September 3rd vs. The Mariners
King Felix Hernandez of Seattle went seven against the Yankees in this game and allowed just one earned run.
Here’s a list of all starters, this season to date, to face the Yankees and who went at least 6 innings and gave up 2 ER or less, before King Felix today:
A.J. Burnett
Andy Sonnanstine
Brian Burres
Chad Gaudin
Curt Schilling
Daniel Cabrera
Dustin McGowan (twice)
Edwin Jackson
Erik Bedard (twice)
Fausto Carmona
Horacio Ramirez
Jarrod Washburn
Jeff Francis
Jeremy Guthrie (twice)
Joe Kennedy
Johan Santana
John Danks
John Lackey (twice)
Jon Garland (twice)
Jose Contreras
Josh Fogg
Justin Verlander
Kelvim Escobar
Miguel Batista
Mike Wood
Oliver Perez (twice)
Ramon Ortiz
Rich Harden
Roy Halladay
Scott Kazmir (twice)
Shaun Marcum
Here’s a list of all starters, this season to date, to face the Yankees and who went 5 innings or less and who gave up 3 ER or more:
Andrew Miller
Bartolo Colon
Boof Bonser
Cha Seung Baek
Chad Durbin
Curt Schilling
Danny Haren
Doug Davis
Edwin Jackson
Ervin Santana
Gil Meche
J.P. Howell
Jake Westbrook
James Shields
Jered Weaver
Jeremy Guthrie
Jeremy Sowers
Jesse Litsch (twice)
John Danks
John Maine
Jon Garland
Jose Contreras
Josh Towers
Julian Tavarez
Kameron Loe
Kevin Slowey
Kyle Davies
Livan Hernandez
Matt Cain
Miguel Batista
Mike Wood
Odalis Perez
Orlando Hernandez
Paul Byrd
Robinson Tejeda
Scott Elarton
Scott Kazmir
Shawn Chacon
Tim Wakefield (twice)
Tom Glavine
I have no idea what any of this means. But, it seemed to make more sense to share this now than to talk about this game today.
Cross your fingers on that MRI exam for Rocket’s right elbow. Pettitte, Wang, Mussina, Hughes and Kennedy might not be enough of a rotation to win the Wildcard. The Yankees will need to go close to 17-7 in their remaining games to win the ‘card. That’s going to be tough to do when you have two rookies and Moose starting 60% of your games.
Time for Cash to find a Shawn Chacon/Aaron Small type miracle in his bag of tricks. If I have to see Mussina pitching once more this year, I’ll have a coronary. Just shut that sad sack down and give him the winter to figure out how to come back next year as a crafty junkballer.
Does this year’s team have a slogan – you know, like Pride, Power, Pinstripes, etc.? If not, this year’s slogan should be
The 2007 New York Yankees: Sunk Costs.
King Felix was very solid today. He’s a #1 guy. You just tip your hat to a performance like that.
The offense will reawaken. They’ll grind it out. Wang and Pettitte are strong. The others will be serviceable–meaning they’ll pitch to a 4.50 ERA.
And remember, to get to 93 wins, Seattle has to go 19-7 and Detroit has to go 20-5.
No reason for panic. We still have the inside track.
Man, I hope they turn it around, especially for next weekend. We’re driving down to KC for my “bachelor party,” so to speak–I’m not a stripper guy so baseball will have to do:) It sucks that I won’t get to see Clemens one more time, apparently, but what can you do? KC has been playing some good ball too, so it could be a tough weekend-it looks like they’ll face Meche, potential ROY Bannister, and a resurgent Greinke.
As far as the playoffs, the only thing I want is for them to get their ticket punched. The playoffs really seem to be a crapshoot when there isn’t one dominant team (and even if there is), and while there are some good clubs, I don’t think anyone fits that bill. Hopefully having Eiland around can help some of the pitchers because as much as I respect Guidry, it seems pretty obvious that he’s worthless as a pitching coach. I know Kerrigan’s around too, but it seems Mo has had more coaching success stories the last couple of years than either of those guys.
As far as your post Steve, it does seem like if the hitters don’t jump on a guy early, they’re not good at adjusting their gameplan. It seems like they’re told a guy throws strikes and has good control, and when he’s wild, they still stand up there and hack. When a guy that’s normally wild throws strikes, it seems like you see a lot of Ks looking. I dunno.
Jeremy, it’s been a problem for years now. There is no consistency to their ability to adjust mid-game. It’s fine when a Bedard or a Santana limits you to 1 or less through 7…good pitching will stop good hitting, as they say. But, to allow pitchers like the Tampa Bay duo to stymie you simply because they pitched away from the scouting report (pitching backwards so to speak)is inexcusable. Do we ever sit on a breaking pitch? We’re always locked on stun, dead red. That’s coaching and advance scouting. If other teams can detect a pattern with our pitchers, why can’t we do the same. Which brings me to Guidry…he confirms the principle that great players do not make for great coaches/managers. Mattingly is the other sterling example on the staff. Which is sad because they both deserve the utmost respect from Yankees fans for what they did on the field. It’s just too obvious they don’t know what they’re doing as coaches. No shame in that, just another mis-step(s)on the part of management.