GAME 1
Max Fried (#54, 31, LHP, 4-0, 1.42) vs. Kevin Gausman (#34, 34, RHP, 2-2, 3.16)
BLUE JAYS
SS Bo Bichette R
1B V. Guerrero R
DH A. Santander S
RF G. Springer R
C A. Kirk R
2B A. Gimenez L
3B E. Clement R
LF J. Clase S
CF Myles Straw R
YANKEES
DH Ben Rice L
RF Aaron Judge R
CF C. Bellinger L
1B P. Goldschmidt R
2B J. Chisholm L
SS A. Volpe R
C Austin Wells L
LF J. Dominguez S
3B O. Cabrera S
GAME 2
Clarke Schmidt (#36, 29, RHP, 0-1, 7.45) vs. Chris Bassitt (#40, 36, RHP, 2-1, 1.88)
BLUE JAYS
SS Bo Bichette R
1B V. Guerrero R
RF A. Santander S
DH G. Springer R
2B A. Gimenez L
3B Will Wagner L
C T. Heineman S
CF Nathan Lukes L
LF Alan Roden L
YANKEES
CF T. Grisham L
1B Ben Rice L
DH Aaron Judge R
RF C. Bellinger L
2B J. Chisholm L
SS A. Volpe R
LF J. Dominguez S
C J.C. Escarra L
3B O. Cabrera S
The Yankees have officially demoted Devin Williams, so that’s some decent news, at least. I guess seeing Cade Smith dominate as the new Cleveland closer made the Yankees brain trust say, “Ohhhh…we don’t HAVE to stick with our shitty closer just because he’s an All-Star closer!”
I see Clay Bellinger is right back to the #3 spot. At least Ben Rice is leading off again.
phenom back to the 6. Looks like he’s turned the corner.
It’s truly maddening. And the Martian is perpetually stuck behind Volpe. They just think that they can wish and hope for Volpe to become a middle of the lineup hitter and it will just HAPPEN.
Jesus christ, right back to fucking awful defense fucking them again. That better be an unearned run.
To be fair, Fried fucked himself with the wild pitch, of course.
That should make the run earned now. That’s deserved. He got fucked early, but now he’s been sucking.
Yep, the run is earned now.
Let’s play zero. Is that an option?
If Waldo’s not even going to be good on defense, what is he even doing out there?
Volpe, Waldo? It’s not like we have anyone better.
Sadly, it might be LeMahieu, who was at least good on defense.
I suppose it’s not totally impossible that he might hit also.
Judge obviously felt that Gausman wouldn’t dare give him a pitch to hit when it got to be 3-0, so he sat there and took three straight fastballs for an embarrassing, embarrassing strikeout.
This game is the better matchup, Schmidt Bassit not so much.
Not good timing for Fried to pick his first game to suck in.
Some real School of Posada baserunning there by Straw.
Phenom needs to hit before or after Judge.
Yankee offense has been charitably mediocre lately.
It speaks to how good Fried is that even when he sucks, he is okay.
Pitching around Rice to get to Judge, smart
Although putting Rice and Judge on to get to Bellinger isn’t a bad idea
It’s hilarious how good of a strategy this is.
Just the guy we want up. Yep, juuuuuuuuust the guy.
Ugh.
That being a 0 RBI single is … some real Yankee-ass shit.
Waldo can’t even RUN!
Okay, they PROBABLY wouldn’t have had a runner on third had Cabrera scored, so this is about the same amount of runs as expected.
Based on my careful analysis of one AB by Belli observed on Gameday, he has no idea what he’s doing at the plate. Looked at a ball right down the gut, swung at two pitches a foot off the plate
Kay’s, like, “Despite his struggles, Bellinger still has a lot of RBI.”
Maaaaaaaaybe that has to do with batting third, Kay, huh?
Again, loading the bases to get to Chisholm, not a bad idea
Yep.
sometimes you get the bear, etc
Walking Goldy to get to Jazz was smart, too.
great minds
Jazz just had a weird reaction to the second ball. Like he was complaining about it for some reason.
Jazz has GOT to take two strikes here.
Wow, what a bad pitch by Gausman. Has he just lost it?
Walking in a run to get to Volpe is smart strategy, too.
walking home run Jazz to get to phenom. That’s Bondsian respect.
NOW he attacks the zone?
The Yankees saw something in phenom in batting practice and they’re encouraged.What a load of BS.
How insane did that sound? So, what, they saw NOTHING before Friday, and still batted him sixth all season?
40 pitch inning I think
Charity
Walking a run in to get to Wells is smart strategy, as well.
That counts as “damage”, right?
“mound visit” yeah I guess
Wow, 44 pitches and counting in the third inning for Gausman.
As always, the eternal question, what the fuck is a swing?
50 pitches!
Smart to keep him in there.
Schneider, probably, “Okay, but the 53rd pitch, THAT’S going to be the one that fixes everything!”
Wells clears the bases.
I guess with the DH they were hoping he could work through it and save the pen, but perhaps the time to question that strategy was after the second run walked in on 40 or so pitches
They oddly didn’t add a reliever as the 27th man, going with Glase, instead.
Oh I didn’t think about that. Even so though
thanks, Brian
Wait Gausman was ejected for chirping? you pitched like SHIT, dude
Was he ejected or was he leaving anyways? Most pitchers head to the clubhouse when they leave, no?
GD says he was ejected
Gotcha, fair enough. I guess you can’t really scream at the ump without getting ejected.
Gausman yelling at the ump as he leaves the dugout. I don’t think he was fucked at all. What an odd reaction.
Schultz deftly picking up the baton from Gausman
Yerry de los Santos is the Yankees’ 27th man today. If he pitches today, it’ll be his Major League debut.
If there is one thing that can save this fallen world, it’s Latin ballplayer names
Why would they let DJ play the field in the top of the 6th then hit for him in the bottom of the 6th? He was 1/2 on the day. Also he’s played 2b each game. Do they plan on moving Jazz back to 3b?
Perhaps he hurt himself on defense?
By the way, LeMahieu isn’t just hitting in this rehab spot, he’s making HARD contact. It’s nice to see. So I assume that means he’s hurt again. 😉
Oh, never mind, they’ve been pulling him early in all of his games. Makes some sense.
As to his position when he returns, I think it’ll still be third base. It’s not like he doesn’t know how to play third base, ya know? But yeah, perhaps they think he’s a better second baseman than third baseman now, and if so, then yeah, maybe Jazz will move to third.
Okay, that was a good play by Waldo at third.
Big at-bat here, as Bichette could EASILY get a single here.
I figure you just try to get one more inning from Fried, right?
Wow, what a play by Clement!
Cold potatoes strike right there
cold potatoes?
In little league, when the ump wanted to go home because his dinner was getting cold, he’d call anything the catcher caught a strike.
ah, thanks, that’s a good one
Associate manager seems like something you give a guy to help him get a job somewhere else, right? I guess the Blue Jays want to help DeMarlo Hale out. If I was Schneider, though, I’d be thinking, “Wait, is he here to take over if they fire me?”
I mean based on his handling of the third inning, maybe they should
Batter to batter in the 6th? or just go to…checks upthread…Yerry de los Santos?
By the way, Sinners was amazing. See it on a big screen in the best format you can
Volpe! Maybe he should have tried batting practice earlier than April 25th!
The “Name a Yankee” was extremely difficult.
If Volpe hits 20-25 HR and plays excellent D, that’s a valuable player. He just flails so much though, it’s ugly
No, you missed that he fixed everything at batting practice on Friday. So it’s all good now.
I mean how fucking stupid do they think fans are that you can fix a swing in one (1) BP
What the fuck was that by Straw? He’s such a good defender normally, and he just gave up on that Wells drive.
Man, The Martian against righties is just a whole other kind of batter. He’s so in control of the strike zone.
Then he faces a lefty, and it’s like he’s a Little Leaguer out there.
He probably should stop switch hitting but now’s not the time to do it
Good news for Jazz, they worked out a settlement with MLB on his one-game suspension.
Looks like the ump’s dinner is in fact getting cold
It is extremely weird that the Jays called up an outfielder and then started him. Like they are still in the race for the division and WC, this is the kind of thing you do to get a look at a guy when you’re out of the running
Again, a lefty just embarrasses The Martian.
What the fuck is up with that dude?
YERRY DE LOS SANTOS SIGHTING
Remember that game against the Rays–it was like 20 years ago–when the Yankees were down big and were facing the back end of the pen. The guy, I think a Japanese pitcher, kept giving up runs and Piniella was so mad that he couldn’t get an out that he left him in to LOSE THE GAME
Hmmm…I seem to recall the game you’re thinking of, but this is the only one I could find.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA200506210.shtml
Japanese starter, at least.
That must be the one, thanks Brian
Thing is, I totally remember the Asian reliever, so I’m confused. But it HAS to be this game, right? I guess we both confused Nomo with an Asian reliever.
Nomo did have a bad start and no doubt Piniella was steamed about that too, so that must be why we conflated it
It was the classic “Try to get the guy a win” game.
Man, remember when Tate seemed like an exciting return for Carlos Beltran?
I guess De Los Santos earned another look
I think they like him, just not enough room.
Wow, Volpe getting the star treatment with Peraza pinch-hitting for him.
Ben Rice catching!!
Ooph, Martian.
Yes, tough play, but you gotta glove that.
OTOH Tyler Matzek may not be an important part of the pen.
It’s tough to gauge a guy in a situation like this. So I’m going to need to see him pitch in a real situation first before I make any opinion about the guy.
Fried escaping that first inning mess, and the Yankees winning, is a delight. Or, as TR would say, delightful.
Amusingly, Fried’s ERA actually DID go up in the game, from 1.42 to 1.43. 🙂
Fried going six and allowing one run while having bad stuff really speaks to how good of a pitcher he is.
Mutts blow a 7-1 lead, lose 8-7 on a walk off Alonso throwing error.
When did the mutts get Devin Williams?
I really dislike Grisham leading off.
I’m cool with it
What even is a swing?
It’s hilarious how better this team is with Stroman not on the roster. They should try to basically give him to another team, just eat the money at this point.
He was known to be a team cancer, and I said it was a bad signing.
At the time, they couldn’t possibly know Gil would be as good as he was, while they also didn’t know if Cortes would be healthy. They needed someone who could eat innings.
But yeah, oooooooh boy, has he been bad.
You know he’s awful when I don’t even want him here in the BULLPEN.
See, wouldn’t that have been better coming from the #3 spot?
Seriously, though, way to go, Grish!
Did he catch Rickey yet?
TPTG.
Judge, I wish I could hit a HR.
Like 1 HR in three weeks now for Judge, one since April 5.
He had the one homer stolen from him, and he also had that triple that JUST missed.
But, yeah, it’s very annoying.
Double steal time!
Terrible play there by the center fielder to not keep an eye out on that ball. As it blew over to center, he should have been able to catch it.
Big break for the Yanks.
Ugly popup by Escarra on a 3-2 pitch.
First and second and no outs, and nada. Boo!
In situations with two on no outs, or bases loaded two outs, I like to score some runs, but the Yankees march to the beat of a different drummer I guess
That’s why Schmidt was pitching around him in the first.
Can’t begrudge a solo shot to Santander.
Schmidt has a little bit of headcase in him, as well.
Yeah he should have gone after Wagner
I find it exxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxtremely difficult seeing Schmidt outpitching Bassitt the rest of the game. And I don’t even mean that as a shot against Schmidt. The Yankees had their chance against Bassitt, and they blew it.
there you go
Fucking finally!
Home runs kill the action.
It’s great, of course, but boy, 2 home runs in 20 games isn’t exactly getting the job done.
Chisholm BETTER fucking run.
Why isn’t Jazz running?
Double are the key to baseball.
What a nice piece of hitting by Martian. Man, he’s like a whole other hitter against righties.
That they saw him v. LHP and didn’t convert to full-time lefty hitting is just another mark against Cashman and their system.
I guess we’d have to see how he looks against lefties as a lefty to know. Maybe he is just lost against lefties period.
Yay, Judge HR.
Will we see Devin in the 7th or 8th?
Oh shit, good question. I guess you sort of have to, right? Hopefully they blow it open so it doesn’t matter.
Little is STUNNED. It’s hilarious. You get that you HAVEN’T pitched well this inning, right, guy?
Looking forward to seeing Vlad come up with two men on for Williams’ third batter.
That foul ball was due to Leiter fucking around and falling behind. You gotta go after people.
Lukes’ reaction was hilarious, as he swung right through it. “FUCK!”
Hah, I guess they want no part of letting Williams face the top of the order, with Cruz warming.
No Devin tonight it seems
I want no part of Devin Williams ever unless the Yankees are already down 10
I don’t think I’ve seen a guy as fast as Dominguez give up on as many balls to left as Dominguez does.
Like, I’ve seen plenty of shitty left fielders who are slow do so, like Matt Carpenter or Giancarlo Stanton, but for a guy with speed like Dominguez, to give up on so many fly balls to left is so odd.
Can’t get rattled, Cruz!
I hope Weaver is warming
Wow, what a great splitter that was! That was strike three if he took it, too!
Thank goodness they fixed Volpe the other day.
Disrespecting Johnny Lindell
Holy shit, Escarra knew he had that the moment he swung!!
Do they let Cruz finish the game now?
lol, Escarra
I guess when they let you warm up, they will bring you in.