8 home runs in 4 innings by the Yankees. I wonder if that is a record.
Also, is 3 home runs in 4 innings a record?
Looked like they were planning a minor league team there…or a college team.
Mike Cameron hit three home runs in the first THREE innings in his four homer game. Two were in the first.
I’m getting a bunch of AI shit on Facebook about the Tigers eliminating the dirt path from the pitcher’s mound to home plate.
Watching the D-Backs v Cubs and it looks like the D-Backs eliminated it so I assume it’s true for the Tigers as well.
Max Scherzer to the IL. Is it time for him to think about retirement?
Judge just hit a two run homer in the first.
Yesterday, he joined Mantle, Ruth & Gehrig as Yankees with 40+ multi-homerun games
If he retired, the Blue Jays wouldn’t have to pay him his $14 million.
Aaron Judge is in his tenth season now. If he has another great year - it doesn’t have to be as great as 2022 or 2024, but just an All Star level year - to my mind he is already a Hall of Famer. A big but not MVP season will get him around 60 career WAR in a very short career. He has ticked off some big “yes” answers on the Keltner List.
Judge is, in terms of regular season value, objectively just as great a player as Sandy Koufax was. Like Koufax, he has had a short career (so far) but with an astoundingly high peak value. In context his 2022 and 2024 years are absolutely as great as Koufax’s best years. In terms of short career stars, he is CLEARLY was past the likes of Don Mattingly.
Of course, Koufax was World Series MVP twice (he was the first guy to do that, bearing in mind they only invented that award in 1955; had they had it prior, other guys would have done that) so Judge doesn’t have the rings or October glory yet.
Post season is his one weakness. Most great Yanks were also very good to great in the post season. Judge is batting .205 for 262 at bats in the Post season. The 16 homers aren’t bad. But that’s about it.
Fun Stuff: All Yanks with 10+ Post Season Homers & I added the AB/HR column.
Remember from Mantle back were only World Series, no playoffs back then.
| Name | HR | AB/HR | G | AB | R | H | 2B | RBI | BB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babe Ruth | 15 | 7.9 | 36 | 118 | 37 | 41 | 5 | 30 | 33 | 0.347 | 0.497 | 0.788 | 1.285 |
| Giancarlo Stanton | 18 | 8.4 | 41 | 151 | 25 | 40 | 6 | 40 | 17 | 0.265 | 0.331 | 0.662 | 0.994 |
| Reggie Jackson | 12 | 9.9 | 34 | 119 | 27 | 39 | 5 | 29 | 16 | 0.328 | 0.417 | 0.672 | 1.090 |
| Lou Gehrig | 10 | 11.9 | 34 | 119 | 30 | 43 | 8 | 35 | 26 | 0.361 | 0.483 | 0.731 | 1.214 |
| Mickey Mantle | 18 | 12.8 | 65 | 230 | 42 | 59 | 6 | 40 | 43 | 0.257 | 0.374 | 0.535 | 0.908 |
| Aaron Judge | 16 | 13.8 | 58 | 220 | 37 | 45 | 6 | 34 | 36 | 0.205 | 0.318 | 0.450 | 0.768 |
| Hideki Matsui | 10 | 20.5 | 56 | 205 | 32 | 64 | 15 | 39 | 27 | 0.312 | 0.391 | 0.541 | 0.933 |
| Bernie Williams | 22 | 21.1 | 121 | 465 | 83 | 128 | 29 | 80 | 71 | 0.275 | 0.371 | 0.480 | 0.850 |
| Yogi Berra | 12 | 21.6 | 75 | 259 | 41 | 71 | 10 | 39 | 32 | 0.274 | 0.359 | 0.452 | 0.811 |
| Alex Rodriguez | 10 | 22.5 | 61 | 225 | 37 | 54 | 13 | 33 | 36 | 0.240 | 0.363 | 0.431 | 0.794 |
| Paul O’Neill | 10 | 27.0 | 76 | 270 | 36 | 76 | 14 | 34 | 32 | 0.281 | 0.355 | 0.459 | 0.815 |
| Derek Jeter | 20 | 32.5 | 158 | 650 | 111 | 200 | 32 | 61 | 66 | 0.308 | 0.374 | 0.465 | 0.838 |
| Jorge Posada | 11 | 37.8 | 125 | 416 | 53 | 103 | 23 | 42 | 70 | 0.248 | 0.358 | 0.387 | 0.745 |
One good postseason run and those 262 at bats will be forgotten. Or even just a ring. No one remembers that Joe DiMaggio was just okay in October because his fingers all had rings on them.
I think Judge is a man on a mission, haunted by that infamous fifth inning.
His biggest postseason issue is pressing and not taking enough walks. He has 36 career postseason bases on balls; it should probably be double that by now.
Intentional Walk to Judge so Jazz Chisholm Jr. homered him in.
5-1 Yanks in the 3rd.
BTW: I don’t think the IBB was wrong, but I’m very happy they paid for it.
It was wrong. Very stupid decision. Giving a guy a free pass is usually a terrible idea as opposed to pitching to him, and doing it with no one on and two out in the middle of the game is mind-bogglingly stupid.
Most intentional walks are stupid, even today when there are far, far fewer of them than these used to be. (Even discounting the fact pitchers don’t hit anymore and so no one walks the #8 guy to pitch to the pitcher, they’re less common. Because evidence showed they were stupid.)
Prior to this season, the Tigers were the only team with that path, so I’m not sure what the D-Backs have to do with it.
The D Backs used to also have the dirt strip
Today we’re going to the Athletics’ opening day in Sacramento at Sutter Health Park, the MiLB park for the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats affiliate of the SF Giants.
Yesterday was our first-ever day to visit Sutter Health Park. It was game 3 of the season for the River Cats. It was a very windy day! Must’ve been 25-30 mph winds.
But inside the park it wasn’t too bad and we had a fun time.
Some other pictures are here.
I just looked at the standings, @silenus has to be very happy with the Dodgers at 5-0 and the Padres at 4-0.
He is. Very happy.
We’ll see how long it lasts.
Oops, looks like Jurickson Profar may have had some help last year with the excellent year.
Also, speaking of the Braves, they also DFA Hector Neris. Not sure I’ve ever seen a player DFA in March before that I knew his name.
After getting thumped by the Yankees in three straight games to start the season, the Brewers had their home opener against Kansas City this afternoon, and lost 11-1.
Their team ERA is currently 12.27, and they’ve given up 17 home runs in four games.
That bit of a season-opening slump that Rafael Devers is in continues.
19 at-bats, 0 hits, 15 strikeouts.
Francisco Lindor opened last year 1 for 16 and went on to have a pretty good year, but Devers’ troubles may be more long-lasting. The move to DH evidently didn’t agree with him.