Luis Gil (#81, 27, RHP, 2-1, 3.75) vs. Martín Pérez (#54, 34, LHP, 1-3, 2.02)
YANKEES
1B P. Goldschmidt R
DH Aaron Judge R
CF C. Bellinger L
RF G. Stanton R
3B Amed Rosario R
2B J. Chisholm L
SS A. Volpe R
C Ben Rice L
LF J. Caballero R
WHITE SOX
RF M. Tauchman L
DH Kyle Teel L
1B Lenyn Sosa R
SS C. Montgomery L
C Edgar Quero S
3B Curtis Mead R
LF W. Robertson L
2B C. Meidroth R
CF M. Taylor R
Perez has had some real success against the Yankees in the past. It’d be embarrassing for HIM to be the guy who shuts them down.
It feels like it’s been a while since Goldy actually got a hit off of a lefty, right?
That Judge at-bat reminds me of Stanton’s during the recent hot streak. Take two strikes, and then crush the third pitch.
Judge and Yogi.
I love the bit about how it’s been nearly 70 years since someone LAST joined the top five of the Yankees in home runs. So that’s a pretty darn cool thing.
Perez 2.20 era. Career WAR 15.7
Gil 3.75 3.9
Mismatch
Curtis Mead is doing way too well this series.
I know he’s coming off a major injury, but I’ve been very annoyed by how much struggles Gil has had with putting guys away. He had Mead 0-2, but it got to 2-2 before the double.
Judge, see what happens when you just TAKE BALLS? Please keep this up.
Attaboy, Belli.
I remember when back to back doubles were cool.
Back to back doubles who says you can’t teach an old team new tricks.
I’ll give it up to Perez. He made some REALLY nice pitches to Stanton at the end of that at-bat. Putting the ball in the same location three times where Stanton clearly wasn’t comfortable with it, but it was probably going to be called a strike had he taken it.
Ooph, Rice, that’s brutal after taking a lead. Just can’t happen. ESPECIALLY since Gil’s such a fragile snowflake that you KNOW that will rattle him, and sure enough, four-pitch walk right after.
WTF Rice?
As this is happening, the Blue Jays take the lead in their game, and the Red Sox tie their game.
As you can see in the Montgomery at-bat, he clearly has finishing level stuff, he just doesn’t USE it well enough most of the time.
SuperMead on deck, so you really need to buckle down here, Gil.
Or just throw all balls. Either or.
Okay, after it was 3-0, he buckled down.
Man, Gil has all the ingredients for being a good pitcher. Can he ever really put it together, though?
If Schittler is real and Gil is as good as he was last year and Rodon continues to pitch well and Cole returns ..,2026 might be a good year
Yeah, I’ve been saying for a while that 2026 should be the real target year (since they’d be adding Cole), especially if they could add Tucker. Now, though, I wonder if they wouldn’t be better off letting Tucker go elsewhere and spread his money around a bit.
Okay, that was a hell of an inning by Gil. He mad e the White Sox hitters his bitch in that inning, and ECONOMICAL, too!
It’s important to remember that Caballero sucks, too.
Boy, it would be nice if Goldy could actually get a hit off of a lefty.
He had a double off of Gore. That’s his last hit off of a lefty.
Now that Judge and Stanton have stopped chasing, Belli has STARTED chasing. Weird.
Skubal pitches today. I can’t do the math. Does that mean he’ll miss them in New York?
Good results, but too many pitches, Gil! I’d really love to see him get through seven, so they could just go Weaver/Bednar to close it out.
Moar runs would be nice, too.
So Judge just needs the triple.
Stanton stops chasing, and then they call a ball a strike. Stop that, umpires! Reward him for not chasing!
It should be a 3-0 count right now.
He walked anyways.
GD shows no strikes at all, just four straight balls (with third actually BEING a borderline strike) to Stanton.
Rosario hasn’t looked the same since the injury.
Rosario looked TERRIBLE in that at-bat.
Fascinating to see them stick with Perez here after the error. Come on, Volpe, DO something!
I didn’t mean a fucking double play, Volpe! And on a fucking absurd pitch to swing at. Fucking moron.
Why the fuck is Martin Perez on the White Sox, by the way? All he does is pitch well everywhere he goes, and yet good teams never want to sign the guy. It’s fucking weird.
phenom still sucking after all these years
Astros STILL haven’t announced their starter for tomorrow. I seriously think they’re trying to come up with some nonsense to get Framber to face the Yankees on Tuesday.
Tomorrow is an off day.
No, the Astros play the Angels on Monday.
Okay, so no way Gil goes seven at this rate.
If this is t the best we can do against Perez and Smith we are so fucked against Crochet and Bello
Well, THAT sucked.
Montgomery had come into this series on a hot streak, home run-wise. Gotta say, Teel and Montgomery seem like a pretty darn good return for Crochet, especially since Crochet was going to be a free agent soon.
Pretty awful to not be able to get through six, Gil. The walk after the home run was almost more annoying than the home run.
Well, 98 pitches in 5.1 innings is awful, and against the White Sox too, but seems to be the Yankees way.
See, now there, Mead obviously should have taken that pitch, but what makes Cruz a good pitcher is that that pitch LOOKS like a strike out of his hands.
3 hits in 9 innings yesterday followed by today’s offensive “explosion” ugh.
How is Rice batting BELOW VOLPE?
Rice struggles a LOT against lefties.
Wells has looked pretty good recently. Would you pinch hit him for Goldy?
Odds on the triple?
Ooph, Judge.
Oh well, 3 out of 4 isn’t awful.
Judge’s batting line or the Yankees in this series?
Very unimpressive yesterday and today
The pitching was good last night, at least.
BoSox won, Seattle won, Toronto about to win.
Ugh. Can they pinch hit for Volpe here?
Will Volpe wait until the second pitch to make his automatic out?
Oh great, it’ll be a 2-0 out now. Even more annoying.
Okay, so it’ll be an out after being up 3-0. Even more annoying.
Heh. Nice.
Weird walk, Booser. But luckily for him, Rice REALLY struggles against lefties.
Who is this umpire? Per game day, there have been a TON of pitches RIGHT on the edge of the strike zone, and he’s gotten every one I’ve noticed right.
Umpires’ union discipline surely upcoming.
Rough, rough game for Rice.
Yankee baseball 2025
Tim Hill here against the top of the lineup is a WEIRD choice.
Shouldn’t all three of the top Yankee relievers be available?
By the way, by “weird,” I, of course, mean weird AND bad.
It’s SO surprising how Boone’s terrible pitching decision came back to haunt them. So, so surprising.
Hey, any time the game’s decided in the 8th inning while your three best relievers are on the bench, you gotta do it.
And with an off day tomorrow, so yes. But Boone being Boone.
Yeah, if there wasn’t an offday, I’d have been fine with the decision, but since there IS, it was just maddening. It wasn’t like it was the bottom of the lineup, it was the heart of the order!
Again, do you pinch hit here with either Dominguez or Wells? Goldy has seemed USELESS lately.
I really don’t love this treatment of Goldy, like he’s some legendary Yankee you can’t ever pinch hit for.
Fuck, both Goldy and Judge hit it hard. Oh well.
That’s how winning streaks often end.
Well fuck.
Again, terrible managing by Boone, but this is really on the offense. Just a pathetic showing.
Still, hard to get too mad about taking 3 out of 4.
Had they lost yesterday and won today we’d be happier. Weird, eh?
And yes letting hill face the top of the lineup including a righty was a real Booner. Whatever. They weren’t scoring so sooner or later they would have lost, eh?
In a battle of the pens always bet the other side. You’ll do well even if the other guys have a ‘lousy pen’. In a close game someone is guaranteed to give up at least one.
I don’t know what Girardi was on about regarding the Chicago pen. It’s actually been pretty decent this season.
Their problem has been the back end of their rotation and their offense as a whole.
They average 4.6 runs allowed, not much more than league average, while they average less than 4 runs a game scoring, WELL below league average.
Sosa almost won back-to-back games for Chicago.
Been a long time since I’ve thought about Sammy.
What Makes Sammy Run?
No runs and 3 hits after the third inning. Yesterday 2 runs and 3 hits thru 10 and might not have scored without a couple of lucky hits in the 11th. Yankees are a bunch of palooka beaters. Ten runs Thu and Friday, 2 each on Sat thru reg and Sun. I just can see them beating any top shelf pitchers with pitching s hut out ourself.
Playing the White Sox, they gave back all they gained yesterday.
Broken record time:
Good team? Better than most
Playoff team? Probably
Win a playoff round? Eh
Get to ALCS? Nope
Get to WS? No way.
In a sort of fucked up way, I almost prefer the winning streak to end BEFORE Houston, because then you don’t have that whole “Oh, sure, they can beat bad teams, but as soon as they face a good team, they lose.”
Now, if they lose on Tuesday, it’s less of a big to-do.
Of course, hopefully they avoid all that and just WIN on Tuesday.
And by doing so, retroactively invalidate the logic of preferring a loss today .
True, but I assume they WILL lose. 😉
Didn’t they recently get beat by and often dominated by Toronto, Boston, Houston, Texas and Miami?
They are just awful in RISP situations, and their approach seems HR or nothing. Any fairly decent pitcher, meaning any with an ERA of 5 or less and who can make it to the mound, stymies them all too often.