2018 Yankee Season Game thread

[moonslav59]

Britton has still not regained his form.

 

Just as I predicted, when I said I was glad the Yankees got him.

[moonslav59]

Gardner with a HR and a double tonight.

 

Fighting for his job.

[moonslav59]

Stupid f***ing pitch calling.

 

We'll trade you Leon, Hembree & Nunez for Torres.

[a700hitter]

Terrible call by umps calling a check swing 3rd strike that would have ended the 8th inning.

[a700hitter]

Yankees take the lead.

[redsoxrules]

Thanks you piece of s*** ump

[moonslav59]

Terrible call by umps calling a check swing 3rd strike that would have ended the 8th inning.

 

The fix is in.

[jacksonianmarch]

We'll trade you Leon, Hembree & Nunez for Torres.

 

Nah, Torres and Andujar will be thorns in your side for a long, long, long time

[moonslav59]

Nah, Torres and Andujar will be thorns in your side for a long, long, long time

 

It was a joke.

 

Here's a better one: Vaz, Pedey & Hembree and enough money to keep you under the tax limit.

[jacksonianmarch]

Thankfully, the reinforcements arrive for today’s game. Cutch should be in the lineup. Sanchez returns as well. This should push Andujar and Torres down two spots and lengthen the roster. I’d like to see Walker get more run as he’s been good of late. Let him play 2b and Torres can continue at SS

[jacksonianmarch]

Betances can’t close! Boone, wtf?

[moonslav59]

Yanks squeak by again.

 

Had they lost these last two, one would seriously have to have worried about their playoff chances.

 

Now, 2 wins in a row and injured players returning, trade pick-ups and September call-ups have you guys looking good for home field in the WC game.

[jacksonianmarch]

Oakland lost their ace. We have a five game lead on them for home field. We also have a ten game lead for the playoff. We have a game tomorrow vs Detroit then go face our two most likely play in game opponents. If we take tomorrow and win 3 or 4 on the west coast, we don’t have to worry about anything

[moonslav59]

Oakland lost their ace. We have a five game lead on them for home field. We also have a ten game lead for the playoff. We have a game tomorrow vs Detroit then go face our two most likely play in game opponents. If we take tomorrow and win 3 or 4 on the west coast, we don’t have to worry about anything

 

After these last two wins, you are a lock for the WC and are close to locking up home field for that game.

[jacksonianmarch]

We have three vs the A’s and M’s. We have to take 3 of those 6 and we won’t be caught

[jacksonianmarch]

We have our rotation lined up for the Sox series. It currently lines up with Severino, Tanaka, and Lynn, but with the off day before the series, they can start CC in game 3 on full rest. That series will likely either be a catapult for a fun finish or the clinching series of the East. If they’re gonna make their move, they’ll need to make it now. Gotta shave off two games before then and that isn’t easy with the Sox rattling off 18-20 win months like they’re easy

[jacksonianmarch]

Might be time to try Gray again. Lynn is back to his s***** Twins debut self

[jacksonianmarch]

Pull this fat f***

[a700hitter]

Lynn sucks. But for great plays by Hechavarria and McCutchen in the 3rd inning, the Tigers would have more runs.

[Station 13]

Pull this fat f***

 

You guys seems to have some tubby and fatty on that team.

[jacksonianmarch]

What we have is a team that can play up to its competition and down to the dregs of the league. I don’t get it

[a700hitter]

What we have is a team that can play up to its competition and down to the dregs of the league. I don’t get it

They didn't play up to the level of the Red Sox.

[a700hitter]

Another bs call by the umps to end an inning instead of having bases loaded.

[jacksonianmarch]

They face planted vs Boston. And the call wasn’t BS. You can’t come that close to a fielder actively fielding a ball.

 

This team has beaten the s*** out of Cleveland and Houston. We dominated good teams up until the debacle in Fenway. We have been mediocre vs the s*** of the league

[a700hitter]

What we have is a team that can play up to its competition and down to the dregs of the league. I don’t get it

He went behind him. BS Call. The guy was going to beat that play anyway.

[Bellhorn04]

Just in case anybody missed it:

 

Stanton was out of the lineup yesterday for rest purposes.

 

Bottom of the 8th, Yanks down 8-5, bases loaded and 2 outs, Hechavarria due up.

 

Fill-in manager Josh Bard (Boone serving one-game suspension) pinch-hits with Greg Bird. Bird flies out to end the inning.

 

After the game Bard is asked if Stanton was available to pinch-hit there.

 

I'll let Larry Brooks of the NY Post take it from there:

 

Bard...said Stanton was available.

 

“He was available but we wanted to make sure it was either to win the game …” Bard said, failing to complete the thought before pivoting to cite “the matchup” in explaining why he instead called on Greg Bird to hit for Adeiny Hechavarria in that spot against Victor Alcantara.

 

Um, but that was a situation in which Stanton could have won the game.

[jacksonianmarch]

Bird did hit the ball hard and the outfielder caught it near the top of the wall

[jacksonianmarch]

Another day, another fat ass pitcher sucking

[jacksonianmarch]

Another tepid offensive performance.

[Bellhorn04]

And more questioning of Boone's bullpen choices. Why is A. J. Cole the first guy out of the pen in an important game that's still close? And then Green in after that?