Yu Guys Blew Another One

Hit and No Runs

All  the Yankee runs last night came on 2 Taters from Brett Gardner, who  for some reason had a bead on the Great Yu Darvish.

Derek Jeter and Gardzilla combined for 6 hits from  the 1 & 2 batters in the line up, unfortunately the guy  who Ma Pinstripe continues to  wax on about how hard he works overtime in the cage with Kevin Long after games, Bubba McCann   was batting 3rd in the order and  went 0-4.

Carlos Beltran the clean up  hitter had a man on 2nd base in the 1st inning but struck out, Bubba had a man on 2nd base in the 3rd inning but struck out, Roberts and Ichiro had a man on 2nd base in the 4th inning, Roberts struck out, Ichiro  grounded out, Bubba had men on  2nd and 3rd in the 7th  and struck out. See the way  this is going so  far?

In  the 8th inning  LHP Cotts replaced Darvish and Joey Day Care had a man on 2nd thanks to  a Beltran lead off  single, and a rare sighting from Teixeira induced a PH single. There were 2 outs before Texy kept the inning alive so  with the clock  running out on this game, the window for this absurdly anemic hitting team with RISP was closing fast

 Not sure if anything is perfect in life or on this team,  but it was close to  a Perfect spot for your best hitter who had the night off to hit for Ichiro, or not, the future Hall of Famer does have .375 .444 .475 .919 vs LHP.. I will  admit  Slappy was having a rough night, but vs Darvish who  was already icing his arm by now

Joey Day  Care has to make sure these younger men don’t peter out, so he sent up career 4 A utility man 18 Wheeler to pinch hit instead of his $153M man.

Not that  crazy I guess, Joey Guidance Counselor  keeps talking about giving guys a chance so this had to be one of those step  up  moments for Wheeler who is 3 for 9 vs LHP, for what  any of that  split stuff is worth, the LHP’s he faced could be  palooka’s right? Can’t predict baseball Suzyn..

So Joey Day Care kept the Joey Day Care Hat  on and put the Joey Gut Feeling Cap on because a quick  glance shows that Ellsbury despite hitting a snag in his last  3 games has reverse splits, and against LHP the well  rested $153M  man hits .305 .377 .450 .827 vs LHP and .270 .331 .384 .715 vs RHP. The jury of 1 man sitting on his couch deliberated and the conclusion was  it had to  be a gut feeling that led to Joey’s decision. Not a happy Hollywood ending as 18 Wheeler popped up to end the inning

The Yanks went 0-6 with RISP and left 9 men on base, it was another tough night for the Clutch  hitters.

I didn’t have an issue with  then taking Ellsbury out of his leisure chair and finally inserting him to hit for Almonte to lead off the 9th. It was an inning too late but maybe Ellsbury gets on and maybe Gardner has a hat  trick in him or the top  of the order can upend Texas’ new closer Neffy Feliz and we have an instant Yankee Classic in the making.

Nah, that didn’t happen, 3 ground balls , a couple of decent AB’s , but 15 pitches later, put it in the books, the Yanks lost their 3rd straight.

Two games they  blew to  the Jays losing their grip on the wild Card, and last night another shot to  the solar plexus  losing to  the last place Rangers, who aren’t really a last place team  when Darvish pitches, although Darvish  gave up  2 HR’s and 9  hits on the night. He did get tough with men in scoring position and he did have 8  strike outs, and his breaking pitches do look like Tanaka’s so it wasn’t our night on offense despite Gardner’s 2 Taters and a small  village of runners left on the bases

Thousand Dollar Car

David Phelps had transformed from  our preverbal Thousand Dollar Car into a newly painted  used Mercedes over the last 4 or 5 games and last night he was cruising with the top  down and his hair blowing in the wind for 4 innings, then his tires went flat, his carburetor started to  miss, his spark plugs began to misfire in the 5th inning..  The professional pundit Blind Boy from RAB explains it much better

In the span of 14 pitches, Phelps went from having a two-run lead with a man on second with two outs to being down two runs with men at first and second and two outs. Five straight batters reached base with two outs in the inning, and the final two runs scored thanks to that awful 0-2 pitch to Arencibia. It was basically a flat cutter down the middle. A batting practice fastball. Arencibia has zero plate discipline whatsoever and Phelps had three chances to get him to chase something out of the zone. Instead, he grooved a fastball.

So  there you have it, Joey  and Larry were perplexed in the dugout, you could see from  your couch Phelp’s pitches lost all  their zip, no movement, just here boys hit the damn ball, and try to hit at  somebody please.. Unfortunately they  hit em  where they ain’t and  just like that  the Rangers had cracked open their new Laser Smart Bats, the balls found the outfield grass with ease.. The Beltre double was a rope down the right field line, that guy is too good to  lay a cookie on him. The Arencibia knock was pure frustration on Phelps part, whatever Larry the Stable Guy  told him after the Beltre double and the Adduci  walk  didn’t work

I don’t know, were they  trying to get 6 innings out of Phelps?  Did they not want to  tax the pen yet  another game? Did they  think  who  the hell is this guy Adduci? Arencibia hit a few Taters in NY, was Larry glued to  the bench, after the Adduci walk? Maybe Larry told him to  walk Adduci and go get the free swinging Arencibia? Don’t know, I didn’t hear the presser, and even if I did, Girardi is all  bull  shit, and the YES Men have more excuses  for this team then a husband caught cheating on his wife.

The Bottom line is the Yanks are 4.5 behind the O’s, 2 behind the Jays who just  killed the Red Sox up in Boston, the Sox won’t wake up  until  the Yanks show up on Friday.  The Bombers are also  tied with the Mariners, both  2 games behind. Melky and Joey Bats   are carrying the Jays to  the playoffs without Encarnacion in the line-up, last night they had some help  against  a team  that looked like they  threw in the towel, for the night anyway

This and That

Jeter had a good night setting the table for the non producing meat of the order, he also passed the Ultimate Beaner Yaz in hits so  congrats to Cappy

Melky Cabrera is a free agent,  go  get him Cashman, and have a Melky, Gardner, and Ellsbury out field  next yr, your not getting a  big hairy monster in the off season, they  don’t exist, so get yourself a Got Damn great all  around switch hitting grinder like Melky back on this team.. And please don’t tell us he doesn’t profile as a right fielder….

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