Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
June 03, 2008
Stressful Joba

Joba Chamberlain has a long but not horrible first inning. He walks three and allows one hit, but the run scored after the first walk, a balk, and a passed ball. He then loaded the bases but got out of that jam, however, he threw 38 pitches, more than half his limit for the game. He'll put some pressure on the bullpen tonight.

Update: The Yankees score twice in the bottom of the first, the second run on a Giambi single through the vacated left side of the infield. It appeared on the replay that Jason was intentionally trying to go the other way to drive in the runner from second. If he does that a few more times, he might open up the right side a bit with men on base.

Update: Joba walks Rios with one out in the third, and that's it for Chamberlain. He leaves with a 2-1 lead but won't get the decision.


Posted by David Pinto at 07:32 PM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
Comments

I got a huge kick out of his premature fist pump when he thought he got Shannon Stewart swinging.

Posted by: Andrew at June 3, 2008 07:44 PM

Wow, stop the presses, Jason goes the other way with a single.

Posted by: rbj at June 3, 2008 08:41 PM

NYY really haqs the whole Joba thing all worked out - Maybe he should have got a chance to pitch from the windup and work on his third and 4th pitches - nah...

Posted by: Bandit at June 3, 2008 09:51 PM

Bandit, have you ever watched Chamberlain? He does work from a wind-up, and he throws a curve and a change (though he didn't throw the change tonight).
He was nervy this outing, wild. But he had very good stuff.

The upsetting part (for Yankee fans) came when the rest of the bullpen was exposed in the seventh. Yikes.

Posted by: James at June 3, 2008 09:59 PM

So basically he had a pretty piss poor outing. Yet the morons in Yankee stadium thought they should give him a curtain call. How bizarre. Why would you give a curtain call to someone who is run out of the game in the 2nd inning. I guess when there is nothing else to cheer for.....

Posted by: emains at June 3, 2008 10:28 PM

Emains, because those lemmings have been sold a bill of goods by the NY Media. They just witnessed the first start of the best pitcher in the game, sure fire HOFer. A Godlike creature whose success is measure in expectations and projections, not results. Anything short of an Ankiel was going to get the curtain call.

Posted by: abe at June 4, 2008 09:15 AM
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