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Post by kaybli on Jul 23, 2024 21:32:09 GMT -5
Missed a chance to gain a game on the O's.
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Post by chiyankee on Jul 23, 2024 21:32:53 GMT -5
I just wonder if any manger in baseball would have sandwiched Soto and Judge with J.A. Jones and J.D. Davis in a high profile game like this one other than Boone? Blame that on Boone or the vaunted "analytics" team ? Yeah, I don't even know who makes up the lineup anymore but Jones and Davis could DFA'd tomorrow and I doubt anyone would notice. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 23, 2024 21:34:16 GMT -5
Yanks loss drops them back to 17 games over .500 at 60-43 and they've now lost 21 of 31. Mets win puts them back to 4 games over at 52-48, and they've won 28 of their last 41.
The series finale is tomorrow at 7:10 on, unhappily, ESPN. Sean Manaea, having a good bounceback year, starts for the Mets. He's 6-4 with a 3.73 ERA, and though the Marlins, of all teams, hit him pretty hard in his last start, he pitched 4 good games in a row before that one. Yanks send Gerrit Cole to the mound to try to avoid the 4-0 season's sweep. He's 3-1 on the year with a 4.60 ERA, but pitched great in his last two starts against the O's and Rays. Before that, in his 2nd start of the IL, he had nothing when he faced the Mets in Citifield, giving up 7 hits, 4 HR and 6 earned runs in 4 innings in a game the Mets eventually won 9-7. Mets usually hit Cole fairly well, but I doubt it will be as one-sided tomororw as it was in Queens. Cole should be taking the mound in a very surly mood.
That's it for tomorrow's preview. I have quite a few notifications to check, I think, so I'll do that now.
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Post by donniebaseball23 on Jul 23, 2024 21:34:39 GMT -5
I just wonder if any manger in baseball would have sandwiched Soto and Judge with J.A. Jones and J.D. Davis in a high profile game like this one other than Boone? Absolutely ridiculous. I couldn't believe it when I saw it. Boone is far from the only problem, but he's certainly one of them. His lineup choices, even with the dung he has to pick from are often puzzling; his handling of the pitching staff leans toward bizarre too often. I doubt it happens anytime soon, but I can't wait for a new skipper. Though, truthfully, if it's Cashman hiring the next guy, maybe I'm not so eager. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 23, 2024 21:36:12 GMT -5
I just wonder if any manger in baseball would have sandwiched Soto and Judge with J.A. Jones and J.D. Davis in a high profile game like this one other than Boone? Blame that on Boone or the vaunted "analytics" team ?  |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 23, 2024 21:39:20 GMT -5
Ump holds Gil, makes him address the hitter. "Hello, hitter!" (Apologies to Ed Norton, the Honeymooners character) McNeil... FB at the top fouled off FB inside ties him up completely, he hits a dribbler down 3rd, DJ's only hope is to let it roll foul, but it doesn't, bad break for Gil to start the 5th, very cheap infield hit. Ed Norton quotes are always welcome Qwik. I don't actually know The Honeymooners nearly as well as I should, but that's an all-time classic TV bit. I wonder where they stole it from...vaudeville, maybe? |
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Post by cocopugg on Jul 23, 2024 21:40:29 GMT -5
Since Judge is seeing a possible 62+ HR season fast slipping away, shouldn't Yankee management consider "asking" Boone to bat Soto behind Judge, just so that fans will continue to show up to the games? I mean, it's only a matter of time before the less "baseball knowledgeable" Yankee fans will figure out the fact that nobody is going to pitch to Judge anymore for the rest of this season, as long as they continue to put "automatic outs" behind him.
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Post by chiyankee on Jul 23, 2024 21:41:28 GMT -5
I just wonder if any manger in baseball would have sandwiched Soto and Judge with J.A. Jones and J.D. Davis in a high profile game like this one other than Boone? Absolutely ridiculous. I couldn't believe it when I saw it. Boone is far from the only problem, but he's certainly one of them. His lineup choices, even with the dung he has to pick from are often puzzling; his handling of the pitching staff leans toward bizarre too often. I doubt it happens anytime soon, but I can't wait for a new skipper. Though, truthfully, if it's Cashman hiring the next guy, maybe I'm not so eager. I actually think Cashman is the bigger problem than Boone. |
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Post by kaybli on Jul 23, 2024 21:42:43 GMT -5
Jomboy says this lineup may be a cry for help from Boone to the front office:
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 23, 2024 21:42:59 GMT -5
Boone says "they (the offense) didn't get a lot going". He says that every night they don'e score, but that's WRONG tonight.
They (the offense) got a LOT going.
They just couldn't finish things nearly enough.
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Post by donniebaseball23 on Jul 23, 2024 21:45:31 GMT -5
Absolutely ridiculous. I couldn't believe it when I saw it. Boone is far from the only problem, but he's certainly one of them. His lineup choices, even with the dung he has to pick from are often puzzling; his handling of the pitching staff leans toward bizarre too often. I doubt it happens anytime soon, but I can't wait for a new skipper. Though, truthfully, if it's Cashman hiring the next guy, maybe I'm not so eager. I actually think Cashman is the bigger problem than Boone. Oh, I agree. Cashman's "best by" date passed about 10 years ago. He put this mess together. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 23, 2024 21:46:18 GMT -5
Grisham PH for Jones. That might be an improvement. By a little. Grisham has never faced Nunez. Grisham has been a sub-Mendoza hitter for three years and is an "improvement" on our leadoff hitter. Egads. Here I was thinking about his recent stretch of 10 games or so where he went 12-40 with a HR and 7 RBI, but he was just 1 for his last 12 before tonight. Now 1 for his last 14 and back down to .181 again, after getting close close to getting over the Mendoza line at .195. |
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Post by ypaterson on Jul 23, 2024 21:47:10 GMT -5
Absolutely ridiculous. I couldn't believe it when I saw it. Boone is far from the only problem, but he's certainly one of them. His lineup choices, even with the dung he has to pick from are often puzzling; his handling of the pitching staff leans toward bizarre too often. I doubt it happens anytime soon, but I can't wait for a new skipper. Though, truthfully, if it's Cashman hiring the next guy, maybe I'm not so eager. I actually think Cashman is the bigger problem than Boone. By far. I was not a Joe Girardi fan but his firing after the great job he did in 2017 was insane. I guess in the Hal Steinbrenner Yankee Universe the way you keep your job is to fail. Only unexpected success can get you canned. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 23, 2024 21:48:15 GMT -5
Slider up and in, drops onto the top inside corenr, 0-1 Look outside, go to right. Nope. Opens up early on the slider at the knees outside middle, rolls it over to 3rd, Vientos fields, beats Grisham to the bag. Mets HAND the Yanks two baserunners in the first 3 batters, and the Yanks refuse the gifts. Inning over. Top 8, 3-2 Mets. Weaver maybe? Or Kahnle against the Mets 3-4-5: Martinez, Alonso and Vientos. Like a gift card you forget to cash in… Except they didn't forget...more like they took it out of the wallet too fast, and the card flew out of the wallet, though the air and down a storm drain just outside the shop. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 23, 2024 21:51:33 GMT -5
To be precise, statcast says Rice's flyout to the wall in left center was a HR in 17 of 30 parks, Good info qwik! If you want to be a "qwik genius" like me, kaybli, open the gamefeed for the Yankee game on the scoreboard at Baseball Savant. On the main game page and Exit velocity charts, they list the "How many parks is that a HR in?" info on every HR, deep extra base hit or error, or deep flyout. I just keep that page open as one the pages that I use every night for the game thread. |
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