Game 112: Yankees at Blue Jays
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Aug 10, 2012 
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YANKEES (65-46)
Derek Jeter SS
Nick Swisher RF
Mark Teixeira DH
Robinson Cano 2B
Andruw Jones LF
Jayson Nix 3B
Russell Martin C
Ichiro Suzuki CF
Casey McGehee 1B
RHP Freddy Garcia (5-5, 5.00)
Garcia vs. Blue Jays
BLUE JAYS (53-58)
Rajai Davis LF
Colby Rasmus CF
Edwin Encarnacion 1B
Yunel Escobar SS
David Cooper DH
Kelly Johnson 2B
Omar Vizquel 3B
Jeff Mathis C
Anthony Gose RF
LHP Ricky Romero (8-8, 5.74)
Romero vs. Yankees
TIME/TV: 7:05 p.m., YES Network
WEATHER: Dome, thank goodness. Been raining most of the day.
UMPIRES: HP James Hoye, 1B Jim Joyce, 2B Mike DiMuro, 3B Jim Reynolds
TEX FOR THE TIE: With his game-tying solo home run on Thursday, Mark Teixeira now has five homers this season which have tied the game or put the Yankees ahead in the seventh inning or later. That?marks his most such homers in a single season in his career. Only one Yankee has compiled more homers in those circumstances in a season over the last 12 years — Alex Rodriguez who had six in both 2009 and 2010).
CHAVY FOR THE WIN: According to ESPN Stats & Info, last night’s back-to-back homers by Teixeira and Eric Chavez were the first by the Yankees in the eighth inning or later on the road — with the first one tying the game and the second one giving them the lead — since August 24, 1955 when Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle went back-to-back in the ninth of a 3-2 win also in Detroit.
SEVEN UP: Thursday was the Yankees eighth win of the season when trailing after the end of the seventh inning. That?is double their win total in those circumstances from last season (4-49) and?matches Baltimore and Washington for the most such wins in the Majors this season.
UPDATE, 7:31 p.m.: Nix lays down a bunt, Mathis throws it away, and the Yankees are up 1-0 in the second.
UPDATE, 7:37 p.m.: Ichiro avoids the double play, the Yankees get another run and go ahead 2-0. Two on with two outs now for Jeter.
UPDATE, 7:38 p.m.: Jeter grounder ends the threat.
UPDATE, 7:55 p.m.: Jays get a run on Johnson’s homer, but give it right back on Cano’s RBI single in the third. Gose made a horrible throw to the plate trying to get the out. This Blue Jays lineup really is brutal right now.
UPDATE, 9:03 p.m.: Garcia was at 78 pitches, but he didn’t come back out for the seventh inning. Instead, Boone Logan got the first two outs, and now Joba Chamberlain is in with the bases emptry and the Yankees still up 3-2. Not sure why Garcia needed to come out after such a small pitch count. I get it’s a one-run game, but against this lineup, it seemed like Garcia had the game under control.
UPDATE, 9:11 p.m.: Teixeira goes deep and it’s now 4-2. The Yankees have Dave Robertson warming in the bullpen.
tomingeorgia, these guys aren’t dumb, despite their playing it sometimes. They absolutely know that teams with banging offense (see Sux) end up in the cellar without stellar pitching but that teams with stellar pitching and average offense (see +28 DIFF SF Giants) can easily end up on top.
Lets pickup the play and take the lead early and put away these also runs. These are winnable games and we have to take advantage. GO YANKEES!!!!!!
randy l. August 10th, 2012 at 6:59 pm
Not what Joe Torre says. Not what Derek Jeter, the one you build around, says.
The 1998 Yankees said hi!
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Feel a little bad because jmills is our friend.
But -
GO FREDDY!!!
GO YANKS!!!
GO TRIBE!!!
According to ESPN Stats & Info, last night’s back-to-back homers by Teixeira and Eric Chavez were the first by the Yankees in the eighth inning or later on the road — with the first one tying the game and the second one giving them the lead — since August 24, 1955 when Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle went back-to-back in the ninth of a 3-2 win also in Detroit.
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Chad-
Wow! How do you guys come up with that Yankee info?
May Freddy sweat in sweet victory this fair Toronto eve.
Don’t take it personal JMILLS but we want these games.
“The pirates won game 7 10 – 9 ?? They were also the #1 offense in their league. Not a ringing endorsement for pitching by either team ”
That’s an EXTREMELY ringing endorsement for Yankee pitching, if Pirates were #1 offense and Yanks held them to 27 runs, an average of under 4 runs per game. And if they scored 10 in Game 7, some of the other games were WELL under 4 runs.
PITCHING WINS. And all you need is one more run to win a game – not 100.
Only a Hideki Matsui ground out stopped A-rod and Giambi from going back to back off Bob Wickman in 2005 in the 9th inning.
Stuck in traffic
Rogers is over there
jmills, I wish for you for your team to do well but for the Yankees to do weller by a run.
jmills, 1-2-3 top of the inning. Bottom ready to begin.
Go, boys! Time to get (and stay) hot.
Jeter!!
NICE PLAY!!!
That’s an EXTREMELY ringing endorsement for Yankee pitching, if Pirates were #1 offense and Yanks held them to 27 runs, an average of under 4 runs per game. And if they scored 10 in Game 7, some of the other games were WELL under 4 runs.
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But they lost? And the pirates were #1 in pitching and they gave up 50 runs and won! A series isn’t your magic bullet, because crazy stuff can happen.
It’s weird that the Yanks’ 8 wins when trailing from the 7th inning on are tied from the most in MLB…. don’t a lot of people on here call them gutless?
Did Cone just say Jeter had the moves like Jagger?
tomingeorgia, you mean enough to the team that we may have to change it to Team Reasonable and Realistic. Fair can be a subcommittee agenda.
Trisha— the 7th game of ’6o WS was only time I cried in Baseball. I remember my Dad telling me that sometimes the best team doesn’t always win….
Stuck in traffic Rogers is over there
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What’s the advantage of living in Canada if you get stuck in traffic?
Jack Curry ?@JackCurryYES
David Cone just dropped a “Moves Like Jagger” in describing Jeter’s diving play on YES. And, yes, that cracked me up.
confirmed….LOL
this maybe sacrilegious, but I never thought Jeter was a player you build around. Jeter’s strength was the fact he was consistently very good year in year out. he is not a guy that can a carry team.
Bernie was my capt!
“A series isn’t your magic bullet, because crazy stuff can happen.”
With that I agree.
Exhibit One – Murderers Row and Cano, one and out. So much for offense.
Nothing sticks in my craw more than that postseason because it just didn’t have to be that way – for many many reasons.
leadership doesn’t come from pitchers.
they play once a week or an inning a day.
they are an add on.
It sounds like the Yanks made a Kay-less entry into Toronto. Sweet.
Cashmoney August 10th, 2012 at 7:19 pm
this maybe sacrilegious, but I never thought Jeter was a player you build around. Jeter’s strength was the fact he was consistently very good year in year out. he is not a guy that can a carry team.
Bernie was my capt!
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I think that’s a fair assessment. Jeter was and still is a great player but it’s debatable whether he could have been the best player on the team and still won championships. I always saw Jeter as a guy who made everybody around him better so maybe he could be a guy to build around. But there have always been others who I would pick before him… too me he was never the number one guy in that department in baseball.
“but I never thought Jeter was a player you build around”.
You can’t really build around one player in baseball anyway….you need lots of good players ….that said a guy that can play SS for 15+ years is a pretty good place to start.
Singy & Cone so much more enjoyable than Kay & Flaherty.
no doubt Tyler.
“Singy & Cone so much more enjoyable than Kay & Flaherty.”
yea no doubt
4 NYY August 10th, 2012 at 6:53 pm
jacksquat August 10th, 2012 at 4:59 pm
Ichiro not hitting 9th is probably an honor thing.
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Old Chinese proverb say : ” Not much honor in hitting 8th for Japanese player either.”
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Japanese don’t care about Chinese proverbs.
There is definitely less insult hittting 8 than 9. Might not be the reason, I just suspect it is.
i miss jim kaat, he was objective and knowledgeable.
Average score at the Ocean Course today (PGA championship)….is 78…the wind is a whippin.
Garcia makes me nervous.
Garcia’s “smoke ‘ n mirrors’ act gets him out of first now lets put up some runs.
kaat is good….he does some games for MLB network and its always enjoyable. I feel like he and Costas should do the playoffs…..the game just feels big when those two do it for some reason.
btw, no sense arguing with Trisha, she is a lawyer, it’s her job to argue her sideendlessly even if her client (in this case herself) is wrong.
I think Tiger’s going to win the PGA. Not going out on a limb since he’s already tied for the lead but I think he will be consistent.
cano is just a great hitter. right back up the middle.
I hate that Robby is going to finish most likely 3rd in the MVP race…. as a 2nd baseman his numbers are extraordinary.
“Trisha— the 7th game of ’6o WS was only time I cried in Baseball. I remember my Dad telling me that sometimes the best team doesn’t always win….”
jackamir, I have tears in my eyes just reading this. (Things like that go straight to my heart.) One of the wisest things your dad probably ever told you was exactly that. And haven’t we lived to see that in action. The 2006 Yankees were so good they were sick. They were the team extraordinaire, the one destined to take it all. Until they didn’t.
Teams get hot at the right time. Teams in the easier divisions are much less beat up than teams in tougher divisions. Teams get lucky breaks. MLB forces some teams to start their best pitchers when there’s heavy rain slated and then call the game, while not repeating the same thing the rest of the postseason.
And your best pitcher can have the lead in the game and be throwing some of his best stuff and then be forced to start on much shorter rest once the game is called. 
And umpires can squeeze your pitcher while giving your opponent’s pitcher a very wide strike zone. 
evil: evil: As jerkface said, crazy stuff can happen. GRRRR!!!
“Japanese don’t care about Chinese proverbs.”
In WWII they called them “comfort proverbs”.
(too soon?)
Romero has a reverse split this year. Lefties are OPS’ing .883 against him….righties only .753
Andruw, now!
“I think Tiger’s going to win the PGA. Not going out on a limb since he’s already tied for the lead but I think he will be consistent.”
he’s been around in every major this year…..his swing looks about the best I’ve seen it in awhile…..he’s got to avoid the disaster hole though..
Mark Feinsand ?@BloggingBombers
McGehee and Nix on the corners, Ichiro in center. Just how the Yankees drew it up in spring training, right?
Catchers are kinda dumb.
small ball! I didn’t really like bunting there but it worked out. Jays screwed it up or it would have been a wasted out.
That’s why the Yankees don’t bunt. Most of them can’t. I’ll take the result, though.
Jeff Mathis haha shoulda let it go foul
Wasn’t Jeff Mathis the catcher Scioscia kept over Napoli because he was better behind the plate? lol
What happened to Romero
Wasn’t Jeff Mathis the catcher Scioscia kept over Napoli because he was better behind the plate? lol
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Yes, despite Mathis being one of the worst hitters ever and also not good at defense
“Wasn’t Jeff Mathis the catcher Scioscia kept over Napoli because he was better behind the plate? lol”
yes….I don’t know how he’s still in the big leagues to be honest.
come on ichi!
JF-
The only time I remember Mathis doing anything well at all was when he had a couple hits in the 09 ALCS… every time I see him his average is right around .200
Ichiro! I like how he’s starting to sniff out RBIs, it bodes well for his Yankee total.
jacksquat, with posters like tomingeorgia, Pat M, and RMS, MTU, and GB7 as my witnesses, and of course with the chart that shows that the majority of world series were won by pitching and not hitting, I am ready to take this case to court and not even charge for it. That’s what a cakewalk our case is!
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By the way, I am worried about GB. I emailed him a few weeks ago and never heard back. That is totally unlike him. I just wish someone had a way of getting in touch with him or knew his daughter and how to get in touch with her.
Ichiro can still run….I thought that was 2 for sure and it really wasn’t even close.
Mathis is a terrible hitter but he has done some damage against us in the past.
RUNS SCORED ALERT!
2 runs in, no homers in the game.
put Chavez in
jacksquat here’s another thing you need to know about me. Unless I believe in my client’s case, I don’t take it. (This despite being told in law school that a good lawyer should be able to argue either side of a case.)
“There ain’t no crying in baseball.”
Okay now I will leave because the first Yankee misstep has happened and I just don’t want to hear the “Phelps should be in the rotation” yammering or anything else that will follow.
Later y’all.
trisha – true pinstriped blue August 10th, 2012 at 7:38 pm
RUNS SCORED ALERT!
2 runs in, no homers in the game.
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Now there is.
Joba sighting tonight. He will see some mound time this evening.
trisha – true pinstriped blue August 10th, 2012 at 7:44 pm
Okay now I will leave because the first Yankee misstep has happened and I just don’t want to hear the “Phelps should be in the rotation” yammering or anything else that will follow.
Later y’all.
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“Come back Shane.”
4NYY— I’m impressed, I bet you’ve seen some movies in your time….
Behind home 22 row back. The girl next to me just lost her beer to a ball!
the Jays are playing some bad news bears ball
Behind home 22 row back. The girl next to me just lost her beer to a ball!
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Is she cute? Buy her a replacement.
blake August 10th, 2012 at 7:25 pm
kaat is good….he does some games for MLB network and its always enjoyable. I feel like he and Costas should do the playoffs…..the game just feels big when those two do it for some reason.
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No Doubt.
Some nasty fans here
jackamir August 10th, 2012 at 7:48 pm
4NYY— I’m impressed, I bet you’ve seen some movies in your time….
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Nah, no more than the avg. person. Seeing ‘em, but remembering’ little.
Was Swisher running on that ground ball to SS? I see they took Teix out at first instead of getting the lead runner.
Nice early lead. Keep the pressure on boys. This Jays team is no where near the same team without Bautista and Lawrie in the line-up.
UnKnown,
I think second was left abandoned on Texeira’s hit because of the shift they had on. Both Escobar and Johnson went for the ball, leaving nobody to cover the bag.
Was Swisher running on that ground ball to SS?
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Nobody covered 2nd.
thanks guys
Y isn’t Tex playing 1b? May cost us the game
Anybody see that feature on the Dream Team? Still on, but jeeze, they are all HOF. Unbelievable, best team in history, in any sport.
Freddy is makin’ me sweaty. Smoke ‘n mirrors Garcia has to just get us through until Andy returns…
Almost got nailed – hard to write – damn blue jays
“Anybody see that feature on the Dream Team?”
Again with the Olympic spoilers???? I have the ’92 Olympics on VHS, I was finally going to watch them this week and find out who won the basketball gold… I guess now I won’t bother.
Meatball Freddy dodged another bullet. let’s see long this high wire act’s going to last
Joe Casale ?@sportsJC16
Spoke too soon. Sweaty Freddy in the process of torching this lead. Usual poor performance from a #Yankees starter not named Kuroda.
warning…panic panic panic
Don’t we hear the same thin every time Freddy pitches? Throws a quality start most every game. Should be enough.
Nice of SJ to change his tune about Kuroda. He was dogging him earlier in the year.
The guy is still a fruitcake though.
SJ wanted Kuroda in the pen after one start.
Freddy The Corpse Garcia got us 5….enough….
Good evening everyone,
I see that the Chief is doing his thing
4 pitch inning….not bad.
Freddy didn’t torch it too badly that inning.
6 innings, 2 runs: that’s an actual quality start, and an official Quality Start Plus™.
Machado with 2 Hrs today for Baltimore. WOW!!
Yeah I know Blake. How insane, Kuroda to the pen???
Machado has hit two homers tonight
luis,
Freddy almost always does his job. The troll chorus is that he’s done, but he ain’t Another quality start. Maybe even has another inning in him. Hitters, step up!
If you can’t control this Blue Jay lineup…
Hi Tom,
I don’t think he is done…I think he is a pro..But I can’t deny that I wish that Phelps was pitching instead of him…Something to do about the future, but I do think that he does his job with the limited stuff he currently has
I see the Yankees are doing their normal again.
Thank God..
Intense Yankees fan on one side of me keeping stats
luis,
If Phelps had gone through six with two earned runs, we’d all be cheering. Why aren’t we when its Freddy?
BEFORE
SportsJC16
The good news, Andy Pettitte & Michael Pineda are a month away. The bad news, Kuroda may end up being a $10 million long man. #Yankees
Joe Casale ?@sportsJC16
AFTER
Spoke too soon. Sweaty Freddy in the process of torching this lead. Usual poor performance from a #Yankees starter not named Kuroda.
BEFORE
@ Scary scenario for Cash. Kuroda can’t hack the AL and his second best hitter may be in Seattle. Not how he drew it up this winter.
AFTER
What can we learn from Tabata & Montero’s struggles? Very, very few prospects are “can’t miss”. MLB is a tough business. #Yankees
Tom,
You do have a very good point there..So Go Freddy! He did his job!
Freddy did a good job, but that lineup sucks right now. You’d have to say the same for Phelps. Thing is, Phelps has a 2.42 ERA, Freddy 4.85.
Go Joba!
Joba! Not far enough below the screen:)
Who is the person you folks are copying tweets of?
Joba sighting!
Hi YF! Here at the game – thanks for the kind support the other nite
Joba,
I hate it, but this is what you’re doomed to do as long as you re a Yankee.
Crap
Phelps is 25 with a pulse…The corpse is uh…the corpse…
Tex!!
Atta boy, Teixy!
Hi, jmills. Enjoy the game; just not too much.
Teix,
Tell me you didn’t try to hit that one out. Don’t you understand? Supposed to be singles to left.
Joba looks good. He is going to be a big part of BP. His command is pretty sharp. Teix in the 8th
is big time.
Bloop and a bop==A cheap hit
Interesting with Nix…They gave him a chance with Nunez doing the strangeglove thing (love his bat though) and he blossomed as a below the radar guy…I am no fan of Cash but that was a helluva pickup…
Ichiro comes through again
Ichiribbies!!! Love ‘em.
Looks like the old Ichie!
Leave Joba in to pitch the 8TH?
When I was sky high over getting Ichiro I was told he was basically a shell of his former self and was chided for being psyched.
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6 Yankee runs, and all by way of the homer. Damned one dimensional team!
Oh wait…
Nasty pitch.
Joba juice has a good slider tonight.
what??
AAO,
Ditto: What?
A little quick there with the hook
Jets are tanking –17-3
trisha – true pinstriped blue August 10th, 2012 at 9:23 pm
6 Yankee runs, and all by way of the homer. Damned one dimensional team!
Oh wait…
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3 by Ichiro of course. Everyone knows Ichiro was a good addition for contact hitting.
1 by error, 1 by homerun, 1 by hit w/risp.
what in the world is wrong with Drob?
The need DRob to start pitching like Drob again badly
Girardi once again with the over-manage. D-Rob not very reliable these days..
big double play….Swisher isn’t terrible at 1B….kinda nice to have him be able to play over there.
“Girardi once again with the over-manage. D-Rob not very reliable these days..”
eh….I think Joe knows that he HAS to get Robertson right and the only way to really do that is to keep throwing him in these situations.
DRob IS pitching like DRob.
“DRob IS pitching like DRob.”
nah…the real DRob gives up bunches of baserunners but never any runs.
“3 by Ichiro of course. Everyone knows Ichiro was a good addition for contact hitting.”
1. Oh BULL. Go back and read the posts pal. Many did not think Ichiro was going to do much.
2. I don’t care if it’s Great Caesar’s ghost. 3 runs are 3 runs. And I don’t care if one is by error – someone had to be on to score. I don’t care if it’s hit w/risp. That didn’t cause the run to come in.
Stop trying to cheapen reality by spinning it every which way but loose.
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1. Jayson Nix hits a sac bunt. Cano scores.
2. Andruw Jones scores on an Ichiro ground out.
3. Swisher scores on a Cano single.
4. Tex homers
5. Nix and Martin score on an Ichiro single.
Sounds like lots of people got in on this party because of course people have to be on base in order to score. And no matter how they get on base, people have to hit them in.
Cap’n! Let’s add two or three here.
6. Swisher doubles in Jeter.
nice!
trish,
Jeter was on first, doesn’t count as RISP. Counts as a run and an RBI, though!
Mike Axisa ?@mikeaxisa
“Teixeira pulled his hands in tighter than 50 Shades of Grey.” — David Cone
Cone is on a roll tonight
How about a situational home,Raul?
7. Raul Ibanez singles in Nick Swisher
That worked, though.
Does anyone here realize what David Cone was referring to when he said that Teixeira got tied up tighter than someone in 50 Shades of Gray?
50 Shades of Gray is a series of books that involves sexual bondage.
“Jeter was on first, doesn’t count as RISP. Counts as a run and an RBI, though!”
tom, this isn’t about RISP. This about runs scored in ways other than the home run. You know, the Yankees are accused of being a one dimensional team because “all they do is hit home runs.”
Not quite true, is it.
I want my money back!
“Does anyone here realize what David Cone was referring to when he said that Teixeira got tied up tighter than someone in 50 Shades of Gray?”
yea….
trisha,
But don’t you understand that RISP is the key to the kingdom?
Cone is a nut.
“You know, the Yankees are accused of being a one dimensional team because “all they do is hit home runs.””
they do score runs sometimes in other ways….nobody said that’s the ONLY way they score….it’s just that they do score a great percentage of their runs via the homer on a lot of nights and their approach is to be patient….take walks….and hit 3 run homers….that’s the way the offense was built….Cashman has said as much.
I’ll take my own advice and give up trying to reason with Trisha, like it looks most others have…
Marc Carig ?@MarcCarig
RT @stw121191: @MarcCarig David Cone is referencing 50 shades of grey and making me uncomfortable #weirds
maybe Cone wants to be the lead in the movie…..
Mark Feinsand ?@BloggingBombers
Assuming the Yankees hang on, Freddy Garcia will be 4-3 with a 3.83 ERA since taking over for Pettitte. NYY couldn’t have asked for more.
nope….not really
“But don’t you understand that RISP is the key to the kingdom?”
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jmills, as you can imagine I’m sad for you. I hope Jays fans understand that theirs is a team so beset with injuries that they’re lucky to be able to field a team day to day.
Help me out here, official scorer.
Blake – where is that moonshine?
IChi
8. Ichiro doubles in Cano and Ibanez.
That’s because Ichiro’s washed up. He’s no longer fast, his fielding is off, and he doesn’t hit like he used to.
Trish. – thanks but still fun – the guy with the radar gun beside me works for you
That’s 5 Ichiribbies™ tonight.
“Blake – where is that moonshine?”
I’ll send you some….you can share it with the girl who spilled her beer
keithlaw ?@keithlaw
TMI. “@sarahmcox: I’m vaguely terrified that David Cone has read 50 Shade of Grey
“I’ll take my own advice and give up trying to reason with Trisha, like it looks most others have…”
Earth to jacksquat! Earth to jacksquat!
Yeah, because posters here are known for backing down. Silence is typically affirmation or a sign that someone has no counter argument. Give it up would ya. You’re making yourself look absolutely ridiculous. If you’re going to pull out the hackneyed default, at least use it on a night when you can back up what you’re saying.
Love Ichiro. He is going to be huge in October. The guy has been starving to be playing on a winning team for a quite some time now.
He is a 2 out RBI machine of late.
She’s spilt two at this point
Who’s pitching the 9th? Lost my feed.
“they do score runs sometimes in other ways….nobody said that’s the ONLY way they score….it’s just that they do score a great percentage of their runs via the homer on a lot of nights and their approach is to be patient….take walks….and hit 3 run homers….that’s the way the offense was built….Cashman has said as much.”
Oh come on blake. Don’t parse words. Team Offense has been about nothing BUT that. All the weeping about not having a “contact bat” we need to get a “contact bat” they should have traded for a “contact bat”. And please don’t try to sell me that Team Offense all gave praise to the contact bat god when Ichiro came on board because there were many skeptic posts (what, here at lohud?).
Times they are a-changin’. And with any luck they will continue to change.
Truth is very hard for some people, much easier for others. I was totally wrong about Kuroda. Quite simple to admit that. Not so easy for Team Offense to admit that things are looking up. Because then they would have been wrong about yammering nonstop about the inefficent offense.
Silence is typically affirmation or a sign that someone has no counter argument.
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In this case you’re using a single game as a counter to an argument about how the entire season up to this point has gone, which is silly.
It would be like someone saying Nunez is not a HR hitter, having him hit a HR in a game, and then you going ‘Everyone on here seems to enjoy saying Nunez is not a HR hitter! NOT QUITE TRUE, IS IT?’
Why is Girardi changing pitchers in this situation?
I was totally wrong about Kuroda. Quite simple to admit that.
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You also did not declare that over after his good second start.
The Yankees have some stolen bases.
They are predominately a non-running team.
If someone steals a base, it does not mean you are gonna go ‘HUR HUR the yankees are a non-running team right?!”
Anyway, great job Yanks. Cashman pulled himself together a multidimensional team. Kudos to him. The players finally realized that runs have to be scored in a variety of ways. And they apparently have the horses to do it. Kudos to them on every level.
Have a great night all. Onward and upward!
Blue Jays are kind of a disaster with so many injuries. Good chance for a sweep.
If the Red Sox get a good pitching performance, you’re not going to go ‘The red Sox DO HAVE PITCHING! See?!?!?!” You’re basically doing this same kind of fallacy.
Nite trish
“You also did not declare that over after his good second start.
Because two good starts was hardly enough to convince me that an NL pitcher coming to the AL East had it mastered, especially when my fear had to do with the AL East, not the two teams he mastered from the AL West.
Because two good starts was hardly enough to convince me that an NL pitcher coming to the AL East had it mastered, especially when my fear had to do with the AL East, not the two teams he mastered from the AL West.
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Ok good, now work through this. One game here or even a few out of 162 does not prove that the Yankees are not one dimensional.
Nice going, boys. Keep it up.
Congrats fans – post game show in the Subaru
“If the Red Sox get a good pitching performance, you’re not going to go ‘The red Sox DO HAVE PITCHING! See?!?!?!” You’re basically doing this same kind of fallacy.”
PUH-LEASE! That doesn’t even fall into the same league.
If the Sux started to get steady pitching I would be forced to take a look at it and question whether they actually did have a worthy rotation.
Team Offense likes to keep the blinders on and look only through their homer kaleidoscopes so that no matter which way they turn it, all they see is homers.
Night now.
“Ok good, now work through this. One game here or even a few out of 162 does not prove that the Yankees are not one dimensional.”
Keep looking through that homer kaleidoscope now. You’ll be sure to miss the surge happening right in front of your eyes.
GOOD JOB FREDDY!
Night yankee fans. Better luck tomorrow jmills, at least in keeping it close.
Time for DVRd olympics.
“In this case you’re using a single game as a counter to an argument about how the entire season up to this point has gone, which is silly.”
ABSOLUTELY FALSE. I’ve pointed it out many times when the Yanks have had multi-hit and run-scored games.
I am not going to bother reading anymore of your typical attempts at torpedoing. If you made any other comments, I’m sure they’re of the same ilk. Smoke screening.
Keep looking through that homer kaleidoscope now. You’ll be sure to miss the surge happening right in front of your eyes.
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On April 8th they won 8-3 vs the twins with a solo HR and 7 other runs. And that was in the middle of probably their worst RISP stretch. You have a non-argument until they score a lot like this as a regular thing.
ABSOLUTELY FALSE. I’ve pointed it out many times when the Yanks have had multi-hit and run-scored games.
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They hit poorly with RISP (as you’ve admitted) and 50% of their runs come via HR. The other 50% is going to come from not-HR, so how are you disproving anything?
No one wants them to even up their distribution by scoring less runs via HR. They want them to score MORE runs via not HR.
They are on pace to score the 2nd least amount of runs in like a decade as a team. Keep homering, make the other facet more consistent.
By way of for instance. The 2009 Yankees, who almost set a record for HRs by a single team (or did I forget) scored 40% of their runs via HR. Thats 10% less than the 2012 team. They also scored 130 more runs than the 2012 team is on pace for. So scoring about a run more per game… and hitting monster amounts of HRs… but that percentage is lower.
Thats what we’re talking about!