From Bryan Hoch:
The Yankees were two outs from defeat Friday night, and Aaron Judge needed a new bat. Rifling through the weathered rack in the damp Fenway Park visitors’ dugout, the Yankees’ captain pulled 35 inches of fresh lumber and hoped to reverse fortunes against Garrett Crochet, the left-handed ace who’d owned his number to that point.
Judge had struck out in his first three at-bats against Crochet, but this time he connected, launching a full-count offering over the Green Monster for a one-out game-tying blast. The showdown was truly cinematic, loaded with drama – and yet it went to waste in a 2-1, 10-inning loss to the Red Sox.
As I noted in the game thread, once the Blue Jays lost their game, I really wasn’t all that concerned about this loss. The Judge home run more than made up for the loss, and that the Red Sox had their best starter going and STILL needed ten innings was something for me. The Yankees just don’t win on the road in extras. It’s long been their thing. It likely won’t change any time soon.
The featured image is Volpe moronically getting thrown out at third base as the “Manfred man” in the top of the 10th. Him moving to third obviously WOULD have increased the chances of the Yankees scoring a run, but come on, it wouldn’t have made THAT much of a difference, especially since the Yankees were on the road. At home, maaaaaaybe you can argue for what he did, but not on the road. It was moronic, and it still took a TERRIBLE slide by Volpe for him to be thrown out.
DJ LeMahieu then followed with what SHOULD have been a double, but the umps fucked up the call, and kept the call a foul ball. LeMahieu would have been stranded at second, but it’s still a shame that he got fucked over it. LeMahieu was so outraged that he even got ejected, and that’s not a dude who normally ever gets ejected.
Oh well, at least the Yankee pitching was good. And Judge depriving Crochet of the shutout AND the win? That was magical.
Tied for the ML lead in home runs once again.
Almost as it should be!
How do you blow that call?
It’s BAFFLING. Boone made the argument that they were essentially embarrassed by how badly they fucked it up initially, and that were just trying to cover up their initial screwup.
His first 2 years phenom was successful stealing at about an 80% rate. This year he’s at 58% which would make stealing seldom the right move. Are they on to his little hop?
I get the feeling that neither Volpe nor Jazz have an understanding of when stealing is just not smart. I said at the time even if he were safe, it was a dumb play. This season phenom has 7 SBs, and 5 CSs. That’s terrible,is he telegraphing his timing?
Meanwhile the townies are playing better, Bregman will be back soon and their prospects are here. They won 2/3 against us and the Rays.
Yeah, even if he’s safe, they still need to drive him in AND hold Boston to less than one run. In a tie game in the BOTTOM of the 10th inning, you can at least make an ARGUMENT for it, but not there. It was just foolish, and Boone was defending it after the game, which was annoying. Just cop to the fuck-up, dude!
He might well have been out, but it wasn’t conclusive, which makes the umpire’s decision just plain wrong.
Having said that – yes, absolutely agree, just a dumb thing to try. (Unless they’re ignoring you and you have a HUGE jump, I guess.)
His first 2 years phenom was successful stealing at about an 80% rate. This year he’s at 58% which would make stealing seldom the right move. Are they on to his little hop?
It sure looked to me Volpe was safe. Did anyone see anything in the replay that was clear and obvious to lend credence to why they overturned the call
The announcers said his fingers were up and the palm hadn’t hit the bag yet. I think that may be true, but you can’t SEE it, and that’s the very definition of “inconclusive.”
It was a very weird decision by Volpe either way, though, right? Why slide like that?!
Stanton in the Somerset lineup tonight.
By the way – “Judgie moment”?
Yuck.