October 24, 2025

246 thoughts on “AL Wildcard Game 3: Yankees (1-1) vs. Red Sox (1-1) Thursday, October 2, 2025, 8:08 PM EDT”

  3. And on the same metaphysical note, it has just occurred to me that the most obvious giveaway that the world is an artificial artistic construct is that somewhere in a registry Dock Ellis is listed as: “Ellis, D.”

    1. Two outs now, the two hit batsmen are now at second and third as the possible tying runs.

      However, the Padres have their #9 hitter at the plate (if they were playing the Yankees, they’d be walking him).

    2. After allowing a home run, two outs, but runners on 2nd and 3rd – so tying runs in scoring position.
      Crazy 9th!

    1. You have to hope that that was just first inning nerves, and he’ll be closer the rest of the game.

      You have to HOPE because it won’t actually happen. 😉

    1. I think you’re used to thinking of managers as morons, which would be understandable. Cora may suffer from a Houstonian lack of integrity, but he is no moron.

    1. Fried gave up NOTHING; the minute he was out of the game, the win was wrenched from him.
      Schlittler should remember that. Stay in the game.

    1. As you saw, Duran is the type of guy that you can overpower if you get ahead of him in the count. You can’t do that with Story or Bregman (or Yoshida when he is hot, which he annoyingly is right now).

  57. What the hell is it with Judge not even taking a few pitches?
    Get comfortable, see some pitches, make him throw. Who is supposed to be scared of whom in your at bats, guy?

  58. Stop throwing balls so far out of the zone they serve zero purpose!
    Just stop it.
    Stop it.
    Don’t do it anymore.
    Do the other thing, not that.

    1. I prefer “can’t get him into the line-up because his team is home watching the Yankees play the next round” Yoshida.

    2. And that at-bat showed what I was mentioning earlier. When Yoshida is hot, you can’t overpower him with two strikes like you can a lesser hitter.

  106. STOP throwing balls NOWHERE NEAR the zone.
    Not cool.
    Uncool.
    Not cool therein.
    Don’t do it.
    Stop doing it.
    If you think of doing it, throw that thought away.
    And do something that is not that.

    2. Let’s see what the next inning is like. Schlittler could conceivably get through 2 innings still.

    2. You don’t have to convince me!
      But that doesn’t mean it’s okay for the umpire to get it wrong.

  164. If you’re a NY Post headline writer you have to be doing everything in your power to instigate a physical confrontation between Schlittler and someone in the stands.

  170. I did say they had the advantage in the last 2 games.
    But wow. I’ll see you’re Crochet and raise you a Schlittler!
    That was fantastic.
    Love these tense series, love fighting off Boston and sending them home!

    1. He was a massive, leaden anchor in game 1. At least 4 things the world was raking him over the coals for.
      Game two didn’t really have anything for him to screw up, only little things.

    1. That really was super cool of him. Not TOO helpful as to help him make the catch (so he wasn’t fucking over his own team), but JUST helpful enough to help McMahon. He did it perfectly.

  182. Cam Schlittler said it was “personal for me” to beat the Red Sox after hearing chirping from Boston fans. “There was a line they crossed a little bit. I’m a competitor. I’m gonna go out there and make sure I shut them down.”

  185. I was talking to my brother a month or so ago about how Cam Schlittler reminded me of Cole. When I heard he was getting the game 3 start over Gil it was more of “well, duh” to me than anything, but I STILL thought Boone would find a way to blow it. I guess all it takes is your starter going 8 shutout innings to Boone-proof a game.

    Given the context, this was one of the most impressively-pitched games I’ve ever seen. (Well, I don’t actually watch the games anymore, just the condensed games, but you get the idea.) The 2026 rotation is looking pretty, pretty good.

    I was just a little concerned with leaving him out there past 100 pitches if only for the potential injury risk, but hopefully there are no long-term consequences. Certainly winning a postseason series is worth the risk.

    1. The game they referenced was the Clemens 2000 ALCS game, and, well, that was better than this. I’ve NEVER seen a better postseason game by a Yankee than that Clemens game. Dude almost threw a fucking perfect game in a playoff game!

      But yes, that this is even CLOSE to that is amazing, as Clemens was, like, a five-time Cy Young winner by that time, ya know?

    2. Clemens followed that up with 8 shutout innings in his next start…so here’s hoping Cam can do that too.

      as noted above using Cam instead of Gil was in hindsight a brilliant decision. Gotta give Boone some credit? And leaving him in – maybe he learned from his idiotic decision in game 1?

    3. “Learned” – more like the quote about Boone’s “reactionary” (hate that misuse of the word, but it’s now common parlance) managing in this series. After the world’s reaction to his NOT leaving in Fried.
      In this case, we reacted him into the right move, so – good for us!
      Next time, of course, he’ll react himself into something idiotic again, so don’t get used to it.

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