June 28, 2025

40 thoughts on “Yankees (37-22) vs. Guardians (32-27), Wednesday, June 4, 2025, 7:05PM EDT”

  1. I’d like to see Rice pick it up, he’s been really unlucky as of late outside and of a few HRs. His wxOBA is still really good because he’s scorching the ball right at people.

    1. I have to agree that their chances of winning would DEFINITELY be greater if they got it to DJ.

    2. Wait – actually, given how consistently umpires get those calls wrong, I think I’ll take that back!

    4. But then why not just automate the zone to begin with?

      Oddly enough, it appears that it is to not ruin the efforts of catchers like Ecarra, who have become good at pitch framing.

    5. MLBTR “ Human umpires will continue to make the vast majority of the ball-strike calls. Each team receives two challenges that would turn to the electronic zone to potentially overrule a call they feel is incorrect. Challenges must be called for in real time by either the hitter, catcher or pitcher. An overturned call does not result in a forfeited challenge. The limit on the number of incorrect challenges encourages players to challenge only if the call is either so egregious that they’re confident they’ll get it overturned or comes on pitches that might be particularly decisive to the outcome of the game.

      Additionally, Manfred was noncommittal on when the league had interest in moving forward with a potential change to allow hitters to use bat tracking metrics to challenge check swing calls.”

      Managers have to be hands on to limit which players they trust, and what situations they want challenges to be used.

    6. I imagine in practice they players would look to the dugout for a thumbs up or down

    7. Real time. I imagine Judge and maybe Rice would have the green light. Otherwise only use the challenge late and close, mostly for strike 3 calls.

  26. Martian said “I shall return”, and he did.

    T Grisham (L) CF
    B Rice (L) 1B
    A Judge (R) DH
    C Bellinger (L) RF
    J Chisholm Jr. (L) 3B
    A Volpe (R) SS
    J Domínguez (S) LF
    A Wells (L) C
    O Peraza (R) 2B

  27. I don’t know if this is good or bad. Maybe a half season will be good for Stroman who had a 3.51era in the first half last year and a 5.98 in the second half.
    Hoch: The Yankees are building up Marcus Stroman as a starting pitcher, Aaron Boone said. Stroman threw live BP again today and felt good. He could begin a rehab assignment soon.

    Good or bad? Giancarlo Stanton will remain in Tampa for the rest of the week. He could return to New York next week to begin a rehab assignment, Aaron Boone said.

    1. Thinking about DJ and Stroman and remembering Jughead and the boys in the reject corner of the party near the beginning of Animal House.

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