Yoshinobu Yamamoto (#18, 25, RHP, 6-2, 3.32) vs. Cody Poteet (#72, 29, RHP, 2-0, 2.45)
DODGERS
SS Mookie Betts R
DH S. Ohtani L
1B F. Freeman L
C Will Smith R
LF T. Hernandez R
RF J. Heyward L
CF Andy Pages R
2B Gavin Lux L
3B E. Hernandez R
YANKEES
SS A. Volpe R
LF Alex Verdugo L
RF Aaron Judge R
DH G. Stanton R
1B A. Rizzo L
2B G. Torres R
3B DJ LeMahieu R
CF T. Grisham L
C Jose Trevino R
This WAS a big series until the Juan Soto injury, and now, like, sure, I’d like for them to win this game, but mainly, I just want Juan Soto to be okay. It IS pretty funny that this big series will open with Cody fucking Poteet starting for the Yankees.
Whew, good we get the Twins again.
Ha!
Assuming the Dodgers are favored tonight is this the first game since Houston that the Yankees were not favored?
Battle of the feenoms I tells ya
Cody Poteet.
They manage these games like they want us to think they don’t care, just another mid-season game, no big deal, doesn’t matter that much if we lose.
Unfortunately, it works, and that’s exactly what I think.
Apple f*(ing TV.
Someday MLB will reach the promised land of literally 0 fans left.
Who gives a shit about what Boras says, do they have any comment on the actual game to be played
And apparently AppleTV means I can’t even get the RADIO feed off of MLB.com.
A88nole$
Cody effing Poteet
Oof that pitch was never a strike
Lots of pitches. Keep that going.
LOL Hernandez makes an error because the booth is distracting him
Yankee 5-9 doesn’t scare anybody.
Except Trent that is.
Free Ben Rice (as someone said); 2B 2 RBI’s.
625/2200
Fucking Torres. Pull him off the field now.
Describe, please?
Cadillaced a popup and dropped it
Dropped an easy pop up, kind of half over the shouldered it. He was looking for style points from the East European judges.
Thanks, guys.
Jeez.
Poteet, Pettitte, right, left, pickoff.
They obviously had a great offseason, but man, imagine if they had this dude instead of Stroman. Wooow.
I dunno Cody Poteet was free and he’s matching zeros
Doctor the patient’s blood pressure is dropping rapidly.
This is the right call, but it’s a real shame. That’s why you don’t walk the #9 hitter, Poteet.
The “lots of pitches” went down the terlet in a hurry.
Victor Gonzalez sucks
the announcer is completely wrong about the 3 batter rule
Given the pitching matchup and Soto on the bench, I have to say this isn’t going badly thus far.
If Blake has actually done this to Weaver and Tonkin, the Yankees should never pay a free agent reliever again.
I fear Blake has amassed too much power.
Lineup sure is less scary without Soto.
Michael Tonkin IS The Player
Comparison
https://x.com/riveraveblues/status/1799245718466756903?s=61&t=fhOaqwtc8q2TMSXUDRjPeg
LOL
Rizzo, Torres and LeMahieu are scary said no one.
Soto in uniform with a bat. Where’s the best place to use him?
“They’re not going to pinch hit for DJ,” why?
Big time walk. Do you bunt DJ?
Normally no but in this game with Soto available-sure.
Two things. 1. I legit can’t believe DJ did that on the first pitch and 2. I can’t believe they’re pulling Tonkin.
This team needs superman-level production to obviate the Boone factor.
Boone is absolutely far more likely to determine the outcome of this game than the players.
Is that a good thing?
No, Virginia, it is not. Not at all.
DJ over under 700 OPS by the end of the year? Probability of 750 of higher?
This is just his standard shitty slow return to normslity from injuries. He’ll be fine eventually, until he breaks his foot again, which he will
Let’s not get carried away I’ll give Blake Poteet and Tonkin but Calebhas not been good.
Kudos.
Now THAT is some RLYW-level complaining.
Forget the kudos, you get the much-discussed kewpie doll!
Wow. Most of us predicted pretty much this game, right?
Rice 3/5 with a home run and a double starting AAA at 636/2338. I’d make him a full time 1B and see what he can do.
HR and 2 doubles.
No Soto here? If not when?
Not today, apparently. Or not until he replaces Judge for no reason as part of some insane Boonedrivel.
Volpe! Nice.
Very nice AB Volpe.
Isn’t running a near no brainer here?
A bit of Vertigo spinning the bases
Can you IMAGINE if…
Borderline strike one
At least it’s Stanton not Rizzo.
Blah.
Pretty big crowd reaction for not much of a flyout
Crowds have no idea. You really can’t tell.
Who here would have pinch-hit Soto for Stanton?
100% I would have.
Sure would have been nice if Soto had hit for Trevy that inning.
Decent contact no flailing at a ball 2 feet outside.
Agreed.
Damn. For a second there…
Don’t like Holmes here.
Damn. For a second there.
Bah. Replied instead of new post. Anyway, why don’t you like using the best reliever in a scoreless tie in the 9th?
Bottom of the lineup, I’d save Holmes for the tenth. if Boone pitches him in the tenth, as well, I rescind my complaint.
I’d pinch hit Soto for Rizzo, then let DJ play first.
Agreed. *If* Soto is up to it, which we don’t know.
I’m OK with using Holmes, I’d go back to him if necessary
I suppose if someone gets on they have to use Soto.
RAB 4 hours ago “ I’m gonna watch the pinch-hit walk-off homer no fewer than 10,000 times before I go to sleep.”
I don’t get pulling Treinien.
You HAVE to pinch hit him for DJ if he can swing a bat.
Soto must be unable to hit.
They cannot keep running Rizzo out there, just stop.
Would it kill them to just give him another battery of brain tests?
That second swing was DJ pressing big time.
As was the fourth swing. Gross inning by the Yankees.
well, that was a quick 1/2 inning
Well that was predictable.
The pitching has been so good it has covered for the awful bottom of the lineup.
See? Holmes in the ninth means Hamilton in the tenth where a hit kills you. Don’t like it.
I honestly don’t see how they can go 1 inning/reliever. Why would they try? They’ll run out of pitchers in no time.
Don’t worry, they’ll bring in Santana, the new run fairy, if they don’t score here.
Very slick by Volpe
Alrighty!
Well, so they get through the top of the order. Score now!
Seriously. 5 in the morning here. Do it now!
Let’s go Yankees.
You all know I love me some Ian Hamilton, but I still disliked the move. Thank you, Pages!
Really nice play from Volpe there.
I can’t believe this asshole can’t even fucking bunt.
Grisham should feel awful about himself.
I guess not.
Why are they giving Grove these strikes but not Hamiiton?!
ok, Soto is hurt.
Yep.
If Grisham can’t bunt he can not bunt for some other team
Cash really has to think long and hard about the fact that he doesn’t have a single pinch hitter on the team.
Never mind, this ump is just flipping a coin out there.
That was my thought. He’s guessing.
Dammit.
That was some shitty, shitty hitting. At least Santana will get the game over quickly.
Holy crap, there’s automatic runners in extra innings?!??!?!!!!
Correct reaction.
I better not hear Boone didn’t use Soto because Trevino is good with RISP.
Nah, he’s just hurt.
Or they decided they’re just not playing him no matter what to let the inflammation pass.
Oh wow Grisham did some gamesmanship that didn’t work. How about learning to bunt you shithead
That’s that. Enjoy your weekends everybody
You wouldn’t have wanted 2 innings of Holmes before you have 2 innings of someone else?
That was some crappy pitch
Terrible pitch by Hamilton (and bizarrely bad defense by Verdugo), but this is all on the offense.
Yamamoto pitched his longest into a game tonight. So yeah, crappy offense. No Soto, Judge cannot do it every game, the rest of the lineup has so many holes.
You’re right about that, but even with that (look at your own comments!) a (merely) bad manager would have given them a significantly better chance than Boone did.
It’s not on the manager that Trent Grisham, who can’t hit at all, can also somehow not bunt.
Soto just earned himself a few more millions by showing that this team without him can’t hit for shit.
It was the same when Judge got injured in LA last season. So many non-producers still around.
Welp.
I hope they have a better read on Rizzo than they did last year because they can’t keep running him out every day. DJ also needs to get going soon (if he can)
Gleyber as well, 0.4 WAR, 85 OPS+. And a mere 21 RBIs in 64+ games.
Had Boone not managed last night’s game so terribly, Weaver would have been available tonight.
Well, they have a good part of the order coming up.
If Verdugo didn’t play that ball so bizarrely, they’d be a single away from tying this thing.
In theory this guy should be hittable, 5.6 era.
I just want someone to tell us whether they have given Rizzo any further testing. Not just, “Oh, he says he’s fine.”
Yep.
He might be healthy enough to pass a concussion protocol but not hit a baseball. He NEVER hits the ball hard.
His bat speed is 8th percentile.
In theory this guy should be hittable, 5.6 era.
Stanton missed a meatball.
Judge had to hit it out.
He didn’t, they lost.
exactly.
the team with the base record is the team with judge and soto. without both this team is the red sox.
Dumb, bad, boo.
Shocking that Rizzo hits like he has a concussion.
His AB’s are mostly sad. There is something wrong that needs to be addressed. This is another Cashman blind spot.
Agreed. This isn’t normal decline.
It’s almost like Lou Gehrig.
Also, that shoulda been a 1-0 loss. The free runner at 2nd in extras is an abomination.
Fact.
Agreed. But when the league, the TV networks and the players all like it, well, the fans can basically get fucked.
Boone “Rizzo is just a little in between, they were pitching him differently.”
With Soto unavailable, why didn’t they call up Jasson?
If he is going to be available in a few games, you don’t want to lose him for the full 10 games. However, for such a big series, I think there’s something to be said for sending Waldo down for the weekend, and calling The Martian up for the series.
Or Jones.
Jones they’d have to DFA. He’d be no big loss, but I get why they’d prefer not to.
if they think he’s the future I can’t see the point of waiting.
I would have liked to see him center anyway.
“if they think he’s the future I can’t see the point of waiting”
This. Agree. Been saying this for a while and I still see no good counterargument.
personally, I don’t think dominguez earned it last year. he didn’t spend his time in the sun to the effect that time in the show means all that it could. (pure speculation mind you)
This was a one-run game. A ton of little things might have changed the outcome. Any of a slew of ball/strike calls. Gleyber’s error (didn’t lead to a run, but changed the pitch count, etc.). Those things happen, of course.
But what irks me the most is still a set of managing choices. I did not watch or leave with the feeling that the game was managed with any urgency to win THIS GAME. I’ve really come to hate that about Boone.
agree. boone does not hate to lose. but if shutting down soto for a week makes sense and our fan brains can’t understand that, don’t let him pick up and play with the bat. too many mixed signals. i even get that they may have been messing with the dodgers but it just felt like they were hitting the gas and brakes on urgency the whole time.
since i have complained a lot let me also say that they have done a fantastic job with the pitching. it is unreal what they are squeezing out of other teams scraps in the pen and people like poteet.
Yes. Agree about Soto. But I really didn’t mean Soto – I’m just hoping he’ll be okay. It’s Boone’s managing throughout. Using Holmes – but just for one inning, for instance. Setting up a bunt where needed. If we look back at our feed, there’ll be at least five spots, some of them (as usual) just obvious.
narrative-wise, when Soto is back for the dodgers stadium series and the Yankees win big. it’ll all make sense.
ugh
could use some bo bichette mojo rn. or during, and rice, or vivas. time for an added push. though somewhat reactionary, that’s not always a bad thing.