December 21, 2024

30 thoughts on “Yankees.com: In blockbuster WS showdown, Dodgers on cusp of Hollywood ending”

    1. I was surprised they sent him. I saw him hitting third and expecting a stop-sign, but he kept running and I knew he was dead meat at the plate. I was more surprised that Stanton made it as close as it was. Any other runner makes that. But Stanton? Dumb send. But when you’re struggling to score runs I guess they have to push the envelope a bit.

  3. These three games would have been really humiliating if it had been me, and not other people in baseball clothing.
    (Actually, the people buying the baseball clothing don’t look like they’ll feel humiliated, either, so… whatever.)

  4. Getting outhit or outpitched – it happens.
    But just missing balls hit to third, or screwing up plays of no special difficulty in left field, or getting picked off first, or getting thrown out at home with Stanton just passing 3rd when an outfielder gets the ball (amazing it was that close, actually) – that should NOT happen.
    And making these boneheaded managerial moves time after time, game after game – that should NOT happen.
    It’s embarrassing. Loyalty has to be earned.
    They’re not earning it.

    1. It looks like the Yankees of mid-to-late June playing a World Series championship squad. I don’t know if I’m more embarrassed by the Yankees’ performance or Fat Joe’s.

  5. Positive thoughts for today
    1) they got to the WS! That’s a pretty good season!
    2) they aren’t getting swept by the Mets
    3) they didn’t get shut out (TV feed referenced to “last dodger shut out at Yankee stadium was 1955” and “last time Yankees shut out in WS was game 6 2003”. That latter one was the dumbest stat of the night as they’ve only played in 9 WS games since then.)

    Negative thoughts:
    1) their manager is an idiot and even the 1998 Yankees might have been hamstrung if this guy made decisions
    2) they are going to keep him
    As manager since he “took them” to the WS
    3) their arrogant and past-sell-date GM will still be around
    4) Soto might leave making 2025 unwatchable
    5) it is clear beyond the shadow of a doubt that they cannot develop their own young hitting talent. And that’s been a problem for a decade. Wells and Volpe are just the most recent. Just wait until next year when Jasson can’t hit either.

    1. Yes.
      When they lose, they assert with certainty that the playoffs are a crap shoot.
      When they win get to the WS (and don’t win it), they’ll assert that it’s suddenly not a crap shoot, but indisputable proof of how brilliantly they run their nuthouse operation, how right all their choices were.

    2. For me the most frustrating of those negative thoughts is #5 since it’s a hitting philosophy that pervades the entire organization but has proven ineffective especially in the playoffs. But I’ll save my mindless rant until the off-season. So yeah look for it tomorrow.

  6. 7-6 in the post season currently and outscored 46-43. They are who they are. A slightly better than .500 team who made it in to the World Series on 2 magma-hot months in April and May and faced two teams who weren’t much better. The Dodgers are kicking their ass in every sense. The Ohtani & Yoshi acquisitions, starting pitching, a competent first baseman, a solid fundamentally sound defense, and timely hitting from the lineup from 1-9. Yankees have more walks+hits than the Dodgers, but they just continually shoot themselves in the foot.

  8. What the hell happened to Wells? He struggled early but he was making decent contact and as the season went on he started to look pretty, pretty good. Then a total abyss. Never seen anything like it. July and August he OPSed 938. That’s pretty effing good. September it was 111/411 and in the playoffs it’s 093/315. It took the league 275 ABs to figure his kryptonite?

    Volpe OTOH is what he is. Hopefully he can become a league average hitter with great defense, I’m not sure his ceiling is above 90 OPS+.

    These are our two young guns plugged for the next 10 years. I can’t imagine how any system could project Wells going forward.

    1. You HAVE seen things like it. Volpe did EXACTLY the same thing after his hot start screeched to a stupifying halt.
      But it didn’t USED to happen. And I don’t think it’s a new norm. It’s something with this organization. (Or IS it a new norm around MLB? Inquiring minds want to know, without doing the work!)

  9. Jomboy: The Yankees watched 24 four-seam fastballs go by for called strikes tonight
    That’s the most by them in a single game this season.
    It’s the 2nd most by any team this season (Nats had 27 on May 4th)
    Katie Sharp: And only one other team has done that in a postseason game since 2008 (Red Sox in 2017 ALDS Game 1 vs Astros)

    Just seems to me there’s something endemically wrong about their hitting approach and has been since Boone took over.

    1. Hal wants to fire Boone; Cashman says to Hal, Boone goes I go. Hal, accept that offer. (This is a fantasy – Hal will be counting the $$$$ from all this post season).

  11. Andrew Means at Pinstripe Alley hs a breakdown of Yankee WS failures. This one play that let Ohtani get to third was a demonstration of how fundamentally bad Boone’s team is.

    Jake Mintz over at Yahoo Sports broke down this ugly play and rightly noted that Torres made the larger mistake here. Soto’s double clutch and so-so throw hurt, but the way that Torres stabbed at the ball with his glove put him in a bad spot to actually get it (and that kind of defensive lapse from Torres is nothing new). There were also fair questions about shortstop Anthony Volpe, first baseman Anthony Rizzo, and pitcher Tommy Kahnle all not being in the right spots for this play, either.

  12. They’ve played Volpe* nearly every game in 2023-2024. He is a bad hitter. Maybe another hitting coach can help, because the one they have seems to help no one.

    The third base coach and his bad send, well, I believe he is also the base running coach. 🤔

    * They won’t do that with anyone else, making it doubly strange.

  13. Our genius manger outsmarting Roberts once again has flip flopped Jazz and Stanton to totally render LA’s bullpen game useless.
    RAB If I wasn’t so sure the season will end on a Verdugo ground out to second, I would say it will end with Stanton on deck after being needlessly moved down to fifth. Congrats on doing exactly what the Dodgers wanted you to do. May this be Boone’s final lineup as Yankees manager.

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