Marcus Stroman (33, RHP, 1-1, 2.12) vs. Kevin Gausman (#34, 33, RHP, 0-2, 11.57)
YANKEES
SS A. Volpe R
RF Juan Soto L
CF Aaron Judge R
1B A. Rizzo L
DH G. Stanton R
2B G. Torres R
LF Alex Verdugo L
3B O. Cabrera S
C Austin Wells L
BLUE JAYS
RF G. Springer R
1B V. Guerrero R
SS Bo Bichette R
DH J. Turner R
3B Cavan Biggio L
2B D. Schneider R
LF D. Varsho L
C A. Kirk R
CF K. Kiermaier L
Let’s hope that Gausman continues to suck. He probably won’t.
Geez louise, Judge.
Gleyber just looked embarrassing there. Holy shit, dude. Gausman was pitching to him like he was a pitcher hitting.
Oh, my.
An overall awful series for the Yankees. They need to get their shit together when they get back home (not that they can’t still come back in this game, but, well, come on, they ain’t coming back in this game).
Some just awful starting pitching for a full turn through the rotation now.
It’s amazing that they’re even going to be 12-7 with Judge being a total dumpster fire.
When do we cross the line to HOPING that he’s hurt (as at least some explanation for this)?
Probably around late May, that’s when they diagnose the oblique strain and he’s out until after the all-star break.
Must watch baseball!
Judge hitting 176 with 3 home runs and 5 GIDPs
Rizzo can’t field any more.
Oswaldo impressing.
Yep
Wells hitting into some bad luck.
Better.
If Oswaldo and Volpe are for real, that transforms this team and gives them a lot more flexibility to build the offence…
…but not if Judge is suddenly going to be below replacement level.
You know as soon as DJ comes back they’ll bench Waldo. Because they have to get Torres and Rizzo going.
I could see them honestly platooning Waldo with Gleyber and Verdugo (DJ playing third and second, Waldo playing third and left). Not even these jamokes would just bench Waldo.
Getting Volpe back into the middle of the lineup is a big benefit of DJ returning, as well.
I think Volpe is for real (maybe not quite this good), I don’t believe in Cabrera. I do think Verdugo will rebound some and DJLM returning will help deal with Oswaldo’s regression though.
Yeah, I don’t necessarily think Waldo is for real, either, but while he’s hot, I think they’ll find a way to get his bat in the lineup. Just platoon him, Gleyber, DJ and Verdugo between left, third and second.
19 games is a lot of games to be hitting 174. A ray of hope, in 2004 Jeter got off to a terrible start. At one point, from April 20 through April 28, he went 0-for-32 before homering on April 29. At the end of April, his batting average stood at . 168. He hit 292 that year and the playoffs were cancelled.
Gleyber should’ve made the play.
Not a GOOD game by Stroman by any measure, but I guess it’s not fair for me to call it “awful,” either.
Oh, so THIS is the awful inning. Gotcha. Duly noted.
They should move Judge back to #2. If Volpe gets on he can steal 2nd, eliminating (in theory) the GIDP for Judge.
We haz a run! Exciting.
The 2024 New York Yankees motto: At least we’re not the White Sox.
Man, this WOE is so painful.
I wasn’t expecting, like, stardom from Wells, but I thought he’d hit just a TINY bit. Just a TEENSY bit, instead of not hitting at ALL.
so painful
If Hamilton was available for this inning, why not use him when it was still a one run game?
Do you always go for the out there, knowing it will score a run?
Hamilton has himself to blame for that out being a sac fly and not just the second out by his inexplicable walk to Vlad.
It really was a total waste of Hamilton to bring him in with a run in and a runner on. You bring him in to start the inning, and he probably keeps it 2-1.
That’s Booner. It wasn’t his lane.
But they don’t care about in-game management. Even if it loses games.
He’s a great manager, losing game after game doesn’t seem to factor into their evaluation process.
Everyone but Soto and Waldo just looks LOST this series.
I think some of them will adjust, and this was just a lost series, but some of them…will not.
Stroman wasn’t awful, but he needed to pitch further into the game.
Wow, would be nice if Hamilton had been used when it was 2-1, and not 3-1 and a runner on.
Oh my god, even Judge’s fucking EYES are out of whack, taking two strikes right down the middle of the plate, and then whiffs on a slider. He’s looking SO BAD.
Rizzo is in trouble, but he is not as lost as Judge is right now.
The first pitch, according to the imaging, was waaaaay outside.
But that was just strike one.
Ferguson era 5.87, Weaver 5.91. Have the Yankees in recent history ever had even 1 reliever with numbers (short season) like that?
They’re apparently going for efficiency. Every pitch is a strike.
But a pop-up on the 1st pitch would have been more efficient!
Well, that’s the game.
And that was a lot of celebration for a bases-empty homer on the way to being swept.
Maybe Baseball Ref was right.
The Yankees might not make the playoffs, but Baseball Reference’s prediction system is still garbage.
The misuse of Hamilton was really mind-boggling. “Let’s use Hamilton to keep it close after it’s already not kept close by not using Hamilton.”
Interesting, from the point of view of psychology, that it’s remains mind-boggling when he (Boone) does it pretty much all the time.
Everybody but Hal, and maybe Cash, knows Boone is a terrible tactical manager.
Historically bad.
Bam.
How are they going to fuck this up? It’ll be fascinating to see.
It’s the ninth inning and they’re losing. How hard could it be?
It’ll be funny to see them walk Soto to get to Judge
Wouldn’t you?
Good start in somehow fucking this up, Waldo!
Your team just might suck if Trevi is your best pinch hitting option.
It’s so embarrassing that pinch-hitting Trevino here actually makes sense.
Trevy!
Bad move setting up the double play, though.
If Volpe ks here, you HAVE to walk Soto to face Judge.
Of course but that will be a first
Trevino the new Lenny Harris
What a series to forget for Volpe. Gotta walk Soto, right?
Volpe 1/13 this series. Jeter can rest easy.
The graphic didn’t think it just missed.
Flash’s scouting report on the ump “He doesn’t call low strikes.” Thanks, Flash!
“Not yet broken out?”
Truthfully I did not expect that.
100% right call to walk Soto, but thank fucking god.
Well, how about that.
he crushed that
I see Deja vu Sunday
Do I want to watch the bottom of this inning?
hm
Kiermaier 3-3 with a walk es no bueno
Maybe that will get Judge going. Yay comeback win.
You’re clearly ahead of my broadcast!
hmmmmm
To be fair, the ball-and-strike calling has been more-than-typically hideous.
Volpe!!
Holmes likes to make it interesting always.
Stroman appreciation comment. This team is nothing without him in the rotation this year.
Yeah, the only guy in the rotation who you think can pitch to the sixth without shitting the bed, and he didn’t even pitch WELL today.
Hicks still sucks.
Cash gave him 10 years
It was only 7 years, but it seems like an eternity.
yanks win, nice
fucking rodon, stupid al East, um, fucking… cortes
they got fight though. stopping a losing streak is meaningful
also, yay stroman. fuck you guasman
hell of a game (so says game wrap), sorry I missed it. fuck you orioles