October 5, 2025

86 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.

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