Elimination Game #2.

Just win tonight!

I predict we'll need at least 7 runs to win this game. Ain't no way Green, Cessa, Happ, Ottavano, Lasgna, most of whom will take part in trying to complete 5 innings, will keep Houston under 6 runs.

The Astros used an 'opener' four times this year. They were 0-4 with a 6.25 ERA.
I am cautiously optimistic!

[1] Come back with your shields or on them, boys.

As an intermittent poster/lurker I’ve been grateful for the company this week!

Tonight I am a cliche come to life: That Guy who is recording the game and running home from a concert hall hoping no one mentions the score. So I’ll catch you all back here in real time for Game Seven!

[5] They shall march on a road of bones.

[4] Sounds good to me - so the Astros are terrible in bullpen games, then. Let's see about making it 0-5 with a higher ERA!

Well that fucking sucked.

SEVEN pitches??
Let’s go Green!!

Rats. Little Fucker!

Already at 20 pitches

At this rate Chad is only going for one inning. At best.

FUCK

Fuckity fuck fuck.

Green is cooked

Well done, Chad. Well Fucking done.

I hate that fucking racist

Those killer walks

Well, that was suboptimal.

Lots of 3 run hrs this series

Cy fucking Peacock

Unfortunately, were losing the 3-run homer race

1 ball in 12 pitches

Jesus. Fucking awful

Nice, Didi.

Gary lives!

Good. Now, tie it the fuck up

That’s one back

Way outside, blue

I would like Gio to be the most happy fella now

Oh, man. Couldn’t advance...

Fuck you, Blue.

INSIDE! Fuck off ump

Ump has made at least 6 dubious calls already.

Goddamn bullshit ump

Jesus Fucking Christ!!!!!!!!!!!

FIRE THAT UMP!!! WTF???

Fucking AWFUL calls there!!

Well that was not a strike.

Positive: Bottom of the order is waking up.

Fuck you blue.

HAPPy birthday, Jay

Modern baseball is such garbage. Elimination game and they have to use HAPP in the second inning??

Oh, my god. Happ? Where are my prayer beads?

Happ needs to keep it here and give us length. Birthday boy can do it!

No Chirinos? That's weird.

Why isn’t that strike? Oh, because it’s a Yankee pitcher

[45] he’s been getting really beat up behind the dish. 4 games in a row, late arrival.

So this ump calls balls strikes and strikes balls. Something we can use?

5.40 ERA pitchers usually don't get the benefit of the doubt. Sad state of affairs that in an elimination game we trot out a non-starter followed up by our worst actual starter. What happened to the idea that you play to win today's game. If that's true Severino would have been the starter.

We can use a robot ump!

[49] lotsa good stuff in there. Yeah, you have to GET to game 7 first. Sevy would be the better bet. But, we do have an excellent pen, though they’re overused and we should be able to beat their pen. At this point, we just need to fucking WIN!!!

So the Yankees had 6 1,2.3 innings last night. Oi! There offense is well rested. Get 'r done!

[50] I picture a time in the future, players smashing the shit out of a robot ump with their bats.

How can you let that pitch go?

Ok, kid. Pretend it’s Game 1 again!

Shit, Judge should’ve been running on the play.

Great job by Gleyber

Judge get a bad read? Oi!

Crap. That would’ve scored Judge...

Come on, EE.

Who’s the supermodel in Cashman’s booth?!?! : o

Love me some Didi! You can do it!

Come on Sir Didi!

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

FUCK!!!!!!

Awful..

Take a goddamn fucking pitch. Jesus.

Modammit.

Take a fuckin pitch sometime, Didi...

Didi won't be back next year so there's that

Nobody can get an important hit. Nobody. Wasted chances time and again. Brutal.

Suboptimal. Take a goddamn pitch FFS.

This team is just dumb from management down. Anybody thinking Green was going to effective hasn't been listening to Correa's post game interviews. Green is good when you play different opponents every few days because he's as basic a pitcher, err thrower, as it gets.

Lead off walk. Solid!

Swing at the first pitch, then give up a leadoff walk. I guess these guys are ready to go home for winter

They at least got the maximum number of home dates one could have expected so that should please Hal.

Let's try some positivity, guys. Please.

Happ will get the DP here

Does Bregman get 12 abs a game? Cripes!

Gah. What a shit at bat from Didi.

And Pressley reminds me of this guy from Star Wars:

https://media1.giphy.com/media/Vm2FDp2cHI4tq/giphy.gif

[60] LOL, you and your blondes ...

I still wish Judge had been running on the 3-2 pitches. This would be a 1-run ballgame right now

Way to get out of it

Happ for another?

Yes!

[80] yup! : )

Jomboy, of course, has a tweet about that shot up now.

[83] yes, please

Thank goodness. Happ may need to go 1 more. Egads! Let's score some friggin' runs ffs!

[60] Here's a joke from the BBTF game thread:

"That was Cashmans personal sabermatrician. She always has great figures."

Happ for as long as possible. Then... I don't know. Matchup dictates I guess.

[88] nice! And, a lot nicer than the comments on twitter

We need to destroy this pitcher. Become savages again

[88] Ba dum dum.

Goddamnit Gary

We need a "Savages" rant on this ump.

GO GO GIO POWER!!!

Giooooooooooooooooooooo!

Gio!

I love GIO!!!

Should be a tie game...

I'm a most happy fella.

Sanchez needs to give up his Kraken nickname. If he wants something nautical it should be the Bermuda Triangle. Where rallies go to die.

[90] Well, much like the Mos Eisley cantina, Twitter is a hive of scum and villainy ...

ARGH ... thought that was fair. Doh!

Argh

Too much English.

Had to walk the dog, at least it helped a little.

Nice AB by Brett. Speed on the bases, contact hitter up. Hit and run? Steal a bag?

C'mon, DJLM!

I think we'll see Greinke in this game

This ump is a DISGRACE

Worst Fucking ump of the series. Fucking tragic. Wake up, douchebag!

Loud out. But, an out...

Damn unjuiced ball

Juuuuuust missed it.

Judge needs to rise and rule right here and now. Gavel time

They’re tagging him. Just not in fair territory or the wrong part of the outfield.

I guess Jduge wasn't looking at the DJ AB

[108] Let's hope he has a panic attack.

Fucking terrible

There will be more runs scored in this game. By both teams.

[116] seriously. That first pitch outside offspeed was so obvious

Happ or Cessa? Need to squeeze 1 more from JA.

Hey they ump missed a strike. And squeezes a 3rd. Unfuckingreal.

Gold Glove Gio

I would’ve kept Happ in for another

If Urshela never gets another hit, he's been worth his weight in gold.

It would be nice to know what the logic is not using Happ in a long relief role when he is pitching fine. Does his stretchiness vanish when he's used as a reliever?

[126] He can pitch tomorrow?

13 pitchers on the roster and we see Happ then Cessa in an elimination game? What kind of logic is this

Happ didn’t even go through the order one time

Gio is one slick fielder.

[127] has he ever pitched on back to back days?

[127] I would hope they use Tanaka instead, or even Paxton, if tomorrow happens.

Cart before horse, y'all ! Lol...

Don’t lose this guy.

I didn’t like that swing. Put him away quick

That’s it!

Beautiful!

Gleyber needs to tie this up immediately

Atta boy, Cessa! Fire ☝ the score truck!

Keep putting up 0's

[128] Well, it's working out so far.

Green + Cessa from Justin Wilson trade

Cessa looked good. I'd say keep him in there instead of going with mystery door number #3.

Someone call the Score Truck.

[143] yes

Why swing at that?

Terrible

I miss the parrot

The top half innings are cake for the stros. Bottom half innings are a slog. God dammit!

Don’t fall for the changeup

Just awful

Fail x infinity.

Hell, Stanton could have provided that kind of uselessness at the plate ...

Sit EE and bring in Stanton.

Stanton could’ve done that

Time for toast. You have breakfast, Jazz.

Doesn't make sense. Neither EE nor Stanton are hitting, but only one will be back next year. Naturally we bench that one in the biggest game of the year.

Nice foot work, Gary. Ugh.

What a throw by Sanchez, but waited too long. Sheet.

Great. Their fucking CATCHER gets a leadoff bunt hit

Take your time there Gary.

I was just happy Gary got out of his crouch before Maldonado reached second

Ok. Now, a quick DP

Houston fans very creative. "I love Homers." Weak sauce

Boo-yah!

Very nice!

Thanks goodness the ump is not giving the Yankees the same leeway as stros pitchers. Keeps things extra ezciting. Double play!

Zero pressure on stros pitching. ZERO.

We have struck out 8 times already

Gary!

And of course the base runner they get is Sanchez. Beggars can't be choosers I suppose.

There’s the bloop. How about the blast now?

Too high.

Fucking hell

I think we are owed a broken bat base hit

Bugger.

What's the under over on time of this game. 4:00/5:10?

Take a pitch, ugh

These 1st pitch dribblers and pop outs throughout the series has to be 10 or more.

I think I'd rather the Astros get 10 runs so we can put an end to this slow death march

RISP Savages. Not.

First pitch feebleness

DJ usually puts good wood on it.

It’s getting late early

Why the fuck isn't Stanton DHing again? Hang nail? Jock itch? Herpes?

Active reaching is 100%

So Tommy Tightpants, then Britton. The Unknown Comic. El Chappo?

I think maybe they should DH Romine

Third day in a row for Kahnle

Give 'em hell, Tommy.

Fail. If the ump who sucks gets in Kahlne's head of rocks this inning is fucked.

Here comes the end of our season

Boone does know it's the 6th right? Can't give up runs like that

Lead off walk, ERGH!

Now we need two solo homers

They can't even get productive outs.

We should have played the infield in and got the little fucker at home. Since he was back, DD should not have looked at home and we would’ve had a double play

That was a strike

That's a Fucking strike!

Jeebus Farking Christabol Blue, that was a strike!

Yup.

Oh my god. Season over

Holy shit.

He was doing so much better...

Here comes the 3 run job.

One more strike here please

Phew!

Yes!!!

PHEW.

Still alive

Hot damn! Yikes! Now can the O not look like complete and utter horseshit!?

I will throw something at the TV if the first batter swings at the first pitch

TV still functional, unfortunately.

Eat Fucking shit, blue. You are a goddamn disgrace!

Zero warming. HUZZAH!

Crap

I think Zero will put up a zero!

More first pitch swinging. Where are the savages?

Wait. The pitch in the dirt wasn’t called a strike?

It is unbelievable to me that everybody swings at the first pitch.

[218] they’re still in the BrOnX

Wait to lay off that one

EE on deck...

Oh my fucking god

Well that is just bad luck.

Buck just blew a load. Wonderful.

You have got to be shitting me.

Back breaker.

That’s two base running blunders by the best base runner on the team

Britton and Chapman for the next 3?

Judge didn’t run earlier when he should have, then ran when he shouldn’t have

This series should already be over. How is it game six when we cant pitch, hit or field while the Astros are able to do all three?

[232] Don't forget run

He can't be putting Outta the Park Ottavino in, can he?

Ottavino, really?

Oddly, I think Otto is gonna be fine here

Watch out for the bunt

Pinch hit for Encarnacion?

Judge definitely fucked that up.

It looked like Judge was doing a cha-cha out there.

Judge should have been about 2/3rd and wait to see if it was caught.

Nice catch, Gary

For the love of CC...tighten this shit up! Hold them, come back, and fucking WIN

Damn. Judge needs to stop sitting near Gary on the bench.

What is this the Trop?

I like Otto and believe in him. That was good.

Ok, Ottavino got 3 outs, now we need 3 runs!

[245] juice bowl

EE, Gary, and Didi. Sounds like runs!

OK. Two more chances.

[238] I certainly would. EE was on deck last inning though. Maybe Boone knows something about Stanton we don’t...

If Stanton is hurt then shouldn't they replace him with Ford or Cout?

Voit I meamt

No G- Force

Time for a rally snus. And I might as well get the fidget spinner going, too

[253] at this point, I think Cout is our best option! ; )

Why not Maybin? Shit.

Is Maybin hurt? I don't understand why EE continues to be allowed to hit

“Gregorius takes a ball” - my hearing isn’t very good. Did I hear that right?

Nice hit!

When was the last time Gary was scary? With a bat that is.

Ridiculous call

[258] his wrist isn’t great, but he’s not injured. Great call! I’d totally rather have him at DH.

Another awful call

What is he looking for?

Was that a make up ball?

Fuck!

holy fuck. That was ridiculous

It ain't gonna happen. Shit.

Now Joe Buck complains about the home plate ump? Fuck you, Joe.

Houston playing like a champion. We are not. That's pretty much all there needs to be said.

Good work, Gary. This team can't Fucking do anything right and it's game Fucking 6 vs. The "best" team in baseball. Goddamn Fucking Bollocks!

Never underestimate the heart of a champion. Come on savages!

Houston’s offense hasn’t been great. We’ve been beating ourselves a lot. This sucks

This would be sooo much better if it comes down to Sevy and Cole in Game 7.

From our old friend Cliff:

The Yankees have had the tying run or better at the plate 20 times in this game. That’s not an exaggeration.

Yes! A walk! The fewer strikes the better!

Gritner, DJ, Judge due up.

Don’t allow another fucking run!

Umm Chapman?

Don’t let CC’s baseball career end tonight

NO passed ball/wild pitch

Of course the appeal goes Houston’s way

That appeal call on Didi yesterday was disgusting

Britton has this.

thelarmis, 20 times?! That's insane. They really gotta execute at the plate in the 9th...

Walk everybody!

Another walk or passed ball.

That would’ve been called strike 3 if a Yankee batter were at the plate

Why is Chapman not in this game? For fuck sake.

Grinding teeth.

[283] yeah. This is on our hitters

I feel calm. Britton is getting the third out.

thealarmis, no shit

I just copied Cliff’s tweet. I trust him implicitly. Crazy data

He is going to walk in a run. Unreal

He sooo went. WHAT THE FUCK???

Jesus Fucking Christ!!!!!$

Fuck these umps on the appeal. It’s just wrong

Now or never.

Three more chances. Let's GO YAN-keeees!

Ok, everyone. Here we go. This is it.

Oh, I was wrong. Gio, Gritner, DJ.

Let’s do this!

Between Didi's call last night and that last non call. Oi!

Please God don't swing at the first pitch.

We can do it!

Gio

Giooooooooooooooooo!!!!

Happy? Fella!

Just Fair, yank in texas - just curious: you on Facebook?

The Gardy man can.

Should’ve let it hit him

Lean into it, Brett!

Hardly on Facebook but yeah. /tororichard

It did not hit him

Gardy shouldhave pulled a Don Baylor and taken it for the team.

Thelarmis, yes to fb.

Brett's 25th k of series.

Well, it was a fun season.

[310] couldn’t find you, but I hear ya for not being on there much

[313] very cool! I have a lot of banter buds on there. Find me if you want. My name + drums. But, not the music page; I have a personal page. The two should pop up and be easy to find...

Not over yet, rbj

Very in-DJ like swing

Come on Pepe Lemay-hyoo

Dinger time

Oh, and my name is right on the ‘thelarmis’ hyperlink

Why swing at that pitch?

We ain’t goin out like that

Actually it's https://facebook.com/toro.richard

If we somehow come back here, we are winning tomorrow

When we win here

Yessss

Tied up! Hahaha! Tied up! We are not done yet!!!!!

Yessssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!

MVP

WOW!!!

Hell yes, Le Machine!

The MACHIIIIIIIIIIIINE!

Never mind judge getting completely hosed. Grrrrrrrrr!

Here is where Gleyber buries Game 6

Dang. Well, we're still alive.

So Chapman until his arm falls off?

Man, my stomach can't take this.

[337] ala Mo in . . . ?

Chapman until we win is right Yankintexas

Houston’s bullpen is paper thin now. Who they got now?

That’s one

Catch the fucking ball. That was a strikeout!

This at bat is terrifying

Get him out quick and keep the pitch count low

Great slider working

High cheese change the eye level

A little too high

Don’t lose him. Get the fucking out NOW!

Lost him

Fucking altuve. Always with this little fucker.

Keep springer on first

Throw strikes!

Get the fucking tater tot

Chap went to hell after that mound visit.

Chappy overthrowing. Not good....

Figures.

Fuuuuuck

Little fucker

Well, we gave it a good run.

Go Nats.

Marisnick was on deck. Shouldn’t have pitched to him

Stupid walks all freaking day

Jeebus. That was an awful series top to bottom.

[362] Good point

The first question to Boone should be: why pitch to Altuve with Marisnik on deck. Then follow it up with: ok, that answer sucked. Tell us something different

Boone doesn't think. He just does. What the binder says.

But to be fair, that would have pushed Springer to scoring position.

It would have. But, still: Altuve or Marisnik?

Go Nats

[366] That puts the winning run on 2nd w/2 out. It would have been a dangerous move. Chappy blew it. Altuve is a high ball hitter. He doesn't have much power going to the opposite field. Chappy should have been going low and away.

It all sucks

That cement mixer slider is one we won’t soon forget. Lousy way to end a rousing year.

Admittedly, I didn’t listen to the announcers much. Thankfully, the crowd noise often made it difficult to hear Smoltz. What I didn’t hear was how the Yanks not only were able to achieve so much in a year where 30 players went on the IL, but our arguably most effective starter German, beat up his girlfriend and was not able to pitch in the playoffs.

The Yanks did an amazing job of holding down so many of the Astros players.

It was sad that Encarnacion was a non factor. He, Sanchez and Stanton were too rusty to be effective due to little to no playing time prior. Hicks managed to shake off some of the rust and he played good D. Sanchez seemed to regress and couldn’t corral a lot of the pitches he handled well during the year.

I’m disappointed but considering all they overcame this year, to get to Game 6 of the ALCS, is something to be proud of.

Let’s back up the $ truck for Cole and at a minimum, make whoever signs him, if not the Yanks, pays him a hunk a chunk of money.

Even if we were to get Cole, it won't matter if we don't also change the way we deploy the bullpen.

We lost game 6 partly because in game 5 Verlander allowed Hinch to rest his pen despite a losing effort. Had this been Boone, and [insert any Yankee starter] gave up 4 runs in the first they never would have been allowed to pitch deep into the game. We win game 5 yet still use more pitchers than Houston, including Kahlne and Britton, both of which didn't pitch well in game 6. Now you could argue Boone was just trying to win game 5 at any cost but that argument doesn't hold water in game 6 when Boone held back Severino, Tanaka, didn't use Chapman, earlier in a game, forgot he had a bench, all of this in a game that was equally do or die as game 5. In a nutshell we lost because Houston not only had better pitching but also a far better manager.

I think Boone was in a no win situation. If he leaves in a starter too long, everyone says "look at your bullpen." If he takes a starter out and the BP fails, he has to deal with that too. To me this was more about pitch selection and again, why not go after Marisnick as was pointed out above and by the broadcasters?

I don't think anyone would have guessed that Otto would continually shit himself.

The rain out certainly changed the calculus. But, I was upset that Chapman came in too early in Game 2. I thought Britton could have gone 2 innings, and perhaps Chappie is pitching with the lead at that point? Also he faced the bottom of the order, and ended up using way too many pitches. He was probably out of synch in Game 6 from inactivity.

The Yanks had to rely on their bullpen because of some questionable deals. I love CC, but anyone with eyes could see that he was literally on his last legs. Tanaka never lasted very long. Nobody could forecast how long Severino was going to be out or that German would hit his wife. but there were too many questions marks in their rotation to start and then they didn't get an arm at the deadline.

Just imagine if Bettances had been healthy or Ottavino lived up to his season play.

Too many guys were coming back with the season getting ready to end or worse, Encarnacion never made it back for the end of the season. The Yanks offense stumbled around a lot and left too many ducks on the pond. The feast or famine offense didn't feast enough.

My “Savages in the Box” T-shirt, which I ordered ostensibly to have in time for the start of the playoffs, arrived just today.

Everyone involved could have saved a bunch of money and time if the Etsy merchant had just sent a postcard instead that read “Dear letter carrier: Please knock on door and kick recipient once in the balls.”

Houston wasn't much better offensively than us. Their RISP batting average was only slightly better, but still not very good. Houston won because they were significantly better in starting pitching (no surprise), bullpen (big surprise to me), defense (another big surprise) and game strategy (no surprise there). If we had narrowed the gap in the starting pitching in the off-season (ex sign Corbin or Morton or even Lance Lynn instead of Happ and CC, both of whom I was against at the time) or made a deadline deal (ex Bauer, Ray) they probably beat Houston.

Cole will be a free agent. Strassborg has an opt-out. Just sayin. I think it's not a coincidence that the 2 WS teams have perhaps 3 or 4 of the top 5 starters.

In 6 games against the 'Stros, we gave up 22 (0,3,4,8,1 and 6) Runs. I would sign up for that. Even though we got little from Judge, and NOTHING from Sanchez and EE, the Astros gave up 21 Runs.

Sure, I wish we had a better SP (although Sevy was rusty and German was absent), but it was not bad. The loss was on the offense, and the BP had it's let downs.

We had enough SP to win.
Our team was built on Offense.
The loss was on the offense.

Nice to see Nats win, first DC WS victory in like 86 years. Who's better, Glayber or Soto? Discuss among yourselves.

And we need more starting pitching. Can't really go through a series with a BP game.

Gleyber is really, really good (125 OPS+).
However, Soto is a monster (140 OPS+).

[380] Judge, Gary and EE should make a fearsome middle-of-the-order.
In the ALCS, combined, they went 10 for 66 (.152) with 2 HRs.
That's why we lost.

Nats are kicking arse. 'Stros are getting out-hit and out-pitched. Pour Houston. I thought they were apex predators?

TJ surgery for Hicks. So 2020 Yankees are firing the injury bug right away.

Why don't they just perform TJ on everyone and get it over with? And while they are at it perform a labotmy on the training staff?

[383] I noticed that comment from Correa also. I realize it was heat of the moment, but it still pissed me off. Still pisses me off right now, as a matter of fact.

Cashman has dismissed the idea of Ellsbury being an option. Must be real bad. At least next year is the last guaranteed year.

Anyone for some Where & When? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EH4rMy1WsAAB2z-?format=jpg&name=medium

No Scherzer, gulp.

[388] I’ll try tomorrow.

Sucks about Scherzer. Hopefully, Ross can pull an Urquidy. Not off to a good start... : (

Love the first pitch DP to that little fucknut

Looks like there’s an optometrist store, Albert I or L Becker. Manhattan, but I’m not getting the right result.

It’s crazy just how many calls go the Astros way. If Suzuki caught a pitch like that, it’d be called a ball.

These fucking umps, man...

[388] I believe that modernist building with the setbacks is the "back" (41st St. side) of 330 West 42nd. St., which means the cafe in the foreground (8th and 41st) and everything else in the foreground is gone, sacrificed to the Port Authority Bus Terminal (1949) and its extension (1979).

Based on that I ended up finding this image in a Google search for the 8th Ave line, and it's tagged with the date 1935.

Whether or not I'm right this was a treat - thank you iyasu! Forgot how much I enjoyed these.

[392] [395]

Thanks, rbj and Bronx Boy.

A search on "Albert Becker" shows The Blue Book of Optometrists with a listing of 641 8th Ave., which is between W40/41 streets.

Bronx Boy, thanks for your explanation. It's great you even found the date!

Glad you enjoyed this, too. Where & When was always fun.

So who replaces Rothschild?

[397] Someone with no coaching experience who will be a rubber stamp for the analytics department?

[398] Analytics are helpful, but they can't calm you down or point out that you're tipping pitches. Or see that your curve isn't working today, go with the slider instead.

Soto is such a badass. Not sure why Verlander would challenge him like that.