rays at yanks

[Pharmcat]

JUST a pathetic inning to not even get one run in

that was just BAD

[Pharmcat]

1st and 2nd no outs with top of order and NADA

thats just unacceptable

[Pharmcat]

thank god TB pen blows

nice win

[Pharmcat]

[TKF]

was away from home yesterday so I missed the rivera debacle.. 4 runs? wow....

Good win today tho... nice bounceback..

[TKF]

whats up with hughes hitting 96 on the gun tonight? wow... He came right in with 95,95,96.. geez...

[meatball sub]

He doesn't have to pace himself coming out of the bullpen. His stuff looked awesome that inning.

[Pharmcat]

wow

[Pharmcat]

wat the hell

why did phil get removed

[TKF]

wat the hell

why did phil get removed

I am baffled... phil coke has too many control problems for me.. good velocity, but he gets wild...

[TKF]

He doesn't have to pace himself coming out of the bullpen. His stuff looked awesome that inning.

I understand that, but boy, I am not used to seeing him up there... 93-94, yea, but 96 and it seemed to have more pop than that...

[meatball sub]

After that homer by Jeter, one of the Rays announcers was like, "That's a joke...little league ballpark...that's a high cutter. Good pitch..." in frustration.

[Pharmcat]

nice win

but why was rivera used

hughes shouldve pitched the last 3 innings

we got boston tomorro and Mo will be unavailable

[Pharmcat]

[HCYanks]

It's not hard for good starters to perform well out of the bullpen, or increase their velocity while doing so. That's what's infuriating about the Joba nonsense: there's no special quality that makes any particular pitcher great in a pen role. Like Phil, Joba's simply overqualified to be a reliever, and will continue to be overqualified until it's actually proven he's incapable of starting.

[TKF]

:lol:

After that homer by Jeter, one of the Rays announcers was like, "That's a joke...little league ballpark...that's a high cutter. Good pitch..." in frustration.

yea, but how many of those shots jeter put out of just about any park? it was a high pitch in the zone and jeter hit it well.. that ball leaves a lot of parks..

[Pharmcat]

:lol:

After that homer by Jeter, one of the Rays announcers was like, "That's a joke...little league ballpark...that's a high cutter. Good pitch..." in frustration.

[nykgeneralmanager]

It seemed like Girardi wanted to use today as Hughes' throw day in a sense, just in case he needs him for 3-4 innings if Wang flops again on Wednesday. Then if that happens, we gotta throw Phil back in the rotation. Forget this bullpen crap, even Wang was looking good in the pen.

[PR07]

Yeah, that's my guess to. Girardi is probably saving Hughes in case Wang bombs and the team needs someone to eat innings, as he'll probably use Aceves in more of a setup man role in the Boston series. Hopefully, we can win handedly tomorrow, with Mo being unavailable.

Hughes looked sharp out of the pen. Any kind of pitcher with the kind of stuff he has is going to look better out of the pen. Sabathia would probably throw 98 out of the pen, but that doesn't mean that's where he belongs.