Ryan Yarbrough (#33, 33, LHP, 3-1, 3.96) vs. Jack Kochanowicz (#41, 24, RHP, 3-8, 5.53)
ANGELS
SS Zach Neto R
1B N. Schanuel L
DH Mike Trout R
LF Taylor Ward R
C L. O’Hoppe R
RF Luis Rengifo S
CF Jo Adell R
2B S. Kingery R
3B Kevin Newman R
YANKEES
CF T. Grisham L
RF Aaron Judge R
LF C. Bellinger L
1B P. Goldschmidt R
3B J. Chisholm L
C Ben Rice L
SS A. Volpe R
DH J. Dominguez S
2B O. Peraza R
I wish I could even find some enthusiasm for Rice starting at catcher, but how can I give any shits about this team when they clearly don’t give any shits about themselves?
Stanton clearly needs to pace himself
It’s nucking futs that the only guy who got any hits the first two games is sitting tonight.
Come on I dislike Boone as much as anyone but Stanton missed 4 months and he’s the most injury prone Yankee since Nick Johnson.
When I’m on the highway and see an accident I slow down to look at it. I don’t want to. I know I shouldn’t. But I can’t help myself. That’s the same reason I’m watching tonight.
Prediction this game we lose 8-6, Yarbrough 2 pitches 2 hard hit balls including a home run.
The one good thing Yarbrough had going for him was the ability to keep the ball on the ground, so that’s not ideal.
Welp, this game is already lost.
Come on, Baltimore and Arizona!
Judge has seriously lost 24 points of batting average in just five games.
And Toronto is already up 1-0.
STOP FUCKING EXPANDING THE ZONE, DUDE!
But Boone is so good at keeping the team focused and relaxed. Boone teams don’t panic.
And he KEEPS FUCKING DOING IT. Dude, if you keep expanding the zone, guess what? They will keep expanding the zone on you! How is he so fucking caught up in his own head?!
Bellinger at least just normally sucks. He’s not a fucking headcase.
Grisham April/March OPS 1009 May 775 June 543
Rice 958/739/421
That’s why our numbers are misleading.
Ooph, the CATCHER stole on you, Rice!
I apologize, Rice!
30 straight scoreless innings is just kind of absurd when you say it out loud.
Rice has already thrown out more runners than JC. How’s Narváez doing?
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Yarbrough probably feels like he’s back to being the mop up guy now that this game is out of reach.
Oh my fucking god, FINALLY. You fucking losers.
Off the Schneid.
Hopefully it gets their heads out of their collective ass.
I’ll believe it when I see a hit with RISP.
That was the correct call, Volpe. Better if you had stolen the bag, but better than nothing!
Volpe lost his ability to steal bases. The radio guy is right – he’s a bust.
phenom now on one of his 0-14 disappearing acts and has an absolutely horrendous 57% stolen base rate. The league is on to him. He needs to change his technique.
Jazz is 83%
One run, 1 hit, 1 BB thru 3 against the pitcher with a 5.5 era and the worst K/BB ratio in baseball
Don’t bury the lede Cody.
First lead since the 8th inning against KC on THURSDAY!!!
Yarbrough didn’t like that, so he gave the run right back.
seeing rice at catcher and jasson in left makes me so annoyed that they wouldn’t try this LAST YEAR
Dominguez is DHing tonight.
sure, but in general
I don’t hate this move, but I’d have probably given Yarbrough one more inning.
I hate this move more when he’s walking dudes.
You can’t bring Leiter in here now.
He got out of the inning, but that’s beside the point. He should have never been brought in with two outs. Either you believe in Yerry or you don’t.
Being 2-hit through 5 by a guy with 5.4 ERA. Nice.
Boone will figure it out by late July not to bat Grisham leadoff.
It’s so weird. i like Grisham, but I’ve never liked him leadoff.
Other than PGold he’s as bad as anyone else. This is a team of low batting average. I suppose if the DJ we saw before the last 5 games was real he might be the choice.
Judge is just such garbage right now. He’s like an automatic strikeout.
Judge, smh.
How nice.
Cashman trusts Yanks to ‘grind through’ current skid
https://www.mlb.com/news/brian-cashman-talks-state-of-yankees-during-losing-streak
heaney is the trivia answer. i still also have a passionate sense of annoyance for that name.
i wonder who will seal the loss tonight.
I mean, come on, that’s just awful luck.
Battle of the pens, ad Halos.
Not the biggest problem but Peraza has 108 ABs and he’s hitting 157. DJ needs a lot of time off. I don’t think they can afford to carry Peraza.
Yankees have 3 hits and one was because the runner got hit by a ground ball. Better than yesterday? Sure. But still an embarrassment.
Who wants it more Todd?
Looks like the Rays are going to be sold.
https://www.mlb.com/news/rays-enter-negotiations-for-possible-sale
It’s 71º F right now where I am.
Real feel is also 71º F.
Should hit 86º F Thursday.
It’s the last quarter moon.
phenom now 0/16 and is a negative bases stealer. Just when you think he might be a thing, he isn’t.
Sunrise Thursday is 5:23.
Chance of thunderstorms Thursday afternoon in the Sound Shore area.
Halos pitchers today era
Starter 5.38
Burke 4.45
Neris 7.82
Number of Yankee hits one (on a ground ball that hit Trent) so really zero. Number of walk zero.
In a battle of the pens, big advantage Halos.
It’s a team of headcases. Who the fuck walks the first two guys in the eighth inning as a reliever?!
Lose the pitch coms.
Also, the fucking Orioles are about to blow an 8-0 lead.
How, Cruz?! HOW?!
Rays officially tie the Orioles. Jesus fucking Christ.
And Hill opens with two straight balls against the guy who hit a home run early. Awesome.
Add to the 0-16, Volpe throws in the game-losing error. This fucking team.
Hill does EXACTLY what they wanted, and Volpe fucks it all up. It’s got to be so fucking frustrating.
Volpe is zero tool player.
Volpe doing it all.
Volpe is a bust. Not the first time we’ve seen him boot an easy one in a close game. He had options, right? Maybe it’s time to send him down to chest his head. He’s not a good hitter; he forgot how to run and too often forgets how to field. A triple threat.
Have they firmly refuted the idea that the moon is made of green cheese? Roquefort wants to know.
What does Volpe have to do to get benched? Murder someone on the subway on the way to the stadium?
Who you gonna play Peraza hitting 157. There’s no middle infield depth. Cash doesn’t believe in depth.
I mean, that had to be the most pathetic inning. Cruz first WALKS THE FUCKING BASES LOADED LIKE AN ASSHOLE, and then Hill comes in, and gets an extremely simple double play, and Volpe just fucks it all up.
POS phenom, 0-16, a negative on the base paths and a huge error. Nine errors on the season, third worst among SSs. Seems like a lot of errors the last few weeks,
Yeah, the defense has been great overall this season, but in the last week or so, they’ve been playing like shit everywhere.
They better pinch-hit Wells for Peraza.
Even Boone knows that
I would put LeMahieu in for Escarra, so as to not lose Wells for the rest of the game.
Cruz has always been a high walk guy. Today it hurt.
There’s high walks, and there’s WALKING THE BASES LOADED.
First two on for the top of the order. How will they fuck this up?
Can Trent bunt?
Bunting here seems like an odd call.
Oh my god, you fucking loser. You fucking loser loser loser.
That inning was looking good until they started swinging the bat.
That probably would’ve scored Jasson.
Yep. That’s this team. Sequencing hell.
At least he didn’t strike out, I guess.
Or worse.
Sigh.
Holy shit, that was embarrassing. That was so, so fucking embarrassing.
Brutal is as brutal does.
That was their only shot. Oh well.
Division lead about to be 1.5, 2, and 4.5 games over Rays, Jays, and Red Sox.
This makes it four games in a row without a RBI hit with RISP.
And the 6th time in 7.
Halos pitchers today era
Starter 5.38
Burke 4.45
Neris 7.82
Zeferjahn 4.61
Brogdon 6.32
Number of Yankee hits off the pen one (on a ground ball that hit Trent) so really zero.
That’s almost a statistical impossibility
When will the Yankees again face a worse pen?
Two men on
nobody out
no runs scored.
A Yankees haiku.
Can the Angels make three more errors in the inning?
Goldy should NOT be stealing second.
Oh good, after losing the game on the error, Volpe gets to make the last out.
Volpe is just LOST at the plate right now.
All hopes and dreams rest on the mighty shoulders of Anthony Volpe.
Mighty Volpe has struck out.
Just a complete team of pieces of shit right now.
The crazy thing is that the pitching has been fine, so it’s just a matter of the offense being insanely bad.
The defense also. Three could’ve/should’ve been made plays Monday. And this.
The Volpe error saved the bullpen a bit for tomorrow. It’s not like they were going to score again tonight. It would have been just another extra inning loss.
phenom 0/17, a huge error, and a strike out to end the game. How fitting. Remember when games use to have goats. Not GOAT but goat.
Rays complete the comeback. Nine unanswered runs.
Nine runs is a month for the Yankees.
16 runs allowed in 7 games and a 1-6 record. That’s hard to do.
Yeah, it’s crazy. The pitching has been actively GOOD, the league-leading offense has just completely lost all ability to hit. It’s insanity.
TWELVE unanswered runs by the Rays.
Boone has this calming effect on the team. No one ever panics. Thats his greatness.
This is like 2023 where the Yankees had 9 game losing streak were like 10 over 500 but wound up 82-80.
every season is groundhogs day now. start strong, tailspin. sos
Boone “We moved the needle on laying off pitches out of the strike zone; lately Volpe’s ABs have been ok, his bp has been good, he’s good at self correcting.
I was down on Volpe in May of his rookie year when he was batting in the .180’s and Cashman needed to send him down to AAA. Now, they have a real mess.
The Yankees broke RLYW for a while.
Yankees 7-game spans with 7 runs or fewer and 6+ losses:
June 12-18, 2025
Sept 1-7, 1908
If Cash had traded phenom last May he would’ve been a genius. Not that I would’ve either, he fooled me.
Division lead down to 1.5-2-4.5 over TB-Jays-townies
In all seriousness, that they could lose SIX FUCKING GAMES IN A ROW and still hold a 1.5 game lead over second place is legit kind of impressive.