Pablo López (#49, 28, RHP, 5-5, 4.84) vs. Marcus Stroman (33, RHP, 5-2, 2.73)
TWINS
LF T. Larnach L
DH A. Kirilloff L
SS C. Correa R
RF Max Kepler L
CF Willi Castro S
3B Jose Miranda R
1B C. Santana S
2B Kyle Farmer R
C C. Vazquez R
YANKEES
SS A. Volpe R
RF Juan Soto L
LF Aaron Judge R
DH G. Stanton R
1B A. Rizzo L
2B G. Torres R
C Austin Wells L
3B O. Cabrera S
CF T. Grisham L
He’s struggling a bit, but Pablo Lopez is still a tough matchup.
Is Pablo Lopez one of The Three Musketeers?
Flash so self effacing.
Two feenoms on the mound tomorrow
This Dodger series has me a little apprehensive
Why is Royce Lewis on the bench?
bc he can’t hit movement
Well there goes my Grisham prop bet
Jones with a 3 run homer, Martian with a double and Rice with his 2nd home run in 2 days off to a torrid start at Scranton.
I wonder if Rice has made strides defensively at catcher or at more importantly for now 1B? Rizzo 7/51and hasn’t homered in a month. Slump or fini?
Trent!
You can’t stop Trent Grisham, you can only hope to contain him.
And if you can’t contain him, you must worship him
Ben rice for Luis robert and int pool $
Stroman is such a good guy. He knew Lopez felt bad about allowing a home run to such a shitty hitter, so he matched him in the next inning. True class act
This is going to be one of Those Games
Stroman miiiight not have it tonight.
Rizzo last 28 days 194/232/258 and last 14 even uglier, historic, 143/178/191 which is worse then he was post concussion July 2023
Rizzo last 28 days 194/232/258 and last 14 even uglier, historic, 143/178/191 which is worse then he was post concussion July 2023.
Walk the bases loaded, 0 outs, just like Lopez drew it up
Dartagnan would not walk those guys.
GIDP by Torres incoming
Sigh.
I said DOUBLE PLAY not DOUBLE, Gleyber
Old Reliable II
Gleyber with a double.
What the hell was THAT defensive alignment?
Why did they throw to third base? This is like high school baseball
Lopez seriously tried to nope his way out of the inning by walking the good hitters, and almost got away with it!
Time to bat Gleyber cleanup. Fuck lefty righty.
or go verdugo gleyber rizzo.
Time to play DJ more at 1B and see if they can get a cheap right handed hitting 1B.
it might be time to swap gleyber and rizzo.
For who?
Willi Castro has made an inexplicable mental blunder or bad play in literally every game they’ve played
You’re in his head
RAB Gleyber’s been hitting much more like himself the last few weeks: .278/.341/.506 last 22 games.
(also, thanks to the Twins for whatever this positioning is at 1B)
yup it’s going to be one of Those Games
What’s the harm in saying, “Oh well, he just doesn’t have it tonight?” and using Gonzalez for a few innings?
He’s wriggling out of it like a wiggly worm
I guess you let him start the fifth to try to get a win, but be ready to pull him!
This is not the World Series, 62 pitches I let him pitch the 5th. Hes not getting clobbered.
Yeah, man. It’s June. They’ve won 7 in a row. He should pitch to 100 pitches or until he squanders the lead
Ted Williams 84 game on base streak, 10 longer than the runner up. “After Game 85, when he failed to reach base, no newspaper even mentioned it. The streak was literally invisible to most readers, because batters’ walks weren’t in box scores.”
Frisky.
I don’t know what the state of the MIN bullpen is but “why is Lopez still pitching?” is a question on the lips of many a Twin Cities denizen
I think Twinkie fans are watching basketball or maybe a movie about Lewis and Clark and have given up on this game.
Who is the Yankees radio play by play guy tonight?
Yamamoto Poteet tomorrow. ESPN should’ve ordered The Dodgers to hold Yamamoto out for Gil on Sunday Night Baseball.
I’m in favor of this, as I’m attending Sunday
Nice!
okay NOW can we pull Stroman?
Now?
okay, NOW can we pull Stroman?
This was some shitty, shitty managing.
Cronin you were right. Stroman didn’t have it, now it’s a close game and they’re into the pen early anyway.
Stroman is on #1 on my list to move to the bullpen were Schmidt & Cole healthy.
Nestor in a Ramiro Mendoza role
While trying to placate Stroman’s ego, all Boone did was fuck his ERA.
Is there even a way to find out who the Yankees radio guy is tonight?
Juan Soto out of the game. THAT doesn’t sound good.
Ricky Ricardo I think. Seriuosly that’s his name.
Thanks! I figured it was him, but I couldn’t find the info anywhere.
Per https://www.sportsbroadcastjournal.com/other-rickie-ricardo-making-own-name-as-yankees-and-eagles-spanish-voice/ , his birth name was Jorge Ricardo Lima, Jr., and early in his DJ career he was nicknamed after the Desi Arnaz character.
Boone went directly from under managing to severely OVER managing. So weird.
How do they not know what is going on with Soto?!
Left forearm discomfort. Doesn’t sound great. Hopefully it is just precautionary.
If Soto is out more than a couple games I’m going to burn down Rob Manfred’s home while he’s in it
I mean … you … you don’t HAVE to wait for Soto to be out.
Ricky Ricardo calling a game with Carlos Santana in it is quite a thing
Too bad BB King didn’t play the National Anthem.
RAB “Soto is out of the game with left forearm discomfort and Dominguez just got pulled from the Triple-A game “
I doubt they’re connected . Martian 3/4 with a double, 364/909 so far AAA.
Ben Rice had his second AAA HR.
Such a confusingly managed game by Boone. So it was not important enough to let Stroman shit around for way too long, but then it was important enough to go to Weaver for two plus innings, but then it wasn’t important enough to go to Holmes for a four out save?
I’m glad Kahnle got out of it (Kahnle is not a good eighth inning guy. I hope Boone learns this).
Damn, Volpe.
What a fucking play it was.
Gary Phillips Aaron Boone said that Juan Soto has been bothered by this for about a week and has been getting treatment. He didn’t want to send him back out after the rain delay.
Soto will get imaging tomorrow.
Yeah, it was weird. The fact that he’s been playing through it certainly doesn’t seem to suggest a UCL tear, right? So that’s very good news. And yet, I dunno, Boone was just a BIT too evasive when talking about the imaging. I think they might be a bit worried.
Soto’s OPS in the last 7 games is 1.390.
With a sore arm.
Small sample size, but still. Wow.
Just DH the dude, right? Let Stanton play right field for a few games. He’s more nimble nowadays, let him prove it. Then Grisham can come in for defense late.
Why hadn’t they already given him a couple of games at DH? Or a day off?
*puts on tinfoil hat*
Boras is behind this … see how much you love Soto? You need him on your team. Now you get to see how the team is without him. $700 million please, Hal.
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while the boys sleep, the nighthawk(s) creep!
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