In a move suggesting they still have aspirations of winning the AL East, New York has moved their best starter up a day in order to get him a chance at 3 more regular season starts. Young* Luis Severino (13-6, 2.93 ERA, 156 ERA+, 1.031 WHIP) is now in line for the final start of the regular season, home against Toronto on October 1 ... which would make it improbable that the 2nd Wild Card team would face him in the AL Wild Card game on October 3. If nothing else changes, it looks like that game would be started by former Twin Jaime Garcia.
Opposing the Yankees will be the 'ageless' Bartolo Colon (6-13, 6.39 ERA, 69 ERA+, 1.602 WHIP) who was passed last night by Sabathia for most career innings pitched by an active player. According to the four letter,
Colon last pitched Friday during a 4-3 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays. He allowed four runs and five hits in six innings. In his past three starts -- all defeats -- Colon owns a 7.53 ERA after going 4-1 with a 3.40 ERA in six August starts.
so we got that going for us ... which is nice.
Baseball's a funny game - anything can happen. That being said, I'm (unfortunately) with joe.
*he's only 23!!1!
Castro back behind the dish, and Vargas at 1st.
Dozier, B.
Mauer
Polanco
Rosario
Buxton
Kepler
Escobar, E.
Vargas
Castro, J.
Dozier breaks up the no-no.
Unless he was completely fooled, the way they've been calling balls & strikes, Joe has to protect the plate on that pitch.
dumb
dumb
&
dumb
I'm not super hopeful for today's game. I think Big Sexy is turning back into a pumpkin, but we'll see.
The Angels have been losing plenty, but if we keep doing the same, we'll catch up to some teams that aren't.
I'm not at all hopeful about today's game. But, I am hopeful because the Angels are playing Cleveland while the Twins are scuffling.
I'm not liking the chances for the Angels have to finish 0-12.
I'm thinking the Rangers and the Mariners might win at least three or four of their games, too.
JMIVGABB
sitting in a conf. room in Omaha but I have MLB Gameday scrolling on my phone -- Joe is having a epic bases loaded at bad
13 pitches.
And a single! And an RBI!
Polanco's at-bat was a lot shorter, but I liked it, too.
Brian Dozier at 93 runs scored for the season. He might get to 100 after all.
friggin bandbox
Well, at least we got that out of the way,
I was hoping against hope that Big Sexy would be sexier.
dammit
Well that was inevitable.
This stadium is a freaking joke.
That didn't take long.
Sanchez's HR was legit.
/watches replay/
Yup
dumb
That was inevitable x2
Can we stop jobbing to this freakin' team.
Seems like a pretty quick hook for Severino, but I guess the Yankees bullpen is pretty well rested.
Girardi's playing the long game. It's all about developing familiarity - getting appearances against them this week so they've seen 'em before Oct 3.
23 things:1. Kepler's really going to have to figure out how to compete a little against the lefties. Pretty great defense in right ain't enough to offset .138/.208/.202.
2. How much leash does Mollie give Bartolo?
3. I'm not sure why, but Gardner has always bugged the crap outta me.
This should help with regards to Gardner.
what a pretentious chode.
and that Bird double answers item #2.
2. Too long.
Or, given what happened after he left, not long enough.
welp, I have other things to do.
/snorts in derision/
Unfortunately, Colon has started pitching the way I expected him to pitch in the first place.
even though we're in second place?
We're only down one, and it's only the fourth inning. There's a lot of time left for the Twins to come back. I have to admit, though, that it feels like the game's already over.
A go-ahead double from Greg Bird, who is well under the Mendoza line but the Twins can't seem to get out, really feels like a GOSO.
Even if accurate, at least we made it to the third week of September before a citizen referenced the ol' white flag...
I don't know about the SO part, but the Gregorius homer pretty much makes it GO.
You would think that after more than a decade, the Twins would've exhausted their supply of these:
https://youtu.be/iUP3PMLdoOs
I just really hope this means that they're saving all their runs for a 17-0 blow out on Oct 3.
I approve of this message.
Unless they have someone they want to give an inning to, they might as well leave Turley out there for the rest of the game (assuming that doesn't mean 130 pitches or something) no matter how he does.
aw, heck, even if it does mean 130 pitches, but Gimenez wants to close still
Gimenez might be the one they give an inning to, just to keep him sharp.
Seriously, Gimenez needs to familiarize himself with this lineup before Oct. 3
My feed went out for a minute. What happened?
I have the sound off. What's going on?
By the look on everyone's face, someone get nailed with a foul ball?
A kid got hit by a foul ball I guess it was pretty bad. (didnt show it on tv)
I don't care how big of an idiot I look like, if I'm sitting down on one of the baselines, I bring my glove. If it gives me that much more of a chance of protecting the fam, that's good enough for me.
Agreed.
Also, I've never understood people mocking adults who bring gloves to games. You see plenty of grown men lunging, diving and grappling over balls in the seats all the time - those are the people who've always looked like idiots to me.
This, both the first part (adults with gloves -- it's supposed to be fun, yo!) and the second (it's an effing baseball! grow up!)
A few weeks ago, during a Blue Jays game, one of the players hit a hard foul down the left field line. It bounced off something HARD, everyone went scrambling for the ball except the (assumed) father of what looked to be a nine or ten year old.
I only saw his face for maybe a tenth of a second, and at a distance, but he looked to be screaming in pain.
It's honestly haunted me ever since.
Me too. It made me so upset to think that someone would sit in those seats (kids or sans kids) and not be paying attention to the field that I actually yelled at the television. I realize that's probably unreasonable, but that was my response because I was so shaken.
I was unaware, but the Yankees have not extended the netting. Unsurprisingly, players, including Dozier, stated today it should be extended.
Tonkin's just the man we need to clean this mess up.
"Bows and arrows against the lightning; they haven't seen the heat ray yet."
I'm not enjoying this, so I'm not going to watch any more.
Its only the 6th innings. oofta.
It's games like this that I wish teams could forfeit without implying they're giving up on life.
If you want to stay optimistic, don't read this thread:
I blame Joe.
Gardy became the manager in 2002. Makes more sense to blame him.
But Gardy left, Joe hasn't.
*NO, I am not blaming Joe 😛
But that's why it's better to blame Gardy. It's always easier to blame the guy who's not there.
We were just talking about that here at work: when someone in our workgroup leaves the company, they are fair game to blame any code fixes. There are several places where the change comments say, "Joe Schmoe is a loser." and it's common knowledge that when you leave, you'll be immortalized in the code somewhere.
Remember when Joe Mauer had a great at bat with the bases load and got a hit? Then Polanco followed it up with another hit? That was awesome.
I kind of do. When was that? Seems like a long time ago...
I know that with the expanded rosters it really doesn't matter, and I can see giving Perkins an inning here. Still, it bothers me that we're burning through this many relievers in a game we have almost no chance of winning.
Honestly, with the way Perkins has been pitching since he came back, I'd see see him get work in here than in a tight ballgame.
Given that we have 14 people in the bullpen (which was a source of some mockery by the TV guys last night), we can certainly afford to throw most of them out there.
Indians hold on to beat the Angels. Twins got swept in New York and lost only half a game in the standings. Angels play tomorrow against the Indians before traveling to Houston to play the Astros, who the Angels are 6-10 against (with most of those games at home).
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