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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 7, 2024 18:09:06 GMT -5
Stars of the game: HM to Verdugo for starting two rallies with doubles, scoring 2 runs. Holmes with a no-nonsense 1-2-3 9th to close it out for his 24th save. Wells for another good game behind the plate, 2 hits, 1 BB and the RBI single that gave the Yanks the early lead.
3rd star of the game: Oswaldo Cabrera, for the solo HR to get the lead to 3 in the 2nd, and the diving stop for the last out, the best defensive play of the game.
2nd star: Judge again, two hits, two walks, a run and a RBI, the usual everyday brilliance.
1st star: Luis Gil, who didn't have his good slider, struggled with command the whole time, but still make it through 107 pitches and 5 shutout innings, a very good start considering what he had to work with, his 5th good game in a row and getting the win to get to 12-5 of the season with an ERA of 3.06.
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Post by bumper on Aug 7, 2024 18:09:55 GMT -5
a nice tidy win. hard to complain about 5 scoreless but not the sharpest 5 innings from potg - gil.
many contributers on offense w wells probably leading the parade. verdugo & ocab also make the list. hard to not include judge w 2 hits, an rbi and on base 4 of 5. in the pen weaver and holmes deserve mention.
downside - too many men lob. this game shouldn't have been that close. and jazz wearing the golden.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 7, 2024 18:11:43 GMT -5
The nightcap starts about 25 minutes from now, but on Prime Video (sigh).
Back from the pitching dead Carson Fullmer goes for the Angels, he's 0-2 with a 3.69 ERA on the season, but has pitched pretty well since the Angels took him out of the pen and moved him to their rotation. Will Warren gets called up for the fil-in role, making his 2nd major league start. He's 0-0, but pitched more impressively against a good Phillies lineup than his 6.75 ERA would indicate.
OK, 2nd game preview done, I have to take care of one or two things. See you guys in about 20-25 minutes.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 7, 2024 18:31:32 GMT -5
If we're not doing a new game thread, I'll dump all this here...
Righty Carson Fulmer appears to have resurrected his career as a starting pitcher in recent weeks; he goes to the mound to start the nightcap of today's double-header. Fullmer was drafted by the White Sox with the 8th pick in the 2015 Rule 4 Draft, after being a star hurler at Vandebilt for 3 years. The ChiSox let him throw an inning in rookie ball, then moved him up to A-ball to make 8 very abbreviated starts (just 22 innings total) to close out 2015. Despite not pitching particularly well in AA in 2016, the White Sox rushed him to the majors after the Break, where he pitched dreadfully (8.49 ERA) in 11 2/3 innings, so they sent him back down to AAA to pitch 4 games to close out his season. In 2017, he started in AAA and made 25 craptastic starts there. They called him back to the majors in late August for one relief appearance in which he got pummeled, he went back to AAA, sent him back to AAA to make one awful start, then added him to the expanded roster for September. He made two ok long relief appearances, so they put him into the rotation for the last 3 weeks of the season, and he made 3 good starts and one weird start in which he lasted just 1/3 inning, just 20 pitches, and walked 2. No runs were charged to him. It seemed he had a position in the rotation ready for him in 2018.
He did open 2018 in the White Sox rotation, and was holding his own after 6 starts, then suffered through three starts so awful that awful is a mild way to put it, 17 ER in just 7 1/3 innings with 5 HR allowed. He pitched so poorly in 9 starts in AAA that in desperation, the White Sox put him in the bullpen at AAA for the rest of the season. He pitched somewhat better in 22+ innings to the end of the season. He bounced up and down once in early 2019, but stayed in the White Sox pen at the major league level, and nothing improved. He had a 6.97 ERA and 11 BB in 10 1/3 innings in May when the White Sox sent him back to the minors. He would bounced off the majors two more times in 2019, ending the season in Chicago with six more lousy relief appearances. During the COVID shutdown, the White Sox designated Fullmer for assignement in late June, and his odyssey around MLB began. First, the Tigers picked him up on waivers. He had 7 bad relief appearances for Detroit before they too DFAed Fullmer not quite a month after they grabbed him off waivers.
He then went through multiple more DFAs and waiver pickups. The Pirates claimed him first, then waived him a week later without him ever pitching for them. The O's claimed him next, and he pitched just 3 games for them in two weeks, then the O's waived him and the Pirates re-claimed him, only to be waived off the team again without pitching in a regular season game in mid-March, 2021. The Reds claimed Fullmer, and he pitched 20 terrible games for Cincy before they DFAed him in late May. Nobody claimed him, so the Reds outrighted him back to AAA for the rest of 2021. The Reds left Fullmer unprotected for the Rule 5 Draft, and the Dodgers selected him in that December's Draft. He was called to the majors in late April, 2022, but was designated for assignment 2 days later. Again, no one claimed him on waiveers, and after two weeks, they released Fuller, and then re-signed him to a minor league deal. He spent the rest of the season in AAA again. At the end of 2022, he had his 6 years roster time in the minors and elected to become a free agent. In early February he signed with the Mariners...who released him at the end of March. Two months later he signed with the Angels, made 11 starts at AAA (again), and the Angels called him up in September. He made 3 non-descript relief appearances to end the season. The Angels signed him to a minor league deal against in February of this season.
The Angels called him up April 9th, and he spent the next 3 months pitching decently in relief. Short of good starts, the Angels threw him in the rotation 3 weeks ago, and he's thrown 4 decent starts since then: 0-0 with a 3.43 ERA, but just 10 hits allowed in 21 innings. On the season, he's 0-2 with an ERA of 3.69. In 63 1/3 innings, he's allowed 44 hits, 28 runs, 26 earned, 8 HR and 29 BB and struck out 63. His WHIP on the season is a solid 1.153. This is just Fullmer's 2nd career game against the Yanks and his first start. He made a mop-up appearance for the Orioles in September, 2020, coming into the game with the O's already down by 9. He retired all 4 Yankees he faced, striking out 1. So his ERA and WHIP against the Yanks is 0.00, and the Yankees team quadruple slash line against Fullmer is also all zeroes.
Repertoire: Whatever he was earlier, Fulmer has evolved into a 6-pitch righty. He uses all 6 pitches between 5 and 30% of the time. The pitch mix to date: Change 88 about 29% of the time, sinker averaging 93 about 24%, 4-seamer averaging 93-4 about 21%, slider 88 about 16%, sweeper 83-4 about 5%, and curve 82-3 also about 5%. The movement on all 6 pitches is near average, exceot for the for the glove slide break on his sweeper and curve, which is below-average, as is the drop on his slider. By run values per 100 pitches, his three best are the sweeper, slider and change, the 4-seamer is also a plus. the curve has been a big minus, which is why he uses it the least of the six pitches, I suppose. He has below average FB velocity, average FB spin, above average curveball spin, and slightly less than average extension. His hard hit rate is slightly above average, and the barrel rate is somewhat above average as well. His line drive rate is slightly below average as is his ground ball rate. His flyball and popup rates are slightly above average. As for the luck factors, his BABIP is way low (just .225 so far this season), his HR/FB rate is a bit high, and his strand rate in near league average. His ERA estimators say his ERA should be about 4.40, rather than 3.69, probably because of unusual luck on balls in play (the very low BABIP).
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 7, 2024 18:31:55 GMT -5
Playing the name game: there have been 6 MLB players with first name Carson, and just 4 with last name Carson. The best of the former is leftfielder Carson Bigbee, who piled up over 1200 hits and a .287 career BAVG playing for 11 seasons with the Pirates from 1916 to 1926; he was a backup by the time they won it all in 1925. Of the latter, none of them has amounted to much; the only one most New York fans might have heard of is Robert Carson, who pitched for the Mets in 2012-2013, who didn't appear in any Subway Series games in those two seasons. There are 4 other players named Fulmer in MLB history. Three of those played in the 19th century. The best pitcher named Fulmer is not Caroson, but Michael, who pitched well in the Tigers rotation his first two seasons after the Mets traded him with ex-Yankee Luis Cessa (he came to the Yankees later) to Detoit in 2015 for Yoenis Cespedes, the trade that launched the Mets to the NL pennant. Michael Fullmer's career has been derailed by arm injuries, first forcing him out of the rotation. He had Tommy John surgery in October, and the Red Sox signed him to a 2-year minor-league contract knowing he would miss all of 2024. The best hitting named Fulmer is Charles Fullmer, an infielder for various NL and American Association teams in the very early days of organized baseball, 1871 to 1884.
There is also the only Fullmer, Brad Fullmer, the DH/Firstbaseman who played in part of 8 seasons with the Expos, Angels, Jays and Rangers. While in the Expos farm system, he was a considered an excellent hitting prospect, making the top 100 at Baseball America in 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1998. He was a reasonably succssful majore league hitter from 1998 through 2003, batting .283 with an .828 OPS, but he had no defensive value, and offensive numbers were so inflated in that period due to rampant PED use that his OPS+ was just 113 in those 6 years. He did hit .295 with 32 HR and 104 RBI for the Jays in 2000, and put up his most valuable year for the Angels team that won the title in 2002. In that postseason, he was just another good hitter on the team, 10-34 with 1 HR, 6 runs and 5 HR in 12 games. His career was derailed by injury, starting the next season, 2003, and he played his last games in the majors in 2004.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 7, 2024 18:32:24 GMT -5
Will Warren is being called up to make his 2nd major league start to keep the rotation from getting backed up onto itself. In his first start against the Philles last week, he got hit with a big 3-run bomb by Austin Hays in the 2nd, but hung in there for another 3 2/3 innings without allowing anything more, and after getting over his early extra adrenaline, his command improved, and the stuff looked pretty good. The Yanks took him off the hook with a 3-run HR in the 7th by Jazz Chisholm, and outfought the Phils for a 7-6 win in 12 innings, their longest game so far this season. So Warren comes into this start 0-0 with a 6.75 ERA. As he's never faced any team besides Philadelphia, this is his first game and first start against the Angels.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 7, 2024 18:33:01 GMT -5
Yankees lineup vs Fullmer...although he faced four Yankee batters in that one game against them four years ago, the four were Aaron Hicks, Clint Frazier, Mike Ford and Miguel Andujar, so, for the 3rd game in a row, the Yanks will be facing a pitcher no hitter on the roster has faced before. He's today's lineup:
1. Torres (2B)
2. Soto (RF)
3. Judge (CF)
4. Verdugo (LF)
5. Stanton (DH)
6. Chisholm (3B)
7. Volpe (SS)
8. LeMahieu (1B)
9. Narvaez (C)
On the bench: Stare into the Void...
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Angels lineup vs. Warren: He's never faced the Angels, and none of the Angels were on the Phillies last week, so none of them have ever faced Warren. So, I'll list just the starting lineup.
1. Schanuel (1B)
2. Neto (SS)
3. O'Hoppe (DH)
4. Pillar (LF)
5. Thaiss (C)
6. Moniak (CF)
7. Adell (RF)
8. Leblanc (3B)
9. Stefanic (2B)
On the bench: None, obviously.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 7, 2024 18:33:24 GMT -5
Just a while ago, the Luis Gil grinded out five shutout innings, and the Yanks got 2 hits and 2 runs from Verdugo, a solo HR from Cabrera, 2 hits and a RBI from Wells, and 2 hits, 2 BB, a run and a RBI from The Captain, the bullpen got them home including a 1-2-3 9th from closer Clay Holmes to win the opener over the Angels, 5-2. Gil's win moved him to 12-5 on the season and lowered his ERA to 3.06. Holmes' save was his 24th of the season.
In other AL East action yesterday...well, I did that before the opener, no need to repeat
Going into the night cap, the Yanks lead the O's by a full game for the moment, the Sox are 6 back, the Rays 9 1/2 back, and the Jays are 15 1/2 back.
Elsewhere in the AL East today...Anthony Santander hit his 33rd HR, a 2 run shot in the top of the 1st, giving the O's a 2-0 lead, bottom 1 in Toronto, Trevor Rogers is starting for the O's, his 2nd start for them since getting traded. Bowden Francis making his 2nd start since April for the Jays. Getting underway in 15 minutes in St. Louis, the Rays and Cards, Taj Bradley vs. Eric Fedde. About 45 minutes from now in Kansas City, the Sox play the last game of their series against the Royals; Kutter Crawford vs. Cole Ragans in that one.
And, this evening at about 7:37 pm at the Stadium, it's Fullmer vs. Cortes, on Prime Video, unfortunately, which means my PBP will be lagging all evening.
Kaybli, if there is another thread and you want to transfer all this pre-game stuff for it, please do so.
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Post by chiyankee on Aug 7, 2024 18:34:49 GMT -5
It looks like Wells is setting in to the cleanup spot.
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Post by chiyankee on Aug 7, 2024 18:37:47 GMT -5
One pitch, one out for Warren.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 7, 2024 18:40:29 GMT -5
Took me awhile to find a webcast, so I missed, Schanuel flying out to Verdugo on the 1st pitch.
Since then Neto lined a 3-2 FB waist high, outer 3rd, to Judge, 2 down.
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Post by chiyankee on Aug 7, 2024 18:42:04 GMT -5
Took me awhile to find a webcast, so I missed, Schanuel flying out to Verdugo on the 1st pitch. Since then Neto lined a 3-2 FB waist high, outer 3rd, to Judge, 2 down. I opened up a new game thread if you want to post there. |
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Post by bigjeep on Aug 7, 2024 18:42:46 GMT -5
Lets get the sweep!  |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 7, 2024 18:42:55 GMT -5
O'Hoppe chases a slider outside and low, 0-1
Chases another just above that one, 0-2
Foule a 3rd one outside, waist high
Takes a FB high over the middle, 1-2
Takes one even higher, 2-2
Takes a slider outside, 3-2
Misses a FB on the very edge outside, up in the zone for the K. Inning over
I'm about 3 pitches behind and I have to watch the Angels cast.
1-2-3 for Warren in the first, and 14 pitches.
Bottom 1, 0-0.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 7, 2024 18:43:22 GMT -5
Took me awhile to find a webcast, so I missed, Schanuel flying out to Verdugo on the 1st pitch. Since then Neto lined a 3-2 FB waist high, outer 3rd, to Judge, 2 down. I opened up a new game thread if you want to post there. OK, I'll jump over there. Thanks. |
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