Brent Suter (#37, 36, LHP, 0-1, 2.08) vs. Max Fried (#54, 32, LHP, 2-0, 1.93)
ANGELS
SS Zach Neto R
DH Mike Trout R
RF Jo Adell R
3B O. Peraza R
2B V. Grissom R
1B N. Schanuel L
C T. d’Arnaud R
LF Josh Lowe L
CF B. Teodosio R
YANKEES
CF T. Grisham L
RF Aaron Judge R
LF C. Bellinger L
DH G. Stanton R
1B Ben Rice L
3B Amed Rosario R
2B J. Chisholm L
SS J. Caballero R
C J.C. Escarra L
It sure would be nice if Max Fried went back to pitching like an ace. The whole complexion of this team changes when Fried and Schlittler are both pitching like aces, especially with Gerrit Cole pitching a rehab game this Friday.
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The @Yankees’ No. 3 prospect tosses first-pitch strikes to 17 of 21 batters and K’s 6 across 5 2/3 scoreless frames:
Yankee pitchers giving up walks and home runs.
It’s hard to believe that Rowson couldn’t fix Peraza. OPS 884.
It’s maddening, as Fried isn’t even a home run pitcher!!
Peraza is one more indictment of the Yankees’ coaches. They just keep turning gold into straw.
He had a a 47 OPS+ in 2023 when given a chance at regular playing time, was hurt for most of 2024, then had a 26 OPS+ last year for the Yankees when given a chance for regular playing time, he then went to the Angels, and had a…44 OPS+
There is no way he suddenly became a 130 OPS+ guy. It’s like when Ben Rortvedt had a .900 OPS a couple of years ago, and then remembered he was Ben Rortvedt.
But it definitely sucks that he’s doing it right now in this series.
Seriously, Fried?
It’s goddamn pathetic how much he has been choking the last few games.
Judge takes the lead on points
It’s hilarious that the dude is slumping and is also leading the Major Leagues in home runs.
Same thought!
Just crazy.
Stanton was hot as fuck, and then they sat him for two days, and he’s been cold as fuck since then, but now they insist on playing him EVERY DAY despite no off days. It’s so fucking stupid.
Boonetown.
Stupid.
Boone.
Sorry for repeating myself there.
BOONE, YOU HAVE TO STOP LETTING JAZZ CHALLENGE PITCHES!
Mr 6-15 shouldn’t be challenging strikes early in the game.
He’s obviously too stupid to be allowed to use challenges at ALL.
Watch Cabby swing first pitch before Jazz can steal second.
Right on cue, Cabby swings at the first two pitches.
A nice useless single because he didn’t let Jazz steal second first. ARGH.
Good thing they stole bases NOW for the guy who hasn’t had a hit all season.
It’s almost like a bunch of random morons on the internet could manage better than Boone.
How are you going 3-2 on JC fucking Escarra?!
Two RISP and a top 10 offensive catcher batting.
That was offensive, all right.
Even for JC Escarra, that was pathetic. He clearly knew to foul off close pitches in the at-bat until he just decided to…stop?!
He’s 1-23 catching runners and can’t hit a lick. Thats the best Cash can do.
Nice 3-1 coming to Mike Trout. Smart pitching, Fried!
Should Judge bunt the tying run to second here?
Enter Sandlin
Enter Stanton
Smart of Boone to give Stanton back to back days off.
Fifth dimensional thinking by Boone!
I appreciate the thought, but Grisham should probably not try to steal again.
Stanton!
I’m completely confident that Fried will respond well to having a lead now.
Did Luis Gil give his disease to Fried?
“He had a a 47 OPS+ in 2023 when given a chance at regular playing time, was hurt for most of 2024, then had a 26 OPS+ last year for the Yankees when given a chance for regular playing time, he then went to the Angels, and had a…44 OPS+”
None of this, including the first stint with the Angels, is a counter-argument – it’s an endorsement. The whole argument is that everyone thought he had potential and he sucked until he had some time under his belt with another coaching staff. Everything written here is consistent with that argument.
I’m not saying it’s true, but before Rice now, Judge was their only real success story, and that’s over a LONG span. I think a dim view of the Yankees coaching of hitters is very reasonable.
No one thought Peraza was going to be a great hitter. He was a defense-first prospect. If he had a rep for hitting, they would have given him a much longer leash.
That’s not the way Paullie tells the story!
…
but even if that’s true, if he DOES start hitting, but after getting in with non-Yankee coaching, the argument STILL succeeds.
I’m saying that he’s NOT going to keep hitting well.
Ah, well if he doesn’t, then there’s no argument, agreed.
Okay, I take it back. I don’t think Fried is choking in this game, I think he just doesn’t have his good stuff today for whatever reason, and he’s actually battling pretty well for a guy with bad stuff.
They are going to need to score some RUNS, as even if Fried can get through six, they’re probably going to have to pitch Chivelli and Doval today, and, well, a one run lead will not do.
Now that Cabby is taking pitches, Jazz ISN’T running. Make it make sense!!
I’ll give Boone this much. You probably shouldn’t pinch hit for Escarra here.
A hit! Wow!
Dang, almost took advantage of that short porch.
Well, they HAVE to win now, right?
Come on, middle of the order, give Fried some breathing room!
What are you swinging at there, Judge?!
Has Bellinger kind of cooled off?
Yeah, he’s slumping big time.
Scary, scary inning here.
Shouldn’t we be beating up on this guy?
It’s so obvious that Grisham’s fielding icon is Rickey Henderson.
He catches the ball JUST like Rickey. Amazing he doesn’t drop more of them.
He keeps putting himself into some awful counts with Trout.
Dude, he’s not going to offer at a pitch at his head.
He’s a bit a’fried of Trout.
I don’t blame him.
Given the narrative of this series, it’s the right thing to do.
Two outs, I’d be okay with it. One out and the #3 and 4 hitters up, including a guy who already hit a homer off of him today, I don’t like it.
Yeah, I wouldn’t have wasted pitches, I really mean I get the last pitch to walk him.
Why would they blame that on the throw. That was totally Chisholm failing to catch it.
Now it’s two men on for the guy who hit a homer off of him, and who he had a LOT of time putting away last time he came up.
That’s why I don’t like the walk. It’s not smart pitching.
And once again, Fried chokes away a lead. Things aren’t going to go well if Max Fried can’t hold on to leads.
Boy, Amed Rosario is just not a very good fielder.
What’s that in Rosario’s mouth?
They better bring Hill in.
They better drive more runs in.
You truly don’t have to go to 3-2 on this guy, Cruz.
Godawful performance by Cruz.
It’s tough when he apparently can’t miss bats… finally, there, they missed one and he’s out of it.
Before that they just had too many tries, and even then that last hit was awful luck.
Yeah, fair point, both of the hits he allowed were fluky. The walk, though, was all him.
Exactly – and that’s what I meant, he couldn’t miss bats today, eventually they walk or put it in play, which is not a good thing for him.
Fried has to own a lot of that, as well. He’s been choking SO MUCH lately.
Maybe Rice should still start against lefties, huh?
I still think the right call once Cruz walked the bases loaded was to bring in Tim Hill. Lefty batter, and Hill is great with the bases loaded.
How is Rice not in the lineup every day?
You begin to wonder whether Chisholm will hit 50 home runs this year.
Or in the rest of his career.
No one ever said Cabby was the smartest player in the world.
Charming. And such perfect timing.
Can’t complain about Cabby these days, though.
Agreed. You just sort of take the good with the bad with Cabby.
Don’t complain too much about Cabby, or Cashman will replace him with a Waymo.
Chivilli against the top of the order. This’ll be interesting.
Five fucking home runs. Insanity.
And two for the non-Yankee rest of the season.
Which is why walking Trout wasn’t THAT dumb.
Just imagine if Trout played his entire career in the Bronx, against the Yankees pitching staff.
“Just imagine if Trout played his entire career in the Bronx”
I liked this part.
This bullpen just can’t help itself as the wheels have come off.
I mean, it was already 3-3 with runners on second and third and one out when the bullpen entered. This is mostly on Fried.
Man, ABS is really big for shit like that. That was an absurd strike call.
Escarra framed it great, have to say.
Imagine if we didn’t have a magical pitching coach.
This team fucking stinks. We deserve to have been swept at home. Tampa looked like so much the better team. The Halos also.
Looks like Chivilli is yet another mental midget.
Maybe he just stinks! Another part of Cashman’s magical bullpen thinking. Why shouldn’t Bird and Doval be much better than last year? Cruz will surely be able to throw strikes and finish off the 8 hitters when he has them 1-2. Some Rando will match 2023 Luke Weaver.
You look at the pitcher who struck out Neto and Adell, he doesn’t look the same as the guy who walked Peraza and Grissom. It’s mental fortitude with these guys.
The Trout home run wasn’t even that bad. Trout’s a Hall of Famer on a hot streak. The walks, though, were awful. And they looked like a lack of concentration. Like he clearly came into the inning with an obvious intentionality, and he just let it fall away as the inning went.
That call at 2nd is nuts.
He DIDN’T block ANYTHING.
Agreed.
If the Yankees didn’t suck so much I might’ve gotten angry.
Judge was only sort of exaggerating when he said Trout is the GOAT. Among CF’s, Mays and Mantle would have Trout beat; but a healthy and greenied Trout (or Griffey Jr) could give them a run for their money. (Of course, we’d need to give Mantle the benefit of health after his early career leg injury, in which case he probably becomes Mays.)
That was an awful AB by Judge.
SO bad.
Again, why can’t this dude just be the fifth starter? Was he just TOO FUCKING GOOD at that role last year for him to have it this year?
Well …
You were saying?
Jazz is bragging about how well they hit Romano. Jazz you hit a fucking pop up. Jazz you’re hitting 182/518. Get over yourself.
I hope he has a nice hot streak, and they trade him at the deadline.
Just walk Trout after the balk, dude.
It’d be funny if you committed an intentional balk just to give yourself an excuse to not have to pitch to Trout.
Well, at least it won’t be a one-run loss. Dang, Yarbrough, after I was defending you as a fifth starter!
Oh dear, dear, dear, dear.
Imagine if they hadn’t won that crazy back and forth game.
Jordan Romano is the only thing standing between this team and a NINE game losing streak.
Suzie was saying how no one expected this to be a competitive series. And it wasn’t.
Nice to see them battle back like that in the eighth.
Getting 92 mutts, 65 Yankee vibes from this team.
Boone ejected. Why should he get to leave early?
Mr 5–20 with a soft ground ball.
So soft I thought he might run it out, but he didn’t even seem to be trying his best to do that.
I’ll take the under, think he’s more likely to go 4/20.
It’s not enough of an advantage that they’re facing Escarra?
JC Escarra is not a major league hitter. Does Boone really believe he’s top 10 or 15? Or is Boone delusional.
Katie S Yankees pitching last 4 games:
13 HR, 18 BB
The only other instances in franchise history that Yankees pitching had any 4-game span with 13+HR and 18+ BB allowed were July 2019 and September 1985.
If Peraza hits anywhere near he is now and phenom continues to OPS in the 660s will anyone in the FO take a hard look at our hitting coaches minor to major.
I mean, the shitty Yankees are 10-9, and the awesome Rays are about to be 11-7 (they’re about to sweep the White Sox). So if ever there was a time to be struggling, it’s now.
Boone “I know we’ll hit our stride. I feel like we’re doing a lot of things well. We’re slowly hopefully getting the offense going a little bit.”
US Energy Secretary yesterday “Just because it looks like we’re going in the wrong direction doesn’t mean that’s the direction we are going.”
September 85…bad times. Amazing offense – peak Mattingly, Winfied, Baylor. Ricky, etc and an 8 game losing streak in September that doomed them. Sigh. It got so bad that Billy Martin had 3b Mike Pagliaurolo bat righty for one at bat…
Much more amusing than this game is this transcript from when Tommy Lasorda pulled Doug Rau in Game 4 of the 1977 World Series:
Davey Lopes: Fucking Jackson gets jammed on a (unintelligle)
Doug Rau: I feel good Tommy.
Lasorda: I don’t give a shit you fell good, there’s four mother fucking hits up there!
Rau: They’re all fucking hit the opposite way!
Lasorda: I don’t give a fuck!
Rau: Tommy, they got a lefthander hitter, I can strike this mother fucker out!
Lasorda: I don’t give a shit, Dougie. (Helen Dell serenades with the organ in the background).
Rau: I think you’re wrong.
Lasorda: I may be wrong but that’s my goddamn job.
Rau: I ‘aint “fucking” hurtin.’
Lasorda: I’ll make the fucking decisions here.
Rau: (unintelligible) am I pitching that bad?
Lasorda: I’ll make the fucking decisions here. Okay?
(Pause. Organ music continues)
Rau: There were three runs on the fucking board yesterday!
Lasorda: I don’t give a fuck!
(They are both screaming at each other at the same time, believe me, I had to listen to this 7 or 8 times to decifer what they each were yelling at each other)
Rau: Hey Tommy I can get this fucking guy!
Lasorda: I don’t need this shit! Goddamnit! I make the fucking decisions! Keep your fucking mouth shut! I told you!
Davey Lopes intercedes: This looks bad up here man, just back off the fucking mound and you want to talk about it, talk about it in the office.
Lasorda: Talk about it in my fucking office!
Rau: If I f didn’t feel good then I wouldn’t saying nothing.
Lopes: I’m just saying, talk about it inside. This isn’t the place to talk about it. Okay? That’s all I’m trying to say. You jump on me! Shit! I’m just trying to avoid a fucking scene out here, that’s all!
Lasorda: That’s right. That’s fucking great for you to be standing out here talking to me like that.
Ramsey (PA Announcer): Your Attention please, coming in to pitch for the Dodgers, number 36, Rick Rhoden
(meanwhile, the argument continues over Ramsey’s announcement)
Rau: If I didn’t feel good, I wouldn’t say so.
Lasorda: I don’t give a shit Doug! I’m the fucking manager of the fucking team and I gotta make the fucking decisions. And I’ll make them to the fucking best of my ability. It may be the fucking wrong decision, but I’ll make it! Don’t worry about it, I’ll make the fucking decisions. I gave you a fucking chance to walk outta here. I can’t fuck around, we’re down 2 games to 1. If it was yesterday, it’s a different fucking story.
Rau: There’s a left handed hitter coming up… (unintelliglble)
Lasorda: I don’t give a shit! You’ve got three left handed hitters and they all got fucking hits on ya. Rivers, Jackson and the fucking other guy (it was Chambliss). They all… The guy that just hit the ball was a left hander wasn’t he?
Rau: I jammed him. I pitched him on the inside part of the plate.
Lasorda: I don’t give a shit whether you jammed him or not. He didn’t get out. I can’t let you out there in a fucking game like this. I’ve got a fucking job to do. What’s the matter with you?
Rau departs mound. A little scattered applause is heard.
The rest of the discussion, I’m not sure who it is with, but it is about whether to play the infield in or not. It may be with bench coach Monty Basgall
You can hear the following:
“Upper deck.”
“Just (unintelligble) the Motherfucker to the side.”
“That way you’ve got nothing to worry about.”
Lasorda: Should I fucking bring ‘em back? I hate to play ‘em in the second inning with a fucking left hander. I’d rather play ‘em back. We can’t give ‘em two more this fucking early. Play them back.
Basgall: “Back, back, Lopes doesn’t want to go back. Get the fuck back. “
Someones yells “TIME!”
this team lol
That the Yankees allowed Trout 5 HRs is a disgrace; the pitching is so often quite clueless.
I don’t mind the Weathers home run or the Chivelli home run. First inning, good hitter hit a home run off of you. Whatever. Clarke Schmidt gave up a first inning homer to Ohtani. It’s not a big deal. Cole would give up first inning home runs to good hitters, too.
Chivelli, it’s a two-run deficit in the 7th inning. You SHOULD be challenging Trout there.
The other times, though, were Gil walking Neto up one to face Trout, which was insane. And obviously, Bird and Doval both going from ahead in the count to 3-2, thus forcing them to throw a strike to him that he was waiting for, those were the WORST.
Among things to be upset about, getting beat by one of the great players of all time is pretty low on the list.
Agree with Brian – walking guys in front of a white-hot Trout? That’s something to be upset about.
Been a while since he’s been great.
Hey guys, don’t give Hal any ideas. https://theonion.com/all-marlins-walk-up-songs-royalty-free/
Or do, and let him actually spend money on the team.
Cashman has another reclamation project sitting in AA. Marco Luciano was a consistent top 50 prospect even ranked top 10 by Baseball Pro. Sucked for the Giants. Hitting 364/1250 at AA.
Cashman has done a fantastic job building a perennial championship contender in Somerset, and now in Scranton too.
A ring is a ring
That’s what Gertrude Stein said to Shakespeare in her mind.
Rosario over Mac against Wacha RHP
Hoch With KC tossing LHPs the next two days (Noah Cameron, Cole Ragans), plus two lefties forecast in Boston, Aaron Boone said “there will probably be a lot of” Amed Rosario at third base while Ryan McMahon works on mechanical ‘tweaks.’
With the Savannah Bananas scheduled to play at Yankee Stadium next weekend, who is the most likely Yankees legend to make a guest appearance? Johnny Damon and Nick Swisher have already done it (though Damon was in Boston, not the Bronx).
Alex Rodriguez?