Blogs| Final - 7.3.2009 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
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Toronto Blue Jays
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0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
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New York Yankees
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0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 4 | 8 | 0 |
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WP:
A.J. Burnett
(7 - 4)
SV: Mariano Rivera (21) LP: Brian Tallet (5 - 6) |
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Concerning the Jays
by Travis G
on Jul 3, 2009 9:00 PM EDT
in Analysis
4 comments
Tom Dakers (aka Rincewind) of Bluebird Banter answered some questions for us regarding his team:
1. What's wrong with Wells and Rios? Why are they not only failing to live up to seasons past, but performing below average?
Man, if I had the answer to that I'd have a job with the team. It seems like there are two different problems, Rios is hitting decent at home, lousy on the road, he had a good May, then a crappy June. Half the time it seems his head isn't in the game.He's over run bases, thrown to the wrong place in the outfield and generally just not been all there a lot of the time.
Wells, I don't know. He's been not too bad on the road, god awful at home. Anytime it looks like he's pulling out of his season long slump, he drops into a long hitless streak again. A lot of the time he's pull happy, a pitch a foot off the outside of the plate and he tries to pull it. Surprisingly that doesn't work that well. Added into the fun is that he's no longer a good centerfielder.
Wells and Rios were our best bats last year and really I don't see any reason they won pull out of their slumps, but then I don't see any sign they will.
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Are the bats lazier or the pitchers more efficient? Yanks win "languid" one, 4-2
by CrazyYankeeChick
on Jul 3, 2009 5:10 PM EDT
in Game Recap
17 comments
If ample time has been devoted to addressing the duo of ump-fan hybrids behind homeplate and the horrors of the red hats (awful), then there's the business of the rest of the action going on in the game. Which, according to Suzyn and Sterling, "was languid. Boring. Slow."
After Robinson Cano goes yard in the second inning to put the Yanks on the board, it was then a game of Russian Roulette for the next 4 innings around what Topic-Other-Than-The-Game the broadcasters would unearth and explore. During this time, Brian Tallet allows 6 hits over 6 innings, and somehow manages to escape from a bases loaded, 0 out inning relatively unscathed.
Whether this speaks to Tallet's resiliency or the Yanks' complete disinterest in moving once they've stepped foot on base, is splitting hairs. This aversion to moving kills them in terms of runners left on base (7 on the day) but works to their advantage when at the plate and are subscribing to remarkable restraint and patience. Alex Rodriguez even managed to lay off a 3-0 pitch.
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"They spent a billion dollars to build the same ballpark."
Pretty cute quote from Toronto's Brian Tallet tweeted by Mark Feinsand
Game 79: A.J.'s former team "looking forward to seeing the ball travel"
by CrazyYankeeChick
on Jul 3, 2009 12:00 PM EDT
in Game Threads
30 comments
Well, everyone has to crap out at the dice table at some point. The first game after a hot roll is snapped is critical, though. Because this is where the team demonstrates whether it was the loss or whether it was the streak that was an anomaly. Fortunately, the Yanks have seen pitches from Blue Jays' LHP Brian Tallet (5-5, 4.47), so they won’t have the opportunity to hand a new hurler his first W, as if they’re selling magazines and offering the first month free for all new subscribers.
Tallet looks sharp at times, but wild more times — 5 BB in last game against Yankees, 6 BBs in his most recent start on Sunday. He's got his work cut out for him with half the NY line-up marinating in hot streaks. RHP A.J. Burnett (6-4, 3.93) is coming off an intimidating 1-hitter in his last start, but the Jays are a far cry from the Mets--their 774 hits rank 1st in the league. And while most of Toronto's offense scratched their heads over A.J.'s nasty slider when they last met, some weren't as mystified (Scott Rolen: 3-4, 3 RBIs, and Aaron Hill: 2-4, HR).
So I'm pretty sure they're all licking their chops right now at the thought of Yankee Stadium's Longball Welcoming Center over the right field wall...
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New blogger joins the fold
by Ed Valentine
on Jul 3, 2009 6:00 AM EDT
in News
8 comments
When today's Game Thread is posted a bit later on you will see an unfamiliar name in the byline. We will be joined today by the 'CrazyYankeeChick,' who comes to us from her own site, aptly named CrazyYankeeChick.com.
We think the CYC -- and we hope she doesn't mind the moniker because that's what we are calling her -- will be a fine addition to Pinstripe Alley.
She brings a little more light-hearted style to the table than what PA usually offers. We hope you will enjoy her work.
Welcome, aboard, CYC!
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Update on Chapman, Jesus
by Travis G
on Jul 3, 2009 1:28 AM EDT
in Minors
8 comments
So Aroldis Chapman has indeed defected (while in Europe with the Cuban national team). ESPN thinks he'll be with a ML organization by next year, and has a quote from Yankee senior VP Mark Newman saying that Chapman will draw interest from the Yanks. Preliminary assumptions put Chapman's initial contract between $30 and $60 million! Jose Contreras got $32 million for four years, but was considerably older. (h/t to BPro)
- Praise Jesus! 2-5 with another homer (that's four straight games).
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Mariners 8, Yankees 4: It's Jack's fault
by Ed Valentine
on Jul 2, 2009 11:03 PM EDT
in Game Recap
5 comments
I am blaming this loss on Jack Nicholson. No more Legends Suite freebies for you, Jackie boy!
With Nicholson in town, something had to give with the Yankees' seven-game winning streak. I guess that was as good as it was gonna get. The Mariners made the streak kick the bucket, or fly over the cuckoo's nest or become one of the departed. Whatever.
Enough with the sorry attempts at Nicholson jokes. with CC Sabathia on the mound and the Yanks rolling, this was a game you had to figure the Yanks would win.
But, CC had an off night and it just didn't happen. No blaming this on Francisco Cervelli, though. We are not allowing any rain on the Francisco the Great lovefest.
Seriously, I thought the Yankees still had a chance until Russell Branyan jacked a two-run bomb off the Mohegan Sun Sports Bar in the ninth inning. It put the game out of reach, but it's the first home run that has hit the restaurant. Gotta admit, it was kinda cool to see.
Anyway, the Blue Jays are in town for an early game (1:05) on Friday. Maybe the Yanks can start another streak.
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Game 78: More lefties
by Travis G
on Jul 2, 2009 6:30 PM EDT
in Game Threads
91 comments
It would be nice if Girardi could find a way to break up the two lefties in the rotation. I don't know for a fact that seeing the same handed pitcher on consecutive days is detrimental, but common sense says it is.
Our best pitcher, CC Sabathia, goes for the sweep against Jason Vargas ('Vargas!'), who missed all of last season due to a torn hip labrum (um... you hear that, Alex?).
Sabathia hasn't faced the M's since 2007, but has done well against all their hitters (OPS under .754) except Ichiro (1.132 OPS). He's been great in his last three starts (16.1 ip, 2.81 ERA), so let's hope that continues.
Vargas has never faced any Yankee hitter, and has sucked in his last three starts (16.1 ip, 7.16 ERA), so let's hope that continues.
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