Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Yankees.com: Yankees figure out Felix in rout
SEATTLE—The box score will tell you that the Yankees defeated the Mariners, 9-3, Monday night at Safeco Field.
But this was more than just a win to move New York further ahead in the American League East race. This was a win against Felix Hernandez.
For over three years, the defending American League Cy Young winner had New York’s number, going 5-0 with a 1.29 ERA in his last six starts against the Bombers. But the Seattle ace finally cracked, as the Yankees bats went off in a five-run fourth inning to help New York finally bring down King Felix.
Behind the big cushion, starter Phil Hughes kept the struggling Seattle offense in check. He escaped a bases-loaded jam in the sixth inning and was done after that, hurling 99 pitches and giving up just one run on five Seattle hits. Hughes has held opponents to two earned runs or less in six of his last eight starts.
It was nice to see an offensive outburst against one of the best pitchers in baseball after a pretty crappy stretch over the past week. I thought Hughes pitched okay. Not great, but decently.
Now it’s complaint time. You’d have thought that a 9-1 lead with three innings to go would have been a good time to perhaps take a look at someone like Andrew Brackman or Dellin Betances. Or, you know, you could run Scott Proctor out there for two innings and Luis Ayala for one.
Yay win, anyway.
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Girardi=douche
Getting Betances up with an 8 run lead, then NOT using him? That’s really cool…
BTW, I just opened a box of baseball cards for the first time in over a year and I got a Banuelos and a Harper rookie card.
Maybe the Yanks will try Betances and Brackman after they clinch first place. Let’s face it; these two guys have great potential, but neither is ready for the major leagues yet.
One of the blogs on my RSS said this about Robinson Cano: with the bases loaded - .471/.429/1.235.
It is hard to hold much of a grudge after such a great win.
4 games up. Awesome.
Also, did I miss tedbrogan saying he is engaged? Congrats, if that is so!
[1] That’s pretty cool.
marriage is for suckers
[6] pop-culture gives you the impression that doesn’t occur after marriage, only before.
[0] Should have been titled, “Pigs fly again.”
Yay win.
Getting Betances up with an 8 run lead, then NOT using him?
So, he’s Robertson in training, who is Mo in training.
Dry humping is our bullpen management stock in trade.
Let’s face it; these two guys have great potential, but neither is ready for the major leagues yet.
If you don’t think either one can get three outs before giving up eight runs, then they probably don’t have great potential.
And congrats to tedbrogen. May your first child be a masculine child.
Is Jeter going to get to .300?
Congrats too, since I forgot that part in the other thread.
The real question is whether Jeter will get to 250 GIDP this season. He’s been stuck at 245 for a while, and it always gets harder as you approach a milestone number.
” three outs before giving up eight runs”
To the Mariners.
I thought Hughes pitched okay. Not great, but decently.
There were two batters he clearly had strike 3 on, but was called a ball. The one batter later got a single, and the other got a walk. Yeah, bad calls are a part of the game, need to overcome them, etc. And over the course of a full season they even out. But if Phil’s final line is 6IP 4H 2BB 5K everyone is a lot happier about it.
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