Luis Gil (#81, 26, RHP, 0-0, 3.00) vs. Chris Bassitt (#40, 35, RHP, 1-2, 5.06)
YANKEES
SS A. Volpe R
RF Juan Soto L
DH Aaron Judge R
1B A. Rizzo L
2B G. Torres R
LF Alex Verdugo L
3B O. Cabrera S
C Austin Wells L
CF T. Grisham L
BLUE JAYS
RF G. Springer R
1B V. Guerrero R
SS Bo Bichette R
DH J. Turner R
2B Cavan Biggio L
C A. Kirk R
LF D. Varsho L
3B I. Kiner-Falefa R
CF K. Kiermaier L
Why are you looking to get Trent Grisham at-bats?
I can’t believe that this is the end for John Sterling. It’s pretty sad, especially because Justin Shackil sounds like bad A.I.
Shouldn’t Jackie Robinson day be on a Saturday?
Agreed.
Great start, Gil, great start.
And herein lies Gil’s problem.
Gleyber’s eyebrows?
Wow, gotta give it up, that was a hell of an escape routine, Gil!
Wow Rizzo. Is he having problems with his depth perception? Something else?
Battle Gil.
Looks like ump is pitcher friendly inside to LHBs, outside to RHBs.
Damn, their announcers are – dare I say it – even worse than ours. Unlistenable. Just awful.
We really should appreciate Kay.
I always thought Kay was fine.
Who would get a tattoo right on your neck?
And does it really say “God Bless *Me*”??
Oh dear
Something’s wrong. Not sure an MLB game with the bases loaded is the place to work it out.
Aaaaaand no one in the bullpen. Because why would you think you might need someone?
I guess Poteet can take his next start.
You’d hope it’s just a bad start and he can take his own next start. But he’s clearly off today.
Do not like IKF batting .295.
Luis Gil is horrible. Developing pitchers this way is horrible and makes for bad baseball. Give us someone who throws 92 and who knows how to pitch
Yes, you should be able to develop pitchers who throw 92 and know how to pitch. But you’re not going to NOT develop guys who throw triple digits. He’s just not right today.
On the plus side he’s only at 51 pitches through 2, maybe he can make it through another inning and save the pen
So he would have gotten out of it if not for the wild pitch?
Volpe on the other hand is amazing!
Soto is going to try someone other than Kiermaier if he only wants to hit it 110 MPH
Gil is just another in a line of the same types, a million-dollar arm and a 10¢ head.
Man, Kay’s story just now about Sterling just deciding “You know what? Fuck it, I’m out” … that may be the most admirable thing I’ve ever heard about ol’ Sterls.
Any more to it than that? Like, he just couldn’t take more warm coke and cold hot dogs in the pressbox?
According to Kay, he’d just missed some time with a medical issue and while he was recovering he just decided he’d had enough. Didn’t want to keep traveling to and from the ballpark anymore.
I deeply relate to going out with a shrug and a “good luck, assholes!”
Bummer Shackil is such a goddamn bore. They should get Charlie Steiner back, put him in the booth with Gary Thorne and corner the market on baritones.
Get somebody out.
This is the kind of game the Yankees blew a lot last year (scored a couple of runs against a terrible/rattled pitcher and then went hitless the rest of the way). Let’s see if the Jays can play that role tonight.
Flash
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No command and lots of hard hit balls is not a great combo, Luis!
Who is even the long man today? Didn’t they send Cousins down?
It might be irrational, but starting Grisham more than once every five games or so really irks me.
Suddenly looking better.
fucking gil, 5 walks
Way to keep the bat on your shoulders, Grisham!
Bassitt at least IS a good pitcher. It’s not like they’re struggling against some bum like last year.
Why is Grisham trying to steal?!
Volpe, on the other hand, should not have left the bat on his shoulders.
7 walks!#&$
I know he wouldn’t fit here, but it kills me that an NL team didn’t sign Turner. That dude can just HIT.
I have my own opinions if him, but yes
This is one boring game.
arg
Yankee warts beginning to show. Rizzo, Gleyber, Verdugo, the pen past the top 3, Cortes and Gil.
The team that Cashman built.
Seven BBs and 6 Ks, Gil needs to reverse those numbers.
A 🚨 Unique Box Score Line 🚨 a first among the more than 1.1 million MLB pitching lines in the regular season or postseason since 1901 (thanks @baseball_ref @Stathead)
Marinaccio has such and empty look in his eyes and on his face.
It reminds me of John Cusack in Gross Pointe Blank, but I don’t know that anyone else saw that movie.
Impressive bat flip from Bichette on that fly out to short center.
Win it for Sterling!
fucking hiljus, throw a strike!
stupid high spin rate fb
fucking volpe, hit a strike!
I don’t get not letting Stanton hit.
he’s like volpe
You don’t hit for the Trent Grishams of the game.
Impressive game
This loss doesn’t even sting that much. The LAST game sucked, though.
Sure but this loss demonstrates some of this team’s problems
Can they just put all players wearing #42 to bed already? It is so much become a pseudo-religious thing, yuk. And the guy they honor would be offended by it.
Why would this bother you? It’s easy enough to ignore the whole thing if you want.
zug zug
How do you know Jackie Robinson’s feelings on the matter?
You’d need to know Jackie Robinson the man and then you’d know he’d be offended. Read up about the man.
And seriously, it was 1947, give it a rest already. BTW Branch Rickey was the guy who integrated baseball and was working on it in 1943.
Don, you have a lot of credibility when it comes to racial politics. Thank you for your input.
/sarcasm
Zugzwang?
cortes day, boo
I really think Cortes is going to be good.
But this game – and so it begins.
It was a fun first few weeks, I didn’t expect them.
I miss the block feature. Is there any way to bring it back?
Go for it. LOL