Sabathia hurls best pitching performance of Bombers’ season in 1-0 complete game shutout over Rays
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On an afternoon in which was just as good, matching zero for zero, Sabathia got the better of his fellow AL East ace, hurling a 1-0 complete game shutout with nine strikeouts to secure the series victory against Tampa Bay and send the Yankees into the All-Star break on an important winning note.
Not to take anything away from Shields, who was the hard-luck loser in pitching eight innings of one-unearned-run ball, but Sabathia’s performance was incredible for so many different reasons:
- It was the big man’s first nine-inning complete-game shutout since May 8, 2009, at Camden Yards. Believe it or not, Sabathia never threw a nine-inning game in 2010 — his longest outing was 8 2/3 innings against the Royals on August 12.
- At 87, it represented the best Game Score by a Yankee pitcher this season. ‘s May 30 shutout at Oakland is the second-highest.
- Sabathia’s .791 WPA for this game was the second-best individual mark by a pitcher in all of MLB this season, behind only ‘s no-hitter. (h/t , ).
- It was the Yankees’ 4th team shutout of the season, and second complete-game shutout.
- Sabathia now has a 23-inning scoreless streak going (h/t Professor Longnose).
- Sabathia became the first Yankee pitcher to throw a 1-0 complete game shutout at Yankee Stadium since (h/t T.O. Chris). If anyone out there with a B-Ref Play Index subscription knows the exact date, please leave it in the comments.
- It secured the team’s eighth series win in their last nine. The Yankees have gone 20-8 since being swept by the Red Sox in early June.
The win sends the Yankees into the All-Star break with a 53-35 record, a game behind Boston, who thoroughly dismantled the utterly pathetic Orioles over the weekend. For comparison’s sake, last season the Yankees were 56-32 at the All-Star break, in first place by two games, and in 2009 they were 51-37, in second place and three games out of first and coming off a demoralizing sweep by the Angels. Of course, in 2009 the Yankees stormed out of the break and rode an eight-game win streak into first place and never looked back. With only one game separating the Yanks and Sox heading into the break, this year’s second half should be even more exciting, if that’s possible.
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The way I look at it the Yanks & Sox are tied with 35 loses.
I believe it was June 7, 1980. It was also his 200th career win, and a 2 hitter.
One of our readers just e-mailed that it was April 27, 1980. Can’t believe it’s been 31 years.
EDIT: Guess not. weird.
OK, his 200th win was June 6th and it was a 3-0 shutout.
According to Baseball reference Guidry also threw a 1-0 shutout on May 19th, 1980.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET198005190.shtml
Looks like sportscenter was wrong on that one.
Futures Game is starting on ESPN2. The World at USA.
Alex has decided to have his knee surgery, and he will miss 4-6 weeks. This was the only decision he could’ve made really. If we are going to do anything in the post-season we need his bat, and we need him to have his legs underneath him to supply the power.
I imagine Nunez will be the first choice as everyday starter, with maybe Pena or Laird if he struggles.
We can officially put to bed Alex’s 30-100 streak now though. It’s amazing he was able to do it this long, considering the injuries the last few years.
@Chris I know I’ll sound like a crazed cockeyed optimist, but I would posit the crazy notion one might be hasty to “officially” write off Alex’s 30/100 streak continuing this season. That streak and his other milestones — past present and future — are part and parcel of the value-addons the team ponied up for when they signed his historic contract — and Alex has been nothing if not a game rooster when it comes to doing his utmost to meet expectations. Here’s my thought:
Assuming the low-end estimate of four weeks out of action and that he’s available the first game after that period, he would return for the beginning of the home stand vs the Angels on Aug. 9th.
By my count, that would leave him 49 potential games to play in the remaining regular season schedule. He needs 17/48 the rest of the way to keep his streak alive. In the second half last season, he had 16/55 over 55 games (just 52 starts) in 236 plate appearances.
Making one more final assumption — that the team will very likely DH him more often and start him less in the second half this season upon his return to save his legs and keep his bat in the lineup — isn’t it conceivable he could see approximately as many at bats the remainder of this second half as he did last season?
Admittedly it’s a somewhat longshot scenario, and I’m certainly no oddsmaker — but less likely than Derek’s 5 for 5 and homering for his 3K? Somehow I don’t think so.
Rosario from the Rockies is starting at catcher for the world, so Romine will be coming off the bench.
Too bad. I wanted to see as much of Romine as I could. Are there any other Yankees on the roster?
Nope. Arodys Vizcaino will be pitching at some point though.
Betances, Banuelos, Corban Joseph, and Romine will appear in the EL All-Star game though.
It’s the right decision. I’m not sure Nunez is up to it, but we’ll find out more about him than we knew.
He’ll need to pick up the defensive consistency that’s for sure.
I decided to watch the Angels-Mariners (Haren Vs Hernandez) game while waiting for the futures game, and Bobby Abreu ended up working a walk on 3 pitches during the game without anyone catching it. He didn’t come around to score, but the fact that this has happened twice since July 2nd is really ridiculous.
It sure is. That’s just so basic to the game. Why is it happening?
Umps going off the scoreboard over their clicker.
763 is a longer shot for Alex than it used to be.
If he’s going to keep missing chunks of time from being injured yearly, it’s impossible. He is going to be on the team until he is 45 or so though.
The Braves have a glut of young, talented, starting pitching.
During their Leo Mazzone-era heyday, they didn’t develop a lot of young guys, but they seemed to be able to grab guys who didn’t do that well elsewhere and get them to be better. There were a bunch of guys who looked good in Atlanta, then signed with other teams and weren’t any good.
No matter how they get them they seem to pitch well. Tommy Hanson has established himself as a probable future ace, Teheran looks like the real deal, they’ve had Beachy pitch well this year, Jurrjens isn’t pitches as well as his ERA but has bounced back real well, and Mike Minor is one of the best left handed pitching prospects in the game as well. Beachy, Jurrjens, and Hanson were born in 86, and Teheran in 91. All of that doesn’t even include Randall Delgado and Arodys.
They could make a rotation out of just those guys and have to kick one to the pen.
Hanson
Jurrjens
Teheran
Delgado
Beachy
Vizcaino
Absolutely. I was just making a comment about the Braves a few years ago. No knock on their current crop.
Its really not a knock at all, more of a compliment to the organization. They can take guys others don’t want and make them work, and they can develop their own.
They really should’ve won more World Series with Smoltz, Maddux, and Glavine though
Yeah. I don’t know why the didn’t. I imagine some of it was just luck. But they were clearly the best team in baseball, or one of the best, often. They just couldn’t cash in.
These guys are using wooden bats? Do they usually?
Only college uses metal bats.
martin was great also..he framed each pitch ..great target , he earned the win also.
In one of my fantasy leagues someone just tried to trade me Brian Fuentes, Zach Britton, and Pablo Sandoval for Roy Halladay and Eric Hosmer. HAHAHA, probably the worst trade of all time.
The three guys aren’t worth Hosmer by himself, let alone Halladay.
Fuentes doesn’t even have fantasy value since Bailey came back, and I have Bailey haha.
How many teams do you have? I just started the Pick Six thing because of YA, but I’ve never had a team.
I had two, but I busted in one so I don’t check it anymore. I’m leading in the other one.
Its an ESPN fantasy team.
C- Miguel Montero
1B- Adam Lind
2B- Robinson Cano
3B- Alex Rodriguez
SS- Erick Aybar
2B/SS- Rickie Weeks
1B/3B- Eric Hosmer
OF- Curtis Granderson
OF- Justin Upton
OF- Mike Stanton
OF- Adam Jones
OF- Logan Morrison
Utility- JJ Hardy
Bench- Brett Gardner
Bench- Colby Rasmus
Bench- Emilio Bonifacio
P- Roy Halladay
P- Ricky Romero
P- Josh Beckett
P- Jhoulys Chacin
P- Gio Gonzalez
P- Mat Latos
P- Carlos Marmol
P- Jordan Walden
P- Andrew Bailey
It’s a beastly team. I’m leading the league by 14.5 games.
Who’s going to take over for Rodriguez when he goes under the knife? Hosmer? Or a trade?
I picked up Bonifacio today, and he went 3-3 with 3 steals and 2 runs scored. He’s also on a 12 game hit streak, so for now him. I was going to try and trade Latos for Pandoval, but obviously he doesn’t understand trades haha. Hosmer is strictly first, so I have to keep him at the 1B/3B spot. 3rd is one of the weaker spots in fantasy this year, so I may have to scrape by, mixing and matching the hot hand in the free agent pool.
Oh my Matt Moore!
Announcers are saying that major league teams shouldn’t allow the players to throw balls into the stands. I think that’s going a little far.
Overreaction is a the first response to anything like that. Apparently 3 people have fallen and been hurt in Arlington this year though, they need to build some kind of fencing like the Cubs have to catch balls and fans.
I don’t remember the players routinely throwing the ball into the stands at the end of every half inning when I was a kid. I think it’s relatively recent. Seems like a nice thing to do, though.
I remember back in the days pitchers used to make a bigger deal about having a particular ball. The use to toss balls back in and ask for another way more often than they do now.
A lot of times now coaches even flip balls out to players strictly to toss them in the stands. Generally for kids.
Pitchers tend to toss balls back a lot now. Back in the day umps wanted to change out balls more, because it was more common to scuff balls for movement. Nolan was scuffing balls at the end of his career to makeup for the lack of velocity.
The World isn’t hitting today.
Romine! Romine! Romine! haha
As soon as I comment that the World isn’t hitting, they tie the game. I got the touch.
The World just got into the game.
CCCGSO.
Chief Central Committee of the General Service Organization?
Romine didn’t have much to do but the announcers thought he made a good play on that one pitch.
The biggest reason to hate Javier Vazquez is on the mound now.
I can understand why Cashman made that trade, but I don’t think I would have made it.
I hated it at the time. Javy had shown a decreasing fastball in 4 straight seasons, and Arodys had and has a lot of potential.
arod is out and now its time to bring up jesus montero !!!!
How does one correlate to the other? Montero can’t play 3rd, and I don’t see the Yankees sitting down Martin or Posada right now. Montero is also on the DL in triple A with a bad back, so I doubt they would call him up coming off of that.
They could trade Ramiro Pena for David Wright, Carlos Beltran, and K-Rod.
(PLEASE don’t take that seriously.)
Unless they throw in Reyes, no deal!
Funny thing is though Wright’s on the DL too haha.
Harper’s been over matched all night. I put no stock in this game regarding his future obviously, but I bet Nat fans aren’t exactly happy.
I guess you have to keep watching. He’s supposed to be very impressive but it didn’t come across to me.
I’ve seen him play before. It’s not hype, the kid can blast some balls places I didn’t know a kid that age could. You have to remember he is only 19, facing nothing but guys throwing 95-100, who are all more advanced than he is.
1 pitch, 1 hit, 1 RBI. Can’t do much better than that!
Cleaqrly Austin Romine is better than Bryce Harper! Take that, Nationals! Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha…
The Yankees are now 6 games up on Tampa Bay. If the Yankees can be 7 up by month’s end then 8 up by the end of August, (I think) they will win the wildcard if not the division.
Boston is overrated – check this:
8-1 vs. Yankees (9 games left)
6-2 vs. Angels (done for the season)
5-0 vs. Detroit (I think one game left – makeup game)
5-2 vs. Baltimore (11 games left)
4-1 vs. Oakland (3 games left)
3-0 vs. Houston (done for the season)
3-1 vs. Minnesota (3 games left)
34-7 in these games, 21-28 vs. everyone else.
If the 7 above teams played just 14-27 (slightly better than .333) ball vs. Boston, Boston would be 48-42, 6 games behind the Yankees and tied for second place with Tampa Bay.