Sometimes I forget what I write in the blog and what I say
to people I speak to. The other night
while watching the Giants game (I have been down all day about that), I was
talking to my brother about Robertson. I
have always been a big fan of his, but my comment was that he doesn’t use his
curve enough. I also said that since he
has come back, he has not had near the same velocity. He used to throw 93-94 with that long stride
and movement. Now, he is throwing 91-92
and not been as sharp. Queue today where
I was very unhappy with the pitch selection most of the night. Outside of Phelps throwing mostly 90 MPH
fastballs because he couldn’t get his breaking ball over; I was really ticked
in the bottom of the 8th. I should
have been happy after the Yanks worked very hard to put up 5 runs in the 8th
to tie the game. Further, they had hit
into another bunch of DP’s and also hot a lot of hard balls at guys. The 3 run HR that was hit in the first with
Wieters at the plate juts barely made it over the wall as well…so a lot was
going against us and we still fought back.
Girardi went to Robertson there and that was not a bad move. Unfortunately the Yanks made a terrible pitch
selection. The count was 0-2 on Adam Jones
and Robertson tried a curve (correct call).
Unfortunately it slipped form his hand and ended above at and at Jones
for a very high ball. Instead of going
right back with it he decided to throw the fastball. I said out loud throw the curve again and
they threw the fastball and Jones hit a HR and basically just took all the good
away from what we had just done. That
was an awful job by Martin…Robertson then threw 3 fastballs (one might have
been a change or something as it was only 88 but that would be a very fast
change?) and allowed a single to Wieters.
Then with Reynolds coming up – who is hotter than you can be – They threw
him 6 straight fastballs until he deposited it over the fence for a HR. I was screaming for the curve ball…I have NO
idea what they were thinking; make the guy move his feet inside or throw a
curve, but you can’t give him the same pitch 6 times in a row? I think they said he has 4 multiple HR games
against us in his last 5…Very disappointing because if Robertson can’t get it
done for us, and he has not pitched well since coming back; we are in
trouble. Robertson was lights out before
his injury, having about 30 scoreless innings with half this year before he
hurt himself and allowed 4 runs a few days he went on the disabled list. Since coming back, he has been effective, but
not nearly as dominant. Tonight, he was
awful…but he didn’t use a very good pitch of his and that is his curve. Also, since coming back he is 1-5.
Head scratcher - Girardi brought in Rapada to face a lefty
and got him out wit nobody on and nobody out to start the 5th inning
with the Yanks down 5-1. He then took
him out? Now, I like mixing and
matching, but what is Rapada doing in the game there for ONE batter and nobody
on? He should have just let Thomas come
in and go for a little bit if he got the first guy out? Just very odd for a guy who explained the other
day in a key spot how he didn’t want to use a guy for one batter (when he should
have)…just shows you how FOS he was in his answer.
I am not in a good mood right now, but it was good to see
the offense show some life and make the comeback.
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ReplyDeleteAnother point on pitch selection tonight; when Phelps was on the mound, it seemed like he let up several hits on pitches where he hit the target perfectly. That means it's the wrong pitch to throw.
ReplyDeleteI also felt a curve ball would have been better against Adam Jones, but Robertson did not put the fastball anywhere near where it was supposed to be.