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Post by kaybli on Oct 10, 2024 13:36:53 GMT -5
Let's finish the series with Cole at the helm! Lineups to come!  |
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Post by kaybli on Oct 10, 2024 15:39:11 GMT -5
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 10, 2024 16:44:27 GMT -5
In Game 4, the Royals turn back to Game 1 starter and veteran Yankee stopper Michael Wacha. His season information, his recent pitching, his record against the Yankees and his post-season record was all discussed before the first game started, so there’s nothing new to discuss about any of those things. In that game 1 start, Wacha was not as his best, pitching 4 innings, allowing 3 hits, 3 runs, all earned, walking 3 and striking out 3, and exiting after walking Gleyber Torres to open the 5th with the Royals ahead 4-2. Zerpa came in and had no command, giving up a single to Sosa before walking both Judge and Wells, allowing the runner he inherited from Wacha to score to make it 4-3, before he too, was taken out. The Yanks went on to win, 6-5.
In that game 1 start, Wacha threw 6 pitches, but used just 1 slider and two curves. The rest of the 70 pitches he threw were almost evenly divided among his 4-seamer, cutter, sinker and change. As for his stuff, he was amped up and was throwing harder across the board, his velocity was up 1-2 mph across the board on the 4 main pitches, and so were his spin rates, all up 50 to 120 rpm. And maybe this is why his command wasn’t as sharp as it usually is, because two of his key pitches are his sinker and change, and the vertical break on both was down, significantly. For the sinker, he got 2 inches less drop per pitch than during the season as a whole. For the change it was 6 inches less than it was during the season. His horizontal break was pretty much where it had been the whole year on all his pitches. The exit velocity was low, but so was his called strike rate. He did get 11 swings and misses, the the swinging strike rate was pretty high: 15.7%. Because of all the soft contact, the Yankee team XBA was just .244.
Repertoire: As for what he plans for the game tonight, a link to a piece in the Kansas City Star.com website in which he talks about where he went wrong, and what he plans to do, in general terms. Nothing very revealing, obviously:
KC Royals’ Michael Wacha ready for must-win Game 4 start against New York Yankees
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 10, 2024 16:46:12 GMT -5
Two Name Games for the same pitcher in the same series doesn’t leave a lot of ground to explore, but there are so many Michaels in MLB history, I’m going to focus on a Michael who played for the Yanks, and who has a most unusual story: Mike Kekich. I hope this lengthy, somewhat wandering and wide-ranging Name Game makes up a little for the enforced short pitcher history sections today. There isn’t much to add to them I didn’t say 5 days ago, so I put my efforts here.
Born in April 1945, in San Diego, he played high school ball for Lynwood, HS, he was signed by the Dodgers in the last year or so before the first June Amateur Draft (1965), some time before the 1964 major league season, and rocketed threw their farm system during that season, pitching decently in the hitter-friendly class-A California League and better in the pitcher-friendly class-A Florida State League. He made one poor start for Spokane in the Pacific Coast League, and finished the season with the major league team, where he pitched very poorly, 1-4 with a 7.64 ERA in 6 starts and 2 relief appearances. In 1965, he appears to have been hurt most of the season, because he spent no time in the minor leagues, and just 10 innings for the Dodgers that year, pitching poorly again. He did achieve one distinction in that first season with the Dodgers. In his final NBC game of the week broadcast of the 1986 season, lead announcer Vin Scully said Kekich was the only player he had ever seen in his year calling games who got ejected from a game for heckling the umpire before he’d ever pitched in a major league game. In 1966, he was either hurt or in instructional camp most of the season, as he pitched just 27 innings (poorly) for two minor league teams, but then threw 45 innings that fall in the precursor to the Arizona Fall Legue, then called the Arizona Instructional League. He pitched very well there; it was the 3rd year in a row he spent time in that league, and the Dodgers viewed as a sign he was ready to take on the minor leagues full time. In the main 1967 season, he made 29 starts at A and AA ball, going 17-5 with a 3.01 ERA.
Kekich was finally called back to the majors for all of 1968, and went 2-10 for the Dodgers with a 3.91 ERA. The Yankees though he had potential, so they traded a young outfielder named Andy Kosco to LA for Kekich. Kosco had going 15-59-240 with an OPS of .650 for the Yanks in 1968, which sounds pretty bad, but in the offensive crash of 1968, those numbers were actually 24th in the AL in HR, 20th in RBI, the batting and OPS were actually 10 pts and 13 pts above the AL league average. On the Yankees, Kosco was 3rd in BAVG, 3rd in HR and 2nd in RBI for the team that finished 5th out of 10 in the AL that year. So Kosco, while not a great player by any means, was pretty much an average AL hitter that year, he was 26 years old, and the Yanks gave him up for Kekich. Kekich was on the Yanks for four seasons, plus a little more. In 1969, working as a swingman, Kekich went 4-6 with a 4.54 ERA. In 1970, again splitting time between starting and relieving, Kekich went 6-3 with 4.83 ERA. In 1971, he spent more time in the rotation, and his innings pitched rose from 98 to 175, and he was10-9 with a 4.07 ERA. In 1972, his last full year with the Yanks he was exclusively a starter, and as major league teams all had 4-man rotations in the early 1970s, Kekich was the Yankees 4th starter, starting 28 games, behind Mel Stottlemyre (later pitching coach for the Dynasty Yankees in the late 90s under Torre), Steve Kline and (thereby hangs the tale) #2 start Fritz Peterson. Kekich went 10-13 with the best ERA of his career as a starter: 3.70. It should be noted that hitting was much worse in that era than it is now, so that none of his ERAs, not even the 3.70 in 1972, was below the AL league average, and in fact, his bWAR total for all four seasons was below zero, peaking at +0.5 in that 1972 season.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 10, 2024 16:47:00 GMT -5
In the off-season of 1972, George Steinbrenner bought the Yanks, and is if on cue, the cultural of change regarding sex and marriage hit the Yanks, now owned by the very strait-laced, traditional Steinbrenner. Apparently, Fritz Peterson and his wife and family were very close to Kekich and his wife. So close, in fact, that speculation was they were in a mutual open marriage of some sort, but both couples knew they had fallen for each other’s spouses sometime during the 1972 season, according to a Washington Times report from 2005. In October that year, the two pitches decided to “trade” wives and families (two children each, and their dogs, too). When the news broke during spring training, Kekich was in camp, getting ready for the season, but Peterson, having gone 17-15 with a 3.21 ERA in 1972 was staging a holdout for a better salary (remember holdouts?). According to a report in the Montreal Gazette at the time, Kekich refused to comment on the swap, and Peterson wasn’t there, but a TV reporter went to his spring training home in Ft. Lauderdale for a filmed interview, and Peterson said:
“I have nothing to hide. We didn’t kill anybody and nobody’s got a deathly
sickness. We’re just living a little better than before. It’s not a smutty thing, if
they were living as happy as we are, it would be a laughing matter. We were
even thinking about a double wedding. We had a wonderful relationship.
If I thought it was wrong, I would go back, but I don’t. There were a lot of
tears shed, but we made a final agreement and I just can’t go back. We don’t
want this to sound cheap, but our friends will still be our friends after it’s
over and the ones who aren’t weren’t worth having as friends.”
Commissioner Bowie Kuhn said he was appalled but was powerless to do anything about it. Yankee general manager Lee McPhail quipped “We might have to call off Family Day” (Family Day was the day when all the wives and children were invited to the join the players and go on the field and play or just walk around before the game. Publicity photos were taken, and later showed up in pages in the Yankee Yearbook.) Most of the Yankees quoted in the Gazette piece said they didn’t care as long as both Kekich and Peterson worked hard and were ready for the season. Typical was Thurman Munson, who said: “Everybody knows we’re a bunch of crazy guys, every man to his own. It won’t bother the club on the field, and it won’t change my feelings for either one of them. But Fritz should be out here now, working out. We need him.” Bobby Murcer was briefer: “At first I thought it was one of their gags…” (Peterson was a famous practical joker on the team at the time) “…but I don’t think it will affect the club, if they do their job.”. Only one Yankee openly objected, reliever Lindy McDaniel, who was a minister for the Church of Christ:
“It’s not very good, is it? My position is very clear. It doesn’t change for
any particular situation. A Christian or a ballplayer always finds differences
in morality and that’s nothing new. It’s hard to separate private life from
baseball life. There’s always an overlapping; to what degree, only a Solomon
would know.”
The trade worked out well for Peterson. After the two divorces, he married the former Suzanne Kekich, and were still married at the time the Washington Times story was published 19 years ago. But the former Marilyn Peterson was not happy, and left Kekich and went home to her parents later in 1973, along with her kids, and, one assumes, the dog. There were rumors following the “swap” that the Yanks were looking to trade both players as soon as they could. Kekich got dumped to the Cleveland Indians for an obscure righty reliever named Lowell Palmer that June. Palmer never pitched an inning for the Yanks. Peterson was hammered and ridiculed and his performance dropped off drastically. He went 8-15 for the Yanks in 1973 with a 3.95 ERA and early in the 1974 season, he was the big name in a 4-player package the Yanks traded to the Indians for Chris Chambliss, Dick Tidrow and reliever Cecil Upshaw, one of the key trades that built the 1976-8 Yankees team that won three pennants and two titles.
As for Kekich, his career also went rapidly downhill. He was 2-5 in 1973 with an ERA of 7.52 for the Yanks and Indians, and no one in MLB wanted to touch him, so he signed with the Nippon Ham Fighters of NPB for 1974, but also spent some time with Spokane in the PCL either before or after. He tried to come back to MLB in 1975, and had a decent year with the Rangers in relief, interrupted by a 6-week injury in July and August. In 1976, Kekich played in the Mexican League, but he got one last break, because in 1977, the AL expanded to Toronto and Seattle, and Kekich was purchased by the Mariners team, just before the 1977 season started. He was with the team the whole season, having one stint on the DL, and pitched poorly. He spent all of 1978 in AAA for both the Mariners, and then, coincidentally, for San Jose, the AAA franchise of the Milwaukee Brewers…who were the Seattle Pilots for their one and only major league season in 1969 before moving to Milwaukee for the 1970 season. In 1979 and 1980, Kekich tried the Mexican League again, but never made it back to the majors.
Marilyn Peterson never married Kekich, but he did remarry, and had a daughter with his second wife. Peterson was still married to Suzanne in 2013, and reports at the time said they were both still very happy together. Both men suffered career and financial troubles after they left baseball. Peterson revealed that he was suffering from Alzheimer’s in 2018, and died of lung cancer in October, 2023. Kekich is still alive and is now 79 years old.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 10, 2024 16:50:13 GMT -5
Just to round things out and show you how my mind wanders, along the way in researching this information, I noted that in the same issue of the Montreal Gazette I found the marriage-swapping story, the lead sports article that day was about the Montreal Canadiens clinching a playoff spot by beating the Islanders 3-2. The Canadiens went on to win the Stanley Cup that season; 1972-1973 was the Islanders’ first season in the NHL, in which they went a horrific 12-60-6 on the season, worst record in the league. However, several Islanders who won Stanley Cups with the team 8-11 years later were already on the roster: Jean Potvin, Bobby Nystrom, and Billy Smith. That research led me to wandering to the history of the WHA, and the teams that got to merge with the NHL. One of them, the Winnipeg Jets, later moved to Arizona to become the Coyotes, who fell into severe financial problems over the last 15 years, first going bankrupt in 2009, and after several ownership changes, finally folded this offseason. An expansion franchise was awarded to Winnipeg right after the Jets moved to Arizona in 1996, and it chose to take over the name Jets. So even though there’s been a Winnipeg Jets team in Winnipeg every year since 1972, those Jets are not the original Jets. Meanwhile, in April this year, the NHL bought out the Coyotes franchise, and sold it Ryan Smith, who owns the NBA Utah Jazz, and moved the team to Utah, where the name of the team in Utah…is still not finalized. There have been several online votes, and the list of possible names was narrowed to 8 candidates, then 20, then 6, and…they still don’t have a final name. They will be known simply as Utah Hockey Club until they make up their minds. So, if you were wondering how the heck Utah got an NHL team that doesn’t even have a name, that’s how.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 10, 2024 17:01:08 GMT -5
Gerrit Cole takes the mound in a rematch of the game 1 matchup with Wacha. He was also not on his game in the series opener, going just 5 innings, allowing 7 hits, 4 runs, 3 earned, 1 HR, walking 2 and striking out 4. He left with the Yanks up 4-3, but had given up a leadoff single to start the 6th. Tim Hill came on to replace him and allowed his inherited runner to score on a single by Hampson, but only after Anthony Volpe made a crucial throwing error, making Cole’s final run allowed unearned. The Yanks rallied to win 6-5. No need to repeat his season or what Cole’s done lately, or his history against the Royals, or his post-season history.
Cole also used 6 pitches in his game 1 start: FB, curve, slider, change, cutter and sinker, which I didn’t even know he had. His velocity was up on all his pitches, from 0.6 mph to 1.3 mph. His spin rates were also slightly up, except for his change, but not as much as Wacha increased his. He was hit very hard: average exit velo against him was over 97 mph. The vertical break on 5 of 6 of Cole’s different pitches was down 1 or 2 inches from his average, and maybe that lack of vertical movement is why he got hit so hard. In his 80 pitches Cole got 13 called strikes, which is a solid 16%, but just 6 swings and misses, a terrible 7.5%. The bullpen pitched mostly great, so the Royals team XBA of .294 is on Cole’s bad performance.
Cole says nothing very specific, but discusses today’s start in this NY Post article:
Gerrit Cole gets shot to finish off Royals after shaky Game 1 start
All Yankee fans have to hope that Cole shows up much better for this one, or it might be a long night, and a bad setup for game 5 back at the Stadium Saturday night.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 10, 2024 17:02:52 GMT -5
Yankees' lineup vs. Wacha:
1. Torres (2B) is 1-16 with 3 BB and 3 K; 1-1 with a two-run HR and a BB in game 1
2. Soto (RF) is 2-5 with 1 RBI and 1 K; 1-2 with a double in game 1
3. Judge (CF) is 1-18 with 3 BB, 11 K and 2 GIDP; 0-2 with 1 K in game 1
4. Wells (C) had never faced Wacha before game 1; he went 0-2 in game 1
5. Stanton (DH) is 4-17 with 2 doubles, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 3 K and 1 GIDP; 0-1 with 1 BB, 1 K in game 1
6. Chisholm (3B) is 0-3 with 2 K; 0-2 in game 1
7. Volpe (SS) is 0-2; 0-2 again in game 1
8. Verdugo (RF) is 2-9 with 1 double, 1 BB and 1 K; 1-2 in game 1.
9. Berti (1B) is 0-1 (Odd that Boone and the analytical crew are starting Berti against a righty; Cabrera drew 3 walks last night and made a couple of good stretches to save throws. Berti did play well in game 2 against Ragans.)
On the bench: Grisham is 0-2 with 1 HBP; Cabrera (1B) is 0-4 with 1 BB and 1 K; 1-2 with 1 double and 1 K in game 1; Cole is 0-12 with 8 K (Odds that Cole will bat against Wacha in this game: nil).
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Royals’ lineup vs. Cole:
1. Massey (2B) is 0-3 with 2 K; 1-3 in game 1
2. Witt (SS) is 2-6 with 2 K; 0-3 in game 1
3. Pasquantino (DH) is 0-3; 0-3 with 2 K in game 1
4. Perez (C) is 1-15, but the 1 hit is a 3-run HR, also 3 K and 1 GIDP; 1-3 in game 1
5. Gurriel (1B) is 1-10 with 4 K and 1 GIDP; 1-1 with 2 BB in game 1
6. Melendez (LF) is 2-6 with 2 K; 2-2 with a 2-run HR in game 1
7. Pham (RF) is 11-29, with 3 double and 2 HR, 6 RBI and 10 K; 1-1 with an RBI (sac fly) in game 1
8. Isbel (CF) is 0-5 with 5 K; 0-2 with 2 K
9. Garcia (3B) is 3-5 with 1 RBI and 2 K; 1-2 in game 1.
On the Bench: Renfroe is 4-22 with 2 Bb and 8 K; Frazier is 5-14 with 1 double, 2 RBI and 2 K; DeJong is 1-9 with 1 double, 1 BB and 2 K; Hampson is 0-3 with 1 BB and 2 K; Wacha is 0-9 with 1 BB and 6 K.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 10, 2024 17:04:40 GMT -5
In other playoff action yesterday:
In Detroit, the Tigers put an ad-hoc pitching crew together again, using starter Keider Montero as a 1-inning opener, Brant Hurter as a bulk inning follower and 4 other relievers to patch together the last 4 2/3 innings of a 6-hit shutout, and found enough offense to beat the Guardians 3-0 to take a 2-1 lead in the other AL Division Series. Riley Greene singled in a run in the 1st, Matt Vierling hit a sac fly in the 3rd, and Spencer Torkelson doubled in the final run in the 6th. Even though he went just 3 1/3 innings, Hurter got the win because he wasn’t the starter and was in the game when Greene knocked in the first run, so Hurter’s now 1-0 on the postseason. Alex Cobb went just 3 innings, giving up the first two runs; he takes the loss and drops to 0-1. Tyler Holton pitched a 1-2-3 9th inning, striking out the awful Austin Hedges for the final out, and getting his first save of the playoffs.
At Citifield, the Mets came from behind (again) on a grand slam HR by ClutchMan Francisco Lindor in the 6th inning off of Phillies closer Carlos Estevez, and that was all the Mets needed, wining 4-1 and knocking out the Phillies with a 3-1 series win. Jose Quintana started and gave up just 1 unearned run (on an error by Vienos), but went just 5 innings and wasn’t in the game when the Mets rallied. The win instead went to David Peterson, who got the last out of the 6th, and stayed in to get the Mets through the 8th inning. The Mets loaded the bases to start the 6th when Philly reliever Jeff Hoffman lost all command, giving up a single, a wild pitch, a hit batter, another wild pitch and a walk. Estevez came in and gave up the grand slam to Lindor on a 99-mph waist high FB, outer half that just sat there to be crushed out of the park to right center. Hoffman took the loss, his second of the series against one win. Peterson got the win to get to 1-0 in the playoffs. Mets’ closer Edwin Diaz made things interesting in the 9th by walking Realmuto and Stott to open the inning, but he whiffed Kody Clemens, and got Marsh to flyout to deep center. Realmuto tagged and went to 3rd, and after Stott took 2nd on defensive indifference, Diaz blew a 1-2, 101.1 mph FB by Kyle Schwarber on the outside corner above the waist to close it out, earning his first save of the series and the playoffs. The Mets await the winner of…
The Padres and Dodgers played their 4th game last night, with the Dodgers turning the tables on the Padres for their 10-2 blowout in game 2, using an all-hands-on-deck bullpen game and big hitting from the usual suspects to rout San Diego, 8-0 at Petco Park. Brasier, Banda, Kopech, Vesia, Phillips, Hudson, Treinen and Knack each threw between 2/3 and 1 2/3 innings of shutout ball, holding the Padres to 7 hits and 2 BB, while striking out 8. Mookie Betts got the Dodgers going with a solo HR in the first; Ohtani and Betts added RBI singles in the 2nd, catcher Will Smith hit a 2-run HR in the 3rd to make it 5-0 and it was all but over. Dylan Cease got hit again, giving up 4 hits and the first 3 runs in just 1 2/3 inning before being pulled from the game; he took the loss and is now 0-1 in the post-season. The scorer thought about it for a while, and awarded the win to Evan Phillips for retiring four straight hitters, the last out in the 5th and all three in the 6th; Phillips is 1-0 in the playoffs. Game 5 is tomorrow, at 8:08 pm, eastern time. Yu Darvish, the winner of game 2, goes for San Diego; what the Dodgers will do with their jigsaw puzzle piece pitching staff is anyone’s guess. Yamamoto got shelled in game 1, Jack Flaherty wasn’t much better in the game 2 loss.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 10, 2024 17:06:16 GMT -5
Before the Yanks play tonight, the Tigers will try to wrap up their Series against the Guardians in Comerica Park a few minutes from now. Cleveland sends out their ace, Tanner Bibee (12-8, 3.47 ERA in the regular season) to try to stave off elimination. He threw 4 2/3 shutout innings in Cleveland’s 7-0 romp in game 1 of this series, not staying in there long enough to get the W. Detroit counters with Reese Olson (4-8, 3.53 ERA in the regular season). Olson came in as the bulk reliever in that game 1 and gave up just 1 run in 5 innings, but the one run was a three-run HR to Lane Thomas in relief of struggling opener Tyler Holton, who had given up 3 hits and a BB to the 4 batters he faced to start the 1st, scoring 2 runs and leaving runners at 2nd and 3rd with nobody out for Olson, and that broke the game open for Cleveland.
And, at 8:08 pm at Kauffman Stadium, it’s Schmidt vs. Lugo. See you then.
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Post by bigjeep on Oct 10, 2024 17:25:38 GMT -5
Looks like KC is ready to be beaten tonight! Finish the job Cole!  |
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Post by kaybli on Oct 10, 2024 17:38:53 GMT -5
Yankees' lineup vs. Lugo:
1. Torres (2B) is 1-16 with 3 BB and 3 K; 1-1 with a two-run HR and a BB in game 1
2. Soto (RF) is 2-5 with 1 RBI and 1 K; 1-2 with a double in game 1
3. Judge (CF) is 1-18 with 3 BB, 11 K and 2 GIDP; 0-2 with 1 K in game 1
4. Wells (C) had never faced Wacha before game 1; he went 0-2 in game 1
5. Stanton (DH) is 4-17 with 2 doubles, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 3 K and 1 GIDP; 0-1 with 1 BB, 1 K in game 1
6. Chisholm (3B) is 0-3 with 2 K; 0-2 in game 1
7. Volpe (SS) is 0-2; 0-2 again in game 1
8. Verdugo (RF) is 2-9 with 1 double, 1 BB and 1 K; 1-2 in game 1.
9. Berti (1B) is 0-1 (Odd that Boone and the analytical crew are starting Berti against a righty; Cabrera drew 3 walks last night and made a couple of good stretches to save throws. Berti did play well in game 2 against Ragans.)
On the bench: Grisham is 0-2 with 1 HBP; Cabrera (1B) is 0-4 with 1 BB and 1 K; 1-2 with 1 double and 1 K in game 1; Cole is 0-12 with 8 K (Odds that Cole will bat against Wacha in this game: nil).
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Royals’ lineup vs. Schmidt:
1. Massey (2B) is 0-3 with 2 K; 1-3 in game 1
2. Witt (SS) is 2-6 with 2 K; 0-3 in game 1
3. Pasquantino (DH) is 0-3; 0-3 with 2 K in game 1
4. Perez (C) is 1-15, but the 1 hit is a 3-run HR, also 3 K and 1 GIDP; 1-3 in game 1
5. Gurriel (1B) is 1-10 with 4 K and 1 GIDP; 1-1 with 2 BB in game 1
6. Melendez (LF) is 2-6 with 2 K; 2-2 with a 2-run HR in game 1
7. Pham (RF) is 11-29, with 3 double and 2 HR, 6 RBI and 10 K; 1-1 with an RBI (sac fly) in game 1
8. Isbel (CF) is 0-5 with 5 K; 0-2 with 2 K
9. Garcia (3B) is 3-5 with 1 RBI and 2 K; 1-2 in game 1.
On the Bench: Renfroe is 4-22 with 2 Bb and 8 K; Frazier is 5-14 with 1 double, 2 RBI and 2 K; DeJong is 1-9 with 1 double, 1 BB and 2 K; Hampson is 0-3 with 1 BB and 2 K; Wacha is 0-9 with 1 BB and 6 K. You said Yankees lineup against Lugo and Royals lineup against Schmidt. Cole and Wacha are pitching today. |
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Post by rizzuto on Oct 10, 2024 18:30:08 GMT -5
Yankees' lineup vs. Lugo:
1. Torres (2B) is 1-16 with 3 BB and 3 K; 1-1 with a two-run HR and a BB in game 1
2. Soto (RF) is 2-5 with 1 RBI and 1 K; 1-2 with a double in game 1
3. Judge (CF) is 1-18 with 3 BB, 11 K and 2 GIDP; 0-2 with 1 K in game 1
4. Wells (C) had never faced Wacha before game 1; he went 0-2 in game 1
5. Stanton (DH) is 4-17 with 2 doubles, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 3 K and 1 GIDP; 0-1 with 1 BB, 1 K in game 1
6. Chisholm (3B) is 0-3 with 2 K; 0-2 in game 1
7. Volpe (SS) is 0-2; 0-2 again in game 1
8. Verdugo (RF) is 2-9 with 1 double, 1 BB and 1 K; 1-2 in game 1.
9. Berti (1B) is 0-1 (Odd that Boone and the analytical crew are starting Berti against a righty; Cabrera drew 3 walks last night and made a couple of good stretches to save throws. Berti did play well in game 2 against Ragans.)
On the bench: Grisham is 0-2 with 1 HBP; Cabrera (1B) is 0-4 with 1 BB and 1 K; 1-2 with 1 double and 1 K in game 1; Cole is 0-12 with 8 K (Odds that Cole will bat against Wacha in this game: nil).
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Royals’ lineup vs. Schmidt:
1. Massey (2B) is 0-3 with 2 K; 1-3 in game 1
2. Witt (SS) is 2-6 with 2 K; 0-3 in game 1
3. Pasquantino (DH) is 0-3; 0-3 with 2 K in game 1
4. Perez (C) is 1-15, but the 1 hit is a 3-run HR, also 3 K and 1 GIDP; 1-3 in game 1
5. Gurriel (1B) is 1-10 with 4 K and 1 GIDP; 1-1 with 2 BB in game 1
6. Melendez (LF) is 2-6 with 2 K; 2-2 with a 2-run HR in game 1
7. Pham (RF) is 11-29, with 3 double and 2 HR, 6 RBI and 10 K; 1-1 with an RBI (sac fly) in game 1
8. Isbel (CF) is 0-5 with 5 K; 0-2 with 2 K
9. Garcia (3B) is 3-5 with 1 RBI and 2 K; 1-2 in game 1.
On the Bench: Renfroe is 4-22 with 2 Bb and 8 K; Frazier is 5-14 with 1 double, 2 RBI and 2 K; DeJong is 1-9 with 1 double, 1 BB and 2 K; Hampson is 0-3 with 1 BB and 2 K; Wacha is 0-9 with 1 BB and 6 K. That's too short of rest between starts.  |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 10, 2024 18:34:09 GMT -5
Yankees' lineup vs. Lugo:
1. Torres (2B) is 1-16 with 3 BB and 3 K; 1-1 with a two-run HR and a BB in game 1
2. Soto (RF) is 2-5 with 1 RBI and 1 K; 1-2 with a double in game 1
3. Judge (CF) is 1-18 with 3 BB, 11 K and 2 GIDP; 0-2 with 1 K in game 1
4. Wells (C) had never faced Wacha before game 1; he went 0-2 in game 1
5. Stanton (DH) is 4-17 with 2 doubles, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 3 K and 1 GIDP; 0-1 with 1 BB, 1 K in game 1
6. Chisholm (3B) is 0-3 with 2 K; 0-2 in game 1
7. Volpe (SS) is 0-2; 0-2 again in game 1
8. Verdugo (RF) is 2-9 with 1 double, 1 BB and 1 K; 1-2 in game 1.
9. Berti (1B) is 0-1 (Odd that Boone and the analytical crew are starting Berti against a righty; Cabrera drew 3 walks last night and made a couple of good stretches to save throws. Berti did play well in game 2 against Ragans.)
On the bench: Grisham is 0-2 with 1 HBP; Cabrera (1B) is 0-4 with 1 BB and 1 K; 1-2 with 1 double and 1 K in game 1; Cole is 0-12 with 8 K (Odds that Cole will bat against Wacha in this game: nil).
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Royals’ lineup vs. Schmidt:
1. Massey (2B) is 0-3 with 2 K; 1-3 in game 1
2. Witt (SS) is 2-6 with 2 K; 0-3 in game 1
3. Pasquantino (DH) is 0-3; 0-3 with 2 K in game 1
4. Perez (C) is 1-15, but the 1 hit is a 3-run HR, also 3 K and 1 GIDP; 1-3 in game 1
5. Gurriel (1B) is 1-10 with 4 K and 1 GIDP; 1-1 with 2 BB in game 1
6. Melendez (LF) is 2-6 with 2 K; 2-2 with a 2-run HR in game 1
7. Pham (RF) is 11-29, with 3 double and 2 HR, 6 RBI and 10 K; 1-1 with an RBI (sac fly) in game 1
8. Isbel (CF) is 0-5 with 5 K; 0-2 with 2 K
9. Garcia (3B) is 3-5 with 1 RBI and 2 K; 1-2 in game 1.
On the Bench: Renfroe is 4-22 with 2 Bb and 8 K; Frazier is 5-14 with 1 double, 2 RBI and 2 K; DeJong is 1-9 with 1 double, 1 BB and 2 K; Hampson is 0-3 with 1 BB and 2 K; Wacha is 0-9 with 1 BB and 6 K. You said Yankees lineup against Lugo and Royals lineup against Schmidt. Cole and Wacha are pitching today. Thanks for catching it. Fixed. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 10, 2024 18:47:34 GMT -5
Yankees' lineup vs. Lugo:
1. Torres (2B) is 1-16 with 3 BB and 3 K; 1-1 with a two-run HR and a BB in game 1
2. Soto (RF) is 2-5 with 1 RBI and 1 K; 1-2 with a double in game 1
3. Judge (CF) is 1-18 with 3 BB, 11 K and 2 GIDP; 0-2 with 1 K in game 1
4. Wells (C) had never faced Wacha before game 1; he went 0-2 in game 1
5. Stanton (DH) is 4-17 with 2 doubles, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 3 K and 1 GIDP; 0-1 with 1 BB, 1 K in game 1
6. Chisholm (3B) is 0-3 with 2 K; 0-2 in game 1
7. Volpe (SS) is 0-2; 0-2 again in game 1
8. Verdugo (RF) is 2-9 with 1 double, 1 BB and 1 K; 1-2 in game 1.
9. Berti (1B) is 0-1 (Odd that Boone and the analytical crew are starting Berti against a righty; Cabrera drew 3 walks last night and made a couple of good stretches to save throws. Berti did play well in game 2 against Ragans.)
On the bench: Grisham is 0-2 with 1 HBP; Cabrera (1B) is 0-4 with 1 BB and 1 K; 1-2 with 1 double and 1 K in game 1; Cole is 0-12 with 8 K (Odds that Cole will bat against Wacha in this game: nil).
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Royals’ lineup vs. Schmidt:
1. Massey (2B) is 0-3 with 2 K; 1-3 in game 1
2. Witt (SS) is 2-6 with 2 K; 0-3 in game 1
3. Pasquantino (DH) is 0-3; 0-3 with 2 K in game 1
4. Perez (C) is 1-15, but the 1 hit is a 3-run HR, also 3 K and 1 GIDP; 1-3 in game 1
5. Gurriel (1B) is 1-10 with 4 K and 1 GIDP; 1-1 with 2 BB in game 1
6. Melendez (LF) is 2-6 with 2 K; 2-2 with a 2-run HR in game 1
7. Pham (RF) is 11-29, with 3 double and 2 HR, 6 RBI and 10 K; 1-1 with an RBI (sac fly) in game 1
8. Isbel (CF) is 0-5 with 5 K; 0-2 with 2 K
9. Garcia (3B) is 3-5 with 1 RBI and 2 K; 1-2 in game 1.
On the Bench: Renfroe is 4-22 with 2 Bb and 8 K; Frazier is 5-14 with 1 double, 2 RBI and 2 K; DeJong is 1-9 with 1 double, 1 BB and 2 K; Hampson is 0-3 with 1 BB and 2 K; Wacha is 0-9 with 1 BB and 6 K. That's too short of rest between starts. Even with the bullpen maybe a little short tonight for both teams, that's no excuse to start Cole and Lugo again. |
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