a700hitter

The next two hitters will determine the outcome of this game.

No, but why does he need 15-20+ games off even when he is healthy? Yaz was playing 150+ games when he was 36-37.

Can you tell if the Yankees are winning or losing just by looking at Girardi?

Heart of the order coming up next inning.

Varitek gets us on the board 1-0

Over the last 4 seasons he has averaged 126 games, so I guess he is getting better. My question is why has he never played more than 150 games? Does he always need 15-20 games of rest?

I think that Bay is going to crush Moose in his next AB against Moose.

He has a track record of missing weeks here and there every season. He's just not durable.

A hit and run with Abreu and jeter? How many times has Girardi tried that this season? Not a good time to try something that you haven't done all season. He just helped out the pitcher with his pitch count. Girardi is terrible. Give him a 10 year contract.

Lester's pitch count is high. It's about time that the Red Sox make Moose pay for tossing his garbage to the plate.

That's right. Win or lose today there is no saving their sinking ship.

Where do you find out about this?

I was going to cut out of work to watch the game tomorrow, but it doesn't really matter much now. Win or lose, the Yankees are dead. The Sox have won three road series in a row, and they'll be home most of September as Lowell and Drew get healthy.

That was Papelbon's f*** you to Yankee fans.

The Yankees have been dead for some time already. I don't know how they could have any hope after this game. They have been beaten by our 4th and 5th starters with a squad that is so thin that the Red Sox played 3 rookies last night, plus Cash and Crisp, and the Red Sox beat them up. Tonight we replaced one of the rookies (Bailey) with Cora (who is less of a threat than Bailey) and they kicked the living s*** out of the Yankees. Beckett, Drew, Lowell, Casey not available. No more Manny. How could they beat the Yankees so soundly? I'll tell you my opinion. This Yankee team has no heart, none whatsoever. They are dead. Get them down and they rollover and play dead. The Red Sox, as shorthanded as they are, clearly wanted these games much more than the Yankees. The hits in garbage time against old man Timlin were meaningless. This lack of heart and determination and poor fundamentals I lay right at the feet of Girardi. As bad as I thought Torre was as a game manager, his teams always played hard for him. This team quit on Girardi some time ago. I hope he gets a 10 year contract. While Bay is not Manny Ramirez, he does not shrink from the big spot. He had 4 more RBI agaisnt the Yankees tonight with a left center gap double and a right center gap triple. And can enough be said about the little second baseman. I knew he was going to clear the bases, but I thought it would be a double, not a grand salami. What a player! Again Ellsbury, Crisp, Tek, Lowrie all hit. This is the week part of the order, but they came up big.

Casey still has a stiff neck.

He is 2 for his last 21 ABs with 1 double, 3 walks, 1 run, and no rbi

Muerto

With all the talent on that team, they should be scoring runs. They had 13 hits and 2 walks on Monday and got shutout.

He came in in the 8th inning with 2 men on. Since the tying run was in the on-deck circle when he came into the game, it counts as a save opportunity.

ManRam with 3 for 4 tonight, but the Dodgers lose to the terrible Nationals 2-1. Dodgers are 2 games under .500. Torre doesn't look like such a genius anymore. He has young studs, Manny, Kent and lots of arms and a sub .500 record.