From Bryan Hoch:
Aaron Judge hit his 359th career home run, breaking a tie with Yogi Berra for fifth place on the all-time franchise list, and Will Warren navigated six solid innings of two-run ball.
The Yankees wished the evening had stopped right there.
Fernando Cruz and Mark Leiter Jr. endured a nightmarish seventh inning, seeing the Tigers bat around for nine runs as the Yankees fell to Detroit, 12-2, on Tuesday evening at Yankee Stadium. It was the biggest inning permitted by New York this season.
“It was tough,” Warren said. “I don’t know what to say. I haven’t seen anything like that before.”
The Yankees now sit three games back in the American League East race, as the Blue Jays rallied to defeat the Astros, 4-3, in 10 innings. After the Red Sox 6-0 win over the Athletics, New York is now in a virtual tie with Boston for the top AL Wild Card spot, with the Sox holding the head-to-head tiebreaker. A Bombers loss felt inevitable after Detroit sent 14 batters to home plate in the seventh, with the first nine reaching.
At the end of the day, Fernando Cruz has been excellent for the Yankees. If he has an occasional meltdown, well, shit happens. Mark Leiter isn’t nearly as good as Cruz is, so when HE sucks, it is much more annoying, and I want to just see him cut from the team.
The offense wasn’t good, either, but, I mean, come the fuck on, it was all about that NINE-RUN 7th inning, with EIGHT of the runs scoring with NO OUTS. Insanity.
Featured image is Cruz walking in a row after he walked the bases loaded and blew the tie game by allowing a run-scoring single.
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At least after the bullpen exploded they battled back with… no walks, no hits, no nothing.
(Actually, a whole lot o’ nothin’.)
Bednar last 28 days era 2.79 OBP% against 256
Weaver 3.38/347
Devin 5.00/289
Cruz 7.04/389
Doval 5.19/381
Leiter 9.82/417
Hill 2.00/324
I can’t believe that inning. There was really only one well hit ball (the bases clearing triple), IIRC. everything else was walks, bloops and wild pitches. Maybe that batch of baseballs were extra slippery.
I’m just going to put the top of the 7th inning into the “You can’t predict baseball” category, and the bottom of every inning into the “You can predict baseball” category.
lol
Volpe
June 205/290/375
July 172/196/409
August 191/230/372
September 095/095/143
2nd half 188/214/413
How long can Boone and Cash pretend that this is just a slump?
I guess for at least 2.5 years.
This is 3 years in a row of OPS+ in the 80s. This is nothing new. It’s bizarre
Unserious to the max.
Volpe sits.
https://x.com/chriskirschner/status/1965852691084841100?s=61&t=fhOaqwtc8q2TMSXUDRjPeg
An angel just got its wings.
A one or two day thing.
My guess one.
Kirschner Aaron Boone mentioned that his decision for who starts at shortstop is “day to day.”
phenom getting help from James Rowson, Rowson has been here two years and if he hasn’t helped him yet how’s he gonna help him not. Is Rowson part of the solution or part of the of the problem?
https://x.com/chriskirschner/status/1965851458068419013?s=61&t=fhOaqwtc8q2TMSXUDRjPeg
I worry that my substack caused the meltdown
I already blamed it in the previous thread. 😎
And the sawx tie it up in the 9 th
But lose it in the bottom of the 9th, Chappy with the loss. It’d be nice to see the same bad Chappy we endured at times.
Boone “Volpe The last 6/8 weeks have been a struggle. The underlying stats are better than ever. I think it’s very possible into October we’ll see his best baseball. He’s a really talented impactful player when he’s playing well.”
Underlying stats? Good grief, which ones, the ‘lying’ part?
Anthony Rizzo officially retiring.
https://www.mlb.com/news/anthony-rizzo-retires
cant wait to find out how today went.