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NFT: New York Yankees @ Los Angeles Angels - 10:07p - Road Trip!

arcarsenal : 4/22/2019 6:43 pm
New York Yankees (11-10)

1. Brett Gardner (L) CF
2. Luke Voit (R) 1B
3. Gleyber Torres (R) SS
4. Clint Frazier (R) LF
5. Mike Tauchman (L) RF
6. Mike Ford (L) DH
7. Gio Urshela (R) 3B
8. Kyle Higashioka (R) C
9. Tyler Wade (L) 2B

J. Happ: 18.2 IP, 0-2, 7.23 ERA


Los Angeles Angels (9-13)

1. David Fletcher (R) 2B
2. Mike Trout (R) CF
3. Andrelton Simmons (R) SS
4. Albert Pujols (R) 1B
5. Kevan Smith (R) DH
6. Jonathan Lucroy (R) C
7. Kole Calhoun (L) RF
8. Zack Cozart (R) 3B
9. Brian Goodwin (L) LF

M. Harvey: 18.2 IP, 0-2, 9.64

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As most of you know, the Yanks have decided to release Gio Gonzalez, so he's now free to sign elsewhere.

And yes, that's Matt Harvey with the ERA just under 10 pitching for LA tonight. How the mighty have fallen...

In other news, the Yanks have signed Brad Miller to a minor league deal. It is assumed he'll be assigned to SWB.

Miller was actually a pretty highly thought of prospect 5 or so years ago and had a pretty nice 2016 in Tampa. Not expecting much there, but we need bodies and he's still 29 years old.

Sanchez should be activated Wednesday, so he'll be the first back.

Just gotta keep pushing on ahead and Happ needs to keep the fucking ball in the park - he hasn't fared that well in LA.

Let's go, Yanks.



Keep moving forward.  
rnargi : 4/22/2019 6:44 pm : link
Just grind it out, reinforcements are on the way.
RE: Keep moving forward.  
Del Shofner : 4/22/2019 8:03 pm : link
In comment 14398160 rnargi said:
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Just grind it out, reinforcements are on the way.


Yup. Although I'm so tired from hosting our family's Easter festivities yesterday that I plan to be asleep by about the second inning!
Welcome to Matt Harveys  
DC Gmen Fan : 4/22/2019 8:07 pm : link
get-right-game
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arcarsenal : 4/22/2019 8:13 pm : link
Nah, screw that. Harvey hasn't made it through the 5th since March.

No reason for the Yanks not to hit him tonight.
Keep on keepin on.  
FrankieR : 4/22/2019 8:23 pm : link
Would love to see more resilience from unexpected sources like Tauchmann and Frazier. It always seems like the "next man up" has worked out for us the last few years. Great rookie performances from Andy and Torres. Previously we got lifts from younger players.

Would live to see Voit get right and for Christs sake....Happ has to get it together.
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arcarsenal : 4/22/2019 8:35 pm : link
Random, but sort of Yankees-related... Manny Banuelos has re-emerged and is pitching decently for CHW right now.

I don't believe Banuelos had pitched in the majors in quite a few years - I was a little surprised to see him get all the way back after such a long gap. It's the O's he's pitching against tonight, so... grain of salt. But, so far so good.

I don't believe a similar re-surfacing will be in the cards for Andrew Brackman, but time really flies.
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arcarsenal : 4/22/2019 10:12 pm : link
Luuuuuuuuuuuke.

1-0.
aaaaaand the corpse of Jonathan Lucroy hits a bomb  
Stu11 : 4/22/2019 10:34 pm : link
unreal
Harvey cruisning  
FrankieR : 4/22/2019 11:28 pm : link
For the most part. 72 pitches with one gone in the 6th?
Needless to say  
GruningsOnTheHill : 4/23/2019 12:32 am : link
Injuries have decimated this team. This lineup is brutal.
Sure hope Sanchez's rehab game went well  
Greg from LI : 4/23/2019 12:47 am : link
Desperately need some bats to come back.
I know no one is hitting this game  
Neckbone1333 : 4/23/2019 1:08 am : link
But Torres looks lost at the plate for a while now
Dear Lord you have got to be kidding me  
Greg from LI : 4/23/2019 1:25 am : link
Frazier hurts himself going back to the bag on a kickoff attempt??
Thank god he looked pretty fluid  
NoGainDayne : 4/23/2019 1:29 am : link
running on that tag
Yeah, didn't seem to be limping at all  
Greg from LI : 4/23/2019 1:31 am : link
Hopefully it was just a little tweak of the ankle and no big deal.
I trust Chapman as much as I trust a rattlesnake  
PetesHereNow : 4/23/2019 1:57 am : link
Guy is talented but in a big spot, he fails more than I’d like out of a closer. Maybe I was spoiled by Mariano.
Fuck, I give up  
Greg from LI : 4/23/2019 1:58 am : link
2 am and Chapman can't get Zack fucking Cozart out to end the game, so some other scrub I've never even heard of ties the game up. Ump did Chapman no favors either.
2:30 in the am game still going...  
Route 9 : 4/23/2019 2:24 am : link
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Zooey Deschanel in the middle of a comment  
Route 9 : 4/23/2019 2:24 am : link
Lol
4-3 Yankees!!  
Route 9 : 4/23/2019 2:31 am : link
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Did I miss something?  
PetesHereNow : 4/23/2019 2:36 am : link
Is Britton hurt? Wouldn’t he be preferable to a 2nd inning of Holder here?
I have to work in the morning  
GruningsOnTheHill : 4/23/2019 2:36 am : link
at least I fell asleep @9:00 and woke up at midnight to catch the 8th inning on.

End this!
You have to walk Calhoun here  
PetesHereNow : 4/23/2019 2:40 am : link
Pitcher on deck?
That's game  
Route 9 : 4/23/2019 2:44 am : link
Honestly I would've lold if he belted that one out of the park. Sick thoughts, I know.
If he gets a hit or hits a homer.  
PetesHereNow : 4/23/2019 2:49 am : link
Oh well. But it’s good to win this one. The good news is the AAAA lineup is fighting.
RE: 4-3 Yankees!!  
FrankieR : 4/23/2019 2:55 am : link
In comment 14398713 Route 9 said:
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Happy birfday 9! Way to be born.....yesterday. 😉
Weird  
Eli Wilson : 4/23/2019 3:07 am : link
Been in the UK since Friday and woke up this morning able to watch the last two innings.
RE: I trust Chapman as much as I trust a rattlesnake  
Deejboy : 4/23/2019 3:20 am : link
In comment 14398706 PetesHereNow said:
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Guy is talented but in a big spot, he fails more than I’d like out of a closer. Maybe I was spoiled by Mariano.

It's weird when fans just get a certain narrative about a player that the stats don't back up. He actually has a higher career save % than Rivera and good post season stats. He isn't Rivera. No one is. Rivera was inhuman in the postseason. But that stats show Chapman doesn't fail more often in big spots than other closers and has been one of, if not the best, closer the last 10 years in baseball. You just for whatever reason remember his failures.
Good win.  
prdave73 : 4/23/2019 3:29 am : link
But like I mentioned before Chapman can't be trusted. Dude chokes on critical moments..
RE: RE: 4-3 Yankees!!  
Jay in Toronto : 4/23/2019 5:36 am : link
In comment 14398722 FrankieR said:
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In comment 14398713 Route 9 said:


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Happy birfday 9! Way to be born.....yesterday. 😉


Hope your Mom's labor wasn't this long! 😉
I didn’t come remotely close to staying up for that one  
mfsd : 4/23/2019 6:11 am : link
hats off to y’all who did. 2 pretty gutsy wins back to back...24 innings over 2 days with a west coast flight mixed in.

Great win  
GruningsOnTheHill : 4/23/2019 8:05 am : link
I didn't get to sleep until after 4am because I was so geeked up, and now it's off to work. Fortunately I fell asleep before the game started and woke up in the 7th inning, so at least I'm operating on @5 hours of total sleep.

The whole time I was watching from the 7th inning on, they managed 2 hits: that's 2 hits in 7 innings. Fortunately they made them count and stole a great win last night. This Urshela guy is a hell of a fielder and he made quite a few incredible plays last night. He factored in on both runs in extras as well.
Impressive job by Happ and the pen  
bigbluehoya : 4/23/2019 8:11 am : link
they didn't face a strong lineup, but 14 innings of 3-run ball is 14 innings of 3-run ball.

If I can get a road win on the first day of a west coast road trip trotting out that lineup, I'll take it any way I can get it.

Hopefully German + Loaisiga can get them through 8 (or all 9 tonight) and give the pen some rest. (though Britton should be available).
wow woke up to the news they won in 14  
Jints in Carolina : 4/23/2019 8:19 am : link
good going!
RE: Good win.  
FatMan in Charlotte : 4/23/2019 8:20 am : link
In comment 14398730 prdave73 said:
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But like I mentioned before Chapman can't be trusted. Dude chokes on critical moments..


Fucking impressive.

The very post above details that Chapman can be trusted, yet you ignore it and post this shit like usual.

And still you "smh" in nearly every post.

Chapman has been one of the most reliable relievers in MLB history. There's a trust issue to discuss, but it is more about trusting your fucked up opinion.
Nice win. First day back to work after vacation  
Stu11 : 4/23/2019 8:21 am : link
so I only hung in there till the bottom of the 9th. Pitching has been great except for that bullpen meltdown in the 8th Sunday. Gotta say of course I want the big bats back but can't lie I'll miss the defense these back-ups play on on a daily basis, especially Wade and Urshela.
prdave right on brand  
bigbluehoya : 4/23/2019 8:57 am : link
mind-numbing.
saw a stat this morning  
UConn4523 : 4/23/2019 8:58 am : link
that the lineup lastnight makes a combined $23 million - $3million less than Stanton, haha.

This has been a really fun season so far, IMO. I absolutely love watching the younger, no-name players giving it their all and grinding out games.

By the way, that dig and cannon of a throw Urshela made at 3rd was awesome.
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arcarsenal : 4/23/2019 9:45 am : link
Urshela has been money.

I dozed in and out a little bit in the middle of the game but woke up around the 7th and watched the rest of it.

Heck of a job by Holder.

Happ actually turned in a nice outing when all was said and done, so it was good to see him get back on track a bit.

Another character-building win for the Yanks.

Two games in a row where they overcame late adversity.

I'm with UConn... obviously I'd prefer not to be dealing with all of these injuries, but the way the team has continued to battle and find ways to win and have players like Urshela, Tauchman, German, etc. come up big in some big spots... it's been a real testament to the job Cashman does at building depth.

These injuries would have completely sunk a lot of other teams, but if the Yanks can continue to hang in there until they get relatively healthy, it'll make it even sweeter.

I've also noticed that Aroldis Chapman is a bit of a baseball IQ test.
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Kyle in NY : 4/23/2019 9:53 am : link
The only time I get worried about Chapman is when the control starts to go for him. He's still virtually unhittable but last season he walked 30 in 53 innings so it did feel like you never quite knew what you were going to get, even though his overall numbers ended up being very good.

But this season he's walked 1 in 9 innings. Which is really good to see. If that maintains then I don't have many concerns. Looks like he was getting squeezed a bit last night

I think the Cubs did take a bit out of him that he may never get back. As good as he's been in the second stint, it's just a bit less than what he was here in 2016. And that's understandable. He had a 42 pitch three inning save when the Cubs were down 3-1 in the WS. Absolutely legendary stuff that I think gets forgotten because of the home run he gave up in game 7 when he was on fumes. So while we got him back diminished just a bit, he's still very good. If the control maintains then I still don't have many concerns
I do love watching Urshela play 3rd base  
Greg from LI : 4/23/2019 9:59 am : link
His hitting probably isn't going to last, but the man can sure flash the leather.
He's not going to hit enough to stay at 3B  
arniefez : 4/23/2019 10:05 am : link
But it sure is fun to watch someone play defense like that. I'm good with never seeing Andujar play 3B again. I understand that's not how the Cashman Yankees work. But I'll enjoy it while it lasts.
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arcarsenal : 4/23/2019 10:19 am : link
I basically just assume that there's going to be a point in the year where Chappy "loses it" a bit. It might be a few consecutive outings, it may just be spotty here-and-there stuff... but when all's said and done, he'll continue to have been one of the most effective and reliable closers in baseball.

He was definitely getting squeezed last night. He'd get a called strike inside to a LHB, and then he'd throw the same pitch at the letters and it'd be called a ball.

Still annoying to have Brian fucking Goodwin be the guy who gets you, but... we still found a way.

You can feel the trickle-down effect when Betances isn't manning the 8th inning. As great as our pen is, not having him in that spot - you feel it everywhere else and it doesn't help that Green has struggled so much.

It also looks like Kahnle is maybe going to take Green's "spot" in the pecking order. Boone is using him more and more in leverage spots - I think they feel that he's back to 2017 TK and is past his struggles from last year. So far, so good...

Let's enjoy some Lasagna tonight and get another W.
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bigbluehoya : 4/23/2019 10:21 am : link
just FYI -- Loaisiga is actually not starting tonight. Boone scrapped the plan after the marathon game last night. German is going to start on regular rest and Lasagna is the next man up.
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arcarsenal : 4/23/2019 10:24 am : link
Ah, thanks - I guess that decision was made while I was (finally) sleeping.
Chapman was really pissed at the ump last night  
Greg from LI : 4/23/2019 10:25 am : link
He was definitely getting squeezed a bit
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arcarsenal : 4/23/2019 10:36 am : link
Assume that Otto, Chapman and Holder will be unavailable tonight, so this is probably going to be a game where Britton is the leverage guy.

Hopefully we can get 6-7 out of German/Loaisiga and then piece together the rest.

Green is going to have to get right.
should be able to do that  
Greg from LI : 4/23/2019 10:43 am : link
German should be good for at least 5 and Lasagna should be good for at least two.
now i want lasagna  
Jints in Carolina : 4/23/2019 10:47 am : link
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arcarsenal : 4/23/2019 11:20 am : link
Hopefully Frazier's ankle settles and isn't an issue. He might need the night off tonight.

How many players have to jam ankles, shoulders, wrists, and fingers on the bases before the league realizes that having them jammed into the dirt on a steel pole with no give is a bad idea?

There has to be a way for the bases to have a little more give. Too many guys are getting hurt this way. It's fucking ridiculous.
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Del Shofner : 4/23/2019 11:27 am : link
In comment 14399381 arcarsenal said:
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Hopefully Frazier's ankle settles and isn't an issue. He might need the night off tonight.


He may DH tonight with Wade moving to the outfield and DJM returning to 2B (and Ford sitting with Voit returning to 1B). I like Ford but he's not hitting much.
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Greg from LI : 4/23/2019 11:40 am : link
In comment 14399381 arcarsenal said:
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Hopefully Frazier's ankle settles and isn't an issue. He might need the night off tonight.

How many players have to jam ankles, shoulders, wrists, and fingers on the bases before the league realizes that having them jammed into the dirt on a steel pole with no give is a bad idea?

There has to be a way for the bases to have a little more give. Too many guys are getting hurt this way. It's fucking ridiculous.


It's a balancing act - you also don't want players slipping and falling on bases that break away easily when stepped on.
Sanchez Bat Returns  
Percy : 4/23/2019 3:15 pm : link
He went 0-3 in his AAA rehab appearance.
Frazier out of the lineup tonight.  
Dave in Hoboken : 4/23/2019 6:50 pm : link
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BOSOX lost the first of the DH today  
rnargi : 4/23/2019 6:58 pm : link
Sale still winless
RE: RE: Good win.  
gidiefor : Mod : 4/24/2019 12:42 pm : link
In comment 14398869 FatMan in Charlotte said:
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In comment 14398730 prdave73 said:


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But like I mentioned before Chapman can't be trusted. Dude chokes on critical moments..



Fucking impressive.

The very post above details that Chapman can be trusted, yet you ignore it and post this shit like usual.

And still you "smh" in nearly every post.

Chapman has been one of the most reliable relievers in MLB history. There's a trust issue to discuss, but it is more about trusting your fucked up opinion.


Fatman -- please tone it down
RE: Sanchez Bat Returns  
Jay in Toronto : 4/24/2019 1:06 pm : link
In comment 14399907 Percy said:
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He went 0-3 in his AAA rehab appearance.


Post had a story that he didn't take that game seriously :(
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