October 8, 2024

153 thoughts on “Yankees (45-19) vs. Dodgers (39-25) Friday, June 7, 2024, 7:05 PM EDT

  1. 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.

    1. Dropped an easy pop up, kind of half over the shouldered it. He was looking for style points from the East European judges.

    1. 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.

    1. 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

    1. Kudos.
      Now THAT is some RLYW-level complaining.
      Forget the kudos, you get the much-discussed kewpie doll!

    1. Not today, apparently. Or not until he replaces Judge for no reason as part of some insane Boonedrivel.

    1. 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?

  2. 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.”

    1. Or they decided they’re just not playing him no matter what to let the inflammation pass.

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

    1. It was the same when Judge got injured in LA last season. So many non-producers still around.

  3. 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)

    1. 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.

    1. exactly.

      the team with the base record is the team with judge and soto. without both this team is the red sox.

    1. His AB’s are mostly sad. There is something wrong that needs to be addressed. This is another Cashman blind spot.

    1. 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.

    2. if they think he’s the future I can’t see the point of waiting.

      I would have liked to see him center anyway.

    3. “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.

    4. 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)

  4. 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.

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

    3. narrative-wise, when Soto is back for the dodgers stadium series and the Yankees win big. it’ll all make sense.

  5. 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.

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