Game 153: Yanks (88-64) vs Diamondbacks (80-73)
Judge to IL with right calf strain -- earliest could come back is Sept 27th
Yankees were crazy to let Judge get anywhere near Stanton
Judge is only current Yankee with HR off of Rodriguez!
Diamondbacks have 4 HRs vs Cole in 42 ABs.....ugh!
Get out the Stairmaster because a lot of Yanks must step it up to cover for Judge.
Over / Under: HRs given up by Cole, 3.5
YANKS
Goldschmidt, 1B -- .253 (114)
Bellinger, LF -- .276 (124)
Rice, DH -- .262 (146)
Ramos, RF -- .171 (80)
Rosario, 3B -- .234 (89)
Jones, CF -- .252 (113)
Lombard, SS -- .225 (76)
Wells, C -- .179 (67)
Volpe, 2B -- .253 (96)
Cole, P -- 8-9, 3.67
DIAMONDBACKS
Nootbaar, LF -- .238
Marte, 2B -- .250
Moreno, C -- .307
Perdomo, SS -- .252
Smith, 1B -- .167
Arenado, 3B -- .243
Carroll, RF -- .238
Sanchez, C -- .259
Tawa, CF -- .242
Rodriguez, 15-6, 2.62
Game on YES at 9:30 pm
NEXT UP: Saturday, September 19th, at 8 pm, at Arizona.
Gil spent a lot of time warming in the pen in order to insure that he would walk the lead-off hitter on four pitches
Question: Did Yarbrough look really PO'd that he was taken out, like he wanted the three-inning save? Or is my brain making stuff up again?
What does it take to get Luis Gil in a game?
Cole allows only 2 runs after 6 innings of pitching.
but I cant claim to have been correct in predicting 2 runs,
principally because it's as yet undetermined whether Cole will keep slinging.
Man, how many runs would Lombard have driven in and scored if he hadn't been crushed by the burden of batting above 9th in the Yankee lineup?