Game 158 Lineup: Yankees @ Blue Jays
Lineup vs. Blue Jays:
Derek Jeter DH
Ichiro Suzuki LF
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Robinson Cano 2B
Nick Swisher 1B
Curtis Granderson CF
Andruw Jones RF
Eduardo Nunez SS
Chris Stewart C
Andy Pettitte LHP
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The 9 #Yankees with 15HR tie 2005 Indians and 2005 Rangers for the @MLB record. NOTE: Andruw Jones currently has 14HR.—
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#Yankees can clinch a #postseason berth TODAY if they beat Toronto AND Texas beats the Angels.—
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Posted on September 29, 2012, in Game Threads and tagged Lineup, New York Yankees. Bookmark the permalink. 58 Comments.
Brian D.
fishjam25
jimmytoucan
Matthew B
Delia E.
Dan H.
Matthew S.
Michael P.
Mike D.
this new wild card def makes interesting games to keep an eye on today and pitchers in those matchups.
Of course Yanks vs Toronto – Pettitte vs Romero
Baltimore vs Boston – Doubront vs Johnson
Detroit vs Twins – Verlander vs Walters
Tampa vs Chicago – Moore vs Sale
Angels vs Texas – Santana vs Holland
Mariners vs Oakland – Vargas vs Staily
Oakland is only 3 games back from Texas for the division lead. Anything can happen with these remaining games
White sox are one back of the tigers.
Here’s to hoping all three divisions end up tied! That would make for a crazy Thursday for sure.
As much as I would love extra baseball…I can’t handle all the 3 divisions tied and all of them playing in 1 day. That’s nerve wracking.
Panick in the AL for sure.
all 3 divisions tied would be insane.
would be crazy how they would have to schedule it since all 3 games would be on the same day. someone would be playing day baseball. I doubt they would have some of the games at the same time.
Matt. – whondid that tweet about 9 yankeesnwith 15 hrs?
that is from the Yankee MLB handle.
Jones hits one and we set the recordvive been pushing for all season.
yup you def have been on that all year.
I would give up the HR record to win the last games of the season…after all, don’t we play to win?
Just my idea but, why not go for both is the next question…right? That is left to you to answer, what would you trade for winning the last few games?
Me, I am not greedy and it would be nice to have both but, if it is down to one or the other…I’ll go for the win!
How about it Matt?
obvi winning (over) all other things
Sorry for asking !
i’m agreeing with you. records personal and teams are nice but winning is what is most important.
Sorry, got-up on the wrong side of the doghouse, again! Didn’t mean it to be so obtuse!
Ken – what does obtuse mean?
THE FINAL 5 GAMES PUSH,.,, THE YANKEES ARE one game behind texas for the best rtecord in the AL. they have the iie breaker with texas,.. so they all they need to do it tie,.. that will probably require a 5 game sweep of the end now.
jeter has 5 more games to add in as many hits as he can
and andru jones has 5 games to get in 1 more homer ,…. to ge to 15,, so the yankees would have 10 players with 15 or more homers
If Yankees hit 10 hrs in last 5 games , they set franchise record with 245 hrs. 2009 Yankees had 244.
jeters swing looks like he is all tied up and tangled at the plate right now,….. and it looks like he is favoring one ankle at the plate , the front foot that twists,…… he might have an issue now,…. his swing looks all tangled up,.. favoring different muscles,.. as a natural process
if the yankees can clinch best record resting jeter the final 4 games,.. and order him to stay off the ankle,.. i might be for it,……. be we can not see the future
To the lovely….Delia, thank you for the line-up card. Nunez…ss?…clear out the first base line!
Bad news. Jayson Nix went to NY for an MRI on his left hip flexor.
better news is it wasn’t Cano who had to go to NY for an MRI
With Nix out Corban Joseph might get his day in pinstripes sooner than expected…
Not good news for any player, unless the MRI comes back with great news. For his sake, I hope it is thumbs up.
WHATS WRONG WITH JETERS SWING ALL OFD A SUDDEN??? he looks all tied up and teisted at the plate?, he is favoring the ankle, the front foot, on the timing step, doesnt land right, it twists, like it is a natural reraction to pain
Yankee lineup vs LHP is still underwhelming.
ARod has still not found his stroke since returning from injury. For the first week or so, a lot of his bloops were falling in and he was able to make contact to drive in runs with outs. But lately he’s been terrible. In his last 11 games, he’s Struck Out 16 times in 51 PAs…..he’s gone 55 PAs without a HR and 9 straight games without an RBI hitting 3rd or 4th every game.
A slumping Alex and an injured Tex leaves the lineup weak vs LHP and forces them to play Andruw Jones or McGehee. Add to it that Girardi is resting one of his hottest hitters and his 2nd best hitter vs LHP – Russel Martin. Every game is huge with just 6 to go and a 1-game lead. A tie with BAL means a tiebreaker game AT Baltimore instead of resting this old, banged up team. Girardi needs to put his foot on the friggin gas!
Twasp – I don’t know whats wrong with ARod’s swing. He’s all about timing and his timing is clearly off right now.
The one thing that I often see when Alex is struggling is he can’t open his hips and turn on the inner half pitches. He’s late getting the bat head out to pull the inside pitch and instead he gets jammed and hits it weakly to the middle of the field. When he first game back he got many hits on bloops to CF but lately they have been getting caught.
Arods. been awful. Maybe Girardi should bat him eight to wake him up. A lot of his balls are ending up caught on th RF warning track. Boli up Arod….we need you now!
Fish – I noticed that too. I agree it’s timing and bad timing is not injury related correct?
The injury doesn’t affect his timing but Alex has always been a hitter who seems to take a long time to find his timing when coming back from an injury. It’s been almost a month now so he should have had enough ABs by now.
IT WOULD BE BEST IF JETER GOT THE 4 RUNS IN THE FINAL 5 GAMES, FOR 100 RUNS SCVORED,.. HE Already got one today,.. so he just needs 3 more now
The great Jeter 100 runs scored again?
jeter has reached base with a hit or a walk in his last 51 games, he had one game off in that time.
and reached with a hit, a walk, or hit by pitch in his each of his last 62 games, with 87 hits, 44 runs, 30 rbis,…… and 8 innings of ups left in the 62nd game
opps, except for 1 game
Jim – how do you explain Jeter’s high performance at such an advanced age?
twasp– in the final 65 games of 1979, peter rose had 95 hits,…. that was his equivalent 17th season, only 2 1/2 months older than jeter by seasons end
jeters last 60 games he has 85 hits,… one one today,.. so jeter needs 9 more hits in the final 4 games and 7 innings, to tie rose for the end of their 17th seasons performance wise
sometimes players come along that just great,… thats why there are greats of the game
not everyone can suck, lol
twasp— since julky 1st,….. Jeter has played in 80 of the teams 81 games including today
jeter has reached on a hit, walk, or error in all but 7 of those games
in those 7 games,… he had runs in 2 of the games, a rbi in anbother game, and one game where he only had 1 plate appearance as a late inning defensive replacement
so in the last 81games jeter has contributed in all but 3 playing in 80 of the games,……. and could have moved runners over in those 3 games for all i know,
during that time jeter has had 116 hits and 56 runs– that is current up to the minute,….. the game today is still going on
that is a great 2nd half for a quality player, no?
i meabn hit, walk, or hit by pitch, not by error even
Jeter needs a hit now in 3 of the final 4 games, to reach 2000 games with at least 1 hit in his career
Jeter al;so now needs just 2 more hits for 3300 career
If Jeter gewts hit 300 tioday or tomorrow , someone should remind the trainer to save the ball
Damn, we are wasting a lot of opportunities today. AJones has already K’d with bases loaded and with runners on 1st & 2nd…….guy is killing us.
AJ has been toast for months.
You mean McSmiley? He needs to go. Like seriously.
These Damn Yankees. They can’t hit with RISP all game. We probably should have saved some of those runs from yesterday today.
jeter is guarnteed 2 more plate appearances today, unless they take him out of the game
CashHog has built such fantastic depth that when one of our 40 year olds burns out [a jones] we have Pearce ??? And mcGehee ?.?? to fill in.
A team like the Yankees playing a weak team, should jump on them as soon and as hard as they can. Just see the ball, hit the ball, forget HRs, they come on there own. Just 4 more games guys, we could use 5 more wins counting today.
Nunez can hit…..we have Jeter’s replacement if he can learn how to field.
Great bunt, but Kay is not the brightest guy in the world. If Joe replaced Nunez in the 6th inning for defensive reasons he should be replaced himself. One never, never gives lip service to a player then shows him up in the game by pulling him in a close game. Kid must have his confidence shaken badly.
Nice play to end the inning by Swisher and A-Rod.
Is the a new rule this year, you lose your DH, if you put your dh in the field?….. or has this always been in place?, I have never noticed it before this year.
anyone?
These umpires are SO BLIND! Gardner was obviously safe at second but Tim Welke who didn’t get a good view of the steal called him out! Who does that?!!!
Gardner was safe, but he doesn’t know how to get a jump like Ichiro!
This is another game we lose because no one can get a clutch hit…there is enough blame to go around for everyone. This, as are almost all losses, a team effort, as is the wins. It sucks
As Andru Jones caerer could be over,, here are his stats – 17 seasons,, He is 35 years, 5 months, and 1 week old,…
1933 hits
1204 runs
1289 rbi
434 homers
384 doubles
36 tripples
891 walks
97 hit by pitch
77 total sacrifcies
152 stolen bases
top 20 MVP 5 times, including finished 2nd in 2005
254 lifetime avg
lead the NL in homeruns and RBI once each
played in the WS twice,, 1996 and 1999, lost both to the yankees
10 Gold Gloves
played in 11 post seasons with a 277 avg and 10 home runs in in 76 games
player in 17 post season series, winning 7 of them
I think he falls short of the hall of fame
the markers i want to see for a good chance is 2500 hits,, and 1000 rbis, 1500 runs, or vice versa, depending on what kind of player yor are
and even then you may still not get in
Jones batted 198 this season with 14 homers in part time work
but has failed in the 2nd half for the most part
What are Jone’s prospects for 2013??? if any?
He’s toast.
you dont think some team will take a chance on andru jones,if he stays in shape, works hard in the off season in the cages?
we have seen players come back before from devastating seasons
he is still young enough to get a shot i think maybe
if he could get in shape and practice first base,.. he could get a shot in the NL, no?
Maybe……AJ can get a shot somewhere, as long as it’s not here.