Yankees Plate 5 In The 9th
Posted by Steve L. on October 8th, 2012 · Comments (11)
This has to be crushing for the Orioles in many ways – physically, mentally and emotionally.
Credit the Yankees bats. But, also, credit Sabathia for keeping the game close up to that point.
Very nice win and awesome game by CC. If he keeps pitching like this I like our chances. Yanks bats didn’t wake up until the ninth but maybe this will lead to some early hits tomorrow night. ARod was awful again
The big man earned his cash tonight. Perhaps one of his best games in pinstripes.
On the bad side, in addition to A-Rod, the baserunning was awful. Can’t blame Martin on the play at the plate, that was a bang bang play. But the rally killers by Ichiro & Tex were awful & it could’ve come back to haunt them.
I don’t care what it may do his ego, Arod has to be moved down in the lineup.
77yankees wrote:
Yeah, not sure what Ichiro was thinking trying to steal 3b. It’s not like he had a good jump or anything either. With Teix, I can understand if they threw through to home. But with that calf, I’m surprised he even went for it.
@ 77yankees:
@ redbug:
I think the odds are greater that the Yankees will have some sort of blowout game soon in the post-season where A-Rod gets a garbage time HR off some scrub and then we’ll hear about how he’s coming on…than we’ll see the Yankees actually move him down in the line-up.
In any event, as I told my father yesterday, regarding A-Rod, “If you think this is bad, just wait until he’s 40 years old and older.”
He’s a Yankee until he’s 42, right?
At the pace he’s going they’ll eventually just have to eat his contract. It’ll be a sunk cost and hurting the on field product to a degree where it won’t be worth it.
@ JeremyM:
That’s a lot to eat: $40 to $60 million, depending on when they do it.
@ redbug:
Doubt they move him down tonight against a Lefty but if he continues to do nothing then a move down against Righties should happen but I doubt Girardi makes that move especially if they keep winning.
EHawk wrote:
Actually, if A-Rod has a bad slump, what they might do is platoon A-Rod and Chavez. They did it to Tino in 1996, and that was Tino still in his prime.
Evan3457 wrote:
My question is… how many games constitute a bad slump? Would two games do it? The platooning thing makes a lot of sense, maybe too much sense.
There’s no way Girardi messes with A-Rod. He has a man crush on him.