Baseball Toaster was unplugged on February 4, 2009.
Daisuke Matsuzaka's line over his first three starts:
20 IP, 17 H, 6 R, 1 HR, 5 BB, 24 K, 1.10 WHIP, 2.70 ERA, 1-2
The combined line of the opposing starting pitchers in Matsuzaka's first three starts:
22 2/3 IP, 15 H, 3 R, 1 HR, 3 BB, 16 K, 0.79 WHIP, 0.79 ERA, 2-1
At first it seemed as though this trend was the result of Matsuzaka starting against two of the best young pitchers in the league, but last time out his opponent was Mr. Gustavo Chacin, who bosts a 5.32 ERA on the season inclusive of the game in which he outdueled Matsuzaka. Tonight, Matsuzaka starts against Chase Wright, who will be making just his second major league start and just his fourth career start above A-ball. Here's hoping the Matsuzaka effect is for real.
Sox win 6-4.
I would say "out the door" But apparently that's not what they mean.
I'll say 9
22 The power of media?
*By fun, I mean not fun.
Oh, and that throw to ARod was bush
In a 10 year career, Jetes averages 17 HRs per 162 games. Announcing is a pretty good gig. Are these guys eben required to LOOK at a player's stats?
Crap. If you're afraid to pitch to Lugo, that doesn't bear well for Papi/Manny/Nancy.
Oh for Christ sakes throw a GD pitch. If he hits it so be it.
I saw the game on TV where Tony C. got beaned.
Please don't say things like that.
infuriating start. c'mon kid, double play ball.
Such a clutch POP-UP!!!!
88 I decided to listen to MLB Audio and synch it up with my DVR. I am not sorry I did this. Sterling/Waldman >>> Miller/Morgan
Olerud had a career high of 19 homers.
Too bad they can't pay somebody to look up stuff for them.
That's a depressing statement in its truth because:
Just about everyone else>>>Sterling/Waldman
Where has this theory that Mientkiewicz is just hitting them at people come from? No Morgan is repeating it.
Torre: RH on the mound, Minky it is...
Oh great, now Gammons is getting in on the deal. I get it, Dice-K throws 14 types of pitches, is Gold Glover, and could 80 HR/season if he had the chance. When he retires, he has a plan to solve global warming.
One more thing: notice the way Minky hustled down the line on that weak grounder....
Wil Nieves will get a hit one day....right?
Well, aside from the global warming thing.
Yeah Chase!
Is that not concerning?
It's always ESPN that makes Kay looks like a natural announcer.
I want the Yankees to win for basically 2 reasons (bear in mind I live in RSN).
1) So I can watch the news and BBTN
2) So I can visit Sox blogs and listen to the drunks freakin' out.
As for plunking. I hate to see it, but Matsuzaka did the same thing vs. Seattle, just missing Inchiro and Sexson. If he continues to do it, some team will have to teach him a lesson. The Yankees cant get a reputation of allowing their hitters to get plunked, which we certainly have now. I don't look forward to Baltimore series, because they always seem to hit us with no retaliation.
You have to pitch inside to win, but if folks think he was upset that he hit Arod, their crazy. In his first three starts he has either hit or nearly hit the best hitter in each lineup. Something to keep your eye on.
let's go yan-kees!!!
Also, would love to see the K-zone on that last pitch to Abreu.
YES! GIAMBI!
Hows everyone doin?
i am soooo sick of joe morgan already. feh!
Was that pitch ARod K'ed on right in his wheelhouse? Was he guessing (wrong)?
giambino has all 3 rbi
I really don't think Dice-K wants to put runners on.
I just want to get the fuck away from Manny. We have five days after tonight, right?
That's unfortunate.
Damnit. Isn't it about time for Drew to get hurt again?
Oops.. Nancy gets fancy. The bubble has burst.
and all with two outs.
miller just had a heart attack.
fucking batting practice/homerun derby.
sickening.
I agree. Just keep him in there. No need to burn the pen when clearly the Yankees have no mojo this weekend.
309 had it right. Manny should have had to move his feet.
a colter bean sighting.
i loathe boston
And Miller actually says "an inning for the record books" as if this hadn't been done like last season...and then Morgan has another orgasm...
http://tinyurl.com/3ao85q
364 Chase will be fine.
Oh good, Doug Out is up, hitting freaking 7th, here's our rally inning...
No reason to have Phelps playing, no, none at all
Tell me why Hughes shouldn't be here. Would you rather he just turns in another 6-2-0-0-0-10 line at AAA? Because hey, the Yanks surely have enough pitching to overcome that.
And we are going to get those 4 HRs shown over and over ALL game
Three more months of Minky!
I'll leave off on the Hughes talk for now, but there is 100% no reason for him not to be up...
We NEED pitching, period...
you love pinch-running for people! Take out Minky, and put the squeeze on with Thompson running
Answer my question. What's the use of having Phil Hughes at AAA if this is the level of pitching we're getting in the Majors?
Dice-K is certainly hittable.
421 LOL!
The tying run on second with nobody out and we can't do crap?
Why is Nieves getting fistbumps for an (unproductive) out?
Make Donnie Baseball get in his face and tell him to hit or pack his bags...we'll call Fasano.
What does he get from waiting down at AAA? He gets to face AAA hitters. What is he trying to do? He's trying to prepare for Major League hitters. If he were a mid-level prospect, I'd say keep him there. He is the premier prospect in all of baseball. Look at what Cole Hamels is doing. Tim Lincecum will be up within a month. Maybe you get him a start or two more to warm up for the Majors, but we're kidding ourselves if we think we don't need him now.
If we lose we're 4 games back of the Sox, which is not a disaster in April, but isn't very promising either. Rasner, Karstens, Pavano, Wright, and whoever you are trying to put in there at the #5 are not as good as Hughes. Bring him up.
423 He's having dinner and watching the game with Cashman right now.
Although with Dice-K, you do need some body armor.
And holy crap., its Colter Bean.
joe torre: now we're going to colter bean. wow, i'm beside myself
yeah, melk!
still a lot of game left. we're only down 1. let's win this one!!!
I agree. But we don't. And we have no idea when we might have some pitching again.
That's cool, in a sadistic kind of way.
And Nieves is hurt, just freaking great
I think they don't want to call him up then send him back. Still, why not a learning experience that he can build upon?
In other news: fuck.
Bean has been lights out for his career in AAA and has been given like 5 innings in the majors, really unfair...
Can we give the kid a few more starts in AAA first?
gasp
But PHelps with some emergency C innings?
Nah.
thankfully it was a ground rule shot. hit manny, strike out nancy, no further damage...
500 plus posts after 4. it's gonna be a long one, people...
GO YANKS!!!
Anyone could have had Colter Bean last year. No one wanted him. The Boston Red Sox flat out gave him back to us.
I'll ask the same question I asked when Andy Phillips was the big martyr. If Colter Bean is a pitcher that could be an effective player in major league baseball, that gets paid nothing, why does no one want him?
captain clutch!
whew, we needed that! : )
Miller decidedly less excited there...
i'd love a-rod to hit it over the monster.
And the Sox fans cheer an Arod K as if it was the World Series, yet have at the same time started the "sign ARod when he opts out campaign." Nothing like being totally hypocritical without shame
But I thought a changeup was a changeup was a fastball????
New game, thanks to Captain Clutch!
Does his ability to get Gerald Williams out really trump the lack of interest from 30 teams in the league?
AAAAnd, here we go with the HRs again
EDSP and Pettitte? Do I need a new pair of glasses?
Come ON Bean
tailor made for the DP right now. c'mon bean!
612 I agree, it's weird.
Think Tea will send him out for a third?
And Cano gets on, too bad its now Minky, Melky (a shot) and Nieves following him. This is why you can't give up offense at any position.
And John seriously, we get it, Dice-K pitched 100000 innings in a row in high school.
Yeah Cano!
Holy crap, great running by Cano and two hits for Minky, its the apocalypse...
At least Morgan has a man crush on Cano too
Just cemented his slot until June.
That gamble by Cano paid off.
We'll take it!
morgan/miller fall as silent as the crowd and then sound disappointed talking about it. whatever...
melkman is more like melkdud so far. but hey, we're winning!!!
Now, what does Nieves do against the gyro-ball?
Pettitte doing his inning of work again so that Gammons and Buster Olney can say its a terrible move b/c he might get hurt
Me, whatever, at this point, Gator could come in for an inning and it wouldn't suprise me and he could probably do just as well...
stunning...
Yea, I didnt get it either. He's old, he can't hit, throw, or catch. Tell me again why Todd Pratt was a bad idea Mr. Cashman.
692 Miller looked up from his script for a second, you can't really blame him...
Of course, we don't want to see a trend towards EDAP. ; )
EDSP has to throw more pitchers even in the warmup.
If this is how we play with 6 starters hurt and AA and AAA kids pitching in pressure situations, when we are healthy, we will dominate.
— apologies to Tom Waits ;-)
Bastards. BASTARDS!
ah, shoulda hit him!
DP now, thank you please...
No.
One.
Cares.
Did Morgan just say his girl looks like him?
I thought it was our BP that was the good one?
And yup, now the storyline is all set up since DM can get the win: DM dominates Yanks in amazing historic come from behind win for Sox, who have clinched first place for the playoffs already...
And now is crappy Vizcaino. Great.
And where is Farnsworthless???? Not that he should be in with a one run lead, but maybe if the Sux score a couple of more he should start the 8th to you know, regulate.
It's clear to me that it's time to make a change. I know it would never happen, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't. Torre is hurting the team.
20 years ago he would have sent Mo in to start the inning, but you can't blame Torre for not doing what no other manager today would do.
Take a look at Chris Carter for the Diamondbacks' AAA team - Tuscon Sidewinders.
In addition to the multitude of mistakes he made on Friday, what was lost is that he brought in Vizcaino one day after throwing 30 pitches? When you overwork relievers, their location falters and velocity drops. You simply can not throw your arms up in the air and say, "the bullpen just didn't perform".
The biggest concern is how the team is being run, not how ESPN calls the games.
WTF. A-Rod slid head first into second. He didn't see the play.
876 Fair enough.
6 runs for dice-k.
Let's go Phelps!
if that was cano, miller would've been distraught...
At least we get to see Phelps catch.
Brilliant Tea.
Boston's going to run all day if they get a runner on.
The bottom of our order is just awful with Minky and Nieves in there. Its like having two pitchers hit.
Agreed! How about AN option, rather than more options? I liked the off-seasn moves, but Nieves, I still don't get that.
Riddle: what do you call the physical response experienced by Jon Miller upon the appearance of Paplebon?
shtays there...
ugh, i've had enough of morgan already
Anyone else watch Disturbia?
Let's go Yankees!!
T-Clip, let Henn be the 5th/6th starter. Just don't let him know he's starting till the national anthem. Should counteract his anxiety problem between starts.
1010 Me, too. I like his approach, he's fearless...
Please, DON'T let it be a splitter.
Damnit, it was. Joe was right. I hate when that happens.
night all. off to practice. yankz, i'll check in about 4am... : )
Here's to staying healthy the rest of the way and laughing about this Red Sox sweep in October.
'nuff said. See youze vs Tampa...
Some painful losses past 3 days nonetheless. Thanks for the therapy, all.
And Abreu has at least 2 BB againt Mr. I Dont Walk No One Papeljerk.
Got Wang vs. Kazmir Tuesday...
Funny, that it worked out that everyone will be returning right AFTER this series. Ah well, aren't we playing them like next weekend again at the stadium?
Our bullpen is just dead tired. We really need some starters to start going deep. I wish I knew when this might happen. Igawa is throwing too many pitches per inning, Wang will take a start or two before they'll let his pitch count climb like that, Rasner/Karstens/Wright don't seem primed for long starts. It seems like Pettitte is our only hope and him throwing from the pen once between every start can't be helping his arm. But, I totally pegged Proctor giving up that HR. He always struggles when he is overused. And he clearly was hitting that wall tonight.
In any case, it will be great to have Matsui back and Wang back and Posada back and Moose back. wow, we're worn thin.
Matsui replacing a slumping Melky is a gigantic swing offensively. And of course, Posada replacing Nieves is somewhere in the infinity range.
Why not try it? We wouldn't have a pinch hitter, but heck, we dont really have one now.
I really have a big problem with him doing that. Pitching inside is acceptable, in fact I like it. But if you are going to do it you have to have control. You can bet that if you got hit by Pedro, he meant to do it and knew right where the pitch was going to land.
YouTube today: I've posted this before, but it got lost in a game thread, I believe...an awesome MLB 2k6 glitch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr9sy37GIRc
"Wil Nieves dislocated his thumb in the fourth inning. Trainer Steve Donahue popped it back in and he caught four more innings. "The kid has a lot of guts," Torre said."
True dat, Joe.
But man, what a very strange first 3 weeks. A godly A-Rod and a mortal Rivera has definitely provided some huge ups and downs I don't think I've ever seen in April.
we'll get back to full strength and take it to 'em next weekend in da bronx!
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