August 8, 2026

138 thoughts on “Yankees (50-42) @ Rays (54-36), Thursday, July 9, 2026, 1:10 PM EDT”

  1. In my opinion this is what WAR misses. Judge is worth even more than what his 8-9-10 WAR seasons say he is. Without him this team is unwatchable. Literally. I’m not watching.

  2. They’re going to reimage Judge during the ASB. Stanton to start running again. Apparently he didn’t reinjure himself, it was a BRAND NEW CALF INJURY. Lombard to resume hitting activities.

    Cx 1:10 start.

  3. Worser and worser. Cashman said they do not anticipate the imaging will be clean. Judge can’t do many upper-body exercises that put any stress on his rib cage. They hope the imaging allows them to start adding upper-body workouts because he’s limited.

  4. Only because our middle infield sucks.

    Brian Cashman said George Lombard Jr. “might be a choice at some point” in the second half.

    Said he’s plug-and-play ready to go defensively and has closed the gap he had coming into the season offensively.

  16. Glad I didn’t tune in. Man, this franchise is so hit or miss. They’re either elite or horrible and it averages out to a winning team by record, but they never feel like it.

  21. Why can’t the announcers see that it was a home run? It went BEHIND THE SCREEN and bounced off the seats back into play.
    How can they not see that?

  24. Kay and Girardi must have watched five replays, one of which was a perfect, sharp slow-mo replay, and STILL couldn’t see what the umpires had no trouble seeing.

    2. Yep. It’s fucking MADDENING. Schuemann is a good guy to have on the bench because he can fill in at various spots based on what you need after pinch-hitting/pinch-running. He’s not the guy you start as an outfielder on a regular basis. This is 2023 IKF all over again.

      Jones is a good defensive outfielder who can theoretically hit a little. Why is he not on this team so that Schuemann can play the outfield every day?!

  36. 6-1 is not bird proof even for one inning. There are too many guys in this team who dint belong in the major leagues right now. Wells and Bird are 1/2. Volpe is 3. Doval is 4. (If Paul G can’t figure his stuff out he’s 5.) this is nuts.

  39. You know what Yarbs can do? Eat a few innings. You know what Yarbs CAN’T do? Putting out a fire. He’s a fucking bulk innings guy. Which is why he should have started the fucking inning, you fucking IDIOT.

    1. Walking the #9 hitter to lead off the inning right after your team scores six runs should seriously be a “sent down to the minors” offense for Bird.

    2. There really has to be some punishment for that. If there’s one thing a baseball player should never do, that has to be top of the list.

    1. He’s very fast, I will give him that. He covers ground well. He COULD be a very good outfielder. But he doesn’t have the reps in the outfield to make some of the decisions you need to make.

    2. Really.
      The ultimate “find the guy who doesn’t have it” game.

    2. And if only ONE of them screws up, that leaves them nothing to do, right?

    1. It’s just completely unserious to have him on the roster. Yovanny Cruz, meanwhile, does nothing but succeed, and he’s in the minors.

    2. Speaking of Doval, it’s crazy how much better the team looks if you just replace Doval and Bird with Cruz and Yerry, and Yerry isn’t even GOOD.

    2. They just can’t have an easy inning. They just CAN’T do it. It’s fucking insane. One run in, speedy runner on first, and he’s 2-0 to the #8 hitter.

  65. Odd that play by Dominguez – I mean, he’s one of the few guys who really does bust it out of the box, and he got a hit that way TODAY, it’s not like he’s built not to try.

  68. It really looks like Warren and Weathers are so close to being actually front line pitchers.
    You’d think this would be exactly the kind of material a great pitching coach COULD do something big with.

  69. And with the first 1-2-3 inning in (it feels like) the entire history of the franchise, Chivilli says: stop chirpin’, Brian Cronin!

    1. I actually like Chivilli, just not in THIS game, with how every reliever has been struggling.

      Chivilli basically looked like a non-brain dead Doval out there.

    1. That ball was a really bad luck DP. He really did hit it hard and SEEMINGLY in the right spot.

      That was just one at-bat, of course. In general, he’s been terrible.

  72. Like an actual pitcher, you know, pitching the way actual pitchers pitch when they’re actual pitchers and, you know, actually pitching.
    Weird.

    1. I wonder what the pitcher who got his butt kicked is thinking when the 2B comes in and has a 1-2-3 inning.

      Especially when one of those relievers has the fifth most saves of all-time!

    1. They scored more earned runs off of Rasmussen in this game than they have scored off of him in their entire history against him before this game. WOW!

  80. Just checked in at MLB.com on my laptop, and for some reason Ohtani is the top story. Not Ben Rice and his 2 HRs. They do have Rice’s 2nd HR video below that, but the Ohtani obsession makes one wonder.

    2. The Dodgers aren’t playing today, they just made up a story so they could put him [Ohtani] on top of the page. And it has been MLB’s propaganda making him the “most famous”, they never stop at MLB.com.

  81. They win but Boone is still an idiot using his two long relievers for a combined 3 innings. And using Bird at all, but that’s on our idiot GM for having him on the team.

    And yes this team looks better when their hitters hit. Especially their big hitters like Rice.

  83. Judge will have his fractured right rib reimaged during the All-Star break, which should provide a clearer timeline for his return, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said on July 9.

    Fried (left elbow bone bruise) threw 36 pitches in live batting practice on July 5. He will throw another live BP session on July 11 at Double-A Somerset.

    Stanton (right calf strain) still hasn’t resumed running since suffering a setback but has been able to increase his treadmill work.

    https://www.mlb.com/news/baseball-injury-updates

    3. Yeah, the second calf injury was a SEPARATE calf injury. But he’s finally going to resume running, so there’s an actual chance he might be able to return.

    4. And that day they’ll put him on the major league roster and he’ll go 1-for-30

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