Hello WIN METHOD Yankee fans, the smartest baseball fans on the face of the earth. It has been a long time since I last blog posted. However, there have been comments within the blog from me. So here we go for 2021.
First, the Yankees will be in the playoffs again this season, but they also will play in the World Series. In talking with players, they are not happy with what they have achieved the past few seasons. They feel they have something to prove and want to do it now. Most of the players have undertaken a new or modified training program instituted by the training staff. Look for less injuries and less severe injuries this season. That will be a step forward and a plus for the team as a whole.
Second, Corey Kluber and Jameson Taillon both feel very optimistic with what each will contribute to the Yankees success this season. Both players believe their injuries are behind them. As of now, the Yankee starting rotation looks like it will have four men in the first four spots right now. Cole, Kluber, Taillon, and Montgomery. The fifth spot will be determined in March. The guys who do not make the fifth spot will either be sent to AAA Scranton or long relievers on the big team. Then the big guy Louie Louie Severino will make his return to the Bronx in June. The pitching staff looks solid and has many fall back arms to rely on. The bullpen remains solid and strong, also with several young arms looking to make an impact.
Third, the lineup will be solid again, more important, will be healthier. Runs will be put on the board. The biggest question mark will be at catcher. Catcher Gary Sanchez has been a black hole in the Yankee lineup recently, ala afraud in the past. Gary Sanchez is being mentored and talked to by coaches and trainers. Sanchez feels it is helping him, As the season starts, we will all see if it has. Sanchez himself is the only person who can really make it happen. It is up to him. A big WIN METHOD season from Sanchez would be a big help to the lineup and the team. If he does what he has been doing the last couple of seasons, Gary's days could be short lived.
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It is baseball time again. Lets look forward to a great season and as always LETS GO YANKEES.
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«Oldest ‹Older 401 – 600 of 2766 Newer› Newest»Yankee players get rested far to much. How do you get into a good groove unless you play everyday. At most a regular should only get a day off once a week or four times a month. If a team gets two off days a month, a player only will miss one game every two weeks or two games a month. A six month season and each regular should play just about 150 games a season or at minimum 140+.
Lets go Yankees.
Todays Yankee Lineup
Domingo German (R) P
1. DJ LeMahieu (R) 2B
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF
3. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
5. Gleyber Torres (R) SS
6. Brett Gardner (L) LF
7. Gary Sanchez (R) C
8. Gio Urshela (R) 3B
9. Jay Bruce (L) 1B
Judge back.
German struggling, Yankee bats struggling, down 4-0 thru four.
Final. Yankees lose 4-0. Lineup embarrasses themselves once again. The Rays bullpen hadn't a 1,2,3 inning all season until today and had three of them against the Yankees. Let's get the worst of this season over with now.
It is said at least once every season in this blog. When you are playing your worse, you are not that bad, and when you are playing your best you are not that good. So go the Yankees.
Monty starts tomorrow in Tampa to prevent a sweep. No Cole on his pitch day?
The Rays embarrassed and made a fool of Yankee first baseman Jay Bruce when they played all four of their infielder on the right side of second base today. The only Rays fielder on the left side of second base was their left fielder. The Rays actually had five fielders on the outfield grass.
NJYANKEE, what bothers me is Bruce made absolutely no attempt to try to hit the ball to the left side where there was nobody playing. Then what infuriates me most is Boone allows all this to happen.
Can Montgomery be the stopper today?
Todays Yankee Lineup
Jordan Montgomery (L) P
1. DJ LeMahieu (R) 1B
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF
3. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
5. Gleyber Torres (R) SS
6. Rougned Odor (L) 2B
7. Gary Sanchez (R) C
8. Gio Urshela (R) 3B
9. Brett Gardner (L) LF
Bruce out thank God. Odor in at 2b with LeMahieu at 1b. Gardner has been best Yankee player so far this season.
Lon Klick, only if the Yankees score some runs when it matters most.
Losing as series to a rival by one game is much better than losing by three games. This is an early season big game and the Yankees better wake up and play it that way.
The Yankees are very innovative, they are finding new ways to blow chances of winning.
Yankees pull out an 8-4 win in ten innings. Big much needed win.
Final. Yankees win 8-4 in ten innings. Game winning hit from newest Yankee Roughned Odor. Odor's acquisition by the Yankees allows him to play second base and LeMahieu to play first base instead of useless Jay Bruce. One game and Odor has already paid dividends with the biggest hit when it mattered most for the win. Sanchez and Urshela also followed Odor with rbi hits to seal the victory.
After todays win, will or has the worm turned.
Big time Yankee win. 🤣😀🤡😈🐱
Three game series with the Blue Jays in their Florida park M,T,W. Cole starts tomorrow. Need the win to start the season 5-5.
Funny BIGTIMEYANKEE.
The low IQ posters at the other forums still rip the Yankees from top to bottom and yet with a win tomorrow the Yankees will have started the season .500 after ten games.
This Yankee/Blue Jay series being played in Florida has a chance of rain outs, but if played in Toronto it would have no chance.
Doug Schoen, I saw where a poster on another forum said that the Yankee got lucky not having to face the Rays Glasnow. What the idiot ignored was the Rays never got to face the Yankees Cole.
We need this series to get back to .500.
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Todays Yankee Lineup
Gerrit Cole (R) P
1. DJ LeMahieu (R) 1B
2. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
3. Aaron Judge (R) RF
4. Gleyber Torres (R) SS
5. Gio Urshela (R) 3B
6. Clint Frazier (R) LF
7. Rougned Odor (L) 2B
8. Kyle Higashioka (R) C
9. Mike Tauchman (L) CF
Frazier back in along with Tauchman. Odor and Higashioka also in. Lineup juggled by Boone. Hope Bruce never plays again.
I wonder who got through to Boone the last couple of days what with the lineup juggling. In the end the lineup doesn't mean that much but for the fact that the top of the lineup gets more plate appearances in almost every game. The point being, no matter who is hitting where in the lineup, producing when it counts determines who win and loses almost always. Producing when it counts is the heart of the game.
Lets go Yankees
Yanks up 3-1 after 8.
Final. Yankee win 3-1. Cole six innings of one run ball. Wilson, O'Day, Chapman with a scoreless inning each. Higashioka 2 HRs 3 RBIs for all the Yankee runs.
Yankees go 5-5 in their first of sixteen, ten game sets of the 2021 season.
Taillon goes tomorrow night in Dunedin FL versus the Toronto Blue Jays. Lets get the same results.
Good win yesterday. Well pitched and Higashioka won the game for his pitcher.
Hope as the season moves along and both Kluber and Taillon get back in the groove of pitching regularly, they start earning some wins.
Aaron Hicks decided to sit out Monday’s game against the Blue Jays in response to the fatal police shooting of a 20-year-old Black man in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center, Minn., Yankees manager Aaron Boone said on Monday.
That's Hicks right and his choice. Give him the rest of the month off to think about the incident is my opinion. That garbage does not belong in the workplace. Hicks is a jerk, with his whining and sniveling.
What will Boone's lineup look like today? Who doesn't want to play because they are stupid? Who should be booted off the team?
Todays Yankee Lineup
Jameson Taillon (R) P
1. DJ LeMahieu (R) 3B
2. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
3. Aaron Judge (R) RF
4. Gary Sanchez (R) C
5. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
6. Rougned Odor (L) 2B
7. Gio Urshela (R) SS
8. Clint Frazier (R) LF
9. Jay Bruce (L) 1B
Problems with lineup, 1 Hick the sniveler dirt bag playing, 2 Bruce the useless tool playing.
I have no problem with anyone standing up for what they believe in and I have no problem with anyone believing what they want to believe in. I do have a problem when anyone brings what they believe in to the work place and hurts their fellow workers by not showing up. Shut up and do your job, or get the hell out.
Final. Yankees lose 7-3. Tallion comes up empty. Enough said.
By playing Bruce, Boone is just giving an advantage to the opposing team.
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The Yankees are performing as if they have no goal. Players seem to play for themselves because of their foolish buy in to analytics and meaningless numbers. My exit velocity is the highest, I hit the ball the furthest, my spin rate is getting higher and higher, I can throw harder than you. I, I, I. But we don't win, we have great numbers, but we don't win.
Kluber today for Yanks and the series win........or loss.
I just cannot get over Sanchez's laziness and his lack of self-awareness. He doesn't understand why he is benched when hes batting .100 or he's jogging the bases and almost gets thrown out at second from the outfield or gets caught in a rundown on a wild pitch. Would it kill him to show any effort? He has to be some type of head case.
Todays Yankee Lineup
Corey Kluber (R) P
1. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF
3. Brett Gardner (L) LF
4. Gary Sanchez (R) DH
5. Gleyber Torres (R) SS
6. Jay Bruce (L) 1B
7. Gio Urshela (R) 3B
8. Rougned Odor (L) 2B
9. Kyle Higashioka (R) C
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccccccccccccceeeeeeee, NOOOOOOOOOO!
Kluber and Taillon HOPEFULLY are still getting their legs under them. How long does management give them. How long do the fans give them.
Final. Yankees lose 5-4 on a walk off home run. Bruce 0-4. 2 Ks and when he did make contact he hit into 2 DPs. So Bruce alone accounted for six outs or 22% of the game. How can Boone put this guy in a game. Chuck the piece of garbage already you gutless clueless idiot.
will-i-am, everyone is to afraid to say or do anything in todays left wing demented world run by the joe-bama/commie MALADY administration. Hell, I'd tell Cashman to dump Bruce NOW and if he doesn't, I'd fire him without pay. And if Boone would write Bruce's name on the lineup card ever again, I'd fire him instantly before the game was over and have him removed from the dugout. Add on that if any of the players complained about it, I would let them have their say one time, and then warn every one of them if they say anything again, they would be gone also.
A very much needed off day for the Yankees tomorrow.
We seen it before, we see it now, and we will see it in the future. The ups and downs of a season. The ups and downs at the start of a season are magnified. The Yankees will be in the playoffs. Don't worry be happy.
Baseball want to move the mound back one foot. This won't keep pitchers in the game longer, but will fatigue them leading to more injuries. MLB needs to first undo all the stupid dog and pony tricks they already implemented, ban analytics, and ban the front office from managing games.
The people running MLB hierarchy, owners, commissioner, stat frauds, etcetera, are hurting baseball more than they know. Many fans are getting restless and contemplating giving up on baseball. I haven't yet, but I have totally given up and have not watched nor even care about the NBA and NFL anymore.
Need to get Voit back as quickly as possible. He seems to play with intensity and urgency.
Phil Jenkins, I agree. Voit would be a big help to the lineup. Also, if Bruce's name shows up in the lineup again, heads should roll.
The average fastball has gone up over 2 MPH in recent years and there are more K's than hits in games (each of the last 3 years--first time ever in MLB history)
It isn't analytics, owners, or the commissioners fault. Teams have discovered pitching is more effective when used for shorter periods and with bigger players. The game and players change.
Should the rules change today to encourage longer pitching outings and less K's? In the 60's the mound was lowered from 15" to 10". In the 70's the DH was introduced. I don't know if I like the idea of moving back the mound, but worth experimenting a bit. I say lower the mound another 5". I wouldn't want to face a 6'8" Tyler Glasnow standing on a 10" hill.
When someone says it isn't analytics, they are wrong. Analytics has created the over shift, exit velocity, spin rate, etc. Managers don't encourage hitters to hit the opposite field, then say and do nothing when guys consistently make outs hitting into the shift. Moving the pitching rubber down is fine with me, but moving it back alters the game to much. The designated hitter was a great rule change and made the game better, not worse. All it did was allow a real hitter to bat instead of the pitcher.
The extra inning rule in today's game is a game altering rule. It corrupts and dilutes the game itself. The inning starting with a runner on second base makes the first nine innings and every event that created the nine inning tie moot. That is not baseball the way the game is supposed to be played, it creates a circus event and debases the integrity of the game.
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NEVER ever vote for a liberal, a democrat, a progressive, or an illegal alien again. America must be saved and restored to its greatness.
Carla, Todays democrat party are the scum of American politics. The joe-bama/commie MALADY administration in its for 100 days has and is doing more harm to this country than any other administration in Americas history.
No pitcher for tonight named yet. Likely Deivi or King.
Nick Nelson is now listed to start, as opener?
Re: analytics -- bringing in a lefty pitcher to face a lefty hitter is pure use of analytics and has been going on for 100 years. A defensive shift is a much less drastic move than that in comparison.
Measuring spin rate and exit velocity are no different than a scout timing a guy running between bases to gauge his speed.
Analytics has always been part of baseball in different ways. Today's game has 100+ guys that can throw in the upper 90's. That is what is changing the game, not analytics.
Todays Yankee Lineup
Nick Nelson P
D LeMahieu (R) 1B
A Judge (R) RF
G Torres (R) SS
G Stanton (R) DH
G Urshela (R) 3B
A Hicks (S) CF
G Sánchez (R) C
C Frazier (R) LF
R Odor (L) 2B
Lets go Yankees.
Nelson experiment fails. Yankees down 2-0 immediately.
Yanks down 2-0 after 2.
Yankees getting blown out. Trail 8-0 after six innings.
Grosner, you are conflating common sense and normal evaluation into analytics. There is a world of difference between stop watching a runner and lefty/lefty, righty/righty matchups compared to the invention of spin rates meaning something or exit velocity meaning something.
Analytics the way you state were never part of the game.
Final, Yankees trounced 8-2. Yankee 6,7,8 batters, Sanchez, Hicks and Frazier go 0-9 with 6 Ks.
Yankees lost to the Rays, 8-2. The organization should be embarrassed. The fans should be embarrassed. I'm somehow embarrassed. This was a humiliation exercise for everyone in the ballpark who is not sporting a Rays uniform.
Monty this afternoon, and we need a win very much.
Statcast measures the exit velocity on Giancarlo Stanton's 112.4-mph two-run home run to right field. This is your BS analytics at work. Totally meaningless and useless garbage.
The Yanks got all of three hits last night. If the players don't start producing it won't matter what the lineup is. Oh so many strike outs and weak outs, but the big headline for the game was how hard Stanton hit a home run when the game was more than likely lost. Stat cast is a mockery of the greatest game on earth, but going downhill.
Yanks down 3-1 after 6.
Final, Yankees lose 6-3. Another lost series.
Cole tomorrow to save the Yankees from a sweep.
Stanton on Friday hits a two run HR to make the game 8-2. Meaningless HR when it didn't matter.
Stanton today with the Yankees trying a comeback rally from being down 5-1, score 2 runs to cut lead to 5-3, Stanton comes up as the tying run and strikes out when it matters most.
The Yankees are uninspired, (Boone has no life to him), and playing zombie, dead men walking baseball. It's still very early, but someone needs to inject them soon.
Yankees down 2-1 after 4.
Frazier has played his whole life in the outfield and at times he looks like he has never played there before.
Yanks fall behind 3-2 thru seven. Lets pull it out guys.
Wilsonsway, Frazier has lost his confidence out there. He really needs a change of scenery so he can relax and play everyday.
Final. Yankees lose 4-2. Five straight losses. No fire in the belly.
Off day tomorrow for Yankees and then host Atlanta for a two game series before hitting the road.
Justcallmefordinner, Nothing can help Frazier. He is chopped meat and can't be filet mignon, porterhouse, ribeye, or sirloin. A dime a dozen run of the mill nothing special player.
Boone as of now does not know who will start for the Yankees in the two game series with the Braves. Therein lies a big part of the Yankee problem.
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Guaranteed the Yankees don't lose today.
Cory, agree that exit velocity is meaningless and useless measure. But it is just a gimmick for fans. It doesn't impact how the game is played or managed.
Grosner, I also agree with you and Cory about exit velocity. However it is not a gimmick just for fans. Baseball is played different now and taught different than in the past. Making contact and hitting the ball to all fields means little now a days to managers and how the game is played. Teams allow players to hit into the shift and not away from it. Players are allowed to swing for the fences all the time. This is taught and accepted. Strikeouts are accepted by teams. There was a post back a while ago by a poster who said if he was manager he would bench every hitter who did not go the opposite field when a shift was used against him. Hear, hear to that.
Players make big salaries from hitting HRs and the harder the better. Launch angle is taught so more players can hit more home runs. Batting average is taboo for stat frauds and they say it means nothing. Players get paid for their individual stats and rated for their individual stats. Winning means nothing to them anymore. Take not of the poster fraud of baseball Mike Trout. He could have signed anywhere but he took just money and stayed with the Angels, a team he has helped lead to utter failure since he has been there. He doesn't give a darn about winning, the Angels pay him and lose, but they call him the best player in baseball. As WIN METHOD says, you can't be the best unless you win.
Exit velocity does play a big part in how the game is managed and played. I'll believe it plays not party when I see and hear all managers speak out against exit velocity calling it meaningless and useless.
You can see the players go wild in the dugout when one of their power hitters hits a ball 450 feet. Screaming and jumping and all kinds of antics from almost every player, to say nothing of the home run hitter bat flip, stand and watch, look for recognition from the dugout, etcetera.
How great would it be to have Billy Martin manage this team today. That would be a show in itself. Fans would flock to the ballpark just to see Billy do his thing.
Taillon and Kluber will start the two Atlanta games.
Who will stop the skid? The pitching, the hitting, or a combination of each.
Analytics are being used to disinfect the human element from the game. The game is becoming robotic and so are the players. Not a good image and not fun.
Todays Yankee lineup
Jameson Taillon (R) P
1. DJ LeMahieu (R) 2B
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF
3. Brett Gardner (L) CF
4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
5. Gleyber Torres (R) SS
6. Mike Ford (L) 1B
7. Gary Sanchez (R) C
8. Gio Urshela (R) 3B
9. Mike Tauchman (L) LF
Ford is back up from Scranton, that's a plus.
To all Yankee hitters. How about trying not to strike out. Swinging at pitches that are not even close to being called strikes is your downfall. Pitchers are making fools of too many of you. STOP trying to pull everything. You will rarely be productive trying to pull a pitch on the outside corner. If a pitch is on the outside corner hit it that way. I have taught ten year old's this for decades.
I was just thinking, wouldn't it be nice to have some multirun innings from the Yankees during the rest of the month.
Taillon goes five innings allowing one run and leaves with the score even at one.
Final Yankees win 3-1. It wasn't pretty, but it was a win. Pitching wins it. Only one Yankee run tallied via a hit, Urshela HR. Other two on a wild pitch and a bases loaded walk.
Frazier and Torres fail when it mattered most. Ford with the bases loaded walk when it mattered.
Taillon 1 run over five innings and Luetge, Green, Loiaiga, and Chapman each with a shutout inning break the Yankee skid at five games.
Kluber tomorrow to take the two game series.
Kluber needs to do what Tallion did tonight. Everyone needs to produce when it counts. We won tonight despite pathetic failure from Frazier and Torres.
Despite last nights win, the Yankees are still not producing when it counts. That has to change.
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Can we make it two wins in a row!
Tallion took a step forward last night. Five innings of one run ball is very good in todays baseball world.
Todays Yankee Lineup
Corey Kluber (R) P
1. DJ LeMahieu (R) 2B
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF
3. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
4. Gio Urshela (R) 3B
5. Gleyber Torres (R) SS
6. Mike Ford (L) 1B
7. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
8. Gary Sanchez (R) C
9. Clint Frazier (R) LF
Lineup is what it is, but I would have move Ford ahead of Torres.
About time for a Kluber win.
Scoreless after four.
Final Yankees lose 4-1. Braves 4 runs on 4 hits when it mattered. Yankees 1 run on 5 hits, but nor one when it mattered most.
Right now for the Yankees everything that can wrong is going wrong. Mark my words and bookmark this post, things will change and wrongs will turn to rights and the Yankees will start rolling right into the playoffs.
Yankees are getting out of town. Going to Cleveland for a four game long weekend series with the Indians. German, Monty, Cole go in the first three games. No one named for the fourth game but should be Tallion unless someone is brought up from Scranton.
Update, with Sanchez next at bat likely to be an out, he will again be on the interstate of despair.
The Yankees next two series are both four game series. Winning three of four games in each series would be a big step forward. Splitting both series means little, but losing both could be a disaster.
Todays Yankee Lineup
Domingo German (R) P
1. Brett Gardner (L) LF
2. DJ LeMahieu (R) 3B
3. Aaron Judge (R) DH
4. Mike Ford (L) 1B
5. Gleyber Torres (R) SS
6. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
7. Rougned Odor (L) 2B
8. Clint Frazier (R) RF
9. Kyle Higashioka (R) C
Somewhat new look. Would rather see Tauchman over Frazier. And Torres batting 8th or 9th.
Gardner is in a good spot. He just needs to get on and give DJ a chance to make things happen.
Kluber and Taillon both went five inning and each allowed one run. The Yankees scored just four runs total in both games combined. Our pitchers need some support. They are getting little to none.
Stanton looks like a stranger at the plate. As if he never held a bat before and someone said go up there and see if you can hit the ball. It almost looks like a robot swinging.
Three weeks of the season done. About time to string some wins together and close out April making up some ground.
WAKE UP GUYS. Play baseball.
3-3 after 4.
Odor two out bases loaded single when it mattered puts Yanks up 5-3 after seven innings as the Yankees come all the way back from a 3-0 first inning deficit.
Final. Yankees win 6-3. German six innings three runs for the win. Odor and Higashioka the bats for the win. Is this possibly the start of good things. Stay tuned.
It's about time. More of the same.
Monty starts tomorrow nights game.
Producing when it counts wins games. Producing the most often when it counts means you get to go to the playoffs.
If not for some sloppy fielding last night German could have had six scoreless innings.
Also three solid innings of relief pitching again last night. Voit, Britton, and Louie Louie back within two months.
We are getting innings from three starters now. Cole, Monty, and German. Plus Kluber and Taillon both went five last out with just one run allowed by each. Now if the bats start producing when it matters most more consistently we should see a bunch of wins on the horizon.
Todays Yankee Lineup
Jordan Montgomery (L) P
1. DJ LeMahieu (R) 1B
2. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
3. Aaron Judge (R) RF
4. Gleyber Torres (R) SS
5. Gio Urshela (R) 3B
6. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
7. Gary Sanchez (R) C
8. Clint Frazier (R) LF
9. Rougned Odor (L) 2B
Lets make it two.
Looks like Sanchez is headed to the interstate.
After trailing 3-0 in first inning, Yanks take a 4-3 lead thru four innings.
Final. Yankees win 5-3. Another win coming from behind after being down 3-0 after first inning. Stanton 2 solo home runs. Hicks a solo home run and the big blast to tie the game by Odor a two run home run. Montgomery after a tough 3 run first inning goes five innings allowing just the three runs and the bullpen does the rest again with another four scoreless innings.
Cole starts tomorrows afternoon game. Lets go Yankees.
Ace against ace today. Should be a good one. This is the one you want to win.
Game with Indians is a 6PM game. Cole vs Bieber. Should be a good one.
Stanton is a physical beast. The rare times he barrels up a baseball it is hit harder than anyone else in baseball can.
I would really like to see the Yankees win tonight. Beat a top pitcher, extend win streak to three games, take the series, and then move up the ladder.
Todays Yankee Lineup
Gerrit Cole (R) P
1. DJ LeMahieu (R) 1B
2. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
3. Aaron Judge (R) RF
4. Gleyber Torres (R) SS
5. Gio Urshela (R) 3B
6. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
7. Clint Frazier (R) LF
8. Kyle Higashioka (R) C
9. Rougned Odor (L) 2B
Boone not using either Gardner nor Tauchman against a tough right handed pitcher.
It looks as if precipitation may be part of tonight's game.
Scoreless thru three.
Bieber and Cole both pitch seven complete innings and both leave game. Yankees/Cole up 2-1. One heck of pitchers duel. Still two more innings to go for the bullpens.
Final. Yankees win 2-1. Hicks and Odor home runs is all the offense. Cole seven innings one run. Wilson and Loaisiga combine for the last two shutout innings. An old fashioned pitchers duel and a edge of your seat nail biting win. Yanks take third straight game for first time this season.
Yankees go for a four game sweep tomorrow with Taillon starting.
Odor has been super so far for the Yankees. Sometimes a change of scenery and a clean shave can make a world of difference.
Remember a WIN METHOD tenet, a player can be WIN METHOD for a team and not for another.
Right now, Odor is a bigger asset for the Yankees than Frazier and Tauchman combined.
Odor has played flawless defense also which has made it easy for LeMahieu to move to first base until Voit gets back.
Isn't it amazing what a few wins can do.
Let's go Yankees!
Will Taillon and Kluber keep moving forward. We need them for at least another month. Louie Louie is on the horizon.
Todays Yankee Lineup
Jameson Taillon (R) P
1. Brett Gardner (L) CF
2. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
3. Aaron Judge (R) RF
4. Rougned Odor (L) 2B
5. Gleyber Torres (R) SS
6. Gio Urshela (R) 3B
7. Mike Ford (L) 1B
8. Gary Sanchez (R) C
9. Mike Tauchman (L) LF
Left handed lineup. Odor cleanup. Sweet.
Yankees ten game series.
001-010 5-5
010-020 4-6 = 9-11
Mediocre start to season.
Yanks trail 5-3 after five.
Deivi called up to start game one of a four game series in Baltimore tomorrow night.
Final. Yankees lose 7-3. Taillon and Nelson give up all the runs. Yankee winning streak ends at three. In all four games of this series the team that scored first, lost.
Hope Deivi comes up big tomorrow and forces a decision on earning a starting rotation spot.
We got out 3 of 4 in Cleveland, now do it again in Baltimore.
Pitchers for Orioles series. Deivi, Kluber, German, and Monty. Cole will start Detroit weekend series at home at the Stadium.
When we took 3 of 4 from the Indians we had Cole for a game. In Baltimore, no Cole, so 3 of 4 will be a bigger challenge. We need good pitching and maybe the offense will see the light in the Oriole bandbox.
It would help the Yankees a lot if a young strong arm like Deivi's could take a giant leap forward to become a forceful starting MLB pitcher.
I get the impression the Yankees don't push their youngsters enough and really don't give them enough rope to prove themselves. Throw in to much rest too. I read here earlier that players don't have to try to get on base by hitting away from the defensive shifts, but are allowed to swing away right into it. Watching games I see so many other teams players getting hits to the opposite field. Not all, but many. A shakeup of some kind may be needed.
A car doesn't run efficiently on a flat tire, and neither does a baseball team when the pitching, defense, and offense run efficiently.
That was some catch by Frazier yesterday. Full out 3 to 4 feet off the ground, completely level lay out catch before hitting the ground.
Todays Yankee Lineup
Deivi Garcia (R) P
1. DJ LeMahieu (R) 1B
2. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
3. Aaron Judge (R) RF
4. Rougned Odor (L) 2B
5. Gio Urshela (R) 3B
6. Gleyber Torres (R) SS
7. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
8. Gary Sanchez (R) C
9. Clint Frazier (R) LF
Nice Lineup.
I'll go waaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy out on a limb and predict the Yankees score two double digit runs in at least two of the Baltimore series games.
Rather see Higgy in the lineup over Sanchez.
Deivi gives up a leadoff HR on his second pitch.
Yanks down 2-0 after 4.
Five of nine hitters in tonights lineup are batting under .200. Yikes!!
Final. Yankees lose 4-2 with another display of inept offense.
Well Odor batting cleanup blew up tonight. He struck out with the bases loaded and one out.
German tries to get even with O's tomorrow.
It seems like any other teams pitchers do not have to be really good to make the Yankee hitters look bad.
I couldn't give a crap what the exit velocity is for a guy who is hitting below .200. For that matter, I couldn't give a crap what the exit velocity is for a guy who's hitting over .300. I was watching a game the other night where a batter lined out sharp to the first baseman. The announcers, instead of talking about the out, just talked about the exit velocity and how good it was. But it was an out. A hard out is as much of an out as a soft out. It's a completely meaningless stat. What do I care what the exit velocity is of a home run? You don't get more runs for a home run with higher exit velocity, nor how far it is hit. What fools these stat frauds are. They are ruining the greatest game on earth. Hang them all, or at worse, execute them.
I read an article recapping the night’s game over on the garbage Pinstripe Alley site. They covered the exit velocity on the back to back doubles by Judge and Stanton. So what!
I mean, just stop it with the nonsense. Stop quantifying a hard hit ball. Stop angling swings. Just hit the damn ball.
okiened, Amen. I have no idea what Paul O’Neil or Derrick Jeter’s exit velocity was. I do know they were better equipped to put a ball in play when it mattered most and a great amount found holes. Or for that matter, all the great players in baseball history. How did baseball survive without all the garbage metrics? Answer is, far better than they are doing now.
The Yankees so desperately need to get back to basics, as does all of baseball.
When you start five guys batting under .200 and the the sixth about .210 it's amazing you win any games.
Who will Boone play tonight and in what order. Odor at cleanup doesn't work. Hitting 8th or 9th he is OK.
So many of the great hitters of past decades philosophy on hitting when asked about their feats was, "I see the ball, I hit the ball."
Todays philosophy, I swing as hard as I can at the launch angle I was taught and hope to hit it hard sometimes so my exit velocity is high and I get recognition from the stat frauds.
I erred when I posted last night that German would be starting tonight's game. Kluber is starting tonight and German tomorrow's game.
Todays Yankee Lineup
Corey Kluber (R) P
1. DJ LeMahieu (R) 1B
2. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
3. Aaron Judge (R) RF
4. Gio Urshela (R) 3B
5. Gleyber Torres (R) SS
6. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
7. Clint Frazier (R) LF
8. Kyle Higashioka (R) C
9. Rougned Odor (L) 2B
Odor stint at cleanup is over. Best catcher in tonight.
Yankees lead 4-1 after five.
Final. Yankees win 5-1. Big game from Kluber. 6 2/3 innings 1 run for the win. Home runs from Judge, Higashioka, Stanton.
It was a win tonight, but not as good as it may look. Three solo HRs and only one hit with RISP for the other two runs.
Higgy needs to play everyday. Sanchez only plays a day game after a night game and when Higgy needs a day off after playing maybe five or six games in a row.
German's turn tonight. Can he repeat his last start and Kluber's from last night inning wise. Giving the bullpen days off will make them stronger and better.
Todays Yankee Lineup
Domingo German (R) P
1. DJ LeMahieu (R) 2B
2. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
3. Gleyber Torres (R) SS
4. Gio Urshela (R) 3B
5. Mike Ford (L) 1B
6. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
7. Clint Frazier (R) RF
8. Kyle Higashioka (R) C
9. Brett Gardner (L) LF
Judge out of action.
Urshella's sac last night was the first one for the Yankees this season. They were the last team in MLB to earn a sac fly this season. It came in the Yankees 23rd game and adding in last seasons last seven sac fly less games they went 30 games without one. Dreadful production when it matters most. Failure to produce when it matters most is the essence of the WIN METHOD philosophy and explains the Yankee record so far this season.
Yanks take 5-0 thru 3 on Ford HR and Urshella 3 run HR.
German has best game of his career. Seven innings 0 runs 3 hits a walk 6 strikeouts. Yankees up 6-0.
Final. Yankees win 7-0. German goes seven scoreless innings pitching the best game of his career. Ford and Urshella with big HR's early that win the game. Frazier adds a meaningless HR late in game. King goes the final two scoreless innings.
Yanks at minimum have earned a split of this series. Monty starts tomorrow afternoon and will be looking to win the series. Lets go guys.
We are starting to see some deep solid starts from out rotation. Taillon is now number five starter with a 👇 trend.
German was challenging the hitters tonight. From his first pitch to his last. Dominating and never in trouble.
Let's go Yankees, take this series.
Todays Yankee Lineup
Jordan Montgomery (L) P
1. DJ LeMahieu (R) 1B
2. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
3. Gleyber Torres (R) SS
4. Gio Urshela (R) 3B
5. Rougned Odor (L) 2B
6. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
7. Gary Sanchez (R) C
8. Clint Frazier (R) RF
9. Brett Gardner (L) LF
I want to see what we get from the bottom five in this lineup today. In order .170, .147, .182, .158, .175. Somebody or somebodies need to break out and contribute when it counts.
Yanks down 1-0 after 4.
Little league commissioner Manfred extra innings even at 3.
Final. Yankees lose 4-3 in ten innings. Another game of pathetic when it matters most hitting. This extra inning rule is a joke. Judge pinch hitting is a joke. Three pitches, three strikes and he's gone. Worse was he pinch hit for the one batter who has produced the most when it matters recently and who produced a two rbi single with two outs to put the Yankees up 2-1 after the two previous batters failed with the bases loaded and no and then one outs.
Both teams start the 10th inning with a runner on second base. We can't bunt him over to third with one out. They do and then have a runner on third with one out where an out can score a run. They get the sac fly out and win the game. Heck, even if we bunt him over to third, our batter would have likely struck out or popped up.
PRODUCTION WHEN IT COUNTS THE MOST WINS GAMES.....Today was a perfect example. Case closed stat frauds.
Cole tomorrow at home in opener of three game series with Detroit.
As the first month of baseball comes to a close the Yankees have surely played some awful baseball.
Cole, Taillon, and Kluber for weekend series with Tigers. Need to win series after series to move forward.
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