Ho Train, bullpen derails on Opening Night
Monday, April 5, 2010 at 1:08 am by Stringfellow Hawke
Yankees bullpen: 2.2 IP, 6 H, 4 R, 2 K, 1 BB
*Props to Marshall Seymour and Louis Winthorpe III for also contributing to this post
Tags: bullpen, game 1, highlights, opening day, the ho train
Going to be a long season with Mr. Park.
The Al East is no place for a Korean pitcher
Mutt, you are shameful. get on board the ho train
We had this one in the bag. You hate to lose a game like this after we roughed up Beckett like we did.
Yanks should release him and sign Byung-Hyun Kim.
I know…. I like Righty Korean hitters and Japanese pitchers… no love for for park without that mean ass Toshiro Mifune facial hair
Gotta believe they’d go with Aceves there if he’s not nursing a minor injury. They can’t ever go to Chan Joke Park in an important situation beyond the 6th inning. He and Marte have to be on strict mop up duty. Can’t let this mess into any kind of meaningful or close game.
I knew when they signed this guy they’d use him in situations they shouldn’t.
DFA’d by June.
Eckersley after the game last night “Park tried to get that 75 mph fastball by Pedroia…you’re too old Park”…LOL.
I’m pretty sure the story of the game was that CC had a 4 run lead in the 5th inning and couldn’t hold it.
Maybe we should give Park more than one appearance, especially on a night when everyone that pitched in basically sucked.
It’s April in Fenway, same story every year. Relax.
Park blows, Steve. He has sucked his whole career. He didn’t all of a sudden turn into a good pitcher.
BTW, this photoshop is excellent.
That’s not the point. The point is that Sabathia was more responsible for blowing the game than Park was, but it’s just easier to pile on Park. Maybe he’ll suck this year, maybe he won’t.
If he does, he’ll be released and they’ll eat his meager salary. But I’m not ready to say he’s definitely going to be a bust b/c he gave up a 325 foot pop fly.
Steve, name the time and place and let’s make out sloppily.
this loss lies solely on Girardi’s shoulders… in the first game of the season you cannot give your pitchers enough rope to hang themselves with. He came out in the 5th inning completely flat when he was pitching lights out for the first 4. there is no reason CC should have been left in that long. I mean come on… 104 pitches when he maybe was effective through 90 of them?
Your ace starter can only get through 5 1/3. Don’t think that’s Girardi’s fault.
Using Park as a high-leverage man, that’s Girardi’s fault.
this loss lies solely on Girardi’s shoulders…
That’s silly. Given what happened later, what makes you think the bullpen would have held on for 4 innings? It was just one of those typical Yankee-Sox games in Fenway. We’ve all seen this same game about 30 times over the last 7 years.
He probably could have pulled CC before Youkilis, but on the other hand, Swisher also could have played that ball like any high school OFer would have and held Youkilis to a double. Plenty of blame to go around, but 95% of it goes to the players. Swisher’s DP, Posada not catching that pitch, CC’s general mediocrity, Park, Joba looked like shit, etc. etc. etc.
Frank, you got it.
Great point on that Swisher route. God that was awful.
I agree everything about the pitching after the 5th inning stunk.
I just question putting Park into a two run game. Not a move I would have made as a manager. CC ran out of gas. He’ll be fine, but he just does not have stamina yet.
Also how frustrating is it to watch a catcher who can’t catch. Jorge is insane with the stick, but man…it’s really brutal to watch him catch now.
Joba not throwing his curve is driving me nuts already. Maybe Jorge can’t catch it LOL.
I just question putting Park into a two run game. Not a move I would have made as a manager.
Sure, and if Girardi is still doing this with poor results in May, we should be all over that. But it was the first game of the season. Park had a good spring. Marte and Aceves were both nursing minor injuries. He brought Park in to face 9-1-2 with a 2 run lead in the first game of the season, not the most unreasonable decision.
And it’s not like it was the 8th inning, it was the 7th.
He brought Robertson in when he needed a strikeout, tying run on 3rd, < 2 outs. Didn't work out, but right idea.
He could have left Robertson in longer, but maybe on opening day he didn't want Robertson to sit b/w innings and come back out? I don't know, just an idea.
Sox fans are pretty awful too, Roy.
I was at the game and some Yankee fan (obnoxiously) goes “#28, baby, this year.” A nearby Red Sox fan screams back “#28… we don’t care what happened in 1925, bro.” I was going to just ignore both of them, but when I heard the Sox fan bragging to his friend about his comeback, I interjected with “what about 2009?”
The average Sox fan is an uneducated blowhard with a short fuse; the average Yankee fan is no better. Put them in one ballpark and you’ve got a disaster.
We knew going into this game that Girardi wants to get a feel for his bullpen early in the season. Cashman told us as much. Anyone who didn’t expect a bullpen parade wasn’t paying attention.
Pitching 1 inning in a 2 run game is not really that hard of a job and Chan Ho Park will probably succeed more often than he fails if that is hi role. Stop overreacting.
Agree with K-W. The pen is far from ironed out, what did we all expect?
Define success for Park, K-W.
I guarantee that Chan Ho fails big time over the long haul.
Chan Ho Park should not even be in baseball. How does he get to pitch in that scenerio?? Giardi killed us in this one. CC should have been pulled earlier as well. It’s game freakin one, can we ease into with him?!
Park had ONE bad game. Goodness even Mariano has a bad game once in a while.
The Yankees lost a close game to a tough team and they’re notorious for being slow starters (Sabathia especially so), this type of worry might be appropriate in August, but it’s still April.
Park pitched poorly. Joba pitched poorly. Sabathia melted down after the fifth. Marte couldn’t get anybody out.
These were the problems they were having in April of last year, too. And last I recall they won a title last year…
Chan Ho Park should not even be in baseball.
based on what?
Awesome photoshop.
I just want more Dave Robertson less CHOP.
He should have brought in Ricky Vaughn in that situation.
*insert angry overreaction to one game here*
Angry overreaction to one game:
Forget Park, let’s take a look at a catcher that can’t catch. We spend more time looking at his number as he races for the backstop than we do at his big ears as they protrude from around his mask as he crouches . . . Jorge needs his own ERA to account for how many runs are charges to passed balls.
Last year: limp Wang
This year: cheap Ho
Roy Batty has done “questionable things.”
Oh no we are 0-1
Lots of problems in game 1, accept at the dish. 7 runs is pretty sweet, but not sweet enough, apparently. CC hit the wall hard. Robertson was good. everybody else stunk. Joba was out there for an eternity… Jorge can’t catch (not that those were easy pitches to grab, but when your position is called catcher, that seems to imply you’re more than proficient in catching the ball), don’t know what Swish was doing on that triple by Youk… yeah, tehre are problems. I’m not willing to say they lost the game because of CHP. I do think its weird that the Yankees won the world series and they had to open the season ON THE ROAD and at FENWAY of all places. I think the spoils should go to the victor, not the other way around.
~jamie