When CC Sabathia was taken out of the ball game on Thursday
night I made the tweet that if you actually watched the game instead of simply
looking at the box score you could pull a lot of positives out of the start. I
wrote this knowing full well that there would be someone out there somewhere
that would simply read the final line and write a “CC sucks” post and there
were plenty to read on Friday morning. Do these writers not get paid to watch
the games and actually know what’s going on or is irresponsible journalism the
norm these days?
The final line saw five Blue Jays cross the plate before CC
was taken out including four in the second inning but if you actually watched
the game you know that doesn’t tell the whole story. Everyone knows that in the
spring and the early months of the season the last thing to come back for a
pitcher is their control and CC had surprisingly good control during the
contest. Sabathia had almost a 2/1 strike to ball ratio in the contest and
sawed off at least three bats if my memory serves. CC simply fell onto some bad
luck in the contest mixed in with some bad defense.
In that second inning Sabathia induced a ground ball that
should have been a double play but it bounced off his glove and everyone was
safe after an errant throw from Didi Gregorius. On another play, his final
play, Carlos Beltran had the runner out at third to stop the bleeding before
hitting the runner and allowing the fifth run to score on an error. CC was able
to move the ball where he wanted with offspeed stuff away and power stuff
inside. CC was pitching, not throwing, and it was a beautiful thing.
CC was the recipient of some bad luck flares and broken bat
gifts for the Blue Jays while his defense didn’t do him any favors. CC was not
2009 CC and flat out skipped covering first base and third base more than a few
times in the game but while not being completely dissolved of all fault in the
Yankees loss looked a lot better than his box score and final line would
suggest. But I guess everyone knew that since they watched the game before they
wrote about it and CC does really suck.
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Sorry for the Capatcha... Blame the Russians :)