December 11, 2024

149 thoughts on “Yankees (60-45) @ Red Sox (55-47) Saturday, July 27, 2024, 7:15 PM EDT

    1. 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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

    1. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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).

  9. 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

    1. 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.

  10. 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.

    1. 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!

  11. 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.

    1. An excess of ground balls is not on the hitters approach stemming from Boone and Rowson? Or just bad hitters?

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

    1. It did and Kenley drew the most wrath for giving up hits to two guys ‘who shouldn’t be on a major league team.’

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