About Last Night: NYY 10, MIN 5

By: Ethan Semendinger

September 18th, 2025

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Trent Grisham and the bullpen did great work to win the series for the Yanks!

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Quick Stats -

• Winning Pitcher: Fernando Cruz (3-4, 3.86 ERA)

• Losing Pitcher: Taj Bradley (6-8, 5.20 ERA)

• Save: N/A

• Home Runs (New York): Trent Grisham (32), Trent Grisham (33), Cody Bellinger (29)

• Home Runs (Minnesota): N/A

Big Story - So far, three teams in the MLB have clinched spots in the postseason. All three teams are in the National League: The Milwaukee Brewers, the Philadelphia Phillies, and the Chicago Cubs.

Meanwhile, the American League is still without a single guaranteed team. So, the only thing for teams to do is to win and keep winning.

In other news, prior to the game last night, the Yankees named outfielder Marshall Toole as the player to be named later to be headed to the Tampa Bay Rays to complete the trade deadline move for Jose Caballero. Previously, the trade was just for outfielder Everson Pereira.

Wednesday was a slow news day for the Yankees.

Here was the Yankees' line-up to end their 3-game weekday series against the Twins:

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Player of the Game -

• Trent Grisham: 2-5, 2 Runs, Solo HR, 3-Run HR, 4 RBI's, 1 K

Notable Performances -

• Fernando Cruz: 1.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB's, 0 K's, WIN!

• Devin Williams: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB's, 3 K's, Hold

• Luke Weaver: 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB's, 1 K

• Camilo Doval: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB's, 2 K's

• Aaron Judge: 3-4, 2 Runs, Double, 1 BB, 1 SB

• Cody Bellinger: 2-4, Run, 3-Run HR, 3 RBI's, 1 K

• Paul Goldschmidt: 2-4, Run, Double, 1 BB

• Jasson Dominguez: 1-3, 2 Runs, Double, 1 RBI, 1 K, 1 SB

Better to Forget -

• Jazz Chisholm: 0-5

• Luis Gil: 4.2 IP, 9 H, 5 R (4 ER), 2 BB's, 2 K's

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The Game(s) - Each game summary I do, I try to find something creative to make it a fun read for whoever wakes up early enough to have the time before work. (And also for those who don't have to rush to work in the morning.) Unfortunately, as I am writing this, all of my creativity has rushed out of my body. Usually, something that happens in the game spurs on my creative thoughts...but with it being an Amazon Prime game, I couldn't watch.

So, instead I decided to go to ChatGPT.

And boy, was that a treat.

In bold will be ChatGPT's inning-by-inning recap. I'll tell the real story below it in regular text.

Top 1:

ChatGPT: The Yankees jumped out early. They scored off some timely hitting to take an early lead.

Real Life: Aaron Judge hit an early 2-out double and was brought in by a Cody Bellinger RBI single to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead.

Accuracy: Pretty good. Would prefer some more detail (i.e. player names), but it's not wrong.

Bottom 1:

ChatGPT: The Twins answered with a run of their own, keeping the game close.

Real Life: Austin Martin hit a one-out single, but was caught before second on the inning-ending Trevor Larnach double-play groundout. The Twins did not score, or get close.

Accuracy: The game was already close, but the accuracy of this half inning was not.

Top 2:

ChatGPT: New York broke it open: multiple runs including a big home run from Trent Grisham.

Real Life: Paul Goldschmidt worked a lead-off walk, but a Ryan McMahon one-out double play groundout ended the inning.

Accuracy: ChatGPT was caught jumping the gun here.

Bottom 2:

ChatGPT: Twins couldn’t do much in response; Yankees held them off.

Real Life: A one-out walk to Matt Wallner was followed by a throwing error (Gil) and back-to-back singles to Brooks Lee and Royce Lewis, tying the game at 1 apiece. A groundout and then wild pitch (Gil) moved Lee from second to third to home, giving the Twins a 2-1 lead after 2.

Accuracy: After three straight half-innings of scoring in "ChatGPT land", it's funny how it incorrectly thought this was a non-scoring half inning too.

Top 3:

ChatGPT: Yankees kept piling on; hitting continued to be productive, including extra-base hits.

Real Life: Trent Grisham tied the game back up with his 32nd home run on the year (a solo shot), and Aaron Judge worked a walk and stole a base.

Accuracy: Productive? Yes. Extra-Base Hits? No. Extra-Base Hit? Yes.

Bottom 3:

ChatGPT: Twins again had trouble mounting offense; Yankees kept control.

Real Life: Bryon Buxton had a lead-off double and Austin Martin reached on a hit-by-pitch. Luckily, however, the Twins didn't score again here.

Accuracy: The Twins had some offense, but just not enough to get in a go-ahead run.

Top 4:

ChatGPT: More runs for New York (including another big swing from Grisham), extending their lead further.

Real Life: Paul Goldschmidt had a one-out double. Jasson Dominguez followed with an RBI double. Jose Caballero walked. Trent Grisham hit a 3-run home run. Ben Rice doubled. Aaron Judge singled. And, a balk scored Rice.

Accuracy: Pretty darn close. I wonder what ChatGPT thinks the score is after the Yankees have scored in all of the first four innings in it's account of the game.

Bottom 4:

ChatGPT: The Twins tried to answer, but the Yankees’ bullpen began to settle in.

Real Life: Luis Gil pitched the entire fourth inning, allowing a single to Royce Lewis.

Accuracy: Not even close.

Top 5:

ChatGPT: Yankees added to their lead, reaching 10 runs total.

Real Life: The Yankees went down 1-2-3.

Accuracy: The score is off, and the Yankees were not that consistent with scoring runs, but I'm happy I finally got a score update from the computer world.

Bottom 5:

ChatGPT: Twins began mounting a comeback. Key hits and homers started chipping away at the deficit.

Real Life: A lead-off single was followed by back-to-back outs, which was followed by back-to-back singles, then a walk, and another single before Luis Gil's night was over. Fernando Cruz came in and finished the inning as the Twins scored 3 runs.

Accuracy: The Twins didn't hit a single home run in the game, but they did start mounting a comeback in this inning.

Top 6:

ChatGPT: No scoring from New York in this inning; their bats quieted down.

Real Life: Strikeout-Strikeout-Flyout

Accuracy: I could've predicted this too.

Bottom 6:

ChatGPT: Twins lengthened their comeback — homers and runs made it interesting.

Real Life: Lineout-Groundout-Flyout (Good stuff, Fernando Cruz!)

Accuracy: Nope. This half inning was not interesting.

Top 7:

ChatGPT: Yankees didn’t add more runs; trying to hang on now.

Real Life: Cody Bellinger had a two-out hit by pitch.

Accuracy: After being so bullish on the Yankees early, ChatGPT now creates a story of struggle. It screams like the work of a wanna-be "Hollywood" screenwriter.

Bottom 7:

ChatGPT: Twins kept pushing, but couldn’t tie it yet; bullpen trying to hold off the surge.

Real Life: The Twins pushed hard. They pushed the air hard. They struck out three times this inning after a lead-off single. (Good stuff, Devin Williams!)

Accuracy: I wouldn't call that a surge.

Top 8:

ChatGPT: Yankees got a scoreless or low-damage inning, but couldn’t increase their cushion significantly.

Real Life: Jasson Dominguez was hit by a pitch, stole second, and came around on a Ryan McMahon RBI single to move the score to 8-5 Yankees.

Accuracy: Even ChatGPT doesn't know what's going on as it tries to give two possible outcomes for the inning.

Bottom 8:

ChatGPT: Twins continued to threaten; kept the pressure on.

Real Life: Single-Flyout-Lineout-Strikeout (Good stuff, Luke Weaver!)

Accuracy: If that's pressure, then baseball is a much more stressful game than I thought.

Top 9:

ChatGPT: Yankees added just enough, though their lead was narrow now.

Real Life: Aaron Judge hit a single and Cody Bellinger hit a 2-run HR, giving the Yankees a 10-5 lead. Goldschmidt also singled.

Accuracy: Somehow the Yankees can score runs to increase a lead, but still hold a narrow lead at the same time. I think ChatGPT also just wants to go to bed.

Bottom 9:

ChatGPT: Twins nearly completed the comeback; they got close with a home run, but the Yankees closer shut it down. Final outs came under pressure.

Real Life: Camilo Doval (not the Yankees closer) pitched a 1-2-3 inning to end the game with a lead-off and game-ending strikeout. (Good stuff, Camilo Doval!)

Accuracy: A very Hollywood-like script, and I don't think Doval (not the closer) was under that much pressure.

So, what did we learn?

Don't trust ChatGPT to write a game summary. (That's why I didn't!)

YANKEES WIN 10-5!

Goodnight!

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Next Up - The Yankees will begin a 4-game weekend series tonight against the AL East bottom dweller Baltimore Orioles in Camden Yards. The game set to start at 7:15 PM (EDT). Max Fried (17-5, 3.03 ERA) will take the mound for the Yankees as Cade Povich (3-7, 5.05 ERA) will spread his wings for the bird team. This game will be a nationally televised broadcast on FOX. (I am shocked that they weren't able to find another game to swap in for this timeslot.)