From Steve Kornacki:
Paul Goldschmidt set the tone with a pair of solo homers off Tarik Skubal, and Jasson Domínguez made the difference with a two-run shot against Detroit’s two-time reigning Cy Young Award winner in the sixth inning of a 4-2 Yankees win.
New York starter Ryan Weathers held the Tigers to one earned run on six hits over six innings in a second consecutive strong outing, improving his record to 3-5 and ERA to 3.95.
Skubal is 20-3 at Comerica Park since 2024, and beating him here or anywhere is a challenge. But Goldschmidt is one of the few who has his number. Goldy is 7-for-13 (.538) with four homers in their career matchups.
Goldschmidt, asked to explain it, said, “I have no idea. Obviously, he’s one of the best pitchers in the game, and facing him is a tough challenge. There’s not really a recipe to try to beat him. He’s got four really good pitches and competes as well as anyone.”
Yankees manager Aaron Boone added: “Crazy. [Goldschmidt’s] just so tough on lefties. He’s had a good run against Tarik, who I thought was pretty great tonight. We ran into a few … but I thought Skubal threw the ball really well against us.”
Goldschmidt got it all going Wednesday night at Comerica Park by leading off the game with a 372-foot shot to left on a high and inside four-seamer with a 3-1 count.
Two innings later, he really got a hold of a low and inside curve, drilling it 427 feet to left at 104.9 mph for his 14th homer of the season. At 38 years and 287 days old, he became the eighth-oldest hitter with a multihomer game while batting leadoff since 1900.
Man, that was a fucking AWESOME win.
Scoring four runs off of one of the best pitchers in baseball, with Jasson Dominguez having an epic at-bat (that I was impressed with BEFORE he hit a home run, going from 0-2 to 3-2 by spoiling multiple good pitches) and then hitting a go-ahead home run off of one of the best LEFTHANDED pitchers in baseball?! Holy shit, that was great!
Ryan Weathers had a second strong outing in a row (not QUITE good enough to get the featured image, but close!), and Cruz and Bednar were outstanding, with Camilo Doval, well, you know, pitching and didn’t allow seven runs, so that’s something!
Skubal was FILTHY, so the fact that they beat him was awesome.
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Great, great win.
Please, God, let that at-bat be predictive ressurecting Martianitude.
At this point a decent 2-WAR regular would be a satisfactory outcome
Mars was, after all, the Roman god of WAR, and features in many epic works of science fiction – including the most recent classic to be penned by someone named Wells, titled “Negative WAR of the Worlds.”
Excellent point, but without the needless complications, that’s just it – coming up he was supposed to become the god of WAR.
Love it.
And no, 2 WAR would not be satisfactory, that’ll just lead to them endlessly playing his mediocrity instead of actually improving – if he’s not going to be actually good (and not going to be traded), I almost think it’d be better if he sucked.
A 2 WAR player is good. Teams need them.
Let Cabby or Rosario be “good” in that sense.
“ BREAKING: In its next CBA, the league is proposing a max contract length of 5 yrs for free agent players switching teams, 6 years to retain their own players. No deferred contracts. Qualifying offer is gone too. Also, 5 years to free agency for players 30 or older.”
Which will just drive up the annual price.
They would also cap the annual salary.
It’s just absurdity to keep making these ridiculous “offers.”
They would WANT to, yes. But that wasn’t listed. Obviously that combination would hardly be acceptable, so right, utterly pointless. They’re trying to establish the playing field.
It was listed, just not in that quote.
“A free agent moving teams this upcoming offseason could sign a maximum contract of 5 years, $202 million. A team retaining its own free agent could sign him for 6 years at $265 million.”
It’s all based on percentages of the salary cap that they’re not going to get, so it’s just absurdity.