A Yanks loss to pesky Nats should be unthinkable

It's all good for the Yankees and their fans this morning, so this can be asked with more of an arched brow than a wagging finger: Anderson Hernandez? The Yankees almost lost a game because Anderson Hernandez took their ace CC Sabathia deep? Seriously? Big-picture usually dominates this column.

[sullylv]

A win is a win and yes they do play 9 innings other wise the Yankees would have won the 2001 WS and 2004 playoffs if the game just went 8 innings.This is a stupid story by Davidoff.

[diggs]

what's up with the base running.

tex has been tagged out.
a rod,
gorge
cano yesterday,
swish,
melky
against the mets on sunday
there were like four outs on tag outs,
damon on a rundown,
melky,
a rod.
I don't get this running.
championship teams dn't offer freebies.
who's responsible for base running

[diggs]

please fix this horrible base running.
what's the point of stretching a double onto a 3 bagger with two outs?
gee. culprit a-rod, cano and melky!
n' gorge overrunning 2ndbase inducing matsui to advance to 2nd base on a hard hit single only to hav gorge tagged out.
gee
n' that belt needs to go!
nomore pie n stuff.
makes everyone try to be heros rather than playing smart baseball.

[Nats To You]

I'm a Nats fan. You are right on the money.

[AGREED]

The Nats are terrible and I do not want to hear on any given day blah blah blah. The yankees should stomp this team. The game last night should not even had been close. The Yankees need to realize that winners get 2 out clutch base hits. And these Yankees have not had many of those lately.

[Scooter28]

To Diggs:

While I agree that the baserunning certainly could be better, especially Swisher's 2 big mistakes against the Sox, but you are missing the reasons sometimes. When the tying or potential go ahead run is trying to score with 2 outs or sometimes less, the guy at first will try for second in order to draw the throw away from home and allow the guy to score. It's a smart move and sometimes ends up with the guy at second being out. Yesterday, Cano tried for 3rd with 1 OUT, not 2 so it was a good play because if he makes it, he can score without getting a hit. It took a perfect relay throw to just get him and they Yankees had already taken the lead. It was a smart baserunning play, not dumb.

[Jim]

Yep, and as Dennis Green once said, "they are who we thought they were"..That aptly describes the Nats, who were "annoying" last night, but ultimately were the Nats. Did anybody else see the shortstop of the future for the pinstripers last night?

[AaronSlick51]

Winning and losing are not pre-ordained. The Yankees struggled to win 2 games each against two teams they "should" have swept, Cleveland (the mistake by the lake) and the other NY team. The Senators, uh, Nationals, have decent offense (for a NL team), and young low-ball starting pitchers, but their defense and relief pitching are atrocious, so the Yankees just have to keep the score within striking distance for 6.5 innings and wait for a mistake, then I like their chances for victory.

[Lloyd Dobler]

I think I already read a version of this column by the Post's Joel Sherman. Uh, Ken, the Yankees won the game. Hurting for a column idea, I take it.

[Killer Carlisle]

They were lucky to get a win last night. A-Doper comes up with a RISP and strikes out. He stinks. For the talent that he has he fails a lot more than he doesn't.

[mikey]

What's with the fluff? They didn't let you into the US Open? Or do you despise the Yankees that much? What about the pathetic Mets?

[Tony]

I want to see the next article Davidoff writes when the Mets play the Nats....is it going to be 'Unthinkable' if the Mets loose a game to the Nats or will we hear more from Davidoff about the injuries or the fact that they were not lucky. Last year when the Yankees went thru injuries to the entire starting rotation (with the exception of Mussina) and Posada, A-Rod, Matsui, Cano and Damon, I didn't hear anyone in media saying "oh the poor Yankees give them credit for hanging in there with all their injuries". And you know what at the end of the year the Yankees won EXACTLY the same number of games as the Mets who never lost a significant positional player to injuries last year. The double standard by the media is amazing!

[austria2004]

sometimes you can force incompetence. Sometimes you win lucky.
Just admit with a few nice sentences that the yankees have the second best record in the AL. Comments from you, greedy Lupica, Sherman are always the same bad stuff.

[Sully]

Ahh... the Yankees won... but not by ENOUGH

(tin foil hat time)

[DirtyWater]

Nats winning percentage higher than Wangs.

[Go Cubs]

AGREED wrote:

The Nats are terrible and I do not want to hear on any given day blah blah blah. The yankees should stomp this team. The game last night should not even had been close. The Yankees need to realize that winners get 2 out clutch base hits. And these Yankees have not had many of those lately.

The Nationals mau have the worst record in baseball, but anything can happen in s short series ( and has in the past.)

[yanks N cali]

Well the unthinkable is about to happen, and to make it even worse its at the 1.5 billion$ wiflle ball park! A two hit ass whipping by a nobody on the worst team in baseball. Even worse than that is they (the yanks) were no hitted threw 5! What the ###k i cant be-live my eyes. Good luck in October... 2015 mabey!

[Nationals Fan]

That was nervewracking, but fun, and an excellent baseball game. And what would be "unthinkable" and "inexcusable" would be for a certain Newsday columnist not to acknowledge an excellent pitching performance by Nationals pitcher John Lannan. A native of Long Island, by the way, with his parents at the game, by the way.

[Another Nats Fan]

It's wise that you chose your words so carefully - "SHOULD be unthinkable." SHOULD make the writing of your next column easier. Also let's hear no nonsense about the Yanks playing "down to the level" of the Nats. No crow eating is necessary - just give a good pitching performance its due.

[Buckaroo]

momma chamberlin wrote:

<quoted text>do you write this stuff as balls slap off your chin??

You want your bf to slap his stiff di ck in your mouth you f ag