I do know there are folks — calling into WFAN proper now, making feedback down under, tweeting at us — who get very, very offended when groups play like this. The Yankees are largely stinking up the joint, and other people will get mad.
I can’t get there. For me, this sort of play solely conjures up disinterest. It’s boring to observe the beginning pitcher spot an opponent 2-3 runs earlier than his workforce has turned the lineup over as soon as. It’s uninteresting to see the bullpen fail to maintain video games shut even as soon as the lineup wakes up. It’s by no means uninspiring to observe Juan Soto take a pitcher into Monument Park or to see a rookie like Ben Rice swat his first profession homer, however after they occur whereas going through a large deficit, they don’t seem to be as inflating as they need to be.
All of that is to say, I hope your Fourth of July is extra fascinating, thrilling and exhilarating than the Yankees’ 8-4 loss to the Reds. That residual boredom goes to make it laborious to get via this recap, however expensive reader, I’ll strive my finest.
For Marcus Stroman, he didn’t rebound from a begin final week that got here with its share of controversy. I don’t need to relitigate all the saga of him calling out Gleyber Torres, however the storybook manner to answer that might be with seven shutout innings, and this wasn’t a storybook day. The onetime all-world groundball pitcher gave up three house runs, two of the solo selection and a back-breaking three-run blast from Spencer Steer within the fifth.
This continues a problematic development for Stroman going again greater than a month now. His ERA has ballooned from 2.60 on Could thirty first to three.58 now, due to a 5.74 mark throughout the six begins since. Everyone within the rotation is struck by some form of suck-tivitis, however that’s chilly consolation when it’s your time to play dunce.
I keep in mind watching Stroman when he was with Toronto, and like a variety of pitch-to-contact guys, he’s going to be prone to batted balls not discovering gloves. If that have been how he was crushed as we speak, you are taking it on the chin and keep in mind that these batted balls are going to seek out a variety of gloves. Sadly for Stroman, the Yankees, and everybody who needed to sit via this recreation, THESE batted balls gained’t discover gloves:
I consider in Ben Rice, and I’m glad all of us bought to see a reasonably particular second for him:
I additionally consider in Juan Soto, though that requires much less of a leap of religion. After being robbed of a house run by an awesome snag from Reds middle fielder Will Benson within the first inning, Soto put one within the Park that even Benson couldn’t get to:
Love you, Juan.
What else was fascinating about this recreation? I suppose that Trent Grisham had a pleasant double and a stroll, bumping his wRC+ to 90 on the 12 months. After all he additionally nonchalantly fielded a single that ate him up and allowed Jeimer Candelario to advance to second, though Candelario was stranded there.
It is a smelly, smelly stretch of baseball. The Reds got here into this sequence six video games under .500, and bought a sweep within the Bronx. The Yankees are actually 2.5 video games behind the Orioles, in a race that was at all times going to be shut, a race the place each marginal win means lots. The season isn’t over, we’ve bought a protracted solution to go, however dangerous begins, dangerous hitting, and mediocre reduction pitching is a reasonably dangerous combo.
The Pink Sox come to city a scorching workforce, winners of three straight and in at present in extras in opposition to Miami whereas I write this. Nestor Cortes would be the newest starter requested to place a halt to this skid tomorrow evening within the Bronx, the place this age-old rivalry will start one other chapter at 7:05pm Jap.
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