Marcus Stroman (33, RHP, 7-5, 3.51) vs. Kutter Crawford (#50, 28, RHP, 6-8, 3.37)
YANKEES
RF Alex Verdugo L
LF Juan Soto L
DH Aaron Judge R
C Austin Wells L
2B G. Torres R
1B Ben Rice L
SS A. Volpe R
CF T. Grisham L
3B O. Cabrera S
RED SOX
CF Jarren Duran L
RF Wilyer Abreu L
DH M. Yoshida L
3B R. Devers L
LF T. O’Neill R
1B D. Smith L
C Connor Wong R
2B D. Hamilton L
SS C. Rafaela R
Nationally televised game, so this is a guaranteed loss.
Then again, I guess you could say that about MOST Yankee games nowadays.
A first inning CT!
In this particular ballpark, I can barely even enjoy an awesome first inning like that. We all know Stroman’s giving at LEAST one run back in the bottom half of the inning, so it’s so hard to care.
Outside of Fenway, I’d be excited. Not here, though.
Will they do the famous ‘Yankees score in the first and score no more routine’?
If it is true (and it appears it is!) that he has a nerve condition that flares up in colder weather, this doesn’t work if the #Yankees actually go to the playoffs.
Plus, Fairbanks’ strikeout rate has TANKED this year.
https://x.com/mryclept/status/1817317998182674812
Never liked Stroman, never wanted his sorry a$$ in pinstripes. The pitching has really gone south, Blake’s Magic© not working.
Didn’t even hurt, it was so expected.
The key with Stroman is that he’s fine for most of the season, but you never want him pitching against an actual good team, and CERTAINLY not in the playoffs. His junk ball pitching is okay for an innings eater, though.
Cash got him and let Sevvy go. Cash is just so unlucky.
Stroman’s even worse than Cortes. Blake may be a genius. And he’s not responsible. But Cortes, Rodon and Stroman have all been not mediocre but the total pits. Can Blake not straighten anybody out?Or do Boone and Blake come up with the world’s worst game plans?
Likewise Verdugo, Gleyber, DJ and second half phenom. Boone is poison.
There’s no straightening out veteran pitchers making over $18.5 million. You can give them advice, but they are who they are. Pitching coaches are here for the young guys, and the dudes who are desperate to stick around in the big leagues. That’s not Stroman.
But yes, it fucking sucks how much he chokes in big games. I’ve been saying since the start of the season that I want no part of him or Nestor in any playoff game. They just are not the types of pitchers you can count on in a playoff game.
Granted, the OTHER Yankee pitchers ALSO suck, but you at least have a CHANCE of Cole, Gil, and Schmidt (and even Rodon) coming through in a playoff game.
Waldo playing a nice waltz as the Titanic sinks, at least.
When the guy actually gets a groundball, Volpe fucks it up. That’s unpleasant. Followed by a line drive single. Boone knows you don’t HAVE to let your starter get rocked, right?
All of this AND Stroman can’t hold runners on to save his life. It’s the complete shit package.
Again, Boone, you don’t have to let Stroman just suck out there. You CAN try someone else.
This whole game is a promo for a movie? Mandatory mute.
phenom with an error.
They’re lucky as fuck that Stroman has ONLY given up five runs in two innings. What are they even fucking DOING here?
While Volpe made the error, otherwise, all of the contact has been hard. Whatever, the dude doesn’t have it, you don’t just keep running him out there to get his ass kicked. This is just shitty, shitty managing.
Are the Yankee game plans all shit? Why is Ceddanne so much better against us than anywhere else? And Devers. Is that the hidden Boone effect? He comes up with a stupid plan and sticks to it.
Gleyber swinging at ball three, which was in the same spot as balls 1 and 2. Weird.
I want to like Rice, but he just doesn’t cut it. Rumfield at least is a good defensive 1B. Rice is hitting under 100 the last 2 weeks.
Nice groundout with a runner in scoring position. The Yankees’ speciality.
Let’s see how many runs Boone lets Stroman give up THIS inning.
Gleyber not coming through was as sure a thing as Stroman sucking with that 3-run lead.
There really was never any chance that Stroman wouldn’t give up some runs in the first.
Seriously, though, Crawford sucks, too. It’s not like this is a good Boston team. It is not. They just suck less than the Yankees right now.
The Red Sox traded for Danny Jansen, which is such an odd move for them with Wong such a big part of their lineup.
It’s sadly pathetic that going to Ferguson here was the obvious call.
As bad as Stroman was tonight, and he was BAD, I think he was a bit worse than normal for him, so I think his stuff likely just wasn’t there tonight, as opposed to being actively a bad pitcher. I don’t trust Stroman at all in a big game, but he’s typically not THIS bad. They were crushing all of his pitches.
Soto got the groundball-itis, too.
Again, Crawford ALSO sucks. These are not two good teams out there tonight.
Imagine your cleanup hitter trying to bunt the runner over in front of Gleyber fucking Torres. Too, too silly.
When Stanton and the Martian get here, this middle of the lineup will be much less annoying (well, except for the fact that Stanton will be rusty for a month).
He was bunting for a hit and it was a good one
Yeah, fair point, I apologize, Wellsy!
K or DP
At least Gleyber had the decency to strike out and not hit into a DP.
This has been the fascinating thing about these recent Yankee losses. They keep knocking the opposing starter out of the game, and yet STILL ALWAYS LOSE.
Gleyber looks so off balance
I must say, the Trevino injury has really been a blessing in disguise, as it has allowed Wells to become the regular catcher.
Gleyber has cost himself maybe 200M. Can’t wait to not see him everyday.
I wasn’t hyped on Jazz originally but with the reasonable contract, it’s fine.
See ya gleyber
Another chance phenom
LOL Volpe.
Holy SHIT, that was a bad at-bat. That was just…WOW, what a bad at-bat.
It was like he was pitching to a Little Leaguer, Volpe was so overmatched.
phenom doesn’t get hits when it matters.
phenom 2024 no one on hitting 255, RISP 188, RISP 2 out 163. All smallish samples but still. There are other metrics that are more favorable.
This bullpen is so bad.
Well, I guess it really didn’t matter WHICH reliever the Yankees used last night, everyone was going to get hit by the Red Sox.
I still like Jake Cousins, though, as shown by the rest of the inning. But man, and on an 0-2 pitch, too! Just lacking focus there, Cousins!
Boston’s pen is bad, ours is much worse.
Good ol’ unproductive groundball with no outs. Good job, Waldo.
Classic! Leadoff 2B followed by 3 ground outs.
Holy shit, that was a bad inning. Leadoff double, and then three groundouts in a row, including Juan Soto first pitch swinging.
EDITED TO ADD: And hilariously enough, of course, the groundballs were all hit so that the runner didn’t advance on the first one, so that there was no chance of him scoring on the second groundball.
I do NOT get this move at ALL. Why in the fuck would you pull Cousins NOW?
Boone is just such a shitty manager.
That said, I’m enjoying the Tim Hill experience overall. I really don’t dislike a lot of the Yankee relievers, we just got some Murphy’s Law shit with them.
Fairbanks is controlled for the next TWO seasons, so I can see the appeal.
It would allow Holmes to be moved to a setup role, which he is probably better suited for.
A very typical 1/8 RISP
I’m just impressed they didn’t intentionally walk him.
Swung at ball four there.
But he still worked the walk. REALLY impressed by Wells’ discipline this week.
Of course, two walks ahead of Gleyber, Rice, and Volpe is effectively wasted, but at least it moves the line, and hopefully gets Judge a 9th inning at-bat, at least.
LOL. Gleyber gets another shot.
It’s never, like, 1-9 for the guys after Judge and Wells. It’s always 0-9.
What were you looking for on that second strike, Gleyber?!
Do they not know good DJ never hit in front of Soto?
Yeah, that was weird.
Ground ball-itis. FFS
An excess of ground balls is not on the hitters approach stemming from Boone and Rowson? Or just bad hitters?
I definitely was not expecting a productive groundout from Gleyber. He TRIED for the double play.
1-9 and counting.
It’s hilarious how bad both teams are.
This why I’m not too worried about the Red Sox. Yes, they will beat the Yankees every time they play each other, but once the Yankees leave Fenway, OTHER teams are going to beat up this Sox team.
Shame DJ doesn’t suck
Rice might be a bit out of his depths here, but he’s at least TRYING with his at-bats. He seems to have SOME idea of what he is doing.
And there he actually makes a productive out. Good for him.
Didn’t expect that but it was a 7th inning CT
Maybe the lack of a runner in scoring position will let Volpe suck less.
Volpe is a perfect example of a guy who looks like he has no plan out there. And when he DOES look like he has a plan, he hits MUCH better.
If that’s true it’s as much on Boone and Rowson as Volpe.
Oh, absolutely agreed.
Stupid ballpark
Yeah, hard to fault Volpe too much there.
Ooph, that second strike swing. Not good, Grisham.
1/10
And another groundout to end the inning, of course.
And Grisham tends not to even ground out that much!
Also, why the FUCK didn’t Gleyber advance to second on the throw home on the Rice sac fly? He would have scored on the Volpe single had he, right?
With Dom Smith due up next, I don’t get why you don’t just let Tim Hill pitch around O’Neil here.
I love Tonkin, but O’Neil could just as easily hit a home run off of him as anyone else.
Like I said.
O’Neil is just hot as fuck right now. He could hit a home run off of ANYONE, so just leave Hill in there.
Again, though, with two strikes.
This is the most Murphy’s Law bullpen ever. Cousins and Tonkin are both great…except when they can’t afford to give up a run, in which case they give up home runs. It’s so fucking maddening.
This just screams “Look for the guy who doesn’t have it” bullpen managing by Boone. Of all of the things that Boone is bad at, managing the bullpen has got to be the thing he is the worst at.
This bullpen is dreadful. Blake’s Magic has no answer,
Third straight outing Minny, mutts reject has given up a run(s). Yep Cash keep stockpiling the dregs and it will work out.
Makes me feel a bit better about last night, though, if ALL of the Yankees relievers are going to suck against the Red Sox hitters.
Not with a 3 run lead in the 7th even with a bad. pen.
Okay, at least I don’t have to watch any more of this shit.
The Yankees are clearly just never going to win here, so why do I even watch these games?
Jack Neely 2.21 era AA and AAA, 63k/40.2 ip. At Scranton 0.93 era, 12K/9.2ip, 1.03 WHIP but he’s never been released by aMLB team so Cash isn’t interested.
I don’t know if I’d burn Kahnle who might be the best of the lot.
It’s Boone.
Why do Boston players always have the ugliest beards?
I dunno, there are a LOT of fugly ass beards in the Majors.
They do everything badly. Another runner thrown out at home.
By a mile.
Fucking stupid team. Dumb must be contagious.
And then Wells hits what SHOULD have been the game-tying sacrifice fly.
With one out!
To be fair, this one was all on Soto being a dumbass. It was a rare case where the coaches did their job, Soto just ignored them.
Yeah, but whatever it takes though.
Is that seriously the first 1-2-3 of the entire fucking game for EITHER team?
Well, of course, there will also be a 1-2-3 top of the ninth.
Hopefully Boone pinch hits DJ for Rice here.
Wow, Gleyber actually takes a pitch and it is a ball called a strike.
How are you taking that second pitch, Gleyber? HOW?!
Gleyber just wants to make every Yankee fan happier about Jazz Chisholm being the new Yankee second baseman next year.
The Yankee hitters suck enough already without the umpire giving Jansen balls called strikes.
Oh, the fucking CT of it all.
You gotta be happy for this bounce-back game from Rice. If only he hadn’t been removed for fucking DEFENSE in the SEVENTH FUCKING INNING last night.
Heck, Boone removed guys in the sixth inning for defense a few seasons back.
Timeouts NEVER WORK.
Another fucking groundout. OF COURSE.
1/11 and phenom with another RISP fail
This is how shitty this team is. They need to hope that Trent fucking Grisham, of all people, gets a hit.
I was gonna say better Grisham than Gleyber or especially Volpe
Volpe, what mediocrity.
It takes teamwork to over a 4 game span lose 3-2, 9-7 and 9-8 (10-8)
I think we all knew Trent Grisham would come through.
He’s not a choke artist.
Again, the Red Sox are very bad ALSO.
Here comes the double play
The definition of insanity. Going back to Holmes.
He has him 1-2, so homer or HBP?
Attaboy, Holmes, wait until there are two outs before you give up the game-winning home run. Smart.
Do you bunt Verdugo in the top of the tenth?
That’s why I would have bunted Verdugo. He’s so useless that at least he would have done something with his out.
Come on, Wells!
Here comes the double play
I’d walk Wells and then get the DP from Gleyber, and win it in the bottom of the inning.
Gleyber clutch.But game not over.
Gleyber!!!
This is going to be such a painful loss. I guess you let Holmes lose the game, right?
worst loss of the year incoming
It can’t be THAT bad when we all know it’s coming, ya know?
Weaver or Holmes? Remember when Pettitte threw an inning of relief vs Baltimore in one of these games? Is Cole ready?
I’m just impressed he even got an out.
How do you walk Abreu in front of the guy who OWNS YOU?! When he would be the tying run!!
In the battle of who sucks more, the Yankees somehow didn’t win.
In all seriousness, why do the Red Sox keep using Chase Anderson in extras? He is a long man! Why do they always use him in extras?
I just logged on – did i miss anything interesting?
Nope, just a yawnfest.
My wife said why did you say the Yankees lost, I lost interest.
Sons of Sam Horn must be psycho.
The use of Chase Anderson has to be driving them CRAZY.
It did and Kenley drew the most wrath for giving up hits to two guys ‘who shouldn’t be on a major league team.’
Last Yankees to reach base 6 times. One name you won’t guess.
https://x.com/riveraveblues/status/1817392541362217383?s=61&t=fhOaqwtc8q2TMSXUDRjPeg
Well, I go to eat and come back and they somehow won.
They got lucky on that Wells sac fly.