April 8th Orioles @ Yankees

[yankees228]

Game is about to start.

Bedard Vs. Rasner

 

Yankees Lineup:

Cabrera CF

Jeter SS

Abreu RF

AROD 3B

Giambi DH

Phelps 1B

Cano 2B

Cairo LF

Nieves C

[Cocos Disciples]

Yikes, Phelps is hitting before Cano? Why?

[a700hitter]

The bottom of this order is worse than ours.

[yankees228]

Yikes' date=' Phelps is hitting before Cano? Why?[/quote']

 

I guess to break up Giambi and Cano (both lefties). It also makes the bottom of the order stronger.

 

Three hard hit balls, only one hit though off Rasner.

 

EDIT: Nice pitch by Rasner on Tejada, inning over. Tejada is not off to the same kind of start he was last year against the Yankees.

[yankees228]

Alright, a little bit of small ball produces a run. And then AROD takes the first pitch out. Good start.

[Optimist]

Wow...when he's on, it's quite a show.

[riverside sluggers]

Arod for 2007 MVP... yea I said it

[yankees228]

Arod for 2007 MVP... yea I said it

 

I wouldn't be surprised, he might be playing for a new contract.

 

Millar hits a bomb, rasner has got to keep it down.

[yankees228]

Might be in for another slugfest. At least Rasner hasn't thrown a ton of pitches so far. With the way the bottom of the Yankees order looks today, it would be nice it Rasner could pick it up a bit.

[yankees228]

Can't let Roberts get on in front of the big bats.

 

EDIT: I'll take it, got a bit lucky.

[yankees228]

Damn, that was a really nice pitch.

 

EDIT: Snuck out of it.

[RedSoxRooter]

Bakobino!

[yankees228]

Rasner is pitching with blisters on his throwing hands, the Yanks are really desperate for length from their starters.

[riverside sluggers]

:lol:

 

Please tell me Im reading this wrong... Paul Bako, the same Bako who last year hit .209 with 10 RBIs... hit a clutch 3 run HR to put the O's on top? His last homerun was back in 2004 when he was with the Cubs.

 

Well the first run though of the 1-5 Yankees starters hasnt been all that grand, who knows if they didnt have a lights out bullpen

[BruinsFan]

Yup, you're reading it right.

 

A-Rod is now god in NYC, right?

[CrespoBlows]

:lol:

 

Please tell me Im reading this wrong... Paul Bako, the same Bako who last year hit .209 with 10 RBIs... hit a clutch 3 run HR to put the O's on top? His last homerun was back in 2004 when he was with the Cubs.

 

Well the first run though of the 1-5 Yankees starters hasnt been all that grand, who knows if they didnt have a lights out bullpen

 

Paul Bako is clutch, now? Jesus, do you throw that tag on everybody?

[Optimist]

Pettitte comes on in relief.

[yankees228]

Pettitte comes on in relief.

 

They are really really really desperate.

[example1]

Craziness. Pettitte in in relief in the 5th game of the year? Is this team's pitching hurting that much?

[riverside sluggers]

I thought yahoo! sports was having a glitch when i saw his picture in the game's box score, huh ok. Makes sense considering the starters through the first 5 games havent been able to pitch decent ammount of innings. Through 4 games the bullpen already has had to work 18.2 innings

[Optimist]

Thanks in part to Pettitte himself (his 4 innings earlier this week), yes.

[yankees228]

Thanks in part to Pettitte himself (his 4 innings earlier this week)' date=' yes.[/quote']

 

Snow with the sun out, weird.

 

I wonder if Pettitte will come out for a second inning.

[Optimist]

Cano-no

[yankees228]

It's not even that he dropped the popup, stuff like that happens, it's that he put his head down and didn't run after the ball. If he goes after the ball and Jeter can stay on the bag Tejada may not go, or if he does they may throw him out. Those are the kind of mental errors his made in his first year.

[Cocos Disciples]

Yikes, Pettitte in relief? The pitching and defense has REAAALLLLYY struggled so far.

 

What an AB by Damon, capped off by a triple.

 

As for Rod, it's not like it's some miracle that he's now hitting. He's always hit. I don't believe in clutch. It comes and goes. It came at the perfect time for him last night. Good for him.

[example1]

Every single freaking Yankees game goes like this it seams. Yankees fall behind by quite a few, work counts, put guys on, pitchers lose strike zone, yankee hitters score runs.

 

I would like to just watch a game where the yankees go down quietly... and Michael Kay does too. Argh!

[Cocos Disciples]

John Parrish escaped that one by a hair. I'm watching on Gameday; is it true that he threw 4 straight balls in the dirt to Giambi after going up 0-2?

[yankees228]

Phelps really has trouble with any kind of decent offspeed stuff. The kind of offspeed stuff that he didn't see in spring training. He is going to have improve on that, and considering standing closer to the plate if he wants to continue to play against lefties.

[yankees228]

John Parrish escaped that one by a hair. I'm watching on Gameday; is it true that he threw 4 straight balls in the dirt to Giambi after going up 0-2?

 

Three straight, then a foul tip, then the fourth.

[example1]

Yankees lose. THAAAA Yankees lose.