Blue Jays Walk Off: Jays 5, Yankees 4
by Frank Campagnola on Sep 16, 2011 10:25 PM EDT
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CC Sabathia struggled with his command and Joe Girardi's bullpen management in the later innings led a 5-4 Yankees loss in Toronto.
Sabathia allowed four runs on ten hits and four walks over 5 2/3 innings. He struck out eight, but worked in and out of trouble all night until Adam Lind finally broke through with a bases clearing double in the bottom of the fifth, giving the Jays a 4-3 lead. Sabathia also allowed a run in the first on a fielder's choice.
For the Yanks, Nick Swisher's RBI double and Eric Chavez's two run homer gave the Yanks a 3-1 lead in the third inning.
Following the Lind double, Swisher drove in Robinson Cano to tie the game. But after that, the Yankees offense was kept quiet for the rest of the game.
After the bullpens shut their respective opponents down, the Jays finally broke through in the bottom of the ninth. Boone Logan allowed a leadoff double and then intentionally walked Brett Lawrie. One out later, Jose Molina sent a Cory Wade pitch into the right-center field gap to deliver a walk off victory.
There were plenty of criticisms to go around tonight, most of them regarding Joe Girardi's bullpen management. Why did Boone Logan start the ninth inning? Why did Cory Wade replace him in the ninth? Where was Mariano Rivera?
In the seventh, Rafael Soriano struck out the side, but was replaced for David Robertson in the eighth. What was the need to burn through relievers? Couldn't Soriano have pitched the eighth as well? Aren't they supposed to be stretching their relievers out now?
There's a lot to question here, but its still only one game. Tomorrow is another day.
Play of the Game: Jose Molina.
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I blame Cano and Swish for not carrying the offense more
seriously Hopefully CC can return to his old ways and this offense can remember how important it is to take walks.
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by Livestrong77nyy on Sep 16, 2011 10:30 PM EDT reply actions
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Can we trade Tuesday for Sunday? Including news/gt/preview/recap? Going to be away Saturday and Sunday.
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by Nine Inch Nails on Sep 16, 2011 10:32 PM EDT reply actions
Fitting, no?
A told B and B told C, "I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree."
by Nine Inch Nails on Sep 16, 2011 11:29 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
Thoughts
Agree with WWJD point that Wade should have pitched 7th, So/Ro 8th, So/Ro 9th, or something like that.
Mo should have been the pitcher in that situation, not Wade. Wade is next best option, though.
Yankees should really go back to 5 man rotation, and CC should be getting ready for game 1 start.
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by WhatwouldJeterdo on Sep 16, 2011 10:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Yes, they really do
Time for Hughes to go to the bullpen I think, but it’s not going to happen.
I feel bad for whoever winds up in the playoff rotation and actually has to pitch on regular rest. They won’t have done it for almost two months.
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the sad part is
they wont even be on regular rest likely… at least not CC… going from every 6 days to every 4…
I honestly think that the six man has affected everybody in the rotation negatively in some way
Particularly CC and AJ, who are veterans who have pitched in 5 man rotations their entire careers. Of course, I think AJ’s horrendous August had more to do with an inability to repeat his mechanics, but pitching an extra day every start after pitching on normal rest your entire career can make it easy to lose rhythm as a starting pitcher. CC has struggled, not to AJ’s extent but still not CC like.
The only one it doesn’t seem to have affected is Ivan Nova, but the other five guys are all having worse second halfs than first half and it’s entirely possible that the six man has been a cause.
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Well, excluding Hughes seeing as he didn't pitch in the first half
So he can’t really be worse, though he hasn’t been great and has pitched worse than his line as shown.
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There should have never been a 6-man rotation in the first place.
God forbid star prospect Won-18-Games-Last-Year Hughes not be in the rotation. No, it’s only okay to kick the rookie out of the rotation to make room for him, until Nova not being in the rotation couldn’t be justified. So instead, he’d rather have his ace obviously struggle on extra rest rather than take Hughes out of the rotation.
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by Ella Grace on Sep 16, 2011 10:58 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
What happened to everyone wanting A.J. out of the rotation?
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Actually I never wanted AJ out of the rotation
So, well there it is.
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I didn't want AJ out of the rotation.
I just wanted him to fix his control issues. For a good portion of his starts, he wasn’t getting run support, either. Hughes OTOH, while he’s been better than he was in his first 3 starts this season, still has problems. He still isn’t able to keep a steady velocity throughout a game. He doesn’t drop as radically as he did in the first half, but it does drop. That’s a problem that needs more time to be worked on. He doesn’t have an out pitch. He gets 0-2 on a batter and can’t put them away, which leads to more pitches being thrown. I don’t want to give up on Hughes, but I don’t believe he should have been recalled this season.
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by Ella Grace on Sep 16, 2011 11:06 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
AJ, from April 1st through his first August start
Was the third best pitcher in the Yankees rotation. August was so bad that it completely destroyed his entire season and it looks worse than it actually was, but for the majority of this season AJ has been a capable starter, much better than last year where after the first two months he just lost it and never regained himself.
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Girardi says CC going on regular turn next time.
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by WhatwouldJeterdo on Sep 16, 2011 11:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Rays are being useless.
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by WhatwouldJeterdo on Sep 16, 2011 10:36 PM EDT reply actions
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by Jedi Master A-Rod on Sep 16, 2011 10:38 PM EDT reply actions
Ugly...too many walk-off losses in recent weeks.
Ted Williams' famous Red Sox farewell speech: "I consider myself the unluckiest man on the face of the Earth."
Aside from the lack of offense,
I am so sick of the 1 reliever/inning rule. Girardi manages these late-inning tie games as if he knows the game will end in the 9th one way or another. That, or he just goes, “Either this game ends in the 9th, or I DGAF. I only signed on for 9 innings of baseball per game.”
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by Ella Grace on Sep 16, 2011 10:51 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Today wasn't nearly as bad as his playoff bullpen managing
I appreciate what he does for the pen long-term by not overworking anybody, but his in game bullpen decisions are very questionable sometimes.
Remember in the playoffs a couple years ago when Robertson was dealing through 7 or 8 pitches and he decided to pull him for matchups reasons?
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Four runs also isn't terrible-horrible offense.
More runs would be nice, as always, but four is usually pretty good.
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by WhatwouldJeterdo on Sep 16, 2011 10:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Four with CC on the mound is usually an automatic win
Well Suzyn, you can’t predict baseball (though I doubt your name is Suzyn).
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Haha, no, not quite.
But yeah, it definitely wasn’t that bad tonight.
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by WhatwouldJeterdo on Sep 16, 2011 11:00 PM EDT up reply actions
I didn't think it was horrible-terrible.
But we haven’t been able to get hits in late-innings when we need them recently.
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by Ella Grace on Sep 16, 2011 11:07 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Like I said this a week ago, I am gona say this again
We want new record by Mariano at home, a la Jeter. Please dont get emotional. Its always about the money.
Then why not pitch him in a tie game?
No save for that.
by Monotonousblob on Sep 16, 2011 11:55 PM EDT up reply actions
how does that have anything to do with this game?
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I've seriously been thinking lately
how much better and more valuable could Rivera have been over his career if saves didn’t exist/didn’t matter. What’s the point of saving the best reliever in baseball for an extremely specific situation, not always against the other teams best hitters, when we have to go to Logan/Wade/Ayala or whoever else is less likely to get the job done beforehand.
by Monotonousblob on Sep 16, 2011 11:55 PM EDT reply actions
Lovely
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by I'mGivingYouARaise on Sep 17, 2011 12:09 AM EDT reply actions
Girardi used to use mo in a tie game on the road and even used his relievers for more than an inning. But it seems his managing is getting worse year after year despite us having a better pen pieces every year…
by lololol on Sep 17, 2011 12:35 AM EDT via mobile reply actions 1 recs
I guarantee Mo will pitch tie games on the road in the playoffs
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by Rorschach44 on Sep 17, 2011 11:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Good game to miss
Girardi and this team have a poor record when the score is tied late. At least, this season. Blame bullpen management or the offense, does it matter which? Meh.
by waw on Sep 17, 2011 6:31 AM EDT via iPhone app reply actions
Lord will you people quit your pissing and moaning? We’re in first place with only one opening day starter who’s still throwing the ball reliably, Girardi has done a great job.
Bartolo is tiring, Garcia’s junk is getting figured out, AJ has faltered as he does in August, Hughes you don’t know which twin will show up, Nova brilliant (but he wasn’t in their opening day starter plans) and even CC is worn out and still we’re in first.
Tex average is way down, ARod has been hurt 3 times, hasn’t been avaiable often enough, Cano under-performing, Martin’s bad went cold, Swisher’s just woke up and still we’re in first. The only thing you frontrunners will be satisfied with is 162-0 and sweep the playoffs. The Yanks are exhausted, period. The ton of rainouts to be made up had them playing nearly 7 days a week for 6 weeks and they’re run down. I don’t see Boston calling for Francona’s head and they’re getting beat by everyone but the Vienna Boys Choir. Learn the game or please, just shut up!
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