GAME 140: Yankees (Severino) at A's (Fiers)

JUST DISGUSTING... I turned the game off in the Third Inning. Tequila was screaming "Shit, Shit, Shit..."

So I asked her if she wanted to watch the Cartoon Channel...

She reply: "We are watching cartoons."

I was afraid to ask Brandy what she thought. Since she doesn't talk I thought she might just poop on the rug...

So what to do with Severino? I think it's too late for him to skip a start. But there's no way I let him pitch in the Wild Card game if this continues. 

They aren't in wildcard jeopardy at all I guess it's possible the as could pass them but the mariners are 9 back with 22 to play. It would take an insane collapse for them to pass the Yankees.

22 games to go. 13-9 gives them 100 wins 8-9 gives them 95 wins. The last time they had 95 wins was 2012, last time they had more than 95 wins was 2011 when they won 97. They should fall somewhere between 95 to 100 wins.

As far as severino I saw this stat today.

I thought early on that maybe he was tipping pitches...it's gone on to long, as you suggest, for the Yankees to have not figured it out...…..he still has the velocity...his slider has good movement...has he essentially become a two-pitch pitcher?....they seem oft-times to lay off the slider that moves off the plate and sit on the fastball....his fastball seems to me to usually if not always move away from a LH batter...does he have a 2-seamer that would move the other way, that he could bust in on the hands of a LH hitter or catch the inside corner on a RH hitter?....I don't think so....my thinking now is that his pitches are too predictable...

Why was Mariano able to survive with that one pitch? I think it had to do with his amazingly calm demeanor. Which allowed him to command the pitch far better than the average human...Stress causes minute changes in your body that can be imperceptible. The slightest change in finger pressure on the ball could have changed snybpitch at any time, but seldom did...

So, now we get back into Severino’s woes again. We find a still-young man who experienced poor results in a start or too. His entire demeanor on the mound has gone from him having the look and stride of a predator stalking his prey to a slump-shouldered and perplexed look. Almost like a frightened rabbit hiding from a coyote.

The pressure was obviously showing on his face at the end of that horrendous first inning. Was he angry at himself, or Sanchez?

We can only control our emotions to the degree that we are blessed to be able to do so. This man needs a healthy shot of confidence. The only way to get that is to start pitching well again...