It is high, it is far, it is JOHN! : Down 3-2, (thank you, Mr. Rizzo) OPENING DAY GAME THREAD

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Friday, April 8, 2022

Down 3-2, (thank you, Mr. Rizzo) OPENING DAY GAME THREAD

Posted by el duque at 1:43 PM

50 comments:

el duque said...: Gallo with his signature K.; April 8, 2022 at 1:54 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: One down, 222 to go to tie the record!

Who says this season won't be full of excitement?; April 8, 2022 at 2:00 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: So, concerning Mr. Judge: There are indeed plenty of reasons not to bring him back. The constant injuries, his age, the fact that he probably won't be able to play in Canada for...how long?, etc.

But what now? Some truly hawk-eyed, bad-ass general manager with his fingers on the pulse of the game would rob some other team blind of its best prospects for a generation, or at least a combination of pitchers and day-to-day players immediately help to transform our team.

Where do we get one of those? The hawk-eyed, bad-as GM, I mean?; April 8, 2022 at 2:05 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: Question of the day: when will Josh Donaldson first take a pitch as a Yankee?

Two at-bats, and what we have so far is: groundout, swinging strike, groundout.

Who says this guy is over the hill? He's right out there, taking his cuts.; April 8, 2022 at 2:07 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: Cole up to 57 pitches, with none out in the 4th.

And...a double by Verdugo.; April 8, 2022 at 2:13 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: No, just a single. Nice play by the soon-to-be-departed.; April 8, 2022 at 2:15 PM
el duque said...: I think Dalbek is on our side; April 8, 2022 at 2:17 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: New Commentary of the Year:

Cone on Giancarlo exit velocity:

"Look at the leader board in the history of StatCast. There's him and everybody else."; April 8, 2022 at 2:34 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: Wait, wait! Michael Kay on Giancarlo:

"He's workin' like a scientist behind the scenes."

This is going to be a helluva competition.; April 8, 2022 at 2:35 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: Kay just now, on how fans root for guys they previously hated, when traded to their teams:

"It's all about the laundry."

Yeah, that's great, Michael. Reduce 120 years of tradition to a meaningless, arbitrary decision over who to root for. Makes me all the more eager to shell out bucks to see this team.; April 8, 2022 at 2:40 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: And...Cole out of the game. Gave us a big four innings, three earned runs. Pulled after 68 pitches, with no explanation.

This IS going to be a long season.; April 8, 2022 at 2:41 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: Now we're told, "Obviously the pitch count got him."

Yeah, obviously.; April 8, 2022 at 2:42 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: Incidentally, not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but...

Last game Giancarlo was in that counted: he embarrassed himself by not running at first on a ball he hit off Eovaldi that he thought was out, got only to first on what should have been an easy double.

Today? Stands at first base, to watch a ball that juuuuust made it out of the yard.

Hey, never mind, it got out. But nothing like learning from experience. Or rather, like learning nothing from experience.; April 8, 2022 at 2:45 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: Yes! Donaldson took a pitch! It CAN happen!; April 8, 2022 at 2:47 PM
el duque said...: Greg Bird better be ready; April 8, 2022 at 2:47 PM
Dantes said...: Well, now the trainer can give Rizzo a cortisone shot laced with a little pfizer.; April 8, 2022 at 2:57 PM
TheWinWarblist said...: I hate these fuckers already.; April 8, 2022 at 3:01 PM
BernBabyBern said...: In the car, I hear Sterling in mid-season form. He called Higashioka "Hicks" a couple times when Higgy was on first base.; April 8, 2022 at 3:06 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: It is, as ever, the little things the Yankees don't do well. Our Gold-Glove left fielder, who can't hit a lick, botches a ball, and then our "glove" SS, Falafel, blows a tailor-made DP.

Yeah, so much for the "Defense team."; April 8, 2022 at 3:08 PM
TheWinWarblist said...: Oh good. Gallo struck out swinging this time. He's multifaceted.; April 8, 2022 at 3:18 PM
Doctor T said...: It's time to fire Randy Levine. No excuses. This clown has screwed up everything he does, when he isn't lying, cheating or abusing everyone who wasn't born rich like he was.; April 8, 2022 at 3:22 PM
Doug K. said...: This team is so,so, hard to watch.

As an Aside... I was watching the commercial with Otani for cyrpto and I want to know why they haven't used Krypto the superdog yet.; April 8, 2022 at 3:31 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: Incidentally, 20 years on and we're STILL getting punked by the Red Sox.

Rizzo produces almost all of our offense today...and next time up, he's hit on the wrist. And the Yanks retaliate by...offering the Sox coupons for free sundaes? What?; April 8, 2022 at 3:38 PM
ZacharyA said...: Last inning, Michael Kay was talking about how the Red Sox scouts saw Garrett Whitlock's potential just from videos posted to social media.

Meanwhile, the Yankees had Whitlock in the organization for four years, were able to watch him pitch daily, and monitor every single thing about him.... and they decided to let Whitlock go for nothing in the Rule 5 Draft (protecting guys like Brooke Kriske instead).

It's just.... so very hard to have any faith in this organization.; April 8, 2022 at 3:39 PM
el duque said...: DJ validates Glauber disappearance; April 8, 2022 at 3:58 PM
TheWinWarblist said...: This team is going to be dreadful and absolutely excruciating to watch. Like a burning sandy itch on your genitals excruciating.; April 8, 2022 at 4:08 PM
Doug K. said...: Oh good. DJ ties it up. Now Chapman can blow the game. It's a Yankee/Red Sox Tradition.; April 8, 2022 at 4:10 PM
ranger_lp said...: Flop sweat had a good inning…; April 8, 2022 at 4:18 PM
TheWinWarblist said...: So how do they do extra innings now? Coin toss? Staring contest?; April 8, 2022 at 4:34 PM
Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside said...: Yanks do extra innings the same way they have for past decade…. They lose.; April 8, 2022 at 4:38 PM
BTR999 said...: The ghost runner rule really hurts a one dimensional team like the Yankees. They can’t play situational BB at all, it’s hr’s or nothing.; April 8, 2022 at 4:40 PM
TheWinWarblist said...: Gallo should take one in the head. Better yet, the face.; April 8, 2022 at 4:43 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: And Sox put the DP runner on first...by hitting him.

Our Gandhi-like restraint would be admirable...were we trying to get the British to leave India.; April 8, 2022 at 4:43 PM
BernBabyBern said...: I have no doubt that if George were alive, He would tell reporters after the game, " If Aaron judge doesn't think 250 million dollars is enough, maybe he should hit home runs in the bottom of the 9th inning and not doubles."; April 8, 2022 at 4:43 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: Hmm, just the man you want up in this situation.; April 8, 2022 at 4:47 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: But hey, at least Joey Gallo managed the equivalent of a sac bunt....; April 8, 2022 at 4:48 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: Wow. This is a stunningly bad at-bat...; April 8, 2022 at 4:49 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: All right, a sac fly. I give him his props.; April 8, 2022 at 4:51 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: As usual, it all comes down to the Falafel.; April 8, 2022 at 4:52 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: Ah, Falafel.; April 8, 2022 at 4:56 PM
BTR999 said...: Have to say, that was an impressive inning of work by King.; April 8, 2022 at 5:04 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: So glad we don't have that bum, Whitlock, as Zach noted.; April 8, 2022 at 5:08 PM
ranger_lp said...: Yanks win!!!; April 8, 2022 at 5:09 PM
ranger_lp said...: No errors no wild pitches no passed balls; April 8, 2022 at 5:11 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: A win is a win!; April 8, 2022 at 5:11 PM
Joe of AZ said...: An actual situational hit .... Imagine; April 8, 2022 at 5:13 PM
TheWinWarblist said...: Donaldson just called us, the fans, "the common eyes." Like we can't appreciate the little things that go into superior play. Like we can't appreciate the nuances of good fielding, or baserunning or situational hitting.

Umm ... fuck him.; April 8, 2022 at 5:13 PM
BTR999 said...: This was what used to be called “a hard fought win”. Give them credit for a professional effort. The bottom of the order was 2-17 and whiffed 9 times, led of course by Gallo and Hicks. Cole not sharp. Bullpen very good. Donaldson clutch, hope he stays healthy.

Happy for the win, hope you enjoyed it!; April 8, 2022 at 5:34 PM
ranger_lp said...: Joey Whiffs… has a ring to it…; April 8, 2022 at 5:51 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: Agreed, born! Great pen, despite some hard luck (though maybe Clay Holmes could learn to throw a waste pitch on 0-2?). Lousy start by Cole.

Too much of the same sort of hitting/non-hitting from last year—Three Mediocre Outcomes. But at least clutch at-bats from Donaldson and The Gleyber, of all people. DJ hit the ball well, getting robbed in a key situation by Vertigo on the Sox.

Big take-way: If Joey "Thousand-Yard Stare" Gallo and Falafel intend to stay in this lineup, they had better at least field.

Falafel botched a DP, which didn't end up meaning much. Gallo misplayed a single into a double, which cost us a run, and his throw home in the 10th would've caught the runner...if Derek Jeter had been there to flip the ball to the catcher.; April 8, 2022 at 6:38 PM

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