The Yanks did what they needed to do in Boston and that’s swipe a game. They are back home tonight with their ace, Luis Severino on the hill. He’ll face former Yankee Nathan Eovaldi, who has looked good in his outings vs the Yanks this year. I have high expectations for Severino. Hope he can give them 6 solid innings and keep the team in the game. And I hope the worm turns and the Yanks can touch up Eovaldi—nothing personal, of course.
Porcello is the guy that makes me nervous so it’d be great if the Yanks find a way to win tonight.
Never mind the bromo:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
Picture by Bags
I'll settle for 5.
how bad is the rain?
already hate the TBS broadcast
Darling and Anderson…Ugh
Heh Yankee fans cheering David Price
Let's go Yanks!
Hi Banter!
Good start by Luis.
A JD walk is better than a JD homer
[4] The Astros - Indians announcers were worse.
loving Gardi
Good start.
Nice run and grab by Gardner.
That ball carried. Off the bat, I was worried it might dunk in front of Gardner.
I think Eovaldi is going to very tough tonight.
Keep that pitch count climbing, boys!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
luke could've taken a couple of pitches. ...
good morning--- sleepy in seoul. watching this one from bed. found a stream that syncs up john and suzyn with the tbs broadcast, so no anderson and darling for me.
Good at bats from McCutcheon and Judge. What was that from Luke? Hope he adjusts
I can’t say I hate Eovaldi. Kid came back twice from serious surgery. Just hope they fatigue him early.
don't run on the Judge
good morning--- sleepy in seoul. watching this one from bed. found a stream that syncs up john and suzyn with the tbs broadcast, so no anderson and darling for me.
May I suggest simply watching in silence?
Ugh, what a choice of non-choices ...
Uh, thanks Gary ...
The obligatory Sanchez comment
Just fucking fantastic.
Bleah, what a cheap hit
Weak Fucking sauce!
That was a strike
sevi should have let that go by
Ohayo from Japan. Was that single defected by Severino bad luck?
ok, limited damage. Let's get some now.
Time for Stanton to wake up.
Stanton really needs to do something. No 3-pitch strikeouts!
Defense will have to be on point today--- Severino getting knocked around a bit but not super hard hit, they seem to be spreading things around the park. Wet conditions, too.
Still feel OK about this, with some patient at-bats, Sevvy should settle in a bit.
Lets go Yankees!
[30] Yeah, it hit his glove
love the bunt there against the shift
Scooter smiles
Rats, out
Damn. I think he is out
Looks out from that angle
You're just not useful,Angel.
Gah.
Yikes our offense helping Eovaldi out
some strikeouts from sevvy would be nice to get crowd in it, momentum shifting. things feel sleepy, no?
Sonofabitch! Eovaldi, the latest Yankeee killer. Grrrrrrrrr.....
[44] Always liked him. :(
Betts again?? Sigh..
Not feeling Uber comfy here
[46] Yeah, me neither.
Time to start drinking
Bad Bad Bad.
Luis is behind every hittee.
what the heck was Cutch thinking?
What was McC doing? F*ck
cult. Scotch tonight?
I don’t mind a couple of runs but we have to stop handing Eovaldi two pitch at bats.
Well, this is going to shit.
BP time
Nearly 60 pitches for Sevy already. They need to start thinking about pulling him.
That is our Larry. Two hitters too late with the visit
I’m ordering a double play here
[53] Nah, Scotch isn't my thing.
Eagle Rare 17 year.
[18] Cool. That sounds perfect. These TBS guys are annoying.
Blegh, too slow a hit
What a fucking joke.
[57] Just pathetic. In the post-season, Severino isn't close to an ace.
They are bleeding Sevy to death.
I can’t believe we just now got the bullpen up. They’ve been hitting him hard for a while
could have been worse. bats need to come alive, get to their BP
One of those is on McCutchen. A soft single should not end up with runners on second and third.
Just pull Severino already, he's got fuck all tonight.
Another inning just means a deeper hole to try and dig out of.
Fucking Bollocks. Meanwhile, Nathan Fucking Eovaldi has not surrendered an earn run to the Yanks in 18 straight innings! JFC!
just not fun to watch tonight, in any way.
[69] Fucking hate EVILvaldi. Knock the bitch on his ass.
They are not making him throw enough pitches. Come on, work the count guys.
Safe!
Oh so they get to their infield hits
Hmmm
safe
Safe
He was SAFE! We better win one of these challenges for chrissake.
Yes, safe
angel hernandez having a howler lol
hoping Gardi does his usual 10 pitch AB
Damn, foul
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
Just in front of it.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!
[70] Dude, I got your message. I'll get back to you this evening.
AW C'MON ... CAN WE CATCH A FUCKING BREAK?!?!?!?
Eovaldi is just too too good. 19.
This sucks. Why aren't they working the count?
[83]
Awesome!
really uninspiring stuff, huh.
We’re hitting the ball hard. But nothing to show for it
john and suzyn havent mentioned hicks at all, he available?
holt hit that ball hard. lets pull sevvy when we can.
Hey Aaron, it's BP time
Somebody wake Boone up from his nap
Ah, Boone-y ... determined to shut the barn door after the horses have already left.
Get Severino out of there!
This slurping of Shit Sawx dick is annoying
He just doesn’t have good stuff tonight
Melt down.
too effing late.
[90] Reports are yes, most likely as a pinch hitter.
Boone needs his hand held by someone with actual awareness
Fail.
i'm a bit hesitant to pull pitchers, perhaps more than most. but... that seemed obvious.
4th too early to bring in one of the K monsters in the pen? Need a strikeout here..
Shouldn’t this be Betances?
It’s hard to find an ace like Nathan Eovaldi.
Did you guys hear that Sevy was late getting to the Stadium tonight? WTF. It's the playoffs, dude.
Probably waited on Sevy to reach a certain pitch count / inning before assessing his options. Managers today could easily be replaced by an app using very basic conditional logic.
[105] Boone's saving him until the game's out of reach.
For fucks sake
WTF
Hate to say it but Boone is just..not very good.
Fuck this shit. I am out. Gotta meeting.
Ballgame
We all better hope CC is DA MAN tomorrow, or it's see you for Spring Training.
It’s 2018, can we not have someone in th pen looking at these guys warm up? If they can’t throw strikes don’t bring that guy in? Or better yet don’t wait until five guys are on base to bring someone in?
There’s the game!
We're done.
this is rough, my goodness.
Thanks Boone for throwing away our advantage
[112] Jeeze. I'm glad you're not my boss. (100 wins)
boone mismanaged a bit, sure. but let's not lose sight of severino completely neglecting his duty as any sort of ace.
and what boatzilla was talking about re: severino late, seems to be that he mixed up the game start time. thought he had 20 more mins or something, so started his warmups extremely late. apparently ron darling said this? not listening to tbs. either way, rough look for him, rough look for coaching staff.
when the stadium is quiet like this it really is an embarassing look, compared to fenway. oy.
[121] How much credit does he get for that though? His game management seems real lacking.. (And if I was your boss you'd be LONG gone after I saw your expense accounts!)
It’s the playoffs. You play to comeback. Or you go home for the winter
[122] Supposedly, he thought the start of the game would be delayed because of the weather ... still.
High leverage situation and we bring in Lynn? How many bases loaded jams did he come in to relief for this year? Zero? Why do we do this in the playoffs when you supposedly have a vaunted bullpen? We saving these guys for the links?
The Severino being late thing was all conjecture by Ron Darling. It may be true but it didn’t sound remotely verified.
more i think about it now, there is indeed some bad managing there. we have stoppers on this team, and instead bring in a complete non-entity like Lynn. when he comes in, sadly to say, i think we all know whats about to go down.
watching these games has given me an excuse not to go jogging in the morning before work, but dont know that i can make the excuse today. anyone give me hope to lay in bed for just a bit longer?
The only thing verifiably late was Boone’s actions.
[129] Yanks 'O' still has 6 innings so they can chip away but..well, better get that jog in.
[122] As to the first part ... Boone-y did THE EXACT SAME THING in the WC game.
Sevy escaped the 4th inning ... everyone thought he was done ... and Boone-y sent him out there in the 5th to give up two straight hits before he pulled him.
He got lucky and the runners didn't score because he brought in Betances.
Lance Lynn is not Betances.
[132] here he waited longer. Two singles and a walk. That’s way too late.
And now, another likely repeated mistake bringing in Green.
Red Sox loves them some fastballs ...
[132] Yep, playoff baseball is so wildly different. You have to be three steps ahead and Boone seems two behind..
Oh well. At least Betances is rested...
gonna make some breakfast, put on some music and do away with this game. see you all tomorrow.
CC!
this is bad I'm switching to the Skins game. oh. they're getting smashed too. I do gave a new mattress so maybe that's where I can go.
What game are these umps watching tonight?
More bourbon, I think.
How did Sanchez bat .186 this year and not .086?
[139] Hopefully a better one than we are ...
Sanchez has to stop guessing. He’s clearly not very good at it and once he had two strikes there Eovaldi didn’t have to throw anywhere close to a good pitch or close to the strike zone.
This article I am reading about Age Related Macular Degradation is way more enriching than the game at this point. Oh well, we'll get em tomorrow!
Ok, just have to have a two game winning streak tomorrow
What a disaster.
[146] Houston smokes either of these teams though, donchathink?
Gee, a 1-2-3 inning ... wonder what difference that would have meant in the top of the 4th???
Yeah, Severino sucked. He was a thrower not a pitcher and he clearly didn’t have the electric stuff he had against the A’s early. He really hasn’t been the same pitcher he was the first half of the season. The offense isn’t there either tonight and you need that lead and excitement against a team with as much talent as the Sawx have Good thing it’s baseball. Tomorrow we come back and embarrass the Sox.
[147] Yes, Houston looks better than they looked last year.
Bats look good. Win two games. That's it.
Sooo, I guess I picked a good game to miss...
Romine is probably our best pitcher tonight
[123] I stand corrected. You do know baseball, Jazz. Shit, Boone was awful tonight. Fucking Lance Boil Lynn with the bases loaded? Sheeeaht.
My confidence in this team is at an all time low.
Boone was terrible. Never should have sent in Lance, should have taken out Sevi earlier. No idea what he was thinking. BTW, the TBS crew harping on Sevi not knowing when the game was going to start is apparently about as accurate as Angel Hernandez (according to what I read in the papers this AM). Also BTW, the new mattress was wonderful.
Glad I tuned out the game after it was 7-0. As bad as Boone was, it's hard to win a game when you only score one run and the other team already has three. At least in this universe.
I haven't posted in a while. Lest I be accused of attending baseball church at the Banter only during the playoffs, I figured after a 16-1 loss that it would be fine.
I hope one of our guys tells his teammates "we've won 2 in a row before" ala Damon in Boston in 2004. After all, we'd just beaten their brains in that night.
It ain't over 'til it's over.