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Post by inger on Jun 6, 2019 10:07:01 GMT -5
We've lost three games in a row I feel we shoulda won. Oh well, it happens. Got to avoid the sweep today. Anti McBroom! Broom, my ass. We need a bulldozer to clean up this mess!!! We’re a bit overdue for a bad run. The key is not letting it get out of hand. I’ve noticed that Urshela, who has been hitting into incredibly good luck has been hitting into incredibly bad luck lately, the seams on the turf are taking the wrong hops for us, close plays are going the wrong way, good pitches by our pitching staff are getting hit out of the park. Even the doofus plays in the field are back. Karma has turned against us a bit. It’s not going to last forever... |
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Post by greatfatness on Jun 6, 2019 12:48:13 GMT -5
Broom, my ass. We need a bulldozer to clean up this mess!!! We’re a bit overdue for a bad run. The key is not letting it get out of hand. I’ve noticed that Urshela, who has been hitting into incredibly good luck has been hitting into incredibly bad luck lately, the seams on the turf are taking the wrong hops for us, close plays are going the wrong way, good pitches by our pitching staff are getting hit out of the park. Even the doofus plays in the field are back. Karma has turned against us a bit. It’s not going to last forever... Back in 96, Mariano Duncan used to say “we play today, we win today, das it!” Torre used to talk about winning series and starting new winning streaks. Can’t do anything about the last two days now but they can start a new winning streak today. Das it! |
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Post by inger on Jun 6, 2019 13:32:24 GMT -5
Broom, my ass. We need a bulldozer to clean up this mess!!! We’re a bit overdue for a bad run. The key is not letting it get out of hand. I’ve noticed that Urshela, who has been hitting into incredibly good luck has been hitting into incredibly bad luck lately, the seams on the turf are taking the wrong hops for us, close plays are going the wrong way, good pitches by our pitching staff are getting hit out of the park. Even the doofus plays in the field are back. Karma has turned against us a bit. It’s not going to last forever... Back in 96, Mariano Duncan used to say “we play today, we win today, das it!” Torre used to talk about winning series and starting new winning streaks. Can’t do anything about the last two days now but they can start a new winning streak today. Das it! It’s that way in many aspects of life and work. When I’m on a hot streak and turning in sales, I’m the greatest guy on the planet. If I go through a cold spell, you’d think I never made a sale in my life and never will again. If I get sick, next thing you know, Ruthie is sick and then the dog is barfing and then I have a fender bender. Even if no one has been sick in the previous five years and I’ve driven accident free for years, it feels like all luck has run out forever. You just can’t allow yourself to view life in such a narrow perspective, and you can’t view this team that way, nor believe they’re going to keep winning 75% of the games they play. I would have liked to have seen us beating Toronto because I know the schedule is going to get tougher from here on out, and that we’ll be seeing the Blue Jays 16 more times this season.. |
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Post by noetsi on Jun 6, 2019 14:30:00 GMT -5
Ugly
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Post by pippsheadache on Jun 6, 2019 15:39:00 GMT -5
I cashed out of this game about the same time as GF, with the Yanks up 7-4. Even at that I didn't like what I was seeing -- bonehead defense, starting pitcher again not going deep, parade of relief pitchers throwing one inning at most and poor umpiring. And Angel Hernandez wasn't even out there, he was moved to the Mets game because of an umpire injury. I had no confidence this one was in the bag.
Still trying to figure out what the Yankees see in Kendrys Morales. They would be no worse off with Mike Ford out there.
Two other games last night illustrate the continuing downgrading of the role of the starting pitcher. Kenta Maeda went five innings for the Dodgers, allowing one run on two hits after 72 pitches. He was removed, not because of any injury, but because some nerd with a spread sheet pre-determined, and Dave Roberts dutifully complied, that he must have reached his maximal efficiency. Maeda was NOT happy and let the media know afterward.
In a similar way, Tampa Bay removed Charlie Morton after seven shutout innings, having thrown the no-doubt exhausting number of 83 pitches. So it isn't just Aaron Boone, it's pretty much everybody continuing to lower the standard from 100 pitches to somewhere between 80 and 90 in most cases. It is only moving in one direction as pitchers are not allowed to build up arm strength or work their way out of jams. It would not be the least bit surprising if 10 years from now teams are up to 30-man rosters -- or at least have hockey-style "healthy scratch" pitchers -- carrying 18 pitchers, none of whom ever work more than two or three innings every three or four days. That would be no more radical than where we have come from over the last ten or so years.
Amazingly enough, there were two pitchers who were permitted to throw complete games last night, one of them being Chris Sale with a shutout. That represents ten percent of all complete games thrown this year, i.e. 20. Surprisingly enough, Zack Eflin of the Phillies and Lucas Giolito of the White Sox are the Iron Man McGinnitys of our age, each having two CGs, or 20 percent of all CGs thrown this year.
In 2018, there were 42 CGs (so the rate is actually slightly up this season). In 2017 there were 59. In 2016 there were 83. In 2015 there were 104. By comparison, thirty years ago in 1989, there were 622. One article I read extrapolated that the last complete game ever would be pitched somewhere around the year 2040. Not totally serious, of course, but by no means impossible.
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