Tag: New York Yankees

The Yankees’ Tommy Kahnle tripped on the dugout steps as benches cleared and MLB fans had jokes

The Yankees’ season in a nutshell.

The New York Yankees are stumbling into the offseason with a miserable 2023 campaign that general manager Brian Cashman called a disaster. They’re also stumbling into bench-clearing incidents.

While the Yankees lost Sunday’s series finale with the Rays, 7-4, the game itself had its share of fireworks. Yankees pitchers hit Rays batters with the pitch four times, and Randy Arozarena was especially furious to take a 3-1 fastball from Albert Abreu off the elbow guard. Arozarena acted like he was going to throw his bat, and then he turned towards Abreu to have some words with the Yankees reliever. Benches would clear, but the teams were eventually separated without incident.

Yet, Arozarena was clearly still heated about getting hit by the pitch. After he stole third in the inning (off a pitch that narrowly avoided hitting Harold Ramirez), Arozarena stared down Abreu as he went to retrieve his helmet. That led to Abreu shouting back at Arozarena, and benches cleared AGAIN.

Like the initial incident, the teams were separated before anything got out of hand. But the best moment came courtesy of Yankees pitcher Tommy Kahnle. As both teams came running from the dugout and onto the field, Kahnle got a late start from the clubhouse and took a tumble on the dugout steps.

For someone falling down on stairs, Kahnle played it off so smoothly.

I’m glad that was caught on camera because MLB fans had plenty of jokes for the wipeout.

Yankees fans crushed GM Brian Cashman after he called the season an unexpected ‘disaster’

Everyone saw this coming except for Brian Cashman.

The New York Yankees went into the 2023 season with legitimate World Series aspirations. This was a ball club that had won 99 games in 2022, re-signed AL MVP Aaron Judge to a monster deal and boasted MLB’s second-largest payroll. At least that was how the Yankees front office saw it.

Fast forward to now, and we’re nearing August with the Yankees at the bottom of the AL East standings, losers of nine straight and essentially out of the wild-card race. You can’t blame Yankees fans for wanting to see consequences at the top as longtime general manager Brian Cashman put together this roster.

Well, they’re not going to enjoy hearing what Cashman had to say on Wednesday.

Cashman spoke to the media ahead of the Yankees’ game against the Nationals, and the overall message was that he’s been shocked to see this season play out as it has, calling it a “disaster.”

That’s where the lack of accountability angered Yankees fans. Cashman essentially described the dreadful season as a fluke that happened at no fault of his own, adding that the roster he constructed looked like a playoff team in spring training.

Job performances — particularly for front offices — aren’t judged in spring training. He has to know that. No wonder Yankees fans weren’t pleased with Cashman’s comments.

Harrison Bader was certain he struck out before the ump called ball on a pitch down the middle

Nobody was more surprised than Bader.

At every level of baseball, hitters are told to let the umpires make the call. You never want to make an assumption on a would-be ball 4 and have an umpire take it personally, ruling the pitch a strike.

But you almost never see the reverse happen with an apparent strikeout going the other way.

During the second inning of Sunday’s game between the Red Sox and Yankees, center fielder Harrison Bader was convinced that Nick Pivetta’s 0-2 fastball caught the zone. And well, he was correct. The pitch was right down the middle, but home plate umpire Junior Valentine saw it differently. He called the pitch a ball as Bader was already making his walk back to the dugout.

Hey, at least Bader was being honest. But man, what a rough call from Valentine.

Red Sox catcher Reese McGuire made the call more difficult than it needed to be by setting up high and reaching down to catch the ball without much of a frame. Yet, a big-league umpire still should have been able to see a fastball down the middle like that.

The missed call didn’t make a difference as Bader struck out swinging a couple pitches later. Still, fans thought the reaction was hilarious. Bader was just so surprised about the call.

The Yankees tried to bunt while down 4 runs to the Red Sox and gave up a double play, and MLB fans roasted them

The Yankees are down bad.

The New York Yankees are not having a great time right now.

During a Saturday game against the archrival Boston Red Sox, Yankees infielder Isiah Kiner-Falefa attempted to hit a bunt and rush to first base as outfielder Giancarlo Stanton was trying to make it to second base.

There was only one problem. The Red Sox catcher made a swift move on the bunt, caught it for the first out and threw Stanton out on first before he had a chance to make it back to base. Also, the Yankees were down four runs to the Red Sox before this failed bunt attempt. It was a disaster.

Letting up an outrageously embarrassing double play to Boston of all teams has to sting New York fans, but it is an accurate summation of how the Yankees’ season has gone so far. Just watch this and try to understand what happened.

The Yankees have a losing record for the first time in forever, and it’s a testament to the fact that things are just not working right now for one of the most storied baseball teams in the league.

Although, this is also the Yankees we’re talking about. MLB fans had a field day with making fun of this bizarre flop of a bunt attempt.

Pedro Martinez compares the Yankees to ‘chihuahuas’ after 1-hit loss to Braves

Woof.

It’s no secret that former Boston Red Sox hurler Pedro Martinez wasn’t a huge fan of the New York Yankees back in the day — and when he’s been on the air after his career, he’s trolled their fans.

That happened again on Tuesday night when the Yanks could only eke out one measly hit against the Atlanta Braves. And on TBS, after the game, Martinez had this to say: “I remember watching the Yankees early in the season, and when they were going well, they looked, like, so confident. It was like watching a bulldog beat up on a chihuahua when they were playing those teams. And Now, they look like the chihuahuas to any other team, especially a good team like the Atlanta Braves. It looks like no match.”

Oof. Or, should I say, woof.

Announcer Michael Kay perfectly summed up the Yankees’ demoralizing collapse against the Marlins

The Orioles would have suspended him.

This past weekend couldn’t have gone much worse for baseball fans in New York. The Mets dropped three of four to their NL East rival Atlanta Braves (outscored 34-3 in the three losses) and somehow didn’t come away with New York’s worst loss of the weekend.

That unfortunate distinction belonged to the New York Yankees.

The Yankees had a chance to win their series against the Marlins on Sunday and went into the ninth inning with a comfortable four-run lead. In fact, no Yankees team had lost after holding a four-plus run lead in the ninth inning since 2021 against Houston. It looked like they were in for a happy flight to Atlanta, but then the wheels fell off. The Marlins put together a rally with four hits, two walks and a massive error to win, 8-7.

When Jake Burger’s walk-off single to left completed the comeback, Yankees announcer Michael Kay summed up the embarrassing loss to perfection.

And let’s be honest: That loss deserved all the criticism from the Yankees’ own broadcast booth. The Orioles should take notes.

They have baseball’s No. 2 payroll (behind the Mets) and are in last place in the AL East.

Fans appreciated Kay’s willingness to call the Yankees out after such a terrible defeat.

Umpire scorecard shows Aaron Boone’s theatrics over arguing balls and strikes was justified

He knew EXACTLY what he was talking about.

Amid their own internal turmoil, the Chicago White Sox pounded the New York Yankees to the tune of a 5-1 win Monday night. This didn’t sit well with New York manager Aaron Boone, who put on an all-time tantrum over arguing balls and strikes. For his theatrics, Boone got himself ejected by an umpire in the eighth inning.

And, after the fact, it looks like Boone may have had a point in his argument. That’s because the umpire scorecard for Laz Diaz — the ump for Yankees-White Sox — legitimately did have an accuracy problem on balls and strikes.

In all actuality, that might even be an understatement, as 17 of his called 50 strikes were actually true balls. Woof.

Diaz’s strike zone was all over the place. Boone wasn’t just seeing things or advocating for his team for the heck of it. Sometimes, a manager’s gripe — no matter how dramatic they are in defending it — is wholly legitimate.

Aaron Boone’s massive tantrum at Laz Diaz includes an pitch-perfect imitation of the ump

Aaron Boone was wild for imitating an ump.

Is there anything funnier than an Aaron Boone argument with an ump?

We’ve seen him throw his gum, we’ve seen him say some NSFW stuff, yeah it’s a wild ride.

This time? As his New York Yankees faced the Chicago White Sox, he saw a called strike three against Anthony Volpe that he didn’t like. So Boone came out of the dugout, got in home plate ump Laz Diaz’s face, said what sounded like some NSFW stuff … and then imitated Diaz.

Seriously! He got behind the plate, did Diaz’s iconic punchout and, as they say, got his money’s worth.

The video is amazing, but check out the photos below it. They’re also amazing:

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Giancarlo Stanton seemingly jogged to home plate for an easy out and was ripped for it

What was Giancarlo Stanton doing?

New York Yankees outfielder Giancarlo Stanton might not be the fastest man on the planet, but he got caught seemingly jogging to home plate in a game on Saturday.

While the Yankees aren’t having the type of season that screams “World Series contender,” you’d think there’d be more urgency when you have a chance to earn a run against a talented team like the Houston Astros.

Well, Stanton tried to make it home to get a lead on the Astros at the bottom of the third inning. However, it looked like he was very not going at full speed as he rounded home and got tagged out by the catcher.

Stanton basically made it to home plate with the catcher waiting to get him out, with there not being any clear reason for why he went so slowly on the run. It literally would’ve been more beneficial for him to stay on second.

Unless he was hurt, it really doesn’t make any sense.

Stanton isn’t a spring chicken, but he is a professional baseball player. It really didn’t look like there was any reason for him not to go faster.

Whatever it was, this was a very odd out.

MLB fans ripped the Yankees for letting Anthony Rizzo play 2 months with ‘likely’ undiagnosed concussion

How is this even possible and who’s responsible?

The New York Yankees suddenly have something a lot more pressing to answer for than their disappointing 2023 season.

After announcing that Anthony Rizzo would be going to the IL with a concussion on Thursday, manager Aaron Boone made an important clarification about the injury. He said that Rizzo’s concussion likely dated back to a collision with Fernando Tatis Jr. during a series against the San Diego Padres. Oh, alright. Well, it’s good to know they know when it happened, I suppose.

Except the said collision with Tatis Jr. happened in late May. Either the Yankees failed to diagnose Rizzo properly, or they just ignored any signs altogether, but this situation doesn’t have the best optics already.

Rizzo has continued to be an everyday player for the Yankees since that Padres series. He cleared initial concussion protocols, but evidently, those weren’t extensive enough. This is two months of Rizzo needing help with severe brain trauma and not getting it. I don’t know who screwed up or how, but that is unacceptable.

Plus, if that isn’t enough, Rizzo reportedly told the Yankees he was experiencing brain “fogginess” — a classic symptom of a concussion — and they still played him in two recent games against the Tampa Bay Rays.

I mean, come on.

Whatever happened with Rizzo here, it’s inexcusable, and I’d love to hear a logically sound explanation from the Yankees about it.