Michael McGreevy (#36, 25, RHP, 4-9, 3.57) vs. Cam Schlittler (#31, 25, RHP, 10-6, 2.04)
CARDINALS
2B J. Wetherholt L
RF J. Walker R
1B A. Burleson L
DH Ivan Herrera R
LF Bryan Torres L
SS Masyn Winn R
CF N. Church L
3B Jose Fermin R
C Jimmy Crooks L
YANKEES
CF T. Grisham L
DH Ben Rice L
1B Luis Garcia L
LF S. Jones L
RF J. Dominguez S
2B J. Chisholm L
3B Ryan McMahon L
SS J. Caballero R
C Austin Wells L
Fuck these losers. Enjoy the second Wild Card.
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If you thought the outfield was bad, wait till Boone decides to platoon Ramos with Jones instead of with Grisham. Then you’ve got Ramos, Grisham, and Dominguez. Cole is gonna blow a gasket.
Whoops, Cam gave up two runs. Game over, these Yankees won’t outscore that.
Cam doesn’t want to win the Cy Young, I guess.
So now the best we can hope for is a tie.
There is no joy in Mudville.
To follow up the shitty trade deadline with Schlittler shitting up the joint really IS depressing.
If you can’t put away this dude, then what are you even doing?
Absolutely no idea how Herrera didn’t get to third there.
The worst are the hits after multiple pitches thrown.
Nice double play by Jazz, at least.
What a horrible, terrible 30-pitch first inning by Cam. Just awful
When things go wrong, he just looks like a whiny little bitch. It’s easy to forget he’s still so young.
I’m afraid you nailed it. He needs to man up.
Fuck, Grisham gave that a ride.
Rice and Garcia did not.
He looks so crazy frustrated. It’s the 2nd inning. What’s with him?
He’s pissed at Cashman’s inability to
land a catchertrade him to a contender.FFS, sixty-one pitches in 2-innings.
We don’t need another head case starting pitcher, and Cam appears to be morphing into one.
Six up, six down, your usual Yankees offense.
Like clockwork. The fifth law of thermodynamics.
An already overburdened bullpen, and Cam pulls out this lousy start.
How many bad games has Cam had? How many games has the offense not been bad? Three runs should not feel insurmountable but it does. I’m giving Cam a pass. I’m putting it squarely on the ‘hitters.’
What would it take for Lombard to get a shot? What would it take for Rowson to get fired?
“What would it take for Rowson to get fired?”
He’s only a hitting coach. Another few years and he could be fired.
What would it take to get Boone fired? A change in ownership.
Grisham last 15 games 082. Jasson 228. Jazz 218. Mac 156. Wells 226.
Five guys in one lineup, all in deep slumps.
That was probably the worst swing I’ve ever seen Grisham take. Holy shit that was bad.
And after having a nice at-bat to get it to 3-2. Blew him away with a mediocre splitter right down the middle.
As noted, all of these guys are all in deep, deep slumps at the same fucking time. It is insanity.
If they’re all in a slump at the same time
This pitcher LOOKS like a real Cardinals pitcher.
From the 40s or something.
“See Tim Hill up in the Yankee pen…
…now a living, breathing reminder of the FO’s failure to get even a single reliever to help the bullpen, to go with his failure to get anything at all to help at catcher.”
There goes the Pythag
Well, it was a nice night for a ballgame, then the game started.
Rafaela Boston 2023 to now OPS 85 95 116
Abreu 781 786 757
phenom 666 657 663 646
Wells 718 712 537
Jason 617 719 653
Here’s an interesting idea. Could Garcia play right field? He should have the arm for it, right?
Stanton sounds like he might actually return soon. Don’t want to lose Garcia and Goldy in the lineup. I figure you start resting Rice against lefties.
Best arguments to not bring up Lombard-Boone and Rowson
If you care about the team, you probably try it.
If you care about Lombard, you avoid it at all costs.
I remember games where the Yankees were down 6, 7, 8 runs and came back. That was when the Yankees were still a Premier League team.
Do I really want to lose Lalane on a team that is hoping to get a wild card? Much more likely that the pitching is going to decline, but still be good, than the hitting will come to life.
lombard isn’t going to rescue the yankees until the 15th to maintain his roy eligibility.
cashrules
He’s not going to rescue the team but he might relieve the tedium.
If you call him up and send Volpe down, you can do some interesting platoons. Lombard plays everyday, but plays third against lefties and short against righties. Cabby plays short against lefties. Maybe you let Garcia play second against lefties.
The Yankees went to the World Series with Gleyber shitting up the joint at second, I think they can live with Garcia shitting up the joint against lefties at second.
Wells Coming to life?
Certainly nice to see him and Grisham go back to back. They really should have creamed McGreevy.
Jasson needs to have his brakes checked.
Why are you stealing down three?!
They really like to just give away outs.
why is posada teaching baserunning on the farm?
I reserve the right to change my mind based on future results, but as of right now, holy shit what a frustrating game!
Four fucking home runs in a loss?!
Imagine if Rice didn’t suck now.
What’s going on?
Best trade ever!!!
What’s going on? Space and time are imploding.
The Cardinals taking out a righty and bringing in another righty to face Garcia was nice!
i couldn’t remember the last time they scored three!
It can never be easy. No idea why Yarbs was still in.
NOW you bring Chivilli in.
They wanted Yarbs to face the RHB
If the ball hit Grisham in the shins wasn’t it then catchable. A tough catch but catchable.
Nope, we don’t need any relief help.
The outfield is going to stink even worse when Boone decides that Ramos should platoon with Jones.
I know Chivilli was bad, but how you don’t start the inning with him is beyond me.
Chivilli has been so good that you can’t get on him too much. Just a shitty night overall, like I noted earlier. Just a very frustrating game.
This game is all on Cam for being dogshit, but even there, he’s been so good it is hard to be too mad at him.
Sadly, you have to just let Chivilli eat this.
The real mistake was not using Yarbs earlier. He should have eaten innings 4-6.
can lightning strike twice?
https://www.espn.com/mlb/recap?gameId=401696553
It is eerily similar.
This sucks much less than that, though.
The analogy fails because Cashman didn’t land any pitchers this year.
Second game out of three the pen gave it away.
Today is pretty much opposite day, right? Schlittler and Chivilli get rocked, Wells/McMahon/Grisham/Cabby all homer.
So we can infer that Garcia has hit his first and last homer in pinstripes.
Your logic is sound.
I feel bad for Chivilli. He clearly didnt have it. Under almost any other scenario, you don’t leave him in there, but this was a rare instance when you had to.
The pen was overachieving for a while. Can’t keep expecting to win one run games tho this was a different kind of one run game.
Cam gave up 4, the pen 9
Rays ahead 7-0 in the 3rd.
At least Jazz is consistent.