7/1 - 7/3: New York at Cleveland

[jon abbey]

NY plays their second and final series against the Neo-Guardians, this one in their midge-friendly confines. The series in NY was in late April and marked by a 9th inning comeback against Clase, Donaldson walk, IKF double, Gleyber game-winning single into the right-center gap with some ugliness from the NY OF fans on the final few plays. That series also started NY's ongoing hot streak, they were 7-6 before this series and have gone 49-15 since (124-38 pace).

Friday: Cole at Civale
Saturday: Cortes at McKenzie
Sunday: Montgomery at Plesac

NY misses Bieber and Quantrill.

 

[jon abbey]

Cleveland has been playing very well for a while now, besides being swept by BOS last week. They are 20-10 since May 30, although that breaks down further into 17-4 followed by 3-6 in their last 9.

 

[jon abbey]

View: https://twitter.com/yankeespr/status/1542916564651069440?s=21&t=uebzzP-AoQqXErEt6JTcUQ

 

[jon abbey]

Trevino starts again, Gallo sits again.

1. DJ LeMahieu (R) DH
2. Aaron Judge (R) CF
3. Anthony Rizzo (L) 1B
4. G. Stanton (R) RF
5. Josh Donaldson (R) 3B
6. Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
7. Aaron Hicks (S) LF
8. Jose Trevino (R) C
9. I. Kiner-Falefa (R) SS

 

[jon abbey]

View: https://twitter.com/bryanhoch/status/1542982304146014210?s=21&t=32CDLCLwTZaicVHMYiNUrA

 

[jon abbey]

Rained out, split doubleheader tomorrow, first game at noon.

The pretty hot Miguel Andujar was replaced mid-game tonight in AAA, likely going to be the 27th man tomorrow.

 

[jon abbey]

Wonder when Andujar got to CLE, anyway he is in there for game 1 today, along with Carpenter and Marwin. Rizzo, Donaldson, Gallo, IKF all sitting against the lefty McCarty.

1 3B DJ LeMahieu
2 DH Aaron Judge
3 2B Gleyber Torres
4 RF Giancarlo Stanton
5 LF Miguel Andujar
6 CF Aaron Hicks
7 1B Matt Carpenter
8 C Jose Trevino
9 SS Marwin Gonzalez

 

[jon abbey]

Cole with his BP imitation on the road again, not ideal.

 

[cromulence]

Someone tell Cole that his cutter fucking sucks.

 

[jon abbey]

DJ!

 

[cromulence]

Miggy! Big 2 out RBI single, and took second.

 

[cromulence]

Hicks cashes in two more. Some soft hits, we'll take it.

 

[jon abbey]

Nice rally after the HR, even with a weak three pitch K by Stanton in the middle.

Be better now Cole.

 

[jon abbey]

Cole at 57 pitches through 3, he will need some bullpen support today.

 

[cromulence]

Looked like a play Stanton should have made.

 

[jon abbey]

Wow, DJ really is so much better at 3B this year than he was last year.

 

[jon abbey]

Cole pitching way too carefully to Sandy freaking Leon, finally he got him his second time up.

77 pitches through 4 for Cole though.

 

[jon abbey]

Stanton responsible for 5 of the first 14 outs today, two DPs and a 3 pitch K. Maybe he should have gotten this first game off...

 

[jon abbey]

Finally a shorter inning for Cole, 89 pitches through 5. The tough middle of the order is up in the 6th.

 

[cromulence]

Wow. Carpenter has to play more.

 

[jon abbey]

Matt! Against a lefty!!

 

[jon abbey]

Wow. Carpenter has to play more.

7 HRs in 39 ABs!!!

 

[jon abbey]

Nice to see NY hitting in a day game for once.

 

[cromulence]

Why is the strikeout noise for the Guardians the extra life chime from Mario? Kind of counterintuitive.

 

[cromulence]

Judge on 3-0 is becoming a thing. Smoked that.

 

[cromulence]

Gleyber sneaks one through and they blow it open.

 

[jon abbey]

Hicks and Gleyber a combined 4-4 with 3 walks and 4 RBIs.

 

[jon abbey]

Nice 6th from Cole, dots the corner at 97 on his 107th pitch.

 

[jon abbey]

Chapman coming in next, first appearance since May 22. They supposedly worked on his mechanics, we’ll see.

 

[jon abbey]

Chapman with zero control of his fastball again, he looks exactly the same as pre-injury (bad).

 

[jon abbey]

Awful.

 

[jon abbey]

Awful.

 

[jon abbey]

Good job by Marinaccio, gonna be interesting when Loaisiga is ready to come back.

 

[jon abbey]

18 baserunners for Chapman in his last 5.2 innings.

5.2 11 8 8 7 4

Yoiks.

 

[jon abbey]

How can they send him back down? Maybe another phantom IL stint for Chapman.

View: https://twitter.com/maxtgoodman/status/1543308393384972288?s=21&t=QxEogof7jUHiKNb7dhob-Q

 

[jon abbey]

Clement has better control than Chapman.

 

[jon abbey]

NY doubleheaders so far this season:

5/8: TEX (W 2-1, L 4-2)
5/22: CHW (L 1-3, L 0-5)
6/2: LAA (W 6-1, W 2-1)
7/2 @ CLE: (W 13-4, ???)

 

[cromulence]

Absolute best case scenario. I will never trust Chapman, so him doing what he did today in a game that they still easily win without having to use their best arms (outside of Marinaccio but I liked going to him there) - perfect. Put him back on the IL and let's never see him again.

 

[jon abbey]

You know there is a lot of crazy shit going on in the world when Ken Tremendous hasn’t tweeted about Matt Carpenter yet today.

 

[Wingack]

What does Chapman’s contract look like?

 

[jon abbey]

What does Chapman’s contract look like?

Done after this season, praise Jah.

 

[Wingack]

Done after this season, praise Jah.

OK cool that is what I was hoping. We can ride this out and then give his money to Judge.

 

[jon abbey]

View: https://twitter.com/YankeesSlut/status/1543319058707251200?s=20&t=QtuUHXMvF97_QDTzfHVqMA

 

[EvilEmpire]

Pure pinstripe pixie dust. Love it.

 

[jon abbey]

Hicks, Gleyber, Trevino sit.

1. DJ LeMahieu (R) 2B
2. Aaron Judge (R) CF
3. Anthony Rizzo (L) 1B
4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
5. Josh Donaldson (R) 3B
6. Miguel Andujar (R) LF
7. Joey Gallo (L) RF
8. Isiah Kiner-Falefa (R) SS
9. Kyle Higashioka (R) C

 

[cromulence]

Quiet in here, almost like there was already a baseball game today.

Cortes with a nice bounceback start so far, curious if they'll have him start the 7th or if they try to get the last nine outs with King and Holmes.

 

[EvilEmpire]

I think Boone is right. Donaldson's bat may actually be coming around.

 

[EvilEmpire]

They said Gallo has two sac flies. In his career. I looked at Baseball Ref just to be sure, and yeah, that's what the numbers say. Eight seasons. 2202 ABs. He is not a ground ball hitter.

I don't think I've ever seen such a crazy stat.

 

[EvilEmpire]

Higgy with half a Gallo career's worth of sac flies. 6-1.

 

[cromulence]

They said Gallo has two sac flies. In his career. I looked at Baseball Ref just to be sure, and yeah, that's what the numbers say. Eight seasons. 2202 ABs. He is not a ground ball hitter.

I don't think I've ever seen such a crazy stat.

That's completely ridiculous.