We’re rapidly approaching the half way point in the season, and the Yankees have been looking very good of late (48-31 W/L, Pythag 51-28 W/L, 5.33 R/G). Tonight’s matchup kicks off this season’s final series against the beleaguered Mets. The weather looks good, it’s a Friday night (on a holiday weekend no less), and it’s the Subway Series. Oh, and Bartolo’s back (will start Saturday). Enjoy!
Tonight’s lineup:
Nick Swisher RF
Curtis Granderson CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Robinson Cano 2B
Russell Martin C
Andruw Jones LF
Eduardo Nunez SS
And on the mound:
Ivan Nova (7-4 W/L, 4.26 ERA, 4.49 FIP, 4.22 xFIP)
vs.
Jonathon Niese (7-6 W/L, 3.67 ERA, 3.62 FIP, 3.43 xFIP)
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Two on, no one out in the first. Let’s crush ‘em.
Teixeira doubles ‘em in. Yes!
Someone on WFAN this morning said that CitiField would be a big home advantage for the Mets this series because the Yankees rely so much on homers and it’s tough to hit them there.
But the Yanks have scored 3 in the first with no homers.
Damn Nunez.
Great DP from Cano. Nunez gets out of it. Sweeeeet.
Can we do an arm transplant for Nunez?
Good idea. Maybe they could trade for Zambrano and use his.
As long as Zambrano’s temper doesn’t come with the arm.
Maybe now that he is on the DL all the silly trade scenario’s with him can finally dissapear.
YOU get a line drive and YOU get a line drive and YOU get a line drive!
I hope all the Mets fans who hate the DH really enjoyed Niese taking that called third strike after not being able to get a bunt down.
Critical point here, flat spot. Gotta hold ‘em.
Two excellent throws by Rodriguez in the 4th. And Nova is doing well.
Yassir, very, very nicely done.
Nova’s battling, but I think “well” is an overstatement. He’s given up a lot of base runners, and the defense has really helped bail him out of some tough jams.
Uh-oh. Nova’s 5th inning trouble…
two outs, baby, two outs. Chuck it in there…
Yeah, baby!
I really hope he doesn’t chuck it in there. His fastball could clear the bases if he does. That’s the biggest problem with having no plus pitches, location becomes the most important thing.
Curve’s pretty good if it’s not plus. Fastball does have to shave the right spot, admittedly. That’s why he needs the changeup or split or 2-seam.
He has a nice curve but it’s not a plus pitch. It’s way too loop/lazy to grade out as a plus pitch. He’s much better at dropping it into the zone than he is striking someone out with it. It’s the reason why he added the slider he throws, he needs both because neither is plus. For what he is, Nova is a good young pitcher to have around, but he isn’t more than he is. I think a lot of people overrate what Nova could be, mostly because a lot of Young pitchers don’t come through the Yankee system.
More like his whole game struggles. He’s pretty much looked like this all game, he’s just managed to limit the damage.
Hi, Professor. How’s the nose? Hey, T. O.! Where you been? Houston?
Haha yeah, feel like I’m melting down here at 100 degrees. I take games off from time to time to enjoy them more. I miss the conversation though, so I always rejoin quickly.
this was a day to be in NY area. You could sell th air, if you would bottle it.
pasta scrurrying Reyes. That’s his specialty, scurrying and wiggling and shaking while he runs.
Nova has such one of the more loopy/lazy curves I have seen at 81 or so MPH. It’s one of the reasons he has such much trouble finishing batters off. Good to see him get out of it there, but I wish that pitch was a sharper breaking curve.
yeah, Kay or Cone was saying Russell was telling him, “don’t worry about the man on third, throwing it in he dirt, throw you BEST curve.”
The curve before that meeting on the mind is likely why. It was more of a get me over called strike curve, and got fouled off. Better hitters can blast a pitch like that.
Michael Kay needs to get his eyes examined.
the over-home shot was shielded. You couldn’t see the ball, though, yes, I thought it wasn’t a catch.
I was just fixing to say. I thought I went stupid for a minute, because I was sure he didn’t get to it and as I looked down I hear “he made the play”.
Go, Posada. His OPS+ is 102!
Niese has been consistent with that back door curve all night. He’s getting some help, but he has been spotting that one pitch all night.
If Swisher finishes the year with 24 home runs and a .250/.370 AVG/OBP he’s more than earned that option being picked up.
For as much flak as he catches, Cashman could win “GM of the year” on the Colon, Garcia, Ayala, Martin signigns alone. All 4 players were next to no thought for every other GM in baseball. Even Martin was being asked to sign a minor league deal, and back up Salty in Boston. Depending on how Cory Wade continues to do he may be an add in to that list. But 3-4 innings is hardly a sample size yet.
amen. and Coney just said the same.
re Cory: haven’t seen him in a week.
Cory Wade of the “I don’t know what I’m doing with pitchers” Joe Torre arm destruction school.
Tex saved more than Alex’ ego there. Man on second, two outs is little threat, compared to 1st and 2cd, one out.
I wonder if he just couldn’t get a good grip on the ball there? He was going to go to second, and then hesitated in his glove before going to first.
You know I’ve thought Granderson was going to hit 40 for a while now, but I think I’m backing off that some. I think he’s likely going to end up in the 35-38 range. He has seemed to come back down to earth some, and pitchers have likely adjusted to the point home runs won’t come as easy as they had been.
He’s been quiet for a week, I guess. But his homers always surprise me, waist and up, middle-out, knee-high in to middle. His bat is very fast on those swings. Maybe breaking balls give him more trouble?
That’s definitely the adjustment that’s been made. Pitchers, espeically lefties, are throwing him as many breaking pitches as they can. He really likes to sit dead red, but he’s been taking the walks and getting the infield hits so he’s still productive. Before this season I never saw 40 anyway, so I was a little surprised he was on that pace. 30+ is obviously possible after hitting 30 in Detroit. If he finishes with 35, 20, 100+, 100+, he’s in the MVP discussion. Probably won’t win, but for sure on the ballot.
Austin Jackson and Phil Coke! Bwahahahahahahahaha…
Did they face each other or something?
They’re just not doing well for Detroit. The Coke-as-a-starter experiment may be ended shortly.
I totally forgot they were on the same team hahaha. Last time I checked Jackson was doing better recently, but he still strikesout way too much. I kind of forgot Coke even existed. Haven’t been following anything he did this season. What kind of numbers is he posting in the rotation?
Coke is 1-8, andhis ERA+ is 77. Jackson was hitting at around 90 OPS+, but with his defense, he had a positive WAR, I think.
Haha, yeah I never did understand the Coke to the rotation thing. He’s wasn’t CJ Wilson good out of the pen.
Last I checked on Jackson he had a 0.0 WAR, good to see him finally be better than a replacement player I guess.
yeah, Grandy has put them in the shade. Still miss Ian, though.
He was probably never going to be All-Star good in the AL anyway, so it worked out well for both this way.
yea, you gotta give to get, but I like Ian’s style. He’s more finesse, and pitch to contact, I think.
Didn’t Detroit get Shurzer out of the deal? There’s the real steal, if so.
Yeah, we got Grandy, Arizona got Kennedy, and Detroy got Scherzer, Coke, and Jackson. I believe that covers everyone in the deal. I may have left out one player possibly.
I think Detroit sent Jackson, the pitcher, to the Diamondbacks, and got back Schlereth, too.
Yep, Edwin Jackson. I forgot he was traded to the White Sox from Arizona. He threw is no hitter in Arizona, and was trade to Chicago shortly after.
Was Daniel Schlereth part of that deal? Or was he already traded to Detroit?
I do know Scherzer and Schlereth (Think of Tweety’s puddy tat saying that) were in the same trade vs Jackson, the pitcher.
Wow. I’m really surprised the Astros are staying with Boston. Unfortunately they have been one of the worst teams in baseball this year, even though they are one of the best at scoring runs late in games. I think in fact, they are 2nd in most runs scored after the 7th.
They’re the anti-Yankees.
Even the Park is the opposite, with a short porch in LF. I love Minute Maid park too! I always wanted to see what Gary Sheffield and Alex could’ve done with that park for half of their games.
Snagged Reyes! Yes! And the call looked right from here.
No, he missed the tag! Wow.
Which umpire was it that told Jeter all the ball had to do was beat him to 3rd not tag him? I say just use that logic on this one haha.
It happens a lot. If you can’t see it, you have to decide based on whether the throw beat the runner. Of course, you don’t have to be stupid enough to admit it.
Not seeing it understandable, but I think that ump did see it and didn’t care. He just cared that the ball beat Jeter. He’s made a lot of questionable calls against the Yankees over the years though. They ran a highlight reel of them once.
Yeah, on that play, you may be right. I remember the argument about it. Can’t remember the ump’s name. Later, he claimed that wasn’t what he said.
In general, I think if the throw beats the runner, it’s called out more often than it is actually out.
I don’t always believe players, but from his reaction, and the fact I don’t see Jeter lying about that I believe he did.
You’re probably right. I don’t have a problem with assuming the out if the ball beats the runner, and you can’t see the tag.
He may be having a great year, but Jose Reyes is still a very dumb baseball player.
You’re on 2B, and with his speed he could score on a deep fly ball to CF. Yes, from 2B. So why risk that? The conservative move is to stay put.
The dumb part was getting thrown out.
Sorry, Reyes didn’t get thrown out, Collins did.
we got the double whammy out of that!
It’s a bad play no doubt, but if he was conservative he wouldn’t have 15 triples and all the steals he does. He’s an agressive dude. I’m sure you’d like to see a little better decision making on that play, but you hate to reign guys like that in.
I love the mock yell of “textbook” from the guys in the dugout haha.
I don’t remember Parnell throwing 100 before. Did I miss something?
The Avis, and the Baldwin commercials are my favorite baseball commercials out right now. The only one that comes close is the “Larry Bernandez” commercials for Seattle.
If you haven’t seen the Larry Bernandez ones. You have too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf_HoE-mRoQ
Ha ha. Hernandez is almost as good a disguise artist as Bobby Valentine.
Gotta go. Goodnight, everybody.
Alex has not seen the ball well tonight at all. EDIT: as I say that he belts one.
Is this the year the 30 HR streak ends for Alex? Knowing him he will still get there, but .300/.375 are still great stats for a guy who is on pace for 25+ 100+.
wow. that’s a highwall, a long way out there.
Yeah, they are going to have to do something to that park for hitters. Bring a fence in, or bring a wall down if possible. Because big time HR hitters simply won’t play there. I guess they could try and buy great pitching, but if you don’t have a good lineup who’s going to want to pitch 1-0, 2-1 games all the time.
yeah, a comparative thing. But I love a big, old time park. Rallies, triples.
I think big parks actually take away rallies.
I don’t. I know the outfielders tend to play deeper if the walls are deeper. They call them “pitchers’ parks” because the score will usually be lower without the homers, but the chance for hits should be higher. I’ll have to see if I csan get Fangraphs to show me higher averages in Citi, Oakland and Jack Murphy. (When I get the energy.)
hey, they said Hector was sent down, over at RAB.
I can’t see Mitre being able to “take” his number. I’m sure he sold it to Mitre, like in football.
I’m no football fan, but it seems they all have high numbers, like who would care if you’re 52 or 67?
That’s actually not true. QBs can only wear 1-19, RBs can only wear 20-49, LBs and D Lineman can only wear 40-99, and DBs can only wear 20-49. Also numbers in football mean way more than in baseball.
hunh. Why do they mean way more? Pride, notice of numbers, yeah, lots of players, all wearing helmets, maybe I see it.
I think that has a lot to do with it yeah. When I think back over history you identify a lot of numbers with certain players. For instance the number 7 is almost associated with John Elway, in a way Mantle isn’t. If I think of LaDanian Tomlinson the first thing that comes to mind is that white 21 on his dark blue uni.
Players actually pay a ton of money for jersey numbers if someone already has it. Clinton Portis once sent a guy and his entire family on vacation in order to get number 21.
Also I played Linebacker in High School and I never wanted any other numbers but 52 or 55. Those are just the two numbers that my favorite linebackers have worn over the years.
I loved my number 6 in Little League.
Normally there’s no way I’d go with Mo here, but if your going to do it Reyes is the reason to do so. He likely won’t hit a HR here, but if he gets on its a save situation anyway.
the point is to avoid a rally, a mo-mentum thing
Obviously, and Noesi’s horrible outing last time out was probably a factor as well.
sorry for being obvious, I reacted to Kay then you quoting the save situation. I disbelieve playing to numbers (of saves). I guess you maybe were talking more of the risk involved.
That came across rude on the re-read. I didn’t mean it that way.
I don’t play to the numbers but more the feel of the game, and they didn’t seem as close to getting back in the game as the scoreboard. I just wouldn’t normally bring him in because he may not be able to make the turn around to tomorrows ball game as easy. However with Reyes up I have no problem with bringing Mo in there. If Reyes triples he scores the run (obviously), and even just getting on makes it a save situation and as you said gives them momentum.
agreed all around. Kay gets on my nerves when he says “he picks up a single,” like what is important is the player’s stat, not the hit as a contribution to the team’s effort.
alrighty! I agree with Al Leiter, Turner seems a tough hitter.