Luis Gil (#81, 26, RHP, 14-6, 3.14) vs. Joey Estes (#68, 22, RHP, 7-8, 4.78)
YANKEES
2B G. Torres R
RF Juan Soto L
CF Aaron Judge R
C Austin Wells L
DH G. Stanton R
3B J. Chisholm L
LF J. Dominguez S
1B A. Rizzo L
SS A. Volpe R
ATHLETICS
RF L. Butler L
DH Brent Rooker R
CF JJ Bleday L
C S. Langeliers R
1B T. Soderstrom L
2B Zack Gelof R
LF Seth Brown L
3B M. Schuemann R
SS Jacob Wilson R
I actually like Estes a bit, so I assume he’ll dominate the Yankees.
Orioles lose. I can’t believe we were ever worried about this divisional
Still time for the Yankees to lose out, and the Orioles to win out!
Magic Number: 2
Is Gil getting paid per pitch? FFS, 2-runs in, 26 pitches.
Gil was doing so well, and then just completely lost the plate. Embarrassing.
As Nelson noted, Gil not backing up the plate on that throw was completely unacceptable. Does Boone not teach fundamentals at ALL?
Martian power, beware earthlings and Verdugo.
Hit that to Mars!
That was fun
Great catch by Butler
Jasson!
Brian, no. No, Boone does not teach fundamentals.
In fact, it almost seems as if he teaches the absence of fundamentals.
Martian with a higher OPS,731, than Gleyber, Rizzo, Volpe or Verdugo and within 7 of Wells.
Not ready, no lane.
Judge!
Kinda maybe promising
“The Captain crunched one.”
No, Kay, just no.
I can’t get over just how lackadaisical The Martian is as a fielder.
The ball fucking CARRIED for Torres, too.
Wells has had an awful September, probably costing himself RoY.
Yeah, I was just thinking that Cowser has the ROY pretty much locked up now.
I never get the umps who give the pitcher the close call after they’ve missed so many other pitches before the close pitch. How do you give the pitcher the benefit of the doubt?!
The Coliseum really IS a stupid ballpark, right?
But the weather there is usually great
Yeah, I can see that part being nice, but the park itself is dumb.
Huh, why use HAMILTON first?
Gil is so talented, but he is so dumb, too.
Baseball is 90 per cent mental. The other half is physical.
Don, you should patent that!
Okay, so the announcers seem to think Rodon gets Game 2, but what do you folks think?
I think, RIGHT THIS SECOND, I’d go Cole/Schmidt/Gil/Rodon, but I can see the argument for Rodon being moved up to #2.
What a shitty job by Hamilton this inning! He really doesn’t have it today. He keeps hanging the Slombio. The first time it was luckily hit right at Rizzo. He wasn’t so lucky the second time.
The dumbest name for pitch ever.
I feel bad for Gil for those two runs to both be attributed to him.
I don’t.
I continue to despise the inherited runner rule. The reliever can’t have no responsibility for runs he actually allows. As if preventing those runs weren’t a part of his job. It’s beyond nuts.
Four pitches to Judge, not one close. So, an undeclared IBB. How many times does that happen to Ohtani?
Did Gil lose the #3 in the post season?
I hope so.
Waiting for the next new pitch. Say, the Slimbomaffaccio.
I GOT THE PLAYER!
Well, damn.
This idea that analytics didn’t understand how good Kingman was is so silly. Dude played until he was 38!
How many clean innings has Holmes had all year?
I mean, you have to be able to count them on the fingers of one hand, right?
I cannot get over how fucking stupid Boone is to STILL use Holmes in big spots. How can any manager be THIS bad?
Oh, come on.
C.O.T.
It’s fucking insane.
I’d almost have him walk this guy so as not to let a run score before you can take him out of the game.
Phew. Shouldn’t be THAT hard to get SOMEBODY out.
Him pulling Holmes BEFORE he blew the save is sadly a major improvement.
Holmes is so bad, he should not be on the post season roster.
He’s not a bad mop up guy.
Unless you’re tempted to use him NOT as a mop-up guy, in which case better he should be left off the roster.
Precisely.
You have to figure two things…
1. Even Boone is not going to be dumb enough to use Holmes in big spots in the playoffs, but perhaps more importantly…
2. We are going to see Weaver used for multiple innings a LOT.
Surely we don’t have to figure the first of those?
I can’t seem to get myself to figure the first of those.
Stick at 55 for the Greenwich Village bar by the name.
What’s with the IBBs to Stanton?
Verdugo instead of the Martian. That worked out well. Who’d have thunk it?
Fucking groundouts. What a fucking loser.
You can’t call that interference. You can’t.
And they didn’t.
If I thought it mattered, I’d be pissed.
VERDUGO DOESN’T FALL DOWN!
Ohtani up bottom of the 9th, Rockies ahead by 1, no one on base, they pitched to him, and he tied the game with an HR.
Okay, that’s a bit much. How do you explain it?
You would pitch to anyone in that spot. I’ll give you the Miami game, but even Barry Bonds gets pitched to there.
Brian, I don’t see why.
Although “that spot” isn’t clear if we don’t know how many outs there were.
There were no outs, he was the leadoff hitter in the bottom of the 9th.
No one walks the leadoff batter in the ninth inning of a one-run game ahead of Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, and Will Smith.
The interesting question is if Boone is hurting Judges numbers by not batting him in front of Soto.
I think MLB is putting the fix in for Ohtani. He generates a lot of $.
He is their god. What happened on Thursday was totally embarrassing. Today, the Rockies bring in a guy with less than 10 innings MLB experience to pitch the 9th. Dodgers close the season in Colorado.
Oh shit, do they seriously end the season in Colorado? Then Ohtani is definitely passing Judge in homers.
I don’t buy it. MLB doesn’t need to fix things for Ohtani – he simply is a really good player. He’s a full-time DH this year, so isn’t getting worn down by playing the field like Judge, let alone by pitching like he did in past years.
I don’t buy it either.
I know it’s true, but I never understood why playing the outfield would wear you down. Most of the time you just stand there. Occasionally you sprint for a bit.
I look at Nadal-Djokovic five setters – it’s insane.
Much as I could care less about the NBA, and much as I love baseball, look at any NBA game.
Most of the time, outfielders just stand there. If Nadal and Federer can do THAT into their late 30s, how can what outfielders do be a big deal for a professional athlete?
Most baseball players don’t do endurance training.