There sure have been a ton of confusion/collisions on pops and fly balls in this year's playoffs. Many resulting in the wrong positions taking charge of the ball.

Lots of injuries too.

The Bichette/Springer one may have been unavoidable just due to the short time the ball was in the air and location of the hit, but some of these other ones the infielders are just not peeling off or stopping when the outfielders are yelling..

And what the hell was the NYY catcher doing last night on Rizzo's ball... lol.

Lol I have no idea what Higashiolka was doing.

Cabrera took out Hicks nothing wrong with that!

Bochy huh

LOL this is your example? The Yankees have the 3rd highest payroll in baseball. The Guardians have the 4th lowest in baseball. And the Yankees had to play 2 elimination games against them. I mean thanks for making my point

You didnt make any point
You told us how important it is to not strike out,then ignored the Indians being dead last in strikeouts and not hitting at all for 7 games.

Houston has pitched great besides game 1 vs Seattle and hit a lot of home runs. That's why they're winning

Would it be nice if Stanton could hit like prime Pujols? Sure. He's also hit a ton of home runs in a very small number of playoff at bats in his career including a huge 3 run home run in game 5 this year.

As someone else pointed out DJ and Bennendi both being out is going to increase the strikeouts. Carpenter not playing for 2 months and and striking out 7 times in a row (I think) definitely doesn't help.

People still think they can predict what a player/team is going to do over a tiny sample. It's pretty comical actually. Who had altuve who has always hit in the playoffs at 0 for 24?

Seattle rips Verlander then scores 2 runs in their last 29 innings.Good luck predicting that.

The Yankees played 2 games in Houston where Houston had the pitching advantage (first game a huge advantage) and lost 2 close games.


People have selective memories. There were a lot of series those late 90s/early 2000s Yankees hit like **** and still won. And those teams didn't strike out much.

Why are you still talking about Gallo, who hasn't been a Yankee for months?

They went out and got Benintendi, who got injured. DJLM is injured. That's their two best contact guys and sources of OBP other than Judge. Maybe they should use a time machine and sign Derek Jeter from 15 years ago?

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Yea a team with a payroll almost $200million less than the Yankees hit about as well as they did and took them to a deciding Game 5.

And with the Yankees this isn't new. Every year when they get to the postseason it's the same ****. It's not a small sample anymore. It's depending on the home run AND striking out and failing to put the ball in play when not hitting home runs. It's an irresponsible approach and time to change something and stop hiding behind analytics to justify an approach that clearly doesn't work for this team. Home runs aren't bad, a total reliance on them and a lineup full of guys who don't put the ball in play is. When you have a payroll over $230m you should be able to find a balance.

that's a terrible call

hahaha profar "**** you **** you"

Wow tough call for the Padres there. Looked like he held up to me.

Because the front office who has seen playoff after playoff much like this one where we don't hit and just wait and hope for a HR that rarely comes decided to go out and get the worst boom bust player in all of baseball who is the most extreme version of the Yankees biggest flaw. It shows the front office hasn't learned a thing.

And to a lesser extent they did the same with Donaldson. This I don't mind as much because they got rid of Gary Sanchez who they kept way too long who struck out every ****ing time he was up too. It just doesn't seem they get it.

Yea Benitendi was a good acquisition and an unlucky break and DJL was their best/only hitter postseason after postseason. Those are unlucky. But the hope for HR approach when guys can't even make contact when they're not hitting HR has to go.

There is no way you can call this a terrible call. Questionable, sure.

horrible call.
although i don't get why the bat even came off of profars shoulders that ball never came near the strike zone.

I'm pretty sure intent, home plate, breaking the wrists, etc won't agree. Even if they do... it wasn't a horrible call.

Sorry... was trying to find a good video, but most hits came up with this:



I still think it's questionable and not horrible.

eh looks damn close to me.

OK I've got Altuve +0.5 hits at -185. I know Cole is tough but I cannot see a guy like Altuve going 0-28. It just seems unfathomable for a guy who's a lifetime .307 hitter to keep going O-fer game after game.

I'm ready for 19 innings!

Carpenter ever gonna put one in play I wonder?

Still crazy stuff on who prevails on fly balls..

Ok big boys.... don't matter if CF is 50 yards away, if he is calling it get the f out of the way... peel off, make yourself small...

I mean it is not like Judge didn't know exactly where the ball was.... he had it tracked... not hard to know to move toward infield and get low and give CFer sight room for ball and room to run through catch...

That said, I love Judge.. all class all the time..

Vazquez awesome

Its insane that THIS pitching staff could go down as an all- time great playoff performance.
I'll look up stats, but only 5 games to go.

Why are the ASTROS scoring all these runs without hitting a HOME RUN!? Don't they know the data??? If you don't hit a home run striking out is a perfectly acceptable result.

Aw shucks Yanks aren't hitting HR again. Keep your faith in the data and analytics and run back the same exact thing next year. Maybe sign a good low contact hitter with POWER this winter to make the difference!

Yea in their 6th game of the playoffs they finally did- you really made your point! and that includes an 18 inning 1-0 win

Nobody is saying cashman is a good gm or the Yankees are better than Houston