YANKEES
CF T. Grisham L
DH Ben Rice L
LF Heliot Ramos R
1B Luis Garcia L
RF S. Jones L
2B J. Chisholm L
SS G. Lombard R
3B Ryan McMahon L
C Austin Wells L
BLUE JAYS
CF B. Bateman L
RF Nathan Lukes L
DH A. Kirk R
LF J. Sanchez L
3B K. Okamoto R
SS A. Gimenez L
C B. Valenzuela S
2B Josh Smith L
1B C. McAdoo R
How will Schlittler fuck this one up?
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Cam, those 19 pitch innings are too many pitches. Tolle went 8 against the Blue Jays on 91 pitches.
I don’t HATE that Sanchez walk. I think Schlittler just felt much more comfortable going after Okamoto with a runner on second. I’m fine with that.
Rice has been hitting some hard shots lately, mainly bad luck right at people.
It would be nice to beat up on Tiedemann. Well, for anyone but Jazz, of course, who fucking sucks now.
They’ve scored double-digit runs twice in 5+ weeks. They couldn’t beat up a Little League pitcher.
Jazz keeps hitting the wrong note.
Jones steals second. Challenge on!
Challenge accepted!
Challenge met, Lombard singles Jones home. Whoo-Hoo! A run. Lombard takes second on the throw.
McMahon hit it well, nothing to show for it.
Austin Wells Ks on 3 pitches; that’s a long corner he’s turning.
I DO have a problem with that walk.
This whole “alternate shitty game with good game” shit from Schlittler is annoying as hell.
So the defense is just going to fucking suck this series, huh?
Just too many pitches, Cam. And I knew he wouldn’t hold that 1-run lead for long.
Joshua Báez is not having a problem hitting HRs with the MLB baseball. He has hit three in his first three MLB ABs today.
Back to back 6 era pitchers for the Jays. Can you imagine what a major league team would’ve done?
Just so many fucking wasted pitches by Cam.
74 fucking pitches through FOUR innings!!
Does no one teach these guys how to run the bases? George Lombard Jr. has been great in so many areas, but his baserunning has been dogshit so far.
That’s because the answer is yes, someone teaches these guys to run the bases.
They can’t ALL do it just on their own, whether young or experienced, whether from the Yankee system or acquired.
Wells can se the light at the end of the tunnel.
That was more bad luck than anything. His strikeout in the second was a lot more embarrassing.
What happens when; the Jays start putting in their good pitchers?
Congratulations to Dylan Cease on his first career perfect game.
They’ll just wait for the Yankee relief pitchers to give up the winning run.
Okay, that fifth inning was more like it.
Still, he’s at 82 pitches. Tolle threw 91 pitches in 8 innings against the Jays a few days ago.
Foolhardy pitcher, presumably.
I wonder how much has the changed ball been fucking the Yankees? Like that Rice flyball. With a normal ball, would that have been a home run?
What an awwwwwwwwwwwwwwful look for Ramos there. Fuck, dude. Certainly not the way to endear yourself to your new team.
Fluharty is a tough lefty, so I’m glad that they at least burned him for the rest of the game.
The idea was to beat up on their end of the pen pitchers.
Headrick warming up. I don’t get that. Does Boone plan on him pitching two innings?
Man, a six-pitch walk is brutal. So many fucking balls.
He’s just getting dumb, probably thick-headed. More pitches in 5.1 innings than Tolle in 8 innings a few days ago against the same team.
I can’t even knock Jazz for that. Just terrible luck.
Hasn’t affected Joshua Baez. First three MLB ABs, three HRs.
People are obviously still hitting home runs. They’re just hitting a statistically significant decreased amount of them.
I mean, it’s hard to call this a BAD outing, but it sure wasn’t a GOOD outing.
What, exactly, is the plan here if Headrick is coming into the game in the fucking SIXTH INNING?!
It’s only maybe a not great outing because the Yankees hitters are so terrible.
I said the Jays would sweep a few days ago, and I’m standing by that.
Who thought they WEREN’T going to sweep?
I mean, you have to score runs to win.
Right, which is why no one thought they WEREN’T going to get swept.
Jesus, Headrick, that was scary there on that foul ball.
But how do they grade the Yankee hitter development system?
While obviously true, it’s still very impressive that they’ve become THIS good at developing pitchers. But yes, it sure would be nice if they could spend the money to do for hitting what they’ve done for pitching.
YA THINK?
Headrick did the job, but what does that mean? Even if they score a run, there are THREE MORE innings. Who is going to cover the seventh and teh eighth?
Miles has been pitching well, but I MUCH prefer seeing him than Fluharty.
Luis Garcia is not even fucking FAST! What the fuck was he doing?!
It’s the Boone Yankees.
That inning went to heck fast: a leadoff single, caught stealing, Jones Ks while swinging at three pitches that were not in the strike zone, including ball 4, then Jazz.
Jazz is beyond slumping. He just doesn’t have a CHANCE out there.
Is Rowson holding Hal’s niece hostage?
Ernie Clement just automatically gets hits against the Yankees at all times.
That’s how this goes. If the relievers aren’t perfect, then they’re fucked.
I believe that that’s another example of the altered ball likely costing a home run.
If Cruz, Headrick, Hill,and Blackburn are all perfect the Yankees have a better chance to win these games.
I legitimately cannot believe he’s using Blackburn in this guaranteed loss. I guess he’s confident that they have no chance against Cease, so do everything to lose this game 2-1.
People were making a big deal over Judge being cleared to play catch. That’s not “baseball activities” yet, is it? If it is, then that’s big news. If it is not, then who really cares if he plays catch?
There ya go. Bednar may well get another day off. And thanks, Cam, for a lousy outing, and to the ever-moribund offense. And a h/t to Judge for playing a month with an injury he made worse by doing so.
If they’ve won a number of these games, it’s not because there’s some magic to winning without scoring.
They got a bit lucky.
If they can’t score, this is what’s going to happen, and it’s going to happen a lot more often.
Jeez, you can’t put this on Cam. He was bad FOR HIM, good for really anybody else.
Not even a quality start, right?
Over 90 pitches in 5.1 innings is bad.
Yes, but 5 innings and one run is hardly a calamity. Do that all year and your ERA would be about Miz’s.
Too much reliance on the bullpen is the result, so it was a bad outing.
You’d prefer he give up 3 and go one inning more?
THAT, after all, would be a quality start.
This is nuts. It’s not on Cam.
It’s
that
they
HAVE
NO
OFFENSE!
Of course the offense is the bigger problem, but not being able to go six innings is a bad thing. This was not a good outing from Cam.
1 over 5 is DEFINITELY better than 3 over 6.
You can say it was worse than average – FOR HIM. You can say he often does better. But you can’t say he was BAD. He was less than his usual great, sure. But that was still 5 innings of Miz-ERA baseball. And the “quality start” thing is a shill, it’s one inning difference, and it’s a dumb stat, anyway.
CORRECTION: not an inning, two outs short of a “quality start.”
Not being to get through six innings is not good. There’s no defense of not being able to get through six innings.
That’s nuts.
Yes, there is.
3 runs in six innings would have been worse.
It doesn’t matter what is worse. What he DID pitch was not good.
And the only reason he “couldn’t get through 6” is because THEY SCORED JUST ONE RUN.
If they had scored 4, there’s no way they would have taken him out, and he WOULD have gone 6 innings, possibly giving up only 1 run.
Also, look at their guy bunt for a base hit.
Watching the Yankees, I thought bunting was what you did when you wanted to hit into a double play.
Great work by Blackburn in holding them to just the one run in this 2-1 Yankees loss.
Why does Ernie Clement not start every game?
“Is Rowson holding Hal’s niece hostage?”
Rowson was just lucky enough to get hired just before Hal forgot he owned a baseball team.
Whew. They are still in it.
Well, probably not, because they need to score 2 while shutting the Jays out.
Forget I said that first sentence.
It’s one of those things where you can still admire the performance from Blackburn, while knowing it was meaningless.
Ready for the 🧹.
It looked almost unfair to see the bottom of the lineup hit against Rogers.
Also, Rice’s OPS just keeps plummeting.
It’s almost mesmerizing.
They can’t hit anyone.
If they just brought up the entire AAA line-up, there’s NO WAY they’d do worse.
Mesmerizing! Exactly!
It is irritating me that Grisham is taking pitches to let Cabby steal and Cabby isn’t stealing.
The offense is already bad, and now they also get terrible luck on that groundball.
Think about how fucking stupid it was to not pinch hit for Wells, but then to pinch run for him, and then to NOT steal second. Just absolutely moronic.
Well, part of that AAA lineup is Volpe and Jasson. Just saying.
Exactly. Even they couldn’t do worse than absolutely nothing.
Outside of Matt Krook are there any pitchers the Yankees can hit?
The one from the old Kool Aid adds?
Cashman fiddles while the Yankees stumble. He’s committed to the triple-headed hydra of hitting coaches.
You can’t result, in an alternate universe they’re probably great. Trust the process above all.
A 2-1 loss would be sweet.
Hill isn’t going to let it be that simple. A nine-pitch HBP is just insanely bad.
You’re ruining the aesthetics Tim. Any team can lose 4-1 or 5-1, only a special team can lose 2-1.
I still don’t get why Clement didn’t start. He owns the Yankees.
Seriously it’s not possible to be this bad at hitting. I could see Cash maybe wanting to make a change at hitting coach and dumb Boone defending Rowson.
He was the hitting coach the last two years, as well, though, when they led the American League in scoring both years (they led the MAJORS in scoring last year). I don’t think we can pin this on the coaching. The players are just all pieces of shit.
Low batting averages I can understand to some extent but last 30 days dead last by NINETEEN points in OBP, Yankees 275, Giants 294 next to last. That tells me it’s not just mechanics but low IQ hitting.
Yeah, but I think that the low IQ is on the part of the hitters.
“Two big runs in,” two runs in, but big? I doubt it.
Hill is toast, and soon so will the Yankees.
That was my issue with bringing Headrick in in the sixth. What was the plan if the Jays HADN’T scored? Hill in the 8th in a tie game?
Seems douchey not to make Hill issue the IBB before he left.
Add Rice to the list of guys who looked great for a little bit at the very start of their careers, and then proved to be nothing.
It’s over.
No different from Wells.
The Yankee hitters just wanted the game over with in the ninth.
You know as well as I do it’s been weeks and weeks, this one at bat means nothing.
Rice was good for too long. I think he’s developed some bad habits and no one the the staff knows what to do.
“Rice was good for too long.”
I’ve been telling myself that day after day for weeks now.
I guess each of us has his own time limit for self-deception. I only wish mine were longer.
The pine tar didn’t help Heliot?
As Cone said: with the offense this pathetic, you’re wasting a pile of good pitching.
Yankees 203/626 since ASB. Two runs in last 3 games.
Boone believes in a lot of these guys. “These guys can hit.” Like who?
Jays pitchers averaged just shy of 13 pitches per inning. Last night in the 9th Yankees went down on 4 pitches. When it comes to hitting the Yankees are the dumbest under Boone, maybe in30+ years.
A truly memorable top of the ninth.
Talkin Yanks
Yankees offensive ranks since June 2nd, the first game Aaron Judge missed with an injury:
.668 OPS (29th)
.218 AVG (30th)
.284 OBP (30th)
.383 SLG (25th)
3.78 runs per game (28th)
I think they are 31-31 in that period, thanks to the pitching.
Don’t expect that to last.
https://neilpaine.substack.com/p/unlike-usual-the-yankees-arent-falling
They can talk all they want about Ohtani, but no one comes close to the value Aaron Judge has to a team today.
Congrats to Dylan Cease on the first 27-strikeout perfect game in MLB history.
From Katie S —
They really need to check the Yankee stadium home clubhouse for some disease, maybe in the water or the air. It is statistically impossible for so many players to suddenly become this bad at hitting all at the same time.
Why not the visiting clubhouses?
Jackie Bradley Junior pinch hitting for The Indianapolis Clowns. Isn’t he in the HOF?
https://www.statmuse.com/mlb/ask/ben-rice-last-30-games
https://x.com/jayhaykid/status/2088284875040190603
If only they would hire some coaches who could help him get it back together.
They’ve got three, Moe, Larry, and Curly.
They have some weird sudden death rules in Banana Ball. Yankees might do better in that format than they do in the MLB.
Katie S Heliot Ramos is 2-32 (.063) in 10 games as a Yankees.
That’s the lowest BA (min. 30 AB) by a position player in his first 10 games with the Yankees since Skeeter Shelton (.025 BA) in 1915.
In a minor league game
nthony Volpe lost both challenges tonight in the first six pitches of the game.
“He’s got a big smile on his face, I’m going to guess the other 27 guys on the team aren’t real happy right now.”