Game 85: Ace goes for Inside (7th) Straight
by CrazyYankeeChick on Jul 9, 2009 11:45 AM EDT
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PrintNew York Yankees at Minnesota Twins, Jul 9, 2009 1:10 PM EDT
"No one likes to lose to the Yankees," whined OF Denard Span.
After hanging on to a 4-3 lead last night, the Yankees look to cap off the series, their last game at the Metrodome, and the Twins' morale in today's afternoon delight. With Chien Ming Wang out on the DL, as Chien Ming Wang is want to do, Girardi has given the nod to his best long-reliever, RHP Alfredo Aceves (5-1, 2.03). Finally.
What took you so long? Strapped with a healthy 4-pitch arsenal, Aceves has blanked 34 in 40 innings. Back in 2008, he made his first big league start against the Angels, posting a 7-1 win. Tonight he'll try to slip back into old starter form as he faces the ever-unpredictable LHP Francisco Liriano (4-8, 5.49), who can go deep into the game and run up Ks, but often at the expense of control.
Minnesota may be chomping at the bit for their new igloo stadium, but the Yankees will most likely miss it, especially when they open up a much more dangerous series tomorrow in Anaheim. If the Yanks lock up the W today, it will be their first 8-game road streak since 1998. Yeah, that was a good year.
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If you get up 0-2 on Cody Ransom with the bases loaded
and then walk him on the next 4 pitches, why are you pitching?
Seriously
You could toss it underhand to him and he wouldn’t hit it.
by New York Sports Jerk on Jul 9, 2009 1:50 PM EDT up reply actions
God damn it Ransom!
What a worthless human being.
by New York Sports Jerk on Jul 9, 2009 1:59 PM EDT reply actions
Five minutes ago
Hopefully.
I honestly can’t for the life of me figure out why Cody Ransom is on this team. It’s one of life’s little mysteries.
If only his father had worn a condom, we wouldn’t have this problem right now.
by New York Sports Jerk on Jul 9, 2009 2:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Is this the same Cody Ransom
that everyone was so glad to see come off the DL so we could dump Angel Berroa?
That's not how I remember it
We all wanted Berroa gone long before Ransom was coming back.
I actually forgot Ransom was even on the team while he was on the 60-day. I was just hoping for A-Rod to get healthy enough so they could keep dump Berroa and have Pena stay as the only utility guy.
Having Ransom makes no sense. He can’t hit, can’t field, can’t run.
by New York Sports Jerk on Jul 9, 2009 4:58 PM EDT up reply actions
unreal
errors and 0-for’s. that’s ransom’s game. glad he’s starting for the yanks. wooooo!!
screw pena, girardi has hinske gathering dust on the bench!
i have a cash reward for whomever brings me ransom’s head on a plate!…since our retarded manager doesnt have the brains to take the guy out the eqaution, i guess he leaves it in our hands……….jeez louise, do ny fans have to do everything themselves?
I think joe has something aginst hinske or sumthing..or is just plain stupid
The guy was decent in his debut and yet joe takes error prone, little league batting ransom over him…
Love Cody Ransom, love him!
Nah, he still sucks, but he’s +1 so far today.
2 RBI
1 Error allowing a run
by New York Sports Jerk on Jul 9, 2009 2:23 PM EDT reply actions
He really impressed me when he first came up last season I think he was like 5-5 all hr or something like that idk what happen..
by Yankz09 on Jul 9, 2009 2:26 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
contrary to what i said earlier, i think i REALLLY hate girardi more than i hate ransom. seriously, everyone knows ransom sucks, he knows he sucks, even ransom knows he sucks…..so its probably hard for him to perform when joe keeps throwing the burden on him. ransom doesnt come across as a guy who demands or feels like he’s owed something(playing time)……so is it really his fault if the manager keeps putting him in spots that are detrimental to the team?
i starting to get kinda tired of girardi’s “nice guy, gut feeling, emotional, relationship before business” approach to this team……..almost everything this guy does comes across as cluless ans he makes it worse with his dumb ass explanations for his actions!
I whole heartedly feel that if we had a manager of mike socia’s caliber or probably even old joe, this yankee team would have a 5 game lead in the AL east right now, its easy to see that girardi doesnt know how to manage a boat load of talent around him. cool guy, but not built to handle this type of adversity or challenge. He reminds me of a little league coach, i think thats why he did decent with the marlins….he wasnt working with much.
Dear Robertson
It’ss ok to throw strikes. There are other guys on the field who will try to help you.
Ok. You get joe to ground out but you walk the guy batting .180?
by Yankz09 on Jul 9, 2009 2:49 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
right
Laces out!
-2008 AFC East Champions-
Suck it Pats, Bills and most of all... the god damn jets.
Supporter of the Bash Brothers- Wilson and Bell.
can someone tell me
why girardi pitches hughes for 2/3 of an inning yesterday when you KNOW aceves is pitching today, and then you throw robertson out there in the 4th?? hughes should be our long reliever. does anyone else agree with this?? he doesn’t need to always be our “8th inning guy” as sterling constantly refers to him as. he should be rocking the middle innings when disasters like today or any start by joba happens.
Seriously i was thinking Joe gave Hughes a low pitch count so he can relieve for ace today and go a few innings
boy was i wrong to even considering that giraridi make would a rational decision..
Oh, geez
So, if use comes in in the 4th and pitches a couple of innings, who pitches in the 7th and 8th? Those innings are now Hughes’ job, not the 4th.
swisher
probably the ugliest so i’ve seen
Laces out!
-2008 AFC East Champions-
Suck it Pats, Bills and most of all... the god damn jets.
Supporter of the Bash Brothers- Wilson and Bell.
Way To Go Tex!! I remember someone sayin on here he would hit ome out this series?
by Yankz09 on Jul 9, 2009 2:53 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Way To Go Tex!! I remember someone sayin on here he would hit ome out this series?
by Yankz09 on Jul 9, 2009 2:54 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
attta boy Tex
Laces out!
-2008 AFC East Champions-
Suck it Pats, Bills and most of all... the god damn jets.
Supporter of the Bash Brothers- Wilson and Bell.
Yeah, let's wear out the bullpen before going to Anaheim
Great idea, Joe.
by New York Sports Jerk on Jul 9, 2009 3:01 PM EDT reply actions
Agreed
Girardi makes to many bone headed decisions. He needs to sit the bench for a few years under a Joe Torre type and see how it is done.
Im sure the same people that question
Girardi’s every breathe did the same shit with Torre.
He makes questionable decisions, but so does every manager. We just pay more attention to Girardi.
Actually
I never had a problem with Torre, I was very upset when they let him go, but I see what you mean. I’m just extremely frustrated with Girardi. When someone like me can look at a play and see that he is making the wrong decision, I think that with his knowledge of the game he should be able to make some better decisions. Maybe I’m being to harsh on the guy, and obviously I’m not sitting there on the bench with him and have all the facts. I would just like him to stop “playing it by the book” and go with some gut instinct. Like stop giving the ball to Bruney in the eighth, which it looks like he is getting away from that, but that is just a recent example. Or how about continually playing Cody Ransom, those sort of things just irk me to no end. So, like I was saying when I am calling for his head it is probably more out of frustration, and is the wrong thing for the team in the middle of the season, just want to see the Yanks go all the way, considering that they have the talent to do it, and it seems the heart this year too.
As long as your on board with
him going back into the rotation as soon as there’s an opening next season.
The last thing we need is a Hughes To The Pen contingent right next to the Joba To The Pen crowd. I think the PA fanpost section might explode.
i am only talking about right now...
whatever happens next year, happens. I’m just saying, when I see him come out of the pen- I get a calming feeling.
Well I guess that answers the fifth starter question
for today, anyway.
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