Friday RHP A.J. Burnett (10-13, 5.13) vs. RHP Kevin Millwood (3-15, 5.30) 7:05 p.m., YES Network Saturday LHP CC Sabathia (19-6, 3.03) vs. RHP Jeremy Guthrie (10-13, 3.74) 7:05 p.m., YES Network Sunday LHP Andy Pettitte (11-2, 2.88) vs. RHP Chris Tillman (1-4, 6.32) 1:35 p.m., YES Network and TBS Kicking off the series tonight. Looks like we could have a real pitcher's duel on our hands. Good Lord, Millwood is 3-15? Is that some kind of record?
Berkman's done really well for the Yanks since coming off the DL. Starts off tonight with a walk. In 36 PA since coming back, here's his line: .433/.528/.500/1.028 Who said they wanted him to get less playing time? That's crazy talk.
Interesting tidbit about Gardner's ridiculous plate discipline. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-fangraphs091710 The article also talks about Austin Jackson being the luckiest hitter in baseball since 1924. Unfortunately, it loses credibility when it cherry picks stats from this year to say Teixeira is an awful defensive player. This article does a great job in teaching us that defensive statistics, standard or sabermetric, can be wildly inaccurate.
Interesting thing I noticed about Jackson when I checked in on him recently. Sure, he had a torrid April. Since then, check out his line: .287/.343/.396/.738 That's pretty weak. I know we can't just throw out April, but considering that so much of his line is propped up by an unsustainably high BABIP, color me not impressed. Especially at first base.
So apparently it will take a minor miracle for the Yankees not to finish 3rd in the AL and have no home field at all. At least they will get to play the team they should want in the first round.
Orioles come back from 3-1 down with 1 in 8th and 1 in 9th, and win it in 11 on a Wigginton walkoff RBI double 4-3 final
Almost went to today's game with my school. Looks like I dodged a bullet. Got to love that a school in the Bronx could afford a bloc of tickets to a Yankee game in Baltimore.
That Berkman sure is awesome. He hits and hits and hits, then comes up with one out and the bases loaded and proceeds to leave a steaming stinking shit right in the center of the bed.
I understand not liking the result of that AB. But making snarky comments as though a singular AB justifies a larger opinion is kind of silly, no?
No, I'm impressed by his overall stats. .300/.355/.412 with 24 steals in his rookie year. If you want to arbitrarily remove certain months, you could make a lot of players look bad. Try removing the best month of most players and you'll see there's a noticeable dip. For example, I could remove Phil Hughes's first five starts and tell you he's having a pretty bad season.
