September 16, 2024

61 thoughts on “Yankees (74-53) vs. Guardians (73-53) Thursday, August 22, 2024, 1:05 PM EDT”

  3. Boone “Dugie’s been up and down the last couple of months after being such a force for us, especially in the middle of the lineup the first two months. Just so many big hits. I continue to hang my hat on he’s such a good hitter and a young man. That hot streak is coming.”

  4. The fact that he sucks AND he swings first pitch all of the time, is just such a pathetic combo, right?

    It’s sort of like how Lemahieu, when he works the count to 3-2 and grounds out, you’re pissed, but you’re much less pissed than when he hacks at three pitches in a row and strikes out, ya know?

    So Verdugo doesn’t even work counts. He just hacks away, and does pathetic shit on the first pitch. September 1st can’t come soon enough.

  5. What is a more likely scenario when Jazz returns? Waldo in left, Judge in center, Jazz at third

    or Waldo at third, Judge in left, Jazz in center

    We all know Dugie will just continue to play everyday unless The Martian takes his job, but in THEORY, which of those two scenarios above are more likely?

    1. Jazz at 3rd, Verdugo in left, Waldo sits is a near lock. If Waldo were better from the right Boone might platoon him.

  8. It’s amazing how many pitchers with bad records “look impressive” against the Yankees. When you have a lineup that includes Gleyber, Verdugo, Waldo, phenom, Rice/DJ and Stanton/Grisham it’s not that hard to look impressive.How many runs have any of those guys produced recently.

    1. By “these situations”, I presume you mean “anybody but Judge, Soto or Wells batting”?

    1. There’s a moment in Ball Four where the manager does this and Bouton says it’s good strategy but I can’t for the life of me recall the details. Something about the platoon advantage.

    2. I mean if you’re going to bring in a relief pitcher, the STARTER should first issue the IBB. Why should the IBB be on the relief pitcher’s record, when the hitter is getting intentionally walked because of the situation the starter created?

    3. Bouton said by bringing the reliever for the IBB it allowed the manager to change again if the next batter was pinch hit for (no 3 batter minimum then, of course).

  26. Found it, Brian:

    A bit of clever baseball strategy tonight by Joe Schultz. We’re down 4–2 in the ninth against the Senators. Two out, man on second, Frank Howard is the hitter. Howard should be walked. But if Bob Locker, who’s pitching, walks him he will now have to pitch to a left-handed hitter, Mike Epstein. This won’t do. So O’Donoghue, a left-handed pitcher, will be brought in. In which case the Senators will pinch-hit for Epstein, bringing in a right-handed power-hitter, like Brant Alyea, and we’re stuck. O’Donoghue will have to pitch against him because the rules say he must pitch to at least one hitter. But Schultz was ahead of everybody. He brought in O’Donoghue just to walk Howard. Sure enough, they brought in Alyea to face O’Donoghue. So Joe took out O’Donoghue and brought me in. I struck Alyea out on three super knuckleballs.

    Bouton, Jim. Ball Four (RosettaBooks Sports Classics) (pp. 277-278). RosettaBooks. Kindle Edition.

    ****

    So you couldn’t do this any more.

  27. Seeing Judge’s oppo HR today and the short-porch HRs by Soto and Judge yesterday, I wondered how much of their totals this year was DNYS. As you may have seen, Baseball Savant calculates expected home runs based on batted ball profile (they also report the number of ballparks for which a particular batted ball would become a homer). Prior to today, Judge is +2.5 versus expected. So he’s gotten a bit of a boost but not a tremendous one. Most of his homers are no-doubters. Soto, interestingly, is -3.7, and should have 40 already. (Don’t tell him, or he’ll sign somewhere else!)

    It’s fun to look at Judge’s 2022 using that tool, and play What-If-All-His-Games-Were-In-One-Park. He’d have hit 72 in Colorado, and just 51 in Detroit.
    And heck, if he had played every game in Cincinnati for his whole career, he’d have 359 homers already – more than Joey Votto just retired with.

    1. Hmm? From Katie Sharp:

      This is the 2nd time in Yankees history that they allowed exactly 1 hit, and that hit came in the opponent’s 1st PA of the game.

      The other game was April 24, 1943 vs Washington Nationals.

    3. Should have said:
      Bet that’s more hits than any other team gave up to the Nationals in 1943!

    5. The Washington Senators officially changed their name to the Washington Nationals for decades, but everyone still called them the Senators, so it is weird having people look back on those years and call them the Nationals, which is technically true, but it’d be like calling the Knicks the Knickerbockers, ya know?

    6. The Senators changed their name to the Nationals “for decades”? Bizarre. Never heard of that.
      But no, even if that’s true, it’s not like calling the Knicks the Knickerbockers, or calling the Yankees the Yankees instead of the Yanks, where a common name is just an abbreviated form of an obviously-connected full name, and no renaming of any kind has anything to do with it.

    7. But yes, she’s actually right – that was technically the name of the team in 1943!
      Amazing.
      If the Senators/Nationals were a comic book, that would make a great article for Brian!

    8. The name story of a Washington sports team turns out to be as long and winding as the name story (and the Ace bandages) of one of its legendary players – specifically Nick “The Mummy” “Ozymandias” “Ramses” Johnson.

    2. Not like Stanton. Jazz wasn’t out very long. Now Rizzo is supposed to DH on Saturday in AA and they’ll rush him back to where we’ll be missing DJ.

    3. “to where we’ll be missing DJ”
      _
      That is beyond Rizzo’s power. There simply is no such place.

  32. That really was a hell of a series by the Yankees. They had to replace their starter in the 4th inning of the first game, and shut out the Guardians for the next SEVEN INNINGS, only falling in the 12th when they had to go to their shittiest reliever.

    The offense in that first game was, well, offensive, but, as we have discussed, that team won’t be the team the Yankees will be having in the future, so it’s not AS concerning. The starters in Games 2 and 3, and the relievers in Game 1-3 doing well is huge, though, as those WILL be the pitchers they’ll be having going forward.

    2. Cool but I need to see some doubles and home runs. And unless Verdugo goes near hitless the next 9 days I don’t trust Boone to make the switch.

    3. As insane as Boone is, I don’t see the Yankees calling up Dominguez if he’s not going to be a daily player.

    5. Agreed, Clay. If he’s called up, it’s going to be to play. The issue is…WILL he be called up? Berti is ALSO rehabbing alongside Rizzo. They can only call up two guys in September. Could it be Berti instead of the Martian? Or would they dare send Waldo down for Berti?

    6. Berti wouldn’t impact that call up limit though, right? Since he’s on the IL, not the MiL.

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