From Bryan Hoch:
The Yankees have struggled to score on the road this season. Paul Goldschmidt stepped into the box ready to change that.
Goldschmidt belted a leadoff homer on Trevor Rogers’ first pitch and Trent Grisham added a three-run shot that highlighted a five-run third inning, powering the Yankees’ 6-2 victory over the Orioles on Tuesday evening at Camden Yards.
“Winning and getting hits, all that’s a lot more fun than when you’re losing or getting outs,” Goldschmidt said. “We all know this game has a lot of ups and downs. I think the mindset is to just show up and work hard, and enjoy it – it’s called a game for a reason.”
New York snapped its four-game losing streak behind a solid outing from Will Warren, who bounced back from his roughest start of the season by holding Baltimore to two runs over 5 2/3 innings.
I mean absolutely no offense to Goldy, who has been playing well, but how is HE the story just because he hit a solo home run in a 6-2 ballgame? Weird angle there, Hoch.
Will Warren fell apart a bit in the sixth inning, and didn’t even get through six innings, so I can’t give him the featured image, and Grisham PROBABLY deserves it, but I gave him a featured image recently, so I’m going with Tim Hill, who came in in the 8th inning after Jake Bird fucking sucked (to be fair to Bird, he has pitched well lately, but I think it’s one of those deals where he pitches JUST well enough for you to trust him so that he can make it more painful when he fucks you over later) and did what Tim Hill does, gets two quick groundballs to get out of the jam.
Boone has been leaning on Tim Hill HEAVILY this season to get big outs when the other guys suck, and he almost always comes through. Heck, the other day, in the Brewers game that he was the pitcher on the mound when the Brewers won (I don’t know how to call it when you didn’t blow a save and you didn’t take the loss), he did so while really getting two outs, he just moronically threw one of those outs away for no reason. Headrick has been good, too, but I think Boone has been leaning on Headrick TOO much, as he leads the league in appearances, and I wouldn’t be surprised if his poor performance in the last two outings had to do with being overworked. Dude doesn’t allow a home run all season and then allows one in back-to-back outings? Seems fishy.
Anyhow, good win.
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The Return Of Phenom
T Grisham (L) CF
B Rice (L) 1B
A Judge (R) DH
C Bellinger (L) LF
J Chisholm Jr. (L) 2B
R McMahon (L) 3B
S Jones (L) RF
A Volpe (R) SS
J Escarra (L)
Let’s see what Spencer can do with that excellent lineup protection.
Ha Ha
Baseball America Carlos Lagrange brought the HEAT tonight 🔥
The @NYYPlayerDev No. 4 prospect racked up eight Ks over five frames for the Triple-A @swbrailriders.
He recorded six pitches at 101 mph+ and maxed out at 102.8 mph 😮💨
George Lombard Jr. 0-2, 4 BB, K, fielding error
No hits, 4 walks, and an error. Sounds like Scranton is preparing Lombard to fit right in with the big league club.
I mean I’d take four walks a game
444 OBP at Scranton, 400 in AA. For a 20 yo to know rhe strike zone is something to build on.
Grish walk, Rice K, Judge DP
WOE’s Three True Outcomes
The Legend: Stories often recount Boggs drinking roughly 50 to 107 beers in a single day, usually Miller Lite.The Flight: The most famous story involves a flight from Boston to Los Angeles in the early 1990s, where he reportedly drank 73 beers
Fried not sharp. Mayo who couldn’t buy a hit feasting on Yankee pitching.
Spence, phenom, and Escarra due up. Odds of scoring?
Congrats to Kyle Bradish on his first career no hitter.
Pitcher with a 4.87 era, 9 up, 9 down. One good inning yesterday aided by barely beating out a DP. That’s been it for 6 games.
I’m sure this will prove to be valuable experience for Jones when he returns to AAA, but they’d be better off just letting Goldschmidt play every day, sharing 1B/DH with Rice.
Judge, Jeter, and Rivera all underperformed in their cups of coffee. But yes, if they’re going to keep pace with the Rays, they’ll need more Caballeros and fewer Joneses.
Fried is a very good pitcher but he’s never going to be the total dependable ace that will give you two great starts in a playoff series.
Fried 3 innings and 61 pitches, Blackburn in. Sounds like somethings wrong with Fried.
blisters? that’s his usual issue.
i thought volpe was slow on the transfer more than “there’s nothing you can do”.
but i’m a confirmed hater so
haters 1
volpe 0
phenom being phenom
What, you should expect another win?
I love day games. They get the disappointment out of the way early.
The offense has been quite offensive of late.
Of COURSE Fried is hurt
That’ll settle the Warren vs Weathers debate when Cole is back.
It was ALWAYS going to be Fried or Schlittler.
Left elbow soreness for Fried. Cool. DAMN cool.
Something, something, elbow. I wondered big Fried or Schlittler would be the first to be get TJ.
Beck had a good game today, 5.2 ip 0r 1h 9Ks and I suppose he will get the next 2 or 3 starts.
Lombard 0-5 down to 146/553.
Yeah Yankees aren’t going to win but should Boone be so obviously surrendering?
In the last six games Yankees have had exactly one good inning, yesterday’s third, and if Bellinger were a step slower they wouldn’t have scored. The offense has been AWFUL.
phenom is back!
The lineup really needs Stanton, but then he is always getting hurt, so they need to get another bat somewhere.
They should have insisted the game start at 6:35 and hoped for a rainout
Now that’s strategery
One hit and two errors. Six games, one good inning.
Sorry, I forgot it was an early start. Good thing (for me) that I forgot.
Fried’s injury is left elbow posterior soreness. The good news is that, of course, the posterior is not where TJS injuries are. The bad news is that ANY elbow soreness could suggest a TJS injury (as it could be that his posterior elbow hurts because he is trying to avoid using his interior elbow because IT is hurt).
We’ll, of course, learn more when the imaging is done. Let’s hope it’s just a normal strain, and he’ll only miss a month or so. He’s had injuries like this before and only missed a month.
To be frank, Fried being hurt at least makes more sense than “Fried just sucks now.”
Fried seemed optimistic. Chat GP also.
https://x.com/i/status/2054649885710832041
Yeah, I’m cautiously optimistic he’ll only miss a couple of months. If they could survive an injury to anyone, it’s one of their non-Schlittler starters.
64 batters faced. 1 hit allowed. This veteran reliever is on a historic run.
Hard to fathom, especially coming from this guy.
https://www.mlb.com/news/orioles-rico-garcia-one-hit-allowed-first-64-batters-in-2026
It’s BAFFLING.
That said, I think the Yankees would have loved to have kept him longer, but they had a big roster crunch at the time, and he sucked when they used him, so I get it. Same thing happened with the Mets. He sucked when he pitched.
The only hit he’s allowed so far was an over the wall HR, so he has a BABIP of 000.
That’s INSANE.
But with the mutts he appeared in 8 games, pitched 12.2 innings, struck out 16, had a 2.13 era and a WHIP of 1
Oh wow, I didn’t know that. I assumed he sucked as much for them as he did here since they cut him TWICE. That’s insane.
Boone “Volpe had some competitive at bats.”
I think having Yarby in the bullpen is a tool Boone does not know how to use. 6-2 lead after 6 yesterday.,,maybe just go to Yarby for 3 instead of 3 different guys for an inning each hoping none of them blow it….
Yarby and Blackburn are both good long men, but holy shit, Yankees, no one needs two fucking long men! Blackburn had a little success as a short man late last season, so I thought the idea was to work with him over the offseason to develop him further as a short man, and, well, it has not been that at ALL, so there really is NO reason for both guys to be on this team.
It sucks, because both of them are fine at their job, as it is, but the bullpen is being hurt by having two long men in it. One needs to go.
Whoever gets Blackburn, though, will likely turn him back into a starter, and then he will face the Yankees and shut them out over six innings.
🤔 👍🏻
oswaldo is hitting .325 in may whereas phenom was 0-fer with horrible peripherals. can they just swap them?
It’s amazing how bad he was here. A total black mark on the Yankee development team.
Rays take a 3-1 lead in the 10th.
Varsho with a walk-off grand slam, Jays beat Rays 5-3 in ten.
There are 8 pitchers currently with eras under 2, and Ohtani under 1. At the ASB last year there were no pitchers under 2.
Maybe ABS has forced the umpires to be better about giving correct strikes?
Ah, the magic of getting the calls wrong!
Sheesh.
Maybe it’s past the time to make Stanton a part time player when/if he gets healthy.
A platoon with Spencer Jones?
The Mets heating up just in time to face the stumbling Yankees.
The May dismay instead of or in addition to the June swoon
Is it too early to congratulate Clay Holmes on his first no-hitter?
Never too early!
Lombard 1-6 149/534 Luciano 2-3 with a home run 333/991 Waldo 2-2 with a home run 227/665