Carlos Rodon with a dominant start to open up the double header against the Rays: 8 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, and 8 Ks on 96 pitches. Season ERA at 2.67
Special start for Rodon: Notched his 1500th career strikeout, and is in line for his 100th career win!
Yea, when he’s been healthy - he’s been unhittable. Struggled with ability to go deep and with control cause of his IL stints, but he’s been awesome.
He’s been awesome as a Yankee though, it’s par for the course at this point!
I’ll never forget how much hate he got his first year with us. Dude really bounced back, and became one of our most reliable arms.
crazy that this guy might not even get a rotation spot for the wild card (although he for sure deserves game 3 imo)
I think Cole is the odd one out atm
Prisoner of the moment take. If my nuts are on the line give me Gerrit Cole, I don’t care about his last 3 starts
Agreed. I believe in him like I believed in Tanaka and Sevy. Even if he got blown up in his next start I’d believe in him to rebound. He just has that sauce
I think in a 3 game series a guy who has always given up a lot of HRs and has struggled to find whiffs is a very risky start. Even if I think ultimately Cole is the answer
I’m not trying to start any shit here but he has not been effective against the Sox in his career, plus his recent struggles? If I were you guys I’d have him sit in favor of Cam, Rodon, and Fried.
2hr 2 min. speed run
Really thought I might get to listen to the end of this game on the radio while I drove home from work :(
Heading home from the game with a whole day left. Wild
The spirit of Mark Buerhle was guiding those balls.
That’s the best start of his Yankees tenure.
stud
Carlos Rodon had a shaky year 1 but has otherwise been a very good pitcher since. Might be underrated in all honesty
The injury stuff gives him a bit of a pass, especially since he made all of his starts last year and was good.
It’s what you want efficient, and timely. He looks playoff ready
Red Sox fans: I’m in danger.
fuck Jerry for not wanting to pay homegrown talent.
Really good to see him dialing it up to 98 after he was throwing as low as 91 in his last start
Rays are just a different team on the road.
Yankees Rays games have a tendency to be like this and then follows up with like a 9-7 game
We are 40-34 on the road, it’s not awful or anything.
Brother we have the division basically locked up and its a double header shut your ass up
Doubleheader so you can get smacked twice in one day bozo
But yeah even with a sweep I doubt the Yankees catch y’all, I just want the moral victory of tipping the vibes scales in the last week.
3 more losses to the Yankees and then 1-2 against a Phillies teams fighting for wild-card seeding would give the Yanks the division. It’s not totally inconceivable. The Rays have clearly overperformed their talent level all year.
Yankees aren’t gonna drop any games at home against the Orioles.
Really nice game from him. Focused on hitting 1500K maybe? Like when he focused on that last big fat contract. But as the Yankees Kool Aid Kidz assured us after the Yanks burnt their challenges in the first, tHiS gAmE dOeSn’T eVeN mAtTeR.
the implication that he’s lazy after getting paid is so funny, this start brought him to a 2.67!
lol here come the selective ‘analytics’ scolds on the team astroturf tip. He’ll pitch fewer than 100 innings this season. Conditioning absolutely a question mark, never mind the mental side.
Acting like he didn’t have a great season last year too? with 195IP too
Schizophrenia is a hell of a thing
Maybe the mostly empty stadium helped him stay calm. Team certainly needed this tho. Believe it or not, I want the Yankees to be great. Was a huge proponent of signing him at the time.