Cam Schlittler (#31, 25, RHP, 1-0, 0.00 ERA) vs. George Kirby (#68, 28, RHP, 1-0, 1.50 ERA)
YANKEES
CF T. Grisham L
RF Aaron Judge R
LF C. Bellinger L
DH Ben Rice L
1B P. Goldschmidt R
2B J. Chisholm L
3B Amed Rosario R
C Austin Wells L
SS J. Caballero R
MARINERS
3B B. Donovan L
C Cal Raleigh S
CF J. Rodriguez R
1B Josh Naylor L
LF R. Arozarena R
RF Luke Raley L
DH D. Canzone L
2B Cole Young L
SS Leo Rivas S
There’s an off day tomorrow, so OF COURSE you have to sit your hottest hitter.
In all seriousness, whatever, I get it. I don’t LIKE it, but I GET it.
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You’re a remarkably understanding person!
Rice with a 2-out RBI, nice.
The old “line drive in the box score!”
Amazing that there was this time not that long ago when it seemed Wells would be an offensive advantage.
WOE. If it weren’t for the pitching, they’d be 1-4.
The offense is as unlikely as the pitching to continue on this level.
I hope.
Dead ball Deja Vu
50-50, sure.
Where is the offense?
Mr. 50-50 wannabe gets picked off.
I am enjoying the Schlittler experience.
townie pitchers getting pounded. Even Crochet gave up 4 er in 5 innings.
Weird how you could see that coming.
PG!
Don, thanks for reminding me about the T-Mobile thing!
You are welcome.
Our secret weapon.
Goldy, thank you.
Why would they take him out?
Certainly IS a pitch count thing. He was limited to 70 last out.
The best offense is a healthy Cam Schlittler on the mound.
Also, a 3-run homer from the grizzled veteran that you thought was just a platoon guy now.
Is there some place new veterans go to get themselves grizzled?
What actually goes into the process of grizzling a veteran?
Are some grizzling stations more effective than others?
Why does Snoop Dogg carry silver hair spray?
Fo’grizzle.
Dammit, Judge, come on, alreeady!
Maybe he needs some grizzling.
Man, why didn’t they challenge the pitch before the hit?
Dammit, why can’t Doval do what every other pitcher seems to be able to do?!
Is Jazz too cool to back up second base?
They are not missing Doval’s offerings.
Not liking this.
There, missed one.
Doval sucks
been saying this
We like dramatic baseball, right?
Six-hour Yankee-Red Sox playoff games?
Rumours of the fantastic Yankee bullpen (unlike the rotation) have been greatly exaggerated.
This game comes down to Schlittler vs. Schlittler’s pitch count.
Which will win?
Bednar Wetteland
I’d have taken Cone pitching there.
Has there ever been a player=announcer?
Watch Boone take out Bednar for the 9th and put in Winquest instead. Gotta get him going.
This would be a good time for some runs.
Rice, very nice.
Rice! Not grizzled, but fortified.
I believe they still have a chance to put together a serious team before Rice’s window closes.
Rice still has room to get better. He lost a lot of time to Covid.
Oh, stop, Kay, he just missed it.
He OVERjumpted it.
I’m not sure I love Bednar quite as much as Brian does.
It just seems like he’s seldom quick and efficient
Jeeezus f*ing Christ on a stick, man, how hard can you make it look!
Lagrange may be a better fit as a reliever this year.
Damn, man, don’t even start with that jerking them around stuff!
I don’t think that there is any real evidence that being used as a reliever hurts the chances of a pitcher developing as a starter. There are a number of examples of it working fine, including the Yankees with Clarke Schmidt, Michael King, and Phillip Hughes (I don’t even think Joba is a negative example. Dude just got hurt and was never the same again. And the idea of them being very careful with his pitch count as a reliever being the reason he hurt his shoulder the following year, which I’ve seen argued a few times, seems very unsupportable).
It’s been a while, but didn’t he become a lights-out closer AFTER the injury?
Maybe not. I know that at the time pretty much everyone was exasperated by their unfocused use of Joba.
No, they brought him up as a reliever in 2007, and he was lights out. They had the “Joba Rules” where he was on a strict one day off per inning pitched. Then, in 2008, he started as a reliever, and was still lights out, and they transitioned him into a starting pitcher later in the season, and he was great, but then he blew his shoulder out, and was never the same again. He still started 30+ games of mediocre baseball in 2009. In 2010, they put him back into the bullpen when Hughes went into the rotation. In 2011, he was good again as a reliever, but then got hurt again. Two more shitty, injury-plagued seasons later, he was done in New York.
Martian 1-4 with a home run, Spence bubble burst 0-4 with 4 Ks, Waldo 1-4 with a triple. Beck 4.1ip, 4r 2er 5h 6Ks.
Jones is just taking after Judge with the golden sombrero.
Yay win! Yay Cam! Yay Rice and Goldy!
still feel good about bednar
also nice that after leaving fried off the list of aces on espn, top-tier crotchet gets shellacked.
what a day!
Apparently the Mariners misspelled Cam’s last name above his locker. As if Seattle knew they’d take an L.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgVokwBB__k
Devin Williams and Luke Weaver each 3 scoreless innings with a WHIP of 1 for the mutts.
Elmer 5ip 1r 4h 2k 2bb Spence 0-3 2Ks.
Spence 7Ks/last 8 ABs