If it pleases the Court, I will highlight the top of the 7th inning. Yankees are winning 6-5, but not for long:
"Top 7th: Chi White Sox
| - B. Gardner in left field |
| - R. Winn in left field |
| - B. Gardner in center field |
| - D. Robertson relieved S. Mitre |
| - A. Jones flied out to left |
| - P. Konerko doubled to right |
| - M. Teahen grounded out to third |
| - C. Quentin intentionally walked |
| - D. Marte relieved D. Robertson |
| - A.J. Pierzynski doubled to deep left, P. Konerko and C. Quentin scored |
| - M. Kotsay flied out to left" |
Yankees ended up losing by one run.
No one will ever know if the Yankees would have won Game Four if Girardi had managed the game differently. But if a manager can't be criticized for a major gaffe that potentially costs his team a trip to the World Series ... well, then let's all drink some green tea, dig out our Steve Karsay jerseys, and put Joe Torre back in the dugout:
"Robinson Cano and Nick Swisher and Curtis Granderson and Jorge Posada got big hits. The Rangers didn't. So the Yankee manager, a bum less than 24 hours earlier, didn't get hit after this one."
Really interesting use of conjunctions. A nod to Ernest Hemingway's propulsive prose? Or a nod to a lack of education?
"In a few hours, across the country in San Franciso, in a game the < needed so they wouldn't make the same 1-3 hole for themselves the Yankees had made against the Rangers, Phillies manager Charlie Manuel would end up with , his No. 2 starter, pitching the 9th inning against the Giants. And losing the 9th inning and the game. If Girardi had done it, if the Yankees had lost a game like this with a starting pitcher pitching the 9th, people would have looked to fire him before he got on the bus."
Awww, "people" are being too hard on Girardi.
I promise you, every Phillies fan I know is apoplectic. They don't want to fire Manual before he gets on the bus. They want him to stand in front of the bus while they get into the driver's seat and rev it up.
"I thought that if Burnett had enough arm left to be in the game, he had enough arm to get out David Murphy, the Rangers' lefthanded No. 7 hitter. And if he didn't somebody else should have been pitching for the Yankees in Game 4."
Ivan Nova should have been pitching for the Yankees in Game Four.
But if you thought Burnett had enough arm left, then you simply haven't analyzed Burnett's stats for the season, Burnett's stats with runner on base, and Burnett's propensity to allow homeruns.
"Swisher, even with his Game 5 home run, is hitting .105, which makes this another postseason when he hasn't been up to the circumstances, at least so far. Mark Teixeira, before he grabbed his leg, was 0-for-14 against the Rangers.
At cleanup, still looking like you can only call him Mr. October 2009, is Alex Rodriguez, with a .176 batting average and two RBI and hitting the ball barely better than he did in the Octobers before the last one."
ARod's career postseason stats are .291/.399/.529. Compared to regular seasons stats of .303/.387/.571.
Take ARod's 62 postseason games and adjust for 162 games. You get .291, 34 HRs, 99 RBIs, and 105 runs scored.
So you're going to claim that Girardi is an easy target and unfairly criticized, and your response is to do the same thing to ARod?
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