Jays 14, Yanks 8: The Thesaurus Game
by jscape2000 on Sep 6, 2009 5:08 PM EDT
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How many did I miss?
As an exorcise in exorcism, how many worse games can you remember?
I was at the game in Cleveland on the 4th of July 2006.
Shawn Chacon made the start. I bought a scorecard when we arrived in the 1st inning.
The game started on a Yankee-centric note- Damon reached on an error by Aaron Boone, then went first to third on a Jeter single. Giambi ground into a double play, but the run scored. Then Chacon took the mound and ruined my scorecard. He allowed 4 runs in the bottom of the 1st and 3 more in the 2nd.
Ron Villone came in and put out the fire for 2.2IP. And then there was TJ Beam and Mike Myers in the 5th- the Indians hung a nine spot. By the end of fifth the Indians used up the 6th inning column. By the time the 19-1 final was posted I was drawing in boxes at the end of the scorecard.
What was the worst game you ever witnessed?
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The Worst I Ever Witnessed On Tv
Was Game 7 of the 01 WS, and of course Game 7 in 04. In person I was at a game at the Trop in which Giambi hit a GS to give the Yanks a 4-0 lead and they still lost. This was when Tampa stunk too.
Rule#76: No Excuses. Play like a champion!
Horrible game …the opener at the new stadium this year againts the tribe Horrid
by Yankz09 on Sep 6, 2009 5:26 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
4th of July Weekend 2008
Scored tickets to the Yanks vs. Red Sox game to take my mom, who is a die hard Yankees fan, while she visited me in NYC from Texas. Final score: Red Sox over Yanks, 7-0.
I was there too
Jon Lester completely shut them down. That was a rough one.
by bluecheese999 on Sep 6, 2009 6:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Game 7 of 2004 ALCS
Just awful. Kevin Brown pitching, who may have been one of the worst pickups in Yankee history, gives up a single to Damon to start the game and it goes all downhill from there. Damon hits the grand slam, and the game is practically over. Pathetic. The hearts of the Yankee players just weren’t in it. They gave up right from the first inning it seemed. And the fans gave up too. They all left, yet somehow, Red Sox fans managed to get in. I don’t know how, but Sox fans managed to get into Yankee Stadium and are sitting all around me by the 8th inning! And it almost felt like Fenway Park. Worst game of my life, and a pretty bad day too.
Pretty bad...
but not the worst, considering they really could have won this game. Also considering the game really was just a throwaway…tho hard to call another game like that after Friday’s game really was the definition of that.
If the game meant more, Id think Melancon and Towers never see the field also, unless it went to extras. I don’t know if it made a difference; in a game that saw Texiera make an error, Id think no one was safe from the bad juju this game.
Wins are wins, but loses are also just that. We gave up the game we picked up on Saturday…so were right back to where we were Friday…but cross 2 games off the list. So whatever.
Not a total who cares, cuz the division isn’t locked up yet.
It was pretty pathetic to listen to….
Mitre really has been the same guy in each start, its just a whole bunch of bad luck that for some reason turns against him (rather than some pitchers getting a DP or atem ball in those situations.)
People can bash the hell out of Mitre all they want, his numbers don’t do him justice. I don’t know if I want him starting a game 4, but if whatever the plan is with Joba doesn’t work out, I really wouldn’t be averse to having Mitre start a game 4.
GODZZIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
I agree with the Mitre Assessment
He is not as bad as he is made out to be. I’ll take him over Rasner/Ponson/Karstens any day. Getting rid of Ohlendorf looks worse and worse each start he makes though.
Ugly Games? No Ugly Decisions ..
Girardi really needs to lean when to pull a pitcher … he has left pitchers in far too long this season and last year, too.
No Girardi needs to know which pitchers to use in a specific spot
You dont bring in guys with control issues when the bases are loaded. If Melancon is the closer of the future, the future looks bleak.
Bombing in the Bronx
The only Yanks game I’ve attended was Aug 31, 2004. It was a game in the Bronx against the visiting Tribe. I made the 7 hour drive with some family from (Malone to the Bronx) with hopes of a Yankee win. Javier Vazquez vs. Jake Westbrook looked to be a pitchers duel on paper. The game ended in the second inning. The Indians scored 6 times off of Vazquez who lasted just 1-1/3 innings. In the 5th, the deficit was 15-0, and finally the game ended in a 22-0 massacre for the home team. The (Old Stadium) may have had some great memories, but all weren’t in triumph of the Yanks. Other notes: A-Rods 1st season with NY, and Boston’s more than forgettable 1st WS win in 486015 years.
August 14, 2007
It was the day Phil Rizzuto died, so the atmosphere in the ballpark was unusually solemn even before the game started. Then the Yankees went out and got slaughtered by the Orioles, 12-0. Aubrey Huff hit a 3rd inning grand slam and Daniel Cabrera pitched 6.2 shutout innings. Meanwhile, Jeff Karstens and Jim Brower (remember them?) combined to allow 11 runs in the first 5 innings. The lone highlight was seeing A-Rod hit one of the longest balls ever hit at the old stadium, a drive halfway up the left field upper deck. However, this was not a day where anything would go right for the Yanks, as A-Rod’s shot curved just inches foul.
As a side note....
anyone catch the Brewers/Giants game highlights?
Probably the greatest GW HR celebration I’ve seen (when I don’t care about the team doing it mind you).
Hilarious stuff.
GODZZIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
That game was great overall
The defense by both teams was as great as our defense was horrible today.
"When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions."
-Chili Davis
I saw the Red Sox beat us in the Bronx...
… 17-1. Pavano vs. Clement. Awful.
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
1993 Eastern Conference Finals Game 5
Charles Smith can’t make a layup, three different times.
nothing even comes close.
by SBakerTheTouchdownMaker on Sep 6, 2009 8:36 PM EDT reply actions
The worst
sporting event I ever attended was a Friday night hockey game between the Rangers and Penguins at the Garden in early April 1993. The Rangers were “competing” for a playoff spot (they actually missed the playoffs that year, and then won the cup in 1994). Mario Lemieux scored FIVE goals and the Rangers lost 12-5. They were so disorganized and outclassed it was awful. An absolute embarassment. As far as the Yanks go I’d have to say Game 4 of the ALDS in 2000. Clemens on 3-days rest versus Zito. Final score; 12-1 Oakland. I watched it on TV and recall thinking that the Yanks had to then fly all the way out to Oakland to play less than 24 hours later in a Game 5. I thought if might be rough. They scored 5 in the first and pretty much breezed even though Petitte got knocked out in the 4th. Final score: 7-5 Yankees
To add another...
the whole four game collapse in the 2004 playoffs easily eclipses everything else, but the end of the 2001 series, and the Knicks in 1993 were pretty heinous too, but already mentioned, so I’ll pony up another godawful moment in my mind.
April 2007. The sox going back to back to back to back against Chase Wright. For some reason we were really low on pitchers, and we threw this rookie, who had maybe two games at Double A ball in his past, out there. Now granted, he’d started the week before and gotten the win against the Indians. And up to that point in the game, he wasn’t doing horribly, and the Yankees were up 3-0. I was driving back from NY to my home behind enemy lines, and we had it on the radio, and I was thinking to myself, “This kid might just work out.” And then in the third inning with two outs, bam! Bam! Bam! BOOM! It was all over. I think the poor guy actually got Post-traumatic stress disorder after that.
And all I heard about at work for days was this.
Game 7 of the 01 WS...
By far the worst Yankees game for me. Other bad sports games i’ve witnessed include Game 6 of the 2000 Stanley Cup & 2008 NFC Title game (which both might be kinda popular in here, but they weren’t for me)
As for today’s game, the Yanks just need to move on and get ready for the double header on Monday
Thoughts
Hummm Game 3 of the ALCS KC vs. Yanks. Brett homers off of Gossage
Game 6 of the 1981 WS vs. Dodgers..I cried..really I did. I was 10 years old.
I have played in some horrible football games because I was very fortunate (lol) to play with the Cincinnati Bengals from 94-98 and we sucked!!
The game that tore me up the most was the 01 Game 7 WS. When Soriano homered I would have never thought that that game would have ended the way it did. I couldn’t talk for weeks. I am very serious. It was like someone died.
You were a pro football player?
That’s so cool. It doesn’t matter who you played for or how good the team was, that’s awesome.
Anyway, definitely Game 7 of the 01 WS for me. I cried after that. Fucking lucky Diamondbacks.
by Rumplestiltskin02 on Sep 7, 2009 1:02 AM EDT up reply actions
games 7 in 04...im sorry...just everything wrapped around the loss..
Heartbreaking…..if your talking technically sound baseball at its worst…I think this one….
by NYYWinsRings26 on Sep 7, 2009 3:55 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
bad game
the most sicking game was when the sox beat the yanks to capture the 2004 div. title .again they all were on steriods and look at the pitching staff we had that year it .S—K
BIG YANKEE FAN,FROM MASS. HAVE TO PUT UP WIYH ALL THESE HOLE SOX FANS
TO ADD ANOTHER
YOU ARE RIGHT TORRE LEFT THE HID IN FOR 4 HOME RUNS AGANIST THE SOX .PISS POOR MANAGING JOE T.TOWARDS THE END OF HIS LAST YEAR WITH YANKS HE LOOKED LIKE HE WAS SLEEPING IN DUGOUT
BIG YANKEE FAN,FROM MASS. HAVE TO PUT UP WIYH ALL THESE HOLE SOX FANS
CARLP.
CARL PAVANO AND KEVIN BROWN 2 OF THE BIGGIST STIFFS.HEY CARL EVEN YOUR OLD GIRLFRIEND SAYS YOU ARE A BIG BABBY TO PUT IT NICE WAY
BIG YANKEE FAN,FROM MASS. HAVE TO PUT UP WIYH ALL THESE HOLE SOX FANS
Wow
I owe a big debt of gratitude to my cousin Casey for scheduling her wedding on the day before Labor Day. I didn’t see a single pitch of this travesty.
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