Andy Pettitte (9-5, 3.98) outdueled the Mets Johan Santana (7-7, 3.01) in a very close and tight game, that was rained delayed at the start and in the middle.
Cano, Giambi, and Posada had an RBI each, and Jose Veras, Kyle Farnsworth, and Mariano Rivera each hurled a scoreless inning to preserve a 3-2 Yankees victory in this Subway Series at Shea Stadium. Mariano is now 22/22 in saves, and had a 1-2-3 inning, with 2K. Don’t go to the bathroom when he’s on the mound, folks, you’ll miss the ending. Mariano, who the fans and MEDIA said was DONE and FINISHED last year thanks to a slow April, now is off to the best start of any relief pitcher in history (he has the lowest on base percentage against him for anyone with 20+ saves).
As I predicted before the season started, Santana’s Mets signing transformed him from an ace to a hard luck loser: Santana has a 2.53 ERA over his last five starts, yet he’s 0-4 over that span.
Many fans and members of the MEDIA said that Santana was a bigger game pitcher than Pettitte, and that the Yanks should have passed up on Andy after the HGH controversy. For at least one game, Andy has converted those critics to believers in him. (Of course, I guess everyone is forgetting that Santana out dueled Andy in Game 43.)
Andy picked off Jose Reyes at 2B with David Wright up at the plate, which may have been the biggest play of the game.
Review of FOX ANNOUNCERS Tim McCarver and Joe Buck
Pretty bad as usual, for the most part. Buck got on his Bob Costas high horse and said we must consider Pettitte’s HGH admission when talking about his Hall of Fame candidacy. McCarver was convinced that Andy should be in, since EVERY pitcher who was 100 games over .500 has been inducted. (Andy is 90+ games over .500). In my opinion talking about HGH and Andy so late in the season is uncalled for. I thank Tim for selling the “Andy Pettitte Hall of Fame” idea on a national TV forum, and I attack Joe Buck for brining up Andy’s limited HGH use.
Buck also attacked all modern day players for using greenies in the past, and how their stats are low now, since they don’t use them this year. I’ve learned so much about drug use in sports and wrestling in recent years, that I don’t blame the players for doing anything to get through tough traveling schedules. Buck is an idealistic fool, who wouldn’t last one minute in a real-world situation.
As standard practice, Buck didn’t sound thrilled to announce…since the Mets have been a train wreck this year, and he hates the Yanks, he couldn’t really take sides. Buck did a great job is being a typical Talking Head…just telling us schlock about both teams that ESPN and FOX normally do. Their third man, Ken Rosenthal was doing his Peter Gammons impersonation by trade speculating.
McCarver seems to think that Farnsworth is “much improved” under Girardi. Although Farnsy has been doing well under pressure in recent appearances, he STILL has given up a ton of HRs this year, and in my opinion he should be traded before July 31st.
Of course, McCarver was ALL over Reyes for getting picked off. Reyes truly is an idiot to do that on a Saturday FOX game…
Finally, I have to laugh how Buck and McCarver seem to know exactly what Jorge Posada (who was playing 1B in the 9th) was telling Mariano Rivera when Trot Nixon came up (“Here is Jorge telling Mo how to get Trot Nixon out”). Millions of people take it for granted that Tim and Joe somehow are mind readers, can lip read in Spanish, or have a bug and are listening in. Thank goodness my wife didn’t fall for it; she picked up on that immediately: “How do THEY know what Jorge is saying?” she asked.
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how do people dislike this I hate game music and I can’t even hate on this shit
#Twitition Luan Santana em Indaiatuba-SP 2012
In the early days of policing the way of summoning assistance was to beat the truncheon on the pavement or a wall. Adjacent beats had to be close enough for this beating to be audible.
Joe Buck is just bad for football! I would love to hear Gus Johnson make this call, TV set would have exploded! Nice try by Aikman to try to save the moment with a little enthusiasm!
Your blog was good but neglected to mention how bad Tim McCarver and Joe Buck are at announcing a Sox-Yanks Series… AND, just when you think you sanity has been spared by a 3 minute commercial spot, up pops Joe Buck and a Budweiser commerical!! This guys are hucking terrible, and I my friend, am somebody who will not mourn the passing of Tim McCarver…. Did you hear how many times they mentioned Derek Jeter's eyes??? McCarver might not chug Jeter, but he would probably hold his you-know-what in his mouth!!!!
Tim Mccarver isn't that bad, it's Joe Buck that makes him look bad. Every once in a while, he'll say something that actually makes sense.
If you want bad, watch a game on ESPN.
THE PICTURE OF PETTITTE ON THE COVER OF THE DAILY NEWS IA AWARD
WINNING! BUT AFTER HE THREW OUT
THAT COCKY JOSE REYES, HIS PUMP IN THE AIR SAID IT ALL!! I LOVE THAT
MAN!! ON AND OFF THE FIELD I GIVE
HIM CREDIT FOR TURNING HIS LIFE AROUND A LITTLE AND MAKING ALL THE
RIGHT CHOICES.
PERSONAL NOTE: HIS ONLY FLAW IS THAT
HE MARRIED A POSSESSIVE LUNATIC
FOR A WIFE! LET THE MAN PLAY BALL AND STICK WITH THE TEAM HE ALWAYS
LOVED PITCHING FOR! MAYBE HE FEELS
THIS IS HIS BLESSED LIFE BUT I WOULD MAKE HIM AND HIS LIFE THE MOST BLESSED REASON FOR WAKING UP EVERY DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Santana who? tim and joe are the most moronic announcers i
have ever heard!! To think that my family and i listened to tim in
brooklyn along with ralph kiner makes me shutter that i would do such a sinful act! ugh! i am surprised that tim did not say more
derogatory remarks about the mets and the org! they did FIRE him! freakin’ fag! joe buck is there only
because of who his daddy was! that
is so unfair! the man never ever gets his comments across, they all
sound like utter nonsense to me!!
but actions speak louder than
words and pettitte and my yanks did
not do much talking these last two
games, hey, they did not have to,their bats and pitching said it all for them!!