October 4th, Yankees @ Angels: ALDS Game 1

[AlexanderTheGreat13]

Omg Horrible Play By Vlad. What Was He Thinking? They Must Have Put On A Hit And Run Because Him Stright Stealing Down 4-0 Makes No Sense. But thanks anyway!

[AlexanderTheGreat13]

Good job by Lieter.

[AlexanderTheGreat13]

wow can we please stop using sturtze? Hes a f***ing HR machine.

[JeterWifey213]

I love Sturtzie, but good f*** man keep the damn ball in the park! 4-1.

[AlexanderTheGreat13]

Gordon gets 4 outs and its Rivera time.

[HOFer51]

Yankees go up 1 - 0 and win their most questionable game. This has the makings of a possible sweep.

[AlexanderTheGreat13]

Yankees win game 1. Mussina was GREAT. You couldnt ask for much more at all. Gordon got 4 huge outs and that was it. Good win...this assures us that RJ will be pitching at worst with the series at 1-1.

[Are U Kidding Me]

Yankees go up 1 - 0 and win their most questionable game. This has the makings of a possible sweep.

 

 

A Sweep?? No way the yankees are sweeping the Angels. I still think Angels will advance.

[AlexanderTheGreat13]

A Sweep?? No way the yankees are sweeping the Angels. I still think Angels will advance.

"ARE U KIDDING ME" lmao

[JeterWifey213]

This has the makings of a possible sweep.

 

Be still my heart, lol. I would love this, cause I don't know if we can battle this series out with the Angels.

 

Overall it was a good game. Colon only used his fastball and his location was horrible, when he need his breaking stuff he couldn't spot it. Hopefully tomorrow Wang has his power sinker, and gets a lot of ground balls. If you keep Figgins and Cabrera off the bases, it will be good. As long as Vlad comes up with no one on.

[26 to 6]

I was very pleased with this game. Im not going to say that we're gonna sweep them, but we sure have the ability if we play like this.

 

1) Moose looked fantastic, I was kind of disappointed that he came out so soon, but it made sense with the lefty up.

2) Very pleased to see Leiter come through like that. Ive been pretty confident that when given the chance in a big spot, Leiter would be good. We still have to see more though.

3) I dont know what it is with Sturtze. Last year he was great in the 6th inning role. After Quantrill struggled a little bit in the 7th inning role this year and Sturtze got promoted he looked pretty good. But seems like he just declined as time went on. I have no confidence in this guy in the 7th inning role. I think we give that to Small from now on and use Sturtze in the 6th if needed. But I dont think id feel comfortable even with him there. Better luck for him next year.

4) Kay and Justice made a good point on the postgame about Cano and how "he giveth and he taketh away". He makes good plays in the field but still sometimes makes bad plays. I cant get on him too m uch about the play that he tried to backhand, because that looked pretty tough and I cant blame him for playing it from the side rather than taking a chance and losing a tooth or something with it coming up on him. It was a tough hop to judge. And on the double play he rushed his throw, which he didnt have to do. But all in all im happy with the defense he provides. And lets not forget how good he's been with the bat.

5) I was going to include this in number four but i think it deserves its own number. How about Cano coming through in the clutch. He gets moved up to 6th and comes through big. We could possibly have another top postseason performer for years to come in Robby. Maybe like another Jeter or Bernie. (Obviously too early to determine that, im just saying though) And did you guys notice how every time he drove the ball to the opposite field (icould obviously be wrong, there might have been an AB where didnt line it to the opposite field, but off the top of my head seems like every time up he hit it to left). Seems like no matter where you put the ball hes going to take it and do with it what needs to be done.

 

If we can play ball like this the entire postseason then I think we'll be in good shape. We got timely hits, we got good pitching, the bullpen came through (obviously with the exception of Benji's homer off Sturtze), just an overall good game.

 

Looking forward to tomorrows game.

BTW, horrible job by Major League Baseball and ESPN scheduling this game for 10et. This seems to be an issue every year. I dont understand why ESPN cant show the Astros game at 1 (rather than 4), show the Sox game at 4 (rather than 7) and show the Yankee game at 7 or 8 (rather than 10). Its ridiculous.

[26 to 6]

JeterWifey, while your scenarios in your sig are very heartwarming, if Embree is EVER facing Ortiz in the Bottom of the 9th with the bases loaded then I would lead the way in the campaign to fire Torre.

 

And we all know how much I love Torre and have defended him this entire year.

[JeterWifey213]

JeterWifey, while your scenarios in your sig are very heartwarming, if Embree is EVER facing Ortiz in the Bottom of the 9th with the bases loaded then I would lead the way in the campaign to fire Torre.

 

And we all know how much I love Torre and have defended him this entire year.

 

LOL, I didn't make them up one of my Sox friends did. The person was saying that this would probably be the way the Sox loose. I would have an epilepsy if he was pitching to Ortiz AT ALL, he deserves to sit in the bull pen and not even get up.

 

Firing Torre, I can't get into this. Just that possibility makes me sick, I love the man. He is one of the reasons we have been so dominant through out the years.

 

Now Game 2 a waits! I need some rest or I will need a lot of liquid crack to keep me awake.

 

BTW what the hell is wrong with the game times?! I need my damn sleep, I do need to get up at the crack of dawn to get an edumacation! Ugh, when will they stop being incompetent asses and schedule s*** correctly!

[ORS]

Believe it or not, but the MLB doesn't schedule games to make life easier on east coast high school kids. Game 1 of the series started at 5:00 pm local time in LA, and there were a bunch of empty seats in the first couple of innings due to the start time. People work and LA traffic sucks, so many couldn't make it by game time. Yesterday's game was for the east coast market, tonight's will be for the west coast. Seems fair to me.

[HOFer51]

Believe it or not, but the MLB doesn't schedule games to make life easier on east coast high school kids. Game 1 of the series started at 5:00 pm local time in LA, and there were a bunch of empty seats in the first couple of innings due to the start time. People work and LA traffic sucks, so many couldn't make it by game time. Yesterday's game was for the east coast market, tonight's will be for the west coast. Seems fair to me.

F those west coast surfers. More people live on the east coast, we're more improtant to their ratings. :thumbdown

 

All joking aside, I'm glad I can sleep in the afternoon to be fresh for the 10 PM game. :thumbsup:

[26 to 6]

Believe it or not, but the MLB doesn't schedule games to make life easier on east coast high school kids. Game 1 of the series started at 5:00 pm local time in LA, and there were a bunch of empty seats in the first couple of innings due to the start time. People work and LA traffic sucks, so many couldn't make it by game time. Yesterday's game was for the east coast market, tonight's will be for the west coast. Seems fair to me.

Good Point if you put it that way.

[JeterWifey213]

If you put it that way, I understand but seriously the biggest baseball markets IMO are on the east coast. But whatever, Starbucks + Redbull here I come! Lets see if the guys can pull out a win, heading 2-0 w/ Turkey pitching @ the stadium sounds good.