If you had any doubt the Yanks need to acquire a starter, Phil Hughes should have answered them for you last night. Staked to a 14-2 lead, he was unable to last the required 5 innings to pick up the win. We can’t have much confidence in Hughes, we don’t know if Colon’s stem cell repaired shoulder will hold up, we don’t like Garcia facing the better lineups, and AJ….is who he is. The Yanks have one pitcher they can count on right now, and teams like that usually don’t go very far in October. But enough of me bitching. Burnett’s on the bump this afternoon, and I hope the Little Rock, AK product likes hot and humid weather, because he’s going to get plenty of it today.
Here’s your lineup, courtesy of LoHud:
1. Gardner LF
2. Jeter SS
3. Granderson CF
4. Teixeira 1B
5. Cano DH
6. Swisher RF
7. Martin C
8. Nunez 2B
9. Laird 3B
Brandon Laird gets his first big league start, after pinch hitting for DJ last night. If his brother Gerald gets on him for having a longer MLB career so far, he can always throw “I Pinch Hit for Derek Jeter” back at him. GO YANKS!!!!!
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The way the ball is carrying, Curtis better play a little deeper. Pennington hit it 400 feet straightaway.
AJ has a good curve, leaning on it clearly. The sweat must make the fb’s too hard to control.
As Paul said, the breaking ball should be harder to grip, release properly. AJ did throw a couple good fastballs. Issue still open.
DeJesus called out ona checked swing. Umpires to be expected to be generous today.
Oh, DeJesus robbed Jeter of a double, at gunpoint.
Curtis looked up to center after the callout. Guess he wanted to see the replay, but he was out by a mile.
Great leap and stretch by Tex! Guy’s worth his considerable weight ingold.
Calling all commenter-mates! Come on out and play. It’s not too hot!
Yeah! AJ got that two seamer to fade properly: strike 3! You’re out!
Russell is wearing the ugliest white sunglasses. I think they go with his departed Russtache. Nice single tho, plates a run. Wear whatever you want, Russ boy!
Wow, jeter spin throw,the tension as the ball floated toward Tex, the runner closing on the bag…he’s out! DeJesus no happy.
The ump gave Jeter that one. Hot day, let’s not drag it out. That’s twice David’s been stung.
The Yankees may not make the postseason if Hughes and Burnett keep pitching like they have lately which is crap.
It’s only 2-1 As but it annoys me that it’s out of nowhere again.
If the Yankees get Ubaldo Jimenez and Hughes and Burnett keep struggling after that, Nova should be called up and Burnett and Hughes should be removed from the rotation. Sabathia/Jimenez/Garcia/Nova/Colon. I’m not kidding. This goes for any two Yankee starters after Sabathia.
GO YANKS!
I’ll hand this to ya, Duh: you were right having no faith in Phil’s recovery, insisting that Ivan was the better option.
It’s the take-him-out-and-shoot him step that I take issue with.
I’ve never said take Hughes out and shoot him, I just found/find it funny that he, a guy who absolutely blew in his first three starts in 2011 and has pitched like a solid #4 since a 6-1 start in his first 13 GS last year, was annointed a future ace or #2 by some on here based on those 13 GS to begin last year. All his defenders strangely consider(ed?) 2011 to be a continuation of 2010 when it was not, or shouldn’t the Yanks have kept Chien Mien Wang after 2009 because after all, he did win 19 games in 2006, the same in 2007, and he was on pace for another 19 wins in 2008? Wang did more for the Yanks than Hughes has ever done.
Bottom line is Hughes has sucked or been ehhh in 5 of his 6 starts this year, the only year that matters, and he should be one more bad start away from losing his job to whoever the Yanks get in a trade or Nova. 2010 is over, it’s 2011, and it’s getting late. If you can’t give the Yanks five innings after being handed a 14-2 lead and you stink the next start, that’s 5 bad starts plus an ehhh one out of 7 and you are not fit to be in a Yankee rotation, at least this year.
I would definitely entertain offers for if not shop Hughes and would trade him for the right guy in the offseason.
yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, do not agree.
I could care less that you don’t agree when you won’t tell me why.
What makes Hughes a potential ace or #2? Tell me.
You wouldn’t trade Hughes in a package for an ace or #2? I would because I see him as being good enough to get one.
AJ’s pitching a nice, hot game. Throwing that curve out of the dirt, for strikes! 60 pitches thru 4. Keep it up, AJ. Watch where you steer those fashballs.
Agreed, he’s doing pretty well considering the conditions. Hopefully he can keep it up.
Brandon let him blow those past him by loading up too much, consequently, strong but tardy.
Alright, AJ! Nicely done, and the last two put away with corner nipping fastballs. Beautiful. Didn’t let the poor-defense double, pushed to third rattle you. Rock on, Arkansas.
oh, man. Curtis ripped the cover off that foul ball, ended up with the bat held by a sliver.
Good, I think they told AJ, “finish this, and that’s enough.” Cory Wade for the 7th.
I would have liked to see AJ finish the 6th, but he was missing by a hair, over and over. Good game, let’s hope Cory brought the right shoes.
All right, Bombers! Lock and load.
Swisha! Good soldier!
Oh, we’re in the bullpens now, de de da dum de de…
Tex, the MAN! Great dive to tag on the almost bunt.
Alright, we’re back to two to tie, but let’s go ahead and have another big rally! That was fun last night.
Well, Jete. Big double on top of an earlier solid single. Why, that’s two days in a row, you’re healed.
Here’s an idea:
Trade for Jimenez, call up Nova, and have them replace Hughes and Burnett.
Sabathia/Jimenez/Garcia/Nova/Colon
Too bad if Burnett doesn’t like it. If he wants out, agrees to be traded to Atlanta and Atlanta wants to trade Derek Lowe for him, I would make that trade (Burnett for Lowe) in a heartbeat either by the trading deadline or in the offseason. The Yanks could throw in $1.5M for 2012 so Burnett costs Atlanta what they’d be paying Lowe for 2012 ($15M), the Yanks shed Burnett’s $16.5M for 2013, get him out of the league, and could clear $15M letting go of Lowe after next year. Atlanta has control over a younger, hopefully better starter for two years. A.J. could thrive in the league with no DH and weaker 7-8-9 batting order and thrive on a team whose fans are for the most part hands off.
Sabathia/Jimenez/Garcia/Lowe/Colon the rest of this season then Sabathia/Jimenez/Hughes/Lowe/Nova (or trade Hughes for a starter) to start 2012 is aok by me.
Not bad, yeah AJ would prosper. But I wouldn’t pay the farm for Ubaldo. if we still had Ivan, we would be surely empty on the farm. No Banuelos, no good. No Hughes, no foresight.
I never mentioned Banuelos I said Montero and Betances for Jimenez in a previous post in this comments section. Montero and Betances aren’t the farm. You expect Colorado to take just one of them for Jimenez? C’mon. How would losing Montero and Betances adversely affect the Yanks to the point where it’d cost them a World Series title? What makes one or both of them pieces towards a Rockies World Series championship? If the Yanks win it all this year with Jimenez, Burnett still a Yankee or not, the trade already pays off.
Duh, I’d offer Montero, Betances and Nova. That’s all, and they wouldn’t take it. They will insist on much more than is reasonable. Or they see something wrong with their ace. Do you realize how good he was last year?
No Grant Balfour. I want Joey the Devine.
RRRrrr. Not good, lads. Gear up some for next inning.
Boy, hard day on defense for Brett. Too much praise recently, probably.
Boone looked pretty cool out there. Better than he gets credit.
We are down by two, no bunt.
Thank goodness, Robbie! You almost dug your own grave.
I’m still hacked off that they wasted Nunie trying to bunt, two on no outs in the 8th, down by two. Seems to me you have to get a hit to score two, so use all three chances.
Girardi’s an idiot. Let’s give an out to the other team while we’re trailing by two.
Maybe Cano’s out to end the game isn’t the final out and it isn’t 4-3 As with him at the plate.
Woo, nice walk, Brett. Lots of tension: gotta do it…
Aooooow, that’s two foul balls, off by a hair!
Three hits by the Captain, and this one is sweetest!
One out left, one run down. Come on Robbie!
Awww, dry shucks, very dry.
This team has barely any comeback in them. Go Mariners, go Royals tonight.
Haren basically pitched like Cahill should’ve last night and is capable of pitching, now the Yanks will have to beat the As with their ace Gio Gonzalez on the mound to avoid losing the series.
If the Yanks lose tomorrow and split the first two with Seattle, a 4-6 homestand is entirely possible with them drawing Felix Hernandez Wednesday and having four against Baltimore next weekend where there’s a doubleheader in the middle of it, doubleheaders are always tough to win no matter who you’re facing (or how bad the opponent is in the case of the Os), and the Yanks have won only one four-game series out of five this year (they lost one and split three.) Do not underestimate Seattle who last check have a rotation where every starter has an ERA under 4 including Felix Hernandez if he got bombed last night (I know Boston walloped the Ms but didn’t check Hernandez’s line.)
Forget an 8-2 or 9-1 homestand (I’d be surprised if they took nine in a row.) 7-3 is the ideal outcome, 6-4 the realistic one.
Enough with Posada already, and what’s with Girardi having him pinch-hit for Laird? Laird had three good at-bats. He hit a clean grounder to the SS and drew 5 pitches in that at-bat, struck out with the bases loaded but drew a full count, and had a hit taken away from him in his final at-bat. Not to mention he was playing 3B and can run unlike Posada.
If Montero isn’t traded, I say give Cervelli two last starts behind the plate tomorrow and 7/31, send him down and call up Montero 8/1, make Montero the full-time DH, and make Posada the backup catcher for August. With the days off 8/8 and 8/22, the Yanks would need Posada/a backup catcher to start only two games in August, say 8/14 (rubber game vs. the Rays) and 8/29 (last game of a four-game series at Baltimore.) The Yanks can call Cervelli back up before or on September 1st (before if they want him on the postseason roster – I don’t.)
Posada should get some starts in at catcher because what if Martin gets injured? Anyone want Gustavo Molina back in Yankee pinstripes since neither Montero nor Romine are getting the call up and I doubt the Yanks could snag a veteran catcher (or maybe they could)?