From Bryan Hoch:
The Yankees toppled their first foe of the evening, denting high-octane rookie Chase Burns, who looked like he’d stepped out of a video game in an impressive Major League debut. Their bigger problems came in the late innings, both with the bullpen and their tempers.
Jonathan Loáisiga surrendered a bases-clearing double in the seventh inning and Jazz Chisholm Jr. was ejected in the ninth for arguing balls and strikes. Aaron Judge scored on an 11th-inning wild pitch, but Spencer Steer and Gavin Lux knocked in runs facing Mark Leiter Jr. in the home half as the Yankees fell to the Reds, 5-4, on Tuesday night at Great American Ball Park.
This was definitely a Murphy’s Law-type game, where the one area that had been doing well for the Yankees, the bullpen, faltered big time with Lo, one of their best relievers, getting hurt by some soft contact to load the bases, but then allowing HARD contact with the bases-clearing double.
Then, of course, Boone made one of the craziest moves he’s made all season, and for a guy who does ALL sorts of crazy shit, that’s saying a lot, by trying to somehow squeeze a SECOND inning out of Mark Leiter. I don’t like Ian Hamilton, either, but you fucking pitch Hamilton or Tim Hill there, you sure as fuck DON’T try to get a second inning out of Mark Leiter! It was just MADNESS. Pure madness. Just a completely moronic decision that seemed doomed for failure, and fail it did. Leiter had just thrown 27 pitches LAST NIGHT!
Heck, why even pull Rodon at 88 pitches through six shutout innings?
But honestly, I still think this team is getting hurt more by bad luck than anything. They have the best run differential in baseball, and yet are six games below their pythag. I have to imagine things will settle out for them eventually in a positive fashion.
Meanwhile, it was fun seeing the Red Sox get walked off right before I posted this.
Featured image is the Reds celebrating their win.
Apparently Lo might have been injured in the 7th. That would suck, but would also make the inning make a bit more sense.
That ending was as predictable as they can get. I didn’t even watch after Judge stranded Volpe at 3rd in the 10th.
ETA: I also did not understand pinch hitting for Peraza without another infielder available.
He needed to squeeze more out of some combo of Cruz, Devin, and Weaver. But the offense was the problem. Two hits from the 5th thru the 11th.
The annual Boone Swoon strikes again.
death, taxes, and the yanks in a tailspin every june
Katie S Yankees in xtra innings this season.
.063/.205/.063
32 AB
2 H
0 XBH
1 SF
2 R
On a list of the worst hitting pitchers the 6th worst hitting pitcher Dean Chance hit 066.
It’s BAFFLING.
Boone strikes again. For a second it looked like he got a reliever up in the 11th once it was tied with two men on? Total idiot. 6 games under Pythag may mean simply that Boone cost them 6 games with idiotic managing. Which for half a season sounds about right. Wtf is the front office thinking? Let him manage the press and the players but someone else needs to be making lineup and in game decisions.
Leiter threw 27 pitches the game before, then 14 in his first inning last night. Bringing him back out is a fireable offense, but Cashman loves his puppet.
Worst hitting pitcher in modern history Don Herbel 029 in 206 ABs
Susan, you can’t predict baseball, except the Yankees sucking in extra innings that is.
Not just in xtra innings. Last 15 dats they’re 28th in OPS and 27th in runs.
Belli and PGold sit.
Bellinger should play almost every day. I don’t see the point of forcing Grisham into the lineup. His first 6 weeks were great but that wasn’t his true talent level.
As expected, Boone will lean on those first 6 weeks until sometime in July.
Hoch: The Yankees are giving Clarke Schmidt an extra day with Thursday’s off-day. Aaron Boone said Schmidt’s recovery has been slow from his last start.
Upcoming #Yankees probables vs. A’s:
Friday: Will Warren
Saturday: Clarke Schmidt
Sunday: TBA