Nestor Cortes (#65, 29, LHP, 4-9, 4.13) vs. Cristopher Sánchez (#61, 27, LHP, 7-6, 3.05)
YANKEES
2B G. Torres R
RF Juan Soto L
CF Aaron Judge R
DH G. Stanton R
3B J. Chisholm L
SS A. Volpe R
LF Alex Verdugo L
1B DJ LeMahieu R
C C. Narvaez R
PHILLIES
DH K. Schwarber L
LF Austin Hays R
1B Bryce Harper L
3B Alec Bohm R
RF N. Castellanos R
SS Edmundo Sosa R
2B W. Wilson R
C G. Stubbs L
CF Johan Rojas R
Okay, so this is due to be the horrific loss in the series. Let’s see HOW it goes down. Maybe just watching DJ start at first base is horrific enough?
It kills me that for every nine guys who recover from TJS fine, there’s always a tenth who doesn’t, and it looks like Effross AND Trivino might BOTH be those tenth guys.
Effross hurts me. Trivino not so much. Although Effross’s delivery lends itself to a bradford lowered slot. Isn’t it his back though?
What a terrible at-bat by Volpe after being ahead 3-1. Swings at ball four twice (the second time was acceptable. Not the first time).
DJ with the bases loaded, right what the Yankees want!
Did he just fucking hit a GRAND SLAM!?!?
Holy fucking shit!!
Took the garbage down so I’m a few minutes late on the recording and failed to witness a Holy Miracle.
shanghai alert
It was hilarious seeing LeMahieu start his home run trot before the umps confirmed it, because he saw the replay and saw that it was obviously a home run. Then he stopped at third, to not show up the umps.
Stanton with the Posada-esque baserunning, getting doubled off at first.
Repent. DJ hits a grand slam and Judge strikes out twice. The end is near.
So I guess they’ll just maintain the lead until the ninth, when Holmes melts down again, and gives up five runs or some shit? Trying to figure out how this horrific loss will go.
Don’t worry about that it won’t be pertinent.
It was clever the way Boone used the designated pinch hitter for DJ in the first.
It’s a statistical anomaly Binder.
Nestor’s bad inning about to unfold.
since when did nestor learn how to throw 94 mph?
So it’s just a standard “Nestor falls apart eventually” game? Fair enough.
That really WAS a nice piece of hitting by Narvaez.
Holy shit, Gleyber, what the fuck, dude?!
a judge hr would be pretty sweet rn
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Some dudes just match up really well with you, I guess, and Sanchez definitely seems to have Judge’s number.
btw, I (and weaver) are awaiting our come-uppance from you. Also, fu
rice time!
Imagine bringing in a reliever to face DJ fucking LeMahieu.
zomg zomg zomg
I think we all assumed LeMahieu would drive in six guys today.
What is going on here!?
I mean, it’s one game, and two ABs. But is DJ earning himself another 100 ground balls, or is he back?
And if he’s back, what do we do with him?
fusion (earring variety so it’s permanent) lemahieu and Stanton, naturally
We have proclaimed DJLM’s death prematurely.
I’d probably send out Cortes for at least Harper now that DJ pushed the lead back up.
Anyone upset Judge shied away from the wall and gave up the triple? I’m not.
Nor am I.
judge has the Holmes stink on him now. curse you kismet!
We have entered a strange new world. One in which Judge is 0-4 with 4 K’s and Lemahieu has 6 RBI’s. No, no, no, it is all a dream (though I did have a feeling early this morning that LeMahieu was going to hit a HR). Yes, a strange new world.
I guess Boone should have given Judge the day off, he [Judge] took the day off anyway.
babip mad at leiter
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Not loving this outing from Lieter.
Even so. Jeez.
Yankees Love to hit batters
So they’re just going to have Holmes come in and try again in a one-run game against Schwarber, Hays (or Turner) and Harper? This is fucking hilarious in its stupidity.
I can’t even count this as a horrifying loss at this point. It’s just kind of a fait accompli by now. Like, if Holmes blew a four run lead or some shit like that, that would be horrifying, but Holmes blowing a one-run lead is pretty much standard fare at this point.
Bad outcome in 3… 2… 1…
Leiter fitting right in.
Yankees win prob 82.6% LOL
I can’t bear it. It’s like watching DJLM this year, before today.
He’ll be back to pumpkin status soon enough.
What happened?
Is sweeping the team with the best record in baseball at home good?
I’m a huge fan
sometimes ground balls are good
Yay, sweep.
We should start a pool, though – when will the closer pitch a clean, 1-2-3 inning.
When’s the last time he actually shut down an opponent for his INNING.
It WAS weird to make Leiter pitch for his third time in four games when he JUST ARRIVED ON THE TEAM last night.
If this isn’t a Dead Cat bounce for LeMahieu, it’s at best a Schrödinger’s Cat bounce.
Those poooooooor Phillies.
blue jays are crappier now. more wins perhaps?
I wonder if Boone cried in the post game over LeMahieu when asked about it. Did he say, we knew it was right in front of him since 2021?
Being right in front of you apparently usually means failing to take it when it’s right there.
For one brief shining moment, one game, it was right in front of him, and he took it.
He may well go right back to just leaving it lying there, right in front of him.
Holmes was much better last night than today. Hays smoked the ball to deep left after Schwarber’s single and Harper’s DP was 100 MPH. I imagine if you ran a simulation of last night’s batted balls there would be a low probability of them scoring. Today bothered me, last night not so much. Susan?
Agustin Ramirez was the second-best prospect traded at the deadline, per MLB.com.
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2. Agustin Ramirez, C, Marlins (No. 6)
Acquired from the Yankees in the Jazz Chisholm trade
There’s no doubt Ramirez can hit for power. The right-handed slugger has 38 combined homers over the past two seasons, and he slugged .570 over a 58-game spin at Double-A earlier this season. Ramirez has struggled some in an introduction to Triple-A (hurt by a low BABIP), and his defense remains rough enough that he might be a first baseman long term. (He’s thrown out only two of 33 attempted basestealers, for starters.) He would still have upside at the cold corner if Miami can’t iron out his issues behind the plate.
I guess that’s why San Diego had to give up so many guys, as they didn’t have quality guys to trade, so they needed to give three of their top guys to get Tanner Scott.
If the yanks go 500 from here on in they will win 91 games and make the playoffs – and lose to Houston in round 1.
Two crazy wins a row where in each game one guy drove in all the runs for 9 innings and they needed every one of those runs. And it was 5 and 6 runs! Crazy. Not sure this ever happened before.