Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Yankees.com: Yankees’ five homers in Toronto plenty
TORONTO—The Yankees slugged five home runs over the wall at Rogers Centre on Tuesday, with Curtis Granderson’s three-run homer serving as the biggest blow to highlight an 11-5 defeat of the Blue Jays.
New York went deep three times in the third inning off Marc Rzepczynski and blasted another two round-trippers in the fifth inning off Brian Tallet, pulling away and extending its advantage.
Mark Teixeira, Marcus Thames and Jorge Posada each clubbed solo home runs in the third-inning barrage, with Thames and Posada going back-to-back to jump the Yankees to a 5-0 lead at the time, knocking Rzepczynski out after that frame.
Is it unreasonable to ask why they couldn’t have hit one or two of those yesterday instead of today?
Teixeira’s gotten his SLG up to .500 for just the second time this season. Let’s keep it up there the rest of the way Teix. It was also nice to see Granderson pick up three hits, including two of lefties.
Dustin Moseley’s now made six starts and the Yankees are 4-2 in those games. He hasn’t really pitched all that well overall, but he’s been acceptable more often than not, and that’s pretty much all you can ask for out of your seventh starter. Unless you have 13 aces of course.
And so far, the Kerry Wood and Austin Kearns acquisitions sure look pretty good, don’t they?
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Did anybody see what Hanley Ramirez did to the Citifield mound? Wonder if he’ll get a text from the 209.
Is it unreasonable to ask why they couldn’t have hit one or two of those yesterday instead of today?
I think the answer is: Francisco Cervelli & Ramiro Pena.
Kerry Wood looks Kwite Gwood. It makes me happy when that kind of deal actually pays off.
Kerry Wood looks Kwite Gwood. It makes me happy when that kind of deal actually pays off.
Until he goes on the DL.
Even if he does, he’s giving good value now. I know you were kidding, but still—20 solid innings until rosters expand? I’ll take it even if he never throws another pitch after 9/1.
Kearns is doing what pretty much no notable mid-season Yankee acquisition has done since Abreu - actually hit better as a Yankee than for his previous team (do Hinske, Molina and Hairston count as “notable acquisitions,” because they all actually improved, as well).
[6] Hinske was definitely notable. Look at his record of teams making/succeeding in the playoffs the past several years! Oh and I hope you drafted Peterson, so we can root for the same back together.
[1] No, tell me, tell me! Related to that, I’m pretty sure Bautista stepped on the back of the mound when returning to the dugout after flying out against Nova the other night. The replays never got that far though so I can’t be sure…
Granderson’s OPS+ is up to 108. Not sure if he can keep up his recent hot stretch, but he’s doing quite well.
I’ll be interested to see if Nova gets a real lineup behind him on Sunday.
At least last night made the start of a new semester more pleasant.
Edit: but I see that Gardner’s post-ASB OPS is down to .604; his August is @ .557. Not even the past 7 days (.368) save him anymore.
So… should we be at all interested in making an overture to Detroit for the return of Damon ?
{Ducks, running towards nearest exit, but will follow with interest the discussion from behind cover)
Damon’s not an option. If he was claimed by Boston, he can only be acquired by them, unless an AL team that has a worse record than Boston also put in a claim, which does not appear to be the case, or he wouldn’t have been able to go to Boston in the first place.
So I don’t think the discussion is going to be very interesting.
Gardner: regression or thumb injury? Both?
My guess is that it’s more regression than injury. Maybe Gardner’s just not a .320/.400/.420 guy, and is more of a .280/.375/.375 guy.
But who knows?
Yeah, I’d have been happy with .275/.350/.375 from him, if asked pre-season.
I’m glad the Yanks just went out and pounded the Jays, without screwing around throwing at Jose Bautista.
SG, you know I would be reminding you… (does his imitation of his 10 year old niece)that YOU PROOMMMIISSSSEEEDDD!! If Teixeira got his OPS up to .900 and it’s up to .860!
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