Series Thread: Yankees vs. Blue Jays | April 19-20

s e n s i · Post #1 » by **s e n s i** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 5:43 am

New York Yankee Doodle Bastards vs.Toronto Blue Jays
April 19-20, 2011
Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 7:07pm SPORTSNET

VICTORY BLUE JAYS. FINAL SCORE: 6-5

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 7:07pm SPORTSNET ONE

*round of applause for exceptional selective screenshooting skills*

Lateral Quicks · Post #2 » by **Lateral Quicks** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 2:29 pm

Wow, those jeans look glued on.

But anyways, to the subject at hand. I look/hope for the Jays to destroy Burnett, and for Drabek to have another solid outing. I think they take game 1.

Game 2 is more of a toss-up. If Cecil is back after a somewhat promising last start, I say the Jays take that one too. The Yanks are pretty desperate to be putting Bartolo Colon in their rotation.

victor page · Post #3 » by **victor page** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 5:31 pm

Drabek vs. Burnett should be fun, it's not often you get to see a big crowd at the Dome these days, and hopefully one that gives AJ and A-Rod a rough time as usual.

I realize "they are due" is not a sophisticated sabermetric theory but the Jays offense isn't that bad, they have to "regress to the mean" at some point and put some crooked numbers up on the board.

Raider917 · Post #4 » by **Raider917** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 7:14 pm

Francisco is ready to go now...

Litsch got sent down. thats a suprise to me. I know they cant send Reyes down without risking losing him but isnt there a reliever that couldve went instead? Reyes will have to be 5th starter now?

Post #5 » by **tsherkin** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 8:42 pm

So this game is on at the same time as the Boston/New York game, which will be on TSN. I am in sports heaven tonight, which will help distract me from the congealed ball of idiocy, inconvenience and outright life-sabotage that is our Ministry of Transportation.

Hooray for sports-as-a-placebo!

Go Jays!

MGD24 · Post #6 » by **MGD24** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:36 pm

Tonights Lineup...Snider batting 2nd!

Escobar
Snider
Bautista
Lind
Hill
Molina
Patterson
EE
Nix

CapeCrusader · Post #7 » by **CapeCrusader** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:36 pm

tsherkin wrote:So this game is on at the same time as the Boston/New York game, which will be on TSN. I am in sports heaven tonight, which will help distract me from the congealed ball of idiocy, inconvenience and outright life-sabotage that is our Ministry of Transportation.

Hooray for sports-as-a-placebo!

Go Jays!

I was thinking the samething.

Raider917 · Post #8 » by **Raider917** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:38 pm

MGD24 wrote:Tonights Lineup...Snider batting 2nd!

Escobar
Snider
Bautista
Lind
Hill
Molina
Patterson
EE
Nix

no Arod for NYY mlb.com says

Post #9 » by **Schad** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:50 pm

MGD24 wrote:Tonights Lineup...Snider batting 2nd!

Escobar
Snider
Bautista
Lind
Hill
Molina
Patterson
EE
Nix

A sensible lineup right up until the point you encounter Molina hitting sixth.

Randle McMurphy · Post #10 » by **Randle McMurphy** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:52 pm

Why not just switch Molina and E5? That's what a normal person would do.

MGD24 · Post #11 » by **MGD24** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:59 pm

Randle McMurphy wrote:Why not just switch Molina and E5? That's what a normal person would do.

agreed...Molina 6th doesn't make much sense

Wo1verine · Post #12 » by **Wo1verine** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:08 pm

Molina batting 6th!!?! :-?

Lateral Quicks · Post #13 » by **Lateral Quicks** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:27 pm

The only way batting Molina 6th makes sense is if he's batting 1.000 lifetime vs. AJ Burnett, and I don't have my fingers on the stats. to find out.

I'd put Patterson 9th, Molina 8th, and Nix 7th.

Post #14 » by **Schad** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:18 pm

Drabek is being a bit too cute early...the Yankees aren't going to chase much, so he's going to need to get more of the plate if he wants to be out there beyond the fifth inning.

Post #15 » by **Schad** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:23 pm

I love that Bautista can pull his hands in such that what should be a shallow pop-up to left ends up in the second deck.

There There · Post #16 » by **There There** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:23 pm

Did they really just try up and in on Bautista ?

Randle McMurphy · Post #17 » by **Randle McMurphy** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:28 pm

There There wrote:Did they really just try up and in on Bautista ?

I'm watching on a feed that is really choppy and slow and the last thing I saw was AJ/Martin setting up for inside fastball. I was thinking, "wow, they're gutsy, he better not miss." The next image that comes up is the ball in the 2nd deck. :lol:

Post #18 » by **tsherkin** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:32 pm

BB. BB. Nice start to the inning... Le sigh.

Ah well, he's a youngin'.

Post #19 » by **tsherkin** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:35 pm

And there is the inevitable result of putting two on with no outs against the Yankees. Could have been worse. Now it's "just" 1 in, runners on the corners, no outs. I'm seeing max 6 IP, 5 more likely, for Drabek. Tough start. Everyone has them, but yikes.

EDIT: See above for an example of an exceptionally reactionary post from someone used to the Raptors sucking early and then not turning things around. Must switch gears... baseball, not basketball...

Post #20 » by **tsherkin** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:35 pm

Nice double-play, that was MUCH needed.