Will Warren (#29, 27, RHP, 7-5, 4.41) vs. Shota Imanaga (#18, 32, LHP, 7-8, 3.72)
YANKEES
1B P. Goldschmidt R
DH Ben Rice L
3B Amed Rosario R
RF J. Dominguez S
CF T. Grisham L
SS A. Volpe R
LF S. Jones L
C Ali Sanchez R
2B J. Caballero R
CUBS
CF P. Crow-Armstrong L
3B P. Ramirez S
1B M. Busch L
DH Alex Bregman R
LF Ian Happ S
2B Nico Hoerner R
RF M. Conforto L
SS D. Swanson R
C Miguel Amaya R
Imanaga is a lefty on a hot streak, and Will Warren is very much NOT on a hot streak, so this will be bad.
But hey, at least the Dodger are throwing a bullpen game against the Red Sox tonight!
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At least Rosario upped his pitch count a bit (it won’t matter, but it’s something!).
Yankee all time record against Cubs 750, need to sweep to maintain.
how embarrassing is it that our 40/40 star 2b is now a platoon?
Cramp.
oh yeah, cramps.
Curry says he would’ve been safe standing up. If true shouldn’t the 3rd base coach have signaled don’t slide.
Nevertheless if he doesn’t know how to slide as Binder implied WTF is wrong with the Yankees.
He definitely would have been safe standing up, but in the moment, it’s hard to tell. So I don’t mind him sliding. He just can’t slide SO BADLY.
It wasn’t like he barely overshot the bag, he slid waaaaaaaaaaaay past it. It was just unbelievably bad.
Offense off to a hot start. 🤪
If you had 6 up, 6 down, you win. However you had to lay 100 to win 10
4 Ks through 2 innings. Right on pace.
Warren knows that he has no chance of winning this one, so he’s pitching looser.
A Friday day game???
Controversial opinion: the Yankees should sell. They’re not gonna see Judge, Bellinger, or Stanton again this year.
With pitching this good, no way you sell. Just an AVERAGE offense would make this a very good team.
Cashman could pick up a few mediocre hitters and improve the team a lot.
Wasn’t strike one outside?
Oddly enough the odds in favor of 9 up, 9 down, were exactly the same as 6 up, 6 down.
The classic Will Warren “start ahead and fall behind” strategy.
Then he got PCA with a nice strike three.
Goldy has looked soooooooooooooooooooo bad lately.
I think he legit has looked the worst out of all of their hitters.
Oh, come the fuck ON.
Warren has the stuff to be really good as a multi-inning reliever when Rodon gets back, but I don’t know if I would ever trust him in high leverage situations.
Never ever ever. I think his best role is as trade bait.
I’d seriously just send him to the minors when Rodon returns.
Oh, come the fuck on in a GOOD way! Wow, Rosario!
Blind, deaf, dumb and quadraplegic squirrel.
Okay, Dominguez, your mission is to hit this IN THE AIR (if you don’t walk).
He did it. But to the warning track only.
They’re at least making him throw pitches. 62 pitches through four. That’s two innings for most Yankee starters.
By which, I say in advance, I do NOT mean a pop-up.
Okay, fair enough. Keep doing that, things will start looking better.
Warren is the worst culprit in the “give any runs you get right back” club.
Warren, DO NOT do that now.
He somehow didn’t!
Hey, he didn’t.
Hmm.
Well, good.
JONES! Keep yourself off of the trade block, young man!
SpensAAAAAH!
No, wait – here’s my Sterling call:
Do you, Mr. Jones? Yes, he does!
Next chance, Boone, pinch-hit for Spencer Jones, using a utility guy. Get ‘er done!
Schumann could’ve done that.
Spence now 736, third in lineup
Hopefully that’s the end of any Schuemann pinch-hitting.
Boy, Goldy has been just DEPRESSING. Runner on first and 3-0 count to a GIDP.
How could Goldy have been THAT GOOD… and now THAT BAD (instead of just regressing towards his norm). I mean, SO BAD! So weird.
With an older player, cliff-falling is not that surprising, honestly. It just sucks.
Rice lifted that a LITTLE bit higher, and this time he got a hit!
Good thing they cleared the bases for Rice’s hit.
I hate that Imanaga is going to get through seven.
Yay, “only” six and two thirds!
Oh yeah, you better go get a reliever for…Anthony Volpe!?
Top blooper highlight for the 2026 season?
Radio guy Yankees finally getting some offense and pitching.
2 runs and 3 hits is offense?
• 55.4 WAR, OPS 855, OPS+ 123;
• 62.7 WAR, 823 OPS, OPS+ 111;
• 70 WAR, OPS 837, OPS+ 119;
• 66.2 WAR, OPS 878, OPS+ 136.
The first three were just inducted into the HoF. The fourth one is Paul Goldschmidt.
He’s had a hell of a career. I look forward to him being a potent pinch-hitter for this team.
Please do not walk the #2 hitter to lead off the seventh, Warren.
It was on the edge, at best, but the ball got hit.
The Twins get A.J. Minter from the Mets.
Old man Goldy still flashing the leather!!
Fucking bloop.
Ugh, these two-out singles are so frustrating.
Wait, did Girardi as manager start that trend?
“And he’ll take a lot of strike threes, he’s so patient.”
That’s not patient, Joe, that’s STUPID. Did you come up with the Yankees trademark “not defending the strike zone with two strikes” strategy? DID YOU?????
What’s the plan now?
Blackburn for 1.1 innings, Bednar to close.
If Blackburn somehow doesn’t allow a three-run home run here, of course.
Big if.
I don’t know how you don’t let him finish this inning.
Damn. Do they have enough rested bullpen pitchers to pull Warren RIGHT NOW?
It’s not like he was getting his ass kicked by the previous two batters. I don’t like it.
But you’re the one who always goes on about how he falls to pieces the minute he hits a spot of trouble!
I’ll give Boone this much, the look on Warren’s face after the Happ hit wasn’t inspiring.
Say it: great game here by Will Warren!
4 hits, no walks in 7, a K/inning.
Leave it to Volpe to make all the normal plays, but then choke in the clutch. Every fucking time.
Thankfully his fuckup didn’t ruin the inning.
By the way, Brian, I have zero problem with the replay people checking whether they want to challenge. The point isn’t to test their eyesight, and it’s not to make it some gambling game overlayed on the sport. The point is to get the call right. If they look at the replay and DON’T challenge, we’ve wasted less time. If they challenge because they clearly see the call was wrong – that’s what we want, the right call on the field.
what I want is the chance to correct egregiously bad calls. I don’t care about “technically correct” calls.
I also want a shitty #9 hitter who can actually fucking bunt.
Another failed bunt. The Dodgers were right; the Yankees are fundamentally unsound.
How in the world can’t CABBY even bunt?! And Goldy looks LOST at the plate right now, but he is leading off automatically.
Another bad AB by Goldy. More RISP Fail by the Yankees.
Goldy isn’t even having competitive at-bats right now!
Good call giving an out away with PGold up next against A RHP.
And why can’t a speed hitter with a 660 OPS at least bunt.
It was SUCH a bad bunt. They will improve this team so much by just making sure that Volpe and Cabby aren’t both regular players in the lineup. One is fine. Two is dumb.
That wasn’t a great at-bat by Rice, either. Yikes.
I don’t like the bunt with PGold up next. I would rather take two shots to get a hit. And he’s not a great bunter.
Ben Rice is slip-sliding away. More Yankees RISP Fail.
Tell Dave Sims two runs on 4 hits is not offense. 0-3 RISP after 1-15 yesterday
if we are going to play deadball era games, can we get cool nicknames and moustaches to keep it interesting?
I really think we need to take that Antonacci home run out of our equation on Blackburn. That was an EXTREMELY fluky home run. The Murakami home run was legit, but that’s a really good hitter.
Good one!
That was a wow! Eighth inning by Blackburn.
It was outstanding. Now Bednar gets the top of the order with a two-run lead. Gulp.
McMahon 1-15. Seems like 90% of the Yankees are always 0-something. But Rowson is an elite hitting coach.
mcmahon absolutely destroying the 0-fers!
As we post here, Brian Cashman is hot on the trail of the next Ryan McMahon.
I’m so tired of Grisham.
Grisham is back to BABIP bad luck. He has something like a .057 BABIP in the second half so far. That’s not even REMOTELY normal. He hit that hard, just right at a dude.
Maybe and he stopped hitting home runs which was his lone offensive value.
Ruh roh
It can never be easy. Never.
Losing is easy. Not hitting very easy.
Never in doubt
What a fucking win!
warren needed to throw a no hitter to get his trade value up to something useful but i’ll take it.
Henry Lalane over his last five starts:
16 Hits
5 Runs
5 Earned Runs
3 Home Runs Allowed
4 Walks
40 Strikeouts
Talk about helping one’s trade value!
Why were the Cubs wearing Montreal Expos hats?
I assume dumb City Connect nonsense.
And what bugs me is this: after this game, Cabby should be consigned to 10 straight hours of bunting practice. Okay, well, a BIG SESSION of bunting practice. All the time. Until he figures it out.
How is CABALLERO, of all players, not a great, great bunter?
But a real team would make sure he fixed that problem. The Yankees have no notion of fixing anything.
I mean, I want someone to ask that: Surely, Mr. Boone, you agree that Cabby has to be a much better bunter given his game. We are all presuming you’re going throw him into a compulsory intensive regime to fix that problem… that’s what you’re going to do, right?
RIGHT?
Also, given the strikeout rate, I thought the shift to the majors for Jones would be an unmitigated disaster.
It’s been anything but. I’m liking the guy more than I’d imagined. I really don’t want him to be traded.
They can’t trade him now. Hes probably the best outfielder on this squad. A home run and walk after an 0-2 count. Power and control of the strike zone is something that can be built on.
Let’s not forget phenom made a bad flip that could’ve easily cost the game. His dropped pop up possibly cost us a game Wednesday.