Yankee fans complain and complain that tickets, food and parking are too expensive. How can anyone say that when Joe Girardi and the Yankees can’t even afford to have a phone line from the dugout to the bullpen?
Ok, they have the money and the phone, but apparently they don’t like to use it or just have faith in the men sitting out in the pen. Joe Torre was pretty famous in New York for keeping a pitcher in longer than they should and today Joe Girardi seemed to have the same brain cramp when it came to pulling his starter.
Despite the fact that Andy Pettitte had thrown 91 pitches over a tough six innings, allowing five runs on a hot steamy day in the Bronx, no one was up in the bullpen to take over in the seventh.
Pettitte ran back out to the mound just to surrender a six to five lead. Two thirds of an inning and a grand slam later that bullpen phone was finally in use as Jose Veras came in to clean up. Veras actually went on to pitch one and one third scoreless innings while the Yankee batters proceeded to score runs and tie up the ball game.
In the days where Joba Chamberlain as in the pen, Girardi probably would have gone to Kyle “You Never Know What You Going To Get” Farnsworth, flip it to Chamberlain and Mo to finish it off.
Obviously Girardi tried to squeeze the extra inning out of Pettitte as he doesn’t trust anyone but Rivera and for some reason, Farnsworth.
If Pettitte would have made it through the seventh with the lead, you would have seen Farnsworth followed by Rivera. That did not happen however although the Yankees did manage to win the game in the bottom of the ninth in what will undoubtedly be a “Yankees Classic,” to be shown over and over on the YES Network.
Point is however that it shouldn’t have been a classic because if they had the right men out in the pen that Girardi could trust going to, then Pettitte would have left with a lead and if everything went by plan, the seven through nine inning pitchers would shut down the opposition and would just be another Yankee victory.
Either Girardi has to start using that phone and calling the bullpen, trusting his mainly young bullpen or the Yankees need to go out and get someone they can trust. If not, not only will Girardi be just like Torre in stretching out starters farther than they can, but he will create many uncomfortable moments and many unnecessary loses for the Yankees as he tries to milk every possible out that he can out of his starters, as his starters are the only people he feels comfortable with the ball in the hands and on the hill when the game counts.
Ok, they have the money and the phone, but apparently they don’t like to use it or just have faith in the men sitting out in the pen. Joe Torre was pretty famous in New York for keeping a pitcher in longer than they should and today Joe Girardi seemed to have the same brain cramp when it came to pulling his starter.
Despite the fact that Andy Pettitte had thrown 91 pitches over a tough six innings, allowing five runs on a hot steamy day in the Bronx, no one was up in the bullpen to take over in the seventh.
Pettitte ran back out to the mound just to surrender a six to five lead. Two thirds of an inning and a grand slam later that bullpen phone was finally in use as Jose Veras came in to clean up. Veras actually went on to pitch one and one third scoreless innings while the Yankee batters proceeded to score runs and tie up the ball game.
In the days where Joba Chamberlain as in the pen, Girardi probably would have gone to Kyle “You Never Know What You Going To Get” Farnsworth, flip it to Chamberlain and Mo to finish it off.
Obviously Girardi tried to squeeze the extra inning out of Pettitte as he doesn’t trust anyone but Rivera and for some reason, Farnsworth.
If Pettitte would have made it through the seventh with the lead, you would have seen Farnsworth followed by Rivera. That did not happen however although the Yankees did manage to win the game in the bottom of the ninth in what will undoubtedly be a “Yankees Classic,” to be shown over and over on the YES Network.
Point is however that it shouldn’t have been a classic because if they had the right men out in the pen that Girardi could trust going to, then Pettitte would have left with a lead and if everything went by plan, the seven through nine inning pitchers would shut down the opposition and would just be another Yankee victory.
Either Girardi has to start using that phone and calling the bullpen, trusting his mainly young bullpen or the Yankees need to go out and get someone they can trust. If not, not only will Girardi be just like Torre in stretching out starters farther than they can, but he will create many uncomfortable moments and many unnecessary loses for the Yankees as he tries to milk every possible out that he can out of his starters, as his starters are the only people he feels comfortable with the ball in the hands and on the hill when the game counts.
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