Carlos Rodón (#55, 33, LHP, 1-2, 2.88) vs. Parker Messick (#77, 25, LHP, 6-2, 2.40)
YANKEES
DH P. Goldschmidt R
1B Ben Rice L
LF C. Bellinger L
3B Amed Rosario R
CF T. Grisham L
RF J. Caballero R
2B J. Chisholm L
SS A. Volpe R
C Ali Sanchez R
GUARDIANS
RF A. Martinez S
DH Jose Ramirez S
1B Rhys Hoskins R
LF David Fry R
2B T. Bazzana L
CF S. Fairchild R
3B D. Schneemann L
C A. Hedges R
SS B. Rocchio S
You seriously couldn’t just TRY to let Jones play against a lefty? Especially since, well, come on, how much of an advantage is Volpe against ANY pitcher, even a lefty, versus Jones?
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No hitter gone. Shut out gone.
Rodon couldn’t even wait a single batter before pissing me off. Man, does this guy get to me.
Cabby has a lot to learn in RF.
That WAS a good bunt.
Jones was raking last night. Of course you sit him to have your superior SS play out of position in order to keep Volpe in the lineup. It’s the Yankee way.
Okay, I certainly was not expecting THAT.
Clutch forced error there, Volpe! Attaboy!
Cleveland panicking.
Escarra is NOT good, no doubt, but when he’s at-bat, I feel like he at least knows how to swing a bat. He’s just bad. I don’t think I’ve seen Sanchez even have a REMOTELY competitive at-bat just yet.
Hard to give a guy with a 1.010 OPS shit, but Rice seems like he might be a guy prone to going into slumps (like Stanton and Judge). Remember that crazy stretch in 2024 when he became absolutely unplayable?
You can’t compare now to then. He’s a different player. He’s constantly improving.
Oh yeah, that’s why the “might” is in there. Hopefully not.
Volpe really needs to be sent down, almost for his own sake.
Seems like there’s no other choice. Let him play second and third and see if he can return to being a mediocre hitter instead of a hopeless one.
Peraza OPS+ 113.
2 for his last 18, as he slowly makes his way back to Earth.
AAA stats of two completely random shortstops
Player A .258 .340 .436 .776
Player B .227 .291 .383 .674
Austin Hedges is fucking Mike Piazza against the Yankees, Ali Sanchez against every other team.
Rodon being Rodon.
Boy, do I hate this dude. Puts the team into a hole right off the bat, they give him a 3-1 lead, and he promptly fucks that up by giving up a double with two men on to Austin fucking Hedges?!
Come on Brian don’t be unfair. Mike Piazza’s a great hitter!
I wonder if the Red Sox would actually consider trading one of their catchers to the Yankees. I automatically dismissed the notion in the past, but they can’t keep carrying three catchers, right?
At least the Yankees didn’t make three super quick outs to make Rodon go right back out there.
I’ll give it up, Rodon answered that easy inning with an easy inning of his own.
Just at least make it so that Messick can’t pitch another inning, dudes.
A strikeout to a triple. Thank you, ABS!
You can’t just bunt every time, dude.
How in the fuck do you throw that shit that badly?
Good challenge Trent. Better slide.
What a slide!
Imagine bringing in a reliever to face VOLPE.
No pinch hitter against RHP?
Now phenom will be here until October.
That was a Pyrrhic double.
PGold’s got that down pat
If you give up a double to Volpe and then WALK Ali fucking Sanchez, I’m pretty sure you have to commit seppuku right on the mound.
Rice just barely clinging to that 1.000 OPS by the narrowest of threads.
Cabby!
If someone could bottle the difference in joy we fans have when Cabby is up as opposed to when Volpe is up, you’d make millions.
I sadly almost want to see how far Rodon can go in the low 100s. The bullpen is so short today.
They brought the guy in billed as a cy young candidate. I get he was injured but it would have been nice if he could have attempted another inning. Even with the day off, the pen does need the rest.
Cy Young winners pitch 6 innings these days.
I legit wonder if Sanchez will ever get a hit as a Yankee.
Headrick is this season’s Tanyon Sturtze.
Scott Proctor who’s greatest moment was giving up a walk off home run to Longoria.
how sweep it is
BeforeAli’s walk
Kirschner Wild stat: Since May 1, Yankees catchers have a combined 8 wRC+, a slash line of .130/.205/.165, and a strikeout rate of 30.7%. They have a combined 15 hits and 11 walks since May 1.
In June, a Yankees catcher has yet to reach base. 0-for-22, 0 BB, 10 K
6-3 lead after 6 and a bullpen that’s overused with a long man just waiting… so let’s use “every day Headrick!” At least he used Yarby for 2. (And from what I saw Yarby didn’t have much so maybe in hindsight that was a good move.)
Volpe – 1 hit, one error. Is that a good game for him?
I think they should send Volpe down to learn baseball
That would require the arrogant past-his-prime GM to admit he was wr-wr-wrong.
I think the important thing here is that we should wait for them to not send Volpe down before we criticize them for not sending Volpe down.
As I noted before, they have no one else on the 40 man. So him being on the roster now is fine. It is if they keep him on the roster that would be the problem.
It seems like poor resource management that they haven’t turned him into something else.
He’s sucked. Not much you can do there.
he did get that GG.
gil did get that ROTY
not much to show for either.
Lombard 2-5 with a dourble. The Martian 1-4.
2 dourbles