Aaron Civale (#45, 31, RHP, 1-0, 3.60) vs. Cam Schlittler (#31, 25, RHP, 2-0, 0.00)
ATHLETICS
1B Nick Kurtz L
C S. Langeliers R
LF T. Soderstrom L
DH Brent Rooker R
SS Jacob Wilson R
RF L. Butler L
3B Max Muncy R
2B Jeff McNeil L
CF D. Clarke R
YANKEES
CF T. Grisham L
RF Aaron Judge R
LF C. Bellinger L
1B Ben Rice L
DH G. Stanton R
2B J. Chisholm L
3B Amed Rosario R
C Austin Wells L
SS J. Caballero R
So, Rosario’s good enough to fill in for McMahon against a righty, but not to pinch hit for Cabby when a hit ties the game in the bottom of the ninth inning? Make it make sense!
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Hopefully the cold isn’t fucking with Schlittler’s command.
Battling back from 3-0
Maybe he just needed to get used to the cold.
I don’t like that other teams are starting to just pitch around Rice, knowing they’re going to be fine.
Stanton’s doing pretty good.
Yeah, fair point. I guess I was thinking of Sunday, when they walked BOTH guys, and didn’t pay for it.
This is a scintillating interview
It’s so embarrassing. Why are they interviewing a dude who really doesn’t speak much English, and they don’t have a translator?
I don’t mind these insipid interviews (they’re just sort of an expected annoyance by this point), but you can’t stop calling the fucking game for them! There was a dispute on the field, and we got nothing on it because of the stupid interview.
What the fuck happened to Aaron CIvale? His stuff looks REALLY sharp.
McMahon about to be Pipp’ed.
Kay’s right about Rosario. The dude seems to fucking LOVE being a Yankee.
I think Jazz needs to lower his ambition to 45/45
I think Stanton has a better shot at 45/45.
Cabby making it easy for phenom to return.
What happens if they start throwing strikes to Trent?
God, do I hate soft contact hits.
Schlittler missed badly with that pitch to Kurtz. I think the cold really IS affecting his command.
I think McNeill scores from first on that Kurtz double, so I don’t think keeping Clarke from bunting mattered too much.
It’s not good to see Schlittler getting hit so hard this inning. And a TON of pitches thrown.
I’m already prepared to chalk this up to the cold fucking with him, and not worrying too much about it.
“Schlittler missed badly with that pitch to Kurtz. I think the cold really IS affecting his command.”
It can get pretty cold as you get into October.
That’s a more natural cold, though, as it get gradually colder, not going from 70 to 40 out of nowhere.
WOE.
I’m not saying this ISN’T quite WOEful, but man, Civale has also looked oddly good tonight. He had a good game against the Braves, as well. It’s weird.
Wells even more disappointing than last season
The lineup is awful, 6 through 1, ugh.
Jazz can’t be this bad and Trent is drawing walks. What happens when they just throw strikes to Trent?
I wonder how long Grish’s leash is?
Yeah, Grisham’s fine with that high of an OBP in front of the big guys. It’s the other guys who suck.
Of course, this inning, it was Belli and Rice who couldn’t come through, which was extra frustrating.
Grisham’s leash is at least 130 miles, it’s got enough slack to take it past Scranton.
When they HAVE TO come through every time, because the rest of the line-up NEVER does, that’s too much to ask.
I don’t get burning Bird and Headrick so soon. So who is going to pitch the rest of the game? Blackburn?
Boone seems to be managing this like they’re ahead. It’s weird.
Grisham’s OPS is 591, that ain’t fine anywhere.
Sure, it’s too low, but it’s not a concern eleven games into the season, especially with the surprisingly good OBP.
Wells, McMahon, and Cabby are the real problems. It’s a trio of automatic outs, and they’re NOT having good at-bats.
It’s also weird to bring Cruz in specifically for this guy, as Langeliers has taken Cruz deep before.
Yankees farm system AAA and AA games canceled because of cold and wind chills.
It sucks that their one good reliever has been available for two innings tonight.
The back of the lineup actually gets a pair of doubles, and they strand them both times. Very fucking annoying.
I actually don’t mind pitching around Rooker there. He’s hit a home run off of Cruz before.
When Trent is hitting 152 with no home runs and one double, that’s a problem. Even last year he didn’t hit for average it was the 34 home runs that got him $22M.
Yes, if Grisham never hits another home run, that would be bad.
NEVER LET JAZZ CHALLENGE PITCHES.
He’s the last possible guy I’d want making any challenges. He’s an extremely emotional dude.
Wow, what a play by Clarke.
Shit, I think Jazz might be hurt.
I am glad that the A’s used up their one good reliever.
Leiter owed the Yankees this one.
Rosario!
How can you overturn that? Dumb challenge.
Okay, that Grisham 3-1 groundout was very annoying.
Grisham 0-5, 147/561. That’s a problem.
“Bednar wants to be more economical with his pitches,” starts the inning with two balls.
So that’s a “no” on “being more economical”?
Not economical, but he gets the lead off batter.
Okay, 13 pitches is not bad.
What a fucking win!
Yay, comeback win.
There’s no excuse for not sweeping this A’s team. Just like there was really not an excuse for not sweeping the Marlins.
But watch Boone sit Rosario tomorrow because Sevy’s a “tough righty”, and watch McMahon strike out 3 more times.
McMahon will 100% start tomorrow.
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Man, I had zero notion Bednar’s politics were so unmitigatedly nefarious.
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Too optimistic tonight.
Why do you think that it’s not the cold, but only the rate of temperature change, that’s affecting Schlittler?
And Grisham may be tolerable at the top of the line up with walks compensating the lack of hitting, but overall the team’s going to need to find all bases he’s not getting (HRs and other xbh) from somewhere, or – not find them, and be that much worse. Since they’re “running it back out there,” you need to compare him to last year’s Grisham.
I don’t expect 2025 Grisham, I do expect Chisholm to be better, I had no expectations for McMahon… Wells looks like a minor leaguer, he may be the greatest disappointment. You can’t keep this at catcher.
A bit unusual
T Grisham (L) CF
A Judge (R) RF
C Bellinger (L) LF
B Rice (L) 1B
G Stanton (R) DH
J Chisholm Jr. (L) 2B
J Escarra (L) C
A Rosario (R) 3B
R McMahon (L) SS