Regular Season Game 108Yankees vs. Red Sox
Yankee Stadium - Bronx, NY
Game Time: 7:05 p.m.
TV: MY9 | Radio: WCBS
Game Time: 7:05 p.m.
TV: MY9 | Radio: WCBS
Here are the lineups:
YANKEES (65-42)
Derek Jeter SS
Johnny Damon LF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Hideki Matsui DH
Jorge Posada C
Robinson Cano 2B
Nick Swisher RF
Melky Cabrera CF
Pitching: RHP Joba Chamberlain (7-2, 3.58 ERA)
RED SOX (62-44)
Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Dustin Pedroia 2B
Victor Martinez C
Kevin Youkilis LF
David Ortiz DH
J.D. Drew RF
Mike Lowell 3B
Casey Kotchman 1B
Jed Lowrie SS
Pitching: RHP John Smoltz (2-4, 7.12 ERA)
Yanks vs. Smoltz
| AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | |
| X. Nady | 17 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .176 | .176 | .235 | .412 |
| J. Damon | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .000 | .222 | .000 | .222 |
| A. Rodriguez | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 |
| D. Jeter | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .200 | .200 | .400 | .600 |
| N. Swisher | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 |
| M. Cabrera | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 |
| J. Posada | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | 1.333 | 1.667 |
| E. Hinske | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| M. Teixeira | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 |
| J. Hairston Jr. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Totals | 51 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 13 | .176 | .208 | .275 | .482 |
Red Sox vs. Chamberlain
| AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | |
| J.D. Drew | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | .000 | .071 | .000 | .071 |
| M. Lowell | 13 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .385 | .429 | .692 | 1.121 |
| D. Pedroia | 12 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | .500 | .571 | .667 | 1.238 |
| D. Ortiz | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | .273 | .333 | .273 | .606 |
| J. Ellsbury | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .182 | .250 | .182 | .432 |
| J. Bay | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | .571 | .667 | 1.143 | 1.810 |
| K. Youkilis | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | .333 | .636 | .333 | .970 |
| J. Varitek | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .200 | .429 | .200 | .629 |
| V. Martinez | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .400 | .333 | 1.000 | 1.333 |
| N. Green | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .400 | .400 | .400 | .800 |
| C. Kotchman | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 |
| J. Bailey | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| J. Lowrie | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| R. Baldelli | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Totals | 97 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 26 | .289 | .381 | .423 | .803 |
News & Notes
- Joba Chamberlain is 2-1, with a 3.49 ERA in four starts and four relief appearances against the Red Sox. He's also been on a roll lately, in three starts since the All-Star break he's 3-0 with an 0.83 ERA since the All-Star break. In 21.2 innings he's allowed 2 ER on 8 hits, walked just 8 and struck out 19.
- John Smoltz has faced the Yankees twice in the regular season during his Hall of Fame career, and it 0-0 with a 4.50 ERA. In 10 innings pitched he's allowed 5 runs on 12 hits, walked 4, and struck out 9.
- The Red Sox have won all eight games against the Yanks this year.
- Boston is just 7-10 in their last 17 games, and 24-20 since June 13th.
- Alex Rodriguez has not homered in 62 at-bats.
- Mariano Rivera has converted 31-of-32 save opportunities this season. And in save situations has an ERA of just 0.81. He's converted 27 straight saves which is the longest such streak in the Majors.
- Jason, over at It's About the Money, Stupid, wrote an open letter to Joba Chamberlain. It's definitely worth the read, and I completely agree. This isn't a night where Joba needs to throw at anyone, just pitch well and beat these bums.
- For more Yanks-Sox info, check out Yankeeboy's series preview posted below.
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208 Comments:
So who's pumped up for this series?
I know I am.
I'm pumped up they got win tonight though. I dont care how we win tonight it could be a great pitched game or a slugfest just win tonight.
That's it man, just win. Just win.
I sent Nick Swisher a tweet last night asking him to bring back the "We play today, we win today. Daaaaasss it!" saying. Hopefully he listened.
A sweep would feel like winning a world series. I'm hoping we can take at least 2 which we should be at least be able to.
first inning and the stadium sounds like its Wednesday afternoon game against kansas city...anyone else notice or is it just me?
The crowd is alright tonight, the boos for Ortiz were good. I wish I was sitting near the Sox dugout tonight. I'd abuse him so bad. He's end up getting me kicked out.
That first "strike" to Jeter was in the left-hand hitters batters box.
Are the umps gonna wear Sox hats this series or is it too much to ask for a fair strike zone?
someone check AROD's eyesight, fouls off pitch, after pitch, then lets 3rd strike go right down the pipe, he's been doing alot of that lately... time to call lasik...
I honestly don't know what he was looking at.
i'd still like to see us unload Molina, & bring up cervelli, to catch,
come on joba, 2 walks, 2 doubles, not a good start, too many pitches too
He needs a punch out.
ehhh, the fly out will work too. Now roll a deuce.
He got BSed in the Lowell AB.
You're right Dane, so did Jeter.
JORGE, SLIDE!
Posada made A-Rod's play against Arroyo look professional...
Those are the boneheaded mistakes that kill a team. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
OMG, WTF, retard, jorge, slide u fool,
FFS... it looks like he was trying to play patty-cake with Martinez...
That play happened on a cutoff FFS... anyone see if Melky told him to slide?
Jorge and his typical dumbass baserunning
And there's the homer by Pedroia. One teams makes a huge mistake, the other makes them pay. It's the story of the season series.
every game that goes by, posada shows me that he does not have his head in the game...its time to move on from him but hes got 2 1/2 more years thanks to that genius 4 year deal cashman gave him...
Well Posada hope you feel better about that.
Has there been 1 curveball thrown yet?
Ortiz homer coming?
Oh wow, nice!
Posada's non-slide, no-run, rally-kill just sucked the air out of the stadium and the team. Amazing....thank god for double plays...
What I want to know is if Melky didn't tell him to slide... not that that excuses it...
At this pitch count rate Joba will be lucky to make it through 5
I loathe Ellsbury and his random slides/flips/spasms to try and make a play look better than it is.
melky did a one hand slide motion - not dramatic but ....
Nice Damon, now let's get movin'
Nice Johnny.
Ok, momentum switch?
These umps are driving me crazy.
Posada sucks. He is THE killer.
And, Smoltz has 60 pitches and the Yankees have 1 run? Ridiculous. This is exactly why they stink vs. good teams.
If this team doesn't sweep or win 3 then Cashman and Girardi should be fired.
That was a close play by Jeter.
If the throw was lower.
Joba, stop letting guys on base. They're going to make him pay if he keeps this up.
Like that.
Come on Joba.
mistakes, brain farts, bad pitches by joba, bad selection by jorge, joke of a stadium, 3-1 red sux...
please don't runin my weekend, yanks, please,
These cheap homers are pissing me off. This should be a 0-0 game.
If they lose this one, prepare to lose three of four.
joba 79 pitches w/ 2 outs in 4th,
he'll be luck y to make it thru 5 at this rate, and with the JOBA RULES... we have complete retards running this team
Mario, what do the Joba rules have to do with his inefficiency?
to combat smaller ballparks, PED's, tighter balls, corked bats,
MLB & baseball should raise the pitchers mound back to what it should be, but Selig and the bigger retards running this scam of a league will never do it..
Way to be Jorge!
We need to start smackin' Smoltz around.
"Posada sucks. He is THE killer. "
lol
lol
This game is going back and forth.
Why is Posada catching tonight? Oh thats right the briliant brain trust wants to give up tons of runs, tax our bullpen and lose.
Its too funny for words to watch the Red Sox's moves pay off while the Cashman sits on his head or ass same thign. What fkin dumbass he is.
anyone notice, nick green in at SS, whats up with lowrie, does he have a boo boo..
lol I think so.
Swisher is ready to launch one.
YES.
boy the braves are looking smarter & smarter letting smoltz go,
Let's go Melky!
Ain't that the truth.
THANK YOU MELKY!!!
THERE IT GOES!
THE MELK MAN DELIVERS!
YANKS UP 5-3.
hell yeah melky..
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
JIM KAAT announcing game on mlb tv channel, "smoltz just doesn't have the velocity" realy, he's only 42 yrs old,
Let's keep it going Jeter.
lol Mario
And the Red Sox have Billy Traber warming up!
Billy Traber?!?!? OH NO!
Hahahahahahhaha
Come on Yanks, keep the line moving.
I hate Billy Traber so much. I don't know why, I just do.
we need to bury them, no mercy, stomp on there throats,
Hahahhaa, that's kind of odd Liam.
I'd love it if we could really put a crooked number on the board this inning and make it something like 9-3 going into the 5th.
OMG!!!!
My middle school coach used to say
"stomp on there throats" all the time.
Traber is coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is odd Greg.
Smoltz trying to pitch @ 42 coming off surgery, is like the BRETT FAVRE experiement last yr, retire you fool, you "WERE" a great pitcher, but ur day is over,
big at bat coming up for matsui
Gotta blow this one open here.
come on jorge, make up for ur running blunder
HIP HIP JORGE!!!!!!!!!!!!
NICE!! POSADA!!
hell yeah jorge, sweeeeeet
nothing cheap about that one, dead center almost
God Anon, why is Posada playing? He's so awful. HAHAHHAA
Posada needs a triple to complte the cycle.
"Why is Posada catching tonight? Oh thats right the briliant brain trust wants to give up tons of runs, tax our bullpen and lose.
Its too funny for words to watch the Red Sox's moves pay off while the Cashman sits on his head or ass same thign. What fkin dumbass he is."
LOL Anon you know nothing about baseball
should we pour it on or save some for the weekend games
Liam, if that happens I will name my first born Jorge.
Ha.
Swish just missed that one.
Nice hit by swish.
choo, choo, chugg, chugga chugga, choo, choo, keep the train moving,
That's the plan, Mario.
does anyone watch skip bayliss on first take in the morning, he's such a tool, anti yankee, yet he was a mantle fan, he's bashed us all season long..
I don't watch him, but I'm aware of his Yankee hatred. He's a tool.
come melky homer from both sides of plate in same inning, wonder how many times Mantle did that,
Skip Bayliss is the the biggest freakin' joke in sports media. He's a total moron who has ZERO idea what he's talking about. Not with the Yankees, not with baseball, not with football, not with ANYTHING. I hate that guy.
A quick inning by Joba here would be very nice. Get the Yanks back to the plate.
Ya, but he has to get out V-Mart, Youk and David Ortiz.
A four-pitch walk with a six-run lead?
That was Jobas 5th walk. Thank god were up by 6.
What's wrong with Joba?
ok joba, no reason for this crap,
He has nothing tonight. This game isn't over yet folks.
Another 4 pitch walk. WTF
come on double play ball,
FINALLY A STRIKE!
OK, there's an out.
Robertson is warming.
This is maddening.
7 walks and another ball.
Joba doesn't have a slider tonight... but instead of seeing if the curve works... he keeps throwing that slider...
Two strikes in a row, what a concept.
Get him out of there - this is far from over...
We can really use a DP.
Just get him out of the game... stop fucking around Joe.
This is absurd. Your team spots you a six-run lead and you walk the bases loaded. Just unacceptable.
joba is one pitch away from giving it all back....please take him out
I know nothing about baseball while you provide no facts. How fuckign convenient!
Wow, Jorge hit a 3 run HR taht was awesome. This is exactly why you're fuckign stupid. You tell me about the ONE thing he does well occasionally but you neglect to tell me about the TWENTY things he does awful which happen on a regular basis. Typical idiocy.
And, we had a 6 run lead against Boston before and lost. Do you remember who the fuckign catcher was IDIOT? I fucking doubt it numbskull fuckign head.
And, watch these idiots give it right back. Girardi is fucking useless manager. The moment Joba put anyone on base that inning unless it was with 2 outs Joba should have been pullled.
He hurt his arm from trying to not swing at one of the few good sliders from Joba.
Thats what we needed.
hey anonyomous, y don't you sign up and give yourself a name, and stop cowering behind "anonyomous"
Anon, seriously, shut the fuck up.
anyone know if tonight's game is an actual sellout? I know its packed but does anyone know if its an official sellout?
I totally agree about Posada and Girardi. Jorge has hit up a storm tonight and I'm still disgusted with him....Girardi plays favorites to a fault - gets personally attached to players and loses all judgement....JMHO Long, long way to go tonight before we sleep...
Claggett might get in today...
God I hope not.
There's two anons here - I've been one - but not the crazy one...
Curtis, good move using a name, now nobody will confuse you with the other dude.
Ahhhhhhh, two-run double by Matsui to extend the Yanks lead to 7.
I wouldn't mind it now...
same here Curtis.
Come on Jorge, lets get that triple!
Robertson coming into the game.
Yea, guess ill make the switch from anon. Btw i wasn't the crazy one. Still curious about the sellout though
Cool. Feel much better at 11......maybe we can just settle down and get in a groove. Joba was painful to watch tonight....his Mom in trouble again, he's 23...who knows...
Good idea Bryan. And I bet it is a sellout.
Posada would have thrown him out had he just tried...
Ok. Where's anon? He's gonna talk about why Posada did't make that play to first.
Umps are getting me mad...
hate the walks.....hate em..
Look at the Gameday on that AB... he got the BS treatment again...
Same here Curtis.
Oh yes the great Posada with another wild pitch/passed ball. Please Posada lovers and factoids, do show us the splits for how many WP/PB's that all of our catchers have. Please do show the amount of walks given up by our catchers. Ditto for the ERA too. I cant wait to see these facts from the all-knowing-baseball-gods-who-support-Posada.
You say I'm a baseball god... which means I know something... so knowing what i know... I command you to not to speak, because it hurts my brain.
lol
'The Umpire Strikes Back'
These umpires are stupid.
Robertson looked pretty good. Add another three strikeouts to his total.
I think I should pitch a few innings. I haven't pitch since July 13th though.
Girardi's not messing around tonight, gotta get this win.
This is over managing at its finest. At least it worked.
And Coke gets the job done.
Alright Coke.
Still don't feel safe with this lead. We need a few more runs.
Don't wanna cause trouble, but anon does have a bead on Jorge. Anon's presentation is a bit off - drunk maybe...
We do need more runs Mike.
The anonymous identity really annoys me in general. I don't see why you can't just go to Name/URL and type something in.
Yanks acquire RHP Chad Gaudin from the Padres for a PTBNL.
everyone has a hit tonight BUT jeter, come on DEREK, don't be left out buddie
Is he any good Greg?
Nice pickup for the Yankees. His ERA is really high but his DIPS stats look great and he has a fairly good track record before this year.
Not Roy Halladay but probably better than Sergio Mitre or Kei Igawa.
Good enough for me.
As long as the PTBNL isn't anyone significant, I'm happy.
His "normal" stats aren't too impressive but he's got an FIP of 3.68. And his *tRA (not really sure what that is lol) is 4.53 this year. Which must be OK because Yovani Gallardo and Clayton Kershaw are at 4.46.
He's 26 and has one more year of team control.
Coke is coming out. I still think I should pitch.
seriously girardi, everyone doesn'thave to play tonight, come on, there's still 3 more games this weekend
Yeah, I know this is a big game but the score is 12-4.
A shame Joba struggled - the pen is getting used bad. With 3 tough games left.
What's going on? This appears to be going well, what did the umps do?
4 pitch walk to loser nick green,
10 walks now by the yankees.
I'm trying to count the walks. 22,23....30?
Claggett should have been tried out... no point bringing him up if he can't pitch in a 12-4 game.
Glad they are getting the walks out of their system up by 8 runs. :P
I'm going now. Have a great night guys.
So this guy from padres is going to join the starting 5? Does nobody else feel hughes should have moved back to the starting rotation?
Greg w that live chat can the window be twice as high - the speed of the auto scroll wouldn't be so bad with move visible space.
Anon, I could post all the comments as they come in I just want to be able to respond to everyone, but if you guys want me to put all the posts through as they come I can do that. And yes, I can make the window as big as I want.
IDK if Gaudin replaces Mitre right away or not. I think he should but I'm not sure they'll see it that way.
I think they made the right call on leaving Hughes in the bullpen. If he went back to being the mediocre starter he was earlier in the year, he's more valuable in the bullpen and you can't switch him again.
I don't think we should be posting all the comments immediately. If anything, the last chat was a little to fast IMO.
I agree, Mike, I just want to please everyone and with that chat system it's tough. I don't know of any others that's as easy to use with blogs, though.
Maybe we should do the chat like an hour before the game instead.
I thought hughes was solid starting, did I miss something?
Greg that was me. I found with the last chat that even with the delay it was hard to have a continuous chat because the scroll was so fast. Another way to slow the scroll is make the visible area larger so older comments arwe still visible without having to scroll - its not easy to scroll that embed window the way it is to scroll the whole browser window.
Will
Will, I can definitely make the window larger so that should help.
I hope melancon didn't do that on purpose, but to make things worse, why put jeter out on the line and throw to 2nd, take the out at 1st jackass
Greg some day you might have to have yourown server so you can break free of the blogger rrestrictions
Hughes was solid but you have to be more than just solid to be as valuable as he is in the bullpen right now.
Bryan fair question except baseball isn't played like hockey anymore (unfortunately)
Mike tough call to me since hughes was winning but I know your point, he insures 3 out of 5 wins coming out of the pen.
It would make no sense for Melancon to do that on purpose. The problem is that at this point it doesn't matter because the Sox probably think he did.
.... Nice scoop by Tex, there's his gem of the night.
Will, I agree with baseball is much softer then it used to be. But when you're up 13-4 why even risk jeter getting taken out?
Speaking of tex I think he's looking like a lock for mvp
I think free agency took the bite out of baseball
It definitely did, Will.
On the bright side though it gave us Tex
That's true, Mike.
Keep them walks coming
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