a700hitter

The fan didn't interfere with the play. That is BS.

A Yankee Stadium first row RF porch special!

It is a Pig Pen

Thornburg will hopefully improve this steaming pile of garbage.

This pen sucks.

9 consecutive balls and then a base hit. 4-2. I have a bad feeling.

The gasoline gang from our pen.

If Kelly pitches out of this jam, will Cora go to the pen in the 8th?

What a bum.

2-0 is a terrible way to attack a hitter and 3-0 is worse.

A DP would be nice.

Strike one is the most important pitch and getting the first batter out is just as important.

Hembree is at it again. Cora may have found his failure for the night. And he can continue his search in the 8th inning.

The endless search for failure.

So, the manager will replace him after 1 inning, and it's box of chocolates time.

Game is official.

Are they expecting a rain delay tonight?

Tempting fate with the walks.

Need a DP ball.

Devers!

Of course Barnes takes the ultimate blame, and he got tagged with a well-deserved loss. I still believe that it is a poor strategy to continue the 1 inning per relief pitcher, because you are rolling the dice each time. Barnes didn't perform and lost the game, but Cora rolled the dice 1 too many times last night and snake eyes came out of the pen.

I am not a big fan of the 1 reliever 1 inning pattern that every manager follows. We may have discussed this in Fort Myers. Every time you go to the pen you are getting a "box of chocolates" with the possible exception of the closer who should be a 90% certainty. The other pitchers in the pen are not close to that degree of certainty. When a guy puts up a strong inning with a reasonable pitch count let him pitch a second inning, especially if it is against the bottom of the order. He has already settled in and proved that he is having a good night. Why roll the dice on another pitcher after 1 inning? I don't think the arguments about keeping the pen fresh for the long haul is a good countering argument. If I use Smith for 2 innings last night and don't have to use Barnes, Barnes is fresh for tonight and if he is going well, Smith gets the night off. How is that more taxing than using these guys 1 inning at a time for 2 or 3 games in a row? It is an approach that I have never liked, but it is so ingrained with managers that there is no hope that it will turn around anytime soon. We will have to wait for a manager to be successful with that approach and then there will be copycats.

I woud have stayed with Carson Smith in the 8th. He was throwing strikes, and he had good stuff. It would have played well against the 2 Yankee rookies at the bottom of their order. Instead, Cora we to the pen in search of failure and he found it in Barnes. i don't want to hear that he needs to keep the arms fresh for the whole season, because he panicked and went right to Kimbrel for a 5 out save after he let Barnes blow up the game. The only arm out there that I would want to keep fresh is Kimbrel, and Cora didn't think twice about taxing his arm tonight.

I was sitting down the LF line and Beni froze on that ball. If he broke in right away, he catches that ball.

Very slow turn on that ball, but we wouldn’t Double up Gardner anyway.