Rolling Game Thread for the 2023 Yankees
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Bauers just ran down a slicing fly in the LF corner. About the fourth time he has done that. Seve responds by giving up a 3-run homer to Goldschmidt. Third inning, Cards up 3-0.
IKF and Volpe hitting back to back while red-hot really puts pressure on the opposing team. They create havoc on the bases, even if they don’t steal a bag. It is not Yankee-like!
Two noteworthy things about the pitching staff to keep in mind with a crucial 4 game series with BAL starting on Monday:
1) Big game for Cole today, with every NY reliever going yesterday, any reliever who also has to pitch today will be unavailable Monday (NY basically never uses anyone three days in a row).
2) I'm pretty baffled at how NY has chosen to set up their rotation here. They have Cole pitching today (easily could have held him until Monday) and Rodon pitching Friday (easily could have used him Thursday, he'd be on 4 days rest), but instead their 4 SPs for the BAL series will be German, Schmidt, Vasquez and Severino.
1) Big game for Cole today, with every NY reliever going yesterday, any reliever who also has to pitch today will be unavailable Monday (NY basically never uses anyone three days in a row).
2) I'm pretty baffled at how NY has chosen to set up their rotation here. They have Cole pitching today (easily could have held him until Monday) and Rodon pitching Friday (easily could have used him Thursday, he'd be on 4 days rest), but instead their 4 SPs for the BAL series will be German, Schmidt, Vasquez and Severino.
With all due respect, it’s a little early in the race to start matching up pitchers. You take Cole out of his routine. And maybe they don’t want to throw Rodon into the fire right away.
Meanwhile, good baseball game today. Until Cordero got his hands on it.
Ex-Yankees Montgomery and Gallegos in control thru 8 innings today. Gallegos went to St. Louis in 2018 for Luke Voit. Monty for Bader. Trades that helped both teams.
Cole was scheduled Saturday until the rain-out Friday night, so I don't think switching him to Monday is so different from switching him to Sunday, except that he prepared for the STL batters already.
And they don't want to throw Rodon into the fire right away, but they're OK with using Vasquez there (who could have started today as was the plan going into this series)?
There are always reasons for things, I just find this pretty strange. Not that any of it matters if they can't score runs...
I wonder how bad Jodo has to hit before they move on. Dude can still man the hot corner, but .133 is ridiculous
Stanton starting to wake up. Two hits tonight. We enjoy his hot streaks. One is coming.
Bader with a 3-run bomb in 8th.
Bader with a 3-run bomb in 8th.
The Orioles are 30-25 since that great April start. They probably need to make a few moves to hold on to a WC spot in the second half.
Nice comeback win!
IKF handed BAL 2 runs early with consecutive weak plays in the OF, but NY with six in a row led by Volpe and then Bader, loved Volpe flying across home head first for the tying run against the very tough Cano.
4.2 scoreless from the NY bullpen, Ramirez/Hamilton/Kahnle/Holmes, good team win, need to keep it going now. Ramirez I think has to go down for Vasquez shortly but he has been great, 1.69 ERA in 21.1 innings.
IKF handed BAL 2 runs early with consecutive weak plays in the OF, but NY with six in a row led by Volpe and then Bader, loved Volpe flying across home head first for the tying run against the very tough Cano.
4.2 scoreless from the NY bullpen, Ramirez/Hamilton/Kahnle/Holmes, good team win, need to keep it going now. Ramirez I think has to go down for Vasquez shortly but he has been great, 1.69 ERA in 21.1 innings.
One thing we know about Stanton that NY has still not grasped is that HE PREFERS TO PLAY THE OF and he produces better when he does. In RF tonight, 2-4, it's easier for him to get loose, I don't remember him ever getting hurt playing OF (on the bases or swinging) and he is just as adequate as the other guys cycling through LF/RF currently. Again, NY is inexplicably bad at best utilizing their own personnel.
I think Cashman and Boone both realize that Stanton feels more comfortable at the plate when he plays the field. I just don't think they put much faith in the fact that he has hurt himself running the bases and swinging a bat instead of running in the OF or throwing the ball. Who knows when that fragility will show up?
There is also a chance that he isn't fully at 100% right now too.
There is also a chance that he isn't fully at 100% right now too.
Judge not playing, still captaining:
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Another good win, Gleyber with a blast in the 1st to give NY the lead, and then one of his typically crazy baserunning plays to score the go-ahead run from first on a single up the middle, easily could have been out by 30 feet but I (guess I?) like the aggressiveness. Also nice job by Marinaccio to strand the bases loaded up 4-3 in the 6th.
Gleyber might have glanced over his shoulder and seen Mullins lobbing the ball into second. Mullins looked like Reggie Jackson at Fenway in 1977.
This game might have been Gleyber’s finest hour.
This game might have been Gleyber’s finest hour.
Sticking with today’s game. Torres was a kid in 2019. Now he is a veteran hitter who seems like a leader this summer, instead of following Judge’s lead. He has grown up on us. Didn’t Yanks try him at third base briefly?
Mullins is a pretty fair comp to Mickey Rivers. Everyone ran on Mickey’s arm. The Orioles have been forewarned.
Big swing games for NY tonight and tomorrow. After these two against BAL, they have three home games over the weekend against CHC, then the All-Star break. They start Vasquez and Severino tonight and tomorrow (yikes), but then will have Rodon, Cole and German over the weekend, so one or two more wins against BAL would be huge and help to pull them out of the treading water mode they've been in since Judge went down.
Donaldson homers for 1-0 lead. On top of a single. Now hitting .151. Gene Mauch used to say most hitters get back to their norms by the end of the season.
Orioles’ SS Gunnar Henderson just nailed a TV cameraman on the head with a wild DP relay throw. Camera guy had his eyes in the lens and never saw it coming. Went down backwards. Five-minute delay.
