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08-08-12 10:21 AM #26
Re: Amazing Yankee Stat This season in regards to lack of 9th inning or later comebac
First round loss, if they even make the playoffs.
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08-08-12 11:01 AM #27
Re: Amazing Yankee Stat This season in regards to lack of 9th inning or later comebac
"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose." - Ayrton Senna
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08-08-12 11:06 AM #28
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08-08-12 11:10 AM #29
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08-08-12 11:18 AM #30
Re: Amazing Yankee Stat This season in regards to lack of 9th inning or later comebac
I was being sarcastic.... Just trying to make people realize that no matter what happened in 1997 or anytime before NOW, it doesn't matter.
Just imagine this: (not u, BB55)
Imagine if the Yankees were in 2nd place and went through a stretch like this, 6-12, and widened the deficit.
My point is, they built up a big lead so that a 6-12 stratch would be sustainable.
People need to wuit freaking out because they've hit a rough patch."Leave it to Yankees fans to be upset at having too many great players.”—Hitman23
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08-08-12 11:37 AM #31
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Denial is not just a river in Egypt. People have complained about the Yankee offense being too home run dependent all year, and now this rough stretch is just emphasizing the problem even more.
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08-08-12 11:57 PM #32
Re: Amazing Yankee Stat This season in regards to lack of 9th inning or later comebac
I don't see how you can prove that the team's recent losses have anything specifically to do with being "too home run dependent." The assertion is borderline nonsensical.
What does it even mean to be "too home run dependent"? If they were winning games earlier in the season with fewer home runs, and they suddenly lost a bunch of games (as all teams do), what would you be saying then? That the rough stretch just emphasizes how they're too dependent on situational hitting?"Baseball is about hope, not confidence." -- rajah
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08-09-12 10:26 AM #33
Re: Amazing Yankee Stat This season in regards to lack of 9th inning or later comebac
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.- Barry Manilow
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08-09-12 10:39 AM #34
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Re: Amazing Yankee Stat This season in regards to lack of 9th inning or later comebac
I think it's more bad luck than anything else.
How many times in these games have the Yankees hit a ball hard only to either go just foul or be caught?
Even the other night in the Granderson at bat he hit a ball that just missed being a 2-run double or triple by going foul.
These guys didn't forget how to hit. Derek Jeter's had many outs in clutch situations this year. He's still a .300+ hitter who has gotten it done in the clutch many times before and does know how to swing a bat in that situation. Same with Robinson Cano. ARod pretty much squashed the notion that there's really such a thing as "good clutch hitters" versus "bad clutch hitters" in the 2009 playoffs.
I posted this thread more to show how amazing the stat is than to say it means anything.
If the Yankees are down 5-4 in the 9th inning in the playoffs against Joe Nathan the fact that they failed to have any 9th inning comeback wins will mean as much as it would mean if they'd had 10 9th inning comeback wins.
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08-09-12 10:45 AM #35
Re: Amazing Yankee Stat This season in regards to lack of 9th inning or later comebac
I'm not defending either side here because I don't care enough either way, but from a psychological standpoint, if the Yankees succeed more in the walkoff situations during the regular season, they'll have a bit more confidence in those situations during the post season.
That doesn't mean they'll have more or as much success (or failure in this instance)."Leave it to Yankees fans to be upset at having too many great players.”—Hitman23
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08-09-12 11:46 AM #36
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08-09-12 12:52 PM #37
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Re: Amazing Yankee Stat This season in regards to lack of 9th inning or later comebac
I disagree with that too.
They won games this year where they happened to hit HR's but didn't necessarily need them.
I remember one game specifically in Washington that Granderson homered with 2 out in the top of the 9th to continue the streak before they won the next day and didn't homer.
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08-09-12 12:54 PM #38
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08-09-12 02:02 PM #39
Re: Amazing Yankee Stat This season in regards to lack of 9th inning or later comebac
It's true, the Yankees have won fewer games w/o home runs than any of their competitors. I've only checked a few teams, but I'll but something else is true: the Yankees have lost fewer game without home runs than any of those competitors (Yankees 17 L; Rangers 20, Orioles, 23, Rays 29, Blue Jays 19)
In other words, they hit a lot of freaking home runs.A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.- Barry Manilow
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08-09-12 02:34 PM #40
Re: Amazing Yankee Stat This season in regards to lack of 9th inning or later comebac
Show me where I said they didn't hit a lot of freaking home runs.
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08-09-12 02:53 PM #41
Re: Amazing Yankee Stat This season in regards to lack of 9th inning or later comebac
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.- Barry Manilow
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08-09-12 03:18 PM #42
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08-09-12 03:24 PM #43
Re: Amazing Yankee Stat This season in regards to lack of 9th inning or later comebac
if they weren't hitting sh*tloads of home runs home runs, that might be a meaningful bit of data you've got there.
Am I just noticing these Yankee memes more this year than before?
The stat du juor Right now is this "record in 1 run games" nonsense. The Yankees record in that cherry picked sample is terrible, and the Orioles is ridiculously good. Yet the Orioles are still trailing the Yankees. What does that tell those of you regurgitating that over and over?
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08-09-12 03:34 PM #44
Re: Amazing Yankee Stat This season in regards to lack of 9th inning or later comebac
Well let's just see if we can hold onto this win today, in which we've hit a home run AND is a 1 run game.
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08-09-12 03:39 PM #45
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08-09-12 03:54 PM #46
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Very disappointing to see the yanks' continued inability to snap this streak.
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08-09-12 03:59 PM #47
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08-09-12 04:07 PM #48
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08-09-12 04:27 PM #49
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08-09-12 05:33 PM #50
Re: Amazing Yankee Stat This season in regards to lack of 9th inning or later comebac
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.- Barry Manilow
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