Max Fried (#54, 31, LHP 13-5, 3.14 ERA) vs. Cade Cavalli (#24 26, RHP, 1-0, 2.82 ERA)
NATIONALS
Confirmed Lineup
LF James Wood L
SS CJ Abrams L
DH Riley Adams R
2B Luis Garcia L
RF Dylan Crews R
1B A. Chaparro R
C Drew Millas S
3B Brady House R
CF Jacob Young 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
C Austin Wells L
3B Ryan McMahon L
Cavalli used to be an actually really good prospect, so I assume he will shut the Yankees down.
Day baseball is nice because it gets the rage out of the way early.
yeah but then I have to spin up a different source of rage to fall asleep
Well I don’t know how else you’d tap into any rage in the year of our lord twenty twenty five.
Can’t complain about that first inning from Fried. Hopefully I’ll be happy that he’s lined up to pitch the opener of the Houston series, and then the closer of the Toronto series.
I’ll miss this version of Grisham.
Hope Cashman remembers Hicks and DJ and Brosius,….
Jazz sure does love to swing the bat.
Somehow the Martian strikeout pissed me off more, since Volpe is on deck as an automatic out.
Volpe is loooooost out there.
He had the only good AB. That’ll buy him another 25 games.
Two pathetic ABs. Jazz is not capable of not trying to put it into the right field seats.
I think the Martian at-bat was even worse. Cavalli telegraphed how he was going to pitch him, and he just… went along with it.
“Just keep swinging as you go lower with each pitch? Don’t mind if I do!”
Jazz’s was worse because Jazz is a better hitter and there were no outs.
1 run?
Rage starting now….
It might have been a bit early, but I think I would have PH for Volpe there.
There was a good bit last night when Ruocco asked O’Neil if hitting it hard would make Volpe feel better, and O’Neil was, like, “No, you just need results at this point.”
I think I’d rather feel unlucky than think I suck.
Paul “Jazz looking for the ball in and this ball up and away…you got to stay with it and try to drive it the other way.”
And Jazz pisses me off because I think he has the talent not to be so one dimensional but it’s like he needs to be the star. I bet when he plays basketball he’d rather take a low percentage shot than pass the ball.
Bizarre that McMahon is batting behind Wells.
I was wondering this as well, what possible reason, except to save the ego of Wells and Volpe.
Also, it’s absurd that they pulled Stanton early last night to rest, and then still didn’t start him today.
He was never going to play day game after night game, especially after a win. What’s weird to me is that Stanton always must sit over Judge in these situations.
I don’t disagree with not playing him day game after a night game, but then why pull him early with only a four run lead last night?
Attaboy, Judge!
And that’s why Stanton had to sit and Judge had to play today.
I thought that was gone also. That’s the second hit Martian drove in the last few days.
At this point, playing Caballero might just be better for Volpe’s psyche even.
There’s that power we heard about.
Last 7 days for Volpe 20 At-bats, 0 hits, 0 walks, .000. .000 .000
0-2 today
Good game. 10/10. Would game again.
The real PHENOM 247/844
Some of us here were watching Rice before the prospect guys. He never made the top 100 and I don’t think he was on many Yankee top10s.
I felt that a lot of people dismissed his minor league success with the bat because of his age without considering the fact that he only played 30 games at Dartmouth. He was basically two years behind his peers. He put up a 1.000 OPS in AA without a lot of experience. That got my attention.
There was also some talk of his position. As a DH or 1B, he’d need to be really hot with the bat, but as average or slightly less than average C, he’s a gold mine.
Yeah that’s what I saw and he kept moving up in levels and his performance kept pace.
Is Fried getting pissed?
See, Volpe was just trying to be a good teammate and not keep Fried too cold in the dugout.
That AB can’t have been good for Volpe’s psyche.
Nooooooooo sir. Dude’s throwing the epitome of mop-up duty, and Volpe is still swinging through pitches, and then reaching at a bad ptich in the end.
Making 2 outs in an inning in which 9 runs score must feel pretty bad.
But gotta bat him ahead of TWO other guys for some reason.
Guess what, Boone? Left/right doesn’t matter when Volpe can’t hit anyone, left or right!
But Wells is no better and McMahon was struggling.
I can see the logic of maybe going Volpe 8/Wells 9, but not Volpe 7th ever.
He should just stand deeper in the box and try to hit the catcher’s glove.
It is what it is, of course, but I can’t even IMAGINE walking a dude in that situation. You’re up 10 runs, dude. Just let him swing.
Where was this against the Red Sox?
They just needed the Red Sox to be nice enough to pitch a bad pitcher in the final game, but this DID show up in that game.
Now Volpe must feel REALLY depressed.
The Red Sox will probably still win the game (since he IS under .500 on the season), but I’m still glad that they don’t miss Skenes this weekend.
How in the world is Fried walking dudes?!
Okay, now they can take him out early today. Heck, I’d just pull him now.
Leaving him in was fine, too, but with an 11-1 lead, I’d just as soon use Blackburn.
Katie S Yankees have hit 4+ HR in an inning 3 times this season.
That’s the most 4+ HR innings by a team in a season in MLB history.
It still kills me that the juiced ball Twins have the single season team home run record.
It’s horrifying, Brian
Judge was, like, “Okay, I got my home run, so I can just expand the zone now, right?”
Volpe is playing himself out of the majors (I hope)
If this really is a case of Fried just finally getting comfortable with his new “avoiding blisters” grip (just like how Cole took a while to adjust to his “no sticky stuff grip”), then, well, that would be awesome.
I suppose we’ll find out very soon if this is for real, as he pitches in Houston and then home against the Blue Jays in his next two starts.
Maybe it had nothing to do with his blister. I dunno know.
He definitely changed his grip because of the blister issue (he also debuted a DIFFERENT new grip this season before the blisters returned). But you’re right that his suckitude could have been unrelated. The timing just seems so spot on, right? He has the blister. They take time off, he works on a different grip, sucks for a month, now is back to normal.
Tied by the 2023 Braves. The 2019 Yankees had 306, and that was with Judge playing only 102 games. So another stupid Judge injury cost them.
Heck, 2018-2020, the Yankees played 384 games and Judge only played in 242.
That’s why it always annoys me when people complain about the Yankees not extending Judge. How COULD you when he was missing huge chunks of every season? The moment he had a healthy season, they tried to extend him. He bet on himself and won.