Yankees 8, Jays 4

by hugo on Aug 6, 2009 7:08 AM EDT in Game Recaps Comment 22 comments

Tough one last night for our heroes.

On the Mound: Marc Rzepczynski pitched great until the 7th inning, when he ran into some trouble and was lifted. Things really unraveled, and Zep ended up with 4 runs allowed over his 6 innings, though he did strike out 7 and walk just one. He wasn't the problem.

At the Plate: Vernon Wells and Alex Rios had RBI singles in the 1st inning. Adam Lind and Marco Scutaro added solo home runs. We had our baserunners, but didn't cash them.

From the Pen: Bad showing from our relief corps last night. Josh Roenicke entered in relief of Zep in the 7th and gave up 3 walks and 2 hits. Jesse Carlson gave up another run in the 8th and Brian Tallet surrendered a Damon home run in the 9th. Yuck.

Cold Comfort from the Farm: Travis Snider had a double. J.P. Arencibia hit a home run, his 12th of the season. Casey Janssen pitched a perfect inning, striking out 1. Though David Purcey got absolutely shellacked.

Lind was the only one with JoTD numbers. The Jays are off today before taking on Baltimore this weekend.

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Damn you are up early..or up late =O

Didn’t really watch most of this one…stopped when it was 2-0 =(.

Hopefully this weekend will be winningfull…need it bad.

BJ ryan dumped by the cubs…Rofl

by bowling_kid25 on Aug 6, 2009 7:55 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

oh..all the times are in PDT...oops

by bowling_kid25 on Aug 6, 2009 7:58 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

didn't BJ take the cross town train to the White Sox

by aagoodfella on Aug 6, 2009 7:59 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Can’t find anything about it.

'But I don't want to go among mad people' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that' said the Cat 'we're all mad here'.

by JohnnyG on Aug 6, 2009 8:12 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

yes

I cannot find anything either. I thought I heard them mention it on a sports broadcast last night, but perhaps not.

by aagoodfella on Aug 6, 2009 8:53 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

i did notice that

It seems like Ryan asked for his release because he felt his velocity will never return to major league form….sounds like the guy is really down on himself =(

by bowling_kid25 on Aug 6, 2009 9:15 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Being realistic, I think the Cubbies were rushing him to get him back to the majors. So they had another leftie option in the pen, however Ryan knows that if he got back to the bigs and pitched like a little leaguer again then it was going to be hard to get any sort of contract going forward.

'But I don't want to go among mad people' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that' said the Cat 'we're all mad here'.

by JohnnyG on Aug 6, 2009 9:21 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Stewart also had a perfect inning

by aagoodfella on Aug 6, 2009 8:57 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Is it safe to say that...

R-Zep has surpassed guys like Purcey and Janssen on the depth chart for next season?

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by eyebleaf on Aug 6, 2009 1:14 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Janssen is being brought back up as a reliever. I think his days as a starter are over so yes on that front.

And as much as I like Purcey, I think the organization has soured on him and would have to agree Zep has passed him

'But I don't want to go among mad people' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that' said the Cat 'we're all mad here'.

by JohnnyG on Aug 6, 2009 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, I’ve got Janssen penciled into the pen next season.

Doc
Romero
Marcum
Cecil
R-Zep

That leaves out Richmond. He could be the long-man. And this is assuming Dustin “Carlo Colaiacovo” McGowan doesn’t come back.

And what about Litsch?

We still have guys like Robert Ray, and Brad Mills. Although Mills was scary awful while he was up…

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by eyebleaf on Aug 6, 2009 1:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

We'll I'm sure we'd rather have competition for the spots

If we didn’t, then we’d be in trouble. Plus we know if someone gets injured, we have more arms to throw in the mix.

by suitup17 on Aug 6, 2009 1:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Plus we know if when someone gets injured, we have more arms to throw in the mix.

Fixed.

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by eyebleaf on Aug 6, 2009 1:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Litsch won’t be back until at least the All-Star break next year and will have to compete for a spot at that time, possibly if we are hit with injuries again.

It’s so hard to gauge on McGowan especially since he hasn’t done any actual pitching rehab….. but at this point it isn’t looking good.

Ray, Mills, and Purcey will start the year in AAA and will be the injury replacements. Litsch will be hard pressed to crack the rotation unless someone is hurt mid year.

I think you are right about Richmond being the longman.

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'Oh, you can't help that' said the Cat 'we're all mad here'.

by JohnnyG on Aug 6, 2009 1:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Why with a rested pen and no game the next day do we
Use our worst relivers
Push our starter to the 7th when he had never pitched there before.

by tuck321 on Aug 6, 2009 1:34 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Just b/c he’d never been to the 7th before doesn’t mean he should have been pulled. I believe his pitch count was low.

That’s a formidable lineup the Yankees have.

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by eyebleaf on Aug 6, 2009 1:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

So he never made it to the 7th? Big Deal. His pitch count was still low enough. I do not fault Cito for running Zep out there in the 7th.

'But I don't want to go among mad people' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that' said the Cat 'we're all mad here'.

by JohnnyG on Aug 6, 2009 1:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

no I think Cito did a very good jog wrt to Zep …. Cito moved very quickly and yanked him in the 7th, i thought that was great

but to me, it was obvious from the get-go that Roenicke had a rubber arm last night and he should have been yanked right away … that I think was a huuuuuuuuuuuuge mistake

by aagoodfella on Aug 6, 2009 2:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah I won’t disagree there he didn’t have his stuff and was left out there for far too many.

'But I don't want to go among mad people' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that' said the Cat 'we're all mad here'.

by JohnnyG on Aug 6, 2009 2:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

But always having two guys warm up in case the first guy sucks

seems like a good way to burn out young relievers. Plus, what if the second guy isn’t good either?

They're not just hitting home runs. They're doing the little things, like hitting doubles.

by Torgen on Aug 6, 2009 2:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Actually come to think of it, you are right. There wasn’t anyone else warming up at the time, The camera panned to the pen and I think Carlson was stretching but that was it.

They didn’t have anyone warm to go into the game for Roenicke.

'But I don't want to go among mad people' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that' said the Cat 'we're all mad here'.

by JohnnyG on Aug 6, 2009 2:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs