Carlos Rodón (#55, 32, LHP, 16-7, 3.12) vs. Jack Flaherty (#9, 29, RHP, 7-13, 4.85)
YANKEES
CF T. Grisham L
DH Aaron Judge R
LF C. Bellinger L
1B Ben Rice L
RF G. Stanton R
2B J. Chisholm L
C Austin Wells L
SS J. Caballero R
3B Ryan McMahon L
TIGERS
DH Jahmai Jones R
2B G. Torres R
RF W. Perez S
1B S. Torkelson R
LF Riley Greene L
3B Andy Ibanez R
C D. Dingler R
CF P. Meadows L
SS Javier Baez R
Hey, at least Volpe isn’t starting.
I had hopes for Volpe.
He’s become less than he was; the hope was, of course, that he could adjust and become more than he was.
Maybe that’s still possible, but either way it’s a question for next year, not for this.
What’s the name of that body of water in the Mideast?
Boone “Volpe The last 6/8 weeks have been a struggle. The underlying stats are better than ever. I think it’s very possible into October we’ll see his best baseball. He’s a really talented impactful player when he’s playing well.”
The underlying stats. Volpe is:
43rd percentile in Hard Hit rate
39th percentile in exit velo
43rd percentile in whiff rate
26th percentile in K rate
37th percentile in walk rate
3rd pencentile in range
35th percentile in arm strength.
But hey, he’s barreling in the 60th percentile and his chase rate is, somehow, low!
That was ball four.
Umpires, let us not forget, suck at their job.
And then he does what all the Yankees do – he’s called out on an actual strike on the corner.
Because protecting the plate with two strikes is beneath their dignity. They’re too proud to do that. They have to show that they have such a stellar eye – even if the know the umpire doesn’t.
Just protect the f*ing plate and make them work until you get a pitch to hit, you jerks!
Maddening.
Are stats available for called third strikes taken in the course of the season per team?
And now Stanton does the same damned thing.
If you can’t hit the pitch on the edge, if you don’t want to hit it, then with two strikes you HAVE TO FOUL IT OFF.
The ump can call it a strike if it’s even close – but this, again, really was a strike.
You’re just giving away outs for no goddamn reason, you morons.
And note that, both for Judge and Stanton, it’s not as if the ball curved back into the strike zone. Both were 4-seam fastballs.
AND NOW CHISHOLM DOES THE *SAME F*ING THING!*
A straight 4-seam fastball on the corner taken for strike three.
Why not just tell every Yankee batter to just let himself get called called out? What a great hitting approach.
How dumb can they be?
Didn’t a team just come in and beat Schlittler with the incredibly conspicuous strategy of fouling balls off with two strikes? Wouldn’t you maybe learn at least SOMETHING by being beaten to a pulp with that particular stick?
Moment of silence for Charlie Kirk at the Stadium, fuck off
Did Brian Dayett who passed today and played 100 games with the Yankees get one?
Clueless Yankees hitters at work.
Look at that. It’s like Grisham isn’t an idiot. Two strikes, ball on the edge, and he fouls it off.
Take note, slackers!
And again! So beautiful, so simple.
And already an 9-pitch at bat.
And again.
And then he walks – on the tenth pitch.
Instead of 53 pitches in the 3rd, he’s at 63 pitches in the 3rd.
It’s like the other batters have never really looked into this thing called baseball, how it works.
Flaherty’s been terrible most of the year, especially recently, and then he came to NY.
Judge needs to make friends with a squirrel, it worked for Fried.
Over the last 30 days the Yankees are 17th in BA and 20th in hits.
They have no clue at the plate, none.
Boston has Giolito, Bello and Crochet in line to face us. It’ll take a miracle to avoid being swept.
It we can just keep the game close and then go to our pen.
A line drive single with men on. What a concept. Rodon had a bad inning, a walk, a HBP, then pissing away a 1-2 count.
Yankees with 14 hits the last 3 games.
4,5,3, 4 and tonight. Insanely terrible. They all came down with a case of Volpe.
Pitching against the Yankees is the baseball equivalent of going to Lourdes (which is my wife’s name).
Great response by the offense! Three up, three down, all K’s.
Pitiful
Nolan Flaherty.
Six starters hitting under 250, only 1 over 275, and Stanton will be under 250 in a few days. Stanton may need some days off.
A clueless manager, a clueless hitting coach, a pitching coach who has presided over the bullpen’s implosion. And a saboteur as GM.
The inmates are running the asylum and the warden doesn’t care.
Jazz 3-21 last 7 games, 142, including today, with 10 Ks.
It is who Jazz is.
Grisham hitting 178 last 14 days before today, 125 last 7. phenom we know. Caballero 1-22. Stanton3-35.
Judge may as well go home.
Leiter? What can possibly go wrong?
5+ ERA. Another cashman steal. With a negative WAR on the season.
How’s Bird doing in the minors?
Jake Bird 7+ era at Scranton.
So Boone is punting a 2 run game. Leiter last 28 days, 10 games, 9.82 era, OPS against 1126. Boone thinks it’s because he hasn’t pitched enough.
I’d say he’s pitching too much
The 2025 bullpen philosophy: Give up runs.
Nobody, I mean nobody, has a better eye for pitching talent than Cashman.
Kay with an interesting stat. When it comes to hitters or starters Yankee WAR rank 5th. Yankee bullpen WAR ranks 27th.
I think it just got worse.
This is one trash bullpen.
And again using Hill when the Game is lost..and tomorrow when we need him to get a lefty he’ll be unavailable. Booner.
Yerry is not better than somebody here? They have a reliever at Scranton Cohen with a 1.86 era and another Castro with a 1,69 era. I’m sure they both suck bit could they be worse.
Gleyber 3 RBIs. Jazz 3Ks. He’s trying to put everything into the right field seats and Rowson/Boone can’t or refuse to do a fucking thing, Rowson needs too go.
I said this about Jazz months ago, he’s Didi all over again. Nearly every swing is for the fences.
We got a good year and a half out of Weaver. He wasn’t good before he got here and now he’s turned back into a frog.
Good thing bednars here. Let DeviW and weaver go elsewhere.
Astros blew it again but then won anyway against Toronto.
What’s the difference, we stink.
Ninth inning, 10 run game, mercy rule. Why should someone get hurt.
Both NY teams gave up 11 runs today; Stinkees and Mutts.
The Mets really might miss the playoffs. That would be awesome.
Flash actually brought up the Yankee offense.
Boone “we’ve got to get over it. Look this is two days (the pen).” No they’ve sucked all year.
Q Since the All Star game bullpen has an era over 5. Boone yada, yada, double talk.
It is quite the possibility that Boone doesn’t know that.
Katie S Yankees Back to Back Losses by 10+ Runs:
Sept 9-10, 2025
Aug 27-28, 1988
Sept 26 & 28, 1908
This is the 1st time in franchise history that the Yankees bullpen allowed 9+ runs in back to back games
Hoch It was just this past weekend Fernando Cruz said: “I don’t think there’s a bullpen better than us.” The Tigers are punching holes in that idea. It’s 11-1 Detroit.
I don’t really count Weaver’s inning that much against him one way or the other. Pitchers in blowouts sometimes can get hit. Austin Slater, for instance, is obviously not a better pitcher than Weaver, ya know?
It’s Leiter, though, that just needs to be fucking cut at this point. Call Yerry up.
Doval they can try again once they work with him over the offseason (same with Bird). But Leiter, you gotta be ready to just cut bait on.
And yes, it was crazy CRAZY for Boone to use Leiter there. Doval might have sucked, too, but you gotta give him the chance there. It was also crazy of Leiter, though, to know what he needed to do, and just not even come CLOSE to doing it.
Was the real assassination, of the Yankees pretentions of being a good team
It’s true the pen has not blown every game.
“Track record, stuff, who they are. Obviously, we got to get a couple guys on track so we can create that depth that we can have down there. A bullpen ERA in short samples like that can be a little misleading, like when you have a handful of games where it really gets away and it gets blown up. I feel like through this stretch of games, where over the last month we started winning, we’ve closed out a lot of good games, too, with guys capable of shutting people down. This is what we have. I’ve had a lot of confidence in their ability and their stuff, but we got to bring it together. We haven’t done that consistently enough yet. Can we do it? That’s what we’re going to find out. That’s what we’re going to need to do if we’re going to make a big run at this.”
This is what Brian was talking about.
A pretty great start to this test made it easy to get sucked in again.
Don’t get sucked in.
Volpe has had a lingering shoulder issue
For three years?
Yanks Go Yard “But what might have made 2025 all the more worse was the fact he suffered a left shoulder injury earlier this season and he never got any rest. He got one game off. Boone has consistently asserted that the ailment probably isn’t directly linked to his struggles, but that’s hard to believe.
And after news dropped on Thursday that Volpe received a cortisone injection in the affected area, now everybody is really wary. Can the Yankees look any more irresponsible when it comes to the handling of their young shortstop?”