Max Fried (#54, 31, LHP, 19-5, 2.86) vs. Trey Yesavage (#39, 21, RHP, 1-0, 3.21)
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
3B Ryan McMahon L
SS A. Volpe R
C Austin Wells L
BLUE JAYS
DH G. Springer R
LF D. Schneider R
1B V. Guerrero R
C A. Kirk R
CF D. Varsho L
3B E. Clement R
2B I. Kiner-Falefa R
SS A. Gimenez L
RF Myles Straw R
Well, here’s the season. We’ll see if a Yankee starter can, for their first time all season, avoid choking in Toronto. Odds aren’t great.
Okay, new pitcher for them to make look like Cy Young.
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.
Oh, for crying out loud.
Hooooooooooooo boy, talk about not making things easy.
Great job to get out of it, but man, that does not bode well.
One of the hits was crazy luck.
One real hit and just 10 pitches – not too bad.
As I was saying, it sure don’t bode well.
2 hits… but just 10 pitches.
I think I’ll take it.
So, we’re back to Stanton swinging at anything?
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.
It’s not cool that they can gameplan for the Yankees to just be stupid, and they can be totally correct.
Why would you ever throw them a strike when they’ll swing at ANYthing?
Boone should be fired for this lineup alone.
If that reason will fly, you have my support.
This just ain’t their series based on outs like that.
I’d prefer Fried to NOT suck.
Seriously, is this the Black Sox all over again?
I thought it was weird Sleepy Bill Burns was spotted in Toronto.
Judge turned a double into a triple. Didn’t matter.
Fried is not going to beat the choking allegations.
He did pretty well against Boston. Now I can agree that the Yankees are not going to beat the choking allegations.
Ernie Clement better than Trent, Judge, Rice, Clay, or Stanton.
Nice to see the Yankees hitters have shown up today; 0-2 in the series, and done, upcoming. The Mets await on the golf course.
They really need to shake up the roster and get some different psyches in that clubhouse.
For a team with a TON of talent, they just suck.
Who comprises that TON of talent?
Volpe! Wells! K and K.
So that’s how legends are made.
Why would anyone take this pitcher’s success today seriously?
Beyond belief.
Yeah, I guess the whole team is going to deal with the choking allegations.
Grisham completes the trio of K’s!
If Cashman isn’t gone, it really doesn’t matter. This is his team, he’ll just hire another yes-man as manager, even if he did fire Boone.
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.
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.
Like I said upfront, the Yankee starters have choked in Toronto a lot this season, but I still didn’t expect Fried to be THIS pathetic.
Just the pitchers?
Fried giving up four runs in less than three innings is a lot worse than the offense being held hitless through three innings.
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.
No one would have expected it. It’s crazy for them to play THIS badly. It’s surreal, and just awful.
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.
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.
Six hits and a walk in 2 & 2/3, 4 runs in.
He’s not the stopper they need, apparently, but he’s surely the stopper they deserve.
Stunning. I’d be tempted to leave him out there. What the hell is the difference at this point?
Post season 2025 Yankees
Trent 118/387
Clay 188/485
Rice 167/584
Stanton 063/243
Jazz 231/517
Now that’s some spicy choking.
You ain’t, apparently, seen nothin’ yet.
Fried, choke. Sorry, but it is. This team has a lot of choke about it. 😞
The Bosox really helped the Yankees win that WC series.
It’s like they’re facing Koufax and Drysdale in their prime.
We’ve seen this act too many times.
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.
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.
Oh, my God. It just won’t stop.
At least Fried managed that on only 40 pitches. 😏
Is there ANY chance, ANY CHANCE AT ALL, that Rice doesn’t strike out here?
Early must be thinking about giving up baseball.
I think that Ben Rice MIGHT have trouble with the splitter.
How could Boone possibly know he was at a Toronto performance of Cats yesterday and skipped the game.
Girardi got fired for losing the ALCS. But HE won a World Series.
Palooka with 10 K’s in 4-innings. About to set a record.
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.
It’s just hilarious to see Yesavage get them out on the same pitch over and over and over and over and over again.
If only they had a hitting coach to notice.
There’s just no excuse for this team to be this overwhelmed at the plate, so consistently, when it matters.
None.
And not only for that.
There are so very many this team could and should be better.
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.
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.
Offensively bad.
Sadly, it’s the only offense this team offers.
Fried is wishing he could pitch to his own team’s lineup.
This lineup is wishing they could bat against Fried.
Boone “Fried’s been a little off and they’re finding some holes.”
Think about the fact that for them to possibly win this series now, they’ll have to have Fried outpitch Gausman back at Rogers Centre. That does not seem particularly likely.
And Rodon will have to outpitch Bieber.
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?
Tipping pitches? Stealing signs?
He seriously just walked Myles Straw with no outs and a runner on first base in the fourth inning.
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.
Fried was pretty bad with the Braves in the post season.
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.
When has a Yankee team looked this bad in a postseason series other than against a super team like the Big Red Machine.
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.
That’s why Will Warren wasn’t ever going to pitch yesterday. 🙂
Sign stealing?
I always thought Warren sucked but at least his is a good time for him to suck.
Sometimes I just miss George.
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.
What an embarrassment, back-to-back and belly-to-belly.
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.
Stanton, Yankee player of the game, for not striking out.
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.
Tucker has all the “Winning” attitude that we complain that the Yankees DON’T have.
They also need a player or three with contact skills.
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.
You’re down 11, there shouldn’t be another called strike all game long.
“Savages” << Yesavage
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.
And all your “good” hitters.
Gil playoff era 2025 6.75
Blackburn 27
Warren 36
Weaver INFINITY
Ahahaha! The threat of a clean inning averted.
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.
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.
I have my doubts whether Warren will ever be more than the last guy out of the pen doing mop up duty if even that good.
I get the logic here, but I think I’d still try to get Yesavage to at least 12 ks.
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.
As we’ve seen a number of times, it’s not like the runs carry over to the next game.
It’s pretty funny how the dude hitting .412 is going to bear the brunt of the choking rep.
Yeah except the biggest AB of the series on top of last year’s drop catch.
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.
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.”
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.
You say that, but it kind of feels like yesterday’s runs carried right over into today.
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.
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.
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.
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.
So if Lauer is in now, what is Toronto’s plan for a theoretical Game 4? Just a total bullpen game?
As if!
Imagine if Fried hadn’t been absolutely pathetic.
We can build on this Tuesday.
I mean, you can’t say that you’re feeling quite as cocky if you’re Toronto after this, can you?
When they fail to score until trailing.
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.
The ground out inning.
I woulda used Weaver for an inning..
What does it accomplish to only use him for a batter?
Say goodnight, Gracie.
Yeah, VERY odd managing.
If Rice hits one out, then all it takes is three straight walks and another blast to tie.
Then the bullpen can blow it!
If Stanton hits one out, then all it takes is two walks and another blast to tie.
ETA: Oh well.
K.
This would be a reasonable time to start another eight game winning streak.
“What does it do for you to do this in front of your parents?”
On the bright side Weaver lowered his post season 2025 era to 135.
Infinitely better.
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?
Yeah, it really would be nice if they could just fire the guy.
But that would be so mean!
Cashman must go as well. This is his architecture. If he remains and fires Boone, he will just her another flunky.
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.
I won’t front, I thought they were going to win Games 2-4, so it’d be foolish of me to act like I think they can’t possibly win Games 3-5.
Gleyber being Gleyber
https://bsky.app/profile/pinstripealley.bsky.social/post/3m2ii2fbokc2t
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.
Noodle bats show up late, party already over as Yankees were fried.
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.
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.
That’s a depressing thought
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.
Nepo babies hire nepo babies.
Cashman promised 10-years of Boone.
“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.)
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.
We’ve been hearing Cashman wrong all this time.
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/
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?