Carlos Rodón (#55, 32, LHP, 15-7, 3.18) vs. Cristian Javier (#53, 28, RHP, 1-1, 3.38)
YANKEES
CF T. Grisham L
1B Ben Rice L
DH Aaron Judge R
RF C. Bellinger L
LF G. Stanton R
2B J. Chisholm L
C Austin Wells L
SS A. Volpe R
3B Ryan McMahon L
ASTROS
SS Jeremy Pena R
LF Y. Alvarez L
DH Jose Altuve R
3B C. Correa R
1B C. Walker R
C Yainer Diaz R
RF Cam Smith R
2B Ramon Urias R
CF M. Dubon R
Javier no-hit the Yankees, and Rodon is Rodon, so I think we know what’s going to happen in THIS one.
Not an ideal start to the game.
How is Judge 0-13 against this guy!?
I can’t even really credit Judge for taking that walk, as the pitches were all waaaaaaaaaaay out of the zone.
Belli has been expanding the zone recently. I don’t like it.
I’ll give Rodon this much. He’s a headcase through and through, so it’s not even that I think he “chokes,” as I think he can suck and be good against any team at any moment.
Hopefully Volpe at least forces him to throw three strikes before the automatic out.
At least they won’t be no-hit in this one!
Sure did not expect those last two hits.
Swinging at ball four is no bueno, Grisham.
Went from a walk to a popup. Booo.
For fuck’s sake, Rice….
That’s where the benefit of being a permanent headcase comes in. Rodon is such a headcase that he doesn’t fall apart when things go wrong, because he’s not smart enough.
Rice in a bit of a slump.
0-14 coming.
It WAS an out, but that was a LOUD out.
You simply can’t require seven pitches to put away Mauricio fucking Dubon.
Oh, for crying out loud, you let a LEFTY take you deep? What the fuck?
A fucking hanging slider. Awful.
That one was DRILLED. If Judge’s was drilled as hard as Kay made out that wouldn’t have been run down.
See? He just falls apart out of nowhere. It could be a good team, it could be a bad team, it doesn’t matter.
What a DUMB idea by Altuve to try to steal there while Rodon was melting down.
It wasn’t a steal. Wells bobbled the pitch and had trouble finding it. Wells made a good throw.
Jazz hurt. Fuck. Hopefully it’s nothing major.
Guessing it was a bruise. He got hit by Altuve’s helmet,
Yeah, saw him limping during his at-bat. It’s tricky. Bruises can LINGER, ya know?
Better than a pull.
Surprisingly good play phenom and Rice.
Eight pitch walks are BRUTAL. He’s at 74 pitches already!
Is McMahon becoming a thing again?
Officially contusions on BOTH knees. He injured the OTHER knee on a DIFFERENT play.
NO. Not the bases loaded. Glad it’s not no out.
Just get it to the 6th and let the pen take over.
Bednar for three innings.
Knee contusions COULD be a big problem, right?
Bad 2023 Stanton
Stanton, ugh.
“Having success at not chasing. I guess I should chase with the bases loaded, right?”
Holy shit, are the umpires trying to make my head explode this series?
Caballero should be on first base right now and a run should be in. That’s an AWFUL call.
Another bad ump
That was ball four, Caballero. Why even offer?
Then Caballero had to swing at ball six because that’s where the OTHER ball was called a strike.
Okay, no harm no foul.
And he gets an RBI walk anyway. On a pitcher timer violation no less.
Only way the ump would call another ball on him there.
He’s been consistently wild, and yet the Yankees keep swinging at balls. Just baffling.
Rodon thinks there’s a bonus for throwing as many pitches as possible.
A lot of Yankees starters have that same notion.
Can Rodon get through the fifth inning before I get through a fifth watching him? 🥃 😏
4-1 lead, how could THIS possibly go wrong?
You CANNOT walk the #9 hitter, dude. Yes, the ump fucked you, but you gotta move past it.
Nice bounce back from being down 3-0 in the count.
How do they know it was a costly mistake? Caballero might’ve hit a bases clearing triple.
If it’s a big time moment, you know you can count on Volpe to make an error. Hopefully this challenge works.
Okay, HOW IN THE FUCK DID THE UMPIRE CALL HIM SAFE BEFORE THE REPLAY?!
Volpe, error. Or not. Yay, replay.
He plays ground balls so passively
He really does.
What the fuck did the Yankees do to this umpire crew? They REALLY have it out for the Yankees.
Pull him.
And so the repeat of last night begins.
Brian Walsh again.
Boy, this team sure does love to play sloppy baseball. Even the GOOD defenders.
Sloppy defense and here comes a mess.
And more sloppy defense.
This is the sloppiest baseball team to ever exist.
Does Cashman watch this, or is he climbing some buildings somewhere?
Can we give half an error to Caballero and Rice each?
To be fair, that was likely going to be 1st and 3rd with 1 out, and that run was probably going to score anyways. Correa was running hard. I don’t think they get him.
What a STUPID challenge by Espada.
A three error game so far, plenty of time for more.
Rice is not yet a good defensive 1B.
Whew.
Reviewable in the outfield but not the infield? Hey Manfred please sprain to me.
Yeah, very odd. Although, I dunno, what IS a catch?
While cashman was trading for Doval and Bird, Philly picked up David Robertson for nothing other than $2m or so. It’s really hard to win when some GMs are playing chess and yours is playing tiddlywinks
Meanwhile what was the score yesterday in the 6th… can anyone remind me?
Robertson got $6 million for a couple of months. That’s a lot of money.
Judge, dude, there was only one out. What are you doing trying to steal there?
What was that?
Which bullpen Muppet will blow it tonight?
What a bullpen we have.
I think we know how this game ends.
Weaver has turned into a piece of shit. Two runs so far and five hits in the last 1.2.
Another blown strike call
A Muppet-filled bullpen.
I mean, what else can you do? You can’t NOT use Weaver. It’s just on him to stop sucking so much.
We get these short bursts of him simply being unusable. It’s so frustrating.
I assume the plan is for, what, Cruz until he lets someone on base, and then Bednar, even if it is for five outs?
I’m betting the Yankees won’t put up a 3 spot like they did last night down 4.
At least Volpe didn’t hit into a DP.
Three pitch phenom
Volpe is just too, too awful.
0-1
0-2
0-3
voLOLpe
Yankees don’t like to score close and late. Adding on is not sportsmanship.
An 0-2 hit with RISP.
TPTG! Yankees put up a four spot.
I was saving the reverse jinx.
Cone is so good and he’s better here than on ESPN because here he’s allowed to free style.
Grisham has really been the non-judge MVP of this team. Amazing.
Is it safe?
Someone posted that the Yankees could have 8 guys with 20+ home runs–actually could be 9 if you count McMahon, though obviously most of those were hit elsewhere
Bringing in a closer with a 5-run lead is usually not the right move. We’ll see.
EDIT: A rousing beginning.
I hated it BEFORE Bednar started shitting the bed.
It’s a well known ‘rule’ that naturally Boone would flaunt.
He hasn’t pitched since the 30th
This guy SUCKS
https://bsky.app/profile/jamessmyth621.bsky.social/post/3ly2mnizuh22x
What is happening in the game now?
Some kind of rules challenge by the Yankees, they lost the challenge. Next guy lined out to SS.
thanks!
Odds are that the Yankees know Trammell uses an illegal bat.
This is going to be an ugly loss.
This is BEYOND insanity.
Closers with 5-run leads (4 runs or more) do this quite often. Inexcusable, but here you have it.
Bednar should have to walk to Toronto.
You can always trust Boone to make the wrong move. Bringing in your closer with a 5-run lead is one of those moves.
HOW CAN’T YOU THROW STRIKES?!?!
Bednar, what are you DOING?!!?
In unrelated news I just bought a woodchipper. Apropos of nothing at all
A wooden Boone doll to break it in with sounds good.
doll?
Buncha savages in this town
🤫
Bednar Escapes, soon to be a major motion picture.
But unavailable tomorrow after all those pitches he threw tonight.
Bednar is so good, and yet he drove me INSANE this inning.
He should never have started the inning.
Hill or Leiter really should have started, and then they could bring Bednar in three batters in if the game wasn’t over.
That game was on drugs. What was going on with Trammell’s bat? That was like the Wonder Boy if it had been salvaged from some bordello in the 1930s. I think my grandpa got drilled with Taylor Trammell’s weird bat by a corrupt cop during a wage strike
CBS
Testing on Chisholm’s knees came back clean, and he hopes to be in Friday’s lineup against the Blue Jays, Brendan Kuty of The Athletic reports.
Chisholm injured both of his knees while fielding Thursday and exited the game in the fourth inning. It’s unclear exactly what testing was done, and the team has not released any additional details since Chisholm was originally diagnosed with contusions.
After the game, Jazz said they just wanted to make sure no ligaments were affected. I know he says he’s playing on Friday, but I find that hard to believe. Seems like the perfect sort of injury to at least give a DAY off.
Yankees won? I gotta admit I was watching the game and after he walked Altuve my blood pressure was so high my wife had me turn it off. Sheesh.
Yeah using the closer with a 5 run lead isn’t smart but neither is not using him for a week either. Just making wednesdays nights booner such a dumb move.
I am guessing no one may see this but of the three devices in my house, all browsers hard reset, 2 show yesterdays thread and one shows today’s thread.
even incognito, etc. it’s a very odd glitch.
too bad i can’t use the one working one.
What if I give you a direct link?
https://rlyw.net/yankees-com-yanks-hold-serve-in-tense-houston-set-with-toronto-showdown-on-deck/
works but refresh shows the old game thread at the top still.
ios, chrome.
the other day i was really confused about why there was no game thread. mystery solved, sort of.