Going up against Carl Pavano tonight is the man who has been winning big playoff games for the Yankees since 1996, Andy Pettitte. Here are his pertinent numbers against the Twins.
2010 overall numbers:
21 G, 11-3 record, 129 IP, 123 H, 41 BB, 101 K, 3.28 ERA, 1.27 WHIP.
Career numbers vs. the Twins:
21 G, 11-5 record, 145.2 IP, 148 H, 45 BB, 110 K, 3.46 ERA, 1.32 WHIP.
2010 numbers vs. the Twins:
1 G, 1-0 record, 8 IP, 8 H, 0 BB, 4 K, 2.25 ERA, 1.00 WHIP.
Career postseason numbers:
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The former American Idle and current Italian B-movie star Carl Pavano starts tonight against the Yankees as the Twins try to get back into the series after falling behind 1-0 last night. Here are some pertinent stats.
2010 overall numbers:
32 G, 17-11 record, 221 IP, 227 H, 37 BB, 117 K, 3.75 ERA, 1.19 WHIP.
Career numbers vs. the Yankees:
4 G, 0-1 record, 22.2 IP, 22 H, 3 BB, 15 K, 4.76 ERA, 1.10 WHIP.
2010 numbers vs. the Yankees:
Did not pitch against them in 2010
Career postseason numbers vs. the Yankees:
3 G, ...
I've been pretty hard on Mark Teixeira this year.This can happen when a star slugger of your favorite team also happens to be the No. 1 pick in your big-money fantasy baseball league. It's kind of like doubling down in black jack—payoff is double the pleasure, but losing hurts twice as bad as winning feels good.And there were times this season when Teixeira hurt me. Badly. You can make the argument he had the worst season of his life. Nearly all his numbers took a steep drop from 2009, including ...
Many of us remember the game-winning, walk-off home run that Mark Teixeira launched in Game 2 of the 2009 ALDS against the Twins.
Many more of us are having trouble forgetting the rest of the 2009 playoffs, where Teixeira was practically a no-show. He had just a .180 batting average with a .593 OPS last postseason. He capped it off with a pathetic .136 hitting performance in the World Series that left many Yankee fans thankful for Alex Rodriguez and the clutch performances of Hideki Matsui.
This time around ...
Before Game 1 of the ALDS yesterday, I briefly mentioned how I thought the whole “pitching wins in the postseason” narrative is a little flawed. Clearly, pitching – starting pitching in particular – is a gigantic factor in deciding who wins. Tampa Bay certainly wishes they didn’t have to face Cliff Lee yesterday (and maybe I’m being overly reactionary, but after watching him, I’m ready for the Yankees to give him the blank check. With Gardner the Yanks don’t need another outfielder. They just need Lee. So yes, I ...
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2. The Yankees rally from a four-run deficit and defeat the Twins in Minnesota to win Game 1 of their ALDS.
3. Cliff Lee pitches seven strong innings and gets good support from the Rangers offense as Texas wins Game 1 of their ALDS on the road in Tampa Bay.
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Last night’s win over the Twins was exciting, but attention must immediately turn toward tonight’s matchup of Andy Pettitte against former Yankees disabled list mainstay Carl Pavano.
Here are some notes:
We found out yesterday that Mark Teixeira had a cortisone shot in his hand a couple of weeks back. Brett Gardner and Nick Swisher also had shots in September.
It sounds like A.J. Burnett may serve as short relief out of the bullpen. Joe Girardi said his only restriction would be that he wouldn’t pitch back-to-back ...
It wouldn’t be a Yankees—Twins playoff game if the Yankees didn’t fall behind early only to victimize the Twinkies late in the game to come out ahead for their seventh consecutive playoff victory, 6-4, against Minnesota.
Here are some highlights:
The Twins had an early 3-0 lead, which looked pretty good as Francisco Liriano looked unhittable early.
The Yankees drove up his pitch count and took advantage of him with a four-run sixth inning, capped off by a two-run triple by Curtis "I can hit lefties" Granderson.
CC Sabathia was clearly ...
If Wednesday was any indication of how the rest of the MLB postseason is going to be, man, we are going to be a part of something special.We witnessed something that had only happened once in postseason history before today, and that certain something, we could quite possibly not see happen again in our lifetime.We saw a few more reasons for the expansion of the use of a certain video tool that can help the umpires get their calls right. We saw..."DJ Kitty," the Tampa Bay Rays ill-advised knockoff of the ...
On a night where ace CC Sabathia did not have his best stuff, The New York Yankees still managed to squeeze out a victory at Target Stadium in game 1 of The ALDS. CC Sabathia was not himself, but managed to get out of jams and kept The Yankees in the ball game.
In the second inning after plunking Twins' DH Jim Thome, Sabathia gave up a home run to dead center field to Michael Cuddyer, putting The Yankees down 2-0. Yankee fans were not worried, and neither was Sabathia. All ...