June 28, 2026

95 thoughts on “Yankees (48-32) @ Red Sox (33-46), Friday, June 26, 2026, 7:10 PM EDT”

  3. And Bostonā€™s historic AL championship begins as the Yankees fade into obscurity. With Cody and Rice MIA and Judge on the IL, this offense scares nobody.

    1. I really can’t get over HOW fucking stupid that walk to Wong was. I mean, holy shit, dude. First and third, no outs, okay, you’re probably giving up ONE run, but by walking Wong, you essentially create TWO possible runs to score on non-hits, which is exactly what happened.

  10. Joel Sherman highlighted a glaring structural issue with the Yankees’ infield: while New York’s pitching staff induces ground balls at one of the highest rates in the majors, they rank among the worst in MLB at converting those opportunities into double plays when Anthony Volpe is playing shortstop.

  14. 50 pitches through four and two thirds, not a single baserunner, so Jazz, of course, swings at the first pitch and pops up.

    51 fucking pitch perfect game through five. Are these guys fucking serious!?

  16. Can you even IMAGINE having a five-pitch fifth inning when the pitcher is throwing a perfect game against you?!

    “Boy, this guy is throwing a perfect game against up. Better not let his pitch count get up there!”

  17. When will Aaron Judge have his rib re-imaged?

    “I don’t know,” Aaron Boone said. “We’re probably not ready to go down that road yet, with where he’s at.”

    Sounds promising

  26. Pitchers should not get credit for retiring Austin Wells in a blowout. It should count as Offensive Indifference.

    And yes, he put the ball in play and got an RBI, but still, PH’ing him instead of Ben Rice is just waving a white flag.

  30. Is it just one hot month? He’ll have to prove it more than this one month to make people believers.

    Roderick Arias: 4-for-5, 2B (10), HR (7), 2 RBI, 2 R, CS (6), K. His hot streak certainly came out of nowhere. He is 30-for-80 (.375; 6 doubles, 5 HR) in June and has hit safely in 18 of 20 games during the month.

  31. Did Rice’s fall off a cliff begin almost exactly when Spencer got called up?
    Maybe it’s a Melky and Cano (was it them, I can’t quite remember who) kind of thing?

  32. Toms sports blog ā€œLHP Henry Lalane (W, 3-1): 7 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 12 K
    He reached 98.4 MPH tonight and generated an incredible 20 whiffs (including nine with his change-up and seven with his slider). Interestingly, his slider isnā€™t thrown hard, at least not tonight: It averaged only 78.2 MPH with six inches of horizontal break. Regardless, Lalane has been nasty lately. In his last six starts: 1.27 ERA (35.1 IP, 14 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 1 HR, 10 BB, 50 K). Four of those five runs were allowed in one start.ā€

    https://x.com/jnorris427/status/2070699244609020246?s=61

  37. BOS Lineup
    P Goldschmidt (R) 1B
    B Rice (L) DH
    A Rosario (R) 3B
    C Bellinger (L) LF
    J DomĆ­nguez (S) RF
    J Caballero (R) 2B
    M Schuemann (R) CF Why? Waldo hit 400 in June, Boone hasnā€™t given him an AB
    A Volpe (R) SS
    A Wells (L) C

  38. Schumann is hitting 188,career 76 OPS+, so Boone adds him to a struggling lineup. Worse than Bubba Crosby. Good way to make a bad lineup worse.

  41. Right now this team is bad. Judge and Fried and Trent and Stanton might return. Bird and Cody might stop slumping. Maybe we can add a catcher.
    But today this team is bad.

    1. That would be ok if Schumann wasn’t a veteran with a career 76 OPS+. He has nowhere to go.

    1. Hey guys, this may be our first and last chance to taste the major leagues!
      We should all march down to the Bronx and try out!

    2. As soon as he got hot he got hurt. Hes playing wiffle ball with Dax Kilby in Tampa.

  57. Joey Gallo was much better than Wells

    Among every Yankee who has had at least 185 plate appearances in a season, only four times has a player finished with a .160 BA or worse.

    Joey Gallo in 2021
    Joey Gallo in 2022
    Jim Mason in 1975
    Dick Howser in 1968

    1. Yes. Also nuts.
      I’m really worried that the 1st third of this season was the outlier for Rice. Please let that not be the case.

    1. Even he knows how silly it sounds.
      And besides, you could move the needle a ton without even coming close to leaving the zone of historical suckage.

  64. Is it really an impressive offense if they score 30 runs in a weekend and then 20 over the next week? Sure that is 5 runs a game, but it is hard to win post season like that.

    It’s great you can light up KC (and I’m sure Minnesota when you get to them), but this team has some significant holes at the bottom of the lineup that go exposed last year… and they are worse this year.

    1. If they don’t take care of their own business, who cares what the Devil Rays do?

  70. Carlos Lagrange: (L, 1-4) 0.2 IP, 4 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 2 BB, 1 K. At least he didnā€™t break his leg, to our knowledge. Anyway, yeah ā€“ what the Yankees are doing is risky, even though many think of it as a ā€œslam dunkā€ conversion. One effort like this isnā€™t the end of the experiment, of course. He hit 100.9 MPH with his fastball (averaged 98.8) and threw ten of his 20 pitches for strikes.

    https://tomkosensky.com/2026/06/28/yankees-milb-6-28-franyer-herrera-tosses-shutout/

  71. Championship lineup

    J Chisholm Jr. (L) 2B
    B Rice (L) 1B
    J DomĆ­nguez (S) RF
    C Bellinger (L) LF
    S Jones (L) CF
    A Rosario (R) DH
    O Cabrera (S) 3B
    A Wells (L) C
    J Caballero (R) SS

    1. Not enough Cabbies. Bring back Escarra.
      He’s better than Wells anyway, top half of the league and all.

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