All right, let's hit the field here. Oh, what? [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] It is Tuesday, September 24th. And the Yankees were taking on the Orioles in game one of a three-game set in the Bronx. With a win, the Yankees would be American League Eastern Division champions. My recap, your reaction's coming up next. This is pinstripe territory. Welcome to the Nioh Yaksa. [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] They pull me back in. [LAUGHTER] [MUSIC PLAYING] Welcome back, everybody. Welcome back. I don't know about you guys, but a lot of things bothered me about that game. We had a number of obvious opportunities. Base Running Mistakes by Glaiber Torres, not bunting in a key situation where you could have tied the game. Just a lot of unserious baseball tonight from the New York Yankees. One positive, we got John Sterling back on the radio. So I'm in North Carolina. And the games are blacked out. The yes network games are blacked out because the Orioles are considered the local team, even though it's a five-hour drive to go to a game. And so I have to watch those games on the Orioles Network, so what I typically do if I'm not running my VPN is I put on the Yankees radio broadcast and sync it up with the game. So tonight, I had actually forgotten about it. And to my pleasant surprise, John Sterling, back in the booth today, he'll be back in there for the entire homestand and for the playoffs, however long that run lasts. Not going to last very long if you play like this. Excuse me. It was fun to hear him call Aaron Judge's 56th home run in the season. I don't think we've heard him call Juan Soto home run yet, so I'm looking forward to that. But not a fun night for the Yankees. Was not a good night in the stadium. You could feel the energy was kind of down, kind of lethargic. The offense would lethargic. And the Orioles all of a sudden getting some guys back, crushing the baseball again. And that's got to worry if you're the Yankees because they got some momentum now in this series. The Yankees should have taken advantage of this evening and just put their foot on the Orioles throat. But low energy in the stadium is to about the seventh inning. Many rally, and the Yankees had a chance to tie the game, but Glabertores got thrown out at third base again. He must be the stupidest side of a pitch alive. This guy's base running. Absolute crime against humanity. Let's talk a little bit about Clark Schmidt. Not his best outing tonight, five and a third innings, three earned runs, four hits, one walk, seven strikeouts. ERA goes up to 2.55. Second start in a row that he was kind of laboring. And one of the things I saw from him tonight was something that I hadn't seen from him in a while. And that was he reverted back to his old mechanics a little bit where he was kind of flying open with his front side, you saw him falling off towards first base a number of times. That's a telltale sign that, you know, your momentum is exploding through your front shoulder, right? And it takes you towards the first baseline, and he was missing arm's side with his pitches a lot of times. Trying to spot balls, you know, Glab side, they would leak out over the plate, and that's why he got hit, four hits, including a home run tonight. You know, I don't know if it's rust, you know, I don't know what it is, but just not a good start for him. And, you know, at this point, every start is an audition to get into that playoff rotation. Now, I think he's in, I think he's in for sure. But the way that Nestor Cortez has been throwing the ball, the way that Carlos Rodon has been throwing the ball, Luis Heale continues to throw the ball well, more walks than you'd like, but still, you know, pitching pretty successfully. And Garrett Coe, obviously not going anywhere from your rotation, you know, he might have one more chance to get into the playoff rotation, we'll see. So since this is one of those nights where the, you know, the recap isn't gonna be super exciting, 'cause Yankees didn't do much offensively. I thought we would take some voicemails. So we're gonna get started here. First call is about Luke Weaver. - Hi, Derek, this is Patrick. I just wanted to say, I think Luke Weaver should be the closer going forward, including in the postseason. I think he has what he thinks. - Yeah. ♪ She's with us ♪ - You know, I didn't realize that he had thrown over 80 innings already this year. It's weird, if you would ask me, I would have said he'd thrown maybe 40, 50 innings, right? And that's a good thing. That means that he has forgettable, easy innings, you know? And since becoming the closer, he's been striking out a ton of guys. The fastball's been touching 98, the changeup has been filthy. He's got a Tommy Kingley fastball with an old Tommy Kingley, you know, when he was, when he first came to the Yankees, kind of fastball, 98 miles an hour. And his whiff percentage according to baseball savant is in the 94th percentile, his strikeout percentage is in the 92nd percentile. Go check out his metrics. That is what a closer looks like. - Crawling about why they keep taking the Mingas out. Especially with a right hand picture hitting tonight. And they got Stanton in there. And why not, and Vadugo, why not DHM or put him in left field and let's judge DH? Why keep taking him in and out of the lineup? - I think honestly of all the times that Boone has sat Dominguez since he's come up, tonight was the one that surprised me the least because it's almost politics, right? Vadugo has played 145 games for this team this year. And regardless of whether or not it was the better matchup tonight, I think Boone wanted the Yankees to clinch with Vadugo on the field. I would have preferred to see Dominguez in the lineup, but I kind of understand from an old school perspective what Boone was doing there. But, you know, Vadugo didn't do much today. And, you know, they brought him to Mingas late in the game against a guy throwing 100 miles an hour with a nasty cutter, exploded his bat. And I think that now it's all hands on deck, right? We tried to, you know, put our ideal lineup on the field tonight and, you know, give everybody happy feelings to clinch, but now you got to win some ball games. And I think Dominguez has to be in the lineup tomorrow. But I think Dominguez should be in the lineup every day. I think reps are what he needs right now. And they waited too long to call him up, because now you're under pressure, waiting for him to get hot. He was just starting to swing the bat a little bit better in Oakland, Seattle. He had that home run in Seattle. He had another home run in Oakland. He hit the ball hard a few times in Oakland. And, you know, I kind of figured they would sit him tonight, but having two days off, you know, and then having to come in and face a guy throwing 100 miles an hour, not great for your timing. Uh, both Simpson says, time to stop being nice and being a buddy to players. I got to say, I agree. I got to say, I agree. Um, sparkle sweets is burns tomorrow, effluent thursday. Orioles might sweet. Well, I mean, they might. That's baseball. As long as the Yankees win one more game this season, that's all you need, you know? That's all you need. Win one game the rest of the way and your AOE's chance. But yes, the, uh, the Orioles have some good pitching. And it's not going to be easy. It is not going to be easy. Hey, Derek, this is Matt in New Jersey. First time, long time. I was listening to, um, your voicemails episode, uh, where you're mentioning, uh, great games that you've been to. And then I said, oh, I should have called in and mentioned. Um, earlier this year, I took my son to his first Yankee game, and we went with a friend of mine who I've known since high school and his son. And then right hit three home runs in the game. And then on the way home, this has been traffic. We, uh, streamed your channel and watched you shave your head. Uh, it was a great day. Um, that's a core memory for, uh, for me and my son. So thanks for that. Wow. What a great call. That made me feel really good. That's why I do this. If the Yankees don't win the World Series, that game will probably be the high point memory for me this season. Uh, there's been lots of good stuff. The Soto getting clutch home runs in, uh, in San Francisco. Uh, you know, we had, uh, the grand slam by judge against the Red Sox. We had jazz chism hitting all those home runs against the Phillies. By the way, jazz chism not been swinging the bad good. He went over for tonight. But, um, you know, we'll see what happens in the playoffs, but that three run or that three home run game from Rice and the subsequent head shaving. Uh, it's core memory for me too. You know, we made it onto the Yankees broadcast, even though they didn't say my name. We made it into the New York Post. And honestly, I got a lot of compliments from my friends on, you know, both the shape and shininess of my head. So it worked out. Joseph Johnson says, "Glabers defense has been so bad that we forgot how bad his base running was." I didn't forget Pepperidge Farms remembers. Franklin Lopez says, "F in labor gave the game and killed the entire mood in the stadium and in the bench." You know, uh, I felt like the stadium's, uh, energy was bad all night, but you could feel sort of the momentum growing there. I think if Glabor Torres stays on third base, they probably, I don't know if they would walk judge. I saw that, you know, uh, Soto ran for second. He probably should have stayed there, right? He probably should have stayed at first, and then you force them to either pitch to judge or walk the bases loaded for Austin Wells. And then who knows what happens. But yeah, uh, it was interesting watching Garrett Cole respond on the bench to that base running blunder by Glabor Torres, sunk his head in shame and did not look happy about it. Got another super chat here from the 610 Stig says Stanton has been cold. I think they kind of need to play him here this week to try and get him going into the playoffs. But the five days off are also tough. Yes, I agree with you that the layoff concerns me. Here's the thing about baseball though. When you, when you take a guy who's been struggling and his timing is off and then you disrupt his timing even further, sometimes that's like a weird thing and it makes his timing even better. It's like when Aaron Boone hit that home run off of Tim Wakefield in the ALCS. He had been in a miserable slump. He was not starting that game. And then, you know, what a knuckle ball does is it throws your timing off. It's slow. It flutters and you take a guy who's slumping and you throw him against the pitch that's designed to kind of induce a slump and he leads to a home run. So, uh, you know, Gianni Mola says, Volpe needs to step up. Volpe had a tough night. He went 0 for 2 with a strikeout now hitting 248, but he had been, I think, 5 for 12 since he got that day off. And also since I put out that, that video, uh, a Jesus Stanton does not need to play. I think he needs it. Bats, I think he's going to play. I think he's going to play. You want him hot in the playoffs if you can make that happen. You want to get him going, but it's just weird how this team is set up right now. Let's take a look at the box score real quick because we've got some guys that are stinging the ball that are always incredibly difficult. Like Tor is hitting the ball well right now. Soto is always a tough out. And judge obviously one of the most dangerous hitters in the game, probably the most dangerous, but Wells is in a funk. Stanton is ice cold. Chisholm's ice cold. Rizzo, I mean, he'll get the occasional hit like he had tonight where it's kind of a soft hit, but he's not scaring me offensively. Volpe, you don't know what you're going to get. And Verdugo, obviously, you know, not great. So really right now they got like three hitters that you can count on. Quick drink of water here. Hey, tomorrow, uh, tune in. We're going to have Buster only on the show. He's one of my favorite, uh, Yankees writers. He wrote the book the last night of the Yankees dynasty, which is my favorite Yankees book by a mile. I read it probably every year. He's going to be on the show tomorrow. We're recording in the morning. It's not going to be live. And then I'll, I'll release it at some point mid day, but check that out. It's going to be, uh, it's going to be fun. We're going to talk about Soto. We're going to talk about his free agency, all that stuff, the Yankees chances in the playoffs. I really think they could go, you know, do some major damage in the playoffs, but the Orioles are getting healthy and, um, you know, that can be tough. Shane Johnson says Verdugo is awful. Hope he doesn't see one postseason at bat. I can't say that I disagree. All right, guys, uh, here's a, a quick word from our sponsor or gain. And then I'll be back in about 60 seconds and we'll run through the game real quick. I just found a protein shake that actually tastes amazing. And it's been a game changer for me. 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We've got another super chat here from Shane Johnson who points out collaborators his batting average and OPS since moving to the lead off hole, which is he's hitting 310 with an 890 OPS. And obviously those are very solid numbers, but he still has enormous, enormous problems running the bases. So very strong first inning for Clark Schmidt, couple of strikeouts. Second inning, not so good. Oriel's got on the board, couple of hits. They got another run in the fourth inning. Bottom four, Aaron Judge will not finish the season with 55 home runs. Majestic. So little home run, number 56 on the season. And just think a couple of months ago, Oriel's fans were chirping about how Gunnar Henderson was going to be the MVP over Aaron Judge, but that's none of my business. On a sad note, that home run was caught by notorious ball hog, Zach Hample, one of the biggest jerks in all the sports. Yank has put two runners on in the bottom of the fifth inning, and set Verdu go up with a perfect bunt situation, but they let him swing away, and he banged into a tailor made double plate. That's baseball, Susan. Got a bunt there, especially with a guy who hits that many ground balls. Top six, Anthony Santander smoked a line drive home run off of Clark Schmidt's hundredth pitch of the game. That was his final pitch. He went five and a third, four hits, three runs, one walk, seven strikeouts. Whip is at 1.16. The RA at 2.25. He takes the L, unfortunately, tonight. Top seven, Oriel's tacked on another home run by Urias. And then bottom seven, Yanks puts a momentum together. Double by Rizzo, infield single by Verdu go. Then Glabor Torres smoked one to right field for a ground roll double. That cut the lead to four two. Third hit of the night for Glabor Torres. He's now hitting 257 with a 708 OPS. But then Soto smoked one to right field. One run scored and Glabor Torres and Juan Soto were both left on the bases at the same time. And nothing good can happen when that happens because that's two of the worst base runners in baseball. And Glabor Torres got hung up halfway between home and third base. And the Oriel's random down. He ended up diving back into the base about three feet short. It was like that scene in Major League where Willie Mays Hayes tries to steal second base. And the guy's like, "Come on." And then Willie flips him off. Absolutely the worst base runner I've ever seen. Worst. Worst. Stanton is the slowest. Torres is the worst. Oriel's of course got one right back on a home run by another rookie of the year candidate, Colton Kouser. And he's got 23 home runs now. Bottom nine, Yankees brought the tying run to the plate. Jason Dominguez pinched it for Anthony Volpe. And he bounced out. Tough spot to put the kid in, facing 100 mile an hour cutters off the bench. And then Verdugo popped out to end the game. And the A.L.E.'s party will have to wait at least another day. James says, "Ads before YouTube, during YouTube, after YouTube, all these ads." Well, I mean, that's how this economy runs. I mean, I got to get paid, right? It's a free service. You know, all this equipment costs money. I got to pay people to run stuff. YouTube has to take their cut. That's how it works. That's, you know, you could just pay for cable. And then you still get ads. This is free. So anyway, Brian says that, "I think the best thing to do is D.H. Labor play Cabrera at second and just use Dominguez for left field. I'd rather have Grisham on the postseason roster instead of Verdugo. What are your thoughts?" I don't think they'll do it, because they want Stanton's bat in the playoffs. Because if he starts hitting home runs, he's a game changer. I mean, he can change a game with one swing. Problem is, most of his swings are coming up empty these days. But thank you for the super chat. Anyway, yeah, we've got some F-Zap/Campbell comments here in the chat. And they are still ahead of Cleveland by a few games in terms of the best record in the American League. They still got a lead of two in the win column. So Yankees are now 92 and 65. And the Guardians 91 and 67. So Yankee's still the favorite for home field advantage in the American League when the playoff begins. But tough night, if you're a Yankees fan, let's wrap it up. Let's wrap it up, folks. And Rayward says, "What are the chances this team gets swept?" You know, I don't know. I mean, it depends on how the pitching goes for the Orioles and how the Yankees hit with runners in scoring position. A lot of factors. What lineups are they going to run out there? You know? AG says, "Glabour ran on his own." That's not a surprise at all. Anyway, but hey, get your questions in. Call on the voicemail for Buster only. And I'll pick a few of my favorite questions that you guys ask. And you can feel free to leave it in the comments too. And we'll see what he thinks. But we'll definitely ask him about Juan Soto. We'll definitely ask him about the Martian versus Verdu go headed into the playoffs. Just get his opinions on these subjects. He's been covering the Yankees a long time. One of my favorites, and I'm anxious to talk to him tomorrow. It's going to be fun. But tough night, guys. Hopefully, I'll be back with better news tomorrow. I'll see you next time. [Music] If you enjoyed this video, please drop a like and give us a subscribe. It helps other Yankees fans find the channel. We're also on all your favorite podcast platforms and social media. Join the community, have some fun. We're here after every game. This is Pinsdriped territory. [Music]
