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Post by laurenfrances on Jun 7, 2024 14:38:29 GMT -5
Mookie Betts (R) SS
Shohei Ohtani (L) DH
Freddie Freeman (L) 1B
Will Smith (R) C
Teoscar Hernández (R) LF
Jason Heyward (L) RF
Andy Pages (R) CF
Gavin Lux (L) 2B
Enrique Hernández (R) 3B
Anthony Volpe (R) SS
Alex Verdugo (L) LF
Aaron Judge (R) RF
Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
Anthony Rizzo (L) 1B
Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
DJ LeMahieu (R) 3B
Trent Grisham (L) CF
Jose Trevino (R) C
Cody Poteet
RHP
2-0, 2.45 ERA, 10 SO
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
RHP
6-2, 3.32 ERA, 76 SO
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Post by 1955nyyfan on Jun 7, 2024 14:40:31 GMT -5
This is a tough lineup for Poteet to navigate.
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Post by laurenfrances on Jun 7, 2024 14:47:33 GMT -5
This is a tough lineup for Poteet to navigate. Hopefully Yankees can win this series. A sweep from either team is not likely to happen. At least I hope Yankees don't get swept  |
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Post by bumper on Jun 7, 2024 14:49:11 GMT -5
strange to see soto's name not in there but apparently it's only inflammation.
and yeah dodgers have one of the best lineups in baseball. certainly a challenge for poteet.
looking forward to seeing the almost yankee and object of our off-season affections - yamamoto. interestingly both teams facing pitchers they've never seen.
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Post by laurenfrances on Jun 7, 2024 14:53:54 GMT -5
strange to see soto's name not in there but apparently it's only inflammation. and yeah dodgers have one of the best lineups in baseball. certainly a challenge for poteet. looking forward to seeing the almost yankee and object of our off-season affections - yamamoto. interestingly both teams facing pitchers they've never seen. I was hoping for fully healthy teams battling for wins to get a barometer of what to expect should they meet in PS. Unfortunately that is not the case. Who thought Schmidt/Soto would developed issues.  |
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Post by 1955nyyfan on Jun 7, 2024 14:59:52 GMT -5
strange to see soto's name not in there but apparently it's only inflammation. and yeah dodgers have one of the best lineups in baseball. certainly a challenge for poteet. looking forward to seeing the almost yankee and object of our off-season affections - yamamoto. interestingly both teams facing pitchers they've never seen. I was hoping for fully healthy teams battling for wins to get a barometer of what to expect should they meet in PS. Unfortunately that is not the case. Who thought Schmidt/Soto would developed issues. Yep, and let's not forget we still don't have Cole but at least he seems to be getting closer. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jun 7, 2024 15:52:38 GMT -5
This is a tough lineup for Poteet to navigate. Hopefully Yankees can win this series. A sweep from either team is not likely to happen. At least I hope Yankees don't get swept The Yanks need Nestor to outduel Stone in the middle game, and Stone's pitch very well recently. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jun 7, 2024 15:53:59 GMT -5
strange to see soto's name not in there but apparently it's only inflammation. and yeah dodgers have one of the best lineups in baseball. certainly a challenge for poteet. looking forward to seeing the almost yankee and object of our off-season affections - yamamoto. interestingly both teams facing pitchers they've never seen. I was hoping for fully healthy teams battling for wins to get a barometer of what to expect should they meet in PS. Unfortunately that is not the case. Who thought Schmidt/Soto would developed issues. It's almost impossible for a team to go through a whole season without taking serious injuries. The Schmidt injury they can overcome; the Soto injury, if it's a bad one, is a far bigger blow, both short-term and long-term. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jun 7, 2024 15:54:18 GMT -5
After a period of poor play, where they actually lost 5 in a row and 9 of 16, the Dodgers have done somewhat better lately, wining 6 of their last 9. Despite their indifferent results, their lead in the NL West has actually grown slightly, because none of their supposed challengers, Arizona, San Diego, or San Francisco, have gotten hot. On May 8th, they were 26-13, and had a 6 1/2 game lead in the West. In the last month, they're 13-12, and the lead is now 8 full games.
To open the series against the Yanks, the Dodgers roll out their big NPB Free Agent, Yoshinobu Yamamoto. The 25-year-old started his professional career with the Orix Buffalos as an 18-year-old, pitching mostly relief for their minor league version and major league version in 2017 an 2018. In their first identity, the Hankyu Braves, they were a very successful franchise in what became known as the Pacific League. In 1988, they were sold to the Orix Group, and from that point on, won just back-to-back pennants and one Japanese World Series in 1995 and 1996. After merging the team with Osaka Kinetsu Buffalos, the franchise did poorly, managing just one 2nd place finiish in the next 16 years. The franchise called him up for good and put him in the rotation in 2019, and he pitched brilliantly, 8-6 with a 1.95 ERA. He did just about as well in 2020, 8-4 with a 2.20 ERA. The Buffaloes finished over .500 both seasons.
They broke through the next season and Yamamoto led the charge, going 18-5 with 1.39 ERA. The Buffaloes won the Pacific Legaue pennant, but lost the Series to the Tokyo Yakult Swallos. For this performance, Yamamoto won the Pacific League's MVP Award, and the Eli Samamura Award (equivalent to the Cy Young Award, but for all on NPB, not just the Pacific League). In 2022, he did again, going 16-6 with a 1.60 ERA, won both awards, and this time, Oriz won their World Series, getting revenge against the Swallows. In 2023, he did it a 3rd time, going 16-6 with a 1.25 ERA, winning both awards again, but Orix lost the series to the Hanshin Tigers.
At the end of the 2023 season, Yamamoto was a 25-year old ace of a team that had won three straight pennants and a Series title, and had won three straight MVPs and Samamuras. He was posted by Orix, and the Yanks made a strong bid for him, losing out to the Dodgers. He got off to a mediocre start for LA, going 1-1 in his 1st fives starts with an ERA of 4.50, but has done better lately: 4-1 in 7 starts with an ERA of 2.72. On the season, he's 5-2 with an ERA of 3.32. In 65 innings, he's allowed 59 hits, 25 runs, 24 earned, 6 HR, 14 BB and he's struck out 76. This is his first game against the Yanks.
Repertoire: Yamamoto is a short (5'10") 5-pitch righty. (6-pitch, really, FB and sinker, as is usual nowadays). But he's not of the "kitchen sink" variety, he can throw pretty hard. He uses the FB much more than the sinker (55 to 3 of them in his last start), both of them averaging 95-6. Together, he's thrown them 42% of the time. He also has a 90 mph splitter that he throws 26% of the time, a 78 mph curve that he uses 23-4% of the time, a cutter 91 about 6% of the time, and a slider 86 that he's using less frequently recently, overall, just one of them every two innings, on average. Nick Pollack at Pitcher List complains that Yamamoto doesn't use his FB right in that he doesn't elevate it often enough to attack the top of the zone with it, and if he did, he'd probably dominate MLB too. But he seems to be doing OK just as he is, and even with this "flaw", Pollack calls him an ace and currently has him ranked as the 9th best starter in MLB in his top 100.
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Post by inger on Jun 7, 2024 15:58:07 GMT -5
2 game #64 threads, I assume this one should be titled # 65…
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jun 7, 2024 16:02:07 GMT -5
Playing the name game...Yamamoto is, unsurprisingly the first Yoshinobu in MLB history, buy not the first Yamamoto. The first was Hawaiian-born Jordan Yamamoto, who pitched for the Marlins and Mets from 2019-2021, but hasn't pitched in American professional baseball since 2022. No matter how I try, I can't help associating the pitcher with the famed Japanese admiral who was in charge of their entire Navy for the start of World War II, and who approved of the Pearl Harbor attack (actually he opposed the war because of the immense U.S industrial capacity that the Japanese forces couldn't do anything to diminish, but once the decision was made to attack and conquer the American, British and French colonies in Asia, he knew his only chance was to wipe out the entire US fleet in a surprise blow and force a long war on America, thinking that we'd lose interest in places so far away that didn't matter to most Americans. You know, like Vietnam.)
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jun 7, 2024 16:03:19 GMT -5
2 game #64 threads, I assume this one should be titled # 65… The thread starter can correct it, but maybe one of the moderators can, too. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jun 7, 2024 16:03:38 GMT -5
The Yanks are forced by injury to send Cody Poteet out against a very tough Dodgers lineup. Poteet has done OK in his two starts for the Yanks, 2-0 in 2 starts, ERA 2.45. In 11 innings, he's allowed 9 hits, 4 runs, all earned, 3 earned, 2 HR, and 1 BB with 10 K's. His WHIP so far is still very low: 0.91. He lasted just 5 innings against the Giants last time out, but still got the W.
Despite brief time with the Marlins in 2021 and 2022, he's never faced the Dodgers before. Maybe that will help him a bit, especially the first time through their order. Or maybe not.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jun 7, 2024 16:04:10 GMT -5
Yankees lineup vs. Yamamoto: He's never faced them, and none of them have ever faced him, except possibly at the World Baseball Classic.
On the bench: Nope, not here either.
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Dodgers lineup vs. Poteet: He's never faced them, but one of them has faced him...
Kike Hernandez is 0-2 vs. Poteet with 1 BB and 1 K
On the bench: Nada. Nothing. Unless Kike doesn't start.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jun 7, 2024 16:05:02 GMT -5
Last night the Yanks the Yanks held off a Twins team that seemed determined to avoid losing all 6 games this season to the Yanks. Yanks fell behind 1-0, took a 2-1, lead. The Twins tied it with a solo HR. The Yanks scored 5 runs to open up a 7-2 lead. The Twins knocked out Stroman with 3 in the 5th and cut it to 7-5. Volpe's legs gave them a needed insurance run in the 6th, and despite occasionally shaky pitching, the bullpen locked it down the final 4 1/3 innings for the 8-5 win. The win was the Yanks' season-best 8th win in a row. They've now won 24 of their last 30, and are a season-high 26 games over .500 at 45-19.
Yesterday afternoon, the Jays built up a 6-1 lead, but the O's rallied as they usually do, getting a 2-run HR in the 8th from Rutschman and another two-run blast in the 9th from O'Hearn, before Jays' current closer Yimi Garcia whiffed Stowers with a change diving low to nail down the win, 6-5. The Red Sox pummelled the White Sox, early, middle and late, scoring in 6 different innings, piling up 24 hits and demolished the Pale Hose 14-2 in the first game of a 4-game series in Chicao. The White Sox have now lost 14 games in a row, and 18 of 19. They're allowed nearly twice as many runy as they've scored this season. (Run differential is -152, on pace to be close -400 runs for the season). Looks like much stat padding for Boston hitters the next 3 days. The Rays had yesterday off.
As of this morning, the Yanks now lead the O's by a season-best 4 1/2 games, the Sox are in 3rd, 12 1/2 behind, the Rays in 4th, 13 behind and the Jays, despite taking two from the O's are still 5th, 14 games behind.
Elsewhere in the AL East today: The O's fly down to Tampa to play the first of 3 games under the Twilight Zone roof at 6:50 pm. Cole Irvin, 5-2 2.84 ERA throws for Baltimore; Aaron Civale, who held the O's to a run in 5 1/3 innings in a no-decision in his last start a week ago, pitches for the Rays. The Red Sox take on the woeful White Sox again at 8:10 pm, but at least they have to face a major league pitcher tonight. Rookie Cooper Criswell, who bounced back from a beating the O's gave by throwing 5 innings of 1-run ball for a win against the Tigers last time, pitches for Boston. He's 3-2 with a 3.92 ERA in 9 starts. The actual major leaguer pitching for the White Sox is lefty Garrett Crochet, who's had 7 excellent starts in a row to plummet his ERA from 6.37 to 3.49. Of Chiago's 15 wins, he has 5. The Jays travel to the West Coast to play the A's at the Coliseum at 9:40 pm. Chris Basitt, slowly working his way back from a tough start to his season (except when he faces the Yankees), pitches for Toronto. He's now 6-6 with a 4.13 ERA. Rookie Hogan Harris will make his 2nd start since being put in the A's rotation. In one start and two long relief appearances, he's 0-0 with a 3.14 ERA.
In a little while, it's Yamamoto vs. Poteet at the Stadium, and to no one's surprise, no Soto tonight. The medical report is good so far, but I'm gonna wait to see if the other shoe drops when the "specialists" examine the MRI and other scans.
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