NFT: 7/16 - Yankees vs Red Sox: Let's play two!

until the Giants play in September. Without the Yankees, NY sports are dead until September.

At least win 1 and I'll be happy with a 4 game split.

As long as it's the version of CC right before he got hurt.

Huge win last night. Let's build off of that.

Home run derby hAngover

I have always been a Girardi defender but some of his lineups this season are inexcusable. If he's going to have Sanchez out of the lineup in game one, Castro needs to be in there. The bottom third of this lineup is a joke. Sit Castro in game two if his hammy needs a breather.

Last night?

In comment 13529373 bubba0825 said:

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Last night?

No, he just needs 1 of these 2 off today coming back from the hammy and playing almost 2 games yesterday/last night

by CC to nail the runner at the plate.

Was pinch run for in the 9th, just wondering

some hittable pitches.
Needs one good slam to get back on track...

Any word on whether he'll play tonight too?

2-0 Good Guys.

Farrell has GOT to be the shiniest manager in baseball. How many times has he come out to complain about calls in this series? Yesterday he should have been ejected for delaying the freaking game for all the times he came out. Pace of game? Please

certainly not shiniest, lol. Ugh

Dividends on top of dividends.

Pesky Pole.

and complain about that too?

No DP. He's really had a shit series in the field.

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grounder and loses the DP.

Making big pitches. Hope he can squeeze another inning out.

as a loss. Clip Joint coming in next inning.

Great job by CC. Phenomenal.

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In comment 13529429 B in ALB said:

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as a loss. Clip Joint coming in next inning. Great job by CC. Phenomenal.

Wtf are they doing. You need to win this one so we can split!

Come on give cc a batter

2 hits in 6 innings, down by 3.After yesterdays clutch hitting;-).
And Sox on national TV is almost a guaranteed lose for them.

PUT IT IN THE BOOKS!

In comment 13529429 B in ALB said:

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as a loss. Clip Joint coming in next inning. Great job by CC. Phenomenal.

Come on B. No problem (as he exhales loudly) Clip's got this.

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recently. He is due for a hit. Let's get the 4th run here.

Looks like Clippard will return to scare the shit out of us in the 8th.

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Green.

I'd really like to have him finish this game off if possible and save Chapman/Betances for tonight

How hard is it to throw strikes...Clippard did a better job.

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Green is like a relaxant pill right now. It gives me an inning or 2 I don't have to chew all my nails off. Even there when he walked a few.

the order. I'd let Green finish. Trust him more than anybody else right now.

to get through the 9th without Betances and Chapman

are throwing high strike FBs to all Yankees batters this series.

with Green, why not save Chapman for later?

Red Sox pitchers have 9 K's to go with zero walks while the Yankees pitchers have combined for 5 K's against 7 walks. You would think it was the Sox leading 3-zip.

Regardless of whether it works out. This is being a slave to the save stat

In comment 13529466 Milton said:

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Red Sox pitchers have 9 K's to go with zero walks while the Yankees pitchers have combined for 5 K's against 7 walks. You would think it was the Sox leading 3-zip.

But 3 hits vs 12 hits. Yanks should have 6+ runs.

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In comment 13529466 Milton said: Quote: Red Sox pitchers have 9 K's to go with zero walks while the Yankees pitchers have combined for 5 K's against 7 walks. You would think it was the Sox leading 3-zip. But 3 hits vs 12 hits. Yanks should have 6+ runs.

Especially when you consider that two of the Yankees runs are unearned.

In comment 13529467 Kyle in NY said:

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Regardless of whether it works out. This is being a slave to the save stat

I like the thought process. He's a closer, so you don't want to overwork him or underwork him. And with a three run lead, it gives him so wiggle room as he works his way out of his recent slump.

Loser

gives him a lower leverage situation to try to find his command. I was just thinking I might want to save him for a closer game tonight, but I get it. Tanaka is capable of going deep and they'll have Betances and Warren for tonight.

Great pitching all around today.

Even if we lose tonight, we come out with a 4 game split and don't let them bury us right out of the All-Star break.

Go for the series win tonight boys!

boston really aint shit, do they hit anyone as a great team? a few good players, Yanks have some good players too.

In comment 13529481 gm7b5 said:

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boston really aint shit, do they hit anyone as a great team? a few good players, Yanks have some good players too.

I agree about them. Still didn't want to walk out there losing a 4 game series, though, which was possible given how the Yanks played for a full month going into the All-Star break.

this year? Great game by him and the BP. Time for Green to be our 7th inning guy, too.

A win moves the yanks a game out of first but a loss drops them 3 back

May Hiro's pitches have plenty of action tonight. Bring the nasty tonight, Tanaka!

They really should have swept the series. Think about that for a second.

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They really should have swept the series. Think about that for a second.

Absolutely. The Sawx are only one games ahead in the loss column ahead. The Yanks have a bunch of games in hand. If they had held Friday, they would be one game ahead in the loss column....

Hope Judge wakes up tonight. Sox have pitched him well.

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In comment 13529341 Dave in Hoboken said:

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As long as it's the version of CC right before he got hurt. Huge win last night. Let's build off of that.

Good call today. Win this game tonight and all of a sudden the negativity
Is gone.

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I don't know. Have not seen the lineup, yet.

In comment 13529469 section125 said:

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In comment 13529466 Milton said: Quote: Red Sox pitchers have 9 K's to go with zero walks while the Yankees pitchers have combined for 5 K's against 7 walks. You would think it was the Sox leading 3-zip. But 3 hits vs 12 hits. Yanks should have 6+ runs.

When you have no walks with those hits will keep the run total down

In comment 13529515 The 12th Man said:

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In comment 13529469 section125 said: Quote: In comment 13529466 Milton said: Quote: Red Sox pitchers have 9 K's to go with zero walks while the Yankees pitchers have combined for 5 K's against 7 walks. You would think it was the Sox leading 3-zip. But 3 hits vs 12 hits. Yanks should have 6+ runs. When you have no walks with those hits will keep the run total down

It all helps true.

Ellsbury - CF
Sanchez - C
Judge - RF
Holliday - DH
Castro - 2B
Didi - SS
Frazier - LF
Cooper - 1B
Torreyes - 3B

Tanaka vs. David Price

lineup tonight.

In comment 13529500 B in ALB said:

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They really should have swept the series. Think about that for a second.

Disagree . Yeah we should have won on Friday and Boston should have won on Saturday. Still in a good position to take the series.

tonight.

Let's beat up and David again.

Tanaka forgetting how to pitch. Which one wins?

for the Milwaukee Brewers this afternoon.

In comment 13529541 mitch300 said:

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In comment 13529500 B in ALB said: Quote: They really should have swept the series. Think about that for a second. Disagree . Yeah we should have won on Friday and Boston should have won on Saturday. Still in a good position to take the series.

Yes I thought of that. But my extreme homerism swayed my post!

In comment 13529549 B in ALB said:

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In comment 13529541 mitch300 said: Quote: In comment 13529500 B in ALB said: Quote: They really should have swept the series. Think about that for a second. Disagree . Yeah we should have won on Friday and Boston should have won on Saturday. Still in a good position to take the series. Yes I thought of that. But my extreme homerism swayed my post!

Considering they beat Sale back in may in the 8th inning after being shut out, I would not concede that the Sox should have won yesterday. In the Friday loss, Chapman had two seeing eye base hits and then bad fielding after that before some bad walks. At least Kimbrel gave up a HR to a masher.

I hate. Absolutely hate. ESPN coverage. That stupid pitch box. Jessica Mendoza. Just horrific.

Might take a few innings to get to him.

As I said earlier, the Red Sox plan to pitch to the Yanks is breaking balls hard inside or outside corner, then throw high pitches away to get then to swing. Good plan and is working well.

proceeding with the Protest over the Holliday interference non call in Saturday's game.

Maybe doing it just to get a clarification on the play. Since nothing happened except for one extra batter in that inning, I doubt MLB would rule in the Sox favor.

to that skinny little guy...nice.

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proceeding with the Protest over the Holliday interference non call in Saturday's game. Maybe doing it just to get a clarification on the play. Since nothing happened except for one extra batter in that inning, I doubt MLB would rule in the Sox favor.

If course they are. They are a bunch of whiny cunts

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I hate. Absolutely hate. ESPN coverage. That stupid pitch box. Jessica Mendoza. Just horrific.

You beautiful marvelous chauvinist bastard. I couldn't fucking agree more.

In comment 13529617 BigBlueShock said:

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In comment 13529610 section125 said: Quote: proceeding with the Protest over the Holliday interference non call in Saturday's game. Maybe doing it just to get a clarification on the play. Since nothing happened except for one extra batter in that inning, I doubt MLB would rule in the Sox favor. If course they are. They are a bunch of whiny cunts

And with their million futile challenges slowing down the game... fuck the sox

Or was it a Fenway pop up homer?

In comment 13529624 Greg from LI said:

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Or was it a Fenway pop up homer?

Left the stadium

Congrats babe

Judge is victimized again

is getting a ton of room off the inside corner to RHB. Not fair

sides of the plate is criminal. But they are all swinging at pitches off the plate..

Haven't scored.

at the dish. He's not seeing the ball at all. Not working the count. It was inevitable that he'd go into a slump and here we are.

Hang in there kid.

to score a run.

How has Torreyes ended up playing every game in this series? He is killing us

This is major league baseball. He's had four shit plays in three games.

And I think Headcase gets that and has a play at home. Fuckin hell.

She played little league baseball as an 8 year old?

What makes her qualified to call MLB?

Women's softball?

And it's Jessica Mendoza ghost story time.

Well done ESPN.

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Hope they don't send him back down.

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Hope they don't send him back down.

When Hicks comes back something will happen

I love me some Toe tho. And so does Joe.

In comment 13529672 bceagle05 said:

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Hope they don't send him back down.

Agree, and I don't think they will. Although when Hicks gets back, it will be a little crowded out there.

and the best players will play if a playoff berth is on the line. At the rate Hicks is coming along, it may only be a brief return to Scranton. And Ellsbury will probably get hurt again in the meantime.

Could move to first?

Three weeks.

pitch, Tanaka has done well.

Bats are silent tonight. Last chance to get to Price.

No need to take pitches. He's Fucking awesome.

nice play by the CF.

Bradley. Judge smashed that.

Good play by Bradley.

and Bradley jumps to rob Judge of a 425 foot homer.

Unreal.

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nice play by the CF.

He didn't miss Bradley made a ridiculous catch

back at 3rd. Toe just not getting the job done. No doubt Headley makes that play and the one in the 6th.

Tip of the cap to Price. Looked like the Price of the early days on the Rays..

Amazing play by Bradley.

In comment 13529719 robbieballs2003 said:

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Amazing play by Bradley.

To anyone on that team I do not.

This broadcast looks like it sounds horrible

Chances Kimbrel screws up again??????????

gets worse every time. I'll never forgive Kruk and Schilling for helping this happen.

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Chances Kimbrel screws up again??????????

.0001%

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at the plate.

batting lefty against Kimbrel....

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batting lefty against Kimbrel....

yup ... oh, well, a split it is.

considering how awful the previous month had been.

because he only through sliders to Headley. Strange

Headley is Fucking awful. Looks like he's swinging a sledgehammer out there.

Good to get a split on the road. Especially when your best player was struggling.

Not mad at all. No ground lost. Nothing gained.

Perhaps they can win in Minneapolis and Seattle.

Tanaka' mistake went in the seats and Price's mistake got caught by Bradley. Would have loved to have won that game but will take the split.

as "Undecided."

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considering how awful the previous month had been.

This. I think in a lot of ways we steadied the ship a little bit this weekend. Take away the horrific luck in the 9th inning Friday (2 sawed off inf hits and an error) The Bullpen was on another planet this weekend. Judge didn't hit a lick, besides the huge HR yesterday Holliday did nothing, and we managed a split. Hopefully the offense get going in Minny a park we've always hit well in.

per twitter -> Bryan Hoch

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Headley is Fucking awful. Looks like he's swinging a sledgehammer out there. Good to get a split on the road. Especially when your best player was struggling. Not mad at all. No ground lost. Nothing gained. Perhaps they can win in Minneapolis and Seattle.

Why is Headley even pinch hitting for Torreyes it makes no sense both plays are not doing squat offensively

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as "Undecided."

Yankees are facing Colon Tuesday night lol.

In comment 13529820 nygnyy274 said:

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In comment 13529754 B in ALB said: Quote: Why is Headley even pinch hitting for Torreyes it makes no sense both plays are not doing squat offensively

And meanwhile Choi was available to PH there. Listen the guy isn't Lou Gherig, but he has a way better chance to run into a Kimbrel FB than our worst everyday guy by far not to mention if we miraculously tie it, Choi would come in any way because they hit Gardy for Cooper. I've said it a lot this weekend, I love Joe but as bad as the team has been for a month Joe has been that bad himself with his mind boggling lineups and in game decisions at times.

Missed opportunity considering Tanaka pitched a fairly good game.

Or is there a really odd level of silence among the Yankee beats with Chase Headley. The guy is absolutely fucking terrible, and it seems Girardi never even faces a question about him.

I get the argument that "he's all they have right now", but the guy regularly hits in the 2/5 holes which is just inexcusable.

This isn't me trying to blame the media for the Yankees tough slide or anything g like that, because the problems clearly go much deeper than Headley. I just find it odd that the guy is so clearly mis-used and nobody seems to have anything to say about it.

Is Headley just THAT nice of a guy to the beats that they won't touch him?

He needs to be in the 7 or 8 spot. He's terrible.

And agree about Choi. Let him get up there and try for a shot to RF.

in hopes of spreading out the lineup and getting Headley going. He's been pretty good the last few weeks.

The nonstop Headley bashing is tiresome. He's a slightly below avg 3rd baseman. Yanks will upgrade the position when they can. Outside oe batting Headley down in the order, something the Yanks have done for a good chunk of the season, there's little that can be done. Stop the presses, the Yanks have a below average hitter in the lineup. The horror.

Was masterful last night. He got a little help from the ump. but I was amazed the Yankees got any hits at all after the first inning.

In comment 13529881 djm said:

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in hopes of spreading out the lineup and getting Headley going

This isn't a good reason place a guy in the 2-hole (or 5-hole) who has an OPS just over .700 in his almost 2k at-bats as a NYY. It isn't a good reason to do it one time, but doing it pretty consistently over the course of about 6 weeks is mind-numbing.

There would be a lot less complaining about Headley if his usage was appropriate. It's less about Headley than it is about Girardi at this point.

I don't remember it being that often.

Whatever. You can't really hide bat hitters anyway. Best way to hide Headley is to replace him. If the kid didn't get hurt he'd be up by now. Bad luck.

2 through 5 holes. Add 15 more if you expand to 2-6.

Zero times in the 9 spot.

he was red hot in April. And he hasn't been terrible the last few weeks if memory serves.

You wanna get on Giradi have at it. I just don't get too worked up over lineups like others do.

at the dish the last two weeks. But before that he was dogshit since the end of April. Plus he's already got more errors this season than all of last season - in half the games. He's a liability.