Sunday, September 27, 2009
RedSox (91-63) @ Yankees (99-56), Sunday, September 27, 2009, 1:05pm **Mismatch Chatter**
Lineups
Boston Red Sox
Jacoby Ellsbury, CF (.300/.347/.416, 1.5 WAR)
Dustin Pedroia, 2B (.297/.369/.442, 4.5 WAR)
Jason Bay, LF (.265/.385/.542, 3.1 WAR)
Kevin Youkilis, 1B (.303/.412/.539, 4.7 WAR)
David Ortiz, DH (.236/.329/.460, 0.4 WAR)
Mike Lowell, 3B (.290/.337/.479, 0.5 WAR)
J.D. Drew, RF (.269/.387/.498, 3.8 WAR)
, C (.208/.313/.390, 0.9 WAR)
Alex Gonzalez, SS (.295/.301/.465, 0.8 WAR)
Total, (.275/.360/.471, 20.2 WAR)
1935 Boston Braves
Derek Jeter, SS (.332/.401/.461, 5.5 WAR)
Brett Gardner, CF (.279/.347/.397, 1.5 WAR)
Mark Teixeira, 1B (.293/.383/.563, 4.7 WAR)
Alex Rodriguez, 3B (.286/.404/.527, 3.3 WAR)
Hideki Matsui, DH (.280/.373/.524, 2.2 WAR)
Nick Swisher, RF (.249/.368/.491, 2.8 WAR)
Robinson Cano, 2B (.321/.352/.519, 3.4 WAR)
Melky Cabrera, LF (.270/.330/.411, 0.8 WAR)
Jose Molina, CF (.216/.291/.264, -0.6 WAR)
Total, (.290/.370/.487, 23.6 WAR)
Yankee Win Probability: -100.0%
Reducing the AL East magic number to 3: Important
Reducing the AL East magic number to 1: More important
Clinching the AL East at home against your bitter rivals: Most important
The Yankees can clinch the AL East today in their most important game of the season. It won’t be easy, because they’re facing Paul Byrd.
On June 13, 2006, Byrd held the Yankees to one run over seven innings. Andy Pettitte has made 30 starts this season, and has given up at least one run in 29 of them. So the odds of the Yankees having a lead after seven innings is 3.3%. Since Boston’s bullpen cannot be scored on, that means they face very long odds today. Odds on the order of -100.0%.
Maybe they’ll get lucky and Byrd will be a little off, and the umpires make enough bad calls against the Boston hitters to let Pettitte allow no runs, and can squeak this one out.
Go Yankees.
Comments
I continue to like the once and future Brian Bruney.
It is my conviction that the Bruney of yore shall return.
Coke!? On Yom Kipur!?
Siddown Papi!!!
Is Youkilis going to come out of the game at sundown if this goes extras?
After all the gnashing of teeth it looks like we will actually get two legitimate races, the Al Central and the NL Wild Card.
Teixeira pwns Bard!
Seixy Teixy.
Hah!
Stad pad please.
I love the Yom Kippur line.
Memo to Terry Francona, don’t pitch Bard against Teix on ESPN Sunday games.
Mr. Bard, welcome to the new Yankee stadium…
By the way, does Stirling actually know what, ‘symmetrical’ means?
I love you all.
My favorite moment of the regular season is probably the Damon and Teixeira back to back traumatization of Daniel Bard back in August.
Big insurance run.
What the hell is Joe Morgan talking about?
SG I hope is working on the big regular season retrsospective post. So many memories in this one.
I know I know, I’m jinxing it…
Miller reallllly loves talking about Ellsbury stealing home.
Given the house money feel of this game I was half expecting Girardi to go with Melancon or Marte in the ninth.
SG I hope is working on the big regular season retrsospective post. So many memories in this one.
Can it just be a small one? Wait until, possibly, after October for a, possibly, more exciting celebratory retrospective post? Possibly?
Favorite regular season memory. Hmm…taking 2/3 in Anaheim, though that’s probably just fresh in my mind. Choking the Rally Monkey to death with my bare hands. Or did I dream that?
was half expecting Girardi to go with Melancon
The Yankees would have to score 10 insurance runs, or someone needs to get plunked for that to happen. No?
No offense WJ, but there was a week or so where your “they are going to blow the division” fear nearly gave me an ulcer. Thank god we can all finally exhale.
One down. Two to go.
Two more…
Oh man, it is going to be sweet when they clinch.
A game ending DP by Varitek would be sweet.
great, now I’m nervous…
SG et al, thanks for adding to the enjoyment of this season w/ this site.
Man, I was hoping Mauer could go yard in the Twins game. Alas.
What the FUCK was that?!?!
Someone needs to talk to Cano about that, that was horseshit.
Cano is a stupid motherfucker…
1 more out…
If they blow this Robinson Cano should be drawn and quartered….
David Cameron was right about Cano, wasn’t he?
God, Robinson can be infuriating. See the look Jeter flashed in his direction?
137 - ha!
Was he the one who said he’d be a career .750 OPS guy or whatever?
Division Champs, motherlovers!
YEAH!!! DIVISION CHAMPS!
aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh….......
Woooooooooooo! Sweet! AL East! AL East! AL East!
woooooo
woo hoo!!!!!!!!
nice clinching chatter, gentlemen!
WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Woo hoo!
Yay Mo!
Yay Battle Cat!
Yay Bruney!
Yay win!
Yay division champs!
Yay HFA!
5-1 against the 2nd and 3rd best teams in the majors. Gentlemen, we have a juggernaut on our hands.
That was a sweet, sweet victory.
what a great team.
Big hopes for this team in the post season. BIG hopes.
Cutter looked better than it has for a while.
Yay win. Yay Mo. Yay everyone.
Great season boys. What a year!
What ESPN? Don’t we get to watch the bubbly baths?!?!
oh, there it is
5-1 against the 2nd and 3rd best teams in the majors
Only if you go by the East River stats, they were and are the first and first A best teams in the majors. Yankees have been lucky.
What was the Cano blunder in the ninth anyway?
Love that it ended on a vintage Mariano cutter jam job.
Ground ball in the hole. Ranging to his left, Cano tries to field, turn and jump throw to 2nd in one motion. Ends up muffing it entirely. All he needed was to field cleanly/normally and flip to 1st for an easy out. Typical hotdogging Robinson mental error.
Kruk of all people is all over the 2nd base umpire for the Swisher call.
Holy moly, the AL Eat Champion hats are UGLY
Peter Gammons is a fucking douchebag. Mutters “pop up” in disgust at Teixeira’s homer. I fucking despise him.
haha, the Red Sox didn’t even win the season series.
It was a popup…..but it left the yard….so it counts…..so fuck Gammons the Bosox homer.How about all the popups to left at Fenway.
the umps were straight up horrible in this series, i have no idea why we have umpires anymore.
replace them all, or at least give them earpieces and have all the calls made from “central command.” i’ll do it for half of what they get, as long as i can “work” from home.
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