Last night was long and ugly for us Yanks fans. Sox win. M’s win. We lose a tough one in the 10th. These rebel Angels could use a fall.* Moose will try to give it to them, but he faces a tough foe in Kelvim Escobar (13-6, 2.68). Giambi’s DHing, but Jorge gets a well-earned rest after last night’s marathon. Comment on the action right here.
Your lineups:
M. Cabrera, CF C. Figgins, 3B
D. Jeter, SS O. Cabrera, SS
B. Abreu, RF V. Guerrero, RF
A. Rodriguez, 3B G. Anderson, LF
H. Matsui, LF G. Matthews Jr., CF
J. Giambi, DH C. Kotchman, 1B
R. Cano, 2B M. Izturis, DH
A. Phillips, 1B H. Kendrick, 2B
J. Molina, C J. Mathis, C
* If you clicked through, you saw Bosch’s Fall of the Rebel Angels. A little art with your hardball tonite. Enjoy.
http://www.rallymonkey.com/video.php
Leche!
So much for that. DP for Jeets and Abreu looks at an inside strike 3.
Figgins walks to start things off for the Angels.
Cabrera also walks.
Vlad flies out, advances the runners to 2nd and 3rd.
Anderson doubles to deep right and scores both runs.
Angels 2-0
Typical Moose first.
Thanks to Steve Goldman for his article in the Sun today, arguing that GA can’t carry his weight. He always seems to against the Yanks. Feh.
ALEX!!! 2-1.
ARod continues to have a hot bat, 2-1 Angels.
Matsui 4-3.
Can’t watch yet thanks to workload – had 3 hourse sleep thanks to last night’s debacle and am still going strong at office…thanks to the blog for keeping me in touch.
Is Moose pouting at the ump yet for squeezing him? That is usually a great early-warning indicator of another 1-2 runs that he’ll allow…
Angels wearing there red pajama tops today.
Giambi Ks.
Kay just said the Yankee bench is too good. Glad he’s not the GM.
THEIR red pjs.
Moose his usual self.
Cano walks. Nice.
Gameday has decided not to work and Im not up for more audio.. so I’ll rely on you YFs to let me know what shappening.
Even the scoreboard on mlb.com isnt updatign right.
IronHorse–they did have a shot of Mussina after getting roughed up in the 1st and he seemed to be talking with the home plate ump affably.
AP ks. Overmatched.
At the moment, Escobar looks filthy.
izturis slap single past alex.
Kendrick doubles. Runners on 2nd and 3rd with no outs.
Kendrick off the centerfield wall. Just missed the dinger.
Izturis stops at 3rd.
Matthis doubles. 4-1 Halos.
Mathis follows with a gapper on the next pitch. 2 runs in. Mathis to 2nd.
Mathis is killing us?
Abreu in right takes a poor route and the ball gets past him. 4-1 Angels.
Another double, 4-1 Angels. Wow.
Figgins ks on what passes for hi heat.
Yanks are getting killed. Moose got away with just foul.
Thanks Moose. My love affair with you can continue now.
Seattle up 7-2, so you would think it’s in the bag.
The funky thing about the Halos is that you look at them and think that they shouldn’t be this good but…they are.
Woah…Cabrera gets a break. That was a K.
Moose definitely got squeezed on that pitch, DW-sf. Shoulda been strike 3.
2 outs for Vlad with a RISP. Moose needs to get this out to keep the Yanks within reach.
O-Cab (damn you Theo!) flies out. Still want him in Boston (have I mentioned.. DAMN YOU THEO!)
Vladdie doubles…5-1 Halos.
Moose hangs a breaking ball (just as the announcers predicted) and the lead is 4.
Andersen doubles…Vladdie scores…6-1…good heavens!
Oh wow.. I sTorre pulling Moose yet?
Moose can really make a ball drop, but when you’re topping out at 85, it’s hard to get Major Leaguers out.
Bah, you know, you can’t really give away games..
Moose getting squeezed really badly now. First pitch to GMJr was a strike.
Single scores Andersen…he takes out Molina on the slide.
Atheose that was my thinking! That pitch at the knees was a strike!
7-1, now. Christ.
I know I’m not staying up until 2 tonite.
Sweet Zombie Jesus, Gary Matthews Jr with an RBI now
Moose is gone after 1.2 innings. Bad night to be a Yankee fan.
Moose departs for Villone. Woof.
Francesa called this earlier today…
YF, I dunno…the Yankees’ offense is unrelenting. I’d stick around until at least the 8th.
Moose has one more year on his contract, right? Pettite, Wang, Hughes, Chamberlain…does Kennedy have a shot at taking Moose’s slot next year?
Moose is about as gritty and tough as Richard Simmons. He simply can not bear down when things are not going well. He is over the hill and done. I want Ian Kennedy to take his place the rest of the way. I am not kidding. We can not afford to a. throw away games and b. burn our entire bullpen whenever this guy pitches.
I wonder if A-Rod should call Moose out the way Moose did him last year: “We really need the real Moose to show up because this isn’t it”. Of course, the sad truth is that this probably is the real Moose now.
Quick question from a SF (who is not assuming this game is over, incidentally): who’s in long relief for the Yanks? Is Villone going to pitch 3+ innings or what?
I love this blgo so much more than others. At least you gusy have a brain in your head… over at LOHUD it’s just scary. They talk about traded Moose away in the off or DFAing him now and.. really, I mean, with they way he’s pitchign and the money he’s making.. who’s gonna take?
Thats the drawback to big contracts. Sure you lock up great players for a logn time.. but if they start to suck you can get stuck with ’em. Thats why we didnt give Schill an extension at the begining of the year
Moose is definitely in his declining years but he’s a competent #5 guy in a conventional rotation. The Yankees’ rotation is somewhat unconventional, however, so his weaknesses seem to be magnified.
Stuck, I’d guess that Villone is in for 3, unless he spits the bit.
I don’t think we are out of this at all – if we get some runs and then put Chamberlain out there for 2 innings and Ramirez for 1 or 2, we have a shot, but we need to strike back fast and then (just imagine this for a moment) HOLD THE ANGELS SCORELESS FOR FEW INNINGS!
everyoen gettign squeezed tonight. The zone is the size of a thimble.
Chamberlain for two does NOT violate the Joba rules and, because we have a day off after this series and before Detroit, it is likely what Torre had in mind anyway if this becomes close.
Gary Matthews Jr makes a horribly play at the wall which plates 2 runs. Abreu with a great double, and Soscia argues that one of the runners overran the other one.
Game over in Seattle. 7-2 Ms.
This is gonan turn intoa slugfest of biblical proportions, I think. Even Escobar cant make a pitch worth a damn.
Dionysus, I don’t know about that. Escobar was missing badly when he walked those first two batters. I wonder if the extended time waiting screwed him up.
This is just a terrible night for me. Yankees lose, Seattle continues its play even though they are a horrible, horrible baseball team, Red Sox don’t quite choke, and Escobar is going to give up 5 runs in the process. I just can’t win.
Yankees doing what needs to be done–putting the ball in play. Two runs score on two groundouts. 7-5 Angels.
I always hear that whole extended-wait thing and it just sounds liek BS to me.
Now for the blindingly obvious: giving any runs right back in the bottom of the third would be a KILLER. As Kenny Rogers used to say, you gotta know when to hold ’em…and now is the time Villone!
And IronHorse, Chamberlain for two DOES violate the “Joba Rules”, because he has had one day off. The rules are, one day off before AND after each inning of work. It’s horribly confusing.
This could end up goign EXACTLY has my wildest dreams. Huge slugfest that the Yankees lose. Escobar’s ERA gets driven way up to help Beckett’s Cy Young contention.
i’d rather Escobar have pitched a perfect game though if itd garuntee a Yankee loss.
7-5. What the hell.
And that’s why when it’s 5-1 or 6-1, it’s not unreasonable to take Moose out!
I know that your arm can get “cold” and you can lose your “feel” for the ball if you don’t work at a regular pace so it seems logical (though I’m not speaking from any type of personal experience so it’s all based upon my days in little league).
Is tehre a site where these Joba Rules are listed?
There are sites which, through various Cashman and Torre interviews, they are spliced together. From what I can tell:
1.) Never comes in during the middle of an inning, even if no men are on base (basically, must always start the inning)
2.) Absolutely no 30-pitch ‘grind it out’ innings.
3.) For every inning Joba pitches, there must be a corresponding day of rest before AND after. That means no 1-inning, 1 day of rest, 2-inning outings.
4.) If any of these rules are broken, Joe Torre gets fired.
Villone not doing a good job, but hmm..
5.) Or he doesn’t get to hold Jeter’s bat anymore. There is some debate about these last two.
Its almsot.. awesome. Like soemthing out of myth. Actually it soudns like a novel or a movie in the mysterish vein of Dan Brown
“The Joba Rules”
Or
“The Chamberlain Rules”
hmm which is better..
Too bad there were no Proctor Rules…
This is going to be a late game even if the Yanks do make it more interesting. Grrr.
Jah Rulz
Andrew, thanks for the correction re: Joba Rules, though I am now even more despondent. I though it was days of rest AFTER (not before) 2 innings that were required. Excuse me for saying this (and I don’t have a huge problem with having restrictive rules for the kid) but this last bit seems idiotic. If he pitches an effortless inning on a Monday, you can’t use him for 2 on Wednesday, even if you intend to keep him down again until Saturday???? Idiotic.
Joba Rules is better…
Everyone gets on and bases loaded nobody out. Yuck.
Holy crap. A Jon Stewart break and now it’s 7-5, though Villone looks like he’s about to give it all right back.
Yeah….Villone is in trouble. He hasn’t looked good in a while.
3-0 with bases loaded. Yay!
Joba Rules sounds cooler, dknyc, by Chamberlain Rules sound sliek it’d fit with the ancient mystery vein a bit more. Sound sliek that kind of name
Home plate ump is odd. He calls one pitch a ball and the same location a strike.
To be fair, Villone gets no respect today. He’s wild.
Ron: Strikes good. Balls bad.
Villone is now in Moose-like trouble. Bases loaded, no outs, full count to Mathis.
For the record, “Joba anything” sounds better than “Chamberlain anything”
Errr, Chone*
Gameday has stopped updatin. Fill me in guys.
Chone hits a GREAT ground-rule double… errr, foul ball. Inches away from two more runs scoring. Yankees got lucky there.
Bases-loaded walk to Figgins. 8-5 Angels, bases still loaded with 0 outs.
8-5 Halos. Villone just walked a guy in. Bases loaded, no one out. In comes Edwar Ramirez.
“The Book of Joba”
what is up with gameday? i’ve never seen it this sluggish/wacky/dead.
If the Yankees re-close the gap, Roger Clemens will be out there after Ramirez. It is his throw day and he will volunteer.
Great play by Matsui to steal a base hit away from O-Cab. One run scores on the fly out. 9-5 Halos.
Man oh man what a night.
The Angels are to the Yankees as Tim Wakefield is to the:
A. Devil Rays
B. Career of Doug Mirabelli
C. Success of the Sox
Please use only a #2 pencil and fill in the circle clearly.
Matsui makes a sportscenter play, barely stretching to nab a fly-out. 1 run scores, but it would have been one or two more than that.
Yahoo’s GameChannel is stuck too. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this either. Is there a reason why the various competitor’s virtual Baseball systems get stuck simultaneously? Shouldn’t they be independent of one another?
The body of Edwar Ramirez could fit into the body of Vlad at least three times and still leave wiggle room
How does this kid get away with a changeup off a changeup off a slider? Then he throws the changeup dead center…Wow, ballsy.
Good night
Ramirez gives up a 3 run dinger. 12-5 Angels.
3-run homer by Anderson, 12-5 Angels. I can’t believe it’s still only the 3rd inning.
oddly enough the gameview on msnbc seems to be functioning normally…
Well there’s my answer…
The kid needs another pitch. He threw too many change ups.
For the record, Flaherty has it exactly right. You don’t throw the same pitch 5 times in a row – especially a change. Throw the freaking fastball – even head hi if you have to, but throw it. OK, now, really, good night…
So.. how cold is Escobars arm gonna be NOW?
I think Clemens has to be an option because the bullpen will be burnt by the 7th.
GOLDMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah…I’d be surprised if Kelvim doesn’t cough up a few when he goes out.
Wow, MSNBC could really use some help on their GameView design. Or did I just fall into 1991 somehow?
You don’t throw ANY pitch 5 times in a row, but you NEVER EVER EVER throw a changup 5 times in a row. A changeup feeds off a fastball, without that change of pace it’s simply just batting practice. I guess Ramirez and Molina thought they were going to fool the veteran Anderson. Guess they were wrong.
A. Devil Rays
That change up is nasty.
Well gentlemen I am off to play a little Madden before bed. Hopefully I will turn the TV back on and see a 13-12 victory.
Back to sleep I go.
I just thought of a great name: Gilchrist.
And leadoff single for the Angels. I need to use Wiki real quick..I have a theory ona SECOND season Im glad the Ynakees scored 5 runs (besides messing with Escobars ERA)
Wow…the Halos waved the runner home from second on a base hit. That’s balsy. 13-5.
WIld Pitch moves Izturis to second, no outs.
Damn delays. 13-5 then. Woot.
YF, that was a great link to include, and the last thing I’d expect to see on YFSF. A pleasant surprise, and very apt. However, the painting is by Pieter Bruegel, not Bosch
http://www.rainfall.com/posters/classicart/6205.htm
Now I cant access any mlb site at all. Not redsox.com not nothin
Now the msnbc site has stopped updating. The Yankees broke teh interwebs.
Ok.. stuff is comign back now.
But no posters are :-)
Still here….Yanks get out of the inning with a double play.
Escobar is still in for the 6th inning.
Matsui seriously battling with a 2-2 count. He Ks after fouling off 4 or 5.
Giambi Ks for out #2.
Angels still hitting Yankees’ pitching…still stretching for that extra base. No one out and runners at the corners. Henn is pitching.
I’m still around because you just don’t get to witness the Yankees getting plastered any old time… Angels now have 1/3, no outs vs. Henn.
Paul, as a fellow SF, I’m also enjoying the game, but as a baseball viewer, last night’s game was waaaay more fun to watch.
Wow…Henn gives up a grand slam. 18-5.
Garrett Anderson has 10 RBI. By himself. In the sixth inning. Holy f*ck.
Is this mauling now only being witnessed and commented on by SFs??
I think so IronHorse, buty one less as I go to bed.
Wonder if Henn goes back out there until his arm falls off.
Okay, please don’t taunt the YFs. The baseball gods are vengeful.
I’m not tauntign Im serious. If Im the Yankees I send Henn out until he literally cant pitch anymore the knock him off the roster. Why waste the arms of a Joba or even a Farnsworth?
I was just curious as I stepped away to work for the last 45 min or so – though all the while the baseball equivalent of snarls, ripping flesh, and general feeding-frenzy beat-downs play on in the background.
Garrett Anderson just got A-Rod back for the 10-RBI game he had when he hit 3 home runs off of the Halos’ Bartolo Colon in 2005. Can GA add more? Can the Halos score 25? Can the Yankees have a week off to recover from the last 2 months of playoff baseball?
I fear the answers may be yes, yes, and emphatically no.
Biggest curiousity is whether this team, having played with its back to the wall for so long, is finally hiting that wall here in LA/Anaheim/the real OC or whether they still have it in them to dig even deeper, salvage tomorrow’s game, and win the series in Detroit (and vs. Boston…fingers crossed)
Really the only reason I havent gone to bed is because I DO want to see who the Yanks send out in the bottom. Despite my invliantion, I really doubt it’ll be Henn.
Henn back out it appears. Oh yeah.. the are sending him away after the game.
Or, perhaps the Yankees — unsustainably hot for the last two months — are starting to cool down at precisely the worst time, and not coincidentally as they begin playing playoff-caliber teams on a consistent basis.
This is the version I like anyway.
Henn is not someone in whom the Yankees had big designs for the next 6 weeks. he is serviceable and that’s it. if he has to kick the ball across the plate, he will have to do it. There is no way they send Joba, F-worth (who never pitches two days in a row also by the way), or, of course, Mo, so there is no one else. He pitches batting practice here until the carnival is over.
Meanwhile, Mussina is huddled in a dark corner of the visitors locker room whispering, “the horror…..the horror……..the..horror” Someone put him out of my misery.
Paul, as ugly as this is, I don’t think the Yankees are just beginning to play these teams now and losing. We’ve been playing them for almost two weeks – sweeping Cleveland and taking 3 of 4 from Detroit (both playoff teams) counts for something.
Tonight’s loss would be a disappointing but forgettable throw-away if it weren’t for us having lost (by a milimeter by the way) last night. It’s knowing that you practically can’t afford to lose any series for 3 months – no matter who you are playing – that I think may (MAY) bt going on. But we’ll certainly know after the next 8 Yankee games, won’t we.
Even though Joba has been very tough I still see this loss as an indication of what can be expected out of the bullpen.
Indeed. But the Yanks lost three straight, didn’t they, before rallying to take three against Detroit? I’m not sure on that because that was during my self-imposed exile. I know the Sox and Yanks had identical 4-3 records during my seven-game absence, at any rate. Coupled with losing two to Anaheim, that seems to suggest to me a general cooldown…
I’m just glad the Sox, and to a lesser extent the Mariners, were able to take advantage by winning the last two games…
You are correct – re: the losing streak – Daniel Cabrera and Erik Bedard combined to give the O’s a series-win against us. I have to say though that it was not until last night that I felt like the Yankees looked and played tired. YM and I were blogging re: that during the game last night, and it is something I would really like them to shake off if they have it in them to do so.
I can’t believe Anderson flubbed that opportunity to get another 3 RBI. Piker.
Sox magic number inching down to 31, with 36 games to play.
Amazingly, Kotchman has managed to go 0-for-5 — very difficult to accomplish when your team scores 18 runs.
Well, there’s the problem with a killer offense: good pitching still shuts it down. The Os play the Yanks hard because they can run out at least two guys who can pitch (Cabrera is the wild-card; one day an ace, one day a disaster). Both teams don’t have very good bullpens so it becomes a case of who gets into the soft underbelly of the other team sooner.
Yankees mounting a 9th-inning rally! 1st and 2nd, no out.
Okay, yeah, I’m gloating over here.
Betemit hits a three-run homer. I swear to GOD Hudson, if the Yansk win.. I’ll find you
Seriously, now, Betemit homers, 18-8. New York at least is getting some dignity back here.
Heh, Dion.
I wonder how many runs Gwynn would have to allow before they pull him.
A-Rod homers again, 18-9.
Dionysus, I’m really looking forward to meeting you.
*eyes Hudson, sharpening his knife*
I love it A-Rod. I don’t know if having your score doubled still counts as regaining dignity, but I’ll take a couple HRs over wimpering into the night.
Matsui singles (Gameday has it wrong). Pitching coach visiting the mound with two outs and a 9-run lead.
(Who *is* this Gwynn? He’s looking like a true buffoon and stomping all over the Angels’ fans’ glee.)
Heh, Betemit and A-Rod padding their stats against the Angels’ bullpen fodder. Poor guy.
I feel bad for Gwyn. 30-year-old minor-leaguer, does his job admirably for two innings. But he’s clearly gassed, and the Angels rightly have no desire to pull him. At least, not until Giambi’s 2-run bomb.
Enjoy it while you can SFs. Down by 6 with 2 3-game series to go. Some symmetry there…
Good job with the Reverse Jinx, Josh!
I’m genuinely surprised he got Jason out. According to Gameday, it was actually pretty close to leaving the yard…
Rocket vs Lackey tomorrow. That should be a good game. Lackey is Boston’s personal whipping boy, and he’s barely been any better against New York: 4-6 in 12 starts, with a 4.90 ERA. Good pitcher, but not so much against our ballclubs…
Anderson catches the final out.
Darn it, I was looking forward to re-enacting this scene with Dion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4vQx2PLYAk
Pettitte goes tomorrow, noot Rocket.
Yeah you’re right. Whoops. Well, what I said about Lackey stands…
Pettitte tomorrow, who is the exact opposite of Mussina in every way: lefty, old Texan boy, actually picks up the team after losses (Moose is 0-6 in pitching after a Yankee loss, Pettitte is…something better.)
I don’t think this is ‘what you’ll see’ from the Yankee bullpen at all: they pitched Sean Henn and Ron Villone, by far the dregs of the bullpen, for the majority of the game. They’re probably not even going to be on the team in the near future. Viz, albeit with his tired arm, pitched a scoreless inning, and Joba and Rivera never even started warming up. They have Joba for 2 and Mo for 1 tomorrow if need be. If Pettitte can go 6 strong (please, please go 7) then the Yanks can avoid the sweep, I feel, which isn’t too terrible considering this was the toughest series of the season. Damn Angels.