Game 152: Yankees vs. Twins
Posted by: Brian Heyman - Posted in Misc on Sep 19, 2011 
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Yankees lineup
1. Derek Jeter SS
2. Curtis Granderson CF
3. Mark Teixeira 1B
4. Alex Rodriguez 3B
5. Robinson Cano 2B
6. Nick Swisher RF
7. Andruw Jones LF
8. Jesus Montero DH
9. Russell Martin C
A.J. Burnett RHP
Twins lineup
1. Ben Revere CF
2. Trevor Plouffe SS
3. Michael Cuddyer RF
4. Chris Parmelee 1B
5. Danny Valencia DH
6. Brian Dinkleman 2B
7. Luke Hughes 3B
8. Joe Benson LF
9. Rene Rivera C
Scott Diamond LHP
Time/TV: 1:09/YES
Weather: Mostly sunny, 64
Umpires: John Hirschbeck HP, Scott Barry 1B, Vic Carapazza 2B, Brian Knight 3B
Magic numbers: The Yankees’ magic number to clinch a playoff spot is five and their magic number to clinch the East is seven.
Rebounding: The Yankees were shut out yesterday in Toronto. Since the start of the 2008 season, their record in the following game after being shut out is 21-7. They have won the last four times.
Rainout reminder: This game is a makeup from back on April 6. The Yankees were 3-2 at the time. Now they’re 91-60.
Extra credit: Extra credit to anyone who is well versed on anyone in the Twins’ lineup besides Michael Cuddyer. Minnesota won’t get to participate this year in their tradition of losing to the Yankees in the first round. The Twins are last in the Central, at 59-92.
Update, 1:11: Burnett gives up a leadoff single to Ben Revere, who promptly steals second.
Update, 1:16: Burnett strands Revere at third.
Update, 1:22: Two-run homer for Granderson, No. 41. 2-0, just like that.
Update, 1:24: Teixeira singles, but A-Rod hits into a double play. Girardi said before the game he was encouraged how Rodriguez was swinging the bat. This is just the sixth major-league start and appearance for Diamond. He hasn’t faced the Yankees before.
Update, 1:34: Burnett gives up a single in the second, but strikes out the side. He’s being tough on these minor-league call-ups. Five of the starting nine for the Twins fall into that category.
Update, 1:42: Jesus Montero hits the ball very hard the other way. Single off the base of the fence in right-center, pushes Swisher, who singled, to third. And Martin singles to left for the 3-0 lead in the second. Five hits already for the Yankees.
Update, 1:55; Revere reaches on a one-out infield hit, swipes second to set a Minnesota rookie record with 32 steals and heads to third when Martin’s throw goes into center.
Update, 2:02: Burnett two more Ks to strand him. He’s struck out the side two straight innings, now 7 Ks.
Update, 2:03: Regis Philbin took over the PA booth for Paul Olden to intro A-Rod. Wonder if they’d let me or you do some intros, too. A-Rod walks. Cano triples him in, 4-0. They may not need Rivera for save 602 today the way this is going.
Update, 2:07: Swisher grounds an RBI single into left-center, 5-0.
Update, 2:19: Burnett has given up a solo homer to someone named Chris Parmelee (Double-A call-up), then singles to Valencia and Dinkelman to start the fourth.
Update, 2:29: Burnett hasn’t had one clean inning yet. Now bases loaded, two outs. Cory Wade warming.
Update, 2:32: Revere goes down swinging at a 92 mph fastball. So it remains 5-1.
Update, 2:42: Bases loaded, two outs for Swisher.
Update, 2:47: Swisher flies to center. Heading to the fifth.
Update, 2:52: Burnett is somehow getting beaten up by this lineup. Single, two-run homer, double to start the fifth. Three runs, nine hits. Girardi has seen enough, Wade coming on. Four-plus innings for Burnett.
Update, 3:02: 5-4 on a groundout by Luke Hughes. Run charged to Burnett.
Update, 3:14: Kyle Waldrop took over for Diamond and had a 1-2-3 fifth.
Update, 3:30: Logan gets out of the sixth. Now Jeter leads off with a bunt single, his third hit.
Update, 3:37: A-Rod RBI single, 6-4.
Update, 3:51: Soriano 1-2-3 seventh.
Update, 3:59: Would you believe the Red Sox lost again? 6-5 in the first of two vs. the Orioles. Yankees magic number is 4 to clinch a playoff berth and 6 to clinch the East at this moment.
Update, 4:10: The magic number for the playoff berth is still 5 at the moment, I’m told. Stand corrected, sorry. David Robertson throws a 1-2-3 eighth. So unless the Yankees break this open in their half, Rivera should be going for the record.
Update, 4:20: Swisher hits into a double play, fans cheer, here comes Rivera to try to set the record.
Update, 4:30: Rivera sets the record, puts Twins down 1-2-3, Yankees win 6-4. 602 saves.
Let’s go, Yanks!
Go Good AJ! Go Yanks!
Here comes the rollercoaster aka Burnett…..
If he can’t beat this lineup, he really stinks…
Go AJ. Go Yanks.
AJ has a nice hook, so far, throwing it for strikes.
Nice job by AJ pitching around the very cheap lead off hit.
Yeah, Jeet!
Captain oh my captain.
well i hope that’s the sign of a lot of hitting for the rest of the week
Diamond didn’t hit 90 vs Jeter. Nice stroke Cap’n.
The Grandy man can!
The Grandy man can! Looking like a no save day if AJ can pitch well and we can keep this up…
yay!!! glad the day off didn’t cool down Grandy’s bat
Granderson chasing down Bautista for the HR title.
Grandy getting hot again would be great news down the stretch.
Granderson leads the MLB in R, RBI, and almost HR
almost all relative stats, but damn, that’s impressive
Matt,
And he’s doing it hitting 2nd.
because of having an interest in the catcher position, i’ve been puzzled by how girardi has used his catchers all year. surely you can’t think martin was used wisely earlier in teh season when he was getting beat up and was so bad for so long.
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Randy,
You gotta see how Martin’s contract is set up. There’s a a lot of bonus money based on games as catcher.
Something like 50,000$ for every 5 games up to 40 and 75,000$ for every 5 games between 40-120.
He was definitely playing too much especially after getting leveled by Carlos Pena bit I’m sure he hid a lot of stuff to get that extra $$$.
AJ should use his curveball a lot today against these AA/AAA guys. He should only throw his fastball when he has to.
Burnett looks good! But remember he is pitching against a AA Club
I KNOW it’s early…. but AJ looks locked in.
Fastballs on the black and throwing curve for strikes.
He looks good.
AJ looks really really good today.
Gonna be a shame when Verlander gets MVP over Granderson.
A CF having the season he’s having, with those power and speed numbers, is incredibly rare.
AJ stuff is FILTHY today. Wow.
Gonna be shame when Verlander gets MVP over Burnett
AJ looking sharp….guess he wants to pitch in the post season. Wonder if that is the first time this season that he didn’t give up a run right after we scored.
Syd
Wonder if that is the first time this season that he didn’t give up a run right after we scored.
I was thinking the same thing.
The Ghost says-
This is why no one on any blog has a clue when it comes to pitching mechanics.
Whatever Burnett has done he is now dealing and looks about as good as he’s ever been with the Yankees-the fastball no longer has the tail that gets him in trouble, the breaking ball is light years better. And most of all, he is pitching with confidence and a swagger out there.
If he continues to throw like this he’s in the postseason rotation, period.
Agreed, Ghost.
AJ was never out of the mix because he has great stuff. A simple tweak and he becomes viable again. Reason why you reserve judgment on AJ until the last minute. We know how good AJ can be, when he doesn’t implode and so do the Yanks.
# The Ghost of Lohud Past September 19th, 2011 at 1:38 pm
The Ghost says-
This is why no one on any blog has a clue when it comes to pitching mechanics.
Whatever Burnett has done he is now dealing and looks about as good as he’s ever been with the Yankees-the fastball no longer has the tail that gets him in trouble, the breaking ball is light years better. And most of all, he is pitching with confidence and a swagger out there.
If he continues to throw like this he’s in the postseason rotation, period.
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Absolutely.
Jesuuuuuuuus!
Montero breaks his own record for longest hit single in YS history.
A hit to RF from Montero is nice to see
S/B an error
Nice the ball gets by the 3rd baseman. That could’ve been two. Yanks are rolling so far today.
Verlander should get Cy Young not MVP, i’m so against the pitcher MVP. (Obviously he is going to get the Cy Young anyways, so they want to give him Cy Young and MVP.) When there are several other guys who could be MVP as well.
baltimore 2 boston 0
Is the cleanup spot going to turn into a platoon situation with Cano and Alex? I see Alex is back in there today batting 4th against the lefty.
The legendary Darnell McDonald botched two straight plays out in LF.
A-Rod probably only hit 5th that one time because he was just coming back. I’d guess he’ll hit cleanup from now on.
Bllahhhh Monday day games are the worst… Monday is the only day that I am guaranteed to be in the office.
Judging by the box score score this guy Diamond for the Twins is throwing some meatballs up there huh?
Amazing that the Twins have a Hughes, Burnett, and Rivera on their roster.
The legendary Darnell McDonald just hit a HR
bad throw by Martin
AJ has to do a better job holding the ball. These AAA guys are running all over the place.
Martin is decent at throwing out runners, but there are times…
It isn’t it nice of Girardi to dust Montero off for today’s game.
AJ again looks sharp again.
Martin didn’t have much of a shot on that one. I missed what pitch was thrown and where it was thrown on the earlier one where he threw to the wrong side of the bag. Maybe he just has to swallow hard and not throw at times when he’s catching AJ.
Martin is an absolute must with AJ on the mound. The guy is awesome saving WP’s.
Isn’t it nice…was what I intended
K K K!
Are good buddy Robert Andino with a 2 run bomb… 4 – 1 O’s
Clutch, I’m just happy to see AJ more in control of his own body and pitching well…Just strike everyone out with that nasty hook and then there are no baserunners
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I think I felt a tremor going through Boston just a few minutes ago. heh.
The Ghost says-
The 2-1 pitch to Cuddyer shows the difference in Burnett-he was able to paint the outside corner with the fastball to get a strike, then through the unhittable breaking ball to get the K.
For the last 2 years, that 2-1 pitch leaks over the plate and gets hammered instead of setting up the strikeout pitch.
man good AJ, is back in action
AJ looking fine, and Regis Philbin was hysterical in the tv booth.
Martin is an absolute must with AJ on the mound.
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I think the Yanks should look into getting AJ a hockey goalie for his catcher next year
How many times do we have to look at Regis? How FOXlike of us!
lol – baltimore up 5-1…might have to change their name to the boston mets sox…
yankfem, they’ve been going in the Fox direction in general with all those Kim Jones spots in the crowd…not my taste, either….
3B for Gato!
wow nice hustle by Cano didn’t figure he would get a triple!
That might be a ground rule double cause it got stuck in the padding.
Don’t you know Robinson Cano!
Hi everyone,
just getting in my computer, looking at the comments it seems >AJ is dealing, that`s as good news as we can get., especially heading to the PS a good AJ is one hell of an adition
Go Cano!!! I have never seen the ball get caught in the wall like that in YS.
What are the odds of a ball finding and sticking in the slight opening in the wall like that? Doesn’t that count as a hole in one?
Nice the umps rule that Cano would’ve gotten 3rd even if the ball didn’t get stuck in the wall. Now score him here Swish and AJ will have a real comfortable lead.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/.....xpertpicks
oh! and Baltimore is kicking some Red sux behind!!
Baltimore has to keep on their hitting shoes up into the ninth. This is Fenway, after all. But a nice beginning!
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Hopefully, they don’t put Mo in record-breaking mode this afternoon.
Captain,
Happens in the ivy at Wrigley all the time.
Hi Luis, our lord & savior is finally in there…made the most of it so far…if that shot he hit into the RC gap hadn’t been a true carom he could have been standing on third…
ANDRUW!!!
And here he comes again…
Thompy should’ve sent Swish there because Cuddyer was bobbling the ball in the right field corner.
Hi Jap!,
I can`t see the game live, i am watching it in gameday, sad the he struck out!!
Imagine if Granderson hits the most HR and has the most RBI at the end, having batted 2nd most of the season…maybe Ken Griffey did that, but no one else comes to mind…
Give the MVP to Grandy.
In my mind there is no better candidate, Granderson MVP!!
luis, Jesus picks his spots…he knows we’re up 5-0
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you guys keep the fire burning…I’m stuck with Sterlin again for the next hour or so…and I hope Buck continues to take it to Theo up Nawth…;)
Good one, folks.
right now the mvp is verlander
jesus seems like he is sulking.
wow, didn`t realized that AJ has 7 K`s
That curveball was hung right over the plate
It wouldn’t be AJ without giving up at least one homer. At least a solo. Now minimize the damage.
cheapy or legit homer?
luis,
Legit.
AJ has to get back to locating….
Here we go again… Five runs lead, AJ on the mound… IT’S JUST NOT SAFE!
“You gotta see how Martin’s contract is set up. There’s a a lot of bonus money based on games as catcher.”
bronx jeers-
thanks for that info. i didn’t think about that.that would explain martin not saying anything on how banged up he was.
c’mon AJ, hold it together you were doing so well. Calm down
Weiland is complete and utter trash… Great farm system Boston has over there.
thanks Tom,
Is AJ Mechanics getting out of whack?
i would take out burnett right before he implodes.
when will that be?
oh, it’s coming.
i just don’t know when
all kidding aside.
i’d make burnett into the eigth inning guy and spin him off next year as a closer to someone and get what you can for him.
Come on AJ…This is usually where the wheels would come off but hopefully he can keep them on here. It’s amazing how in seconds things can turn for him.
Wow Andruw was scaring me the way he was tracking that ball to left field. Come on AJ
Lucky Luciano right there….
The Ghost says-
that last fastball was the Bad AJ in a nutshell, outside target, it leaks back over the plate and it’s lucky it stayed in the park.
I’d like to see him get back on track, it was fun to watch him for the 1st 3 innings.
Great news on Cervelli. So glad he’s finally symptom free.
Thanks for the info and quotes Brian.
Jeez… Was that as bad as Gameday made that look? A shot to the wall?
Atta boy, AJ.
Jones is styling and profiling these fly balls that he is catching.
3 and 1? He’S a .146 hitter, AJ. ATTACK, DAMMIT!
I think someone should start warming up. AJ is a nut. This is just like the Mariners game but the opposite.
GET THIS CLOWN OFF THE MOUND!!!!!
booooo
I have never ever seen another pitcher like AJ. Just mind boggling.
AJ is just trying to keep the save situation alive.
K! Way to get out of it, AJ!
Way to buckle down AJ.
mother#%&@ing piece of garbage burnett can’t be trusted. not even playing at home against a piece of crap twins team closing in on 100 losses w/o mauer, morneau and kubel and a 5-run lead. it’s not matter of if but when this jerk-off implodes.
Yes, AJ wants to give Mo a chance at his 602nd….LOL.
AJ the dramatic…good job a few starts ago he woulda imploded
To say AJ is hard to watch is an understatement. He tries hard but he just can’t consistently throw strikes and repeat his delivery. Girardi should definitely have someone warmed up for the 5th inning incase he falls apart immediately and take him out.
It amazes me that a guy can be at home with a 5-0 lead in the 4th against a light hitting team and have control problems. Glad that he got out of it, but I would pull him at the first sign of trouble.
Too bad that Montero could not get the run in last inning. I would like to see this game go to like 10-1 so some of the kids like Brackman can pitch.
WMD September 19th, 2011 at 2:34 pm
take it easy….stay calm, ur gona have a heart attack
That’s it, Jeets! Knock him in Grandy.
Way to go Jeter. Time to add to the lead.
that should be the final implosion today for aj…
The O’s pitching isn’t good enough to expect them to hold leads. The O’s best chance for a win is when Britton or maybe Guthrie are on the mound.
Baltimore is such a joke. 6-4 lead but they will blow it.
their CF is blowing the game
without Aceves the Sux would already be out of the playoffs… blame Cashman for that one
The Yanks have to add on to their lead now…Damn Tex is slow…
apparently pedroia’s hit was foul and then bounced fair but the umps gave it to the sox…and it’s unreviewable.
That CF has pretty much allowed every single run to score.
Worst game I’ve ever seen someone have defensively. Not sure how he’s not pulled yet.
Damn that’s the 2nd time they have failed with 2nd and 3rd, 1 out.
With AJ on the mound you can never say a game is over. But a base knock here by Swish would go a long ways towards that.
why is jones not playing CF for the O’s today? who’s this clown matt angle?
yanks should have 8 to 12 runs. especially horrible ab’s by montero with 2 on and russel horrible martin on deck and arod in the bottom of the 4th.
I hope Girardi pulls AJ before the game becomes tied….
Get this clown out of the game
pull him, take the win away
It’s a damn shame aj cant have a clean inning to save his life.
Here it goes again with AJ. The guy just can’t be trusted no matter how he looks in a couple of innings.
Nuts.
At least Cuddyer is a legit major leaguer… But still…
nice meatball there burnett
Please trade Burnett for a box of peanuts and a bag of infield dirt in the offseason!
maybe the memory of this one will cost aj a start in the PS
GET HIM OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
get him out-NOW. This is no time to build confidence. That can wait until next Spring.
Burnett sealed the deal in a bid for a spot in the postseason. He can’t be trusted, plain and simple.
These are the Twins – not the Tigers or Rangers.
AJ is just plain nuts. He is done after 4. I’m not a fan of booing players, but AJ has earned that “honor”.
and the enigma continues..
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Seriously what was Girardi waiting for? There is no excuse for not having a pitcher ready to start this inning. The biggest negative for Girardi as a manager is he doesn’t have a good feel for the game and his starting pitchers. He always leaves AJ in too long.
AJ Bustnett everyone
Seriously Joe… If you even THINK of putting this mental case on the post season roster…
WHO was AJ The CLOWN chirping at when he left the mound?????
Hope it was Joe G…….that could be the final straw.
i really don’t think burnett can concentrate for more than 3-4 innings .
i think closing is in his future.
the aj believers will never change. afterall aj has”great stuff”.
he is the worst FA pitcher signing who did not get njured. He is that bad…..
and today’s start was dedicated to the person who was inferring AJ Burnett would be in the post-season starting rotation, this morning.
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He can’t even go 5 innings?? Lol
They are going to have to score more runs to win this game….They have certainly had their chances.
1. CC
2. Nova
3. Colon
4. Hughes
5. Garcia
6. Burnett
Wade is horrible too. How is he our “first guy” out? Remember when Noesi pitched four innings in April?
another quality start by this $#%&head. 9 hits, 1 BB, 2 dongs in 4 IPs. but girardi will say after the game that he pitched well – just some bad luck.
AJ has absolutely no command of his fastball. Even in his last couple of starts when he was pitching better it was all because of his curveball being so good. His fastball continues to get hammered because he doesn’t locate it. Almost every hit he gives up is on a poorly located fastball.
The Ghost of Lohud Past says:
September 19, 2011 at 1:38 pm
The Ghost says-
“This is why no one on any blog has a clue when it comes to pitching mechanics.
Whatever Burnett has done he is now dealing and looks about as good as he’s ever been with the Yankees-the fastball no longer has the tail that gets him in trouble, the breaking ball is light years better. And most of all, he is pitching with confidence and a swagger out there. If he continues to throw like this he’s in the postseason rotation, period.”
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I luv the know it all morons here.
AJ just didn’t get it done.
I liked his pitching much better against Seattle. The problem in this game is that he didn’t use the 12-6 curve that was nasty in his last few outings. He may have pitched well in the 1st 3 innings & got 8Ks, but he didn’t have the 12-6 curve, so I don’t think he pitched great. If he had that pitch today, then he would have had an easy game.
Hopefully he has that pitch against Boston. If he does, he could win that game.
I did like that he got out of the 4th inning. But he has to get that 12-6 back that he had in september. Not once did he use today, so that means he didn’t have it. I haven’t given up on him. He could be huge in the PS from the bullpen.
AJ doesn’t even deserve to be on the post-season roster much less start a game.
When AJ is 90-92 mph he will be out of baseball, he has NO fastball command.
aj is skedded to start the final day of the season which should insure his being left off the PS roster.
this is ugly…
Unreal
Girardi is OBSESSED with Cory Wade.
just lets you know how important it is to give kids like nova a shot. he was not a top prospect, but look at how well he’s done. a few growing pains here and there are to be expected.
a guy like nova is probably the most coveted trading piece in the game today, a successful young cost-controlled pitcher. he might be the ace of a lot of staffs out there
This is pathetic. This is a AA and AAA lineup and they are struggling against these guys. The Yanks should have 10 runs on the board but they wasted so many scoring chances.
AJ doesn’t even deserve to be on the post-season roster much less start a game.
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he better NOT be on the post-season roster.
even as a mop-up duty man, Noesi would serve better. AJ Burnett wouldn’t even be able to handle that, as he can’t provide innings.
Montero and A-Rod both had RISP with less than two outs and drove in no one.
Dinkleberry with a lucky hit. Nice that the Yankee pitching is falling apart against this Twinkies lineup.
A game that looked like it could have been a nice laugher is suddenly way too tight.
When will fans understand that a manager never throws his player under the bus. Joe must spin the positive, no matter what.
In Burnett’s case, it’s complicated, because clearly the guy is a headcase and he needs the coddling even more.
But Joe will never throw a guy under the bus in a post-game, nor to a reporter…
aj is skedded to start the final day of the season which should insure his being left off the PS roster
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that was according to kay…he is wrong.
aj should start sat….his last.
season ends the wed. after
Noesi could have had a better season in the rotation than AJ for 400K….. the guy is a disaster.
AJ is awful. Stop starting him
simply a very disappointing effort today by Burnett
I wonder why Noesi is in Girardi’s dog house? Ever since those games against the O’s where he gave up some runs Girardi never uses him now.
sheesh its crazy how things good from good to ugly in an instant with AJ. Good job by Wade keeping the lead
if the yanks had the 8 runs or more they should have they would have some breathing room…
noesi in the 6th, sori, robertson, and mo if they do not get some damn runs….
AJ has another great outing. And I don’t want to hear him say, my hook this, my heater that. This guy can’t even go 5 innings against a Twins minor league team. Leave him off the post season roster.
Post game, Girardi will make excuses for AJ. Please, spare me.
PeterBotte
Hypothetically, if Andy Pettitte shows up on morning of Game 2 of ALDS, having not pitched all season, and asks for the ball, who’s in?
New AJ: same as the crappy old AJ, but at least he gets taken out of the game before he totally blows it. So much for the “adjustments” they were all crowing about. He just got lucky for a few innings. A blind squirrel can get lucky too.
Yeah, it was a very disappointing outing. After he got through the 4th, I thought he’d settle in & get more Ks. Like I posted earlier, he didn’t have his 12-6 curve. The ones he threw earlier were nasty, but you can’t live off those. You gotta change it up. And I don’t think he used his changeup at all. Not sure why, it’s a good pitch for him.
Noesi has struggled a bit. But maybe we’ll see him in the game. Probably just wanted wade to get out of trouble & give Noesi a fresh inning.
boston’s back in it…6-5 o’s…
That last pitch to strike out Andruw was a ball.
NotHankStein
I’d give the team a bonus if they go Full Metal Jacket on AJ & beat him like Private Pyle. They’d have to provide their own soap and linens.
Man, the Yankees are swinging at a lot of garbage pitches.
Quite the turn of events for both Boston and NY today – would not be surprised to see comebacks from both Minny and Boston today.
Yanks will not score anymore runs today. Tex remains a black hole who can’t drive the ball to the gaps when DJ/Grandy get on base.
looks like jesus has lost some of the luster that some effused on him
yanks are losing interest in this game, they seem bored
We’re going to win this game. We had chances to score extra runs. Next inning we’ll start the hit parade
Calling the bad Daniel Bard, come in bad Daniel Bard…
This is a pivotal inning the 6th here. Bridge it to SoRoMo and Yanks have their top of the order to start things in the bottom half.
And once again the Yankee offense shuts down after 3 innings.
The offense has gone to sleep in this game. They scored 5 runs today so you can’t really get on them but they have fallen asleep during some games the last 2 weeks or so. They have to snap out of this already.
Niblick, I disagree that AJ was just lucky during those first innings. He was dealing. The home run is where he melted down totally. He was doing really well. It is the same old stuff we saw last year, where he would be dealing great, then melt down.
“I’d give the team a bonus if they go Full Metal Jacket on AJ & beat him like Private Pyle. They’d have to provide their own soap and linens.”
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code red, A Few Good Men ?
we need Wade to shut it down here and offense to score a lot to avoid the So-Ro-Mo
Huge by Martin. Just gigantic CS.
He looked safe, caught a break there
Nice job by Martin on getting that out. Sort of.
I miss Joba
Oh yay. Boone Logan in for the win.
well, so much for wondering who gets bumped from the rotation come playoffs… AJ to the pen or 5th (nonused) starter….
Let’s hope the offense hasn’t gone back to sleep.
DOOMED logan is in! be afraid – be very afraid.
Yogi – however you want to characterize it, there should be no room on the roster for a gut who suddenly melts down. If he never pitches another inning for this team, it will be too soon. How many chances does the guy get? Does he have Polaroids of Joe and Cashman or something?
What a complete joke. Burnett can’t even last 5 innings against this AAA lineup. No Mauer, Morneau or Kubel.
There is nothing to straighten out with this clown, wreck of a SP.
Playoff Roster = Bench for the Tattoo Man.
i hope Cashman’s #1 priority this winter will be a Left Hander who actually A) is good, and B) can actually pitch.
wow – Os blew a 2nd and 3rd no out situation.
Sox will win this one.
(After resigning CC and getting another quality starter that is).
Cheezus Louiseus I just got in. All I heard on the radio is that both teams (O’s and Yanks) had leads and now not so much.
Have the Sux game on, will switch back and forth. Chance to tick off two games today.
GO TEAMS!!!
O’s had a huge scoring opportunity. Damned Aceves – so far anyway.
any lefthander cashman will acquire in the offseason will get hurt (see marte, feliciano)…
Yanks had no need for Aceves. Cashman is a moron.
Okay – now the Orioles have to hold that line.
Yogi Mantle September 19th, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Niblick, I disagree that AJ was just lucky during those first innings. He was dealing. The home run is where he melted down totally. He was doing really well. It is the same old stuff we saw last year, where he would be dealing great, then melt down.
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He got out of the 4th so it’s not a complete meltdown. I actually liked seeing him struggle & pitch out of it (though the 5th sucked big time and was a meltdown).
I agree he was dealing in the beginning. BUT I don’t think he brought his best stuff, he just located better. What has made him good in september is his 12-6 curve & changeup, both of which he didn’t use at all today, probably because he didn’t have it (I guess).
lol @ the o’s, 2nd and 3rd nobody out and they can’t score. still 6-5 o’s bottom of the 8th…
GoldGlove9486 September 19th, 2011 at 3:26 pm
Yanks had no need for Aceves. Cashman is a moron.
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hindsight is always 20/20. the guy couldn’t tie his own shoelaces in the winter…
Please O’s, hold on
Rays players have to be losing their hair watching this game.
Cannot win a one run game in that ballpark, with the Os pen…
“Yanks had no need for Aceves. Cashman is a moron”
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now that one hurts. I can’t lie..
another scoreless inning by aceves. cashman is looking so smart now by saving that $400k and deploying it to feliciano.
Okay, one down in beantown – fat sloppy. (bottom of the 8th)
Wade and Logan did what their job description calls for.
Vinny-B, it hurts mainly because he’s a guy who could help out EVERYTIME Burnett goes four innings
“Please O’s, hold on”
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the Dan Band or Wilson Phillips version?
Hindsight is 20-20. Nobody knew whether Ace’s back was going to be okay, nor how he would have pitched with the Yanks if he was retained. Maybe he would have gotten hurt again, no way to know.
Situations are not necessarily the same.
Just sayin’
AJ is a nut case. Would anyone really want to trust him in the playoffs?
Vinny-B, it hurts mainly because he’s a guy who could help out EVERYTIME Burnett goes four innings
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I know. Was one of my 5 favorite NYY players. And now he’s thriving in a Boston uniform.
Looks like the Yankee offense was okay.
If anyone knows, was Burnett pitching on regular rest?
AJ wanted Mo to get a save opportunity. Yeah, that’s it.
trisha,
AJ was pushed up. But it shouldn’t make a difference.
No sense complaining about AJ anymore, he has pitched the same for the past 2 years. The fault rests with Yankee management on not doing what is in the best interest of the team.
I’d be interested in knowing for the last outings where AJ did a good job, how many days between each performance? How about the bad outings?
Girardi has been working with a 6-man rotation. CC has suffered because of it. Apparently Bartolo and Freddy too?
I can’t condemn any pitcher if part of the problem is being forced to pitch off schedule.
GRRR!!!
…yanks cannot win in post season with aj on roster…
Trisha:
first off, good to see you.
far as Aceves. The money was minimal (ie low risk). Unfortunately, for the past 1-2 decades the Yankees have been penny wise and pound foolish. It was a poor calculation and bad non-signing.
Lockdown, see my post at 3:34. Andy Pettitte was notorious for not being able to pitch effectively unless he was on regular rest. Same with Mussina.
Pitchers are creatures of habit. Look at how CC has struggled and all of those games have been on extended rest.
O’s pitched a great bottom of the 8th.
Three more outs and we’re a game closer to clinching!
it’s not about hindsight with aceves – it’s risk & reward. it’s $400k guaranteed money for huge upside if he’s not hurt. if he’s hurt it’s only $400k – a rounding error for the yankees. cashman didn’t see that – he couldn’t see the huge upside vs the low risk in giving him the guaranteed contract. it’s the same logic he used with jones & chavez in the off-season but for whatever reason he nickle and dime’d aceves – a proven bullpen guy who can spot start
The bottom line with AJ is, regular rest, short rest, extended rest, the inconsistency is always there. It’s maddening really because he looked so good for the first few innings. Then he just implodes.
ARod!
Nice hitting
rodriguez picking up the impotent teixeira
“Nobody knew whether Ace?s back was going to be okay, nor how he would have pitched with the Yanks if he was retained.”
Trisha,
Not true. NYY FO knew Ace’s back was OK before the end of last season. He hurt himself falling off a bike in the offseason (Non-pitching shoulder) and Cashman just though he had a better idea. Ace offered to come to ST on his own nicle to prove he was OK. Cashman declined.
ok…a little more breathing room…
CC is def a create of habit he needs 5 days to be on his game (Or less) but more throws him off. I think it has thrown off Garcia and Colon. Just the fact that the whole thing is so inconsistent it has messed up the staff. I wish Joe would have made a decision and not just kept the 6 man roster so as not to hurt anyones feeling.
In 10 days or so he’s going to have to go from 6 to 4. Also last September pretty much the exact thing happened with the 6man rotation so I just don’t understand why he did this again.
Aceves has been good for the Sox, but I’m not losing sleep over a 6-7th inning guy. The guy tried to come back 4 times last year only to end up back on the DL, then the clown breaks his collar bone riding a motorcycle when he has a bad back.
“This is why no one on any blog has a clue when it comes to pitching mechanics.
Whatever Burnett has done he is now dealing and looks about as good as he’s ever been with the Yankees-the fastball no longer has the tail that gets him in trouble, the breaking ball is light years better. And most of all, he is pitching with confidence and a swagger out there. If he continues to throw like this he’s in the postseason rotation, period.”
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You are kidding right ? ? You must have been drinking when you wrote this right ?
LMAO ! ! !
…if you think you can count on aj to do anything positive in post season…accident waiting to happen..
thought, not “though”
Sorry.
Hi vinny b!!!!! Great to see you too. I hadn’t been around for a while but love being back.
Watching the Sux game and sending all the bad vibes I can.
double headers and extra inning games don’t help the cause…
Swisher needs to make the Twinkies pay for walking Cano, yet he gives them the out they want.
It is frustrating watching these guys batting the past couple of weeks now.
I HATE Kevin Gregg and his 2 first names with a passion but I’ll be a temporary member of his fan club today if he closes out the Sox in the 9th.
“double headers and extra inning games don’t help the cause…”
You’re absolutely right. I forgot about those.
Maybe Gregg can be as effective here against the Sux as he is us.
trisha – true pinstriped blue September 19th, 2011 at 3:34 pm
I’d be interested in knowing for the last outings where AJ did a good job, how many days between each performance? How about the bad outings?
Girardi has been working with a 6-man rotation. CC has suffered because of it. Apparently Bartolo and Freddy too?
I can’t condemn any pitcher if part of the problem is being forced to pitch off schedule.
GRRR!!!
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I doubt being moved up affected AJ. IMO the issue today was not utilizing all his pitches. He used, fb, sinker & power curve. No changeups or 12-6 curve (which is his nastiest pitch).
If he uses all his pitches, then losing some command here or there wouldn’t have been a problem. It was his worst outing of the month. If he uses/has all his pitches come saturday, I could see him beating the redsox.
Though you may have a point. Maybe he didn’t have those pitches because his rest was changed. He has been pitching well this month. But I just think he didn’t have those pitches today & that was the difference
Just switched.
GO SORI!!!!!
backbench, posters were saying that he had back issues (injury related) and for that reason he could never be a starter.
o’s have 1st and 2nd, 1 out in the top of the 9th…
trisha – true pinstriped blue September 19th, 2011 at 3:41 pm
“Watching the Sux game and sending all the bad vibes I can.”
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niice.
O’s threatening. 1st and 2nd, one out.
3rd ining for Ace.
Trisha,
On this situation, you have the truth stated above. No speculation on this.
And what is heard in the background by the retread Sux fans? “Yankees suck.”
Tell me we’re not in their heads!!!!
Aceves has also lost alot of weight with the Sox which I’m sure is helping the back issues – a commitment he didn’t make while on the Yanks
backbench, I am going to go back and read posts later and see what posters have had to say. Now I am trying to focus on bad vibrations to fenway field.
Alex channeling Cervelli with the fist pump?
Trisha,
And we are rooting for whatever powers you have to work!
come’on VLAD !!!!
Ace does look a lot thinner.
Tell you what, it’s looking like we might pick up two more games. Fingers crossed.
Hopefully Sori has a dominant last 2 weeks and he feels confident to opt out.
It is just amazing how Aceves pitches what seems to be everyday…Funny he how and Berkman decided to get into shape AFTER they both left NY!
And Vlady K’s…. LETS GO GREGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aceves is wearing a brown scaular. Not common
vlad Ks
Francona is gonna ride Aceves to the ground down the stretch.
Geeze, Ace did it.
Okay now all the O’s have to do is close this baby out. I think the “heart” of their lineup was up last inning.
typo: brown scapular
Don’t usually do game threads, but missed most of the game, and just heard AJ’s results. Can’t wait to hear the man’s excuses this time. I hope he’s nowhere near a playoff rotation.
Granted, that may just be my initial aggravation talking, but, how do you not get results against this depleted lineup? How do you not get to the 7th inning???
Oy.
“Francona is gonna ride Aceves to the ground down the stretch.”
Not a question. At this point he’s about the only one they can count on.
Jim Johnson… even better
Aceves’ arm is going to fall off. He’s the only guy they trust besides Pap.
Maybe we should not root for Baltimore and hope we actually get to face the Red Sox in the ALCS?
I guess Kevin Greg lost the closing job
ONE OUT!!!
Jay Johnson, not Gregg
Go O’s….Buck is certainly enjoying playing the spoiler, isn’t he?
1 out… 2 to go
TWO DOWN!!!
god i hope we score some more runs…. MO needs to break this record with a packed house there. Tomorrow night vs the rays, sell out, final out against damon. Sounds perfect.
1 more baby
3 PITCHES 2 OUTS in fenway
2 quick out… all comes down to MVP EllsBERRY
OMG he’s dealing
yes. the dead sox are on life support
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HARDEE HA HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR!!!!!!
YANKS MAGIC NUMBER = 5!!!!!
Sox lose!!!
Sux lost
RAYS JUST PICKED UP A GAME!!!!!
O’s win!
I guess Montero isn’t allowed to face another righty. So much for giving the kid a fair shot…Girardi is a joke.
SUX LOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
LOL @ BEANTOWN
Suckers are 4-14 in September. Ouch.
ladies and gentlemen…your boston met sox!!!
BoSux….poor poor BoSux !
Baaahhhhston LOSES!!!
And Posada pinch hits so he can’t catch #602. Perfect excuse, Joe, classy too.
trish – half a game…if boston loses tonight, then it’s a full game
“RAYS JUST PICKED UP A GAME!!!!!”
Be careful what you wish for…….
Well that worked binder Joe….
Hi Trisha!
If a smile could light up the sky, there would be no clouds anywhere in the world!!!!!
Meanwhile, I think I said before the season started that not only would the Sux be nowhere near what the “experts” predicted, I also said they’d come in 3rd at best!!!!
Might be happening kids!!
Panic on the streets of Beantown
You know your bullpen sucks when you have to ride one pitcher for 3 innings and 52 pitches. And still lose.
Binder Joe King of the Jarheads STRIKES AGAIN !
Yanks have to win this one. Rays are going to be very, very tough.
why do yall want the red sox out of the playoffs? Let me understand this, yall want a team that has fallen apart to be knocked out of the playoffs but you want a team that is the hottest in baseball with a good lineup and a great starting rotation to make the playoffs? I know were suppose to hate the sox… but thats just being silly. I want no part of tampa.
“trish – half a game…if boston loses tonight, then it’s a full game”
Ah.
Holy crapski just the same!!!!!
It’s a Red Sox thingy! They tend to choke & lose in August & September!
Matusz going tonight for the O’s though, he might be even worse than Slackey.
The Orioles are playing with some moxie right now. 8-3 in their last 11, all against playoff contending teams.
I’m not worried about the Rays.
too bad we have to play Tampa 7 times. We need to take at least 5 of those games. So I don’t see how Tampa will overtake Boston. Of course if we like do really well this week…we could just clinch the division and then next week not have to worry about it next week and Joe rests everyone
“Matusz going tonight for the O’s though, he might be even worse than Slackey.”
With the O’s magic going right now, I’ll bet we see the Matusz that everyone feared.
Is it wrong for me to want the Yankees to go 3-4 against the Rays and then sweep the Sox out the post season.
Tabbert September 19th, 2011 at 4:00 pm
why do yall want the red sox out of the playoffs? Let me understand this, yall want a team that has fallen apart to be knocked out of the playoffs but you want a team that is the hottest in baseball with a good lineup and a great starting rotation to make the playoffs? I know were suppose to hate the sox… but thats just being silly. I want no part of tampa.
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If Boston completes this free fall, it would be the biggest September collapse of all time.
It would be a magnificent sight.
Tabbert September 19th, 2011 at 4:00 pm
why do yall want the red sox out of the playoffs? Let me understand this, yall want a team that has fallen apart to be knocked out of the playoffs but you want a team that is the hottest in baseball with a good lineup and a great starting rotation to make the playoffs? I know were suppose to hate the sox… but thats just being silly. I want no part of tampa.
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Its much different playing the RedSox then the rest. I’m not saying the Rays ain’t tough they are, but its different playing the Sox. I would rather play the Rays in the playoffs then the RedSox. If we got to choose.
Tabbert September 19th, 2011 at 4:00 pm
why do yall want the red sox out of the playoffs? Let me understand this, yall want a team that has fallen apart to be knocked out of the playoffs but you want a team that is the hottest in baseball with a good lineup and a great starting rotation to make the playoffs? I know were suppose to hate the sox… but thats just being silly. I want no part of tampa.
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post season is a clean slate. yanks could get bounced in round 1 or in the world series. doesn’t matter who the opponent is. BUT boston not making it just makes it fun for everybody…
trisha-
With all due respect, you need to start worrying about the rays. This is no fluke stretch for them. Their rotation is superior to ours and the sox. They have a very young and talented team that is just going to get better and better. This team lost their top 6 highest paid players and still could win the wild card and possibly the AL east but your ” not worried” about them? I’m sorry… but you need to realize they are a serious contender and not some fluke hot team putting pressure on the sox.
derek jeter is 3-4.
folks, it cannot be overstated how important that is for this team going into the playoffs. derke jeter being derek jeter is a great for this team
I love Buck Showalter……………………………today and only today though.
why do yall want the red sox out of the playoffs? Let me understand this, yall want a team that has fallen apart to be knocked out of the playoffs but you want a team that is the hottest in baseball with a good lineup and a great starting rotation to make the playoffs? I know were suppose to hate the sox… but thats just being silly. I want no part of tampa.
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Yall? Yall? Y’all? I guess you aren’t from the Bronx.
In the Bronx we used to use the term, “Youz guys”
“Is it wrong for me to want the Yankees to go 3-4 against the Rays and then sweep the Sox out the post season.”
Hell no!
Tabbert, with all due respect I’ll let you do the worrying. I’m pretty good wiith seeing the big picture. I’m not worried about the Rays. The Yankees will kill the Rays.
# Tabbert September 19th, 2011 at 4:00 pm
why do yall want the red sox out of the playoffs? Let me understand this, yall want a team that has fallen apart to be knocked out of the playoffs but you want a team that is the hottest in baseball with a good lineup and a great starting rotation to make the playoffs? I know were suppose to hate the sox… but thats just being silly. I want no part of tampa.
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Watching the Sux choke themselves out of being in the playoffs when all we heard was this greatest team ever BS would be immensely enjoyable. Easily enjoyable enough to face a potentially more difficult path to the WS.
Based on pitching alone I would rather face the Sux down the road than the Rays. Just say’in cuz The Sux pitching is in shambles now.
It almost hurt to type that !
Seems like we’re all (mostly all) on the same page and we’re all (or mostly all) dealing with the same vibe.
It will be heaven on earth for the Sux to get knocked out of wild card contention. Here’s hoping.
Who’s to say the rays will make it past detroit
pkyankfan69 September 19th, 2011 at 4:05 pm
Watching the Sux choke themselves out of being in the playoffs when all we heard was this greatest team ever BS would be immensely enjoyable. Easily enjoyable enough to face a potentially more difficult path to the WS.
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A silent Fenway Park in October is the best version of Fenway Park.
Poor Boston has to play the O’s again tonight at 7 PM. Could be a bad day in old beantown!
So sad to see that AJ couldn’t hold it together and have a quality start.
Nice to see Boston lose again, especially given all the pre-season hype. But I am more worried about the Yankees starting pitching than I am about whether Boston makes the playoffs. They need some decent starts!
I hate the sox, but i respect them and the game of baseball too much to just root for a team to fail. Its silly. I want my team to go toe to toe with them in the playoffs and be able to say they were the team to eliminate the sox. What are we going to do if the sox collapse? make fun of them? okay… well if we don’t win the world series then they will just be laughing at our failure. Rooting for a team to lose, over rooting for your team to win is a absolute joke and a mockery to the sport. You Should want nothing more then to face your biggest rival in the ALCS and end their season yourself. But, it sounds to me everyone in here is actually too scared of the sox to want to face them.. so instead you root for them to fail. That just sad.
If we face the Rays, assuming they make the playoffs, that means we made it back to the ALCS.
Don’t look past Texas.
Because, as much as we hate them, the Sox are simply a much bigger threat in a short series.
Weiland, Lackey, Wakefield, Miller, etc. and the other clowns who are most responsible for the Sox collapse won’t be pitching meaningful games at all.
It will be Beckett/Lester. Our pitching is a mess too… would you rather our pitchers face the Boston offense or the Tampa one?
Besides, whichever team has to get past the Tigers anyway to even talk about the ALCS.
Let’s go Robertson!!!
Tabbert September 19th, 2011 at 4:07 pm
I hate the sox, but i respect them and the game of baseball too much to just root for a team to fail. Its silly. I want my team to go toe to toe with them in the playoffs and be able to say they were the team to eliminate the sox. What are we going to do if the sox collapse? make fun of them? okay… well if we don’t win the world series then they will just be laughing at our failure. Rooting for a team to lose, over rooting for your team to win is a absolute joke and a mockery to the sport. You Should want nothing more then to face your biggest rival in the ALCS and end their season yourself. But, it sounds to me everyone in here is actually too scared of the sox to want to face them.. so instead you root for them to fail. That just sad.
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This is hilarious. If they can’t beat the Orioles in these must-win games, they don’t even deserve to smell the Yankees’ cleats, much less have the Yankees be scared of them.
Worry about the ALCS when we get there.
We have to get through the ALDS first.
Meanwhile, I would take joy in seeing every single ESPN writer proven wrong by the Sox missing the postseason second year in a row. One of those simple joys.
Tabbert – we have to beat who we have to beat in october. This boston team isn’t getting by detroit anyway so the alcs matchup is irrlevent. Watching them pull off one of the biggest choke jobs in baseball history is fantastic and of course most yankee fans are going to root for it to happen. Don’t forget, this is the same team that espn.com had 47/47 columnists say they were winning the division.
Vineyard – Sux will be blown over by whomever they face if they make the wild card, no question. But I think the Yanks can take any of them so my vote is to see the Sux blown to oblivion and listen to all the “experts” who picked them to take it all.
What IDIOTS. You can’t have thought beyond your nose if you didn’t take into account that Beckett, Bucholz, and Dice-K all were all question marks in 2010. How do you crown someone king with that kind of uncertainty. It was plain stupid. Heck even I figured that one out!
Nice play by Arod…That ball was hit very hard….
Alex is absolutely positively flashing leather today. At least 3 web gems over there. I love that. Hopefully the thumb holds up.
I don’t care who the Yankees face in the playoffs. I just want to see the Sox go down in flames.
wouldn’t Tampa face Detroit if the NYYs win the division? Don’t mind that at all.
rooting against a team to not make the playoffs because your scared of them or worrying about who we play in the first round just shows a lack of confidence in your own teams ability to beat the other teams in the playoffs. If were the best team, we have to face and beat the very best.
Days like today show Alex doesn’t want to be or need to be a DH anytime soon
The stretching has started….
munson15 September 19th, 2011 at 4:11 pm
I don’t care who the Yankees face in the playoffs. I just want to see the Sox go down in flames.
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I believe that’s the general sentiment here.
Tabbert September 19th, 2011 at 4:11 pm
rooting against a team to not make the playoffs because your scared of them or worrying about who we play in the first round just shows a lack of confidence in your own teams ability to beat the other teams in the playoffs. If were the best team, we have to face and beat the very best.
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Even the Orioles aren’t scared of this Red Sox team. Why should any playoff contender be?
a well rested alex, which is what he is at this point, is a scary thing for the rest of the teams
if the playoff started today, who would we play? texas, right?
Come on Yanks… We need at least 2 runs bottom 8!!!…
I will be so mad if Mo gets 602 and I’m stuck at work.
vblade-
The orioles have not been scared of any AL contender lately. Took series from tampa, LA, took 2 of 4 from the yankees.
I think at this point the Rays might be a more dangerous opponent than the Red Sox, but I have to admit that the Team of the Century being knocked completely out of the playoffs would be pretty sweet.
I’d prefer a few runs right now and Mo getting the save during a night game when the Enter Sandman has extra aura about it.
Tabbert – I’m rooting against boston for many reasons, none of which have to do with playing them in the playoffs. Even if they make the playoffs, its a quick exit, no alcs for them. I root against them because: 1) I hate them, 2) I hate their fans, 3) I hate their ownership, 4) I don’t like their faces and want to slap them around, 5) I hate espn
Tabbert, just to be clear so that you know where I’m coming from. There is nothing I want more than for the Sux to fail every time they come out on the field. I would cheer for Satan’s team before I’d cheer for the Sux.
And here’s a hint for ya. If you want to face your biggest rival (and not just a rival on paper) you’re not rooting for the Sux to win. So see you can’t have it both ways.
And not for nothing, but you are totally out of touch if you think ANYONE here is afraid of a team that has gone 4-13 and has no pitching.
I think you’re afraid of the Rays, if you want to know the truth. This has nothing to do with rooting for the Sux to fail.
Terrible inning from DRob. He got 3 outs with no strikeouts and not many swings and misses.
magic # is still 5 until the yanks win. the division # is only 1 different then playoff #…
ARod looks like Brooks Robinson at 3B today.
showalter called it first. he said it back at the end of august or beginning of september that the rays will make the playoffs in 2011. at the time we all wanted to smoke whatever he’s been smoking. maybe this guy ain’t so crazy after all. nothing would please me more than to see the best team ever choke their way to a historic collapse.
Tabbert…Are you really a Yankee fan? C’mon man , you gotta love watching the Sox implode.
Posada won’t catch 602 – he’s at DH and moving him would force the pitcher to bat, etc etc etc.
It’s a risk and Joe G haatttteessss risks.
Alex has had an awesome.day defensively…..
Go Mo!
We have not been playing that great of baseball just in case you have not been watching. So, none of the other playoff teams have any reason to fear us either. The rangers beat us last year and know they can do it again. The rays fear no one, and the tigers are one of the hottest teams in baseball and also fear no one. Yanks are playing the worse baseball out of the Rangers, tigers, rays. So, lets not get all high and mighty when talking trash on the red sox.
How many were with me and picked OVER 42 saves this year for M0? Tell the truth.
Most of us Yankee fans are fans of 2 teams. The Yanks and anyone who plays the Sox. So
rooting for them to collapse is the natural thing to do. Its in our blood. GO O’S!!
“If were the best team, we have to face and beat the very best.”
Someone is definitely sleep deprived or has paid no attention to the game of baseball this season.
It’s embarrassing for you to even be saying this stuff with what everyone else knows about the Sux and their game!
Trisha..thanks for saying it better then I could.
Arod is a team player. He didn’t want to hit a homerun there so it wouldn’t be a save situation.
I missed it. Did Teix get a hit away from the shift?
“Most of us Yankee fans are fans of 2 teams. The Yanks and anyone who plays the Sox. So
rooting for them to collapse is the natural thing to do. Its in our blood. GO O’S!!”
Yep.
Watching the Sox crash and burn is only second in sweetness to watching the Yankees win.
Munson15 –
Life is very very good for Yankee fans right now!
there is still only a 1 in 8 chance the red sox won’t be in the playoffs.
their season likely will continue and until they are totally officially eliminated.
they’re like vampires. you have to get that stake through their hearts.
Come on Swish 3 run bomb!!!!
The Rays are pitching well now, that’s the main reason they are making a run.
Shields, Price, Hellickson, Neimann, Davis with Peralta, Farnsworth and Howell. Tough in a short series with Price probably pitching the worst of the other SP’s right now.
MO time!
trisha- I never claimed the red sox were the best so you took my words out of context to try and prove your point. I stated that we should not worry about who we have to face the first round… that we simply have to win. To be the best we have to beat the best the AL has to offer in the playoffs. I also stated that i would love nothing more then to be the team that ended the sox season in the ALCS. Two different statements and two different points i was stating. Thanks for taking your time to actually read what i wrote before you decided to jump the gun on something i actually never claimed.
Let me tell you a story about the greatest collapse of the best players in the history of baseball in old beantown! ….
Damn… well I hope everyone in attendance and watching enjoys 602.
Too bad Yes had to go to a commercial. It would of been cool to see the fans reaction to Mo coming in from the bullpen.
vblade September 19th, 2011 at 4:18 pm
Yes !
hellickson is the guy that has impressed me the most for the rays. Dude is a flat out stud.
Oh yeah, it’s 6 right now. Thanks stuart.
Come on #42
Let’s go Mo!!!
Tabbert – you’re out there by yourself. Root for the Sux. Don’t tell me how to root or what I should want. They suck.
Onward and upward
MO!!!!!
2 more. Let’s go Mo!!!
A red sox fan rooting for MO to blow this save is being foolish. Any fan of the game should respect the game and want to see history first and foremost. : )
mr. rivera going for history.
this is pure magic, this is why other fans will never understand why being a yankee fan is a little slice of heaven on earth
Lay down Twins and accept your place in history.
Got to go to Mo. One more.
1 MO out!
1 more!!!!!!
“Any fan of the game should respect the game and want to see history first and foremost. : )”
Seriously? Well history is watching the total collapse of the team that everyoe said would win the world series. So you should be rooting for the collapse of the Sux.
Smooth as glass, effortless as wind blowing over cut grass.
Congrats to Mo!!!!
Alone at the top #602 MO….
Nice telling other people how they should feel….
Mariano Rivera-
The Best There is, the Best there ever was, the best there EVER WILL BE!
Best. Reliever. Ever.
No Doubt.
Should be the first 100% inductee into Cooperstown.
OH MY GOD.
I thank God I am a Yankee fan.
CONGRATULATIONS MARIANO RIVERA!!!!!
Mo is so laid back. Good for him, offically the best closer of all time. Even though we already knew that he was
Simply the best ever.
Tabbert = CLUELESS
Going to be a great moment tomorrow when they honor MO. Im sure tampa will give him a standing ovation and johnny damon might run over and give mo a big hug. Going to be a nice moment tomorrow night.
I have tears runing down my face. I am blown away by this moment.
I have no words. But my eyes are filled with tears
I’m crying
what a year to be a yankee fan…. 3000 hits and the all-time saves leader!
Oh my goodness gracious!! This time Mo kicks the door open for a unanimous ticket to cooperstown.
munson-
Yes, im clueless because i would rather a limping team make it to the playoffs over a very hot team in the rays. Damn…. what was i thinking?
I was just about to say the first thing Mo will do is thank God.
What a total class act and beautiful and selfless human being.
So happy I taped this game.
Thank you Mo!!!!!
Congrats Mo!! We will never see anyone like him again.
ESPNJoeyMac Joe McDonald
Ortiz: “F_this S_. that’s it.”
Now no one can say Trevor Hoffman is better because of a stupid stat. Mo has all the stats, all of them.
Mariano Rivera = Heart of a Lion.
AJ Burnett = Brain of a Chipmunk.
Still, let’s look on the bright side…we wouldn’t have seen history today but for AJ pitching!!!
We won today.
Hero in the truest sense of the word.
So unbelievably glad I remembered to set my DVR before I left this AM
Congrats Mo
Joba_62 WOW!! He stands alone at #602 and still counting! Amazing! So proud to be a yankee and a teammate of his!
Ledger_Yankees Mo fighting off tears as A-Rod and Posada tell Mo to get out onto the mound. #nyy
Please God, let Mo sign another extension.
LGY September 19th, 2011 at 4:34 pm
ESPNJoeyMac Joe McDonald
Ortiz: “F_this S_. that’s it.”
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Dante19jr Jeters 3000th is a homerun. Riveras 602nd is a strikeout. Yankees just do it big! Congrats MO!
YankeesWFAN Twins stayed in the dugout and clapped for Rivera. Classy.
Congratulations to the One and Only Mariano Rivera!
LGY-I just saw that Ortiz quote come in. Too funny.
Yanks magic number is 5.
No. Yanks magic number is 42.
>Tabbert September 19th, 2011 at 4:34 pm
>Yes, im clueless because i would rather a limping team make it to the playoffs over a very >hot team in the rays. Damn…. what was i thinking?
I thought you just said you wanted to face the best team not a limping one? If Tampa is hot and makes it than they’re the best team. Make up your mind.
I love that it was a K. But it would have also been cool if on that broken bat, MO runs to first and gets the out from Teix
Arod is a team player. He didn’t want to hit a homerun there so it wouldn’t be a save situation.
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Aj was a team player. He didnt wanted to make sure Mo got this out of the way so avoided a blowout victory. He will go down in the history books as the pitcher who gave mo the oportunity to nail it down.
So the positives he’ll be remembered for is
Winning a game in the world series.
Helping get the ball to mo in the record breaking save.
Now Aj can ride off to the sunset.
wow that was quick. you too can own a piece of Mo’s all time save history for a low low $199. these guys will sell their mother if there’s buck in it. thank you steiner sports
Congrats Mo. Best ever.
“Yes, im clueless because i would rather a limping team make it to the playoffs over a very hot team in the rays. Damn…. what was i thinking?”
You just spent an hour telling us you thought we were afraid of the Sux!!!
and that’s the maaaaagic nuuuuuumber…
I’m so disgusted that Binder Joe was so petty that Posada took his job 15 years ago, that he refused to allow Posada to catch MO’s historic save.
SoS September 19th, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Arod is a team player. He didn’t want to hit a homerun there so it wouldn’t be a save situation.
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Aj was a team player. He didnt wanted to make sure Mo got this out of the way so avoided a blowout victory. He will go down in the history books as the pitcher who gave mo the oportunity to nail it down.
So the positives he’ll be remembered for is
Winning a game in the world series.
Helping get the ball to mo in the record breaking save.
Now Aj can ride off to the sunset.
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He also pitched for MO’s #600. So you can also add that to the list.
One could also argue that his rubber game against the sox was the beginning of the sox demise.
that was yankee history
never another mo.
YankeesWFAN Twins stayed in the dugout and clapped for Rivera. Classy.
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Erin: very classy. As they’ve been on the losing end of more than a few of them (ie Rivera’s saves)
Agreed. The twins showed class
ESPNJoeyMac Joe McDonald
Ortiz: “F_this S_. that’s it.”
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‘Big Sloppy’ is on his way to White Castle for an extra big sack of burgers and a couple of milkshakes before the second game. That way his mouth will be all fueled up for more crap after they lose game 2.
it was right to have the first string catcher catch rivera’s record breaker because mo has always been about winning and not about personal stats.
this game mattered.
so you go with your best catcher.
vinny-agreed. I thought that was very cool.
Congrats Mo!!! This is great….
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YankeeSource
I was pretty sure that the sky would open up and a large unidentified object would land in CF to take Mariano home after 602.
I’m so disgusted that Binder Joe was so petty that Posada took his job 15 years ago, that he refused to allow Posada to catch MO’s historic save.
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This milestone is about Mo, not Posada or Girardi.
No reason to tarnish the day with this petty and speculative nonsense.
So bummed I missed Mo….stupid work…….great win…..panic time in Boston.
Rivera best ever…..nobody close.
how bad is this teams starting staff……wait till they face teams that can hit
that he refused to allow Posada to catch MO’s historic save.
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With only a 2 run lead you want a 40 year old who has only caught 6 innings this year behind the plate. Yeah that makes sense…..
I was hoping they’d let Posada catch him.but I.certainly understand the reasoning for him not. As others have said…..this.was about Rivera….and it was about the Yankees winning also.
Simple call for Granderson for AL’s MVP: The Yankees have struggled this month, as he’s been struggling. Their past couple of wins have come along with his past couple of HRs.
Captain Clutch September 19th, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Congrats Mo!!! This is great?.
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YankeeSource
I was pretty sure that the sky would open up and a large unidentified object would land in CF to take Mariano home after 602.
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Love that!
Somebody who.saw it tell me what the heck happened with AJ……I saw threw 3 innings and he was cruising……looked awesome and when I came back he was out and it was 6-5
YankeeSource
I was pretty sure that the sky would open up and a large unidentified object would land in CF to take Mariano home after 602.
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Just watched Cowboys and Aliens. Its impossible. They no longer exist. Unless there are more that I dont know of.
“I hate the sox, but i respect them and the game of baseball too much to just root for a team to fail. Its silly.”
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you’re weird
I am sure AJ is thrilled about 602. Otherwise all the talk would be how awful he is and instead we forget about him for one day and it’s all about Mo.
Somebody who.saw it tell me what the heck happened with AJ……
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Aj being Aj. Oh and helping Mo get his record breaking save.
Thank You Mariano for all the Great Memories.
Somebody who.saw it tell me what the heck happened with AJ
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Fastball location…You know the usual with him…
The classiest and most humble man in all of baseball – bar none.
Nothing is about him. It’s winning, his God, family, teammates, and fans.
A modern day Al Kaline.
mo’s 602 took the focus off of burnett’s usual garbage performance and clueless joe didn’t have to make excuses for him in the post game
Looks like AJ has punched himself out of a playoff rotation spot. Throw him in the bullpen and see how he plays, or keep him off the roster all together. The man is not to be trusted with a start.
I’m looking to Hughes to step up, and win his spot over Garcia and AJ.
Did AJ lose command ….start walking guys? Unreal……that’s what I get for having a glimmer of hope about him.
alexspeier Alex Speier
Ortiz to @jtomase and @ESPNJoeyMac: ‘Aceves should be starting. … It’s as simple as that.’
Which record will be harder to break? All time homeruns record or Mos saves record?
“too bad we have to play Tampa 7 times. We need to take at least 5 of those games”
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lol. Why does NYY have to win “5 of those games” ???
the magic number is already at 5. Do you happen to think the Red Sox are going to win out every game the rest of the season or something?
blake,
AJ was lights out for 3, allowed a homer in the fourth, had the bases loaded, but got a K to end the inning with only 1 run. The collapsed completely in the 5th.
Hughes has his shot…..hopefully he takes advantage
Ortiz is right….Aceves should be starting.
Tom,
So unfortunate……he just can’t get out of his own way…..1 step forward …2 back all the time.
Kay just gave Mariano a backhand, and then tried to twist it into a compliment. Kay needs to be taken off the air
IanBegley With a smile, Posada says he was a little jealous of Russell Martin, who caught Rivera’s save. But ‘today is all about Mo’. #Yankees #nyy
I say give the Rays the final 3 games of the season by pitching AJ in all 3 games and have big bats like Pena in the lineup while resting our starters. By then we would have already clinched the division and seeding. Beantown would absolutely love that.
6 game lead in LC….sitting pretty.
blake September 19th, 2011 at 4:55 pm
Did AJ lose command ….start walking guys? Unreal……that’s what I get for having a glimmer of hope about him.
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He lost some fb command. Wasn’t really walking people or anything like that.
I posted this above, the main problem is that he didn’t use all his pitches. His power curve was great, but you can’t live off it. He didn’t use the 12-6 curve he’s been using in september and no changeups. So if the fb is off, they can sit on it when you’re not using all your pitches.
I think he got predictable in the 5th. I don’t get why he didn’t use the 2 pitches that were so successful as of late. weird.
“I say give the Rays the final 3 games of the season by pitching AJ in all 3 games and have big bats like Pena in the lineup while resting our starters. By then we would have already clinched the division and seeding. Beantown would absolutely love that.”
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yup. Posted this morning, that the Yankees should roll over when they play the Rays. And will stand by that.
vinny,
Forgot to add that the reason i say that is that Im affraid of the sox and have nightmares every night about us facing the best team ever assembled in the playoffs. Hope I can sleep with the lights off next week.
Ortiz is right but he is basically publicly blasting Francona.
First of all let me just say Congratulations to Mariano Rivera now officially the GOAT. What a privledge it is to see you wearing Pinstripes.
You are the epitomy of greatness. There is only one like you.
As some of you may know I have been preparing a photo tribute for just this occasion. I feel lucky to have the chance to honor Mo in my small way.
Because my good friend JCPD is participating and will not be available till the Morning (he works) we will present our Mo 602 joint tribute in the AM.
Look for it if you are interested.
Thanks. And Thank you Mariano.
why haven’t they started Aceves?
LGY September 19th, 2011 at 5:05 pm
Ortiz is right but he is basically publicly blasting Francona.
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Sox feeling the pressure. It’s about to reach a boiling point.
He’s also blasting is teammates like Wieland and Wakefield.
vinny,
Forgot to add that the reason i say that is that Im affraid of the sox and have nightmares every night about us facing the best team ever assembled in the playoffs. Hope I can sleep with the lights off next week.
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lol, SoS.
too many pre-2011 press-clippings will do that to you. : )
Hello to my cyber-friends here –
Just got home in time to see the called strike three. A great thing to behold.
We will never see anything like this – or him – ever again.
The Greatest of All Time.
bruceb September 19th, 2011 at 4:35 pm
Mariano Rivera = Heart of a Lion.
AJ Burnett = Brain of a Chipmunk.
Still, let’s look on the bright side…we wouldn’t have seen history today but for AJ pitching!!!
LOL! — stop insulting Chipmunks!
MTU,
Can’t wait to see the tribute you and JCPD have prepared.
As for Mo, I was lucky enough to sneak away from my desk at work to watch the last two outs. What a privilege it has been to watch Mariano pitch all these years. We will never see another like him. So glad he is a Yankee!
MTU,
Funny thing happened the other day after our discussion about fuse. I said i never wanted to hear it again. So the kids come home from school and I went into the pantry to find the little one a drink. I asked him “hey how come you never drink this foosie stuff?” He said what? You mean that FUSE drink? Hes 7 and made me look illiterate. My mind has already blocked out that word from being pronounced properly again.
LGY,
I think its funny……panic……panic…..
Kevin Millar offering very high sincere praise to Mariano Rivera. Not to get all sensitive, but pretty touching.
Ortiz was quoted as saying, if he were starting any new ML Franchise he would select Mariano Rivera #1 overall
ortiz better be quiet. the sox really don’t need him and he owes that organization a lot for not giving him a hard time about being on the steroid list.
blasting your manager is not the way to deal with a losing streak.
that being said, it’s pretty awesome to watch
Mariano Rivera is almost too good to be real. They just asked him if he thought anyone else would ever break his record. He said he didn’t know but that records are made to be broken, so he just hoped that if anyone did, they would respect the game the way he did.
Does anyone know any other player with Mo’s excellence (in other words, a baseball player from the past with phenomenal achievement) that was also considered to be such an amazingly humble and good human being? There might be many, I just don’t know who they are.
LGY – I don’t know how anyone can blast a kid like Weiland. The kid was just thrown into their collapse, and is clearly over his head. Not his fault, he’s just giving it his all. He shouldn’t have been put into this situation for Boston.
The fault lies elsewhere, in the organization.
blake
Definitely.
Boston shouldn’t worry…..they have John Lackey on the mound tonight…..his scowl with make it all right.
Wish I could have seen Ortiz’ making these statements. Hopefully they’ll replay it
blake –
Going out to run a few errands so I can be back to watch tonight’s fun!!!
If Darnell McDonald could catch a fly ball the Sox probably win but Ortiz would never blast his little buddy.
Were the comments you’ve talked about (Millar, Fatso) on television? If so, whee?
too many pre-2011 press-clippings will do that to you.
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vinny,
And Tabbert repeatedly telling us all that we root against the sox because we’re affraid of them.
Good day my friends!
that should be if so, where?
Mo is a once in a lifetime player and person.
you will never ever see anyone like him. he has been so good for so long it is unfathomable.
he is the GOAT. along with jordan, gretzky, and not many others.
Big Sloppy should keep his trap shut and start hitting a bit better….I agree with him that Ace should be starting but he just threw his manager and his pitching teammates under the bus. Of course the media will say he “tells it like it is” or something like that.
There are probably two more records now held by Mo: Most hitters made to look foolish and futile; and Most caused broken bats.
JM/SoS-
Thanks. Looking forward to having the pleasure of honoring Mo in the best way I can. I’m sure JCPD feels the same way.
If Girardi caught Mo’s first save maybe he should have activated himself to catch 602.
Trisha,
Tough question ……hank aaron?
congrats Mo!
Mo could push for 700…..you never know.
FakePeteGammons Fake Peter Gammons
If Ortiz throws Terry under the bus again, he’ll get the Manny treatment out the door. Boston way-Once we’re done w/you, we’re done w/you.
blake,
If he wanted to, Mo could do it,
I love MO
Kay, on the post game show, was saying that Mariano recently said he might want to pitch until age 50……I wouldn’t put it past him.
FakePeteGammons 5 mins If Ortiz throws Terry under the bus again, he’ll get the Manny treatment out the door. Boston way-Once we’re done w/ you, we’re done w/you.
FakePeteGammons 42 mins A top personnel official just told me that Papelbum will pass Rivera’s save record by next week. This is Peter Gammons.
FakePeteGammons 1 hour There needs to be a full investigation by MLB into PED’s by all these teams beating up #redsox. Something smells fishy & it’s not my breath.
FakePeteGammons 4 hours I’d kill a man to have AJ Burnett pitching for Boston today. #waitdidIjustclicktweet
# The Ghost of Lohud Past : “The Ghost says- This is why no one on any blog has a clue when it comes to pitching mechanics. Whatever Burnett has done he is now dealing and looks about as good as he’s ever been with the Yankees-the fastball no longer has the tail that gets him in trouble, the breaking ball is light years better. And most of all, he is pitching with confidence and a swagger out there.”
And this is why you never, ever, ever think that A.J. Burnett has suddenly become reliable: because he hasn’t, and he never will. You cannot count on him. He can be mowing them down, looking like the second coming of Walter Johnson, and then suddenly, inexplicably, he implodes. You know it’s going to happen, you just don’t know when.
Maybe I’ll the lone one but I support Tabber. He told it straight. Bullying him was on the same level as starting a “Boston sucks” chant at Yankee stadium. Show a little class like your team does . On another note, careful what you wish for.
Wonder if anyone will remember AJ started this game.
Stolen from RAB for your amusement:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.c.....index.html
“Mariano Rivera is almost too good to be real. They just asked him if he thought anyone else would ever break his record. He said he didn’t know but that records are made to be broken, so he just hoped that if anyone did, they would respect the game the way he did. Does anyone know any other player with Mo’s excellence (in other words, a baseball player from the past with phenomenal achievement) that was also considered to be such an amazingly humble and good human being? There might be many, I just don’t know who they are.”
Don Mattingly.
There are many others, too, of course, even some who weren’t Yankees.
. But Mo stands alone as far as closers go. I remember when he first came up as a starter, started his first game against the White Sox and the game was televised and he threw something like a 2-hitter. He was just blowing people away. We are going to miss Mo and Jeter like crazy when they are gone.
Bo,
I’m a proponent of beating the team facing you. Win, and you write your own ticket. On the other hand, it’s hard for me not to feel some schadenfreude over the Sox fate. The O’s beat us, they should beat Boston, too. In fact, everybody should beat Boston. No skin off me!
“Maybe I’ll the lone one but I support Tabber. He told it straight. Bullying him was on the same level as starting a “Boston sucks” chant at Yankee stadium. Show a little class like your team does . On another note, careful what you wish for.”
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don’t know who ‘bullied’ him. Not on the same page with his takes, however.
as for being ‘careful what you wish for’. I would rather the Red Sox not make the post season. It makes for a positive baseball year. If it would ultimately mean Tampa eliminating the Yankees in a Round 2 of the playoffs. Then let it be. At least Tampa is likeable. I rooted hard for them 3 years ago versus the phillies (enjoying every minute). And i wouldn’t mind a rematch.
Dill, Burnett just tantalizes you out there and after today, where he went from Cy Young to Cy-Anora in less than 2 innings, he needs the last seat on the bench in the bullpen unless Girardi is prepared to pull him at the first sign of any trouble in a game, something he’ll never do.
Blake-
Will Hughes continue to emerge ? Can Bartolo pull it together ?
I would like to see CC, Colon, Nova and Hughes make it into the Playoff rotation. Freddy is ahead of AJ. AJ should be sent fishing. And relocated in the OS.
pat September 19th, 2011 at 3:58 pm
“RAYS JUST PICKED UP A GAME!!!!!”
Be careful what you wish for…….
Bo Knows-
Said the same thing as you can see at 3:58.
What’s unsafe about wishing for the Sox to miss the playoffs?
Today was really funny for me.
About half an hour or so before Mo’s 602 I was coming down from an 8,000 ft. mountain.
I arrived home just in time to see Mo do his deed.
Guess the good Lord wanted me to see it. I’m grateful.
MTU,
AJ frustrates me to no end. Hughes has his chance….hope he goes and takes it
I’m more concerned about the Yankees pitching than taking joy in Boston’s swoon. CC is struggling, (a hellacious amount of innings in the last three years), a rookie and a shakey other four. The Yankees are not a slam dunk.
Tampa with a minie budget is just a joy for any pure baseball fan.
I’ll admit that watching the Theo slobber evaporate tickles my fancy. I object to the crowing.
MTU: nice story : )
MTU,
You just made it……I just missed it…..I guess you’re living cleaner
Francona is in a panic mode. He used Aceves for 53 pitches in the 1st game and leaves a middle relief hole for tonight’s game with Lackluster on the mound.
No team is a slam dunk…..you maximize your chances by winning your division and getting Home field…..and then see what happens.
Where would Boston be without Aceves…….he’s saved their bacon this year.
Brian Matusz, tonight’s starter for Orioles:
Last 10 innings, 17 runs ( Seventeen ! )
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Looks like another easy win for the Sucks tonight.
“another easy win for the Sucks tonight.” When was their last one?
Of course no team is a slam dunk in the post season. But Philly and Tampa have some awesome pitching. I’m not that concerned with HFA. More about preparing the team for the next go around.
Vinny/Blake-
Guess that’s the way it was meant to be. I really did not expect to see it.
To Tabbert and Bo Knows,
Tampa is certainly playing better baseball now but that doesn’t mean that Sox are going to play like this if they make the playoffs.. Tampa played this well down the stretch last year too and lost to the Rangers.. Their hitting is still a question mark against good pitching.. Yanks have a better record against the Rays than they have against the sox this season.. And for the yanks to have to win the WS, they have to beat the good teams… Its as simple as that.. So I would join the others here to certainly root against the sox…I don’t want to see them anywhere in the post season.. Their offense could still catch fire against poor pitching and I feel they are as good as a threat as the rays in the playoffs..
Bo knows -
I am with you there.
Take care of your own business; root for your own. Crowing, as you call it, really rubs me the wrong way.
Blake-
Like I’ve said so many times. I’d love to go and pour down a few brewski’s with AJ. I’m sure it would be fun.
When it comes to his reliability that’s another matter. I think he might look real good in a Nats uni. What do you think ?
I have been on the other side of the Rubicon with him for a while now.
Sox got beat by a guy with 17 losses on the year.
Lackey on the mound tonight. He’s due for a beatdown.
No Aceves in the pen either.
Theo the boy genius being roasted is worth a snicker. So shoot me. I’m deeply ashamed, snicker.
Schadensoxenfreude ist nicht verboten.
Nice job updating the blog with this non-event today, huh ?
Ghost — Too many times we’ve seen Burnett look great for 2 or 3 or even 5 innings and then suddenly just completely and utterly fall apart to ever trust him again. He is inexplicable. I don’t care how great he looks at times. He is Jekyll and Hyde — not just within the same game, or even the same inning, but sometimes to the same batter! And once things start going badly for him, they almost invariably keep getting worse. One should never get carried away by how good he looks early in a game. I think Girardi has, at least, learned the lesson to get him out of there at the first sign (or at least one of the first signs) of implosion.
Damn, Nick found a way to use the word. Rats
If you feel that the Rays are a tougher potential ALCS matchup then root for the Sox.
Nick – WT… are you saying, lol?
Don Vito – just another indication that the Journal News doesn’t place a priority on this place.
I am looking forward to the Mo–Mr. Natural– getting his nature tribute.
A.J. has eliminated himself from the rotation, I would think. Unfortunately, many were wondering about Garcia and Colon recently. Nova and Hughes could be the keys to the postseason. Girardi may decide who pitches after he knows the match up.
Villa,
I’m not crowing about the Sox crash, just enjoying it out of Yankee fan racial memory.
trisha – true pinstriped blue September 19th, 2011 at 5:14 pm
blake –
Going out to run a few errands so I can be back to watch tonight’s fun!!!
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Trisha,
You need to settle down and behave yourself. This means that while you’re out doing your errands, don’t drive by Fenway and harass and make fun of the Red Sox fans and players…unless you have a good getaway route and fast car.
@trisha joe dimaggio (56 game hitting streak) a player of true class.
austinmac – right now, I’m thinking CC, Phil, Nova, and probably Colon. I would be prepared to use the bullpen for 4 innings each game. Ayala, Wade, Logan, for the middle innings, and Soriano, Robertson, and The GOAT for the last three. With off days, it might just work well enough to get 11 wins.
Nick,
I thought no one read that post. Good one.
Great job by YES on the post game showing all of the Mo high lights
tomingeorgia -
No, I’m happy the Sox are falling apart, too. I guess most of us are doing a little of the “what happened to the best team since the 1927 Yankees” stuff. That’s not what I’m talking about, and I wasn’t talking about you. More or less about one person who tends to go a bit over the top when it comes to the Red Sox.
Joe from Long Island September 19th, 2011 at 6:11 pm
austinmac – right now, I’m thinking CC, Phil, Nova, and probably Colon. I would be prepared to use the bullpen for 4 innings each game. Ayala, Wade, Logan, for the middle innings, and Soriano, Robertson, and The GOAT for the last three. With off days, it might just work well enough to get 11 wins.
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I’d like to see what Valdez can do against some of the Tampa and Boston left handed hitters over the next week.
I’m just mad that the Sucks seem to be getting all the lucky breaks this season.
Tonight is no different.
“I thought no one read that post.”
Not sure what you mean.
Villa,
The only thing I’m sad about is that we didn’t hasten the downfall in the spring. I always want to beat the team you’re playing, and the only thing I regret is some of the beatings we took from them early.
If Trisha wants to excessively celebrate the Sox failures, what’s the harm in that?
nick,
I used the word “schadenfreude” earlier in this string to describe my feelings about the Sox collapse.
Oh, that Passan article is great.
My only beef with it is that the Yankees have also suffered injuries.
Reading his article made me realize that the Yankees getting HFA probably means that Boston is in the post-season.
They’ll be shell-shocked if they do, and probably won’t make it out of the first round.
If they miss the postseason it will be historic. And delicious for any Yankee fan.
Verlander has thrown down the gauntlet, he wants HFA. Well, that sounds like a challenge to me. Yankees need to steam-roll until the last series. If the picture is more focused then, well some of the regulars need to rest for the post-season.
Gotcha. I didn’t read it.
The Yankees are 4 games up in the LC for HFA. I like their odds.
Reading his article made me realize that the Yankees getting HFA probably means that Boston is in the post-season.
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The Yankees could pretty easily have HFA locked up before their final 3 game set with the Rays.
They have a 4 game advantage in the loss column.
tomingeorgia September 19th, 2011 at 6:20 pm
Villa,
The only thing I’m sad about is that we didn’t hasten the downfall in the spring. I always want to beat the team you’re playing, and the only thing I regret is some of the beatings we took from them early.
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Too much emphasis is put on the Yankees in Boston when they fail to realize other teams do exist.
What happened earlier in the season is of no consequence now.
“More or less about one person who tends to go a bit over the top when it comes to the Red Sox.”
And isn’t that too damned bad. Like I need the permission of anyone here to root against the Sux any way I damned well please.
Since I just read “be careful what you wish for” about one time too many I’ll say this to those of you who keep chirping it. I don’t have to “wish” for the same things as anyone else on this forum. If you don’t like it, skip past my posts.
I’m not afraid to have the Yankees face any team. And I didn’t realize this business of baseball was so serious. Gee, maybe from now on all I will “worry” about it the Yankees winning and not pay attention to any other teams or enjoy any other team’s losses.
Excuse me now while I go and say a rosary and ask forgiveness of those of you who get upset when things aren’t done your way.
These games are armageddon for Showalter…..he’s going to try his very best to keep one of the Yankees/Red Sox out of the playoffs.
By the way, the Yankees need 4 games to clinch according to MLB – not 5.
Villanova – that’s near fenway isn’t it? If you don’t like my over-the-top posts about the Sux don’t read them. They’re not going anywhere by the way.
Some great articles on espn.com.
It’s all Mo this time.
Matthews saying Mo beats out Jeter as the greatest Yankee of our generation.
Says Jeter’s been all that, but there’s never been a time when Mo hasn’t been the best at his position.
In deference to Mo, I won’t get into the position player/reliever thing. We’ll save that for another day.
Blake-
Well since the O’s only play the Sux we know who that’s gonna be.
blake September 19th, 2011 at 6:34 pm
These games are armageddon for Showalter…..he’s going to try his very best to keep one of the Yankees/Red Sox out of the playoffs.
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It’s Showalter’s title run. He’s won his wild card by not finishing with 100 losses.
Hopefully the Yankees can lock up the division and home field prior to that last series with the Rays….then they can rest guys as needed and let the chips fall as they may.
Great stuff on Mo on MLB network right now…Smoltz and Leiter breaking down his delivery and cutter release.
Matusz has been a disaster this season. If the Sox can’t beat him then I don’t know what to say.
Great stuff on Mo on MLB network right now…Smoltz and Leiter breaking down his delivery and cutter release.
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Yup. Good stuff
And about Tabbert getting bullied, he was lecturing the rest of the forum on what they should want and what they should be thinking and criticizing what they were doing. You want to put it out there, be prepared for what you get back.
By the way, I don’t tell anyone on this forum that they need to hate the fenway little leaguers nor do I tell them they should or should not want them to go to the postseason. So get off my back and don’t attempt to tell me what I should or should not do or who I should or should not root for to collapse.
Unbelievable.
they showed the side by side of Rivera’s first save and #602….it’s remarkable how similar everything looks….leg kick was a tiny bit different back then but arm slot, release point, extension, and follow through are all identical…..basically once his arm starts moving it’s exactly the same as it was for #1……that’s incredible
“Matusz has been a disaster this season. If the Sox can’t beat him then I don’t know what to say.”
Hopefully their winning has been infectious and Matusz gets his groove back.
LGY, thanks for the support.
LGY-
Consider who’s pitching (if you want to call it that) for the Sux.
Matusz is too good to be pitching the way he has….something is up with him.
Ideally, the Yankees sweep the Suxers and then tank the Rays series.
Trisha/blake
Hopefully Matusz pulls a Brandon Morrow on the Sox
A couple of interesting trivia:
(1) Mo gets his 42nd save of the season in breaking the record.
(2) In 139 postseason innings, Mo has faced 523 batters and allowed only 2 homeruns.
“Ideally, the Yankees sweep the Suxers and then tank the Rays series.”
I like this plan…..I think there is a good chance that last series against TB will mean something for the Sox and Rays. The 4 game series are likely to be split…..Yanks take 2 of 3 from Boston and Rays take 2 of 3 from the Jays and they are a game back when those series start……Showalter will be playing full out and the Yanks will hopefully have clinched everything.
blake,
That was amazing, wasn’t it?
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trisha -
Don’t make assumptions.
blake -
BTW – I was referring to the MLB videos showing Mo’s delivery from first save to most recent.
I just don’t understand the Morrow thing…..I’ve watched him pitched several times this year (not against the Yankees) and he can’t find the plate to save his life or he’s right down the middle…..but put the Yankees in front of him and he turns into Cy Young
See you all later.
I’m gonna go see if we can hit the daily double with the Sux.
Villa,
Yea really cool….MLB network does a really nice job most of the time.
MTU,
you should drink an Octoberfest in honor of the Sox collapse
as nice as it is to imagine the Sox missing the playoffs its probably not happening. the Yankees aren’t going to roll over for the Rays and the Orioles are terrible.
FakePeteGammons Fake Peter Gammons
Mariano Rivera may have the saves record, but Craig Hansen & Manny Delcarmen were the 2 best RP’s I’ve ever seen. This is Peter Gammons.
1 hour ago
Blake-
It sure must suck to be them right now. I’ll toast their demise as soon as it happens. Later.
The Orioles are terrible but Boston is playing extremely tight right now and Baltimore is playing with nothing to lose…..they relish trying to spoil for other teams. The Yanks will play this 4 gamer hard….but if they’ve clinched by that last series then they’ll rest guys
“If you don’t like it, skip past my posts.”
I’ve seen numerous people here post this and I always think……. It’s a blog message board. If you don’t want people to read and comment on what you write, why type it?
Also, wouldn’t the same advice apply to the person who would write that? You can skip over the posts of people responding to what you wrote the same as they could skip yours, no?
Some people post here like a Valerde and some post like a Mariano. Different strokes for different folks.
Villa, I amost said if it was someone other than I, yada yada yada. Geeze I didn’t realize anyone was more over the top about the Suxers than I.
History for anyone who may not know it, I came onto this forum about three years ago (I think that’s when it was – Wang was still pitching for the Ys) and made no bones about the fact that I lived to trash the Sux. They live in my back yard and my state is filled with their fans (there are certainly Yanks fans here but nothing like the numbers of Sux fans). So I grew up in the heart of the rivalry and have the same intense dislike for the Sux that Sux fans around here do for the Yanks. It’s part of our geography and it’s part of our legacy here. I guess I tend to bristle when the oh-so-very-proper Yankee fans who live on the other side of the country tell me and others how we should be according the Sux.
That’s all.
Valerde = Valverde
I think Villanova’s closer to Philly than to Fenway.
Hi everyone again,
I can’t believe that i missed Mo’s record breaking save!!, unfortunately i had to work. But what a thrill it must have been, to those who got to watch it, kudos. you guys can’t believe how much i envy you. LOL!!
Today has been a perfect day, the sux lose again!!, could we be watching the collapse of the greatest team since the Yankees of 1927??!!!HAHAHAHA!!!!!!, it’s so funny to watch MLB network now saying that they don’t have depth. LOL they didn’t have it from day one!!!!.
Anyway ity’s a good day to be a Yankee fan!!
If Boston loses tonight, that’s when you’ll see things get tight. How tight? So tight that they wouldn’t be able to shove a sewing needle up their keisters.
“Also, wouldn’t the same advice apply to the person who would write that? You can skip over the posts of people responding to what you wrote the same as they could skip yours, no?”
Except that I never know where it’s going to come from until it’s too late. On the other hand, I’m pretty transparent. My schtick never changes. So at least the posters who don’t like the stuff have an idea of what they’re going to get.
“Some people post here like a Valerde and some post like a Mariano. Different strokes for different folks”
I was thinking about Mariano when I was out and I absolutely believe his belief in God defines who he is. It puts someone like me to shame, because I too believe in God and I’m also very religious. However, on a scale of 1 to 100, I’m a 1 to Mariano’s 100. I talk a good game (and don’t get me wrong, I do try to be a good human being and help people out in life) but I have to acknowledge that his purity of spirit makes me almost ashamed to be the way I am. I talk the talk but I don’t always walk the walk. Mariano never stops walking it.
Lackey and Showalter should just have a scowl-off tonight instead of the game
“I think Villanova’s closer to Philly than to Fenway.”
That was my point.
Congratulations to MO- what a class act he is and what a great accomplishment he’s earned.
No way, no how, AJ can start in the playoffs.
NY’s SPs overall really need to pick it up. They have not looked good for several weeks now and you don’t want this pattern to continue into the playoffs or NY will be toast.
As a minimum, NY needs to split against a red hot, confident and nothing to lose TB team.
Trevor Hoffman
I want to congratulate Mariano Rivera on setting the all-time saves record. It’s a great accomplishment and he is still going strong! I have tremendous respect for Mariano not just for his on-field accomplishments, but also for his service to the community.
Mariano never stops walking it.
Trisha don’t be ashamed, very few people can achieve the kind of inner peace and all around goodness that Mo has…. so cheer up!!!!
WEEI was talking about what might happen if the Yanks clinch and then start to rest players. They were wondering if Sux fans would think the Yanks were doing it on purpose to stick it to the Sux. One of the sportscasters said the Yankees won’t roll over for anyone and if they rest players, it will bbe to get ready for the postseason, nothing else. So they were talking about Sux fan reaction if it should happen and (accurately I believe) one of the guys said he thought rather than blame the Yankees, the Sux fans would start with Tito, then they’d go to Theo, and then they’d go to the goat of the day, probably a Lackey.
It is an interesting thought.
Boston is playing tight.
Errors, squeezed bats, and brain farts convention.
The best was watching Salty trying to catch Wakefield.
Here’s the damage: ”
How bad was it Sunday? This bad: four passed balls, two wild pitches, four Tampa Bay stolen bases, one runner reaching after a whiff, two throwing errors by third baseman Mike Aviles, a fly ball played into a double by Conor Jackson. Tim Wakefield gave up six runs in five innings (two earned). Andrew Miller gave up two more after a couple of walks in the seventh. “
Classy comments from Hoffman
If the Yankees rested their players, no one should have a beef. Girardi always gives his players rest.
And would anyone expect the Red Sox to “respect the game” if the roles were reversed? I doubt it.
luis, thanks. But the disparity it so great that it does force me to look at who I am, since my belief system is structured much the same way Mo’s is.
trisha -
I get that about being in Red Sox territory.
Not telling you or anyone how to be a fan. Just expressing my opinion. Won’t say anymore about it.
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If your point was Villanova is closer to Philly than to Fenway, I seriously don’t get your point, since you said, “Villanova, that’s close to Fenway, isn’t it?” And I’d still say, don’t make assumptions.
blake September 19th, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Classy comments from Hoffman
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Seconded
And anyway, there were many of us who were delighting in the potential Sux collapse. I don’t find that very unusual for Yankee fans to feel that way. Geeesh.
GO O’S!!!
It will be wonderful if Brian Matusz can have a decent outing.
BOS has nothing to claim with respect for the game. Their modus operandi for the last 6-7 years is if you cannot get a hitter out, you just hit em. They need to shut up and win, after all they are the greatest team ever assembled.
Villa – I did make assumptions and I apologize for that. I should have kept my mouth shut (and it wasn’t you that started the brouhaha anyway.)
It’s all good.
Did you see my post about the Yanks only being 4 games from clinching? Someone thought it was 6 (I had said 5) but MLB television said it’s 4!
That’s classy of Hoffman.
Trevor didn’t pitch in nearly the amount of big games that Mo did but 600 saves is about being consistently great over a long period of time. Basically it’s 15 – 40 save seasons in row.
trisha,
My father used to tell me that as long as you do your best effort, God would be very happy, regardlees of results, it’s not what you do but how you do it.
St. Louis with a 2-0 lead over Philadelphia in the 1st inning. Berkman homers off of Halladay.
Brian Matusz’s WHIP is 2.02.
L . o . l .
It is great fun watching the Red Sox implode and perhaps lose their place in the play-offs.
Someone earlier today mentioned that he would rather the Sox win the wild card since they are so beaten up. Not me. We don’t play the wild card team in the first round, and I would rather face Rays than Detroit…so I am hoping for the Rays to get in since they have a better chance of beating the Tigers.
Good start for the O’s.
Lackey allows a hit and a walk to start the game.
I hope nobody tells Joe G that it is 4 games, I hope he believes it is 6 or 7 to clinch. That way he won’t take the peddle off.
By the way Joe, it doesn’t hurt to rest Martin, you know Romine or Montero can probably handle two or three games over the next 9 without blowing up NY’s playoff hopes.
1-0 Orioles….Lackey yet to record an out
Yeah O’s!!
Keep it going.
1-0 O’s!!!!!! nobody out
2-0 Orioles on sac fly
“trisha,
My father used to tell me that as long as you do your best effort, God would be very happy, regardlees of results, it’s not what you do but how you do it.”
luis, I absolutely believe that. It’s just that I know I could do so much better. Maybe I should have chose a different profession. Someone like me doesn’t need “the last word” profession to be mouthy.
But thanks.
Whew. That was close. Great slide by Hardy.
2-0
How long before Lackey hits an oriole? Then how long before Showalter retailiates?
Lackey is looking sharp tonight. Only a pair of singles and a walk. Of course it’s only 3 batters into the game.
2-0 score with one out.
Lackey is about to break into full whine and pout mode
These O’s are serious as rain. Hey Nick, I told you they were the bomb!
Varitek just took a slide to the junk. Excellent.
OH MY GOD!!!!!
Look at my O’s!!!!!
3-0
“I was thinking about Mariano when I was out and I absolutely believe his belief in God defines who he is. It puts someone like me to shame, because I too believe in God and I’m also very religious. However, on a scale of 1 to 100, I’m a 1 to Mariano’s 100. I talk a good game (and don’t get me wrong, I do try to be a good human being and help people out in life) but I have to acknowledge that his purity of spirit makes me almost ashamed to be the way I am. I talk the talk but I don’t always walk the walk. Mariano never stops walking it.”
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humble statement, Trisha.
I look at Rivera in the same light as well. Back in 1998, when viewing the victory parade on tv back in Florida, had remembered asking myself if i could trade places with any NY Yankee who would it be? Picked Rivera. What you outlined above, was visible even back then
Sox look like the bad news bears…..3-0 and Varitek dropped the play at the plate…easy play
3-0, varitek dropped the ball!!!
Lol!
The Orioles are playing balls to the wall. These sends from third are a prime example.
Risky but nothing to lose.
Markakis just kicked the “C” off of Varitek’s jersey.
Absolutely, a broken Sox team is no threat to the Yankees in the postseason. They probably won’t get past the ALDS.
You want a team that’s going to slow down or stop a real threat from the other bracket. But I would have no qualms playing either the Sox or the Rays in the ALCS. Just get there, baby.
Lackey really lacks.
The bad news bosox
Lackey has nothing so far & a miscue throw to 2nd. Ortiz must be fuming
I coached a girls softball team, and the strategy was always, Keep running until somebody is caught. Working for the O’s.
I think I just saw Lackey say “Shazam!”
Red Robin September 19th, 2011 at 7:14 pm
Brian Matusz’s WHIP is 2.02.
L . o . l .
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By the end of this game, his WHIP might be second to Lackey’s….
This is the Orioles WS….they are playing aggressive and with nothing to lose.
So far, Baltimore has stolen everything but Varitek’s cup.
Glad we don’t see the O’s again. Let them work their wizardry on other teams.
Playing teams that are out of it is sometimes worse than playing contenders late in the year….it depends on the team
The Sox could start Beckett and Lester in 4 of 5 ALDS games. They are a dangerous team in October with those two and one of the top two offenses in MLB.
What you see now is not what you would get in October. Kyle Weiland certainly won’t be on the mound.
To win this game, the really bad news is that, given Matusz is starting, the Orioles need at least 6 more of that kind of inning.
What we need to hope is that Matusz at least has his C game. If not, then this could be a very long seesaw game.
Francona has a tough decision to make if it gets ugly, Lackey do the damage or burn the bullpen.
lackey already cursing
Just a wild guess,
Matusz gives the runs right back this inning ?
Varitek wants to play 2 more years, but, I don’t see a team letting him play at age 50.
LGY,
that’s true….they could be dangerous in a playoff series… but they may not get Youkalis back at all…at least not healthy…and their pen is toast right now. I don’t want them to make it because they do have talent….and they are capable of playing much better than they are. I do think that Tampa has a better chance to beat Detroit right now….
LGY, Lester is pretty much cooked. He still has some stuff but he’s vulnerable. I don’t think he beats anyone in the postseason.
Ace definitely should not be able to go back out. And it looks like an early night for the bullpen.
Sux are in trouble plenty. No need to call a spade anything else but a spade. Let’s not pretend they have the horses because they don’t. They are worn out.
It’s all good but Matusz hasn’t thrown a pitch yet.
Lester seems to be running out of gas as of late, so he’s not really a lock to pitch great
I am betting that Matusz easily handles this team.
There is something contagious about winning – and there’s also something contagious about losing.
If Baltimore wants rid of Matusz…I’ll take him.
Uh, told ya.
I wonder if Boston will try to extend Ellsbury this winter
“If Baltimore wants rid of Matusz…I’ll take him.”
I also. I’d turn him over to my boy Larry and sit back and smile.
This is fun rooting against Sox and some wanting them in ALCS.
But for Yanks, at this time, getting HFA is the most important goal.
As Yanks will be facing Rays and Sox rest of the way, Detroit faces KC, Baltimore and Cleveland.
So, Yanks can not take it easy at least until the Sox series is over.
The best way to bury Sox is to sweep them when they come to the stadium.
Is Crawford a platoon player now? He’s an expensive one if so
Boy Matusz was absolutely filthy when he was pitching well last season. He’s got great stuff. Hopefully he’s not playing through injuries to the extent that he’s doing more damage to himself.
Trisha
I think the Yankees will win every playoff series they play in. If the Yankees meet the Sox in the ALCS that won’t change.
However tbh they are the last team I want to see in October. They have absolutely destroyed the Yankees this season and the lineup has been borderline pathetic vs Beckett.
Basically, I think the Yankees would be the Sox but I feel more confident vs the other teams.
Also, a Yankees-Red Sox series will likely physically and emotionally drain the Yanks which would not be good for the WS.
But Trisha,
I definitely respect your confidence
Blake,
I wouldn’t, because he is playing way out of his mind, i would wait and see how he plays next season….is he a Boras client?, if he is, no way he accepts an extension anyway
Lowrie-Jackson-Varitek-McDonald are hitting 6-9…no Youk
They have 1 1/2 pitchers….done I tell you.
LGY – and I certainly know what you’re saying. Sux-Yanks in the postseason turns into their personal WS.
“I was thinking about Mariano when I was out and I absolutely believe his belief in God defines who he is. It puts someone like me to shame, because I too believe in God and I’m also very religious. However, on a scale of 1 to 100, I’m a 1 to Mariano’s 100. I talk a good game (and don’t get me wrong, I do try to be a good human being and help people out in life) but I have to acknowledge that his purity of spirit makes me almost ashamed to be the way I am. I talk the talk but I don’t always walk the walk. Mariano never stops walking it.”
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You ABSOLUTELY walk the walk. You’re a good soul.
Matusz just has to suck less than Lackey.
Is that so much to ask?
“Also, a Yankees-Red Sox series will likely physically and emotionally drain the Yanks which would not be good for the WS.”
and this year….unlike some others…the WS may be the toughest test depending on who makes it there.
Thinking ump has a tight zone. Looked like a little squeezing there.
LGY,
How do you make the face with the wink??
Ugh.
The Orioles’ lead is evaporating …
Nice play by Andino.
Luis,
I’m not sure….but I think so. Boras clients have been accepting more extensions the last year or so for whatever reason. If Ellsbury keeps up a level of play anywhere close to this year then Boston is going to have to pay him a lot of money to keep him.
Well, at least it didn’t go out. Now Matusz has to get the final out and take away any momentum.
Yikes!,
Luis
; )
Without the space
Big Pooopi ties game with homerun?
Unfortunately, bottom of the Sucks batting order has been on fire.
Bojy thank. I know that I try to be a good person. But then I look at someone like Mo and realize I’m just about in the tadpole league.
Seriously.
tomingeorgia September 19th, 2011 at 7:22 pm
I coached a girls softball team, and the strategy was always, Keep running until somebody is caught.
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Are you sure that wan’t a women’s defense clinic? And they weren’t referring to you?
It looks like Matusz has lost a lot off his speedball.
trisha – true pinstriped blue September 19th, 2011 at 7:39 pm
Bojy thank. I know that I try to be a good person. But then I look at someone like Mo and realize I’m just about in the tadpole league.
Seriously.
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Good role model for us all to strive to be better.
fastball that is
I want the Yanks to sweep the Sox because I always want the Yanks to sweep the Sox. Plus we owe them big this year. It’d be nice to get some payback.
The other thing is, this is a dangerous Red Sox team. If they do manage to hold on and get into the post season, they get a second lease on life and a big monkey off their back, and can start playing very loose. We’ve seen it happen before with a team that nearly blew it in the regular season. We need to put the stake through their heart when we have the chance.
While I’m not a gloater (too worried about baseball karma), I have to say I am really enjoying watching the yaks over at NESPN completely losing it over the Sox meltdown. They de facto annointed the Sox the East division champs months ago and put them in the series, and now they just can’t believe what’s happening. Karl “The Empty Skull” Ravetch just about imploded a few minutes ago on air, trying to blame the sun for the first game loss (McDonald dropping balls — as if the Orioles didn’t have to deal with the same sun themselves), and then started whining about a foul-ball call against Ortiz in the 9th. Hilarious!
Matusz is all over the place. He wont last long. Pitch count almost at 30
Holy crap.
Well I guess Brian brought his C- game.
appears that Matusz is having a tough time sucking less that Lackey so far.
Matusz hadn’t been getting the outside call either.
Blake,
Yup, if he plays somewhere close to how he played this season, he is going to cost a lot of money if they don’t extend him. By the way, i didn’t know that Boras players were accepting extensions, maybe because of the current market conditions. damn!!! Matusz
Matusz probably suffered from a tired arm from being brought along so quickly. If and when he recovers, he could be a good one. Baltimore still has some good young arms coming along. Trisha’s and my prediction of improvement this year might just have been a year premature.
Damn. Just like that, sux are in the lead
Good news is this is still the 1st, time for O’s to get back the lead.
Dill I don’t agree that this is a dangerous Sux team.
And I am a gloater. I don’t worry about baseball karma because of 2004* and 2009*. I believe they have some coming back.
So far this game is pretty much as expected… ugly.
luis,
Cargo and Weaver both Boras clients accepted deals early…now that could be unique to the players and regarding Weaver it was….he wanted to stay in LA
There’s some real strange rumblings from up in Beantown with the Sox on the brink of collapse. Last week there were some questions in the media regarding the conditioning of the team and today Ortiz is airing some dirty laundry.
Earth to Red Sox Nation… It’s not so easy being the big market frontrunners and it’s even harder keeping a team like that focused and working together when things go a bit South.
Personally I wanted the Yanks to face them in the ALCS.
Sox are clearly going to score a ton off Matuz tonight. Francona needs to make sure Lackey doesn’t give up more runs… he needs to get Aceves in there to stabilize the game if Lackey doesn’t settle down.
Yeah, I had higher hopes for Matusz.
You can always count on Lackey.
Football score tonight.
Awesome post game post Heyman. Its not like someone just broke the all time saves record or anything.
In the final 2 weeks of the season, the Os have played or will play the Rays, Angels, Tigers, and the Sox 7 times. They will have a big say in playoff seeding and who makes it for that matter.
Aceves already pitched multiple innings today, I doubt they would abuse him that much.
“he needs to get Aceves in there to stabilize the game if Lackey doesn’t settle down.”
Ace pitched 3 plus innings today and has pitched every day. I don’t think he’s available for tonight’s game. If he does go on, Francona is an idiot.
“Aceves already pitched multiple innings today, I doubt they would abuse him that much.”
don’t put it past them….
trisha — the way we don’t hit Beckett (and Lester), and the top of that lineup — particularly in the Green Shoebox — they are always dangerous. They’ve beaten us badly this year. I’m not saying I don’t think the Yanks can beat them. Just saying, you have a chance to put the stake in them, I’d love to see us do it.
Let’s face it, no matter who we play in the playoffs it’s not going to be a cakewalk. But no matter what, it’s pretty satisfying as a Yankee fan where we are right now, considering how all the “experts” pretty much handed the division (and the league) to Boston in April.
Aceves should come home to the Bronx where he won’t be abused
Thanks LGY!
There has to be a lot going on in the clubhouse for Big Fatzo to say what he said….One thing is certain Tito is losing this team very fast
Later guys, have to go to do some chores, Go Orioles!
Dill, I hear what you’re saying. I’m all for having the Sux blown to smitherines!!!!
Keep the bad vibes going gang. I have to get a letter written for a client but will be back as soon as I can.
Wonder if Buck has another pitcher if he needs one. Since they aren’t playing for anything he won’t be so quick to hook a starter I wouldn’t think.
Later y’all.
Oops. Guess Buck is serious!
Later.
Matusz done already….
Like I said, another easy win for the Sucks.
What luck they have this season, drawing the worst pitcher in the Major Leagues when they need to win the most.
And, really, Baltimore Orioles, after decades of putridity, you don’t even have one promising minor league pitcher that can be called up?