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Post by swooptech on Sept 18, 2016 22:44:02 GMT -5
Get buried Yankees. Get buried.
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Post by Guidas on Sept 18, 2016 22:44:38 GMT -5
SWEEP.
GREAT WIN!
we're on to Baltimore...
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Post by soxfan06 on Sept 18, 2016 22:45:12 GMT -5
That was huge.
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Post by atzar on Sept 18, 2016 22:46:22 GMT -5
Tore the life right out of them.
What a series.
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Post by Don Caballero on Sept 18, 2016 22:47:56 GMT -5
What a fantastic series.
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Post by soxfan06 on Sept 18, 2016 22:48:27 GMT -5
13 games left.
If we win 7, Baltimore needs to win 10 of 13 and they finish the year with 6 in a row on the road.
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Post by DesignatedKyle on Sept 18, 2016 22:50:40 GMT -5
been a long time since I've enjoyed a 4 day stretch of baseball as much as that
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Post by dd on Sept 18, 2016 22:52:51 GMT -5
been a long time since I've enjoyed a 4 day stretch of baseball as much as that This. PS - and the Pats & UMASS & the Revs!!
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Post by dd on Sept 18, 2016 22:56:08 GMT -5
The highlight of this series for me actually came as a result of missing Hanley's walkoff. I changed the station. ARGH! When I found out what happened though I went online to find a replay of the end. As it happened, the replay I found was from YES. :-) The announcer was in total depression, I thought he might cry. From memory "This was the worst loss of the season for the Yankees. ... This is a loss the Yankees will not forget. ... I know I'll never forget it." It made up for not seeing it live. Sweep. PLEASE SWEEP! Funny, I had the same experience. The YES call just warmed my heart.My heart is just boiling over at this point. No more bourbon for me tonight!
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Post by ericmvan on Sept 18, 2016 23:03:41 GMT -5
Honest to God, when we were down 4-0 I thought we had a very solid chance of winning. Despite the negativism in the game thread, I bet I wasn't alone, either.
For starters, everyone in the dugout.
And Hanley just passed Altuve and Kyle Seager and is now 6th in the AL in Win Probability Added.
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Post by dd on Sept 18, 2016 23:09:18 GMT -5
It's probably a sad commentary on my personality that I get such a kick out of Yankee fan angst, but nevertheless ... nypost.com/2016/09/18/yankees-forced-to-the-brink-as-red-sox-finish-four-game-sweep/"After the Red Sox dug the Yankees’ grave the first three games of the series, Hanley Ramirez stomped on it Sunday and the Yankees ended up on the wrong end of another Boston Massacre." Stomped being the key word! "Another questionable move by Joe Girardi in the fateful fifth didn’t help matters." ... " Girardi then had Sabathia pitch to Ramirez — with first base open — and Chris Young on deck. ... Though Ramirez entered the game hitless in 10 at-bats against the lefty, he has been one of the hottest hitters in the league of late. The result was sadly predictable, as Ramirez went deep — again — for a three-run homer to make it 4-3." Sadly Not being the key word for me.
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Post by soxfansince67 on Sept 18, 2016 23:10:29 GMT -5
Sabathia's pitch count to me meant we would be in the pen early. The current state of the Sox pen meant that if we could start hitting and get the lead, it would work out. 4-0 meant nothing. Team is in a good place right now.
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Post by huskies15 on Sept 18, 2016 23:11:32 GMT -5
Love crushing the souls of the Yankees.
Hanley.... great googly moogly
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Post by James Dunne on Sept 18, 2016 23:23:15 GMT -5
Farrell totally outmanaged Girardi tonight. Girardi stuck far too long with Sabathia. In May, maybe you have the longer hook in the name of saving the bullpen and showing some confidence in your pitcher, but his managing tonight totally lacked the urgency of the Yankees situation. The difference between winning and losing was the difference between their playoff odds being around 1% and somewhere in the 5-6% range. Meanwhile, Farrell used his situational pitchers, Ziegler and Scott, situationally. He then showed no hesitation on giving Kelly and Uehara the highest leverage roles, which is smart given their recent performance.
That series was a much, much more devastating sweep than the five game number in 2006 that Yankee fans like to bring up. The 2006 Red Sox were already reeling. They'd just been swept by a pretty mediocre KC team. They had a lot of injuries, and their transition from the 2003-05 core to the core that would make up the 2007 champs was off to a rocky start as Pedroia and Youkilis were not playing so well at that point.
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Post by ancientsoxfogey on Sept 19, 2016 0:11:13 GMT -5
Funny, I had the same experience. The YES call just warmed my heart.My heart is just boiling over at this point. No more bourbon for me tonight! Take a Tums.
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Post by telson13 on Sept 19, 2016 0:13:11 GMT -5
Honest to God, when we were down 4-0 I thought we had a very solid chance of winning. Despite the negativism in the game thread, I bet I wasn't alone, either. For starters, everyone in the dugout. And Hanley just passed Altuve and Kyle Seager and is now 6th in the AL in Win Probability Added. Funny, three weeks ago I'd have guessed they were done. I checked in when it was 4-0, Hanley up, and actually thought...*believed*..."watch, he'll hit another 3-run bomb here." Once it was 4-3, I was pretty sure it was in the bag. They're really picking eachother up in a way they didn't for most of the season. Pomeranz struggles, 'pen crushes it. Hanley puts them back in it, then wins it. This is a team on a roll.
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Post by telson13 on Sept 19, 2016 0:15:11 GMT -5
Love crushing the souls of the Yankees. Hanley.... great googly moogly
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Sept 19, 2016 0:17:18 GMT -5
Fantastic series! This is what I've been waiting for all season. The Red Sox found ways to win close games just like winning teams do.
They put the Yankees thru an agonizing 4 game sweep. It wasn't 2004 but it felt damn good.
And most importantly they put themselves in a position where now all they have to do is split with the O's and they're in great shape.
Thank you Homering Hanley!
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Post by ancientsoxfogey on Sept 19, 2016 0:20:59 GMT -5
Farrell totally outmanaged Girardi tonight. Girardi stuck far too long with Sabathia. In May, maybe you have the longer hook in the name of saving the bullpen and showing some confidence in your pitcher, but his managing tonight totally lacked the urgency of the Yankees situation. The difference between winning and losing was the difference between their playoff odds being around 1% and somewhere in the 5-6% range. Meanwhile, Farrell used his situational pitchers, Ziegler and Scott, situationally. He then showed no hesitation on giving Kelly and Uehara the highest leverage roles, which is smart given their recent performance. That series was a much, much more devastating sweep than the five game number in 2006 that Yankee fans like to bring up. The 2006 Red Sox were already reeling. They'd just been swept by a pretty mediocre KC team. They had a lot of injuries, and their transition from the 2003-05 core to the core that would make up the 2007 champs was off to a rocky start as Pedroia and Youkilis were not playing so well at that point. I don't know that Girardi got out managed. Earlier in the season Farrell was getting exorciated regularly for leaving his starters in too long and putting in the wrong guys when he did make changes, when the real problem was that almost everyone in the bullpen couldn't be trusted to get anyone out. Well, now Farrell looks like a genius when all of a sudden he has 8 guys in the pen pitching excellent to lights out. Meanwhile, Girardi is playing Russian roulette with HIS pen and most of the chambers are loaded. So of course he tries to milk Sabathia on a night when he pitched well for the most part.
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Post by danr on Sept 19, 2016 0:59:07 GMT -5
Is it possible that Hanley is going to be the next Big Papi?
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Post by Oregon Norm on Sept 19, 2016 1:16:07 GMT -5
Like a loop sample from a remix, it bears repeating: there is nothing more volatile in baseball than relief pitching. If that's at the heart of the resurgence, I'm not unhappy. Much better to see the upside at this end of the season than the other way around.
Ramirez is rapidly ascending into the hitting stratosphere he last visited with the Dodgers in 2013. He bashed them into the playoffs and probably would have bashed then through it and out the other side except for a visit in the ribs from a Joe Kelley fastball. Lucky for him, Kelley is on his side this time.
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Post by costpet on Sept 19, 2016 6:03:47 GMT -5
Ramirez only 4 errors all season. Think back to spring training. Most people thought he'd do that the first game.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Sept 19, 2016 6:30:15 GMT -5
My internet seems to be in stutter mode.
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Post by brianthetaoist on Sept 19, 2016 6:41:42 GMT -5
It's probably a sad commentary on my personality that I get such a kick out of Yankee fan angst, but nevertheless ... Oh, you are not alone. When did NYYFans message board make their game threads private? I haven't had this much fun with Yankee schadenfreude for a while, but that used to be a great place to take a look at the carnage ...
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Post by geostorm on Sept 19, 2016 6:59:54 GMT -5
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