Let's go Yankees

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Originally Posted by gales0678

francessca is licking his chops for 1:00 to get here fast , heck he should be the manager , if pettite bombs in game 6 it will be time for the yankees to hire him as manager

He could of went either way here. Ahead 3-1 he could have definitley started Gaudin (I actually thought he would have went this way). It would have did a few things. Burnett would have been on regular rest and then you would have had the option of Pettite on regulat rest or most likely CC on 3 days for game 7. It would have also boosted the offense for last night with have Posada start instead of Molina.
What I was discussing with Joey, was Girardi setting his rotation going into the series, it was pretty much a no brainer. Going into it he could not commit to Gaudin, but he certainly could have called an audible and pitched him being up 3-1. Obviously I would feel better about last night if Gaudin started, but I don't think you could really kill Girardi for that.

The only thing that bothered me last night (although I admit to going to bed early cause I was exhausted) was him bringing in Coke instead of Marte (maybe he was unavailable and I don't know). But it seems that Girardi kind of gave up on the game being down 6-2 at the time. You could bet if it was a 1 run game Marte would have been in. Coke gives up the 2 spot and they lose by a duece. That's the only thing that irks me a bit.