SI Yanks: Finley and Roeder Combine for a 10 Inning No-Hitter
But then last year's 21st round pick, Josh Roeder came in, and K'd 10 over four more hitless innings!
Kane Sweeney, one of those patience and pop seniors from last year had the walk off single in the 10. He drove in Dalton Blaser who is currently batting .600 with walks after two games in pro-ball. Dom Thompson joined the club today and batted third, but was 0 for three with a K. And let's face it, to go 10 innings after going 20 last night, the pitching in this series has been stellar for both teams.
In other news, Severino pitched 8.1 innings of 1 run ball and was reportedly hitting 98 in the ninth. In that game Judge homered, walked and stole a base.
Dietrich Enns pitching 7 innings of 7 K, 1H 2BB scoreless ball. Then Cale Coshow, who has been regretably returned to the pen, gave up three runs and the lead, but the Thunder Thundered back and won 4-3. Miguel Andujar may have had the walk-off, three run double to win it.
Charleston is currently tied at 3's in the 11th, and the other team has the bases loaded with one out. Yikes.
posted by Kalel9 @ 7:25 PM
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When you look at the minor league system, you're right, there is reason for hope and excitement, provided there is a sea change in the most important part: a willingness and a commitment to an ongoing process of extended opportunities in the major leagues.
Axisa made the point in his DotF recap about would Sanchez, who is back on track and healthy, be in NY if Romine wasn't doing so well.
That's the wrong, albeit understandable, question. The focus should be on McCann, who has been awful for a year, despite the YS HRs.
Maybe I'm delusional, but Girardi actually sounds like Refs is impressing him. But the Castro contract will preclude 2B, and the Headley contract will prevent shifting Castro to 3B.
So a shift in their mindset about the important of prioritizing development over an apparent complacency with veterans with bad contracts has not yet happened, and I'm not sure what it's going to take for a change to take place.
They keep talking about waiting for contracts to expire, yet they have added a bad contract in their two offseason since the Ellsbury, McCann offseason.
The odd thing is that Ellsbury is playing well, but not $20m+ well. If McCann was hitting that well we might never see Sanchez.
Will they ever see that young impact bats are exactly what this team lacks, and that they are also a big part of what's needed to reverse their declining attendance and ratings, as well as re-establishing a path out of their recent years of mediocrity?
We will know that time has arrived when their own prospects gets a chance to suck as long as Hicks has.
The last time was Cano in 2005. It wasn't like he was thought of as a prospect with at least borderline HoF talent. But patience and development paid off, although given their terrible track record of development since then, no lesson was learned about the importance of either.
I used to be the Free Robiinson Cano guy over at NYYfans.com
And you're right. Sanchez shoud be the catcher. Our minor leaguers like Sanchez, Judge and Gamel, and becoming older prospects waiting for the expensive trash ahead of them to move on. They really do need a sell off, too clear out space, and really load up for the future.
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