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Nestor Cortes (#65, 29, LHP, 4-6, 3.40) vs. Chris Bassitt (#40, 35, RHP, 6-6, 3.45)
YANKEES
SS A. Volpe R
1B Ben Rice L
DH Aaron Judge R
LF Alex Verdugo L
2B G. Torres R
C Austin Wells L
3B DJ LeMahieu R
RF O. Cabrera S
CF T. Grisham L
BLUE JAYS
SS Bo Bichette R
2B I. Kiner-Falefa R
DH V. Guerrero R
1B J. Turner R
RF G. Springer R
LF D. Schneider R
C A. Kirk R
3B E. Clement R
CF K. Kiermaier L
Would be nice if Nestor also pitched well. But obviously, the main thing is that hopefully Soto didn’t break his hand.
Two on, one out, Vertigo strikes out, Jorge Arroz caught stealing 3rd
Mind boggingly bad baserunning.
Soto going for imaging on hand he hurt sliding into home last nice
I mean, you’d have to believe you wouldn’t be able to hit a home run, and then play the rest of the game, on a broken hand, right?
This fucking team and giving up runs in the first. It’s pathological.
FFS. Stop putting your team in a hole every game.
As bad as it was, at least it was “just” Vlad. That dude can hit homers off of the best of them. But yes, still totally insane, and a terrible job by Nestor.
He had 11 HRs entering this series, and they’ve allowed him 2 already.
He had gotten hot before this series, three homers in his previous four games, I believe.
Booner’s Yankees are consistently the worst baserunning in the MLB.
You don’t make the 1st or 3rd out on the basepaths.
Vlad Jr. this series: 3 HR
NYY 1B last 59 games: 3 HR
The Soto thing is so weird. Again, he never came out of the game, even up 16-5 in the ninth. He hit the homer, and then got another hit later. He was in the lineup initially. Surely this is just some precautionary BS, right?
I reeeeeeally don’t get batting Verdugo cleanup ever until he gets hot again. The other team is outright disrespecting him. Why have him there at all?!
No idea.
Boone? (Obvious, but – obvious!)
DJ with the walk earlier. Lead him off!
Boone said the one guy he didn’t have to worry about was Vertigo.
Looks like (other than the baserunning) a great start for Rice? That would be cool…
Yeah, you’d love to see him get some consistent at bats.
I have to admit I liked it better when the opposing pitcher every day looked overrated than these days, when the announcers have to breathlessly describe the artistry of anyone lucky enough to be the opposing pitcher.
I’ll give them this much, Toronto really shouldn’t be this shitty. They have the talent, I don’t know why they’re struggling so much. I guess because they don’t get to play the Yankees enough.
Sure, but for much of the season even really good pitchers looked like pretenders against the Yankees.
That was fun.
Can’t get back to the leadoff spot if you go back to shitty groundouts, DJ!
Why would you ever pitch to Judge with two outs and a base open and Verdugo on deck?
Come on, even bad hitters get SOME hits!
Like yesterday, I guess.
Can we get back to the starters never, ever giving up more than 2 runs?
Oh, for my sake!
Vertigo is the one guy Arron Boone doesn’t need to worry about. I just got in and saw him swing at two balls with a 2-2 count before he struck out.
DJ back to grounding out every at-bat. Very annoying.
Only 2 out of 3.
Yankees got confused, they thought Trevino since Trevino was not in the lineup he was catching for Toronto. Was that a hit and run that Wells missed or didi Gleyber go on his own. He’s a terrible base stealer.
I imagine he was following a sign, not going on his own.
I hope.
Although considering who’s giving the signs, why would that be any better?
I have not been convinced today that DJLM’s one extra-base hit of the year, which happened to come yesterday, meant that he’s turned a corner.
One in 80+ PA’s, so no, he’s turned no corner.
Oh, can I turn off the game now?
Now. Done.
Are bullpens supposed to give up runs?
no, but we have a pigpen
Yankees have four relievers who normally would be the last man out of the pen on a good team. You almost can never take out a pitcher with less than 100 pitches
The only reason this is not a shutout is because they pitched to Judge with a man on 3rd.
Judge, Soto, a decent return to form by Stanton, and Verdugo having 41 RBI’s was covering a lot of sins of the line-up. Stanton is gone for weeks, Verdugo has turned into a pumpkin, no one else to pick them up.
Also, the pitching has fallen. The “miracle worker” pitching coach isn’t a miracle worker.
Bickford’s era 9 and counting. Caleb 5.84. Hill 5.20 with a 2.09 WHIP. CX Bickford 14.40 or Brooks Kriske territory. How many inherited runners has TRF allowed to score?
Nice roster Cash constructed.
That is why it is sad to see some people jump on a pitching coach as some miracle worker. They’re basically interchangeable, it depends on what they have to work with, and Blake is no different from the majority of them.
Rodon. Is greatest success was Cortes and he got good in AAA before coming here. Holmes has been a success though erratic.
Vlad was having a mediocre year, then the Yankees came to town and he’s padding those stats.
Springer was simply awful.
Yankees hitters except Judge and Soto are league average or far worse. No one except those two scare any pitcher. Cash never signed a replacement for Stanton when he went down or if he was as bad as he was last year. He gave DJ 3 or 4 years too many and made him Rizzo’s replacement in case his concussion lingered.
Signing DJ for extra years is fine IF the Yankees were willing to cut him. But they are stupid, so extending a 4 year contract to 6 years for the same $$ accomplishes nothing.
Clay, exactly.
But they can’t do it.
When they sign a guy to a big contract, knowing the last few years are just to get the first years, they are constitutionally incapable of keeping that in mind when they GET to the last few years. Once they get there, they think: we’re paying this much, we just have to, have to play the player, even if it’s to the detriment of their own interests.
So they shouldn’t make those deals, I guess. Until they develop some kind of memory and self-control.
Why is waldo on the team?
Why are IKF, Bader and especially Rortvedt so much better than they were here. Just bad luck or did our great manager and coaches miss something?
DJ 175/468 with another groundball.
Earth to CashBoone: DJ is toast, the past 3 seasons should have informed you with his OPS’s of 711, 734, and 718.
Batting DJ (if they must) in front of Soto or Judge might help, if anything can help. Volpe is just boring right now, as his OPS is hovering near 700 (714). Certainly not a leadoff hitter right now. Maybe get a run out of DJ to the average of his last 3 season’s OPS? Inertia is the problem with this team.
they are clearly going to ride it out longer with him so they really should move him up.
volpe has stunk for weeks. i hate boone’s toxic positivity as the team circles the drain. sure we are all scarred from 22 but how could you not be?
unfortunately hal seems to have to learn every lesson n times.
Katie Sharp Yankees have now allowed 100 runs in 13 games since June 15.
That’s the most in MLB over that span. 2nd-most is 91 by the Rockies (also in 13 games).
What sucks more the hitting or the pitching?
X-rays on Soto’s hand clean; star likely to sit Sunday. https://www.mlb.com/news/juan-soto-scratched-from-lineup-with-injured-hand
Yes.
The Soto situation is scary. No break, so he SHOULD be fine, right? But who the fuck knows…
Not as scary as Gleyber, Verdugo or DJ up with men on.
Scarier, because if he’s out, that’ll be who will be up with people on!
Random or something Boone, Blake, the catchers and pitchers are systemically missing?
Katie Sharp In the 6th inning, 4 of the 5 RBI by the Blue Jays came on 0-2 pitches.
Yankees pitchers entered today tied for the 7th-most RBI allowed in 0-2 counts this season (24 entering Saturday).
That seems random.