Please continue the discussion in the [post game thread](https://redd.it/1du2u2n).

I feel like that’s a loss we can really build on. We were down big well into the game and battled back. I feel like we’ve definitely turned a corner. Go Yanks 🤘

Welp all I needed was a Soto hit and I would’ve won $116 on a $3 parlay. And was Grisham sitting ball in the dirt? Finally, De La Cruz needs to be our third baseman.

I miss small ball yanks

This team is mid as fuck

Man that’s infuriating on so many levels. Being undone in a horrible inning, Ferguson not doing his job yet again but probably thinking it doesn’t matter cause we’re losing 3-0, it fucken matters and now proven in the worst way. Once it became a sniff and got to the 8th inning with our weak hitters coming up, you knew we were in for a let down

Volpe is just playing up to his peripherals. Even during his hot streak it was clearly never sustainable. Hes a bottom third bat and that’s ok because he is elite on defense.

That was the lowest effort bottom of the 9th I've ever seen. just about 9 pitches. Pathetic

The only pitch we didn’t seem to swing at was the fat slider down the cock

LET BRETT BANG

How is it that everyone slumps at the same exact time??? Do they just all fucking suck or what???

Why the fuck are they swinging like madmen with 3 outs left. broooo

I’m blaming all of this on that shithead Caleb Ferguson, DFA him on his birthday night. Fuck him. 

Fuck his fucking birthday. He sucks ass.

Volpe needs a day off bad. It worked for Gleyber

That loss is entirely on Aaron Boone being an awful manager. Inexcusable from a guy who's been doing this job for this many years to keep making the same mistakes.

At least it was competitive, that’s more than I can say for the vast majority of the games the last 2 weeks

I’ll be canceling my YES subscription 

I’m tearing up my library card

Volpe’s OPS+ is 99 and rapidly dropping. Our count of above average hitters is down to 2

Volpe just as good as Witt and Gunnar

Close but no dice. Judge continued to make his AL MVP case. Good game from Gleyber and Rice. Gonna blame this solely on Ferguson for ineffectiveness per usual.

we suck

So fucking much of this team is just gutless and when things get tough they just crumble.

I guess volpe was in a hurry to go home

#Verdugo shouldn’t be batting cleanup #Volpe shouldn’t be leading off #GIL IS RESPONSIBLE FOR FOUR OF THE FIVE RUNS AND IF YOU’RE MAD AT THE BULLPEN TODAY YOU’RE A MORON

Who do you bat lead off and cleanup then? Not even being combative here. Other than Soto and Judge this lineup is brutal and not built very well

Leadoff? Dunno. But literally anyone on the team right now is better than Dugie at cleanup. Rice, Gleyber, DJ, Grisham. All of them have been better than Verdugo lately and would be better at cleanup. Verdugo is in the middle of an insanely awful slump

Being mad at Ferguson is completely justifiable, dude has sucked

Sure, but he essentially gave up a solo shot, he’s not responsible for the dude Gil left on base. He didn’t put him there. Gil shit his pants on the mound for the third straight start. If it had been Rodon today with the line of 4.0 IP, 4 ER, people wouldn’t be taking their anger out on Boone and the bullpen lmao

Pitchers solved Volpe and he can’t adjust

Bone head Boone costs them another one.

Put Johnny Damon leadoff

Volpe 0-5 what’s new lmao these fucking clowns suck it’s Juan Soto Aaron Judge and Ben Rice the rest don’t deserve to play every day

Get Volpe out of leadoff It was an undeniable failure at every level and has to be ended

Most predictable Volpe AB. Get his ass on roids asap please

Sad judge chamber noises

fuck

Back of the lineup is complete dogshit

To the fucking reds

Moving Volpe out of the lead off spot will put us right back on track!

Volpe 0-5, not a single competitive AB. NO MORE ~~SOUP~~ LEADOFF FOR YOU.

Clone Aaron Judge wen

Hmm. Yeah. That’s about the level of fight I was expecting there

crazy how they can look so casual in these situations

Well shit

Volpe is now 14 for 76.

The most obvious loss ever. Even when they show signs of life, Boone is right there ready to make everything harder than it has to be

This loss is on whoever let Gley swing 3-1

Volpe's BABIP luck is regressing hard

Volpe. Jesus fucking fuck

volpe bout to go 0-5

Volpe is lost

Well that was anti climactic

Love an 0-5 leadoff hitter, doing his job

Pitch volpe outside every time

This is why I want Soto and Nudge leading off. End of the game, line up turns over and… it’s Volpe.

Great our worst hitter is up now

Smfh..

If wells flattens out his swing he’s a .250 20 hr hitter

The bottom of the ninth inning did not bring me joy

loud out, and an upcoming ground out from volpe for a good night NY

We are trash.

Volpe is a liability

Just a lack of competitive ABs all over the place in this lineup.

Game

Slider middle-middle: Volpe takes Slider down-away: Volpe swings

The gleyber affect

Weak as fuck 9th inning

I don't want to hear about expected batting average, babip or any other non sense about wells. I want results

Oh no we suck again.GIF

Let's go Volpe!!!

shit

1. Get Volpe out of leadoff 2. Get Ferguson off this team

Seriously, Ferguson needs to go.

Our game should never end on Volpe but here we are Moronic to not have Soto and Judge batting 1-2

Grisham just stares at the 0-2. You gotta defend the zone papi

Throw it down the middle, he'll never see it coming!"

Wells continues to have no pop because he insists on hitting everything straight up with that looping swing

Trevino could’ve done that..

COME ON BE MAY VOLPE!

Volpe should try and bunt

Or just flail at everything that works too

Meatball right down the middle and he just stares at it.......

Anthony Volpe hitting lead off is a disgrace I wish boone didn’t make the lineup, would never happen if we were “over reliant on analytics”

Lol, you’re such a PR guy

14 for 75.

If Volpe makes the final out I need to see Soto and Judge hit 1-2

Fucking gross

Now would be a wonderful time to turn things around Anthony

If only we had Soto as leadoff and judge at 2.

Thanks YES for showing me 3 different speeds of that pitch down the middle

I'm gonna need a Volpe redemption arc to start right now

This lineup gotta start hitting at some point this shit is getting pathetic

Thanks to Verdugo batting against a lefty and Torres playing hero ball on 3-1 and 3-2, this game might end with Soto on deck.

How do you take that

Right down the dick

Hanger right down the middle for strike 3. Nice AB.

Soto and Judge won’t even get ab’s..sadnesa

This isn’t a serious contender.

holy fuck grisham how do you take that lmao

One of the worst 0-2 pitches Diaz has probably thrown this year and it’s a backwards k

Right down the dick

That was the meatiest of balls

Right down the dick

Nice Grisham you can fuck back off to the dugout now where you stay 

That was not an ideal at bat

🙏🏼WELLS🙏🏼

What the fuck? That's a hanger all the way. No reason to be locked up.

Maybe if that’s a first pitch you get caught off guard. You absolutely have to be swinging at that with two strikes.

"Livin' on a Prayer" indeed, stadium PA controller.

Vintage Grish

Pitch right down the middle, just stare at it

Staring at a middle middle pitch....

Grisham with the at bat of all time

Everyone prepping us for a Volpe failure means he’s due for a game extending hit and another few weeks of good will.

Were really gonna lose this game by one run..

Damn that backed up middle middle and he watched it

Hanging slider for strike 3. Why not bunt again? Was the 3rd baseman playing in?

Omg is this Edwin Diaz’s relative? I wanna see him point at a 450 ft Judge grand slam!

Thanks for nothing there, Trent

Oh Grish……

Wow that windup is fucking with me

Yanks bullpen 4 innings of zeroes after ferguson, another Boone loss

Right down the dick and you stare at it? WTF

Holy meatball

You won't face our best hitters this inning, but you will face our toughest mustaches.

Trent Grisham fuck off please

Great AB. There's 1!

The bullpen has actually righted the ship as of late (It seems Turd got left at the dock)

Just end the game Non Soto/judge hitters can’t touch Diaz

Lol I just yelled at my TV "YOU BETTER NOT F*** THIS ONE UP A**H***" kid learned his lesson lol

This guy has a 4.75 ERA and a 1.42 WHIP. Time to go 1-2-3

Just give Soto and Judge a chance plz

Volpe sucking shit isn’t even in the top 5 reasons the Yankees have turned into Mr. Hyde since the nationally televised Dodgers series.

Idk man a .547 OPS and .238 OBP from your leadoff hitter in the last month is pretty terrible It’s not number 1 but it’s top 5

Inb4 he gets a hit here

LOL

they can't go down 1-2-3 right?

Do the Yankees have a rally in their bones?! Stay tuned.

### Pitching Substitution Pitching Change: Alexis Díaz replaces Fernando Cruz.

Volpe is slumping pretty hard ever since reaching .290+ BA

It’s normal. He’ll bounce back

I think he's just regressing to his career avg

Walkoff. No extra innings. We are allergic to those.

I will absolutely sign for 1 run right here

GIL IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 4 OF THE 5 RUNS THE BULLPEN HAS GIVEN UP 1 EARNED RUN And the majority of the bullpen is trash. Boone has no choice but to go to shitty relievers OFTEN with the bullpen Cashman has given him. People who are mad at the bullpen, or Boone, for giving up 5 runs today have no idea what they’re fucking talking about

Turd Ferguson comes in the game and immediately gives up a 2 run shot but okay.

He gave up a 2 run shot because Gil couldn’t keep guys off the bases today and couldn’t get a single out in the 5th inning Again, FOUR OF THE FIVE RUNS ARE ON GIL

Kinda wish it was Yanks vs Red Sox on the 4th, but whatever 

Does anyone else think the Yankees players who don’t do well should have to commit seppuku after the game?

The comeback…

If gleyber doesn’t wildly lash at ball 4 and 5 trying to pull outside pitches in the other batters box spot bats. That’s a coaching failure not to make him at least take the 3-1 pitch

Rice vs First Base, the saga continues

There’s not a world where Trevino should be getting an at bat this inning

How confident are we rn?

Like a 4

If we were at the top of the order, pretty confident. This part of the order, not as much

We win this inning

Man we tried

After the Turd swirled we couldn’t ask for more from the pen. Great job.

Ben Rice is the gold standard

We win this game because of Weaver. Got a chance now to walk it off or at least tie it.

If Volpe gets the final out, I am 100% blaming the people in here for jinxing him. He is the lead off hitter for a reason, and moving him down the lineup isn't going to magically fix his swing / approach or whatever is wrong with him. He struggled a bit when he first moved up, got on a solid run, and is now struggling again. He's going to get right. Acting like he's the spawn of Satan because he's slumping when their are clearly bigger issues on this team like DJLM and Gleyber is, IMO, *asinine*. He's still a kid, kids are gonna struggle at times in their first few years.

He has a .547 OPS in the last month If he fails it’s not because of a jinx

Weaver’s got it

Here we go. Make something happen

Oh my god he almost did it again

Weaver too nice

Avg/Slg/Obp should be another triple crown 

HR/HR/HR

That AB by Torres last inning was actually so depressing

These are the seemingly small mistakes that on the margin keep killing this team. this is why Boone is not a good enough manager for a team with playoff aspirations. Ferguson giving up the two extra runs. Verdugo cleanup and batting against a lefty late. Torres with the green light on 3-1 against a wild pitcher leading off the inning.

Can we hear another Ted Lilly story?

Does the **Bunt King** dare another one to lead off the 9th????

Putting in Wells for Trevino, something that could've been done at 5PM when the lineups were made.

I look at the box score every night, see judge’s dominance and just shake my head in wonder, uttering “This guy… this fucking guy”

I can take the Ls so long as Judge beats up pitchers

That was weird. Ump stood up in the middle of Weaver’s motion for nothing.

💰

I got a clutch Grisham HR coming up here to tie it up just saying... He's been randomly good at hitting bombs late in games

Jonathan India does not get along with his neighbor Steve Pakistan.

Reason 1,000,000 why Boone is such a terrible manager, with the score 3-0 he brings in the worst reliever in baseball, which made 3-0 into 5-0 the difference in the game, now if the yanks don’t come back, he has now wasted their best relievers in a loss which goes back to the only reason why they are losing in the first place. He better hope this team bails him out in the 9th

They're losing because their starter only got 12 outs and they're 6-32 against shitty pitching

More than half of our bullpen is “the worst reliever in baseball” Blame Cashman, not Boone, for the bullpen Also, the bullpen gave up 1 ER today. Gil is responsible for 4 of the 5 runs, he had an ERA today of 9.00 Unreal that so many people are mad at Boone and the bullpen for this score lmao

You blame both..there was zero reason for ferguson to be brought in, AND no reason for ferguson to be on the roster

If Volpe had any ability to get on base the last month and a half, we might have 60 wins. But instead he has a .250 OBP and Judge and Soto get almost no at-bats with runners on

You motherfuckas pick the weirdest hills to die on when pitching is giving up an assload of runs damn near every game for the past 2 weeks.

People get so defensive about him too. He’s been absolute dogshit

This scapegoat now? Of all the ones to use… you guys need to rethink your narratives.

Dude they’ve given up 8 runs a game the last 2+ weeks what are you talking about.

Volpe's lost ~90 points on his OPS this month. What a disappointment.

You know… all you guys posting this consensus-building stuff simultaneously isn’t as convincing as you think it is. Especially when there’s a guy like me to point it out.

He was so good in May too

Fallacy of the predetermined outcome, but this very well could be a tie game or even a Yankees lead if Boone didn’t bring in the worst fucking pitcher in his bullpen.

That’s what’s always frustrating it’s like Boone has no hope they can score three fucking runs

Love the vibe of calling out the fallacy and going for it anyways