Game 147: Yankees at Orioles
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Gameday Thread on Sep 17, 2010 
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YANKEES (88-58)
Derek Jeter SS
Curtis Granderson CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Robinson Cano 2B
Lance Berkman DH
Austin Kearns RF
Brett Gardner LF
Francisco Cervelli C
RHP A.J. Burnett (10-13, 5.13)
Burnett vs. Orioles
ORIOLES (58-88)
Brian Roberts 2B
Nick Markakis RF
Ty Wigginton 1B
Luke Scott DH
Felix Pie LF
Adam Jones CF
Matt Weiters C
Robert Andino 3B
Cesar Izturis SS
RHP Kevin Millwood (3-15, 5.30)
Millwood vs. Yankees
TIME/TV: 7:05 p.m. / YES Network
UMPIRES: HP Ted Barrett, 1B Tony Randazzo, 2B Paul Nauert, 3B Brian Gorman
WEATHER: I feel like we’ve been lucky in Baltimore this year. A lot of really nice nights like this one. Temperatures in the low 70s. A few clouds but almost no chance of rain. It’s just a nice night.
ONE AWAY: Derek Jeter’s next run will be his 100th of the season, giving him 13 seasons with at least 100 runs scored. That would tie Lou Gehrig for the most such seasons with the Yankees. Among active players, only Alex Rodriguez has as many 100-run seasons. That’s all from Elias.
NEW ADDITION: Single-A Charleston hitting coach Greg Colbrunn has ben added to the major league staff and will be with the team through Thursday.
THE ONES THAT COUNT: Of the Yankees 178 home runs this season, 73 have either tied a game or put the Yankees in the lead. That’s 41 percent.
THE BEGINNING OF THE ARM: Greg Golson is celebrating his 25th birthday today.
UPDATE, 7:24 p.m.: Alex Rodriguez just opened the second inning with a towering home run to left-center. It’s a 1-0 Yankees lead on No. 24 for A-Rod.
UPDATE, 7:41 p.m.: The Yankees went on to load the bases in the second, but Derek Jeter lined out to end it. That’s tough luck. The more frustrating at-bats had to be the Austin Kearns and Francisco Cervelli strikeouts. Still 1-0.
UPDATE, 7:56 p.m.: Good second inning for A.J. Burnett. He put the first two batters on base, then retired the next three to get out of it without a run. Seems like those are the kind of innings he never has on a bad night. He’ll have a bad night with some 1-2-3 innings, but his problem often seems to be limiting damage and getting out of trouble.
UPDATE, 8:29 p.m.: I remember seeing Adam Jones in spring training and thinking he might win the MVP award while playing for a sub-.500 team. He just looked unstoppable. His numbers are bad this season, but he’s still a dangerous hitter who’s solo home run in the fourth has given the Orioles a 2-1 lead.
UPDATE, 9:05 p.m.: Sorry, I’ve been writing a lot during this game. Not that very much has happened. Burnett has been solid. I think you’ll take six innings, two runs, but the Yankees offense is still scuffling. With one out in the seventh, Jorge Posada is pinch hitting for Cervelli.
UPDATE, 9:24 p.m.: That’s the first home run of the season for Robert Andino.
UPDATE, 10:05 p.m.: Well that changes things. Down to his last strike, Alex Rodriguez just hit a three-run home run that’s given the Yankees a 4-3 lead in the ninth. This game was over until Rodriguez crushed his second home run of the night.
Just Don’t Lose !
(But I am asking for the impossible.)
LGY – Well, service differs everywhere. There may be one good Ruby Tuesday and one terrible Ruby Tuesday. Im only speaking of the Ruby Tuesday that I frequent.
And you’re right, if you had any Yankees regalia on, that was probably the reason.
I just went to a Sonny’s a few days ago and the waitress had that sick Boston accent and I heard her speaking to another customer and the other customer asked her what part of Massachusetts. Well, the other 3 people at my table got their food before me, and the other customer’s party – the Bostonian – got their food before me even though arriving later. I was wearing my Giants SB XLII Champions hat. I knew she was discriminating against me….dirtpile.
This was a while back, but I definitely think I had a Yankee hat on.
LGY – Then there’s your answer. Occam’s Razor – The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.
Lance Berkman DH
Austin Kearns RF
Francisco Cervelli C
O My !!!!!!!!
Looks like Mattingly’s chances of becoming Yankee manager is gone.
Turns out we’ve got Tino on the radio fillin in for Suzyn.
I really hope Jeter understands why the ruckus….. The uniform he wears. Simplest explanation.
looking for 2/11 in tonights game
Our own commentator talking about poetic justice against us???????????
Now Im already furious.
You want poetic justice, Kay. How about Varitek viciously starting a fight with his catcher’s gear on in 2004, then going on to win the WS for the first time in 86 years. We didnt get poetic justice, KAY!!!
Jerkface, if you take your starters out very early in the game, when it’s still within reach, how long are you going with, say a Nova or a Javy………presuming, of course, that either of them pitch well. If they don’t, it’s on to the next long man…………who is then unavailable for the next game.
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There are only 9 innings in a game. If nova, javy, AJ, and hughes cannot combine for 12 innings between two games then I’m sorry, but that is such a worst case scenario that the Yankees should NOT plan for it.
If it happens you pitch all your relievers for an inning.
anybody else having problems getting the game on mlbtv?
Jeter, Teixeira and ARod get booed everywhere apparently.
AJ Burnett with one of the “worst seasons of all-time” and yet AJ still has a better ERA than Kevin Millwood. Says all you need to know about Millwood.
I’m not having any trouble with it on mlb.tv
lets see what Berkman can do against Millwood
Great pitch AJ hahaha.
Granderson chases ball 4 and tex strikes out on 3 pitches.
Tex has looked lost at the plate for the past two weeks.
We see how quickly that lasted for Mazzilli, Kay!
Man, Tex has been beyond brutal…………………..can he step up, just a little? What’s he battin, .200 for the month?
Aj throwing 95……
Hey, I’m just tuning in, it’s the bottom of the first and the Yank’s don’t lead by at least three runs?????
Obviously the teams Sucks and has No grit or guts!!!!111!!!11!!
Who is doing the broadcast with John Sterling tonight?
TIA,
C
I support AJ, however I not falling for his first strong “inning.” I have to take it batter to batter with him. I’m sorry
# Betsy September 17th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
Man, Tex has been beyond brutal…………………..can he step up, just a little? What’s he battin, .200 for the month?
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He’s saving it for October.
See ya!
A-ROD!!!!!
Alex says enough!
Trevor, I know you’re being sarcastic, but he didn’t save it for October last year, save that one huge HR. We also need him to do his part in the regular season………………
I still have hope for 30!
Tino is on the radio filling in.
As for Tex, he picked an unfortunate time to go into one of his cold streaks.
Link for the Trenton game. Warren is pitching.
http://www.rider.edu/175_16702.htm
Alex!!!
This guy is set for a HUGE post-season.
one pitch to late
AJ’s got the buzzsaw working! Let the offense get a definitive lead to take any pressure off of Burnett. A-Bomb is a good start.
Kaboom.
Arod has been locked in since returning from the DL.
Boom…. A-rods lookin strong since the dl stint…
Millwood sucks. Need to put up some crooked numbers.
Can alex get 6 more??
“We can get through the regular season without him, but I don’t think we can get through the postseason without him.”
That’s Tex talking about Andy………..some folks are pretty steamed that he would say something like that.
BUNT THE BALL AUSTIN
basically they have to win this series, better sweep
Berkman is a professional LH/ bat. He really doesn’t swing at bad pitches.
That DL stint allowed Alex to rest his hip…………….nice added benefit.
Down 0-2 again. More men on base.
Alex’s swing looks the best it has the entire year. He looks great. Wonderful balance to his swing. Nice and easy through his arms because his base and hips are working so well.
To me it looks like Alex’s hip is probably feeling better than it has all year.
Just huge for this team. With all of the offensive ineptitude – Alex can carry them all by himself. It’s far from optimal given that he’s had a bit of an up and down season and hasn’t been completely healthy, but he looks to be peaking at the right time.
Also nice to see that Robbi’s slump appears to be over. He got completely locked in down in Tampa and he just put another terrific swing on the ball.
And for what it’s worth – AJ looked very good that first inning. The life and command on his fastball were far better than they’ve been for most of the season. In fact we haven’t seen his fastball with that command and life very often this season. He overpowered several swings with that good heavy fastball.
Betsy….Tex has a propensity to have “arod” type moments when he really means to say one thing but it comes out the wrong way.
Wow, Kearns has a MASSIVE hitch in his swing.
could you just bunt, instead of aiming for 3un HR?
that a way Kearns
0-2 AGAIN
’3un’
what a fxxking moron?!
Yeah! WooooHoooo! Right down the middle strike 3! haha
geez, ’3 run’
Unreal. This is deja vu. Bunt this guy. Cano and berk get on and kearns fails again. This is unreal how often this has happened lately. Big spot and he gets behind 0-2 again and fails. Where the hell is thames?? Girardi is a complete moron
thats kkkkkkkkearns 8th K in ….I dont know.. 5 games??
I think Long needs to break Kearns’ swing down and make it as simple as possible. He’s just not getting the bat to the ball on time because of the huge hitch in his swing.
What a pick-up that Kearns was!!
Hey Girardi you bunt 3-0 but you won’t bunt with two runners no out and a pathetic loser at the plate who strikes out ALL THE TIME
“Can alex get 6 more??”
Yes. He can do it. It’s going to be tough but he can get that number.
How is that Tex quote controversial? We need our number 2 starter for the playoffs, we can get in the playoffs without him, though. He’s 100% right.
What’s the over-under on how many times in a row Kearns can strike out with men on base? That’s got to be at least 4 in a row, and counting.
Has anyone considered that Kearns is not a skilled bunter?
Tino sure seems to talk a lot.
Boston up 2-0 already.
What’s he skilled AT? Besides striking out, I mean…
Nice AB Gardner
CB,
most of my family dont believe he will get it, i’m his only supporter. I was trying to explain to them when alex is locked in, anything he hits will be either a single or home run.
Ah, it’s Brett Cecil. Yipppeee! We know for sure Cecil aint no Dan Johnson; does well against us, stinks up the joint versus them. Johnson does well versus both.
“I think Long needs to break Kearns’ swing down and make it as simple as possible. ”
Patrick-
He has a horrible swing. I posted about that soon after they traded for him. Even though he was doing well at the time – you could see it wasn’t going to last. He was a huge prospect at one time – and you can see how there’s just no way that swing was going to play well in the bigs. The minors you can get away with that because the off speed stuff down there isn’t very good. Not up there.
It’s very long and very top hand dominant. The reason why he swings at so many dumb pitches is because he has to get his swing started ridiculously early to get the bat head through the zone. That makes his pitch recognition comical.
Just a guess – I think he may have an awful time in the post season. With all of the scouting reports done – he’s going to see nothing but soft stuff down over and over.
Stop playing kearns!!
betsy you are beyond comprehension. do you read the crap that you post.
at least the Angels are winning
That was the best I’ve seen AJ’s fastball look in awhile in the 1st inning. Hopefully its sustainable.
That’s an awful at bat by Cervelli. Here we go leaving the bases loaded AGAIN. That’s why we keep losing.
k’s with the bases juiced! *sigh*
Kearns had a good week after the trade, but he has been up in alot of crucial situations and has just been brutal. Please Swish get back quick!!
Cervelli continues to be brutal.
Just throw an 89mph slopball right down the middle, and he couldnt bother to get a fly ball to the OF to get a run in. …. …. …… Unbelievable.
come on Jeter
Unreal! Same old Yanks
Be Jeterian.
Just brutal playing Cervelli tonight over Posada. Just kills the team with an awful at bat.
He got over powered by Kevin Millwood.
The drop off between him and Posada is just immense.
Cervelli cannot play in the post season.
This has been an issue the entire road trip…just getting nothing from the bottom 1/3
Lol @ kearns and cervelli. More wasted opportunities. What a surprise. Maybe jeter can salvage this.
We could really use a base hit here Derek to turn around this inning.
This team doesn’t know how to hit a sac fly
Kearns can’t field and can’t hit… put Golson in so he can play defense at least
88 mph fastball’s and striking out the bottom of the order like nothing.. Pathetic bottom 3rd.
Why on earth would anyone be steamed by that statemetn by Tex? It was a freakin’ compliment! You can cover for Andyr during the seasn, and they have. But he said they CAN’T cover for him or replace him in the off-season. What is wrong with athat statement? Someone tell me. Or are we jsut looking for conroversy now??
He can’t hit a flyball? He cannot play in the post season. I don’t care who’s pitching
Just pray Montero can split the catching with Posada next year….
Maybe DJ can get “hit” by a pitch here??
Take a walk DJ
derek…please dont fall for the junk.
Stump’s brilliance again. Golson or Russo should be in RF. God forbid he bunt Kearns. And Cervelli just absolutely stinks. Here we go again. Missed oportunities.We had Millwood on the ropes and screwed it up AGAIN.
darn
Again I don’t understand Aj and the personal catcher…it’s not like he is lights out with cervalli..he still pitches crappy..is it worth it to weaken the line- up?? If aj was winning and pitching to a good era..then fine he gets catcher..but he doesn’t
BAD LUCK! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Stung right at them.
are you kiddingme
Great at bat for Derek. WHY IS CERVELLI PLAYING AFTER AN OFF DAY?
No luck there…even with a solidly hit ball, 3 runners stranded…
WOW!! Score should be at least 2-0.
That’s just not fair!!!
Can’t blame Derek there. Good at bat, nice line drive. Whatcha gonna do?
another 3 men left on
With Bustnett on the mound you need at least 10 runs
Good AB by Jeter….hit it hard twice with nothing to show for it…..could have been a big inning there had Kearns and Cervelli not bailed Millwood out. Yankees should get to him and score a few though….he’s just not very good anymore. Hopefully AJ can sustain that first inning tonight.
I’ll say it again: they will rue this huge, blown opportunity
Jeter
Same old fricking story. Choke when they could put them ahead.
Kearns, Cervelli, Jeter, all easy outs, and being a row is killing every chance the team has.
Good to see we’re widening our league lead in LOB.
god this team absolutely stinks in the clutch. Figure out how to put the bat on the ball with a runner on 3rd and less than 2 outs. FOR ONCE!!!!!
That at bat from Jeter exemplifies many of the concerns one has to have with Jeter.
Millwood threw an absolute cement mixer slider that second pitch. It was up and doing nothing but hanging there.
And Jeter didn’t square it up. Then Millwood throws a poor 89mph fastball up in the zone and Jeter is late on the pitch.
Those are two pitches that just a year ago he would have driven to right field with authority.
He hit that last pitch hard but even then it was a strange swing for him as he tried to pull a pitch he’d usually try to take to RF.
They get men on base and it’s just a series of awful at bats filled with ugly swings.
I almost can’t watch this anymore.. It’s the same ol thing with this offense.. Get em early and they can’t capitalize and end up being short by a run at the end of the game..
Sigh.
Girardi’s hard-on for Cervelli strikes again.
I am pro Derek, but he has been missing mistakes all year.. he is a terrible 1 for 18 now with bases loaded this year.
he missed a hanging breaking ball that at bat and couldn’t catch up to an 89mph fastball, how is that not his fault? He was way out in front of the last fastball.
Runner on second with no one out for this team is as good as runner on second and two out. Just nauseating.
Will Joe continue to use cervalli in the post season? I bet he will..just like Molina last year…got to make Aj happy?? Why I have no idea
Just brutal playing Cervelli tonight over Posada. Just kills the team with an awful at bat
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That’s the first thought that popped into my head when Cervelli couldn’t get the bat around on a 89 mph fastball down the middle
The Wrong Joe said he was done managing after this year.
“I am pro Derek”
Question of the night: What Yankees fan isn’t pro-Derek? If there are any, Id like to meet them and then do something that would land me in prison.
Here we go….runs coming after missed opportunities.
CB,
can’t disagree but he is staying back much better the last few games than he has in months. The first AB was a good swing just to the deepest part of the park. He’s still not right yet but he’s closer than he’s been since before the AS break from what I see. Cervelli’s and Kearn’s AB’s bother me a lot more in that inning….just non competitive against a guy that isn’t very good.
leadoff walk… Saw that coming.. Nice job AJ.
And here we go . . .
Kearns and cervalli are not ” chokers” …the definition of choker is someone who can not come through in the clutch..cervalli and kearns just stink..they don’t come through ever….clutch or no clutch..
Sept. scoreboard watching. An american pasttime.
Why is he walking luke skywalker?
CR9,
I guess you missed the massive discussion on this blog about how Derek lacks moral fiber because he faked getting hit by a pitch. Some fans are dopes
here is Bustnett
lead off walk
You just can’t blow giant opportunities like that and expect to win. This is just the same old tired story from this team. Can’t even execute the fundamentals. Its getting really old and this team isn’t getting beat. They’re beating themselves time after time. They’re just giving these games away. Even a sac fly here and there and their record would be much different lately. Its so gross.
Pull him now!@!!!
/Sj44
Get Javy up….
Buckle up, kids
and a base hit
here we go
told ya they needed at least 10
triple play, boys….
The same thing every time from Kay. Who cares about Felix Peee-ay? It’s as if he thinks that nobody has watched a Yankees-Orioles telecast before. Maybe Kay just doesn’t remember rehashing the same garbage time after time?
Now let’s see the O’s show them Yankees how to move runners and capitalize.
Team Choke is fulfilling its mission
I think a choker is a good player…who struggles in big spots…cervalli is not good..he is hitting about .250 with no home runs..that is just a bad offensive player
I feel for AJ a bit. He sits for 25 minutes and only has a 1-0 lead because his manager puts idiots in the order every day. Kevin Russo could have bunted.
Thanks JM. Thought it was him, but wasn’t sure.
C
Why do some of you even bother to watch the games?
AJ’s fastball tonight has very good late life to it. And despite that he keeps throwing his curve ball.
It’s really as if he doesn’t understand what he has working for him in a game. And unfortunately Cervelli just goes along with AJ’s plan. He’s a catcher who will just agree and go along with a pitcher who has one of the worst pitching IQ’s in the game.
Patrick – I didnt miss it. It’s shameful.
Yanks caught a break there….that wasn’t on the transfer.
Shutdown innings—– Has AJ had more then a couple all season.
needed a K there.. Now there is a easy run for the O’s
Peee-ay never touched 2nd base. No controversy there.
Just an absolutely horrible, horrible call by the umpire there.
Jeter didn’t even come close to controlling that baseball. That should not have been an out at second base.
Should be bases loaded none out. The Yankees got very lucky that the ump gifted them an out.
Jeter must be a cheater or something. Next is a Jeter-umpire conspiracy from the media.
That drop by Jeter could have been ugly. That’s a mental mistake and not physical. He’s done that a couple of times this week. That leads one to think something is on his mind other than baseball.
“Just an absolutely horrible, horrible call by the umpire there.”
I didnt bring umpires up tonight. But obviously that post was meant for me. That is a common call in baseball. And it didn’t matter, the guy didn’t touch 2nd base anyway. No gift.
He slid and came up short of the base, NO GIFT! Never touched 2B, NO GIFT!
One out men on 1st and 3rd.
Two seam fastball to the left hander? Change up he can roll over.
Nah.
lol GB
Angels 2-1 over Rays
Great block by Cervelli there…that’s a dangerous pitch with a guy on third but was a nasty slider and nice play by Cervelli..
Actually, pie started running off the field before the ump made any call at all. So, you’re wrong. If he had called safe, jeter just wouldve tagged pie. Horrible execution by all parties.
don’t know what wieters was swinging at. that was nowhere near the strike zone. looks like a yankee hitter up there
“That leads one to think something is on his mind other than baseball.” Lookie here, we’ve got an amateur pop psychologist!
Is there anyone who is surprised that Kearns, Cervelli and Jeter didn’t get it done at the plate? Of course, Posada is “resting”. Getting the picture in person Cashman?
.211 hitter with 3 RBI’s.. is this a no-brainer?
“But obviously that post was meant for me.”
What? Please. Get over yourself. That was a general observation. I could care less about posting with you as an audience.
If I wanted to say something directed at you I’d address you.
Pie did leave the bag but he looked at the ump first and saw that he called him out….not a good call but we’ll certainly take it.
Looks like A.J. got in a fight
Good for AJ.
Why can’t he always be like that?
Why does he lose focus so easily?
Good job AJ… couple big pitches there. Nice to see.
AJ getting gutsy?
“If he had called safe, jeter just wouldve tagged pie. Horrible execution by all parties.”
That doesn’t change the fact that the call was wrong.
He should have been called safe and Jeter should have had to tag him.
Pie probably didn’t even watch the ball. He was safe. If he’s silly enough to stray off the bag and not finish the play through that’s a completely separate issue from getting the call right in the first place.
AJ’s curve looks good so far
GB – Did you get your degree in psychology from the same school that taught you to hear corked bats through your television.
CB – My bad. It wasn’t that far a stretch when Im the only wacko on here talking about umpires all the time and getting wrongfully ripped for it
And this isn’t the grammar police or anything, but it’s COULD NOT CARE LESS
Seriously did anyone notice the black eye on A.J. ? Maybe I’m seeing things
This is why aj will be in the postseason rotation. The potential for greatness is still there. He gives them a better chance than javy or nova to shut down a good team. I know the orioles aren’t good, but aj still has a lot of his stuff. He just has to become a better pitcher. Its about effort and focus.
Nice 7-pitch inning against one of the league’s worst pitchers
“He just has to become a better pitcher. Its about effort and focus”.
Kevin – come on. AJ is not a rookie, everyone knows beyond a shadow of a doubt what he will do. He is not going to become a better pitcher.
We had Millwood at 45+ pitches through 2 innings, and then one weak inning aside from a Tex ripshot and now he’s only at 56 through 3. This is how their starters are able to extend through the 5th and sometimes 6th even though they were worked beyond belief in the first 2 innings.
One can only imagine how much fodder the Twins and Rangers scouts are collecting for their post season scouting reports on the yankees hitters.
They are going to see so many off speed pitches in the playoffs. It’s going to be a barrage of junk.
3-1 Angels.
Hit the 9th-place hitter?? Yes, shades of greatness.
Cervelli is brutal
that is the Bustnett I know
walks, hit batters, and stolen bases
This man is amazing
Izturis did the anti-Brett Gardner. He ran on the 1st pitch. I wish Brett Gardner would love to see himself run as much as Michael Kay likes to hear himself talk.
CB -
All year it’s been the same thing.
Pitchers facin them for the first time threw junk and won.
Can’t they prepare for something like that?
How come these scribes can move the runner over with a ground ball, but never us?
And CB, wht puzzles me is, why haven’t they made improvemens in that deparatment during the course of the season? It’s been a weakness all year.
Ace September 17th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
Cervelli is brutal
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The worst!! He is the worst
I don’t care what happens with aj this game. Sharp curve tonight, fastball in the mid 90s has hit 95 and 96. If he mixes in his change and 2 seamer in the playoffs, he can do damage. Not predicting anything but I’d rather have talent than scared garbage vazquez or total non experience with nova.
Meant scrubs
Time for Teixeira to start earning his pay this month.
The guy looks like he did in April/May.
Tough to win when your 3 hitter is sucking.
It’s only a matter of time in this game before Burnett gets lit up like a roman candle. Everyone knows it.
They are playing their absolute worst baseball now.
Millwood is essentially throwing batting practice tonight and they’re not even getting good swings.
One run without a hit thanks to our head case pitcher. 0-2 on the leadoff guy. Incredible that he beat the Phillies in the World Series.
Bustnett giving them a run AGAIN
That’s how it’s done…small ball…Yankees need to watch & learn
What kills me is the didn’t even earn that run. Sigh.
See, just watch Baltimore. 1 run on no hits.
Just put a bat on the ball and drive the run in. But Cervelli just stood there swinging for the fences on 89mph slopballs.
thats how you get a run in without depending on a homerun.
if Yanks manage to miss the postseason, should Joe be fired?
How many friginn guys has AJ hit in the foot this year Anybody??
How didnt the Orioles earn that run? They got hit by a pitch. Stole a base, moved the runner over to 3rd, and then sacrificed him home. That an example of earning a run.
17 September, 1961, Roger Maris hit a game winning 2 run homer off of Terry Fox in Detroit in the 12th inning to win the game. It was #58.
Please, make it stop
If the Yanks somehow miss the post-season, there’s no way they re-sign Girardi.
one thing about AJ…
his mucus sputum has good 12 to six rotation and his phlegm has a lot of action
Doreen-
I really don’t understand it. There are notebooks being vigorously filled right now and the phrase change up away and slow curve ball are being scribbled down a lot.
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The 9th place guy who can’t swing the bat for anything and has little hope of squaring up AJ’s fastball given how much life it has gets hit on an over thrown curve ball and of course comes around to score.
What’s great about AJ is that he threw that 2 strike curve ball to Iztauris as if he were Pujols. Make sure you bury that pitch otherwise Iztauris is going to hurt you…
No, Girardi should not be fired if they miss the playoffs, he should be tarred & feathered!
If they miss the playoffs, I doubt Girardi ever sees another manager job
theREALkevin September 17th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
I don’t care what happens with aj this game. Sharp curve tonight, fastball in the mid 90s has hit 95 and 96. If he mixes in his change and 2 seamer in the playoffs, he can do damage. Not predicting anything but I’d rather have talent than scared garbage vazquez or total non experience with nova.
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Kevin there is no debate. It’s pretty clear that the Yankees rotation in October will be Sabathia, Pettitte, Burnett and Hughes. The problem is how poorly Burnett pitches.
And Wiggington just singled hard on a 2-strike 95MPH fastball.
This lineup is too short without Jorge.
Just unbelievable. They have the pitcher at 50 pitches after two innings. The Orioles have a bad bullpen. So they go out in 7 pitches. They are at 2 and 8 in the last ten. This is team baseball? Two flyballs and a rollover. Just pathetic. 60 mil right there of talent. Argh. Pass the porch climber
Jorge is getting his beauty rest…People went ballistic on me last month when I suggested
Posada was becoming a part time catcher…
# DocTodd September 17th, 2010 at 8:10 pm
No, Girardi should not be fired if they miss the playoffs, he should be tarred & feathered!
LOL
Burnett is in the rotation..they got no one else…unless they go three man
Thanks to the offense blowing easy opportunities left and right, the pitchers have zero margin for error. Go ahead and blame aj so far this game- but know you’re an idiot if you do. Offense should have like 4 runs so far against this scrub millwood, and if you can’t see that, you’re blind.
I guess Posada must be hurting. Now he’s like play one day and take 3 days’ rest.
Millwood will be the worst starter we face the rest of the way. If they can’t beat this meathead . . .
Can Girardi give the team a wake up call? Nice job swinging at the first pitch Robbie. Unreal. Millwood will probably go 8 innings.
another one pitch out. millwood is going to finish the game at this rate.
Yankees always seem to get the least runs out of the most hits..
Posada has become a part time catcher because of joe’s love affair with cervalli
Two pitches, two outs. Incredible.
Because the guy was put on base. HBP.
TAKE A FREAKIN PITCH
They let another SP settle down
2 pitches 2 outs?
2 pitches, 2 outs. Yipppeee! What effort and determination! No umpire cheats tonight. I guess all that early batting practice that Kay was talking about, the players didnt get enough hacks in then.
OK now the Yankees need to “manufacture” a run of their own. Maybe they could uswe the Orioles as an example of how to do it.
No, stop making outs on 1st pitches!
Milldwood CG 1 run
Heard it here first
Kearns WILL get a hit in this at bat.
Would anyone else be shocked if they didn’t get another hit the rest of the night? I certainly wouldn’t.
They keep swinging at the first pitch, and Millwood will be able to start tomorrow’s game too…
Figures. Kearns singles with no one on base.
Just took a weak half swing on 2-0 when it would have been 3-0.
His name might as well be BOSTON Kearns. You heard it here first.
WOOOOHOOOOO! He picks up a meaningless hit! YEAH!!!
Way to go theREALkevin – call someone you don’t agree with on a sports blog an
“idiot” and “blind”. Your intellect overwhelms me.
We need to have Cervelli kidnapped….
Boston Kearns extending his Vitamin hitting streak. God, forgive me for using a Michael Kay line.
If the Yanks miss the Playoffs all you arses on this Blog should be banned, And you negative wave people know who you are.
Krush it beeches!
if theRealKevin
Can’t not see what a pathetic bum AJ Bustnett is he is blind and an idiot
great now girardi will absolutely start kearnsy again tomorrow
Wow, what a photo of Jim Palmer!
Yeah west coast, because idiots aren’t allowed to post here. Great logic.
jeez…..
Hey, that’s 5 outs on 9 pitches. They’re waiting for the soft relievers. See you in the seventh inning.
Just not grinding.
so how many runs does aj give up this inning 3 or 4?
ripped, right at them. This game already has that writing on the wall.
Im watching this game on mute, and our broadcast still sickens me. It’s all Orioles all the time on the Orioles broadcast starring Michael Kay.
First, Wieters on SI, then Jim Palmer with clothes off, then a look back to Palmer’s playing days.
All Orioles, only on YES!
Outstanding grammar bryan. Let me go back to 2nd grade so I can understand what you just wrote.
Right now, I could make a case for the Orioles being the best team in the AL.
Kearns is due for a hit by the laws of baseball right??
1-2-3 Nothing across
I don’t need to show false bravado. This team scares me. I see no signs of them breaking out of this.
Buck Showalters ability to use his telekinesis to guide yankee batted balls into the gloves of his fielders just can’t be ignored.
Truly, he is the greatest manager.
DocTodd September 17th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
We need to have Cervelli kidnapped….
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Who would take him??
theREALkevin – did you study to be a troll or does it come naturally?
This is not what we wanted going into this series was another nailbiter with chances gone by early in the game. This could go either way.. Come on NY!
Michael Kay with a really good idea. For once.
You know, I keep thinking the Yankees have to break out of this slump, and then they come out and play the exact same way every day. It is getting difficult to watch.
I really hope things turn around soon.
Burnett doing a Phil Hughes impression. Can’t put people away with 2 strikes until the 7th pitch.
Cervelli is Cinderella days after the midnight deadline.
Even the beer googling stonecutter takes a pass….
theLoserkevin made fun of my grammar on a blog. I am hurt…. real hurt
She must feel so happy inside right now
HOMERUN!!!! OOOO’SSSS!!!!
Like clockwork!
That was gone off the bat. Hooray for AJ!
Just looking for 5 from AJ. He’s a 5th starter at this point
Bustnett’s checklist
Walks… check
Hit batter… check
Stolen base… check
Homerun… check
6 runs… getting there
And here we go. Get the lead, give up the lead, give up the game.
Man, its been really tough watching this team lately. Really not fun at all.
2 runs??? What is girardi doing, pull this guy!
Something needs to happen here…
DEER IN HEADLIGHTS…the team is flacid and listless.
It’s hard to fathom how a junk-ball pitcher like Millwood who throws straight 88, has 15 losses and an ERA over 5.30 shuts down a team with a $210 million payroll. Talk about a team hitting slump – this is just surreal.
And there you have it. Losing to Baltimore.
He fell behind in the count. Jones just sat fastball and AJ got the pitch up in the zone.
It’s why you can’t afford to pitch from behind.
Joe Torre would have called a team meeting right now. Isn’t that what the manager is for? Isn’t that why we have a captain? Some water coolers need to be kicked over.
“the team is flacid” LOL! Maybe they’re stuck looking at photos of he/she in the dugout.
How about Girardi kicking dirt on an umpire? A fight? Something needs to be done to inject some life into what is now an officially listless team.
behind in every count…
How about a fight with the O’s. Pena can toss Buck to the ground.
What’s the yankees record since the all star break??
Yankfan, does it make you feel good rooting against the yankees? Does it make you feel good expecting terrible things to happen? What a miserable way to think…
Solid point about Teixeira earlier. He stopped hitting long balls, and the losing streak started. I know he’s got the broken toe, but our number 3 hitter has done nothing for 2 weeks.
It’s time for a long, closed-door tirade . . . from somebody.
Shut-up, Kevin, you insignificant hangnail.
I say have AJ fastball steriod boy in the face.
root for LAA first time!
Damn aj sucks. They should just forfeit. What a piece of trash this guy is. 2 runs in 4 innings when the offense should have been pounding away on a horrible pitcher. Damnit burnett, how dare you continue to make the yankees slump against crap pitchers. How dare you aj, you slime.
What in the world is Cervelli doing against Kevin Millwood???
I guess they save their best for Sux
if i was the manager, i would start sitting anyone who didnt take at least 1 pitch. this is ridiculous.
Michael Kay- “bunted successfully while getting thrown out” at first?
WHat a decision! Another 1 pitch out! Yippay!
Surprise me Jeter….
The Yankees have worked tirelessly the last 3 innings to keep Millwood in this game.
Does Cervelli ACTUALLY have any sort of use? I’m skeptical.
Millwood was at 52 pitches after 2 innings. There is no way…NO WAY he should’ve made it in to the fifth. Yet, here we are, because our offense can’t hit on the friggin’ road.
Kevin is happy, so that’s all that matters. Just keep giving away outs.
I would vote for Yankees announcers in the post season
I consider myself one of the most “forgiving” of Yankees fans. And I’ll defend them from here to wherever. But Cervelli can’t play for them while the offense is sputtering like this.
Was that a sacrifice with no one on base??
ok…
Grandyman….surprise me…
Im on the verge of smashing something… I bet all of you would love it if I smashed my computer!
That was ball 3!!!!
do they sell crab cakes at The O’s stadium?
Again Doreen cervelli is a double a hitter right now..I mean the guy is not a major leaguer
do the yankees and twins now have the same record?
The whole inning changes on a horrible call.
Cervelli doesn’t strike me as an intelligent player.
Unnecessary snap throws to first, 1st pitch bunting with no wheels and poor bunt placement.
Just swing the bat kid.
2 times out of ten you’ll find yourself on 1st.
I want to know why Kearns is still playing. He hasn’t hit in days. At this point I wouldn’t mind them putting Russo in right field. He just looks awful at the plate.
I don’t want Joe yelling at anyone, when he’s the one playing Cervelli instead of Posada
GB, I love ya man, but I doubt Jeter has anything on his mind other than playing baseball.
millwood throws 86 mph fastballs. everyone should be stealing.
ac1 – yes.
Ken – Yes. It was a suicide squeeze with nobody on base! Cervy imagined the bases loaded from his last at bat.
I need to masticate but I don’t like it when people watch.
“Shut-up, Kevin, you insignificant hangnail.”
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Hey, watch it.
My hangnails are very sensitive … and significant.
We could really use a home run here, Mark.
Yes yanks twins same record.
They have a better 3 hitter though.
Ours blows!
Paula really good eats at Camden yards it is a good weekend trip for a Yankee fan when yanks are In town
God, Teixeira is awful. Horrible at bats all night. He’s seen about 5 pitches.
god damn. TAKE A DAMN PITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This game epitomizes the last 2 weeks
Really glad I didn’t spend money to go watch any of the games this weekend. This team isn’t worth the money at this point. Just terrible ABs, left and right.
Man – would it have killed Teixeira to take a pitch?????
Millwood now actually has a good pitch count throw 5.
We’re just giving away another game.
This aint August or May any longer. This is halfway through September and you’re 6 games away from being out of a playoff spot.
What’s Joe going to say? Play with more urgency? He’d be a hypocrite, because he’s doing anything but. I’m sure they are trying – they just aren’t hitting. Lack of execution does not mean lack of trying. Of course, what can you expect when the middle guys get on? You can’t very well expect Cervelli to come up big, can you?
I can’t find it in me to get upset. The way I look at it is – if they’re good enough, fine. If they aren’t, then why should I aggravate myself? It’s very possible that this team isn’t good enough.
Posada hasn’t caught AJ all year. Stop complaining every time he doesn’t.
Meet cy millwood, 3-15, with a 5.51 era, the latest in a long line of takers to the question, “Who wants to shut down the $200 million lineup of pathetic chokers and flailers today?”
joke…..are they ashamed yet?
Cervelli….optioned. Austin or Jesus move by Cashman to start shaking things up.
Anyone who criticizes Burnett clearly is not paying any attention to what is going on with this team.
They had bases loaded, one out, and once again could not get the gimme run home. Milwood had thrown over 50 pitches in the first 2 innings, and has barely thrown more than 35 in the next 3. The offense is giving away at bat after at bat and not only isn’t scoring runs, but isn’t even making the pitcher work.
How many games are you going to win scoring 1 run? Not very many. The pitching has actually been pretty good for the most part in the last few games, but if you don’t score it doesn’t matter how good your pitching is because you won’t win when you get shut out.
At this point in the season, when your options in RF with Swisher out are Kerns, Golson and Curtis – you have to blame Cashman and the Yankees farm system.
Hard to win games when the bottom of the line-up is a black hole and you’re number 3 hitter has gone back into a serious funk. Tex has to be one of the people carrying this team but he’s been one of the worst hitters over the past 2 weeks.
Anytime u waste chances in early inn’s it comes back to haunt u
Toronto knows how to hit w/RISP.
Nice throw Cervelli….
Cashman is watching….
Cervelli with an awful throw. You know that run will score.
The Kevin long fan club is quiet
here comes a stolen base
Nice through by the AA catcher Cervelli
Matt – This game isnt even on the umpires. Just a complete lack of a gameplan and lack of effort.
It’s amazing that someone like Cervelli could actually be dumb enough to bunt on the first pitch leading off an inning.
You aren’t scoring runs, so at the very least you could work some counts? Nope, the idiot thinks that as a catcher with barely average speed he should try to bunt for a base hit.
If you don’t have any kind of intelligent approach, how can you expect results? Every hitter is up there swinging at the first pitch, and of course they are missing it because they are all swinging for the fences. Maybe if you let him fall behind in counts 2-1 and 3-1 like he has been doing all night you’ll get a cookie, but instead you make a first pitch out on a perfect pitcher’s pitch.
Yanks are swinging early in the count. Millwood is a poor pitcher. This is rough. Burnett is pitching better tonight. O’s bunting and playing like champs against they Yankees. What’s surprise.
Team is failing and could be 3rd place team in the AL pretty quickly with Minnesota right there. I have no answers, but to say this team is terrible right now is an understatement. I hope things ends quickly because the games are winding down.
izturis was just showing Cervelli how to bunt successfully there.
Betsy with all due respect – a team with a $210 million dollar payroll and the tradition of the New York Yankees are not paid to “try”.
I get why Po can’t catch every day – esp. since the concussion symptoms started appearing – but he has to catch most days…….and he really should be catching AJ. I can’t fathom Cervelli starting in the post-season, but I think it’s going to happen.
Lol at ball one there…. Hahahahahaha
i’ll ask again – so how many runs does aj give up this inning 3 or 4?
Get the pen up. Can’t be punting games
70 Pitches? AJ will finish at 90 pitches this inning.
Big inning here bad start..hopefully not unravel time
Cervelli isn’t even doing the one thing he was really brought up to do. Not the simplest things.
“Man – would it have killed Teixeira to take a pitch?????”
Just a guess – Tex is usually a patient hitter – there I think he’s trying to guess first pitch fastball so that he wouldn’t get into a count where Millwood would go off speed on him.
That’s what it looked like to me. He jumped on the pitch – which turned out to be a cutter rather than a straight 4 seamer to protect later on against the change.
It looks like it’s come to that.
West Coast, if you want perfection, that’s up to you – you sound like a spoiled fan who thinks he’s entitled to a WS every year.
Assuming cervelli was a major league catcher n capable of 400+ abs is the single worst decision of Cashmans yr
Now, that was a gorgeous double play. Nice.
In the words of Phil Leotardo, this is a bleepin’ disgrace.
nice. Good play guys.
Huge huge huge huge absolutely huge break there from this dirtpile Roberts. Huge HUGE huge!
Betsy September 17th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
I get why Po can’t catch every day – esp. since the concussion symptoms started appearing – but he has to catch most days…….and he really should be catching AJ. I can’t fathom Cervelli starting in the post-season, but I think it’s going to happen.
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It will happen..amazing the new York Yankees will have a player as bad as cervalli in post season line up
Millwood was walking a bunch of hitters early in this game.
There is no reason for a hitter to start swinging at the first pitch when the opposing pitcher has not proven he can consistently throw strikes.
If you go up there with no approach, you will get no results.
Tex reminds me of a young A-Rod. Great numbers over a full season, but very little clutch at bats.
Tex had a terrible post season last year even tough he had great numbers during the regular season.
That used to be Alex until his breakout post season last yr.
Ace September 17th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
Assuming cervelli was a major league catcher n capable of 400+ abs is the single worst decision of Cashmans yr
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Agree…it is amazing that he will be in a postseason. Line up
Over under pitches throw by millwopd next inning…14…guesses??
You have to admit that Randy I ( The Original Tin Cup ) was right with his assessment about Cervelli last year & earlier this spring…His stance wasn’t very popular either time, but he called it…….He’s at best a backup catcher at best…….Nich Swisher has to be in the top 10 MVP voting this season, he’s very much missed……
have to put the kids to bed so i’ll ask early for next inning – so how many runs does aj give up this inning 3 or 4? (its worked so far – sorta kinda)
FrankiePiliere Always debate whether it’s a pitcher doing his job or if a lineup is not hitting. For the Yanks vs Millwood tonight…the lineup is at fault
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YEP
Way to work the count….nice….
1st pitch again. We’re just letting MIllwood stick around with 1st pitch outs. That’s 5 in the last 3 innings.
OMG first pitch again..
I cant believe…we are first pitch swinging!!!!!
Ken Phelps September 17th, 2010 at 8:46 pm
Over under pitches throw by millwopd next inning?14?guesses??
under10!!!
Does anyone else notice that burnett has a black eye? Has this been discussed? I missed most of the pre game.
CB -
So, they know they’re getting “junk,” but really don’t know what to do about it?
How can it be that the Yankees are full of players who cannot hit anything but a fastball?
I’m just really flummoxed about this. And this has been going on all year. They’ve had time to “go to school” on it, no? How can all these guys who usually hit .300 not know how to hit anything but fastballs?
how is girardi not telling them to take pitches?
Just giving him outs, and leaving their terrible bullpen out of it. Wonderful.
It’s Swing at First Pitch night tonight!
Ladies drink free!
With tapma and the red sox both losing, this is a nice chance for the yanks to pick up a game , particularly with Burnett pitching pretty well for a change. Time for the bats to get going. Pinch hit posada for someone, anyon ein the bottom third. Aord first pitch hacking. Oh boy.
Not a single hitter in this lineup wants to work the count against Millwood.
It makes you wonder whether this team is taking these games seriously, and it stems directly from the inconsistent approach of the manager, who is claiming they are trying to win and then leaving the team short handed every single night in the lineup when they need as much offense as they can get.
Carlo September 17th, 2010 at 8:47 pm
Does anyone else notice that burnett has a black eye? Has this been discussed? I missed most of the pre game.
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i heard he tried pieing himself and missed…
YES, You might want to checkout Texeria’s postseason mumbers when he was with The Angels
Millwood is a drunken dope…dominating the Yanks.
Cashman had only $2 million to spend – that came from Hal – and he wasn’t going to spend all or most of it on a backup catcher. I can’t blame him for that.
What a swing by Robbie Cano! Take your seat, Cano, where you’d much rather be than on the bases.
Terrible AB by CANO!!!
Wow…bad swing Cano.
1st Yankee homer here for Berkman…..
Seriously…..if George were around, this would be getting ugly.
Millwood is easily the worst pitcher they’ve seen on this road trip….this is very frustrating so far.
Sure, Robbie. Swing at a pitch up around your eyes.
You could see this coming a mile away. Bases loaded, 1 out in the second, scored nothing, and not a damn thing since. Your 2010 New York Yankees, ladies and gentlemen. Enjoy them while they last.
really…
if they were actually getting hits on the first pitch i would say fine, but since they only make outs swinging at the first pitch, they really need to stop swinging.
I cant believe we let this guy off the hook! unreal!
Disgusting. Milleood is awful
This is turning into a first pitch swinging competition. Cano swings at a pitch near his eyes. Wow. Berkman is a true pro.
Boston Kearns is back up! Perhaps a walk or a hit or a 2 run smoke job to give us the lead. Perhaps Im asking for too much, maybe I should just ask for him not to strike out.
Betsy, who said anything about perfection or being entitles? Is losing 8 out of 10 games in a pennant race acceptable to you? Is being embarrassed over and over again by rookie and mediocre pitchers for months now acceptable to you? Is a manager who treats professional athletes like grandmothers and makes strategic mistakes over and over acceptable to you? Is 1-4 in our lineup batting over .270 acceptable to you? ($72 million dollars)
In case you haven’t noticed, pride and an unwillingness to fail are significant factors in why we have won 27 world championships. If you don’t get that – I seriously doubt you are a true Yankee fan.
I’ll say one thing, this is making last year much more special. What a team the ’09 Yankees were.
If I was Girardi Id be throwing bats around in the locker room.
This team needs a smack in the face.
just in time for kearns to be at the plate.
ok…let’s get this dance started….
Can someone pull a Jeff Galoolli on Cervelli before his a bat?
The count is 1-1 to Kearnsie! Do you believe in miracles??????????????????
sp entitled
That miracle was short-lived. Right back down 1-2.
we dont know what girardi is doing in the locker room but i serious doubt he is telling them what a great job they are doing.
Take advantage of it, Kearns. PLEASE.
Hey, a base hit could tie the game.
a single please….
nice….the worm is turning….
this team couldn’t fill last years teams shoes.. Different in so many ways…. Clutch comes to mind!
Well, at least he didn’t strike out. … sigh.
Hitting for power too….
unreal
I can’t believe I just heard he has the highest ERA among qualified pitchers- yikes! I guess the Yankees have to tip their cap again- mind boggling!
HAHAHAHAHA! I thought that was going to bloop in right off the bat. Boy was I wrong. Hey, at least Boston Kearnsie didnt strike out.
# ConcernedCitizen September 17th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
Take advantage of it, Kearns. PLEASE.
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Nope. Out number 3.
Yanks really need posada and swisher. Wow.
No, of course they’re not taking the games seriously. they don’t care about winning. (Said with sarcasm)
Sheesh.
What trash.
Talk about not take good approaches, talk about not getting results, but not taking games eriously because the manager wants to try and get people healthy for the playoffs? Do you even think before you type? He’s got INJURED players he’s trying to get healthy. He’s got a catcher who had a mild concussion and who is banged up. He’s not “resting” guys. And he’s not inconsistent. He’s consistent and been clear about what he’s doing.
What a disgrace.
This team can’t turn on a switch come October.
They are what they are.
And they look like a first round knockout.
We’re losing. To the frickin O’s.
Kearns has cost the yankees more runs with his bat in the past 5 games than thames could in the outfield in 25 games. Joe is worried about D and his lineup can’t hit kevin millwood. What a genius the yankees have at the helm.
This team is so difficult to watch. Worst pitcher in the league out there, NOT Jim Palmer. Some real pathetic at bats.
let’s give austin kearns and his iced cold bat a 10m 3yr deal after the season. another offensive explosion tonight
“We’re losing. To the frickin O’s.”
According to Trisha the baseball expert, the frickin O’s are the best thing since sliced bread!
Beyond sick to my stomach with the Yankees performance during one of the closest races in the AL in quite some time. It went from a 1 team race, to a 2 team race and now could be a 4 team race in the AL.. Who would have thought? Just disgusting baseball!
And why exactly is a .269 hitter with a .329 OBP hitting leadoff?
.262 excuse me!
Didn’t I say we will lose by one run again ?
Positives: Burnett looking decent, better with that black eye. Berkman on base twice. Jeter taking good at bats.
Negatives: Everything else.
Trolls aplenty tonight.
I suspect that our pal SJ is beyond words, or at least adjectives that are fit to print here on the blog……Sometimes his passion gets the best of him……This is and will be the final funk for the season, they’ll catch fire and roll into October on a roll……Just too much talent…Just need to get everyone back ….
Jeter is gonna be hitting .252 by seasons end .. Just my guess. and still batting leadoff.
Thanks Bobby Abreu!!
he totally looks like a retard in the outfield.
Doreen. And what exactly is the difference between Posada taking one of the mask tomorrow as opposed to tonight?
Guess the post game comments by girardi on millwood….
” he keep us off balance”
” guys had good swings”
” we had some good at bats”
” we are getting close to breaking out of it”
Lot’s of quiters here at the LoHud……Shameful
so tampa just tied the game.
Next closest hitter to .300 besides Cano is .280 with Gardner. It explains alot of the teams lack of hitting and RISP..
GoldGlove9486 September 17th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Positives: “….Jeter taking good at bats”.
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Really? He’s left 3 men on base.
Ken – Ive got a novel post game comment for you by Joe on Millwood: He was wearing a Red Sox jersey under his Orioles uni tonight!
Ah, that wasnt funny
what’s a quiters?
CR9 September 17th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
“We’re losing. To the frickin O’s.”
According to Trisha the baseball expert, the frickin O’s are the best thing since sliced bread!
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Lol she was trying to say that Felix pie is a great prospect..a real up and comer
Ken Phelps:
You forgot the classic that we use all the time, “Sometimes you just have to tip your cap to the guy”
Ken – And she said that Izturis and Lugo, YES, LUGO, were smart players that knew how to play the game!
“So, they know they’re getting “junk,” but really don’t know what to do about it? ”
I’m sure they know – the mix of skills needed to hit off speed sutff just doesn’t seem to be a strength this season.
Different things with different guys. With Jeter his loss of bat speed makes him very vulnerable to off speed stuff because he has to protect more against the fastball and start his bat early. Granderson isn’t a good off speed hitter, particularly away. When they play Cervelli – he’s completely over matched on any kind of good pitching.
But the guy I’m most concerned about in this regard is Tex. Tex is a terrific player but one how has real limitations. He’s made his swing work with him, but it’s not a fundamentally sound swing and has significant holes in it. It’s just not a good swing plane to hit off speed stuff with. It’ll be interesting to see how he does this post season as he is going to see endless streams of junk, much like he did last post season.
Finally, I think there’s a confounding factor here that is at play that isn’t being discussed enough.
Pitchers who rely on junk tend to also throw strikes at a high rate and don’t walk many guys. They need to just to survive. Can’t throw soft and walk guys and last long in the majors.
A considerable part of the yankees struggles, I think, are actually related to struggling against pitchers who throw strikes. That decreases their ability to draw walks. Also, if the junk ball pitcher has good command (as many do) he’s going to tend to make fewer mistakes in location and that hurts their ability to hit home runs.
On the whole, the line up has gotten less balanced and their bat control as a team doesn’t seem as good.
Pat M – this place is hard to take at times.
come on 5 singles in a row. let’s do this
CR9 September 17th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
Ken – And she said that Izturis and Lugo, YES, LUGO, were smart players that knew how to play the game!
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Lol..yeah she did that was a rough one..
Guess the post game comments by girardi on millwood?.
? he keep us off balance?
? guys had good swings?
? we had some good at bats?
? we are getting close to breaking out of it?
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“I want to thank Brian Cashman for the chance to manage this team and I wish the next manager the best of luck the rest of the year”
Excellent CB.
CJ Wilson and Felix Hernandez tonight at 10. Probably a better game to watch than this one.
8-2 Toronto over Sox
that failed bunt says what we know about gardner.
no excuse for him not knowing how to bunt?
thank God the Red Sox are losing…
The umpire just gifted Gardner ball 2. Let’s see if Gardy takes advantage. NOPE!
Millwood is just a phenominal pitcher that’s why we can’t hit him
# Ken Phelps September 17th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
Guess the post game comments by girardi on millwood….
” he keep us off balance”
” guys had good swings”
” we had some good at bats”
” we are getting close to breaking out of it”
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I’m gonna go with a mix of 1, 2, and 4.
Sizzling cheese coming out of Millwood’s arm…
Purenyyankee September 17th, 2010 at 9:02 pm
Ken Phelps:
You forgot the classic that we use all the time, “Sometimes you just have to tip your cap to the guy”
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Good one
Pat M. September 17th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
Lot’s of quiters here at the LoHud……Shameful
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Pat M, couldn’t agree more, they don’t deserve to be Yankees fans.
At the same time, Girardi is managing with his head up his butt. Why Cervelli is playing tonight after a day off yesterday is one of the great mysteries of the season to me.
Make that 10-2.. Bautista #48
At the same time, Girardi is managing with his head up his butt. Why Cervelli is playing tonight after a day off yesterday is one of the great mysteries of the season to me.
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Shouldnt be…. AJ is pitching.
Posada will catch CC and Pettitte.
tyanksfan36 September 17th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
CJ Wilson and Felix Hernandez tonight at 10. Probably a better game to watch than this one.
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Game will be over by 10
7 innings too late with this move Joe.
i get really pissed everytime I see/think about Kearns bat. I mean he is god awful, just because Swish is hurt does he really have to play everyday. I think I’d rather see Golson or yes maybe even Curtis then him
Doesn’t anyone on here remember 2000? That team was playing like crap at the end of the year, and it still managed to win a championship.
Just get in the playoffs and this month will be forgotten.
I don’t understand how some of you can be so negative. If the Yankees win, it’s great. If they lose, all of our lives will still go on.
Had we had Jorgie in the first place, maybe he gets the run home in the 1st inning, but then again, he wouldnt be batting 9th like Cervelli.
I love how posada can’t start then pinch hits with no one on. Girardi playing personal catchers when their offense is tanking. Very shrewd.
another 1 run game and they will lose again?
Great job by Jorge to get on base.
Dear Yankees, please stop sucking. Thanks, Yankee fans.
No one is a ” quiter” just frustrated with the crap we are watching
glad I didn’t go to the game tonight….
What I cant understand is, when you have the rosters expand, it gives you the luxury of having your catcher – Jorge – start at DH. You always have another catcher on the bench. I guess it was Berkman over Jorge today.
They gotta be able to score more than 2 runs against the O’s. C’mon guys, don’t waste a good start by AJ….
Great job, Derek. Just look at 3 not-remotely-borderline strikes.
This team is terrible. Just terrible.
wow… was any of those three pitches a strike?
I meant now by the way.
This bum has a 5.15 ERa
CLASSIFIED: The Cevelli Project
Wikilinks-
“Cervelli is the worst hitting/fielding catcher in the majors. We can fix him and make him Johnny Bench.” – Top Men
ac1 September 17th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
At the same time, Girardi is managing with his head up his butt. Why Cervelli is playing tonight after a day off yesterday is one of the great mysteries of the season to me.
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Shouldnt be…. AJ is pitching.
Posada will catch CC and Pettitte.
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with the season Burnett has had he should feel lucky just being on the mound no matter who is catching. There is no excuse for Cervelli being in the lineup except when Posada is hurt or a day game after a night game.
“You might want to checkout Texeria’s postseason mumbers when he was with The Angels”
Pat,
Tex played 4 games that post season. He had 7 hits all of them singles.
If he’s locked in and has his timing down he’ll rake. But he is very streaky and his swing is very tempermental. If he happens to be in a cold streak when the post season rolls around – as he was last year – he’s going to struggle.
The team is really struggling to score right now. Tex is 29-30, an all star. And he’s hitting around .210 with no home runs this entire month while the team can’t hit. You can’t have your 3 hole hitter do that. Not when he’s the super star player in his prime on a team with an aging core.
I just can’t get over how awful this team is right now. It’s mind-boggling.
i guess the bright side is at some point they will turn it around, and it will be headed into the playoffs.
Nice freakin’ AB
Yeah, good at bats by Jeter. Right. He stands there with his bat on his shoulder and takes three 88 MPH strikes right down the middle.
CB, is that uncommon? To struggle this badly against pitchers who throw strikes? This is really awful – and this coming off an 8 game winning streak. Winning one or two games shouldn’t be this hard……..This is not exactly encouraging for next year (and in Tex’s case, for the next 6). I think Jeter will be better next year and Alex as well, but still – you don’t know. Posada is nearing the end……….. This lineup needs a pretty good revamp. Gardner has struggled for a long time; do we want to just write him into the lineup? Granderson is a question. The work with Long has helped, but he still seems inconsistent.
Men on base two out..tex due?? No??
Give me some love, guys….
i swear if tex swings at the first pitch i am going to scream.
Well, to be fair, strike 3 to Jeter was outside and never had any of the plate. But it was borderline.
CB…Great point…See all after the game…Yanks win
Which team is 30 games over .500,and which is 30 games under .500? O’s ?? Yanks??
The ones that don’t deserve to be Yankee fans are those that are such blind sycophants that they can’t be honest enough to make an honest assessment of this team.
tickling the outter corner…
MG, this is all on Joe – not AJ. IMO, it’s a fireable offense if he starts Cervelli in the playoffs. It’s infuriating that he’s playing as much as he is now. The Yankees need to win a few games – that means Posada needs to be in this lineup, esp. with Swisher out. If the Yankees get knocked out early
Are they saving up their runs to for CC to get # 20?
I’m calling a Warehouse blast.
Tex gets far too little grief from Yankee fans relative to other struggling players on this team. I suspect and have seen excuses made for him because he “saves runs” on defense.
When he is cold, he does not come close to making up for his offensive ineptitude with his glove.
You don’t pay 20+ million for defense at 1B. You can get good defense at 1B for a fraction of that.
darn it
This pathetic team is just going through the motions knowing they have a safety net. They are not hungry at all.
This is so frustrating.
If the Yanks get knocked out early and it’s not because of their pitching being awful, then you can make the case, that Joe screwed around with the players’ routines…and took these games too lightly.
Then again, he’s got the backing of the GM, so we need to kill Cash as well.
K -6 strike outs for the ‘Wood.
Nearly impossible to enjoy a friday evening with this team on the television.
Writing on the wall, folks…writing on the wall…. maybe Alex can erase the writing on the wall next inning and write his own passage.
Can it get worse?
Anybody that thinks we will not sell high on Gardner knows nothing about the Yankees. He’s out of here.
this stretch of god awful game is the worst i’ve seen the Yankees play in soooo long
Wow!! Tex is lost
mill wood tops out at 89 mph, for goodness sakes
Tex has been brutal since sep 1
CB….I think he ( Texeria ) had just about all of the Angels rbi’s…..He’s been struggling for certain
2 more stranded wooohooooooo!!!!!!
Keep it up set some records
wow, the yanks just look so awful.
i think pulling the look at 2000 card won’t work.
where is the TEX we know? his little toe hurting that much?
Ballgame. Unless Alex or Cano hit one out to start next inning, that’s it.
I absolutely cannot comprehend how this team went from an 8 game winning streak to being the absolute worst team in the majors.
Tex last homer August 31st….the day he broke a toe.
This is the worst the offense has been all year.
this could be 9 out of 11 here. That’s cause for some serious concern.
i mean… aren’t they embarrassed about how they have ‘played’ since the 7 game winning streak?
Oh for effs sake.
Shaping up to be yet another game that they lose, can’t hit a crappy pitcher, can’t hit a good pitcher.
They get some on base, then get struck out by this turd. Horrendous.
Tex = Giambi after 2003.
Hot streaks and cold streaks basically match, he forgot how to go the other way, and he is streaky as hell and hits for a low average
Basically, Giambi with plus defense
Flipping bullmonkey. Can we get a run….?
Posada should play eveyday the next week til they clinch. Cervelli belongs in scranton
it’s almost like when ARod came back, everyone said they can relax and he would do all the work. Well he cannot win on his own.
I didn’t realize the yankees were facing off against Cy Young.
LGY, that’s exactly it. Alex struggles? Forget it. Jeter? He gets called all sorts of terrible nicknames. Tex? He’s Teflon Tex…………..Sorry, his D doesn’t make up for his disappearance for months at a time.
CR9 September 17th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
Writing on the wall, folks…writing on the wall…. maybe Alex can erase the writing on the wall next inning and write his own passage.
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That was profound
I fold.
They are reacting as if they are almost surprised that a pitcher as bad as Millwood will throw his fastball at the top of the zone. How can you not touch an 86 mph cutter down the middle belt high?
Is there any team in baseball right now playing with less focus than this Yankees club? Is anyone shocked that the team has gone quietly into the night after they missed their chance in the 2nd?
They should have 4 or 5 runs tonight yet again, if this offense would ever show up the pitching has been good enough to win every single one of these games in this streak.
I don’t think Tex’s swing is coming back this season.
The Yankees are doing their best impression of the Padres.
Does Tex ever get a big hit when we need it? We’re payin the guy zillions and as I said before, he’s got the absolute quietest 30/100 year ever. No way this team gets out of the first round in the playoffs.
I wonder just how good that Tex contract is going to look next year, the year after and even the year after that. The Yanks are stuck with him………….
A pitcher who has a 3-15 record has held us to 1-run in 7 innings
Boy, they cannot get out of their own way.
Your 3 hole hitter just cannot do that. He cannot have an at bat like that. Unacceptable.
Guys like Cervelli and Kearns are just peripheral guys.
Tex is the best player in his prime on this team.
And he has completely disappeared during a time when the team is desperate for offense.
His swing plane gives him no margin for error. The bat spends almost no time in the hitting zone. It can be so ugly to watch.
The absolute worst part of this game is that Millwood was over 50 pitches after the second inning.
He then pitched 5 more innings.
Bottom line is, this offense is broken at this point. Two weeks like this isn’t a slump. It’s a legitimate concern.
Still don’t understand why tex wasn’t rested for his broken toe after arod came back. He’s been horrible. That pitch almost hit him and he’s flailing. Where’s his legendary hitters eye???
da Bust gives up at least 2 this inning
Pure crap.
ground hog day agian. no clutch hitting. burnett a classic outing. homer and a soft run because he is a mental midget.
let’s rehash the aj masterpiece. HBP the 9th hitter on a 1 and 2 count. he steals a base immediately and then you know the rest of the story.
especially good AB by el capitan. that was a strike 3, how did it look Derek.. 0 and 2 and he let’s strike 3 come on by……
tex went to the Kearns school of changeup recognition.
another great day at the ballpark………
I wish The lohud peeps will let us release some stress by expressing some profanities for like just a little but. 10 minutes its all we want to let it all out lol. I am soooo sick of this offense
I love Tex but he really can’t keep getting a pass. He has to step up here with the team struggling and instead he’s been atrocious.
Abreu misplayed that one on purpose.
1 run against Millwood. Tell us all that it’s a bad dream and nothing more.
Great job AJ! Great job!
aj ready to implode get the retard out…….
They haven’t hit on road all yr. No real surprise
2nd time aj has hit a batter on an 0-2 pitch.
nice. Free pass.
Take your base.
They consistently make mediocre teams and pitchers look like superstars. Man they suck right now. This is really unbelievable. $200 million for this crap?
there you go Bustnett there you go
We still have no DH…the offense has never gotten out of its “on and off” funk this year…..Cano has cooled off alot…..we can’t get a 2 out RBI hit to save our lives…does not look like our year again as the magic, karma, is not there….too many guys pressing…it’s a shame b/c we have a great bullpen right now and the starters with Pettitte coming back are looking good…but this teams bugaboo all year has been an inconsistent offense especially against mediocre pitching…all year….Royals game, tonight, Phillies game, Blue Jays games, etc…..the list can go on and on, I don’t care if we lead the league in runs scored, I know what I see….and that will mean a first round playoff exit for us this year…..
Pitchers figured out what to do with Tex by watching the playoffs last season.
Another run by the o’s and you can “call in the boats and piss on the admiral”
The sad part of all of this is that Burnett is throwing one of his best games of the season and they still can’t score him any runs.
How are you going to ever start winning games if you can’t even score enough to win when your pitcher has given up 2 runs through 6 innings?
Unless the offense wakes up and starts having competitive at bats against mediocre pitchers, this team is not going to win any games. A few games is a slump, a potential 2-9 stretch in the heat of a pennant race is a total collapse.
“CB….I think he ( Texeria ) had just about all of the Angels rbi’s”
Almost. Out of the 10 runs the Angels scored,, he drove in all but 9 of them.
Eu googlee.
AJ should be out of the game now. Since Girardi is still auditioning guys he will leave him in there and allow him to give up extra runs.
“I don’t think Tex’s swing is coming back this season.”
Sadly, you can say this for a lot of current Yankees
Especially, as CB said, the scouting reports on us are going to be attacked heavily in the playoffs – shove off-speed stuff down our throats.
Slumping swings + offspeed pitches = cold lineup in Oct.
Jones leaned into that. That’s illegal. U don’t have to get out of the way I know. But you cannot lean into it like that. And the ump just is too oblivious. Great.
Maybe i’ll come back in a week when this nightmare slump is over.
I really still think Alex is the best- if he’s healthy.
Let’s not blame this game on AJ – this is all on the “offense”
Beauty of a DP.
KAPOW beeeyotches.
WHAT A PLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Could that be the turning point!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice play…not a lot of hustle there
Yeah, tex is just like that dbag giambi post 2003. Spitting image.
realkevin- You can do that. He just turned his body. Nothing wrong with that.
good job AJ!!!
Thankfully the Jays are crushing the Red Sox. They’ve looked to be on a crash course lately.
Winning the division seems to be out of the question.
Oh, well.
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Great. We can’t even score one run, how will we score 2? Jeez.
aj is not a lock down pitcher who gets lock down money.
aj has given up 3 runs today a near miracle……
aj sucks bottom line… betsy….
and that is the ballgame ladies and gentlemen….
First HR of this season?
Anyway AJ is OK tonight. Offense is just horrible.
Thanks for keeping the game close AJ.
What a piece of sh*t.
And then, that. No turning point. 1st home run of the season to loser Andino. Oh welll, the hope was fun while it lasted – all 10 seconds of it.
This team needs an enema.
We need to score 3 runs to win. 3. ponder that. 3
First home run of the year.
If you’re still optimistic about this team, you’re effing kidding yourself. This team is done.
9 out of 11 and counting
Red Sox coming back….plenty of time for them. At least they can swing it.
that seals it. this team is a complete disaster. .227 and no homeruns.
but are we really killing AJ for giving up 3 runs…..hell this is a GREAT start for him
There is the tack on run the loser Orioles needed…Good job Girardi once again leaving AJ in too long.
That’s all folks.
Well, one thing for sure, Burnett is pitching a heck of a lot better than he was.
A few weeks ago he couldn’t get past the second inning without giving up 5 or 6 runs.
AJ is a 5 inn pitcher. Y push it with CC tom???? Girardi is brain dead
there is one… should have been two except for a Tex great play
Another stolen base here
…but the Yankees still lead the majors in runs scored…………
Anyone who says anything about Burnett right now is just an idiot.
I’ll take a start like he has given them tonight every single night.
How about this pathetic offense shows up for just once to back up its pitcher?
If they lose in the playoffs, it won’t be because of the pitching. For leading the league in runs scored, this team has very little ability to put runs on the board.
I guess that was Posada’s fault.
What’s up with AJ’s black eye?
saw that coming
Down 10-2, the Red Sox have a greater chance with 4 innings than us coming back from down 2 with 2 innings.
He’s given up 3 runs … You guys are blaming AJ for this? Seriously? How many RISPs have we stranded? This is a problem of offense, period.
A.J. could have Yogi Berra as his catcher and the results would still be the same.
I hate aj..but that was a good start..Yankees can’t hit..period.
3-1 with this offense may as well be 33-1
Hey Cash wouldn’t Matsui or Damon look good in this lineup???
Come on, it’s not AJ’s fault – these pitchers literally have to be perfect and it’s not possible. He’s been fine tonight.
guess cashman hasnt put the fear of god into them.
And why exactly does the “great” Kevin Long get a pass for this abysmal hitting slump?
10-5 Blue Jays. Glad the Yankees can’t hit Brett Cecil but the Red Sox’ AAA team can
Wow.
3 runs is not bad, but the yankees don’t look like they’re gonna pick him up here with only 2 innings left.
Don’t understand. Teixeira makes an unbelievable play. And now another one. and they can’t hit a lick.
Wht kills me is there is some bad luck going on here. Other teams are not missing any of the Yankee pitchers’ mistakes. I cannot believe that other pitchers are not making mistakes at all. How can they not take advantage of any of them?
Ok maybe this has been talked about… Whats up with AJ’s black eye????
This team has a fever…and the only cure is more Swish.
Bad spot for that homer, but overall not an awful effort for Burnett.
West coast yankee, great call on aj being lit up like a “roman candle”. 3 runs in 7 innings. Excellent prediction. Yeah he got shelled. He blew up. Totally could not keep the team in the game. Nice call bro. Keep that spot on analysis coming, its pure gold.
Betsy, I agree with you on AJ tonight.
Yankee pitchers giving alot of HR lately.
Um, no – neither of those guys have had very good years.
@Matt why should AJ get a pass? For 6 inn n 3 runs? He’s supposed to be our #2
Hopefully Cashman is down here to give Girardi his walking papers.
Yeah he has a black eye??
another 5.3 ERA pitcher for the yankees to roll over for.
i tried staying positive, but this is just really hard to watch.
AJ pitched well against a last place team. Let’s party.
Boston is, amazingly, not out of it.
What’s up with AJ’s black eye?
This game is not on Burnett in anyway.
3 runs in a very small ball park over 7 innings is not bad at all.
There is no way that AJ Burnett should have to hold the O’s to 1 run or less for the Yankees to win – especially when Millwood is on the mound.
It is not feasible to expect pitchers to be perfect. AJ has thrown the ball well.
AJ has done his job.
The bats have been utterly embarrassing.
Millwood out. Last series against the O’s the yankees had no clue how to hit Jim Johnsons’ change up.
AJ pitches well enough to lose.
The definition of a quality start is 3 runs or less in 5 + innings.
Its the offense that sucks major ass right now.
Joba, it’s ridiculous to critize AJ tonight
I would be shocked if they come back to win this game
The offense is a joke. It doesn’t matter who they are facing right now they won’t hit anyone. The opposing team is pitching around anyone who bats infront of Kearns to pitch to him. The biggest spot of the game and the at bats went to Kearns and Cervelli who can’t do a thing. This is embarrassing especially against this loser team.
If they go into the playoffs with this offense, they won’t be going far.
Maybe AJ punched himself instead of a wall this year.
I like AJ tonight…it’s the offense that I have seen do this all year….the Damon and Matsui factor…. Jeter terrible, Tex too streaky…AROD only decent…..Cano great but cooling at the wrong time……Granderson, pretty good but a low average and also too streaky….Cervelli terrible, Posada hurt too much…Gardner and Swisher excellent…no DH…….frustrating to watch….as the whole team goes in a collective slump for the umpteenth time this year…..
How the hell can anyone get on Burnett for 7IP and 3ER?
Post game comments:
“we had some great swing…bp really helped”
LGY September 17th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
Tex gets far too little grief from Yankee fans relative to other struggling players on this team. I suspect and have seen excuses made for him because he ?saves runs? on defense.
You don?t pay 20+ million for defense at 1B. You can get good defense at 1B for a fraction of that.
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He’s defense is apparently way overrated. He’s one of the worst this year. From Yahoo today….
FanGraphs uses two measures for defense: Ultimate Zone Rating (UZR) and Defensive Runs Saved (DRS). They purport to do the same thing, and they agree that Teixeira and Jeter are rather awful in the field. Among qualifying first basemen, Teixeira?s UZR is better than that of Troy Glaus(notes), Paul Konerko(notes), Ryan Howard(notes) and Prince Fielder(notes), which is to say he?s a couple bad plays shy of cadaver. And for those who get so jazzed over Teixeira?s ability to pick throws to first out of the dirt, his 18 scoops are the second fewest in the major leagues ? and 30 fewer than Albert Pujols(notes).
If they keep playing like this, the new 2010 motto is going to be “one and done.”
Great, AJ can beat the Orioles.
Anyway… this game is on the offense. Yet another sleepy game on the road. CC/Andy better pitch out of their minds in Minnesota next month – 0 or 1 run at most.
Aj got punched in the eye by reality.
Poor Andy. He’s coming back thinking he has to pitch a perfect game on Sun to get a win
If Boston wasn’t playing .500 baseball right now the Yankees may have actually been at risk of not making the playoffs.
Still, if you continue playing .200 ball in the heat of a pennant race, the opposing team will close the gap even just playing .500.
This team was two swings of the bat away from a 10 game losing streak in the middle of September. That’s inexcusable, period. No injuries, no bad managerial decisions, nothing other than lack of focus and terrible performance on the field can cause a streak like that from a team like this.
Where’s the passion on this team? Who is screaming and saying “this is not acceptable”. No one? Right.
If they come back to win this, I will shotgun a beer in celebration. I’ll take a picture for proof. I’m serious.
Lol…Yankees need to strike out to get on base
The Orioles should be ashamed of themseleves for playing like crap for 110 games
and now Lance Berkman will hit a 2-run homer…THE END.
that’s how my story book is written to bad this is real life.
And should we not come back to wn this game – get ready for another round of meek, wimpy, scared, beat writers and reporters afraid to ask Girardi the tough questions.
i almost want to see pinella as manager just to see him flip out over how they have played lately.
That was ball 1 to Lance. Please tell me someone saw that.
This is just so sad to watch.
I don’t even have anything bad to say right now.
I still feel in shock.
I mean, just .. wow .. can this high priced of a team really suck so bad ?
They have been the worst best team I have seen in all my years.
Not just tonight or this past stretch, but all year.
People keep saying “It is just 1 game” whenever they lost to scrubs.
Well, damn, those 1 game’s sure are adding up now with their toughest schedule here and now. I guess those 1 games losses to scrubs really should have been taken more seriously..
DP Berkman
Hmmm that was a ball
a strikeout/wild pitch. I believe this counts as a rally for this pathetic team.
Is it a coincidence that they’ve gone down hill since Swish got hurt?
swish on deck?
Basically, a fairly HP umpired game has changed in the last couple innings to an anti-Yankee umpired game. That just changed the whole complexion of the Lance at bat. instead of 1-0, it’s 0-2.
If The Boss was still alive, maybe he would replace Clueless Joe with Clueless Joe..?
Tino Martinez (filling in for Suzyn Waldman) just said, “This team is in great shape”.
In other news, Tino Martinez is functionally retarded.
# clownthrowindown September 17th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
LGY September 17th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
Tex gets far too little grief from Yankee fans relative to other struggling players on this team. I suspect and have seen excuses made for him because he ?saves runs? on defense.
You don?t pay 20+ million for defense at 1B. You can get good defense at 1B for a fraction of that.
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He’s defense is apparently way overrated. He’s one of the worst this year. From Yahoo today….
FanGraphs uses two measures for defense: Ultimate Zone Rating (UZR) and Defensive Runs Saved (DRS). They purport to do the same thing, and they agree that Teixeira and Jeter are rather awful in the field. Among qualifying first basemen, Teixeira?s UZR is better than that of Troy Glaus(notes), Paul Konerko(notes), Ryan Howard(notes) and Prince Fielder(notes), which is to say he?s a couple bad plays shy of cadaver. And for those who get so jazzed over Teixeira?s ability to pick throws to first out of the dirt, his 18 scoops are the second fewest in the major leagues ? and 30 fewer than Albert Pujols(notes).
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You don’t really know what UZR measures, do you?
one swing to tie the game
heck by the time we get to play TB again we may be 3 games back and have to sweep the series in order to stay alive in the division and out of nowhere while the Yanks & Tampa are beating up on each other the Twins have won 9 straight and are tied with us. They could take over homefield next week if they keep winning
corky.
Did Berkman leave his power in Houston…I think so…..
“If Boston wasn’t playing .500 baseball right now the Yankees may have actually been at risk of not making the playoffs.”
We need to count our lucky stars that half their team went on the DL.
Hell, if they beat us head-to-head, they can still put enough of a scare into us to drive Joe to act like a madman and panic.
Great job Berkman. Please dont allow Kearns up in this at bat. Please dont do it Joe.
swisher??
double play coming up by Swisher
CB -
I had to shut down for a while – this place gets me down a lot lately – but I appreciate your response earlier about the “junk” pitchers. Makes some sense to me.
The airline wanted to charge Berkman extra to carry on his power so he left it in the car at the airport.
Michael Kay sounds shocked that the Yankees have even gotten a base hit. It’s incredibly that it’s gotten to this point.
Berkman had terrific, professional at bats all night. He was consistent and tough all evening. Probably the only one.
Nick!!!! Please SAVE US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Best decision by Girardi in weeks with Kearns there
i don’t believe it. girardi finally figures out kearns sucks
Good move here but Swisher is probably really rusty.
“a strikeout/wild pitch. I believe this counts as a rally for this pathetic team.”
lmao so true
Better than a Kearns strike out.
or not…the Yanks can’t get any hits with two outs.
Well, that wasnt what I desired from Swish, but now 1 base hit could tie the game. So, how about it??? One base hit to the outfield????
Thanks for a competitive at bat in the biggest moment of the game thus far Swisher. He’s lucky he didn’t hit into a DP swinging at that pitch.
well that was quick.. maybe Kearns could have done that himself
GOB BG….
I know 2 guys who get a hit here. Damon. Matsui
Lol almost a dirt pitch on a 1-0 count and swisher hacks. At least its better than a kearns strikeout.
You would think with Cashman in the house, the Yankees would be showing a lot more fire. I hope he holds some type of closed door meeting with this team.
A HR could tie the game, not a basehit
That was to be expected from Swish he hasn’t since pitching in a long time.
Swisher’s knee is really bothering him. He looks very bad. Even trying to get down the line there he was limping very badly.
He may be out a while. That’s not an injury he can just tough out. The more he uses the knee to worse it may get.
There is “scoring some runs” and “not exactly.”
lazy fly or base hit?
# Ace September 17th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
I know 2 guys who get a hit here. Damon. Matsui
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Right.
Why has it taken this long for Girardi to pinch hit for Kearns and Cervelli? I know they don’t really have good bench players but they couldve put Thames in there once and swisher in there the other time. That couldve saved maybe an out or 2.
my bad.. didn’t see Nunez on 2nd.. damn gameday.
Why even burn Wood in this game unless the Yankees tie it up?
Can’t catch a break.
Wow. Not even hustling. Thanks Brett.
GODDAMNIT
Who homers first? Cervelli or Berkman??
more futility with runners on.
uncompetitive wretches ..
Un-freaking-real!
we need a 7 game winning streak
we need a 7 game winning streak
we need a 7 game winning streak
what a joke.
lets go Angels!!!
I still can’t believe Abreu botched that easy fly ball.
2 more left on unbelievable
Matsui/Damon>Grandy Johnson berkman
Wood…he might as well put in his buddy Chad Gaudin and that is pretty much what I expected from the Yankees…they will prolly just lay down in the 9th inning
Dont know why we couldnt pinch Thames there. Who gives a flying rat’s …. about the RHP or the LHP. Thames is 100% healthy and Swish is not.
Poor Swish – the MRI saying nothing was structurally wrong didn’t exactly help. It’s hard to believe, but he may not be healthy for the rest of the season and into the post-season.
This is so hard to watch. Aj finally pitches a halfway decent game and he gets no support.
This team was so good, and overcame so much all season, I hate to see this.
Blue Jays tacked on another much need run – 11-5 now.
I see too many outs in this lineup. If they dint hit homers they can’t score
Gardner just tries to pass the baton with risp. He doesn’t want the burden. Taking that 1-0 fastball right down the middle? Unbelievably passive. Terrible at bat yet again with risp for the yanks.
Gardner didn’t have any good swings in that at bat. The 1st pitch was a cookie and like usual he didn’t swing. I wonder if he should even be playing and how bad his wrist really is.
This team is just completely finished.
Worthless. Pathetic. Horrible.
Girardi is so inconsistent lately.
Posada needs 2 days off after playing 1 game, but Swisher who is still limping he will use as a PH.
Let Swisher get healthy.
“You don’t really know what UZR measures, do you?”
Jeff Passan wrote that article today trashing Tex’s defense based on UZR.
Passan’s joining the revolution of “advanced stats.” That’s what journalists are supposed to be doing in this age.
If the Yanks go on to lose this one it aint on AJ…he pitched fine and plenty good enough to win this game. You score one run against one of the worst starting pitchers in baseball and you really don’t deserve to win. The offense has just been anemic lately.
Y isn’t gaudin or mitre in????
I live in DC so I have to watch the game on MASN. They’re so happy with themselves… I want to punch my TV.
I feel like a Pirates fan.
Agree Kevin..he had a pitch to hit there
This team is in serious trouble right now, even if they make the playoffs.
They have given away their chance at HFA unless they beat up on Tampa next week at the stadium, which given how they have played lately is not that likely.
Even if they make the playoffs, it will be as the WC and they don’t hit a lick on the road. You can’t just flip a switch, this team is beaten up right now and on top of it not playing well.
Teixeira is playing on a broken toe, what do you expect him to do? Swisher has a bum knee, Gardner has a bum wrist, etc. Jeter having a career worst season and Posada sitting every other night for Girardi’s personal catcher nonsense.
You don’t all of a sudden start playing like you are 25 years old when you are 36 and having a terrible season. If you can’t get it done against garbage pitchers like Millwood, how will you do it against actually good ones like Liriano?
What an embarrassment. Really.
Man do they suck in the clutch!! George is turning over in his grave!!
This should be an 11 game losing streak. Luck saved 2 games
I agree Doreen. They have done so well all season, in spite of numerous injuries, players underperforming, etc. and now to have a stretch like this in September is pretty hard to take.
I think they are all pressing a bit at this point.
The whole offense is just plain freaking worthless. My kids little league is better than this bunch of losers.
This season really has turned out to feel like 2000. Though it feels like the team was better than 2000 for most of this season and is ending on a worse note.
Here are the facts. This team is really bad. with Swisher out and nobody hitting we will be gone in 4 games first round . That is umless the Sox catch us
“Blue Jays tacked on another much need run – 11-5 now.”
We lucked out, the fact that the Toronto “Red” Jays showed up for once against the Sox.
Of course, this pathetic team can’t even beat the Os anymore. Sad that we only beat them earlier in the year because they didn’t try hard, not because they sucked. They still suck, but now that they put in a little effort, we can’t beat them
That loser Brian Roberts is to blame. Of course, the Os have won a series from basically everyone since Buck took over, except the Sox. Roberts limps to the batters box in pain and finds a way to get clutch, 2 strike hits, but only against us. Something out hitters have no concept of…
It’s simply inexcusable to score 1 run in the 1st inning of Millwood and then not score the rest of the game. Also, having had him at 49 pitches through 2 innings. Shameful.
I can’t believe some of you people call yourself fans.
LGY, I have no problem PH Swisher – I doubt he’s going to get healthy at this point. He must have one hell of an inflammation, sheesh.
I completely agree about Posada.
One. And. Done.
i did expect more fire when girardi took over this team, but havent seen it. this is the time we need to see more fire. As a manager, you have to get the on the players.
Getting an eyeful Cashman? By the way how did that Park, Winn, Vazquez, Granderson, and Johnson work out for you?
I’m watching this on MASN too. Holes…
Cashmoney had a meeting last year in Atlanta and it seemed to work and I think it’s time for another one. I would be really surprised if they don’t have one tonight or tomorrow. It’s time for Tex and Cano to wake up and start pulling their weight. They have both been lost for the last 2 weeks or so and it’s killing them.
EA – Agreed. Brian Roberts is the cause of this. The Orioles efforted against us earlier in the year, but Brian Roberts is the cancer of that team against us. As Scot Shields is the cancer of the Angels against us. 2 no-class low lifes that decide to play against us and us only.
Gardner is so overrated by all those who post here. He is a fourth outfielder with no power. He doesn’t fit with the Yankees that are a 3 run homer team.
Even if Yankees do come from behind and win, their offensive difficulties are a real concern. I hope Pat M’s prediction about this being the last swoon is right. They really do need their best starting lineup healthy and back on the field to have any decent sustained success. Imagine seeing them totally shut down in October by a parade of junkballers, interspersed with the strategically deployed likes of Cliff Lee or David Price. Not a pretty thought.
And sadly, it’s not surprising to seem them fail to get even a single run out of that inning. Yikes. Let’s go, Yankees . . .
It’s so frustrating because of the manager. The manager, whether he thinks so or not, is clearly playing for 2nd place and he has a GM who backs him up. Great – I love Cash, but I’m very disappointed.
Even if he is satisfied with the wild card, how can Joe just the team go on like this ? Play Posada – why do we have to tell him this? It’s one game for Posada 2 days off. Enough already.
I’m no pom pom fan. If they’re sucking, I’m calling them out on it. This is a bunch of overpaid professionals ballplayers. I’m sure they’ll live happily in their million dollar homes no matter what my gripes are.
We now officially begin The Girardi Watch. Perhaps the 3-year contract was prescient?
“This season really has turned out to feel like 2000. Though it feels like the team was better than 2000 for most of this season and is ending on a worse note.”
Agree. Except the competition was worse in 2000 so they could get away with it.
And that team didn’t have the stark home/road offensive splits that this one does.
As late as the trading deadline, this team looked like a machine. It all started to slip after that Tampa series in late July. Even with the 8-game streak, we’ve been mediocre since then.
Last licks for for the Bronx Bo Peeps.
The 2000 team was better……better pitching, Jeter was untouchable in the playoffs, as were guys like O’Neill and Tino. This team is a joke.
Well, on the other hand – maybe they just aren’t that good. It’s very possible – all year they’ve been inconsistent offensively. They are worse now than they’ve been, but still this comes as no surprise. Maybe people just expect them to turn it on because they’re the Yankees, but no – it doesn’t work that way. This year, they are not THAT good. I mean, they’re good, but it’s very possible they just aren’t WS caliber – it happens.
Since the coddling and excuses don’t seem to work, maybe they should have Ozzie Guillen come over and tell them how much they are sucking.
somehow i find it funny that a 5foot 2 inch brain cashman with a bald head and dark circles and bags under his eyes and a friggen pocket protector will instill fear into this pathetic bunch of misfits that he cobbled together this year..
the first person he should be firing is himself for f’ing way too much with a championship caliber team from last year
They just can’t hit
Anyone know the Yanks’ record since the ASB?
I just can’t believe they only scored 1 run off of a 3-15, 5 era pitcher. I think I’m in shock.
I need to release some stool…be back soon.
The pitchers did their jobs tonight.
Over/under pitches throw in top of 9th….12
Rays have bases loaded in 8th
Hard to argue with you, Cashman Needs To Go
with tonight’s upcoming loss, the Yankees’ record since August won is 22-22.
We’re going to be hoping and praying that the offense picks up next year because there is very little flexibility in the lineup for changes to be made. I
Ken – Over. 38 pitches and the Yankees take the lead.
The offense is going to burn out this bullpen. Wood and Robertson have been pitching a lot recently and they are needed in almost every game because the guys can’t score any runs. It would be nice to have a 8-2 win so the mop up guys can pitch and the good guys can get a day off. Girardi is already playing for 2nd place but if the offense doesn’t wake up he is going to have to use Mitre and Gaudin in spots they shouldn’t be in to save the back of the bullpen.
And you have no idea what will happen tomorrow much less in the playoffs.
Sorry, but anything can still happen.
I’m not loving seeing the offense sputter like this and for so long, but don’t act as if they’ve been like this all year; they haven’t or they wouldn’t have been in first place with the best record for most of the season. Many of you seem to think injuries are just an excuse. Then on the other hand, you’se saying Girardi shoudln’t rest guys and then attack him for allowing Swisher to pinch hit. And if he let Kearns hit there you’d have attacked him for that.
Sometimes there’s really no one to blame.
they’re just not hitting. Not hitting. For whatever reason.
c’mon guys……the Yankees are totally going to rally in the 9th.
I can feel it 3 runs and then Mo to close the deal. That is what’s going to happen and then they will sweep the O’s and all will be right with the world
I accept the fact they are not able to win games.
3 and out in ALDS
CB September 17th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
“You don’t really know what UZR measures, do you?”
Jeff Passan wrote that article today trashing Tex’s defense based on UZR.
Passan’s joining the revolution of “advanced stats.” That’s what journalists are supposed to be doing in this age
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Trashing Tex’s defense based on UZR shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what it aims to measure. A low UZR, especially for a first baseman, is not indicative of poor defensive performance.
Not to mention that most of those who enjoy looking at “advanced stats” take the defensive metrics with a grain of salt.
If the opinion of Tex’s defense was not that of the poster, but of Passan, I apologize, I failed to catch on. The problem with these reporters choosing to cite “advanced stats” without proper understanding is that they assume they are without fault. Like every other stat in baseball, there are inefficiencies.
Nice clean inning by Frasor of the Jays. To the 8th they go.
I think theyve gone downhill since Andy got hurt. Theyve got to get something going. For AJ to only give up 3 runs is actually OK with me. He gave up 2 home runs and though he got himself in a lot of jams, he was able to get himself out of them for the most part. It sucks that the offense is so bad that the pitching has to be perfect to even keep them in the game. You dont win too many games 1-0.
ac1 September 17th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
i did expect more fire when girardi took over this team, but havent seen it. this is the time we need to see more fire. As a manager, you have to get the on the players.
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you think this team would be playing like this if ozzie guillen were managing them….you know kearns would not be in the lineup and he would have mentioned more than a few times that people like jeter and tex need to wake up and start hitting if this team has any chance..
I would not miss Girardi’s post-game for anything. It’s going to be a classic. Here’s what he should say, but wouldn’t in a million years.
“I have had it. It’s not acceptable for this team to be playing at this level right now. We get paid to win and this won’t be tolerated. Things are going to change. The Steinbrenner’s, the fans and the city deserve more. I take full responsibility, now everyone out please, we’re going to have a closed door team meeting”.
Here’s my starting lineup the rest of the year. If anyone doesn’t like it. They can take a seat on the bench.
Gardner – LF
Swisher – RF
Teixeira – 1B
A-Rod – 3B
Cano – 2B
Posada – C
Thames/Berkman – DH
Granderson – CF
Jeter – SS
Rally cap? Have we reached that point yet?
let me restate that: with tonight’s upcoming loss, the Yankees’ record since August 1 is 22-22.
Folks, forget about tracking TB. They’re not being caught by these clowns.
Angels vs Rays–9/17/10 in a pennant race 17,000 in attendence, DISGRACEFUL.
# jackamir September 17th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Gardner is so overrated by all those who post here. He is a fourth outfielder with no power. He doesn’t fit with the Yankees that are a 3 run homer team.
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been saying that for two years
West Coast Yankee Fan: Best post of the night, from Girardi’s quote to the lineup. Bravo.
“they’re just not hitting. Not hitting. For whatever reason”
Agree that’s it…they are death with runners in scoring pos
If they lose this game it’s not on AJ. He gave up a couple of homeruns but he was able to work out of trouble a couple of times, too. They should have been able to score more than 3 runs against putrid O’s pitching.
4-3 Angels in top of 9th
“A low UZR, especially for a first baseman, is not indicative of poor defensive performance. ”
Not true. It’s not the way the data is presented in any way nor does Fangraphs or MGL create any distinction for 1b. That may be how you chose to interpret it. But that’s not how the construct is represented in any way.
Hard to blame Passan. People have been crushing people in the media for years for being luddites when it comes to advanced stats. Now they’re using them and just writing about what the table says.
LAA 4-3
Hey great at bat..it’s a shame posada does not play
Wow, a professional AB!
Really good AB by Posada….will they make something happen with it?
look at that….it’s beganning the Yankees rally!!!
Great AB by Posada
Posada just needs to be in the lineup every freaking game. Shame on Girardi for keeping him out of the starting lineup tonight.
now that is an AB. 11 pitches and a hit.
good AB by Jorgie. now theybve just got to get something going.
If jeter hits Into a dp..this blog may crash
Great at bat by Posada. Too bad they are down by 2 and not 1.
No, for once it’s not on AJ. These pitchers are under an inordinate amount of pressure to be perfect.
lol, that might have been one of the best AB’s for Posada I’ve ever seen
Best at bat of the game for the yankees.
if DJ hits DP here, he really sucks.
“Gardner is so overrated by all those who post here. He is a fourth outfielder with no power”
he only has the highest OBP and is the best fielding outfielder on the team. But he is so overrated.
This team desperately needs Mark Teixeira to carry it out of this mess.
He’s 30. In the prime of his career. He was brought in to transition this franchise during the time when the core of the team aged.
In other words – he was brought in for exactly this situation. He has to be the man. He can’t just play third fiddle now to Alex and Cano.
It’s his turn now.
By all means keep giving cervelli starts
Maybe they should try and get this Posada guy some more playing time?
jeter doesnt hit in the 9th….
IMO, we knew the 2000 wasn’t anything special sooner than we found that out about this team.
I think we were caught by surprise with the 2010 team… they looked like a juggernaut early in the season, went through a little funk from mid-May through early June, then took off from June till August.
Then from August till now, it has been a mess. This team looked like it was bound to repeat, then they hit the skids.
If they are going to win, their pitching has to carry them. Outings like this from AJ might not be good enough in October
He just swung at balls 2 and 3 on 89mph.
Posada needs to play every day. He just has to.
A-ROD grand slam
Boy, would there be a whole lot of red faces on this blog if the Yanks come back to win this game, and Anaheim beats the Tampas.
Jeter overmatched again
Jeter has to stop chasing those high pitches. He swung at the same crap against Soriano.
Capt GIDP is up. you can see what is coming next.
Posada not playing makes my blood boil…………………..
The Posada AB is a prime example of how big it can be to make adjustments throughout at bats.
He flailed helplessly at the 1-1 splitter low below the zone, but then started waiting till the ball got deep on him and was fighting off fastballs until he got splitters close enough that he could do some damage.
Some of these hitters look like they are getting beaten in the same ways every time, it makes a difference if you are capable of making those kinds of adjustments.
good, at least no DP, thanks Jeter!
Jeter hacking at ball 2 and 3
another called strike 3? REALLY!?!?!?!
Jeter has to be hurt.
The manager is not playing for second place. He’s making a choice that when they get to the playoffs he’d rather have a healthy team play more than one round than a team with no healthy players liming out after three games. Furthermore, this team could have won a lot of those games they lost. They were a hit away in most of the losses from not only winning, but blowing games open. The manager did not do that. The players who did not hit did.
HFA is not the be all and end all in baseball.
As good an AB as Jorge had….Jeter’s was just as bad.
another ko – good thing jeter decides to come to play tonight
LMAO the MASN announcers are ripping the Yankees……
He just swung at balls 2 and 3 and then took strike 3 right down the middle. Didnt bother to fight it off or anything.
Captain Clutch! Right down the middle.
Jeter has been swinging at pitches that he normally would not and taking perfect strikes for quite some time now. Hard to fathom what is going on with him right now.
hacking at 2 terrible pitches out of the zone and you look at MEAT right down the middle AGAIN!!!
It’s hard to see Posada take those great at bats and fathom how he was not starting tonight.
The flash of improvement Jeter showed in Tampa isn’t there tonight. He’s killed them.
A grandy hit in late innings???
It’s spitting into the wind talking about Po getting playing time. Girardi is a stooge.
88mph fastball at helmet level, swing and miss. 89 mph fastball center of plate waste high, whiff. Amazing. Utterly amazing how fast and far he has fallen.
Terrible AB yet again from Jeter late in a game and with a runner on base to boot.
He did not swing at a single strike in that at bat and then took strike 3 out over the plate, just awful.
What the hell is wrong with Jeter?
Done with 5 rings, Derek?
“Gardner is so overrated by all those who post here. He is a fourth outfielder with no power”
Yeah, he’s sooo overrated compared to that clutch beast Mark Teixeria. How many months a year does he take off again, 3? 4?
Right down the middle of the plate.
Oh, but he should TOTALLY be leading off.
Here is Teixera’s chance.
Come on Tex. This has to be your moment right here.
Dreadful at bat by Jeter. How do you swing at 2 pitches at your head and then take that pitch?? This year Jeter has swung at everything and anything not in the strike zone.
The captain has been so terrible, his clutch hitting disappeared a couple years ago. Should be interesting how long and how much the Yanks sign him for. They have to do it, but it will be interesting.
that’s NOT a strike!!
pat -
I sthat a final?
Harold Reynolds ripping the Yanks on MLB channel for not starting Jorge at C when Burnett starts.
AJ and D-Rob did their part – can the offense do theirs? Staying tuned . . .
Atta boy Tex….sick of this guy and his .258 average. Horrible year for Mark.
Dan Johnson dont just miss that pitch. But our guy does.
Tex proving his worth
A-Rod K?
At least Alex will have a shot. Teixera hits it straight up…..
It always comes down to Arod. Amazing.
Too bad no one can step up so Tex can rest
Right down the middle of the plate
Tex is so lost that pitch was right there to hit.
great the 2nd night in a row for A-rod to strike out in a big spot to end the game
And Texieria continues to hit pop-up after pop-up.
Yuk.
Come on A-Rod.
we have seen this movie before
time to sit tex and play miranda. tex is doing nothing on offense right now.
Jeter is killing this team this year. He needs to go off into the sunset and call it a career.
strike 1 to Tex was outside. strike 1 to Alex was inside.
Uehara just made about the worst pitch you could make to Teixeira and he popped out. Down and right down the middle, how much better a pitch does Teixeira need than that?
If the Yankees could string together good at bats they would have destroyed him. Uehara has nothing and is missing his location, and the Yankees are bailing him out with horrible at bats.
Tex has an awful swing. Just garbage at times.
You don’t get awarded any runs for hitting the ball 400 feet high in the air.
Ump helps out the pitcher again
Best way to judge Tex is to see him play 1st base every day. He has made great plays. To mention him and Giambi in the same sentence is a sin.
Any reason why Girardi hasn’t pinch-run for Posada? Isn’t Moeller still available?
Tex is a friggin bum.
Meatball pitch.
Feast or Famine for Mark.
Absolutely no consistency whatsoever.
6 more years of it.
Just a terrible at bat for Tex..awful night at the plate
He missed his pitch
That was the pitch
Andino doesn’t miss that pitch
NY Padres living up to their rep.
Doreen, I’m well aware that HFA isn’t everything, but I just really disagree with you. Enough is enough – they have to win some games. They don’t have to go 16-1, but they have to win games. Right now it’s as if I expect them to lose every game – and this is the Yankees, not the Pirates. They need to feel good about themselves.
I thought that was strike 3
Doreen
No. Top 9
whew he got lucky…they didn’t call that a strike…(it wasn’t but you can’t be taking close pitches like that to end the game….what the hell
That’s Alex!!!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Teflon Tex strikes again.
A-ROD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That folks is a man.
Arod’s the man.
the only good thing on this team right now.
HOLY CRAP! A BIG HIT WITH RISP???? WHERE DID THAT COME FROM ?
Oh yeah!!!!!!
A-Rod = Mr. Clutch?
I guess that shuts up all of you whining losers who have nothing better to do than complain about everything under the sun.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He got away with that pitch 2 pitches before but not that time…..he is just so freaking good its unbelievable.
i guess he was waiting for that pitch……hey I totally called it!!! RALLY.
Is this still a dream?????
ALEX IS GOD
Go Arod!!! Hopefully Mo has his command tonight.
Wow. That was something else.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHH!!!!!!
OMG…………………………
ALEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
STYLE AROUND THE BASES ALEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE TURNAROUND. ALEX just wrote his passage on the wall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happiest man on the planet right now is me… Now get it to Mo!!
ALEX!!!!!
they have been solely dependent on A-Rod since he came back
WOOOW!
Guy was trying to blow it!!! Arod appeased him!!! Hell yeah!!! We still have alex rodriguez guys!!! Don’t forget that….
CB what were you saying about how good Alex looks at the plate right now? Here here!!
thanks pat.
Saved by the Arod.
That is so huge….this was looking to be one of the worst defeats of the year but luckily the Yankees have an all time great player that can bail them out and give them a chance to win.
It’s almost impossible for one player to carry a baseball team, but Alex is doing it and has done it. I’m in awe.
geez, I am in SHOCK!!!!
Now, Mo be Mo!
Yankee baseball———–The three run HOMER
Good Lord, let that be a macro turning point.
wow—shouldnt CR9 be complaining about umpire calls, like he does all the time???
As in, A-Roid should have been down looking the pitch before???
(im thinking not…)
I thought for sure that pitch was going to be called a strike. He’s been calling that pretty much all night.
All of you who have been dogging this team all night, please get lost.
I definitely don’t want to hear from you now.
oh shut up with the whole stop complaining BS….I’m pretty sure when your team loses 9 of 10 and play like crap its okay to say a couple of things that are less then positive. No one on this blog can say the Yankees have been playing well for the last two weeks. So once again shut up.
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m following on gameday thinking we’re diwn to the last strike. Could he do it?
It was pretty spectacular according to Gameday.
Isn’t it cute to get RS trolls here?
mike10078
That pitch right before was inside. INSIDE. Ball 2. INSIDE. INSIDE. Called fairly, you dirtpile!
That’s the most clutch hit of the year for the Yankees. It’s not even a debate.
He actually might get 30 homers..unless he gets ” days off”
Arod is the only offense tonight! We needed that homerun! Hope it wakes up everyone else!
Nonsense. This team is playing like crap right now and one swing from a star that is paid $30 million a year does not change that.
A-Rod just bailed them out. And suddenly the Yanks could take first place back.
MG – stuff it.
This offense has been garbage.
Relying on late inning heroics from Swish, Jorge and Alex.
Alex is disgustingly good at this game. He is just sick. It’s so hard to wrap your head around how good he is.
He is just a historically great player who can play this game at a level that has rarely ever been seen.
His swing when locked in is so perfect it’s hard to get over. It’s literally perfect.
It’s just amazing that for so many years Yankee fans took that man for granted and trashed him over and over.
This offense isn’t much to write home about without Alex making things happen.
The contrast between Alex’s at bat and Tex’s was startling.
Ok since we always give umpires crap, I have to give Ted Barret some props here. That was the defining at-bat of the game and he made every call correctly. And there were some real tough ones in there. That second ball was inches off the plate but Barrett made the right call. THat at-bat easily could have ended on A-rod getting rung up on strikes but the ump did his job and so did A-rod!
The best thing about that home run was seeing it on MLB At Bat on my iphone, just seeing the blue dot, the In Play, Run(s), and looking at the location of the dot and saying “That’s in his wheelhouse…” and then a minute later it saying Home Run!
Good Stuff.
I’d like to reaffirm my love for A-Rod
With the way the Yankees have played now for two weeks, its become the expectation they would lose, rather than win.
It still isn’t over though, insurance run would have been nice.
He threw Alex a fat pitch and he crushed it.
Of course it was. Of course…..
Youre the biggest whiner Ive ever seen. If that was ANY other team, it would be “typical anti-yankee sentiment”
Easy folks, the game isn’t over yet. Still gotta get that third out.
I hope Mo can close this one out
We haven’t won this one yet.
Uh oh! I saw Girardi watching A-Rod jog slowly around the bases. Day off tomorrow, Book it.
Birds of prey, praying
No longer in Kirk’s command
Felled by A-rocket!
I commented earlier tonight to my dad that A-Rod seems to really love hitting at this ballpark
Great players make great plays.
That’s the type of hit that potentially can turn an entire team around. That type of hit can boost everyones confidence.
alex can still get to 30 homers.
You’ve got to love it. The whining babies aren’t happy when the team is losing…..AND they aren’t happy when the team is winning.
It must be tough living such a miserable life.
CB, that first statement might be the best thing I’ve ever read here, lol.
How big was that home run??? WOW..
Dynasty is Destiny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I missed you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was all I was hoping for in the 9th…give Arod a chance to tie it or take the lead and he came through on the Yankees last strike of the ballgame…..hopefully that will spring board this Yankee offense and they can get on a roll. Can’t understate how big a swing that was by Alex.
West Coast Yankee Fan-
And what does that speech accomplish except assuaging some angry fans? It ticks off the team and it puts disabled players in the lineup.
I really don’t know what you all expect Girardi to say after a game. I really don’t.
CB—
He’s “disgustingly good”???? Whats disgusting is the fawning for a cheating, steroid-using scumbag like A-rod.
Alex’s one swing doesn’t erase or fix the offense. He just saved them from some embarrassment for the moment.
Let’s go Mo!!!
Yeah jorge set up that inning..I wish he played more
mike 10078
Go back to your Red Sox blog, you dirtpile! Inside! Ball 2. Just as the first pitch of the at bat was, Inside! Inside! DIRTPILE!
Yankees only score on HRs
Chad – it ain’t over till it’s over. Not when Alex has a swing coming.
More than half the fans there are Yankee fans. Does Michael Kay realize this? All night he was talking about how the Orioles are finally filling the stands (thanks to Showalter) and when ARod hit his HR (caught by a Yankee fan), more than half the fans were up with raised arms.
When Arod is locked in and healthy he can still cause more damage at the plate than any player in baseball.
mike10078
He NEVER cheated with us. He only cheated with the Rangers! Dirtpile!
Alex won’t let them lose……………
Tex? He’s a good player………………….but he’s going to take some hits, I’d think. At some point he has to perform.
Mo to clean it up….I hope tomorrow we just win straight up….my heart can’t take many more of these ‘other’ kinda wins
Get over yourself mike10778. You don’t like it there a red sox blog out there with your name on it.
West Coast Yankee Fan September 17th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Uh oh! I saw Girardi watching A-Rod jog slowly around the bases. Day off tomorrow, Book it.
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He might need Saturday and Sunday!!
“what were you saying about how good Alex looks at the plate right now? Here here!!”
You could just see this coming. You could just see Alex turning into a terror for the rest of the league again.
It really started before he hurt his calf. I was very concerned that that injury might set his swing back again.
But it looks like the rest has done him very good. I’ve said this for a while – I do think that tendinitis in his hip was worse than he was letting on. And his power comes from torque through his hips.
He’s now pivoting through his hips better than he has all season and it’s not even close. He is now so smooth once again through his load and pivot.
He also made a nice adjustment when he was on the DL. He’s now resting the bat on his shoulder. Blake and I discussed this when he first came back. It looks like he’s doing that to try to keep his hands more still and eliminate movement.
This literally could not happen at a better time.
Welcome back Alex.
Doreen if you can’t read between the lines of my post I can’t help you. I see no leadership on this team right now.
Doreen September 17th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
More than half the fans there are Yankee fans. Does Michael Kay realize this? All night he was talking about how the Orioles are finally filling the stands (thanks to Showalter) and when ARod hit his HR (caught by a Yankee fan), more than half the fans were up with raised arms.
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For a minute I thought he was going to give them a curtain call
So, at least let us be happy for a few moments before we sink back into the reality that is this offense.
Cr9 is ” dirt pile” your new word??
Doreen September 17th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
More than half the fans there are Yankee fans. Does Michael Kay realize this? All night he was talking about how the Orioles are finally filling the stands (thanks to Showalter) and when ARod hit his HR (caught by a Yankee fan), more than half the fans were up with raised arms.
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Uh no doubt….i live about 45min from baltimore and I go to the Yankee games. I have to look around the stands for O’s fans its overwhelmingly mostly Yankee fans and the game tonight the stadium is barely half full
If the Yankees win this game that’s an unbelievably big hit by A-Rod to really bail them out, and especially since both Boston and Tampa are losing right now.
The Yankees have stolen just enough games over this horrible stretch to prevent it from being an almost impossibly terrible collapse. Hopefully that buys them enough time to get straightened out and clinch this quickly so they have some time to rest these guys properly.
Ken – Yes. It goes along with scumpile!
The cutter looks back to normal tonight….that thing is moving like crazy.
Haha—”dirtpile”. And, im not a Sox fan, at all.
Saying “he didnt cheat for us” sums up my thoughts….hypocrisy.
# mike10778 September 17th, 2010 at 10:10 pm
CB—
He’s “disgustingly good”???? Whats disgusting is the fawning for a cheating, steroid-using scumbag like A-rod.
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How about: He’s “disgustingly good”???? Whats disgusting is the fawning for a cheating, steroid-using scumbag like Ortiz.
You tell me Doreen why Jeter is leading off with a .329 OBP?
Arod 4
Orioles 3
The rest of the line up = stink.
Goose, stuff it yourself. There isn’t a single on of you whining losers who would have the guts to call any of the Yankees chokers to their faces. All you can do is hide behind a keyborad and complain.
almost a triple
The problems are far from fixed, but we’ll take any bright spots at this point.
WOW. Pitch Jones inside after that one
Hey matt I thought I would never say this but that was a good post…
1 Mo Out to go.
Haha—typical one-track mind. Im not a Sox fan…cant you read?
And your comeback was as good as “you are….”
That was a perfect pitch to Jones. Good job by Posada coming out to talk to Mo. I could imagine what Cervelli would of called in that spot.
mike
you’re a dirtpile Red Sox fan. And there isnt any other kind of Red Sox “fan” Hypocrisy, how about truth and loyalty. To a man, a leader, a legend, a GOD, Alex Rodriguez.
If Alex Rodriguez is wrong, then I dont wanna be right!!!!!!!
Posada and Granderson were also big that inning getting on base…Posada in particular as that was a fantastic AB.
Thank you Alex Rodriguez!
Giving A-Rod the proper rest when he was hurting like that has allowed him to come back a lot closer to 100% than he seems like he’s been for most of this season.
It’s amazing how much more bat speed he has been generating since he has come back off the DL. You could see earlier in this season that he looked like he was dragging, that he just couldn’t pivot himself to turn on inside fastballs like that one he just hit out for a home run. I’m sure it had to do with his groin injury and other nagging things he’s been dealing with.
Now that he’s healthy he’s back to being the player we expected more of this season. He only needs 5 more home runs to secure another season of 30 HR and 100 RBI, I think he has a shot at doing it.
Erica I thought he was going to do a curtain call also
Not every player is going to click at the same time. Thats just a fact
If A-rod is the hot guy tonight and can pick up the rest of the team, thats a good thing. That’s why baseball is a team sport. You pick each other up
LAA wins!
rays lose
Rays lose.
Rays lose.
I bet I know who the Player of the Game is!
geeeez, A-ROD!!!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Take that mike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They needed that!
Alex Rodriguez
Mariano Rivera
Feathers in their caps
Yankees win………… 1 of 1, with cc and andy pitching the weekend.
Nice play Jete……huge win for the Yankees. Back in 1st place. It certainly pays to have one of the best players ever on your ball club.
The Yankees Magic Number to clinch the division is now 16!
blake you are right. Posada set that inning up. He worked the count, forced Uehara to throw lots of pitches and ended it with a really really good single
Yankees back in first where they belong!
lol i just realized that A-rod actually did score ALL of our runs. I mean DAMN. Ridiculous. It’s like with A-rod in the line-up the rest of the team just lays down. Think about it before A-rod came back from his injury everyone was hitting. Since he’s been back only HE has been hitting. Ridiculous
Nice win, even though that’s not the best way to do it, a win like that after this losing streak feels mighty good.
Do not understate the job done by Posada. Terrific AB.
Lol, 3 Rays lose posts in a row.
“blake September 17th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Posada and Granderson were also big that inning getting on base…Posada in particular as that was a fantastic AB.”
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Agree posada was huge..12 pitches set the tone for the whole inning..he must play everyday..or almost everyday..too good a hitter
A rod. Clutchest Yank.
And Tampa loses
If Uehara gives it up to the REd Sox, he sits in the dugout smiling and starts dancing. Here he is looking glum Take that Uehara, you …… …… ………. ………………..
MG it’s a blog!
Relax dude.
Good thing we have Arod. Girardi probably couldn’t breathe during the 9th inning.
Exhibit A of Posadas value
# Betsy September 17th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
Alex won’t let them lose……………
Tex? He’s a good player………………….but he’s going to take some hits, I’d think. At some point he has to perform.
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I think he’ll start taking hits if he continues to have poor Octobers.
new thread
Back in first as well is nice to see.
Just think if they had been playing .500 instead of this big slide, they would have a decent lead over the other teams.
So, we picked up a game on both Rays and Sox.
For all the whining by the kids and the some grown ups, still the team won.
Anyone who calls A-Rod a choker again needs his/her head checked.
Also, Girardi criticism is way out of the line as well.
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Wow, you talk about a turnaround!
Yankees were dead, but then one swing of the bat, then the best closer in the history of baseball steps to the mound, and voila, the Yanks are back in first place and all is well with the world.
In baseball, you never count the other team out, especially when they happen to be the New York Friggin Yankees!
Gee,
Based on what Alex just said, sounds like the players are behind the way Girardi is working things right now – trying to get healthy. Gee. Imagine that.
A rid pulled a dan Johnson?
I may be just a tad lightheaded, but Kim Jones’ upper body looks particularly nice in that pink top.
Unbelievable 3-9 since 9/5 – all three wins decided by homeruns in the last at-bat. That close to disaster.
CB,
Yea it seems like resting the bat on his shoulder is working for him…at first it seemed like occasionally he had a tough time finding the timing for his trigger with it but now he seems very fluid and short to the ball. You and I have discussed this before but when he’s covering the inside pitch like that then he’s nearly impossible to pitch to. Its good to see because they are going to need him to be great.
For all the worrywarts, Yanks have the best record in baseball.
Enjoy the moment.
jeter is going to be ok come playoffs
“Based on what Alex just said, sounds like the players are behind the way Girardi is working things right now – trying to get healthy. Gee. Imagine that.”
Well said Doreen.
I am sure SJ is reading/read your comment.
The other day he was writing how A-Rod was upset with Girardi, blah blah, blah.
Some folks here relly love hallucianting and spew that junk here
Whats the playoff magic number. 9?
My computer froze and had to be rebooted during Alex’s at-bat, but after he hit the homerun, all I could think is maybe the contract is too long like everyone says, Hank overpaid, how will it be five years from now, and he’s WORTH EVERY PENNY. Just like CC. They would not be the defending World Champs, and they can’t repeat, without him. Every single penny. Wow.
Toronto making a game of it. Gregg about to blow it.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. ARod will once again have to carry this team like he did last year. Jeter and Tex can’t hit doggie crap right now. Tex is really starting to piss me off.
Is this the beginning of his famous in the stretch fade out like last year?
It’s amazing how naive Girardi and Burnett are. They aren’t going to comment on his black eye? As if the truth isn’t going to come out eventually.
So who punched him out?