Cano went 0-for-5, so maybe it's Girardi's fault for batting Cano third.

If anything, I think Girardi stuck with Pettitte too long.  Kelley, Logan, Robertson, Rivera, win.

If Kelley and Logan can't get anyone out ... if your team bats 1-for-10 with RISP ... your team is going to lose:

• Far easier to question the decision to bring in Joba Chamberlain after Boone Logan put two runners on base. It’s been a while since Chamberlain pitched in a real leverage situation in a winable game, so why bring him in today? “The inning didn’t work out the way we want because we used Kelley, and the outs that we thought he would get, he didn’t get,” Girardi said. “And then Boone didn’t get the outs we thought he would get. So we had to make some changes.”

• Chamberlain actually had been better recently, but it’s hard to think he would have been the go-to choice in that situation had Preston Claiborne been on the roster. Girardi said he didn’t want to use Dave Robertson because it would have meant giving him six outs if he were going to form a bridge to the ninth. “I’ve done everything,” Chamberlain said. “So there’s nothing they can put me on the field in that I haven’t been in. It’s just execution of the pitch. that’s the one pitch I made a mistake on and they made me pay for it.”

• Why three straight sliders to Adam Jones? “We needed a double play right there,” Chamberlain said. “I threw him the sliders and just — as aggressive as Adam is — if I threw it in a good spot and hopefully get him to roll over and get us out of that inning, and keep us within one run. That was the thought process.”

• Interestingly, this was Stewart’s take on three straight sliders: “I wanted to throw another fastball just to get them off there, but Joba felt confident in the slider and unfortunately, all three of them weren’t really good sliders. He just didn’t have it coming out of the bullpen, and he left one hanging and he hit a homer on it.”

This is game #136 of the season.  This is Joba's 7th season in the major leagues.  Joba is a fly ball pitcher throwing three straight sliders to a power hitter because he thinks he's going to get a ground ball double play ... and he then refers to this as a "thought process."


As for the game itself, Joba pitched two innings and allowed one run.

Kelley and Logan combined for zero outs and four runs.
 
Joba is a fat, stupid, gutless, sloppy bacon double cheeseburger.  Every time Joba take the mound, he mocks Cashman's long-term plan.  But this particular loss was not particularly Joba's fault, and it also wasn't particularly Girardi's fault.