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Post by bigjeep on May 29, 2024 17:57:26 GMT -5
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Post by laurenfrances on May 29, 2024 18:19:54 GMT -5
Prime Broadcast : 9:38PM
Anthony Volpe (R) SS
Juan Soto (L) RF
Aaron Judge (R) CF
Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
Alex Verdugo (L) LF
Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
Anthony Rizzo (L) 1B
Jose Trevino (R) C
DJ LeMahieu (R) 3B
Tyler Anderson
LHP
5-4, 2.52 ERA, 44 SO
Luis Gil
RHP
6-1, 2.11 ERA, 70 SO
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Post by kaybli on May 29, 2024 18:21:39 GMT -5
Merged the two game threads that were created.
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Post by bigjeep on May 29, 2024 18:23:25 GMT -5
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 29, 2024 18:25:44 GMT -5
Merged the two game threads that were created. I have to admit...qwik tho I am, I'd have had trouble keeping up play-by-play in TWO different game threads. As usual, you're "johnny on the spot", kaybi. Now, I'll get my daily dose of preview parley done... |
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 29, 2024 18:26:23 GMT -5
The Angels send out veteran lefty Tyler Anderson for the middle game of this series, looking to beat the Yanks for the second straight day. Drafted by the Rockies with the 20th pick of the 1st round in 2011, he's been doing a lot of traveling in the last 3-4 years. He pitched well in Low-A and High-A ball in 2012 and 2013, but the 2nd season was cut short by a stress fracture in his pitching elbow. He came back in 2014 on a strict pitch limit and pitched very well there, making all 23 starts (just 113+ innings), good enough to win the Texas League Pitcher of the Year Award, but the injury got the best of him and shut him down for all of 2015. In 2016, he made 6 good starts across A, AA and AAA ball before the Rockies called him to the majors for good in June. He did well his first year in the majors, going 5-6 with a 3.54 ERA, very good for a starter pitching half his games in Coors Field.
His next two years for the Rockies didn't go as well, ERAs over 4.50 and he missed 3 months of 2017 after arthroscopic knee surgery that year, but made every start in 2018, going 7-9 with a 4.55 ERA. He came down with knee inflammation in spring training of 2019, so the Rockies shut him down, he came off the IL to start 5 games and was dreadful, so they sent him to AAA, but his knee got worse, and in mid-June he underwent surgery to correct damage to an area of cartilege in the knee lining. He didn't throw another pitch that season. His odyssey began when the Rockies exposed him to waivers and the Giants picked him up. They then non-tendered him and he signed with them again as a free agent. He pitched the entire COVID-shortened season for San Francisco, going 4-3 with an ERA of 4.37. The Giants let him go free agent and he signed with the Pirates in the off-season of 2020-21. He again pitched decently in 18 starts for Pittsburgh, so they cashed him in at the trade deadline by dealing him to the Mariners for two low-level prospects that still haven't made the majors (Typical Pirates, right? On the other hand, Anderson's trade value wasn't very high, so...). He pitched 13 mediocre starts for Seattle, so they let him go free agent and he signed for 2022 with the Dodgers. And in LA, from out of nowhere, he had a brilliant season, going 15-5 with an ERA of 2.57, good enough for 5th in the NL. He was 7th in WHIP, and 9th in K/BB ratio and made the NL All-Star team.
The Dodgers let him leave via free agency, and, at age 33, he signed a 3-year deal with the Angels. He turned in a poor season last year, going 6-6 with a 5.43 ERA in 25 starts, but the magic of 2022 has returned this season. If Anderson is not the Angels' "ace", he certainly pitching the best in the rotation. So far this year in 10 starts, he's 5-4 with a 2.52 ERA, 7th in the AL. In 64 1/3 innings, he's allowed just 45 hits, 19 runs, 18 earned, 7 HR, 23 K and struck out 44, and thanks to a very low hit rate, his WHIP is an outstanding 1.057. Despite being in the majors for 9 seasons, this is just his 2nd career start against the Yanks. His first was for the Mariners at the Stadium in early August, just after he got traded to Seattle in 2021. He went 5 innings, gave up 5 hits, 2 runs, both earned, 0 HR, with 2 BB and 4 K. He got a no-decision in a a game the Yankees won, 5-3. It's just 22 PA, but the Yankee team quadruple slash line vs. Anderson is .263/.318/.368/.687.
Repertoire: Anderson is essentially a 3-pitch lefty who relies on his FB and changeup, and the Yanks don't usually fare well against pitchers like that. He junked his rarely used curve altogether this season (so far, anyway), and has all but junked his slider. He has a FB averaging 89-90 about 45% of the time (although, as with most starters these days, that could be two FB, a sinker 88-89 and a 4-seamer 90-91), the change averaging 77 about 35% of the time, the cutter 84 about 19% of the time, and a slider thrown about once every other starts at about 80 mph.
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Post by chiyankee on May 29, 2024 18:30:05 GMT -5
Jeep's trying again, lol.
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 29, 2024 18:30:11 GMT -5
Playing the name game...Tyler has become a popular boys name in the last 50 years or so. There have been over 60 Tylers to play in the major leagues; none of them started before 1993. The best of them is almost certainly Tyler Glasnow, now pitching lights out for the Dodgers. There have been dozens of Andersons in the majors; perhaps the best player among them was Yankee nemesis Garrett Anderson, who killed them numerous times playing for the Mike Scioscia Angels' team that haunted them from 2002 to 2008, before the Yanks finally slew the dragon in the 2009 ALCS. The most famous Anderson to play in the majors might be former Reds and Tigers manager Sparky Anderson, one of the few managers to win the World Series with both an NL and AL team. (Tony LaRussa and Bruce Bochy are the other two.)
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 29, 2024 18:30:57 GMT -5
Even these emoji posts keep moving the ball forward, jeep...you know what I mean.  |
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 29, 2024 18:32:04 GMT -5
The Yanks send Luis Gil out to oppose Anderson. He's in the middle of a big-time hot streak, having thrown 5 games in a row of at least 6 innings with no more than 1 run in any of the 5. Just 12 hits total, 10 BB, and 1 HR with 35 K's in 30 2/3 innings. He's been the winning pitcher in all 5 games. On the season, in 10 starts, he's 6-1 with a 2.11 ERA, good for 4th in the league coming into tonight. In 55 1/3 innings, he's allowed 27 hits, 14 runs, 13 earned, 3 HR and the solo blemish on his record is the still high BB rate of 4.7 per nine and 29 total walks, which is 3rd most in the league. His hit rate is now lower than his walk rate, and leads not just the AL but all of MLB. It's so low that despite the high BB rate, he's 8th in the AL in WHIP. He also has the 5th lowest HR rate, the 3rd highest K rate and is 7th in the AL in total strikeouts. If he can keep this up, and the Yanks make the postseason, it wouldn't be so bad to have a playoff rotation of Cole, Gil, Rodon, and say, Cortes or Stroman, would it?
Despite his success this season, Gil still hasn't faced 19 MLB teams yet, and the Angels are one of them. So tonight is his first appearance against the LAA of A.
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 29, 2024 18:33:15 GMT -5
Yanks' lineup vs Anderson:
Volpe has never faced Anderson before
Soto is 3-14 with 3 BB and a GIDP
Judge is 0-2 with a BB and a K
Verdugo is 2-4 with a BB and a K
Stanton is 1-8 with 2 K and a GIDP
Torres is 0-1 with a sac fly, an RBI and a K
Rizzo is 7-21 with a HR, 2 RBI and 2 K
Trevino has never faced him
LeMahieu is 1-3
On the bench: Grisham is 2-9 with 1 3B, an RBI, 2 BB, 4 K, a sac fly and a GIDP, and pitchers Santana and Stroman are 1-1 with a 2 run double and 0-1 against Anderson, respectively.
Angels lineup vs. Gil... doesn't matter, because he's never faced them before, and for a change, none of them have faced Gil while playing for other teams, either.
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 29, 2024 18:34:13 GMT -5
The Yanks blew a lead in the bottom of the 8th when, after a key error by Rizzo, uh, excuse me, that was changed to an infield hit after the game even though Rizzo conceded he should've come up with that play put the go-ahead run on 1st, Clay Holmes came in and gave up a two-run double to Taylor Ward on the first pitch he threw that wound up winning the game 4-3, despite two deep flyballs by Lemahieu and Soto in the Yankees' 9th off of Angels closer Carlos Estevez. Elsewhere in the East, the Sox gave up a 2-0 lead in the 1st as the O's struck back for 3, but that was all Baltimore got last night. The Sox re-took the lead with 2 in the 2nd and put it away with 4 more in the late innings to win 8-3. Mitch Spence, making just his 3rd start for Oakland, threw 5 1/3 shutout innings, and combined with 3 relievers to shut out the Rays on just 3 hits. The loss was Tampa's 7th in their last 8 games. The Jays built up a 7-2 lead against the woeful White Sox, then had to wait out a long rain delay before finally wrapping up a 7-2 win. Kevin Gausman went 6 good innings of 1-run ball for the W.
At the start of the day today, the Yanks led the O's by 1 1/2, the Sox by 8 1/2, the Rays by 10 1/2 and the Jays by 11 full games.
Elsewhere in the AL East today: the Sox and O's...the A's and Rays...the Jays and White Sox...well, it kinds seems silly to recap it all, when the Yankee game doesn't start for 2 hours, and I'll update the scores then anyway, but as of this moment, if you must know...
The O's got 5 in the 2nd off of Kutter Crawford, four of them on a Gunnar Henderson grand slam, moving him back into a tie for the MLB lead in HR with 18 with Tucker of the Astros, and the O's lead 5-1, bottom 4 in Camden Yards. Rays and A's are 0-0 top 4 in Tampa, Joey Estes for Oakland and Ryan Pepiot for Tampa in that one. The Jays and White Sox are getting their game underway, should be...right about...now.
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Post by qwik3457bb on May 29, 2024 18:42:24 GMT -5
And with that, the pre-game hoo-hah is over, and I go to make a sandwich for myself for dinner. (If you must know, roast beef and swiss on rye bread with thousand island dressing, good enough?)
See you guys a little less two hours from now for warmups and first pitch.
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Post by bigjeep on May 29, 2024 18:46:29 GMT -5
Jeep's trying again, lol. Mine wasn't a game thread! I was looking for one!  |
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Post by bigjeep on May 29, 2024 18:49:11 GMT -5
And with that, the pre-game hoo-hah is over, and I go to make a sandwich for myself for dinner. (If you must know, roast beef and swiss on rye bread with thousand island dressing, good enough?) See you guys a little less two hours from now for warmups and first pitch. Thats almost like a NY, NJ Sloppy Joe!  |
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