The Yankees need all the help they can get. They are staggering. Don’t forget, the Red Sox were in first place heading into September last year. Since then, they are 69-93.
The aging Yankees could be heading to a collapse of their own. They need to turn it around and fast.
The fact the Yankees need A-Rod, who at the age of 37 is hitting .276 and has only 15 home runs and 44 RBIs and has been limited by injuries the last two years, shows you the desperate state this team is in heading down the stretch.
Joe Girardi was quite testy after the loss. It was not a good day for the manager as he stayed too long with an ineffective Phil Hughes, who really needed to step up yesterday, but didn’t. Hughes went into the sixth with a 3-1 lead and surrendered a three-run bomb to Mark Reynolds, his second home run of the day and fourth of the series.
Rodriguez played for the Class A Tampa Yankees on Friday and Saturday and went through an extensive workout in Tampa yesterday to try to prepare for today and the matchup against Big Game James Shields.
“It’s time to step it up,’’ said CC Sabathia, who will get the ball for the Yankees.
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1. TVerik Posted: September 03, 2012 at 10:23 AM (#4225445)The problem for the Yankees is that while they have an additional Wild Card to fall back on it is not the same as winning the division. Had the Sox survived game 162 last year they would have been in fundamentally the same situation the other playoff teams were and the September struggles would have been an inconvenience. This year, if the Yankees simply fail to win the division there is the real penalty of playing a one off, winner take all game.
The Orioles have had to replace FOUR fifths of their opening day rotation, and their starting left fielder and third baseman as well.
Yeah, but the Orioles have had to replace four fifths of THEIR opening day rotation.
Never root for the Yankees unless it's mathematically impossible to make the playoffs without a Yankee win.
YES had a good shot of him before the pitch and he wasn't ready for it. Then he seemed to be hobbled after the pitch and I'm not sure if that happened on the play or prior to it but that might have played into it.
FWIW I had the same reaction as you did when I saw it live.
It's irrelevant. Unless the Yanks do a 180 turnaround in the next six days, it'll take a miracle for them to still be in contention by the last week. Right now they're looking almost as bad as they did at the end of the 2000 regular season. If I were an O's fan, I'd be concentrating my rooting interest against the A's and the Angels, and have the team concentrate on keeping ahead of the Rays.
FWIW I had the same reaction as you did when I saw it live.
So did I at first, although my disgust was somewhat tempered by the thought that on grass that would have been an easy out. #### that goddam artificial cow chow.
Jeter's hot streak is over and he's in the deep freeze. Cano has been atrocious lately, just giving away at bats. Swisher is not good enough to carry a team. Granderson has regressed tremendously. The bottom of their lineup is awful. Suzuki is one of the worst hitters in the league.
That being said, if hacks like Joe Saunders and Chris Gimenez are going to contribute to your demise,it's going to be over soon anyway.
Moe, Larry, Curly and Zeppo?
Well, the Yanks will get a chance to expose Saunders for the hack he is this Saturday in Baltimore.
Agreed, and I thought of this too. But as a bit of perspective for those who may not know, they won the World Series that year.
Agreed, and I thought of this too. But as a bit of perspective for those who may not know, they won the World Series that year.
That was a great triumph, but it won't be much of a consolation if they finish 11-17 like that 2000 team did, since if they do that they'll be on the outside looking in. That 2000 team was also 9 games ahead on September 13th and didn't have half of their key players either on the DL or playing hurt.
I'm not sure even that's enough. During Game 162 of the 2011 season, I still couldn't root for them.
I normally think that part of the bb-ref page is gimmicky and not illustrative, but this team hasn't scored 10 runs in nearly a month. They have serious trouble scoring runs.
Good point, and this is the reason that I like the second WC as compared to one WC (and no, I am not trying to start that up again
--I know that others disagree).
OK, yes, the guys they had to replace needed replacing because they pitched badly, not because they got injured. The point is, there they were with only one guy, Chen, able to pitch above replacement level, and the team was somehow able to MacGyver together an effective rotation out of fomer prospects, non-prospects, and other teams' castoffs, and for that they deserve a lot of credit.
I normally think that part of the bb-ref page is gimmicky and not illustrative, but this team hasn't scored 10 runs in nearly a month. They have serious trouble scoring runs.
And what's really spooky about it is that it wasn't that many weeks ago that they'd set a team record for consecutive games where they scored three or more runs. Of course losing A-Rod and then Teixeira may have had something to do with that sudden nosedive.
After Randy Wolf shut them down Sunday, I'm chalking every match up against a lefty as a loss until they win one. Maybe having the Rod back will help, but they are downright helpless against southpaws these days.
This belongs in the water is wet, sun rises in the east category of absolute obviousness.
Funny how an aging, slap hitting singles hitter isn't helping to power along the offense.
As a Red Sox fan I really want to relish this swoon by NY, however I can sympathise with your pain. Next year you can try the "blow up the team" GM plan that the Sox have going and see how that works for NY.
The pitching seems to have worsened a little in the last week.
EDIT: the smaller SLG-BA differences above also point to this issue.
Highest percentage of total runs scored on homers in MLB. I think I heard someone say it was an historically high percentage, but I have no idea how to look that up on B-R.
I could not find a leaderboard for most home runs by a team in a single season, but below is the set of single season club records for home runs, sorted by % of runs batted in by a home run, and the 2012 Yankee season to date.
HR TOT TOT % RBI Year and Team HR RBI RBI R BY HR 2010 Toronto Blue Jays 257 401 732 750 55% 2012 Yankees thru 133 G 202 316 616 633 51% 2005 Texas Rangers 260 413 834 854 50% 1996 Oakland Athletics 243 399 823 847 48% 1963 Minnesota Twins 225 346 722 753 48% 2000 St. Louis Cardinals 235 403 841 875 48% 2004 Chicago Cubs 235 360 755 773 48% 2007 Milwaukee Brewers 231 364 774 790 47% 2009 Philadelphia Phillies 224 370 788 809 47% 2004 Chicago White Sox 242 384 823 849 47% 2005 Cincinnati Reds 222 364 784 806 46% 1997 Seattle Mariners 264 412 890 912 46% 1996 Baltimore Orioles 257 419 914 941 46% 2000 Los Angeles Dodgers 211 344 756 785 46% 2001 San Francisco Giants 235 349 775 793 45% 2008 Florida Marlins 208 330 741 756 45% 2000 Anaheim Angels 236 368 837 852 44% 2009 New York Yankees 244 375 881 909 43% 1987 Detroit Tigers 225 357 840 872 43% 2000 Houston Astros 249 382 900 926 42% 1970 San Diego Padres 172 263 629 658 42% 1999 Arizona Diamondbacks 216 360 865 892 42% 1997 Colorado Rockies 239 360 869 903 41% 2003 Atlanta Braves 235 360 872 897 41% 2006 New York Mets 200 325 800 826 41% 2000 Montreal Expos 178 286 705 730 41% 2000 Cleveland Indians 221 352 889 929 40% 2009 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 199 297 765 783 39% 2003 Boston Red Sox 238 356 932 954 38% 1987 Kansas City Royals 168 258 677 697 38% 1999 Pittsburgh Pirates 171 263 735 766 36%Sources: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_hr7.shtml and BR PI Event Finder
At the current season HR/G rate, 2012 would be the highest team season home run count for the Yankees at 246.
Below is the 2012 season compared with the top 5 (by team HR) historical Yankee seasons, sorted by runs batted in on a home run:
HR TOT TOT % RBI Year and Team HR RBI RBI R BY HR 2012 Yankees thru 133 G 202 316 616 633 51% 1961 New York Yankees 240 385 781 816 49% 2005 New York Yankees 229 390 847 880 46% 2004 New York Yankees 242 389 863 891 45% 2003 New York Yankees 230 367 845 866 43% 2009 New York Yankees 244 360 865 892 42%Sources: http://newyork.sbnation.com/new-york-yankees/2012/7/17/3163107/the-top-5-yankees-team-single-season-home-runs-robinson-cano-alex-rodriguez-mark-teixeira-babe-ruth and and BR PI Event Finder
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