August 3, 2025

95 thoughts on “Yankees (60-50) @ Marlins (53-55), Saturday, August 2, 2025, 4:10PM EDT”

    1. The real shocking thing for me is that they just stuck with the plan to use all three. If the first two suck, maybe the third guy should get a day, ya know?

      The idea that Weaver needed TWO days off to recover was weird.

    2. SG dubbed Heredia The Run Fairy. Witasick as a Yankee 96 era +. Gabe White 67. Heredia 72.

  10. It’s hilarious that I just found myself thinking, “Why the fuck didn’t the Astros improve the backend of their rotation so that they could have someone better pitching against the Red Sox?”

    I soon realized why that was such a dumb idea. 😀

  11. We all saw THAT coming, right?

    I swear I was just saying, “Just fucking walk him.”

    Schlittler has GOT to improve on his reactions to game situations. This is the second time I think we all saw a home run coming from a mile away. I think the last one was to Aranda in the Tampa Bay series (EDITED TO CORRECT: No, it was Caminero). Just give up the TWO-OUT walk with NO ONE on base!

    You absolutely do NOT have to groove a strike, you dummy!

    2. Yeah, that’s fair. Whoever made the call really fucked up. Just give up the TWO-OUT walk with NO ONE ON BASE, dude!

      The Caminero one was a bit trickier, since there was a runner on base, but generally the same thing. When you fall behind, it does NOT have to mean “Groove a pitch.” You can just go after the next guy.

  13. Speedy Jazz on first base, catcher can’t throw people out, pitcher who can’t throw strikes, good time for Rice to swing on first pitch, right?

    Seeing as how he was the catcher on the Schlittler 3-1 pitch to Ramirez, I guess we have to wonder about RICE’S understanding of game situations.

  17. Wells doesn’t know how many outs. Volpe steals third in a situation that was dumb. Grisham gets thrown out by the length of the stretch. And that.
    A fish rots at the head first.

  20. Jazz’s blunder might actually be worse than the Wells fuckup, because dudes forget how many outs there are enough times that we’ve all seen it happen a few times. It’s not good, but it HAPPENS.

    Guys DON’T just decide to hang out away from the base on a popup.

  22. Rice hasn’t much experience as a catcher at this level, so this is on the pitching coach and the bench. The guy is a rookie pitcher, tell him not to be grooving pitches and get the next hitter if he does walk the batter.

    1. That’s why getting thrown out by the length of the stretch in the first was so stupid. Forget that, you should never be thrown out by that much unless you trip.

  25. Walker Buehler was down 2-0 right away, and has since proceeded to shut the Astros down. What the fuck, Houston?! First Cooper Criswell and now Walker Buehler?! You better still fucking suck against the Yankees pitchers next week!

  28. And Houston has an off day before they come to New York, so they can actually skip this shitty starter in their series against the Yankees! At least Hunter Brown looks like he will miss the Yankees series.

    1. Ramirez is clearly not going to stick at catcher, though. The Yankees, though, are doing their best to make Ramirez’s recent slump go away.

    2. Neither was Wells. I’m just being flip but it’s depressing to see Wells get to sucking so soon in his career. However Escarra is even worse at throwing runners out than the Marlins catchers and Cash kept him over Narvaez.

    3. I think Cashman clearly felt Narvaez was better than Escarra, so it wasn’t a case of keeping him OVER Narvaez, but rather than Narvaez was too good to be a backup who wasn’t going to play that much, so instead, he traded him for a nice pitching prospect.

      It was the same reason he dealt Trevino. Trevino was a wasted asset sitting on the bench.

      Cashman clearly DID think Escarra was good enough to be a backup, though. Even there, though, they picked up Alex Jackson just to be safe.

    1. That was why many people talked about him as a bad apple on a team, this was before Cashman traded for him.

    2. That’s why we should never dismiss such a loss as ‘these things happen’, because no one knows how crappy they will be the next game. Like today.

    3. Well, that IS “things happen,” right? That doesn’t mean they won’t suck in the next game, but it just means that it doesn’t affect what will happen in the next game either way. They’re not sucking in this game on offense because the relief pitching sucked in the last game, ya know?

  40. Yankees were 42-25 on June 12th. Since then there about to be 18-26 41%. Even for Boone this is a collapse. Before this game they were 92% to make the playoffs and Boston was 66%. That does not compute.

    1. And then he comes back and Ks Stowers.

      He’s clearly a very talented young pitcher. He just needs to work on the mental side of the game more (the second Ramirez home run was just a good piece of hitting. Not knocking him for that one).

    1. Why look at WHIP after 15 innings in a rookie’s season? There is plenty to complain about surrounding this team and organization.

  44. And, come on, Perez is obviously a REALLY good pitcher. This really isn’t even that depressing from the offense. I’ve been really impressed with Perez’s career. He struggled in his first two games back from the injury, but since then, he’s been outstanding.

    3. Good to very good pitchers dominate the Yankees, not just left handers. Maybe the Yankees are too one dimensional. Good Yankee team were 500 against Pedro. This team would be like1-25.

    1. I looked it up, and yeah, never would have guessed it. He WAS at one point a somewhat hyped Yankee prospect (but never, like, SUPER hyped).

  47. Wow, fascinating to see Boone get really heated at not just Jazz, but also the first base coach. You NEVER see Boone heated at one of his coaches. That really is just HOW bad that Jazz blunder was.

  48. Bad teams, or teams that tend to choke, can lose close high scoring and close low scoring games. Yankees are 16-19 in 1 run games, 3-6 in xtra inning games.

    1. Isn’t conventional wisdom the OPPOSITE there? That one-run losses tend not to mean much either way. It’s getting blown out (and blowing other teams out) that are signs of bad/good teams.

  53. Yesterday the Yankees hit well. Today the Yankees pitched well. It takes a special talent to score 12 one day and give up two the next while losing both.
    If we lose I’m rooting for a 2-1 loss. Good for the Pythag.

  54. This is a very special team. The best team in the American League winning at a 40% clip over the last 6 weeks. Wasting an offensive outburst and a good pitching job on back to back days. A team that does not know how to win.

  58. Holy shit, Jazz!

    From Hoch, “Jazz Chisholm Jr. said he thought Marlins 2B Xavier Edwards was going to let the ball drop on purpose. Chisholm said he would not do anything different on a similar play in the future.”

    2. But, I mean, the fact that Volpe tried it suggests that it IS something that they sometimes allow, no?

      That said, yes, just call the infield fly rule and avoid the issue entirely.

  62. Boone “We gotta put it together. I still feel like we have a chance of being an excellent team. We have the people to do that.” If we have the people maybe we don’t have the manager. As for the bad baserunning Boone sort of said everybody does that.

  63. Hoch added, “Marlins 2B Xavier Edwards acknowledged he was thinking about doing what Jazz Chisholm Jr. suggested, so he used that to his advantage. ‘I think Jazz could tell I was thinking about dropping it, because he’s probably thinking the same way I am. He’s a lot faster than Goldschmidt.'”

    1. Here’s OBR: Rule 5.09(a)(12): A batter is out when an infielder intentionally drops a fair fly ball or line drive, with first, first and second, first and third, or first, second and third base occupied before two are out. The ball is dead and runner or runners shall return to their original base or bases.

  65. 1% excuse out the window. If a batter hits a pop fly with a runner on first base and less than two outs, and an infielder INTENTIONALLY DROPS THE BALL, the batter is out, the ball is dead, and the runner must return to first base. This is governed by the “intentional drop rule,” which prevents fielders from creating easy double plays by intentionally dropping the ball.

    Here’s OBR: Rule 5.09(a)(12): A batter is out when an infielder intentionally drops a fair fly ball or line drive, with first, first and second, first and third, or first, second and third base occupied before two are out. The ball is dead and runner or runners shall return to their original base or bases.

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