Max Fried (#54, 31, LHP, 9-1, 1.84) vs. Brayan Bello (#66, 26, RHP, 2-1, 3.96)
YANKEES
CF T. Grisham L
1B Ben Rice L
DH Aaron Judge R
RF C. Bellinger L
3B J. Chisholm L
SS A. Volpe R
LF J. Dominguez S
C J.C. Escarra L
2B O. Peraza R
RED SOX
RF R. Refsnyder R
DH R. Devers L
1B R. Gonzalez R
SS Trevor Story R
3B Abraham Toro S
LF Jarren Duran L
CF C. Rafaela R
C Connor Wong R
2B K. Campbell R
Do they NEED to win this game? Of course not, but at the same time, I think it is pretty significant if Max Fried can’t pitch against either the Dodgers or the Red Sox, and at the same time, it would also be pretty significant if the Yankees can’t hit Brayan Bello, or, moreover, if Judge can only get a single hit against the Red Sox.
I appreciate that Boone is taking the approach of, “If Rice and Grisham continue to suck at the top of the order, stick with them!”
If Judge is going to strike out all but once per game, the once better be a home run if they’re going to have a chance.
All this talk about Fried wins after losses has put the kibosh on us. L
Bello is always tough on us. O
Fenway is a home cooking field. S
Judge is in a hopefully temporary Chris Davis funk. S
phenom on his game mentally and physically.
Escarra saves an inning that began awfully, at least pitch count wise.
Of course, if you can’t hit this guy, what’s the benefit of running his count up and getting him out, the other pitchers won’t be worse.
That Fried couldn’t even have a scoreless first is so depressing.
Stanton not playing again today presumably because of another wet field. The geniuses in the FO decided against playing Stanton Friday when the weather was good, instead pencilling him to play over the weekend where the forecast was ominous. Or they could’ve sent him to Scranton. Now he’ll play at home after only 3 games and no ST. Idiots.
Rice in June 125/186/200. Trent 167/318/167. Will either of these guys be any good the rest of the season? Who will be worse? Trent hs an established level of not being good but Rice was terrible the second half last year.
Trying to bunt on ball 4 Trent. Great leadoff hitter or greatest leadoff hitter.
Oh, for Chrissakes.
Maybe he’s doing it on purpose.
Did he lose a bet?
Somebody left a Chris Davis pod in Judge’s bedroom Thursday night.
Whether it’s running the bases or defense Boone’s teams always play stupid. Two guys thrown out stealing third, two pickoffs at second, turning a townie single into a double.
Incredible.
Some real loser shit from Fried.
Peraza now has 105 ABs and he’s hitting 162. That unacceptable Cash. We just never seem to have any fill in players who are any good.
Their MiL system continues to be a black hole.
How many K’s in this series so far for Judge? I count 8 as of now,
Well at least it’s not the playoffs
Now 9 K’s in less than 3 full games for Judge.
This is an embarrassing weekend all around.
At least the Jays are also getting swept.
That they’re letting Bello get through seven is rooooough.
townies about to go 7/9 and they have a few high ceiling prospects.
4 runs in a 3 game series; after scoring 1 in the game before that? Embarrassing.
At least I’m less pissed at Fried now.
But yes, this was an awful, awful series.
Yankees with 1 hitter in the lineup other than Judge hitting over 250, Belli 253. In other words just throw strikes to this team. Other than needing rest PGold needs to play every day.
Cora has so little respect for this team that he didn’t use Whitlock or Chapman yesterday even when the go ahead rum came to the plate.
Good job machine
The first time he doesn’t strike out, he grounds into an inning ending double play. Insanity.
This is the opposite of good
LeMahieu for Rice was some shitty managing.
I still prefer Brooks Kriske. One thing I don’t get other than Narvaez being better than JC is why would you want your backup catcher to be left handed like Wells.
Well if you can do something they haven’t done since 1916, it’s impressive, no matter how embarrassing it is.
What’s that. I’m outside.
Gallo, Donaldson, IKF, Verdugo, Kriske, JC Escarra, reupping Hixie and DJ-Cash is so unlucky.
Whitlock and Narvaez count double. But at least we have a thriving farm system
They are still in first place, and 14 games over .500. You can chill a bit
But yes, this was a godawful series.
Just preparing us for what they are going to do in October (if they get there)
I like when Boone said JC being 0/17 on stolen bases didn’t bother him at all
How about 230/694 compared to 286/
Who on this team besides Judge and somewhat PGold scares anybody? Five runs in 4 games against one ace, one good pitcher and 2 league average hitters. Rodon showing you can’t really count on him in a big game.
Rays sweep the Mets, right behind the Yankees now.
Red Sox trade Devers to the Giants.
The Giants are sending starter Jordan Hicks and 23-year-old lefty Kyle Harrison, among others, to Boston in exchange, sources said.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45520142/sources-red-sox-trade-rafael-devers-giants-stunner
Devers to Giants. MLBTR “ In a shocking mid-June blockbuster, the Giants are acquiring star slugger Rafael Devers from the Red Sox, according to Robert Murray of FanSided. Right-hander Jordan Hicks, left-hander Kyle Harrison, and other players are headed to Boston as part of the package. Julian McWilliams of CBS Sports reports that two minor league players are headed to Boston alongside Hicks and Harrison. McWilliams adds that the Giants will absorb the remainder of Devers’s contract with the Red Sox in its entirety. Murray later identified those two prospects as outfield/first base prospect James Tibbs and right-handed pitching prospect Jose Bello.”
On quick examination Sam Horn doesn’t seem happy.
Who will be the next star the Red Sox run out of town? Although this time the bitchy postmortem articles will be accurate
While it’s a bit of a punt on this season, it’s probably good for them long term to get rid of Devers’ money, no?
Huh, reading more about it, nope, this was just a bitchy, bitchy Red Sox move. Abraham reports that the Red Sox felt that Devers, in effect, didn’t deserve the money because of his attitude. Crazy.
Going to war with your star feels par for the course for the Sox, unless he’s a white guy with a pedo brother
Who dat?
I wonder if the townies asked to certify the trade after today’s game?
Pedroia
Ohtani to start tomorrow.
… for 1 inning.
I think what Ohtani has done is amazing, BUT, if he were to just be a RFer, I think he can be just as valuable and not risk blowing out an arm and having his bat be lost. I get that he *really* wants to be a pitcher/hitter. Quite a few great players also have great arms and they have all eventually picked a lane. He’s had under 500 IP in 7 seasons. That’s basically a reliever’s workload.
I like that the Yankees got swept in Boston but it somehow wasn’t the most embarrassing thing to happen at Fenway this weekend.