November 1, 2026

126 thoughts on “ALDS Game 3: Yankees (0-2) vs. Rays (2-0) Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT”

  2. As Stephen Colbert might have said, “This team is not sinking; this team is soaring! If anything they are rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg.”

  5. i wouldnā€™t have minded keeping jazz in, he had a long at bat yesterday and has a higher ceiling than volpe.

    heā€™s also played more than 3 games at 2b as well.

    what are we doing?

    1. I agree, I wouldnā€™t sit Jazz against a RHP but Aaron Boone on the decision to start Anthony Volpe over Jazz Chisholm Jr.: ā€œJust felt like it. I felt like I wanted to go with him today.ā€

    3. I mean, it COULD happen, KC. If a bunch of players got hot at the same time.
      But it would be a monumental achievement to do it DESPITE Boone.

  6. So bizarre that I’d be rooting for Atlanta – the most drearily uncompelling and kind of dully unappealing of historic loser franchises – over the historically romantic Dodgers, but there it is.
    History makes for strange bedfellows.

    1. Then make him throw more of them. Take a few, foul off a few, and you get used to how his pitches move.

  23. WHAT is with the announcer?
    Grisham… made it look easy? Grisham misjudged it, almost missed it, caught it with his arm contorted almost in a circle, and… he made it look easy?
    Bizarre.

    1. The next guy’s batting, even though Lombard’s STILL STANDING IN THE FIELD OF PLAY!

  27. Why do they never tag up from first?
    They should.
    And they really should be stealing much more.
    And why on Earth do fans boo throws to first? I never got that and I still can’t figure it out.

  32. That’s the thing about contact teams. As soon as the luck doesn’t go their way, they will suddenly be unable to do anything. See the Blue Jays in the World Series.

    With normal luck, contact teams just groundout every at-bat. They were 12th in runs scored.

    They’ll have eliminated the Yankees by that point, however.

    1. On the other hand, facing a contact team is like looking into a mirror. Your own preparedness will reward you, your failings will come back to haunt you.
      Now, which team do you think I have in mind as I write that?

  33. Well, they had to get out in front this time, hold the other team down and score early, and they’re certainly doing no job of it at all.

    1. yeah i was excited when he said ā€œand now the yanks are back to the top of the orderā€ and then i remembered

  48. Brilliant.
    The Red Sox must be feeling better and better about themselves with each new game the Yankees play.
    They were steamrolled by THIS?

  54. The announcers were so cute talking about how they could get a lead. I’m sure no baseball team has actually ever gotten a “lead.” So silly.
    Crazy talk.

  55. they let grisham hit again, against a lefty.

    what the fuck is the point of having a hot hitting right hander on the bench?

    they built this team.

    it reminds me of how they kept giving vertigo at bats when i was dying for grisham.

    the guy doesnā€™t have it!

  68. Amazed you say that was a terrible call.
    I couldn’t get back here, but watching the side view it was clearly NOT out of the park, but the fielder was NOT going to catch it. I was sure they’d turn the wrongly-called home run into an out, but they made it the double it was.
    How can you be mad at that?

  69. Can you imagine, boys, if they tied it, came close to going ahead 17 times but never did, and then lost in the twelfth on some inexplicable Boone pitching decision?
    THAT IS STILL IN PLAY HERE!!!

  70. What will the 2026 New York Yankees be remembered for?
    Well, nothing.
    But if they were to be remembered, it would be for those four wistful words:
    “A called strike three.”

  81. I know Stanton made for better TV but with one AB in 6 months I think Wells had a much better chance of doing something. Wells was hitting 333 in the playoffs and had an OPS of 787 in the second half. Sometimes life doesnā€™t imitate art.

    1. Good or bad I’m a Yankee fan. I rooted for them in the Melido Perez era and during the Core Five. I still get to watch games that count into October almost every year. Ain’t gonna quit now.

  91. Katie S Yankees in 2026 ALDS:
    .130 BA
    .192 OBP
    .239 SLG
    .431 OPS

    Those stats are their lowest BA, OBP, SLG and OPS in any multi-game postseason series in franchise history

  92. During 2026 regular season, 28 batters got 225+ PA batting leadoff.

    Trent Grisham ranks among those batters:

    .199 BA (28th)
    .303 OBP (27th)
    .378 SLG (25th)
    .680 OPS (27th)

  95. Hal is a nepo baby who never learned the concept of accountability, and this is reflected in everyone working for him – many of whom are also nepo babies. Then again, George was a megalomaniacal Roy Cohn acolyte whose ignorant, incompetent meddling repeatedly screwed everything up. It’s a miracle that he got kicked out of baseball for long enough that Michael and Watson could build a good team. If only Fay Vincent had made George sell the team.

  96. What do you guys think of us all getting together, picking the team that’s most appealing, and just shifting the blog there and never coming back?

    1. might as well just have a book club and read about when the yankees were good. or bad but interesting.

      iā€™m so annoyed at the roster and these shitty players they brought in.

      imagine olson instead of jd or harper instead of stanton. never would have lost a game. these guys are bums. grisham made 10m more than the highest paid ray.

      you think the bellinger contract will look good? he sucks away from the stadium and he isnā€™t very good in the stadium either.

      cashman just has to go

    2. Have no fear, kc, Cashman will trade for Harper this offseason. Philly will ask for and get Jones in return, because they might actually see the value in hustling on a dropped third strike.

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