August 20, 2026

150 thoughts on “Yankees (69-55) @ Orioles (61-64), Tuesday, August 18, 2026, 6:35 PM EDT”

  8. The only Yankees to not strike out so far are Ramos, who walked, and Jones, who weakly flew out on the first pitch.

    I’m so glad that the Yankees decided to take their shitty offense and just do nothing different.

    Who needs to adjust the lineup? Who needs to give Ramos a day off for Cabby? Why change anything? Just keep running the same lineup out there and it’s bound to work at some point, right?

  9. I mean, there is at least a CHANCE that Fried is just dealing with inflammation from the original injury. I bet Fried is just fucked, but there is a CHANCE that this is just a problem with the original injury just acting up.

  10. i saw that la is booing tucker pretty badly. i remember the narrative by dodgers fans that the mistreatment of our stars was why no one wanted to come to ny anymore.

    how the turntables

    3. brian, i have the misfortune to know at least 2 passionate dodgers fans that keep me informed about the various current narratives about what is going wrong in the bronx.

    1. Again, to be clear, the umpire clearly DID fuck him up on the play, but, again, if the umpire is blocking your way, tell him to move. So it’s still on Jazz ultimately.

  18. See, Grisham knew he was going to come right back with a strike, and this time he was ready for it. That’s good, to be sure, but he could have done that on the first pitch, too!

    But, again, I get that it is tacky to knock a guy after he hit a home run.

  24. What a fucking terrible challenge by Jones. Holy shit was that bad. It wasn’t as bad as that one Ben Rice one early on in the season, but it’s pretty fucking close to that.

    Holy shit, dude, what in the fucking world are you doing?!

  27. Terrible challenge. Clearly a strike. Isn’t Jones supposed to know the strike zone?
    Last 15 games Spence is hitting 160/236/320 with only 1 home run. Is he really better than Jasson?

    1. i’m fairly certain dominguez would’ve miffed that routine fly ball to Jones just now

    3. I think Jones’ ability to play center in a pinch (and play a good left and right vs. whatever it is that Dominguez does out there) gives him the nod over Jasson right now.

      But yes, he needs to start hitting again.

    4. OTOH Dominguez has been shite at Scranton. Volpe also. Garverbatting third for Scranton tonight. Is that a sign?

  32. I give Rodon a lot of shit (and I think it’s well-deserved), but I’ll give him this much, the guy really does have GREAT stuff. He’s a moron about it sometimes, but the STUFF is so good every game, even right off of the IL.

    2. He’s turning the corner, just a little hiccup and he’ll be all the way there. He can definitely see the light at the end of the tunnel.

    2. It’s clearly me, but I’ve misread many fly balls expecting Yankee HR only to met with middling fly ball out… Blasted torpedo bats…

  45. “A strong six innings for Baz.” No a typical pathetic impotent six inning for the Yankees. One run, two hits.

    Last 4 games, regulation only, 4 runs scored, ONE RUN A GAME. They suck and they’re getting worse.

    1. did you hear about Kay suggesting to and about Arod that Arod come back for 1 PA to restart the HOF selection process? That would be a very Arod move – ie hilarious, backfire instantaneously, somehow be the cause of the impending 2027 labor strike / lockout, cause Jeter to take a minority position in the Rockies only to be ousted by a tandem of DePo and Bill Plaschke, so on and so forth. I’m in favor!

    2. Every once in a long while he just strokes one to left and gets a hit and then back to swinging for the fences.

    4. i thought the same thing, though McMahon probably would’ve killed the rally last inning where Goldy walked

  56. Unbelievable this team, somebody does something very good so Heliot strikes out with the bases loaded after being ahead 3-0, now Headrick walks the tying run a 182 hitter.

    1. What? Headrick at 25 pitches in 2/3 of an inning? Dude!

      He just didn’t have it tonight. I seriously do worry about the overusage fucking with him.

    2. Boy, do they love to take strike three. Suarez is TERRIBLE, so that inning was particularly bad.

      WHY IN THE WORLD IS JAZZ BATTING SIXTH STILL?!

    4. I think it’s just about the pitcher’s comfortability. If a guy worries him, I don’t mind him pitching around him. He went RIGHT after Henderson. Clearly, Gunnar didn’t worry him.

  74. It’s a good thing that the Orioles’ first baseman isn’t a major threat to steal, because then our pitchers and infielders would have to hold the Mayo.

    1. He played in a game once that went 25 innings. He was on third base as the sun came up and he told the batter daylight come and I wanna go home.

  77. The other mind-blowing thing is that the Major League team does something to its minor league stars – something so destructive that once they’ve gotten their claws into them, they can’t even hit IN THE MINOR LEAGUES anymore!
    Seriously, what are they DOING to these hitters?

  78. And yes, for years they’ve had this inexplicable insistence on NOT PROTECTING THE STRIKE ZONE with two outs. Not on doing it badly, but on NOT DOING IT.
    We watch other players protect the strike zone and say: so frustrating, what a great at-bat, pitcher can’t put him away, so many pitches thrown, he wore him down. We watch teams like the Blue Jays last year beat the Yankees doing just that… and the Yankees seem to go out there, day after day and year after year, with a fully-formed intention to NOT have that kind of at bat, ever.
    It’s simply bizarre.

    1. yea, this is especially an issue in the playoffs. the hitters that grind pas tend to be the most successful

  79. The Yankee approach is designed around launch angle and exit velocity. The GM wants every AB – in fact every swing – to have the potential of hitting the ball out of the park. The best you get from a two strike approach is a single up the middle or a bloop to the opposite field.
    This is all based on the large numbers the crack analytics team consider significant. Over the course of 162 games this generally works out well because on average they are facing average pitching, but breaks down in the playoffs against good pitching as we’ve seen over the last 15 years.

    1. John, it happens all the time that the foul off pitches they don’t like that MIGHT be strikes, and then hit one out of the park. The point is not to take close pitches, presuming that both you and the umpire are identically channelling the dead eye of Ted Williams. You foul them off and wait for a good pitch. THAT one you swing at.
      The complaint isn’t that they’re swinging too hard. It’s that they’re striking out looking. The problem pitch is one they’re NOT swinging at. There’ s no way not swinging gets you a home run.

  80. The Yankee are 11th in most looking strike 3s. They are 2nd in % of strikes that we’re looking. They are next to last in foul ball strike percentage. They are 26th in OBPand 30th overall the last 30 days.

    1. “The Yankee are 11th in most looking strike 3s.”
      Surprising. (I imagine they’re closer to 1st since their offense vanished, of course.)
      I wonder if we can know how their ranking not in sheer counting numbers, but rather looking strike 3s per opportunity to watch a strike 3?
      Or, alternatively, where they rank in number of potential strike 3s fouled off.

  81. Oops above was 2022. For 2026 Yankees are 8th highest in percent of strikes that were looking, and 6th in most looking strikeouts. They are 26th in OBP, deal last past 30 days.

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