Will Warren (#29, 27, RHP, 6-1, 3.61) vs. Michael Wacha (#52, 34, RHP, 4-2, 2.70)
YANKEES
CF T. Grisham L
RF Aaron Judge R
DH Ben Rice L
LF C. Bellinger L
1B P. Goldschmidt R
2B J. Chisholm L
SS A. Volpe R
C J.C. Escarra L
3B J. Caballero R
ROYALS
3B M. Garcia R
SS Bobby Witt R
1B V. Pasquantino L
DH S. Perez R
C C. Jensen L
RF J. Caglianone L
LF I. Collins S
2B M. Massey L
CF Kyle Isbel L
Wacha usually gives the Yankees trouble, so that’s annoying that he’s pitching in this series.
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Belli hit the shit out of that one!
Some really nice baserunning by Volpe and Escarra!
Yankees swinging early. Worked for Cody.
Two runs normally would take 3 games.
Terrible strike call there by the umpire. That was an easy overturn.
Classic 0-2 walk by Warren. Why does he waste so many fucking pitches?
Oh my god, throw fucking strikes, dude!
Just has completely lost the strike zone. It’s simply TERRIBLE. You have to be able to throw a strike when you need to throw a strike, dude!
Throw a fucking strike!!!
Is walking the bases loaded in the second inning a bad thing? Asking for a friend
It’s pathetic that he gave up that run.
No hits in the inning, and they get a fucking run. Just terribly shitty work by Warren.
Disaster averted.
Disaster averted, true, but when you’re solely responsible for a run by just being a fucking moron, it’s quite frustrating.
Also, holy shit is Goldy fucking slow!
I don’t think Rice was thinking about advancing the runner.
I know, it’s too silly.
So Wacha adjusted. Will the Yanks?
Boy, they sure do love to do everything they can to NOT drive in easy runs, huh?
Just when I was ready to compliment phenom on his strike zone.
Hahah, I thought the same thing! He worked a nice walk, and looked good in that at-bat, and then swung wildly at a pitch way out of the zone to strikeout.
Man, it sucks that bad calls still matter. Grisham’s strike three looked like ball four to me, but how do you challenge that if you’re Grisham?
Rice Robbed
What a fucking play!
Great job by Warren to strike out Witt, but that speaks to what I was saying about the impact of bad calls. Strike two looked off the plate, but the Royals would be hard-pressed to challenge that, ya know? So the umpire making the wrong call there was still a big deal.
There’s good defense, and then there’s just really good luck. That was just good luck for KC.
Salvy can’t hit anyone but the Yankees.
The Yankees need to stop all this scoring. 😏
I can’t even give Warren too much shit, as they weren’t winning this game 2-1, ya know? So the offense was always going to need to score more.
Fucking Volpe, another at-bat where he looked good until he strikes out on a pitch way out of the zone.
Cabby might be hurt.
EDITED TO ADD: I guess he’s okay.
Jesus Christ, Grisham!
Awful play by Volpe, too, on the tag. He had a chance with a good tag.
Should have had him out TWICE.
Another game in the Yankee dead ball era.
It’s crazy how much they have worked to NOT score today.
Quite the at-bat there, Judge. Did you want him to roll the ball to you?
And now, even if they make it to extra innings, it’ll be Volpe and Escarra in the 10th. Great.
Just an awful AB.
This is what I was saying the other day, that Bird has pitched a lot better recently, which is just designed to get them to trust him more, and for him to THEN suck.
Bird has always sucked. Having a scoreless inning or three doesn’t mean he doesn’t suck. Same for Doval.
Tied to the tracks.
Plume of smoke over the forest coming closer and closer.
Slowly, painfully, inevitably.
Rays get 2 in the 13th, lead the O’s 7-5. As WOE continues with the Yankees.
Bird got one out. Can’t complain about that. The New Yankees, remind me of New Coke, good starting pitching, no offense, and a pen that seldom puts up zeros for more than an inn8ng,
Doval and Bird Cash’s finest hour.
I’m most pissed about the home run, of course, but that walk was pretty fucking crazy, too.
“Salvy” still sounds incurably, ridiculously dumb. They don’t call players named Melvin “Melvy” (thankfully, and don’t start).
Bad offense, bad bullpen, shaky defense, quite an achievement by Cashman.
Headrick also gave up a hit.
Headrick gave up a flyball that Grisham lost in the sun (and that Volpe should have tagged the runner out at second). So he was fine.
The O’s tie the Rays at 7 and still batting.
This inning is right up there with that inning against the Angels in terms of Bird just pitching like a MORON.
I don’t see how they’ll upgrade the offense other than in house. Maybe Wells won’t suck this much, and Jazz will get good, and Stanton will return. Considering how good the rotation is they need to upgrade this bullpen and get rid of some of the garbage.
Wow, Orioles score four in the bottom of the 13th to beat the Rays.
Four that’s three 9 inning games for us.
For the Yankees in the ninth it’s Bellinger and The Abyss.
Way to work the count, Belli!
Do you even think of using McMahon against the righty?
O’s beat Rays 9-7 in 13. Cowser walks it off with a 2-run HR after they tied it at 7.
Volpe, hero, or goat? TBD.
EDIT: Hero, sort of, as he gets thrown out at second after driving in 2-runs.
McMahon should never start again.
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Who plays first base in the bottom of the ninth? Lose the DH and have it be Rice? That’s PROBABLY the call.
NOW this is going to be an EPIC loss.
You gotta keep running out this Volpe/Cabby lineup, right?
I’ll take a rain check on that decision. Volpe in his last 13 PAs has 2 hits and 1 walk. McMahon has had at least two big hits in the last couple of months.
Understatement of the month: that was unexpected.
Bednar, make it 1, 2, 3.
I only hope the milk I just sprayed over half the room doesn’t break the computer!
Yankees have walked only twice today. Would you guess who had those walks?
Bednar, dude, just throw strikes!
EDITED TO ADD: It can never be fucking easy with this guy. Walk the #9 hitter?!
Ah, walking Lane Thomas, lame.
SO lame, but he got out of it. So that’s awesome.
I can’t believe they won that.
Really hard to believe it.
Yay, 9th inning win; yay Rays 13th inning loss after taking a 2-run lead.
Since May 8th runs scored in 16 games: 0, 3, 3, 2, 6, 0, 5, 3, 6, 7, 5, 1, 0, 2, 2, 4. An offensive powerhouse.
Katie S Blind squirrel: Anthony Volpe: 1st career hit in 9th inning or later that gave his team a lead
Then he ran himself off the bases.
I think he thought giving them a surer out at second might help prevent any chance of them even trying to get the winning run at h ome.
I truly don’t think there was that much thought put into it. I think the idea was, “If the throw goes home, you’ll get to second easily. If the throw comes to second, well, that’s okay, too.”
In other words, he wasn’t intentionally trying to draw the throw, because he assumed that they would be going for the go-ahead run, but if that DID happen, he could accept it.
So it’s no knock on Volpe, he just wasn’t specifically trying to draw the throw.
The Astros with a combined no-hitter.
Sarah Langs Jacob Misiorowski last 6 starts:
58 strikeouts
0 extra-base hits allowed
He’s the first pitcher since at least 1900 with 45+ strikeouts and no extra-base hits allowed in a 6-game span
The pitchers this year remind me of the hitters in the steroid era. Seven pitchers with eras under 2, 10 pitchers with BAA 200 or less. In 1968, the year of the pitcher, there were seven pitchers with eras under 2.