Monday, July 23, 2012
TGS NY: Soriano surprised by game-tying homer
“I didn’t think the guy hit it that good,” the Yankees’ closer said of Seth Smith’s game-tying homer in the ninth inning of Sunday’s 5-4, 12-inning loss to the A’s.
“I thought it was a popup.”
It wasn’t a popup. It was a homer to dead center field, and it hung a blown save on Soriano for the second time all year. Soriano said he was trying to throw a lower slider to Smith, but he apparently left it up too much.
“Everybody has a bad day,” Soriano said. “Today was the second time. ... I’ll come back tomorrow and go 1-2-3.”
That would mean your team would have to have a lead for you, right? Don’t bet on it.
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He thought it was a popup? He hung a slider middle-up and it got crushed. I thought Grandy might catch it but he ran out of room.
4 straight 1-run losses. Ick.
Yeah, you don’t hit cheap HRs in Oakland. It’s not DNYS.
Yeah, you don’t hit cheap HRs in Oakland. It’s not DNYS.
It’s only a disgrace when the Yankees hit homers, it’s patriotism and capitalism when Yankee opponents mash homers. I thought.
From previous thread
SG- You said that Batter vs. pitcher stats are not predictive.
If that is the case than why do media commentators give the information after a pitching change has been made that for example Jeter is 2-20 lifetime vs. a certain pitcher. This happens routinely in the course of a game and often noted routinely by the tv announcer. Why does it seem the opposing manager’s the Yanks face most often find the pitcher who historically “owns” a hitter.
There must be some people in the dugouts that believe the past is some predictor of the future.
“Everybody has a bad day,” Soriano said. “Today was the second time. ... I’ll come back tomorrow and go 1-2-3.”
Trying to change his entire pitching style like this in response to a blown save isn’t smart.
There must be some people in the dugouts that believe the past is some predictor of the future.
There are people in the dugout who believe it is a predictor. The media enjoys presenting the stats.
Despite that, the actual analysis of the data shows that it’s not predictive. Seriously, why would you use the result of 20 PA over the result of 12,000? Take Millwood vs. Jeter as one example. Does the fact that Jeter went 1 for 5 in a game started by Millwood on June 24, 1998 tell us anything useful about them 14 years later? Jeter’s not the same hitter, Millwood’s not the same pitcher.
Just because some people think it tells us something doesn’t make it so.
How about a real-life example.
There was a pitcher who held an opposing hitter to a line of .069/.156/.069 the first 32 times he faced him. Pretty clear evidence that he owned him, right?
Over the next 38 times they faced, the batter hit .394/.474/.667.
I wonder if anyone can guess the pitcher and hitter.
Papi and Mo ?
Gotta be Hughes
Papi and Mo ?
This is half right.
WE GO ICHIRO!
[11] Is this a good thing? He’s not exactly tearing the cover off the ball these days…
[11] Oh good. A .260 hitter who doesn’t OPS over .700.
Gave up Mitchell to get him: https://twitter.com/JackCurryYES/status/227523684905136128
huh. I guess it will be cool to see him as a Yankee, but I think he’s fucking cooked.
I guess our only hope is that Ichiro has been sandbagging the past few years. He hasn’t exactly hidden is desire to leave Seattle.
Since this Ichiro thing has probably killed this thread, the pitcher was Mike Mussina and the hitter was David Ortiz.
It’s a catch lighting in a bottle kind of move.
[16] That was Moose as an Oriole and Moose as a Yankee, right?
No, Moose through 2004 which includes the first four years of his Yankee tenure, then 2005 on.
[19] Ok, but I was really just attempting a complaint.
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