@ Mets 6/18: BEAT DICKEY

[eddie83]

So what? It happens. It's not something that's specific to Jake Arrieta. Britton hit a home run last year. Baseball is baseball. I'd be more concerned with that walk than the hit by Dickey.

He wasn't giving in with first base open in the walk AB, I had no problem with that. I still don't know how that damn lefty slap hitter hit the ball so far to LF over Pearce's head. Chavez might have caught it. Our poor defense hasn't cost us as much as it should have but it did tonight even if it was subtle.

[Flash- bd]

Go ahead and put this on the record: All of you who are saying Jake Arrieta should go to the pen right now, or is better suited for the pen, or will ultimately end up in the pen, or some variation of the theme, will be eating crow by the end of this season.

[TonySoprano]

Hope the yanks lose

The Braves are laying down to them again. Why are they playing two series against the Braves anyway?

[mobico]

How in the world is R.A. Dickey's ERA above 2?!

[eddie83]

The Braves are laying down to them again. Why are they playing two series against the Braves anyway?

Next year should solve all of that.

[Why Not?]

Hope the yanks lose

Just like every other day, except during the Winter months. During that time, I hope Yankee Stadium burns down.

[Greg]

We are lucky to win 1 game here with Jake, Hunter and Matusz 3 head cases. We need better pitching those 3 wont cut it all year.

[fish113d]

Let's just try and take 2 out of 3, as we have done the last two series. I think we'd all take that.

Yep! I'll take 2-out-of-3 all year long...can't help the Yankees are simply killing it right now until we play them..

[jamessemaj]

I think a take-out slide at the pitchers mound is in order.

[Hank Scorpio]

You may be right about the bullpen. But he's certainly capable of going deep into ballgames. We've seen it plenty of times. He needs to figure out the stretch.

Anytime you've got a starter whose fastball is mid-90's and who shows flashes of 4-5 innings of greatness at a time then blows up, you're gonna get frustration from fans. It's hard to repeat a delivery and throw hard strikes. But when you have a fairly document-able history of going 4-5 strong then blowing up, you're best suited as a relief pitcher.

See: Arrieta & Tommy Hunter. Both are best suited as relievers on a contender or meh starters on an average team.

[MDK02]

yankees ever gonna lose again?

[Flash- bd]

Anytime you've got a starter whose fastball is mid-90's and who shows flashes of 4-5 innings of greatness at a time then blows up, you're gonna get frustration from fans. It's hard to repeat a delivery and throw hard strikes. But when you have a fairly document-able history of going 4-5 strong then blowing up, you're best suited as a relief pitcher.

See: Arrieta & Tommy Hunter. Both are best suited as relievers on a contender or meh starters on an average team.

There's all kinds of flawed reasoning in this post.

[LA2]

Pearce is going to connect.

[mobico]

Next year should solve all of that.

Of course, that's a bit late for THIS year.

[mobico]

Pearce is going to connect.

and he did ... with his inner strikeout