October 31, 2024

362 thoughts on “World Series Game 5: Yankees (1-3) vs. Dodgers (3-1) Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 8:08 PM

    1. Lots of managers do dumb things from time to time.
      That’s not what we have with the incomparable Boone.

    2. In know.
      But be serious. I’m sure he’s a lousy manager.
      But – no hyperbole – baseball has never seen anything like Aaron Boone.

  1. Or even when it was 6-4, he then decided to just empty out his bullpen which, at the very least, allowed Boone to sit Weaver in the ninth. Roberts is just not a good manager EITHER (not as bad as Boone, but he is bad, too).

    1. It’s super duper dumb. I love Bernie and Jeter, but the idea of them being “postseason home run leaders” when they’re barely past Mantle, who did it only in the World Series, is just silly.

  2. Part of that was on Cole, but Rizzo’s been so slow to move. He had to be moving to the base at once, could have dived, he could have done it.

    1. I keep thinking that. It’s so crazy that they’re even here.
      They have talent, but they play so f*ing badly.
      How can a major league club not train its players better?

    1. Cole DID deal with it. They loaded the bases on two fucked-up errors, and he struck out the Ohtani and got a ground ball and should have been out of the inning twenty-seven times.

  3. If you keep grinding out at-bats? That’s how Cole was at 11 pitches/inning in this inning, and then 3 crazy errors in one inning?
    What does that have to do with the other team’s at bats?

  4. Wow.
    How can there not be three errors that inning?
    I don’t care who you call the third one on, but it was NOT a hit, it was 100% an error.

    1. Remind me what happened in Baltimore and it wasn’t a post season game so it’s not remotely the same.

  5. Giving Cole time is already good.
    More people coming to the plate is good.
    Make something happen. Get runs NOW.
    Yes, have them look at Wells, good.

  6. Stanton… I didn’t know he COULD hit a fly ball without hitting it out.
    But – awesome, they have taken the lead again. But it’s not enough.

    1. How much enamel will he grind off his teeth talking about how it’s not the team’s fault and all?

  7. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  8. The craziest thing about the collapse inning was that it wasn’t the usual suspects. If Gleyber throws one away, expected. If Soto takes a bad route, that happens. But I am not used to Judge just dropping a ball or Volpe with a terrible toss. It’s just so unlikely.

    1. Oh, I don’t know. We’ve seen some beyond-belief bad calls. There’s just so much competition for that title.

    2. Or do what they do in The Super Bowl. All officials must have 5 years experience, been in a playoff and have high performance grades.

    1. Meaning that they have the better cameras.
      But still prefer to get all these calls wrong.

    1. I kind of liked Holmes with the bases empty to see what he could do. I like Kahnle though. Let’s see him get 3 quick outs.

    1. Yep. They fought in 2004 except for game 7. Except for Gordon They didn’t just surrender

  9. In some game a long time ago when the Yankees were down by 8 to Boston and came back to win, one of us was tracking SoSH.
    A poster there had an all-time great, and I can only repeat it now:
    This is Amelia Earhart crashing the Hindenberg into the Titanic.

  10. That was incredibly bad pitching with two strikes. He wasted the pitch that he should have used to get the strikeout, so he HAD to go into the zone to make sure he didn’t walk him, and he gave up the flyball.

    1. Yeah, I was confused by the announcers watching a shot that clearly showed the contact and saying “well, I don’t know there,” as if that didn’t constitute interference.

    1. Game 1, game 5. It is what losers do, they lose games they have won. Fifth inning, this inning in game 5.

    1. CashBoone can be proud.

      Hal? All the games he could get and all the $$$$ he could from all the games get is happy, happy, happy.

    1. His fastball hits 97. I don’t understand. Boone? Blake? Kahnle’s afraid to throw his fastball?

  11. This is our shot right now. They can’t have much left in the pen. And if they do, we’ve seen them.

    May Judge is back.
    Soto wants millions.
    Playoff Stanton in the house.

    1. They’ll pinch-hit the Martian for Verdugo with two outs and no one one for the edifying experience (=pointless trauma) of being the one to lose the World Series (after not having played through three entire rounds of playoffs).

  12. In no way do they deserve to win this game. This is the all time post season choke game. Though in all fairness they’ve been choking at the plate with RSIP the whole post season.

  13. More stupid things than you see in a month of baseball. The CashBoone Yankees.

    We should all disengage from this game, but why would we when more stupid Yankees stuff is possible. What will be next? A guy runs past a teammate on the base paths and that’s how they lose?

    1. Have they done anything stupid on the bases yet? Suzyn said this game showed everything wrong with this team all year and I thought that was missing.

  14. RAB before yesterday’s game “ If I wasn’t so sure the season will end on a Verdugo ground out to second, I would say it will end with Stanton on deck after being needlessly moved down to fifth.”

  15. The Baltimore game was when Volpe just bobbled the game-ending groundout with the based loaded and two outs to let in one run, and then Verdugo misread an easy flyball that would have ended the game and it landed away from him for a game-winning two-run single.

    That was actually MORE pathetic of an inning than this one, but this was in the World fucking Series, so it was much worse.

    1. Totally agree. I was sad about 2001, and they didn’t hit in 2003, 1995 after a long playoff drought was very painful, but this is different.

  16. On the bright side:

    Verdugo: Gone
    Rizzo: Gone
    Gleyber: Gone
    Boone: maybe?
    Cashman: possibly?

    And the most optimistic thing I could possibly say:

    Every day after this is one less till pitchers and catchers.

  17. I’m honestly still happy with the season overall. I went in saying I just needed them to MAKE the World Series, and they did it. So I can complain in the micro, of course, but not the macro.

    Now I need them to WIN it in one of the next three seasons. And I think they’ll get there if they re-sign Soto. This is still a good team with a good future IF they resign Soto.

  18. The entire baseball operation needs an overhaul. Hal said he was going to hire outside people after the 2023 season, but he then had Cashman check on Cashman, and Cashman said Cashman is doing a sparkling good job (and they made the WS so it must be so).

    Hal needs to take Judge’s pitching coach’s word on [lack of] development of offensive players by them. There ‘s a start.

    1. Cashman isn’t firing himself, or Boone. Besides, too many seem comfortable with Boone (and that is a huge issue in the real world), so 99.9% that Boone will be back.

  19. 95 and 01 broke my heart but this game, this series, mostly pissed me off. Will the FO forever indulge Boone’s mistakes especially in the post season? Game 1 could’ve kept Cole in, could’ve kept Weaver in, could’ve gone to Hill over Nestor.

  20. Sherman asked Boone “do you think some of these fundamental things that hovered over your team all year that it came to executing a 3-1 play all year.” Or a lot of other things.

  21. Hopefully Hal saw that the problem was not letting Cash spend a little extra money on the bench and bullpen, and he’ll let him spring for a few extra bucks.

    Figure the lineup next year is (godwilling Soto resigns)…

    Jazz 2B
    Soto RF
    Judge CF
    Jasson LF
    Stanton DH
    Wells C
    Volpe SS
    Unknown 3B (Possibly DJ/Waldo)
    Unknown 1B

    Rotation of

    Cole
    Gil
    Schmidt
    Rodon
    Cortes

    Poteet sixth man, Stroman traded for garbage.

    Closer Weaver
    New setup guy (possibly a healthy Lo?)
    New setup guy
    Cousins
    Hamilton
    Hill
    Mayza

    IF they resign Soto, that’s a very good team that could easily make the World Series again, a la the 1976 Yankees (who were swept before winning the 1977 Series) or the 2004 Cardinals (who also got swept before winning the 2006 World Series).

  22. Soto said he’s open to all 30 teams and the Yankees don’t have an advantage. He said he wants to be on a winning team, mutts, townies, Dodgers?

  23. Have to go back to 1903 for a worse inning.

    Erica Block
    World Series: Most unearned runs allowed in one inning

    6 Brickyard Kennedy BOS @ PIT – 10/7/1903
    5 Gerrit Cole LAD @ NYY – 10/30/2024
    5 Vic Raschi NYY @ SF – 10/6/1951
    5 Clem Labine NYY @ PIT – 10/6/1960
    5 Ed Summers PIT @ DET – 10/11/1909

  24. Worst inning & game I’ve ever watched as a Yankee fan, and that’s saying something. To me this was worse than 2004. They were in every game 4-6 and didn’t throw any of them away. This was just … beyond belief. To have a 5-0 lead with a HOF pitcher pitching his best game of the year and still lose through complete and utter incompetence … it was choking of the highest caliber. As long as Boone is the manager I am done with this team. They will never win with someone who allows the kind of brainless stuff that happens on this team.

    1. Well, Boone had nothing to do with Judge dropping a fly ball, Volpe pulling a boner, and Cole not covering first base in the fifth inning. Sometimes, it is 100% on the players.

    2. Yeah Boone is responsible for that being an elimination game, but that inning was just the players fucking up.

    3. Very true, but doesn’t that just take us back to Boone, whose teams have been singularly lacking in the basic fundamentals any professional team should have mastered coming into any season?
      The screw-ups here did belong, admittedly, to the few, the proud, who aren’t usually a part of that problem, but if there were a normal culture that included that kind of preparation, maybe they would still have been less likely.

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