The New York Yankees have not begun the season the way they envisioned. They got swept in a three game series in Tampa to start the season. The three losses can’t really be pinned on one thing. The two starters in the first two games were not very good but that wasn’t the only reason they lost. Phil Hughes was pretty good today but didn’t give them length and they couldn’t score. The Yankees lost today’s game by the score of 3-0. They couldn’t get big hits when it really counted in any of the games and that cost them. The Yankees are 0-3 and the last time that happened was in 1998 and they went on to win 114 games and the World Series. It is very early and it is a long season, you never want to get swept but it isn’t the end of the world just yet. The Yankees now head to Baltimore for three games before coming home on Friday to take on the Anaheim Angles in their home opener.
Phil Hughes started this game and pitched better then the other two starters did. Hughes wasn’t able to give the Yankees length though because of a high pitch count. Hughes pitched 4 2/3 innings giving up two runs on five hits, walking two and striking out five. Boone Logan pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up a hit and a run and struck out three batters, Cory Wade pitched an inning giving up one hit and striking out two and Clay Rapada walked a batter and got another out. David Phelps got both batters out that he faced and struck one out. Hughes took the loss in the game and Jeremy Hellickson got the win pitching 8 2/3 innings giving up no runs on three hits with four walks and four strikeouts. Fernando Rodney earned his second save by getting the only batter that he faced out.
Alex Rodriguez, Nick Swisher and Mark Teixeira each got a hit and that was it for the Yankees. The three hits were all doubles. The Yankees were 0-6 with runners in scoring position and they left seven men on base. Rodriguez had a stolen base.
Carlos Pena had two hits and an RBI for the Rays. Evan Longoria had two hits and drew a walk, Matt Joyce had a hit, RBI and drew a walk and Ben Zobrist drew a walk. Jeff Keppinger had two hits and an RBI, Longoria and Pena each had a double. Joyce had a triple and Pena and Keppinger each hit a homerun. The Rays were 1-5 with runners in scoring position and they left seven men on base.
In the first inning the Rays scored on an RBI triple by Joyce, Ibanez misplayed it though and it shouldn’t have been anything but an out. In the third inning the Rays made it 2-0 on a solo homerun by Pena and in the sixth Keppinger hit a solo homerun to make it 3-0.
The Yankees are 0-3 and the Rays were 3-0. The Yankees didn’t really do anything right in this series. They didn’t pitch too well in the first two games and in this game they didn’t hit at all. The Rays also drove them crazy with their shifts and it always seemed like they were in the right position. The Yankees felt overall that they had good at bats but a lot of times they were hitting balls right at people. The Yankees will now head to Baltimore for a three game series before coming home on Friday for their home opener against the Anaheim Angels.
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Sunday, April 8, 2012
Saturday, April 7, 2012
New York Yankees postgame notes
Here are the postgame Yankees notes. The quotes are coming from the Yankees beat writers who are covering the team and the rest is the stats from the game notes.
I as always add some of my own thoughts into the mix.
A first-inning decision to intentionally load the bases had backfired, but the Yankees offense had rallied. CC Sabathia’s fastball command had been erratic, but he’d settled down. Dave Robertson had put the tying run at third base, but he’d struck out three in a row. Robertson truly is houdini, I don't know how he does it but he does.
The Yankees had been in trouble all night, but it was only when they seemed to be in safe hands — arguably the safest hands in the history of the game — that Opening Day unraveled into a stunning one-run loss.
“(Mariano Rivera) is not going to be perfect the whole year,” Joe Girardi said. “But I believe he’s going to be really, really, really good. … We’re pretty used to seeing him do it. We’ve seen it over 600 times, so when it doesn’t happen, you’re a little shocked.”
The pitch Rivera wanted back was a 1-2 cutter to Desmond Jennings. It was a leadoff single, the least damaging hit of the inning, but it was a legitimate mistake. Rivera wanted the pitch down, he left it up, and everything soon spiraled. Both Rivera and Russell Martin seemed to think the Zobrist triple was a good pitch, Zobrist just did a good job with it. Loading the bases was an obvious decision, and the Sean Rodriguez might have been pivotal if not for Carlos Pena’s three-hit, five-RBI day.
“After we got that strikeout, I thought we had a chance,” Martin said. “It’s a tough spot. You try to get out of those situations, but it’s easier said than done.”
“It’s my fault,” Rivera said. “I felt good. I’m not going to make excuses for what happened. I just left the ball over the plate. It’s bad. You don’t want to start a season that way, but thank God it’s only one game.” This is what makes him so great
In his career, Rivera had been successful in 60 of 61 save opportunities against the Rays. He’d converted his past 27 chances against them.
What a strange night of managerial decisions. The Yankees twice intentionally loaded the bases, the Rays put on a suicide squeeze with two strikes, and at the end the Yankees had five infielders playing on the edge of the grass while two outfielders played extremely shallow. It was a very crazy, strange game especially for an opener.
Girardi said intentionally loading the bases in the first inning was because of the matchup and because of the opposing starter. CC Sabathia had great numbers against Carlos Pena, and Girardi expected a low-scoring game against James Shields. “Sean Rodriguez has hit (Sabathia) hard,” Girardi explained. “And it’s not something I’ll do a lot in the first inning with CC, but as I said, Shields has been pretty tough on us. … I felt good about CC getting him out, but it didn’t work.” My problem is it was the first inning of the first game.
Sabathia on the decision to load the bases: “I knew I had some success off him, but like I said, it’s a lefty so I knew if I make the right pitches then we get out of it. … It was a lefty, so I felt like it was the right move.”
Pena on his reaction to walking Rodriguez in the first inning: “I was like, ‘Woah, they are walking Sean to get to me.’ After you get past the first, initial shock, it’s time to get to business.” I am sure he wanted to do some damage after seeing that and he did.
Although the grand slam came on a 3-2 pitch, Sabathia was behind 2-0 and 3-1 in the Pena at-bat. Fastball command was an early problem for the Yankees ace. The third-inning Longoria home run came on a 1-0 pitch. “Early in the game, he wasn’t really where he wanted to be,” Russell Martin said. “But as the game went along, it looked like he started to get that comfort level back.” Sabathia pitched his final 3.2 innings scoreless.
Raul Ibanez had never hit an Opening Day home run until today. It was his 14th time on an Opening Day roster and his 11th start. In the final two weeks of spring training he hit .304 with three homers, and had a fourth home run opportunity robbed by an over-the-wall catch. “Spring training’s over now and everything that happened before today is really irrelevant,” Ibanez said.
Shields had gone at least seven innings in 11 straight starts. Tonight he lasted five innings and gave up all six Yankees runs. “I don’t ever remember scoring that many runs off him,” Teixeira said. “He’s been really tough off us. We did get a lot of guys on base, but it’d be nice to get a couple more.” The Yankees were 2-for-11 with runners in scoring position.
The Rays have now won five straight against the Yankees for the first time in franchise history.
Pena was 0-for-11 with three strikeouts in his career against Rivera. He was 4-for-35 against Sabathia, including an 0-for-14 slump with 11 strikeouts.
Alex Rodriguez has hit safely in all eight Opening Day games he has played with the Yankees, the longest streak for the franchise since Lou Gehrig hit safely in 12 straight Opening Day games from 1926 to 1937.
I don’t think anyone expects Rivera to blow a save or for Sabathia and Shields to be knocked around on the same night, but there was something very familiar about the Yankees opener. “It was a good four-hour game,” Girardi said. “We’re back. Nothing’s changed.”
The two teams will meet again on Saturday night. It will be David Price vs. Hiroki Kuroda who will make his Yankees debut. the game is at 7:10PM.
I as always add some of my own thoughts into the mix.
A first-inning decision to intentionally load the bases had backfired, but the Yankees offense had rallied. CC Sabathia’s fastball command had been erratic, but he’d settled down. Dave Robertson had put the tying run at third base, but he’d struck out three in a row. Robertson truly is houdini, I don't know how he does it but he does.
The Yankees had been in trouble all night, but it was only when they seemed to be in safe hands — arguably the safest hands in the history of the game — that Opening Day unraveled into a stunning one-run loss.
“(Mariano Rivera) is not going to be perfect the whole year,” Joe Girardi said. “But I believe he’s going to be really, really, really good. … We’re pretty used to seeing him do it. We’ve seen it over 600 times, so when it doesn’t happen, you’re a little shocked.”
The pitch Rivera wanted back was a 1-2 cutter to Desmond Jennings. It was a leadoff single, the least damaging hit of the inning, but it was a legitimate mistake. Rivera wanted the pitch down, he left it up, and everything soon spiraled. Both Rivera and Russell Martin seemed to think the Zobrist triple was a good pitch, Zobrist just did a good job with it. Loading the bases was an obvious decision, and the Sean Rodriguez might have been pivotal if not for Carlos Pena’s three-hit, five-RBI day.
“After we got that strikeout, I thought we had a chance,” Martin said. “It’s a tough spot. You try to get out of those situations, but it’s easier said than done.”
“It’s my fault,” Rivera said. “I felt good. I’m not going to make excuses for what happened. I just left the ball over the plate. It’s bad. You don’t want to start a season that way, but thank God it’s only one game.” This is what makes him so great
In his career, Rivera had been successful in 60 of 61 save opportunities against the Rays. He’d converted his past 27 chances against them.
What a strange night of managerial decisions. The Yankees twice intentionally loaded the bases, the Rays put on a suicide squeeze with two strikes, and at the end the Yankees had five infielders playing on the edge of the grass while two outfielders played extremely shallow. It was a very crazy, strange game especially for an opener.
Girardi said intentionally loading the bases in the first inning was because of the matchup and because of the opposing starter. CC Sabathia had great numbers against Carlos Pena, and Girardi expected a low-scoring game against James Shields. “Sean Rodriguez has hit (Sabathia) hard,” Girardi explained. “And it’s not something I’ll do a lot in the first inning with CC, but as I said, Shields has been pretty tough on us. … I felt good about CC getting him out, but it didn’t work.” My problem is it was the first inning of the first game.
Sabathia on the decision to load the bases: “I knew I had some success off him, but like I said, it’s a lefty so I knew if I make the right pitches then we get out of it. … It was a lefty, so I felt like it was the right move.”
Pena on his reaction to walking Rodriguez in the first inning: “I was like, ‘Woah, they are walking Sean to get to me.’ After you get past the first, initial shock, it’s time to get to business.” I am sure he wanted to do some damage after seeing that and he did.
Although the grand slam came on a 3-2 pitch, Sabathia was behind 2-0 and 3-1 in the Pena at-bat. Fastball command was an early problem for the Yankees ace. The third-inning Longoria home run came on a 1-0 pitch. “Early in the game, he wasn’t really where he wanted to be,” Russell Martin said. “But as the game went along, it looked like he started to get that comfort level back.” Sabathia pitched his final 3.2 innings scoreless.
Raul Ibanez had never hit an Opening Day home run until today. It was his 14th time on an Opening Day roster and his 11th start. In the final two weeks of spring training he hit .304 with three homers, and had a fourth home run opportunity robbed by an over-the-wall catch. “Spring training’s over now and everything that happened before today is really irrelevant,” Ibanez said.
Shields had gone at least seven innings in 11 straight starts. Tonight he lasted five innings and gave up all six Yankees runs. “I don’t ever remember scoring that many runs off him,” Teixeira said. “He’s been really tough off us. We did get a lot of guys on base, but it’d be nice to get a couple more.” The Yankees were 2-for-11 with runners in scoring position.
The Rays have now won five straight against the Yankees for the first time in franchise history.
Pena was 0-for-11 with three strikeouts in his career against Rivera. He was 4-for-35 against Sabathia, including an 0-for-14 slump with 11 strikeouts.
Alex Rodriguez has hit safely in all eight Opening Day games he has played with the Yankees, the longest streak for the franchise since Lou Gehrig hit safely in 12 straight Opening Day games from 1926 to 1937.
I don’t think anyone expects Rivera to blow a save or for Sabathia and Shields to be knocked around on the same night, but there was something very familiar about the Yankees opener. “It was a good four-hour game,” Girardi said. “We’re back. Nothing’s changed.”
The two teams will meet again on Saturday night. It will be David Price vs. Hiroki Kuroda who will make his Yankees debut. the game is at 7:10PM.
Friday, April 6, 2012
The New York Yankees lost to the Tampa Bay Rays 7-6 in a wild game
The New York Yankees lost to the Tampa Bay Rays in Tampa Bay this evening by the score of 7-6. It was a somewhat wild game especially early and late. CC Sabathia and James Shields started and neither pitched very well. Sabathia did pitch better after the first inning. The game ended with Mariano Rivera blowing a save and the Yankees having five infielders in the game. The game started with a first inning intentional walk to Sean Rodriguez to get to Carlos Pena who hit a grand slam.
Sabathia pitched six innings giving up five runs on eight hits. He walked three and struck out seven. Rafael Soriano pitched a scoreless inning with a walk and a strikeout, Dave Robertson pitched a scoreless inning with a hit, walk and three strikeouts. Robertson did his usual Houdini routine putting runners on the corners with no outs but getting out of it. Rivera took the loss and got charged with a blown save. He pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up three hits and two runs with two walks although they were both intentional and a strikeout. Shields really struggled for Tampa Bay giving up six runs, nine hits and three walks in five innings. He did strike out three. The Rays used six pitchers out of their bullpen who combined for four innings of shutout baseball. That is really what won the Rays the game.
Derek Jeter had a hit and drew a walk, Robinson Cano had two hits and Alex Rodriguez had two hits and drew two walks. Mark Teixeira drew two walks, Nick Swisher had a hit and an RBI and Raul Ibanez had a hit and four RBI in his Yankees debut. Russell Martin drew a walk and Brett Gardner had two hits and drew a walk. Rodriguez had a double and Ibanez had a homerun. The Yankees were 2-11 with runners in scoring position and they left 12 men on base. The Yankees had chances to extend their lead and didn’t. That is what really cost them this game. If they would have had another run or two of cushion at the end, they would of won the game. Evan Longoria had three hits and drew two walks with an RBI, Carlos Pena had three hits and five RBI. Ben Zobrist had a triple, Longoria and Pena each had a homerun. The Rays were 2-11 with runners in scoring position and left 10 men on base. Longoria made an error.
In the first inning the Rays didn’t waste anytime scoring four runs with a Pena grand slam. Rodriguez was up before him and Joe Girardi elected to walk him to load the bases. I disagree with the move simply because it is the first inning of the first game of the season with your ace on the mound. I think they could of gone after Rodriguez and the whole game may have been different. The Yankees came back in the second and scored two runs. Rodriguez doubled and Teixeira was hit by a pitch. Swisher grounded out moving the runners to second and third with one out. Ibanez grounded out bringing in one run and Martin walked and a wild pitch by Shields scored the second run. Gardner singled and Jeter walked. The Yankees had the bases loaded but Curtis Granderson struck out swinging to end the inning. Granderson really struggled going 0-5 on the day. In the third inning Cano and Rodriguez singled to put runners at the corners with no outs. Teixeira popped out and Swisher reached on a fielders choice scoring a run. Ibanez hit a three run homerun and it was 6-4 Yankees. In the bottom of the third inning Longoria hit a solo homerun to make it a 6-5 game. It would stay this way until the ninth inning. In the fourth the Yankees had the bases loaded again with two outs but Ibanez grounded out sharply to short to end the inning. In the seventh inning the Yankees had the bases loaded with two outs again and Jeter grounded out to end the inning. In the eighth inning the Rays had runners on the corners and no outs and the next three batters struck out. In the ninth inning Desmond Jennings singled and Ben Zobrist hit an RBI triple to tie the game at six. The Yankees intentionally walked the next two guys to load the bases with no outs. Rodriguez struck out swinging and then Pena won the game with an RBI single.
The two teams played a nearly four hour game with a sold out crowd in attendance. I think most people pick these two as the top two teams in the AL East. They will play game two of their three game series on Saturday night. David Price and Hiroki Kuroda will be the starting pitchers. The Yankees expect to play Eduardo Nunez with the lefty on the mound, Andruw Jones may also play left field with Jeter or Rodriguez being the DH. This was a very strange game with 11 runs in the first three innings. Rivera blew a save, the Yankees intentionally walked Rodriguez to load the bases in the first inning. The Yankees also played five infielders at the end of the game. This was just game one of 162 should be an interesting season.
Sabathia pitched six innings giving up five runs on eight hits. He walked three and struck out seven. Rafael Soriano pitched a scoreless inning with a walk and a strikeout, Dave Robertson pitched a scoreless inning with a hit, walk and three strikeouts. Robertson did his usual Houdini routine putting runners on the corners with no outs but getting out of it. Rivera took the loss and got charged with a blown save. He pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up three hits and two runs with two walks although they were both intentional and a strikeout. Shields really struggled for Tampa Bay giving up six runs, nine hits and three walks in five innings. He did strike out three. The Rays used six pitchers out of their bullpen who combined for four innings of shutout baseball. That is really what won the Rays the game.
Derek Jeter had a hit and drew a walk, Robinson Cano had two hits and Alex Rodriguez had two hits and drew two walks. Mark Teixeira drew two walks, Nick Swisher had a hit and an RBI and Raul Ibanez had a hit and four RBI in his Yankees debut. Russell Martin drew a walk and Brett Gardner had two hits and drew a walk. Rodriguez had a double and Ibanez had a homerun. The Yankees were 2-11 with runners in scoring position and they left 12 men on base. The Yankees had chances to extend their lead and didn’t. That is what really cost them this game. If they would have had another run or two of cushion at the end, they would of won the game. Evan Longoria had three hits and drew two walks with an RBI, Carlos Pena had three hits and five RBI. Ben Zobrist had a triple, Longoria and Pena each had a homerun. The Rays were 2-11 with runners in scoring position and left 10 men on base. Longoria made an error.
In the first inning the Rays didn’t waste anytime scoring four runs with a Pena grand slam. Rodriguez was up before him and Joe Girardi elected to walk him to load the bases. I disagree with the move simply because it is the first inning of the first game of the season with your ace on the mound. I think they could of gone after Rodriguez and the whole game may have been different. The Yankees came back in the second and scored two runs. Rodriguez doubled and Teixeira was hit by a pitch. Swisher grounded out moving the runners to second and third with one out. Ibanez grounded out bringing in one run and Martin walked and a wild pitch by Shields scored the second run. Gardner singled and Jeter walked. The Yankees had the bases loaded but Curtis Granderson struck out swinging to end the inning. Granderson really struggled going 0-5 on the day. In the third inning Cano and Rodriguez singled to put runners at the corners with no outs. Teixeira popped out and Swisher reached on a fielders choice scoring a run. Ibanez hit a three run homerun and it was 6-4 Yankees. In the bottom of the third inning Longoria hit a solo homerun to make it a 6-5 game. It would stay this way until the ninth inning. In the fourth the Yankees had the bases loaded again with two outs but Ibanez grounded out sharply to short to end the inning. In the seventh inning the Yankees had the bases loaded with two outs again and Jeter grounded out to end the inning. In the eighth inning the Rays had runners on the corners and no outs and the next three batters struck out. In the ninth inning Desmond Jennings singled and Ben Zobrist hit an RBI triple to tie the game at six. The Yankees intentionally walked the next two guys to load the bases with no outs. Rodriguez struck out swinging and then Pena won the game with an RBI single.
The two teams played a nearly four hour game with a sold out crowd in attendance. I think most people pick these two as the top two teams in the AL East. They will play game two of their three game series on Saturday night. David Price and Hiroki Kuroda will be the starting pitchers. The Yankees expect to play Eduardo Nunez with the lefty on the mound, Andruw Jones may also play left field with Jeter or Rodriguez being the DH. This was a very strange game with 11 runs in the first three innings. Rivera blew a save, the Yankees intentionally walked Rodriguez to load the bases in the first inning. The Yankees also played five infielders at the end of the game. This was just game one of 162 should be an interesting season.
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