August 3, 2026

85 thoughts on “Yankees (63-49) vs. Cardinals (55-57), Monday, August 3, 2026, 7:05 PM EDT”

  2. If you thought the outfield was bad, wait till Boone decides to platoon Ramos with Jones instead of with Grisham. Then you’ve got Ramos, Grisham, and Dominguez. Cole is gonna blow a gasket.

    1. He’s pissed at Cashman’s inability to land a catcher trade him to a contender.

  12. How many bad games has Cam had? How many games has the offense not been bad? Three runs should not feel insurmountable but it does. I’m giving Cam a pass. I’m putting it squarely on the ‘hitters.’

    1. What would it take for Lombard to get a shot? What would it take for Rowson to get fired?

    2. “What would it take for Rowson to get fired?”
      He’s only a hitting coach. Another few years and he could be fired.
      What would it take to get Boone fired? A change in ownership.

    2. That was probably the worst swing I’ve ever seen Grisham take. Holy shit that was bad.

      And after having a nice at-bat to get it to 3-2. Blew him away with a mediocre splitter right down the middle.

      As noted, all of these guys are all in deep, deep slumps at the same fucking time. It is insanity.

  15. “See Tim Hill up in the Yankee pen…
    …now a living, breathing reminder of the FO’s failure to get even a single reliever to help the bullpen, to go with his failure to get anything at all to help at catcher.”

    1. Here’s an interesting idea. Could Garcia play right field? He should have the arm for it, right?

      Stanton sounds like he might actually return soon. Don’t want to lose Garcia and Goldy in the lineup. I figure you start resting Rice against lefties.

    1. If you care about the team, you probably try it.
      If you care about Lombard, you avoid it at all costs.

  21. Do I really want to lose Lalane on a team that is hoping to get a wild card? Much more likely that the pitching is going to decline, but still be good, than the hitting will come to life.

    2. If you call him up and send Volpe down, you can do some interesting platoons. Lombard plays everyday, but plays third against lefties and short against righties. Cabby plays short against lefties. Maybe you let Garcia play second against lefties.

    3. The Yankees went to the World Series with Gleyber shitting up the joint at second, I think they can live with Garcia shitting up the joint against lefties at second.

  46. Today is pretty much opposite day, right? Schlittler and Chivilli get rocked, Wells/McMahon/Grisham/Cabby all homer.

    So we can infer that Garcia has hit his first and last homer in pinstripes.

  48. The pen was overachieving for a while. Can’t keep expecting to win one run games tho this was a different kind of one run game.
    Cam gave up 4, the pen 9

    1. It was less the runs, and more the lack of length. They didn’t score again, of course, but 9-7 is still a game, 13-7 isn’t, and they couldn’t pull Chivilli because they had to cover Cam’s lack of innings.

      But yes, Yarbs not giving up a leadoff triple would have helped, as well.

      Oh well, just a tough loss in terms of not having the top relievers available. Gotta be happy about the home runs.

  51. Hey Hal, if you’re looking to save money on a GM, I’ll work for a tenth of Cashman’s salary. Guarantee you I can bring in at least as many World Series championships as he has since 2010.

    1. Nothing on Hill or Angel? He’s entitled to an occasional stinker. It’s his second year and he’s been great.

    2. He had a bad one against the Dodgers two weeks ago. Going just three innings tonight set the wheels in motion.

    3. It’s on Cam and Chivilli, but they’ve both been so good that I can’t complain too much, especially because with guys with changeups, when they don’t have it, they REALLY don’t have it (we saw that with Kahnle a lot). But they couldn’t take him out. So I feel bad for him, and I don’t feel bad for Cam at all. He just sucked. But, again, Cam is so great I can’t complain too much.

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