Game 36, Mariners at Yankees
Pettite vs. Millwood, 10 am
It would feel weird to me if I was looking at this and didn’t put a lineup up even if I don’t expect much posting traffic. In short, Pettite was out of baseball for a while, and then he came back fairly recently. The Mariners are sending their left-hander lineup to hit against him and haven’t had good results through three. No one has had a hit! Shouldn’t they have a scouting report on this guy? Unbelievable! But Millwood didn’t allow anything until the bottom of the third either so…. something. I don’t know. I anticipate silly home runs later.
2B Ackley
LF Wells
RF Ichiro!
C Montero
1B Smoak
3B Liddi
DH Carp
CF Saunders
SS Ryan
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there.
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Thanks Jay! Even if it’s just a few of us, we’ll try to make it entertaining, even if the Mariners don’t!
With those pink shoes, there is no way that Jesus does not get a hit today … Or at least on Sportscenter.
Hey, he walked. HE WALKED!
He’s been doing that more lately!
Wow! Smoak!!!
Smoak dinger? Well now I’m justified in putting something up.
Happy freaking Loola!
There ya go Jay, silly homer number one!
I assume you are referring to the game thread, Jay. It’s better if I assume that
Smoak showing real signs of life, Ackley coming into the game with a hitting streak, Carp also hitting well recently…. maybe we’re on to something?
Smoak!
We’re not going to brunch for another hour, so I feel justified in having the game on… while I’m ironing my shirt.
Jay, I saw that Carraway had a great game in AAA and that Proscia had a HR in Jackson. I missed the call up info, but am sure we will be reading more about it tomorrow, so consider this a coming attraction of some sort. I sure like those weekly updates. Everyone does.
Burn a hole in the shirt and buy yourself another hour. Took wife to dinner last night. Mom tomorrow. I always have to plan special occasions around games. Both ladies are very understanding, that way
BTW I felt compelled to post a comment on Greg John’s recent item about Wedge and the veterans “not getting it done”. Ichiro is a veteran – more of a vet than any of the rest of them – and he’s been doing all that can be expected of him.
Call out the individuals, Wedge. Let’s hear you call out OLIVO when he’s back and hacking away, yet getting the majority of the starts behind the plate.
Hehe Mike, no I like getting to sleep in the bed rather than on the couch…
Carraway did have a great game. Ramirez went 5 last night, 3 hits, 0 walks, 0 ER. Rainiers pitching had looked pretty bad prior to the arrival of those two.
Yes, the Tacoma staff definitely needed a boost.
If Pettite continues to get that pitch a foot outside on both RHPs and LHPs called a strike, it’s going to be another long day for the offense.
That was a ball – but the umpire needs to be consistent. It’s not as if the Yankees need charity.
DP!
So Ramos just tore his ACL. Think we could swing a deal to them for Olivo and get something useful (like a hug when we have a bad day or some oranges for snack time) out of it?
Yep, that’s why Ryan is playing!
Wow… Gotta feel for Ramos. First the kidnapping, now the tear? But yeah, that is a picture-perfect trade situation!
^^ It would be… if Olivo was healthy.
HOME RUN!!!!
Wells!!!
Yay – and not all that cheap, either!
Shoes!!!!!
Maybe these guys should use pink bats and wear pink shoes more often…
Olivo isn’t on the 60 day though, he was on the 15, right? Any word on rehab starts?
Never mind…. just found the info. Expected to start his rehab assignment on the 21st. So he wont be a realistic trade candidate.
Levine just called out rizzs on calling liddi the Italian stallion.
^^ hahahahaahaha
^funny!
Geez, please don’t let Montero be injured.
I don’t have the game right now. What happened to Jesus?
Nice DP
I don’t care if Ryan doesn’t hit.
I think we should all call Alex Liddi…. “Little Italy”. Kinda like the “Little John” of Robin Hood.
Play at the plate, grabbed his leg, as if he had strained it. Should be fine though, he’s catching right now.
Nice! Cano caught looking.
I think Montero’s problem was he got tagged in the balls (seriously).
Couldn’t we just have the pitchers hit and give the DH to ryan so we can still have his D?
Anyone else take a look at the replay of Montero sliding into home and wonder if he got under the tag??? The throw was there but it looked like Martin’s tag was on top of Montero… WHILE he was on the plate. That’s at least what I saw.
Okay, brunch time – cya’ll later.
Designated Defense?
Bon Appetite Westy
Martin’s tag on Montero did look late. But with the ball there, and the plate blocked (poorly), I can see how/why he was called out.
Millwood has looked great today
Lost opportunities again today. Probably gonna be a white knuckle ride til the end.
Montero did look safe, but we are not going to get a call like that today.
Nice pitching by Luetge there. Not sure I wouldn’t have left him in there to pitch to Arod with Cano and Texiera on deck.
Please strike this fuck, out.
Can’t strike him out when he’s got the Very Special Yankee Magic at the plate.
Blah.
Crappity crap crap. Furbush to face Cano with bases loaded. Knuckles getting whiter.
Just ‘walk’ him. One run is better than four.
Getting squeezed bad now.
Getting squeezed while gagging. Crap!
Home plate umpire hasn’t been too sharp today.
Nice! Furbush!!
That was a bad pitch, but Teixeria got greedy, and he paid for it.
I really hate these Activia commercials.
SWEEET!!!
Teixiera swung at the shit in the dirt.
He got a facial by Furbush, so to speak.
Liddi!!
Bolisima’
Let’s get a couple more runs here.
Carp, why would you ever attempt to bunt? Don’t do that.
I guess Carp isn’t playing tomorrow.
The question is why would Wedge be dumb enough to have him bunt.
Ugly Ryan… ugly.
Wow, way to make up for that ugly cut!
Wells now has an opportunity to really punish them.
He’s due for a GS, right?
That will due!
The two-run infield hit!
Not sure what Rapada was thinking there.
The ump took a pitch away from Carp. Then Wedge took a pitch away from him. Eventually, Carp swung at a breaking ball a foot outside for strike three. I am not sure who to blame for that crap at bat, actually.
Back to the action: giving up walks and making errors are sweeter when the Yankees do it!
Ah, the “infield single to pitcher” for two runs. I’ll take it.
As soon as the pitcher fielded it and went to throw I knew, no chance to get him, you’re just risking throwing it away and giving up an extra run or two.
A decision so terrible, I am deliriously happy that it wasn’t by us.
WOWWW!!!
That was some suck base running right there. What a moron.
Call might not be right, but that was even DUMBER that the pitcher’s throw.
Liddi had great speed to turn around and get him too. But Wells…. Great throw!
I guess swisher did not know that wells was drafted as a pitcher/outfielder. Home plate umpire can miss calls no matter where he is. Cool
There is nobody to blame for the Carp at bat except for Wedge. I still think he’s going to sit tomorrow thought.
Home plate ump finally gave us one. Called him out for being stupid.
Yeah, he was safe. I wont lose any sleep over it though.
It’s nice having quality defensive outfielders on staff.
I think carp will DH tomorrow with wells in LF to field balls off the wall and hold runners to singles. As long as carp gets into an “h” groove and if Smoak can continue to provide hope, we might have a fighting chance in Fenway. Two game series … Weird.
Except Carp hasn’t hit since he came back. Two home runs and not much else. Olivo-esque. It wouldn’t be so bad, except it seems like every time he makes an out, it’s GIDP.
No Liddi in Boston ?
Did they leave him behind in New York?
I would love to see Liddi, Seager, productive wells productive Smoak productive Carp in the lineup, but yeah – go with whomever is hot and with best matchups available. Wells can also play CF, too. Carp only has 33 ab’s but a cold September, bad spring, bad rehab numbers and slow start to the season certainly aren’t helping his case to solidify anything. He followed up a great game with a bad game, and if he had been in LF today, it likely would have been a much different game with a different result.
“Did they leave him behind in New York?”
I don’t know, perhaps they left him in NY the same way they left him in Detroit. Matchups ? Do you know Liddi’s hitting .321 vs RHP and .269 vs LHP and that his minor league splits have been quite similar? Productive ? He’s currently leading in .AVG and .OBP and second in .OPS
Pitch selection ? Ask Pettitte. Defense at 3B ? It’s no contest.
I like Liddi, too and would like to see him play consistently. Can’t keep Seager out of the lineup, and LF, DH and to a logical extent 1B are still in flux. I think we agreeing on the same things. If wells is not playing LF tomorrow, I will be surprised. It would be surprising to not see a young player who just had two hits, not play tomorrow too (Liddi) but Wedge has surprised us before in that way. Seager probably won’t sit tomorrow and if Wedge went with Liddi at DH instead of Carp, nobody could find fault with that. I don’t know who Boston will be pitching tomorrow, but there will be plenty of time to question his choices tomorrow
It wouldn’t surprise me to see Wells and Liddi in the lineup tomorrow. Lester is pitching for Boston, so I would expect to see a RH heavy lineup.
Home plate ump finally gave us one. Called him out for being stupid.
Swisher: I was SAFE!
Ump: Yeah, but that was stupid.
Swisher: But that doesn’t matter.
Ump: Sure, it does. In fact, if I could get away with it I’d eject you for that play. Going for a triple down the left field line with no outs?!? Really? If you were any dumber, I’d call you Yuni.
Swisher: That’s fair.
Two comments this morning, one positive and one perhaps not so much:
First, this morning the Mariners have 7 hitters with an OPS+ over 100. I don’t recall the last time that happened, it always seems like they only have about 2 hitters that high. Liddi, Seager, Jaso, Wells, Ichiro, Saunders, Montero. Ackley is at 95 and hopefully will join them soon.
The second point is that Ryan is leading the team in walks. In fact, he has more walks than hits. Good on him for the walks, but it seems like there is something wrong with your hitters when Ryan is leading in walks.