I think you have a pretty good idea most nights.
Yanks win, but I’m not sure A-Rod is in the best of moods.
Ugh! Tough game. They gave Mo a run for his money but he was his usual awesome self.
The Phillies keep wasting these Pedro gems! The good Burnett showed up tonight and did a better job than Pedro. Great game by both teams. A couple of miscues by the umps, but they mostly did a good job. Fun game to watch - even if it was heartbreaking.
Let’s hope the good Hamels can show up on Sunday. I think he has been real close to his good self all year. We’ll see how he does in game 3. Petite is awesome, so it will be rough for sure!
6-out save in Game 2? How much of that had to do with the top of the order being up in the 8th? And how many of those do the Yankees expect to get out of Rivera in this series?
I’m always iffy on the six-out saves, but the season was on the line. So I’ll support Girardi on that decision. I was somewhere between angry and terrified when I saw Aceves warming up during the bottom of the eighth, but I assume he only would have come in if they’d opened up a 9-1 lead. (What I don’t get is, why Hairston? Gardner’s been playing more often and he’s been used frequently as a pinch runner and defensive replacement, so why not just go with him?)
Great game from Burnett. I was really nervous about him going in because he’s had a penchant for disastrous innings that undo otherwise strong starts. Didn’t happen tonight. Pedro was also very good, but Burnett was better and the Yankees did just enough. Goes without saying they need to get at least one game in Philadelphia, but I feel better about their chances after seeing Teixeira hit that home run.
I’m amazed that a television network that forks out somewhere in the neighborhood of half a billion dollars a year for the rights to show baseball apparently cannot afford a fucking tilde.
The guy’s name is not Raul Ibanez, it’s Raúl Ibáñez.
Jesus Christ. Latino players make up somewhere around 30 percent of the Major Leagues, with plenty of them having accent marks in their names, and MLB’s main television partner can’t even be bothered to display their names correctly on the screen. It’s pretty fucking pathetic, in my opinion.
Yeah, I’d love for him to show up on Sunday! 
While it is true that their name, en Español may use diacritical marks, in English, we don’t use them. These people, as students in our schools, as owners of licenses in our country, etc., are quite used to having their names spelled out without the use of an enye, just as the Russian hockey players in the NHL don’t see their names spelled with Cyrillic characters, nor do the Swedish ones have obscure characters like ø used.
Or do you refer to the capital of Italy as Roma, and worry about pronouncing the capital of the PRC correctly? :dubious:
No - no one did any such thing. The thread you’re referring to had a bunch of people mention how the Yankees have the best offense (they do), and that they had the most wins. You remember wins, right? It’s the stat you get a giant boner for every time you discuss pitchers, right?
So which is it gonzo - if the stat you feel that best measures pitchers is wins, and the Yankees had the most wins, then who has the best pitching? Think carefully, because your answer to this will subsequently destroy one of the ridiculous beliefs you hold - choose wisely.
I think it had a lot to do with the batters due up in the 8th. The travel day will help and that probably played into it too. It would have been nice to blow the game open so wide in the 7th that even Martee couldn’t blow it but no such luck. I thought Jeter was a fool for bunting with 2 strikes, why take the bat out of one of the few guys who is reasonably hot just so the cold hitters behind you can leave runners on base?
I gotta disagree. Burnett had thrown 108 pitches so it’s not like his arm was fresh. “He’s pitching fine, just leave him in” is often what you hear just before a guy gives up a few runs.
New York needed to win that game, and when the chips are down you want the best possible pitcher on the mound. At that moment, the best pitcher wearing a Yankee uniform was - as it usually is - Mariano Rivera. If you absolutely, positively want to guarantee one or two innings’ worth of outs there has never in baseball history been a better guy to have on the mound. He’s the greatest relief pitcher who ever lived; what better time to call upon him than when you’d got to win a close game and you have a day off tomorrow anyway?
I don’t understand why people are so terrified of Marte. He’s been pitching well. Prior to this year he’d almost always pitched well. He’s a fine pitcher.
Quite true. In English, Ibanez’s name is correctly spelled without the diacritical marks. How often do you see Panama spelled Panamá on TV or in English publications? But that’s the way it’s spelled in Spanish.
I just wish the Spanish-language announcers here would stop mispronouncing Phil Hughes as Phil Huge. 
In the 7th, Burnett faced 3 hitters. Ibanez and Stairs both struck out looking, and Feliz grounded out to Jeter. He was dealing, and showing no signs of weakening. If you want to have Mo up and ready, I totally agree, but I see no reason not to let the guy with the hot hand start the 8th.
I agree. Have Rivera warmed up. Tell Burnett, first guy gets on, you’re done.
The powerful hitting is important during the season. They feast on the bad pitchers they face , piling up victories and scoring a lot of runs. They do not do well against the good pitchers.
The Tigers had a lot of trouble scoring this year. They had a pretty good season because they could pitch. If they could have piled victories up against the bad pitchers and bad teams they would have had a far better record. That is where hitting is important.
There are lots of telling stats for pitchers. Do not invent your own arguments .
Name three. “Number of times facing good teams” is disqualified for this portion of the thread.
average rosen bag toss height
glare intensity
balks allowed in the fifth inning on Tuesday afternoons when facing a batter who’s name begin with a vowel other than I.
Or were you not talking to me
http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/team/_/stat/pitching Anybody spot the trend?
Team batting:
Wow. I guess good hitting DOES beat good pitching.
Hawkeyeop, if I was talking to you, I’d make you come up with 12 more!
I think Gonzo is on to something. The way the Phillies starters have completely shut down Utley, Howard, Werth and Ibanez has been quite impressive. And the Yankees pitching has given a single run to the Yankees despite them having stars at nearly every position.