Girardi seemed manic in the way he ran that game, not just in his quizzical pitching changes, but in his many sprints to the mound to confer with his pitchers. Girardi spent more time on the mound in ALCS Game 3 than Dodgers starting pitcher Hiroki Kuroda did in NLCS Game 3.
Girardi replaced a left-hander with a left-hander to face a left-hander, and replaced a right-hander with a right-hander to face a right-hander. He has made 14 pitching changes in the past 18 innings. It’s like watching Carrot Top playing speed chess after downing a case of Red Bull.
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as invested as i have been in Yankee baseball over the last 2 or 3 years, i rarely get physically fired up about it. last night, i was yelling at the tv in a way that i usually reserve for Dawson’s Creek reruns (“oh, Pacey, you blind idiot!”) or Toronto Maple Leaf hockey (CLEAR THE GODDAM PUCK YOU GODDAM HOSERS!). anyway, i had to quote this because the speed chess reference is aces.
link: “Joe Girardi’s overmanaging cost the Yankees in ALCS Game 3”, SI.com
(via thedirtycanuck)
