Brayan Bello (#66, 25, RHP, 13-7, 4.70) vs. Gerrit Cole (#45, 33, RHP, 6-4, 3.36)
RED SOX
CF Jarren Duran L
3B R. Devers L
LF T. O’Neill R
DH M. Yoshida L
RF Wilyer Abreu L
1B T. Casas L
SS Trevor Story R
C Danny Jansen R
2B E. Valdez L
YANKEES
2B G. Torres R
RF Juan Soto L
DH Aaron Judge R
C Austin Wells L
3B J. Chisholm L
CF J. Dominguez S
1B A. Rizzo L
SS A. Volpe R
LF Alex Verdugo L
I just like that Boone doesn’t try to get Trevi work.
Nice quick first Cole.
How many times in a row could Cole just hit Devers before he got into trouble?
A little touch of reality from last night, without those 3 walks in front of Judge we lose. A great win, but if he have to depend on Cub errors, Manfred Man and multiple walks to score this team ain’t going far.
And the pitch he had to hit should’ve gone 400+ feet, not 369. Judge is in a real weird place right now, and one HR doesn’t prove much.
Pretty suspect strike 3 on judge. But maybe he should have tried to hit one of the 2 fastballs over the heart of the plate
Will this be the postgame: Meredith “Aaron what were Assad, Taillon, Singer, Lugo, Ragans, Criswell, Fitts and (Bello?) doing?”
I bet over the last month ~80% of the starting pitchers who faced us have overachieved their ERAs.
Fucking Verdugo
Way to kill a rally. Does Verdugo not know how close Right Field is?
Can’t score more than one??
Devers is struggling. HOW FUCKING STUPID IS THIS TEAM!
BOONE’S STUPIDITY HAS INFECTED THIS TEAM
VERDUGO GETS THROWN OUT WITH NO OUT. DEVERS ISI IBBed WITH NO ONE ON.
Jazz picked off. STUPIDEST TEAM IN BASEBALL HISTORY!
FUCKING COLE, AFTER RETIRING 9 STRAIGHT HE IBBs DEVER WITH NO ON AND NO OUT, A MOVE EVEN MORE CHICKEN SHIT STUPID THAN VOLPES BUNT YESTERDAY. THE STUPIDEST BASEBALL TEAM IN HISTORY.
THEN COLE TOTALLY FUCKING CHOKED.
Devers was hitting 200 with No Home Runs this month.
The Devers intentional walk was one of the most embarrassing moves I’ve ever seen. If that was Boone’s call, it’s almost a fireable offense.
For Cole to then give up a hit to Devers later with the bases loaded? Cole has pitched worse games, but this was the most embarrassing game of his career.
This team doesnt deserve to make the playoffs or bear the name Yankees.
It’s obviously more embarrassing if that was Cole’s decision, but if it wasn’t, holy shit, right? Just one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen from a Yankees team.
The radio said it was Cole’s decision.
Cole era 6 vs Boston.
Getting owned by Boston is annoying, but holy shit, dude, it’s not that big of a deal! Don’t start fucking intentionally walking dudes like a complete simp! Cole showed his whole ass today. Just so, so pathetic.
Thanks, Cole.
I wouldn’t have even walked prime Bonds there. Maybe in the 8th or 9th.
In other news the Yankees have once again failed to hit so far. Expect some CT stat padding runs
This team is so fundamentally, fundamentally unsound, it is fundamental that they need a change at GM and manager. Hal cares not for winning.
Four hits thru 6. About right.
I bet you all hate the Yankees now
If Cole had just gotten his ass kicked, it wouldn’t have even been a big deal. He gets his ass kicked sometimes.
Him being such a wimp, though, made this into such a big deal. I really can’t believe that he did something this absurd.
Fits in with this team’s character. A Piniella/O’Neill type or two has long been needed.
Why are you stealing third up six in the seventh inning?
Afternoon games are the best, get the losses out of the way early, enjoy the rest of the day.
I think that everyone but Cashman and Boone sees that Rizzo is done. Sad ending to a nice career, but at least he had a career, unlike Clint Frazier.
I guess if you think Waldo can handle first base, you try Waldo a little more there. The big problem, of course, is that Waldo can’t hit lefties, and Rizzo is, well, you know, a lefty. So that ruins any platoon advantage.
Otherwise, it wasn’t like Ben Rice was doing anything, ya know? And Rice was ALSO a lefty. Honestly, I still think just letting Wells play some first base is the play. Narvaez up for Waldo, start playing Wells at first whenever Trevino starts a game.
Waldo needs to play some SS and some 1B against RHPs to see what he can do.
Meredith “Aaron what were Assad, Taillon, Singer, Lugo, Ragans, Criswell, Fitts and Bello doing? Eight starters in a row pretty much shut the Yankees down. The team pres never mentions it.
Ebbs and flows of the season!
I bet Clemen’s wouldn’t have walked Devers. Kay and O’Neill didn’t get the move. Suzie like it.
Suzie is all about being ‘nice’.
I truly cannot fathom a pitcher making that decision. What a loser, loser move.
go tigers
How’s anybody going to feel next time Cole faces Boston in a playoff game.
Well, let’s just hope that Boston doesn’t make the playoffs any time soon.
Catcher Austin Wells said he was “caught off guard” by the intentional walk, and said he was not aware of, or involved in, these previously discussed plans to IBB Devers.
Aaron Boone said it’s fair to say they were “overthinking the situation.”
Somebody asked Boone what Bello was doing. They forgot to ask about the previous 7 starters.
Boone with a bunch of double talk on the IBB. “It backfired a little bit.” A little bit?
It sounds like Boone WAS on board with it, though, right? What the FUCK, Boone?
Yeah he’s hedging. Why were they even discussing it in the first place?Devers was having a miserable month, not that it matters. Why is the press giving Wells the 3rd degree. He’s got nothing to do with it.
It also makes it seem like Cole hit Devers on purpose, right? What a punk he came out looking like today. You just won the Cy Young LAST FUCKING YEAR, dude! You’re a Hall of Fame pitcher and you’re being THIS weak-minded? Its’s so, so disappointing.
That’s what Boston is saying.
Devers had a 61 wRC+ over the last 30 days, with just a .264 OBP. Not that matters. It would’ve been beyond terrible even if it were Ohtani.
Amazing stuff.
Cole “we had discussed previously, they were discussing in the tunnel between Cole and Blake and Aaron.”
WHY WERE THEY EVEN HAVING THOSE DISCUSSIONS? Ultimately it’s on Boone. Cole says ultimately he ‘bought into the plan.’
Why is walking Devers with no one on ‘proactive?’
Sounds like it’s 90/95% on our IDIOT MANAGER and Cole is covering for him.
But at the same time, Boone is kinda throwing Cole under the bus too.
It’s all fucked.
Never in history had the Yankees walked a hitter with no one one that early in the game and only the third time in history the Yankees had ever walked a hitter with no one on.
And Boone and Cole were talking about pitch count because the pen was short! HUH? Bryan Bello said it showed weakness and he’s right.
Yep, Cole has to wear this shit like a crown of poop the rest of his career.
I mean, whatever, it probably won’t end up being THAT lasting of a story, especially since Boston probably isn’t even making the playoffs, but FUCK, dude, this was bad.
Anyone find Cashman and asked him about it?
It was 95% Boone. Talkin Yanks “ Gerrit Cole said he spoke with coaches in the tunnel before the fourth inning and they agreed to intentionally walk Rafael Devers even if he got the first out
Cole says he even looked into the dugout before doing it and “stuck with the plan”
Alex Cora passionately and repeatedly claiming Gerrit Cole hit Rafael Devers intentionally with his 0-1 cutter in the first inning.
I dunno know.
https://x.com/talkinyanks/status/1835071318485536864?s=61&t=fhOaqwtc8q2TMSXUDRjPeg
Yeah, to be honest, I doubt he did it on purpose, but, boy, it sure is hard to dispute it now.
Rafael Devers, via the Red Sox’s translator, on Cole’s decision to intentionally walk him:
“He caught me by surprise. I didn’t expect that from a future Hall of Famer and, to say it one way, I feel like he panicked a little bit.”