Max Fried (#54, 31, LHP, 13-5, 3.26) vs. Brayan Bello (#66, 26, RHP, 9-6, 3.23)
RED SOX
1B R. Gonzalez R
3B Alex Bregman R
RF R. Anthony L
SS Trevor Story R
CF J. Garcia R
LF Jarren Duran L
2B C. Rafaela R
DH Nate Eaton R
C Connor Wong R
YANKEES
CF T. Grisham L
1B Ben Rice L
DH Aaron Judge R
RF C. Bellinger L
2B J. Chisholm L
LF J. Dominguez S
SS A. Volpe R
3B Ryan McMahon L
C Austin Wells L
I mean, whatever, right? It’s Max Fried pitching. He WILL suck, and they WILL lose. So I guess they just have to hope Dustin May sucks more than Carlos Rodon on Sunday. There was a recent season where the Red Sox were just KICKING THE YANKEES’ ASS every game. Heck, even THIS season, the Blue Jays have mostly kicked the Yankees’ ass. This year’s Red Sox games, though, are weird. Every game is close, but the Red Sox just pull out all the wins. When the Yankees pitch well, the Red Sox pitch better, and it’s a 2-0 loss. When the Yankees hit, the Red Sox hit better, and it’s an 11-8 loss. It’s all quite depressing.
At least there’s no Refsnyder. You KNOW that dude would eat Fried alive.
Less Volpe would be nice. Less Judge expanding the strike zone would be nice. Beating this team several games would be nice. Can we have some nice?
Early season Fried would be nicest
Until they put him on the IL to recover from his blisters, I don’t think we’re going to see early season Fried again.
Then it’s beyond insane NOT to do that, isn’t it?
He can obviously pitch through a different grip, so when the options are a limited Fried or Allan Winans, I get why they think Fried is the better bet. When Yarbrough is healthy, though, I think they should put Fried on the IL.
Okay, it’s 7:10 PM now. How soon before Fried gives up a run? I say 7:14 PM.
My timeline didn’t anticipate Fried taking so long for each batter. So let’s move the timeline to 7:20 PM.
Roman Anthony Nobel prize.
Geez, he keeps taking so long with wild pitches and step offs, he’s fucking with my timeline guess.
Is Ben Rice a catcher the way Mike Stanley was a catcher?
Not THAT bad, but basically.
Well, I was wrong, Fried actually got out of the first without a run. Shocking.
I missed the first but the last two were balls. And usually guys with high OBPs get the benifit.
It’s easy to see why Judge extends the zone when he gets THAT fucking strike zone. INSANITY.
It’s like Bello gets to pitch to the tennis doubles line. How can we beat a pitcher that doesn’t give up home runs? Jazz, phenom, McMahon and Wells are totally nullified, which isn’t that hard in the first place. Trent also somewhat.
Max Fried keeps pushing my timeline back.
It can’t be about hurt feelings. It’s about putting out the best lineup this time of year, except when it comes to phenom.
Isn’t Caballero the exact type of hitter you DO want up against a guy like Bello? A hitter who can actually slap a hit, unlike most of the Yankee hitters.
His OBP is 59 points higher than phenom’s
Good job swinging first pitch, Volpe, to keep Dominguez from running!
At least Bello is being as economical as a typical Yankee starter.
Jazz to some extent reminds me of Starlin Castro and Didi.
What’s the timeline on when and if the Yankees score?
I’m thinking that’s going to be a no.
Fried felt it wasn’t sporting that Bello was so far ahead of him in pitch count.
I hope you all have someone who loves you as much as Yankee starters love walks and running up their pitch counts.
Walking Gonzalez in front of Bregman was just a chef’s kiss of incompetence.
How many Yankees could do that? Martian, Cody and PGold maybe?
Judge could. He won’t, but he could. Otherwise, yes, you named them all.
Nice 26-pitch inning against 8-9-1, dick.
Ooph, Rice, that hurt.
Any time you can throw a million pitchers just to walk a rookie in first game, you gotta do it.
Worst walk of the night. Just some pathetic bullshit from Fried.
I meant 8:20 PM earlier. I got my time zones wrong.
Dear lord, Fried, learn how to put people away!
0-2 to 3-2. the Yankee Way
8:20 is about to be right.
Fried told me to wait a bit longer.
Good, good, expand the zone and fly out on the first pitch. Just like how we drew it up, Judge.
In-fucking-furiating
They’re just not a serious team.
Jazz sucks. Home run or bust. He sucks less than phenom but he’s got a lot more talent. Starlin Castro and Didi were much better
This is basically the exact same script as the Father’s Day game.
Can’t blame Fried for that one.
It could be worse. 👍🏻 And it probably will get worse. 😔
I’ve been saying this all year but this team doesn’t even make good pitchers sweat for a minute. Sure I don’t expect them to beat up good pitchers but this is just so consistently pathetic.
Can you please try retiring Bregman for a change?
Nope, can’t be done.
Somewhere Shoeless Joe is choking on something.
Last month Jazz is striking out about 1.4 times per game, phenom once a game, McMahon a little over once per game.
The Volpe thing just baffles me, because Caballero is RIGHT THERE!!
It’s the opposite of what Kay said at the beginning of the game explaining why Wells and Martian lost their starting jobs. In those cases feelings were unimportant, it’s all about putting the best team on the field.
They didn’t even pinch hit for him last night in the 8th.
I mean, it’s at least fun to see Fried abuse the Wunderkind.
They want to make sure Bello gets through 7, so Whitlock and Chapman can close it out.
So fucking embarrassing. Why must they send the same guys out every night to suck? Caballero can’t start for ANYone?
Rosario will probably play against Rosario, not that that will help.
McMahon is also awful now, 147 last14 games before tonight. Five thru 9 in this lineup are different degrees of terrible. Put Kevin Bacon in.
Meredith “What was ‘insert name’ doing tonight?” Boone “I thought showed good effort, we had some good at bats, Rice hit a single. Were almost there.”
Why did he fuck around with Garcia last time? It’s like he was his own worst enemy tonight.
Call me old fashioned but I prefer not to hear the words “getting hard” in a dick pill ad during a baseball game
They’re just cursed. That’s the only explanation.
Yep, now Bello definitely gets the 7th to shut down Judge, Cody, and Jazz.
They couldn’t hit Justin Wilson or Weissert last night either.
They did okay against them.
I actually don’t get this move. It’s the bottom of the lineup. 99 pitch Fried is still better than Leiter.
It’s his lane.
I miss the Twins.
Them getting Lowe for funsies is KILLING me.
Yankees remind me of a bad football team in the thirties with a quarterback who can’t throw playing in the mud.
If you pitch for the Yankees in relief, you can only pitch well if the guy in front of you already sucked.
Sticking with Fried also would have kept Lowe on the bench.
Don’t worry, guys, now that the game is over, Leiter will pitch well.
Devin Williams will also pitch well in the 8th with the game over.
Wong, hitting 180 something, now has two hits against the Yankees. Classic!
Yep, just as I figured, once it didn’t matter, THEN they could retire Bregman.
Just a whole team of shrinking violets.
Boone has no idea how to use his pen. Scoreless game, 99 pitches and your ace on the mound. You do not pull him.
Maybe if you had last year’s Devin and Weaver and this year’s Bednar. Or Nelson, Stanton and Mo.
AND it keeps Lowe on the bench.
Whichever reliever enters, no matter how well they are pitching otherwise, WILL choke on the Yankees.
Once upon a time talented and smart Yankee teams played 500 against Pedro in the regular season and won a World Series from a team with one of the greatest rotations in history.
Are the umpires conspiring to make Judge expand the zone?!
This is just so, so pathetic from Judge.
Bello is going to pitch eight, isn’t he? These fucking assholes.
The Yankees are a marginally talented team with a low team wide IQ at the plate. None of this surprises anyone. Boston just lost a series to Baltimore and I was begging for a split of the series. The funny thing is Bello’s a ground ball pitcher and were hitting weak fly balls.
This team plays like the 2015 wild card team except it happens every second or third game.
The ONLY other time this year Bello went 7 scoreless was against the Yankees. His last 3 He pitched well against KC but they got a run on 6 hits in 6, SD beat him up, Miami got 2 runs and 4 hits in 6. He’s a career 4 era pitcher. The Yankees are a special kind of suck.
Of course Boone lets the guy with the second worst OBP on baseball hit for himself when they desperately need a base runner.
What a supremely bad team. fucking hate them
Judge seems to have lowered himself to the level of the team.
Thoroughly unenjoyable
Yesterday the Yankees got two legit runs and one on a lucky pop up. Last 4 innings yesterday no runs and two hits. Now 13 scoreless. How many times this year have they been in one of these streaks?
Hey! They hit 9 HRs against the Rays in a game. Woo-hoo!
The 61 Yankees hit a lot of home runs. They also had only one hitter hitting below 250.
I actually am taking some positives from this one. The offense is a bunch of losers, but in the long run, if Max Fried has successfully found a new grip, that’s a gamechanger. We saw it with Gerrit Cole in 2021, it takes a long time to do a new grip. Once you get it, though, you SHOULD have it going forward.
So let’s hope that Fried has it going forward.
Plus, even Boone will know that he has to sit Jazz and McMahon tomorrow against Crochet, so it’ll be good not to watch those two losers for a game. Then, maybe on Sunday, they can sit that loser Volpe.
If they can even get a GAME in this series I’d be sort of impressed.
You got your chokers, and you got your bums, and you got your dudes who just had bad games. Belli, Rice, Dominguez and Grisham just had bad games. Wells, McMahon and Volpe are your bums. Judge is your choker, and Jazz is a kind of weird mixture of all three.
Making this more unbearable is the awful stretch by Judge. And it began before the stupid injury.
Seven pitch 6th inning for Fried. Couldn’t come out for the seventh. It’s early in the season, I understand.
AND it keeps Lowe on the bench. If you HAD to go to a reliever, why not Hill?
Boone defending Volpe’s throw to second, “not the right play probably, but in some ways a heads up play.” No consideration to letting Fried come out for the seventh. Gotta get Volpe going.
Sounds like Volpe has tenure for life.
Cashman with a lifetime supply of chicken-parmesan.
Of course Williams and Bednar got through their innings without giving up any runs when it doesn’t matter. They’re the world’s best pitchers when the innings don’t matter.
It was a one run game, even though we all knew it might as well have been a ten run game, from their point of view it mattered.
It’s amazing how many losses the pen has. As of July 5th they had the 6th most losses.
It’s CRAZY. If they CAN blow a game, they WILL blow a game.
And the pitching coach?
F Cruz 1.1 ip 1r 1h 2k. Elmer Cruz 6.2ip 3r 9k. Yankee long shot 16th round pick after 20 ABs at Tampa Lovich 600/1562 which is slightly better than Arias 211/650.
F Cuz should be back soon.
“ The Yankees have been consistent in their support of Volpe, treating him as if he can do no wrong. Their unwavering backing of him is undeserved. Volpe has been one of the sport’s least valuable players this season. He has the third-worst wRC+ among all qualified shortstops. He’s been the ninth-worst base runner among all shortstops by FanGraphs’ base running runs above average metric. And he’s been the third-worst defender at shortstop in outs above average. His .276 on-base percentage is the third-worst among all qualified hitters in MLB. The Yankees treat Volpe as if he’s untouchable and above recourse.”
The article is harder on Boone for continuing to trot out Volpe out every day than it is on Volpe who can’t help sucking.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6570542/2025/08/23/yankees-defend-anthony-volpe/
An unserious team, with a saboteur as GM.