Yankees win game 6, very simple

BirdmanNYC · Oct 22, 2010

Colby Lewis does not beat the New York Yankees twice in a week.

Colby Lewis is a below avg. right handed pitcher that caught the yankees in a funk. Well, the bats are alive and in no way does he beat the yankees twice in a week. The same thing happen with Cy Young or C.J. Wilson.

Colby Lewis is a right-handed pitcher. Posado and Berkman ( who is having great AB's right now) will be hitting on there stronger side. Also granderson ( who is hot) and gardner will have a much easier time against a very avg right hander, both being lefties.

Yankees will put up 7-8 runs tonight and get into the terrible Texas bullpen early. Hughes will just have to pitch OK. Hughes may have slipped up in his first game but he was been great all year long facing great lineup's in the AL East, ( sox,bluejays, tampa)

--yankees will 8-4

fooshlash · Oct 22, 2010

Thanks for your HOMER PICK

RenoChazz · Oct 22, 2010

fooshlash said:
thanks for your homer pick

lol

HookEmHorns · Oct 22, 2010

BirdmanNYC said:
Colby Lewis does not beat the New York Yankees twice in a week.

Colby Lewis is a below avg. right handed pitcher that caught the yankees in a funk. Well, the bats are alive and in no way does he beat the yankees twice in a week. The same thing happen with Cy Young or C.J. Wilson.

Colby Lewis is a right-handed pitcher. Posado and Berkman ( who is having great AB's right now) will be hitting on there stronger side. Also granderson ( who is hot) and gardner will have a much easier time against a very avg right hander, both being lefties.

Yankees will put up 7-8 runs tonight and get into the terrible Texas bullpen early. Hughes will just have to pitch OK. Hughes may have slipped up in his first game but he was been great all year long facing great lineup's in the AL East, ( sox,bluejays, tampa)

--yankees will 8-4

I don't think it's that simple

Colby Lewis is not a "below average pitcher." He finished the season with a 3.60 ERA. In particular, he hasn't given up more than 2 runs in each of his last 7 starts. Plus, he has only given up a total of 2 runs in 10.2 innings pitched this post season. He has 196 Ks in 211 innings of work...pretty damn good K to Inning ratio. The reason why his win-loss record doesn't reflect such good numbers is because he was getting virtually no run support for a good portion of the season. Otherwise, he has been solid all year.

Meanwhile, Hughes finished the season with a 4.24 ERA. He has one start against Texas he gave up 7 runs in 4 innings. Don't let his win-loss record mislead you. The only reason Hughes has 19 wins is because he pitches for the best team money can buy and gets great run support. Put him on any other team and he is a .500 pitcher at best....a mid-4 ERA is not what I consider "great."

Texas finished the season with the best team batting average in MLB, and they also have the best team batting average of all teams in the playoffs. I wouldn't count on Hughes coming to Arlington and mowing down that Texas lineup. If anything, look at Hughes last start against Texas - you know they can hit him hard. If they did it just a few days ago, then why can't they do it again?

Another thing, Texas' bullpen finished the season 2nd in bullpen ERA in the AL and 6th in all of MLB...that's terrible?? They have been solid all year. I wouldn't judge that bad outing in game one as indicative of the quality of their bullpen. If you want to discuss bullpens, the Yankees bullpen has an ERA of 4.50 this post season. I don't see a disadvantage there for Texas.

BirdmanNYC · Oct 22, 2010

HookEmHorns said:
I don't think it's that simple

Colby Lewis is not a "below average pitcher." He finished the season with a 3.60 ERA. In particular, he hasn't given up more than 2 runs in each of his last 7 starts. Plus, he has only given up a total of 2 runs in 10.2 innings pitched this post season. He has 196 Ks in 211 innings of work...pretty damn good K to Inning ratio. The reason why his win-loss record doesn't reflect such good numbers is because he was getting virtually no run support for a good portion of the season. Otherwise, he has been solid all year.

Meanwhile, Hughes finished the season with a 4.24 ERA. He has one start against Texas he gave up 7 runs in 4 innings. Don't let his win-loss record mislead you. The only reason Hughes has 19 wins is because he pitches for the best team money can buy and gets great run support. Put him on any other team and he is a .500 pitcher at best....a mid-4 ERA is not what I consider "great."

Texas finished the season with the best team batting average in MLB, and they also have the best team batting average of all teams in the playoffs. I wouldn't count on Hughes coming to Arlington and mowing down that Texas lineup. If anything, look at Hughes last start against Texas - you know they can hit him hard. If they did it just a few days ago, then why can't they do it again?

Another thing, Texas' bullpen finished the season 2nd in bullpen ERA in the AL and 6th in all of MLB...that's terrible?? They have been solid all year. I wouldn't judge that bad outing in game one as indicative of the quality of their bullpen. If you want to discuss bullpens, the Yankees bullpen has an ERA of 4.50 this post season. I don't see a disadvantage there for Texas.

AL West: Seattle, Oakland A's, and the Angels.
AL East: Red Sox, Tampa Bay, Blue Jays

If the yankees pitched agianst AL West teams the majority of the time, they would have a much lower team ERA and higher team BA.

BirdmanNYC · Oct 22, 2010

Homer pick, OK. Watch what happens...

BirdmanNYC · Oct 22, 2010

Texas Rangers 25th in Strenth of Schedule and the yankees are tied for 6th. In front of the yankees, everyone else in their division + 1.

BirdmanNYC · Oct 22, 2010

Best team money can buy, yea thats correct.

However, I look at that texas line-up and not too many home grown players. You bought everyone huh? Just got em cheaper..

Yankees have more home grown players than the Rangers..

HookEmHorns · Oct 22, 2010

BirdmanNYC said:
Best team money can buy, yea thats correct.

However, I look at that texas line-up and not too many home grown players. You bought everyone huh? Just got em cheaper..

Yankees have more home grown players than the Rangers..

This has nothing to do with having home grown. Every team pays for its players, but not every team can afford Jeter, ARod, Cano, Berkman, Tiexiera, Posada, Swisher, Granderson, etc. A-Rod's annual salary alone is around the same amount the Rays pay for their whole damn starting lineup. The reason why I even said that to begin with is because even a sub-par pitcher will be successful with that kind of lineup/run support (with the exception of AJ Burnett). Point being Hughes is not as good as his 19 wins make him seem to be

reservoirdog · Oct 22, 2010

BirdmanNYC said:
Yankees have more home grown players than the Rangers..

Not even close - looking at starters and rotation for LCS

NYY has (5) - Jeter, Posada, Gardner, Hughes, Pettite
TX has (7) - Moreland, Kinsler, Andruss, Borbon, Lewis, Wilson, Hunter

Coolie · Oct 22, 2010

It's too bad AJ won't start again, i can always count on him.

RenoChazz · Oct 22, 2010

BirdmanNYC said:
Homer pick, OK. Watch what happens...

Is it a lock? just tell me it's a lock.

BirdmanNYC · Oct 22, 2010

reservoirdog said:
Not even close - looking at starters and rotation for LCS

NYY has (5) - Jeter, Posada, Gardner, Hughes, Pettite
TX has (7) - Moreland, Kinsler, Andruss, Borbon, Lewis, Wilson, Hunter

You have no idea what you are talking about: including relievers ( not sure why you would leave them out)
Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Joba Chamberlain, Posada, Brett Gardner, Phil Hughes,David Robertson, Robinson Cano,Francisco Cervelli, Marcus Thames, and Andy Pettitte. Total - 11.

BirdmanNYC · Oct 22, 2010

In response to Texas having strong regular season numbers I stated:

AL West: Seattle, Oakland A's, and the Angels.
AL East: Red Sox, Tampa Bay, Blue Jays

If the yankees pitched agianst AL West teams the majority of the time, they would have a much lower team ERA and higher team BA.

Texas Rangers 25th in Strenth of Schedule and the yankees are tied for 6th. In front of the yankees, everyone else in their division + 1.

If you finish with 90 wins the AL East this year.. that gets you third and no playoff spot.. not mention you are not playing those AL West cup cake teams..

HookEmHorns · Oct 22, 2010

BirdmanNYC said:
In response to Texas having strong regular season numbers I stated:

AL West: Seattle, Oakland A's, and the Angels.
AL East: Red Sox, Tampa Bay, Blue Jays

If the yankees pitched agianst AL West teams the majority of the time, they would have a much lower team ERA and higher team BA.

Texas Rangers 25th in Strenth of Schedule and the yankees are tied for 6th. In front of the yankees, everyone else in their division + 1.

If you finish with 90 wins the AL East this year.. that gets you third and no playoff spot.. not mention you are not playing those AL West cup cake teams..

Yet, you're down 3-2 in the series...

HookEmHorns · Oct 22, 2010

NY and TX have played each other 13 times this season...TX has won 7 of them

rickdee · Oct 22, 2010

Yankee fans are so easy to fire up!

Riv34 · Oct 22, 2010

rickdee said:
Yankee fans are so easy to fire up!

Everyone gets like this when you've been hearing nothing but about how bad said team is from EVERYONE because they fell back a few games in a series. I cant tell you home many fucking bandwagon hopping, so-called "ranger" and "giant" fans I've had to deal with over the last week. Granted, as a Yankee fan I have dealt with everyone hating my team for as long as I can remember, so I laugh about it and just remind people of 27 WS Titles.

Personally I will not bet on anything in this game but possibly the Over..but of course I will be rooting for the Yankees to send this to a game 7. Best of luck to everyone who has/will have plays on it. :toast:

P.S BOSTON SUCKS

BirdmanNYC · Oct 22, 2010

It all goes back to the cake divisional games that dont wear your team down. Im sure your bullpen was spent after that tough series with Seattle or the A's. The yankees on the other hand deal with real teams. And the yankees will tie it up tonight.

soonerdawg1 · Oct 22, 2010

lol....

personally, i'm as happy as a puppy with two peters that the rangers are up 3-2 and coming back home, i would have taken that in a heartbeat prior to game one, and i would not have believed they would be in this position AFTER game 1....that being said, these are the yankees and i am preparing myself for a game 7 and possible MAJOR disappointment....the rangers struggled to put tampa bay away and would not be surprised to see this YOUNG ranger team struggle to put away this VETERAN and defending champ yankee team away....

BUT.....i see no reason for undue concern, i think the rangers will hold their own, win or lose.....they got 11 hits off yankee ace sabathia, forced him to throw a 120 pitches in just 6 innings, so their bats are still hitting.....the yankees managed to take advantage off 6 walks from ranger pitching as they did in game 1.....i did not see the type of turnaround that would give me -- a ranger fan -- a lot of concern at this point. the rangers have DOMINATED 5 of the 6 games in this series and were just a clutch hit away from making a serious comeback in game 5

Yankees win game 6, very simple

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