Cam Schlittler (#31, 25, RHP, 2-0, 1.62) vs. Drew Rasmussen (#57, 30, RHP, 0-0, 1.80)
YANKEES
CF T. Grisham L
1B Ben Rice L
DH Aaron Judge R
LF C. Bellinger L
2B J. Chisholm L
RF R. Grichuk R
C J.C. Escarra L
3B Ryan McMahon L
SS J. Caballero R
RAYS
LF C. Simpson L
3B J. Caminero R
1B J. Aranda L
DH Yandy Diaz R
RF Jake Fraley L
CF C. Mullins L
2B R. Palacios L
SS Taylor Walls S
C H. Feduccia L
Let’s hope that the offense gets back on track after Rasmussen shuts them out today.
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Nice lineup to poop on.
They should sit Grisham against pitchers that throw strikes-now hitting 143
At least he’s still elite defensively. Small sample Field run value 23rd percentile, range 29th percentile, arm 16th percentile, OAA -1. Small sample but on top of last year really worrisome.
Best 22 Million Hal spent since Joshy.
Yankees go down meekly on 11 pitches. Losing 1-0. Win probability 12.3% estimated.
We’ll always be able to look back at the first 8 games of the season and remember the good times fondly, when they’re 70-92.
Still 10-4 Pythag
I think the offense will turn it around, but it sure ain’t going to be happening against Drew fucking Rasmussen.
He owns them when they’re hitting WELL, let alone NOW.
They’ll turn it around….maybe. Grisham off a career and declining defensively? Jazz yes. Wells just isn’t good. Escarra is terrible. MacMahon isn’t good. Grichuk probably sucks but the jury’s out. Phenom?I don’t think Grisham will hit 143 but 200, 10/15 home runs is a possibility.
Who can you have confidence about?
Judge, Belli, Grisham, and Stanton are all sucking right now. As we have seen, you only need a few guys in a row to hit well to score runs. They have had just Rice and that’s IT.
Stanton’s been ok, I have no confidence in Grisham, Judge will come around, Bellinger has had a lot of bad years-the Dodgers released him
I won’t hold that one against JC but he’s 1-23 on throwing runners out and can’t hit. JC and Gri hulk hitting back to back 1-21 this season.
When you’re a back of the bench guy and you start the season 0 for fucking ELEVEN, it has to be seriously fucking with your brain.
The thing that gets me about McMahon is that he is famously the guy who has the most empty at-bats in the league last year, so why wouldn’t you at least try to make sure to make CONTACT?
We can’t let Cam off the hook, either, for sucking today. He’s been terrible.
Trent hitting 140 with 1 XBH. Can we see if The Martian is better in center than left?
cashman played himself so
bad with this stupid qo
That was a terrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrible walk. That was a Luis Gil-esque walk.
Now, don’t everybody hit at the same time, we might score some runs that way. A hit now and then is okay.
Hixie, DJ, and Trent.
Are the Yankees the worst at challenging strikes?
Tanner Swanson thought that they were getting unreasonably lucky early on, and now we’re seeing the other side of that. It’s rough. All a pitch needs to do is NICK the outside corner, dudes. It often happens.
The Yankees are generally ill prepared and poorly managed tactically
Judge flirting with the Mendoza line.
No idea why they’re going to their bullpen. Rasmussen was DOMINATING.
Judge is getting back to his “swing at anything” ways.
Rice should be hermetically sealed so that he doesn’t catch what the others have.
Only way Judge didn’t strike out was by the pitcher throwing a pair of balls nowhere NEAR the strike zone.
Taking Rasmussen out was just shitty managing. The only chance the Yankees shitty hitters have is facing the Rays’ shitty bullpen.
Is the plan to let Stanton play in the outfield or will they lose the DH?
Or let Rosario play OF?
I swear, if JC Escarra hits in this inning…
I felt good about Grichuk there
Did Goldy fuck Boone’s wife or something? Austin Wells, pinch hitter, is just absurd (not as absurd as JC Escarra, pinch hitter, of course).
I’m stunned Wells even made hard contact.
Bad and unlucky. I thought that was a hit.
This series has been about the offense (and Fried and Schlittler choking to a lesser degree, and Gil not being ready), but I think it’s important to note that you can’t underestimate the vagaries of happening to face a team when one of their hitters is hot as fuck. Chandler Simpson is NOT this good, but he’s been 1990 Barry Bonds this series.
It’s like the Blue Jays series last year where Springer and Barger were 2001 Barry Bonds and 1942 Ted Williams against the Yankees.
Oh yeah, Camilo Doval will make everything right!
I don’t get the idea of bringing in a guy with the understanding of, “Okay, you need to strike the next two guys out.” It’s NOT going to happen, so just let Yarbrough stay in.
And the Yankees give a run back
Doval looked pretty fucking sharp, honestly. That was nice. That run allowed ended the game, though (heck, it was probably over at 3-2).
3-2 would’ve been better, another one run game.
Man, the “just put the ball in play” shit is really going to ring in their ears after this series.
The overrated pen lets it get out of hand.
The pen has been fine. They’re just constantly in a position where one or two runs means no chance at a victory because of the terrible offense.
Trent now 133, 1xbh, approaching Hixie territory
Seriously, Ben Rice should travel home in his own separate private jet.
That mofo seriously tried to sneak a sinker in the middle of the plate by Judge.
Okay, now the one-run misery can continue.
A Judge HR makes it a 1-run game again.
Yay a one run loss. Thanks pen.
Pinch hit Goldy, then let Rice catch!
Pinch hit Goldy, then lose the DH by having Judge move to OF!
They are going to lose every one-run game and never use Goldy ever. It’s fucking maddening.
How the fuck do you let McMahon hit there?!
WHY IS GOLDY ON THE TEAM IF HE IS NEVER GOING TO PINCH HIT?!
Boone has regressed as a manager, and that is quite the achievement to have accomplished.
Nice AB, McMahon.
Does Boone just think Goldschmidt, who has a three-run home run off of a really good righty this season, simply CANNOT hit any righty?! Why? Why does he do this?!
Did they have anyone else to play the infield?
Yeah, Rosario would move to third, and Judge would move to right, and they’d just lose the DH.
he’s a complete moron?
Yay one run loss. Yay Pythag. Near perfect ninth. Too bad we couldn’t load up the bases.
Two run homer, down 3-exquisite.
It really was perfection.
Rays sweep Yankees, A’s sweep Mets. A glorious weekend of baseball for New York.
The ONE thing that makes this somewhat bearable is that SO MANY TEAMS are struggling even worse than the Yankees, like the Mets, the Tigers, the Cubs, the Mariners, the Blue Jays, the Red Sox, and the Astros.
Bryan Abreu has had the most insane contract year season ever.
townies just won 2 straight scoring 16 in the two.
“We got a number of guys we gotta get going. We’re gonna hit, there’s no doubt in my mind. We’ll keep at it and trust this group.”
Famous last words. McMahon, as an example, never had a season with an OPS + above 98, and he played in Colorado. What’s to trust in him?
I get that, but 80 OPS+ versus, what, like, -50 OPS+ is still a MASSIVE difference.
Similarly, someone could say, “I bet Randall Grichuk and JC Escarra are going to be bad hitters,” and no one would fight too much on them, but “I bet Randall Grichuk and JC Escarra will never get a single hit” is still a lot, ya know?
I need to change my name to “not such a big fan”. Since 1971 and Horace Clarke I lived and died with the Yankees. I only tuned out twice – in middle of game 5 of the 2004 ALCS when torre mismanaged a WS appearance into the worst choke ever; and now. I have not yet watched an inning because I’ve decided I can’t care more about the team than the owner and GM do. Allowing Boone to stay on was an idiotic decision after 2020 (let’s pinch hit Mike Ford instead of Clint Frazier) and has gotten more idiotic with each passing season. Wake me up when he’s gone; otherwise this is just a waste of time.
I thought I was the only one who remembered Mike Ford over Clint Frazier.
Amen, brother. I’ve posted this before, but the Yankees keeping Boone is about as close to trying to fail as possible without actually throwing games. I’ve started shifting my interest slowly over to the Dodgers because, while I originally hated them, I at least respect how they run the team. They are the opposite of the Yankees right now. (Other than the heaping loads of money they both rake in.)
Also, Ohtani is just super fun to watch. Judge is too, but at least Ohtani has an actual team to support him.
I’m starting to worry they’re going to miss their window to win before Rice is no longer in his prime.
hopefully he can get one as a manager to break the streak
So glad I missed this game (not even counting HOW I missed it).
Yes, good hitters are slumping, and even BAD hitters are slumping.
But there are just too many bad hitters.
What will happen first Yankees 29th ring or Arod’s 700th home run.
I turned the game off because I knew how it was going to end.
While there have been some spectacularly bad hitters of previous Yankee teams … Cabbie and McMahon are really putting on a clinic and Jazz and Trent look like they’ve never played a game before.