September 16, 2024

122 thoughts on “Yankees (73-52) vs. Guardians (72-52) Tuesday, August 20, 2024, 7:05 PM EDT”

    1. Either he has a really high BABIP (I’m vastly doubting that) or that’s just a sample size of one AB.

  21. Katie Sharp: Yankees have now allowed 19 HR to No. 9 batters this season. That’s the most in MLB and 5 more than any other team.

    More records falling.

    Opposing 9 hitters would have the 4th most home runs on the Yankees.

    1. It just looks this way. His actual logic is some kind of totally ridiculous, backwards-looking insanity.

    1. He’s gonna have to hit 400 the rest of the month to take the job away from Verdugo. This season Martian 325 batting left, 184 batting right.

    3. Does it matter? Either Judge or Soto will do something or they won’t.

      And Kay’s comment DJ is still struggling not Rice or Wells should pinch hit.

  43. RAB “How do you let DJLM hit against a low slot righty?”

    Why the fuck is Wells on this team if not to pinch hit with 2 men on and 1 out. The Idiot is saving him for something I guess. Sometimes his stupidity astonished me.

  46. I think Russian journalist are tougher on Putin than Yankee beat writers are on Boone. Someone will ask him did you consider hitter for DJ and he’ll say no. And that’ll be it. I don’t read the tabloid but I assume it’s more of the same.

  50. Great baserunning Grisham. Why was he looking behind him? He could’ve gone past 2nd base and had plenty of time to retreat.. He didn’t need to hesitate. We even have pinch runners who can’t run the bases.

    2. Martian 4/5 tonight, but 4 singles. If he’s hitting the ball hard let’s pull the lever.

    1. They’re playing Narvaez at 1B tonight. But hey never tried Wells there. Maybe they think Narvaez would be an upgrade over DJ.

  66. The luck of this team is crazy. Wells hits two missiles, and terrible baserunning on the first, and an amazing catch on the second. Then DJ just can’t hit at all, and then the flyball when they didn’t need it.

    1. That was luck but DJ and Vertigo sucking balls is not bad luck. And Cleveland’s defense is good on them while Rojas and Grisham blowing that run is bad on us.

    1. Listen, you make those deals knowing that you’re likely to some garbage in the last few years. But you don’t have to PLAY THEM when they’re garbage! You knew it was payment for the good years, and you got those – done deal. Sunk cost. Play the players who might help you win, not the ones you owe money to.

  75. People may criticize Cashman but he found a diamond in the rough in Tim Mayza. While other GM’s were scared of his 8.03 era over 35 games for Toronto, Cashman said full speed ahead. And Tim Mayza joined De Los Santos and Leiter jr to fortify the bullpen.

  77. Ten runs in the last 4 games, one scoring on a wild pitch and one on a wild pitch. Two great hitters and one very good hitter. Twenty four runs in 7 games and 9 came in a freaky two inning span.

  85. Remember that scene in Basketball Diaries where they get really fucked up and then go play? Is there any chance that Verdugo and Gleyber are doing something like that before at bats? What happened to them, they weren’t born in the 70’s like DJ and Stanton.

    1. They didn’t know which were the ups and which the downs, they took the downs by mistake.

  89. OMG!! Kirschner:Aaron Boone on what he sees in DJ LeMahieu and why he still believes it’s in there for him:

    “He obviously got a big hit in the Williamsport game for us. He’s shown some flashes of that. It’s been tough. It’s been rough. No question about it. He’s had moments where he’s gotten it going a little bit but it’s been tough. I know he’s working his tail off to get it right and be a contributor. At this point, we have to keep grinding with him.”

    1. See post at 11:45 pm on insanity. This is NOT a serious operation being run in the Bronx.

  90. Aaron Boone on the amount of sloppiness from the Yankees tonight:

    “Especially when you’re not driving in a ton of runs and killing the ball, you gotta do everything perfect. They made a couple of more plays. They made a great play in right at the wall against us on Wells’ ball. When you’re in a tight game like that, you gotta pull those games out.”

    And he takes no responsibility.

  94. You might have expected Verdugo not to be a great pick-up. But there’s no way anyone could have expected anything even faintly like this.
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    The big question is – either some of the crazy-anomalous bad years are just bad luck, something out of their control, in which case you can’t blame the team… or it’s NOT bad luck, and there’s something in how they’re coaching/conditioning/??? hitters, and Judge and Soto are just so good that they hit in spite of that. If it’s the latter, then they ARE to blame, and something has to be done.
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    Is there a good argument that it’s the latter?

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