Mets at Yankees Recap: 2 out of 3

by jscape2000 on Jun 14, 2009 4:29 PM EDT in Game Recap

Good teams win series, and while the Yanks got a minor miracle on Friday, they won 2 out of 3.

after: 3.29 ERA.

Welcome back to the America League. Makes it feel like a waste of a shutout, doesn't it?

Before the game, I thought the fireworks would revolve around Brian Bruney and K-Rod's little pissing match. Bruney said about K-Rod the kinds of things that people have been saying about Joba all season. K-Rod went over to Bruney to play macho, the benches cleared, but no punches were thrown. Is that the first baseball fight at New Yankee Stadium?

But that's not the real news, to me. After A.J. Burnett's last start he drew some ire by saying

I'm not going to go and try to figure out what went wrong or this and that. I'm going to get back out there.

If Burnett didn't notice the difference, let me point it out for him.

First pitch strikes against the Red Sox: 6/18, 33%

First pitch strikes against the Mets: 19/27, 70%

%Fastballs against the Red Sox: 68/84, 81%

% Fastballs against the Mets: 80/111, 72%

Off-day tomorrow, then Washington rolls in. I'm not saying we need to sweep for me to be happy, but the Nats are on pace to win 43 games. Remember that a replacement level team would go 44-118.

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w00t

go Yanks
sweep teh Nats

by Brian5517209 on Jun 14, 2009 5:40 PM EDT reply actions

shhhhh...

by FreeBradshaw on Jun 14, 2009 6:48 PM EDT up reply actions

If only I went to this game...

I made my first visit to New Yankee Stadium yesterday and was disappointed the Yanks lost to those loser jerks. Today’s game would have great to see if I knew Santana was going to tank. Hopefully, the Yankees will trounce those turds again when I make my first visit to CitiField.

by sabrecliff28 on Jun 14, 2009 7:21 PM EDT reply actions

a few things

- great play by Pena and Cano, turning the DP, but with a 13-0 lead, Cano should use his glove and make the sure out instead of making the high-risk bare-handed catch-n-throw and risk getting no outs.

- still hard to believe Santana got hit this hard: both the innings and runs were career worsts.

- i love Cervelli’s catching.

- Hughes avg’ed. 94 MPH. i was hoping Girardi would let him finish the game. good for his experience to get the final outs.

by Travis G on Jun 14, 2009 9:22 PM EDT reply actions

I am telling you

The rotation just does NOT pitch as well with Jorge behind the plate. I don’t know why. I just calls it like I sees it.

by HappyLuckyGoldenDragonNumber1! on Jun 14, 2009 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions

Never would I have thought

that Santana could be this bad. He’s one of my fav pitchers to watch. Glad to see Burnett throw up some zeros across the board and the offense pour it on.

Has Bruney been delegated to be the official smack-talker of the team? He sure runs his mouth a lot for someone who hasn’t really accomplished much in the majors.

by BigSlim on Jun 14, 2009 11:03 PM EDT reply actions

Bruney

I am just glad somebody brought up what K-Rod does when every time you turn around those morons on ESPN are trashing Joba while seeming to forget about all the posing and gesturing that K-Rod, Pujos and others do.

chandler knight

by ae2cdk on Jun 15, 2009 1:55 AM EDT reply actions

Does Pujols do it, too?

I haven’t watched enough Cardinals baseball to know.

As for K-Rod, I think PJ over at Bronx Banter described his celebration the best: “"Look one and all, including those living somewhere in the sky, I got a save! What a man I am!”

I still dislike Papelbon more, even if he is marginally subtler.

"Even Napoleon had his Watergate." —Yogi Berra. Quite true.

by dzawaki on Jun 15, 2009 1:59 AM EDT up reply actions