their play. You may not lie how they got there, but you can’t argue with their results. What exactly do you want? The ’98 Yankees only come along once in a lifetime.
SJ44
Matt
Talking to trisha is like pissing against the wind.
Can we just forfeit the rest of this series?
Hey, at least the Rays won. Keep the Sox at 9 back. And we’re still up a game and a half – iirc – on the rays.
Even better, CC loses his streak, and we dont have to worry about it happening in the playoffs…
And specifically, I dont have to worry about it happening in the playoffs, and then subsequently smashing windows and doors and end up going to the ER again!
llollollo
“You’re an idiot.” Wrong. It’s “you’re so kay.” Keep up, lol.
CR9
“CC loses his streak, and we dont have to worry about it happening in the playoffs” see, now that’s the way to think positively, I was thinking the same thing.
Why is it so hard to accept that the Yankees are in a funk?
It makes you look silly when you try and paint it as what “the other team” is doing. We’re losing because of our ineptitude, not because Baltimore is some good young team. They suck. They are 30+ games under .500. Teams like that shouldn’t walk into your building and win a series (and potentially sweep if the offense doesn’t show up tomorrow).
Can anyone find one baseball analyst who thought the Orioles would be any good this season? Just one?
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The one Trisha made up, just like her imaginary supporters. It might have even been a caller on WEEI, which is where she gets most of her stupid opinions.
She still hasn’t gotten back to me on her prognosticating about the Yankees for the decade before 2009.
# Faiaz September 7th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
llollollo
“You’re an idiot.” Wrong. It’s “you’re so kay.” Keep up, lol.
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I was so angry I forgot.
SJ – they are a very talented team who were playing dismal baseball and now Buck has them playing very good baseball. As Pat M so aptly pointed out, their young arms were expected to do so much more than they did until Buck showed up. And as perhaps you pointed out, they’ve always been able to hit.
Can you understand it now? Their promise is being realized. So they are not the terrible team you paint them out to be. They’ve picked up the pace and are playing good baseball. As such it is hardly inexcusable to be losing to them.
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Listen to Kay and Singleton. They’re talking about how well the Orioles have been playing right now. Maybe hearing it from men will make it more palatable.
They seem pretty lifeless here. Maybe that’ll change.
Faiaz
Well, I think that way because Im truly demented!
I really didnt want to have to worry about CC’s streak, and then end up doing something I might regret later on, like busting my hands, feet, etc. on glass!
and because of the really crappy strike zone, everyone is swinging at pitches well inside
see…
“Can we just forfeit the rest of this series?”
Losing the first 2 games of the series, one with your ace on the mound, and starting a rookie who pitches up in the zone tomorrow, with the ice cold offense… is akin to doing just that.
And by the way, their bullpen has been pitching really well. The same guys who weren’t doing so well with Trembley. It happens.
I don’t know about anyone thinking the Orioles would contend for anything, but preseason many analysts thought the Jays would be the worst in the division, but not by much.
llollollo
I know what you mean man. You know whenever I heard “I can’t stand some Yankees fans” from opposing teams’ fans before, I would have absolutely no idea about what that meant. After coming here(this is directed at no one) I finally understand.
GoldGlove9486 September 7th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Lou Piniella needs to be the next manager of this team. Someone tell me I’m wrong.
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Seriously, though. The Cubs are one of the most underperforming, disappointing teams in all of baseball. And you want their (ex-)Manager, to replace the current manager who won the World Series last year and has the best record in baseball over the past 2 years.
Perhaps we should think before we type.
IIOIIOIIO,
No, you are ignorant. Totally and completely ignorant. And in denial of their obvious shortcomings. You are the typical cheerleader fan who knows very little about what they are talking about. Its fine to be a fan and roll with the emotion and not get caught up in analysis. But once you open your mouth and attempt to sound intelligent – you should try harder to pull it off. Have a take…don’t suck. Fool!
The orioles have scored 500 runs. And given up 700. They are so bad.
I just love how these guys with high era’s come in and shut us down.
A-God hit the hardest ball tonight.
Where are the A-God haters at?
Btw When I say A-God I mean it like a Marvel Comic character. A-God is a centaur god.
It doesn’t matter who is on the field right now, the Yankees won’t beat anyone playing the way they have been doing lately.
Baltimore has the worst pitching staff in the American League and the Yankees have scored 5 runs in 17 innings against them. It’s more about the Yankees not playing well than anything Baltimore has done.
If the Yankees played even slightly below average baseball by their standards in this series, they most likely still would have at the very least split these two games with a chance to win the series tomorrow.
I think Cano needs another day off tomorrow. His old strike zone has returned
Every team in MLB is filled with players with “promise”
The minor leagues is jam packed with promise.
162 games is what separates the players with promise from the players who can actually deliver on it.
When you have a .377 WP you can have all the promise or talent in the world. At some point you have to actually deliver or means squat and you stink like the Orioles.
Jeter’s swing is unbelievably long and then Teix and Cano roll over on pitches low and away out of the strike zone. It’s bloody painful to watch. August deja vu.
“Listen to Kay and Singleton. They’re talking about how well the Orioles have been playing right now. Maybe hearing it from men will make it more palatable.”
Yawn. Nice try. Every team goes through stretches where they play well. That does not make that team a “good team”.
Good teams have more good stretches than bad. And the Orioles have not done that this season.
Waiting for the next rationalization.
just a pathetic series for NY. Unbelieveable that this team has rolled over on the O’s here. Tired of people giving the O’s credit here when the Yanks have played poorly. Quick innings with no plate patience. DP’s.. RISP is horrible.. Paint it anyway you want it, but the Yanks stink right now!
Shutdown by the O’s. Fun stuff.
The Yankees just don’t hit for average. None of them do. Is there a chance Kevin Long doesn’t have a job next season? If we didn’t have those jet-streams in right field last year, maybe the Yanks don’t even win the division.
# IIOIIOIIO September 7th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
I don’t know about anyone thinking the Orioles would contend for anything, but preseason many analysts thought the Jays would be the worst in the division, but not by much.
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True. The Jays have definitely been the surprise of the division, if not the whole AL.
And that just makes what the Rays and Yankees have done even more impressive. How do you have the two best records in baseball in the same division when 4 of the 5 teams are above .500? Difficult.
Clown-
You listen to Jim Rome. That explains everything. The only thing I ever liked about him was when Jim Everett kicked his a– on national TV.
# clownthrowindown September 7th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
IIOIIOIIO,
No, you are ignorant. Totally and completely ignorant. And in denial of their obvious shortcomings. You are the typical cheerleader fan who knows very little about what they are talking about. Its fine to be a fan and roll with the emotion and not get caught up in analysis. But once you open your mouth and attempt to sound intelligent – you should try harder to pull it off. Have a take…don’t suck. Fool!
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I called you an idiot, I never attempted to sound intelligent or get into any sort of statistical analysis, which, if you spent any time here over the past few months, you’d know I’m perfectly capable of.
With you, however, I do not feel the need to debate because I think you are too stupid to comprehend any argument I develop to refute your asinine point of view.
Another 5 era pitcher pitching tomorrow. How exciting that should equal 2 runs for the Yanks. Is Showalter getting the champagne ready for after the game when they win? Kay is talking about him like he is the greatest manager ever and his team already has 115 wins this year. When it’s quite the opposite. Who cares about him and his last place loser teams.
The Yankees just don’t hit for average. None of them do. Is there a chance Kevin Long doesn’t have a job next season? If we didn’t have those jet-streams in right field last year, maybe the Yanks don’t even win the division.
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dumb comment of the evening.
In their run since Showalter took over, they’ve beaten: the angels, indians, royals, white sox.
They’ve also lost to: the mariners, red sox, rangers, rays
And just recently have won 2 games against the Rays. And now 2 against the Yankees.
Most of their wins came from sweeping the angels and taking 3 out of 4 against the white sox.
I’ll give it a 20% chance that Grandy is a Yankee next yr. See them signing Crawford n moving BG to CF
We get it- the o’s aren’t a good team. Anyone else want to post a comment that’s already been said like 100 times? Chime in. Yours will really pound home the message.
First curve ball by Candy Cummings.
Os scored 5 runs against Jon Lester last week too.
Except it didn’t matter because the Sox did what we should have – scored 9 runs and overcame his bad start.
Yankees used to carry quite a few hitters that hit for average of around .300 Arod, Jeter and even Posada was around .285. Tex was there last year as well. Don’t know what it is but it may be the difference between winning the WS this year compared to last year.
Who could have seen this coming three days ago? I was worried what would happen when CC had a less than stellar start. Now we’re relying on the likes of Nova and Vasquz to get us out of this mini slump. Could be a rough few days ahead.
# GoldGlove9486 September 7th, 2010 at 9:53 pm
The Yankees just don’t hit for average. None of them do. Is there a chance Kevin Long doesn’t have a job next season? If we didn’t have those jet-streams in right field last year, maybe the Yanks don’t even win the division.
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2nd in the AL in average last season. 5th this season, but number 1 in OBP. Yep. Must have just been that jet stream last season.
Kay slurps Showalter because he hates Torre and and is close with Buck and wants to prop Buck up so people will credit him with building the dynasty over Torre.
Just another childish antic by Kay. But it is better than Singleton spending the entire broadcast talking about his time with the Orioles.
Jerk,
They beat the rays in the series prior to the one they are playing with us right now.
ac1 September 7th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
The Yankees just don’t hit for average. None of them do. Is there a chance Kevin Long doesn’t have a job next season? If we didn’t have those jet-streams in right field last year, maybe the Yanks don’t even win the division.
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dumb comment of the evening.
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Really? I would’ve gone with his Pinella nonsense comment.
I really despise Brian Roberts. The best thing that Bubba Crosby ever did – aside from his walkoff HR against the Orioles – was taking out Brian Roberts
They aren’t a talented team Trisha. That’s what you don’t seem to understand.
Matt Weiters will probably be playing first base next year because he can’t catch. He isn’t even playing tonight.
Brian Roberts is a shell of his former self.
Robert Andino and Cesar Izturis aren’t the answer at SS.
Nobody knows if Josh Bell can play third base.
If they move Weiters, they don’t have a catcher.
Pie is terrible. Adam Jones and Nick Markakis are keepers.
That’s not a talented team. Its not even close to being a talented team.
ALL of their young pitchers, with the exception of Matusz, has underachieved this year.
Its not a good team. Playing well for 2-3 weeks, doesn’t make them a good team.
Every team in baseball has 2-3 hot weeks.
They have too many poor players on the team to be a “very good team”.
Even Buck knows they aren’t a very good team.
They are in complete rebuilding mode. A “very good team” doesn’t rebuild.
Don’t know what it is but it may be the difference between winning the WS this year compared to last year.
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Tex has been hitting .300 since June 1. Posada is never really a .300 hitter, or a .280 hitter.
looks like jeter is turning the corner!!!!!!!!
oops that is heresay to say about g-d Jeter. Hey at least he got 1 ball out of the infield. Maybe they should hit him 3rd………
last few games nothing with RISP.. Cano looks lost and today tex has nothing…..
Gold
“K-Long doesn’t have a job next season” I’m speechless, please tell me you were being sarcastic.
Hendrickson is a terrible pitcher, opponents hit .318 against him and his ERA is 4.97 over 67 innings as a reliever. Gotta be able to score some runs off him and make this look like a close game.
S W E E P
I’m sorry…K Long will have a job. He can go wherever Granderson gets traded to.
# NYY fan in NH September 7th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Yankees used to carry quite a few hitters that hit for average of around .300 Arod, Jeter and even Posada was around .285. Tex was there last year as well. Don’t know what it is but it may be the difference between winning the WS this year compared to last year.
You start the postseason batting zero. Tex Swish Cano Damon (until the ALCS) Matsui (until the world series) did great in the regular season and struggled at some point in the postseason.
Didn’t Hendrickson play for the Supersonics in the NBA?
Every other team in the league hits these pitchers, and for a reason.
Baltimore despite their recent “good streak” is still an awful pitching team. They have been winning on offense, and if you don’t hit their garbage 5.00 ERA pitchers that they run out there every inning you deserve to lose.
Maybe this team can be like the 2000 Yankees…a joke of a September, back in to the playoffs, and get hot in October.
Rob B -
Trying reading comprehension, ass clown.
One more time. THEY HAVE PLAYED GOOD BASEBALL UNDER SHOWALTER. THEY FIELDED A GOOD TEAM WITH GOOD STARTING PITCHING BUT UNDER TREMBLEY PLAYED BAD BASEBALL. THOSE DAYS ARE BEHIND THEM WITH SHOWALTER.
Which is what I said from jumpstreet.
Pitcher with a 5 era coming in to close this one out. I would be shocked if Girardi doesn’t have a meeting after this game. This is embarrassing. They look like the last place AAA team in this series. Easy out after easy out.
Once again, the results show that this team has been consistent at one thing all season. Winning. No losing months, few series lost, no more than three games lost in a row. Even those gritty gut Sox are getting it handed to them tonight after scoring double digits last night. Until the Yankees go in a prolonged slump or losing streak (which they won’t), you should all quit worrying.
Tex has been hitting .300 since June 1. Posada is never really a .300 hitter, or a .280 hitter
Jerface- Come on, Posada hit .338 back in 07! He’s close to a career .280 hitter. Who cares if Tex has hit .300 since June. He’s still 34 points below .300 for the season.
Gold,
You do know that he also deserves credit for Cano right? He went to Dominican Republic in the off-season to work with Cano.
The Yankees should not lose a series at home to the last place Orioles. Bottom line.
why having itzuris and andino with about 310 OBP’s as your shortstops is not good!!!
swisher is lost… SJ it is just like the guys who hit 500 against the yanks but 230 against the lague with a 300 OBP, the fans want the yanks to trade for them.
almost no late inning magic this year.
I know why I hate sterling and waldman….listen to the game sometime, they actually almost never talk about the game. they talk about BS and do commercials, or sterling has his condensending chuckle that is it.
hey good news Cervelli may remain AJ’s personal catcher during the playoffs, after all it has worked so well during the regular season……
GoldGlove9486 September 7th, 2010 at 9:53 pm
The Yankees just don’t hit for average. None of them do. Is there a chance Kevin Long doesn’t have a job next season? If we didn’t have those jet-streams in right field last year, maybe the Yanks don’t even win the division.
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Jeter, Tex, ARod, Posada, Berkman, Granderson all on pace for the worst average years of their career. Last I checked, most of those guys are under .260.
K. Long couldn’t have anticipated that. But you are right – that is one of the reasons for our offensive streakiness. Lots of low average hitters this year compared to last.
The Orioles may not be a good team and most of these guys may be somewhere else next year, but, Showalter has scared them into playing better or as well as any team in the AL East for the last month and a half.
# Faiaz September 7th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Didn’t Hendrickson play for the Supersonics in the NBA?
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He definitely played in the NBA, but I thought it was Sacramento or the Sixers.
Terrible game.
Baltimore – 22-13 since Showalter took over.
Wake up.
Baltimore – 22-13 since Showalter took over.
Wake up.
“Trying reading comprehension, ass clown.”
You just lost the argument.
Posada is a .276 hitter. But he has 7 seasons where he hit under .270! He is more of a patient slugger than a high average hitter. His .330 season was very flukey.
The Yankees swung at 4 pitches in that inning. 3 of them were not even close to the strike zone.
You make your own breaks by not swinging at garbage. Hendrickson has been one of the worst pitchers in the league in the last few years, he cannot fool anyone and you only make outs against him if you swing at junk pitches that have no bite in the dirt.
Over and Ugly!! Just a sickening display of pennant race baseball tonight.
Well guys it has been real and it has been fun but it hasn’t been real fun.
hey let’s not insult jeter. I say 4 years $25 mill. he deserves it, since he hit the ball out of the infield tonight and did not ground into any DP’s tonight.
Jeter is the only guy who is going to defy the aging process. after all he does not play a demanding postion…..
yep 4 yrs $25 mill, cannot insult him………….
Jeter has been terrible this season.. More dp’s then any other season.. With a .260 batting average..C’mon. I hope this is not the jeter we will be seeing 4 the next 4 yrs.
Just emabrrassing. Why is it that this whole lineup goes cold at the same exact time? It’s never 1 or 2 guys struggling it’s everyone. You can’t expect to score runs when you have zero patience at the plate and swing at garbage. It’s amazing how many 5 era pitchers beat them. They went down easy tonight without a fight.
“Baltimore – 22-13 since Showalter took over.
Wake up.”
WHO CARES??????? The Orioles were in 1st place for 2 months in 2005, they werent a good team then and they arent a good team now!
Orioles are actually 21-13, but most of those wins came against the angels (out of it) , white sox (middle tier), and royals (garbage).
Everyone loves the underdog right???
Great job by the Yankees tonight. NOT.
They did a really poor job these past two games. They sometimes play down when they face losers, and they did that tonight.
Pathetic outing from them. I am sick to death of hearing about how Showalter is some frickin’ genius in turning things around. That’s BS given his short term there.
Since the AS Break…8th in ERA, 5th in batting average. This is not a team primed for the playoffs. Inconsistent, lacking effort many nights, poorly managed by a manager who worries more about feelings than wins, old and injured. Just staggering to the finish line and awaiting a pasting by their playoff opponent. Figure all the post season rotations you want…all it takes is one off night like tonight by CC and its all over.
$213M – three times what the other playoff teams spend – and all Cashman has to show for it is one lockdown starter, a great closer and a gaggle of .260 hitters who make a fortune yet only show up to play occasionally.
“Maybe this team can be like the 2000 Yankees…a joke of a September, back in to the playoffs, and get hot in October.”
Competition was much worse then. If we went 3-15 this September, we wouldn’t even make the playoffs.
We could get hot, but this offense hasn’t gotten hot for more than a week all season, so it would be a surprise to see them get hot for 3 weeks. The pitching will be fine though, except Burnett.
Who’s the only man to play with M. Mantle and Elgin Baylor ?
Clown-
And a world series ring from last year. Jackass.
Charles Nash
Posada is a .276 hitter. But he has 7 seasons where he hit under .270! He is more of a patient slugger than a high average hitter. His .330 season was very flukey
You do realize the last time he hit below his current avg was back in 09 when he hit .245. Point is that the whole team is hitting like .265 except for select few. That could cause an offense to go into a funk for a period of time.
The Yankees may have lost this game even if Sabathia pitched well.
9 baserunners, 2 for 11 with RISP, 2 runs off of Arrietta and his 5.00 ERA as a starter.
Hard to win any games when you score 2 and 3 runs. The blame goes all around.
This team except in the recent 8 game winning streak has very rarely picked up its starting pitching for much of this season. They have had 10 more games than Tampa in which they have won by more than 3 runs, but they pile on when winning and don’t scratch out the runs when they are behind.
The answer to my trivia question is long tall reliever Steve Hamilton
“You just lost the argument.”
Yeah okay because you said so. I don’t waste my time arguing with people who don’t even have the premise of the discussion point correct. That would be you. So you just lost the argument.
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I will not argue that the Yankees are playing good basaeball. If anyone had used that as the centerpiece to his argument you certainly wouldn’t haven’t gotten any debate from me.
4 NYY September 7th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
Who’s the only man to play with M. Mantle and Elgin Baylor ?
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Steve Hamilton
86 wins. 86 wins. 86 wins. 86 wins. The Yankees will win somewhere between 98-102 games this year. That apparently is not a good enough season for sone of you. They may repeat as World champions. If they don’t, will that be not good enough for some of you. The playoffs are always somwhat of a crapshoot. The Yankees have won the most WS, but they have also lost the most. It happens. Me, I’m just happy that they put themselves in the position to have a chance to win it every year. But perfection, I do not expect,
# GreenBeret7 September 7th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
4 NYY September 7th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
Who’s the only man to play with M. Mantle and Elgin Baylor ?
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Steve Hamilton
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Did you know that or …… ?
# TheStraw September 7th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
86 wins. 86 wins. 86 wins. 86 wins. The Yankees will win somewhere between 98-102 games this year. That apparently is not a good enough season for sone of you. They may repeat as World champions. If they don’t, will that be not good enough for some of you. The playoffs are always somwhat of a crapshoot. The Yankees have won the most WS, but they have also lost the most. It happens. Me, I’m just happy that they put themselves in the position to have a chance to win it every year. But perfection, I do not expect,
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Wow, we must have been separated at birth ! Totally agree ! A little better than 2 out of every 3 W.S. won. Have been in 46% of W.S. since 1923, their first .