2 games - 2 losses where we could've should've walked Judge and instead he beats us twice. Garbage.

Dicks out for Osuna

Dusty has been managing for 187 years. Not sure there's anything else he can "learn" by now. The game has completely passed him up

That's some of the dumb, asinine, boneheaded managing I've ever seen. And that includes LaRussa walking someone on a 1-2 count.

Nothing about Dusty's decisions today makes any logical sense.

I don't think Dusty played his full hand, and I think it was intentional. He is testing guys in certain situations.

That's why we saw Martinez in the 10th. JJ was out in the game late as well to give Brantley time off.

We will see them again.

Take care of the Mets, then take Thursdays game against the Yankees.

I'm good with 2-2. It should have been 4-0. The Yankees escaped with a split.

“It was Judge 2, us 2,” Dusty Baker said of the series.

— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) June 26, 2022

Just walk him and Judge can't beat you

Big picture: we no hit them in their house. We had them on the ropes in the two games we lost. Mickey Mouse ballpark and favoritism by the umpiring crew kept them in it. If I'm a Yankees fan, I'm concerned about the Astros in the postseason.

I'm not going to get too upset about this one. As a neutral baseball fan, that series had literally everything you could want from a no-hitter to two walk-offs to big dingers and a lot of close innings. If you had asked me last week if splitting this series was acceptable, I'd have said yes.

Bottom line is the Astros were clearly the better team for that entire series and the Yankees' luck will regress to the mean eventually.

But.

That could've and should've been a four-game sweep. And there are two issues that we need to figure out: the same offensive problems that lost the 2021 World Series have not changed, and Dusty Baker absolutely sucks at managing a baseball game.

The thing that pisses me off is that walking Judge poses no additional risk.

It wasn't like it would've moved the runner into scoring position or anything.

There was nothing to contemplate.

It's moronic management. That's all there is to it.

There's literally not a single logical explanation to not walk Judge. It should have been an instant decision before he even left the on-deck circle

1) Judge is their best player and leading candidate for MVP
2) Judge has a history of walkoffs in that park, especially against us
3) Judge had already beaten you earlier in the week when you didn't walk him
4) walking Judge puts a force at every bag
5) Rizzo was on deck and is by far an inferior hitter
6) 2 outs and tie game so having a runner on 2nd means nothing

First time getting Dustied?

Keeper of The Spirits said:

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Won't happen until the playoffs. The season is for warming up and learning this lessons

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Yeah you know what they say about Dusty… he's super adaptable and totally not stubborn in his ways

JFC. That's grounds for termination right there.

You don't have faith that he can throw strikes to Rizzo but you think he has a better chance of getting Judge out?!

Martinez threw 9 pitches. 8 were strikes. Prior to today his WHIP was 0.77. He's walked 6 out of the 64 batters he faced before today, or 9 percent.


..and our genius manager was afraid of losing on a bases loaded walk, with a guy at the plate who has only walked 35 times out of 305 plate appearances, and is slugging 200 points lower than Judge.

Aggie8587 said:

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WTF Dusty?! Jesus there's a bag open and you pitch to Judge? So we can leave Rizzo in the on deck circle? GTFO here man. Can't believe how awful of a manager he is

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Sat Alvarez and pitched to Judge twice with the game on the line.

Our starters all outplayed theirs, giving us an easy opportunity to be 4-0.

The bats outplayed them too.

Have to tighten up the bull pen, but getting McCullers back and shifting to a playoff 4 man rotation should help that.

We took away a lot more positive than not in these last 6 games, just need some small adjustments.

tjack16 said:

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Keeper of The Spirits said:

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Won't happen until the playoffs. The season is for warming up and learning this lessons

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Yeah you know what they say about Dusty… he's super adaptable and totally not stubborn in his ways

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Yeah i get him caring more about postseason wins than regular season ones, but this was basically a playoff atmosphere all weekend.

I've mentioned enough displeasure with Dusty on here and wanting him gone. He's the manager and nothing will change that this season.