Carlos Rodón (#55, 32, LHP, 18-9, 3.09) vs. Brayan Bello (#66, 26, RHP, 11-9, 3.35)
RED SOX
DH R. Refsnyder R
SS Trevor Story R
3B Alex Bregman R
1B R. Gonzalez R
C C. Narvaez R
RF Nate Eaton R
LF Jarren Duran L
CF C. Rafaela R
2B Nick Sogard S
YANKEES
CF T. Grisham L
RF Aaron Judge R
LF C. Bellinger L
1B Ben Rice L
DH G. Stanton R
2B J. Chisholm L
C Austin Wells L
SS A. Volpe R
3B Ryan McMahon L
Well, it was still a pretty entertaining season at times. And infuriating for a lot of it, as well. Next season really does look a lot better than this one, though. So I have some hope.
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Wow, even BOONE admitted that the Chisholm decision was a bad one. Then why did you do it, Aaron?!
Ha! Link?
And you know the answer.
https://www.nj.com/yankees/2025/10/yankees-aaron-boone-reveals-biggest-regret-from-game-1-loss-to-red-sox.html
Thanks, Brian.
Man, look at all those articles. That’s a LOT of flack.
And yet does anybody really believe there’s a chance that there will be, you know… consequences?
I’ll believe it when I see them.
Another game, another chance for RISP Fail.
They all support each other against the world, against any sense of principle, against the facts.
It’s like the thin blue line in its worst sense.
Thank God less depends upon it.
Boone pulling Fried was idiotic, to be sure, but I don’t think anyone would have expected Weaver to be THAT bad, either. He had Raffaela 0-2 and he fucking WALKED HIM.
You come into a one-run game in the seventh inning and you WALK the #8 hitter after being up 0-2?!
It’s not like we haven’t seen that act before though.
Weaver was terrible the last month.
Brian, YOU said: Raffaella OWNS him, this is going to be bad.
So how can NO one have expected it when YOU expected it?
Boone on putting Jazz in Boone on this decision: “That’s a very fair question. That is the challenge. Just the inning before, the ball is starting to go over there and just the range and knowing some more lefties are going to be in the game, just kind of wanted him in there, but fair point.”
Huh?
It’s insane that they’re going to be swept by this shitty Boston lineup.
Way to make him work, Grisham!
I love that BOTH Red Sox starters just own Judge.
It’s like you would have to work HARD to find a worse matchup for the Yankees in a three-game series than this Red Sox team.
Maybe Rice should have had an at-bat last night.
Maybe Grisham should’ve had an at bat in the World Series.
Nuh uh, Verdugo got a hit against Kansas City. So it was the right call to keep him out there forever.
Years from now, I bet we’re going to think about, “Remember when Boone left Wells in to hit off of Crochet in the 8th inning so that Rice never got off of the bench?”
Is Narvaez’s new thing to be, like, a troll?
Wait, what did Narvaez do?
He bat flipped a WALK last night, and twice started walking to first before the umpire made the call for ball four, and tonight, he called time before he saw his first pitch.
Wells vs. Rice, in the abstract, isn’t the worst call ever.
Wells mired in an awful slump in an awful season vs. Rice on fire really is the worst call ever.
And, while we’re on the subject: RIIIIIIIIIIIIICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wells was actually hot the last few weeks of the season. .806 OPS in September.
Non ideal there, Volpe.
It was an easy call starting Wells over Rice.
Raffeala is glad to expand the zone, so the Yankees make sure to throw pitches nowhere NEAR the zone to him.
These fucking idiot Yankee starters. They’re just so fucking stupid.
How does Carlos Rodon NOT think that he has the stuff to retire Ceddane fucking Rafaela?!
The lack of fundamentals on this team is STAGGERING.
You have got to be f*ing kidding me.
Chances for the poetic justice of THEM not scoring with bases loaded and zero outs?
I can’t look.
Prove me wrong.
Huh, what’s that, when you go after hitters with your great stuff, you can get them out? You mean Rodon SHOULDN’T just fuck around with his nonsense?
This choky motherfucker.
I mean, to be fair, they still would have tied the score had Rodon NOT fucked up the bunt, but he’d be one out away from getting out of this.
Big double play. But godDAMN is Rodon a piece of shit.
Rafaela fucking sucks, and the Yankee pitchers just KEEP WALKING HIM.
They have a very bad habit of this, at least i n2025, walking guys who shouldn’t be walked. Where’s the pitching coach?
Does Rodon need a pitching coach to tell him not to walk the #8 hitter, who sucks?
Rodon, 40 pitches through 2-innings.
EDIT: Three innings, thanks Brian.
Three.
I don’t know why McMahon even brings a bat out there.
Okay, my apologies, McMahon.
Please stop letting Brayan Bello own you, Judge.
It’s not ideal, but fuck it, I’ll take Aaron Judge, singles hitter over Aaron Judge, strikeout king.
A rare move I do not get from Cora.
I think Cora might legit just be very afraid of Ben Rice.
More RISP Fail on display, thanks Belli.
A real flyball would have given them the lead. Fucking awful.
Fucking Belli. He’s been so unclutch for a WHILE now.
Okay, this series is just cursed. He fucking hit the SHIT out of that pitch. FUCK.
Darn, Rice scorched it right at the RF’er.
First and second no out, bases loaded no out, 2nd and 3rd 1 out.
Belli killed that last one. Rice scorched the ball, noting you can do about that.
Saw that, walked away after the bunt.
Rodon wastes so many fucking pitches. That should not have been a six pitch at-bat.
I had to walk away. Second day in a row we walk the guy hardest to walk in baseball, then Rodon botches a bunt. Two gift runs.
The walk was just craaaaaaaaaaaazy bad. WITH NO OUTS AND A RUNNER ON FIRST!!
Omigod, Rodon, you stupid piece of shit, throw strikes.
Cora must plan on using Wilson and Whitlock for two innings apiece.
Total disrespect to Stanton here to leave Wilson in.
Boone on Rodon “ so far so good.”
And yet Rodon’s pitch count is pretty reasonable.
The walk was infuriating. But they love walking the 8th and 9th batter, especially the 9th so they can get back together with the top of the lineup.
Double G Gianni and Grisham, ungreat.
Jazz not somebody I’d let swing 3-0
Ball 4 Jazz
What an awful inning, as Wilson was NOT good, and yet…
Yankee pitchers turn 0-2 into a walk, Boston’s turn 3-0 into a pop out.
Jazz pops out on ball 4, Wells, LOL.
If Jazz had taken the walk I would’ve pinch hit for Wells.
Nick Swisher has a post season BA 50 points higher than Wells.
Didn’t Judge unleash a strong throw against Baltimore?
Just counting down until Boston can put in Whitlock for two, and Chapman for one.
It’s pretty much that they need to score in this inning or the next.
Sure would be a nice time to stop sucking, Grisham!
Grisham, it’s time to not suck.
Acceptable.
Judge, it’s time to hit the ball really hard and not at someone.
Do these announcers have no understanding of numbers or do they assume we don’t?
Duran doing Judge.
How is that not an error?
Just terrible Clay
[Sound Lurch makes]
This is just so depressing.
So
Very.
Rodon on the bench, I can’t wait to give that run right back. It’s what I do.
Did anyone really expect Rodon to come up big? Or anyone else on this team, except Rice.
We were lucky to score one against the dregs of their pen.
Just glad these games weren’t at Fenway
Stanton 2023 is back.
Playoff Volpe is up
who am i kidding…
2 wild pitches!
What happened to playoff Stanton?
Phenom or phenom?
They’re so smart.
They’re going to load the bases so we can NEVER score!
pathetic phenom. 3-0 to a pathetic K.
i think that may have been the worst swing i’ve ever seen. worse than his goody losing his helmet ones.
None of Wilson, Slaten, Matz or Kelley are any good yet they’re all better than our 7th inning guy. We score one against their detritus thanks to a passed ball and a should be catch.
The Yankees plate approach is a joke, We need a hitting coach, why don’t we have one?
Eaton’s only batting sixth, I was hoping you’d reserve your walks at least for the eighth and ninth spots.
It wasn’t all Crochet. We cant hit Wilson, Slaten, Matz or Kelley
Oh, my.
I mean, it’s not like this game matters.
Have some dignity, dude.
Carlos putting on a clinic in the 7th
Boston fans have been down on their pen other than Whitlock and Chapman but Cora understood despite the CW we are not a good hitting team.
Rodon, what a wuss.
Even for Rodon, this was shockingly bad. Oh well, they didn’t deserve to win.
That was some inning only matched by the other inning.
Boone teams seem to always be uptight and seldom come up big in big situations. Bases loaded no out yesterday.
This is excruciating.
Death by a thousand balls.
Why are they never close with their balls?!
I can’t believe they got out of that.
Now Whitlock shuts them out for two innings.
How is it only the 7th? It feels like this has been going on for centuries.
Save everyone some time and just skip to Grisham’s at-bat.
Fernando is an entertaining personage
Dammit.
They did so well against top relievers in the playoffs LAST year.
We should counter with Brooks Kriske.
Hey. A little production from at least somebody else.
That’s an improvement.
I’d walk Judge. Belli is lost at the plate.
Stop jinxing Judge.
Embarrassing that he knows he’ll just K Judge.
That was a brutal take by Judge.
Ummm, Aaron? What the hell was that?
No clue.
Look at Belli expand the zone. He’s just lost.
Whitlock 22 games vs the Yankees 1.77 era. Career era 3.13.
.
They just don’t have it in them to win.
Cody has not been good this series.
Even his hit in the ninth last night was a total fluke.
One should be unearned run since the first for this offensive juggernaut.
When they do the same bullshit over and over and over, what do we expect?
That’s not gonna help Judge’s postseason rep
Suddenly Williams can’t put guys away.
Williams has to get ahead. Pitching from behind makes it too easy for the hitters.
And now this fucking guy who dropped into their laps for nothing. Fucking Washington.
Cole’s return next year really does make me relatively sanguine about this shit.
RISP Fail R’Us.
See how much better it goes when you’re ahead in the count, Williams?
Huh.
Acrobatic Phenom
I think they really should just sign Tucker. Get some of that winning Houston attitude here.
Whatever else you can say about Devin Williams, you can’t say that the moment has been too big for him.
Agree on Tucker. Fresh blood that might not fatten up only against bad pitchers to vanish against decent pitchers.
Boy, the Yankees sure do love to expand the zone.
Exactly the same 1st pitch strike – sinker high (?!) and in.
Why is Whitlock’s era against the Yankees a full 1.5 runs better than against MLB overall?
Wilson, Slaten, Matz, and Kelley what a fucking joke this team is.
I’m honestly stunned that he walked.
Wells better take a pitch to let Jazz steal.
Ball fuckinh three AND it kept Jazz from running. So fucking dumb.
Wells would have walked, absolutely.
This is better than walking, we’ll take it!
TYM!
I’m stunned.
Wells! Go figure.
That was as unexpected as the Ukraine war ending with Putin apologizing.
Zing!
Crimea river.
Okay, what is going ON here now?
Btw they have TEN hits (and 3 walks) so far.
Not fair! Weren’t you going to leave Whitlock in there for like seventy pitches?
If I’m Boston, I just stick with Whitlock. He has to be burned for a theoretical tomorrow already, right?
Of course, there won’t BE a tomorrow, but in theory.
Cashman going I told you so.
Maybe Chapman can walk Grisham.
Not Chapman?
Cmon Trent this guy is a 6+ era
Rough cut, Trent.
He threw the same pitch at the same speed seven straight times to Grisham.
Yeah, it was a pretty bad cut by Grisham.
You gotta take advantage when they use a bum
The RISP Fail strikes again.
Any reason wells couldn’t have taken second on the throw home? Nitpicking, sure, but he could’ve score on Volpes hit.
The great Rafaela looms.
Well, I know we’re all comfortable with a one run lead right now, so relax and enjoy the show!
How could the ninth start with anything but a ball?
Two.
And had to take it to 3 before “whew.”
Call for you. Says his name is “Wetteland.”
These balls will haunt my nightmares.
You have to be close to get them to expand.
So many balls.
Oh, come THE FUCK on.
0-2 to 3-2. Is that really necessary, dude?
Now the ever-walkable Rafaela.
It’s that Mr. Wetteland again. Will you take the call, sir?
Here comes a bunch of garbage.
Ha!
It’s Raffaela’s fault for taking the time-out after strike two that NEVER works!
Whew. The Yankees live to lose another day.
Thank you, Bednar.
Now, just like the Yankees in the regular season, the Red Sox could and should have won already. If they lose now, they have only themselves to blame.
(I mean, you certainly couldn’t blame the Yankee offense or pitching for it!)
Bednar is Wetteland reincarnated. Don’t know why I only recognized him today.
How DID Wells manage to not get to second on the throw home?
By watching Jazz run around the bases.
i think he thought the ball was coming back to first in which case they may have had him
I recommend Jazz and Rice play tomorrow. Just one random asshole’s opinion
Early is a LHP. Boone won’t bench Wells.
We got a lucky carom on Wells double or Jazz wouldn’t have scored.
Wells did scorch that, though.
Boone said Jazz will start, hadn’t made up his mind on C/1B
No real mistakes from Boone in this one. That’s odd.
Seriously, if we were in their shoes, we’d be thinking we won the Crotchet game and now we’ve lost this one, tomorrow we have a bullpen game.
really appreciating the defense at 2b this fall. jazz could try to get planted a bit more before throws but he sure can catch.
also loving bednar, that guy is a big bully that wants the ball. he is not the most talented guy ever but he wants to win. i’m sold on him.
also, i still like doval and hill. we can get this done tomorrow but id prefer to see a judge 2hr laugher.
lgy
The Reds just about done.
If the Dodgers do win out, the times for Thursday’s games are changed, with Red Sox – Yankees at 8:08 PM not 6:08 PM.
https://www.mlb.com/news/2025-mlb-playoff-and-world-series-schedule
Tomorrow’s game 8:08
Kirschner It took Jazz Chisholm Jr. 9.16 seconds to run from first to home on Austin Wells’ single.
That is the third-fastest time a player has gone from first to home in the postseason in the Statcast Era.
And he started off jogging to second with the pitch.