Blogger Baseball Scorecard: 2010 MLB Baseball Post Season: ALDS New York Yankees @ Minnesota Twins

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The Minnesota Twins Ron Gardenhire has decided to go with veteran starter Carl Pavano in what he is calling a crucial game two. New York counters with Andy Pettitte the post season vetran who missed 10 starts this year, missing all of August and half of September with a strained left groin. He had just 3 starts to get back into game shape before the end of the season.

Andy Pettitte's starts by date around the injury:

July 18th against Tampa Bay
August - none
September 19th against Baltimore
September 24th against Boston
October 2nd against Boston

Game Schedule - ALDS New York Yankees at Minnesota Twins

Game   Matchup          Day    Date      Time 
Gm 1   NYY 6 @ MIN 4    Wed    Oct. 6    8:30 PM EDT    
Gm 2   NYY @ MIN        Thu    Oct. 7    6:00 PM EDT
Gm 3   MIN @ NYY        Sat    Oct. 9    8:30 PM EDT
Gm 4*  MIN @ NYY        Sun    Oct. 10   8:00 PM EDT
Gm 5*  NYY @ MIN        Tue    Oct. 12   8:30 PM EDT

New York Yankees at Minnesota Twins - Game 2
Target Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
6:07 PM EDT

Starting Pitchers:

Texas Rangers

Andy Pettitte  G  GS CG SHO  IP    H   R   ER  HR BB SO  W  L  ERA
2010  stats    21 21 0  0    129.0 123 52  47  13 41 101 11 3  3.28

Tampa Bay Rays

Carl Pavano    G  GS CG SHO  IP    H   R   ER  HR BB SO  W  L  ERA
2010  stats    32 32 7  2    221.0 227 95  92  24 37 117 17 11 3.75

Umpires:

Home - Hunter Wendelstedt
First Base - Greg Gibson
Second Base - Brian Onora
Third Base - Gary Darling

Game Notes:

Bottom of 1st

Ground ball back to Pettitte, he turns and throws to Jeter a little high, Span coming from first is bearing down on second, Jeter does what looks like an in the air bicycle pedaling over the bag as he catches the ball, as he catches he steps on the bag and in one motion skips off and plants and makes an accurate throw to Teixeira with just enough on it to complete the double play. Sweet.

Top of the 7th

Gardenhire get thrown out of the game for arguing balls and strikes with home plate umpire Hunter Wendelstedt. The pitch before Berkman's 2 base hit to centre, which scored Posada, painted the inside corner of the plate, and looked closer to the centre of the plate on TV than the software showed (still a strike). Pavano set that pitch up, that was the out and much like the game in Florida earlier where does the battery go after you execute the out pitch in a pattern and it's called a ball? The next pitch if the batter is on the same page, is predictable and so it was as Berkman clobbers it.

Bottom of the 8th

Kerry Wood. Last night I noticed him, and tonight he's better - lights out. The same pitch looks like a completely different pitch because of the movement he's getting - and the location that the moving stuff goes to is making it impossible to decide if it's a strike or a ball; they're all strikes, or close enough. The curve is huge and right there for strikes.

Rivera is next.

Bottom of the 9th

On Delmon Young's scorcher to short with Mauer on first and no outs.

The ball was hit so hard it made the double play easy.

Box score for this game at ESPN.

Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
New York Yankees	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	5	12	0
Minnesota Twins	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	6	0


New York Yankees	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		H	AB	BB	R	RBI	LOB	PO	A	E
1. D Jeter SS		5-3				Ks /				FO8 /		Pavano out --->		BH8(9) RBI #9 1,2 --				GB5 5-3 #9 1,2
2. C Granderson CF		6-3						2BH9 <>				BH9 ---		GB1 1-3 runners move up				#9 2,3 BH8 RBI -
3. M Teixeira 1B		K /						BH7 #2 2,3 ---				FO8		IBB - Mijares out				FO7
4. A Rodriguez 3B				6-3				sac FO9 RBI				#2runn- ing BH7 #21,3 -		Ks				FO9 /
5. R Cano 2B				LO8				BH9 #3 1,3 x				pop FO7		pop FO4 /
6. N Swisher RF 8th G Golson RF				2BH8 --				GB1 DP 1-6-3 x /				6-3 /				5-3
7. J Posada C				6-3 /						FO9				BB <>		FO7
8. L Berkman DH						GB3 3-1				HR8 RBI <>			bad call*	2BH8 RBI <>		Ks /
9. B Gardner LF						Ks				4-3			bunt	GB5 np BH5 #8 2,3 ---				BH9 SB <>


/Inning Totals	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Totals
Runs	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	5
Hits	0	1	0	3	1	2	3	0	2	12
Errors	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
LOB	0	1	0	1	0	2	3	0	1	8

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	p-s	ERA
Andy Pettitte (lhp) W	7.0	5	2	2	1	4	1	88-58	2.57
Kerry Wood (rhp) H	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	10-9	0.00
Mariano Rivera (rh-god) S	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	13-8	0.00


Minnesota Twins	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		H	AB	BB	R	RBI	LOB	PO	A	E
1. D Span CF		BH8 x				FO7					3-2	FO8(9)				1-3
2. O Hudson 2B		GB1 DP 1-6!-3 x				FO9						HR7 RBI <>				Ks / Wow.
3. J Mauer C		Ks /				4-3 /						4-3						BH7 x
4. D Young LF				BH8 <>				5-3				2BH8 (9) SB 8-5 ---						GB6 DP* 6-4-3
5. J Thome DH				bloop BH7 --				FO8				shift> GB1 1-3 /						FO7 /
6. M Cuddyer 1B				GB5 5-3 runners move up				pop FO3f /						Ks
7. J Kubel RF		not IBB BB --->		BB -						Ks				pop FO3f
8. D Valencia 3B				sac FO9 RBI 9-4						5-3				K /
9. J Hardy SS				LO4 /						FO8 /						12 to 6 Curve! K


/Inning Totals	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Totals
Runs	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2
Hits	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	6
Errors	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
LOB	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	p-s	ERA
Carl Pavano (rhp)	6.0	10	4	4	1	3	1	93-60	6.00
Jose Mijares (lhp)	0.1	0	0	0	1	0	0	6-2	0.00
Jon Rauch (rhp)	0.2	0	0	0	0	1	0	10-9	0.00
Matt Guerrier (rhp)	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	12-8	0.00
Matt Capps (rhp)	1.0	2	1	1	0	0	0	21-14	9.00