For this afternoon’s pitching match up, you couldn’t have a more stark contrast in styles in the opposing pitchers. Max Scherzer is one of the great young arms in baseball who features a mid-90s fastball and a devastating change up, one that when its working makes facing him almost unfair. Freddy Garcia is 34 years old, has the right shoulder of a someone twice his age, and sits in the mid-80s with his ‘heater’. And you know what? They pitched to a virtually identical results for the season, with Scherzer at 4.14 FIP and Freddy at 4.12 FIP. Everyone gets seduced by the guys with the big fastballs, and all that steady Freddy Garcia does is get people out. Scherzer has been prone to the long ball and much better at home than on the road, as Chad Jennings of LoHud pointed out this morning. Max was supposed to pitch Game 3 at Comerica, but the Friday rain out forced a change of plans. As I posted yesterday, when we look back at this series that Friday rainstorm may very well have been the turning point.
In other news, my question from this morning has been answered. CC will be going in Game 3 and Burnett Game 4. Personally, I think that’s a mistake if the Yanks win today. I like creating the Game 4 mismatch instead of two games where the Tigers will be slight favorites. Here’s your lineup, courtesy of Yankee PR:
Derek Jeter SS
Curtis Granderson CF
Robinson Cano 2B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Mark Teixeira 1B
Nick Swisher RF
Jorge Posada DH
Russell Martin C
Brett Gardner LF
GO YANKS!!!!!!
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Let’s hope Freddie’s on his game and Scherzer isn’t.
Hey, Prof. Schertzer seems to be suffering from “flat” sliders, his flaw, by Mitch Williams and John Smoltz.
Yeah, and the HR was cheap. But still, the Yanks are losing. I hate that.
and Freddie looks good, except against his hometown brother, Ordonez, and that scuzzy Cabrera fella: what a lucky homer1 Did he mean to chip it out there, or what?
He’s so good. He doesn’t have to try to kill the ball. He can hit it wherever it’s pitched, and still hit with power.
yeah, he can wrist it past the short porch.
Our boys will find some cracks, if Freddie can hold them off. Good he just got past Cabrera. Hunh? Thought he made the last out – oh, musta been Delmon.
Gamecast says Detroit has a 69% chance of winning.
start of game, was probably 55%, hunh?
hey, do you know if there’s a homer radio broadcast for the game?
Yeah, Sterling should be on WCBS 880 AM. They don’t stream games, though. For that, you’d need gameday audio.
Damn, my stereo must not have an am antennae connected. But I don’t get even a buzz.
Scherzer’s 2 seamer has been working it, and he got Cano with a lively 4 seamer.
Come on, Tex. Catch one! Daqmn, he can spot his 2 seam on 3-2.
Guess I had it wrong: what I have been calling a 2 seamer is a changeup, saw 85 mph.
The Yankees can’t hit the changeup. Been a problem all year.
Dammit, Swisher, break out!
Gardner better work him.
Brett made a good stroke there, but right at Betamit.
Did you see the game last night, or a replay, surely, of the play at the plate? Avila gave Martin some professional courtesy there, he coulda wiped him out like a rag doll, being all stretched out to catch the ball.
Be glad to return the favor, rather than break his bones. I’m a peacenik on home-plate collisions.
I did see it. I don’t much like the collision play, either. I don’t know why baseball puts up with it.
Buster Posey wonders.
Shame neither Freddie nor Robbie could reach that one.
Great work by Boone Logan! Four runs, it’s only 4 frigging runs, only.
They’re running out of time. When this team doesn’t hit, it doesn’t hit at all.
And it doesn’t hit in the 7th, 8th,and 9th innings even when it does hit.
God bless Yankee fans with a rally, nay, a cavalcade of runs.
Yankees, do your duty! Did you see the past Honorable Rudy Guilani, just waiting, forlorn, tho respectful?
Come on, at least get the tying run to the plate, to make it interesting.
Posada! I love it when he does well.
Now pinch run for him.
quick! before he strays from a base. Oh, stormcloud, don’t bother.
oh, jim Leland, the wet blanket. Just when the boys were starting to get along with Mr. Sherzer.
May this move be as much of a no brainer as the last one.
Joakim Benoit gets batters out purely on the ugliness of his beard.
Where is the asshole who has to get permission to stop the friggin game?
guess they need to get scuba equipment to better see the ball.
Isolated shower, 20 minutes, so TBS can’t wait?
The home Plate umpire blows…so does our line up thus far
gee, wouldn’t it have been nice if Curtis came up last inning?
Grrrrr….
Baserunners! Get some baserunners!
Now, Swish? NOW?? What was the matter with when there were guys on base?
Holy shit! A TRIPLE for Posada? Go, man, go!!!
One more guy on and the tying run comes up. Come on, guys, come on.
Wow, Jorge! Did you see him halt, rounding second? That was me mentally tackling him.
Ha ha ha.
Tying run on!!!!!!!
Damn.
Silly that they pinch hit Chavez for a lefty before, and now didn’t have him to hit against a righty.
That was a righty, Benoit from Detroit.
EDIT: Yes, but they pinch hit Chavez for a lefty, so didn’t gain the platoon advantage there, and also lost it now, having to hit Jones.
I want Granderson and Cano up with only one out. Come on, Jeter.
do or die!
or slip and fall!
the heavens give, after taking!
alright stop the friggin game for 10 minutes! Assholes!
Forget the die! Just do!
Die
dead and gone. See ya, Prof. Get ‘em tomorrow!
They’d better. If Verlander beats CC, then the whole season is in the hands of A.J. Burnett.