From Bryan Hoch:
The situation begged for a right-handed pinch-hitter to face a lefty in the seventh inning on Wednesday. With Paul Goldschmidt on the lineup card, the Yankees had one of the Majors’ best choices for that situation.
Yet there was no movement in the dugout, prompting head-scratching when the left-handed Austin Wells took the at-bat against Kody Funderburk instead. There was a good reason: Goldschmidt was unavailable due to a low-grade right knee sprain, the Yanks revealed after their 4-1 loss to the Twins at Yankee Stadium.
“I don’t think it’s anything long-term, so I think that’s good,” Goldschmidt said. “That’s the really positive thing — if it is a short-term thing, I feel really good about that.”
Yankees manager Aaron Boone said Goldschmidt will be evaluated after Thursday’s off-day and did not rule out a stint on the injured list. The 37-year-old said he remains hopeful to appear in a three-game series that begins on Friday in St. Louis, where Goldschmidt starred from 2019-24.
For once, I feel bad for Boone. If Goldy can only miss a game or two, you really shouldn’t put him on the injured list, and since you have to give it at least a game before making that decision, he just didn’t have the weapon available to him.
He should have still pinch-hit Caballero, but whatever, the situation was shitty, fair enough.
I can’t get too mad about them being shut down by Joe Ryan and then the Twins’ nice closer, Topa, for SIX OUTS (the Twins were playing this shit like it was Game 7 of the World Series).
Yerry sucked, and so it means he should probably go back to NOT getting high leverage spots in the future. I don’t mind giving him the shot, but he sucked, so back to low leverage for him!
Luckily, the Guardians, Red Sox, Blue Jays, Mariners, and Rangers all lost, as well. Would it have been great to MAKE up ground on those guys? Of course, but Joe Ryan IS legitimately VERY good. So it’s hard to be too bummed about losing to him.
Featured image is Yerry blowing it, allowing an RBI double following two infield singles (the Keystone Cops Yankees saw Grisham misplay the ball, allowing Clemens to reach third with no outs. He would later score).
This is the same team that ran Teixeira out there for some three weeks with a cracked bone in his leg.
Why are the Yankee bats so damn inconsistent?
They seem consistently bad.
I was just thinking why is Caballero here if not to pinch hit for Wells against a LHP
Negative run differential since 6/19. Boston +75, Toronto +49, Seattle +35, NYY -7
https://bsky.app/profile/codifybaseball.bsky.social/post/3lwew7qgck22c
That’s eight weeks worth of misery, of consistently bad hitting.