Speaker 1: Wander, pull up, catch, gole, welcome back everybody. Oh four
Speaker 1: to ten with runners in scoring position for the Yankees tonight,
Speaker 1: and that is why they lost three to one. I mean,
Speaker 1: Will Warren wasn't amazing, but he wasn't terrible. It was
Speaker 1: the offense that let us down tonight. Oh for ten
Speaker 1: with runners in scoring position, rain delay, multiple light fixture outages.
Speaker 1: Just a messy night in the Bronx. I don't know
Speaker 1: if how is paying the light bill, but the Yankees
Speaker 1: fall to sixty four and fifty one. Andre Polante pitched
Speaker 1: very well. He gets the win tonight. He is twelve
Speaker 1: and six. Will Warren fails to pick up his career
Speaker 1: best tying ninth win. He is eight and six with
Speaker 1: a four point one point eight ERA. And let's just
Speaker 1: face it, the Yankees offense was putrid tonight, just not
Speaker 1: effective at all. I think we could skip ahead right
Speaker 1: to the good, bad, and the ugly Trent Grisham oh
Speaker 1: for five. Here's a fun stat. Trent Grisham is eight
Speaker 1: for his last seventy one. I'm not a mathematician or anything,
Speaker 1: but that's barely above a one hundred batting average. Garcia
Speaker 1: Junior got picked off, so he's fitting right in with
Speaker 1: the Yankees. Elliott Ramos got his first hit as a
Speaker 1: Yankee at double Spencer Jones oh for four and some
Speaker 1: wild swings. Jazz Chisholm a couple of walks tonight, so
Speaker 1: did McCann. He got on base a couple of times.
Speaker 1: Lombard had a base hit, he had a rope. Austin
Speaker 1: Wells had a hit, an opposite field single, but also
Speaker 1: had a really bad double play. And you know, the
Speaker 1: Cardinals are not supposed to come into Yankee Stadium and
Speaker 1: take two out of three from the New York Yankees.
Speaker 1: And that is exactly exactly what they did tonight.
Speaker 2: Good bad and the ugly.
Speaker 1: Ozzy R five C says can't Homer can't score same
Speaker 1: I mean, same thing. Almost every time the Yankees lose
Speaker 1: is a bunch of home run swings with guys on base.
Speaker 1: We saw it tonight from Jazz. Now Jazz did end
Speaker 1: up drawing a walk, but yeah, the bass is loaded,
Speaker 1: and his first two swings were just golf shots rather
Speaker 1: than shortening up trying to put a ball in play.
Speaker 1: I think the Yankees occasionally will have good at bats
Speaker 1: with runners on base, but they almost never take a
Speaker 1: contact approach until there's two strikes, and even then most
Speaker 1: guys don't take a contact approach with two strikes. Some
Speaker 1: of them do, Bellinger does. I think that Ben Rice
Speaker 1: occasionally will not always, I mean nobody else on the team.
Speaker 1: You know, Lombard, both of his hits in the major
Speaker 1: leagues have been with two strikes now, so maybe he's
Speaker 1: okay with two strikes, but you know, we're not gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, count on a rookie in his second game
Speaker 1: to come through. Really, it's it's the guys who are
Speaker 1: getting the big chip paychecks tonight that passed the baton,
Speaker 1: and you know we could have used a base knock.
Speaker 1: Grisham just in just a horrible slump, just an absolutely
Speaker 1: horrible slump. He is down to two to eleven with
Speaker 1: the batting average and a six eighty nine OPS for
Speaker 1: twenty two million bucks. His WRC plus has fallen below
Speaker 1: one hundred, so he's now officially below league average, and
Speaker 1: the Yankees have a lot of guys that are below
Speaker 1: league average right now. It's I wish there was some
Speaker 1: kind of I don't know, let's let's say like a
Speaker 1: deadline where you could shift players from one team to another.
Speaker 1: That would have been would have been nice. We got
Speaker 1: some some angry fans here in the Chad Jared Williams says, oh,
Speaker 1: I am so livid. I don't blame you. I don't
Speaker 1: blame you. The Yankees only had four hits tonight. Paul
Speaker 1: Goldschman had a double. Elliott Ramos, Elliott Ramas. I keep
Speaker 1: saying helly just because it's pronounced. How it's you know,
Speaker 1: how it's written, Elliott Ramos with a double. Jazz had
Speaker 1: a basis loaded walk. Ben Rice walked three times. I
Speaker 1: suppose that's one. I guess. A little upshot of this
Speaker 1: is that Ben Rice at least took some close pitches,
Speaker 1: had some decent at bats tonight. But he is still
Speaker 1: in a bad slump since the home run derby. That
Speaker 1: seems to be what people are blaming it on. I
Speaker 1: don't know if there's any correlation. You know, there's this
Speaker 1: old Latin phrase I like to throw around post hoc
Speaker 1: ergo propter hawk after it. Therefore, because of it, the
Speaker 1: slump came after the home run derby. Therefore was it
Speaker 1: because of the home run derby? Well, we don't know,
Speaker 1: but it's possible it was a contributing factor for sure.
Speaker 1: A couple other positives. Elliott Ramos. He did deliver his
Speaker 1: first hit as a Yankee, a hustle double. However, guy
Speaker 1: sucks at challenges. He's right up there with Jazz Chisholm
Speaker 1: in terms of being terrible at challenging. Austin Wells had
Speaker 1: an opposite field line drive single. He is won for two,
Speaker 1: so he's up to one sixty nine on the season.
Speaker 1: I'll be very interested to see if he can get
Speaker 1: over two hundred for the year. I do not think
Speaker 1: that he will. I do not think that he will.
Speaker 1: I'll say this though, adding a few players to the roster,
Speaker 1: even though the Yankees haven't started scoring a bunch, I
Speaker 1: think it's made the lineup at least a little bit
Speaker 1: more interesting. Luis Garcia he didn't do anything tonight other
Speaker 1: than a walk, but he's got some good batspeed. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be a good player for us. And yes,
Speaker 1: he did get picked off, so, like I said, fitting
Speaker 1: right in with the Yankees. I was very interested in
Speaker 1: his bat in the bottom of the sixth runner on third,
Speaker 1: one out. I was curious if he would be able
Speaker 1: to get the runner in and he battled, battle, battled,
Speaker 1: and ultimately he drew an eleven pitch walk, so he
Speaker 1: passed the baton. I like him, would have loved a
Speaker 1: base hit there. Ramos doubled lost his shoe. The only
Speaker 1: difference between him and John Carlos Stanton is when John
Speaker 1: Carlos Stanton loses his shoe, his leg is still in it.
Speaker 3: You ain't got no legs day.
Speaker 1: But for I'm gonna start calling him shoeless Elliot Ramos.
Speaker 1: He also lined out to the second basement, so he's
Speaker 1: clearly like trying to go the opposite way, and I
Speaker 1: think that will benefit him at Yankee Stadium. Spencer Jones
Speaker 1: just wild swings, just very very wild swings. And I
Speaker 1: mean he did draw walk tonight. No he didn't. He
Speaker 1: didn't draw walk. He you know what, he walked and
Speaker 1: then they overruled it and called it a strikeout. I
Speaker 1: was remembering the walk, but I had forgotten that it
Speaker 1: got overturned. Yeah, very wild swings. Two more strikeouts, And
Speaker 1: as we zoom out and look at Spencer Jones on
Speaker 1: the season so far, his strikeout rate is thirty seven
Speaker 1: and a half percent. That is not gonna get it done.
Speaker 1: He's gotta make a bit more contact. If it means
Speaker 1: cutting down on your swing, it means cutting down on
Speaker 1: your swing. His WRC has fallen below league average, as
Speaker 1: with most Yankees at this point, It's not what you want.
Speaker 1: As JOEJ You already would say. Two fantastic plays in
Speaker 1: the third inning on defense, Grisham made a diving catching
Speaker 1: center and then Lombard with an absolute web gem to
Speaker 1: make a diving stop and throw the runnerround at first.
Speaker 1: I love the look from Boone as he's coming into
Speaker 1: the dugout, like who is this guy? He also hit
Speaker 1: a rope line dried single. As I mentioned, he was
Speaker 1: down two in both the bats that he has hits
Speaker 1: this year. I'm a big Bo Jackson fan, best athlete
Speaker 1: I ever witnessed in my life. And there's this great
Speaker 1: story where Bo Jackson was at Auburn and it was
Speaker 1: his freshman year and he walked into the weightroom weight
Speaker 1: room and the coaches were kind of just standing around
Speaker 1: talking with a couple of seniors, and he casually went
Speaker 1: up to the bench press and bench press three hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty like ten times, and then he just got
Speaker 1: up and left, no spotter, nothing, and the coach, who
Speaker 1: was in the room at the time, said to some
Speaker 1: of the other guys, I think this guy can help
Speaker 1: us win. And I think about that every time that
Speaker 1: I see somebody who obviously has the skills to help
Speaker 1: us win. I think George Lombard Junior can help us win.
Speaker 1: But tonight the Yankees did not win and the Rays
Speaker 1: won four to nothing. So the Yankees now fall four
Speaker 1: and a half back in the American League East. Last night,
Speaker 1: it looked like the Yankees were going to gain a game,
Speaker 1: but the Rays came back and won, and also bad news,
Speaker 1: the Red Sox won four to nothing. Sonny Gray pitched
Speaker 1: a fantastic game, six shutout innings tonight to lower his
Speaker 1: RA to two point seven to eight. And as we
Speaker 1: look at these standings, I'm gon go and pull up
Speaker 1: the standings right now, Yankees four and a half back,
Speaker 1: Boston five and a half back, and Boston has won
Speaker 1: seven straight. And there is a non zero chance that
Speaker 1: Boston is going to pass us in the wild card
Speaker 1: here or in the East, and in the wild card
Speaker 1: here in the next several days, because the Yankees have
Speaker 1: the Braves coming to town, and the Braves are really
Speaker 1: really good, So tough night for the Yanks. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: take a look at the pitcher spotlight la. Obviously, he
Speaker 1: had the rain delay. That's no good for any pitcher.
Speaker 1: Most pitchers don't like to have their rhythm disrupted like that.
Speaker 1: And then he starts the game and he's a little
Speaker 1: bit imprecise, just missing the corners a little bit, and
Speaker 1: then you have like a brief delay because the lights
Speaker 1: went out in the stadium. And after that it seemed
Speaker 1: to click right. Two wrongs made it right, and he
Speaker 1: seemed to really settle down, and then he was great
Speaker 1: until the fifth inning. He gave up a few hits
Speaker 1: and gave up a couple of doubles, ended up serving
Speaker 1: up three runs, and the final line on the night
Speaker 1: five and a third inning seven hits, three runs, one walk,
Speaker 1: five strikeouts, topped out at ninety five point nine miles
Speaker 1: an hour through the fastball a lot tonight, twenty nine fastballs,
Speaker 1: twenty one sinker, sixteen change ups, fourteen sweepers, and eleven
Speaker 1: curve balls, and the era for the season up to
Speaker 1: four point one eight. As I mentioned, so not great
Speaker 1: fifth starter type. Let's go ahead and look at the
Speaker 1: game breakdown. This is where it gets ugly. Four hits
Speaker 1: for the Yankees, ten strikeouts and zero for ten with
Speaker 1: runners in scoring position. I mean, you can't win a
Speaker 1: game like that. You can't win a game like that
Speaker 1: at all, and eleven ground balls no chance. Austin Wells
Speaker 1: hit the hardest ball of the night, one oh five
Speaker 1: point four off the bat, and Paul Blackburn with the
Speaker 1: hardest pitch of the night. Okay, So series over. The
Speaker 1: Cardinals take two out of three. Take a look at
Speaker 1: what went down in the series. Garcia had three hits,
Speaker 1: McMahon had three hits. I feel like I said the
Speaker 1: same things last night. Lombard two hits in the series,
Speaker 1: including his first major league home run. Cavaliro won for
Speaker 1: three in the series. Ryan weathers through the ball well,
Speaker 1: will one through the ball okay. David Bednar through the
Speaker 1: ball well last night. And Curvin Castro, my favorite name
Speaker 1: on the team, was pretty solid in this series. Cam
Speaker 1: Schutzler had a rough night, the game score down at
Speaker 1: thirty one. We'll see how he does his next time out.
Speaker 1: The last two times that he's had bad outings, he's
Speaker 1: come back better the next time. Ryan Weather's game score
Speaker 1: of sixty four was the best of any Yankee starting
Speaker 1: pitcher in this series, Will Warren forty three tonight, So
Speaker 1: we look at the bullpen. I mean, the guy who
Speaker 1: really stunk was chev but he had been throwing the
Speaker 1: ball pretty well. We'll see if he comes back after
Speaker 1: a short trip to the minor leagues. They might have
Speaker 1: just wanted to get him some rest because he kind
Speaker 1: of took one for the team the other night. And
Speaker 1: for the home runs Yankees actually hit the ball out
Speaker 1: of the ballpark in this series. Garcia, McMahon, Cabaliro, Chisholm,
Speaker 1: Wells Lombard all went deep. So did Trent Grisham, But
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, Grisham eight for his last seventy one. Okay,
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Speaker 4: Hey, Derek, it's the professor from Port Lee, New Jersey.
Speaker 4: I wanted to give a call back and make a
Speaker 4: suggestion to George Lombard Junior if he ever hears this. George,
Speaker 4: do yourself a favor and call Derek Jeter. It's very
Speaker 4: very simple. Call Derek Jeter. All right, don't make a
Speaker 4: mistake like the last person did hey listen? Thanks Derek,
Speaker 4: great podcasts. Love listening to you guys, especially the fans
Speaker 4: that comment and always look forward to a great show.
Speaker 3: Thanks.
Speaker 1: Appreciate the girl. And honestly, if Jeter still is a
Speaker 1: Yankees fan as he was growing up, he should call Lombard.
Speaker 1: I always wonder that if you're a fan of a
Speaker 1: team growing up and then you retire, are you still
Speaker 1: a fan, because then it was like, it's just like
Speaker 1: a different relationship once it becomes your job, right Like,
Speaker 1: I'm sure there are people around the organizations that he
Speaker 1: just he doesn't like, and so I wonder if he's
Speaker 1: still a fan. Here's Kayden.
Speaker 5: Hey, Derek, this is Cayden got from Tennessee. I was
Speaker 5: thinking about the bullpen. Do you think there's any chance
Speaker 5: Carlos the Grande can get back? And if not, do
Speaker 5: you think we could feel Willis Hill in the bullpen?
Speaker 5: If he could get back soon? I mean that would
Speaker 5: be an okay addition in the bullpen if he can
Speaker 5: get back, right, and then we'll have I would say
Speaker 5: World one. We'll go to the pin and Ron weathersts
Speaker 5: the playoff start.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 1: The pen is not a problem. I think the pen
Speaker 1: is going to be fine. Otherwise, I think Cashman would
Speaker 1: have worked harder to address it. At the deadline. Carlos
Speaker 1: le Grin is apparently tossing. I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: going to be a factor. I hope so, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't like he had already made it to the major leagues.
Speaker 1: Even if he does become a factor, he's going to
Speaker 1: have to learn on the fly at the major league level.
Speaker 1: And who knows if they want to transition him back
Speaker 1: to the bullpen because he got hurt pitching out of
Speaker 1: the bullpen when he's been a starter. So it's interesting.
Speaker 1: Here's Milton.
Speaker 3: Hey, Derek, this is Milton Texas. I don't know if
Speaker 3: you're as tire as I am.
Speaker 2: Maybe not, Maybe you are seeing even wells in the
Speaker 2: dugout let alone at bat. I mean, I love the
Speaker 2: message from you some I mean some weeks ago about
Speaker 2: we've had a period in this Yankee history in the
Speaker 2: last two or three years, we've had no good.
Speaker 3: Catchers, barely any you know, decent, any type catcher. This
Speaker 3: has been a terrible period and no catchers in the
Speaker 3: days of the last good catcher we had with Asada.
Speaker 3: Sanchez was going to be a promise, but he petered
Speaker 3: out anyway, and Rushman was available. I don't know.
Speaker 6: Maybe you could tell me what happened, to tell us
Speaker 6: what happened why we couldn't get Rushman. Maybe Baltimore than
Speaker 6: one of the senate to us. Maybe they got a
Speaker 6: senator Boston, a senate to Boston. Anyway, Thank you for
Speaker 6: taking my call, but I know.
Speaker 1: That Boston paid out the ass for Rushman, and it
Speaker 1: just comes down to Cashman was not willing to meet
Speaker 1: the price. That's basically what he said. He wasn't willing
Speaker 1: to go to the level that the Orioles were asking.
Speaker 1: I mean, what can you do? It takes two to tango.
Speaker 1: I think McCann was a pretty good catcher for a
Speaker 1: minute there. I remember that July fourth game I was
Speaker 1: at and he hit a home run and the fireworks
Speaker 1: started going off. I'm trying to think what other case.
Speaker 1: I mean, Russell Wilson wasn't bad his first year with
Speaker 1: the Yankees, and you know, Sanchez back in twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: and twenty sixteen was pretty good defensively along with being
Speaker 1: pretty good offensively. He just had like a short stint
Speaker 1: because the league figured him out and he didn't work
Speaker 1: hard enough to stay ahead of the game. And you know, honestly,
Speaker 1: I think I think Gary Sanchez under Joe Girardi could
Speaker 1: have been a Hall of Fame catcher. He had that
Speaker 1: kind of talent, rocket arm. Remember when he was in shape.
Speaker 1: He had power. He hit to all fields. Once Aaron
Speaker 1: Boone came along and started telling him, Yeah, take that
Speaker 1: big uppercut swing to hit everything out of the ballpark. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't worry about tagging a runner at home. Who
Speaker 1: gives a fuck about that. That's when his career went downhill.
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