2011 ALDS: Game 4 | Yankees @ Tigers
Lineup:
Derek Jeter SS
Curtis Granderson CF
Robinson Cano 2B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Mark Teixeira 1B
Nick Swisher RF
Jorge Posada DH
Russell Martin C
Brett Gardner LF
Pitchers:
A.J. Burnett (0-0, 0.00) vs. Rick Porcello (0-0, 0.00)
This is it if the Yankees want to stay in the playoffs. In a matter of a little while, we will see how Burnett will handle a tremendous amount of pressure. Hopefully, enjoy the game.
By the way, here is Ricky’s Game 4 Podcast Preview. Check it out!
UPDATE
Yankees manager Joe Girardi said that all pitchers are available out of his bullpen Tuesday night except for CC Sabathia.
Even Freddy Garcia, whom Girardi instructed “to get his shoes on.” Girardi said Monday that ALDS Game 4 starter A.J. Burnett will be on a short leash, so it makes sense to have all hands on deck. Rafael Soriano, David Robertson and Mariano Rivera are all fairly well-rested and could be used early if Burnett runs into trouble. Burnett posted a disappointing 5.15 ERA in 190 1/3 innings this regular season and owns a poor 5.67 career ERA in the playoffs. Detroit leads the series 2-1 and can advance to the ALCS with a victory Tuesday at Comerica Park
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Posted on October 4, 2011, in Game Threads and tagged A.J. Burnett, Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees. Bookmark the permalink. 140 Comments.
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Let’s Do this. Big game I hope the bats come alive early to give A.J. some support.
Nice podcast Ricky…… I think the Yankees do have something to lose though.
Good evening, guys. I’m very positive tonight. AJ can be a calamity most of the time, but there is something in him….a fighter? I don’t know. He is capable of putting up strong numbers. Unfortunately ….after 3-5 innings, it leaves him. Good luck tonight.
let’s hope. Porcello is no stud so the Yankees should be able to get some good at bats.
1st and 2nd no out with gardner up….I’d be aggressive and pinch run for Posada right now
nice call Fish. Girardi would never. Posada is the only one who is hitting in this series. I don’t like Brett showing bunt. Let him swing away.
Girardi needs to get off his ass and get in the umpires face!!! We are getting screwed by the HP umps all series and he hasnt said a word!!
agreed. Martin and Posada running the bases remind me of nascar with drifting. he was up his ass.
WOW!! Posada almost prevented martin from scoring on Jeter’s double! Great baserunning by Martin
Lefty batters need to look to go up the middle or left field with these outside sinkers or there will be a lot of 4-3 groundouts to 2nd base.
would love to see Burnett get a quick 1-2-3 inning here and get the hot bats back up to the plate.
great minds think alike!
ha sure do.
This is a big inning coming up for AJ.
Yanks got him a 2-0 lead and he needs to go out and keep the momentum going by having a scoreless bottom of the 3rd.
Just gotta say, that strike three call to Gardner was plain and simple garbage. Too high, but Gardner will be ready next time.
Hate to jinx it but I like AJ’s body english tonight. He’s throwing free and easy since the 1st inning…being aggressive and working fast
yeah but we all know how he turns in the 5th. so lets see if it can last.
I pull him tonight first sign of trouble…
My strategy is AJ, Hughes, Wade & Logan have to get us through the 6th then its Robertson and Mo for 3
Arod…Tex…Swish….need these guys to hit tonight.
Arod needs to go back to hitting singles like he was b4 his surgery
Tex has had a better approach lately and I think he’s gonna hit tonight
Swish needs to look to hit up the middle and pull it if its inner half
you think he’s gonna hit or get hit? ha.
Everyone seems to love to throw at Teixeira huh?
Posada’s gonna rip one here
guess not…I should know better
i wish. I hope to see another couple runs come across soon for the yankees. 2-0 is not a safe lead with Cabrera in the tigers lineup.
Porcello vs LH hitters thisyear:
.321/.368/.488
But our lefties are hitless against him thru 4 ip
that’s not good.
Ugh that wasn’t good!!!! at least no one was on base.
Darn, the lead is 2-1…come on A.J! Get it together!
I could see that VMart HR coming before he swung.
he can’t let this unravel him now…..keep the ball down and awy from the lefties and get ahead so he can throw the curve in the dirt
anyone else hate this manager interviews during the game. they do pregame interviews post game interviews. leave them alone during the game.
OK.. FOLKS, put your seat belts on. It’s the 4th inning, and AJ is taking us down the Baltimore Pkwy. Good luck.
Huge strikeout.
even bigger K. Lets get that run back now.
Good comeback there. 2nd and 3rd time thru the order he needs to throw a lot more curveballs and changeups. I like that Hughes was up quickly.
AJ has to get Aja and Santiago out to start the 5th next inning in front of Demon & Cabrera.
we cannot lose this game i feel i am the only yankee fan in michigan and tigers fans r huge d bags
We’ll get on a plane if you need some backup Drew
here we go baby lets keep it going jeet
lol i work with all huge tigers fans and i take nothing but shit all day
welcome to our blog Drew.
terrible bunt by Jeter…that would have set us up nice
YA BABY MVP
all day! loved that trade. even though Kennedy is proven to be a stud. Granderson is so much better in a Yankee uniform.
Well, we got the run back! 🙂
Big hit by Curtis….have to cash in at least 1 more here…I assume they walk Cano to get to ARod…yup they are. C’mon ARod!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they are just daring A-Rod. no confidence in him at all. time to prove them wrong.
could blow the game open here time for a rod and tex to step up
This is a HUGE AB here. ARod has to come through here.
Don’t try to do too much. We’ll take a sac fly here
Shit call by ump on 1st pitch
just a high pop up thats all i ask lol bring one in
your wish is granteed.
i will take it
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Good job by ARod…..terrible 0-2 pitch by Porcello
time for a tex message to right field
HORRID CALL
Ugh Tex what are you looking at!!!
horrid call waaay outside
he is really frustrating to watch. He really needs to take a look at his approach and mechanics in the off-season
hey sure does. with less production from A-Rod we need a strong Tex at the plate. but his glove is still great saving an error from Jeter.
That was a great AB by A-Rod. For someone who hasn’t hit a lick he is making very productive outs.
sure is Delia. wish we could say the same for Tex.
That’s it, I’m calling my cell phone carrier. Apparently my Tex Messages aren’t coming through.
ha delia your a nut. lol.
big DP there…great pick by Tex
Yup and he pitched 5 good innings. more than most thought he would.
he’s gotta get through 1 more inning then Jo has to go to Robertson IMO.
GREAT DP BABY
come on guys more offense now
come on guys
dont know why but it wouldnt let me post comments anymore under my facebook name so i had to create a wordpress account lol
hmm strange sorry about that Drew. if you click the log in on the facebook tag while typing on the comments it should let u log in to that or your twitter account if you have one of those.
still dont feel comfortable with our lead
me neither like i said earlier with Cabrera in their lineup no lead is safe.
i dont but its workin with the wordpress so oh well lol i just need yankee fans to talk to lol its hard being a yankee fan surrounded by tiger fans
ok no problem we are all yankee fans so welcome aboard. if you click your avatar it will let you change it to a picture of your liking i think.
AJ has been actually great tho, u think if we make it outta this game and series he could replace garcia as our number 3 in the playoffs and we could use a 3 man rotation like we did with cc aj and pettitte
IF we get through i think we stick with the 4 man rotation. i think there are only 2 off days in the 7 game series so everyone would have to pitch on short rest and I don’t know how Nova would respond.
i agree. plus you never know if we get rain. which seems to always happen this year with the yankees.
good point this is a good sign from AJ tho we needed this
what a catch by Jeter.
hey Drew it thought you last comments were spam so it put them in our spam protector not sure why it did that when your other comments from your facebook login worked. sorry for the mix up.
come on get it to the 7th AJ
no biggee
not sure if i like them taking out A.J. here (did i just say that) but at least it builds confidence if he would have went south.
Great outing by A.J Burnett. He really came through when the team needed him!
yup he deserving of the backpage of the papers tomorrow if the yankees win this. What an amazing catch.
we need to win this game i dont think i can go to wrk tomorrow if we lose
ha all the Met fans at work will give me crap. so annoying though as their team is garbage.
I feel for you Drew. i think you can go to work with your head held high tomorrow. I live and work in New Jersey which is Yankees and Mets territory.
However, I have about 8-10 guys from Massachusetts who work with me. All prick Red Sox fans. Fortunately, they have NOTHING to say for a while.
I went to college in PA so all my friends are phillies fans. They talk so much i get so many emails. I’d like to beat them in the world series again.
Great game by AJ and smart move by Joe to pull him here.
I think I would have gone with Hughes over Soriano though…..hope Sori does the job!
WOW MVP BABY GO GRANDY
i hope he isn’t hurt though. that’s the last guy we need getting hurt.
Was a great catch but it was needed because he gets poor reads off the bat. Always takes a false or just late first step. Makesup for it a lot with his speed and athleticism.
Conversely, Gardner has it all…the speed, athleticism AND the good reads, first steps and routes to thebaseball.
i believe it was Delia’s article earlier this year and i agreed Gardner deserves to be starting in CF.
great catch by Grandy….Hope he just got the wind knocked out of him and its not a shoulder injury!
so huge AJ was on today (im shocked) but def what we needed now our bullpen has to go to work and get the ball back to Novacane in game 5
yup more runs please though.
Coke is throwing gas. But I think Grandy or Cano will rip him…..
robby is due for a big hit… along with a rod and tex
yeah the middle of the lineup is lacking this game.
Jorge has hit well and really surprised me but hasn’t done a lot of damage. These guys have been as important or more important I think:
– Gardner had 2 HUGE 2-rbi hits both to tie games late
– Cano single handedly won Game 1
– Granderson has had 3 or 4 extra base hits for RBIs
– Nova threw a gem in Gm 1
Oops…that was in response to Drew’s Jorge MVP comment.
Wow Arod got a hit! Good sign…last few ABs were better
great point i guess jorge has been our most consistent hitter but other guys have def had bigger moments
Jorge has def been the MVP of the series for us so far, you can’t underestimate experience
i’ll give you that with his hits. but i’m looking forward to next year with him gone and Montero getting more at bats.
Okay, we made it into the 7th! That’s a good sign! 🙂
welcome to the party A-Rod
this is great i would love to see what “papa grande” has to say now? does he still think we wont be going back to new york
Finally, A-Rod’s first hit. 🙂
Finally get Tex and Swish from right side….chance to do some damage
not what i had in mind from Tex but I’ll take it…c’mon Swish!
Tex knocked the crap out of that one.
its still hard to think we could have still had ian kennedy could you imagine our rotation then
Would be great but Cashman elected to let him go thinking Hughes & Joba would be the better pitchers.
Turned out he may have been wrong but most people favored Hughes and Joba at the time and we did get Granderson in the deal.
Kennedy pitches in a crappy division. you never know if his stuff would have handled the American League east.
Might get to se Montero pinch hit for Posada here depending what Swish does
would LOVE to see that!!!
WOW GREAT CALL lol
Fish when Girardi gets fired your hired!
I’ll take it!! C’mon Jesus!
true that but who you think we could have gotten for Joba and Hughes? lol prolly a pretty solid ace
yeah but you can’t make every move. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Hughes be traded this off season hopefully after the Yankees resign C.C. when he opts out and then sign C.J. Wilson.
looks like we can rest robertson and mariano
depends on the rest of the inning. their is an off day tomorrow.
i gotta get going though guys great talking to ya!!! GO YANKEES!!!
no prob drew. stop by tomorrow. take care. bookmark us if you want. enjoy the rest of your night.
Nice talking to you Drew. Come back often please
I knew we would be in great shape in this series if Leyland went to Coke or Shlereth. Almost all of our hitters are much better vs LHP. ARod is an odd exception but I like to see vs LHP right now because righties are getting in on him with FBs.
save some runs for game 5! this is good though the more we beat them up the more work we give their bullpen.
another RBI hit for BG
Fish sent ya an email.
Matt, the reason I said they had nothing to lose is because no one expected them to win tonight, even some in the Yankee community. Of course, losing in the first round is a disappointment in general, but that’s the only reason why I said nothing to lose. Detroit will probably go into Game 5 with the same mindset
gotchya Ricky. i see your point.
Hughes just threw that pitch at 94.
Just to let all you guys know. I am taking questions for the Game 5 podcast I will record tomorrow night. Matt, even get the guy who started talking tonight. Maybe, he would like to get involved
Ricky i will mention it in the morning bits.
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