Happy July 4th to everyone.
Some notes from a very good and satisfying game:
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I should
have written earlier how much I hate the TB camera angle as it is really is
hard to tell the strike zone.
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I would
not have had Phelps start the 5th inning as he had reached his
supposed pitch limit and why push it? He
really had excellent movement on his fastball and it was extremely
encouraging. He will be sent down to
continue starting and then brought back up right after the break
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Good play
by Martin to not throw to 3rd on the 1st and 2nd
situation as Nix didn’t cover the SB attempt.
This is hard to do as a catcher as you are up and ready to move and
throw to a spot not a fielder. It was
heads up.
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Of
course, later that inning, Girardi decides to not allow Martin to throw to 2nd
with 1st and 3rd as he was afraid they would pull the double
steal on the throw. I think this is
absurd as nobody is as quick as Cano so I would have total faith in Cano seeing
the play in front of him if the runner went.
Girardi is not as smart as he thinks
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Eppley
did a great job! He has really pitched
far better than we could have hoped. He
even got Luke Scott out, the same lefty Girardi didn’t let him pitch to the
other night that hurt our chances to win.
When a pitcher has his good stuff, I would trust him unless the matchup
is really bad and the other choice is a great matchup.
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A very
cool game with the game situation that I love.
Granderson was up against Price in the top of the 6th inning
and the Yanks trailing 1-0. Price is
throwing great, but the last time up, Granderson had a 10 pitch AB that ended
in a walk where Price threw nothing but fastballs (all 95-98 MPH). This situation was not huge in the game as
there were 2 outs and Jeter on first, but it was the batter pitcher matchups that
are interesting as Granderson is a dangerous hitter (it is also why I enjoy the
DH as I like good matchups). Anyway, the
first pitch was a curve ball that was low and Grandy took it for a ball. This showed Price was paying attention to the
first AB. The next pitch Grandy took a
fastball for a strike, followed by another fastball for a ball. At 2-1, Grandy is looking for the fastball
and he doesn’t get it and swings at a curve ball that would have been ball
3. The next pitch was a 97 MPH fastball
for a ball and a full count. With the runner
going Grandy gets his fastball and he is all over it but fouls it off. I am now thinking Price would throw a curve,
but he throws the fastball and Grandy is all over it again, then another fastball and Grandy
was ready but fouled it off again.
Finally, he throws the curve and Grandy was naked with a swing and
miss. It was very interesting AB that
showed the chances batters have and the control pitchers have…a lot of fun,
even if it ended poorly
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Price
really gave our guys some very tough AB’s.
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The Yanks
had lost 9 in a row in Tampa and as one of their main competitors it felt good
to win this game, especially with a very tough pitcher in Price on the mound.
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Upton has
so much talent but he is lazy and ARod had excellent hustle out of the box
after struggling for a bunch of games.
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Not sure
why Jeter was upset with two calls form the ump; they were both clear strikes;
I don’t like when we complain when there is no reason. I actually thought the ump was very fair all
game.
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Piniella
is done IMO. He tries to bring some
things up, but there is nothing there.
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Swisher
has hit pretty well in June, but he swings at far too many pitches out of the
strike zone
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Cano
could be the best player in the game! He
has such incredible skills
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So, here
is a question, which team is “ahead when there is one out in the top of the 8th
inning and the bases are loaded but the team up is down by one run? This was the situation and I think it depends
on who is coming up and the speed on the bases because the home team also gets
an AB in the inning. With Cano coming up
I liked our chances.
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BTW, I
was glad to see Farnsworth in the game and not Murphy to start the 8th
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