Yankees.com: Domínguez makes ‘no excuses’ for costly gaffe in Yankees’ loss

From Bryan Hoch:

There were major renovations to Fenway Park ahead of the 1934 season, introducing a scoreboard inside the left-field wall that featured a state-of-the-art innovation: large colored lamps to signify the count on a batter — green for balls and red for strikes — plus indicators for outs.

This history lesson brings us to Jasson Domínguez, who wandered off second base during the seventh inning on Saturday night. Had Domínguez peeked over his shoulder at the 37-foot-tall Green Monster, he’d have seen only one red lamp lit when Trent Grisham swung through a pitch. Domínguez lost track of the count, and the Yankees dropped a 4-3 decision to the Red Sox.

Like I said during the game thread, the losses that piss me off are when they get their asses kicked. Losing a competitive game isn’t really that big of a deal to me, especially when it involves fluky shit like Jasson Dominguez forgetting how many outs there were in an inning while on second base in a two-run game.

It doesn’t help that Aaron Judge is having a mini-slump in this series, and Trent Grisham and Ben Rice are continuing THEIR slumps while continuing to bat at the top of the order.

Giancarlo Stanton returns on Monday, and he’ll be his typical “Forget how to hit for a week or so,” but he might eventually be quite helpful against lefties.

I think they should try the following lineups against lefties and righties:

Lefties:

Goldschmidt
Judge
Stanton
Bellinger
Jazz
Volpe
Wells
Grisham
DJ

Righties:

Rice
Judge
Bellinger
Goldschmidt
Jazz
Dominguez
Wells
Volpe
DJ

At .384, I guess we can kiss .400 goodbye for Judge. We all knew it was unlikely, but it would have been fun to have seen him flirt with it for a bit longer.

Rodon was bad, but he wasn’t TERRIBLE. I sure don’t like how much he comes up empty against Boston, though.

The real key is if Fried does well. If he pitches well, I have no big complaints. You have a bad series sometimes, it’s all good, and it just happened that some weird ass scheduling had the Yankees against Boston in back to back weekends. I’m pretty confident the Yankees will be fine with them the next time they play the Sox.

Featured image is Dominguez wandering off second base because he thought that Grisham had just struck out for the final out of the inning (in Dominguez’s defense, Grisham probably WAS going to strike out).