vs. YANKEES 7/30

[crowmst3k!]

DERP DERP DERP DERP DERP. It's Yankee stadium, let's leave a tired starter in against a lefty!!!!

[waroriole]

I love that Buck continues to run SP into the ground, yet won't get a real long man for the pen. Pathetic.

[Sanfran327]

A fresh bullpen, on the road, with a three-run lead... Should mean time for Lindstrom. No such luck. Sure hope we can hold on.

[mrbig1]

Ichiro kills us again.

[tntoriole]

Buck has the damn lefthander in the damn pen...so he lets TWO lefthanders hit TWO hrs against a guy who has primarily been in relief in his career.

[Tony-OH]

Buck is just not very bright. I'm sorry, but I'm tired of his horrible management of his starters. Gonzlez is a 100 pitch pitcher. You don't let him face left-handed batters after 100 pitches, especially not with a left-hander in the bullpen and in Yankees stadium. Just plain stupid managing.

[scOtt]

Why is nobody up

i get leaving him in until he makes one mistake

but why

why

why

is

he

still in

remember when this happened like three days ago with socolovich

what is your stupid deal buck

Thorne said there was. Somebody already up before the 1st HR. Then O'Day got up afterwards.

[crowmst3k!]

Gotta get these outs, dumb managing almost takes away from a good start by Gonzo.

[fansince71]

I dont blame Buck, these starters need to finish what they started.

Not that easy, i know but i get his thinking.

[OFFNY]

Buck loses game AGAIN!

5-4 Baltimore. You seem to be as excited as the Yankee fans in the Bronx are.

[SrMeowMeow]

Right. Because he missed his location. He's got to work all of his pitches, to all quadrants, effectively, in order to pitch effectively. Trying to be that fine leads to issue. Like back-to-back HRs.

I'm not going to Semanticopolis with you, but no pitcher is successful when they groove a fastball middle-middle. So unless you're saying that all pitchers "have very little margin for error," which is tautological, I don't see your point. Gonzo II certainly doesn't have marginal stuff that requires perfect command. He's gotten a ton of swing-and-misses all over the strike zone. That's what "this pitcher has very little margin for error" would mean in most situations. If that was what you were intimating, then I disagree, and if it wasn't, then I don't know what you're trying to say.

[erb8472]

Time to get those runs back. Jones, Wieters, Ford. Sounds like some runs to me.

[crowmst3k!]

Buck is just not very bright. I'm sorry, but I'm tired of his horrible management of his starters. Gonzlez is a 100 pitch pitcher. You don't let him face left-handed batters after 100 pitches, especially not with a left-hander in the bullpen and in Yankees stadium. Just plain stupid managing.

Spot on, Tony. Fortunately it wasn't a death blow...yet. Against the Yankees you need every run possible!

[tntoriole]

Stupid...just stupid

[fansince71]

Shouldve been gone after the first home run....but thats real second guessing. He deserved a shot to complete the 7th. Pitched very well..win or lose.

This.....