Errors and weak bats lead to a 6-3 loss in Detroit

By Mike Jaggers-Radolf On May 5, 2011 · 20 Comments · In Game Recaps

I didn’t watch this one, so this will be brief. If I had to sum up my thoughts on the whole series in Detroit, they would be this: Get out of there! The Yankees clearly don’t like playing in Comerica.

I don’t know if was good or bad. He pitched [...]

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How Pitchers Are Attacking Gardner

By Moshe Mandel On May 5, 2011 · 5 Comments · In Player Analysis

A few games into the season, friend of the blog Brien Jackson noted that pitchers were beginning to throw Brett Gardner more first pitch strikes. He suggested that Gardner’s penchant for taking pitches early in the count would begin to hamper his effectiveness, and that he needed to show the ability to get hits [...]

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Game Thread: Yankees at Tigers, 5/5/2011

By EJ Fagan On May 5, 2011 · 15 Comments · In Game Thread

The Yankees and Tigers are both 3-3 against each other this season. The winner of tonight’s game owns the season series.

BFFs Jeter and Arod are out of the lineup tonight:

Brett Gardner LF
Nick Swisher RF
Robinson Cano 2B
Mark Teixeira 1B
Curtis Granderson CF
Jorge Posada DH
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Time to tinker with the lineup?

By Matt Imbrogno On May 5, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Game Strategy

While it doesn’t make much of a difference at the end of the year, playing around with the lineup is something we always like to contemplate. I’ve said it a thousand times, and I’m sure every other writer on the site has, too: the difference between an optimized lineup and a non-optimized lineup is very [...]

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Max Scherzer goes eight, dominates Yankee bats

By Mike Jaggers-Radolf On May 5, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Game Recaps

Forgive me if I keep this one short, but it’s no fun recapping boring games. And that’s exactly what this was, if you were a Yankee fan. The Tigers won the game handily, 4-0, led by  and his lights out stuff. Scherzer pitched eight innings of shutout ball on 109 pitches. [...]

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