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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 18, 2024 21:18:48 GMT -5
The Yanks have a day off tomrorow, then come home and move way up in weight class. The "good times" schedule that the Yanks haven't really taken advantage comes to a stop for 3 days, as they have to take on the Guardians for 3 games at the Stadium.
1st game is Tuesday evening at 7:08 pm on YES. Yanks face another lefty, Matthew Boyd, in his 2nd start this season after coming off the IL after an outstanding rehab in AAA. He threw an excellent 5 1/3 against the Cubs his 1st game back, giving up 3 hits and 1 run with 6 K's in a no-decision. He missed a whole year and then some after TJ surgery, after being with the Tigers for most of the last 9 seasons. Luis Gil goes for the Yanks, he's 12-6 on the season with a 3.25 ERA, but had no command of anything against the dreadful White Sox last time out, and was knocked out after struggling through 4 innings, taking the loss in the 14-4 humilation the White Sox laid on the Yanks to open that series.
2nd game is Wednesday evening at 7:08 pm on, unfortunately, Prime Video, so I'll be 3-4 pitches behind all game. The Yanks face a righty, Alex Cobb, who the Giants traded to Cleveland at the deadline. He was terrible in his 1st start against the Twins, but much better in his 2nd game vs. the Cubs, giving up 3 hits, 2 BB and 1 run in 5 2/3 innings with 3 K's for the win. He's 1-1 with a 4.35 ERA in the two starts. Nestor Cortes goes for the Yanks, he pitched a great 7 innings against the White Sox, shutting them out and getting his 2nd road win of the season. Cortes is now 6-10 on the year, with an ERA of 4.20.
The series finale is 1:08 pm Thursday afternoon back on YES. The Guardians send righty Gavin Williams to the mound, he's 2-5 with an ERA of 5.02 and has alternated very good and very bad starts in his last 4 games. The Yanks start Gerrit Cole, looking for his 4th excellent start in a row. He's now 4-2 on the season with a 4.15 ERA. In the last 3 starts, he has a K/BB ratio of 22-4 in 17 innings, allowing just 3 runs.
OK, series preview done, I'll check my notifications.
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Post by chiyankee on Aug 18, 2024 21:21:21 GMT -5
I know we're mad at the pen, but the offense scored two runs in the last two games. That's just asking for trouble late in games. True, but sometimes you have to win these kind of games and they were just one out away, but they've been one out away in a lot of these blown games that turned into losses. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 18, 2024 21:21:35 GMT -5
Jung faced Holmes Friday evening and K'd. Entire infield at the mound saying encouraging things like "Don't f-up, ya hump!!"  Not so funny now, I guess.  |
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Post by kaybli on Aug 18, 2024 21:22:20 GMT -5
Not so funny now, I guess. Still funny. |
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Post by chiyankee on Aug 18, 2024 21:22:58 GMT -5
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 18, 2024 21:24:08 GMT -5
Jung takes a 1st pitch sweeper in the drop the bat happy zone for strike 1. Gets under another sweeper missses way up and away, 1-1 FB in the zone bolow and outside middle, slaps it oput of reach of Cabrera's desperate dive to his left, Rodriguez scoops it up, throws home. Just late, Keith scores, game tied at one, 8th blown save this year for Holmes, I think. Game tied at 1. I googled it. That will be 10 blown saves for Holmes. Yep, 10 is right. Thanks for the pickup, kaybli. 26 saves and 10 blown is 72%, most closers' jobs are in jeopardy when the save percentage drops below 85%, when it's below 80%, they almost always lose the job. Not so with this team. |
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Post by chiyankee on Aug 18, 2024 21:26:20 GMT -5
Saw that loss coming a mile away when I heard Leiter was on the mound. Another Cashman dumpster dive special. Is this the YankeeMike from the Fanhome days, years ago? |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Aug 18, 2024 21:27:41 GMT -5
not sure why leiter over cousins. they both pitched yesterday. Probably one weak reason and one terrible, but all-too-familiar reason. The weak reason is 19 pitches for Holmes yesterday and "only" 12 for Leiter. The other reason is that Cashman TRADED for Leiter to be the big bullpen pickup, and the analytical guys are going cram him into every high leverage sitatuation they can. The beatings will continue until morale his lousy performance improves. IF it improves. |
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Post by chiyankee on Aug 18, 2024 21:28:26 GMT -5
Leiter's WHIP since joining the Yanks is horrific--something in the 2.50 range. Its right at 2.400. More alarming is he's allowed 16 hits in just 8.1 innings. He's garbage and a huge liability. By the by, recently DFA'd (and Cash's other brilliant deadline pickup) Enyel De Los Santos was pretty nearby at 2.526. Maybe Leiter should be DFA'd, too. De Los Santos found a new home with the White Sox, if anyone cares. The same team that kicked the crap out of him earlier this week. |
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Post by ypaterson on Aug 18, 2024 21:28:49 GMT -5
Leiter's WHIP since joining the Yanks is horrific--something in the 2.50 range. Its right at 2.400. More alarming is he's allowed 16 hits in just 8.1 innings. He's garbage and a huge liability. By the by, recently DFA'd (and Cash's other brilliant deadline pickup) Enyel De Los Santos was pretty nearby at 2.526. Maybe Leiter should be DFA'd, too. I had a boss who told me to never be afraid of firing an incompetent. They were very easy to replace/ |
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Post by donniebaseball23 on Aug 18, 2024 21:32:07 GMT -5
Its right at 2.400. More alarming is he's allowed 16 hits in just 8.1 innings. He's garbage and a huge liability. By the by, recently DFA'd (and Cash's other brilliant deadline pickup) Enyel De Los Santos was pretty nearby at 2.526. Maybe Leiter should be DFA'd, too. I had a boss who told me to never be afraid of firing an incompetent. They were very easy to replace/ Biggest problem we have is the guy doing the firing is just as incompetent as the detritus he's jettisoning. |
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Post by chiyankee on Aug 18, 2024 21:35:51 GMT -5
not sure why leiter over cousins. they both pitched yesterday. Probably one weak reason and one terrible, but all-too-familiar reason. The weak reason is 19 pitches for Holmes yesterday and "only" 12 for Leiter. The other reason is that Cashman TRADED for Leiter to be the big bullpen pickup, and the analytical guys are going cram him into every high leverage sitatuation they can. The beatings will continue until morale his lousy performance improves. IF it improves. I believe it's the later for sure. Leiter was Cashman's big trade deadline addition to the bullpen and the puppet manager Boone isn't going to change anything until he's told to. |
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Post by donniebaseball23 on Aug 18, 2024 21:41:22 GMT -5
Probably one weak reason and one terrible, but all-too-familiar reason. The weak reason is 19 pitches for Holmes yesterday and "only" 12 for Leiter. The other reason is that Cashman TRADED for Leiter to be the big bullpen pickup, and the analytical guys are going cram him into every high leverage sitatuation they can. The beatings will continue until morale his lousy performance improves. IF it improves. I believe it's the later for sure. Leiter was Cashman's big trade deadline addition to the bullpen and the puppet manager Boone isn't going to change anything until he's told to. I never saw Leiter as some kind of wholesale improvement, but I thought he'd at least slightly upgrade a weakness, if only because the bar was mighty low. He had been pitching well for the Cubs in the weeks leading up to the trade. Well, he's totally imploded here. Is it the pressure of pitching in Pinstripes? He wouldn't be the first guy to crash and burn seemingly form that reason. Or is he just not actually any good? Looking at his career numbers, he was solid in 2023, but before that he ranged from mediocre to gas can. Well, we got another gas can. |
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Post by tigeryank on Aug 18, 2024 21:46:42 GMT -5
One shouldn't overlook Boone as a factor in turning potential wins into gut punch losses with his bullpen handling. Call it bad luck or incompetence, his recent track record desn't inspire hope for going deep in the playoffs.
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Post by donniebaseball23 on Aug 18, 2024 21:51:02 GMT -5
15 games against bad teams. With rest in between. Going in, I though 10-5 should be the floor for this stretch. 11-4 or 12-3 should have been the aim. They went 8-7.
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