Ben Casparius (#78, 25, RHP, 2-0, 2.16) vs. Luis Gil (#81, 26, RHP, 15-7, 3.50)
DODGERS
DH S. Ohtani L
RF Mookie Betts R
1B F. Freeman L
LF T. Hernandez R
3B Max Muncy L
CF E. Hernandez R
2B Gavin Lux L
C Will Smith R
SS Tommy Edman S
YANKEES
2B G. Torres R
RF Juan Soto L
CF Aaron Judge R
3B J. Chisholm L
DH G. Stanton R
1B A. Rizzo L
SS A. Volpe R
C Austin Wells L
LF Alex Verdugo L
You almost have to admire that the one change this idiot is making is moving Stanton DOWN in the lineup. What a fucking FOOL he is.
Meh.
Gil pitches the first 3 innings, O/U 75.
So far, 27 in 1 inning.
Wow, only 46 through 3 innings.
It’s insane. We’ve been here all season discussing what an idiot he is and then he outdoes himself with one final idiotic move that tops them all. Let’s take my second best hitter and bat him 5th. And yet he’s their manager and we are just commentators on a blog.
The saboteur, Cashman, laughs.
Boone is constantly proving how bad a manager he is
He should have flipped Judge and Stanton.
Gil continues to be an annoying enigma. Such great stuff, and yet he chooses to use six pitches when two will do. 10 pitches in and it’s still just the second batter in the Dodger lineup!
Eleven pitches in and there’s a runner on second with one out. I think Betts gets to second on any right fielder, but Soto still sure took his sweet time getting there.
Yeah that’s a double on anyone, I was worried it was going to be a triple though.
Just don’t tell me how fucking hurt he is.
I’ve got some bad news for you.
Haha, I know, I know. It’s so fucking annoying that they keep insisting that he’s hurt.
Did they put on the wrong broadcast?
At least we got to see a record broken
Well at least this game is going to be over early.
They seriously have allowed them to score first in ALL FOUR GAMES. You obviously can’t play winning baseball when you’re in the hole in each game.
Maybe walk Freeman instead of feeding him pitches? An unserious organization.
It’s indefensible to not have intentionally walked Freeman with first base open.
They aren’t a serious organization, headed by a saboteur named Cashman.
Lot of wimp factor around this Yankees team, quite a lot.
First guy to hit HRs in 4 straight WS games? Maybe he’ll hit a couple more later this game. That would be cool.
There’s no way you walk Freeman in the first inning with one out. You just have to not suck, that’s all, and if you suck, then you’re giving up runs anyways.
It’s Gil, Gil sucks.
You know how we knew Kirk Gibson was ACTUALLY hurt? He couldn’t run out a grounder that went foul, and he DIDN’T PLAY THE REST OF THE SERIES AFTER HITTING THE HOME RUN. That’s ACTUALLY being hurt.
Before this disaster the Dodgers were slugging 457, the Yankees a pathetic 294.
LA 213/296/457
NYY 186/284/294
That insane fan had more fire than the entire Yankee roster.
Already two strikes for Judge. We know where THIS is heading.
Good thing Stanton’s not up here.
Stanton coming up … Wait… Chisholm coming up. Okay.
Freeman 4 home runs in 4 days, Yankee 1Bs no home runs since 7/31/23 no I meant 2024, just seems like 2023.
Cashman’s legacy Gallo, Donaldson, resigning DJ, Verdugo has crippled this team
The July 31st thing avoids the whole point of the issue, which is that that was the trade deadline, and AT THE TRADE DEADLINE, it looked like they had a first baseman who could hit in Ben Rice. And then he completely collapsed after that.
Seven home runs at the time, none after that, with a .746 OPS becoming a .212 OPS after the trade deadline.
Disagree, rice was still largely untested, and heavily boosted by one 3hr game.
You had Rice AND you had Rizzo coming back, too, though. Who on the market was going to be a clear upgrade? It wasn’t a very big first base market. The only notable one was Josh Bell, who sucks, too.
RISP Fail #1. RISP Fail #2. Why change what you’ve been aces at?
I agree with Smoltz about Jazz. He reminds me of Starlin Castro, if he ever learns how to hit he might be good.
You say that abut Volpe too.
I’m not so sure Volpe has as much upside as Jazz.
The Dodgers pitched to Stanton, just like you should have, and they got out of it. Walking Freeman made no sense. Gil just has to not suck there.
But it’s Gil,Gil sucks.
LHBs vs Gil 210/707, RHBs 170/584. That’s a big split and Freeman is obviously locked in. I walk him.
Smart by Roberts. Man on first 2 out you walk Stanton, man on 2nd and 3rd you confidently pitch to Stanton.
What’s the ratio of hits down the line for Dodgers vs Yankees?
Yeah, it continues their whole “groundballs hit in exactly the wrong place” deal that they’ve had all postseason.
Smoked, but an atom ball DP.
This whole thing is kind of Gleyber’s fault. Now I’m not sure about the QO. I guess offer it only if you know he wont take it. What a loser.
I’ve wanted Cashman to dump him for three years!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDU74Td3iRk
His insanely poor decision-making is why I won’t miss him, but I’ll admit that I’d like to be sure that they are not going to, like, run Oswaldo Cabrera out there everyday at third, with Jazz at second.
It wouldn’t be worse. Then you could see what he could do given two and a half months. And they have more people in the pipeline.
He was actually terrible on both sides of the ball this year.
Continue taking those four-seam fastballs, Yankees!
Volpe’s mechanics have just been a little off since the beginning of June.
Good, Wells, keep taking those four-seamers down the middle!
I just tuned in a few minutes ago, did Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz open tonight?
Wells 2B.
Oh, Volpe doesn’t score.
Classic
A misplayed ball!
Not our great friend WP, but a welcome addition to the roster!
How are they THIS BAD AT ALL FUNDAMENTALS?!!?
UN FUCKING BELIEVABLE
fire this whole team into the fucking sun
You can’t hit in the major leagues if you can’t recognize that 2nd strike pitch.
When a Verdugo grounder would actually score a run, he’ll K.
He’s here for his bat to ball skills. Now is the time… c’mon.
What’s wrong with Volpe? Boone breeds stupidity.That’s as bad as I can remember. 100% Jorge or Stanton would’ve scored.
LOL
Was he just back on the bag so he could tag?
What are you guys talking about? Volpe wasn’t going to score on that unless the throw sucked.
He had to be halfway to third.
LOL.Verdugo ground out.
I kinda thought down three maybe the martian would get a chance but
Wells gets to third and it’s tied.
True, but there was no reasonable expectation of anyone going to third there.
Fundamentals? We ain’t got no fundamentals! We don’t need no fundamentals! I don’t have to show you any stinking fundamentals!
Hey, they got one more run than I thought they would when Dugie was 0-2.
And more than that, they scored one of those things! what are they called?
Rans, I think. Or is it a runt? I forget?
“In play, runt(s)” sounds accurate.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME GLEYBER
THE FIRST PITCH?!?!?!
It was awful managing by Roberts to try to get two innings out of Casparius
if he doesn’t torch the pen how can we get back in this thing?
Great play by Mookie.
Betts sure is a good right fielder
I think he has more potential than phenom. He’ll probably never reach that potential.
I do love how good Jazz is on the basepaths.
That rule needs to be modified.
Agreed.
RISP Challenge. Rizzo: Fails the challenge.
What the fuck, Rizzo?!? And on a 2-1 pitch!!
Have to admit, that really was Rizzo’s True Yankee Moment.
Freeman vs Rizzo is the difference between being swept and competitive.
????
Volpe! Volpe!! Volpe!!! Grand slam.
That’s just not possible.
Volpe. Not bad.
Volpe!
Wow. Knock me over with a feather and some morphine.
So, when’s the last time Volpe hit a HR, before now?
9/21
Bizarro world game.
Volpe hits a grand slam… and somebody actually answers Don’s question!
I’ve also been asking it rhetorically, but him actually doing it made me curious enough to go through game logs.
I mean what are they going to do with all those rans (or runts, or whatever)?
(Other than give them back, of course)
Must be so confusing.
“Perfect time,” the announcers say.
Like that wasn’t in Game 1.
Walking Muncy. smh
Is that allowed?
Apparently not.
That was sweet D TV
Safe, unfortunately.
Gil showing some backbone.
It’s really nice to see. They can really work with this. Him being a Game 2 starter next year would be a big boon.
At this point, I have to remind myself that I actually want them to do well and win the game.
Verdugo?
So MLB was so distressed at this series turning into such a pathetic, uncompelling, quick defeat that they’ve actually paid the Dodgers to throw this game.
Dang, Gleyber, how was that not even CLOSE at first?!
i mean, we know, right?
On an 0-2 pitch, too. FUCK.
straight to jail
So beautifully manipulative, this team is.
Gil was, like, “Oh, wow, everyone is impressed with how well I’ve been carrying myself, I better collapse now!”
He held out just long enough for you to start to fall for the idea that he was going to hold them down, and then slips the knife between the ribs.
And after an 0-2 HR, he walks the next batter in front of Ohtani. FFS I spoke too soon.
Yeah, Gil was clearly too put off by everyone praising him that he had to throw a spanner into the works.
That hit was exactly what I expected if Hill had come in in Game 1. I love Hill, but a guy like Ohtani SHOULD be able to get a single off of him.
Now HILL is throwing balls?!?!
The good ol’ “weak groundball that you can’t turn two on” that the Yankees’ relievers excel at.
Freeman is SO hurt, look at how slow he is to first!
The announcers are idiots.
Safe again, of course.
I mean, he WAS safe, so what are you going to do? Another shitty play by Gleyber.
Yes, I wrote that long before the decision came down. They had to reverse it.
It’s just that column of smoke over the treetops we all see approaching from way off in the distance as we all lie here tied to the train tracks.
Would you put the Yankees’ chance of winning this game at over or under 5 percent?
Under 1 percent
Fucking gleyber.
He must have been listening to the announcers about how hurt Freeman is, so he took his sweet time with that, thinking that no way the hobbled Freeman could get to first in time.
Did anybody think the Yankees were going to win this game?
What an exhausting group of fucks
I wish I hadn’t praised Gil, I should have known better. Then Gleyber gets involved too. Goodbye, Gleyber, you don’t run out a ball in the WS, you play shaky defense. Goodbye.
Shaky is too kind. He is a braindead lazy dolt.
I still think that there is something to work on here from Gil.
I’m not watching because it’s both too depressing and also too ragestroke inducing, but I will say if they do hang on by some miracle and then win tomorrow by some even bigger miracle, it’ll be even more infuriating knowing they should be up 3-2 with two bites at the apple in LA than down 3-2 praying Rodon doesn’t go full Rodon, knowing fuck well he’ll go extra Rodon no matter what.
Game 1 was just full Chernobyl, poisoning the land around it for generations.
They’re winning, but it’s like watching a house of cards with a tropical storm blowing in.
The Yankees are partly to blame for the failures of Gleyber, because they allowed him into this pattern on the bases, in the field.
They had deals for him and Cashman passed because he’s a fool and thought he was going to hit 30 every year.
The deals were unreasonable. The Marlins wanted Gleyber AND Peraza for Pablo Lopez.
They then traded him WITH pieces for Arraez.
We need a Knock off Knack.
Knack fucking SUCKS, so they really need to score off of him.
The only advantage of it getting closer is that the dodgers may feel the need to use their good relievers.
Another RISP Challenge.
This is why pitchers pitch to Stanton.
Three more years to go.
Knack Rita Tushinghamed Gianni
The usual RISP Fail.
It’s beyond rational explanation.
That was quite the pathetic showing by Stanton, Rizzo, and Volpe.
Hey, they do what they do. Three shots, three fail in one inning.
Getting shut down by knack is a low
They have a knack for RISP fail.
You might say they got paddywhacked.
Rizzo last home run June 13th. Freddy Freeman last home run1st inning. Rizzo slg September 315.
I actually think you can clearly see Rizzo closing in on back to normal. Seeing the ball again. I actually think he can be good when his fingers heal.
But it doesn’t help us now.
I think Rizzo looks pretty good, but he has NO power anymore. That’s not good.
Knack isn’t even a BAD pitcher, per se, but he’s been REAL shitty out of the bullpen in the postseason, so this is pathetic.
Technically, this is a save situation, and a one-run lead. What pitcher would you use in a situation like that?
That looked pretty impressive, but you need all three outs.
I wouldn’t get comfortable.
Why the complaints, 2/10 RISP is well above the 174 they were hitting with RISP. Little steps.
There’s always a runner in scoring position when Austin Wells is up!
Wells!
Whatever.
Finally! Of course, with no one on base, but still!
Who had Wells and Volpe breaking out before Judge? Come on, fess up!
It’s July/August all over again. Mel Brooks summertime for Austin.
Trusting Mark Leiter here is a choice.
Leiter is a choice
Yep, walk the #9 hitter in front of Ohtani, who WILL be trying to steal. Great job, dickwad.
One job don’t walk anyone, so he goes 3-1 and then walks Edman. Brilliant!
Yankee pitchers throw the silliest waste pitchers. I bet he’s going to offer at your pitch six feet off of the plate, dude!
Like, the WORST guy to fucking walk. So fucking annoying.
On 5-pitches, not like it was a 10 pitch battle.
Fundamentally dumb
Are they seriously planning on having Weaver just close this game out?!
Probably go to Kahnle at some point.
Okay, that makes SOME sense, and I guess the hope is that the Yankees add some insurance runs and then you can use, like, Cousins or some shit.
Well, that was unexpected.
they gotta win tomorrow night too….planning on Nestor in the 9th??
Stromans going to get the save
4/6 in saves is harsh on Weaver when he came into the game with a runner on third and one out and gave up a sac fly.
This is questionable, though. Sure, it succeeded, but they need 6 more outs without allowing any runs.
The Wells homer was huge.
Under it, over it, off the end of the bat, missed it entirely.
Amazing.
I like weaver
I like Weaver too.
I can’t stand Smoltz
“I can’t stand Smoltz”
The low-hanging fruit.
the check swing call has become completely random
COMPLETELY random.
Another RISP Challenge presents itself.
Volpe!!!
So stupid
That AB belongs in some sort of 1920s silent movie.
Fox fucked up the amount of strikes on Volpe, right?
Smart, setting up the Verdugo DP.
ok time to bust up Mr Mockturtleneckmulletperm
Fascinating, a double steal.
This is the kind of pa the Yankees should have been having all series
Of course, after an epic AB, Verdugo hits a ground ball, but they get no one and a tack on run scores.
The rare GOOD Dugie grounder!
The contact play finally worked
Contact play worked
Wow.
Volpe dominating the game.
As we all called it!
I guess Weaver can sit out the ninth.
?????
You’re kidding.
Really?
Gleyber, 3-run HR. 10-4. Too early? – Baseball tomorrow.
Gleyber!
A little less Gleyber hate please.
Just a bit.
In the pythag WS we’re up 3-1
Kind of funny that they scored 10 in the game Soto is hitless.
Soto was, like, “FUCK THAT.”
Gleyber, for all his flaws, has been their second-best hitter this postseason after Stanton, hasn’t he?
Third then, no, after Soto and Stanton?
Maybe. It seems to me that Gleyber’s made fewer outs than Soto, but I haven’t checked.
When our 2B or 3b next year is DJ who gets hurt May 1 hitting 200/500 and Peraza becomes an everyday player hitting 180/450 will we miss Gleyber?
Wouldn’t Waldo be the third baseman in that scenario?
I’d like to live in a world where I am not reminded that djlm is still under contract.
Can they please pitch Honeywell more?
Mayza proof?
Hopefully! I swear, if that dude fucking walks ANYbody…
Well, he tried.
This is going to be a brutal loss
Yay, win. Yay, no 4-0 sweep.
That sucked surprisingly little!
Yay win.
Woo
First time since 1970 a team down 3-0 forced a game 5? Thats wild.
Only the fourth time ever. The other three times, it was the only game that team would win.
11 runs off four crap pitchers when Roberts was bullpenning with house money. Whatever.
Sure would be nice if this was a 2-2 series like it’s supposed to be.