Game 76, Mariners at Yankees
Morrow vs Chamberlain, 4:05 pm.
Brandon Morrow is an extreme flyball pitcher who gets torched by left-handed batters. New Yankee Stadium is turning more fly balls into home runs than any other park in baseball this year, and the benefit is going almost entirely to left-handed hitters pulling the ball over the closer, shorter right field wall. The Yankees have a bunch of good left-handed power hitters.
This is a really bad match-up. And, Wak just made it worse.
Ichiro, RF
Branyan, 1B
Lopez, 2B
Griffey, LF (BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!)
Sweeney, DH (BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!)
Gutierrez, CF
Woodward, 3B
Johjima, C
Cedeno, SS
I’d give the M’s about a 5% chance of winning tonight. This is something like the worst line-up that Wak could put on the field, and he did it on a night where Morrow needs every single piece of help he can get. Way to give your pitcher the least possible chance for success tonight.
Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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I repeat: Gutierrez jersey has been earned.
GUTI!!
fiftyone – i’ve watched about 75% of the games this year, i just don’t think they are going to come back against the Yankees, especially against Rivera.
GUT FTW!! :0
Yes! Guti again! At this rate, we can all buy the jersey during the USSM event in August (group discount?).
Wak needs to bean #13 in the head next time up.
I don’t care what you people say, A-Fraud needs to act like he’s been there before instead of watching that ball like he did and prancing around first base.
What would be a nicer tribute to the Putz trade?
Back to 10%.
Holy smokes, Woodward!
To avoid Mariano, perhaps it would be best for us to go ahead right now.
15%.
KENJI! Love this.
MLB Extra Innings has the YES feed…i just voted for Ronny Cedeno as player of the game, the rest were Yankees.
Man, that Kenji Johjima is fuckin’ terrible isn’t he? Why don’t we bench that guy? He always grounds into…oh. Nevermind.
Make ’em pay Branyan!
Huh. Gamecast says the sac bunt reduced our chances of winning by 3%.
Dude, what a game!
Nice! Now for the clutch hit…
Sweet. Lets see if Lopez can get us the lead.
This one ain’t over!!
Okay well that’s lame they didn’t score more there…Jeez Lopey way to be patient!!
Screw that. Lopez taking lessons from Griffey…
He’s an asshat and a choker so whatever makes him feel better about his pathetic self…
may your eyes bleed gruel and your testicles turn in to a toad JOSE LOPEZ!
Wtf, I stepped away after Branyan for 15 seconds and the inning’s over?
So much for the tie.
C. R. A. P.
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GAME OVER!!
No better bunt exists.
Well crap.
Sean White FAIL.
Hmmm White isn’t looking like his normal self tonight….
Well this game WAS fun to watch…
chance of winnng -50%
NOW Adair comes out? How about two batters ago? Maybe three?
I miss Bryan Price.
Frickety Frickerson.
Mariners are going to get swept this series, we miss you Beltre.
That throw was on the money and Lopez was 2 ft away from the bag. If he had been positioned properly that is an out.
Sigh. Good try, M’s.
Wow, A-Team rerun on ch. 117.
Z better be on the phone with some other GMs, there have to be some sellers out there somewhere.
Conversely, I’d like to see them start to phase out Johjima and bring up Adam Moore.
I bet you he could call a game behind home plate better than Kenji could.
M’s = 1-2 since Johjima came back
every damn night.
um, yeah.
Elmer, just wanted to let you know I followed your thought process completely. First, I was thinking, “C’mon. Are they really ragging on a guy for being optimistic?” Then I understood it was fairly warranted as this site is all about rising above the whole “wait and see” attitude, and in hind sight, Utah seemed to be a little bold in his defense of that school. Let’s all hope for a win AND a better lineup tomorrow!
Sorry I tried to quote what now is ancient history on this thread but it didn’t work. (Inserts he comment at by SlipperyElmer at 6:56 p.m.)
Johjima had the second highest WPA in the game he went 3-4, I don’t think he’s the reason for the loss Tom. Unless you’re blaming all of the pitching mistakes on him…
If you consider that the 3-4-5 hitters contributed negatively to the offense, it’s kind of hard to put this on anything but the lineup construction that Dave criticized before the fact. Woodward is playing of necessity; there’s really no other choice at this exact point in time. White was going to blow up one day; Yankee Stadium a not unlikely place for it to happen. But why you’d play those three guys in the heart of the order against Joba Chamberlain makes no sense. Is Wak becoming a victim of “he’s my hot hand”, batting Lopez third?
Yah, cause catcher’s ERA is the most important stat, right? All runs scored can be blamed on the catcher, I guess.
That error by Woodward in the second? All those runs were Kenji’s fault. Sean White’s suckiness? All Kenji’s fault. Mike Sweeney’s =.169 WPA for the game? Yup, that was Kenji’s fault too. And the three hits that Kenji had in the game? We would have been better off with Rob Johnson going oh for four, I guess.
There should have been a negative sign next to Sweeney’s WPA in the previous entry.
Sweeney and Lopez together (-.169 and -.161) contributed almost as much to the loss as White (-.356)
Johjima came off the DL June 26th.
He caught Vargas, who gave up 5 runs (reminicent of his game of June 14, caught by Johnson, where Vargas gave up 7 runs)
Rob caught the next night, getting Felix in the pitcher draw (Felix, 1 run)
Joh caught Olson the next day for a win (Olson, 2 runs) and then tried to catch Morrow’s pitches last night for a loss (Morrow, 1 ER)
I prefer the game calling of Johnson, Burke, and Quiroz anyday over Kenji’s.