October 31, 2024

21 thoughts on “Yankees.com: Early slam sets tone as Yankees muscle up to stave off elimination

  1. What a great moment. I though that Volpe has been a lot better with the bat this postseason. I felt a grand slam was coming, but I was expecting a ground out.

    Great night, let’s get another.

    1. i agree. let’s send this back to LA tonight. hopefully the win loosened the boys up a bit…

  2. https://www.mlb.com/news/anthony-volpe-world-series-x-factor

    So why are we highlighting him as a potentially important X-factor here? It’s a little about his .310/.459/.345 postseason line, but anyone can get hot or lucky over nine games. Instead, it’s more about what’s happening under the hood. It’s more about … this…

    … bunch of graphs …

    That’s a lot of graphics with a lot of numbers, so let’s sum it up for you like this: Volpe is swinging much harder, and as you’d expect his hard-hit rate has skyrocketed, yet he’s also doing it with much, much improved plate discipline.

    1. 100%

      Even with the yankees poor offense for the first 3 games of the series, this should be 2-2. Instead the yankees are avoiding elimination with every game they play.

  3. Remember in 2017 against the Cleveland team
    Then known as the Indians when girardi didn’t challenge because he didn’t know in the playoffs you get two challenges…And it cost the Yankees the game?

    At the time I was thinking “wow that’s a fireable offense! You cost your team a playoff game because you were dumb!” Then he got fired .

    Boone’s idiocy in Game 1 is fireable offense – you cost your team a WS game! Can I hope Cashman does it again?

    1. Fortunately he has been banned for tonight as well. Should be mlb-wide lifetime though.

    2. reporters are running with the story “mlb had to ask the yanks to ban them”.

      i hope it’s not true. these guys should not be welcome anywhere. i agree.

  4. Judge saying words:

    “I know he probably didn’t put up the numbers in the regular season that he wanted to,” Aaron Judge, who was 1 for 3, said of Verdugo. “But all year long he just said: ‘Get me to the postseason and I’ll do something special.’ And that’s what we’ve seen so far this whole postseason.”

    If by “something special” he meant “sucking worse than anyone’s ever sucked before” then, sure.

    1. judge is objectively a good teammate for saying these kinds of things.

      he doesn’t write the checks or fill out the lineup card.

      it’s fucking annoying when boone or cash make this crap up though.

    2. That’s all fine unless he convinces Cashman to offer Verdugo a new contract. He’s also so much pro Boone that it will be impossible to fire Boone.

  5. That vertugo at bat in the 8th was truly great..,fouling off pitches…and then he did his usual ground ball to second. But it worked!

    But they better not sign him!

  6. When Boston won their 0-3 game back in the day, you could see the pitching lined up going forward.
    I can’t say the same here for the last 2 games, but for tonight’s game I think I can.

  7. Kirschner “Yesterday, Anthony Rizzo said one of things that made him confident that the Yankees could win this series was knowing a “pissed off” Carlos Rodón would pitch again.”

    I feel better now.

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