2009 Yankees Game Thread

[yankees228]

Fair enough. My main reason I brought up Rivera is that you mentioned Girardi, whose move you are questioning is directly related to Rivera.

[a700hitter]

Fair enough. My main reason I brought up Rivera is that you mentioned Girardi' date=' whose move you are questioning is directly related to Rivera.[/quote'].. but I would have questioned Girardi's move even if Mo had a 1,2,3 inning. It was the wrong move not because of Mo's performance, but because the rest of the pen stinks and he could have gotten another inning from his ace before using his closer. Girardi is a terrible manager. I'd like to see him in pinstripes for 10 years.

[yankees228]

.. but I would have questioned Girardi's move even if Mo had a 1' date='2,3 inning. It was the wrong move not because of Mo's performance, but because the rest of the pen stinks and he could have gotten another inning from his ace before using his closer. Girardi is a terrible manager. I'd like to see him in pinstripes for 10 years.[/quote']

 

It is a bad move, but it is not responsible, in any way, for the loss.

 

I'm not going to continue to repeat myself, so let me try an analogy.

 

There is a left handed specialist in the bullpen, who you really trust late in the game, but only against lefties. His team is up by a run, late in the game, and the first two batters of the inning are going to be a really good RHH and a really good LHH. The proper move, obviously, is to let someone else get out the RHH, and then bring in the lefty specialist to get out the LHH. However, the manager goes to his lefty specialist in order to get both the RHH and the LHH out. This is the wrong move. The lefty specialist proceeds to get the RHH out, but then gives up a home run to the LHH. In this situation, the manager made the wrong move, but his move is not responsible for the home run.

[Gom]

I'm glad that I didn't see the game, and spent the day at the park. That was the only good thing about today.

[a700hitter]

It is a bad move, but it is not responsible, in any way, for the loss.

 

I'm not going to continue to repeat myself, so let me try an analogy.

 

There is a left handed specialist in the bullpen, who you really trust late in the game, but only against lefties. His team is up by a run, late in the game, and the first two batters of the inning are going to be a really good RHH and a really good LHH. The proper move, obviously, is to let someone else get out the RHH, and then bring in the lefty specialist to get out the LHH. However, the manager goes to his lefty specialist in order to get both the RHH and the LHH out. This is the wrong move. The lefty specialist proceeds to get the RHH out, but then gives up a home run to the LHH. In this situation, the manager made the wrong move, but his move is not responsible for the home run.

Poor analogy, but we agree that Girardi's move was the wrong move.

[ORS]

ORS, question...

 

I use brooksbaseball.net, however there are two things that I can't find (I understand this is probably a stupid question). How do you get the charts that are color coded to show what the pitch types are, and how do you get the charts that are color coded to show what happened on each pitch (called strike, swinging strike, ball, in play, etc.)?

Near the top of the page, after where you've selected the date, game, and pitcher, there is another set of drop downs where you can change the charts to display by pitch type, or extra detailed (where you see called strikes, swinging strikes, balls, balls in play for outs, hits, runs, etc). Just before the charts is a link to see the called pitches for all pitchers in the game.

[yankees228]

Near the top of the page' date=' after where you've selected the date, game, and pitcher, there is another set of drop downs where you can change the charts to display by pitch type, or extra detailed (where you see called strikes, swinging strikes, balls, balls in play for outs, hits, runs, etc). Just before the charts is a link to see the called pitches for all pitchers in the game.[/quote']

 

Great, thank you.

[a700hitter]

If Longoria plays today, I am calling a 450 foot shot off Joba. I want to see Joba's fist pump after that.

[yankees228]

If Longoria plays today' date=' I am calling a 450 foot shot off Joba. I want to see Joba's fist pump after that.[/quote']

 

Not in the lineup.

[Cocos Disciples]

Link? Baseball Tonight says he is.

 

EDIT: Nevermind, he's out.

[a700hitter]

Controversy at Yankee Stadium. Mo says he wanted to pitch to Longoria, because he was cold coming off the bench. Girardi had Longoria walked to face Upton. Also, CC was not pleased with being lifted after the 8th. It's only a matter of time before Girardi alienates half of the team.

[yankees228]

A-Rod may have cost the Yanks a run by not running out of the box on that pop-up.

[jacksonianmarch]

winning will fix that problem

[yankees228]

winning will fix that problem

 

I second that. And Girardi makes some wrong moves, but he is not costing them games.

[yankees228]

Joba goes to three balls way too much.

 

EDIT: And A-Rod's play saves them a run. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like Joba is going to be able to duplicate the velocity he had in his previous start.

[jacksonianmarch]

Joba is sitting about 93mph right now. The highest I saw was 96.

[yankees228]

Joba is sitting about 93mph right now. The highest I saw was 96.

 

Yeah, his velocity seems to be increasing as the game has gone on.

[yankees228]

Great, so much bunting...

 

EDIT: Girardi calls for the bunt much too often.

 

EDIT 2: Huge waste. Might have been a different inning if Jeter hadn't fallen into a two strike hole trying to bunt, but Damon and Teixeira did a bad job as well.

[jacksonianmarch]

we f*** up another great opportunity to score

[yankees228]

we f*** up another great opportunity to score

 

I know I said this yesterday, and I know they scored eight runs on Thursday and seven runs yesterday, but they are not swinging the bats well.

[yankees228]

Joba going to his change-up a little more than usual.

 

And he picks a bad time here to fall behind.

[jacksonianmarch]

Melky with the nice play, although Gardy catches that ball standing up

[yankees228]

Poor control from Joba today, but he's done a decent job. Biggest batter of the game, to this point...

[jacksonianmarch]

Joba's FB command has been s***

[jacksonianmarch]

f***ing garbage, if you didnt f***ing walk Joyce, you'd be out of it you ****

[yankees228]

Joba's FB command has been s***

 

Yeah, even though that was a grounder, the pitch was up. The last few games have been very poorly played by the Yankees, in almost all facets.

[jacksonianmarch]

he's cooked, get him out of there

[jacksonianmarch]

6IP 5H 3ER 1BB 3K. Good start, but he can be so maddening. His command was all over the place today

[yankees228]

A-Rod is horrible right now. He keeps getting ahead, keeps getting pitches to hit, and keeps missing them. Very similar to what Teixeira was doing early in the year.

[a700hitter]

Garza only went 5 innings. Tampa has to get 4 innings from its pen. This still has the potential for the Yankees to win in a blowout.