Game Thread: Yankees at A’s, Sunday July 22
Even great teams drop a few in a row to bad teams, for no good reason. Despite this three game skid the Yankees still have a strangle hold on first place in the AL East. They still find themselves twenty games above five hundred. They still have the best record in baseball, even if the Rangers are hot on their heels. Put another way, once you look at the big picture it becomes clear that the Yankees could afford to drop a few. That said, let’s hope it ends today. CC Sabathia toes the rubber for the good guys in his second start off the DL. Former Yankee Bartolo Colon takes the mound for the Athletics. I’d say there’s a 50-50 chance the Yankees light Colon up, but a pitcher’s duel definitely remains in the cards.
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Lost Weekend.
Hey, MIke, I know you’re trying to do an end run around the negativity, but it’s not working; I still need to let it out.
HEY, YANKEES! You suck! I don’t care how many games ahead you are, you won’t win the division! Or if you do, you’ll get knocked out of the playoffs in one inning! You can’t hit with RISP! You make too much money! You don’t have mustaches! Cashman couldn’t rappel his way up to the top of CC Sabathia! YOU STINK!
Didn’t work. I still feel rotten
Hey Professor. Tell us how you really feel.
I feel hot. I had to go out and buy ice cream, and I missed the rally.
Bartolo has become fatter.
#Yankees got something cooking, 2 runners on and nobody out.
I’d Rather have 1 run bloop hits than nothing at all!
I’m having to follow this one on GameDay. Looks like the A’s are swinging early on CC.
Yeah. Only 28 pitches in 3 innings. But the As don’t hit. They’ve just been getting off the charts pitching lately.
The Crimson Hose are being pounded back into last place.
It’s a final 15-7. Lester gave up 11 runs in 4 innings. Next they play the Rangers and then the Yankees. Let’s hope they are really buried by the end of the week.
Lots of 2 HR games today. That means Granderson has a 2nd one in him.
You should get Gameday Audio so at least you could listen to the games.
Speakers don’t work on my computer. Besides I never have been able to enjoy listening to a game on radio.
Oh, well. Then you need a TV games package, or MLB TV.com, and that’s money. GameCast it is!
Is CC allowed 100 pitches today?
I haven’t heard otherwise. It would make sense. He went almost 90 last time, didn’t he?
Nix blew it. Damn.
Big base running mistake by Inge….thank God.
That doesn’t make up for the bobble, which let the run in.
The 7th inning sounds like a good time to score some more runs.
Teixeira, at least, seems to agree with you.
Damn, close but no cigar. RISPFAIL.
Didn’t expect them to take out Colon, who was only at 84 pitches.
Does this Norberto guy actually wake up to that face every morning?
I seriously wonder what some guys are thinking when they make these decisions. Does he actually think that looks good?
He’s not supposed to look to himself. He’s supposed to look good to the girls.
Let me give an illustration of RISP problems for the Yanks. In game I haven’t watched they are 17-19 and batting .190 w/RISP. Games I’ve watched they’re 40-18 and batting .261 w/RISP.
We have to take up a collection to get you an Extra Innings package.
It’s weird because the past 2 years the record was the opposite. I always thought that was because the networks & MLBN broadcast the games against the better teams.
I don’t think the Yankees have a great record on national television. At least, to me it seems they have their worst games on Fox and ESPN over the last bunch of years.
Maybe next year I’ll track by network. But then I should be in Syracuse and can get the YES network.
You’re going to Syracuse?
Go, Asdrubal Cabrera!
Damn. The Indians had to collapse now? They couldn’t have waited until after the series with the O’s?
Is the 8th inning good for Yankee runs?
They will score in the 8th & 9th.
Insurance runs, please.
We’ve been asking for innings and it hasn’t worked. Maybe we should try reverse psychology.
Very unusual game, they scored in the 3rd & 4th innings. No 1st inning runs and so far nothing from the 6th on.
Well, they figured their usual pattern wasn’t working this series, so they went to something different.
D-Rob time.
Sabathia threw 98 pitches. I don’t think he was taken out because of the pitch count so much, just the inning.
Hes still working his way back from the DL stint. Also, I think Girardi noticed how good his arm felt after the time off, and wants to keep him fresh for the long haul.
Makes sense. I’m not complaing. I just think if he had thrown 105 pitches in 7 innings, that would have been OK with Girardi, too.
I wonder when the last time was that Jeter batted 7th in the order?
Not nearly enough from 2010-mid 11
Robertson has such deception. Cespedes is a dead red hitter and he missed that as if he didnt pick it up.
Phil, you’re going to Syracuse?
Yes, hopefully by the late fall.
I have a very good friend in Syracuse. We’ve been to the State Fair a bunch of times. It’s a good town. What leads you there? Too hot in Houston?
Originally from there. Family (what’s left of them) are still there. Syracuse winters are as bad as Houston summers, so the weather’s a wash.
Well, maybe I’ll see you at the Fair some year.
I won’t be there in time for the one in 2012. But we could in 2013 and celebrate the 28th Championship.
I don’t get there every year, just once every 2 or 3. We’ll see how it works out.
Wow! I didn’t think Chavez was going to get him.
He kind of double clutched and I thought he was going to give up on it.
Damn, Wise looks bad against a tough lefty.
Come on, Tex.
Sori needs to put an end to these walk-off wins bye the A’s.
#!@$%#%#@%#@!!!
What he said.
Apparently, the ‘S’ word gets caught in the filter. I didnt know that.
Well, at least the heart of the order is due up. I hate that the Yanks just wasted two good pitching performances.
Ro, So, no Mo. Who’s left to pitch? Phelps, Rapada, Logan.
Gurple. Fnack. Berph!
such faith, these Yangee fans.
Obviously, everyone will point to Soriano if they lose this game. But even Closers will give up a run here and there. This entire series has been a combination of good As pitching and offensive malaise by the Yanks.
I certainly find it offensive.
That’s the professor at work, using the same word as Steve but with a different meaning.
It’s never one player or one play that loses a game.
it can be, “if only he had made that play,” but that’s not realistic.
how much an apostrophe is worth! Puzzled over that sentence three times.
Freddie v. Felix. That’s interesting.
When was the last time Alex Rodriguez hit a game-winning homer?
long gone, long gone
you were right last August: Alex doesn’t have the flexibility he used to, to get to the low outside pitch. It’s a big hole, to balance against a weakness inside.
I don’t think I said that. Maybe it was T.O. Chris.
no, neither. You voiced doubts of Alex’ power, tho he was hitting the gaps with liners, and I was hopeful. Color me less, now, unless they can spin that blood faster, or Goldie’s daughter comes back.
I definitely had and have doubts about his power, although I don’t remember analyzing his swing. That sounds more T.O. than me. In any case, it sounds plausible that that’s what’s going on.
I wonder how he stacks up against other clean-up hitters in the AL. He must be toward the bottom of the list.
No, the analysis was mine. I am sorry if the reference was blurry.
Well, that it surely is, stastistically. More concerned with the future, the chance of overcoming a flaw, a health problem in this case.
sasistically, I guess.
Ah. Good analysis, then.
That German treatment, or whatever it was, was supposed to help, but it hasn’t given him back the power. Maybe it will come back yet. We’ll see.
Looks like it’s Phelps’ game for as long as it goes on. (How were my apostrophes there smurfy?)
just fine, except Phelps’z, Phil, thanks for asking.
either Steve S. is sitting on the controls, or it’s a very good thing my new PC is on order. Three times, again.
Nix’s bobble lost this game.
hunh, yeah. Hated that, even before I saw the slo-Mo.
let me contribute a quick second thought: No, Joe, the game may have a ways to go!
I can’t believe Girardi took Phelps out!!!
I think it’s nuts, but I can believe it. That’s Girardi.
On. On. On. Slam.
Let’s go.
Two lucks on one play for Tex.
Cody Eppley? Wasn’t he already in? Am I watching the encore, or has that been foreshortened, anyway?
musta been thinking of last night. Get ‘em, Eppley.
Mix and match int he 12th inning with no one on base? He can’t do that. Swisher isn’t around to come in to pitch.
Martin will pitch & catch if the game goes long enough.
Get ‘em good, Cody. Only Logan, Qualls, Wise, no, scratch that last.
Ooh, keep ‘em off it, lad!
Has Eppley caught Corey Wade disease?
Yup. He has it for sure. Two loses in a row.
Sweet analysis of Robbie’s good play there by Coney.
Oh, I see, Joe. We weren’t going to need more.
Chat y’all later!
Girardi went looking for someone who would give up a run, and he finally found him.
Ah, I had a foreboding feeling about this series.
Wonder how it goes in Seattle? A battle? Freddie vs. Felix? Old buddies battle? The old Chief facing the established King?