Sunday, July 10, 2011
Yankees.com: CC Sabathia is a Bad-Ass
NEW YORK—CC Sabathia and James Shields pitched like All-Stars on Sunday, dueling back and forth, sitting down batter after batter and not allowing a single earned run. The starters followed a day interrupted for celebrations by orchestrating the second-shortest game Yankee Stadium has held all season long.
Sabathia was nasty today and punctuated the game with a 98mph fastball to strike out Elliot Johnson, but the Rays basically gifted this one to the Yankees. Sean Rodriguez led off the second with a double and inexplicably tried to steal third and was thrown out. We don’t know how the rest of the inning would have played out, but there was a very good chance the Rays might have scored a run.
Similarly, the Yankee offense couldn’t do anything against Shields. Robinson Cano led off the seventh with a single, and then Jorge Posada followed up with a short fly to CF. B.J. Upton made the catch and then tried to double off Cano off first but instead threw the ball into the dugout near the Chuck Knoblauch memorial seats. They awarded Cano third base after that. Then, after Russell Martin grounded out to a drawn in infield for out number two which meant Cano couldn’t score, an errant pickoff throw by Shields let Cano score the only run of the game.
I don’t care, I’ll take it.
Sabathia has been ridiculously good over his last four starts.
31.2 IP, 22 H, 1 R, 6 BB, 42 K, 0 HR, 0.28 RA, 1.12 FIP. He’s going to make some serious coin when he opts out to join the Red Sox.
At least the Yankees will enter the All Star Break tied in the loss column with the best team of all time. You really couldn’t have expected any more than that, could you?
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In all seriousness, I fully expect CC to opt out, and fully expect him to get another boatload of money when he does (possibly from the Yankees). But I can’t see him opting out and going to the RS. He’s too much of a New Yorker to go play for the other side.
[1] Very funny.
I don’t see him going to the Red Sox simply because I don’t see them outbidding the Yankees. If they did, it would be for such an ungodly sum that I supposed I’d have to be okay with passing on it.
Wow, Showalter really doesn’t give a Buck about winning this game. Sending in Mike Gonzalez in the SIXTH?
And then getting him ejected….
Does anyone really think the Orioles have any chance of winning that game? Why torture yourselves?
Poor Jonathan doesn’t have a choice, but everyone else does.
CC is going to sign with the Phillies for less money than the Yankees are offering.
I enjoyed that there was a debate on here about how well CC was pitching this season before this 4 start run of badassness. I can’t remember who, but someone mentioned that he tends to start slow then reel off a bunch of 8IP 0R starts and show his aceness.
Again, I want to point out that the Yankees simply need to sneak into the WC, start only CC in the postseason, and pray to the horse gods that ARod can flip the switch into Centaur-mode.
So surgery tomorrow for A-Rod.
[7] That may have been me, at the same time I was complaining that he had only been good to really good previously, not Honey Badger good.
Aceves 3 ip 0h 0bb 4k but we have Mitre, Pendleton and Noesi so I suppose there wouldn’t be any room in any case. Guaranteed Os will sweep us before the year is out.
Yankees are a virtual lock to resign CC. He likes it here, we’ll have more money, and we have the bigger hole at ace. Done and done.
Have we put enough distance between us and the Rays to offset the fact that we have the tougher schedule going forward? It looks good, just eyeballing it. Figure we’ll do something at the deadline too to slightly improve our chances. Arod missing a month will hurt, of course.
Apparently BB-Ref is wrong and Wagner threw lefty.
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/lists/top-shortstops-in-mlb-history-070811#photo-title=Honus Wagner&photo=29887043
@Wombat Pete: Any chance that photo is mirrored somehow? The guy behind him is also a lefty in the picture, which while not impossible is kinda unusual. Plus a left handed shortstop seems ridiculously hard to do.
[1] You’re kidding, right?
[3] Spot on. Unless Lackey hurts himself skiing and we can void his deal, we’re done with major FA signings for starters. Til 2015.
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