August 25, 2026

141 thoughts on “Yankees (73-55) vs. Blue Jays (63-67), Saturday, August 22, 2026, 1:35 PM EDT”

  1. April 29 He is considered day to day after initial assessment
    June 16 Stanton said Tuesday that he reinjured his calf running bases. He had planned to return to action on Wednesday, but said he now plans to have a “light week” and will reevaluate next week.
    New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone’s surprise over the length of Giancarlo Stanton’s recovery was initially voiced in July 2026

  2. He needs to retire, tho I can’t blame him for taking the money. Hes like Ali when he fought Holmes. His body just can’t take it. Maybe a few sessions with David Ortiz’s nutritionist could’ve fixed everything.

    1. I think next season will determine if he retires. If he hits even TWENTY home runs next season, how does he possibly walk away when he would only be 24 home runs shy of 500? If he plays for the minimum for a few years as a pinch hitter/DH, he should do it. His bat speed is still legendary.

    2. If he plays even 20 games. Hes had some basic injuries that he couldn’t recover from.

  3. I hate that the Blue Jays get to see Weathers again so soon. Cease is a guy where it really doesn’t matter how many times you see him, he’s going to use his great stuff to get you out. Weathers is doing some more sleight of hand stuff nowadays, and that I think you handle better the more you see it.

  7. Shouldn’t they start throttling Cam soon in anticipation of an added playoff workload as well? Might be that he and Cease have similar IP at the end of it, which does not bode well for Cam’s candidacy.

    1. Interesting question. They don’t seem to DO that, right? I’m not saying it doesn’t make sense, but have they ever done that with a starter?

    4. I honestly don’t remember, I thought the controversy was when he was an SP – JOBA ROOLZ

    5. The Joba Rules were for him as a reliever. If he pitched one inning, he got a day off. If he pitched two innings, he got two days off.

      They were really “The Torre Rules,” as they knew that Torre was prone to overusing his relievers. Torre was irked about it (as it WAS a direct shot at him, of course. Note that that was his final season as the Yankee manager), so he kept talking about “The Joba Rules” all the time (You know, like, “Well, I would have used Joba, but I had to take the Joba Rules into consideration”), making it a much bigger deal than it needed to be (especially since two days off for two innings pitched is a NORMAL thing for most relievers).

  8. That inning went how I feared it would go. They were ready for him.

    Even then, though, he got beat by a bloop single by Kirk and a seeing-eye groundball by Springer. The only HIT hit was by Bateman to lead off the game. So I’m not, like, “OH NO!” but at the same time, certainly not ideal, especially not 25 pitches in the first inning.

    1. Fun fact from Mendelian genetics: the law of independent assortment means it’s theoretically possible for any given grandparent/grandchild dyad to share zero genetic material. As applied to the Fielders, Jadyn almost certainly shares a Y chromosome with Big Granddaddy, and they almost certainly don’t share an X chromosome, but the rest of Jadyn’s genome could be anywhere from 0 to 50% fatass.

  36. As upset as I am about this (and I am very upset about it), as I said the other day, there are only two starters whose loss I would ACTUALLY say, “This season is over” if they got hurt, and Weathers isn’t one of them. It’s still VERY bad, of course.

    2. Would it have mattered? A short fly ball for out # 2, followed by a long fly ball for out #3.

  47. One of the worst losses of the season. They let the Blue Jays routinely off of the hook with RISP, they made comically bad defensive plays, the Jays routinely got lucky with BABIP, and, of course, they lost Weathers (i would imagine for the season AND next one. That was a TJS injury if I’ve ever seen one).

  48. This would have been an amazing win, but RISP Fail is in their blood. As well as their flawed fundamentals, which the Dodgers referenced in 2024. But Hal said, what?

    Cashman needed to be gone after 2017. Instead, he’s still here, and with Boone as an added attraction.

    1. That was the obvious call. Rosario can play third in a pinch, so they still have plenty of flexibility. I want to see if Garcia can play third or second. That would help a lot if Judge returns, as it would free up the DH spot.

  51. Let’s say Garcia can fake second.

    Grisham CF
    Rice 1B
    Judge DH
    Bellinger LF
    Garcia 2B
    Lombard SS
    Jones RF
    McMahon 3B
    Wells C

    That’s something, right? Then Jazz can come in to play defense late in the game.

    1. Or, in the alternative…

      Grisham CF
      Rice 1B
      Judge DH
      Bellinger LF
      Garcia 3B
      Lombard SS
      Jones RF
      Jazz 2B
      Wells C

      With McMahon coming in for defense late.

      This might make more sense, as a pouting Jazz would be a problem, while McMahon is too good of a guy to pout.

    2. I’m not sure that it’d be possible to put Garcia at a position he’s never played (3B), let alone two guys out of position (Garcia to 2B and Chisholm to 3B), without significantly compromising the defense that helped win all those games this year in spite of the slump-prone offense. I think you unfortunately have to have some combination of Chisholm, healthy McMahon, and Caballero at 2B and 3B.

      When Judge is back, I think you have to rest Rice until he proves he can hit better than Wells. Otherwise he’s just a PH and emergency 1B behind Goldy, since the team is refusing to let him be the BUC ahead of Sanchez.

    3. Oh, you 100% can’t have Chisholm play third, but I think with Lombard and Jazz being excellent fielders at short and second (or Lombard and McMahon at being excellent fielders at short and third), you can afford JUST Garcia playing third or second. Again, remember, Garcia played second for YEARS (500 games), and even played SHORTSTOP for 70 games!

    4. Glancing at Garcia’s BRef page, it looks like 1B is the only position that he’s played with even a semblance of cromulence. He was as bad at SS as he was at 2B. I have no confidence that he’d be better at 3B than at SS and wouldn’t recommend relying on any player to learn it on the fly. It would be like the time Gary Sheffield played 1B.

      You don’t want to have a hole in your defense, just like you don’t want to have a hole in your lineup. The difference is that the hole in your lineup only matters every ninth at bat.

  53. Chisholm played 3B, and played it well, when he came over to the Yankees. That’s just not that long ago.
    Why can he suddenly 100% not play 3B? What happened, and how do we know it?
    I don’t get it.

    1. He also hit when he came over to the Yankees.

      By DRS, he’s a lot worse at 3B than 2B. Even when he did well at 3B in 2024, he was costing runs at a rate of 6/year. In 2025 it was 20 runs/year.

  58. Better but will we get more than 4 hits vs Soriano?

    T Grisham (L) CF
    B Rice (L) DH
    L García Jr. (L) 1B
    C Bellinger (L) LF
    G Lombard Jr. (R) SS
    S Jones (L) RF
    J Chisholm Jr. (L) 2B
    A Wells (L) C
    J Caballero (R) 3B

  59. Hoch Ryan Weathers will not throw for 2-4 weeks. Aaron Boone said “there’s a great chance” that Weathers will return this year “in some capacity,” which suggests a bullpen role.

    Beck back to take Weather’s spot

  62. It’s brilliant how the coaching staff has recognized that the strength of this team is in contact hitting and speed, so they consistently pound it into the ground, resisting the temptation to elevate the ball.
    Best coaching staff ever.

    2. I really could have said: if ANYONE is going to hit, that’s huge!
      But Wells especially.

  76. Four called strikeouts, three swinging strikeouts, through six innings. League average is what, one called strikeout for every three swinging strikeouts?

    Someone please teach these guys to fight off close pitches with two strikes…

  93. After today’s win American League Champion Boston Red Sox now tied with the second wild card NY Yankees for first place in the Pythag at 77-53, each with 7 game leads on the Devil Rays.

    1. So are the Rays just lucky or do
      They a manager whose strategies are what gets them wins in 1-run games as opposed to the Yankees clueless manager?
      If I’m not mistaken, the record in 1-run games is the difference between the yanks being 3 games out versus being in first place by 2 games.

    2. bf – the yanks are also roughly 2-34 in extras which accounts for some bad luck, some boone, some woe.

    3. Yes, allowing for some amount of random variation attributable to luck, it seems reasonable to attribute a difference between Pythag and actual record to a manager’s impact, plus organizational factors like roster construction, player development, and coaching.

      A team that is programmed to take walks and called third strikes is not a team that is going to put the ball in play and score the Manfred Man.
      A team stacked with injury-prone DH’s and redundant utility guys is not going to have as much room for late-inning substitutions
      By contrast, a team with a well-staffed and well-deployed bullpen could convert small leads into victories.

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