Ian Seymour (#61, 27, LHP, 9-7, 4.38) vs. Cam Schlittler (#31, 25, RHP, 14-6, 1.94)
RAYS
DH Yandy Diaz R
C Liam Hicks L
3B J. Caminero R
RF Victor Mesa L
LF C. Simpson L
CF Jonny DeLuca R
2B R. Palacios L
1B Ryan Vilade R
SS Taylor Walls S
YANKEES
DH P. Goldschmidt R
LF C. Bellinger L
RF Heliot Ramos R
1B Ben Rice L
3B Amed Rosario R
SS G. Lombard R
2B A. Volpe R
C Austin Wells L
CF J. Caballero R
Oh, right, they’re still playing these games.
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Why in the world is it even a QUESTION of whether Cam pitches Game 1?
Way too many pitches. And the walk was pretty awful.
Yikes! Forty-one pitches through two innings.
It’s the classic example of perfect being the enemy of good. He’s trying to be perfect on every at-bat, and it’s killing him with wasted pitches.
At least he got out of it. And they didn’t moronically throw to second on the steal.
Cam has the second-worst run support among qualifiers at 3.24.
Why not have Belli play center, Ramos in left and Rosario at right so that we could see Volpe play third in a real game?
Cam Schlittler finished the 2026 season with a 1.16 road ERA… it’s the second-lowest ERA on the road in American League HISTORY.
Mind you… the lowest was all the way back in 1913.
INSANITY.
https://www.facebook.com/FiresideYankees/posts/cam-schlittler-finished-the-2026-season-with-a-116-road-era-its-the-second-lowes/1783053010012751/
Going from 0-2 to walking the fucking NUMBER NINE hitter to LEAD OFF THE INNING is certainly an approach.
Why wouldn’the throw the #9 hitter a strike – after THROWING TWO HIGH STRIKES RIGHT BY HIM?
Excellent question.
Boy, they are such a bad defensive team fundamentally.
Schlittler continues to also be a TERRIBLE fundamental defender.
Even Paulie said it out loud.
And of course THAT.
Can’t the Yankees learn from Tampa Bay? Please?
If Cam gets the next two guys, is that second run unearned?
Throw f*ing strikes.
They should use Lagrange and Elmer to pitch simulated games to Stanton and Grisham rather than the pitching machine.
Agreed. Well, Elmer, at least. Lagrange should get into a game against Baltimore.
Yep, that second run is unearned now, so Cam’s ERA is at 1.95. Just take him out now.
CBS Sports has it listed as an earned run.
MLB is typically the “official” take, and they have it as unearned. It SHOULD be unearned, since Diaz only went to second because of the error, and he wouldn’t have scored from first on the Caminero single otherwise.
Recalling Cam’s last start, I’ve never understood why a pitcher’s fielding error makes a run unearned.
An error is an error is an error, I guess.
Walking the lead-off batter is usually not good. Unless it’s the Yankees offense we are talking about.
They’re getting in some fine “Yankees go down in order” practice, so these games are not for naught, I guess.
Dress rehearsal not going well. But at least Boston doesn’t have any starter as tough as Seymour.
Cam is creeping up on the worst run support in 2026.
Fulmer in.
Fulmer out.
I guess the game plan for the offense is to hang this loss on Cam.
Eight pitchers guaranteed. Three more?
So annoying since Cam gave up 2 runs.