Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
June 20, 2004
Gagne with a Spoon

Nice to see Eric Gagne coming into the game with 2 outs in the 8th. He blows away A-Rod with a 2-2 fast ball to get the third out. Gagne has 3 four-out save so far this year.

Update: Giambi leads off the 9th with a HR off Gagne. It's 5-4, and Gagne has the rest of the heart of the order coming up. It's the 4th HR he's allowed this year, twice as many as he allowed all last year.

Sheffield hammers the ball in his AB, but right at Beltre, who throws him out at first.

Update: Posada lines out to left. It's up to Matsui.

Update: Matsui called out on a pitch high on the outside corner. K-Zone had it outside the strikezone. Matsui thought he walked, and it looks like he was right. That's 81 saves in a row for Gagne.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:33 PM | Games | TrackBack (0)
Comments

The pitch to Matsui was a ball. It was a horrible call by the ump.

Gagne was getting hit hard. The middle of the Yankee order can beat him.

Posted by: Rich at June 21, 2004 01:13 AM

if it had been a yankee pitcher and a dodger batter, and he had been walked, i would have to put up with all the whining of how the pitcher didn't get the call

and how does giambi hitting a hr, the only run gagne gave up for that series make it that he was getting hit hard

he owned the yankees, i was at the third game, and it was awesome. so gagne walks matsui, the next guy strikes out, remember one thing... the Gagne does not blow saves!

Posted by: Brandon at June 21, 2004 03:06 AM

Whining? Thanks for the laugh.

Are you seriously making the point that Sheffield didn't hit the ball hard against Gagne after the Giambi HR?

Friday's game was out of reach, and most of the Yankees had never seen Gagne pitch live. I am only referring to Sunday's game.

Better look up the word "owned."

Posted by: Rich at June 21, 2004 04:39 AM

Friday's game, 6-3, is out of reach for the Yankees? Gagne looked good, same as always. Don't think that one HR means the Yanks could beat him. They had two chances and two losses.

Posted by: argosy at June 21, 2004 06:10 AM


It did look like Gagne had a narrow escape there in the ninth.

Of course, it was also his fifth appearance in six days. Given that usage, I thought Tracy pulled the trigger too soon for him on Friday; at the time it crossed my mind that maybe Tracy thinks this is the only time he'll get to use him this series.

Posted by: Chris Marcil at June 21, 2004 09:51 AM

"remember one thing... the Gagne does not blow saves!"

Hi.

Posted by: Hank Blalock at June 21, 2004 10:44 AM

This man is not allowed to blow a save!

Posted by: Umpiring Crew at June 21, 2004 11:58 AM

nobody in new york had any whining about the strike zone when i pitched

Posted by: Mark Langston at June 22, 2004 01:03 PM