From Bryan Hoch:
A hobbled Juan Soto rose to his feet, staggering as an instrumental track from the “Rocky” soundtrack played over the Yankee Stadium speakers. From his vantage point in the first-base dugout, Jazz Chisholm Jr. recognized how this story line was going to conclude.
“The way he was looking around, you could see in his eyes, he was about to do something special,” Chisholm said.
Soto delivered a dramatic go-ahead home run, flipping his bat in celebration, and there would be more theatrics to come.
Austin Wells extended the game with a pinch-hit RBI in the 10th inning and Chisholm connected for his first career walk-off hit in the 11th as the Yankees defeated the Royals, 4-3, on Wednesday night in the Bronx.
I can’t believe Boone actually pinch-hit Wells in the tenth against a lefty. Good for him.
Anyhow, that was a great win. A frustrating win, as the offense still sucks, but a great win nevertheless. The featured image is Jon Berti sliding home with the winning run. Bobby Witt Jr. almost made an amazing play to save the day for the Royals.
Aaron Judge’s massive slump is VERY concerning.
When does a blown lead start counting as a blown save? The seventh inning?
I think it’s the 6th!
Are you Trying to figure out of Holmes can break the all time record for most blown saves in a season? if the yanks only
Use him in the 5th to replace a bad start that will prevent it. Or only use him in games they are losing or with leads greater than 3 runs. He might still blow it but it won’t be a blown save!
Yes it’s definitely a blown save even in the 6th inning. For proof I went to Scott (every day) Proctor 2006 season and looked at his game logs. His 5th blown save of the season occurred on June 11th in the 6th inning.
(Amazingly enough he only blew 2 more the rest of the season. His season totals were 26 holds and 1 save, and a 6-4 record.)
well done
Happy for Jazz but was that really a walk off “hit”? Shouldn’t it have been scored a fielder’s choice? If Berti isn’t running Witt certainly gets Jazz at first. (Contact play actually worked?!)
I don’t think it’s a given that he gets Jazz there.
Whatever’s ailing Judge, why don’t they just give him some rest?
They do this every time. It’s like they’re running him out there in the hopes of concealing whatever’s wrong with him, so the Enemy won’t notice, the Enemy won’t guess… as if they couldn’t see the actual dead-give-away performance right before there eyes, out there on the field for all to see.
Rest might help, while playing him might delay recovery – and what the hell is he giving them that they’ll miss as he rests?
It’s odd that they’ve spent years getting him regular rest and now it’s impossible.
They’re going with the A lineup again tonight, so I assume it’ll suck again.
The Yankees don’t have an A lineup and Mo is the smart one.
Blaspheme but I’d rather sit Stanton and play Verdugo who’s actually swinging the bat well. As a matter of fact I’d platoon Stanton and the Martian
The only question is whether we can avoid the sweep.
G Torres (R) 2B
J Soto (L) RF
A Judge (R) CF
A Wells (L) C
G Stanton (R) DH
J Chisholm Jr. (L) 3B
J Domínguez (S) LF
A Rizzo (L) 1B
A Volpe (R) SS
Holmes officially has 12 blown saves, per BRef.
Fox game coverage a little over the top?