April 19, 2011

Yanks 5 Toronto 6

10 innings

In rare form Mariano blew the save in the 9th leading to extra innings and the loss in the 10th. You could tell from the beginning of the inning Mo was having control issues. He was trying to go inside and the cutter was hanging over the plate. A tough day for Mo.

Burnett was decent in his attempt for his fourth win. He had a pretty rough 6th inning. I was wondering when Joe was going to get in there and pull him. Again, Joe with his stupid stance with his arms crossed trying to figure out what to dio. Can someone school our manager? It seems Burnett really starts to burn out in the 6th inning every outing. He still is yet to go seven innings. His focus needs to continue to stay strong.

You have to give big credit to Robertson for constantly coming in high pressure situations and always managing to get batters out. He came in the 6th with bases loaded and was lighs out. He had my game ball honors until Mo blew the save. A tough loss to swallow today.

Eric Chavez continues to play great defense.

Nova just looked awful out there in relief. We might have been better off putting a tee out on the plate for the batters, Again another blown night for the bullpen. Someone better light a fire under their tails.

Side note: Knicks lost a heartbreaker tonight against the Celtisc. Carmelo scores 42 points.

Also can Girardi go back to Chicago? He stinks.

April 14, 2011

Yanks 6 Orioles 5

Phile Hughes struggled again and was continues to have velocity problems. The fastball did reach 92 but the average was the same at about 89. He did look better than his other starts in the first two innings but the trouble started in the third inning and that was it. So is iy yime to yank him from the rotation and get him back to triple A? Whatever the skipper decides it is time to get him off the starting rotation and do some thing. He is just not right.

Can you blame Joe for all his inning he pitched last year for Hughes problems on the mound. If I am not mistaken he threw some 170 plus innings last year where as in the previous combined two years he threw just 100 innings or so.

So Colon came in and saved the day and kept the game close. With a CY Yound winner in the relief position it really helps.

That home plate block by Joba was pretty sweet. Martin got a perfect bounce, it really was the play that saved the day and set up the comeback.

What can you say about Jorge coming up huge in the ninth with a nice homerun. Posada is definitely feeling good at the plate in his new DH role.

I wonder when Posada will take a game behind the plate and catch. I would imagine at least a couple times this year he will.

Swisher came up huge with the sacfrice fly to get the pie in face from AJ

A great comeback today despite Hughes early struggles.

Game ball Swisher

April 13, 2011

Yanks 7 Orioles 4

Burnett was pretty dominant through 6 innings and gave up some runs in the seventh. He looked tired mentally to me at that point. Otherwise he looked pretty great hitting the corners really nice. That curve ball in the dirt was pretty intense and seemed to throw off the Orioles. He had a bit of a tough second inning there but showed great poise when in some trouble as opposed to last year when he just seemed to crumble. Good day for AJ

So A-Rod set the tone in the first with that strong shot to the right for a three run homerun. Today he ties Al Simmons and Ted Williams for 11th place all time with 1839 RBI’s. Pretty impressive and what a treat to continue to watch history year after year with Alex, a true treat.

Jeter 2 hits. Ties Barry Bonds all time hit list with 2935. Another milestone for a Yankee tonight. Now I know the talk has been about Jeter’s stance and his struggles. Is he done? Is he losing a step? Should he bat 8th or 9th? These are all early concerns and I think we just need to let Jeter play and see what materializes. I think he still has it in him and I expect him to start heating up and show he just had a tough year last year. Ask any major league team if they will take a 280 avg hitter with a gold glove year and they will all say yes. He is still Jeter and will make his move. Keep the faith in the captain.

Good to see Tex and Posada get out of their little slumps. Tex with two hits and Jorge with a homerun…HIP HIP….lol

Cano seemes to be getting hot. Look out for Robbie.

Rivera ended the game with his 5th save of the year.

Pretty happy today considering it was written that Buck Showalters team was going to come in here and show us a lesson. I completely respect Buck and all he is doing to change things in baltimore but lets face it, baltimore always gets out to good starts and then fizzles. And lets face it, it took a yankee to teach the O’s to have a winning attitude.

Game ball Alex Rodriguez

Side notes Barry bonds was found guilty today on obstruction of justice. Hopefully we can put this behind baseball soon