Burnett for the Bombers, Hunter for the Rangers. Not to mix my sports metaphors, but I sincerely hope that I am totally wrong in thinking that tonight’s game is going to be fun to watch in the same way that “Football In The Groin” had a football in the groin. Where AJ is the football. And the groin is the Yankees post season. Comment away.
121 replies on “AJ For The Tie: Rangers-Yanks ALCS Gamer IV”
It’s like we have a chance but not really…is that too fickle?
One of the pre-game “commenters’ predicted 8-7, NY!
Wow…sick pitch to K Young????
3UP, 3DOWN . . .
Outstanding 1-2-3 1st for AJ!!!!! Pitches looked good…nice start.
Come on bats, jump on this chump! LET’S GO YANKEES!!!!
2 pitches…1 out…
3 pitches…2 outs…
Freakin’ first pitch swinging – have patience!
Tex is 0-11 this series…
Tex K’s weakly…less than 10 pitches, 3 outs…
What the fuck in wrong with them?
I want to punch a hole through the wall. Seriously.
Oh, and Tex is 0-12 now…great job.
K #2 for AJ…1 out…
1-2-3 2nd for AJ…2 more K’s…
If we can’t hit this jerkoff…we are fucked anyway…
ARod flailing away like he’s still pre-2009…weak-ass pop fly.
2-14 this series.
Combined with Tex…2-26. Impressive.
Just like the playoffs with Baltimore!!!
HR CANO!!!!! THE FANS IN RF GRAB THE BALL FROM THE OUTFIELDER!!!!
The fans missed it anyway…but the fans did grab his glove. Great job fans!!!
1-0
Hee hee!
His glove was in the stands…I would grab it too.
Yes!!!!!! No doubt about that one!
Replay on the Berkman HR…fair or foul?
Fingers crossed . . .
foul ball…it looked like it was…
Bah . . .
K. Lame. At least we got 1…
1-0 after 2…
Leadoff walk…here we go…
Ball gets away from Cervelli…runner to 2nd…it begins…
Lovely, just fuckin’ lovely . . .
Drills Molina…he has lost it…in the 3rd…which is farther than I thought he would make it…1st and 2nd…no outs…walk and HBP…
Meldown imminent.
SAC bunt…2nd and 3rd with 1 out…lead about to evaporate…
1-1.
Nice play, Tex. Limits the damage. Now if your BAT just starts talking . . .
ARod boots the grounder…1-2. Fail.
Horseshit. Not A.J.’s fault . . .
Walk and HBP both come in to score…of course…
2 fucking runs without hitting a ball out of the fucking infield…pathetic. They have it this year, we don’t.
Here comes our garbage offense in the 3rd…1-2-3 perhaps? About 15 pitches?
3 pitch K for pathetic Gardner…1 out…
Still a lot of baseball left..
1 pitch ground out for Cervelli…awesome. 2 outs. 4 pitches so far…
2 out triple for Jeter…let’s see if anyone can get a 2-out, RBI with RISP…
Of course, a 2-out, RBI with RISP is about as rare as fucking Bigfoot but whatever…
Yes!! Grandy!
GRANDERSON CAN!!!!!! 2-2!!!!! WE GOT A 2 OUT, RBI WITH RISP!!!! I CANNOT BELIEVE IT!!!!
Here comes 0-12…I mean Tex…
Tied game, but let’s blow this one out..
Balk. Granderson to 2nd…
Balk, balk . . .
0-13. Fail.
AJ back out…let’s see what THIS inning brings…
Leadoff single…fuck. Had him 0-2…ran it full, hit…
K…nice.
Now he can’t find the zone again…
2 outs.
AJ throws up a doughnut…great job!
A.J. looks good tonight – so far.
Aside from fucking it up in the 3rd….yes…hopefully that was his meltdown inning…
ARod…do something besides get out please?
HBP.
Well, at least he didn’t get out…
First leadoff baserunner….ever.
Ground rule double my ass . . . these guys suck.
Cano singles…1st and 2nd…no outs…let’s do this.
Need to take that ball 4, what the hell..
Swish insists on swinging on what would have been ball 4!
Swisher swings at bullshit…K. DP on and they’re out of it…unreal.
All our big guns are fucking shooting blanks. Pathetic.
Single for Berkman…bases loaded, 1 out for….Gardner. Yeah.
NOW we’ll see . . . bases loaded.
Got a run…3-2. Infleld single, well fielder choice…out at 3rd…1st and 2nd, 2 outs for Cervelli…
Well, I could think of better ways to score a run but I’ll take it . . .
That’s a tough way to score, but would take it. Unfortunately they only got one run out of it..
K. Well, bases loaded with 1 out and we get 1 run…impressive. Not.
leadoff single then a HUGE DP!
Double play – nice.
2 strike, 2 out single…uh oh.
Stolen base…easily I might add…
Walk…2 on now for Hamilton…all this after having 2 strikes with 2 outs on Andrus…now we are fucked. THIS is where AJ falls apart…with 2 outs.
Gardner almost makes a great catch in the stands…stupid fucking fans got in the way…deny the catch. How can you be so stupid in that situation for your OWN TEAM!!! MORONS!!!
This will come back to bite us. Would have been the 3rd out on 1 pitch.
If they score now they should throw that asshole OUT OF THE BALLPARK.
2 strikes on the 3rd straight batter…
Fly out. Whew.
My sentiment exactly.
Top of the order…
Jeter 4-15…
DOUBLE!!!!!
JETER!
Ball 4 . . .
4 pitch walk to Curtis…while he was trying to bunt…2 on, no outs for Tex…0-13…
Oh shit . . .
Weak-ass grounder to 3rd…almost hits into a DP…out at third and now Tex appears to have pulled a hammy…out of the game…0-14, We’re fucked.
ARod? Maybe?
I bet Tex is out for the rest of the playoffs…no way a hammy heals fast, nor in cold weather…we’re screwed.
Fuck . . .
Double fucking play. Great job ARod.
2-29 for our #3 and #4 hitters. We’re fucking finished.
I literally don’t even know what fucking team I am watching anymore…
Left a ton of guys on base…nothing to show for it…Tex out…another leadoff single…what fucking hope do we have at this point? AJ throwing balls…Joba up in the pen…awesome.
Walking this guy???
FUCK! UNBELIEVABLE!!! SHIT!
…AND there it is. IBB to get to a garbage Molina. First pitch HR.
3-5.
Game over.
Season over.
Fuck you Yankees. You are a huge fucking disappointment.
That was on Giradi. If you’re going to IBB the 8th guy.. at least take out AJ..
Also, you take your IPs from AJ and go, riding his luck too much that time..
Good point, Lar. How about they bring Joe back next year? Confirmation on Tex – hamstring injury.
9 outs left.
That was Joe TORRE I was referring to . . .
6-3 – atta boy Logan. This fuckin’ Hamilton is a PAIN IN THER ASS.
That one you have to live with, but still sour over the other HR..
While the Yanks still not swinging the bat, even with a lead off double, they cannot score. Bah. Maybe this is just not their year.
It’s over boys. Just turn it off.
They are better. Period.
Fuck it – better luck next year. Ciao.
See…now they just crumble.
They make big pitches, we give up HR’s…
They get big hits, we ground into DP’s and K…
They have mental fortitude, we have marshmellow-y, soft vaginas where are balls should be…
I guess we really did miss Damon and Godzilla, huh???
Talk to you guys next year.
Nothing goes right, when it rains, it pours..
These Yanks do not talk walks today, some critical self strikeouts..
While the Yanks don’t get those bounces and breaks. It’s been a long series..
Pitching was not clutch, but the bats quiet all series, other than a stolen game 1..
What will Swisher do?
Nothing. Berkman. At least got to add a ding or two here.. make a dent in that lead..
Swisher and Berk did not do anything with the chance given.
It all comes together.. for the Rangers.
Those are the runs that the Yanks could’ve used. Whatever happened to bullpens?
And of course, with bases empty Gardner leads off with a single.
I know a lot of the blame is going to be on Girardi today for the IBB to Murphy, but it really wasn’t a terrible move. Murphy has an ERA+ of 115, and Molina’s is 60. He only hit 5 homers this year… what are the odds?
Aside from that, it’s absolute horseshit that they didn’t review the Cano homer. Thankfully it ended up not mattering in the end.
There was no reason to review the Cano HR…it hit a foot into the stands and when the player goes into the stands, he’s fair game. It was nothing like the ’96 HR where the fan reached into the field of play.
Regardless, we’re finished so fuck it.
The last 3 playoff games I attended were Game 1 of last year’s World Series (Cliff Lee’s complete game shutout of the Yankees), and the last two games in the Bronx. These were three of the most depressing, embarassing, humiliating Yankee post-season losses in my memory and they are now burned there together with Game 7 of the 2004 ALCS which I also sat through in the stands. I think I should stop mortgaging my house to attend these games.
Couple comments on last night’s game:
1. Girardi should not have walked Murphy – this is not monday-morning-quarterbacking…everyone with the exception of one moron in our section was up in arms over the move before Molina hit his 3-run HR. I don’t care what side of the plate they bat from. AJ has trouble keeping guys off base, he throws tons of wild pitches and hits guys, and he had already given more than a guy on a 3-week layoff could have been expected to. You simply do NOT give a free pass to the guy representing the go-ahead run in that situation. And it should not be a shock to anyone that Bengie Molina has power. He has demonstrated it against the Yankees again and again, from Anaheim to Texas.
2. Having IBB’ed Murphy, Girardi should NOT have kept Burnett in. He had done as much (indeed more) than could have been expected already.
3. The Yankees are not faintly in this series. Why? Exhibit A: No one is hitting the ball consistently well except for Robinson Cano. Our 3 and 4 hitters are the worst offenders – Teix 0-for-the-series and A-Rod having hit 5 singles total this October. Exhibit B: No one is giving playoff-caliber starting pitching other than Pettitte. CC has been horrible and somehow bailed out in both the ALDS and ALCS by the offense. Hughes had a great outing in the ALDS and one of his worst ever in Texas. Exhibit C: No one is giving dominant bullpen relief other than Dustin Moseley (once) and Mo (though he has barely factored in thanks to the holes they’ve dug themselves). Exhibit D: Joe Girardi has made poor poor decisions – especially last night.
If you combine no hitting, no starting pitching, a shaky bullpen, and poor management, you simply have no right to win a series. Their defense has been pretty good all post-season with a couple exceptions. But every other aspect of the game has been played outright poorly.