Jeffrey Springs (#59, 33, LHP, 1-0, 2.38) vs. Ryan Weathers (#40, 26, LHP, 0-0, 4.50)
ATHLETICS
SS Jacob Wilson R
1B Nick Kurtz L
RF Brent Rooker R
3B Andy Ibanez R
DH Max Muncy R
LF T. Soderstrom L
C Austin Wynns R
2B D. Hernaiz R
CF D. Clarke R
YANKEES
2B Amed Rosario R
RF Aaron Judge R
CF C. Bellinger L
DH G. Stanton R
1B Ben Rice L
LF R. Grichuk R
C Austin Wells L
SS J. Caballero R
3B Ryan McMahon L
I think that the Athletics are better than their record indicates. Their good hitter didn’t hit to start the season, and now they’re starting to hit. They’re more dangerous than they look. That bullpen is still terrible, though, and the Yankees should be embarrassed for being stopped by two of their shittier relievers (They used their one good reliever, Justin Sterner, for two innings in Game 1. Elvis Alvarado and Joel Kuhnel are NOT good).
With their best pitcher going today, I don’t think a loss here would be embarrassing. But it would still be very bad, and should be avoided.
And yes, Waldo and JC doing a TV commercial is truly insane.
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Shit, Weathers just broke Rooker.
Hilariously, if Butler strikes out, it is a Rooker K, but if he walks, it is Butler’s walk.
Six at home, then three in Tampa, then seven more at home. Good scheduling.
Fucking bizarre.
Kay’s story is fucking moronic. “The Athletics dominated the Yankees, but then, one year, LaRussa was getting on Matt Nokes, and Buck Showalter stood up for him, around 1992, and the Yankees said, ‘You won’t push us around anymore.'”
Yeah, that’s why they stopped getting dominated. Not because they fucking sucked before then, and got better in 1992.
Fucking idiotic nonsense.
That was fast. Took the garbage down to the basement and it was over.
The Yankees? Yeah, it was an embarrassing opening inning by Rosario, Judge, and Belli.
One hit the last 9.2 innings.
Picking up where we left off.
Cabby’s arm is so fucking erratic.
Ugh, fucking lucky hit. But now Kurtz is up with a man on. Not ideal.
Weathers actually shows up, so of course they give him no support.
I’m not worried about him long term, of course (of COURSE), but boy, Judge has looked bad.
And then he takes strike three with two men on. Ugh.
Kay is now suggesting that the Yankee won so many World Series back in the day because the player needed the World Series bonuses. Yep, impeccable logic, genius. All other teams were independently wealthy, but the Yankees, THEY needed the money, so that’s why they won.
Weathers actually pitches well, so of course Springs is throwing a fucking no-hitter.
These fucking bloops. Ugh. It kills you.
Weathers has been outstanding, so maybe get a fucking hit, you dicks!
I legit really DO like Springs as a pitcher, so I’m not AS pissed as I could be right now.
DO NOT LET CABBY OR JAZZ CHALLENGE PITCHES.
Cabby is WAY too emotional of a player to trust him to make challenges.
Weathers actually does well, and they get fucking no-hit through five. Goddamn absurd.
none of the scrubs should be able to use a challenge unless they are 200% sure
If Judge makes a bad call, whatever, but Cabby and Jazz are clearly very emotional guys, and I don’t want those dudes making emotional decisions.
i know emotions are ruling the narrative right now but the benefit of getting an extra strike to someone who won’t do any damage anyway just isn’t there for me.
put it this way, if cabby or escarra could already control the strike zone they’d have big figure deals already. but they can’t!
alright i’ll take that from judge
What a beautiful deke by Amed!
McMahon is trying to fucking BUNT?!
Fucking McMahon. He’s so embarrassing out there.
They’re NOT EVEN MAKING HIM FUCKING WORK!!
He’s two outs through the sixth and he is under 70 pitches!
When Aaron Judge is playing like shit, they are just fucked.
Over ELEVEN INNINGS without a hit now!
accurate
The weather sucks for hitting but these guys look like they’re underwater.
One hit the last 15.2 innings.
Fuck, did Belli play that shit EXTREMELY poorly.
You shouldn’t be able to fucking watch a replay before you decide whether to challenge. It’s just STUPID.
The whole point of instant replay was to keep teams from getting fucked by obviously wrong calls, not for managers to take half a minute for their replay guy to examine the microscopic differences on a play. It’s fucking bullshit.
“The weather sucks for hitting but these guys look like they’re underwater.”
Wait, I thought when Schlittler was getting hit that it was worse for PITCHING.
Can’t be bad for both!
Colder weather in general is worse for hitters (leaguewide, OPS is down). The Schlittler game wasn’t about cold, though, it was about a FREAKISHLY cold game. It affected every pitcher.
Oh fuck, I think Springs just hurt himself. I’d love for him to be out of the game, but not like THIS. I actively like Springs as a player.
ETA: Looks like he’s going to play through it. Good for him.
Fuck, Belli! On a 1-2 versus 2-1 pitch, dude?!
The Yankee offense heard you all saying after the first week that it’s hard to lose when you get pitching that good.
And took it as a challenge!
Admit it, you were wrong.
😔
Okay, no no-no, at least.
Do you pinch hit Goldy for Wells?
I hate pinch-running for Stanton with his spot likely to come up again in this game.
Why let Wells hit here with Goldy on the bench!?!?
Wells is not just 0-2 against Springs, he also looked just pathetic.
Wells is so disappointing.
Grichuk looks good.
he was the missing piece!
How is it that their ENTIRE AAA outfield is lefthanded?
cashman is ungood as a gm?
Just THINK about how fucking STUPID batting Wells there was. Just dwell about how ABSURDLY dumb it would be to not use Goldy there. “Boone would rather Wells against Springs than Goldy against Alvarado.” WHY would he rather that? Why? What POSSIBLE reason would he have for NOT wanting Springs, who is dominating them, out of the fucking game? Why is Boone so fucking stupid?!
Boone is a dummkopf
Does he think Goldy, who HAS A THREE-RUN HOME RUN AGAINST A REALLY GOOD RIGHTY THIS SEASON, just CANNOT hit against righties for some reason!?
Did PGold foul out?
The A’s are now getting their one good reliever warmed up for the 8th. So the Yankees could have had Springs out, and a shitty righty reliever against Goldy, or they could have have Springs against Wells and then either Springs or their one good reliever in the 8th, and they somehow chose the latter. Outrageously dumb decision-making.
These are the games where you need a sharp manager.
Why Grisham for Cabby, and not for McMahon?
What is McMahon even doing there?!
He looks absolutely LOST at the plate.
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I assume it’ll be Sterner in the 9th against Judge/Belli/Jazz. Last chance.
Rosario shockingly walked. So now Judge can ground out to third.
Wait, it could also be a K. I shouldn’t forget the K.
Bizarre that with a man on and Judge at the plate, one run seems only PRACTICALLY insurmountable.
Judge is in a big slump. It’s just kind of depressing to watch. Because it’s weird to see him struggling.
Fuck, I said groundball to third. I was off a base.
Screw it.
Maybe they’ll do better if I don’t watch.
…
I know I will.
Belli/Jazz/Rice and dear lord, presumably Goldy (with Rosario moving to the outfield, while they would lose the DH as Jazz takes over at second).
What the fuck, using Jazz at second now means they CAN’T realistically pinch hit Goldy for Grichuk in the ninth if need be!
EDITED TO ADD: Wait, my bad, fair enough, Boone, Blackburn takes over for Grichuk, so now Goldy CAN hit there. Fair enough, Boone, I apologize!
truly have never seen why Blackburn has a spot on the team.
He’s a fine long man, but yeah, they don’t need TWO long men.
My guess is that they didn’t know that they would be able to get a starter like Weathers, so the plan was for Yarbrough to be the fifth starter.
Once they got Weathers, that meant they now had two long men, both too good to just cut.
well, he got out of it here at least
He’s been fine as a reliever (outside his very first appearance as a Yankee, when he gave up, I think, roughly 24 runs). He’s just a bit too duplicative with Yarbrough.
Nice managing by Kotsay. If he pinch-hit Langeliers here, they’d just walk him, so might as well save the bat.
I would NOT use Harris to close here. He’s one of their not-so-bad relievers, but, I mean, come on, Sterner was DEALING.
Then again, with the way that this team is hitting, I guess anyone could get them out now.
Fucking pathetic shit, Belli.
Thank goodness Stanton isn’t up here.
“belli is so good at fouling off pitches”
for hundreds of millions of dollars how about instead dropping one into the gap?
Wow, this inning just matches just how pathetic this game has been by the Yankees. Thank GOODNESS that Wells got to hit in the 7th instead of Goldy.
Why didn’t Goldy start?
Rice has been so good that he wanted to let him play against a lefty, and I’m fine with that. Goldy not getting into the game at ALL, though, I am not so fine with.
I just do not understand how you lose two games 3-2 and 1-0 and one of the best, what, 30 hitters of the past decade doesn’t get a SINGLE AT-BAT in either loss.
Now my job is going to replaced by AI for nothing. Thanks, Boone.
Okay, according to FG, Goldy is 22nd in fWar among hitters over the past decade, but if you take defense out of it (as obviously he hasn’t been worth a lot of defensive WAR as a first baseman), he’s TWELFTH.
And he can’t get a single fucking at-bat while the Yankee offense has been shitting the bed. Make it make any sense!!
it’s a good thing batting averages don’t matter
Pathetic. No runs in 17.1 innings and two hits. Total of five hits in two games, and the first three hitters in Tuesday’s game had three of those hits.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone has expressed high confidence in catcher J.C. Escarra, stating he believes that if given regular playing time, Escarra would be a top 10–15 catcher in Major League Baseball on both sides of the ball.
And honestly, based on his defense, he’s someone that maybe COULD start elsewhere. He’s very good on defense. But he just has NOT hit. And that’s fair enough, too (good defensive catchers can be valuable even if they hit like shit)! But when it’s a choice between him hitting and Paul Goldschmidt hitting, how is this even a fucking DEBATE?!
1-20 caught stealing last season is a problem
The swoon comes early in ‘26.
Lombard 3-6 with a double and a home run off to a nice start.
they’re going to need him before June
Before this afternoon Yankee team BA 204 3rd worst in baseball, OPS 655 10th worst.
Meredith to the idiot. Did you consider using Goldschmidt earlier like in the 7th? “NO.”
Hey, at least she ASKED, ya know?
The Yankee offense crashed to Earth faster than the ISS
Considering there are five regulars having awful starts to the season, it is amazing they have 8-wins and were 8-2 after the come from behind Monday win. Six through one have been bad to worse. The pitching has done it, the hitting has been awful.
Should say Tuesday.
I didn’t realize the A’s had a staff of CYA contenders.
If not for Rosario having what will turn out to be his best game of the season, they would have been swept
The first three batters on Wednesday had hits, over the next 18 innings on Wednesday and Thursday the team managed two more. WOE.
have they considered letting a computer make some decisions instead of Boone?
I seriously DID think of that earlier today. I was going to say at one point, “And to think that Boone has gone out of his way to make sure that we all know that that all of these idiotic decisions are ALL HIM.”
Yet he’s Cashman’s guy.
And they accuse Boone of relying too much on analytics.
Assuming Judge comes around and Jazz is better than this that leaves C, 3b,SS, and possibly CF as problems.
Martian 3–4, all singles, with a walk hitting 368/1021
Winquest DFAed.
Oh well.
Who else were they going to DFA for Gil?
I thought that there was a chance that they’d move Blackburn to a pitching-starved team. He’s really not that bad of a pitcher.
But yeah, the only other guys who could be sent down, Bird and Headrick, just have pitched too well to lose.