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I don't think we'll get a better chance of taking a lead than right there. Second and third nobody out. I know it's Betances, but good teams get that run home somehow.

Lawrie screwed us with the error in the top of the inning and then he couldn't get the go-ahead run in with nobody out.

lol this umpire hates Betances. He's missed 3 strikes already.

YES! HELL YES!

Wow I didn't think we'd get two consecutive hits off Betances. Betances got squeezed on his knuckle curve in that AB.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 15, 2016 -> 02:54 PM) 90 mph fastball right down the plate with 2 strikes He did it two pitches later to Tex too. We're lucky it's not 6-4.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ May 15, 2016 -> 02:50 PM) Again, those runs shouldn't be earned due to Lawrie's error, but MLB says they're earned. That makes no sense lol. And yeah Lawrie's error is what opened that inning up. Duke probably doesn't even pitch if that play is made.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ May 15, 2016 -> 02:50 PM) You people harping on Duke lol. The dude made a bad pitch, it happens, a 1-run cushion in baseball isn't jack squat. More like 2 bad pitches. I didn't really like the idea of bringing him in to begin with. Jennings is much more effective vs. right handed hitters.

Jennings was doing fine. God damn it Duke.

Had we challenged that, he would have been safe. :|

Barcelona win La Liga again.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 14, 2016 -> 10:15 PM) I blame this loss on God Loves the Infantry starting the game thread too quickly. Actually, Gonzalez has pretty decent numbers against most of the current Yankees career-wise, but Tanaka's not an easy pitcher to beat, even with his stuff not quite what it was when he first joined NY. That said, I'm sure the betting line is hugely in favor of them. OK there Stevie Johnson

Q gets the tough luck loss again. And Eaton finally misplayed a ball.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 14, 2016 -> 02:27 PM) Even though he struck out, that was a great at bat by Frazier. For real. The fact he was able to even touch some of those fastballs was impressive. You can't blame teams for not scoring off the back 3 of this Yankees pen. Sox problem today was not scoring off a hittable Nova.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 13, 2016 -> 09:00 PM) Kershaw is still king. Quintana's gonna have to deal tomorrow to retain his title of top AL pitcher in terms of fWAR. Yeah I'd say Kershaw is still better.

Good teams bounce back like this. Sale saved a much overworked bullpen. Hopefully Q can do the same tomorrow.

Chris Sale is good.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ May 13, 2016 -> 08:48 PM) 1968. Year of the pitcher dang right. Under 3.5 runs per game. We haven't been too far away from that the past few years.

Minny beating Cleveland by 1 right now in the 8th.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ May 13, 2016 -> 08:41 PM) When was that? 1968.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ May 13, 2016 -> 08:38 PM) In MLB history??? Since they've lowered the mound.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 13, 2016 -> 08:36 PM) He was still pumping out 97-98 early in the game. Eh. Some guys can still throw hard while hurt. He might just be extremely wild. Which was the case with Severino.

QUOTE (TitoMB @ May 13, 2016 -> 08:33 PM) Just give him the Cy Young now. What's the point in waiting? 8-0. f***ing insane. Hawk mentioned that if he closes this one out and doesn't give up a few more runs, he'd be one of 3 to start the year 8-0 and have an ERA under 2.

2 hours later, we're in the 7th inning. I didn't think Yankees game lasted under 3 hours.

Sale's evolution this year reminds me a lot of what Sabathia did to become such a dominant pitcher in 2007. Sabathia used to throw nothing but 94-97 MPH fastballs when he first came up. He was good, but not great. Then he started changing speeds on his fastballs. He'd have different variations, a lot like Chris right now.