Same names for the Yankees, in a slightly different order. Torres flips with Sanchez.
Hicks - CF
Judge - RF
Gregorius - SS
Stanton - DH
Torres - 2B
Sanchez - C
Bird - 1B
Andujar - 3B
Frazier - LF
Gordon - 2B
Segura - SS
Haniger - CF
Cruz - DH
Seager - 3B
Span - LF
Healey - 1B
Gamel - RF
Zunino - C
On the mound, Johnny Lasagna faces off against the greatly diminished King Felix
I'm no debbie downer, but you can't count on miracle wins every night. I think there are two slots still out there - starting pitcher and lefty reliever (other than Chapman).
Ellsbury
Gardner
Beltran
A-Rod
McCann
Castro
Gregorius
Headley
Refsnyder (Ike freaking Davis pinch hit for him later)
No one except Beltran was slugging over .419.
Shreve needs to go, why did he come in before Holder?
Somebody starts a nightly Everson Pereira watch. Thanks.
Del, I don't think Johnny pitched that badly. 6 hits but two of them were infield singles.
I'm no debbie downer, but you can't count on miracle wins every night. I think there are two slots still out there - starting pitcher and lefty reliever (other than Chapman).
I thought he was ready but gave up two soft bleeder infield hits to start the game and really had to work hard to get out of that. M's were tough on him tonight and worked counts.
He just has to make his put away pitch a little more enticing. In the minors guys would chase that but the M's were laying off and got his pitch count up.
Shreve didn't do him any favors serving up a two out, 3-2 cookie to a lefty for for the 2nd and 3rd runs in the 4th. Shreve does his job and the kid only gives up one run on a night he really battled every inning. Johnny couldve folded at any time but didn't.
I'd take Happ but I'd imagine the Jays will be looking for a Yankee tax and hopefully Cash doesn't overpay.
I'd like for them to get another high quality arm for the pen. Preferably a lefty and I'd see what the Padres are asking for Hand. He'd be huge and we could wave bye bye to Shreve while also keeping Hand away from the Stros or Sox.
2) The highest by 1.2 mph, a pretty big gap, was Sanchez yesterday on a line drive out. The announcers mentioned that he crushed one yesterday, a hint that he might be coming around. So now 2 days in a row with monster shots, even if one was an out.
3) Even with his struggles, 4 of the top 10 exit velocities this year are from Stanton. He has 7 of the top 28, and 4 of those were in June.
4) 7 of the top 10 are from the three Yankees. (link)
Consider that Gleyber and Andujar are capable of joining that list, if not this year, some day soon. Maybe Frazier eventually, too. Amazing overall bat speed on this team, considering that Bird, Hicks and Didi won't make this list but hit the ball hard as well.
If Stanton and Sanchez are getting their rhythm, the league is doomed. (Knock wood.)
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2) The highest by 1.2 mph, a pretty big gap, was Sanchez yesterday on a line drive out. The announcers mentioned that he crushed one yesterday, a hint that he might be coming around. So now 2 days in a row with monster shots, even if one was an out.
3) Even with his struggles, 4 of the top 10 exit velocities this year are from Stanton. He has 7 of the top 28, and 4 of those were in June.
4) 7 of the top 10 are from the three Yankees. (link)
Consider that Gleyber and Andujar are capable of joining that list, if not this year, some day soon. Maybe Frazier eventually, too. Amazing overall bat speed on this team, considering that Bird, Hicks and Didi won't make this list but hit the ball hard as well.
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Even with a great lineup, it's rare to get everybody in rhythm at the same time. But just imagine we get Judge, Sanchez, and Stanton swinging the bat well at the same time.
Stadium must have been 95% full, and I don’t think a single person left before the end. Fun night of baseball!!
Considering how long Boone left Shreve in the game, that's quite an accomplishment. He has got to fucking go.
GREAT TEAM WIN. Everyone except for Bird had a run and/or RBI. Holder was terrific again. Great to see Gary being Gary again.
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Stadium must have been 95% full, and I don’t think a single person left before the end. Fun night of baseball!!
Considering how long Boone left Shreve in the game, that's quite an accomplishment. He has got to fucking go.
GREAT TEAM WIN. Everyone except for Bird had a run and/or RBI. Holder was terrific again. Great to see Gary being Gary again.
Haha yup...that was still early enough in the game for people to bail I guess. But just as much grousing the the stands as there is here about Shreve
Would not be surprised if the explosion occurs.
What a joy to watch the enthusiasm on this team. Young guys with the sheer joy of playing baseball. Baseball as it should be played. When you see shots of the bench they are all smiling, yucking it up. Love it. Like kids in a park after school just playing for fun
FWIW, it looked to me Losagio was pitching to not get beat last night, not pitching to get people out. Lack of aggression, not attacking batters. This is where Rothschild shows him the difference in the two games. Trust you stuff and attack the zone. Like Sonny Gray should be doing.
In Johnny's defense, he said last night post game he was struggling with his fastball control all night and never got it fixed. I think that had a lot to do with how he went after guys, and don't think it was out of fear of attacking them, more of a trying to figure out some way to get them out.
Gotta give the M's some credit too, they didn't chase and really worked him last night. Overall I thought the kid battled and hung tough. If that's his below average type game, I think he's gonna be ok.
I know there were a few close ones and the zone seemed to move/float a bit, but in most cases Lasagna wasn't really close. I know I'm a bit of a whiner when it comes to inconsistent strike zones, but I was not that "upset" last night. Definitely two or three that in my mind were well inside the box not called. But the ump had a weird zone.
I agree he wasn't getting a lot of calls on the margins but I thought the ump was very inconsistent overall.
Felix was getting similar pitches called strikes and eg Bird had one AB late where he was up 2-0 in the count and the next pitch was clearly outside yet called strike 1. Changed the whole AB and inning for that matter.
There were a few calls like that both ways going against hitters. That ump is usually hitter friendly but last night he was what we all hate and that's all over the place IMO.
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Hilarious, what a win. Nothing like a walk off, getting to see the guys jumping around like a bunch of kids.
Hilarious, what a win. Nothing like a walk off, getting to see the guys jumping around like a bunch of kids.
Yea my daughter I were laughing at his reaction and that was without the volume of what he said. As soon as the bat made contact he knew he wasn't touching another baseball that night.
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at the pitcher's reaction the literal instant the ball hits Stanton's bat. Can even hear him yell "SHIT"
Hilarious, what a win. Nothing like a walk off, getting to see the guys jumping around like a bunch of kids.
Yea my daughter I were laughing at his reaction and that was without the volume of what he said. As soon as the bat made contact he knew he wasn't touching another baseball that night.
Yep, I knew it was gone before they switched cameras from Cook's reaction.
Happy for Stanton. Hope he goes on a 2-3 HR barrage!
What a game, what a team!
Happy for Stanton. Hope he goes on a 2-3 HR barrage!
What a game, what a team!
*2-3 week*
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at the pitcher's reaction the literal instant the ball hits Stanton's bat. Can even hear him yell "SHIT"
Hilarious, what a win. Nothing like a walk off, getting to see the guys jumping around like a bunch of kids.
Yea my daughter I were laughing at his reaction and that was without the volume of what he said. As soon as the bat made contact he knew he wasn't touching another baseball that night.
Yep, I knew it was gone before they switched cameras from Cook's reaction.
I like it!
I'm sure Boone knows his team better than I do but this is the second time he's sat Sanchez completely after a big HR the game before and when he looked like he was really heating up. I get not catching him toady but how about DHing him? Mayb he's dinged up after the foul off his face and then hit by pitch but he handled that pretty good last night.
If he wants to give Miggy a day off from fielding that's fine but I wish he would've given him the whole day and kept Gary's heating up bat in there.
Honestly, last night was the first time in a long while that I was annoyed by one of Boone's decisions. He needs to face the fact that a)Shreve has a reverse platoon split, so he's no LOOGY b)Shreve sucks regardless. Honestly, I'd feel more confident seeing AJ Cole out there at this point.
Cessa actually has fared pretty well against lefties - he's another reverse guy.
.208/.269/.399/.668 in a 178 AB sample
So, it would make some sense.
Ten days on the DL, 30 days of rehab in AAA, doesn't have to be passed through waivers. "Neck strain."
The way this system churns out relievers, you can't tell me they can't find someone better than Shreve down on the farm. JP Freyereisen, Cody Carroll, somebody.
The way this system churns out relievers, you can't tell me they can't find someone better than Shreve down on the farm. JP Freyereisen, Cody Carroll, somebody.
anybody, really.
I think the other was Giambi.
That's sort of hard to believe considering the Yankees have played like 18,000+ games.
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and manages to get injured. Tough break for him.
Ten days on the DL, 30 days of rehab in AAA, doesn't have to be passed through waivers. "Neck strain."
Ha! This is a great point. Puts him ready to be back just as rosters expand.
It's back up in the minors, I think they want to see consistent results before they promote him. 8 outings so far, allowed runs in each of the first 2 and then in the 6th, otherwise has been pretty good. So probably pretty close.
#AnyoneButShreve
Honestly, last night was the first time in a long while that I was annoyed by one of Boone's decisions. He needs to face the fact that a)Shreve has a reverse platoon split, so he's no LOOGY b)Shreve sucks regardless. Honestly, I'd feel more confident seeing AJ Cole out there at this point.
Sure it wears you down but IMO no reason he couldn't DH today. This is at least twice now he has sat Gary when he was just getting heated up,and it seemed to cool him off the last time. I just don't want to see that happen again.
I'd feel different if he was still cold but that's not the case and I want to keep feeding him and get him locked in.