Will Warren (#98, 26, RHP, 6-4, 4.70) vs. Shota Imanaga (#18, 31, LHP, 5-3, 2.80)
CUBS
1B M. Busch L
DH Kyle Tucker L
RF Seiya Suzuki R
CF P. Crow-Armstrong L
C Carson Kelly R
LF Ian Happ S
SS D. Swanson R
2B Nico Hoerner R
3B Vidal Brujan S
YANKEES
1B P. Goldschmidt R
CF C. Bellinger L
RF Aaron Judge R
DH G. Stanton R
2B J. Chisholm L
LF J. Dominguez S
SS A. Volpe R
C Austin Wells L
3B O. Peraza R
Well, THIS is a terrible matchup to end the first half. But hey, they’re at least guaranteed to be the top Wild Card at the end of the first half. That’s SOMEthing.
This game always felt like a loss. Shota is better than Boyd and Warren is basically a POS with good metrics that he occasionally pitches up to.
Boone pre game we gotta do better, it’s right there for us.
Just like Fried, Warren couldn’t let them go a BATTER without making the game feel like a loss.
And Judge is expanding the zone again like crazy.
This….could….get….ugly.
It doesn’t like look like Warren’s fooling anybody today, while Imanaga just made them look like fools in the bottom of the first.
Warren is a worse version of Michael Pineda.
Gil 50 pitches AA, 3.1ip, 1r, 2h, 6 Ks
Good to hear.
Great jump Jazz.
I just liked that he at least WENT for a change. He hasn’t been running lately. Maybe he’s slightly hurt?
Stanton’s amazing in the sense that he’s the one guy where he can hit a home run off of ANYone. But he can also strike out against ANYone. It makes him an important guy in the postseason.
It doesn’t seem fair to have Peraza have to try to hit off of Imanaga.
Red Sox take an early lead on a fucking obstruction call on Caminero on a pickoff play at third base. Insane.
Warren is SO dumb at times.
That was some excellent battling by Warren, I must say.
Another example of this line up stinking versus a decent pitcher.
They especially struggle against really good lefties.
They had to start Dominguez today with Grisham clearly hobbled, but ooph, it’s tough to watch him against good lefties.
Hilariously, Candelario is somehow doing even worse for the Yankees’ AAA team than Peraza has been for the Major League squad, so there doesn’t seem to be any better options out there for the Yankees than keep running Peraza out there to suck ass.
I don’t get this move here. Surely Warren has a better chance of striking Swanson out than Hamilton, no?
Talk about pulling the right levers, Boonie. What a fucking shmuck.
Did I think Hamilton would give up a home run? No, but I also didn’t think he was a BETTER choice here than Warren.
Also, I didn’t like going right back to Hamilton after he threw two innings yesterday.
Boone isn’t very good at this.
And on cue, the Red Sox also take the lead. So today’s pretty much the worst case scenario (which is what we expected, of course, but still).
You don’t HAVE to let Peraza hit, dickweeds.
It’s honestly kind of amazing just HOW much the Rays have shit the bed this series. A fucking TEN-GAME winning streak for the Sox heading into the All-Star break. Crazy.
Pulling Warren after 88 pitches with this pen?
It was INSANITY. For a dude who JUST threw two innings YESTERDAY!
That’s the worst part, Hamilton threw 2 innings on Saturday.
The Yankees and the Red Sox games are now mirror images of each other, one rising, the other falling.
After righting the ship and winning 5 in a row, the Yankees do what they do best against good pitchers, they wilt.
I reiterate my point Boyd 4 hits thru 8, Woo no hits thru 7.1, today 2 hits thru 6. Three good pitchers but they’re all not that good. Since 2017 it seems to me they underperform their expected results against good pitchers.
Oh and the pen is ass
Let’s go, make those outs as quickly as possible. Blah!
They have to bring up Nicky Lopez and hope he can hit to his career numbers. Peraza has had more than a fair shot.
They could call up Lopez without cutting Peraza. They could just send Vivas down.
That said, Lopez at third base is not a good idea, either.
No it’s not just better than what they have until if they have a better option.
Volpe and Peraza back to back takes a lot of pressure off pitchers
The weirdest thing to me is that if Boone was treating this like a playoff game because of the rest days, then wouldn’t the move have been to bring in Weaver or Hill? He just doesn’t make any logical sense as a manager.
Don’t get me wrong, if they ‘re not going to score any runs, it doesn’t matter, but still.
Boone is all ours, until he isn’t. And when “isn’t” occurs is anyone’s guess.
Making those outs fast boys, way to go.
After righting the ship and winning 5 in a row, they end at the ASB, losing two straight in zombie-like fashion.
The Zombie Yankees.
Volpe 214/671 career 225/665 I hope Boone and Cashman understand the offensively phenom is terrible but when you pair him with Peraza a record setting 149/456 you’re just giving up. The lowest BA of any qualifier is 185, the lowest OPS 541. I don’t understand why he keeps getting PAs.
Nicky Lopez is a career 245/610, sure he stinks, but compared to Peraza. After 7 games he’s hitting 400 at Scranton, small sample blah, blah, blah but aren’t the odds he’ll be considerably less bad than Peraza until somebody else comes along.
The Yankees need a starter, a reliever or two, and a 3b. Rumors are teams are interested in JC, can Rice be the back up catcher?
Gil should be back, barring any setbacks.
Three weeks give or take a week. If all goes well.
Six hits total over 22 innings of Woo, Boyd, and Shota. Fifteen hits Friday.
It suggests that they REALLY need to add specifically a righthanded third baseman, as stud lefties are just DESTROYING them.
What does that say about Judge and Stanton?
I mean, Stanton hit a home run, right? And Judge was the only guy who DID hit Boyd.
Woo was a stud righty.
Oh sure, but Woo is the exception, not the rule. It’s the top lefties that are just OWNING them.
They need some guys who can get singles and doubles against tough pitchers. 789 hitters are a vacation for pitchers.
Oh, they totally need to add someone better than Peraza at third. I just don’t think Nicky Lopez is the answer.
He’s not, he doesn’t cost anything and hopefully he’s just stopgap, the probability is he’s better than Peraz or Vivas now.
Thankfully the Blue Jays lost two out of three in Sacramento, so the Yankees enter the break just two games out of first place.
Aw, that was nice. Fried called up Skubal, and told him that he thought that Skubal should start the game over Fried. Boone then called Skubal to confirm that Skubal would be starting. I think the nice part of the story is hurt a BIT by the fact that Fried was probably dealing with his hand issues at the time and knew he wasn’t going to pitch the game at ALL. But still!
Hopefully Skubal remembers this, and signs in New York in a couple of years.
phenom with another misplay, not an error and didn’t impact the game but he gave away an out. Savant has his batting run value at 19 and his gold glove fielding run value at 35, -2 OAA. Phenomenol.
Yankees took Dax Kilby, SS, with their first pick, #39 overall, from Newman (GA) high school.
https://www.perfectgame.org/players/playerprofile.aspx?ID=542953
That’s not his real name, his real name is Buddy Perdue.
Sure the Yanks lost 2 of 3 but where it really counts – runs scored – they won the series 14-9.