Tanner Bibee (#28, 25, RHP, 12-8, 3.47) vs. Gerrit Cole (#45, 33, RHP, 8-5, 3.41)
YANKEES
2B G. Torres R
RF Juan Soto L
CF Aaron Judge R
C Austin Wells L
DH G. Stanton R
3B J. Chisholm L
SS A. Volpe R
1B A. Rizzo L
LF Alex Verdugo L
GUARDIANS
LF Steven Kwan L
DH K. Manzardo L
3B Jose Ramirez S
1B Josh Naylor L
CF Lane Thomas R
RF Will Brennan L
2B A. Gimenez L
C Bo Naylor L
SS B. Rocchio S
Musn’t break up that R/L in the middle, no sir. The Yankees haven’t seen Bibee this season, and we all know that they excel against really good pitchers when they see them for the first time, right? Right? Somebody please say right.
Well, they can’t do worse with RISP than they did yesterday!
Cue 0-15 RISP
You think they’re going to have RISP?
How else will they score on a WP/PB?
If I am reading this right, the Yanks are 6 for 41 with RISP in the playoffs. Yet have won 4 of 5 games. That’s bizarre.
The chokiest chokers continue choking and yet here we are.
Part of it is that they’re getting a ton of baserunners. They have 34 walks in 5 games! But they haven’t really been hitting that well. 0/15 RISP is argually better cause if you’re getting that many runners you have more chances for a sac fly or scoring on a BB or WP or such thing.
What happens when the opposing pitcher throws strikes?
To be fair, one of the things that teams try to do against the Yankees is to AVOID throwing strikes. Not WALKING guys, of course, but trying to get the Yankees to expand the zone.
Well, here we go. Judge’s debut party.
I don’t get this “Batting Manzardo second” shit.
Maybe just give him garbage for the next three pitches, Cole, see if he swings. You can walk him if need be.
Well, thank goodness for the wind, I guess!
Give him the QO!
I can’t believe the Yankees have TWO different sponsorship logos on their uniforms and helmets.
A different Yankee hitter, that’s probably a strike.
We’re going to miss Gleyber when our 2B is hitting 195/480 next year.
How did Gleyber not score on that shit?!
This seems familiar
Finally get a hit with RISP. Don’t score.
Hey, that WAS a hit with a RISP.
How about that?
How will they blow this? Stay tuned!
Thank goodness for the wind!
Squirrel Girl 1, Baseball 0
Yay, error! Yesterday, WP’s, today E-Day.
If it weren’t for good luck we’d have no runs at all and Judge might be playing golf.
Welp, we’ll take it!
Wells is fucking LOST out there. Why is he still batting cleanup?
He’s just EMBARRASSING out there. Why is he batting cleanup?!!?
New innovative ways to score without hits
Wells, swinging through pitches in the zone. Ungood, but keep hitting him fourth. The definition of insanity is CashBoone keeping Wells at cleanup.
I love Soto, and he’s an amazing amazing hitter, but he doesn’t always seem to be the sharpest knife in the drawer.
How can Wells be THIS bad?
There are slumps, and there’s this. It’s insane. I mean, it’s beyond ridiculous.
Boone “likes where the lineup sits and the flow,” what a stupid crock of shit even from our dumb manager.
Yeah, I thought that was painful to hear, as well.
Wells is cooked. I can’t believe I’m asking for trevino
FANTASTIC CAMERA WORK, DUDES!
Wow, what a catch by Brennan!
More RISP Fail. Need more Whatevers errors.
Really nice play
How can they be this bad offensively?!
Can we get some Jazz?
“I’ve never seen anything that long.” Condolences to Ron Darling’s missus.
Well, no Jazz for the Yankees. An amazing consistency of RISP ineptness, however.
Incredible. How did they ever GET here with this offense?
Wells 095/269 for the post season after 111/421 in September? Can Trevino even play? Is Boone managing with a hand tied behind is back?
Always has been
And the other one, and three feet. And his head, which is not just behind his back, but, more specifically…
With Judge popping up, and Wells being an automatic out, I assumed no runs at that moment the ball popped up, so I’ll take the run.
Jazz 100/393 for the playoffs. Waldo? Berti? Trevi? Can any of those guys be this bad?
It really was SUCH a painful turn of phrase by Boone.
Boone is on a roll with extra painful sayings. Last night’s Rizzo remark, now this. He’s in playoff form.
Honestly, at this point, with Boone being Boone, maybe bat Rizzo cleanup and Wells 8th?
I liked Rizzo’s swings in Game 1.
Wells plays, he has to be dropped several spots. Of course, this should have happened prior to the post season, as Wells has been awful since September 1. No other team would have kept him in the cleanup spot.
I’d bat Stanton 4th, Wells 8 or 9, than pray for walks and errors.
You definitely want Stanton to swing the bat after Soto and Judge.
Yankees now hitting 133 RISP for the playoffs.
Can Rizzo put one over the wall?
Can’t teach speed!
The worst possible situation, 1st and 3rd, no outs.
strikeout, strikeout, walk, groundout. Maybe strikeout, walk, GIDP if they’re feeling fancy.
Uh oh, Rizzo foolishly put the runner into scoring position.
Verdugo with an oppo double. Wow.
I never doubted starting Verdugo!!
Wow. Incredible.
Boston Verdugo. An oppo hit is what he did in game 1.
Ugh, Gleyber.
Even the guys who have been getting hits can’t get hits. So annoying.
I’d walk Soto for the DP.Got to, Judge hits into a lot of DPs.
You gotta. It’s crazy, but you gotta.
Was Maris ever IBBed before Mantle?
Verdu… what… was… that?
Come on Judge, don’t stand for this.
Wow. Judge had got to make them pay
Challenge to Judge.
You really HAD to do it.
Meh. At least it’s a run.
More non-hit runs!
Wells vs. Smith. Hilarious matchup.
Ball is just absolutely force fielding out there.
As Maris ever IBBed to face Mantle?
No. He WAS walked four times the year before when he batted after Mantle.
Wells, just totally out of it mentally, and CashBoone keep on doing the same thing.
Wells has to sit
This is brutal
He doesn’t have a CHANCE out there. Meanwhile, the guy batting behind him is hot as fuck. WHAT ARE THEY DOING?!!?
Only as unserious organization would be doing this.
“Smith, as he has done all year, minimized the damage.”
I don’t think that’s seriously a thing, Anderson. He clearly wanted to note how he got the two outs, but then he remembered he DID give up the run, so it became “minimized the damage.” Hilarious.
Had Smith struck out Judge, then fair enough, but he gave up the run, I don’t know why they’re making such a big deal out of it.
You have to wonder why the Guardians aren’t moving Rocchio up in the lineup.
Seriously, the inability to actually plate runners…
…this team needs a psychologist.
Maybe a psychiatrist.
If we had an owner who cared about winning, Wells would have been dropped in the lineup weeks ago, and never allowed to hit fourth in the post season. This is insanity at work by CashBoone.
Cole looks a bit unsettled by that hit. Calm down, Cole!
Get your head in the game, Cole!
Oh, great, then he walks Kwan on 4-pitches.
I think Boone believes his stupidity and won’t drop Wells until the Yankees lose a game.
Come on Cole
Cole is capable of going bad in a hurry. Remember Tampa last year?
Cole has just completely lost the plate.
That was ball four, too!
That was technically ball four, too, but obviously you had to swing at that.
Big out.
Cole, dear lord, regain your control!
That was a good ending to the inning, but holy shit, Cole, regain your control!
Big outs.
This team has an amazing ability to make it feel like they’re losing when they’re winning.
My GOD, Stanton is slow
They’ll need The Stanton Rule, so he can have a designated base runner.
Stanton is slow, but I also think he and the Yankees have made a decision to avoid running hard to first on contact
Jazz almost as bad as Wells.
Jazz 095/374
After Verdugo’s hit Yankees up to 160 RISP for the playoffs.
Very, very annoying.
Jazz, can’t hit, can’t field.
Bear down, Cole
Yankees won’t score again, will they get another hit?
Shitty little ground balls, man.
2-0 pitch, awesome.
Would past Yankee managers not even consider sitting Wells or Jazz for a game and see what Waldo, Berti or Trevi can do?
3-0, fantastic. Aaaand a walk. Bases juiced
More than annoying now.
Cole, pls
Rocchio is SUPER scary here.
More pls
Good instinct, but can’t be so obvious.
Come on Cole. This guy is a tough out. Annoying.
This is disconcerting. And I wasn’t even concerting.
Thanks, ump!
You mean – not getting it wrong?
The strike zone graphic had it clearly right on the center of the line.
It was a strike.
Whew! On the 70th pitch.
What a strike 3!
Way to battle!
As borderline as you can get and still be a strike.
At the same token, you could argue that the great pitchers know where to place it where they’ll GET the call, ya know?
I mean – no. It was centered on the borderline. If even the edge of the ball had caught the edge of the line, it would still have been properly called a strike.
I kind of hate that my feed is clearly like 15 seconds behind the rest of you, lol
How good could this team be if their ability to get hits weren’t so inversely proportional to the probability of scoring on a hit?
They’re going to score a dozen in game 3.
See, THAT pitch was on the edge of what you could imagine getting called a strike.
The Yankees can’t hit the Guardians’ SHITTY relievers, so these GOOD relievers are going to be UNTOUCHABLE.
Kwan is so fucking annoying.
Geez louise, Cole, find the plate, dude!!
And the tying run is at the plate AGAIN. That’s THREE FUCKING INNINGS IN A ROW (well, last inning was even worse).
Fucking Cole
Have to get the bullpen up. Now 3-0 on Ramirez.
Cole could maybe go back to getting a coupla quick outs. That’s an option.
Pests.
Ump fucked Cole on that one.
Boone asleep at the wheel
HOW ARE YOU 3-0 ON JOSE RAMIREZ?!
Cole had been struggling for 3 innings and Boone has his thumb firmly upp his ass
He escaped twice, odds of escaping thrice?
Fucking Holmes?!?!?
Smart to get Holmes up, as he’ll come in without a lead.
This is only the 5th inning. We are so fucked.
Loaded.
Just incredible ineptitude
That’s a fucking strike!!
This ump has become pretty bad
Coulda pulled him after Kwan, or certainly Manzardo.
Dropped a strike.
But if you drop it, it’s still a strike, right?
Y ah, but it doesn’t help get the call.
I totally get that, but at the same time, come on, ump, this is your JOB to make the tough call.
If the point were to get it right, they’d use the equipment.
Please fire Boone in this inning.
How is Cole STILL IN THE GAME?????
This is an unserious organization All Hal cares about is the $$$$. Cashman laughing at Hal behind Hal’s back.
They knew he was stealing and did nothing to hildnhim. Wtf.
Why is Cole throwing the pitch in the SAME SPOT he didn’t get the call on before?!
Cole is so off.
Dude hasn’t hit the glove at all
WTH is wrong, Cole? FFS.
Cole’s stuff isn’t good enough to throw strikes?
Boone is watching this game on a 10 minute delay.
What’s the rush, Aaron?
Nice chokejob by the “ace”
I mean, the Guardians are definitely a resilient team, but this inning was Cole just pitching like shit. He completely lost the plate.
The insanity surrounding CashBoone magnified in this game. What was Boone watching the last two innings?
Their pen is better than ours.
Compare this inning to vogt pulling bibee in the second
To be fair, their bullpen is so good that Vogt knew he could throw a bunch of good relievers out there.
No matter how bad you think Boone is, he goes and takes it to another level.
I can’t believe they didn’t have someone ready to begin the inning. Cole should have been batter to batter.
Once again, fucking groundballs hit to the wrong fucking spot. It’s so frustrating.
So many ground balls too poorly hit to get a DP.
It’s so fucking annoying.
Cade Smith GAVE UP CONTACT, DARLING.
Love to see a replay. Should Rizzo have gone home?
No chance at home there.
Throw. Strikes.
I think Holmes was pitching around Gimenez with Hedges on deck.
Yep
Painful.
That’s two mediocre starts and one terrific for Cole.
The bullpen should have been ready, Boone took stupid to another level.
You cannot let Austin fucking Hedges beat you.
Some stop
Good job, Holmes. The bullpen is going to have shut the Guardians out the rest of this game, as the Yankees sure ain’t scoring another run (unless they get a LOT of wild pitches).
Sure would be a good time for Judge to show up
No.
I thought Rizzo had no chance at home based on how the ball was hit, but eh, maybe I’m wrong and he should have gone for it.
Can’t wait for Wells’ next AB.
I’m shocked he even made contact in the first swing.
Judge is JUST a bit off. It’s really frustrating to watch.
We aren’t going to score another run until game 4 are we?
Sabotaging the Yankees, that’s CashBoone at work.
Wells is just LOST at the plate.
Aaaand nope. under everything.
Way to make the Guardians work, Yankees.
What they needed, three superfast outs. Way to go, guys, way to go. Blah.
WAy to make him work.
Six pitch inning! Cleveland still has two of their studs available.
Wells has been so good behind the plate (and Trevino can’t throw anyone out) that I’m totally fine with him starting every game, but bat him fucking 8th!
On the bright side if we lose this series I won’t have to watch the Yankees get destroyed by the Mets.
Oh, Tim Hill.
Wait, why is Holmes out of the game already?!
And why is HILL in the game?!
Holmes out?
I think Boone is just brain dead. That’s the only explanation for going to Hill here.
The only explanation I can think of is that there wasnnt enough time to get some warmedup and they didn’t want to stick with Holmes.
I think he just forgot though.
I think the INSANE plan is for Hill to get the sixth and then Kahnle to get five outs and Weaver four outs.
Cousins?
Cousins would make sense, but I think the plan is seriously Kahnle/Weaver for the 7-9th.
What about Hamilton?
Lineup taking a little mid-game siesta. Boone will have his hands full trying to wake these rascals up!
Boone thinks Hill is better than he is. Day off tomorrow, I can’t believe Holmes isn’t still in.
I cannot even FATHOM his logic. I don’t mind using Hill, but use him for the seventh, or for a lefty if Holmes got guys on base.
Lucky out.
Worked out.
BLIND SQUIRREL!
FINALLY, Jazz!
Rizzo really IS a very good bunter.
Rizzo a DP waiting to happen.
2 on, both with speed. Perfect set up to score more runs without a hit.
Oh, Jazz, you fucking moron.
What the fuck.
Yankee baserunning was going to make itself felt sooner or later.
I mean, so, so fucking stupid.
Are you fucking kidding me? Is Jorge Posada the base running coach??
They’re saying “oh, he’s out.”
But I’m not sure the glove ever actually touched him at all.
I find it hard to believe it didn’t.
Yankees are so fucking bad. Boone’s teams are always so fundamentally unsound.
This is like watching the Jets
I don’t think there was enough to change the call. But I also think he was out.
I think he was a moron, but I never saw the glove touch him.
It might have, but we don’t know.
NICE GAME FOR VOLPE!
TJPSOB strikes again.
Jazz was, like, “The double made me seem good, I gotta correct that.”
Rizzo! Error! Run!
That was so far beyond bad baserunning. It was a totally different category of bad.
Way to go, Jazz. Would be nice to be up 5-2.
Rizzo and volpe!
Fucking jazz
He has GOT to be the cleanup hitter tomorrow, right?
Also, why the fuck did they hold up Volpe initially?!
Good question
I was surprised.
I mean, would you have even WANTED a second run there? Doesn’t sound very sporting.
SQUIRREL GIRL TAKES COMMAND!
On second thought total genius. First and second a guaranteed out. Runner only on first, a chance.
FUCKING GENIUS!
Rizzo! What in the world.
Brennan’s fielding was almost as bad as Jazz’s baserunning.
By the way, for all us idiots – JAZZ IS A GENIUS!
What are the chances they get that double and score – with a RISP?
SEE?
UPD: all of us except Calla.
Jazz baserunning to prevent RISP fail up there with Jeter’s play against Oakland.
Verdugo was at least as rightly disgusted with his 3-1 swing as I was.
Yankees: hey, Guardians, want this game?
Guardians: eh, not sure…
Hahahaha
Incredible
Rizzo knew that the better odds of scoring was Gleyber getting a leadoff walk and then Soto hitting a double. Smart baseball.
I can’t even
A double TOOTBLAN in one inning
Rizzo to Jazz, anything you can do I can do better. TJPSOB.
Even MacEnroe wouldn’t know what to say.
Rizzo’s mistake was not getting picked off, it was not settling for a single.
Boone does know how to use the bullpen phone, right?
The 2024 Yanks have the 24th-worst BsR of any team since 2000. Two spots behind the ’04 Townies and eight spots behind hte ’10 Giants. So … secret efficiency?
Boone
Both those teams won the WS.
Nice outing by Hill
Probably the best example of Blake’s talents you can get, taking a dude cut by one of the worst teams in baseball HISTORY and turning him into a guy you’re fine with pitching in big spots in the playoffs.
Kahnle, seriously, dude?!
That was a TOUGH call, and LATE, too.
Maybe don’t throw that exact pitch, Tommy.
Kahnle, what the fuck, dude?!
Okay 1, 2, 3 do something positive, like a run or two.
With two outs, no one on, and a guy who can’t hit lefties on deck, why not just let Hill finish the inning?
Boone had to be the dumbest manager in the history of the Yankees
Brings out Holmes who does a good job and gets two outs. So remove him
Bring out hill who does a good job and gets two outs; so remove him.
Keep bringing in relief pitchers until you find the one guy who doesn’t have it. Moron.
And then he’ll use weaver for the 6th straight game and keep using him until he blows one. And say things like “he had his good stufff but sometimes you have to tip your hat to the other team”.
No / sometimes you have to have a manager who isn’t a total idiot.
And the crazy part is, if they win this game he will think it’s his brilliant managing with the worst hitter on the team batting 4th.
Yeah, Boone really does suck.
TBS robbing a run from the Yankees here.
Vogt goes to Clase in the eighth way too much.
Vogt does seem prone to overmanagement. Austin hedges has been in these games a lot.
Yeah, Hedges having to hit in big spots in both games so far. Not a good idea. All to get Fry ONE at-bat.
Some runs here would be nice.
Smart play by Gleyber to only get a single!
That was an aesthetic single Gleyber
GIDP incoming.
Remember when Gleyber used to steal bases on occasion?
Judge!
More a relief than anything else.
Finally.
He got it!
Judge!
There it fucking is!
FINALLY!!
That seemed like an out off of the bat, too!
I thought he juuust missed it
Just another pop up that carried.
JIDGE!!!!!!!!
Wells crushed that foul. Poor guy.
RIGHT? I was thinking the same thing. Poor dude.
You gotta give Gleyber credit for only hitting the single, or else Judge wouldn’t have hit that homer.
Cromulent.
Rizzo knew what he was doing getting picked off
How sad is it that we’re so excited by TWO now pitches crushed foul by Wells?
Good swings usually mean good things in the future, ya know?
Let’s give Gleyber a lot of credit, that was a nice single, he’s got 3 hits and a 970 OPS this post season.
I am legit shocked. It’s great.
Oh man, Wells. A good AB but no dice.
That was the BEST at bat of the post season for Wells.
Honestly, I think a lot of it was Gaddis was just in shock, ya know?
Who pitches teh eighth? Stick with Kahnle, right?
Wait. Cobb off the roster, Lively in, presumably to start. And he’s coming in for a mop job?
6-2 is mop up?
I imagine their plan would be to do a bullpen game in Game 5, and Lively wouldn’t start, but would just be the bulk guy in that game, so using him here is fine.
Kahnle, what are you DOING, dude?!
I don’t think Bibee pitching only two innings means he’d be ready to start game 4, no?
They really SHOULD bat Rocchio higher than 9th. If they did him and Kwan 1-2, that’d be annoying for the Yankees, and thus good for the Guardians.
Do you risk using Hamilton in the 9th?
I don’t think Boone is capable of self reflection in general, but winning this game by doing everything wrong is certainly not going to force any.
Exactly. They are winning despite him
Not because of him. But he will not understand that at all.
Cousins? Hamilton? Give our new found awesome closer a breather. He’s pitched in every game.
Squirrel Girl strikes again.
Apparently it’s Weaver again. I don’t mind it with the off day. This same game scenario in Game 4, though, they better use Hamilton or Cousins.
Did they score that a base hit for Volpe?
Somehow, yes.
Odd. But he hit it well enough.
Home cooking.
He’s had a really good series.
I don’t understand even having Weaver warm up here, let alone using him.
What are they booing? With the baserunning off second this game, I’d be doing that move all the time!
Even Sterls is piling on: https://x.com/BenVerlander/status/1846373775300088313
Fantastic.
Wow, that was an annoying shock.
Good time to get the Ramirez homer out of the way.
Yep.
This was definitely a non-save situation-esque outing. We’ve seen that a lot over the years.
Yay win!
Jose Ramirez is also a really good hitter, after all.
Yay win!
Yay runners out of scoring position!
I’m glad Rizzo was emotionally ready to finish the game.
Framber Valdez leads MLB qualifiers in GB% at 61. Hill is 70%.
Wow.
If Boone can’t blow a game with THIS many terrible decisions … this Yankee team might just be this year’s team of destiny, eh? I mean, SO VERY MANY good outcomes for terrible decisions in a row is basically statistically impossible, right?
It helps that the Indians are not all that good at hitting, but still …