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Series 36:Yankees at Jays

The strikezone is absurd so far.  Goins is having to protect the right-handed batter box against Nova.

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Gibby leaves Price in to start the 8th even though he was over 100 pitches.  He gives up a pair of singles and a ground-rule double.  Sanchez comes in and gives up a 3-run homerun.

4-3 Yankees.  Things falling apart.
 
Didn't mind leaving Price in. I would have gone with Hawkins but I guess this is the role they want Sanchez in. He was nervous and it showed. He threw 3 bad pitches to Beltran and got lucky he swung through the first two.

That's baseball.
 
This had been coming for a while. The offence started slowing down in the last series against the Yankees, and eventually, the pitchers were going to have a more average type of day. Hopefully, they can turn it around pretty quickly.
 
I don't think Price was average at all. He gave up a lot of hits but until the 8th they were scattered and not very convincing. Can't really do much about a guy who comes in and throws 4 pitches to surrender the lead.
 
Well it was bound to happen but it still stings, especially since this one should have been in the bag. I'm not sure why Lowe and Hawkins are wasting away in the bullpen; they are pretty strong relief options and Sanchez had been overworked. I also can't get over the lack of any 4th outfielder on the team; carrying 8 relievers is ridiculous (and the 8th is the godawful Loup) and that leaves them with a pretty thin bench (Valencia was given away for free, another complete head-scratcher). Gibbons had no choice but to let Revere face Miller, a matchup that should never happen.
 
Revere was 3 for 6 against Miller. It was a good matchup. For me the only puzzling decision was Sanchez over Hawkins. That situation is why you get veteran relievers.

Oh well. The bats couldn't get it done. Onto tomorrow.
 
Yeah, I don't know why Revere/Miller is a bad matchup. Not only does he have a decent record in a small sample size against Miller, he's one of the guys least likely to hit into a DP, he's got a lifetime .300 average against lefties, he makes a ton of contact...

It didn't work out but it wasn't a bad matchup.
 
Nik the Trik said:
Yeah, I don't know why Revere/Miller is a bad matchup. Not only does he have a decent record in a small sample size against Miller, he's one of the guys least likely to hit into a DP, he's got a lifetime .300 average against lefties, he makes a ton of contact...

It didn't work out but it wasn't a bad matchup.
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Exactly.

Did you watch the at bat? Revere looked like a t-ball hitter. His swing was absolutely embarassing. And you're also spouting a batting average statistic. Nik, say it aint so!
 
TML fan said:
Revere was 3 for 6 against Miller. It was a good matchup. For me the only puzzling decision was Sanchez over Hawkins. That situation is why you get veteran relievers.

Oh well. The bats couldn't get it done. Onto tomorrow.
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Valencia was the perfect guy to hit at that situation. A proven hitter who absolutely smokes lefties. Revere has been brutal and was disgustingly overmatched.

But yea that Sanchez decision was confounding. Gibbons chooses the only guy tired and overworked in the pen. Unbelievable.
 
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