Carlos Rodón (#55, 32, LHP, 11-7, 3.34) vs. Jack Leiter (#35, 25, RHP, 7-6, 4.10)
YANKEES
TBA
RANGERS
TBA
We all know they’re losing this one, so might as well skip ahead to the shitty series against the Astros this weekend, where the Astros have reconfigured their rotation to make sure their two best pitchers both pitch against the Yankees.
Surely they are not on the verge of a 9 game losing streak…….
Can’t wait to see who fucks this one up. Rodon? The bullpen? The offense? Boone? The possibilities are endless!
We got a hit, already ahead of expectations. I really thought Stanton would start at DH today.
That’s 17 straight scoreless innings for this pathetic offense. Maybe BAs of 247,228, 243,257, 220, 223, 209 surrounding Judge and Cody are not optimal Cashman.
Rodon already at 35 pitches….looks like the bull pen will probably be the culprit today
Wells is the popup king
Higgy 267/739, Trevi 259/713, Narvaez 248/729, Agustin 239/744, Escarra 205/636, Wells 209/680
Cashman sure is unlucky
McMahon single, Wells and Trent first pitch swinging outs. Wells is doing a lot of that and it’s not working.
I would definitely have started Stanton today and Judge tomorrow. Eighteen scoreless and counting.
Haggerty just wanted to hit it to the right, Rodon put it where Haggerty wanted, ground ball single. Just seems like every Yankee is looking to put it in the seats all the time. Except for Bellinger you never see that from the Yankees. Boone AND Rowson need to go.
So true, never a 2 strike approach (except Bellinger…and Rizzo before)
Always great to depend on a 100.1 MPH batted ball being hit directly at your best defender.
Sure would be a good time to see some of McMahon’s alleged power.
I was thinking the same thing.
You can’t defend speed.
Walking McMahon was the right play there, with automatic out Wells here for the GIDP.
Wells is definitely overmatched at the plate right now
Is 100% too high of a percentage for the odds of Rodon walking the leadoff batter in the bottom of the fourth?
Pinch hit Goldy!
Bochy understands how big this situation is. Boone does not. Bochy would’ve used Goldy there.
Wells at least battled. Grisham not so much.
Fuck you Aaron Goldy destroys lefties.
Duran is having a terrrrrrible season, but he always shows up against the Yankees.
That was such an insanely bad walk to Haggerty.
I just can’t get over HOW bad Rodon is.
Can you even IMAGINE having the hitter 0-2 and then walking him?! With a man on and one out?
These pitchers try to nibble too much. That’s why the pitch counts are so damn high all the time. Sometimes they just need to let the hitters get themselves out!
This choking piece of shit.
I watched the Thurman Munson funeral day game the other day. It is AMAZING how different the game is played today. It was better back then.
The Yankees’ whole inning lasted as long as most Rodón at-bats.
This motherfucking asshole. How do you get to be THIS much of a piece of shit when you’re this fucking talented? Walking the leadoff batter in the sixth inning of a tie game after being at 2-2?!
And this Rangers team isn’t even fucking GOOD. The Yankees have all of these good players, and they’re all just being choking pieces of shit. All going into simultaneous slumps. It’s fucking insane.
Don’t worry, McMahon, Volpe and Grisham are up next…….
McMahon they’ll pinch hit for. So weird.
Maybe Goldy should have pinch hit earlier against the lefty.
To quote POTUS 1500%
When there were two guys on base.
And the Yankees have a day off, so having Rice catch today isn’t even that big of a deal.
BAM!!!!
Use Goldy with no one on instead of first and third against a LOOGY, Wells the worst hitter in baseball up.
What’s that, Goldy’s first dinger since June?
He hit a home run in the first game of this series.
Looks like Hill and Bednar.
Maybe trying to steal an out with Leiter, then use Hill and Bednar for four outs each?
It won’t mean much this inning, but it’s still good to see a hard hit single by Judge.
Even when he’s slumping, Belli has good at-bats.
Belli WORKED that walk. He wasn’t walked, he GOT that walk.
Belli needs to be a priority this offseason
See some pitches, Jazz, please.
Can’t knock Jazz for that.
The precentages were 2% Jazz hits a home run, 1% he walks, 1% he gets a non home run hit, 96% he makes out.
Note how the Rangers don’t all swing for the fence.
Exactly my point.
Duran sucks against everyone, then he’s peak Barry Larkin against the Yankees.
This sure seems to be headed towards being one of THOSE games.
There’s no chance Jazz could just a slap a ball to an open spot for a hit. It was home run or bust.
Do NOT like this move. Yerry is fine, but he’s not a fucking fireman.
Brutal walk by Yerry. Walked the go ahead run to second.
Glad he got out of it. I LIKE Yerry, I really do, but Boone treated him like he was peak Betances there.
What I don’t get is, are you even GAINING much from Caballero over Rosario on defense, while losing Rosario’s bat. Seems like a suspect move.
Wouldn’t want to give the Martian a chance to steal you overrated POS.
We’ve been saying it ALL SEASON, and it just CONTINUES to be a problem. They NEVER give the runners a chance to steal.
Every Yankee pitcher has to throw as many balls as possible.
And too many Yankee hitters swing on the first pitch.
Lucky Yerry.
Wow, Boone not fucking around. Going for the five-out save from Bednar.
How has Bednar done in save situations for the Yankees so far? Oh?
This is the most depressing Yankees team I can remember.
Also, I’m beginning to suspect Judge may not hit .400 this season.
I would have CONSIDERED Headrick. If he gets Joc, then you’ve got two outs and Higgy up. Then you could give Bednar a clean ninth.
Please, Bednar, be the lone good relief pitcher. Please.
What the fuck, Bednar?!!? You fucking HAD the guy, and then you just walk him!?
Pederson looked overmatched, and Bednar then just lost the strike zone.
Unbelievakable.
So this is just the Yankees now? Every reliever sucks?
Bednar against Higgy looked like Bednar against Pederson. He was simply overpowering him…until he then just threw three straight obvious balls out of the strike zone. Insanity.
How the fuck do you look THAT good against Higgy and Smith, and that good against Pederson for the first three pitches, to then just walk Pederson so easily? Pitchers are fucking HEADCASES, man!
Luckily, he DID just make Higgy and Smith his bitches. 16 pitches, though, for two outs. So hopefully he’s still fresh for the ninth, which includes that PITA Duran to leadoff.
Sure would be nice to get an insurance run (or twelve).
Anything but a double play, Rice! Just get Judge an at-bat this inning!
And so he grounds into a double play on the first fucking pitch. This fucking team, man.
So now they’ll just walk Judge in the top of the 10th when Bednar blows it here. Awesome. Just awesome.
Devin in the 12th for the L
Why the fuck did Bochy pinch hit for Duran?! Dude was 3-3!
Do NOT understand that move.
That 0-1 curve to Haggerty was insanely good.
Ump fucked Bednar on that first pitch.
I guess you just walk Seager at this point. I don’t like it, but I like it better than grooving him a pitch.
Wow, the ump really fucked Bednar there.
TWICE!
Seriously ump squeezing some?
Brutal timing, too.
And then he gave him the strike on Semien. Insanity.
Is he tiring? Five outs is a lot to ask.
This is so fucking painful. Like death by a thousand cuts.
This ump is just flipping coins on every pitch.
Goddamn, Bednar is fucking good.
Nice win, how did Boone fail to get DWill in the game?
Shhhh.
Also – nice win? I suppose every win is nice, but this was a one-run game that could have gone either way in the middle of a string of awful, awful games. Less like a win than “at least one they didn’t somehow lose”.
Okay, so let’s get this straight. Boone trusts Bednar enough to ask him for five outs in a one-run game, and yet he also didn’t have him closing over Williams?
Make that make sense!
I’m not even necessarily a FAN of the guy, but Ryan Ruocco is clearly the best backup play-by-play guy in baseball. He’s a national broadcast-level guy.
He needs to tone it down a little. He sounds like he’s doing the last two minutes of a basketball game. But he’s OK.
It’s nice to win but Rodon 5ip 6h and 4bb, Boone being Boone in the 4th, scored only 3, 1-5 RISP.
The playoff dream lives another two days.
How could they be THAT GOOD for the entire first 1/3 of a season – and then THAT BAD?
Forty-two pitches for 5-outs is insane.
He got screwed on a couple of calls but yeah.
The Blue Jays scored 20 runs.
Red Sox give an 8-year extension to rookie Roman Anthony, $130 million.
https://www.mlb.com/news/roman-anthony-red-sox-contract-extension
Cash might decide to follow Boston and do the same with Volpe and Wells.
It has enough escalators that it’ll only be $130 million if he sucks. So that’s good, at least, that it goes up to as much as $230 million if he’s really good.
New York Yankee Stats David Bednar is the first Yankee pitcher to record 5+ outs all via a strikeout in a save since Goose Gossage on 5/14/1982 at Oakland
He doesn’t trust the fielding behind him. Which makes sense in the 9th inning of a close game. Especially the SS.
Did anyone notice – the NL only has 6 teams on pace to win 86 games or more. Unless the Reds get really hot, there is no playoff race there at all
In the AL there are 8 teams in it, and while the yanks avoided for another day or two falling into 7th, they are only 1.5 games ahead of both Texas and Cleveland. They can easily miss the playoffs this year which would be amazingly bad. And hopefully cause for some firings.
Don’t hold your breath. They’ll double down with extensions to show they were never wrong and the faith they have in the system and the people.