October 8, 2024

143 thoughts on “Yankees (5-1) @ Diamondbacks (4-2), Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 3:40PM EDT

    1. It’s always been a mechanical issue, dating back to his highschool/college days. He fights with his mechanics, cant command anything, then he either hurts himself or figures it out and blows people away until his mechanics get out of whack again.

    1. I think Kelly deserves a lot of the credit, as he’s obviously deking them into thinking that certain pitches are better to hit than they really are. LOTS of pop ups and weak grounders.

    2. For sure, I was pointing out they’ve hit a lot of flies to that exact spot.

    1. It is weird, but it was all in one motion. If you tagged out a guy on an attempted steal but lose the ball in the swipe, he’s safe too

  1. How did they end the game with a pitcher batting? I was making dinner for the kids and didn’t understand why they’d intentionally walked someone there and my daughter could not explain how the pitcher came to be the hitter

    1. Lost DH and an injury to the guy who knocked the ball out of Rizzo’s glove.

    2. They pinch-hit Jace Peterson in the 9th. Then they pinch-hit Joc Pederson in the 10th for the catcher (in the #8 spot), so Moreno had to come in to catch in the 11th. Then Perdomo (the #9 hitter) got hurt after Pederson made an out. Jake McCarthy pinch-ran for the hurt Perdomo. McCarthy was their last position player left on the bench, but he can’t play shortstop. So Marte had to move from DH to shortstop, losing the DH for the Diamondbacks. The pitcher then took the #9 spot from McCarthy.

    1. townies 7 times more likely to make the post season. This is before todays game I think.

    2. It is truly hilarious that they are using SRS seven games into the season. “The Yankees beat a team that started the season 0-4, how good can they be?”

  2. Athletic “It was a familiar sight in the fourth inning of Tuesday’s game. Giancarlo Stanton badly waved and missed at a slider low and out of the zone for a strikeout. In 20 at-bats this year, Stanton has struck out 11 times. It’s the same problem that plagued him last season.

    Stanton has seen 23 total pitches low and out of the strike zone. Of his 10 swings on those 23 pitches, he’s whiffed on eight of them. The potential long-term problem for Stanton is opposing pitchers know if they attack there, he has trouble laying off those pitches. In 2023, 26 percent of all the pitches Stanton saw at the plate were in that location, by far his most-attacked spot. He carried a 70 percent whiff percentage on those pitches and didn’t barrel any.”

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