Bowden Francis (#44, 28, RHP, 0-1, 11.81) vs. Luis Gil (#81, 26, RHP, 0-0, 1.93)
BLUE JAYS
DH G. Springer R
1B V. Guerrero R
SS Bo Bichette R
C A. Kirk R
RF Cavan Biggio L
3B E. Clement R
LF D. Varsho L
2B I. Kiner-Falefa R
CF K. Kiermaier L
YANKEES
2B G. Torres R
RF Juan Soto L
CF Aaron Judge R
1B A. Rizzo L
DH G. Stanton R
LF Alex Verdugo L
SS A. Volpe R
C Austin Wells L
3B O. Cabrera S
I’d love to see Gil give them some innings today, as who is even available to pitch in relief today? Burdi, I guess?
Also, if the offense could follow the “plan” again, that’d also be swell.
Two Sundays in a row without house money is pretty shocking in its own right.
Gil looks good, Francis looks better or the Yankee hitters look worse.
Is this every other shutout day?
Gil needs a gift card for the Command Store
Is that on the same street as the Jerk Store?
“Angel sucks” should be a standard-issue chant at ballparks around the nation.
Just like Gil’s first time here
That might’ve been a strike to Judge.
Not done yet. No doubt Gianni.
417 feet, 110mph. Thank you Jenny Craig.
Ask your trainer about Ozempic.
When Stanton gets hot he’s the best hitter in baseball, unfortunately he doesn’t stay hot for very long. Enjoy it while you can because I’m still betting my mid May he’s under 200.
Audibly gasped when he smoked that.
Looks like Stanton has shortened his swing the last couple days, and he is quicker to launch, so he can catch up with the fastball and wait a hair longer to recognize a breaking pitch. Basically what Judge’s private hitting coach teaches. Still has more swing from his upper body than Judge does but it looks like a real mechanical adjustment that involves his legs/hips more, and hopefully he can remember what it feels like.
I see IKF is the same guy he was here.
This nibbling is so hard to watch.
It’s baffling.
Although unlike with Clarke, IDK that it’s nibbling so much as “no clue where the ball is going.”
Granted, easy for me, a guy who felt like he blew out his arm getting it up to 70 after my kids egged me on at a minor league game, to criticize. But funny how subtle the line between journeyman and ace is for a guy who throws as hard as Gil.
The rest is in between the ears for most of the guys with real good stuff. Or, as Yogi once said: Baseball is 90 per cent mental. The other half is physical.
Starters need to learn to get through a lineup three times, or the bullpen will be burned out by June.
Not if you get a couple of long relievers. Warren and Beeter for example.
Boone let Gil pitch in the 5th??? Man that guy is dumb.
Cousins was a nice pick up. The back end of the pen is bad.
I’m thinking that 5-runs aren’t enough.
The Blue Jays pitcher agrees with me. Thanks for the tack on. And Gleyber, meh.
Burdi has some really nice stuff.
Cash has got to add a bullpen arm.
Nasty walk off loss for the O’s.
Kahnle played catch on April 6 and is in line to resume throwing in the bullpen during the week of April 7-13, according to manager Aaron Boone. Per MLB.com
Not the three guys I’d want Dennis Santana to face but we’ll see!
So, Spencer Jones still not making his 2024 MiLB debut, still a stiff neck. Next diagnosis will be ___________. Yankees stuff, eh.
Meningitis?
Did they change the balk rules this year?
Eli Fishman “Yankees ’22 3rd rounder Trystan Vrieling makes his professional debut at Double-A after missing last year with injury.
Took Joba Chamberlain 7 starts to reach Double-A in ’06, took Chase Hampton 9 in ’23. Couldn’t tell you the last NYY pitcher to start their career in Double-A”
5ip 0r 2h 6k 2bb
Wow
That wasn’t a balk but whatever
Insurance runs from the Yankees? Weird
Yay, tack on runs.
This guy Santana threw strikes. Good job whoever he is.
Nice and easy 9th.
Santana lifetime era+ 81 sure was keeping his pitches on the outlines of the box.
I was enthusiastic about Santana. Good to see him deliver on it.
First Yankees home series win against a divisional opponent since….. September 2022! Wow last season was awful.
Second half of 2022 was also awful, I’m surprised it’s that recent.
Seriously? The finished over 500 without a single series win at home? That sounds impossible. But I guess…wow last year was bad.
What was their best streak of the season? Did they win 8 out of 10 at any point? Presumably…but I would have fought they won a series at home too!
They won plenty of home series, just none against the Orioles, Rays, Red Sox or Blue Jays.
They also won series in three of those four teams’ ballparks (only Tampa Bay never lost a series to the Yankees in 2023).
Blanco flirted with another no-no for 5.2 innings.
Amazing.