4/10 - NY @ CLE

[Murderer's Crow]

German @ Bieber
Cole @ Gladdis
Schmidt @ Civale

Love a 6:10pm gametime. With a shortened game you could see a full game end before 9pm. Crazy.

 

[jon abbey]

CLE looking for some payback after NY eliminated them in the ALDS last year, their bullpen pitched a lot the last two days so they're a bit thin there entering the series.

 

[jon abbey]

Wild lineup after the top four:

1 2B Gleyber Torres
2 CF Aaron Judge
3 1B Anthony Rizzo
4 RF Giancarlo Stanton
5 DH Willie Calhoun
6 C Jose Trevino
7 LF Franchy Cordero
8 3B Isiah Kiner-Falefa
9 SS Anthony Volpe

 

[jon abbey]

German @ Bieber
Cole @ Gladdis
Schmidt @ Civale

Love a 6:10pm gametime. With a shortened game you could see a full game end before 9pm. Crazy.

Civale to the IL.

 

[Murderer's Crow]

Wild lineup after the top four:

1 2B Gleyber Torres
2 CF Aaron Judge
3 1B Anthony Rizzo
4 RF Giancarlo Stanton
5 DH Willie Calhoun
6 C Jose Trevino
7 LF Franchy Cordero
8 3B Isiah Kiner-Falefa
9 SS Anthony Volpe

Last week I was thinking "Of course Boone puts Hicks, IKF, and Higgy in the same lineup." Now he 1upped himself.

 

[jon abbey]

Dunno, Franchy is hot and Calhoun can hit, nice to have some more lefty bats in against Bieber.

With the current 13 position players on the team, at least one of Cordero/Calhoun/IKF/Hicks has to be in the lineup every day, and that's if none of the main six guys (the top four here plus DJ and Cabrera sit). Today two of them are sitting, so three of those four are in the lineup, at least it's not Hicks.

 

[jon abbey]

NY is 6-0 with Cole, Cortes or Brito starting, 0-3 with Schmidt and German.

 

[terrynever]

Dunno, Franchy is hot and Calhoun can hit, nice to have some more lefty bats in against Bieber.

With the current 13 position players on the team, at least one of Cordero/Calhoun/IKF/Hicks has to be in the lineup every day, and that's if none of the main six guys (the top four here plus DJ and Cabrera sit). Today two of them are sitting, so three of those four are in the lineup, at least it's not Hicks.

Yes, Yankees traditionally always had plenty of lefty power, in lineup and on bench. Cordero and Calhoun can hit it to the moon.

 

[jarules1185]

If i am reading the gameday log correctly, Cleveland seems to be lucky not to be down 4-0

 

[terrynever]

German just walked his fourth and fifth batters with 0 outs in fourth inning. 83 pitches. Lucky to be leading, 2-1.

 

[terrynever]

German’s gone after giving up a single that tied the game.

 

[jarules1185]

Unable to watch the game, but just noticed that a catcher doubled on an 89 mph grounder to shortstop, which sounds normal

 

[terrynever]

Colten Brewer relieved German and got 3 outs and held the game at 2-2 after 4. Still in there in the sixth. It took German 87 pitches to get 9 outs. Brewer got 9 outs with 28 pitches.

 

[terrynever]

Guardians take a 3-2 lead in 7th off Ian Hamilton, who walked the first two.batters he faced.
Gleyber leads off 8th with liner to CF that short-hops Straw and rolls to the warning track. Triple. No outs. Ex-Bryant U. reliever James Karinchak will face Judge, Rizzo and Stanton. He gets Judge on a check-swing flare to second. Rizzo strikes out on 4 pitches. Similar result for Stanton. Karinchak dances off the mound.

 

[jon abbey]

This game has been really annoying, that Calhoun bullet in the first not going right at the 2B would have changed everything.

Brewer was great!! I said CLE's bullpen was a bit worn down coming in but I didn't realize NY's was too, Brewer really bailed them out after German was bad again.

 

[terrynever]

We go to the ninth!

 

[jon abbey]

Jhony Brito has ascended from #8 guy to #3 guy shockingly quickly, ahead of German and Schmidt right now to stick in the rotation for however many innings he is allowed. 116 and 112 the last two minor seasons and he is 25, so probably 150 at least if he can.

 

[jon abbey]

Calhoun gets on, Cabrera pinch-runs and steals.

 

[jon abbey]

^That is wishful thinking for the future, to be clear^

 

[jon abbey]

YES showed a graphic in the 8th of the guys coming up in the 9th, and it showed Calhoun at 0-3, I'd be pissed if I was him. Did I hallucinate that double into left?

 

[jon abbey]

DJ pinch-hits, groundout

 

[terrynever]

Cleveland lost a run in 8th when Zunino’s blast to left got wedged into fence for a ground rule double.

 

[jon abbey]

For the rest of our lives, we will remember where we were when Franchy took Clase out to tie the game.

 

[terrynever]

YES showed a graphic in the 8th of the guys coming up in the 9th, and it showed Calhoun at 0-3, I'd be pissed if I was him. Did I hallucinate that double into left?

Pretty sure Willie did not see that graphic!

 

[jon abbey]

Oh man Clase's stuff.

 

[jon abbey]

OK back at it with Cole and the A team tomorrow.

 

[jon abbey]

IKF is such a bad baseball player. I think he actually has a large open space in the middle of his chest and those balls down the line were going through that.

 

[terrynever]

DJ pinch-hits, groundout

He did run hard thru the bag.

 

[terrynever]

IKF is such a bad baseball player. I think he actually has a large open space in the middle of his chest and those balls down the line were going through that.

Maybe Donaldson makes those two backhands. But he’s hurt!

 

[jon abbey]

Love a 6:10pm gametime. With a shortened game you could see a full game end before 9pm. Crazy.

Nailed it!

I don't like if the shadows are an issue to start the game but they didn't seem to be today.

 

[jon abbey]

Maybe Donaldson makes those two backhands. But he’s hurt!

Cabrera, I figured if they were going to wedge all of Calhoun, Franchy and Stanton into LF/RF/DH, they would put Cabrera at 3B. He definitely should have pinch hit in the 7th for IKF after Franchy walked, I bet he does if it is later in the season.

Also it is such terrible baseball in that situation to not take some pitches and give Franchy a chance to steal, first pitch easy DP, ARGH.

 

[Sad Sam Jones]

Cleveland lost a run in 8th when Zunino’s blast to left got wedged into fence for a ground rule double.

That was a million-to-one shot, but I still imagine Cleveland's ground crew will be out there tomorrow morning duct-taping the top of that video board so that a ball can never get in there again.

 

[terrynever]

That was a million-to-one shot, but I still imagine Cleveland's ground crew will be out there tomorrow morning duct-taping the top of that video board so that a ball can never get in there again.

Thanks, I was wondering how it got there.

 

[jon abbey]

Dropping that easy bunt attempt and then letting Gimenez reach probably cost German an inning, no one was really hitting him but he couldn't/wouldn't throw strikes.

 

[jon abbey]

DJ and Cabrera back, Stanton and Volpe sit (first time anyone has played SS besides Volpe this season, noteworthy it's Cabrera and not IKF):

1 3B DJ LeMahieu
2 CF Aaron Judge
3 1B Anthony Rizzo
4 2B Gleyber Torres
5 DH Willie Calhoun
6 SS Oswaldo Cabrera
7 RF Franchy Cordero
8 C Jose Trevino
9 LF Aaron Hicks

 

[EvilEmpire]

Cabrera drives in a run with a sac fly. He looks good at the plate so far this year.

So does Franchy. Three run shot makes it 6-2 good guys.

 

[terrynever]

Yanks get 5 runs in third to take a 6-2 lead. Franchy caps rally with 3-run bomb to right.

 

[terrynever]

Now it’s 8-2 and Tito’s bullpen is overworked already.

 

[terrynever]

Now it’s 10-2. Good night for padding stats and run diff.

 

[jon abbey]

Cole gave up a league-leading 33 HRs in 33 starts last year, none in his first three this year so far.

1 PM EST start tomorrow, Clarke Schmidt can't get out lefties and needs to figure out how to quickly if he wants to stay in the rotation much longer.

 

[jon abbey]

OK, now this is a rough lineup. Volpe’s first time leading off, would be nice if he had a big day.

1 SS Anthony Volpe
2 DH Aaron Judge
3 1B Anthony Rizzo
4 RF Giancarlo Stanton
5 LF Franchy Cordero
6 2B Oswaldo Cabrera
7 3B Isiah Kiner-Falefa
8 C Kyle Higashioka
9 CF Aaron Hicks

 

[jon abbey]

View: https://twitter.com/brendankutynj/status/1646170145872650247?s=46&t=0GHHaPVUX26Io0V2HIcS0g

 

[terrynever]

Volpe led off the game with a double but got no further.

Hicks, in CF, had three bloopers hit his way in bottom of first. Had to charge each one. First one just fell in safely. Caught next one. Then a bloop double to left. Second and third. Third blooper is seemingly caught by Hicks, who doubles runner off second for third out. Lead runner tagged at third and scored.

Replay shows the ball escaped Hicks’ glove. Umpires huddled and will overrule this, putting teams back on field.

Boone gets tossed after arguing that Francona did not properly challenge the call. Tito pointed to scoreboard replay and umps took the bait.

 

[terrynever]

First and third, two outs. Schmidt returns to mound following 10-minute delay.

 

[terrynever]

Hicks caught one of those three Texas Leaguers. Cabrera would have had them all without having to leave his feet.

 

[cromulence]

That was complete bullshit.

 

[terrynever]

Bell singles in a second run.

 

[terrynever]

No hard contact off Schmidt. Three outs finally.

 

[terrynever]

Amed Rosario provides hard contact. 3-0.

 

[terrynever]

Higgy doubles in two runs in fifth. 3-2. Schmidt goes four innings. Marinaccio takes over and walks first hitter he faces.