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Post by kaybli on Oct 19, 2024 12:02:34 GMT -5
One win away from the World Series! Let's wrap this up tonight! Let's go Rodon! Let's go Yankees!
Lineups to come!
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Post by Max on Oct 19, 2024 14:44:57 GMT -5
Guardians pitcher is pitching on 3 days rest. Unless he's throwing meatballs, the Yankees need to keep working the count. Maybe the Yankees can wear him out like Ali did to Foreman.
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Post by Rockaway Park on Oct 19, 2024 14:53:13 GMT -5
Guardians pitcher is pitching on 3 days rest. Unless he's throwing meatballs, the Yankees need to keep working the count. Maybe the Yankees can wear him out like Ali did to Foreman. He barely pitched his first game though. Won't be a factor. |
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Post by JEGnj on Oct 19, 2024 15:07:22 GMT -5
Hoping to close it out and move on tonight.
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Post by Max on Oct 19, 2024 15:14:07 GMT -5
Guardians pitcher is pitching on 3 days rest. Unless he's throwing meatballs, the Yankees need to keep working the count. Maybe the Yankees can wear him out like Ali did to Foreman. He barely pitched his first game though. Won't be a factor. I can't say for sure that he will get tired faster, but I can't say for sure that it won't be a factor either. He still threw 30+ pitches, plus warmup pitches, and pitching on short rest. |
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Post by chiyankee on Oct 19, 2024 15:15:25 GMT -5
Just one game away from the Fall Classic.
Let's do this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Post by Max on Oct 19, 2024 15:36:49 GMT -5
Just one game away from the Fall Classic. Let's do this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 Guardians have their backs to the wall with their best starting pitcher on the mound this season. I expect them to come out pumped, but nice early lead by the Yankees might throw cold water on that.  |
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Post by Lola on Oct 19, 2024 16:21:01 GMT -5
Just saw the line up posted... Jazz still in there. I don't get it!
LETS GIT R DONE!!!!
GO YANKS!
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Post by kaybli on Oct 19, 2024 16:22:00 GMT -5
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 19, 2024 16:39:53 GMT -5
Facing elimination in the ALCS, the Guardians turn to their current ace, Tanner Bibee to stave off elimination. Bibee started for Cleveland in Game 2 on Tuesday, so he’ll be working on just 3 days’ rest, but he pitched just 1 1/3 innings and threw just 39 pitches, allowing the Guardians to bring him back on short rest with a decent chance at a successful start. I gave Bibee’s baseball biography before that game, so I don’t need to do it again. I also gave his record against the Yankees, and his prior postseason games, which were two starts against the Tigers in the Divisional Series. All of that can be found here:
Tanner Bibee history and repertoire coming into Game 2
In that game two start, the Yanks got to Bibee right away, a double, single and the dropped pop fly by Rochhio for a run in the 1st, and two singles, a double for a run and an pop out in the 2nd, followed by an IBB to Soto, and they took Bibee out to bring Smith in to face Judge, who hit a sac fly. That was it; 39 pitches, 1 1/3 innings, 5 hits, 3 runs, 2 earned, 0 HR, 1 BB and 2 Ks. The Yanks went on to win 6-3, to take a 2-0 lead.
Repertoire: I’ll just give the pitch mix and numbers for game 2 here...
20 fastballs, 10 cutters, 4 changeups, 3 curves and 2 sliders. So, he used the FB more often, and reduced using the change to make up the difference. The percentage of cutters, curves and sliders was close to his season average. His swinging strikes, called strikes and CSW were near his season average. The velocity of all of his pitches was above his season’s average, especially the change, up nearly 2 mph, which is not a good thing usually. The spin rate was up on the change and curve, down on the other 3 pitches. He got less movement than usual on both the FB and cutter, the two pitchers that made up about 75% of his pitches. All this resulted in his exit velocity being much higher than usual, 97.1 on average, and his XBA while in the game against 8 batters who put balls in play was .363.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 19, 2024 16:42:52 GMT -5
Playing the Name Game: the name game for the game 2 start is here
Tanner Bibee Name Game
It was already very weak. Repeating it just 4 days later, there just isn’t any fresh material to draw on. What to talk about? Henry Bibby’s playing for the 1972-3 Knicks…hmmm, a small story is all I got, so it will have to do.
In mid-November of 1972 I came down with acute appendicitis and had to go to the hospital for an appendectomy. The next day, my parents came to visit me, and I asked my dad if he could bring me a portable transistor radio so I could listen to Marv Albert call the next days’ game at the Garden against Milwaukee. I was sad and alone, and just listening to Marv calling the game cheered me up. The Knicks had Willis Reed back and were off to a blistering start, 15-3 going into that game. The Bucks were a terrific team, too. They were 12-4 coming into the game. They still had Jabbar, Oscar Robertson, Bob Dandridge and Lucius Allen from the team that won the title just 17 months earlier. The teams were tied at the half, but the Bucks played a great 3rd quarter and were up 74-58 going to the 4th. With a little under six minutes left, the Knicks were down 86-69. They then pulled off one of their miracle finishes, scoring the last 18 points of the game, including Jabbar misses two free throws down the stretch and won 87-86. Bibby didn’t actually play that night; he was a rookie, and averaged less than 6 minutes a game that season.
I thought that night as I lay in the hospital that the Knicks were going to win the title again; it was the kind of miracle they seemed to be able to pull off at any moment when they needed to during the 1969-1970 season when they won it all. And so they did, though not nearly as dramatically as when they won their first title 3 years earlier. It’s sad to realize that they haven’t won another in over 50 years now, but maybe this year…nah, probably not. But I was a very happy young qwik that night as I lay in my bed still sore from the surgery, I can tell you that.
When the Yanks face Bibee next season, I think I’m clean out of Tanner and Bibee material. Maybe I’ll just do a soft shoe to the tune of Tea for Two instead…well, I can always talk about Tanner from The Bad News Bears…hmmm, there’s an idea…
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 19, 2024 16:45:44 GMT -5
Carlos Rodon takes the mound for the Yanks, trying to wrap up the pennant, and possibly the ALCS MVP Award for him if he can throw another gem and get another W. He made maybe his best start with the Yankees in game 1 of the series at the Stadium. Dominant for 6 innings, allowing just a solo HR to Rocchio in the 6th, Rodon gave up just 3 hits, no walks, and struck out 9 for the win.
I’ll just give a breakdown on what he threw this past Monday…
93 pitches: 52 FB, 25 sliders, 9 changeups, 4 curves and 3 cutters. He used his FB more than he did this season, on average, and decreased the use of his change and curve to make room. He was amped up. FB velo up ½ mph, slider up 1 mph, and change, curve and cutter all up about 1 ½ mph. The spin rate on the FB was down, but not by much, and down on the cutter by more, but a bit higher on the other 3 pitches. All of his pitches got less vertical break than average, but not by much, and the horizontal break on the FB was the same, on the slider and change below normal by an inch or two, and up on the curve and cutter by 2-3 inches. He got just 10 called strikes, but 25 swings and misses for an electric 27% swinging strike rate, twice the MLB average, and a 38% CSW, 10% higher than MLB average. His average exit velo was also higher than usual but at 93.6, not by as much as Bibee. 5 of the 12 balls the Guardians put in play had an XBA of under .050, but 6 were .490 or higher, and Rodon’s XBA for his 6 innings was .275.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 19, 2024 16:47:19 GMT -5
Yankees' lineup vs. Boyd:
1. Torres (2B) was 1-3 with a double; 1-2 with a double in game 2
2. Soto (RF) was 1-2 with a BB; 1-1 with an intentional walk in game 2
3. Judge (CF) had never faced Bibee before game 2; 0-1 with the dropped popup in game 2
4. Stanton (DH) had never faced Bibee either; 0-1 in game 2
5. Chisholm (3B) hadn’t faced Bibee as well; 0-1 with a K in game 2.
6. Rizzo (1B) was 1-2 in the regular season; 1-1 in game 2
7. Volpe (SS) was 1-3 with a solo HR and a K in the regular season; 1-1 in game 2
8. Wells (C) had never faced Bibee before game 2; 0-1 with a K in game 2.
9. Verdugo (LF) was 0-1 with 2 BB in the regular season: 1-1, an RBI double in game 2
On the bench: Cabrera is 1-2 against Bibee; Grisham is 1-2; Trevino is 0-2 with a K and none of the three faced him in game 2.
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Guardians lineup vs. Rodon:
1. Kwan (LF) was 0-2 with 1 K; and 0-3 in game 1
2. Fry (DH) had never faced Cole in the regular season; 1-3 with a K in game 1
3. Ramirez (3B) was 10-43 with 4 doubles, 1 triple, 5 RBI, 7 BB (1 intentional), 4 K, 1 HBP and 1 GIDP; 0-3 with two deep lineouts in game 1
4. Thomas (CF) was 1-5 with a double and 2 K; 0-2 with 2 K in game 1
5. J. Naylor (1B) was 2-10 with 2 K; 0-2 with 2 K in game 1
6. Noel (RF) hadn’t faced him in the regular season; 1-2 with a K in game 1.
7. B. Naylor (C) also hadn’t faced him before the playoffs; 0-2 in game 1
8. Gimenez (2B) also hadn’t faced him in the regular season, 0-2 with 2 K in game 1
9. Rocchio (SS) had never faced him in the regular season; 1-2 with a K and a solo HR in game 1.
On the Bench: Hedges is 0-2 with a K vs. Rodon in the regular season; no one on the Cleveland bench faced him in game 1.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 19, 2024 16:49:24 GMT -5
In other playoff action yesterday:
The Mets came off the canvas for the second time in the NLCS after the double knockdown blowouts in games 3 and 4. They took on Jack “Medical Issues” Flaherty, who had shut them out for 7 innings in game 1 on 2 hits with 7 K, and pounded him out after 3 innings. They got an enormous pickup in the first inning when Alonso belted a 3-run HR in what might be his final game at CitiField, and finished Flaherty off in the 5th when Marte got a 2-run single, followed by RBI single, triple, single by Alvarez, Lindor and Nimmo. The Mets lead 8-1 at that point. The Dodgers got one back when outfielder Andy Pages hit a solo HR in the 4th, his first of the game, and starter Peterson got into trouble by loading the bases on a single and 2 BB with 2 down. Reid Garrett came in and got Freeman with a backdoor slider for the ꓘ to get out of the jam. The Mets made it 10-2 on a RBI triple by Winker and a sac fly by McNeil, but the Dodgers didn’t give up. They tried to make a game of it when Pages hit his 2nd HR of the game, this one a 3-run shot in the 5th, and got it back to a 4-run deficit when Mookie Betts lead off the 6th with a solo HR, his 4th of the post-season. The Mets got that one back on a sac fly by McNeil again in the bottom of the inning. The home team bullpen stiffened, holding the Dodgers to just one walk and one hit in the last three innings. A RBI single by Marte in the 8th made the final score 12-6 Mets. Peterson didn’t go 5, and Garrett gave up 3 in just one inning, so the scorer ruled that Garrett’s appearance was brief and ineffective, handing the win to Stanek, who finished off the 5th for Garrett and made it through the 6th and 7th as well, giving up just the Betts solo HR and striking out 4 in his 2 1/3 innings. Closer Diaz gave up just the hit to Edman in the 9th and struck out 2 to finish off the last two innings, but the margin was too large for him to earn a save.
Flaherty got tagged with 8 earned runs in just 3 innings, with 8 hits, 4 BB, 1 HR and 0 K’s, taking the loss to drop to 1-2 on the playoffs. Stanek's win makes him 1-0 in October. The Mets head back to LA down 3 games to 2, with the Dodgers needing to win just one of the two games in LA to advance to the World Series. As that implies, today is a travel day for the NLCS, so the Yanks and Guardians again have the national spotlight to themselves, as they did for Game 2.
And, at 8:08 pm at the Stadium, it’s Bibee vs. Rodon, on TBS again. See you then.
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Post by chiyankee on Oct 19, 2024 17:38:22 GMT -5
Just one game away from the Fall Classic. Let's do this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 Guardians have their backs to the wall with their best starting pitcher on the mound this season. I expect them to come out pumped, but nice early lead by the Yankees might throw cold water on that. It's up to Carlos to match that! |
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