Extra innings the way they should be played.

I didn't expect this large of a split. (I'd lean Warren, personally, but I'm not at all sold on that.)

Cam Schlittler.

Schlittler threw 90% fastballs, 10% breaking balls. All 18 swing and misses on fastballs. 12 K, 0 BB. Maybe the most shove it down your throat and nothing you can do about it pitching performances in baseball history.

I have thoroughly enjoyed these past two nights of baseball.

Cam Schlittler!!

At least the Padres won another trade deadline

Lemme tell you…you will *not* be able to un-hear “Connelly Early” to the tune of “Eleanor Rigby”

I mentioned Schlittler’s expanded arsenal last week, and I do wonder how much confidence he’ll have in the new slider against the Boston righties. But honestly, given that the Red Sox seem somewhat susceptible to high fastballs, probably best to emphasize the 99mph heat.

A callback to an all-time baseball-watching experience

I'm pretty sure Ben Rice is going to be starting tonight. Boone made it pretty clear in his presser last night that they view Early as a "neutral" guy platoon-wise, and he won't be in there too long anyway. Given how Cora's going to manage, as much L/R alternating as possible is probably the move.

Few things about the 7th inning of last night's game, as I was not online. - Rodón looked absolutely *spent* and I absolutely expected that to be the end of the season right there. - What horrible bunting from Rafaela, wow. - How did they not score a run on the Yoshida hit?

Cmon guys.

Postseason Volpe strikes again 👀

Yankees lined up Max Fried and Carlos Rodon for Games 1 and 2 of the Wild Card round. Since the All-Star break, the Red Sox rank 26th against left-handed pitching with an 81 wRC+. The Yankees rank 1st with a 120 wRC+ against lefties, including 5 regulars at 130+.

Alright – what does the NYY lineup look like tomorrow evening? I've been thinking about it way too much. I've got Bellinger leading off, Rice playing 1st but hitting lower in the order than usual, and Caballero at 3rd.

Yankees finish with the exact same record as last year.

Luis Gil has intentionally been conserving velocity early in the game recently, but he wasn't today. 1st inning velos for Gil over the past month: 8/31: 90.5 mph 9/06: 95.0 mph 9/12: 94.2 mph 9/17: 93.9 mph 9/23: 93.6 mph today: 96.1 mph

Unless Jacob Wilson can go 18-for-18 today, Aaron Judge will win the MLB batting title. His 53 homers will be the most ever for a batting champ, breaking Mickey Mantle's record (52 HR and .353 AVG in 1956).

A box score oddity that I'm getting a kick out of: Paul Goldschmidt is listed as a 3/8 player on B-Ref this year, meaning he's primarily a 1B with at least one batter faced in CF. Obviously that's not actually true, but it was logged that way with the extra innings five-man infield on 6/13.

Edgardo Henriquez with one of the most dominant innings I've seen in a while. Wow.

I mentioned that Cam Schlittler has been tightening up his cutter his past few starts, and today he added a new slider that covers a different band of velocity and vertical break. His cutter was 94-97mph, while the slider was 87-92mph.

Sub-3 ERA for Cam Schlittler in his rookie season.

It wasn’t on purpose. Probably. But my mind went there.

Pretty obvious that Cam Schlittler should be starting the Yankees’ third playoff game, whenever that is.

So @mikeaxisa.bsky.social beat me to this the other day (and I assume @jamessmyth621.bsky.social made note of this as well) but Will Warren is set to become the first rookie with 33 starts since Nick Blackburn on the 2008 Twins – and the first Yankees rookie since Stan Bahnsen back in 1968.

Snakes: very much alive, apparently. (I can't even keep up with all these races. What a week.)

60 homers!

My ace, Garrett Crochet

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These two pitches from Cam Schlittler today caught my eye– backdooring against both sides, which I hadn't noticed from him before. Outside cutter to a lefty (that missed), then an outside sinker to a righty (that he landed). Seems to be experimenting with some finesse to add to his power game.

THE BEN RICE GAME!

Tigers were 15.5 ahead of Guardians on July 8, but it was still 9.5 last Wednesday with 18 to play! Would be even worse than the 2007 Mets-Phillies 7-with-17-left collapse/comeback.

Watching Elmer Rodriguez-Cruz' AAA debut and it's nice to have some live pitch tracking handy. Already through two innings I've seen the whole arsenal: riding four-seam+sinking two-seam at 96, slurvey slider+more vertical curveball, a changeup at 88, and a cutter at 91.

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I am very intrigued by what’s been going on in the AL Central.

Cam Schlittler's cutter velocity was substantially higher today, and the shape resembled more of a true cut fastball than the slider-ish breaker he'd been using (this one that just missed was at 96mph)

I got it and I am proud of myself.

Folks, I know things are a little bit crazy right now, but Lindsey Adler’s fluffy goofball Fisher was involved in a bad situation today and is facing some serious medical care and bills. Anything to help would be extremely extremely appreciated. All the money goes to Fish. gofund.me/db767a303

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Luke Weaver

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We take it for granted, but this is an incredibly impressive feat

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I have made the mistake of looking at Chase Dollander’s stats.