Here we are WIN METHOD fans. Despite a season long rash of debilitating injuries to an overwhelming amount of players, our New York YANKEES have won 103 games, won the American League East Championship and have qualified as one of five best teams in the American League.
The YANKEES will host the Minnesota Twins scheduled for Friday, October 4th, at Yankee Stadium in the first game of a best of five series. The team that wins any of the series in the post season playoffs will be the team whose players produce when it matters most in each game. Only the best teams with the best players will win and move on to the next series. All the teams and players who made the playoffs are the best in baseball. All the other players in baseball are done and are going home to watch the playoffs on television. Many of the highest paid players in baseball are going home. They are going home because they are not the best and are only paid because of their high meaningless individual stats.
Speaking of high paid losers going home and not making the playoffs. How wonderful did it turn out for the YANKEES by not signing either of the 300 million dollar losers, Manny Machado and Bryce Harper. If the YANKEES had signed either, the YANKEES would not have made the playoffs and their chances in the future would have been seriously compromised. Even though it can be done it is hard playing around players who contaminate your team.....remember the afraud years.
Lets hope the YANKEES get it all together, body and soul, and produce the most when it counts and go as far into the playoffs as their talents can take them. No matter how the playoffs turn out, it has been a great season, with next season, and future seasons looking very promising and bright as the YANKEE newcomers bloom and grow. So here we are, LETS GO YANKEES.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 400 of 486 Newer› Newest»Controlled aggressive baseball is winning the day. Keep it up Yankees. Keep it up.
You have to play one game at a time, then you make adjustments that the manager feels need to be made and play the next game. One by one.
If we pitch and hit anywhere near as we did yesterday we can win again.
Happy birthday WIN METHOD. Many more.
James Paxton LHP
NYY Lineup
D LeMahieu (R) 1B
A Judge (R) RF
G Torres (R) 2B
E Encarnación (R) DH
B Gardner (L) CF
G Sánchez (R) C
G Urshela (R) 3B
C Maybin (R) LF
D Gregorius (L) SS
Interesting, Maybin in LF for Stanton, but not Hicks who would be a lefty bat. Sanchez is so overdue to hit a home run and produce when it counts, tonight maybe?
Maybe Boone knows something as he moved Sanchez up a notch.
Should be another great game tonight as the battle of the titans continues.
When the Yankees play hard and well I can live with losing no matter who beats us. I don't like the lack of hustle by anyone on any team. And I detest players who get paid massive amounts of money for their individual stats yet they do not help their team and do not make their team better.
Stanton out with a quad injury, but he can pinch hit and or play if necessary.
The Yankees have played the entire season with a plethora of injuries, why not the postseason also. Next man up. Lets go Yankees.
Game two ALCS is about to start.
Scoreless first.
Yanks down 1-0 after 2.
Astros score first with one run in 2nd inning as Paxton limits damage with 2 K's with men at 2nd and 3rd.
LeMahieu walk and Judge home run give Yankees first base runner and first hit and a 2-1 lead in 4th.
Yankees take 2-1 lead in 4th on Judge 2 run HR
Paxton out after 2 1/3. Green in.
Yanks up 2-1 after 4.
Green goes two perfect innings. Ottavino in and gives up tying HR on first pitch.
Maybe Ottavino will be gone next season. He has been pretty bad continuously.
Ottavino gets one out and leaves with two men on as Kahnle comes in to try to get last out and stop any more damage. Kahnle gets the K to end the inning. 2-2 game.
2-2 after 6.
Kahnle did his job. Britton in for the 8th.
2-2 after 8.
Still tied at 2 after 8. We need runs.
Lets go Yankees. Yes you can.
Chapman in for the bottom of ninth tied at two.
Extra innings. Neither team deserves to lose, but one will.
CC in for tenth.
Loaisiga in after CC gets one out.
Loaisiga walks 2. Happ in 2 on 1 out.
On to the 11th.
Final. Yanks lose in eleventh inning 3-2. Billy goat. Ottavino. Sanchez. Encarnacion. Series tied at one game each team.
What a tough loss.
Baseball at its best played by the best.
Off day today. 4PM game at Yankee Stadium tomorrow, Louie Louie to start. Need to rebound after last nights loss and take the initiative. Hope Boone benches Sanchez, aka 'meatball'.
We caught a bad break when Gardners hard hit ball ricocheted off of Altuve's glove and instead of rolling into the outfield and scoring LeMahieu it rolled to Correa and he was able to throw out LeMahieu at home. All part of the game. Intangibles?
Sanchez needs to come out of the lineup. He swings wildly at anything, balls bounced in the dirt, six inches high and a foot or two out off the plate. He looks clueless. No more of his nonsense.
I can see Hicks starting tomorrow if Stanton doesn't. Big left field to cover on a gimpy leg.
Sanchez is a black hole in the lineup. Sanchez is one of those guys who only hits bad pitching, so it's no surprise he looks like a clueless fool in October against better pitching. It's great to kill the Orioles but it means nothing if you become a zero against the better teams.
Patrick Healy, Stanton can DH instead of Encarnacion.
Steve, I agree, and would love to see Romine get a start. Romine cannot do any worse than Sanchez has.
Hope Louie Louie can give us five shutout innings.
We could've and should've won last night.
Never look back, then win the next game.
Yes we can and yes we will. The best versus the best.
Coming up, round 3 in the battle of the titans, baseball version. Tuesday 4:00 PM, Yankee Stadium.
Should be another great game. Louie Louie the key if he puts up goose eggs.
Play within yourselves guys. Don't chase. Produce when you get your chances. Earn the win.
Lets see who Boone plays today and the lineup.
Luis Severino RHP
NYY Lineup
D LeMahieu (R) 1B
A Judge (R) RF
B Gardner (L) LF
E Encarnación (R) DH
G Torres (R) 2B
D Gregorius (L) SS
G Sánchez (R) C
G Urshela (R) 3B
A Hicks (S) CF
Hicks in CF, Gardner LF, Stanton out. RRLRRLRRL. Romine should be in and Sanchez out.
Sanchez's is so overdue for a big hit, sadly I think his next big hit won't come until spring training next season.
Maybe Boone is playing the percentages, Sanchez has to do something positive sometime. A broken clock is right twice a day.
We are likely in store for another great game this afternoon. After October, sports is over until baseball spring training in February. We do have the hot stove however. Much gossip, guesses, and predictions of trades and where free agents may wind up.
Lets go Yankees.
Louie Louie lets Houston on the board first surrendering a first inning home run.
Louie Louie throws 37 pitches in first inning and leaves the bases loaded as Astros failed to produce at a major time.
Yankees also leave bags full in first.
Louie Louie gives up another solo HR in second to leadoff batter. Down 2-0.
Yankees leave 2 more men on in 2nd and are now 0-4 when it counts. Trail 2-0.
Yanks down 2-0 after 4.
Didi flies out to the right field wall with two on base for the final out in the fifth. Still down 2-0.
Yanks down 2-0 after 6.
Ottavino in for the 7th and stinks yet again. Walk and hit & run single and he's out of the game. How awful, this could eliminate the Yankees of having and chance to come back.
Torres HR in 8th gets Yankees only run of game. Down 4-1 after 8.
Final. Yankees lose 4-1. Down 2 games to 1 in series. Looks as if Wednesday night game will be rained out. Likely Tanaka will start game 4 on Thursday. Paxton game 5 Friday.
Billy goats, Ottavino and Sanchez.
Don't give up. Yes you can.
Those who give up or espouse the we can't win mantra are losers of life's lottery.
There it is in a nutshell fans, three games played, runs scored Yankees 10 Astros 7, but Yankees down 2 games to 1. It is not how many nor how much, but when that determines who wins and who is best.
Cory, you can only become the best by producing when it matters most to win games.
Rainy is moving in and when it starts will last into the night.
Didi's bid for three run home run and Yankee lead yesterday was a 1/16th inch difference on the bat. So close but that is sometimes the difference between winning and losing.
Game has not been called yet. Looking at radar and future radar should have already been called, but then again you are dealing the money hungry MLB.
Tonight's game has been postponed.
Boone may likely go with Tanaka and Paxton in games 4 and 5. If Yankees win both they can go back to Houston up 3 games to 2. Yes you can, yes you will.
We have out-pitched Houston, but Houston's lineup has out-produced our lineup when it mattered most. We turn that around and we win this series.
Stanley Chin, don't ever forget that stat frauds don't care if their high individual, high dollar players helps his team wins or not. They have their built in alibi, it was the other players fault.
For some reason I am awfully confident the Yankees will win these two games at the Stadium.
Fred Slube, there is no other way to go. You save nothing. Go with the best you have available each game and if the need arises everyone in the bullpen every game. They will have a lot of time to recover over the winter, win or lose. You just can't get eliminated trying to save your best for later which may never come/
You don't die with bullets in your gun, nor with an arrow in your quiver, nor with your best arm not used.
If we win games 4 and 5 and go to Houston up 3 games to 2, all the pressure is back on Houston.
The Yankees can and the Yankees will.
Stay positive guys. Just produce when it counts.
Rain has moved out in NYC. Plenty of time for field to be in perfect shape for tomorrow.
Boone makes out the lineup, in my opinion I think he is trying to catch lightning in a bottle if he continues to play "meatball" instead of Romine.
Big game tonight. We need a win badly.
Baseball at it's best played by the best is back. Possible four games in four days.
Gary 'meatball' Sanchez is a major problem the Yankees are going to have to deal with, if not now, in the future. The best remedy is to get rid of him. Unfortunately other teams know of his attitude, his lack of hustle, and his failings. The Yankees may have to just let him go if they cannot deal him.
Steve, I believe you are right about Sanchez, and I believe his value is not very good.
Anxious to see Yankee lineup for tonight's game, comes out around 5 PM.
Masahiro Tanaka RHP
NYY Lineup
D LeMahieu (R) 1B
A Judge (R) RF
A Hicks (S) CF
G Torres (R) 2B
E Encarnación (R) DH
B Gardner (L) LF
G Sánchez (R) C
G Urshela (R) 3B
D Gregorius (L) SS
Stanton still out and Sanchez still in doesn't help.
Stanton out you have to live with. Don't mind lineup except if Boone is going to play Sanchez he should be batting behind Urshela. I also think Romine should be in lineup.
Come on guys, put it all together and make this series go back to Houston.
Lets go Yankees. Time to shine.
Lets go Yankees.
Greinke unintentionally intentionally walks Gardner on four pitches with the bases loaded giving up a run and then strikes out 'MEATBALL' on three pitches for the third out as 'MEATBALL' fails yet again leaving three men on base. He should not be playing. 1-0 Yankees.
Yanks up 1-0 after 2.
Astros score 3 in 3rd producing when it counts as Yankees continue to fail when it counts.
Yanks down 3-1 after 4.
Yankees load bases in fifth with one out. Torres strikes out for 2nd out. Encarnacion strikes out and another total failure for Yankees not producing when it counts. Still trail 3-1.
Astro sixth put 2 men on and deliver big 3 run HR for a 6-1 lead and likely take the air out of the Yankees. That is all baseball is and the WIN METHOD defines winning baseball and not with meaningless individual stats or more than meaningless man made convoluted fake formulas, but by wins. Wins and winning are what defines what players and teams are the best.
Yankees down 6-3 after seven. As Michael Kay would say, 'do the Yankees have a rally in their bones'?
Yanks down 7-3 after 8.
Final. Yankees lose 8-3. It looks as if they through in the towel over the last few innings.
The Yankees have played themselves into must win games for the rest of this series. Not producing when it counts is on their shoulders. Opposingly the Astros are in the position they are in because they did produce when it mattered and now only need one more win to eliminate the Yankees and move on to the World Series.
Paxton tonight. Will we live to play another day? Lets go Yankees.
I was disappointed in the Yankees sloppy play last night.
I will not be happy if the Yankees have thrown in the towel and play like it tonight. Nothing wrong with losing if you try your best, but it is a disgrace and an embarrassment when you don't try your best.
James Paxton LHP
NYY Lineup
D LeMahieu (R) 1B
A Judge (R) RF
G Torres (R) 2B
G Stanton (R) DH
A Hicks (S) CF
G Sánchez (R) C
D Gregorius (L) SS
G Urshela (R) 3B
B Gardner (L) LF
Stanton in at DH. is still in the lineup. It is win or go home time.
Slyoldfox, if the Yankees don't give full effort, that has to fall on Boone. Plus, I have no problem with calling out Boone for playing "meatball" Sanchez all these games. He is a black hole ala afraud.
Keep our October baseball going guys. Do it for WIN METHOD.
Here we go, move on or go home.
Meatball gives a run away in first because of his rotten defense. Yanks down 1-0 coming to bat.
Yankee first. LeMahieu HR makes it 1-1. Judge single. Torres double for men on 2nd and 3rd.
Stanton K's, 2nd & 3rd, one out. (Failure when it counts). Hicks 3 run HR for 4-1 lead WHEN IT COUNTS. Meatball putridly K's. Two out. Didi pop out. Yanks lead 4-1 after one inning.
Yankees score 4 in first. LeMahieu HR and Hicks 3 run HR. Now that's a good start. 4-1.
Finally, offense comes alive. LeMahieu and Hicks home runs for four runs and a 4-1 lead.
Paxton does what he needed to in the 2nd. Put up a nice goose egg.
Yanks up 4-1 after 2.
Yanks up 4-1 after 4.
I wish we would add on a run or two. I've scene this scenario at times. You fail to put a team away and they edge you out in the end. Come on guys.
Paxton has gone five solid innings. Can he get a sixth. Another run or two would help ease my anxiety.
Verlander has settled down and keeping the Yankees off the board and even off the bases. Yankees 5-1 after 5.
Paxton goes six innings of one run ball and leaves putting Yankees on the cusp of a win.
Come on guys, put a run on the board.
Yankees sixth. Torres pops up for infield out. Stanton strikes out, two out. Hicks strikes out. Three up three down. The Yankees haven't touched Verlander since the first inning.
Yanks up 4-1 after 6.
Paxton didn't throw in the towel, he pitched a gem and has given us a chance.
Meatball has been pathetic, hasn't put the ball in play all night, striking out three times.
Still 4-1 thru seven. Two more innings of edge of your seat baseball.
Britton throws a scoreless 1,2,3 8th. Chapman will be in for the 9th.
Yankees go down 1,2,3 in eighth. We need 3 outs and then head to Houston for another must win game.
Yanks up 4-1 after 8.
Chapman with a perfect ninth. Yankees win 4-1 and we get more baseball.
Final. Yankees win 4-1. Paxton and Hicks the heroes.
When it counts production. Houston none. Yankees once. Yankees win.
Who will pitch tomorrow?
The biggest hurt the Yankees suffered going into the postseason was the loss of German.
For the Yankees to win tonight they will have to patch together a bullpen game with several pitchers and hopefully do a better job in scoring runs and not in just one inning.
Please don't use Ottavino again. He and meatball are a nightmare.
Likely Boone will lead with Green tonight, but you never know.
We have the best backup catcher in baseball that would be a starter on many teams, but we don't even give him a game in the playoffs? Do it tonight and dump the meatball.
There is no way Romine would not be an improvement over the meatball. Romine does make contact and puts the ball in play at a very much higher rate.
No pitchers named yet.
Lets go Yankees. Make it to game seven and Louie Louie.
Astro lineup up, Yanks not yet.
Chad Green RHP
NYY Lineup
D LeMahieu (R) 1B
A Judge (R) RF
G Torres (R) 2B
A Hicks (S) CF
E Encarnación (R) DH
D Gregorius (L) SS
G Sánchez (R) C
G Urshela (R) 3B
B Gardner (L) LF
Encarnacion back in. Sanchez in again. Green is starting.
We will need to score some runs tonight. Lets go Yankees.
Yankees down 3-0 in first.
Green gives up 3 run HR in first.
Meatball with an RBI single in second cut Astro lead to 3-1.
Yanks down 3-1 after 2.
Yankees load the bases in third and Didi dribbled a grounder to the pitcher who tags him out.
Add one more to the major big failure when it counts column.
Yanks trail 3-1 thru three innings and Houston is using their fourth pitcher in the fourth inning.
Urshela HR cuts lead to 3-2 in 4th.
Yanks down 3-2 after 4.
Yanks down 4-2 after 6.
In the last 2 innings Astro outfielders have made diving catches with men on base that more than likely would had the Yankees leading this game.
Yanks fail to score in 8th and trail 4-2 with 3 outs left.
Yanks down 4-2 after 8.
Last chance or our season is over. Lets go Yankees.
LeMahieu 2 run home run ties it in 9th at 4.
Tie game on LeMahieu 2 run home run.
It ain't over yet. LeMahieu ties it with HR.
Win or lose, this series has been fantastic. The two best teams in baseball with one playing through and around every obstacle, hurdle, and injury. Y A N K E E S !!!
Chapman on to try to give us life in extra innings.
Chapman loses it. Gives up HR with 2 outs.
Oh my God, I don't believe it.
Final. Yankees lose 6-4 on walk off home run. I can't say anything else right now.
After coming all the way back what a tough tough loss.
Sad very sad.
This season has tested Yankee fans to their limits.
Wait till next year.
Storybook ending but for the wrong team.
No more games. Done, but I will root for the Astros against the inferior NL.
We have fallen, but we fought to the end.
We tried we lost we are the second best team in baseball.
Don't feel bad Yankee fans. We played two post season series and split them. We played nine games and won five. We played two teams that were 100 game winners as were we and played the whole season crippled and the final straw losing our best 18 game winner just before the playoffs. Somebody always has to lose and it is never a good feeling to lose. Be proud of what the Yankees accomplished this season, the best is yet to come as we bloom and grow.
I will be rooting for the Houston Astros in their final series of the season.
The players did their best and after every injury someone stepped up and the team kept winning and moving forward. What irks me is German being banned from playing baseball because of an awful act he presumably and likely committed that had nothing to do with baseball. That is a bigger stain on MLB than on German, and it is a big stain on German.
Coryankee, Hear hear. MLB's decision was not based on right or wrong, but was based on a "politically correct" philosophy which desires to eliminate free speech and law and order. My husband strikes me, I will deal with it appropriately, and I do not want his boss involved in any way shape or form. If anyone doesn't like it, to bad.
MLB with its inane policy and decision hurt many people directly and millions upon millions indirectly.
Linda Pardo, you go girl. Well stated, I agree, and we are right. The millennial snowflakes be damned. Don't mess with my team.
The Yankees need to only make one move over the winter, and it will only cost money. Just do it if WIN METHOD ok's it.
YankeeMike, we can hope, but the Yankees have several starters on the cusp that may be ready for the major leagues.
Frank Sergi, True, but CC gone opens one spot, and if one or two of the minor leaguers proves themselves and wins a position in the spring you just upgrade and move what you now have in some kind of deal. It can be done, we have the players and we have the money.
Altuve is an absolute real great in every way possible. You know what else he always does, runs EVERYTHING out of the box all the time, ala Jeter, it's a joy to watch honestly. I do not accept any player not hustling on every batted ball all the time.
When you compare meatball and afraud, at least afraud hustled, meatball does not. afraud could play defense, meatball doesn't.
Baseball rules are what they are. German did something he shouldn't have done. It likely cost his team. We will see what the future holds for him.
Reflections....The Yankees made the playoffs. Played two over 100 win teams and 9 games and finished 5-4, yet were eliminated. Baseball is a funny game and the best sport in existence. No billy goats, no heroes, you win or lose as a team.
The Yankees lost the series for many reasons (or is it excuses). Our best 2019 regular season starter was disqualified from the playoffs. We failed to produce when it mattered most, which is always the biggest reason. Failing to produce is usually a direct result of the other team producing when it counts. Houston did produce when it mattered, both offensively and defensively. The Yankees could have won this series if a ball would have fallen in for a hit instead of a great catch being made taking the hit away. But that happens when the best is playing the best. Only one team can win. 2019 is over and 2020 will be here before you know it. I have a wonderful feeling that 2020 will be a great year for the Yankees and a year they return to and winning the World Series. So let's enjoy the off season, the hot stove, and spring training. As always, LETS GO YANKEES.
will-i-am, It was a tough season, but despite the injuries and outcome, there was much to be proud of and there is much to build on.
Astros in 4 or 5 games over the Nationals.
Will the Yankees go all out for Cole?
Astros in four.
5-4 in the playoffs against two over 100 win teams and eliminated. The American League stands alone.
If the Astros play like they played us they win in four, if they slide some after beating us they may go to six. I would love to see a sweep.
Almost 24 hours later, I am starting to feel some relief the tension of the playoffs are over.
Major American League vs inferior national league playoff starts tomorrow.
Go American League Champions, Houston Astros.
The Washington Nationals are going to the WS for this one major reason, they did not resign and therefore got rid of a major stat fraud lose Bryce Harper. The Nationals saved a boatload of money and got a better team for it.
With the Yankees not winning game six with Houston, it set up Houston's pitching staff very nicely for the WS.
This world series should be interesting for a variety of reasons.
Allow me to describe the stat fraud fake man made convoluted formula WAR. WAR is designed to try to tell you what a players value is compared to a fictional non-existent player. That is all you really need to know. Wait, there is more. WAR weighs every hit by every player equally, WAR weighs every opponent and when each event equally. Spoiler, stat frauds, every hit and every event is not equal. So, any use of WAR is meaningless.
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