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Post by kaybli on Aug 16, 2024 16:38:59 GMT -5
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Post by chiyankee on Aug 16, 2024 16:53:13 GMT -5
Yankees cooling off their own hot hitter by having Wells not play for 2 days.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 16, 2024 17:18:35 GMT -5
The Yanks left Chicago barely escaping with a series win against the worst team in MLB in a long time, and now move up in weight class, going to Detroit to play a somewhat banged-up medicore Tigers team. The Tigers came into the Stadium in early May to play a 3-game series and the Yanks swept them in three close games imeediately after losing 3 of 4 in their first big test against the Orioles. That sweep began a white-hot six-week run that saw the Yanks win 30 of 39 that saw them peak at 50-22 six weeks later,
The Tigers came into that series at their high-water mark of 5 games over, and the sweep sent them slowly sliding downhill, falling under .500 for good (so far) about 2 1/2 weeks later, and bottom out at 9 games under .500 three times. The got back within 1 game under a .500 a couple of times, but haven't been able to get back to dead even. The last time they got within a game of .500 was about 4 weeks ago, but went on another skid, losing 12 of 17 to drop back to 8 games under .500. They have now won 4 in a row against pretty good competition, the Giants (1 game) and sweeping the Mariners (3 games). Their rotation is a bit of a mess right now; 3 starters on the IL: Reese Olson (4-8, 3.23), Casey Mize (2-6, 4.23 ERA) and Sawyer Gibson-Long, still trying to rehab from Tommy John surgery this year. In addition, Matt Manning, who made 15-20 starts for the 2021-2023 Tigers, remains in AAA after 5 starts earlier this year. They're using Alex Faedo as an opener to fill in one of the holes in their rotation (he opened yesterday's win against the Mariners), and they'll be opening with reliever Beau Brieske, with starter Brant Hurter as the follower. The other starters in this series are currently in their rotation, righty Keider Montero and the best left-handed starter in the AL, Cy Young front-runner Tarik Skubal.
The Tigers are also apparently going to be without their best hitter, outfield Riley Greene. Greene was put on the IL in late-July with a hamstring strain. He began a rehab assignment on Tuesday, so it's possibly he'll be activated at some point during this series; possibly on Sunday against Stroman, but the currect scuttlebutt is that he won't be put back on the roster until the Tigers go to Wrigley to play the Cubs on Tuesday. However, they called up two of their better prospects, and they're in the starting lineup tonight. Josh Jung's younger brother Jace Jung, #4 in the Tigers system and #94 in Fangraphs top 100 is starting at 3rd and batting 5th. He was drawing a lot of BB and hitting with power at AAA, but batting just .257. The Tigers also called up ex-Yankee prospect Trey Sweeney, he's batting 8th and playing short tonight. Sweeney was traded to the Dogers for reliever Victor Gonzalez and infield prospect Jorbit Vivas last December, and then the Tigers sent him to Detroit with Catcher/DH prospect Thayron Liranzo for starter Jack "questionable medical records" Flaherty at the trade deadline. Sweeney was the #8 prospect in the Tigers system at Fangraphs, and while he was not hitting well at AAA for the Dodgers (especially considering the PCL is very much a hitter's league), he WAS hitting very well at AAA before they called him up: 381 with a .667 slugging percenter, 6 doubles, 2 HR in just 11 games since the 2nd trade. To make roster space for Sweeney and Jung, the Tigers sent OF Akil Badoo back to AAA and designated for assignment Yankee fan favorite Gio Urshela. For those thinking the Yanks should pick him up, Urshela was having a very poor season for the Tigers with a .619 OPS in 325 PA this year, and he was -5 runs at 3B in BIS defensive runs saved as well.
With their sweep of the Mariiners, the Tigers are now just 4 games under .500 at 59-63, 13 1/2 games behind 1st place Cleveland, 7 1/2 behind 3rd place Kansas City.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 16, 2024 17:24:57 GMT -5
Yankees cooling off their own hot hitter by having Wells not play for 2 days. They'd have to sit Wells either tonight or tomorrow afternoon, so they're doing it when the Tigers are opening with a righty reliever but might be going to a lefty follower by the time Trevin's spot in the order comes up, rather than have Trevino start against righty Keider Montero tomorrow afteroon. Wells gets to start against a righty, and can pinch hit later on tonight if need be. It's also a good chance to get the rookie catcher two days off in a row; he's been playing a lot lately with Narvaez as the backup. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 16, 2024 17:25:33 GMT -5
In tonight's series opener, the Tigers will try to prey on the Yankees' weekness against lefties, calling upon tall lefty Brant Hurter to be the bulk inning-follower for opener-reliever Beau Briske, a righty, to take advantage of the Yankees leading off Torres and batting Stanton 4th. Brieke is 1-2 on the season with a 4.42 ERA; just 2 HR in 42 2/3 innings with 47 K's, but a WHIP of 1.359. Brieske's splits this season show he's been slightly better against lefties than righties, but manager Hinch sees 7 righties in the Yankees lineup with Wells getting a day off.
Hunter has always been a starter in the minors, but when the Tigers called him up about 2 weeks ago, they put him in a long relief/bulk inning follower roll. Drafted in the 7th round of the June Amateur Draft in 2021, Hurter did not pitch in the Tigers organization until the following year. In 2022, Hurter opened the season in low-A ball, and pitched well in 6 starts and 4 "follower" long relief games. The Tigers moved him up to high-A in mid-June, and he pitched well there in 11 starts. The moved him to AA, and he had two terrible starts there, before finishing the season with two good ones. As is common with pitching prospects in recent years, they kept his pitch and innings counts low. Only 3 times did Hurter make it through 6 innings, and only 5 of the 25 games he pitched did he throw more than 80 pitches.
In 2023, he spent the whole season at AA and did well: 6-7 with a 3.28 ERA. they gave him some more innings, but not many more, just 12 more than in 2022, and allowing him to top 80 pitches in 11 of his 26 starts. This year, the Tigers started Hurter at AAA, and he was terrible. In his first 18 starts, he was 1-4 with a 6.44 ERA. In his 19th and final start at AAA, he threw 7 innings of 2-hit shutout ball, striking out 6 and not allowing a walk. It was the first time in his minor league career Hurter had even gone more than 6 innings and the Tigers, desperate for pitching help, called him up. His first game was three innings of scoreless relief against the Royals 12 days ago. His 2nd appearance was "following" opener Alex Faeda in a game against the Giants last Saturday. In five innings, he gave up all three runs in a 3-1 Tigers loss. Obviously, this will be he first appearance against the Yanks. For the two games combined, Hurter is 0-1 with a 3.38 ERA. In 8 innings, he's allowed 6 hits, 3 runs (earned), 0 HR, 1 BB and struck out 6. His WHIP is 0.875, but in 8 innings that doesn't mean what it normailly would.
Repertoire: Hurter throws four pitches: 4-seamer, sinker, sweeper and change; in hit first two appearances, he's relied heavily on the sinker and sweeper. It's silly, almost nonsensical, to use stats to describle him at this point. So first, the scouting report, then the statistical description. Before the season, Longerhagen at Fangraphs had Hurter as the #17 prospect in the Tigers' system, and he's since dropped him to #20 because of the bad season at AAA, and the Tigers adding some top prospects in the recent draft. He described him as a lefty specialist reliever last year, but has since developed a change and now sees him as #5-6 starter/long reliever. His FB grade is just 35, but the sweeper grades at 60, and the change and command are graded 50. The FB and sinker average 93, but he has topped out at 95. Overall, Longerhagen grades him out as a 40. MLB Pipeline is a bit more optimistic, grades his FB at a 50, grades him overall at 45, and has him as the #13 prospect in the Tigers system; says the slider is a weapon against righties down and in.
Keeping in mind that every stat I'm about to give is based on sample of under 60 pitches for each of his four pitches, here's what he has so far: Hurter's sinker gets considerably more drop than average, the change gets slightly better than average movement in both planes, the 4-seamer is basically straight, very little movement on it at all, which is why he stays away from it, and in spite of the descriptions in the scouting reports the sweeper has gotten less drop and far lessIn tonight's series opener, the Tigers will try to prey on the Yankees' weekness against lefties, calling upon tall lefty Brant Hurter to be the bulk inning-follower for opener-reliever Beau Briske, a righty, to take advantage of the Yankees leading off Torres and batting Stanton 4th. Brieke is 1-2 on the season with a 4.42 ERA; just 2 HR in 42 2/3 innings with 47 K's, but a WHIP of 1.359. Brieske's splits this season show he's been slightly better against lefties than righties, but manager Hinch sees 7 righties in the Yankees lineup with Wells getting a day off.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 16, 2024 17:27:01 GMT -5
Gerrit Cole goes for the Yanks. Aside from the two beatings the Mets have given him, Cole's comeback off the IL has gone OK so far: he's 3-2 with a 4.70 ERA. Take out the two beatings by the cross-town rivals, and he's 3-0 with a 2.97 ERA in 7 starts, just about his usual, with 48 K's in 36 1/3 innings. This will be his 10th start of the season, and the two terrible starts against the Mets count, so in the first 9, he's pitched 46 innings, given up 51 hits, 24 runs (earned), 9 HR (7 of the 9 were against the Mets), 14 BB and struck out 52. His WHIP is still high for him, at 1.413, but again, without the two Mets games, it's a decent 1.21.
This is Cole's 14th career start against the Tigers, and as they've been mostly terrible through his career, it's not a surprise that his career numbers against Detroit are spectacular. Out of the 14 starts, he's had just one bad one, and that was the game in mid-April in 2022 when, on a cold and windy night in Detroit, Cole simply couldn't get lose enough to command anything. He walked one in the 1st and four in the 2nd and after the 4th walk reloaded the bases with 2 down, he was at 46 pitches for the inning, and Boone had no choice but to take him out. Even in that game, the two runs the Tigers got in the 2nd were the only two they got that night, and the Yanks still had a 3-2 lead when he left and won 4-2. His career totals against the Tigers: 13 starts, 9-1, 1.99 ERA, 77 innings, 55 hits, 17 runs (earned), 4 HR, 21 BB and 98 strikouts. His career WHIP against Detroit is 0.987, and their team quadruple slash line against Cole is .198/.256/.281/.536. He made back to back starts against them late last year. On 8/30 in Detroit, he went 6 innings, gave up 4 hits, 2 solo HRs and struck out 7 in a 6-2 Yankees win. Five days later at the Stadium, he when 6 innings, gave up 8 hits, 1 run, no walks, no HR and stuck out 7 in a 5-1 win.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 16, 2024 17:28:18 GMT -5
Yankees' lineup vs. Hurter...he's never faced them, none of them have faced him (there's been a lot of that lately, hasn't there?). So the batter vs. pitcher stats will be those against Brieske instead:
1. Torres (2B) is 1-2 with a solo HR and 2 BB
2. Soto (RF) has never faced Brieske
3. Judge (CF) is 2-6 with 2 solo HR
4. Stanton (DH) is 1-4 with a double, 1 BB and 3 K
5. Verdugo (LF) is 1-3
6. Volpe (SS) is 0-2
7. Trevino (C) has never faced Brieske
8. LeMahieu (1B) is 1-2 with a RBI and a K
9. Peraza (3B) is 2-3 with a double and 1 RBI
On the bench: Wells is 0-2, Grisham is 0-1, and Cabrera has faced Brieske once and walked.
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Tigers' lineup vs. Cole:
1. Meadows (CF) is 0-5 with 1 K
2. Carpenter (DH) is 3-6 with a triple and 3 K
3. Vierling (RF) is 1-2
4. Madris (1B) has never faced Cole
5. Jace Jung (3B) hasn't, either
6. Malloy (LF) hasn't as well
7. McKinstry (SS) is 0-6 with 2 K
8. Sweeney has never faced Cole
9. Rogers (C) is 1-8 with a solo HR and 5 K.
On the bench: Baez is 5-23 with a double, a solo HR and 9 K; Ibanez is 0-2 with 2 BB, and pitcher Miller is 1-3 with 1 BB and 1 K.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 16, 2024 17:29:18 GMT -5
Yesterday, the Yanks had the day off...
But in other AL East action....the Jays and the Rays also had the day off. The Red Sox flew down to Camden Yards to start a 4-game series against the Orioles, but lost. 5-1. Zack Eflin threw his 4th straight strong start for the O's getting his 4th straight win since being traded to Baltimore. He went 6 innings, gave up 5 hits and struck out 8, allowing just a solo HR to Wilyer Abreu, his 14th. Four O's relievers combined to shut out the Sox the rest of the way. Gunner Henderson broke a 0-0 tie in the 4th with a 2-run HR, his 31st of the season. Cedric Mullins hit a solo HR in the 5th, his 13th, and the O's tacked on runs in the 6th and 7th. The win moved Eflin to 9-7 on the season, Nick Pivetta went the first five, gave up the 3 runs on the two HR and took his 8th loss against 5 wins. The loss was the Boston's 2nd in a row, 6th in the last 8 games; they're now 10-15 since the All-Star break.
Going into today's games, the Yanks and O's are once again in a flat-foot tie for 1st at 72-50 with 40 games left in the season, the Sox are now 8 games back, the Rays are 12 back, and the Jays are 14 1/2 back.
Elsewhere in the AL East today...the Jays were in Chicago to start a 3-game series against the Cubs this afternoon, and the Cubs to a 2-0 lead in the first, but the Jays tied it with runs in the 4th and 5th, then the Cubs got two more in the bottom of the 5th on back-tp-back solo HRs by Crow-Armstrong and Minaya, and added another in the 7th on a HR by Ian Happ, but the Jays rallied for 3 in the 9th when Cubs' current closer Hector Neris balked in a run with 1 out, then gave up a game-tying two-run triple to George Springer. The game stayed tied into the 10th, when with nobody out and runners at 1st and 2nd, Seiya Suzuki singled through the left side to score ghost-runner Happ, walking it off against Jays' current closer ex-Yankee Chad Green, wining 6-5. The winner in relief was Tyson Miller who pitched a scoreless 10th working around the ghost-runner. He's now 4-1 on the season. Green's loss dropped him to 3-3.
The loss dropped the Jays another half-game behind both the Yanks and Orioles; they're now 15 games out of first.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 16, 2024 17:30:36 GMT -5
At the IdiotDome™ at 6:50, the Diamonbacks are in Tampa to play the first of three against the Rays. Ryne Nelson (8-6, 4.51 ERA) goes for Arizona. He's 3-0 in his last 8 start with an ERA under 3.00, but might be losing his spot in the rotation now that Eduardo Rodriguez and Merrill Kelly have come off the IL for the D'backs. He's opposed by Ryan Pepiot (6-5, 3.92 ERA), who's making his first start after being on the IL for a month from, off all things, a knee infection due to a bug bite. At 7:05 pm at Fenway, the O's and Red Sox play the 2nd game of their big 4-game weekend series. O's ace Corbin Burnes (12-4, 2.71 ERA) starts for Baltimore; he's been mediocre (for him) in his last 6 starts: 3-1 with an ERA of 3.89 ERA. Lefty Brennan Bernardino (4-3, 3.79 ERA) opens a bullpen game for the Red Sox. This is the 3rd time he's "opened" for the Sox this season; the last time was early in May.
And, at 6:40 pm at Comerica Park, it's Cole vs. Hurter. I'll be back in a few minutes for the game.
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Post by ypaterson on Aug 16, 2024 17:41:16 GMT -5
Yankees cooling off their own hot hitter by having Wells not play for 2 days. They sit Wells and OC after the heroics on Wednesday. Is there a rule that Volpe cannot get a day off ? |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 16, 2024 17:41:18 GMT -5
The Tigers take the field. Brieske finishing his warmups. Torres stepping into the box.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 16, 2024 17:41:47 GMT -5
Game underway. Torres foouls off a FB on the outside corner, 0-1
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 16, 2024 17:43:16 GMT -5
Sinker misses outside and low, 1-1 on Torres.
Slider down in the zone, just outside middle, looping liner to left center falls for a hit, Torres takes advantage of Meadows bobbling it goes to 2nd on the E-8.
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Post by presceo on Aug 16, 2024 17:43:38 GMT -5
see what happens when you run hard Gleyber?
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 16, 2024 17:44:36 GMT -5
Soto...
Takes a FB way high in the middle, 1-0
Takes a FB up and away, 2-0
Takes a slider bounced inside middle, 3-0
Takes a well spotted FB in the zone low/away, didn't groove it to Soto on 3-0.
FB is low, inner half, at 95, ball 4.
1st and 2nd, nobody out for Judge.
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