
Carlos Rodón (#55, 32, LHP, 11-7, 3.18) vs. Janson Junk (#26, 29, RHP, 5-2, 3.28)
YANKEES
CF T. Grisham L
LF J. Dominguez S
RF C. Bellinger L
DH G. Stanton R
2B J. Chisholm L
1B P. Goldschmidt R
3B Ryan McMahon L
SS A. Volpe R
C Austin Wells L
MARLINS
2B X. Edwards S
C A. Ramirez R
DH H. Hernandez R
SS Otto Lopez R
RF Dane Myers R
LF Kyle Stowers L
1B Eric Wagaman R
3B J. Sanoja R
CF Jakob Marsee L
Man, it’s funny what winning three out of four, Toronto losing three out of four, and adding an entirely new bullpen to the team to replace the shitty one you had before can do to your spirits, huh?
However, make no mistake about it, the Marlins sub .500 record is very deceiving. They are legitimately a very good team right now. They committed to a youth movement early in the season (which started off TERRIBLY), and the result has been a number of breakout performances and young players coming into their own as the season progressed (and some guys also got healthy), and they have one of the best records in baseball over the past month, AND they decided not to deal away any of their top pitchers, so they will be a very tough matchup for the Yankees. Definitely don’t look past these guys to the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros next week.
Once Judge is back playing the outfield, does it make any sense to try some roster manipulation shenanigans with Dominguez, and send him down to try to push back his arbitration-eligibility by a year by pushing him out of the Super 2s?
Only if you send Volpe down too.
Rodon is such a fucking headcase. When he thinks the other team isn’t that good, he pitches SO MUCH BETTER, as he isn’t dicking around with them like he does with the good-hitting teams. If he used this approach with, say, Toronto or Boston, he would do so much better, but he’s a fucking headcase, so it doesn’t work.
Way to make him work, Volpe and Wells.
Junk AB’s.
Eric Wagaman was taken from the Yankees by the Angels in the Rule 5 draft in 2023. I have absolutely NO MEMORY of that. Was it perhaps the minor league Rule 5?
“Here’s a rookie who is very good at walking, and is a big basestealer.” So of course he fucking walks him.
Another one of these FUCKING GAMES. It just seems like they sleepwalk through some or all of most games recently. Now even against right handed pitchers also. And the first pitch swinging is out of hand. Wells down to 211/697. Last 30 PAs Jazz has 6 hits, none for xtra bases and 12 Ks.
Wells and Volpe definitely did sleepwalk, and Jazz had some bad swings, but I think the other batters took good approaches, Junk just pitched well. Until he didn’t pitch as well this inning.
When a batter swings or doesn’t swing never makes ANY FUCKING SENSE.
How do you not throw strikes to a guy with a low batting average whose history tells you he’s looking to walk?
Yeah, that fucking BAFFLED me.
Bellinger JUST fucking missed that shit. Wow.
Escarra was worse.
Nice camera work, dicks.
Man, when Stanton is hot, he is fucking HOT.
He looks so bad and then, don’t blink.
That’s why he is so good in the playoffs, because nothing he does makes any fucking sense.
He can hit a home run off of Justin Verlander, and can strike out against Brooks Kriske.
So the pressure of the playoffs doesn’t get to him, because he never makes any sense.
The Big Lug© is hot.
Give him a lead, time to walk the leadoff batter, of course!
Such a fucking headcase.
They’re talking about bat speed, and yet somehow don’t mention that O’Neil’s own namesake, O’Neil Cruz, is one of those guys.
Rodon is so fucking annoying. Million dollar arm, five cent head.
The catcher just stole second and third completely on Rodon. It’s really embarrassing.
He’s incapable of or unwilling to throw strikes.
He’s being waaaaaaaaaaaay too cute. He keeps trying to “steal” strikes with balls just off of the plate. THEY’RE NOT CALLING THEM, DUDE! STOP IT!
How about you just throw fucking strikes instead of trying to “steal” strikes, Rodon?
“Their catcher can’t throw anyone out, so Volpe should be running here.” Gee, I wonder if Wells will take a pitch to let Volpe steal, or will he just pop up on the first fucking pitch like an idiot? I wonder…
You’re right but why can’t Boone say something? Wells hits directly behind Volpe. Why wasn’t Wells prepared in advance?
Wells 2 PAs, 2 swings.
Maybe Wells can’t help being bad but does he also have to be stupid?
Yeah, it’s rough.
Man, can you even IMAGINE that Boone had these same options available to him, and he had Goldschmidt batting 3rd like an idiot?
Just keep Dominguez or Rice at the top of the lineup.
Amed Rosario is SO FUCKING HAPPY to be here. It’s hilarious.
Next step for the Martian is to start driving the ball in the air.
It really is puzzling how he looks so good at the plate, and yet no power.
How is he throwing so many balls still!?!
What a shitshow this inning is.
Rodon is a mess, 90+ pitches through 4-innings, and allowing the Marlins back into the game.
Total headcase.
I actually don’t mind if you go right at guys and they hit a home run, but the home run there was Rodon just missing his location.
WHY DOES HE KEEP TRYING TO STEAL STRIKES?!?!
98 pitches through 4.1 and gives up a home run to a guy with no power.
Is it really important to get Rodon a win?
He’s such a whiny headcase, it probably DOES matter a lot to him.
This is ridiculous.
And you can’t be too confident in Lo getting out of this, either.
I get the problem, in that Weaver and Williams are unavailable tonight, so the plan is probably Doval in the 8th and Bednar in the 9th. But it’s annoying to have this improved bullpen, and still needing to use Lo here.
This is like when Randy Johnson would K 12 and walk 12, except Rodon sucks
After the first walk this inning he ABSOLUTELY HAD to be pulled.
So Cash got all those relievers to not use them when the starter can’t throw strikes.
Nice job, Lo. This fucking team.
And Boone goes to the guy who has been bad all year and pitched yesterday.
This fucking team.
That was just a lucky hit, but the HBP was all Lo’s fault. And now the lefty who crushes righties is up. Great.
I like McMahon’s defense.
Smart pitching by Lo, making sure to only give up the inherited runs.
What a disaster of a performance by a veteran. Then comes the bullpen mess.
Maybe the Yankees DFA the wrong guy?
Boone hall of shame game.
Gotta give the Red Sox a ton of credit, they’re probably going to win a game started by Hunter Brown.
Is Headrick seriously coming into the game when Stowers is NOT due up?
Boone doesn’t know there are new pitchers in the pen. Cash never told him.
Rodon sucks, but I’ll give him this much. Watching the ump suddenly calling every close low pitch a strike against the Yankees would probably drive me nuts.
I remember a game where CC had absolutely nothing against Texas but Boone tried to get him the win and we lost.
A rare good defensive play by a Yankee pitcher.
Wells is a fucking idiot.
How fucking DUMB IS WELLS?!!?
A fucking idiot who can’t hit.
Doesn’t Boone tell the pitchers to treat that guy like it’s the old days and a pitcher is up.
Glad we didn’t trade you.
Trent Grisham goes happy-go-jacky like a donkey eating a waffle.
Do you have a lot of experience with that?
dont we all?
TPTG.
Wells is sporting a .224 BABIP, so he’s been hitting into hard luck.
Why didn’t Dominguez steal during either Belli or Stanton’s at-bat?
I’m cool with the Bird acquisition, but I liked it for the LONG term. Using him right away seems dumb.
Five run lead
It’s Boone.
“Five run lead”
Then let Brubaker pitch.
What a terrible play by Dominguez.
Yankees manager, Yankees defense, all in one inning. Are you entertained?
Boy, Bird sure is pitching like shit, huh?
Like a Yankees 2025 bullpen guy, so he fits right in.
This is going to be the worst loss of 2025.
How are you not even fucking CLOSE on that 3-2 pitch!?!?
Great, the guy who crushes righties is now up with the bases loaded. What a fucking MORON Bird was on that 3-2 pitch to Hicks.
Relax, everybody! Boone knows what he is doing.
This is why you don’t fucking use Bird until you fucking work on him. Just terrible pitching.
This is why you don’t get Bird in the first place.
Sounds about right. Work on him? Send him to AAA to do that.
Also, how the fuck did Dominguez miss that shit?!
The granny happens right as the Red Sox beat the Astros in a game Brown pitched (which WON’T happen when the Yankees face the Astros next time).
So who the fuck pitches the 8th and 9th now?
In July Bird with a 19.89 era and an OPS of 1354. Why could Cash have possibly seen? It’s not like he had a high 4 or 5 era. People compare him to Holmes who had a 4.9 era when they got him. Getting Bird was impcomprehensible.
Again, getting Bird was fine. Getting him and throwing him right into the game before you work on him is the problem.
Fucking Bednar. This is insane. 3rd home run of the season. TWO TODAY.
Good to know the Bednar also pitches terribly in Miami. Good to know.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present you, Aaron Boone.
Boone with new toys, ruins them immediately.
Worst loss of the decade incoming.
They blew a 6-0 lead with Gerrit Cole on the mound against the Rays. That one was insane.
There was also that one heading into the All-Star break in…2021, I think? Where they were up five runs heading into the bottom of the ninth, and the Astros scored six to win.
They also had a weird one against the Angels, right? Where they scored seven runs in the first inning, then allowed seven runs in the ninth to lose it.
Awesome, Volpe, just awesome.
Just insanity.
New arms paying immediate dividends
Now Brubaker is going to have to pitch the 8th.
Can we fire Boone and Cashman now? What could Cashman possibly have seen to acquire a guy that batters are hitting 454/1354 against for the month? And Boon totally mismanaged this game.
And if he needs to be worked on, then do it in AAA, not in the ML.
I don’t mind sending him down to work on stuff, but if Blake is the guy you want working with him, I can see why you’d want him to do it here. Just don’t throw him out there right away.
Why would you trade for a guy who needs to go to the minors?
If you think you can unlock something in him, why NOT? He’s controlled for three more seasons.
All Volpe does is hit home runs and commit errors.
Maybe, finally, some players, looking at you, Aaron Judge, will stop supporting Boone.
Why didn’t he run on that first pitch!?
This umpire is just flipping a coin on these calls.
I legit can’t believe Boone is sticking with Bednar.
Q-Why did Boone let Bird face Stowers? A-he’s an idiot.
With a short bullpen, he is using it all VERY oddly. Like why not two innings from Headrick?
But yes, there also should have been a MUCH quicker hook with Bird.
You gotta put Stowers on here, right?
Geez louise, Goldy and Bednar!
They’re laughing in Seattle. They’re laughing in Toronto. They’re laughing in Texas. They’re laughing in Boston.
A walk would allow Jazz to steal, and Jazz swings at ball four. Awesome.
And strikes out on ball five. Great.
That’s Jazz, another Didi.
DiDi had one great year and he was just better.
Didi tried to hit a HR on every pitch, same as Jazz.
This ump is awwwwwwwwwwwwful.
You literally don’t know whether he’s going to call a ball a strike or not.
So who the fuck is going to play first base in the bottom of the ninth!?
He has a lot of new toys in the pen also.
I think the upgrade at third base was okay.
I said the pen.
Oh, yeah, I was just saying in general.
Is there a one in a million chance Volpe can be good going forward?
Heroics after two outs. So, who will blow it in the bottom of the 9th?
All Volpe does is hit home runs, doubles, and commit errors.
Don’t forget the mental errors.
That was dumb phenom. Very fucking dumb.
How dumb is that steal by Volpe? He’s so fast that he could score from second easily.
With two strikes on the 9 hitter who totally sucks, I’m ok with it.
Okay, can the third new guy not suck?
The law of averages says the third new guy will be good.
And so it begins…
Oh my god, throw strikes to the guys who walks!!
Why do they keep trying to make the guy who doesn’t swing at balls try to swing at balls?!
These assholes.
These fucking assholes.
And you KNOW they’ll be stealing.
This law of averages looks suspiciously unreliable.
This is just madness. Absolute madness.
It’s like a little league game out there
This infielder couldn’t handle a ground ball in the outfield.
Worst loss of the decade, incoming.
Cashman’s pickups seem suspiciously like the rest of the team.
Just a sloppy, sloppy loss.
That was the worst loss I think I’ve ever seen
It was really bad, but they truly HAVE had worse losses.
They have? They blew a six run lead. A 5 run lead. And a 2 run lead in the 9th. The pen gave up 9 runs and allowed another two inherited runners to score. This was Dominican league rookie baseball. Boone should be pulled Rodon earlier. Bird shouldnt have been acquired but he certainly should not have been allowed to pitch to Stowers.
They were up a game on the Blue Jays in the division, fell behind 8-0, came back to tie it, and then their closer blew it. That was just as bad of a loss just a month ago.
This was a fine example of Cashman building the team anew.
History will remember Camilo Doval’s greatest contribution to the Yankees as the 4 runs he allowed in the top of the 9th inning on June 2, 2024, including a go-ahead HR by Juan Soto.
(It really was a pretty sweet comeback to see in person.)
Each one of those assholes had their butts kissed all day for making it to Miami in a hurry before that shit show.
They’re laughing in Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Tampa, and Colorado.
The Blue Jays lost so the Booners played like little leaguers. Some acquisitions Cashman made.
Doval and Bednar were both sent to the minors this season. Maybe do that again.
I didn’t know that, but that’s not generally a good sign. The Bird trade made no sense. Just because Blake helped a mediocre pitcher get better doesn’t mean he can help baseball’s worst pitcher get better.
I give all new pitchers a BIT of a mulligan just due to nerves.
On top of that, I can give Bednar a pass for apparently just sucking in Miami period, and I give Doval a bit of a pass because he’s not supposed to be closing here. He was here to be better than Ian Hamilton, and I think we all would have expected Hamilton to have blown it there, too, right?
This was a weird game with Hill, Weaver, and Williams all not available.
However, no passes for Bird. Either send him down to work on his shit, or make him the last man in the bullpen while you work on his shit.
I actually wouldn’t have expected Hamilton to blow a 5 run lead.
Agreed, but I WOULD have figured he’d blow a two-run lead in the ninth.
Can we send Boone to the minors?
First impressions aren’t everything, and there’s still 2 months left; but there really isn’t anything encouraging about 7 ER in 2 1/3 innings plus the 2 unearned runs from Caballero’s decisive error.
DFA everyone. Including Cashman and Boone.
Cashman: Bird, Bednar,and Doval gave up nine runs, two unearned thanks to Caballero. Never before has a GM had a worse day than Cashman.
I’m truly not even that mad at Bednar. He had some bad luck, and should have only allowed a single run.
And he went at guys.
I’m very mad at all the walks, especially since Rodon knew the bullpen was short tonight.
The walk to Hicks by Bird was insane, and the walk by Doval to the #9 hitter to put the tying runs aboard was absurdly bad.
Lo hitting a guy to load the bases was bad, and not going right at Hicks was bad, too.
Yes, it all went downhill with that awful Rodon performance.
Just awwwwwwwwwwwful.
The Astros being dominated by Criswell also really pissed me off today.
Katie S This is the 1st time the Yankees lost a 9-inning game with 15+ Hits AND 12+ Runs since July 24, 1940 at St. Louis Browns.
Yankees Last 2 Games in Miami:
8/1/2025 – Lead 6-0 in 5th, lose 13-12 (Marlins score 3 in bottom 9th)
8/13/2023 – Lead 7-1 in 6th, lose 8-7 (Marlins score 5 in bottom 9th)
This is the 1st time the Yankees have lost a 9-inning game when scoring 12+ runs since August 12, 1973 vs Oakland
Oh god, I remember that 2023 game! Holmes finally lost his closer job from that, right?
There’s no stats on this but I guarantee a GM has never had a worse game than Brian Cashman did tonight. This was like if Ohtani had five home runs and pitched a perfect game.