Yanks rallied after being down 6-1 last night with the season on the line. Aaron Judge had a great game, the game we’ve been wanting him to have in October for years. They came back and won and it was a jumping joy for Yankee fans.
They’re back at it tonight with the Kid on the mound. Figure he’s got to do better than Fried and Rodón—who knows? Big ask on his shoulders but heck, this is October, and the dude seems to be pretty cool-headed.
Let’s hope Judge and the boys have another strong night.
Never mind vacation: Let’s Go Yankees!
Picture by Bags
I saw the picture and I thought, "AB is making a special appearance on his own blog."
If the Yanks win tonight, the Jays are going to tighten up like an Allen key. Let's see a Schlitt show!
I think this game is winnable, but I’d really like to see them score early and not allow TOR to do the same.
They overcame a five run deficit and a recurrence of their own midseason sloppiness last night. Time to get crisp again and execute.
Let's Go Yankees!! Please!
1)Absent but not forgotten!!
Here I am.
2) Agreed. Crisp would be nice!
Score early. Score often. Play good defense. Let's Go Yankees! Go Schlittler!
Not good
Checking in from Nippon!
Analysis: Springer and Vladdy are wieners and they stink and I hate them.
This Vlad Jr. guy is starting to annoy me.
This is f****** infuriating.
phew!
Cody! phew.
So glad I can watch the game here bit with Dave and Suzyn audio instead of Smoltzie, can’t believe they still have him on national games
Grish needs to do better.
Judge good at least. c'mon G
bleh
Great play from Volpe!
ok let's go!
So Vaeland took the loss last night. I take it this is a bullpen game for the BJs.
Also, is there some rule against hitting Vlad Jr in the ribs? I'm sure he's a nice fella but he's hitting .643 in the series, and first base was open. The Sox used to do it all the time against the Yankees
Quick hook
I thought we should save Goldy for late inning defense, but at least he got on base.
Varland just showed us how to hit someone in the ribs.
That was a ball
Eat shit, blue. That's your 1st horrible call of the night after squeezing Cam.
Volpe!
good inning. Quick and easy
Nice leather!
How many innings does Cam get? He won’t face top of the lineup a third time?
McMahon!
Tied!
way inside
HELL YES!
You da mcMahon!
I was JUST thinking ‘damn, Volpe and McMahon really have uncompetitive ABs..’!
AGAIN, EAT SHIT, BLUE!
yeesh
He's not locating as well as he did last game. He looks ok but just not as dominant.
yes!
There were a couple of well located balls there
damn. Hit it hard which makes the DP easy
Not good start here…
Fucking Bollocks!
Can’t pitch to Vlad again
They said during the Brewers game earlier that they led the league with scoring a leadoff man on first base 35% of the time. That seems unreal.
very nice!
Is Volpe just not gonna hit well at the MLB level?
it's really hard to watch his at bats.
The thing is, we couldn't really expect Schlittler to look as good against the Blue Jays as he did against the Red Sox.
Because the Blue Jays are much better at hitting.
Volpe's at bats are uninspiring.
Volpe needs a change of scenery in April. Scranton, Denver, whatever.
Three years in and Volpe just can’t hit…can Jasson D play SS??
They hit it like that and it's a hit. 112 mph off Judge's bat right at someone. Not liking how this is flowing luck wise.
Dear no! I agree with Smoltz. Why the F are they throwing him a curveball?
That was a strike
I wouldn't call that run down textbook but it worked!
So how about some runs?
So the Yankees have 2 hits.
[56] 4 baserunners in total. ugh
Grisham has been terrible overall in the postseason
dammit, grish!
Gotta make them pay for this IIBB
What are you looking at?
fuck you, schneider
Grish needs to take the bat off his shoulder. Twice in a row is inexcusable even if he thought the third strike was high the last time up.
Our BABIP is terrible. So much crap luck on balls in play.
it's getting late early...
Just not getting it done today
2 hits.
utterly pathetic that we have TWO hits off of 5 pitchers
one of their guys needs to falter + more defensive miscues, cause we can't hit for shit
wow!
WOW!
whoa!
bad location on that pitch
these no-names just hit and hit and hit...
Clement, whow went to HS 5 minutes up the street from me, has had a better series than Volpe. 4th rounder vs. 1st rounder.
what a pitch!
[75] who went
oh jazz. That was 2 outs.
there goes the season...
BOOTSIE!
hit hard, ump shielding - none of it should matter. that's a tailor made dp. jazz fucked it. season over. :_(
Sloppy.
Boone is not likely to be the reason we lose this particular series, but this continual undercurrent of sloppiness is absolutely why we did not have last week off and home field advantage for this series.
Springer always comes through.
must get this out
damn. That is bad
season is kaput.
A hit? With men on base? 2 outs? What a concept.
Yeah. Hm.
Cam did great. Jazz booted the opportunity to get out of that, and Devin... is not a clutch pitcher.
devin ending the season like he began it. fucking us over...
Can we appreciate what Cam did this postseason? Absent the botched double play here, it should have been 15 innings and 2 ER across two postseason starts.
Started the year in double A.
[90] He was in beast mode. He did not have "it" tonight he was still pretty damn good. I love Jazz. That was a rotten dp fuckup.
Jazz flashes in the field but also makes bad mistakes.
BlowJays (hat tip to thelarmis!) are just better, they e doubled us up in runs scored in the series
Wells has just been hopeless tonight as well.
damn
No pinch hitter??????????????
Lots of warning track power for the Yankees this week, too.
Tough.
8 ball says...no strikeout for Volpe but a double play instead.
I would have pinch hit for Volpe
Good idea Volpe. Show bunt down three runs with one out.
Garbage.
Boone is just so so so so awful as a manager, HOWDAFUQ does he let both Wella and Volpe bat with a man on?????? This is the season!!!!!
The bat boy would have had better at bats.
Volpe had 15 K in 25 AB this postseason. That is beyond atrocious.
It’s impressive how bad Volpe is…
Trent's watched at least 5 strikes right down the middle tonight.
[106] and when he makes contact he Is swinging under the pitch. Lots of pop ups
Of course.
Boone really failed. He's trained to avoid lefty on lefty so much that he pulls the guy with the home run and leaves in the guy with nothing but strikeouts.
A hit from Straw? That's bad
Unfuckingbelievable
Toronto is hitting the ball where it’s pitched, and they’re dropping in. The Yankees are doing the complete opposite.
Jesus, Camilo
Finally drilled someone
Hard to tell how contrite that “my bad” was, but if there was ever a time to send a message and make the opponent uncomfortable, it was long before this inning.
So, we have to make Volpe earn the job next year which he won't if we have anyone solid competing.
Yinzer sits the cheater the fuck down
ok well we have 6 outs. I know we can score the runs but will we? Let's go!
WAY OUTSIDE
[116] if Boone goes (which I hope he does), then hopefully that means Volpe is gone or as you say at least has to earn his job back.
FUCK YOU BLUE!!!
I don't have a great idea about who the Yankees should hire if they fire Boone but I'd be fine with Don Mattingly
OK, c'mon Ben.
Donnie should not tarnish his Yankee legacy by taking this job at this stage.
I’m still on team Meulens for next manager. He should’ve had the job when Girardi left.
There’s a Marlins scout right behind home plate. And, empty seats around him…
If this ends 5-4 and it’s because of Doval’s inning and Rosario missing that grounder…
Tying run at the plate!
yeesh Wells.
Solid AB, Ben.
MotherFUCKER
Good work, Austin. Way to work the count when he's on the ropes.
What is Wells doing? That was not good.
Pinch hit for Volpe in the 9th. Other than that I've got nothing.
Another lead off double. I guess game 3 was the aberration.
[126] Jazz could have fielded that double play chance between his legs, backflipped onto 2nd, thrown to 1st behind is back, and the Yanks still would've lost 2-1.
At least we did not have to here constant fluffing of Bichette all series long
I can’t stand this fat midgets shorts he’s wearing
Such a good hitter though
Scherzer as a “major omission” from their playoff roster because he has 25 career postseason starts is kind of like hyping up the fact that the Jays didn’t bring Hentgen, Stieb, or Wells with them too.
So NOW we see the Martian??
I may as well tell you all because this game sucks. I was napping during the Tiger-Mariners game earlier. I had a dream my wife and I were behind a chain link fence in the outfield watching the Yankees play in the the World Serious in Florida. We were walking and talking with David Cone. Next thing I knew, Boone was out there with us and needed to make a pitching change. He said, that's the guy I want. And there we see David Wells randomly jogging around. He came over and said, 2 outs? I can pitch. Then I woke up.
I hope those ghosts Judge woke up last night haven’t gone back to their immortal slumbers. Let’s go.
Martian!
Can The Martian play ss?
Jasson!
Good on ya, Martian!
Crazy dream, just fair!
So that was Jasson’s first AB of the playoffs and we’ve seen Rosario and Cabellero multiple times, not to mention AV in every game.
Just crank one AJ.
Why is vlad now good at defense???
Judge is awesome at least
Can’t fault the Captain
Don’t make an out and let Big G try to tie the game
That’s it
Time to memory hole another season. The offense failed them again. The pitching failed as well. Godamn Fucking Bollocks. Cheers, y'all. Have a good off-season. Go Sabres.
Have a good off season. Disappointing but I guess I have free time again
Sigh. thealarmis isn't that Marlins man? I think he's a dentist.
I remember when excellence was expected. These are not those days.
Wasting a generational talent here. Judge is gonna be the Mattingly/Ewing of this decade.
Oh well…
Let’s Go Mariners!
[155] i don't know. but, i've been texting with my nephew who's in dental school!
i'm hoping for the brew crew to go all the way.
and the phitin' phils to take it to the dodgers.
[157] yes. then, i hope the M's get swept.
I hope game seven of the ALCS goes 17 innings and then the Cubs sweep the winner by a combined score of 23-0.
[158] haha. Google Marlins Man. He attends tons of games that don't involve Miami
Have a nice off-season. Hopefully, the hot stove will be good. Maybe a new Manager and/or GM. And we can look forward to some other things like a signing or two, a pretty solid starting pitching staff that will return (Fried, Schlittler, Gil, and Rodon) with Cole back by the ASB, and more Rice and the Martian.
A.Rod for GM
'Hitting behind Aaron Judge most of the season, Bellinger batted .272 with 29 home runs and an .813 OPS in 152 games in 2025.
Bellinger, 30, has a $25 million player option for next season. He presumably will receive widespread interest in free agency -- it should yield a lucrative multi-year contract.'
JEEZ... $25 million is not enough for a .813 OPS? I mean .813 OPS is nice, but somewhat expected for a corner outfielder.
Man... I feel like I'm living in the past (with Jethro Tull)
Go Mariners, then whoever wins the NL.
Jeez... Seattle puts a guy with a 5.68 ERA against Toronto, and he 2 hits them. That's the same Toronto that scored 34 runs in 4 games against us. Ya gotta wonder what is going on with the Yankees.
[163] If they can get Spencer Jones to strike out a bit less, they can let Cody walk. Jones struck out 200 times in 544 plate appearances (37% K-Rate), so he would fit right in. I would just overpay for a single-season contract for Cody.
[164] I agree with you on the Mariners, and I've enjoyed watching the Blue Jays lose so far. I am hoping the Brewers beat LA to set up a Mariners v. former Pilots matchup.
[165] "Well, Suzyn, that's baseball."
BTW, the longer October goes, the more likely it is that both Boone and Cashman will return.
Wow... Vlad Jr has something like a 1.480 OPS so far in this post season.
Welp, Rodon and Volpe won’t be ready for Opening Day. Judge will.
Potential Blue Jays vs. Dodgers WS? Sweet Meteor of Death.
Throw in Cthulu. I cannot care less about this WS.And I remember when the BJ were an expansion team.