From Bill Ladson:
It was the battle of the bullpens between the Yankees and Astros on Friday night at Yankee Stadium, and New York came up short, 5-3 in 10 innings.
The Yankees (61-55) have gone just 19-30 since June 13. They find themselves in third place in the American League East, 6 1/2 games behind the Blue Jays (68-49), and clinging to the third and final AL Wild Card spot by just a half-game ahead of the Guardians (60-55), who pounded the White Sox, 9-5.
Yankees reliever Devin Williams found himself pitching in the ninth inning or later for the third time in four games, and he didn’t get the job done – again.
With the score tied at 2 in the top of the 10th and Jose Altuve as the automatic runner on second, Williams threw a wild pitch that allowed Altuve to advance to third. With the infield in, Carlos Correa singled up the middle, bringing home Altuve with the go-ahead run.
Three batters later, Williams hung a changeup and Taylor Trammell hit a two-run homer to make it a three-run game. It was the fourth homer allowed by Williams in his past eight games.
“Correa does a good job of probably sitting on the changeup, [which was] down and out of the zone. Not a bad pitch where he breaks the bat off the end,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “[The pitch] hangs to Trammell, though.”
It’s hard to imagine a dumber manager.
Featured image is Devin Williams explaining how much he sucks right now, but as someone noted on social media, you don’t get mad at the toddler who crashes dad’s car. You get mad at the lunatic who allowed him behind the wheels.
This is on Boone.
And man, before that point, this game had some good things in it, too. Cam Schlittler battled, the Yankees actually scored two runs on Hunter Brown and SHOULD have had more but Bellinger, one of the best guys on the team in terms of putting the ball in play, failed to do so with the go-ahead run on third base. Just agonizing.
Most depressing team in history, or most depressing team imaginable?
This team plays like their job is crushing cans. It’s soda pressing.
We know Devin stinks.
DEVIN knows Devin stinks.
The WORLD knows Devin stinks.
How come Boone never got the telegram vis-a-vis Devin’s stinkage?
There were no good things last night from the Yankee offense. The Yankees managed 5 hits in 10 innings, 4 in 9, only 1 double and a foul home run, both from Wells. They got lucky that 3 came in the same inning. Now it’s true they were less terrible than against Perez, Cabrera or Evo, but they were terrible. The only positive was Wells hitting the ball hard twice. Sure this game was on Boone and Devin but to score 3 or 4 shouldn’t be so far out of their grasp.
Jazz and the Martian sit against Framber. Surprised Rosario isn’t playing. Caballero against LHP 235/723. Rosario 312/838. Maybe he’s hurt but he stayed in the game. But know how dumb Boone is, who the F knows.
P Goldschmidt (R) 1B
A Judge (R) DH
C Bellinger (L) LF
G Stanton (R) RF
B Rice (L) C
A Volpe (R) SS
T Grisham (L) CF
J Caballero (R) 2B
R McMahon (L) 3B
Who else do you put in over Williams? They used Weaver and Doval… neither of whom are really reliable either. Bednar threw 40+ pitches the previous game. Despite the focus on the pen at the deadline, The Yankees bullpen just isn’t very good or reliable.
Leiter and Hill
Lou Pinella looks like Jimmy Carter in his last couple weeks.
Ramiro Mendoza once pitched a complete game shutout?
Bernie’s there, Paulie, Cone,Mo, Tino, Jorge, Andy but Jeter has a previous engagement.
Where?
Old Timer Day. They’re playing for the first time in 5 years.
Oh, that’s awesome.
Always loved Old Timer’s Day.
Yankee core 3 Wells, phenom and Martian a worthy match to the Yankee core 4.
Developing players is like riding a bicycle. If you know how to do it, you never lose your touch.
And if you don’t know how to do it…
Mo with a hard line drive to left. He coulda been a two way player.
I never heard the Mickey Rivers money story before.
I just see the infield being cleaned up. Is the OTG over?
I’m on tape delay. They’ll probably reshow it later.
Got it
Rodon and Fried are having fun.
Paul complaining that Clemens threw him a slider.