2012 ALCS: Yankees vs Tigers

[jacksonianmarch]

Game 1; Pettitte vs Fister, Saturday 10/13/2012- 7:30pm

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

At most Yankees win 2 games, I say they win 1 unless they show a better performance last series. They play like they did with the Orioles, they're going to get ROCKED.

[a700hitter]

I guess Valverde doesn't look right to Leyland, because with a 4 run lead they have Dotel backing him up in the pen.

[a700hitter]

Ichiro was such a good pickup for the yanks. He is the only one hitting on their team.

[Brennan]

Valverde wants to give it away now.

[Brennan]

Way to do your effing job Valverde.

[mvp 78]

Valverde is a grade A piece of s***. Really.

[a700hitter]

Leyland knew that he didn't look right. He should have given him the hook after the Ichiro HR.

[a700hitter]

WTF kind of late inning bullpen gives up a 4 spot to a struggling team in the 9th inning of a playoff game.

[Brennan]

Leyland had Octavio "don't ask" Dotel ready to back him up and he watched Valverde slowly s*** all over himself. Game was locked up for the Tigers and Valverde wrapped it, put a bow on it and handed it over.

[Brennan]

I'm gonna be sick.

[Brennan]

Leyland channeled his inner Grady Little.

[Taz]

Valverde is a massive liability. After what happened in the ALDS the other night & again tonight, blowing a 4 run lead in the 9th, I doubt he'll be closing for the rest of the post season. Talk about letting the Wankees off the hook.

 

As for Ibanez, FFS! Incredible pinch hitting this post season.

[a700hitter]

Leyland is an *******. He and Valverde gave this game away. You can't give away a game in a short series.

[jacksonianmarch]

I just got home. Insane how they blow every opportunity innings 1-8 and then just kick ass against closers. It's unreal. And Ibanez deserves a f***ing statue

[jung]

ML managers are so stupid they should be castrated so they cannot have offspring.

 

How many rules did Leyland break there.

1) do not bring in your closer in a non-save situation

2) do not risk game 1 of a seven game series in this case to "see what Valverde had"

3) when your pitcher is giving up a run for every out he is recording, it might be time to simply say he does not have it and get him outta' there

 

Valverde had Tex 0-2 and let him off the hook. There was nobody on base so Valverde could have challenged Tex without loosing the game when the count got to 2-2 and he was unwilling to challenge him....Remind anybody of anything from the Cards/Nats game last night?

 

On top of that, Valverde was throwing meatballs all inning....had already given up a 2 run HR to Ichiro of all people and the mistakes he was making were just the kind of mistakes that would allow Raul to get his arms extended.

 

It was a mistake to bring Valverde in to begin with because taking game 1 is more valuable to the Tigers than whatever the hell Leyland was trying to do with or for Valverde. Having brought him in, he should have been out of the game when he walked Tex. I just cannot believe how Showalter managed in that series and Leyland is not doing much better so far.

[jacksonianmarch]

You bring in your closer to close out games. It didnt matter that it wasnt a save situation, it is obviously a situation where the Yankees could come back.

[jacksonianmarch]

f***ING STEAL SECOND BASE!!

[Divinity]

f***ING STEAL SECOND BASE!!

 

They're keeping him on a short leash.

[jacksonianmarch]

I hate Miguel Cabrera

[Divinity]

Swisher f***ing sucks

[a700hitter]

I think Jeter just blew out his knee

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

They couldn't hold a 4 run lead, I find it impossible to get my hopes up

[Divinity]

Game Over

[Brennan]

[a700hitter]

I think Jeter's SS career just ended. The heart was cut out of the Yankees tonight-- October 14, 2012.

[Brennan]

:lol:

[a700hitter]

Wow, a fractured ankle. I don't think I have seen a guy break an ankle fielding a ground ball.

[Laser Show]

That ankle was already gimpy though, there had to be something going on structurally already. I've never seen an ankle break that easily.

[jung]

While I do not think Valverde should have been brought into the game it hardly matters. Once he refused to challenge Tex 2-2 having had him 0-2, Valverde himself had raised the white flag and had to come out at that point especially with LH, white hot hitting Raul coming up.

 

Managers need to start acknowledging that Raul is the hottest hitter the Yankees have and is in fact the only hitter the Yankees have at the moment that can hurt you. Instead of seeing a white hot hitter that is the only true threat the Yankees have at the moment, they see a 40 year old that does not even start....stupid.

 

Everybody acknowledges that the teams that you have to worry about going into and in the post season are the teams that get hot. So why don't managers use the same logic with regard to players? Because in the main they are dumb as dirt. Showalter refused to acknowledge Raul and probably got bounced from the post season for it. Leyland made the same mistake tonight and almost lost the game because of it.