Carlos Rodón (#55, 32, LHP, 18-9, 3.09) vs. Shane Bieber (#57, 30, RHP, 4-2, 3.57)
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
RF A. Santander S
2B I. Kiner-Falefa R
SS A. Gimenez L
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
Well, THIS is a fine mess they’ve gotten themselves into, eh?
Any time you can say, “Well, we need Carlos Rodon to not suck for us to avoid elimination,” then you know you might not be getting what you want.
One interesting fact, though, is that the Blue Jays’ record of the most runs scored in the first two games of the postseason? It just edged out the previous record held by the 2020 Yankees. And, well, the 2020 Yankees didn’t make it out of the ALDS, for whatever it is worth.
So come on, Blue Jays, choke like the 2020 Yankees!
They’re not going to choke like the 2020 Yankees.
It’ll soon just be me dreaming about Kyle Tucker playing here next season…
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Flash “they need a strong pitching performance from Rodon.” Deep!
I’m watching the pre game. So terrible. Why don’t they use Cone and Paul.
Against fastballs and knuckle curves LHBs are 4-50 with a slg under 300, RHBs slg over 600.
Flash:Yankees think they have the advantage against the bullpen, this after saying only Devin and Bednar can be trusted.
My prediction if the Yankees don’t score in the first they won’t win.
Shouldn’t Vladdy be batting second?
Even for Rodon, that was a pathetic walk. Right in front of Vladdy. It’s just so comically stupid. You have to TRY to be as stupid as Rodon.
And then he starts Vladdy 2-0. This is just hilarious in how awful it is .
Vlad on deck how can you possibly miss that badly?
It was comical in how bad it was.
I mean, we all saw it coming, but even while seeing it coming, it was still shocking in just HOW pathetic it was.
A shitty walk, then fall behind 2-0 to the guy who owns you – WHAT COULD POSSIBLY HAPPEN NEXT?!
Was ball 3 a strike?
Would it have been insane had it been called a strike? No, but you’re unlikely to get that call.
All this AND he’s throwing a ton of pitches. It’s like he and Fried are competing over who can choke the most.
Yeah, yeah, yeah why don’t they hit other teams as well as they do the Yankees.
Yeah, there’s definitely something unusual about just HOW badly they abuse the Yankee starters. We’ve seen Fried and Rodon pitch much better against other teams, but they both just ABUSED by Toronto. It’s crazy.
I don’t think there’s any actual cheating going on, it’s just a weird fluke, I imagine.
I trust James Rowson.
Will Judge ever have a series like Vlad is?
Judge started off hot. It’s only been recent years that he’s been terrible.
And few players are ever THIS hot.
In all seriousness, once he fell behind 2-0, he honestly should have just walked him. That’s not to say that they wouldn’t have still scored the runs, but at least it wouldn’t have been quite so pathetic.
The walk to Schneider, missing that badly on3-2, should call for an automatic fine. That was criminal.
It was just beyond the pale. I had low expectations for Carlos Rodon, and it STILL shocked me how bad it was.
I mean, that 2-0 pitch after walking the previous guy, a BLIND man would have seen that result coming.
It’d be swell if Grisham could do anything.
The difference between 2-0 counts. Pa-thetic.
Rodon, so weak, so very weak.
Weak is exactly how I would describe him. Just a weak-minded loser.
Their guy hits home runs every game, our guy hits singles.
Grisham and Bellinger continue to do jack shit. Let’s see if Rice can complete the trifecta.
James Rowson loved that, a fly ball.
Rice tried desperately to suck, but IKF wouldn’t allow it.
Now the next Yankee hitter who is in a huge slump, Stanton.
I truly can’t believe Stanton took that strike. What is WRONG with him lately?
Singles while the other team hits homers.
But, fair enough, a run is a run is a run.
Thank god Jazz wasn’t swinging 3-0. I mean, it might have worked, but you don’t want THAT dude swinging 3-0.
HOW DO YOU TAKE THAT PITCH, JAZZ?!!?
WHO THE FUCK TAKES 3-1 DOWN THE MIDDLE?!
He was looking for something and he wanted to get on for McMahon with the bases loaded.
Dude has 30 home runs. I want him swinging 3-1.
At least Bieber looks pretty shitty, too.
Way to make them pay for going 3-0.
All that for a run. They sure do know how not to score when they don’t hit a HR.
RHBs. 2 for 2
LHBs. 0 for 4
Who saw that coming
Not Boone
It’s very annoying.
Fundamentally sound.
Rodon, 40 pitches and counting. So weak.
When you can’t throw strikes to IK-fucking-F, what are you even doing?
Just who I want up with two men on.
Trying to get it over early.
Weak sauce Rodon.
The pathetic thing is there isn’t really anyone else I’d prefer here, ya know? I guess maybe, what, you let Gil pitch a few innings?
How do you challenge that not knowing for sure it wasn’t a HBP?
I feel like he deserves a medal for somehow having a scoreless inning. Just needed another 90 pitches or so to do so against the bottom of the lineup.
They got a first inning run, so they have NO excuse for being frazzled. They should be locked in.
Fuck, man, McMahon’s been putting some really good wood on the ball, and nothing to show for it.
He needs to pull some of those.
Ninth strikeout in his last 13 ABs for phenom.
At least they clear the two pitchers’ spots for next inning.
i don’t get why boone wouldn’t shuffle the lineup a bit.
you can still mix and match as the game goes on…
Best hitting team in baseball. And especially good up or down 12.
The first non-moronic thing Rodon has done tonight.
The Jays will obviously still score these two runs and THEN some, but at least he wasn’t dumb enough to pitch to Vlad with first base open.
It’s really just what we mentioned earlier, Rodon was bound to fuck himself into a position where he HAD to throw a strike, and he’d be killed.
Rodon is fucking himself over enough without you helping, ump!
I mean, come on, Varsho suddenly being Barry Bonds is really fucking annoying.
The best team Boone has ever managed. If they get blown away in the division series after getting dominated by Boston and Toronto in the regular season while having the worst post season record of any Yankee manager could that cost him his job? Girardi lost his job after losing game 7 in the ALCS.
Losing Game 7 was just the pretext for Cashman to put his guy in there.
There will be no repercussions for this garbage.
bellingers first error this season it seems like. great
Yeah, perfect timing.
Fundamentally sound Boone team. The Dodgers laughed at the Yankee lack of fundamentals.
Well, next year, hopefully Cole and Schlittler will be ahead of both of these headcase bums.
that’ll pair well with a new catcher, 2b, ss, and cf
And phenom will play 159 games and suck again. Unwells will have a great spring training and suck. Jazz will regress. McMahon won’t hit and the pen will suck.
I am not saying the other stuff won’t happen, but I’m actually pretty confident that Cashman won’t let the bullpen suck again. I think he will invest in it for 2026.
If you can’t even put away washed up Santander, what CAN you do?
Every time I think he’s hit the bottom, he just grabs a shovel and keeps on digging.
Really, though, one of the main goals has to be improving the bullpen to the point where there is a guy you could use in this inning that would have made sense.
They really should have done more to develop Yerry.
They’re going to sweep the Yankees AND score ten runs in each game.
How does Rodon stay in the game once it was 4-1, runners on second and third?
Turn out the lights, the party is over. They say that all good things must end.
And again, I know it’s because the bullpen sucks, too, but you’d think they would have just pulled him after he intentionally walks Vlad, no? He obviously sucked tonight. It’s a fucking elimination game! Everything should be on the table, right? Not going to the bullpen until the game was over is just so dumb.
Boone pulled Gil after only giving up two in an inning where Smoltz who had been critical of Gil in the firsts two praised him in the 3rd.
George would fire Boone and trade Rodon before the 7th inning.
The good ol’ “Now that the game is over, let’s pretend like we were ever going to actually do anything” time of the game.
Also, Judge can get singles any time…unless it matters to the game, of course. Then he’ll K.
Boone made a bad decision in game one vs Boston, pulled Gil too soon and Rodon not soon enough. The Yankees continue to play unsound defense.
He’s totally reactive. He probably got some blowback for pulling Gil too early, so he left Rodon in too soon, after pulling Gil too early because Cora did it to Bello.
Oh, baby!
And the crazy thing is that Bieber sucks, so if only Boone didn’t let Rodon blow the game in the fucking third inning, maybe I could have had a TEENSY bit of hope.
Boy, Rice has sucked this postseason.
Oh, so it’s going to be a classic “Stanton strikes out on pitches in the dirt” at-bat, I see. Nice.
I’m legit stunned he got a sac fly. Credit, too, to Belli to getting to third on the rundown. Rare smart baserunning by a Yankee.
Don’t take a pitch down the middle this time, Jazz.
Okay, I see it now, the Yankees will just keep scoring half of whatever the Blue Jays score in the top of the inning.
So it’ll be 10-5 for the final. They NEED to score 10 runs every game this series.
Bringing in a reliever for McMahon seems like major overkill.
Imagine if Boone had even a SLIGHT brain in his skull when Rodon gave up his second hit of the inning, and had gone to the bullpen at 3-1.
McMahon has had so many good at-bats this series, I would have stuck with him because of his pop, but Rosario was probably the right call. It just didn’t work out.
Had to do it.
Yeah, you’re right. He had to do it.
why take out cruz, he looks great and the bullpen is a dumpster fire.
It’s Boone. He’s dumb.
maybe since it’s the last game he wants to get everyone a little last chance to play?
although i wouldn’t mind if caballero gets Volpe’s remaining at bats.
including next year.
Volpe can’t just be an automatic strikeout every time up.
challenge accepted!
He’s trying.
What is that 10/11 Ks in the last 15 ABs for phenom?
That was pretty valuable.
Hit the flag pole!
Judge!
Let’s skip the unclutch label.
After Judge gets a hit Clay always swings at the first pitch.
The only good thing out of this awful series is that he at least has beaten the unclutch allegations.
Belli swings first pitch CONSTANTLY and rarely has anything to show for it.
Imagine if Boone hadn’t left Rodon in to get rocked.
Now pulling Cruz right away could go back to bite us.
It was dumb at the time, and even dumber now.
This is just like that Warren game where Judge tied it with a home run, just so that Devin could blow the game later.
Sadly, it is now up to the bullpen. 🙀
Flash said if it came to this we have the advantage.
Boone determined to find the reliever who doesn’t have it.
Who else do we have.
Be nice if Clay or Rice could’ve done something
Be nice if Rice could do anything this series.
I don’t know why Boone didn’t give Weaver an inning on Sunday.
I have NO idea when to use Weaver in this game.
Hill for the sixth, obviously, but could you maybe go Devin Williams for four outs, Bednar for five?
Oh, Stanton.
That’s why he should have swung 3-1 earlier.
Stanton with a good take and then a bad swing for strike 2.
Just about to complain about Jazz 439 OPS
Game 7 1960
Rosario hitting a righty. Weird.
Jazzy.
Volpe, my dude, you can’t strike out here.
HOW DO YOU STRIKE OUT THERE?! Just make contact of SOME SORT, you fucking loser!!
So which arsonist in the pen is going to blow this?
If Weaver sees this game, him.
If not, Devin, I guess?
Unbelievable phenom
Just make SOME sort of contact!
A fun combination of surprising Yankee hitting, and typical Yankee baserunning.
To be fair, Wells was probably safe.
Base running doesn’t matter to Boone and the Yankees.
Tim Hill is a fun combination of sucking, but not a pussy like these other guys.
hill, cruz, and bednar all seem to hate losing
Fuck it. Leave Hill to start the seventh.
Yep.
I think you have to let Hill start the seventh.
Hoch: Some Statcast on Aaron Judge’s HR: It was off a 99.7 mph pitch that was 1.2 feet inside (vs. the center of the zone). It’s the first time in the pitch-tracking era (since 2008), regular season or postseason combined, that a hitter has homered off a 99-plus mph pitch that also was that far inside.
Katie S Yankees Most Postseason Game-Tying/Go-Ahead HR:
Derek Jeter 12
Bernie Williams 11
Aaron Judge 10
Babe Ruth 10
Unclutch.
That was a Bad News Bears play.
IBB with the bases empty, deprived of a chance at the cycle. Come on.
PGold?
Weaver proof?
No.
the only thing that isn’t weaver proof is the IL
Ok I’ll ask. Why Goldschmidt for defense but not as as PH for Rice?
Boone is dumb.
That was my question.
Do you think the plan is Bednar for two, or Williams for four outs, Bednar for five?
Score five more and maybe Weaver proof it.
We know THAT sure ain’t happening.
Williams looked pretty sharp. Bednar’s been on ice for awhile. I’d leave Williams in.
They had to go 3-1 for Volpe to finally not strikeout.
The gambling is so disgusting. Fuck mlb.
Ernie Clement is apparently the world’s greatest hitter.
Man, if Barger faces Devin with two men on, that would fucking suuuuuuuuuuck.
Williams is imploding.
Bednar for the 5-out save.
No safety net now.
4 pitches. I’ll take it
I had the parlay Varsho 4 hits Sunday, Clements 4 hits today.
Bednar not going to have an easy row to hoe in the ninth, with the top of the order due up.
Walking Bell is a choice.
Master of the RISP hit that doesn’t drive in a run.
A first pitch popup, G, for SERIOUS?
Stanton with a quiet series, 442 OPS, but a big hit.
Bednar artiste.
Williams wouldn’t even be WILLING to come back, right?
McMahonish stop.
we play today we win das it
Nicely done by Bednar.
he looks great
NEW YORK SCHLITTY
Jeter it was 100mph at his neck.
Nice of the governor to call at 11:59.
A one night stay of execution?
Katie S Devin Williams Since Sept 7:
12.1 IP
0 R
7 H
15 K
3 BB
46 batters faced
Comments ready when I fell asleep with the Yankees losing big again: Well, we all knew coming into this series that the Yanks’ two big weaknesses were:
A) their lack of power on offense, and
B) their starting pitching.
…
…Now, shocked in the morning, I can add one more: we also knew the one thing that could save them was that lockdown bullpen!
The last 2 Yankee wins have been pretty amazing.
Agreed
Two thoughts about last night:
1) When Judge was thrown out between third and home in the third I thought that was it. Typical Yankee BS, really that was a bad play and he had no business being thrown out. Glad I was wrong.
2) Why in the fuck didn’t Grisham throw home on the Vlad play in the third? the whole play was in front of him and He was already going! He would have been out by quite a bit I think. on replay, it looked like even if Chisholm turned and threw quickly it still would have been close. That’s the kinda shit they do all the time though. Is there a less optimized team in baseball?
One of Sam Miller’s hobbyhorses is that across baseball athleticism is off the charts, fundamentals are in the toilet
Would be great if Savant could track TOOTBLANs and FARTSLAMs as proxy for individual-level fundamentals, and perhaps also individual contributions to NOBLETIGERs. The Yankee organization may be stupid and/or lazy, but they’re capable of acting on things if someone quantifies it for them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mlb/comments/ux54xb/so_we_have_tootblan_nobletiger_fartslam_now_how/