06/30/19 Yankees (Tarpley) @ Red Sox (E-Rod)

[TylerD]

I don’t even know what to say anymore. We are 1-5 against this team and now 2 games out of a Wild Card spot. Crap Rod is pitching so we are likely screwed. Please prove me wrong and not ruin my entire weekend.

[moonslav59]

I don’t even know what to say anymore. We are 1-5 against this team and now 2 games out of a Wild Card spot. Crap Rod is pitching so we are likely screwed. Please prove me wrong and not ruin my entire weekend.

 

It does seem like once it all seems lost, this team lights the candle again.

[jung]

All I can say for this game is that it has an early enough start time not to upset my stomach from dinner. In fact, I might avoid breakfast. Why just set myself up for a stomach disorder.

[TylerD]

It does seem like once it all seems lost, this team lights the candle again.

 

True point moon. Hope that happens today.

[TylerD]

All I can say for this game is that it has an early enough start time not to upset my stomach from dinner. In fact, I might avoid breakfast. Why just set myself up for a stomach disorder.

 

Haha that’s true. It will be over before I have my first meal of the day. Granted if my kid lets me sleep I likely won’t be up for it but that’s wishful thinking.

[jung]

These are not baseball games. This is a whacked out version of Manfred-ball.

- field surface sucked

- lighting sucked

- mound sucked

- pitching sucked (ours worse than theirs)

- manipulation of the schedules so they could get 3 days off out of 5 to make this ghoulish trip sucked

- and of course the rocket ship baseball makes the trip across the pond and it of course....sucks

 

THIS IS NOT BASEBALL. This is Manfred-ball.

 

Probably had Manfred elves out there rebuilding that mound under cover of darkness last night.

Edited June 30, 2019 by jung

[jacksonianmarch]

Disagree on the air or whatever. I watched the first four innings. Neither starter had life on their fastball. Both of their sliders had a loop to them. They were more slurves than sliders, and slurves are far easier to recognize and lay off of. Both Tanaka and Porcello’s 2 seamers were wild or lacked the typical down and in movement to a RHH. Both of them came out flat and the hitters were ready.

 

If it was the lighting, the pitchers would have the advantage. The ball wasnt “jumping” out of the stadium either. Every ball struck was center cut. In YS or Fenway, there may have been a few more dingers or wall balls.

 

Maybe it was the jet lag? Maybe the two starters took in the sights more than adhered to a routine. Either way, I doubt we see a Yanks-Sox game over there again.

 

Today we are avoiding our old lefties on makeshift turf. I am worried about this field for safety issues. Hastily built fields usually lead to injuries and seeing Voit and Bogey go down doesn’t sway me from that position. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Yanks rest Judge and Sanchez today just to avoid injury

Edited June 30, 2019 by jacksonianmarch

[jung]

Disagree on the air or whatever. I watched the first four innings. Neither starter had life on their fastball. Both of their sliders had a loop to them. They were more slurves than sliders, and slurves are far easier to recognize and lay off of. Both Tanaka and Porcello’s 2 seamers were wild or lacked the typical down and in movement to a RHH. Both of them came out flat and the hitters were ready.

 

If it was the lighting, the pitchers would have the advantage. The ball wasnt “jumping” out of the stadium either. Every ball struck was center cut. In YS or Fenway, there may have been a few more dingers or wall balls.

 

 

Maybe it was the jet lag? Maybe the two starters took in the sights more than adhered to a routine. Either way, I doubt we see a Yanks-Sox game over there again.

 

Today we are avoiding our old lefties on makeshift turf. I am worried about this field for safety issues. Hastily built fields usually lead to injuries and seeing Voit and Bogey go down doesn’t sway me from that position. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Yanks rest Judge and Sanchez today just to avoid injury

 

You have to see it to catch it ....or have we just abandoned catching the baseball as part of baseball. ******** series...******** Manfred-ball.

[jung]

1. DJ LeMahieu ® 1B

2. Aaron Judge ® RF

3. Aaron Hicks (S) CF

4. Gary Sanchez ® C

5. Edwin Encarnacion ® DH

6. Didi Gregorius (L) SS

7. Gleyber Torres ® 2B

8. Gio Urshela ® 3B

9. Brett Gardner (L) LF

 

 

1. Mookie Betts ® RF

2. Rafael Devers (L) 3B

3. Xander Bogaerts ® SS

4. J.D. Martinez ® DH

5. Michael Chavis ® 1B

6. Christian Vazquez ® C

7. Jackie Bradley Jr. (L) CF

8. Eduardo Nunez ® 2B

9. Sam Travis ® LF

 

f***tard Beni sitting....finally....Cora discovers the only way to protect Beni in the batting order....DON"T PUT HIM IN THE LINEUP.

[OH FOY]

Yanks won this series even if we split. Gain nothing, just lose 2 more games to schedule. Sweep were 12 in the loss column. I don't care about Games behind, its the loss column I look at as season gets shorter. 12 were reaching critical time.

[OH FOY]

Yanks are struggling against Lefties this year. E-Rod throws strikes we get the split, at least.

[bkzwhitestrican]

Media asked the Yanks pitchers if there was anything wrong with the mound and they actually said it was one of the better mounds they've had. Maybe every pitcher just sucked all at once?

[OH FOY]

Last 10 games LeMahieu is hitting .537 with 16 runs scored and 18 RBI's, pretty good signing. Cora would probably rest him, we need him for Sept.

You got to start thinking MVP for this guy.

Edited June 30, 2019 by OH FOY!

[OH FOY]

Looks like Tarpley is a reliever. Made 1 start this year, and hasn't started a game in the Minors since, 2016. He's 4-0 in Triple AAA with a 1.75 era, but again just 1 Start.

[jung]

Media asked the Yanks pitchers if there was anything wrong with the mound and they actually said it was one of the better mounds they've had. Maybe every pitcher just sucked all at once?

 

What would you expect them to say? Part in bold....admission that no two mounds are alike and the only likely truthful statement from them.

 

You could literally see Tanaka coming up short on the landing area as there would appear to not be enough slope or at least not as much as these guys are used to seeing. Why do you think everything was up and flat? Pitches were just rolling up to the plate. 17-13 score and its just lousy pitching?????

 

This is the MLB spec:

The pitcher's plate must be a 24-inch by 6-inch slab of whitened rubber that is 10 inches above the level of home plate and 60 feet, 6 inches away from the back point of home plate. It is placed 18 inches behind the center of the mound -- which is erected within an 18-foot diameter circle -- and surrounded by a level area that is 5 feet by 34 inches. The slope of the pitcher's mound begins 6 inches in front of the pitcher's plate and must gradually decrease by 1 inch every foot for 6 feet in the direction of home plate.

 

It would appear that somebody missed on the slope with Tanaka IMO showing the most discomfort with the landing area.... Porcello next. Wright seemed to have the least trouble with the slope. But he does not really extend that much toward home plate...less so with that gimpy knee. I really did not pay that much attention after that. The entire game was a cluster. 17-13.....PLEASE. If I knew a football game was going to break out I would not have bothered.

 

Notice the specs above are very precise though I have NEVER stepped on two different mounds and found them exactly the same. It takes very little change in slope to f*** with the pitcher's landing foot. He is really only "landing" on a very small area. The tires on your car are relatively wide....the actual contact patch with the pavement.....not so much.

 

Mounds are built with a plateau and a flat area beyond the slope and generally they are built one inch at a time from the peak and plateau to the flat area. Its easy to screw up with patience and attention to detail and the clay itself the only real tools one has. Where did they get the clay.....Anybody know? They got that s*** surface from someplace in France....why....how the f*** would I know!

[notin]

Disagree on the air or whatever. I watched the first four innings. Neither starter had life on their fastball. Both of their sliders had a loop to them. They were more slurves than sliders, and slurves are far easier to recognize and lay off of. Both Tanaka and Porcello’s 2 seamers were wild or lacked the typical down and in movement to a RHH. Both of them came out flat and the hitters were ready.

 

If it was the lighting, the pitchers would have the advantage. The ball wasnt “jumping” out of the stadium either. Every ball struck was center cut. In YS or Fenway, there may have been a few more dingers or wall balls.

 

Maybe it was the jet lag? Maybe the two starters took in the sights more than adhered to a routine. Either way, I doubt we see a Yanks-Sox game over there again.

 

Today we are avoiding our old lefties on makeshift turf. I am worried about this field for safety issues. Hastily built fields usually lead to injuries and seeing Voit and Bogey go down doesn’t sway me from that position. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Yanks rest Judge and Sanchez today just to avoid injury

 

 

Neither starter had life? Those guys were throwing 145 kph out there!!

[notin]

1. DJ LeMahieu ® 1B

2. Aaron Judge ® RF

3. Aaron Hicks (S) CF

4. Gary Sanchez ® C

5. Edwin Encarnacion ® DH

6. Didi Gregorius (L) SS

7. Gleyber Torres ® 2B

8. Gio Urshela ® 3B

9. Brett Gardner (L) LF

 

 

1. Mookie Betts ® RF

2. Rafael Devers (L) 3B

3. Xander Bogaerts ® SS

4. J.D. Martinez ® DH

5. Michael Chavis ® 1B

6. Christian Vazquez ® C

7. Jackie Bradley Jr. (L) CF

8. Eduardo Nunez ® 2B

9. Sam Travis ® LF

 

f***tard Beni sitting....finally....Cora discovers the only way to protect Beni in the batting order....DON"T PUT HIM IN THE LINEUP.

 

 

See why I’ve been saying since December this team needs a fourth outfielder?

 

They didn’t use JD Martinez and put XXX at DH...

[notin]

Last 10 games LeMahieu is hitting .537 with 16 runs scored and 18 RBI's, pretty good signing. Cora would probably rest him, we need him for Sept.

You got to start thinking MVP for this guy.

 

 

It’s amazing how many people in hindsight wish we had Le Mahieu.

 

The Sox didn’t have any bliss anywhere’s in the infield this off-season. Pedroia was still in play and the Sox had Nunez and Holt.

 

Considering how many voids the Sox actually had where Dombrowski did nothing, why are we suddenly complaining about a void he didn’t have where he did nothing?

[Bellhorn04]

See why I’ve been saying since December this team needs a fourth outfielder?

 

They didn’t use JD Martinez and put XXX at DH...

 

Sam Travis will make you eat those words today. Today is the Day of Sam.

[OH FOY]

Last 36 games JBJ is hitting .320 with 9 HRS and 11 Doubles. That's some serious hitting. Edited June 30, 2019 by OH FOY!

[jung]

See why I’ve been saying since December this team needs a fourth outfielder?

 

They didn’t use JD Martinez and put XXX at DH...

 

I think they thought that "other OFer" was Pearce errrrr......Holt.......errrrr.....Brian Johnson?????

 

Much has gone wrong this year for a team with this much talent but no depth.

[OH FOY]

Sam Travis will make you eat those words today. Today is the Day of Sam.

 

Like your thinking.

[OH FOY]

It’s amazing how many people in hindsight wish we had Le Mahieu.

 

The Sox didn’t have any bliss anywhere’s in the infield this off-season. Pedroia was still in play and the Sox had Nunez and Holt.

 

Considering how many voids the Sox actually had where Dombrowski did nothing, why are we suddenly complaining about a void he didn’t have where he did nothing?

 

You don't think he's not in the discussion for MVP? That was a good signing by the Yanks, worked out good for them. He was signed and they had Absolutely no room for him, infield all set, Outfield too. Yet they signed him. They couldn't know all the injuries.

Edited June 30, 2019 by OH FOY!

[jung]

So Cubs and Cardinals apparently going over to London next year. What Manfred....you don't think this thing deserves a mercy killing?

 

Oh I see....its your idea.....Never mind.

[bosoxmal]

Today's game will answer all that. I think MLB is woeeying about nextyear;s gane. I today is another 30 run game, the evidence will tell us the story

[jung]

Today's game will answer all that. I think MLB is woeeying about nextyear;s gane. I today is another 30 run game, the evidence will tell us the story

 

Oh NO....I INSIST THEY GO NEXT YEAR. MLB is insistent that it will make a fool of itself.....I am not only not going to stand in their way now that we have been sucked into their continuing madness. I insist EVERYBODY get a shot at being a part of this further embarrassment.

[jung]

Look at that sky. With any luck we will be treated to a real London rain storm and that MIGHT be the coup d' grace.

[OH FOY]

I Love Our Anthem.

[jung]

Look at that sky. With any luck we will be treated to a real London rain storm and that MIGHT be the coup d' grace.

 

No luck....sky clearing. Manfred elves at work again.

[notin]

You don't think he's not in the discussion for MVP? That was a good signing by the Yanks, worked out good for them. He was signed and they had Absolutely no room for him, infield all set, Outfield too. Yet they signed him. They couldn't know all the injuries.

 

It was a good signing, but Bogaerts is having a better year and was a great extension, yet no one is putting him in the discussion for MVP.

 

Anyway, the LeMahieu discussion for MVP begins and ends with the phrase “Not Trout.” But that wasn’t my point. My point was DD ignored the bullpen and did an incomplete job with a lot of depth on the pitching staff, and somehow you’re thinking he missed on LeMahieu because Pedroia was uncertain?

 

Given the lack of all around depth on this team - Sam Freakin’ Travis is starting in LF today, FYI,l - singling out the infield as the miss is nothing but hindsight.

 

Dombrowski also missed out on Derek Dietrich, who is having a better year and fit everyone’s budget and plays even more positions (although not as well) was a much bigger miss...