October 27, 2025

152 thoughts on “ALDS Game 2: Yankees (0-1) @ Blue Jays (1-0) Sunday, October 5, 2025, 4:08 PM EDT”

  2. LHBs vs Yesavage 161/157/194, RHBs 333/407/375; 451 vs 782 so for some reason Boone has loaded the lineup with LHPs. I’ve seen Boone quote much smaller splits to justify his lineup.

    This reverse split is HUGE and the way Rice looked yesterday I would definitely go PGold and Rosario.

    1. One of the hits was crazy luck.
      One real hit and just 10 pitches – not too bad.

  7. There’s no excuse for this lineup. There’s no excuse for playing Rice, who I love, but can’t handle the splitter. There’s no excuse for Rosario to be sitting.

    1. He did pretty well against Boston. Now I can agree that the Yankees are not going to beat the choking allegations.

  26. If they can’t win this game with their ace on the mound going against a rook, they don’t deserve to advance. Oh well. Frees up a lot of time without having to sit around and watch all these games.

  27. In 14 innings against MAJOR LEAGUE teams he has surrendered 13 hits and 7 walks with 16 strike outs. Pitching in AAAA today in 3 innings he has allowed no hits and 1 walk with 7 strikeouts.

  29. Boone has expertly loaded his lineup with Rice and Grisham who look like they don’t have a prayer while PGold and Rosario rot in the dugout.

  31. Their approach at the plate is horrendous, as it so often is; if they don’t hit HR’s they are lost. Flailing away is not an approach. Judge really set the tone yesterday with that awful whiff on 3-2 and bases loaded, no outs.

    1. AGREE, AGREE, AGREE. And this is on Rowson but more so on Boone who for some reason was given tenure and full forgiveness for his incompetence.

  38. Said this for years, there is really no true leadership on this team among the players, such as the late 1970s and the Torre teams had. Some take no prisoner types. None of that here, and that is because Cashman doesn’t like that type.

  39. They’re not a good hitting team. They beat up on palookas but fold against good to very good pitchers. They’ve one this all year. They’re like the fighter with a string of one round knockouts who falls apart the first time he meets someone who can box. Gerry Cooney vs Larry Holmes.

    1. How could Boone possibly know he was at a Toronto performance of Cats yesterday and skipped the game.

  46. Oh, I just can’t believe Ben Rice struck out.
    What’s the record for strikeouts in a playoff game? Whatever it is, it’s within reach.

    1. None.
      And not only for that.
      There are so very many this team could and should be better.

    2. There’s no excuse for PGold and Rosario and maybe Cabby to be on the bench against a guy with enormous reverse splits. NONE! Except Boone is the stupidest manager in baseball.

    3. Better? Wells and Volpe? Should they be better? Maybe Wells, we’ll see in 2026, but Volpe is 3 seasons worth, and he is who he is. Jazz, thinking HR with nearly every swing. Grisham had a career year. Stanton goes into long funks, which will likely get worse going forward.

  53. How is it POSSIBLE that absolutely EVERYBODY on that team has the number of a pitcher like Fried?
    This isn’t a team worth rooting for.
    Maybe Tucker is a different kind of personality?

  55. Boone says this is the best Yankee team he’s ever had. So what’s his excuse? Or Cashman’s for building a contactless team. At least against LA they put up a fight. If not for Boone in game 1 and Judge in game 5 they might’ve won.

    1. Yep. That was the biggest concern about him, that he would choke in a big game. The Wild Card series had alleviated some of that concern…and then, well, this did not alleviate anything.

  58. I’m rooting for a shutout not a 9-4 loss where Judge and Stanton go deep and Boone and Flaherty solemnly declare the Yankees can build on the late runs.

  63. 9 Canadian runs are currently worth like 6.5 American. So the Yankees only need to score 7.

    Which at this rate will take till May.

    Edit: Oops, now it’s 11 Canadian runs. That’s 7.9 American. So, we’re looking at June.

  65. They should really just have a fire sale and start again.
    This team is lacking something on a profound level.
    They could get a lot for some of these players.
    But they shouldn’t stop there. Sell the players, sell the coaches, sell the managers, and sell the owner.
    Start again.

  67. They’ll be fine. Just sign Kyle Tucker, and make it a point to improve the bullpen in the offseason. They’ll have Bednar, Doval, Hill, and Yerry next season (and they have an option for Hill, so Hill will likely be back). Will Warren getting an offseason to prepare for the bullpen will help him.

    I think the fact that he acquired three relievers at the deadline explains that Cashman knows this team needs better relievers, so I bet he’ll pick up more relievers for next season.

    3. Tucker gets on base, too, a lot more than the other Yankees. He’s the closest you’re going to get to outright replacing Juan Soto’s role on the team with one guy.

  70. There’s not much you can do when your best pitcher chokes THIS badly. You just hope he improves next year when he’s the #2 starter, or that Schlittler improves enough that he becomes the #2 starter.

  73. They’ll be good enough in the regular season. But if your life depends on Stanton being on fire in the postseason…
    …I asked that about Tucker, I hope it’s true – if they get him.
    I think Jazz is all right in that respect.
    But man, the offense has collapsed so many times. I’m all for Tucker, but I’m really, really not sure it’s enough.

    1. Stanton should be a part time player. They need a new hitting coach who understands hitting is 90% mental, the other half is physical. They have no approach. None! This team would’ve lost the 96 series in three. They believe their own press clippings. The best hitting team in baseball doesn’t go through so many droughts like against Seattle, Texas, Miami, the Cubs and the post season.

  76. This would be a horrible, depressing, humiliating embarrassment if they weren’t being no hit.
    In addition to all that, however, they actually are being no-hit.

    2. I get that he’s hitting .412. It’s a really weak .412, but .412 is obviously good, certianly much better than you’d think.
      And yet there is some truth that he’s just not doing the heavy lifting that’s expected of him, not living up to what’s expected of him.

  79. Yeah Fucking Punk Ass Yankees get some courage when it doesn’t matter. John Flahery later “this is something they can build on.”
    Fucking no heart Stat Padders. I wanted a no hitter.
    Boone later “we have to build on this Tuesday.”

  80. We’ve made Brian become an optimist.
    I’m really almost sorry they’re no longer getting no-hit or shut out. If they win the game, and no, I’m not serious, I’d be happy the offense suddenly showed a weak and erratic pulse.

    1. It was more that we knew that Fried had previously sucked here, so him sucking here again wasn’t that surprising, ya know? It was something I was specifically worried about heading into the game.

      I don’t think anything carried over, Fried just sucks here.

    2. The Yankees were no hit for 5 1/3 by a pitcher with an xERA of 4.16 and our idiot manager sent out a lineup that minimized our chance of winning. That pisses me off as much. At least Fried was terrific against Boston and there but for Boone might’ve gotten the win.

    3. I don’t disagree about the lineup, I just don’t think going for five innings without a run is comparable for giving up however many runs Fried gave up in three innings. Teams have been held down, only to score late, plenty of times.

      Starting pitchers don’t often give up seven runs in three innings.

  82. Kirschner History made:

    After Daulton Varsho’s HR, the Blue Jays have scored 23 runs in their first two postseason games this season.

    That is the most for any team through two postseason games.

    3. I don’t know, they’re still winning big here – the Yankees now have seven, they still have almost TWICE that – and they destroyed them in Game 1.
      Maybe not as cocky, but pretty damned cocky.
      I’d hardly say we’ve knocked them off their high horse. If that horse is now beneath the clouds, then – not by much.

  93. Boone we haven’t lost any confidence, we got to play better, we got to pitch.

    Boone now I think 24-26 as a post season manager. Who’s the last Yankee manager, if any, with a losing post season record?

    3. Cashman must go as well. This is his architecture. If he remains and fires Boone, he will just her another flunky.

  94. Joe Torre 214-130 fired. Casey Stengel 100-45. Billy Martin 22-19. Girardi 28-24 fired after losing in 7 to the Astros because of his communication and connectivity with the players. Aaron Boone excellent connectivity.
    Boone better than Buck 2-3 record.

  97. M’s eke out a couple of runs over 7 against Skubal. We are best hitting team in the league, Yescavage held us hitless for 5 1/3, therefore Yescavage is better than Skubal.

    If Brian Woo gets healthy the Ms would be a pretty good team.

  99. Because I firmly believe the yanks will never win a WS with the current moron managing , my hope for this post season was an embarrassing loss that would force ownership to fire him. We were almost there against Boston, aided by the loss caused by idiotic managing. Then he was bailed out! But another terrible loss in Game 3 and I think that would do it.

    1. I don’t believe there’s any chance Boone is fired short of him decapitating Judge on the field of play.
      And that’s just not Boone’s style.
      Boone’s here as long as he wants to be here, performance has nothing to do with it.

    3. It is. I just suspect they’re so used to saying: “they don’t get it, we know the process and screw them if they don’t get us, don’t worry about the ire, we’ve got your back” as if that made them smarter, better, more loyal, that any external disapproval will only reinforce their thin blue line.

  100. “The playoffs are a crapshoot” is one excuse.
    Except the yanks ALWAYS lose to the better team (one exception the 2017 Indians) and often lose to a worse team. This has been the case since 2001. ( Three different managers; many different players; so the only constant is the GM. And the poison clubhouse water.)

  101. From Miller Huggins to now, with the exception of Buck Showalter (small sample), every Yankee manager but Boone had winning playoff records.. Yes I know he won’t be fired.
    Sure they’re a crapshoot but fifty games is a big enough sample and unless they pull this out Boone will have an under 500 record.

  103. Why did Stanton need to do laid back Boone’s job?
    Kuty: Inside the fiery, closed-door meeting Giancarlo Stanton held, imploring the Yankees play up to their potential after a brutal stretch in August.
    This probably had nothing to do with the Yankees righting themselves, but someone should ask Boone why “the best team he ever managed” went 22-30.

    https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6692887/2025/10/06/giancarlo-stanton-yankees-team-meeting-texas-mlb-playoffs/

  104. Listen, Aaron, it could be worse. Donny never made the postseason in his prime at all, and only tasted it just before he retired.
    So you never win a WS. Still it’ll have been an amazing career, you can live with that.
    …right?

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