We were waiting for something to happen on offense (quiet)...now we're just hoping to hang-on and start a rally. Avila and Betemit are a combined 0-20 and neither looks good. Ugh! Balk...
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We were waiting for something to happen on offense (quiet)...now we're just hoping to hang-on and start a rally. Avila and Betemit are a combined 0-20 and neither looks good. Ugh! Balk...
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We were waiting for something to happen on offense (quiet)...now we're just hoping to hang-on and start a rally. Avila and Betemit are a combined 0-20 and neither looks good. Ugh! Balk...
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This ones over, they are headed back to NY for tomorrows game, hopefully the Tigers bring thier bats !
I think all the talk about how bad Burnett was coming in, got into thier heads !
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Is the next game tomorrow or Thursday ?
Who is the announcer trashing Alburquerque ?
He's a rookie and has had a GREAT year and has been brought in with the bases loaded twice now and all they want to do is trash him.
He's a rookie and has had a GREAT year and has been brought in with the bases loaded twice now and all they want to do is trash him.
Apparently I'm bad luck for the home team this year. Well, we'll get 'em on Thursday!!!
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I just realized that the Brewers-Diamondback series is being played indoors(retractable roofs being closed on both teams' stadiums). If the Rays had not been eliminated already,we could have had the possibility of the World Series being played indoors,if the Ray would have advanced past their series with the Rangers & the AL championship & faced either the Brewers or Diamondbacks.
Huge Game 5 in New York on Thursday. I sure wish we had Verlander pitching. Stupid rain!
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Obviously someone informed them? How? Smoke signals? Or are you smoking something? Clearly you have never umpired a baseball game!
Its funny, isnt it? Now I dont speak for Tigers fans but I thought the Tigers had a huge advantage with AJ Burnett pitching game 4. Now it seems like the Yankees have the advantage now. I think going into game 4 you didnt think of the fact that Verlander is only pitching once. Now, because the Tigers lost, thats all you can think about now.
I'm perfectly fine with Doug Fister going if I can't have Verlander.
I'll take Fister over Nova.
yankees got a HUGE lift from Granderson, he saved 3 runs, maybe 4 in the first inning that allowed a very wild Burnett to settle down. (fwiw, I give a ton of credit to the yankees pitching coach that had to have something to say to him between innings).
Granderson also saved runs later in the game with another GREAT catch to save runs.
This was a very close game till late in the game.
The rain-delay prevented Verlander from pitching twice in this series, however I'm not completely disappointed since Fister gets a second opportunity. I really like Fister, but he looked like a deer in headlines when he pitched on Sunday. Personally, I think he will redeem himself and pitch a great game tomorrow...I just hope we get can some hits off Nova. As for Burnett, he had his back against a wall and pitched a great game. Kudos! After the reading the New York press I was sure we would score thirty of forty runs last night.
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No doubt that Granderson's 1st inning catch was a game-changer....we would have scored three runs and probably led to more in addition to possibly having Burnett yanked before he got settled. Likewise, his catch of Peralta's drive to left-center probably saved a run if not two. I was hoping we could get 6 or 7 innings and 3-runs out of Porcello - he came close. Then the bullpen pulled a repeat of Game 1.
Anyway, I think Leyland should play Inge on Thursday. I know Nova is a right-handed pitcher and Inge is a right-handed batter, but Inge is hitting and Betemit is not; in fact, Betemit is swinging at balls bouncing to the plate and has yet to make solid contact; 0 for 8 with 4 strikouts. I don't know what to do with Avila? Hit .300 bat has suddenly gone ice-cold and he has also taken some terrible swings at the plate; 0 for 12 with 6 strikeouts. Hopefully he can take some extra batting practice today and someone with "calm" this young man down before game time tomorrow night. I want to see him rip a double and hit a HR over that short right-field fence.
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Actually, I have umpired a baseball game. If you didn't see something, then you didn't see something, and having a fake pow-wow of people who didn't see something doesn't enable someone who got it wrong to get it right. Have you ever heard of radios?
Notes from yesterday:
1. Jeez, what a catch by Granderson in the first. He made it difficult on himself by taking that step in you see so often from centerfielders on balls hit right at them...but still a great catch.
2. But not as good as the catch he made later in the game, diving to his right and catching the ball at full extension. Wow.
3. Time to move Posada up to the five hole, with Texeira moving to six and Swisher to seven. Jorge has had good at bats the whole series, even against Verlander. Texeira and Swisher are both streaky hitters...who are in a bad streak.
4. AJ Burnett is one complex carbohydrate. Just when you are ready to blame the whole season on him, he comes thru with a very nice outing in an very big spot. He's thisclose to letting the game get away from him in the first, Granderson rescues him, and off he goes.
5. A-Rod may not be hitting as well as we'd like, but he's flashing some nice leather at third base. The guy has been a vacuum.
6. If you want a treat, listen to Jim Leyland's pre-game press conference. The man just says all the right things all the time. You cannot get enough of him...he puts it all in perspective. The post-game presser was probably good too, but I did not hear it.
7. Game five is a total toss up. Would be so much better if this was a seven game series, with the specter of Verlander hanging over another game.
8. Wow so many high strikes! I've been a high strike proponent, but it was really strange to see so many of Porcello's 'sinkers' staying high but sinking at the last second to the letters for a strike. Took a while for the Yankee hitters to adjust. Funny thing was, when you went to the Brewers-DBacks being played at the same time, it was back to the usual 'anyhing over the belt is a ball' strike zone.
9. Seriously, Tampa, the ugly blue uniforms in an elimination game? I just don't get it.
10. Speaking of that game, I'm a huge proponent of day playoff baseball. But yesterday's game was not a sellout, and I've read nothing but I'll bet the ratings won't be as good as the ratings of the night games. Not sure if that speaks to the fact that people are working and can't go/watch, the Rays have a terrible fan base, a terrible building...or all of the above. But you think with the way the Rays made it into the playoffs, excitement would have grown. It didn't.
11. I do believe Arizona had a sellout, however, after poor attendance for a first place team. Good for them.
12. So funny to listen to Philly radio the last few days, with people arguing about 'Black Sunday'. The Iggles blow a 23-3 lead in the afternoon, and across the street, at night, Cliff Lee blows a 4-0 playoff game lead. Philly improbably loses both games. The Birds dominate the city, so there a LOT of unhappy campers in the City of Brotherly Blame.
13. Well, I kinda made fun of Josh Collmenter this summer, when he opposed Roy Halladay in a regular season game. My bad. The kid can pitch...VERY deceptive delivery.
14. How on earth do they plug the pitches into the 'strike zone' when tracking pitches? Is it computerized, like tennis line calls, or is some dude sitting in the production truck touching a computer screen for every pitch. Do not understand the technology.
15. A good thing about playoff baseball is nobody cares about or discusses MVP, Cy Young awards, or anything else like that. It's all about what you do IN the playoffs.
Sandra
1. Jeez, what a catch by Granderson in the first. He made it difficult on himself by taking that step in you see so often from centerfielders on balls hit right at them...but still a great catch.
2. But not as good as the catch he made later in the game, diving to his right and catching the ball at full extension. Wow.
3. Time to move Posada up to the five hole, with Texeira moving to six and Swisher to seven. Jorge has had good at bats the whole series, even against Verlander. Texeira and Swisher are both streaky hitters...who are in a bad streak.
4. AJ Burnett is one complex carbohydrate. Just when you are ready to blame the whole season on him, he comes thru with a very nice outing in an very big spot. He's thisclose to letting the game get away from him in the first, Granderson rescues him, and off he goes.
5. A-Rod may not be hitting as well as we'd like, but he's flashing some nice leather at third base. The guy has been a vacuum.
6. If you want a treat, listen to Jim Leyland's pre-game press conference. The man just says all the right things all the time. You cannot get enough of him...he puts it all in perspective. The post-game presser was probably good too, but I did not hear it.
7. Game five is a total toss up. Would be so much better if this was a seven game series, with the specter of Verlander hanging over another game.
8. Wow so many high strikes! I've been a high strike proponent, but it was really strange to see so many of Porcello's 'sinkers' staying high but sinking at the last second to the letters for a strike. Took a while for the Yankee hitters to adjust. Funny thing was, when you went to the Brewers-DBacks being played at the same time, it was back to the usual 'anyhing over the belt is a ball' strike zone.
9. Seriously, Tampa, the ugly blue uniforms in an elimination game? I just don't get it.
10. Speaking of that game, I'm a huge proponent of day playoff baseball. But yesterday's game was not a sellout, and I've read nothing but I'll bet the ratings won't be as good as the ratings of the night games. Not sure if that speaks to the fact that people are working and can't go/watch, the Rays have a terrible fan base, a terrible building...or all of the above. But you think with the way the Rays made it into the playoffs, excitement would have grown. It didn't.
11. I do believe Arizona had a sellout, however, after poor attendance for a first place team. Good for them.
12. So funny to listen to Philly radio the last few days, with people arguing about 'Black Sunday'. The Iggles blow a 23-3 lead in the afternoon, and across the street, at night, Cliff Lee blows a 4-0 playoff game lead. Philly improbably loses both games. The Birds dominate the city, so there a LOT of unhappy campers in the City of Brotherly Blame.
13. Well, I kinda made fun of Josh Collmenter this summer, when he opposed Roy Halladay in a regular season game. My bad. The kid can pitch...VERY deceptive delivery.
14. How on earth do they plug the pitches into the 'strike zone' when tracking pitches? Is it computerized, like tennis line calls, or is some dude sitting in the production truck touching a computer screen for every pitch. Do not understand the technology.
15. A good thing about playoff baseball is nobody cares about or discusses MVP, Cy Young awards, or anything else like that. It's all about what you do IN the playoffs.
Sandra
The important thing is for the umpires to get the call right, and they did. If none of the other umpires definitively saw something different they wouldn't have overturned the original call. It's simple, really....
I commend the ump for calling strikes "at the letters" the way it's supposed to be...not the belt...not the belly button....but the letters. However, it was a bit strange to see so many letter high strikes being called at the park last night.
I have wondering the same thing while watching the TBS coverage the past few days. Fox Sports does a pretty good job from what I've seen, but the TBS pitch-tracker often has me scratching both my head and arse at the same time. Seriously, one pitch would be spotted on the corner of the plate for a strike, and the following pitch would be 3-4" outside the last pitch, called a strike by the ump, and plotted right down the middle of the plate. These discrepancies happen so frequently that I just stopped watching the pitch-tracker...it's like they paid to flunky to push an area on the strikezone touchpad where they felt the ball passed.
Agreed.
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riffjim4069 said:
Leyland needs to walk over and talk with him like he did when he was struggling in the early part of the season ..... he told him to relax ad think about how much fun it was in College ... and to play like he was back then .... then he suddenly started pounding the ball.
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