Stumblin' Along 4/26 '26
Prototype
Prototype
- Yanks Week 5 Notes & Around the MLB
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Alright @YouTheReader,
Today’s tune from the MLB ‘06 The Show soundtrack is City Sleeps’ Prototype.
Another one of these songs that I haven’t heard in 20 years. Didn’t recognize the song until the chorus.
Anyway, on to the ball…
Game 22
- Going for the Sunday sweep of the Royals, the Yankees jump out to a 3-0 lead in the Bronx as Aaron Judge belts his 9th home run of the season to dead center. In the Bottom of the 2nd, Ben Rice extends his home run streak to four games to put the Yanks up 4-0. That’s all the run support that Ryan Weathers would need as the southpaw mows down the Kansas City lineup. Weathers strikes out 8 in 7.1 innings pitched to earn his first career win as a member of the New York Yankees. Yanks win 7-0 as Trent Grisham drilled a 3-run home run in the 5th for safe measure.
Game 23
- After a Monday off day, the Yankees play the Sox in Fenway for the first time this young season. Facing Connelly Early for the first time since the Wild Card Series last October, Mike Stanton drills one over the Green Monster to get the scoring going in the 2nd inning. Stanton later hits one off the Green Monster for a two-run double that concludes with a sweet Aaron Judge slide into home plate. Luis Gil works into the 7th inning, allowing only 5 Sox to reach base. The Yankees get their 2nd straight shutout, beating Boston 4-0.
Game 24
- Yanks strike first in the 1st with a two-out rally that includes a Mike Stanton double and Amed Rosario's 3-run home run off Ranger Suarez. That would be all the run support that Max Fried would need as the southpaw pitched an absolute gem of a game. Fried went 8 innings of shutout ball with 9 Ks while allowing just two walks and three hits. The Red Sox avoided getting shut out by putting together a 1-run rally in the 9th off Brent Headrick. Yanks win 4-1.
Game 25
- Cam Schlittler from Walpole, Massachusetts, makes his first career MLB start in Fenway Park. He previously pitched in the green eye sore of a stadium as a high school showcase game, his senior year. Schlittler gives up an unearned Red Sox run in the 2nd inning after an Amed Rosario errant throw. Jazz Chisholm wraps one around the Pesky Pole in RF for his first home run of the season to tie things at 1-1 in the 5th. Schlittler gives up a solo home run, but otherwise dominates in his homecoming by tossing 8 innings. He earns the win thanks to a Yankees’ 7th inning rally of all five singles from Grisham, Chisholm, Jose Caballero, Cody Bellinger, and Judge. David Bednar closes out his 7th save of the season as the Yankees complete the sweep in Boston by winning 4-2.
Game 26
- Down in Houston, Texas, the Yankees immediately get to scoring in the Top of the 1st inning thanks to an awful attempted flip from Jose Altuve that sets up the bases loaded with no outs. Yanks would score two more on a Jazz Chisholm Jr. 2-run RBI single. Ryan McMahon hits a solo shot into the Astros’ short porch in Left Field in the 2nd. For the second night in a row, Jazz finds the seats, this time a no-doubter. Midway through the 6th, Mike Stanton gets pinch-run for after limping on the base paths. All the while, Will Warren strikes out six Astros in six innings of two-run ball. The Yankees tack on runs in the 7th, as Ben Rice and Jose Caballero each go deep. In the middle of Friday night of the NFL Draft, the Bronx Bombers blow out the Astros 12-4.
Game 27
- Fresh off paternity leave after the birth of his son, Ryan Weathers gives up an early 1-0 lead to Houston in the 1st. Trent Grisham tied things with an opposite-field solo home run in the 3rd. The Yanks take the lead in the 5th when Jose Caballero finds the left field seats for the second straight night. Caballero would go on to have a 3-hit night and steal his 10th bag of the season. Tied at 2-2, Austin Wells barely finds the RF seats in the 7th, and away the Yanks would go on a walk party. The Yanks would score 8 runs on 12 hits and 10 walks. Weathers didn’t get the win, but held Houston to just two runs as the bullpen combined to shut down the door in an 8-3 win.
Next
- Currently on an 8-game winning streak, there is absolutely nothing to complain about with this team. The only potential move would be to place Stanton on the IL if his calf injury is that serious. If that were to happen, the obvious move would be to call up Jasson Dominguez to DH. Why I think they’d rather not rush placing Stanton on the IL is that they don’t want to mess around with The Martian’s playing time in the outfield. Dominguez has gotten off to an excellent start at the plate in Triple-A, batting over .300 with 3 dingers in 22 games for the RailRiders.
Around the MLB
- This weekend, the Boston fired Alex Cora from his managerial duties, along with most of his coaching staff. In 8 seasons as the Red Sox manager, Cora went 619-541 with one World Series title in ‘18 during his first year in the role. Coming into the season with high expectations after reaching the Wild Card Series last season, Boston’s offense has been putrid as they’ve hit the fewest home runs and grounded into the most double plays in the American League thus far.
- Tigers’ Kevin McGonigle continues to rake as he’s currently on a 10-game hitting streak. The rookie SS is batting .333 on the season with 11 doubles, 2 triples, and 2 home runs in 26 games. McGonigle has reached base safely in each of his last 24 games he’s started as the 21-year-old makes an early case for the favorite to win the AL Rookie of the Year.
- Angels’ José Soriano is the early-season MLB ERA leader. The Halos’ Opening Day starter has allowed just one earned run in 37.2 innings during his first six starts this season. According to the MLB, his 0.24 ERA is the lowest since the Dead Ball Era of 1913 by a starting pitcher who threw at least 30 innings in his first six starts. The sinker-baller has been throwing fewer sinkers and incorporating his 4-seam fastball more, while his knuckle-curve and split-finger are producing a ton of swing-n-miss.
- What’s been lost in the Mets’ tragic start to their season is that the Phillies have actually been even worse. Philadelphia currently has a -50 run differential, nearly twice as bad as the next-worst team, the Chicago White Sox (-28). While both Philadelphia and the Mets have plenty of talent, a major concern with the holes they’ve dug themselves is that the Marlins and Nationals look like competent teams that won’t roll over.
- Still so early into the season, but the NL Central is shaping up to be a gauntlet. After a 7-9 start to their season, the Chicago Cubs won 10-straight to climb near the top of the division. Over the past week, the Cubs swept both the Mets and the Phillies at Wrigley Field as Alex Bregman’s begins to heat up. In his last 17 games, Chicago’s new 3B has hit safely in 14 of them.
- San Diego has won 16 of their last 19 games to edge out the Dodgers for 1st Place in the NL West. Last night in their 6-4 over the D-Backs, Padres’ star closer Mason Miller picked up his 10th save this season. In 13.1 innings pitched, Miller has faced just 44 batters. This season, he’s only walked two hitters, and thus far, of the three hits he’s given up, none have yet been extra bases. Since last August, Miller hasn’t allowed a single earned run in 34.2 innings, which sets a Padres record. With his 10 saves in 26 games, Mason Miller is currently on pace to break Francisco “K-Rod” Rodriguez's record for saves in a season (62 in 2008).
