I wrote this early this
morning but never sent it out, so perhaps a lunch break read...
Going into Tuesday's
game our team OPS was a last in the AL .642! This is why we have to have
some perspective about how far we are underperforming. Why are we so
poor? Hard to say, but individually everyone is off, especially
offensively. Also, the moves in the offseason have not worked out so
far. I believe that the offense will get it going.
Tuesday Night’s Game:
- Our offense was still very bad. One run off a
nice shot by Urshela and one off of mostly a gift by Atlanta as we tried our best not to score.
- After walking Hicks on 4 pitches (he pinch-hit against
a lefty), DJ found a hole for his grounder. Judge then fought off a
pitch to hit a soft liner to RF to load the bases with nobody out in 1-1
game in the 8th. Gardner was up with a lefty on the mound and I
would have left him in the game. Boone went with Clint Frazier and
Atlanta countered with a righty. Maybe it worked as the pitcher uncorked a wild pitch that put us ahead 2-1. Frazier did end up popping up
to 2nd base for the first out. After intentionally walking Stanton,
Gleyber popped out to short center on the first pitch. Lucky that
Ford walked on 4 straight pitches to make it 3-1. It stayed there as
Sanchez missed lining up some very centered pitches and flew out to LF
- Chapman walked one guy and struck out 2 and looked
excellent again. I hate the walk but it was on a 3-2 count. He
has already thrown 19 100 MPH pitches after throwing only 23 all last
year. His splitter is a legitimate pitch so he has 3 pitches to use.
- Tallion hit his spots really well and was hitting
Sanchez' glove frequently
- The bullpen went 4 shutout innings. Wilson came
on to get Freeman with 2 outs and the bases loaded; nice work.
- Sanchez started the game with nobody on and his hand
dangling in the same exposed area. He did start to move it most of the other times as I am sure someone told him, but this needs to be a
habit that he makes part of his routine just like putting on his mask
before a pitch.
Off our team for a moment, I wanted to bring
forward a pretty cool feat by Corbin Burnes the Brewers starter. In 4
games this season, the 26-year-old who had a 2.11 ERA in 60 innings last year,
has struck out 40 batters and not walked a single batter. This is a
record. He also has great results as he has only allowed one run on a
solo HR and 8 hits in 24 innings for a 0.37 ERA
I also wanted to point to a site that picked up this blog as a top 15 NY Yankee blog. It obviously has other blogs that may be of interest to you so I am including the link.
https://blog.feedspot.com/ny_yankees_blogs/
Enjoy
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