Game 134: Yankees at Red Sox
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Blogroll on Aug 31, 2011 
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YANKEES (81-52)
Brett Gardner LF
Derek Jeter SS
Curtis Granderson CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Robinson Cano 2B
Nick Swisher RF
Eric Chavez DH
Eduardo Nunez 3B
Francisco Cervelli C
RHP Phil Hughes (4-4, 6.46)
Hughes vs. Red Sox
RED SOX (82-52)
Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Dustin Pedroia 2B
Adrian Gonzalez 1B
David Ortiz DH
Jed Lowrie 3B
Carl Crawford LF
Josh Reddick RF
Jason Varitek C
Marco Scutaro SS
RHP Josh Beckett (11-5, 2.43)
Beckett vs. Yankees
TIME/TV: 7:05 p.m., YES Network and ESPN
WEATHER: Beautiful day and night here in Boston.
UMPIRES: HP Brian O’Nora, 1B Alfonso Marquez, 2B Mark Wegner, 3B Ed Rapuano
ARMED AND DANGEROUS: Nick Swisher recorded his ninth outfield assist last night. He’s one away from his career-high of 10 set last season. He’s tied for the fifth-most outfield assists among AL right fielders.
THREE OF A KIND: The Yankees have three different players with at least 95 RBI (Curtis Granderson, Mark Teixeira and Robinson Cano). In all of baseball, there are only four other players (Adrian Gonzalez, Prince Fielder, Ryan Howard and Matt Kemp) who have at least that many runs batted in.
COMING IN SECOND: The Yankees are 29-14 in the second game of series this season.
UPDATE, 7:20 p.m.: Jeter will say he was bunting for a hit, and to some extent that makes sense — a sacrifice as worst-case scenario — but still, Jeter’s been hot and Gardner has a ton of speed. Not sure I’m on board with the first-inning bunt in that situation. Didn’t work out as Granderson and Teixeira struck out.
UPDATE, 7:35 p.m.: Hughes looked pretty sharp in the bottom of the first. A lot of 94 and a few 95 on the gun. He stranded a runner, and it’s still scoreless.
UPDATE, 7:58 p.m.: Eduardo Nunez has the leadoff double, and Derek Jeter has the two-out RBI single. That’s enough for a 1-0 Yankees lead in the third.
UPDATE, 8:22 p.m.: Boston got a couple of runs in the third, with Jed Lowrie’s RBI single sneaking just inside the line to give the Red Sox a 2-1 lead.
UPDATE, 8:50 p.m.: Beckett has really owned the Yankees this season, and now he’s through five innings with the Red Sox still leading 2-1. Derek Jeter’s two-out single was left stranded in the fifth.
UPDATE, 9:00 p.m.: Two-out, two-run homer by David Ortiz in the fifth has the Red Sox in front 4-1. Seems like Hughes has pitched pretty well thought most of this game, but he’s made some mistakes that really, really cost him.
UPDATE, 9:09 p.m.: RBI double by Cano has pulled the Yankees within 4-2. Still no outs in the sixth, and getting Cano around to score would cut the lead to one.
UPDATE, 9:13 p.m.: Chavez doubles, Reddick makes an error, and just like that it’s a 4-4 game with the go-ahead run at third base with no outs.
UPDATE, 9:15 p.m.: Sac fly, and the Yankees are in front 5-4. This game just turned around in a hurry.
UPDATE, 9:34 p.m.: Hughes is finished. He seemed to fool Varitek with a curveball, but the Red Sox catcher got just enough of it to send a double along the third-base line. The game’s tied at 5, and now Boone Logan is coming in to deal with Jacoby Ellsbury.
UPDATE, 10:00 p.m.: Logan did his job after Ellsbury — he retired Gonzalez and Ortiz — but Ellsbury’s two-run homer stands as the difference heading into the eighth. Two more chances for the Yankees against a tough back to the Red Sox bullpen.
LGY August 31st, 2011 at 6:55 pm
I was born and raised in NYC and think it is one of the world’s great cities. But San Francisco gives it a run for it’s money domestically and internationally Paris does as well.
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The California sun has gotten to you.
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have you ever actually stepped foot in SF or Paris or is there a website that has advanced statistics for city to city comparisons?
why is Cervelli playing again is Martin hurt??
Go Yanks hopefully Hughes brings his A game.
The NFL season opener should be delayed to accommodate Obama’s speech.
Seriously, football is a pure waste of time and resources.
I’ve been to San Francisco probably twenty to thirty times, Paris about seven and the French countryside three times.
Go Hughes. Go Yanks.
Go Yankees! Go Phil! May it be so that Montero played his last game in a SWB uniform last night.
He has yet to prove that he has an out pitch.
How many pitches for Hughes in the first inning? 35? 45? 55?
Schilling in the booth? Ugh.
lord…..Curt Schilling is on the ESPN broadcast. I can’t handle this….may have to watch on the computer.
The Mercury Strikes Back August 31st, 2011 at 7:07 pm
He has yet to prove that he has an out pitch.
How many pitches for Hughes in the first inning? 35? 45? 55?
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The trolls are starting early.
Hi everyone,
are you watching ESPN?, Schilling and Nomar on the booth, so much for balanced coverage
Lol….Nomar and Schilling are the commentators. Unbelievable. Where is Sutcliffe
For those considering the ESPN broadcast, the booth tonight has Dave O’Brien, Nomar, and, to provide balance, Curt Schilling.
yup not watching on ESPN, rather watch MLB.TV so I can see YES. I’ve had ESPN on for 2min and I had to mute already.
It’s gonna suck for Hughes with however he pitches. If he does well and AJ does well. They’ll give to AJ. If he does bad and AJ does bad they’ll give to AJ. If he does well and AJ does bad. They’ll think about it.
Phil pitched very well against the Sox in 2010 (10 earned runs in 25 innings), there is no reason he can’t go out a pitch well tonight…
Schilling: “As long as a he’s getting the results, it’s okay to go slow” or something like that.
Josh “The Scum” Bucket looks sharp in those warm up pitches.
Oh boy…
Go Philip! Go Yanks!
Philly Rotation Auditions:
8/31 – Cliff Lee/Reds
14-7
2.71
9/1 – Vance Worley/Reds
9-1
2.65
9/3 – Cole Hamels/Marlins
13-7
2.58
9/4 – Roy Halladay/Marlins
16-5
2.47
NESN is a much better Red Sox broadcast that ESPN
The problem with Paris is the Parisians that live there, otherwise I’d agree. As far as Boston over S.F. there is no jesting. Besides the sox fans, the city is loaded with history, higher learning, every cuisine you can think of, top hospitals, museums, beaches, close to the mountains and a quick trip to NYC and Montreal. What bothers me about S.F. is how over crowded and expensive it is, lack of true seasons and sooner or later the ‘big one’ is inevitable, ‘learn to swim’ as the Tool song goes.
I’m out, these game threads are brutal.
I wonder if Singleton will blast Beckett for taking forever to throw a pitch
take your time beckett…no rush!
Mike_Boston August 31st, 2011 at 7:13 pm
To be continued
Go Gardy Go!
The Mercury Strikes Back August 31st, 2011 at 7:11 pm
Josh “The Scum” Bucket looks sharp in those warm up pitches.
Oh boy…
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Another loser like JobaTip Your Hat wanting to hang out with Yankee fans.
Gardy! Poll question.
Bigger head. Schilling or Kay?
good at bat and a better result from Gardy
Finally!!! Let’s pound this punk!!!
What a great AB by gardy!
Nice, at bat.
And of course, Schilling keeps on yakking like nothing happened.
Let’s get to second, Brett.
Yes lets play for 1 run in the first…..sigh
WTF Jeter.
a bunt…..on the first inning, yikes
Good decision to bunt.
Jeter “flirting” with PEDroia.
Jeter is so dumb with bunting.
He’s a future manager
I think it was a personal play from Jeter, but why not the hit and run play?
blake August 31st, 2011 at 7:16 pm
Yes lets play for 1 run in the first…..sigh==
Blake,
you think jeter did that on his own?
step out Grandy
Poll Question:
Who knows more about baseball.
1. ___Derek Jeter
2. ___ LGY
3. ___ Luis
Please steal
Benny,
yea….I think he was bunting for a hit/sacrifice…..meaning that he wanted the hit but the sac would be a good secondary outcome…..I guess that’s fine but he picked a bad pitch to do it on. I would rather him hit and let Gardner steal…
Its BS that the umps continue to let him get away with stalling
I think Beckett should take a few more moments between pitches. Why the rush?
With grandpa behind the plate why is Jeter bunting Gardner over? It would be very easy for Gardner to steal 2nd base.
The bunt is astounding. Just astounding.
have you ever actually stepped foot in SF or Paris or is there a website that has advanced statistics for city to city comparisons?
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I have. San Francisco only briefly but a good amount of time in Paris.
I haven’t been to any city in the world that is felt rivals NYC. Of course different strokes for different folks.
*that I felt*
I bet you Hughes won’t payback the RedSox for Lackey beaming Cervi last night…
oh look it’s Mark Teixeira again, what is he goona do?
125. BA against boston for mark in 13 games? Holy snikeys!!
Thet bunt still has me infuriated. One pitch one out. Just awful.
The Yanks have to step out on Buckett. If he wants to mess with their timing they have to mess with him back.
What’s Beckett already running his mouth about….
meatball right down the middle for Tex and he just looks foolish.
TEIXEIRA IS A BUM!
2K’s
The Scum in top form …. again .
Wtf did Beckett just say something to Gardner
Carlo,
You think Girardi called that bunt or was it Jeter’s doing?
You have to give the Sux scouting department credit for figuring out you throw off speed pitches to Teixeira. Absolutely brilliant.
I’m so sick of beckett taking forever. Why doesn’t he check his emails why he’s at it?
I think Jeter is free to bunt on his own. I’ve heard Girardi say that.
The bunt was really stupid. Gardner should have just stolen the bag first pitch. Varitek has thrown out 17% this year.
Tex is a sad case at this point. He is an automatic out except for his once in a blue moon homeruns and hits. He definitely shouldn’t be batting 3rd.
I don’t have a problem with Jeter bunting for a hit there…..but if that’s what he was doing he shouldn’t have bunted that pitch.
jerter with the moronic bunt in the first inning with the base steealing leader on first and varitek behind the plate. he alwasy does that against boston… It is stupid how can he not understandd that!!!!!!!!!!!
good news tex did not pop up to short… again the yanks 3rd or 4th hitter has a avg under 250 how does that person not get moved down in the lineup?????????????????
Jeter ruined that whole inning.
I can’t believe the bunt.
WCYF,
If alex was batting 125 against boston, the media would be killing him right now. UNREAL!!
there was a swing and miss
jeter was not bunting for a hit. he was giving away an out in the first inning with 1 of the fastest runners in baseball on first.
moronic no other explanation………
94
Benny Blanco
+ 1
95
95 right on by Ellsbury….havne’t seen that in awhile
K
95
94-95-95 SIT DOWN PUNKSBURY!!!
95 for phil…he’s feeling the adrenaline!
Three 95′s in a row, but key, w/movement.
Kay said he didn’t throw 95 but he did a few games ago
P – that’s jeter on his own and I can’t stand it.
Yes, Jeter’s bunt wasn’t the best play of his career. But can someone tell me if they’ve seen a worse middle-of-the-order hitter for the Yankees than Mark Teixeira? This guy is quietly awful, incapable of the big hit. Just astonishing. What are his numbers against the Sox this year?
Phil has the good stuff tonight
Wow. We need to crush Beckett for that display.
K!!! good sign, Beckett is going to drill Gardner, looking for an excuse
that was a good curve that didn’t get called
Not watching ESPN feed… did Beckett bark at Gardner accusing him of stealing pitches?
Gotta keep the ball down to Pedroia…..I know that like really low but he hammers balls up in the zone
You would never see the Sox bunt over Ellsbury or Tampa with one of their fast guys. I don’t understand why Jeter always bunts Gardner over. It’s just stupid….
kay kills me when he sounds so surprised like he never seen phil throw 95…MPH.
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pedroia is a pain in da arse!!
“Not watching ESPN feed… did Beckett bark at Gardner accusing him of stealing pitches?”
yea….already whining
Buster_ESPNBuster Olney
As Josh Beckett came off the mound, he gestured angrily at Gardner — thought he was tipping location for Teixeira, apparently.
That “GTF outta here” hand-gesture by Beckett after the 3rd out was directed at who? He was looking toward 2nd base. Did anyone else catch that?
Gonzalez thinks Granderson is the MVP
Beckett looked back at Gardner and flicked his glove at Gardner like he was turd or something.
Really dismissive.
Apologies for asking something already discussed… JUST logged on.
Hughes has to get the ball down
pat,
then he didn’t relay the info properly, LOL
Atta boy, Phil.
pretty good pitch to hit there and A Gon was a bit late….don’t want to live there and in that count against Gonzo though.
Beckett made the same hand-gesture to Gardner as A-Rod did to Braden with that stepping on the mound incident.
Bear down on gap tooth.
Good first pitch CB
Remember when Ortiz was done?
Captain Clutch August 31st, 2011 at 7:25 pm
Tex is a sad case at this point. He is an automatic out except for his once in a blue moon homeruns and hits. He definitely shouldn’t be batting 3rd.
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The majority of us all feel the same way. Here we are in Sept 2011 and I have been saying that since middle of 2010.
Hughes just challenged ortiz there!
Hughes getting a lot of late swings in this first inning….best life he’s had on the fastball in awhile.
Whoa. Is that Pedro Gomez? With Hughes on the mound? I wish someone would ask Gomez a follow-up question.
BJK August 31st, 2011 at 7:33 pm
Remember when Ortiz was done?
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that was before they made certain steroids that are undetectable in your system.
Anyone else see Becketts hand motion at end of last inning? Was it directed at Gardner at second?
94-95 cheese
Great sequence and location to Ortiz…..beautiful.
K niiice!
painted the black!
very good first for Phil….lets get him some runs.
Nice!
A lot of pitches though. I guess that’s what happens when pitchers don’t get free first pitch outs.
Hughes continues with the strikeouts from his last start.
How did you like that Mercury?
Very good 1st inning from Hughes
Hughes is throwing hard and looks good but they are very patient against him. I hope he doesn’t have to throw 20+ plus pitches every inning.
Must have been a good pitch. Ortiz looks properly humbled. And not a word to the ump.
Love hearing Schilling and Nomar talk about the late life on Phil’s fastball. I was almost convinced that “late life” was a LoHud fabrication.
Jeter was bunting for a hit….he wasn’t giving that out away. It ended up being a sacrifice but I dont think that was his intent.
Velocity is there. He can rely on that but when it starts to fade he will get hit hard tonight unless Joe has a quick leash around the 5th-6th inning. His complimentary stuff is not up to par. But the velocity and control is good enough to get him through I’d say 5 or 6.
I think Hughes decided today to go out and throw heat and go as long as he can, that’s exactly the way I want to see him pitch in every start.
That first inning provides conclusive evidence that when on, Phil Hughes has number one starter stuff. He is obviously capable of throwing 94-95 and he obviously has a plus plus curve ball. When he has command he can be lights out.
I wish Robbie would crank one and pimp the heck out of it right here
Schilling just compared Cano to Vlad Guerrero’s plate discipline…..
Come on Cano you are better than that
Beckett has his good stuff tonight, he’s going to be tough.
I’d like to see Hughes slow down a lot between pitches, just like that punk.
Yeah Beckett is dealing
That pitch would never be called a strike for a Yankees pitcher
that was a ball
we used to crush Beckett. what happened?
The Yankees lead MLB in EVERY offensive category since the All-Star game except doubles, triples and stolen bases. However, for the month of August we have a whopping 4.38 ERA. To end things on a good note, overall, we have the 3rd best ERA in the AL. Just .02 behind the Rays and .07 behind the Angels.
He had an off year last year, otherwise he has always been good against us
“we used to crush Beckett. what happened?”
he’s pitching better
RS,
He has a killer curveball, and added a cutter, and he is healthy i guess
Chavez hit that to the wrong part of the kiddie park
It is beyond old watching this a–h o l e dominate us. Going back what? 8 years? Why can’t this team make adjustments against this bozo and figure him out — ever?
First time in my life I hated the number 420… just for a second.
Poetkiosk,
Not this good
Yanks need to not hit it there…..Swisher hit like 2 400 foot outs last time they were at Fenway. Good swing by Chavy though
The key for Beckett is getting his curveball over….when he can throw it for strikes and he has his velocity he’s always tough.
Poor Beckett has to grow a goatee just to make it seem like his chin is not a part of his throat. So slick, he thinks he is.
Phil needs to get his fastball down a little, not so much for the 1st time through the order but later in the game.
That was a very good curveball to get that guy out
Beckett is such a jerk tho. Very hard to watch him pitch.
What the heck with Crawford….he has stunk all season and now he turns it on.
400 foot out…
Beckett is 13-7 with a 5.37 era in his career against the yankees.
That was right down the middle though.
Really, now Crawford hits…
Hughes really missed his location there
that was a good breaking ball to get a quick out there…
No, Crawford only hits against us…
stay with the heat, don’t speed up Varitek’s bat here…
Yanks should really plunk varitek hard before he is gone
Nice Hughes
attaboy…
Beautiful.
Hughes looks great.
K!!!!, he is keeping pace with the a-hole
nice work Phil….
Good inning right there for hughesie
Well done. Now lets get some hits
very good pitch selection there against tek….he was waiting for something he could catch up to and they didn’t give it to him.
Love the economy.
Phil has real life on the fastball tonight, he’s getting extra velocity on the ones above the belt, that’s why he’s getting the K’s.
9-pitch inning. Good job stranding Crawford.
94 on the fastball. Master Philip seems to be back.
Nunez, take him deep
That’s it, step out
Schilling is knocking Lackey for hitting Cervelli last night, he actually has some good insights…
AGRESSIVE!!!!
ESPN blacked out in NYand I want to hear this……
ESPNBuster Olney
We’re going to do a segment coming up showing how Gardner was (allegedly) tipping pitches the last time he was on second base.
I like that play by Nunez there, nice job…
that’s speed for ya…..Crawford made a great play there and still couldn’t throw him out.
Risky, but well done, Nunez. Well done.
Nice play by Crawford. I thought that was an easy double off the bat.
that will do!!!, lol
Let me guess Cervelli is bunting
2010 10.04
2009 5.34
2008 3.25
2007 4.39
2006 9.45
So clearly Beckett does not always pitch well against us
Crawford played that as well as possible.
Love the quick bat.
I would have Cervelli swing. He does better with risp
Ouch. He had to use something to stop him from sliding past the bag.
I just don’t see a need for Hughes in the bullpen during the regular season, there is no real spot for him except mop up situations and he really needs to get some innings in if he’s going to be in the rotation next year. It doesn’t matter for Burnett, he’s a hopeless case, probably, no matter w
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MG-his value will come in the playoffs when they can eliminate aj from the roster, by then phil will be a force out there, you never know when soriano will imlpode
Good Evening Folks, Terrific win for the Yanks last night – Kudos to them!! Tonight’s game is shaping up to be a good pitchers duel. I haven’t seen Hughes pitch in a while – He looks really good.
It looked like Cervelli took the pitch because he thought Nunez was running. It worked anyway.
Of course the ball bounces perfectly to Elf.
Seriously, who cares about espn
Good cervi, he moved the guy up
nice job getting the runner over there….Cervelli looks like he’s afraid of another heater to the back.
Cervelli hung in there and made a productive out, after the 1st two pitches I thought he’d be in the dugout when the pitch was released.
Okay let’s get him home.
I wonder if Buckett of Crap is as effective as he is in part to how long he takes between pitches. That bat starts getting a little heavy waiting so long for each pitch.
The Yankee batters should keep calling time if he keeps delaying so long. While chirping to the umpire about how long it is between pitches.
mainesox,
beckett does as well….he’s got his good stuff so far.
yanks have to get that run in….Gardner has to make contact there with the infield back.
Yuck, Gardner.
Let’s, go, Jeter.
Gardner is the last person you wanted up in that situation. When he is slumping he is in his own world. Just dreadful…
why do the Yankees always swing at those pitches. RS usually let those go
Captain!
Jeter!
YES!!!
Yay Jete!!!!
granderson would have caught that
YES!!!!
Crap.
Gardner got out of his game there. Was too focused on getting the run in.
Yay Jeter!!
Jetes comes through in the clutch…
Go Jeter!!! The Yanks got really lucky there.
Granderson catches that
“Slides…and can’t make the play.”
1-0
Ellsburry doing the hotdog move cost him that catch.
uh oh….Jeter clapped his hands
yay Jeter
Hey! No clapping allowed!
the swing wasn’t great but Jeter had the right approach. instead of letting Beckett pour in a fastball for strike 1 and falling behind in the count, jump on the pitch!
about to say the same exact thing Blake lol
AGGRESSIVE!!!
Yeah, he clapped, careful. Lol
blake August 31st, 2011 at 8:00 pm
yanks have to get that run in….Gardner has to make contact there with the infield back.
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blake, the 1st pitch to Gardner was a ‘get me over’ change, he needed to take that one to the left side of the infield and score the run.
Thats a heads up play from the captain
They should run like crazy on Beckett and VTek….Beckett is so slow to the plate.
Gardner is being too aggressive lately in RBI situations.
He just has to stay within what makes him successful.
Nice catch by the MVP. lOL
let’s be honest here. if the yankees take a lead, they’re plunking someone. they always do. gotta come from the bench too.
big strike zone tonight
Okay. Beckett is scum. But watching his face on slow mo on YES is priceless. Cheering when Ellsbury made the play. But he was incredibly calm when the ball came out. Much classier response than Lackey.
Buckett’s fastball is very hittable. When he throws it early in the count they should be swinging away. They can’t worry about being patient against him.
Grandy may get a really good pitch to hit here…
MG,
I agree….Gardy approach wanders at times. He’s still inexperienced….
Great clutch hit by Jetes
MG,
Very good observation on Gardner at batr
Did he call it a strike because of the partial swing or the location? That wasn’t a strike on location, but the Sux seem to get benefit of doubt calls.
walked!
Let’s go Mr Tex!
Tex popup again?
Even if they don’t score, if they get on base they can elevate the pitch count.
Let’s go Tex.
Nice balance in the espn booth, by the way. Two former Red Sox players balanced with a current Red Sox fan.
texiera has a very low BA so not hoping for much here
Pitching around Granderson to get to easy out Tex…Here comes off speed pitches…
Time for a Tex message
Good AB by Granderson. Teams are pitching Granderson differently…..they are making it a point to not make mistakes to him…..Tex is going to have to start making them pay or Grandy is going to get less and less pitches to hit.
Dill I think you can stream the game from mlbtv and choose the yes broadcast.
All right, ground out, not popup
Tex ; (
I have it on mute, needless to say…
Well we got one in, plus he raised Beckett’s pitch count, which is always good
I am sure down the stretch we will see a lot of teams walk Granderson to get to Tex. At this point why would you pitch to Granderson?
OK, Phil needs another shutdown inning here, just keep throwing high heat…
Interesting that ESPN’s feed is a good 5-10 seconds behind the MLB.TV feed online.
I am shocked. Teixeira didn’t get a hit.
I like Teixeira’s glove, I like he is a power hitter, but he shouldn’t be batting where he is. Put him behind Cano, bat him 8th even. At least he isn’t as likely to kill so many rallies.
Hey everybody is it safe here tonight?
wow I really do not like Josh Beckett.
Free Jesus!
Blake,
Did you noticed the CU that beckett threw?..it was a meatball for most batters, but i don’t think Tex can do anything with that pitch, because the only way to do damage on that pitch is to go the other way
I’m really getting tired of Scutero
Do they ever get a one two three inning?
Good grief, am I ever fed up with Scutaro.
Crap
Alex or Cano need to hit behind Grandy
Here we go.
That was easy form them, too easy
If Hughes keeps leaving balls up in the zone like that, It will be another short night for him.
Hughes has good stuff tonight but once location gets him. He just can’t continue to hit his spots for 5-6 innings with his fastballs. It always gets him.
Gardner is so fast in LF – Great play by him late in the game last night. Cano also made a stellar defensive play last night.
CU to a righty…that’s new
Tex left runners on? I don’t believe it
U cannot expect Hughes to shut out this lineup. Take 3 runs 6 inn n be happy
how many RBI would Tex have if he was batting .300? 120 maybe
not bad…..we’ll take that. Now hold uhm there.
good pitch by Phil right there…
Let’s go Hughes. Get out of this with 1 run.
Hughes gets out of this with 1 run…..that would be really awesome
Good move to walk Papi here…..
Hughes got lucky there, that pitch was right down the middle. He has to continue to locate his fastball.
Hate this decision. Hate putting more runners than necessary on in this park.
why walk a guy so early in the damn game? Teams don’t do that to the yankees..
blake August 31st, 2011 at 8:17 pm
Good move to walk Papi here…..
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agree…
it would have been better to just hit ortiz instead of wasting 4 pitches
crap, bad pitch selection there…
Knew it. Their garbage hurts us all the time. Lowrie, crawford, saltalamachia, reddick, scutaro. Nonstop.
Intentional walks early in the game never works for Girardi.
Hughes gives it right back. N more
Didn’t work out though because scrub Lowrie gets a hit anyway.
Should have pitched to Ortiz
So where is the criticism of Lowrie for clapping his hands and showing up the pitcher?
They aren’t going to miss all those balls Hughes keeps leaving up in the zone. Yet another one leads to a run.
Another pitch right over the plate. Hughes is going to get hammered if he doesn’t start locating. He is like AJ in a sense that they both never locate their fastballs.
I can’t stand Girardi and his overmanaging BS
I can’t remember the last time this team pitched around someone in a big game and didn’t get burned.
Nice job Hughes.. another 3rd inning meltdown to a bunch of weak hitting hitters.
Hmm, Tex failing in a big spot in the top of the inning, and Phil’s velocity dropping 3 innings in the game. I feel I’ve seen this movie a time or two…
It’s pretty obvious Hughes stuff is terrible after one inning. That screams bullpen.
Schilling knows pitching, he says Hughes has great talent and is still young…
LGY August 31st, 2011 at 8:18 pm
Intentional walks early in the game never works for Girardi.
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**head scratcher**
Why does he always do this?
why can’t any Yankee pitcher ever have a clean inning against the RedSox after we score. It is beyond ridiculous.
Why walk Ortiz? Just hit him
4ks for hughes
I sure hope Hughes can come back strong next year. This year is ova for him. Something is wrong and can’t be fixed this year.
good pitch there…..could have been worse
not the end of the world here. 2 runs, 1 run deficit. nothing that can’t be overcome
just put up some crooked numbers against beckett
Hitting Ortiz at this point in the game is not smart baseball. It was the right move, just bad pitch selection.
Well be prepared for AJ staying in the rotation. No way they take him out for Hughes at this point especially with 16 mil coming to him
Why in the hell is he pitching around Ortiz in the 3rd inning? Silly.
It really annoying to see Buckett and Lester dominate the Yanks every time out. All of the Yankees starters and relievers struggle against them. Yesterday the Yanks didn’t have one 1,2,3 inning. Hughes has to locate and stop missing over the plate so much.
looking like another busy night for the idiot paddywagon dudes.
you knew that was coming
Jesus starting at DH manana?
Montero might DH tomorrow
QFT
You can’t continue to let the lowries and crawfords and reddicks and scutaros of this team get on base nonstop. Simply can’t do it.
J. Alfred Prufrock August 31st, 2011 at 8:23 pm
Why in the hell is he pitching around Ortiz in the 3rd inning? Silly.
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If you followed baseball you would know that Ortiz is one of the hottest hitters in baseball and destroys righties and Lowrie was hitting in the .250′s against righties. Good percentage move. Hughes made a mistake.
Jeter: Cervelli did nothing wrong. He wasn’t disrespecting anybody.
Guess that blows up WCYF’s theory.
J alfred
Pitch around Ortiz to get to Lowrie. Makes sense to me. And Ortiz didn’t score, Maybe big Papi takes him deep and things are even worse, who knows.
But I do see your point about there is still a long way to go.
“I want Parkman!”
weak hack
The time Beckett takes between pitches is so annoying
Again the Yankees swinging at that pitch. If Hughes got those swing it would still be 1-0 Yanks
NOTE TO YANKS: Lay off the curve ball in the dirt!!
keep stepping out every chance they get.
I would imagine pen is short tonight with mariano going two days in a row and soriano looking pretty flacid last night.
We should be stepping out constantly. 2-3 times every at bat. Call time. He wants to wait like the palsy he is, let him wait for us as well.
This is y last night was a must win. They aren’t matching up pitching wise with beckett n Lester
It really is amazing how patient the Sox are. You very, very rarely see them swing at a pitch in the dirt and it seems like the Yanks do it at least once one every at bat.
Only thing to do is get Becketts pitch count up.
Captain Clutch August 31st, 2011 at 8:30 pm
It really is amazing how patient the Sox are. You very, very rarely see them swing at a pitch in the dirt and it seems like the Yanks do it at least once one every at bat.
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since the Yankees suck so badly at the plate, on defense, and on the mound, and the Sox, by comparison, are perfect, why are the teams even in the loss column and are separated by 1/2 game with 1 month left in the season?
Take him deep NUnez!!
Tar, I just don’t agree with it with the game so young. This is the side of Girardi I don’t care for. If it’s later in the game, I have no problem with it.
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LGY, I chuckled at that, too.
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back to the game.
Clutch – they don’t swing at pitches in the dirt because we generally don’t have pitchers with nasty off the table breaking balls/sliders. Burnett was that guy but only when he faced the yankees in 2008.
“It really is amazing how patient the Sox are. You very, very rarely see them swing at a pitch in the dirt and it seems like the Yanks do it at least once one every at bat.”
I always thought it would be cool if Lohud had a stat checker.
I know the Sox are good at taking pitches, but I believe the Yankees are very close to them in that regard. Anybody want to check?
lol, good job, Nuney.
Keep steping out, take him out of his confort zone
SO Beckett steps off whenever he wants but gets pissed when Nunez does?
Captain Clutch…great observation!
I love how Buckett has to stare down Nunez after the strike out because he had the nerve to step out on him. He has to be kidding me…
LGY August 31st, 2011 at 8:26 pm
Jeter: Cervelli did nothing wrong. He wasn’t disrespecting anybody.
Guess that blows up WCYF’s theory.
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Someone else that doesn’t know baseball. Jeter was obviously standing up for his team mate.
Gotch ya J ALfred.
I figured it was the timing that bothered you.
I don’t have the temperment to play baseball. If beckett glared at me after I K’d I wouldn’t be able to keep myself from going after him. I have a hard time when he warms up in the pen at yankee stadium.
LGY,
Especially coming from Jeter
Boy do I HATE the Sawx!
Al Leiter just laughed and said the same thing, “what’s he going to say he was sticking up for his team mate”.
Someone else that doesn’t know baseball. Jeter was obviously standing up for his team mate.
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Yeah because Jeter routinely makes public statements like that :roll;
Does the ‘C’ on Varitek’s uni stand for crybaby?? or crotch??
that was 94mph
Arod no longer has the wrap on his thumb, that’s a sign that the cortisone shot is working…
Jeter is the king of the non answer.
When he says something that can be interpreted as even remotely controversial you pay attention.
Here is hall of famer Scutaro
can’t stand the espn booth tonight… nomar , curt schilling and dave o brien… NESN would have been a better listen today..
Sometimes Jeter really does do very dumb things that makes me think that he does have a very low IQ. He just doesn’t seem like he is the brightest crayon in the box more often than not.
and I’ve met Minka a few times, that girl is dumber than the stereotypical blonde. Seriously, she is such a moron.. how you can date somebody that has the personaility and brain of a snail is beyond me.
ESPN needs to put Gammons in the booth with Shilling and NoseMar….
Nice inning.
Nice rebound inning by Hughes
Good inning.
ok.. here comes the beaning…
ARod no longer has the wrap on his thumb….maybe he plans on hitchhiking back to the hotel??
P – how did u meet Minka?
P. Your dad is much calmer than you.
P,
where have you met Minka?
Carlo,
P’s dad is a scout.
I just got back from dinner…
Nomar and Schilling are both commentating on ESPN????
I can only stomach about 30 seconds of that crap (and of course they were taking about PEDroia and his MVP award and his intagibles in that time)
LOL! What an F’n joke ESPN has become.
On a game note… If you would have told me it would be 2 – 1 Sox after 4 innings before the game I think I def would have taken it tonight.
how you can date somebody that has the personaility and brain of a snail is beyond me
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Wait until you hit puberty.
A Cub Scout maybe.
Hitman – thanks. Would have loved to be there for the meeting of Minka and P.
Cervy just ate an energy bar, watch out.
Brain-dead girls serve a useful purpose.
I am really surprised that Buckett hasn’t drilled anyone yet. His emotions have to get the best of him at some point.
Before people start responding to P in a negative way, remember he is under age.
Arod get ur damn hands away from the foul ball u moron
A-Rod need to stay behind he gate. No need for another inury
Is ARod retarded? Seriously? The guy has to be off. He’s out with a bad hand and he’s over there trying to field foul balls on the top of the dugout steps?
Just saw burnett in dugout and it got me to thinking. What is going through his mind right now. In 24 hours he has to go out and pitch a very big game. He has been under intense scrutiny and everyone knows this is basically do or die for him. His stuff sucks, he’s lost confidence in it, and he has no idea what he’ll have tomorrow regardless. he’s gotta be sick to his stomach.
Tar August 31st, 2011 at 8:45 pm
Before people start responding to P in a negative way, remember he is under age.
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What’s your excuse?
Gardy…swing the bat
7th strikeout for beckett… the 3rd non-staring one…
The third guy in the ESPN booth with Nomar and Schilling is the Red Sux radio announcer. Kay called them on that.
I’ve got no problem with what P said. Minka is an idiot. I believe that. Very attractive girls can be dumb. It happens.
Atta boy, Jete. Two out rally.
Dear Brett Gardner,
That 34 inch piece of wood in your hand is called a bat. You use a bat to swing at the ball, give it a try. Jack wagon!!
A nice multihit game for Jeter in a big game.
yay Jeter 2hits tonight against the Sox no less
egk
We have a long time Lohud poster ( Doreen ) who hates it when people use the “R” word. Next time try something different, A lot of us would appreciate it. Thanks
Would you rather Granderson hit a home run here or line the ball of Beckett’s forehead?
Grandy is not getting anything to hit
Bret, sure you are not 12 years old? Or brain-dead?
I will take 2er for 6
What a bunch of nonsense this is.
Carlo August 31st, 2011 at 8:49 pm
I’ve got no problem with what P said. Minka is an idiot. I believe that. Very attractive girls can be dumb. It happens.
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she worked as a surgeon’s assistant and scrub nurse before becoming an actress, that’s certainly a spot for someone without a brain.
the kid is 15 years old and acts like he’s 4, if you want to accept his claims as facts that’s pretty pathetic.
Why would they give Granderson anything to hit when the .240 guy is behind him?
Grandy a HR here would be greatly appreciated. Make it happen. K, thanks.
Beckett’s starring reasons..
Gardner – for relaying pitch location…
Jeter – for getting on base all the time..
granderson – for being on the mvp race
Tex –
Cano – for fouling off too many pitches
Swisher – for looking up all the time
chavez –
nunez – for stepping off the plate
cisco – for last night’s thing
I speak the truth.
Carlo August 31st, 2011 at 8:49 pm
I’ve got no problem with what P said. Minka is an idiot. I believe that. Very attractive girls can be dumb. It happens.
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How do you know she’s an idiot?
That was a very good pitch to hit, he got under it
Becky got away with one. That’s a pitch that Grandy has been hammering all season.
How dare they remake the movie straw dogs
Then I pity you.
It looked like that pitch was right there to hit and Granderson missed it. It’s like watching the same movie over and over when Lecker and Buckett pitch against the Yanks.
The best girls have no opinions and when they have them, they don’t share them. You remember that, P.
I’m kidding.
Or am I?
Important Poll:
Who do you hate more… Beckett or Burnett?
The person who said Minka is an idiot is the same person that said Jeter has an IQ of 5.
Just saying consider the source.
I wonder if we, the fans are the only people that realize Beckett is an asshole. I mean, do the Yankees players hate him too or do they think, ahh hes just a pitcher doing his job. Do they notice his body language and staring? I’ve wanted to ring his neck for years now. Why wouldnt the players?
Big inning for Hughes right here
AJ is relaxing now, I guess
LOL
I don’t care whether she’s an idiot or not nor do I care whether P is telling the truth or not. I don’t spend much time thinking about Minka Kellys intelligence. Really doesn’t matter either way to me.
Great news, Tex leads off next inning. Booyah!
Idiots that come up with stupid “polls”.
Hughes living on borrowed time. Hold your breath.
Man, Tar and Yankeefem, what a barrel of monkees this forum is tonight.
Held hostage by homely men who never get any, and subject a Yankee board to the pangs of their unrequited libidos & and rage against women they don’t know.
Giving the Left Coast Queen a run for his money.
I’ll check back with you guys when the idiots have gotten bored and run off to take long showers.
GreenBeret7 August 31st, 2011 at 8:59 pm
Idiots that come up with stupid “polls”.
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D-bags that can’t help but be D-bags
Does it matter if Minka Kelly is intelligent? When I’m thinkin about Minka, I certainly ain’t thinkin bout her IQ score, I’m just focusing on the task in my right han….I mean task at hand…
Becket got those pitches on the outside corner
Put him away, Hughes.
Hughes got away with that change, it’s the same pitch Lowrie doubled on before.
Barrel of “monkees” – like that one
Back to baseball.
Phil Hughes on fumes in the 5th. Like I said, short hook.
That is why they walked him last time.
That was an absolute meatball. A HR derby pitch.
Told ya
Hughes is horrible.
ok, Hughes sucks.
at a moment I thought he could be OK tonight.
see, never expect odd probability event happen.
Papi reached toward the sky at home plate… I guess that earns him a FB in the ribs next AB.
Are we having fun tonite ? ?
There’s your 5 innings for Phil.
‘low probability event’
Have fun in the pen Hughes
Papi, no hugs for you!
Well.
Looks like ALL smooth sailing from here on for Beckett.
Our number 4 hitter pops that up to SS…
Hughes has just been awful all season. No reason it would change tonight against leagues best team.
Yet another pitch from Hughes right down the middle. It doesn’t matter how good your stuff is you can’t continue to miss location like he does.
Note to self. Praising God at home plate trumps clapping hands
So much for disrupting Beckett’s rhythm.
Hughes shows flashes of good stuff but he’s not a complete pitcher. Having a fastball that has late movement on occasion is nice but lots of scrub pitchers have effective pitches that look fantastic for brief stretches. Hughes is not a prospect either.
Betsy?
Your opinion?
Hughes threw the pitch and hit the glove that Cervi called.
next tex and his usual strike out pop out ground out
it’s time for tex to get a popup
Becketts been in cruise control all night
Playing this team is like groundhog day. Same guys (Ortiz) kill us game after game, year after year. We can’t get a hit off the A – h o l e year after year. Isn’t it time they ripped up the scouting reports they have on these guys and try something new? Maybe learn something, for once, instead of failing and flailing over and over and over?
Tex with his Yankee moment, a HBP against Boston.
Hughes can still go 2 more innings
So how is Cervelli’s hand clap worse than Ortiz act?
IMO Twice Cervelli has called for the wrong pitch in the wrong situation.
Listen to Leiter
Hughes stuff is plenty good – he has location problems. Mechanical and tough to correct.
think the Yanks have a rally in them off of the Red Sox
cano….
excited that our #4 gets HBP…How sad
Hughes needed to pitch well tonight to have any chance at a playoff start.
Like Betsy alluded to earlier this 5th starter decision doesn’t even really matter at this point.
Some order of Colon, Garcia, and Nova are the October starters.
wow Al Leiter?? is ripping into Hughes…surprised YES usually doesn’t have bad things to say about the Yanks
Besides the late moving fastball, Hughes has zero other plus pitches. That’s why he’s where he’s at.
Hughes flashes good stuff for 1 inning. He ain’t a starter this year. Sad but true.
How was that not showing up a pitcher?
Well that’ll about do it for any reasonable analysis on this blog.
It was one bad pitch in an otherwise decent start. Still better than AJ, although not good enough to make playoff rotation.
Yanks can still win this game.
Cano is blindfolded at the plate tonight.
Cano can you please swing at strikes and stop chasing that crap in the dirt
Hughes is out of postseason, 100%
he’s not reliable at all.
Cano looks more lost than Rosie O’Donnell in the healthy food isle…
nice hit
He took the blindfold off and shoved it down my throat. Wheewwww!
YES. Let’s get that runner in.
CANO!
alright…perhaps we can put together some back to back hits. Make some noise
AJ must be really happy that April Phil has returned.
man, cano is good. this team is not quitting. there’s still plenty of time.
Atta boy, Robbie.
Good rally! Let’s keep it moving!!!! LETS GO YANKEES!!!!!!!!!!!
swish HR?
2 reasons y Boston is better: Beckett n Lester> Cc n whoever. And Ortiz at DH> posada.
Is leiter Ripping Hughes? He is ripping pitch selection,IMO that’s on Cervelli.
If Martin is behind the plate I don’t think the Sox score 4 to this point.
one bad pitch still loses tons of games
I stand corrected. However, he did look bad the 1st two AB’s…
That’s what I am talking about Cano!!!
pretty tame here tonite…
Atta boy, Robbie!
its 4-2 now
Ace August 31st, 2011 at 9:09 pm
Hughes flashes good stuff for 1 inning. He ain’t a starter this year. Sad but true.
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he’s had 3 good innings so far
Hughes should be in the pen – except for our other head case AJ (omg there’s pressure on me!).
Time for us to scratch out a come from behind win off Joshy the Jackwagon. Come on Beck@##, get pi$$ed off !
let’s hope this is beckett’s last inning
At least Buckett is at 90 pitches
Is leiter insinuating that cano is going to steal 3rd? Is he serious?
Nice hold up swish.
yankee batters should ask for time, CONSISTENTLY, when they face this punk
The hughes / burnett derby to stay in the rotation reminds me of a golf playoff where both players rip their drives in the woods and hit their provisionals in a pond. Limp in with triple bogeys for the win.
Good patience Nick.
Very patient AB by Swish there. Good eye!
I definitely thought the ump was going to call that a strike
Please, please, please no DP.
Chavez a three run homer would be nice
Now please execute and don’t fumble this.
Great AB Swish.
Perhaps our DH can not GIDP in a big spot again tonight?
Great AB by Swish. This is a big moment for Chavez. I like his chances because he never tries to do too much with the bat. He puts it in play, which is an effective strategy against Beckett IMHO
More like Leiter was ripping Hughes’ inability to locate. Still that CB could have been called a strike and might have made a difference.
Josh getting a little fatigued here.
Chavy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
chavez!! tie game!!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chavez!!!!!!!!!!
NICE!!!!!!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES. Whooooo!
Go Chavez!!! He has come up big in this series.
Yeah baby yeah! Nice play reddick.
pkyankfan69 August 31st, 2011 at 9:15 pm
Great AB Swish.
Perhaps our DH can not GIDP in a big spot again tonight?
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Surely not!
Yeah, baby! Knew Josh was about to become hittable.
YES!!!! ok!!! tie game
Nice fielding. LOL
wowza am I really seeing Josh Beckett meltdown…lol wonder what ESPN has to say about this…unmutes TV.
Chavy! This guy is the consummate pro…a shame a great career was derailed by injuries.
look at the look of shock on beckett!
like he couldn’t believe that reddick could do that
TAKE THAT BECKETT YOU ARROGANT PATHETIC SLOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hughes has not pitched that bad to this point in this game. I do have problems with some of the pitch selection though.
Chavez is the man!!!
Chavez has been balling in the this series!
I was hoping we would PH Posada…lol
take the lead please!!
Beckett sucks he should not be in the postseason roster
Hollywood Josh, scat’n and bebop’n around right field.
Chavez!!!!!!!!!tied game
DocTodd August 31st, 2011 at 9:16 pm
Nice fielding. LOL
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hilarious
Big at bat for Nunez here
Nice!
NUNIE, remember he stared at you!!! kick his rear
oh poor poor poor Joshy! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ! LOL
c’mon Nuny….you gotta get a fly ball at least
Also the difference between Beckett and Hughes is that Hughes has sucked basically all year – Beckett has not.
OK!!!!!
Love Ellsbury’s uber-arm.
Haha Noodle arm!
jobatipshiscap dude. your a bitter man. so much for the beckett cruise control gig. syd dude your a peckerhead dude
TheStraw August 31st, 2011 at 9:16 pm
“Chavy! This guy is the consummate pro…a shame a great career was derailed by injuries.”
Agree! A really really good ballplayer, and he seems like a good guy. It’s a shame his body has let him down so often in his career.
yes!!! thank you Nunez productive outs are allowed.
Uh, I think Hughes is beating Beckett 5-4 at this point.
Nice Nunez.
Nick,
LOL.
great job by nunez. just what he needed to do
only one out in the inning
Representative at-bat by Nunez.
That is a VETERAN AB for Nunez. The guy looks playoff ready.
Nice job by Nunez
Did I call it, or DID I CALL IT ?!!!! NICE !!!
That’s how you do it, boys. Beckett giving runs back in an AJ-esque manner.
Alright Nuney!
Everyone remember Tex got this started with that awesome at bat. He is now a true Yankee. Mijares walkoff be damned.
Chavez!
And nice job Nunez.
not like having the lead matters. Guaranteed binder joe leaves hughes in too long to blow it
Ellsbury shows off his cannon (ROTFL)
Nuney is a clapper too! Who knew?
This is great. Schilling made the (good) point that you only need 12 outs.
I’ve noticed that Beckett checks out at times against the Yankees. Like he’s not interested.
Does Cervelli get drilled now? lol
Oh no! Nunez was clapping
This is the last inning for the @$$b@g
Beckett reverting to the Josh Yankee fans all know and love.
It’s not a full Beckett meltdown until he starts plunking Yankees on purpose.
Will he get the chance?
Don vito – may be it for beckett but now they go to aceves who arrived in boston and coincidentally added 5mph to his fastball. He may come out throwing 105 tonight. And then big al will towel him off after he shower.
Beckett and Burnett are related. Marlin DNA.
Any chance we have a clean inning here?
If you look at where Cervi was set- up against Papi, Hughes hit his spot.
It was the wrong spot, and the wrong pitch.
Having said that, Joe has to have a short leash. I also wish they would call the game from the bench
I really want the Yankees to win today.
The Yankees are in the Sox’s head. Beckett with his childish dismissive gesture. Ellsbury doing whatever with Cervelli when he scored. Baseball gods not happy.
Schilling dissing Mo.
Well…..Hughes with a short leash?? or you give this full inning no questions asked??
The bullpen is short tonight so Girardi is going to have Hughes go as long as possible and probably leave him out there too long. Hopefully he can locate his fastball for at least another inning. The Yanks will miss Noesi tonight.
F Schilling and F Beckett.
SOSH.net game thread is pretty funny right now.
why is hughes back out? hes shot
A Yankees win tonight and I’m a happy man.
A Yankees win tonight + a 94MPH FB in Papi’s ribs and I go to bed with a chubby.
Hughes better shut it down one to three….walking the leadoff hitter prolly would not be the best idea
Get Hughes out. For h sakes.
Come on get Crawford out here
Tar
Cervelli set up on the corner.
The pitch was definitely not on the corner.
Hughes needs to get 4 or 5 more outs without giving up the lead and turn it over to the ‘pen.
starts off 3-0 to crawford…and then just goes right at him and gets him to weakly pop out. that’s good stuff…
Did the Yanks just get an appeal in Fenway? no F’n way!!!
ESPN should probably change their homepage…
“The right man for the job” — with a picture of Beckett
Scutaro should be Hughes last batter regardless
M – they are 10-3 against us. We’re not in their heads by any stretch.
They make like Crawford is some high school basketball struggling to adjust to the rigors of the college season.
Criminy.
Reddick beat Hughes in the 10th inning off the breaking ball, just throw the fastball by him
starts off 0-2 to reddick…and then just misses badly and gives up a walk. that’s not good stuff
ESPN homepage had to change the caption under the pic of Beckett. Has that network become a joke or what?
Hughes is definitely getting tired. This should be his last batter and I hope someone is warming up.
Who do you get up? I guess Ayala is the only possible choice.
And that rat’s name was… John Henry.
Hughes’ curveball is still too slow.
Way too easy for hitters to lay off it.
They aren’t acting like they’re 10-3 against us. Acting like toddlers. Boo Hoo. A nobody dared to clap his hands at our vaunted tomb. Wahhh.
no reason to throw Varitek anything off speed here
can I get a 6-4-3?
This should be Phil’s last batter.
what luck!!!!!!!
What a joke of a hit.
what in the blue heck was that? sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good…
Cervelli has called such a bad game tonight it’s ridiculous…
Gardner played that well.
you can not make this stuff up. Maybe Hughes should not have been in the game.
Without fail they get some nonsense fluke play like that to beat us in this park. Without fail.
Gardner misplayed that
Wow that was just brutal
LGY
Cervi moved his glove maybe an inch. Papi likes that low pitch that he can extend on.
Off speed or jam shot.
That sucked.
AS USUAL GIRARDI LEAVES A PITCHER IN TOO LOGN
WHAT ELSE IS NEW
Phil shutting them down….for gosh sakes…gives it right back, AJ JR.
lucky hit
it was a rare bad play by Gardner
That was absolutely awful from Gardner. Girardi is going way too long with Hughes here. Scutaro will definitely get a hit here.
Damn, blew the call. Hit something.
this is expected; rbi coming
And Hughes chokes it right back. Story of his terrible season.
I really hate Fenway Park. Stupid ballpark.
We just got Girardi’d…
Bret, you know I agree with you about Phil……..His stuff is inconsistent and he’s a mistake prone pitcher. I think he’ll need to come into camp in great shape next year and be prepared to battle for a spot. I didn’t exect anything good tonight, so I guess it could have been worse.
The ball hit the guys soda resting on top of the wall
why is Hughes still in????
plunk varitek before he dies
good move
And AJ let’s out another cheer.
Just a very fast drive by to say Beckett sucks.
As you were.
GO YANKEES!!!!!
Joe gave Phil more of an opportunity than I would have. Phil couldn’t ask for anything more than that kind of trust from his manager.
No reason for Hughes to even start this inning.When we took the lead the first thing i said was no Hughes in the 6th but we got him and GLADLY THIS WILL BE THE LAST START FOR PHIL CHOKE HUGHES FOR A LONG TIME
Is anyone surprised binder joe let hughes blow it?
Hi Trish
Good job Girardi get Hughes out of there. Another good stuff but can’t locate night for Hughes…
Can’t wait to hear the pollyannas try to spin this terrible Hughes 5 innings
lucky or not everyone w a brain knew Hughes would never get out of 6th w a lead.
This is the rare time I would support putting the pitcher in the bullpen who is best suited for it.
The Yankees have their 4 playoff starters.
May as well strengthen the bullpen as much as possible with Hughes.
If you told me before the game started we would be tied at 5 with Phil and presumably Beckett outta the game I would have been happy. After watching Phil just cough up a lead when his offense bailed his azz out again, I’m not happy at all…
Hughes wasn’t great but he kept the Yankees in the game against a tough team that has been scoring tons of runs, when was the last time Burnett did that?
That was a mediocre start for Phil, but still better than anything AJ has put out there this month. Good enough to beat out Garcia, Colon or Nova for a playoff start? Not a chance. He probably has more value out if the pen than AJ though in the playoffs.
What did Al say about Phil?
LGY, even if Phil had pitched great tonight, IMO, the playoff rotation was set. The only reason I care about him being in the 5th spot at this point is because if he’s going to be in the rotation or have a shot at it next year, he needs all the innings he can get.
another hughes fail.
so the guy throws a curve to a guy who cannot catch up to the heater all night. man cervelli and hughes are real sharpies.
so 5 2/3 and 5 runs, should we have a celebration?? how about a parade?? yankees starter stink against the red sox. they own them..
the chances of hughes not spitting up that lead? the only one more likely to spit it up is the hillbilly and we can watch him do his magic tommorrow.
all year the yanks cannot pitch against the sux
betsy chic is here just in time to chime in with her doom and gloom. you are a peach of a different kind betsy chic. funny you are
Girardi should have taken 15 outs from Hughes n ran.
Hughes couldn’t hold a lead for one stinking inning…FAIL
Lucky hit by Tek but Phil is the one who walked the tying run on board. I think he’s just pitched his way in to the bullpen. Since they aren’t likely to move AJ, Hughes is the least dependable starter.
CC in game 1: sox 12 for 30 with 2 walks
Hughes 6.50 tonight: Sox 8 for 25 with 2 walks
Not so hot.
I was off by an out on Phil…better luck next time.
He’s off to the pen…
Straw, Phil will only pitch in the 6th inning or as a long man in the playoffs so it almost doesn’t matter how effective he is – he’s going to be used when the SP sucks. It’s not like being in the pen will magically make him better………..it’s just what it is.
on merit alone the 4 playoff starters are cc, nova and the 2 reclamation projects.
hughes walked reddick after being up 0 and 2 in the count
stuart dude. you and betsy chic come out of the same woodwork dude
That Varitek AB is just a killer…..he’s such a bad hitter these days….bad sequence, misplay by Gardner….rough.
one way or another I’m counting tonight as a victory because they finally knocked Beckett around a little.
Hughes didn’t pitch that bad….he had no command tonight and his CB wasn’t that sharp….got a lot of CU’s up in the zone. The fastball was good though so that’s a plus
Disappointing. Hughes looked good right away. Looked decent up until the ridiculous meatball to Ortiz. And then he start nibbling all over the place instead of attacking guys. Not a great start for him at all and I would be his biggest supporter. Stuff was there, but he definitely started to look trigger shy which you can’t do.
Bullpen usually lets Hughes down. hopefully they can pick him up here
The bullpen is extremely short tonight and it would be a miracle if the Yanks won this game
What u guys don’t get is they aren’t putting AJ in the pen. Hughes hasn’t earned it. He has pen experience. And he isn’t making 16 mil
Betsy
Every inning in the playoffs is important.
I knew it
Fail.
Bad Boone returns.
Craporama.
NICE!!
Wow, Boone.
Wonderful….Logan stinks vs lefties.
this is ridiculous we come back from 3runs down against the Sox which is HUGE for us and we give it up right away.
we got Girardi’d again…. Every button that guy pushes blows up in his face…
nice job joe. Idiot.
Oh boy. Why serve him a meatball now. I am done with this one. They blew it. Terrible pitches to Ortiz and now Ellsbury, nice and low right where lefties love to golf it.
Jacoby JuiceBerry
The pen needs Hughes. Let him save his season there. He’s useless as a starter.
Great, a Fenway Special.
Jeter so slow.
I want this game, bad.
Worthless jackasses
The RedSox do not fear us at all…its like they are relaxed and we are nervous and tight against them.
mg please already your butt buddy SPIT THE BIT AND IS OFF TO THE PEN WHERE HE BELONGS
Can Logan eat shxxxxxt?
do they really depend on him to get lefty out in postseason? oh my.
He’s lucky if he can get anyone out.
Ellsbury has a great swing….everything is so still in his set up….no wasted movement….just straight to the ball. UGH.
Really stinks that Logan continually comes in to face lefties and not only can’t get them out…..but gives up big hits to them.
He clapped going into first. Thats ok because its not home plate
The disappointing thing is giving it up after the Yankees had taken the lead, so I would not say that keeping the team in the game is a positive – not in this case. But really, we’re talking mediocre vs awful in Phil and AJ, so it doesn’t matter.
Seacrest….Out….
when it rains it pours
That IBB to Ortiz didn’t help Hughes confidence. I would still keep him in the rotation. If only for next year. Need to get him as many innings as possible. I would rather him get a possible 35-40 ip than 10-15ip.
Might as well Drill Gonzo here with PEDroia on 2B now.
Silver Lining
Jesus f’in Christ. F Boone Logan.
Boone wet himself again…anyone really shocked?
And this is why Logan cannot be trusted. It’s unacceptable for a lefty specialist to be giving up big home runs to lefties.
The Yankees pitching is just a disaster against the Sox. They never ever hit their spots and continue to throw meatballs right over the plate. It’s really embarrassing how they continue to get hammered by these guys.
Still just 2 runs…..they need to get Gonzalez out right here though.
Phil Hughes and AJ.
You go 5 and fly as a manager even with a short bullpen.
Betsy August 31st, 2011 at 6:28 pm
It’s really not a big deal at this point because the 5th starter is going to the pen in the playoffs as a long man/6th inning man. It’s really silly that this audition is being held on a game to game basis and that it’s going to come down to this particular game
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# Betsy August 31st, 2011 at 9:37 pm
What did Al say about Phil?
LGY, even if Phil had pitched great tonight, IMO, the playoff rotation was set. The only reason I care about him being in the 5th spot at this point is because if he’s going to be in the rotation or have a shot at it next year, he needs all the innings he can get.
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In one sentence you say there’s an audition in the next you say it was set….which one is it?
Maybe you should stop reading my stuff and make up your own mind?
Need to keep it at two. Game is still very winnable. And we still have DRob.
Yankees are gutless against boston this year. Might a well just call it quits for the year, even if they do reach the alcs.as the wildcard they will just roll over in five
LGY, he’s still going to be in relatively meaningless innings – the big guns will close games out. In any case, are you saying Phil is going to magically be a better pitcher in the pen? I don’t buy it – and I wouldn’t particularly have faith in him in a big spot. Question: where do you see him next year – as a starter? Reliever?
Logan has been awful all year. What’s the shock? It’s GM malpractice that he has no other lefty
Next time we play these sc@mbags at the Stadium, hopefully Montero and ARod are in the lineup..
So Logan was huge yesterday and has been good of late. He fails once and he stinks.
This board cracks me up.
Terrible pitch and terrible location, just like Hughes to Ortiz.
Ace August 31st, 2011 at 9:41 pm
The pen needs Hughes. Let him save his season there. He’s useless as a starter.
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Boston are a hot team. And this is a hitter’s park. He did have some good starts before this. I don’t think he’s useless. I mean CC hasn’t been great against them either.
oh please, don’t let Logan pitch in postseason.
He does not have such ability.
Well, hopefully we get to their pen…although Tito may run Beckett back out for one more inning.
Hughes sucks. He took a crappy turn this year and looks like AJ lite. Worthless.
very frustrating inning….the Ellsbury homer doesn’t irritate me as much as the Varitek AB.
But really, we’re talking mediocre vs awful in Phil and AJ, so it doesn’t matter.
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And the goal is to get awful off the playoff roster.
As I’ve said before. a lefty *specialist* that does better against righties than he does lefties, is not a specialist at all. He is the absolute worst lefty specialist. I don’t mind him pitching, but allow him to pitch an inning at a time, against lefties and righties, working regularly. If that doesn’t work, he needs to go. All I’ve seem from him is garbage.
syd_cash August 31st, 2011 at 9:42 pm
The RedSox do not fear us at all…its like they are relaxed and we are nervous and tight against them.
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I don’t see any evidence of this at all.
Still 7-5 is close, we can pull this one off
Yeah, because Logan has been so bad lately, including yesterday. Sometimes a reliever is going to have an off-day – it happens even to the very best.
Phil is going thru spring training, what do you expect.
Karma sez: CC, Nova, Colon, Freddy, in that order.
Phil Hughes needs to start figuring it out fast or he’ll end up like Joba – working at the front end of the bullpen during the 5th and 6th innings – instead of being an impact starter.
Logan has been awful all year????
Post Allstar he has a 1.38 era
Do we watch the games?
Frozen Rope August 31st, 2011 at 9:44 pm
Yankees are gutless against boston this year. Might a well just call it quits for the year, even if they do reach the alcs.as the wildcard they will just roll over in five
totally agree. The entire year apparently Sux wanted more as a team, at least when these 2 teams played.
Okay guys time to get the lead back, so our pitching can immediately give it up again!
RS think they own us.
Girardi has to throw the stupid binder away and stop pitching Logan. He should just pitch the righties out of the bullpen and forget about him. He is like AJ and he very rarely hits his spots.
Logan blows. Hughes blows. Hughes is basically AJ Lite. Send them both to Japan.
It’s a baseball season…you win 60, you lose 60, and what happens in the other 40 determine your season…nobody’s psyching anybody out…
Logan doesn’t stink…..he’s just not exactly a situational lefty because he isn’t all that great against LH hitters. Even yesterday….he gave up the double to Crawford then struck the next 2 right handed hitters out. He’s not a bad reliever to have in the pen overall…..but he’s not really a guy you bring in with a ton of confidence to face one LH hitter.
maybe jeter should bunt?????
friggin moron……..
Always nice to have a lefty who can’t get leftys out. And Tex traded for Gonzales today. Y couldn’t we?
the odds for expecting Logan do anything good is lower than Jeter actually drives a Ford.
Betsy
Starter gives you 5 innings and Hughes comes out for the 6th. There is nothing meaningless about that.
Every inning in October is crucial.
Phranchise, that was part of his problem last year – not attacking. He loses confidence fairly easily on the mound – he can’t do that if he’s going to be a good starter.
Don’t underestimate Phil’s role in the pen.
Soriano can crack up at any time and Robertson has never been an EIG playoff guy. Phil has.
Totally garbage. How long for Yankee management to realize BaBoone Logan is a hit and miss pitcher?
It’s like Cashman and Co. realized that this team is destined to exit the playoffs early. No moves at the deadline, and I’m o.k. with sacrificing a season to not trade the Banuelos, Montero’s,Betances in the minors. I’m not o.k. with them makin dumbass managerial moves, and going into the stretch with Boone ” I wet myself” Logan as the only lefty in the pen…
hughes is better then aj but really is that saying much. aj has the 3rd worse era of any starting pitcher in baseball.
Remember when Hughes was supposed labeled the “Baby Rocket”?
can’t believe Beckett is still in…we should def win a game where we were able to score 5runs off of the “great one”
Logan against leftys all year. Yea. Not good. A loogy is supposed to get out leftys.
RS think they own us.
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Numbers would tell you that they do……
the game is lost
LGY, either way he’s low man on the totem pole – and for where he was last year, that’s quite a come down. No way am I taking out a starter doing a decent or better job for a guy who’s been mediocre at best for most of the year and who I am uncertain of in big spots. Why would you do that?
I don’t want to resort to insults, but Phil Hughes’ season was basically written off, and he fought his way back to where he resides now. He is, going forward, a work in progress in terms of this year.
Declarations about him being this or that in some ultimate sense are just short-sighted…
the series will be lost tomorrow, that’s it.
I’ve said this before…. If the yanks meet the sox in the playoffs, they’ll need all their pitchers. Even CC is having trouble going past 6 innings while keeping the run count down. So I just don’t see the starters doing much past 5. They need to go 5 strong. And they can’t have Bo-So-Ro-Mo pitching every game.
So they need the starters to go strong for 5 and have long men try and finish the game to relieve Bo-So-Ro-Mo on occasion.
I think we’re past the time for thinking Phil Hughes could be a frontline starter. Looks like the ceiling for him now would be a #4 or #5 on the Yankees and maybe a #2 if traded to an NL team.
Got 3 outs to score 3. Cos they ain’t scoring on bard n papelbon
Good job grandy, that wasn’t right down the middle or anything.
Yeah hughes is baby rocket if the rocket being referred to is rocket richard.
Gardner had a chance to work the count the last inning and knock him out of the game. Bad at bat swingning early and Beckett came back out. We could be into the bullpen right now.
Let’s see what this team is made out of.
I want a late-inning comeback.
Nice non-swing Granderson
According to K zone they showed on NESN 3 of the first 4 pitches to Ellsbury were strikes, but the Ump didn’t see it that way and the 5th pitch ended up inthe seats.
lol that was a little odd there
Hughes is more like a bottle rocket.
At least we can count on Tex to do hit the predicable pop-up.
Nice way to fight back and another Girard/Logan mistake.. Putting Logan in back to back games was a bad move. Hate Ellsbury
Impressive comeback inning……. For Beckett as always.
That was a monster shot by Tex. In miniature world.
A POP UP???????
This dude has been killing the yankees in big spots this year. Let’s be real and tell it like it is….
The Red Sox don’t fear us because our pitching isn’t very good.
Our starters basically max out at 5 decent innings against them, if that.
The Yanks just allowed Beckett to leave feeling good about himself and in line for the win after finally knocking him around last inning……terrible….I’m sorry but that’s just very frustrating to watch.
Betsy
Hughes looked dominant in the first inning throwing 94-95.
This year starting wise is a lost season for him. Next year is a different story.
However he can help this team in October.
That was awesome, by far texs best popup of the season. So high. Truly great. Wow that was a high one. Sensational.
We all were fooled on Hughes. His ceiling is more of back end rather than frontline. He doesn’t have a third pitch n his curve is average. His fastball is ordinary at 92. Hes not special
Boone Logan. I come in to get lefties out. That’s a joke. Good job getting the Orioles and Royals out. This is the big stage in Boston. You piece of garbage. Unacceptable.
Too bad they couldn’t hold the lead
Tex popping up a pitch? That is something that you rarely see….
grandy man has the 4th most K’s in baseball that is a problem in his game.
no worries the pop up man did his thing also. tex is great. really hitting 245 in the middle of the lineup after all we are the padres…………….
tex pops up on the infield almost every game it is staggering, maybe that is why his BABIP is real low>>>>>>>>>>>>>
he sucks.. under 125 against the sux on the season………
Lockdown, I’ll worry about the Sox (and they aren’t exactly murderer’s row – where I’m thinking of pulling my SP after 5) if and when we get there; there are other teams to deal with besides the Sox. On a positive note, we hurt Beckett some tonight.
That’s y Boston is better. Beckett.
Yank1 August 31st, 2011 at 9:52 pm
The Red Sox don’t fear us because our pitching isn’t very good.
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They do what we used to do at the plate…what Cano used to do.
Have we had one series with the Sox this year where CC, Colon, and Garcia all pitched? It may be hard to make any sort of predictive analysis of these games when we keep running our two crappiest starters out to face them during the season.
Hughes is basically trying to come back. I believe he’ll be much better next year.
Having said that, I’m not sure if he pitched ok & they’re great hitters OR if he got away with some mistakes & it should have been worse.
Either way, I haven’t given up on him for the future.
Maybe one of these days, Teixeria will show up for a Red Sox game.
Until Hughes develops a usable changeup, he’ll stay a back end starter. It’s way too easy for good hitters when they only have to sit on 2 pitches. Just ask AJ Burnett.
The trouble is Giradi is more interested in giving pitchers confidence instead of using his best for big games.
I have been saying Phil Hughes is garbage since Day One.
Game is not over.
Hughes season as a starter is.
Oh look. Boone logan is in to give papi another homer.
Boone is being rewarded to do his thing? What a joke
LockDown August 31st, 2011 at 9:50 pm
I’ve said this before…. If the yanks meet the sox in the playoffs, they’ll need all their pitchers. Even CC is having trouble going past 6 innings while keeping the run count down. So I just don’t see the starters doing much past 5. They need to go 5 strong. And they can’t have Bo-So-Ro-Mo pitching every game.
So they need the starters to go strong for 5 and have long men try and finish the game to relieve Bo-So-Ro-Mo on occasion.
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good point. that’s why if they meet again in ALCS, sux should win rather easily.
Yanks haven’t win ONE single sux series this year. That’s total domination by boston. To me, Yankee players don’t care that much anymore.
“Have we had one series with the Sox this year where CC, Colon, and Garcia all pitched? ”
Yes… we got swept in a series at home in May with those 3 starting.
Garcia/CC pitched in another series…. we got swept again.
Garcia/CC/Colon pitched last time in Fenway… and we lost 2\3.
Boonie stinks.
LGY, it was one inning…….he’s had plenty of bad innings. I’m not predicting that Phil will fail, I just don’t know what he’ll bring to the table – not this year, not next. I think expectations for him have to be ramped down. It’s not just the stuff that’s an issue or even the pitches – he’s just not that pitching savy.
Well.
Looks like all smooth sailing from here on for the Red Sox bullpen.
Guess thats why Cashman tried to trade Hughes this summer.
hughes is 25 and been on the scene for about 4 years. the die is not cat but at present he is at best a #5 starter.
so for a big time first round pick he has been avg. he started off at 22 or so looking like the next coming but really he has been running in palce for 2 years………..
he has not taken the next step and the clock is ticking…….he has 3 pitches tonight. fastball, curve , and change. the cutter which he use to love is gone or used very infrequently, the fastball is good but not david price good, the curve tonight was almost never a strike….
Drill this fat fk. I don’t care about the potential run it may cost. Bury him.
well at least we don’t have to worry about seeing Logan tomorrow night.
And they can’t have Bo-So-Ro-Mo pitching every game.
So they need the starters to go strong for 5 and have long men try and finish the game to relieve Bo-So-Ro-Mo on occasion.
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Add Phil to that boro so mo mix you have….
This team is in a dire need of a makeover. They don’t have what it takes to make it through the playoffs.
Betsy, The sox may not be murder’s row, but from what I’ve seen in all the games we’ve played them, they work the count & wear out our pitchers by the 5th.
Phil’s curve is a bigger problem than not having a consistent change………and I need to check, but I don’t know that he maintained his velocity tonight; he had that issue last year as well – he loses it early.
Look, if they lose it’s no big deal – it would be frustrating because they had the lead, but it’s not something to go crazy over.
“well at least we don’t have to worry about seeing Logan tomorrow night.”
Considering AJ is pitching, it doesn’t seem likely that we will need any of our decent relievers.
Awesome. Ayala is in to get beat on.
Lock down, I’m still not conceding anything – and it’s moot unless we face them in the playoffs. I’ll put my trust in our SP and hope they can do the job……..
It’s amazing that such an average pitcher could win so many games last year then at age 23-24. If it’s a credit to the Yankees offense, how many 18 + win pitchers have we had on this team for the last ten years ? He’s a young pitcher still learning.
stuart a August 31st, 2011 at 9:56 pm
hughes is 25 and been on the scene for about 4 years. the die is not cat but at present he is at best a #5 starter.
so for a big time first round pick he has been avg. he started off at 22 or so looking like the next coming but really he has been running in palce for 2 years………..
he has not taken the next step and the clock is ticking…….he has 3 pitches tonight. fastball, curve , and change. the cutter which he use to love is gone or used very infrequently, the fastball is good but not david price good, the curve tonight was almost never a strike….
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The change wasn’t very good. The hitters don’t respect it as a pitch he’ll consistently go to, much less go to in a big spot.
He needs to be able to throw the changeup, and the cutter, for strikes. It’s too easy for a good lineup to sit fastball and react on the curveball.
He’ll stay a back end #4 or #5 starter until he develops a usable 3rd pitch.
Phil was excellent as a reliever, why is this so difficult to understand?
For the benefit of the team that’s where he’s headed.
AJ will give us innings and sit in the post.
That’s what we want, right?
Betsy
It’s the same guy that was maybe the best reliever in baseball two years ago.
He can blow fastballs by people for one inning at a time. The problem is sustaining his fastball and a generally craptastic curveball. Neither of those are real issues as a reliever.
Hughes was never the same pitcher after the Texas near no-no. Just seemed like he couldn’t get it together after a slew of injuries. Kind of lost my faith in him. The Yanks ballyhooed this kid from the get go and maybe he was a bit overrated. Who knows!
Don’t blame Logan. Blame cashman for not getting another lefty. Ridiculous playing Bos 19x
Eroc August 31st, 2011 at 9:55 pm
“Have we had one series with the Sox this year where CC, Colon, and Garcia all pitched? ”
Yes… we got swept in a series at home in May with those 3 starting.
Garcia/CC pitched in another series…. we got swept again.
Garcia/CC/Colon pitched last time in Fenway… and we lost 2\3.
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And the last game we won, Colon went 4 2/3 and left with bases loaded with Boone getting A-gon, which won us the game.
Ace August 31st, 2011 at 9:59 pm
Don’t blame Logan. Blame cashman for not getting another lefty. Ridiculous playing Bos 19x
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It really is amazing that a team with the highest payroll in baseball can’t find a 2nd LOOGY.
The Yanks have to go over their scouting reports of the Sox hitters and start making better pitches. You can’t let the garbage hitters beat you over and over. The pitching really needs to step up and stop embarrassing themselves.
Bring up a few relievers from Scranton tomorrow, cash.
Great turn there. Very impressive.
We’ll get ‘em during the fourth hour.
Scoring off Bard and Papelbon will be tough, but considering the expectations before the game began, the Yankees should count themselves fortunate to not be getting blown out.
And the other joke is how can anyone really say how he will develop? How many pitchers have the Yankees developed over the years. Oh that’s right, they struggle elsewhere, hit their prime, pitch well and then when they turn 30+ we give them massive contracts. Andy Pettite, maybe Wang although he was a tad older. Am I missing anyone of note that we stuck with?
LGY, he’s not nearly the same pitcher and no, I don’t think his FB is nearly good enough to consistently blow by hitters, even out of the pen. In 2009, he not only had great stuff, but he could put that ball wherever he wanted
In any case, are you making an argument for him to be a permanent reliever?
Coming into came overweight did NOT do him any favors – with himself or with the team
Just put Hughes in the pen n let him gain some confidence in 6th inn. AJ won’t help in pen.
and idiot Joe leaves in Hughes to give back 3 of the 4 runs we scratched out to get the lead….our major obstacle in winning this year remains the Jarhead Maroon !
The team with the highest payroll in baseball has two very expensive lefty specialist Marte and Feliciano they are simply paying for fun.
Good hitters coming to the plate. Only two down.
I want to see Montero’s name in the lineup tomorrow. Andruw in left. Nunez on 3B.
betsy chic. you are an original but your rap is old and you repeat the same crap over and over again. i dig that you need this attention but you are getting real stale betsy chic.
The red sox always have something to prove against us.
If you don’t think that counts for something go read The Little Engine That Could then look at Pedroia.
They have an edge now over us.
Look how they do against the rest of the league.
We are 3-10 vs them and one back in the lost column.
What are u guys talking about “cashman couldn’t find a 2nd loogy”. Don’t u remember, before whining about soriano he went out and locked it down with pedro fleecemenow and he has been dy no mite
Hughes will likely enter next year as the 4th starter, but he really should work on all his secondary pitches in the offseason. Maybe work in winter ball to get a good feel for them and hit the ground running in April.
He’s lost a lot of time to injury, but there’s no reason to give up on him this early.
I want to ask you guys. How confident were you of Hughes to hold up the lead after Yankees going ahead? I guy like Ayala or Noesi can usually come in and set them down. Then you go from there. Especially against a team like the Red Sox.
The team with the highest payroll in baseball has two very expensive lefty specialist Marte and Feliciano they are simply paying for fun.
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don’t forget Igawa.
“And the last game we won, Colon went 4 2/3 and left with bases loaded with Boone getting A-gon, which won us the game.”
And then Freddy pitched a great game which was blown by Mo…the point is that the starter does not win or lose the game by himself…(AJ excepted).
Really Bard gets that call?
Good thing we have AJ on the mound tomorrow
stuart a August 31st, 2011 at 9:56 pm
hughes is 25 and been on the scene for about 4 years. the die is not cat but at present he is at best a #5 starter.
so for a big time first round pick he has been avg. he started off at 22 or so looking like the next coming but really he has been running in palce for 2 years………..
he has not taken the next step and the clock is ticking…….he has 3 pitches tonight. fastball, curve , and change. the cutter which he use to love is gone or used very infrequently, the fastball is good but not david price good, the curve tonight was almost never a strike….
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This would make sense if he had 4 or 5 full seasons as a starter. In 5 years he has 429ip. Most starters have 600-800ip.
Hughes is y we all shouldn’t grow attached to betances n banuelos. Yanks haven’t developed a good AL starter since Andy P.
It doesn’t matter if they have two LOOGY’s on the DL, that’s still no excuse for going without a 2nd lefty in the bullpen for months.
Ace August 31st, 2011 at 10:05 pm
Hughes is y we all shouldn’t grow attached to betances n banuelos. Yanks haven’t developed a good AL starter since Andy P.
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Chien Ming Wang and Ivan Nova say hi.
Don’t anyone get aggravated tomorrow because its ur own fault for expecting a good result. It may be the first time in as long as I can remember where the yankees are +250 dogs in a game.
Unfortunately for Hughes as I stated needed a good game. AJ doesn’t have to pitch well tomorrow now to keep his starting job.
always looks like Cano is jogging to first.. Hate you Scutaro
Why is Cano trotting to first? Hustle just a little bit.
I can’t take the stupidity in here.
Why did Cano slow down half way to 1st?
Yankee starters are BAD. When Lee went to Rangers Yankees fate was sealed. All we had to do is give up Montero. Lee would have taken us to WS last year and again this year.
The whole chalkboard gets erased when you get to the postseason. Nothing that happened prior to that point matters, or is predictive of what will happen. I like our chances against them if we make it that far.
Most starters have that many innings at his age or over a span of 5 years? You can have a laundry list of young pitchers that go through the same injuries or worse as Hughes early in their careers. Bedard, Liriano, Harden, Grienke, Matusz, Cecil. It’s not natural to go from pitching in high school and college to expanding to the pros and then the majors.
Marco Scutaro is a legend.
Here comes the futility
mick August 31st, 2011 at 9:59 pm
Phil was excellent as a reliever, why is this so difficult to understand?
For the benefit of the team that’s where he’s headed.
AJ will give us innings and sit in the post.
That’s what we want, right?
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I want something a little different. I get what you’re saying though. It makes sense.
I would like to see AJ skip a start and work on adding a 4th pitch. Quite frankly, I think he should add a knuckle ball. He has a great knuckle curve & I notice he holds the ball in the knuckle position when resting. So I don’t think it would be difficult to pick up a knuckleball.
When you get older, you have to redefine yourself. A knuckleball will offer a different look, change in velocity & I think it would work for him.
But yeah, phil as a reliever for the remainder is not the end of the world. He can come back in rotation next year.
Predictions for AJ’s line tomorrow?
I say 2.2 IP 12 H 5 BB 14 ER
Those last two runs on Hughes were hard luck.
The critiques of him on here, are by and large ridiculous, as usual.
Captain Clutch August 31st, 2011 at 10:01 pm
The Yanks have to go over their scouting reports of the Sox hitters and start making better pitches. You can’t let the garbage hitters beat you over and over. The pitching really needs to step up and stop embarrassing themselves.
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AMEN!
Nova has been good for most of one season.
If he struggles next year expect him to be rolling around the bus with Hughes when this board gets a hold of him.
vblade August 31st, 2011 at 10:06 pm
Ace August 31st, 2011 at 10:05 pm
Hughes is y we all shouldn’t grow attached to betances n banuelos. Yanks haven’t developed a good AL starter since Andy P.
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Chien Ming Wang and Ivan Nova say hi.
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I will still put Hughes in there
“WyoYankee August 31st, 2011 at 10:07 pm
Yankee starters are BAD. When Lee went to Rangers Yankees fate was sealed. All we had to do is give up Montero. Lee would have taken us to WS last year and again this year.”
Lee would have lost to the Giants again for us in the WS and then flown the coop for Philly in the offseason and we’d be missing Montero.
J alfred – maybe u and the two people u relate to should leave the “monkee” barrel and go have ur own sophisticated discussion somewhere.
I wouldn’t count out some divine intervention tomorrow night.
Cashman was willing to give them
montero. Seattle wanted Smoak more than Montero.
There is no more ignorant and annoying poster in history.
TheStraw August 31st, 2011 at 10:07 pm
The whole chalkboard gets erased when you get to the postseason. Nothing that happened prior to that point matters, or is predictive of what will happen. I like our chances against them if we make it that far.
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Yeah, give us our cleanup hitter healthy, I’ll take my chances.
Kay is a little too excited
Who in here really feels confident in AJ’s start tomorrow night? SERIOUSLY? Hate you Pedroia
I’m pretty sure Nomar is currently giving Schilling a handy after watching those 2 plays
Ace, you are an idiot
RadioKev, yep.
Vblade – he will get aggravated if he is pitching that well and joe takes the ball from him in the 3rd.
I think Lee would have stayed.
AJ can stay in the rotation as the 5th starter. I can’t stand him but let’s define the roles with CC, Nova, Colon, Freddy 1-4. Leave aj off the roster and he sees it coming. You cant trade him so you need him next year. Let him try to redefine himself in the offseason then hope for lights out in 2013 , his walk year.
Given the pitching matchups, I think the aim going into Boston was not to get swept – they’ve already achieved that.
2.5 games with a month to go is barely anything. As long as we’re not playing Boston, that can be made up in a week.
The Mariners wanted Nunez, Montero and I believe Nova right? Would you still do that trade now? They agreed to Nunez, Montero and Adams until Seattle balked at Adam’s injury.
I thought the teams’ luck would even out this series, but I thought wrong. Gambler’s fallacy.
That was fxxxing awesome. Good job offense
team looks pretty deflated now.. comes down to letting these little guys like Scutaro beat us constantly it seems like. Sure you take AGon out of the series, but Scutaro right there to cause havoc.
Carlo August 31st, 2011 at 10:10 pm
J alfred – maybe u and the two people u relate to should leave the “monkee” barrel and go have ur own sophisticated discussion somewhere.
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I don’t know how “sophisticated” my discussions are, but they are about baseball. I assume yours were about your lack of a sex life? I probably shouldn’t do this, but I’m going to assume that most here aren’t interested.
Carlo-
The whole board here used to be good baseball discussion. Now it is mostly paranoia and negatvity and insults to the players.
If AJ gives up less than 10 runs tomorrow Hughes is going to the bullpen.
Lee? Alex has barely been healthy this year, we have no idea whether he will be restored to full power. Thank God Jesus Montero is still a Yankee.
What did they talk about in the good old days Straw?
“My lack of sex life” – comical. What an idiot.
mick August 31st, 2011 at 10:15 pm
What did they talk about in the good old days Straw?
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Chicken recipes.
west coast dude, you have to be talking about the betsy chic
There’s the nail in the coffin.
It doesn’t matter if Hughes or AJ is the 5th starter for this year. But if you want to think about the future I would let Hughes continue to start. This is what? His 2nd game in which he threw 100 pitches? Hughes is still a work in progress this year. By now he’s out of spring training mode. But let him get those extra 5 or 6 starts. I guarantee you he will give you quality starts in 5 of 6 of them.
Well this games over now… Time to drill someone
WyoYankee August 31st, 2011 at 10:11 pm
I think Lee would have stayed.
He’s made it pretty clear he loved Philly and wanted to be there.
At least we don’t have to use Mo tonight.
Ayala still in to get smoked.
well……the field is yours, good night
Yankees pitchers just suck for the most part right now. This is how the playoffs will look, i’m afraid.
Anyone with a brain knew we were losing these 2. That’s y we better hope someone knocks them out in rd 1
It would be a pleasant (and welcome) surprise if the Yankees come back to win this one. The inability to hold the lead did them in, and the 2011 edition hasn’t had much luck in the come from behind win department. Normally one would say get ‘em tomorrow, but . . .
Ayala throwing his usual batting practice…
The Yanks have to be tired of getting embarrassed by these guys. It’s really old already…
told u they should plunk varitek
Ellsbury would be a nice candidate
Man Russell had 4 hrs in the last 2 games Hughes pitched.
Giving up big hits to Lowrie, Scutaro and Varitek is the difference in this game.
If you expect to beat a good team, you have to get their weaker hitters out.
People come here for different reasons.
Some are mentally ill.
Some are astute baseball people, few.
There are too many reasons to name …
It was always the same, it’s not going to change.
Get used to it.
Those who criticize the whiners, are whiners…
WHAT THE FXXX GIRARDI – why are you leaving the worthless Ayala in there? Gave up in the F-ing game. Stupid moron.
Mick
Shut up
Get used to it.
They didn’t have knee-jerk reactions everybtime the Yankees fell behind or lost a game, which happened at least 60 times very season.
Carlo August 31st, 2011 at 10:16 pm
“My lack of sex life” – comical. What an idiot.
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You expressed resentment to me calling out people for making crude remarks about women, with women posters on the board. Your crude comments stand for themselves.
This place is just a sewer.
season series sweep.
when was last time it happened on either yanks or sux? It’s some records, really hard to achieve.
This season was over once Lee went to Philly. They should have overwhelmed him. U can’t win a title with this pitching
making to much sense for ya tar, boy…
Really wish A-Rod was playing right now
Is their a scouting report the yankees can borrow from say one of 12 other teams that includes the following:
How to get out shtty players such as: josh reddick, jason varitek, marco scutaro, jarrod saltalamacchia, and jed lowrie.
Cano makes similar play on short hop to the play Pedroia had, but Michael Kay stays basically silent. When Pedroia made the play, Kay lost his mind. We need a new play by play guy.
Hard to overwhelm him more than a 7 year contract at $20 mil plus. Plus. Lee took less to go to Philly.
igotid88 August 31st, 2011 at 10:21 pm
Really wish A-Rod was playing right now
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A-Rod wouldn’t make much difference when you give up 9 runs.
Pitching, pitching, pitching.
Ayala throwing his usual batting practice…
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44 innings / 1.64 ERA
He gave up 1 run in June
2 in July
2 in August before tonight.
That’s not batting practice.
It’s really weird how the Yanks can pitch well and beat every team except these guys. They face this team and they look overmatched and the pitching absolutely stinks. The pitchers have to start making better pitches because the Sox lineup isn’t that good and they continue to let the garbage beat them.
Lee is not the excuse.
Cashman has been overrated for a long time
Ace August 31st, 2011 at 10:20 pm
This season was over once Lee went to Philly. They should have overwhelmed him. U can’t win a title with this pitching
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Lee wanted to go to Philly… Though I wonder if he would have gone to NYY if they had offered him CC’s contract & not waited long enough for Philly to jump in.
WARNING:
For those who hate it here: LEAVE.
When u figure out when and how I expressed resentment abour ur statements about women or whatever u are claiming I urge u to present it at ur next mensa conference with tar and yankeefem. Don’t bother me with ur nonfindings, blohard.
Ace August 31st, 2011 at 10:18 pm
Anyone with a brain knew we were losing these 2. That’s y we better hope someone knocks them out in rd 1
Uh, we won last night and tomorrow’s game has not been played yet.
Sense? Tar boy???
If you only knew how pathetic you sound. Stick to jokes, Dude.
Yes Ayala blew it tonight, but he gets an odd lack of respect. Mark Feinsand is on Twitter saying Ayala could get DFA’d. He has an ERA under 2 in nearly 50 innings. What else does he have to do?
BloggingBombers
It probably won’t happen, but after 3 straight rocky outings, Ayala could be in danger of being DFA if the Yanks need to open 40-man spots.
More than anything this is a place to vent.
If you’re not the venting type go to the Sesame Street blog.
J. Alfred Prufrock August 31st, 2011 at 10:19 pm
This place is just a sewer.
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That would make you a sewer rat.
hey maybe AJ will surprise us all and pitch a shutout or something tomorrow. I can hope that can’t I
I wonder what Teix’s average is against the sox.
This is all on Hughes.
Enough of the laid back socal attitude out on the mound already. What you do matters. Time to step up and show some fight already.
5IP, 5 ER shouldve been traded away long ago. Joel Pineiro or Ted Lilly would have given us length at least.
Weak performance once again by Phil. Time to cut loose this mediocrity in the offseason.
If you only knew how pathetic you sound.
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maybe to you but you are a simpleton.
mick August 31st, 2011 at 10:23 pm
WARNING:
For those who hate it here: LEAVE.
Ok tough guy. Actually I like it here. I just hate listening to people who never do anything but levy criticism.
Nunez looked like my seven yr old against Papelbum
AJ is probably wetting his pants already thinking about taking the mound tomorrow
Yankees FAIL. Again. Times 13.
LGY, probably so because of the $$$………but if they want him to start next year, it’s a mistake.
Ayala can be dfa’d because:
1 – girardi doesn’t trust him
2 – he implodes in the low leverage situations he is used in
3 – hughes is moving to his spot
mick August 31st, 2011 at 10:20 pm
making to much sense for ya tar, boy…
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Humiliating children is beneath you.
syd_cash August 31st, 2011 at 10:25 pm
hey maybe AJ will surprise us all and pitch a shutout or something tomorrow. I can hope that can’t I
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At this point, I’ll settle for giving up less runs than the “other guy”. Would be nice to win a series against them
TheStraw,
I know anything can happen but do you honestly expect them to win with AJ pitching?
Stick to jokes, Dude.
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I’m not here to entertain you but if I do then I get satisfaction, because that’s the kind of guy I am.
Tar August 31st, 2011 at 10:19 pm
Mick
Shut up
Get used to it.
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Really, no one can come in here and just talk about the Yankees. It’s over run by maladjusts or trolls who didn’t get enough attention, or got the wrong kind, from their parents or whatever and they just ruin the place for the rest of us. Or people who fancy themselves internet revolutionaries, inventing cult nicknames for themselves, who hold grudges against other posters & pout and demand their attention as if they were family members who spurned them, or whatever the complex is they have to act out in front of an uninterested audience. They try to drag everyone into their personal stuff, but no one cares about your stuff! So you have to FORCE your stuff on everyone.
It’s just unfair that these attention starved lunatics ruin it for everyone.
Tomorrow, Lester versus AJ? ROFL!!!
So glad I am going to a concert.
Allowing Varitek to greatly affect the outcome of this game is inexcusable….oh well not to fear….we have AJ on the hill tomorrow.
AJ is gonna crap the bed tomorrow. As usual.
Thank God that’s over. Gardner is pretty useless at the plate right now. Leaving Hughes in too long was the difference really.
“More than anything this is a place to vent.”
Why do you need to vent about a bunch of guys playing a kids game. Does it upset you that much? Is there nothing else meaningful enough to upsetnyou in your life?
Haha– Was that a joke.
Pathetic to a simpleton, that’s even worse. Time to ride the train dude.
AJ is probably wetting his pants already thinking about taking the mound tomorrow
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Why? There’s no pressure. He’s the 5th starter.
LockDown,
125 not including tonight
Expect the worst tomorrow. It will let you down easier when it happens. 3-11.. Ouch
Those three outs were almost poignant. As if they were a representation of the Yankees utter helplessness against Boston this season. They better pray they don’t face them in the playoffs.
Time to ride the train dude.
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Paranoia strikes deep…
Betsy
4-5 starts in September doesn’t make much of a difference at this point.
AJ is probably wetting his pants already thinking about taking the mound tomorrow
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Why? There’s no pressure. He’s the 5th starter.
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He’s the 7th starter in a six man rotation.
Who cares about tmw. So what if they lose. The season is far from over.
Jesus is Here!
So glad I am going to a concert.
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So am I
Those three outs were almost poignant. As if they were a representation of the Yankees utter helplessness against Boston this season. They better pray they don’t face them in the playoffs.
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A lot can happen in a month.
Good night J alfred, Straw, YF and the few others that I like to watch a game with. Not even going to waste my time with the next post.
Those three outs were almost poignant. As if they were a representation of the Yankees utter helplessness against Boston this season. They better pray they don’t face them in the playoffs.
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A lot can happen in a month.
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Yeah, Boston will be healthier.
Now who will spin this Hughes disaster?
Why do you need to vent about a bunch of guys playing a kids game. Does it upset you that much? Is there nothing else meaningful enough to upsetnyou in your life?
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Good question.
Here’s the answer you’re looking for:
If you don’t think people are venting here then you have no idea what venting is.
Google it…
Tar August 31st, 2011 at 10:33 pm
Good night J alfred, Straw, YF and the few others that I like to watch a game with. Not even going to waste my time with the next post.
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Ditto. Goodnight to you.
Bronx, LOL.
‘night.
Stop with the Lee garbage. They gave him the highest paying contract. He pitched for team that made it to the WS and didn’t stay there. He took less money and went where he wanted to go, an easier road to the WS and with the best pitcher in baseball in Halladay. We would not have Nunez, Nova or Montero and who’s to say we would have Lee either.
End of the day the need for Lee goes back to the inability of this team to keep and develop pitchers which is why they are doing this now. Hughes, Nova, Betcacnes, Banuelous, Warren, Mitchel, etc. Maybe only 2 or 3 really pan out, but that is huge. And giving up on Hughes is nonsense. And thinking nova can repeat this next year is not set in stone either. Nova’s year this year isn’t far off of Hughes last year.
Best case AJ? 5 inn 4 runs. Does it matter if Kester goes 7?
They should have CC’d Lee. Blown him away. The $ was the same. Cc n lee would have matched up with Beckett n Lester. Basically cashman gambled that Hughes was a frontline SP.
Joel Piniero would have given us length? The Angels put him in the pen he was so bad.
Do people just type and say this ridiculous stuff because it is comical. Do you watch baseball? Or any games outside of NY?
I am so bummed that the Sox are better than us this year. Tonight’s game looked like a game where the Yanks play the Royals. The Royals may come back and take a lead but the Yanks usually slap them back down and that is what the Sox do to us. I love seeing Cervelli, Nunez and Gardener get completely over matched by Beckett and Papelbon. Really we can’t get a better bench then Nunnie “I swing at any high pitch” Nunez and Cervelli. Somebody help me by explaining our mission. There is no way we are beating these guys in the playoff with CC barely able to win and no one behind him. This game finally made me realize this is a growing year for the Yankees right but I am still sad.
Ace August 31st, 2011 at 10:33 pm
Now who will spin this Hughes disaster?
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it wasn’t a great start. but the last 2 runs off him were pretty much luck
What is blowing Lee away? Why not double what they offered then. And then triple CC’s when he opts out. Then you can resign the rest of the league while you are at it.
These are some of the worst posts I have seen in some time on here.
And in case you know anything about Lee, you don’t give up on young pitchers. He had a 6.29 era not too long ago and needed to be sent back to the minors.
Another pitcher the Indians developed over many years and then suddenly he hits his stride during his late twenties and has a huge pay day.
I never want to see posada again in a lineup. DFA him and Ayala now please!