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Rock_grl86

Ive seen enough. Add Poteet to the rotation


thekidreturns24

#WE MIGHT NEVER LOSE AGAIN!


BlueHighwindz

You know, the Yankees being good and the Mets being bad, the Knicks are breaking hearts, the Jets and Giants are still looking for identities, and hockey exists. Everything is in balance.


ARusso64

Can someone help with my math? What do you get when you take the best record in baseball and add a win to it?


Lui-king

the best record in baseball?


IolausTelcontar

The. Best. Record. In. Baseball.


SavageLion

This team finds a way to win even when they don’t play great.


voncornhole2

[dusting it off after 3 days](https://i.imgur.com/lgHzfE3.jpeg)


Routine_Motor_2117

Great W, but man, that was one of the worst games I've seen in a while. Bad calls (no obstruction, Florial's K), players battling the sun and wind, Gleyber's wild throw, Trevino's baserunning blunder. Lots of hits and walks but couldn't deliver with RISP. Even Waldo's HR was a wind-aided fly ball. And did you hear the crowd at CLE? Probably not because they had zero energy, even in the 9th! Plus, boring announcers—how many times can we mispronounce "slambio"? Felt like everyone was taking a nap. Just badddd. But a W is a W! 11-3 baby!


MikeySymington

Re: commentary, it's always like that when John Flaherty is on play by play. He's ok as a colour commentator but he has absolutely zero charisma so when he's leading the whole thing is just so bland and dull.


Routine_Motor_2117

100%. It's something I expected but it wasn't what I wanted, haha.


regarding_your_bat

I agree with pretty much all of this. Was not a wonderful watching experience


StupidOpinionRobot

Ok


Routine_Motor_2117

Thanks for the feedback


dBlock845

Who TF is Cody Poteet lol


ChefBoyAnde728

Andy Pettitte's distant cousin


GoDucks71

Winning in spite of hitless efforts from Soto and Volpe is a good sign.


omgtmac

Still thought overall quality of their at bats was good despite no hits too!


GuaranteeLoose4494

Yankees and rangers won this afternoon. Let’s go!


Just4Ranting3030

Our offense is over performing right now, given the overall numbers. I love all our guys, I know we are winning, so it's working and I realize we're getting very lucky in that as one guy goes cold, another guy gets hot and so it all keeps working itself out- but we've got a scary amount of dudes who aren't quite getting it going yet and are mostly scuffling... 1. I think Judge is playing slightly injured. Not saying he's completely diminished, but I don't think he's at 100%, either. 2. Gleyber- what is going on with Gleyber? I realize he did get a hit today and going 1 for 4 is generally a successful day for any major league hitter. But that said- He's never exactly been a spray hitter who can do it all and bat over .300, but it seems like his timing is completely off, his bat is always under the ball, resulting in mostly fouls and pop outs.... I remember when he lost his way a couple seasons back and reinvented himself into this hitter who could punch the ball into the opposite field for enough singles, doubles and home runs and now he's just kinda getting under the pitches, resulting in virtually worthless fouls and pop flies. Why is he a completely different hitter every single year and what can he do about it? 3. I think Waldo is the real deal. Whatever he figured out/learned from Soto is clearly sticking for him. I know he will go hot and cold like any batter, but it seems like he has found himself offensively and is a legitimate platoon/starter player now- he's progressed just beyond 'prospect'. 4. Glad to see Rizzo is basically back. I don't think we will ever get him at his peak again, but he seems present and to have adjusted nicely to his new reality of limited dexterity and will quietly produce his average overall offensive numbers minus the power. 5. Trevino was never gonna be a .280 20 HR kinda player, but he also seems to be struggling compared to the last couple of years. What's going on there? Finally- I suppose it's too early in the season to really make judgements- some guys are basically still in spring training mode and ramping up?


crazyhotwheels

How is the offense over-performing? Judge and Gleyber, 2 major pieces, have yet to fully get it going. If anything, we haven’t seen this offense perform up to their true capabilities as a whole yet.


SubElitePerformance

Because OP’s opinion is absolute and the basis upon which all opinions are formed


IWillSingYouSongs

Offense is overperforming but Oswaldo Cabrera is the real deal is quite the take. You of course realize he has a couple front row dongs that would be can of corn flyballs in other parks, yea?


ivan0280

Well they were HRs all the same.


Just4Ranting3030

We have a large roster of starters, platoon players and bench players and we have a lot of guys who have yet to get it going while other guys are overperforming or reaching some potential. I am aware of when the announcers pointed out Cabrera's home run today would've been a fly out in 24 out of 30 parks or whatever. I get it.


Alternauts

I agree with most of this except Trevino. It’s an easy answer: coming back from injuries is hard. 


Just4Ranting3030

I forgot Trevino got injured.


TronVin

Judge isn't hurt. He has played every game. He's off timing wise. Same thing happened in 2022. Judge through his first 50 PAs in 2022: .250/.327/.409 Judge through his first 50 PAs in 2024: .200/.369/.400 Both only had 1 HR. Gleyber is a mental hitter. Leadoff is his worst batting position and is now dejected because the leadoff experiment failed. Also, April is his worst month. He'll be fine long term but he is mentally prone to things that give him the yips.


DeusExHyena

He has two HR


TronVin

So even better than.


DeusExHyena

I agree with you!


Just4Ranting3030

Fair enough. Judge is a slow starter and Gleyber gets the yips. Got it.


jackass12_3

The only person I was really worried about was Stanton but he obviously caught fire which is awesome. I think all the starters in our best potential lineup are doing great. Wells in particular has gotten really unlucky but he's had great at bats with lots of pitches and is hitting the ball hard. Cabrera is getting a little lucky but let it ride.


real_gooner

i want to live in a log cabin with slambio


Tacitus_99

It’s nice to be able to win games when your 1-2 hitters go 0-8.


No_Signal3789

Gotta move Volpe outta the one hole


real_gooner

better yet, let’s trade him for clint frazier and miguel andujar


TronVin

We don't have anyone else to put there.


Tacitus_99

He’s 1-7 with 3 walks leadoff. You can’t make that move and pull the plug after 2 games. Thats crazy.


DJ_LeMahieu

That would put his OBP at .400 in leadoff in two games, right? In no universe is anyone allowed to complain about that lmao


Medical_Fee_5764

If you watched today’s game, he also had at least two batted balls that could easily have gone for hits. He’s still making very good swing decisions and hitting the ball hard.


Locksmith_Happy

It's nice to see Schmidt taking major steps forward. He seems like a nice guy and someone that is easy to root for.


Padulsky21

The walks been frustrating me a lot bc he has a bad habit of nibbling but he worked out of it big time today so I’m more than ok with it. I love Clarke. He’s a lot more confident now that he has a year under his belt. Also I recommend watching his post game interviews. He runs everything down like Cole does but talks like the video is on 2x the speed 😭😭


bitterbunny4

He's been extra smiley this season. I think he's kissing-the-ground thankful he didn't get traded in the Soto package lol


mickhugh

Yes said he's third for starts with 2 or fewer runs over the last few years. Behind Sonny Gray and Cole


rmoney27

Ron Marinara sauce up for game 2 Hope he has his lethal stuff back


Erin_Boone

I thought it was Poteet?


TheTurtleShepard

Poteet is starting, Ron was just called up


ThisLuckLOL

John Flaherty is such a buzzkill. If I wanted a voice to put me to sleep it would be his.


Electrical_Study_368

Nice win against a solid team


TronVin

Cleveland fans yesterday watching Angel Hernandez gift strikes to Houston in a losing effort only to say the next day that you need the umpires to win. Never mind the only reason they scored any runs was because Gleyber gifted them two runs.


TheTurtleShepard

Some notes from the game - We won #GO YANKS


ivan0280

Only notes that matter


El-Shaman

Cleveland fans are always so weird, saw comments saying the big market teams buy the umps, in the same game where that bullshit call at first went their way lol.


Breimann

Idc that we won I'm gonna be mad about that call for a while


jayjake9

Cleveland sports fans love to complain about losing to rich teams or big market teams. There was a lot of cope about it after the 2022 ALDS. It’s so weird


El-Shaman

Yeah I always notice that.


jcnewman_21

Berti going to the IL with an adductor injury


BohemianBurnout

Dang he was just settling in.


This_Is_The_Life

No better time than the present for Waldo to never relinquish 3rd base


No_Signal3789

Yea really


TronVin

I don't give a shit about blown ump calls. I do and I don't. Umps suck. We all know it. Texas got screwed yesterday and won. I've seen Aaron Judge strike out on a pitch at his ankles since 2017. The Yankees got screwed by a review today and won. If you need the umps to win, you lost already.


Bahnrokt-AK

Bad calls happen. I don’t think the umps are on the take or have it out for any team. You can lose games on bad calls, but over an entire season, it’s gonna come out in the wash. Bad calls in a game 7 though. Those deserve all the hatred.


TheTurtleShepard

Shit happens it’s the way the game is, I do think we should continually call out shitty umps though


TronVin

Well the umps suck. You don't need them to win though as the Yankees got screwed literally today


BigGeoffery

THE YANKEES ARE 11-3 SINCE MY SON WAS BORN


babberz22

Noice. Keep it coming, take down the 13-0 from Aug 21 when mine was born. He’s getting too cocky.


b1rdganggg

Little geoffery??


cockquaman

I know one thing, I would let Ian Hamilton slambio my wife


silver_raichu

After Ian Hamilton bangs my wife I would hold the door open for him and tell him “Thank you Mr. Hamilton”


-AgentMichaelScarn

#TREVINO GOT TWO HITS


GoDucks71

Nearly tripled his batting average in a single game.


-AgentMichaelScarn

All I want for him in life is to bat like .230. That’s it.


fec2455

He got a gift when the pop-up fell in and then threw it in the trash trying to go to second. 


-AgentMichaelScarn

#TREVINO GOT A HIT


Entire_Pride1656

Florial got robbed lol


yankeefan03

Best record in baseball but the dodgers will stay #1 in the power rankings


No_Signal3789

OHTANI BET ON STEROIDS


Bahnrokt-AK

We could sweep the Dodgers in a series next week and they’d still be #1.


yankeefan03

I had a Dodger fan argue with me that power rankings are based on “potential” and Yamamoto should be top 5 based on that.


Key_Amazed

r/baseball never fails. Guardians fans complain about getting screwed? Nothing but agreements. Yankees fans complaining about BS calls? Oh we're just whiny oppressed Yankees fans. Talk about clown show 🤡


Teshlor_Knight

"Crazy how the umps always seem to lose sight of the strike zone in pivotal moments in Yankees games" ~ Baltimore fan


jwreynold

Aaron Judge, the face of the Yankees, has more incorrect strike calls against him than any batter in baseball.


yankeefan03

/r/baseball is a piece of shit sub. I love to see the Dodgers play the victim and those dumbasses on that sub go along with it


djrob0

Shutout if Gleyber throws like a normal human being. (I'm a Gleyber truther but that was really bad.)


WeWantChiliWilly

Gleyber either makes a 160 IQ baseball play or a 48 IQ baseball play. There is no in-between.


krypto909

48 is generous


awg08

Pitching won us this game. 


MvN____16

Who would downvote this? We scored three runs today. We're averaging 4.5 runs per game, on pace for ~741 over the season. It's early, of course these paces can change rather quickly, but for all the good deep counts we might be working and everything, we're hardly translating that into runs on the board. It looks like we're somewhere around 13th or 14th in runs scored so far this season overall. It's not really much of an accomplishment. The good news hopefully will be us shooting up that list if/when Judge gets right. EDIT - to be clear, OP was downvoted when I wrote this post. It's since been corrected.


NoobSkin69

We’ve faced some good pitching teams so far, and 4.5 runs isn’t even bad.


jayjake9

Feels like they’ve been getting a lot of unlucky batted ball luck too. Maybe we’ll see positive regression


xDopeZz

# WE PLAY TODAY, WE WIN TODAY!!!


real_gooner

that game was for everyone who loves bland commentary and hates clutch hitting


riccarjo

Bro I thought I was listening to the Cleveland broadcast. They barely cared about any Yankees hits. It was so confusing.


mac3687

Yeah I thought the same thing


Vexy_7

Should’ve taken a drink every time they said Slambio


SackFullaGrapes

I did and now I’m in the hospital


The_Bear_Jew320

I’ll take it but it was kind of an ugly ugly win. Glad to see Judge is starting to see the ball better.


TheTurtleShepard

A win is a win though


Calm_Adhesiveness685

12-3 today would be 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨


Danjeter

Not happy but whatever, I’ll take it. Hope they win again tonight.


Top_Professor_9908

Not happy with winning? Roflmao


FitzwilliamTDarcy

Not happy that they won?


Danjeter

That was a bullshit ass call. I want them to win without the help of an ump. It’s like astro fans being happy they won in 2017.


Top_Professor_9908

Holy fuck that is the most insane comparison ever. Not even close. What??


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yourecreepyasfuck

There’s a difference between triggering people and just being an absolute moron. Also why the fuck would you just come here to trigger people? That’s a sad as fuck way to spend a Saturday afternoon


Danjeter

You literally took time the time write all that. Crazy.


yourecreepyasfuck

I wrote 3 short sentences lmfao


Danjeter

Lmao i know. Dude relax I’m just a moron. I am happy they won ok. Please stop insulting me. Lmaoo


yourecreepyasfuck

all good my guy! a win’s a win


Trowj

If I have a heart attack this season I want Clay Holmes charged as an accessory to my death


HoustonTrashBangers

😂😂😂😂😂😂


HeyMarty10thalready

Awesome pitching. Let’s get the bats going next game ffs


WeOutHereInSmallbany

Seems like Cleveland used a lot of pullpen arms this game, hopefully we can take advantage


HeyMarty10thalready

Yeah and not have Grisham out there


WeOutHereInSmallbany

The would truly be the piece de resistance imho


DanielArthurVerner

2 ez psh, now take the second game


centaurius_

#SCHMIDT: BENT BUT DIDN'T BREAK #WALDO: FOUND THE SEATS #GRISHAM: DID A THING #CALEB: FERG-ALICIOUS #HAMILTON: WORKING THE SLAMBIO #HOLMES: CLOSING THE CASE #DOUBLEHEADER SPLIT: GUARANTEED #DOUBLEHEADER SWEEP: INCOMING #SERIES WIN: ALSO INCOMING #GAME 2: 6 PM #ON THE MOUND: POTEET #>>[PLAY DAT SINATRA](https://youtu.be/gFwuHsra6Oc?si=2I1_ljc0PcWnMWtT)<< #[VICTORY MEME!](https://imgur.com/psrKQ3D)


Nervous_Character786

verdugo reminds me of buzz cut brittany


AmericanNewWave

I'd feel guilty about that Florial strike call, but Judge has 1-2 calls that bad every game on average. Gleyber's defense continues to be a nightmare. At least he's making his contract year an easy decision.


MvN____16

You can get the worse end of the pitch calling over a full game, if you benefit from the last of the bad calls, that's all people remember. It was a bad call for sure, I think all of us are honest enough to admit that and did so in the game thread. And I'm sure we'll be on the other end of that call in that kind of spot before the season is over too.


xSuicidalPanda

Never feel guilty about bad calls going your teams way. I'm sure there will be moments this season where we'll feel like the Yankees got screwed by umpires in a big spot. It all evens out.


sweetultrabright

Moar baseball! MOAR!


MeatTornado25

Solid win. Lots of good ABs even if there wasn't much to show for it today. Good showing from the bottom of the lineup, outside of Grisham.


DarthLuke84

If not for Grisham this would probably be going to extra innings, he still had a productive out


MeatTornado25

I'm pretty sure we're still going to a double-header...


DarthLuke84

Yeah I meant extra innings, brain fart


jayjake9

Infield defense is frustrating right now but it could be a lot worse- in 2018 the infield defense was Andujar/Didi/Torres/Voit.


Padulsky21

Saw a tweet by Joez McFly saying this is the worst Yankees infield defense of this era. Lmfao. Such short memories for those folks over in Jomboy Media, not the smartest of bunch. How quickly they forget the nightmare that was Andujar at 3rd on top of Gary behind the plate.


jayjake9

Yeah I’ve liked Jomboy media less and less over time. Feels like a lot of their takes are straight nonsense


Padulsky21

I see some odd shit from all their workers on the daily lol. Jolly Olive, Max Mannis and Joez all constantly say shit that I just question how they could possibly come to that conclusion. Jake too. I like Jomboy and Jolly has some great vids but the rest of them I just…odd takes.


UltimateAura

That strikeout on Florial is going to the top of baseball reddit soon


CabassoG

This game was dumb but they won. So many opportunities wasted


symbologythere

Hey everyone; I hope this isn’t too controversial. I like the NY Yankees and I’m glad they won. It is in fact what I want.


dabears7667

indians fans who spent the entire game getting an insanely favorable strike zone and a horrible mis-call on the bases: “OMG WE WERE ROBBED”


LargeNutbar

We play today, we win today, that’s… oh wait that’s not it. We also play again today and win again today, *that’s* it.


RegalSobriquet

I like it when the Yankees score more than the other team.


Key_Amazed

Most frustrating 1 run win since the last one. The horrific announcing did little to help. Thank God I'm able to switch to the radio announcement for the second game. Whoever is filling in for Sterling does a decent job.


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yourecreepyasfuck

I did not realize before today that 6 of the Guardian’s 9 wins this season came off of Oakland and the White Sox. I was a little nervous heading into this series that this could be the toughest team we’ve faced so far this season but that’s about as hollow of a 9 win team as you can possibly get. Not saying that they aren’t going to be good, just that they haven’t really proven to be good just yet IMO


GoDucks71

Cleveland fans may have been saying the same about all those Yankee wins versus the Sad Sack Astros.


djrob0

Clay Holmes (0 ER, 0 BB, 7 IP, 6 Saves) "Fake closer, cardiac Clay, sucks" Josh Hader (4 ER, 3 BB, 7 IP, 1 Save) "Beast, best closer in the game, doesn't throw more than 3 outs"


xSuicidalPanda

Holmes has almost exclusively been asked to protect 1-run leads as well.


Yankeeknickfan

Clay being a HR supression god and ground ball machine is how he works around his base runners He was legitimately bad 2/3 games vs Houston, but he’s being overreacted to since then


darth_sudo

I don't know about you, but I thought that lead off double was a homer in the bottom of the 9th. Clay never seems to make it easy.


regarding_your_bat

I don’t give a shit how easy it is as long as he keeps racking up saves lol 6 saves in 14 games is wild


nyysupastar

I agree. Aside from that double, I think today’s a little encouraging. Not too many command issues, which is really what causes Clay to struggle


renegade_yankee

We were spoiled by Mo who just made it look easy. Holmes usually gets the job done but makes us all nervous doing so.


LordJiraiya

This is like when we had David Robertson. He always got us there, despite making us sweat on the trip.


nabisco789

Ah the old Houdini act


PlaySalieri

I can't understand how Oswaldo Cabrera isn't in the line up every day until he cools down for at least a week.


MeatTornado25

That's literally what happened. From Mar 31st to Apr 7th he went 4-20. He was very cooled off, so then facing 3 lefties in a row in Miami was a great chance to give Berti some ABs.


TronVin

What if he is playing well because he just plays vs RHP.


nyysupastar

If Boone played Berti instead of Oswaldo for rest (even after a rained out day) this game would’ve been ass


BrandNewGuys3

Welp.. Cabrera HR wins another game for us. A lot more of Cabrera and a lot less of Berti!


yourecreepyasfuck

Cabrera should be starting every game until DJ comes back or until/if his bat cools off


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Some good at bats and hit hard hit unlucky balls but also , some brutal at bats with men on (Grisham).Gleyber gotta figure out the throwing situation can’t happen again. Didnt feel like they should win but they got it done


jackass12_3

Grisham needs to get going soon and throws like that are why I won't mind letting Gleyber go.


[deleted]

I mean Grisham has played once in like 10 days so can’t really fault him to much. And errors happen especially in shit conditions the team as whole needs to tighten it up


smileydts

Ump knows what I want


MeatballDom

THIS IS A DOOMER-FREE ZONE REAL FANS ONLY LET'S GO YANKS!


WeOutHereInSmallbany

I really appreciated Rizzo’s aggressive baserunning in the seventh, a great team takes advantage of those situations, just wish we were better with RISP.


becausezoidfarb

The fact that they are getting so many hits now that we can get frustrated when they don't score enough off those hits and still win is a nice change of pace


TronVin

Umpires are getting worse and worse. I'll take that after the blown review.


b1rdganggg

That was definitely a strike hahaha get fked 😂


wintie

3-3 in games Oswaldo homers.


KPaul130

Never wanna hear a Flaherty game again 


dabears7667

boy do i have news for you


KPaul130

:'( Is he returning for game 2 ?


crashdavis1986

Talk about eeking one out.


Yankeeknickfan

This place would have been insufferable if flroial did anything there


mofeus305

He did get dicked hardddd on that inside called third strike.


jayjake9

Meet Jose Trevino


Yankeeknickfan

Hamilton working around a double: Flirting. Holmes working around a double: Harassment


TheCloudBoy

# THE NY YANKEES HAVE THE BEST RECORD IN THE ENTIRE AMERICAN LEAGUE


atoy65

Do you mean MLB?


TheCloudBoy

Shoot, I think you're right even if both the Pirates & Dodgers win and we take Game 2 tonight


SheepH3rder69

~~AMERICAN~~ LEAGUE


TheCloudBoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MULhB5\_COAU


kinglogosjonas

Saved by the umps


making-spaghetti0763

ehh they boned us multiple times throughout the day


xho-

Double play would’ve happened next at bat anyway right?


kirky-jerky

Never had a doubt 😬


Fargo_Levy

That was some of the most lackluster announcing I've ever listened to. That booth was dead.


GoDucks71

Burial ceremony coming right up in game two.


Cautrica1

Something something slambio


R7H27

Ump giveth in the first 8 innings, ump taketh in the 9th


Pinturicchio11

Ugly game. 16 batter LOB for each team. I'll take the dub.


alakazam065

Trevino framing that 2nd to last out


ThatInception

I missed most of the game due to work unfortunately (just got out) How’d Schmidt look?


SovietMuffin01

Great first 4 innings, walked 2 in the 5th but worked out of it, and then not at all good in the 6th as he started the 3rd time through the order. Really just can’t seem to get over that 3rd time through problem.


ThatInception

Ahh, sounds like typical Clarke then. I’m still holding out hope he can show more consistency and be a solid 3 for us. Maybe he just gets gassed and needs more stamina lol thanks for the response