Luis Gil (#81, 28, RHP, 0-0, 0.00) vs. Steven Matz (#32, 35, LHP, 2-0, 4.09)
YANKEES
1B P. Goldschmidt R
RF Aaron Judge R
CF C. Bellinger L
DH G. Stanton R
3B Amed Rosario R
2B J. Chisholm L
LF R. Grichuk R
SS J. Caballero R
C Austin Wells L
RAYS
LF C. Simpson L
3B J. Caminero R
1B J. Aranda L
DH Yandy Diaz R
CF C. Mullins L
RF Jonny DeLuca R
2B B. Williamson R
SS Taylor Walls S
C Nick Fortes R
The first AL East matchup of the year! Let’s hope that Luis Gil doesn’t suck!
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A run. On pace for double digits.
Not getting shutout today.
Elmer 5ip 2r 1er 3h 5K
Lagrange game 2 starter.
You KNOW you have to hit that shit well for Stanton to score from first on it!
Rosario with a triple, 2-0.
Clutch two-out popup from Jazz.
Jazz fails.
It’s hilarious just how much better the Yankee pitchers look when they just throw fucking strikes.
A lot of pitchers get beat up if they throw strikes, but Yankee pitchers generally do quite well in the zone. They just need to, you know, THROW STRIKES.
Like water torture, these balls slowly piling up.
Classic Luis Gil 1-2 walk (not to be mistaken for the classic Luis Gil 0-2 walk).
Okay, you can go back to the minors when Rodon is healthy, Luis.
I’d truly rather see Paul Blackburn come in in relief at this point than Luis Gil, so sending him to the bullpen won’t even help.
He can work on some shit in the minors. Prove he belongs back in the Majors.
That’s Gil. Giving the runs right back, walking a guy hitting .122.
Austin Wells becoming an absolute ZERO at the plate is mind-boggling. Dude was BATTING CLEANUP heading into the 2024 playoffs, and then proceeded to just forget how to hit.
That’s the incompetence of their hitting coaches. But they did remake McMahon.
Yep. Most disappointing last year and worse this year.
Grichuk looks like another another over 30 reclamation project. See Jay Bruce and others.
Slater would have made more sense, but he thought he could play more than the playtime that they were offering, so he turned them down. Weird idea by him.
Beyond that, Grichuk didn’t have much of a Spring Training, so I’ll give him a bit more time before I write him off (but yes, I am getting ready to write him off).
He has a -24 OPS+ so far this year.
Oh, wow, this whole year? That’s a lot! That must be a lot more than just six at-bats. Oh, wait, nope, it’s just been six at-bats. So, well, you know, come on.
Yankees have 4 lefties on the bench and one can even hit.
How do you take that pitch, Judge?!
Wow, they are AWFUL right now.
Imagine how badly they’re going to do against fucking RASMUSSEN!
STOP LETTING JAZZ CHALLENGE PITCHES!!
Why would anyone challenge an 0-0 pitch in the 4th? Especially Jazz.
Because he’s an overly emotional moron.
But that’s on Boone for allowing that.
Absolutely agreed.
Gil and Jazz can fight over who is the biggest headcase on the team.
How do you take a timeout here as a hitter? You know he’s throwing you another ball, dude.
Grichuk +700 to hit one ore more home runs? Is that for a dollar?
Those are truly hilarious odds.
I understand that it is tough for Boone to tell two grown men that they are too stupid to be allowed to challenge pitches, but, well, it’s on him to do that.
So now they’re out of challenges because of the two overly emotional dudes.
When Volpe returns, they REALLY have to consider sending Escarra down and letting Rice catch.
Should be catching against LHPs now.
Yeah, I bet that’s what we’ll see when Volpe returns.
The Jays, who were down 4-0, just put up a 5 spot.
Yeah, I saw that, and I was not pleased. 🙂
Judge, swinging at that?
Two hits, both in the first inning.
Mike Stanley was hardly a Yankee icon
Kevin Cash playing for the win like this is a playoff game.
They just love to expand the zone. Big G striking out on ball four.
Jax is their best guy. Odd to use him here.
So the Rays pen suck which means what?
Maybe they’ll get a hit? Then again, maybe not.
Four hits over the last 24 innings.
Crisp
I thought they’d go Yarbrough for a couple either before or after Bird.
Yeah, that would have made a lot more sense.
Strategically that was a reasonable challenge even tho it didn’t work.
Crisp part 2
Tricky bringing in the LH to face the Yankee scrubs.
Got some struggling relievers who need a confidence boost? Play the Yankees.
Bad Tampa pen dominating the worse Yankees offense.
Yankee 6-9
174 479
000 000
125 336
156 458
On the bench
000 100
069 319
162 597
Do you like it?
The Rays know Wells sucks so much that they brought in a righty that Wells has owned, but they know that doesn’t matter.
And sure enough, first pitch popup.
Crisp 3 Austin. Can’t hit 1-10 caught stealing.
The sooner Rice can catch against lefties, the better.
Please, Aaron, just take the walk.
He just couldn’t do it. He just HAD to expand the zone on ball four. He can be so aggravating.
Rice needs to catch against LHPs or PGold needs to play the OF.
As soon as they start to struggle, they start to expand the zone, trying to hit five run home runs.
Even Judge 229 753 and Belli 222 695 haven’t been much.
Mister 25-25 with a big AB barely beats it out.
Mother fucking Jazz. Should have pinch hit Grisham for Jazz?
How is Grichuk hitting here?!
That’s how little Boone thinks of McMahon
Why is Boone just the dumbest fuck ever?!
I can’t believe he let Grichuk hit there.
I guess he thinks McMahon and JC are worse.
Grichuk’s TYM?
Cash built a good, deep squad. As always he found a moneyball guy in Grichuk.
Send someone down. Maybe Wells. Bring up anyone.
The old timeout that never works.
The combo of Cashman and Boone is sad.
At least Grisham gets walks. 🤪
Fucking Grisham. Baker fucking sucks. That was pathetic by Jazz, Grisham, and Grichuk.
Grichuk continues to kill the Yankees historically.
We always knew we needed a bat so Cash resigned Trent off a career year and rescued Grichuk off the scrap heap.
You’d muuuuuuuuuch prefer Grisham with one out against a righty and then either Cabby or one of the lefties against Baker with two outs.
It’s just pure incompetence.
Baker has a reverse split.
This team has 7-hits in their last 27 innings.
But 3 in the last 2. Progress!
Hoch The Yankees’ team batting average is .201 – only Seattle & the White Sox are lower. Their team OPS of .648 ranks 23rd in MLB.
It can get worse.
Katie S This is the 3rd time in franchise history that the Yankees had a .201 batting average or worse thru 13 games.
The other seasons were 1968 and 1912.
Yankees Last 3 Games:
8 singles, 1 triple, 1 HR, 35 K
This is the first time in franchise history the Yankees had any 3-game span with 15 or fewer total bases and at least 35 strikeouts.
Max Muncy, 3 HRs in one game, NY Yankees, 1 HR in 3 games.