April 4, 2025

58 thoughts on “Yankees (3-2) vs. Diamondbacks (4-2), Thursday, April 3, 2025, 7:05PM EDT”

    1. If you’re Cookie Carrasco, you simply can’t be walking anyone. He pitches so much to contact that he can’t be giving them free bsserunners.

    1. It’s so maddening. You’re 38, how do you not know what you need to do?! If a good hitter gets a hit off of you, then fair enough! But don’t fucking walk anyone! You’re not Blake fucking Snell!

  24. In the context of bridge and whist, a “yarborough” is a hand containing no card higher than a nine, meaning it’s a hand with no aces, tens, jacks, queens, or kings.

    Similarly in baseball

    2. He was released by Toronto and then by their minor league affiliate. That’s kind of scrap heap.

    3. He opted out of the minor league deal to sign with the Yankees. He’s coming off a very strong season. It was just a really odd move by the Blue Jays.

    1. I wonder if he reads this site. This is exactly what we said he should have done Tuesday

    1. 5 HR in 6 games is only a 135 HR pace. Shocking how dramatically he’s fallen off from the 243 HR pace he was on after 2 games, he’s only on an 81 HR pace since then. But he could get hot again. I think he probably finishes the year with 100-110 HR.

  36. Aaron judge is the third-fastest Yankees payer to 500 XBHs (999 games) Joe DiMaggio (853) and Lou Gehrig (874).

    Ruth was faster, but since he started with the Bosox they aren’t counting that, plus, it would be unfair.

  37. Nice start by Nestor as the Reds lose their 3rd straight 1-0 game. The first time since 1960 that a team has lost 3 straight 1–0 games, 6th time overall (the other 4 were the ‘dead ball’ era).

  38. It’s pretty wild watching a no doubt Hall of Famer in action. Like, when have we seen it in the last 30 years?

    Maybe Jeter, but his defense was SO bad I kind of discounted him. I guess Mussina but really he wasn’t a lock until the electorate changed. Cone OUGHT to be in but was not a lock. Johnson and Clemens but it wasn’t like we watched their careers and of course Clemens isn’t in though he should be.

    Mo, but you never know with relievers–but yeah I guess we knew.

    It’s still different watching a giant of a man hit for amazing triple slash numbers and fake centerfield.

    2. The way memes change. NO ONE was saying Judge was a bad CF until the Dodger Stadium injury, after which he was clearly instructed to be hyper-cautious. In fact, the wisdom was the reverse – that he makes all the plays you expect (valuable in itself), and sometimes more.
      Nor do I remember tons of games (one – sure) where Judge made an obviously bad play that contributed to a loss.
      I just don’t see any reason to believe the older meme is false and new meme-shift is true.

  40. They don’t make 38 year olds like they used to.

    Sarah Langs: With Carlos Carrasco and Adam Ottavino, this is the first time the Yankees have used two pitchers age 38+ in a game since 9/22/13, with Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera

  41. I believe the proper reading is: “Now we know that the managerial loss of the previous game was NOT because they’re unwilling to use a good pitcher on a cold day to pitch in two innings,” which leaves the more probable explanation of “This is Boone doing what he’s done for all the years we’ve been watching him do that.”
    …
    (It would have been odd reasoning, anyway, because what would you say about starters – they come out 5 or 6 times or more after breaks on cold days? Anyway…)

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