All-Season MFY IGT

[Guest Rotblatt]

Randy Johnson through 4.1: 6 H, 3 ER, 2 BB, 5 K, 1 HR
He started off pretty bad--all 6 hits and one of the walks came in the first 2.1 innings. RJ K'ed 4 of the next 7 batters.

Yankees came back in the top of the fourth to score 3, but Jeter struck out with 2 in scoring position to end the inning.

5th inning:

- H. Matsui walked
- G. Sheffield walked, H. Matsui to second
- A. Rodriguez walked, H. Matsui to third, G. Sheffield to second
- J. Posada struck out swinging
- J. Giambi grounded into double play second to shortstop to first, A. Rodriguez out at second

Still lots of game to be played, but some fine moments so far for Yankee haters.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Homerun Spivey!

[Guest metirish]

Junior Spivey leads of the 6th with a HR of the Small Unit, Brewers 4/Shanks 3

[Guest soupcan]

Ah. Spivey.

[Guest Rotblatt]

RJ gets out of the inning, but is probably done. He's at 120 pitches.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Nice job by Johnson keeping the Yankees in the game.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Davis is out and it's up to the Milwaukee pen now, who have been freakishly good this season so far.

Davis' line: 6 IP, 3 ER, 5 BB, 8 K. His season ERA is at 3.68 now.

Wise retires Jeter, Matsui & Sheffield--the latter swinging--to start the seventh.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Turnbow: one more reason that bullpens can be built from spare parts.

[Guest Elster88]

Exhibit B: Eric Gagne
Exhibit C: Roberto Hernandez

This list could go quite long.

[Guest cooby]

A great line from CF in here

http://p079.ezboard.com/fthecranepoolforumfrm29.showMessageRange?topicID=447.topic&start=1&stop=20

Edited to fix atrocious error. I hope

[Guest Edgy DC]

Geoff Jenkins!!

[Guest holychicken]

what a catch to end the game.

[Guest Rotblatt]

I don't have cable so I was following online. Can someone describe the catch for me?

Welcome to the dark side of .500, Yankees!

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Gotta love the MFYs loading them up with 0 out and not scoring a run back in the 5th or 6th.

Braves and Phillies lost today too. Standings show us in 2nd place (tied with ATL, 1 game behind Wash).

[Guest Spacemans Bong]

Rotblatt wrote: I don't have cable so I was following online. Can someone describe the catch for me? Welcome to the dark side of .500, Yankees!

Fine running catch to his left, fully outstretched to make the play.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Jeter sorta mistakenly swung under the ball and it rolled off the top half of his bat on a line toward the RF line in medium RF. Jenkins needed a full run to catch up to it and did, arm extended. It was too high off the ground to require a dive; had it gone off his glove, he'd have had a triple easy.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Good stuff! Thanks, Bong!

And you too, Wide!

[Guest Frayed Knot]

Nice running catch by Jenkins off Mr (un)Clutch to end the game while the tying run was on 2nd and would shirley have scored.

btw; anyone see the numbers Tom Verducci dragged up in the A-Rod article in last week's SI?
Talk radio is filled these days w/NYY fans whining about how A-Rod piles up all his stats against the likes of Detroit & Tampa, while he'll only truly be accepted as a "True Yanqui" when he does it against Boston like Jeter.
So Verducci produces these numbers vs. Boston for the last 1+ years (since A-Rod has been in NYC):

A-Rod: .281 BA, .865 OPS
Jeter: .215, .621

[Guest metirish]

Bill Lee would have loved that play, checking out the Spaceman on baseball reference I find this from the person that sponsors the page..




When Lee was asked whether he preferred grass to artificial turf, he replied, "I don't know, I never smoked the fake stuff."

[Guest Spacemans Bong]

="metirish"]Bill Lee would have loved that play, checking out the Spaceman on baseball reference I find this from the person that sponsors the page.. When Lee was asked whether he preferred grass to artificial turf, he replied, "I don't know, I never smoked the fake stuff."

The Tugger actually said that.

Lee has a few great ones, though. I'll post some later..let me get his book.

[Guest metirish]

Having watched more than a few MFY games this year I think they are a very boring team to watch, just horrible really, not the least bit intimadating anymore, RJ was throwing high heat tonight according to the YES network and still he looked hittable....

[Guest Iubitul]

="Spacemans Bong"] ="metirish"]Bill Lee would have loved that play, checking out the Spaceman on baseball reference I find this from the person that sponsors the page.. When Lee was asked whether he preferred grass to artificial turf, he replied, "I don't know, I never smoked the fake stuff." The Tugger actually said that. Lee has a few great ones, though. I'll post some later..let me get his book.

Here's more of Tug's quotes

[Guest Elster88]

Great stuff on Sportscenter this morning. They said that Geoff Jenkins' catch made him a "True Brewer".

[Guest Edgy DC]

I think they've both been so willing about marketing their clever counter-cultural characters, each would have been more than happy to accept attribution for the remark, even if they never said it, or merely borrowed it from another source. My guess is that there's a third party who came up with that one, and they both worked it, at one time or another, into conversation with a sports writer.

[Guest Elster88]

Either way, it was funny.

[Guest silverdsl]

Frayed Knot wrote: Talk radio is filled these days w/NYY fans whining about how A-Rod piles up all his stats against the likes of Detroit & Tampa, while he'll only truly be accepted as a "True Yanqui" when he does it against Boston like Jeter.

Those fans are morons. I'm more than willing to criticize almost everyone else on the team for playing like garbage but I don't see how anyone can find anything to fault A-Rod for except perhaps his somewhat shaky play at third. I really couldn't care less about who A-Rod hits against just as long as he does and keeps it up consistantly throughout the season. He still leads the AL in homeruns and RBI, and is in the top five in BA. I will most definitely take that.

However, overall the way the Yankees have played of late is pathetic. If being in fouth place in the division, under .500 and seven games back isn't motivation to try to show some signs of life then nothing is. This team is full of highly (over) paid and talented players who should be more than capable of winning against the teams they've been facing lately. But perhaps the talent just isn't there like I thought it was - or more likely given the age of most of the players on the team they are just in a collective decline.

[Guest Centerfield]

For what it's worth, I can't spot what is "wrong" with Johnson. He seemed to have good stuff, decent control...he was just getting hit. Junior Spivey, yes, Junion Spivey, crushed one. I don't see how that's possible.

[Guest Rotblatt]

I think I've only actually seen Johnson pitch once this season, but from what I've heard on the radio, his velocity was down early and his slider was flat. Now it sounds like his velocity is back up where it should be but his slider is still flat.

My personal crackpot theory is that Johnson's compensating for some kind of discomfort--my guess is in his bum knee--that is causing him to alter his mechanics in such a way that he's having difficulty throwing his slider.

The one start I saw, his slider was not only flat but up in the zone and his control on the fastball wasn't great.

Again, my personal guess is that last night, he got pissed and reverted to his old mechanics for the remainder of the game, resulting in the 6 K's through 4 or whatever it was after he got filthy. In my scenario, it probably hurt like a bitch for him.

And Silver, I agree with you about them being moron fans, but I do think there might be something to A-Rod not responding as well to intense pressure as you'd expect from someone as talented as he is. There's a pretty well-documented history of atheletes who, for whatever reason, can't perform up to their levels in certain instinces. I gotta say, A-Rod during the Sox 4-game streat last year was brutally bad, and that slap . . .

Was he just off for a few days? Or did he let the pressure get to him? We'll never know, but if the Yankees get to the postseason again this year, he'll have a chance to make me look like a chump for ever doubting him . . .

[Guest metirish]

Certainly his velocity was fine last night, hitting 97/98 a lot, he's just old and the yanks are stuck with him for a few more years, now if they could trade Cano and Wang for Clemens I'd be very happy.

[Guest Centerfield]

In the past two years, A-Rod is batting .289 against the Sox with 4 HR's and 12 RBI. During the same time period, he has hit more HR's against only 3 teams, (Oakland, Baltimore and Oakland).

I get suspicious when I hear fans say he can't perform in "certain situations". To me, it sounds an awful lot like "I want to blame it all on this guy even though he has great numbers because I don't like him very much."