The Starting lineups including #45 Travis Snider batting 9th and playing LF.
Well it was another good start wasted by the Jays offence. This time it is Burnett drawing the short stick as the Jays managed just 1 run off Pavano and 5 Yankee relievers. Burnett got the 8 inning CG game giving up 2 runs on 7 hits. He struck out 8 and walked one. Both runs came in the 4th inning and the only other inning the Yankees had more than one runner reach was the 5th. Burnett ended 5 of the innings (incl. the last 4) by striking out the last batter.
Inglett led off the game w/a 1B but the Jays didn’t get another hit until the 6th. That hit was by Travis Snider the 1st of his career. It was a ground rule 2B to straight away CF. Snider also lined out to short his 1st major league AB and struck out looking in the 8th w/runners at 1st and 2nd none out. Snider also made a nice leaping catch by the LF stands, although he might have made it more awkward than it needed to be. Overall, a nice ML debut.
After Snider struck out in the 8th, Inglett and Scutaro failed to come up w/the hit needed to tie it. The Jays went just 1 for 7 w/RISP.
I think Joe Girardi over-managed his bullpen using 5 relievers to get 9 outs (5 of them by Rivera). First of all I’m surprised Pavano was pulled so early. He only gave up 3 hits and 1 run through 6 innings while throwing just 72 pitches. Instead Girardi goes to Bruney to start the 7th and has him face just 1 hitter. I would have had no problem leaving Pavano in for the whole inning but if you really want the left-on-left matchup why not have Pavano face Wells to start the inning then go to the lefty.
With 2 RH’s due up to start the 8th Girardi then went to Veras who faced just 2 hitters and retired none. On came another RH in Ramirez to face the LH Snider. I believe Ramirez actually handles lefties really well so it is sort of like bringing on a lefty. However, Ramirez faces just the 1 batter before Rivera is brought in to try and get a 5-out save. Now I have no problem using your closer for more than an inning but if you were comfortable using Ramirez to face one lefty why not another. I would have let Ramirez try to finish off the 8th. Either that or why not bring Rivera in to face Snider rather than waiting 1 batter.
Sure each of these guys didn’t throw many pitches but it is all the warming up in the bullpen that adds up on a reliever during the course of a season. So each of those relievers got up at least once and threw a bunch of pitches in the bullpen on top of the warmup pitches on the mound and the pitches they threw in the game. Yes the strategy worked out and Yankees held on for the win, but who is to say it wouldn’t have worked out another way. Plus in the marathon of a 162 game season these are the kinds of moves that can hurt.
I was surprised to see Rolen not diving for the ground ball 1B by Cano through the left side in the 7th inning. It made me wonder if he is a little tentative b/c of the shoulder.
Here are the stats:
NAdv: Snider (1), Jeter
P-NAdv: Burnett (18), Ramirez
WG: Snider (1)
DE: Barajas (3), Scutaro (6)
Inglett led off the game w/a 1B but the Jays didn’t get another hit until the 6th. That hit was by Travis Snider the 1st of his career. It was a ground rule 2B to straight away CF. Snider also lined out to short his 1st major league AB and struck out looking in the 8th w/runners at 1st and 2nd none out. Snider also made a nice leaping catch by the LF stands, although he might have made it more awkward than it needed to be. Overall, a nice ML debut.
After Snider struck out in the 8th, Inglett and Scutaro failed to come up w/the hit needed to tie it. The Jays went just 1 for 7 w/RISP.
I think Joe Girardi over-managed his bullpen using 5 relievers to get 9 outs (5 of them by Rivera). First of all I’m surprised Pavano was pulled so early. He only gave up 3 hits and 1 run through 6 innings while throwing just 72 pitches. Instead Girardi goes to Bruney to start the 7th and has him face just 1 hitter. I would have had no problem leaving Pavano in for the whole inning but if you really want the left-on-left matchup why not have Pavano face Wells to start the inning then go to the lefty.
With 2 RH’s due up to start the 8th Girardi then went to Veras who faced just 2 hitters and retired none. On came another RH in Ramirez to face the LH Snider. I believe Ramirez actually handles lefties really well so it is sort of like bringing on a lefty. However, Ramirez faces just the 1 batter before Rivera is brought in to try and get a 5-out save. Now I have no problem using your closer for more than an inning but if you were comfortable using Ramirez to face one lefty why not another. I would have let Ramirez try to finish off the 8th. Either that or why not bring Rivera in to face Snider rather than waiting 1 batter.
Sure each of these guys didn’t throw many pitches but it is all the warming up in the bullpen that adds up on a reliever during the course of a season. So each of those relievers got up at least once and threw a bunch of pitches in the bullpen on top of the warmup pitches on the mound and the pitches they threw in the game. Yes the strategy worked out and Yankees held on for the win, but who is to say it wouldn’t have worked out another way. Plus in the marathon of a 162 game season these are the kinds of moves that can hurt.
I was surprised to see Rolen not diving for the ground ball 1B by Cano through the left side in the 7th inning. It made me wonder if he is a little tentative b/c of the shoulder.
Here are the stats:
NAdv: Snider (1), Jeter
P-NAdv: Burnett (18), Ramirez
WG: Snider (1)
DE: Barajas (3), Scutaro (6)
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