Regular Season Game 12Yankees vs. Indians
New Yankee Stadium - Bronx, NY
Game Time: 3:40 p.m.
TV/Radio: FOX, WCBS 880
New Yankee Stadium - Bronx, NY
Game Time: 3:40 p.m.
TV/Radio: FOX, WCBS 880
Here are the lineups:
YANKEES (6-5)
Derek Jeter SS
Johnny Damon DH
Mark Teixeira !B
Nick Swisher RF
Jorge Posada C
Robinson Cano 2B
Melky Cabrera LF
Brett Gardner CF
Ramiro Pena 3B
Pitching: Chien-Ming Wang RHP(0-2, 28.93 ERA)
INDIANS (3-8)
Grady Sizemore CF
Mark DeRosa 3B
Victor Martinez C
Travis Hafner DH
Jhonny Peralta SS
Shin-Soo Choo RF
Ryan Garko 1B
Ben Francisco LF
Asdrubal Cabrera 2B
Pitching: Fausto Carmona (0-2, 9.00 ERA)
Yanks vs. Carmona
| AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | |
| N. Swisher | 12 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | .250 | .333 | .417 | .750 |
| D. Jeter | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .444 | .545 | .444 | .990 |
| R. Cano | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 |
| M. Cabrera | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .333 | .400 | .333 | .733 |
| J. Damon | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .250 | .333 | .250 | .583 |
| M. Teixeira | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | .375 | .500 | .375 | .875 |
| A. Rodriguez | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | .143 | .333 | .571 | .905 |
| J. Molina | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 |
| H. Matsui | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .600 | .667 | .600 | 1.267 |
| J. Posada | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Totals | 75 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 16 | .307 | .391 | .373 | .764 |
Indians vs. Wang
| AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | |
| V. Martinez | 14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | .214 | .200 | .286 | .486 |
| J. Peralta | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .250 | .250 | .333 | .583 |
| G. Sizemore | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | .273 | .385 | .636 | 1.021 |
| T. Hafner | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .125 | .417 | .125 | .542 |
| T. Graffanino | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .500 | .833 |
| D. Dellucci | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .400 | .500 | .400 | .900 |
| M. DeRosa | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .400 | .400 | .400 | .800 |
| K. Shoppach | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| A. Cabrera | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .167 | .000 | .167 |
| B. Francisco | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 |
| R. Garko | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .333 |
| Totals | 76 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 9 | .224 | .302 | .316 | .618 |
News & Notes
- Chad Jennings is reporting that the Yankees have called up right-hander Anthony Claggett. Juan Miranda was sent back down to Scranton to make room of the roster for Claggett.
- In five career starts (not including the postseason) Chien-Ming Wang is 3-2, with a 2.97 ERA against Cleveland. Last yearhe was 1-1, with a 1.93 ERA in two starts.
- Fausto Carmona is 0-1, with a 4.22 ERA in six games - 3 starts - against the Yankees. He made one start against them last year and allowed three runs on six hits, walked five, and struck out two in five innings of work, and got a no decision.
- In five career starts (not including the postseason) Chien-Ming Wang is 3-2, with a 2.97 ERA against Cleveland. Last yearhe was 1-1, with a 1.93 ERA in two starts.
- Fausto Carmona is 0-1, with a 4.22 ERA in six games - 3 starts - against the Yankees. He made one start against them last year and allowed three runs on six hits, walked five, and struck out two in five innings of work, and got a no decision.
Stick around and discuss the game
as it happens in the comments section.
107 Comments:
Interesting I think they brought of Claggett to pitch if Wang has a bad outing again.
It looks like Girardi is going with a more defensive lineup, with Wang pitching by having Pena at third and melky playing left instead of Damon.
anon its mostly because Matsui is having problems with his knee again, so they have to use Melky which would force Damon to DH... but ur probably right about Pena
Now that Matsui knees are still hurting and Nady is on the DL. The great depth the team had is gone. LOL it only took 11 games.
A 9.00 era vs a 28.90 era, this could be very interesting.
lol it's a battle of early Cy Young candiates, Bill.
Anon one, Yes it's strange that it worked out that way.
Anon two, these injuries are very frustrating.
Dan, I like how Melky is swinging, maybe he's inline for a comeback season.
Looks like another day of empty sections in the lower levels.
Hey guys! Sorry I haven't been around over the last few days.
Wang's sinker looked great there against Sizemore. Maybe a sign of things to come.
Hey Larry, hopefully that's the case. They need Wang to get straightened out.
YEA TEX!
Balls really fly out of this place.
Great to see Teixeira warming up.
Cheap hit by Hafner. Get the DP here, CMW.
Yea it was cheap, but it showed how much his sinker is diving.
Wow, Buck and McCaver are really being complimentary to the Yanks. What the hell happened to them?
Exactly, Greg.
Don't give back runs, CMW. Tighten it up, 3-1 now.
Well so much for his sinker diving. He's still completely out of wack from the stretch.
Honest to stinking goodness. Wang coughs up the lead right away, 3-2 Cleveland. The inability to throw strikes killed him, though that wasn't an awful pitch.
FUCKING SHIT!!!
Joe buck bringing up the ticket price issue. Good Job!
Jesus, another disaster for Wang.
You knew it was coming, Anon.
OH NO, every pitch is up.
Well, hey, at least they got a hit with a runner on base....I'll give them that. But, this team needs a change. Ransom, Pena, Wang and Matsui need to go. Bring someone else up to replace them. Give Huges a shot.
Everything up, everything in the middle of the plate. He's impersonating Kevin Brown 2005 now.
Wow... Can Claggett go five innings?
Brutal, just brutal. He's serving it up now. I think it's mental as well as his form. He's wilting.
If Girardi doesn't take him out now then Girardi should be fired immediately after the game. No ifs ands or buts.
lol he's not going to be fired. At least not today.
He sure is working harder at it than Wang is working hard at pitching good.
Swisher defensively makes me miss Bobby Abreu.
I told ya. Now, 6-2. You are a complete moron Girardi. Ditto for Cashman. It is an absolute disgrace that both of these losers are still employed.
And, after all the problems this rotation has had Girardi still doesn't have a long reliever. Prideful and stupid.
bring up Hughes
Wang needs to get skipped next time to figure out his mess. This is atrocious. All that talk about the stellar bullpen sessions is almost funny.
Having to bring the infield in in the second inning, and it doesn't matter. RBI single, 7-2. Wang's ERA has actually above 30.
i wouldnt be suprised if wang commits suicide.. just look at him
100% Joe Girardi, Brian Cashman and the pitching coach's fault. It was 3-2 and Girardi let him stay in. Girardi should be canned immediately. Not after the game, he should be canned NOW!
Wang's ERA is now 33.00. UGLY.
No breaks, Brett the Jet losing the ball on what would have been a terrific diving catch.
I feel for Wang, I really do. He's not a zero like Brown. But this can't continue.
9-2 now. Woeful.
Well this game is over, we're not the Red Sox, we don't come back from down seven.
I'm out.
I think they made me lose my appetite...
Bye Larry.
This team and organization are the LAUGHING stock of the league. Any GM that has a starting OF made up of these bums should not even be allowed to run an XBOX 360 team. You get what you deserve you deadbeat loser Cashman, Girardi and whoever is running this team. You reap what you sow.
This blows.
Anyone still watching? What channel can I find Painting with Bob Ross?
Wow, what a great stadium you built Yankee brass. A real gem. Its a whiffle ball stadium. Jeter's shot yesterday was a high pop up that went out. You are a joke. But, then again, when you let LOSERS run the show you this is what you get.
Hey, lets hear who's brilliant plan it was to bring up Anthony Claggett? Yup, our GM is good isn't he? YUPPERSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Wang needs to be boxed in a crate, marked with "Return to Taiwan, Defective Product"
Like I said, 2 weeks ago. Bye bye Girardi you are a complete idiot along with your buddy Brian Cashman. Any clown could run this organization.
Absolutely the most brutal inning I've ever had the misfortune to endure. Girardi should not, NOT have brought in Claggett for such a situation. He's not a long man, and this just blasted his confidence. Atrocious move.
The Yanks need to make it a football shootout to win.
yikes
they have to move the fences back somehow. if it means taking some seats out then do it.. its not good baseball having 14 run innings.. pop ups fly out of the stadium
LOL not girardi's fault his number two starter cant pitch.
Wang needs to be sent down immediatly to work on things, we cant have him trying to figure it out on the big league level.
Hughes can come up and fill in, as for Clagget , really??? what are you thinking Cashman, bring up Tomko if you want a long reliever, and you bring up Roberston send him down imeediatly , same for miranada ? really? comeone what are you thinking
Well be can stop the debate about the crowd noise. The boos very loud today.
Its the stadium, its the air, its the blue sky, its the this , its the that. Anything but where the blame should go. This is the 3-7 Indians!
i am thoroughly embarrassed. we are playing horribly on my favorite channel for sports! maybe wang needs to be sent down, and hughes needs to make his way back. i honestly think it doesn't make a difference if we was in the new place, or back in the old place. yes, the ball carries something serious outta the new place, but still. we need to be very aggressive towards the ball offensively, and defensively we need to find the ball. now as the pitching goes, sabathia, is improving, but needs more work. wang needs to get sent down, or rediscover himself. we need hughes, and we need him now.
Yea this is about as bad as it gets.
Not Girardi's fault? You people are unreal. It is absolutely Girardi's fault that it is 14-2 right now. He should have stopped the bleeding at 3-2. Why did Wang get another start? Who's fault is this? Why does this team have the WORST starting OF in all of MLB for $200m. Is this Jesus' fault? Maybe it is George Bush's. How is that a 3-7 Indians team can hit but a $200m team can't? Are they playing in a different stadium than the Indians?
Wow, what a rip by Jeter! What a leader he is!
Hey Jeter, Damon, Matsui, Arod and Posada, do us a favor and RETIRE. And,while you are at take Girardi, and Cashman with you. Whatever you do just get the hell out of here because I am so sick of lookin at all of you overpaid, overhyped old men.
dude, you need to calm down. look, honestly, i didn't want torre to go myself. but what can we do? i'ma give girardi until june, then i'll make my decision on if i want him to stay or not. do not forget, cleveland does have a very good offense. yes, they've been slacking, until they came to the bronx, but i mean every team finds their swag some time or another. their swagger just happened to come through in the bronx. give the yankees time to get the kinks out. it's only april. now, if this was june, you'd have a reason to get all hot like you are. ok, maybe girardi has made some dumb decisions, but who hasn't? let april play out first
Joba has GOT to be back in the bullpen! This game is going to get much worse when claggetts home run giver gets tired. Would a Tee have a lower EAR than Wang?
dude, you need to relax!
I am perfectly calm. I told you this was not a good team. All built by Brian Cashman. And, no you don't give Girardi until June. He should fired immediately following this game. But then again, so should Cashman. Really, Cashman should have gotten canned YEARS ago. He's downright awful. One of the worst, if not the worst, GM's ever.
There is nobody that does less with more than him.
This organization is the lauging stock of MLB and deservedly so. And, yes, people like me have been preaching this for years. Now, the fur has hit the fan.
so let me ask you this: if we was to some reason, win 100 or so this season, and win the world series, what would you say about the team then?
LOL, you guys are too funny. I dont need to calm down. You need to get mad. You should not be tolerating this. Just like you should not tolerating these politicians like this but you do. And everyday you get up and listening to the news mafia. Tsk. Tsk. You were warned. 4,000 years in advance. Oh well. You can lead a horse to the trough but you can't make 'em drink.
Straw man questions.
How about, when you answer my questions then I might answer yours? Friggin pathetic.
FIRE CASHMAN AND GIRARDI!
do you think you can do better than the both of them?
Why Cashman ? all he does is put together a team EVERY year that people say is gunna be a winner. Then the TEAM doesn't follow though that is not his problem. Girardi on the other hand, all it is, is really boneheaded moves here and there.
I dont think i could do much better, but could i do worse??? you know what, i take that back! I would have put MO out there in KC and gotten that victory, so yes i think i can do better
i think you would suck ass something serious!
thats not nice
Yankees suck today.
Yankees suck every game Wang has pitched. I wonder if they will pitch him his next stop.
Cashman is an average GM. He has made a ton of mistakes with the pitching.
Anon, you are totally clueless about baseball. You really are.
Why would Girardi take Wang out when it was 3-2? We cannot have our bullpen pitch eight innings. We needed to give Wang a chance to get our of the inning with only those three runs. He had a good first inning and the second started on a swinging bunt-hit. Wang was left in for the right amount of time.
Again, you just don't know what you're talking about.
I just came home from baseball practice. What happened? I am so dissapointed the way the Yankees have played so far the first home series. Brutal. Just brutal.
16-2 and he's walking people. YES! Cashman and Girardi, you sure can build and manage a team!
Oh great...3 run home run by DeRosa. 19-2.
20-2 now.
MERCY RULE please.... NEW stadium $1.5B, 3 new stud players $241M, tickets to said stadium your soul & first born, getting taken to the woodshed 2 times in first 3 games, PRICELESS
The ghosts are clearly NOT HAPPY, BABE is ticked his bat was tossed around,
Thank god there's still a lot of baseball left. We can't play like this down the stretch in September, especially since this division is a 3 team race.
You guys really do make me laugh sometimes.
You are all talking about how crappy they have been so far this homestand, meanwhile they get absolutely nothing from their number 2 starter and a shaky start from their ace and they will still split this series.
Why ? because Carl Pavano is on the mound tomorrow.
So as bad as the pitching was today and for this whole series, do forget they are still going to split it.
Thats somewhat better than what the Sox are doing with their start and they are actually getting some pitching.
We'll bounce back. It's only April. We've had horrible Aprils before but we still won the division/made the playoffs.
Yes, I am totally clueless about baseball because I said that Girardi should take Wang out when it was 3-2 with NO OUTS in the 2nd inning. You know why he should have taken him out? So, it wouldn't be 14-2. DUMBASS!
You are right, it was 7-2 with 1 out in the 2nd inning when Wang was taken out BUT YOU SAY WANG WAS LEFT IN THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF TIME? REALLY? So, I guess to you another 4 runs and 1 WHOLE OUT was going to make our BP fresher. Like I have said before, nobody could be this dumb! Are you a product of our great Roman Catholic evolution-believing public/private Aristotle school system?
Seriously, dont talk me again becuase you are not intelligent or rational enough to analyze anything. Anybody that thinks 1/3 of inning is going to make our BP fresher should be living in a country run by Obamination.
IF I was at today's game, I"d demand a BLEEPING refund,
Yes, the morons say think positive! ROFLMAO. I have heard it all. Mental disease abounds.
no actually you are a dumbass , because you dont take out your number 2 starter in the second inning unless he forces you 2. Are you that naive to think that the yankees would have done any better in this game if Girardi had taken him out at that time. You really are stupid if you think this team was going to get 8 innings out of the pen and still win , watch some baseball once in awhile it might help.
As you idiots argue over a pointless issue, you should prob just realize that the moment this version of Wang took the mound in this game we already lost, just a matter of by how much.
Don't call me a moron. We should think positive. The season just started. We have a great new stadium and an awesome team. The Yankees sucked ass the first 2 months of 2007 but ended up with 95wins. Sure they didn't win it all but they got into the playoffs. And guess what Anon? We'll go farther this year.
GO YANKEES!
The only thing i will say is that i hope one of our relivers comes in and drills some of these indians in the head. If they dont they'll start to think Yankee Stadium is their personal playground.
should be interesting finding out of the roster moves the team will make. We need a fresh bullpen for tommorow.
Wang cant make his next start he needs to get sent down to regain his confidence.
I agree Anon. I know Wang is a great pitcher, but right now he needs to regain his confidence back. A good 2 starts or so in Scranton will get his mind straight.
oh wow 14 run second inning - just catching up, i see the pitching problem is now officially a problem.
those unsold legends tickets are getting cheaper by the inning.
@ Yankeeboy98
I agree I like Wang he has a great track record but he just looks lost right now, he needs to regain his confidence. Hughes or Kennedy cant possibly much worse.
Wang is responsible for 3 of our 6 losses he is giving the team no chance to win a game and is killing the bullpen.
lol these are the Yankees they are not going to budge on those prices until next season.
As for Wang , he needs to be sent down obviously, simply because the yankees dont run people out their every 5th to "figure things out" not on the big league level, not for the yankees.
send him down and see if some instructors down in tampa or scranton can help him out.
As for the moves this team will make,
well Hughes will replace Wang, roberston should frankly be in this bullpen, so should melancon , both having nothing to really prove down there.
as far as the bench, i think it is time to replace ransom with berroa, the man has down his job , and ransom has not.
Yay! We have a chance! It's only 20-4 now! (judt kidding of course)
You know that stadium is a band box is Melky is hitting homeruns
honestly i expected to loose this game today, i really felt like Wang has been completly lost, didnt expect him to get it right today either.
Was hoping for him to atleast get into the fourth thou , but now this just makes a decision to send him down easier.
all the talk about the homeruns to right, i have to laugh at, its called terrible pitching people.
the homeruns that have been affected by the new stadium were the ones that just make it over in right center because the fence is slightly shorter and slightly closer in that area.
Marte sucks
if anyone is still watching the game... did girardi just disappear? havnt seen him in a while
It's all A-Rod's fault.
Anyway, that was pathetic.
Really, why is the ball carrying so much to RF in the new place? Is it a question of wind or something? Or just really bad pitching? The wall looks like it's 20 feet closer!
They were like 15 HRs in the NYS so far and 13 of them were to RF (those are not the real numbers, I'm just guessing)
its mostly bad pitching ,
but to answer your question , the right field fence is two feet shorter in height , and about 10 feet closer to homeplate in right center because it doesnt curve outward anymore in that area.
So yes long high fly balls that may have been caught in right center last year will be a homer.
But again its mostly just horrible pitching, only about 2 or 3 of them so far were helped by the new stadium , jeter's game winner for example.
What annoys me is that Wang was looking a LOT better in the 1st inning. His sinker had much better movement, and he was down in the zone. He wasn't throwing the ball perfectly, but he was infinitely better than his last two starts. Then they had that little dribbler by Hafner, the "throw the bat at the slider" soft liner, and the "how the hell did that go out" opposite field bloop HR to the deepest part of the ballpark and suddenly Wang was all over the place again. He reverted right back to the same thing he did in his last start. Arm dragging behind his body, sinker with no movement, location all OVER the place, etc.
This is about 75% mental, and 25% mechanics. Both are fixable. In truth, I think that if he had gotten out of the 2nd inning without allowing a run, I could see him going 6 or 7 solid innings after that. It's just when things started going wrong, it's like started to try and overthrow the ball and lost any semblance of a sinker or location that he showed in the 1st inning.
It's sickeningly frustrating, too. Out of our six losses, 3 are squarely and singlehandedly on Wang, and two others are thanks mostly to Veras.
I agree, Moose. There were actually some very good signs from Wang in this one.
You just wonder what would've happened if the second inning didn't start off with a couple cheap hits.
They should send Wang to see Harvey Dorfman, the famous sports psychologist who had helped Roy Halladay.
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