July 22, 2026

173 thoughts on “Yankees (48-35) vs. Tigers (35-49), Monday, June 29, 2026, 7:05 PM EDT”

  2. Yankees go down meekly in first. Weathers has allowed 5 hits thru 1.1 and a Cabby error. Yankees 15 unearned runs in last 9 games, they’re 2-7.

  6. Weathers is a very bad version of AJ Burnett. Two on, two out top of second, five runs (so far) seven hits. This team is falling apart. They looked overmatched in the bottom of the first, Cabby made an error on an easy throw.

  22. Soto just played a little fly ball into an inside-the-parker for Springer, of all people.
    On the other hand, his decision to leave the Yankees is looking a lot better these days.

  28. Katie S
    Yankees last 4 games:
    38 strikeouts, 12 hits, 8 walks
    Yankees are the first MLB team since at least 1898 to have a 4-game span with:

    ✅ at least 38 K
    ✅ 12 hits or fewer
    ✅ 8 walks or fewer

    1. Ah, THAT’S what I was feeling this last week. Some classic 1990 Stump Merrill-esque vibes right here. We just need Schlittler to take the loss with a no-hitter tomorrow to complete the transformation. I mean, he had the unearned runs to do it last time. Tomorrow would be only 1 day off the July 1st, 1990 anniversary.

  31. After telling the kids to get off his lawn Jorge weighs in on today’s baseball

    Posada said today’s game has become too robotic, too obsessed with formulas, and too accepting of strikeouts.

    “The baseball being played today is garbage,” Posada said.

    He also pushed back hard on the analytics crowd trying to judge Derek Jeter’s defense strictly through modern numbers.

    “You can’t judge Jeter through a computer.”

    Now? Guys can strike out constantly, hit 30 home runs, bat .202, and still get paid like stars.

    2. … and as bad as his defense and baseruining were, Jorge would still do them better than most of this squad. And hell, given how bad Wells is at the plate, they would be better off signing Posada to play catcher for the rest of this season.

    3. For close to a decade Posada was a C with an OBP near 400 and SLG near 500. I’ll take that over every C the yanks have had since, despite his ridiculously bad baserunning.

    4. I’d take Thurman Munson’s corpse over any catcher on the roster this season

  32. Talkin yanks

    Aaron Boone tells us Trent Grisham and Ryan McMahon will play rehab games with Somerset tomorrow, then will be activated on Friday

    1. Stanton vs fried in batting practice? The mostly like outcome of an at bat isn’t a HR or strikeout. It’s an injury to one of them. Probably Stanton.

  34. Yankees slugger Aaron Judge is still a “couple weeks” away from undergoing reimaging on his fractured rib, according to manager Aaron Boone.

    That puts the Yankees’ captain toward the latter end of the four-to-six-week reimaging timetable the team gave when it announced Judge’s diagnosis — a fractured first right rib — on June 4.

    Boone provided the update in an appearance on “Talkin’ Yanks” on Tuesday, noting that Judge is improving but hasn’t reached the point where reimaging is necessary.

    “It’s probably a couple weeks still from reimaging,” Boone said. “They’ll determine when they feel like he’s doing stuff that [warrants] ‘Alright, let’s go reimage it now.’ We’re not at that point yet.

    “He’s doing some lower-body stuff now in the weight room and moving better. I think he’s feeling a lot better this week, anyway.”

    https://www.mlb.com/news/aaron-judge-fractured-rib-reimaging-update

    1. When Volpe is your starting SS for a 4th year you’re not a serious major league team.

    1. Cam gets the first two outs out on 7-pitches, then disaster. Unfathomable stuff.

    2. Even BEFORE the home run, the Torkelson at-bat was highly concerning, as he was up 0-2 and could NOT put him away.

      That said, and I don’t mean this as an excuse at all, as fuck these guys, but this schedule is fucking insane. Why are they playing the same team in back to back weeks? What’s the point of THAT?

    1. Tonight’s clean up hitter? Not possible. And phenom after a good stretch, as always happens with him, 059/158/118 over the last 7 games and average at best defense.

    2. Heat is kind of the biggest predictor of how the air density (and therefore how much more/less the ball carries) but it’s not the only thing. Wind, barometric pressure, relative humidity and air density are all part of it.

      You can use that to calculate density altitude. For every 1,000 feet of density altitude the ball carries roughly an extra 4 feet. Detroit tonight is playing around 2,700 feet of density altitude. Ball is carrying about 10 feet compared to average.

      Those bombs the Tigers hit went 410 to center (Carpenter), 424 to right (Greene), 405 to left (Torkleson), 404 to right-center (Green again). First and the last may very well have died on a cooler day. Greene (1) and Torkleson shots were going out no matter what.

  50. phenom should always be batting 8 or 9 or sitting on the bench. In other news Lombard still hurt Judge, Stanton, Grisham and 2 of our top 5 prospects on the IL.

  57. speaking of the no hit loss earlier, i think this was taken in the late 1980s – i have had it since forever. just unpacked from a move, i think ill give it a nice spot. and maybe find a cold bud and some reds to make it through the rest of this game.

    https://imgur.com/a/HHH2Ijx

  58. “I’m down on Cam big time for the last two games, but I think maybe there is something to be said for the excessive heat making the ball carry further than normal.”
    But only for the other team. Didn’t know physics could work that way.

    2. Emm yes. I think the lone accidental home run can be taken as a fluke.
      Or more seriously – the fact that it’s such a lonely outlier should make it a clear argument FOR my point, not against it.

  63. Record-breaking! From Katie S —

    ❎Yankees 16 hits in their last 5 games is the fewest hits in any 5-game span in franchise history

    ❎Yankees 5 straight games with 4 hits or fewer is the longest streak in franchise history

  66. More from Katie S —

    MLB teams since at least 1898 to have a 5-game span with 0 wins, 45+ strikeouts and 16 or fewer hits:

    2026 Yankees
    [end list]

  68. Kirschner

    Goldschmidt: 0 for his last 14
    Rice: 5 for his last 41
    Domínguez: 2 for his last 17
    Volpe: 5 for his last 30
    Caballero: 5 for his last 35
    Bellinger: 3 for his last 30
    Chisholm: 1 for his last 15
    Wells: Entire season

  72. I guess if you have to pick a time for all your pitchers to get shelled, maybe it’s best to have it overlap with your offense’s all-time-record slump.

  73. Weak lineup and guys playing out of position. He plays Jones against Skubal but sits him today?

    B Rice (L) 1B
    J Domínguez (S) RF
    C Bellinger (L) LF
    A Rosario (R) DH
    J Chisholm Jr. (L) 2B
    A Volpe (R) SS
    A Wells (L) C
    J Caballero (R) CF
    O Cabrera (S) 3B

    1. “food poisoning”
      I’d be getting puke-drunk too if I played on this team

  76. I like that it’s a day game today so we have the chance to watch this team eat shit in the sun, rather than under the lights for a change.

  77. everyone is accustomed to the franchise giving run to an overpaid vet but volpe can’t play shortstop, he doesn’t have the arm this year. wells can’t hit. do we have to get them going or can we try something else, ever?

    1. I suppose the plan is when some outfielders get back, Cabby gets the job.

  82. Paul O’Neill has never struggled like Wells has all year. Paul’s worst day would be a renaissance for Wells.

    The needle seems stuck.

  83. I have some respect for the Tigers for not having a ridiculous, contrived, marketing department approved post HR celebration in the dugout like every other insanely dorky team.

    1. i think he’d hit better than volpe but none of these fringes AAAA types seem to have the ability to come up, rot on the bench for a week, and then do anything.

    2. they’re such losers right now it’s almost hard to get worked up about it though.

  92. The needle needs a new transmission, it’s stuck in neutral 153/488. I mean JC is not this bad 188/510. On second thought, maybe he is..

  93. Payton Tolle 6/26 vs Yankees 7ip 0r 1h 7Ks
    Today vs Nats 3ip 6r 7h 5Ks

    MLB Pitchers sing “I wish they all could be The New York Yankees.”

  94. Boone is so erratic. The other day he uses Schumann in center and he played the position well. Today he uses Cabby so he can get phenom’s and Waldo’s bats in the lineup. Cabby fucked up that throw.

  97. They say they haven’t been able to run enough simulations to duplicate Dimaggio’s 56 game streak. How many simulations would it take to replicate this offensive awfulness?

  99. Lookin back should Boone have used Headrick 1.5 era over Cruz against the Boston lefties in the bottom of the tenth last week for the save?

    1. And it was an awful bunt, sheer luck that it wasn’t an out at third.

  107. “Doval who has been pitching well as of late,” in ZERO LEVERAGE situations Michael. Are there any stats that show how many games a player has had a hand in winning or losing the game. Doval is the biggest POS choke artist I can remember. We’ve had worse pitchers but not bigger fucking choke artists.

  110. Base runners were 13/13 stealing against Anderson. phenom 14th would’ve been the 14th except he got thrown out on a for shit slide.

    1. I don’t know how he managed to be out.
      You could see he should have been there before the ball.

      This is one amazing team right now. Amazing. Incredible.

  111. Doval 6 Game-Tying/Go-Ahead PA allowed in 8th inning or later this season, most on Yankees.

    When Boone is asked about something he just recaps. “Anead 0-2 on Lee, couldn’t get back in the zone, Lee spoiled a tough slider(wasn’t that tough)” Didn’t pinch hit PGold for Waldo because he believes in Waldo.

  112. How many outs need to be given up by sliding over the bag before coaches point out that oversliding the bag is just as much of an out as getting there late?

  114. Katie S Yankees during 7-game losing streak:
    17 runs scored, 17 unearned runs allowed

    Teams in last 100 years to have a 7-game stretch in a season with 7 losses, 17+ unearned runs allowed and 17 or fewer runs scored:

    2026 Yankees
    1989 Tigers

    1. That’s the funniest part. They actually were able to do that – and still get utterly stomped on.

    1. i’m still in on the martian, he’s been derailed by freak injuries. jones i like. tbh they just don’t give some people a chance and hold on to others too long (gil, volpe, wells)

  118. could they give jason heyward 50k to hit the baseball performance lab to see if he can turn back the clock matt carpenter style?

    or give volpe 50k to open a chicken parm joint?

  119. Since Boone took over every young hitter other than judge has failed. Even when they start off like all stars (Gleyber, Sanchez)l they never improve and only get worse. Some come up and have challenges immediately but don’t ever get past it (Volpe, Jasson). At some point you have to blame the manager, no?

    And judge pretty much said he listens to his outside coaches.

  120. Does anyone here think that cashman can do the right thing to fix this team? Last year he “fixed” the bullpen by trading for Doval, Bird and Bednar. While Bednar has been fine the other two have Negative WAR since joining the Yankees. Seriously they would have been better off with replacement level players! And that’s the guy the owner trusts to fix the team? He’s well past his sell date and much like his Boone hire, most things he does don’t work other than spending gobs of money on the best free agents. And if not for Judge being the best Yankee since Mickey mantle, this team would have been unwatchable this entire decade.

    1. But I thought we had a genius of a pitching coach? I guess he isn’t; you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

  121. The roster is a mess. Cody Bellinger is in a bad slump at the worst possible time. Austin Wells hasn’t hit all season, to the point where it has become embarrassing.

    Anthony Volpe goes on a tear for a week,, and some think things will be different this time. How does he keep fooling people? The thing is, I don’t care if he fools fans. The real problem is that he fools the front office and the manager.

    Jasson Dominguez hit a few balls hard today, but isn’t doing anything to convince me that living organisms on Mars are good at baseball.

    https://tomkosensky.com/2026/07/01/yankees-milb-7-1-thatcher-hurd-continues-to-roll/

  122. If only we had a manager. From Katie S —

    Camilo Doval entered today allowing a .350/.391/.550 line to left-handed batters this season.

    That was before allowing a bases-clearing single to lefty Zach McKinstry in the 11th.,

  124. I sometimes wonder – I’m not even entirely kidding – whether teams might do something in the visiting clubhouse.
    We KNOW things teams have actually done – the camera in the outfield with signals being given for the “shot heard round the world” Giants, the Astros, all the Bellichek stuff, and the drugs.
    Is it possible teams might use… there’s a ton of technology out there. There’s the food in the visitors’ clubhouse. There’s infrasound. All kinds of stuff. Stuff with lingering effects. Stuff that might make the visiting team perform suddenly worse – in the first games of this slump the Yankees just couldn’t throw to the right base – even really smart fielders like Bellinger. They were just out of it.
    Is this just highly improbable, or is it completely ridiculous?

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