May 28, 2026

24 thoughts on “Yankees.com: Chisholm rips tiebreaking HR, adds epic bat flip as Yanks keep rolling”

  1. I don’t get that at all. If Duran had been out at third, I could see calling him dumb for taking the risk. (As he made it there safely, it’s hard even to say he was wrong.)
    But I can’t see even the shadow of an argument that Bednar didn’t actually give up the triple, and thus the run.

    1. It’s like when a runner reaches on an infield single/bad job by defense, then advances to third on two defensive indifferences and then scores on a groundout. 100% earned run, but it doesn’t feel like it.

      Same thing here. Up four, the Yankee fielders were defensively indifferent, assuming it was a double, which they were fine with. Duran decided to push it into a triple for no real reason, and that’s the only reason he scored. 100% earned run, but doesn’t really feel like it.

    2. His run was meaningless. What if he tore something? What if he tripped? That said I don’t care. I doubt Bednar cares, he’s not winning any era titles this year.

    1. Couldn’t happen to a guy who was more a proven participant in an as-yet unpunished undermining-the-integrity-of-baseball-by-actually-directly-cheating scandal.

    1. Curry said It was 25% but what was it when Texas had the bases loaded in the first?

    2. FG says 66.4% for Texas with the bases loaded 0 out, 77.7 after the third run scored. I find FG very hard to navigate but googling “fangraphs win probability” will take you to the right place

    2. But maybe beating Toronto will turn out to be a good thing. Team era last 30 days LA 3.01, Devil Rays 3.15, Yankees 3.20. Last 15 days Devil Rays an astonishing 1.23!!, Yankees 2.50, LA 2.75.

    1. Is Volpe a lost cause? It certainly looks that way until he signs elsewhere and they fix him.

    2. Volpe came up, had a setback – and then adjusted, at every level.
      Every level except the one that counts.

    4. Age 21 going from AA to AAA his OPS dropped from 820 to 718, 22 games. That wasn’t a good sign.

  10. Yankees offense has been unstoppable, even while ranking last in this stat

    It’s no secret that the Yankees are off to a great start at an AL-best 25-11 after winning their fifth straight game Tuesday night vs. the Rangers.

    What might be a bit of a secret, however, is that they’ve had such a positive early showing despite a noteworthy suboptimal number: .160.

    That’s the team’s batting average out of the leadoff spot so far, and it’s dead last in MLB. (Yes, really.) Yet in spite of that, the Bombers are scoring 5.53 runs per game, ranking second in the sport to the Braves and leading the AL by a wide margin.

    …

    The main culprit? Trent Grisham, who has been atop the lineup in 25 of 36 games to date and has hit .148/.306/.284 (13-for-88) in those instances. The 29-year-old lefty hitter is batting .170 overall this year and owns a lifetime .216 average, even after a career campaign in 2025. Still, Grisham has maintained a reasonable (by comparison) .307 on-base percentage this year — just shy of his .320 career mark — thanks to 23 walks in 137 plate appearances. That’s the impetus behind sticking with him … for now.

    https://www.mlb.com/news/yankees-leadoff-hitters-struggling-with-low-batting-average

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