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Post by laurenfrances on Jul 29, 2024 16:23:17 GMT -5
Alex Verdugo (L) LF
Juan Soto (L) RF
Aaron Judge (R) CF
Austin Wells (L) C
Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
Jazz Chisholm Jr. (L) 3B
Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
Ben Rice (L) 1B
Anthony Volpe (R) SS
Kyle Schwarber (L) DH
Trea Turner (R) SS
Bryce Harper (L) 1B
Alec Bohm (R) 3B
Brandon Marsh (L) CF
J.T. Realmuto (R) C
Nick Castellanos (R) RF
Bryson Stott (L) 2B
Austin Hays (R) LF
Zack Wheeler
RHP
10-4, 2.55 ERA, 133 SO
Luis Gil
RHP
10-5, 3.10 ERA, 124 SO
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Post by laurenfrances on Jul 29, 2024 16:33:35 GMT -5
We have intermittent power outages in my area. !st floor is in the dark. Foyer lights are out. Several houses on my block has no electricity. As long as my kitchen area is functioning I'm good. Additionally, my upstairs electricity is ok. Lights was flickering earlier. I'm prepared with alternative charged lanterns, charge battery packs for phone/ tablet, etc. Hopefully have stable electricity to watch the game.
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Post by chiyankee on Jul 29, 2024 16:47:27 GMT -5
We have intermittent power outages in my area. !st floor is in the dark. Foyer lights are out. Several houses on my block has no electricity. As long as my kitchen area is functioning I'm good. Additionally, my upstairs electricity is ok. Lights was flickering earlier. I'm prepared with alternative charged lanterns, charge battery packs for phone/ tablet, etc. Hopefully have stable electricity to watch the game. Yikes, good luck with all of that. I hope your full power is restored soon. |
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Post by kaybli on Jul 29, 2024 16:51:47 GMT -5
We have intermittent power outages in my area. !st floor is in the dark. Foyer lights are out. Several houses on my block has no electricity. As long as my kitchen area is functioning I'm good. Additionally, my upstairs electricity is ok. Lights was flickering earlier. I'm prepared with alternative charged lanterns, charge battery packs for phone/ tablet, etc. Hopefully have stable electricity to watch the game. Sorry about your power situation, lauren. Hope its all back soon! |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 29, 2024 17:20:44 GMT -5
We have intermittent power outages in my area. !st floor is in the dark. Foyer lights are out. Several houses on my block has no electricity. As long as my kitchen area is functioning I'm good. Additionally, my upstairs electricity is ok. Lights was flickering earlier. I'm prepared with alternative charged lanterns, charge battery packs for phone/ tablet, etc. Hopefully have stable electricity to watch the game. Hope that straightens out so you can watch the game tonight, lauren. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 29, 2024 17:21:07 GMT -5
The Phils got edged by the Guardians Sunday afternoon, 4-3, and lost the series to the team with the best record in the AL, continuing their poor play of late, they've now lost consecutive series to the A's (before the break) and to the Pirates, Twins and Guardians to start the 2nd half. They have three starters on the IL now, Ranger Suarez, who was the best pitcher in the NL until a few weeks ago, Taijuan Walker, and Spencer Turnbull, who had filled in well for Walker, but they still have the best record in MLB, 65-40, at +114 runs. Believe it or not, the Yanks are in 2nd, at +106.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 29, 2024 17:23:48 GMT -5
The Phils start their ace Zack Wheeler in the opener. Drafted by the Giants with the 6th pick of the 2009 draft, and they did not pitch him the rest of the year. To start 2010, he was assigned to low A-ball, but early in the season he suffered a fingernail injury on his pitching hand and was sidelined for 7 weeks. When he came back, they put him in the pen for a couple of weeks, but he made 5 starts to close out the season with an ERA just under 4.00 in 58 2/3 innings. He opened 2011 in high A and threw 16 starts showing some potential, but the Giants were trying to repeat as champions and traded Wheeler to the Mets at the deadline for outfielder Carlos Beltran. Wheeler closed out the season with 6 good starts for the Mets at their high-A team at Port St. Lucie. He pitched well at AA and AAA in 2012, and the Mets started him at AAA Las Vegas, a terrible pitcher's park in a hitter's league. So bad an environment for pitchers it was, that even an ERA of nearly 4.00 in 13 starts was an excellent record, and the Mets called him to the majors in mid-Jone. He pitched well for the Mets the rest of the year, going 7-5 with a 3.42 ERA in 17 starts.
He was in the Mets rotation all 2014, going 11-11 with a 3..54 ERA. At that point, Wheeler was 25 years old with a seemingly bright future ahead as one of the Mets hard-throwing rotation, together with Matt Harvey, Noah Syndegaard and Steven Matz. But after suffering elbow pain in spting training 2015, the Mets learned he had torn his ACL and would need Tommy John surgery. He missed all of 2015, but was supposed to come back the next season. In 2016, he suffered multiple setbacks in his recovery, finally being shut down for the season in mid-August with a strained flexor tendon. Finally healthy to start 2017, he was the 5th starter to open the season. He was erratic and pitched poorly, then had to be shut down again in June with biceps tendinitis. He came back and made a couple of starts before being put on the IL again with a stress reaction in humerus. They shut him down August 24th, ending a miserable year at 3-7, with a 5.14 ERA. His future was now shrouded in doubt he'd ever be healhty enough to pitch a whole season in a rotation. But he came back to go 12-7 with a 3.31 ERA in 2018, and 11-8 with a 3.96 ERA in 2019.
After 2019, Wheeler's team control was done, the Mets allowed him to sign with the Phillies: 5 yrs, $118 million, a pretty big contract for a pitcher that had a spotty record of health. But Wheeler pitched brilliantly with the Phillies over the next 4 seasons (including COVID shortened 2020), going 43-25 with a 3.06 ERA. He pitched well in the post-season of 2022, when the Phils got to the World Series but lost to the Astros in six games. He was even better in the 2023 playoffs, throwing four brilliant games and beating the D'backs twice in the NLCS, but the Phils lost games 6 and 7, and failed to make it back to the Series. For that perfromance the Phillies offered him a huge extension, 3 years, $126 million for his age 35-6-7 seasons in 2025-6-7. So far this season, Wheeler is a top candidate for the NL Cy Young Award. In 20 starts, he's 10-4, and leads the NL with a 2.55 ERA. In 123 2/3 innings, he's allowed just 84 hits, 39 runs, 35 earned, 11 HR, and 37 BB and has struck out 133. His WHIP this year so far is the best of his career, 0.978, and he's on the leader boards in a host of pitching categories besides ERA: Tied for 3rd in wins, 3rd in WHIP, 3rd lowest hits per 9 innings, 8th in both K's and K's per 9 innings, and 10th in innings pitched. He's been even more outstanding in his last five starts: 2-0 with 3 no-decisions, 31 2/3 innings, 22 hits, 6 runs, earned, just 1 HR, 8 BB and 34 K's. His ERA in those 5 starts is 1.71, and his WHIP is 0.95.
Wheeler has made 4 starts against the Yanks in his career, but has pitched poorly against them. He's 1-1 with an ERA of 5.94 against New York.In 21 1/3 innings, he's allowed 20 hits, 19 runs, 14 earned, 4 HR, 10 BB and struck out 18. None of these starts against him came after 2020. In his last start against them in the COVID season, he got his only win, going 6 innings, alloweing 6 hits, 3 runs, 2 earned, 1 HR, walking 2 and striking out 2. Maybe matchups matter, and maybe he'll remember the Yanks beating him up a few times in his career, but it's more likely that the supreme confidence he gained in pitching very well the last two postseasons will more than negate that.
Repertoire: Wheeler is a 6-pitch power righty, throwing the 4-seamer and sinker more than any of his four "offspeed" pitches: the sweeper, the curve, the cutter and the splitter. He gets a bit more tail than average on the 4-seamer and the sinker, less drop and break that average on the sweeper, considerably less arm-side break that average on the cutter, average break on the curve in both planes, and slightly less drop and more tail than average on the splitter. By run values per 100 pitches, the sinker is a huge plus, the 4-seamer, sweeper and splitter are sizeable plusses, the curve is a sizeable minus, and the cutter is basically neutral. His FB velocity has slowly descended from elite 3-4 years ago to now where it's merely above average. The spin on both the fastball and curve are near elite, and his extension is elite, top 5% among all MLB pitchers. He has in the past been top 10% in lowest % of barrels, but is merely better than average this year. His hard hit % is top 10% lowest. He's above average or well above average in K rate, BB rate, swinging strike rate, chase rate and first pitch strike rate. His line drive, flyball and groundball percentages are about MLB average, but his popup rate is way above average, 17% vs the MLB average of about 10%. In past years his BABIP was near normal, this year, it's way below average. His strand rates have always been above average, this year, it's nearly 80%, way above average. The one of the luck factors not working in his favor is the HR per FB percentage, which is right around average. If you want a glimmer of hope for the offense tonight, that's the one, because the Yanks hit HR, Wheeler doesn't shut them down and the Philly park is a good HR park. His ERA estimators think his ERA should be about 3.20 rather than 2.55 because of the low BABIP and the high strand rate. The pitch mix so far this season: 4-seamer averaging 95 about 41% of the time, sinker 94-5 about 19%, sweeper 84-5 about 11%, cutter 91 also about 11%, curve 81-2 about 10%, and splitter 86 about 8%.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 29, 2024 17:27:41 GMT -5
Reviewing his name game quickly: We've done Zack several times already this season, and it's become a popular name the last few decades, and among the dozens of MLB Zacks, Hall of Famer Zack Wheat is the best hitter, but Wheeler isn't the best pitcher, it's Zack Grienke, who seems likely to make the Hall of Fame someday. Wheeler blew whatever chance he had of catching Greinke due to the injuries that derailed the first half of his MLB career. Zack is the best of the 16 Wheelers in MLB history by a long distance.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 29, 2024 17:28:32 GMT -5
The Yanks send Luis Gil out to see if he can extend his current run of three outstanding starts since he started featuring his improved slider to four outstanding starts. Gil opened the season on fire: after 12 starts, he was 8-1 with a 1.82 ERA. Starting with a game against the Dodgers at the Stadium, he was hit hard in his next 5 starts, going 1-2 with an ERA of 8.85. He worked with Blake and greatly improved the slider, and it's no longer his 3rd pitch, moving ahead of the change in his 3-pitch arsenal. In the last 3 starts, Gil is 1-1 with an ERA if 1.53, and more importantly, 22 K's against just 2 BB in 17 2/3 innings. On the season, he's 10-5 in 20 starts with an ERA of 3.10, sitting just outside the AL top 10 in ERA. In 107 1/3 innings, he's allowed just 66 hits, 38 runs, 37 earned, 9 HR, and 50 BB, and has struck out 124. His WHIP on the season is 1.081. He leads the AL in walks allowed, but is 2nd in fewest hits per 9 innings, 8th in fewest HR per 9 innings, and 5th in most K's per 9 innings. This is Gil's first game and first start against the Phillies.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 29, 2024 17:29:35 GMT -5
Yankees lineup vs Wheeler:
1. Verdugo (LF) is 0-3 with 1 K
2. Soto (RF) is 11-43 with 1 double, 2 solo HR, 12 BB (1 IBB) and 11 K's
3. Judge (DH) is 0-5 with 1 BB and 1 K
4. Wells (C) has never faced Weaver
5. Stanton (DH) is 3-17 with 1 solo HR, 3 BB, 3 K and 2 GIDP
6. Chisholm (CF) is 5-16 with 1 double, 2 triples, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 2 BB, 6 K's and 1 GIDP
6. Torres (2B) is 1-6 with an RBI, 2 K, and 1 GIDP
6. Rice (1B) has never faced Wheeler
8. Volpe (SS) hasn't either
On the bench: Grisham is 2-9 with 2 doubles, 1 RBI and 4 K's; LeMahieu is 3-10 with 1 BB and 3 K; pitcher Luke Weaver is 1-2 vs. Wheeler with an RBI and a K, and pitcher Cole is 0-1.
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Phillies lineup vs. Gil...only two Phillies hitters have faced Gil before, both are in their lineup tonight, but I'll list the whole lineup anyway...
1. Schwarber (DH) is 0-1 with a BB
2. Turner (SS) hasn't faced him
3. Harper (1B) hasn't either
4. Bohm (3B) nope
5. Marsh (CF) nope
6. Realmuto (C) nope
7. Castellanos (RF) nope
8. Stott (SS) nope
9. Hays (LF) is 2-6
On the bench: None
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 29, 2024 17:30:37 GMT -5
Yesterday, Carlos Rodon continued his turnaround with a fine start, especially considering the pressure of the rival opponent, the bad pitcher's park for lefties, the quality of the Sox lineup, the increasing pressure of the pennant race, the increasing weight of the Yanks' need to turn around th 6 week long team stretch of very bad play, and the need to prove himself to himself and his teammates that he could be relied upon in key spots. He made it through 6 1/3 innings, allowing 5 hits, 2 earned runs on back to back solo HRs, walking just 1 and striking out 7. As I mentioned in the making him my 1st star of the game in last night's thread, his worst inning of the game is likely his best moment of the season. Starting the bottom of the 4th with a 4-0 lead, he gave up a leadoff HR to Refsnyder, a back to back HR for Wong on a bad slider down the middle, got ahead of Devers 0-2, then fell behind 3-2 before giving him a FB above middle that he nearly got all of that became a triple when Chisholm, unfamiliar with how to play caroms off the Monste,r let it rebound by him for a triple. Faced with blowing the lead in another meltdown for both him and the Yanks, Rodon buckled down to whiff O'Neill, got Gonzalez to ground it to Volpe with the infield in, holding Devers at 3rd, and, after walking the dangerous Danny Jansen, finished the inning with a flourish, getting Rafaela to chase a classic Rodon back leg slider for the K to get out of the inning. The Yanks got runs via teamball/smallball in multiple innings, 3 in the first including Torres big 2-out 2-run single picking up Chisholm who had just whiffed in his first Yankee at bat, multiple sac flies, a big 2-run double by Cabrera in the 8th to break it open, and the Yanks took the rubber game and the series in Fenway Park, 8-2. It was the Yanks 2nd straight win, impoving their record to 62-45. It was also their 2nd straight series victory on the road against the East, improving their divisional record to 20-22.
In other AL East games, the Rays won another bullpen game, this time the idiotic Peacock Sunday Morning Game, 2-1. They got the winning runs in the 8th on a dropped 3rd strike with the bases loaded and two down and a bases loaded walk that followed it. 6 Rays releivers combined on a 6-hitter with just one walk and 10 K's, allowing just one unearned run. Garrett Cleavinger got his 7th relief win of the season, and Pete Fairbanks nailed down his 20th save. The Rays have won 6 of their last 9 despite trading off assets left and right, and the Reds have now lost 5 of 8 games since the Break. The Orioles knocked out ex-Yankee Randy Vasquez with a 6-run 3rd on a bunch of hits and walks to take a 6-0 lead, but the Padres rallied for 5 in the 5th and 6th to make it a 1-run game. Ryan Mountcastle got his second 2-run single of the game in the 8th to provide crucial insurance runs, and Yennier Cano gave up 3 hits in the 9th to load the bases with nobody, but got a grounder for a force that made it 8-6, then another grounder to end it for his 4th save. Starter Suarez didn't make it through five, and Webb who followed him was ineffective, so the win went to Cionel Perez for his 1-2-3 7th inning, his 2nd win of the season. The win saved the O's from being swept, and halted their 1-5 skid. The loss broke the Padres 7-game win streak. Jon Gray derailed the Rangers chances to avoid being swept by the Jays went he injured his groin during 1st inning warmups, and had to be removed from his start without ever throwing a pitch in the game. Long reliever Jonathan Hernandez had to start in his place, and gave up 3 in the first including a 2-run HR by Varsho, his 2nd straight game with a 1st-inning HR, and was knocked out in the 3rd as the Jays added 3 more. Jose Berrios broke a recent slump with a great start, 7 innings of shutout ball with 3 hits, a BB and 5 K's, and moved his record back over .500 in a 7-3 Toronto win. Vlad Guerrero, Jr. also HRed and knocked in another with a sac fly, and Addison Barger had a 2-run double to finish the rally in the 3rd.
Going into today's games, the Yanks are just 1 game back of the Orioles for 1st in the Eas, 5 1/2 up on the Sox, 8 up on the Rays and 12 up on the Jays.
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Post by JEGnj on Jul 29, 2024 17:34:02 GMT -5
What's this another game not on regular TV?
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 29, 2024 17:39:17 GMT -5
Elsewhere in the AL East today...the Jays flew down to Baltimore for a 4-game series that begins with a day-night doubleheader to make up a rainout from May 14th. The O's clobbered the Jays in the afternoon game, knocking out starter Yariel Rodriguez with a 4-run 1st, built up a 7-0 lead, and coasted to a 11-5 rout over the Toronto. Zack Eflin was his usual self, 6 innings, 10 hits, 3 runs, 7 K and, of course, 0 walks in earning his 5th win of the season and his first for the O's in his first start since the trade. Ryan Mountcastle had 3 hits, 2 runs and RBI, including his 13th HR of the season. Anthony Santander continued his heater, hitting his 30th HR, scoring and driving in 2, and Jordan Westburg hit 3 doubles and knocked in 2 runs. In the nightcap at roughly 7:00 pm or so, it's Bowden Francis (3-2, 5.82) coming out of the pen to make the fill-in start, he's been better in relief (3.86 ERA) in 30+ innings in 14 games). Opposing Bowden is Cade Povich (1-4, 6.27) being called up to make Baltimore's fill-in start after having pitched his way out of the rotation just before the All-Star Break. The Red Sox welcome the Mariners into Fenway in the opener of a 3 game series, pitting two Wild Card contenders in a battle of recently fortified rosters. Logan Gilbert (6-6, 2.72 ERA, 4th in the AL) starts for Seattle; Nick Pivetta (4-7, 4.50 ERA) tries to bounce back from a shellacking he took at Coors Field in his last start for Boston. The Rays have the night off before starting a 2-game series against the terrible-and-dumping-off-players-on-top-of-that Marlins at home in the CreepyDome™.
Going into tonight's game, the Yanks trail the O's by 1 1/2, and lead the Red Sox, Rays and Jays by 5 1/2, 8 and 12 1/2 games, respectively. They still hold the 1st Wild Card, and the Red Sox would have to gain more than 5 1/2 games on them to pass them in addition to the Twins and Royals passing them
And, in just a couple of minutes at Citizen's Bank Ballpark, it's Gil vs. Wheeler.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 29, 2024 17:43:48 GMT -5
Verdugo up...
FB outside, ball 1
FB inside waist high, 2-0
Fb outside middle, fouled, 2-1
FB just inside above the waist, 3-1
FB down the middle, grounded to 2nd, Stott fields, throws him out, 1 down. Missed a good pitch to hit, Alex.
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Post by bumper on Jul 29, 2024 17:45:03 GMT -5
this the longest lineup we've seen in a quite a while. they have their work cut out w the trio the phillies are throwing at them.
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