Can't believe the Indians imploded like that. Up 2-0 in a five game series. Wow!
With the Yankees advancing it will be kind of interesting to see just how many times
Judge is going to whiff in the playoffs. He should be able to break more strikeout records
in the Houston series.
well if the playoff strike zone is down to his ankles and up to his armpits and 3'' inside and outside he has no chance. I look at it this way, Judge and Sanchez and the DH position really didn't play well and the Yankees won 3 out of 5 and should have won that 4th game were it not for a bad umpire call.
Not sure what their rotation will look like, but I'd go Gray in 1/5, Tanaka in 2/6 (gives him extra day rest in both games), Sevy in 3/7, and CC in 4
I don't think the strike-zone was like that all series, but last night it was ridiculous. even the announcers were talking about pitches anywhere from 3-8 inches off the plate. I ain't complaining because that ump was terrible for everyone, but that's pure garbage in the most important of games.
I could give a critique of the Indians, but what's the use?? they shut down at the plate after game two and while they were ROCK SOLID on defense all year they simply whiffed when it counted.
there is no reasoning for why it happened, but the TEAM CHOKED WHEN IT NEEDE TO STEP UP and the Yankees fought through adversity. in a nutshell, the best Team won.
@keets said:
I don't think the strike-zone was like that all series, but last night it was ridiculous. even the announcers were talking about pitches anywhere from 3-8 inches off the plate. I ain't complaining because that ump was terrible for everyone, but that's pure garbage in the most important of games.
I could give a critique of the Indians, but what's the use?? they shut down at the plate after game two and while they were ROCK SOLID on defense all year they simply whiffed when it counted.
there is no reasoning for why it happened, but the TEAM CHOKED WHEN IT NEEDE TO STEP UP and the Yankees fought through adversity. in a nutshell, the best Team won.
One of the announcers mentioned that maybe the win streak took too much out of the Indians pitching . Were they gassed going into the playoffs? I didn't see any of the games other than last night's.
the BullPen overall pitched well enough for Cleveland to have won each game.
the Starters:
Game One: I saw no problem with Bauer.
Game Two: Kluber didn't have good control and two pitches cost him.
Game Three: I saw nothing wrong with Carrasco.
Game Four: Bauer wasn't sharp but errors lost that gama. If Urshela turns a play he makes routinely the 4-run inning is over and the entire game is different.
Game Five: again, Kluber made two bad pitches.
to be sure, it wasn't like the Cleveland starters were getting hit all over the park. the difference in the series was that the Cleveland batters slept, take a look at their series BA's.
My greatest worry for the Indians was they peaked too early and they were playing a team with low expectations for this year. The pace they Indians were playing at in Sept was unworldly
mark
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throughout the entire season the Indians didn't have a lineup that bullied anyone, it would be different guys contributing on different days with a few that were constant, like Lindor and Ramirez. some guys would have stretches where they stayed hot for a few games or a week, but looking at the individual BA's you get a sense of what I'm saying. what would happen regularly is that the Team would go cold for a day or two and then rip off a six or eight game run. through it all they never had any real losing streaks because the pitching was always good enough to overcome that.
then come the playoffs when Lindor and Ramirez both could have ridden the bench for what they contributed, especially Ramirez, he looked almost helpless. not trying to change the subject, but Aaron Judge was the only player I saw who looked less useful than those two. combined, those three players really had pitchers who seemed to have them read.
Judge was lost at the plate. He did however contribute mightlly to help win a ganme like Lindor did......but with his glove. In a 5 game series that's sometime all it takes
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how ironic for that play to be a "game winner" in the field. listening to it on the radio I thought for sure it was gone, the announcer was beside himself. baseball is funny, think about how many balls are hit to right where the fence is at!!! in the game against Detroit where he had five extra base hits Jose Ramirez actually hit the top of the fence with both his HR's, one of them hit and bounced straight into the air and hit the top a second time.
keets I feel for you man. Sometimes sh&t just happens.
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i find NY-HOU to be a very compelling series. i have zero feel for who is going to win, but i'm sure i'll bet on it anyway because i have degenerate tendencies.
what i do know for certain, however, is that if I was Hinch, i'd be giving big boy Judge a steady diet of off-speed pitches until he proves that he can put the fat part (or any part) of the bat on the ball with any degree of consistency. no way am i risking a dent in the Minute Maid train by pouring gas over the heart of the plate.
Pitching him north, south, east and west of the plate is the recipe right now. The Indians got that part right
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@BLUEJAYWAY said:
FWIW Houston defeated the Yankees in 5 of 7 games this year.
Cleveland also defeated the Yankees 5 out of 7 in the regular season
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What a gutsy performance by Davis for the save. A throwback to the 1970s with the 7-out save and bringing him in at a pivotal point and letting him finish.
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@grote15 said:
What a gutsy performance by Davis for the save. A throwback to the 1970s with the 7-out save and bringing him in at a pivotal point and letting him finish.
The catcher picking the guy off first base to end the eighth inning sure helped him.
Dayton Moore really blew that trade. We give the Cubs one of the best closers' in baseball
for a minor leaguer.
@dbtunr said:
well if the playoff strike zone is down to his ankles and up to his armpits and 3'' inside and outside he has no chance. I look at it this way, Judge and Sanchez and the DH position really didn't play well and the Yankees won 3 out of 5 and should have won that 4th game were it not for a bad umpire call.
Not sure what their rotation will look like, but I'd go Gray in 1/5, Tanaka in 2/6 (gives him extra day rest in both games), Sevy in 3/7, and CC in 4
Well Giradi is going another way. Tanaka will go game 1/5 on regular 4 days rest even though he pitches much better on 5 or 6 days rest. Gray demoted to game 4 and will pitch on 11 days rest. Girardi lost confidence in Gray and all his pitches in the dirt.
using Tanaka based on his game three performance against Cleveland is a risk, I wouldn't expect to see him pitch that well again or for the Houston batters to react the same. one thing about his start and then again with Sabathia --- the Indians hitters insisted on taking the first pitch, effectively starting their at-bat 0-1. Houston probably won't do that.
Tanaka's last game of the year was his best of the year with 7 innings, 15 strikeouts. He was just over 100 pitches. The Yankee record for strikeouts in a game was from Guidry I think 18 or 19. But he had more than 4 days rest. He is a different pitcher with 4 days rest. Everyone knows that. Will be interesting to see if he opts out after the year. He has an option for 3 more years at $67M. I wouldn't pick him up if he wants more than that. CC is also a free agent. I would bring him back 1 year at a time for a reasonable amount, say $12M (he got over $20M this year)
@dbtunr said:
Tanaka's last game of the year was his best of the year with 7 innings, 15 strikeouts. He was just over 100 pitches. The Yankee record for strikeouts in a game was from Guidry I think 18 or 19. But he had more than 4 days rest. He is a different pitcher with 4 days rest. Everyone knows that. Will be interesting to see if he opts out after the year. He has an option for 3 more years at $67M. I wouldn't pick him up if he wants more than that. CC is also a free agent. I would bring him back 1 year at a time for a reasonable amount, say $12M (he got over $20M this year)
The Yankees are stacked and two years ahead of their time table to contend for a WS. I wouldn't sign either of them if I could help it UNLESS as you stated the terms were team friendly
After the trade deadline the Yankees and the Astros STILL had top 5 rated farm systems
mark
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well, two observations after last night's game:
--- after two very good outings Tanaka returned to form and showed what he really is, a .500 pitcher. while he held the Astros in check it was clear that his control wasn't sharp and his breaking balls weren't nearly as crisp. without extended rest he is what we saw last night.
--- Aaron Judge continues to struggle and hurt his Team. I see him now hitting BETWEEN the Yankees two best batters, Gardner and Gregorius. moving him down might help continue instead of slowing a rally. why not move Hicks or Byrd to his spot and bat him 5th??
I think when it gets to Sabathia and Sonny Gray the Houston batters will go berserk and put up some crooked numbers.
it may happen but it's a long shot. with the format being 2-3-2 tonight's game might be the key as it was last year when the Cub's split in Cleveland. if the Yanks can't get to Houston early in the series it starts to work against them just as it works in their favor going home tied. all the "rest" days should let Keuchel and Verlander win all the games that Houston needs despite New York's BP.
JMHO, of course.
an interesting possibility that can't now happen had Verlander starting against Scherzer. that would have been cool and I bet Mark would've watched!!
@keets said: Can't believe the Indians imploded like that
they didn't implode, they were a dud.
As poorly as they played at times in the series it was still almost good enough to win. They are an excellent team. I know it still hurts. I went though it several times with the Tigers
@keets oh I'm watching the playoffs. Love this time of the year with hockey starting, baseball playoffs, college and pro football. What's not to like? My wife is not as enthusiastic.
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Gary Sanchez has a chance to be a Lance Parrish if he gets his D together. Good looking player
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I love him but what a bone head base running error by Gardner and the third baseball coach . Cardinal sin
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I was told my a reliable source that the Yankees owned Verlander. 3-0 lifetime in the playoffs against against NY.
Today 9 innings pitched. 124 pitches. 32 balls. 13 strikeouts. 5 hits. 1 walk. Saves the bullpen. Old school vintage performance.
Masterpiece
Kate Upton's top sucked.
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Can't believe the Indians imploded like that. Up 2-0 in a five game series. Wow!
With the Yankees advancing it will be kind of interesting to see just how many times
Judge is going to whiff in the playoffs. He should be able to break more strikeout records
in the Houston series.
well if the playoff strike zone is down to his ankles and up to his armpits and 3'' inside and outside he has no chance. I look at it this way, Judge and Sanchez and the DH position really didn't play well and the Yankees won 3 out of 5 and should have won that 4th game were it not for a bad umpire call.
Not sure what their rotation will look like, but I'd go Gray in 1/5, Tanaka in 2/6 (gives him extra day rest in both games), Sevy in 3/7, and CC in 4
I don't think the strike-zone was like that all series, but last night it was ridiculous. even the announcers were talking about pitches anywhere from 3-8 inches off the plate. I ain't complaining because that ump was terrible for everyone, but that's pure garbage in the most important of games.
I could give a critique of the Indians, but what's the use?? they shut down at the plate after game two and while they were ROCK SOLID on defense all year they simply whiffed when it counted.
there is no reasoning for why it happened, but the TEAM CHOKED WHEN IT NEEDE TO STEP UP and the Yankees fought through adversity. in a nutshell, the best Team won.
One of the announcers mentioned that maybe the win streak took too much out of the Indians pitching . Were they gassed going into the playoffs? I didn't see any of the games other than last night's.
the BullPen overall pitched well enough for Cleveland to have won each game.
the Starters:
Game One: I saw no problem with Bauer.
Game Two: Kluber didn't have good control and two pitches cost him.
Game Three: I saw nothing wrong with Carrasco.
Game Four: Bauer wasn't sharp but errors lost that gama. If Urshela turns a play he makes routinely the 4-run inning is over and the entire game is different.
Game Five: again, Kluber made two bad pitches.
to be sure, it wasn't like the Cleveland starters were getting hit all over the park. the difference in the series was that the Cleveland batters slept, take a look at their series BA's.
My greatest worry for the Indians was they peaked too early and they were playing a team with low expectations for this year. The pace they Indians were playing at in Sept was unworldly
mark
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
throughout the entire season the Indians didn't have a lineup that bullied anyone, it would be different guys contributing on different days with a few that were constant, like Lindor and Ramirez. some guys would have stretches where they stayed hot for a few games or a week, but looking at the individual BA's you get a sense of what I'm saying. what would happen regularly is that the Team would go cold for a day or two and then rip off a six or eight game run. through it all they never had any real losing streaks because the pitching was always good enough to overcome that.
then come the playoffs when Lindor and Ramirez both could have ridden the bench for what they contributed, especially Ramirez, he looked almost helpless. not trying to change the subject, but Aaron Judge was the only player I saw who looked less useful than those two. combined, those three players really had pitchers who seemed to have them read.
Judge was lost at the plate. He did however contribute mightlly to help win a ganme like Lindor did......but with his glove. In a 5 game series that's sometime all it takes
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
how ironic for that play to be a "game winner" in the field. listening to it on the radio I thought for sure it was gone, the announcer was beside himself. baseball is funny, think about how many balls are hit to right where the fence is at!!! in the game against Detroit where he had five extra base hits Jose Ramirez actually hit the top of the fence with both his HR's, one of them hit and bounced straight into the air and hit the top a second time.
one of the weirdest plays I ever saw.
keets I feel for you man. Sometimes sh&t just happens.
m
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
i find NY-HOU to be a very compelling series. i have zero feel for who is going to win, but i'm sure i'll bet on it anyway because i have degenerate tendencies.
what i do know for certain, however, is that if I was Hinch, i'd be giving big boy Judge a steady diet of off-speed pitches until he proves that he can put the fat part (or any part) of the bat on the ball with any degree of consistency. no way am i risking a dent in the Minute Maid train by pouring gas over the heart of the plate.
you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet
Pitching him north, south, east and west of the plate is the recipe right now. The Indians got that part right
m
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
I would love to see Judge have a great series against Houston. He had a great season (stat wise) but I didn't see any of that.
I would like a Yankee/Cubs WS with the Cubs winning in 7. But I am use to NOT getting want I want the past 22 years.
Keets - I feel for you man. I know what it's like for your team to have a great year and then lay an egg in the playoffs.
Houston is not good enough to beat the Yankees , they had trouble with Boston who they should have swept. I'm picking the Yankees in 6
FWIW Houston defeated the Yankees in 5 of 7 games this year.
Cleveland also defeated the Yankees 5 out of 7 in the regular season
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
What a gutsy performance by Davis for the save. A throwback to the 1970s with the 7-out save and bringing him in at a pivotal point and letting him finish.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
The catcher picking the guy off first base to end the eighth inning sure helped him.
Dayton Moore really blew that trade. We give the Cubs one of the best closers' in baseball
for a minor leaguer.
Well Giradi is going another way. Tanaka will go game 1/5 on regular 4 days rest even though he pitches much better on 5 or 6 days rest. Gray demoted to game 4 and will pitch on 11 days rest. Girardi lost confidence in Gray and all his pitches in the dirt.
using Tanaka based on his game three performance against Cleveland is a risk, I wouldn't expect to see him pitch that well again or for the Houston batters to react the same. one thing about his start and then again with Sabathia --- the Indians hitters insisted on taking the first pitch, effectively starting their at-bat 0-1. Houston probably won't do that.
Tanaka's last game of the year was his best of the year with 7 innings, 15 strikeouts. He was just over 100 pitches. The Yankee record for strikeouts in a game was from Guidry I think 18 or 19. But he had more than 4 days rest. He is a different pitcher with 4 days rest. Everyone knows that. Will be interesting to see if he opts out after the year. He has an option for 3 more years at $67M. I wouldn't pick him up if he wants more than that. CC is also a free agent. I would bring him back 1 year at a time for a reasonable amount, say $12M (he got over $20M this year)
The Yankees are stacked and two years ahead of their time table to contend for a WS. I wouldn't sign either of them if I could help it UNLESS as you stated the terms were team friendly
After the trade deadline the Yankees and the Astros STILL had top 5 rated farm systems
mark
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
well, two observations after last night's game:
--- after two very good outings Tanaka returned to form and showed what he really is, a .500 pitcher. while he held the Astros in check it was clear that his control wasn't sharp and his breaking balls weren't nearly as crisp. without extended rest he is what we saw last night.
--- Aaron Judge continues to struggle and hurt his Team. I see him now hitting BETWEEN the Yankees two best batters, Gardner and Gregorius. moving him down might help continue instead of slowing a rally. why not move Hicks or Byrd to his spot and bat him 5th??
I think when it gets to Sabathia and Sonny Gray the Houston batters will go berserk and put up some crooked numbers.
I sure hope the Yankee's beat Houston.
it may happen but it's a long shot. with the format being 2-3-2 tonight's game might be the key as it was last year when the Cub's split in Cleveland. if the Yanks can't get to Houston early in the series it starts to work against them just as it works in their favor going home tied. all the "rest" days should let Keuchel and Verlander win all the games that Houston needs despite New York's BP.
JMHO, of course.
an interesting possibility that can't now happen had Verlander starting against Scherzer. that would have been cool and I bet Mark would've watched!!
Can't believe the Indians imploded like that
they didn't implode, they were a dud.
As poorly as they played at times in the series it was still almost good enough to win. They are an excellent team. I know it still hurts. I went though it several times with the Tigers
@keets oh I'm watching the playoffs. Love this time of the year with hockey starting, baseball playoffs, college and pro football. What's not to like? My wife is not as enthusiastic.
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Gary Sanchez has a chance to be a Lance Parrish if he gets his D together. Good looking player
m
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
I love him but what a bone head base running error by Gardner and the third baseball coach . Cardinal sin
m
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
9 IP, 124 pitches~love it!
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one hell of a game, regardless of which side you were on. enjoyed every pitch of that bad boy.
you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet
I was told my a reliable source that the Yankees owned Verlander. 3-0 lifetime in the playoffs against against NY.
Today 9 innings pitched. 124 pitches. 32 balls. 13 strikeouts. 5 hits. 1 walk. Saves the bullpen. Old school vintage performance.
Masterpiece
Kate Upton's top sucked.
m
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Wish I could have seen it, I had to work today.
I missed out on the Yankees owning Verlander, again! LOL.
Good call, dbturnr.
I missed both of the last two ALDS games, but apparently the Yankees need to be down 0-2 before they show up.