Logan Webb (#62, 29, RHP, 0-0, 0.00 ERA) vs. Max Fried (#54, 32, LHP, 0-0, 0.00 ERA)
YANKEES
Trent Grisham, CF
Aaron Judge, RF
Cody Bellinger, LF
Ben Rice, 1B
Giancarlo Stanton, DH
Jazz Chisholm Jr., 2B
José Caballero, SS
Ryan McMahon, 3B
Austin Wells, C
GIANTS
Luis Arraez, 2B
Matt Chapman, 3B
Rafael Devers, DH
Willy Adames, SS
Jung Hoo Lee, RF
Heliot Ramos, LF
Casey Schmitt, 1B
Patrick Bailey, C
Harrison Bader, CF
Welcome to the new season of Yankees baseball! The Yankees start the season on a weird West Coast road trip, so they will have their mettle tested right away, including facing one of the top pitchers in Major League Baseball tonight in Logan Webb, who recently dominated Team Brazil and Team Canada in the World Baseball Classic.
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This is Webb’s fifth straight Opening Day start for the Giants.
Only three pitchers in the last 50 years have made ten Opening Day starts for a single team. Can you name them?
Kinda shocking that 50 years only brings us back to 1976.
Jack Morris has got to be one.
King Felix has got to be another.
At a loss for the third. Verlander played long enough, but Scherzer was strong competition. Wainwright played long enough, but Carpenter probably took a few from him.
Even with the 1976 cutoff, Steve Carlton STILL did it for the Phillies ten times until 1986.
McMahon over 300 vs Webb
Netflix crew: Matt Vasgersian, with analysts CC Sabathia and Hunter Pence.
BASEBALL IS BACK, BABY
Curry said Headrick stopped lifting weights and upped his velocity.
Today is opening day???
We play this season, we lose this season. Dassit.
We play this season, we lose this season. Dassit.
Home field or not for Wild Card game?
Man, dancing crews don’t seem to match baseball.
I don’t want to hear any more about “Aaron Boone’s starting unit”
Should be on base already. I guess they won’t let batters challenge early.
No challenge?
Got a sinking feeling that Spencer Jones would have put that third strike into McCovey Cove.
Gonna be hard not to think about it with every Grisham AB.
Hit Logan Webb? Yankees couldn’t even hit Spud Webb.
Spud Webb would be a smaller target, to be fair.
Stroman-sized.
But this offense couldn’t hit Stroman either.
Friday the Spencer Jones, Martian, Elmer, LaGrange Yankees open.
A four-pitch walk to start the season is not great to see.
WOE.
That was brutal.
What is up with the weird glare on the camera?
Great battlin’ by Fried.
I absolutely HATE these commercials that act like the AI bots can come up with actual good jokes.
Thanks, Giancarlo, for staving off the embarrassment of an opening day no-hitter.
Amazing job by Stanton scoring from second on that line drive.
volpe is seething
As long as he’s sitting.
Cabby won’t give his job back!
Well, this is a pleasant surprise.
Spencer Jones could never.
Grish’s hairline is getting downright Nixonian.
Ten more years Trent
Judge is rinsed
They clearly have told the Yankees not to challenge.
Using the new rule is against the unwritten rules.
I think the idea is that they only trust Wells to make challenges.
Commercials on streaming channels is wrong.
Are the ads for gambling on baseball?
At least WOE took a vacation for one inning.
Judge 0-3 with three Ks. That’s annoying.
All 3 are Ks. Annoying indeed.
They have a day off tomorrow, so why not use their bullpen for Webb now?
Manfred just leave CC hanging? Dirty.
Judge with his 4th K. All in just 5 innings. Judge has a shot at 6, which would be a record in 9-innings.
Okay, in 6-innings.
Spencer could’ve done that.
Somebody cashed a big bet on Polymarket on Judge with 4 strike outs.
Fried at 82 pitches. Give him the 7th?
Bird in in the 7th, because they want Bednar to get a save.
Is this Birdproof?
Don’t like former Yankee JT Brubaker doing well against them.
Big time audition for Headrick.
Not doing well in the audition. Who walks Chapman to face Devers?!
Pythag in good shape. Going to be a breezy 1074-0 season.
Yay! Judge ground out, no 5th K.
Doval-proof?
Did Doval need the work? I don’t get why you use him here otherwise. This should have been Winquest’s inning.
You use him here because Cashman wants to remind everyone that he got Doval from SF and that was a Smart Move and he’s a Smart Guy.
I can’t believe Netflix put together a broadcast so bad it made me miss Flash.
Jazz was funny but also pretty sharp. Might do well in a booth some day
Dumb Netflix with a post game hot dog cart for Fried and Grisham.
So fucking dumb.
Judge on pace for 648 K’s this year, which would threaten Joey Gallo’s record.