Yanks score once - a HR by a guy who's never hit one at the MLB level - and beat, gulp, their Babadook... Frank Lary, Roy Halladay, Felix Hernandez Nathan Eovaldi.
Now it's Colorado, the Wretched Rockies, a team chasing historical mediocrity - as we feature the game's best hitter (Aaron Judge) and pitcher (Max Fried.)
What could go wrong?
Welp...
Considering that we remain a juju god-fearing site, here are 10 reasons to fear the Rockies' table-scraps lineup.
1. This is exactly the kind of trap series that annually kills us: On a winning streak, we visit the worst team in baseball, and they eat our lunches.
This especially happens when - as the Rockies apparently are planning - said-opposing team use starters with ERA's over 6.00. We've seen this movie countless times. You can see the zeros piling up.
2. A media-fed mini-crisis is being sold on who will play 3B when Chaz Chisholm returns, probably two weeks from now. Should DJ LeMahieu move? Or Chisholm?
For once in his miserable life, I believe Aaron Boone has the right solution: Fukkit. Let's cross that bridge later. Seriously... by the time Chisholm is ready, DJ will have tweaked something and no longer be an option.
3. Am I hallucinating, or does Jorbit Vivas look like a tough out? Okay, I know, I know - he hits a HR so I'm measuring his plaque - but yesterday's big blast follows a game in which Vivas begot one of the best - and longest - plate appearances of the year - his prolonged at-bat that ended with the Mets' Pete Alonso botching a throw. At 5'9," Vivas looks like a fire hydrant. Look: He's not Altuve. He's not Caleb Durbin, either. He was hitting over .300 at Scranton. Let's hope the brain trust doesn't Boone him.
4. Every year, it seems the Yankees go through a hot period - like, around now - when they look like baseball's best team. (This year, because of the Dodgers and their Japan pipeline and cooking of the books, that cannot happen.) Last year, between May 12 and May 25, they went 11-2. They absolutely killed the month, then collapsed in June.
Just sayin...
5. While I have you... A few words on Paul Goldschmidt. Guy's a rock. Lately, there's talk about the need to find a position for Ben Rice - (and, yes, we all want to clear the way for a homegrown Yankee) but a platoon with Goldschmidt? Fuck, no. This guy is a gamer - seven time all-star, four Gold Gloves, .290 career average - numbers worthy of The Hall. When he steps to the plate, you know we're getting a quality at-bat.
And this season, he is doing the impossible:
He is protecting Aaron Judge in the lineup.
6. As the Yankiverse waits on Anthony Volpe, I find myself checking frequently on the progress of George Lombard Jr., now at Double A Somerset. He's hitting .290 on the year, most of it at High A, and supposedly showing a fine glove at SS. He's 19, and his stock is soaring in the prospect rankings. In simple terms, he's where Volpe was about five years ago.
I believe the Yankees are committed to Volpe for the rest of 2025. They seem to love him, and the guy does exhibit team spirit. But I wonder... some players are not meant to go home. To stay the Yankee SS, Volpe doesn't need to hit .300. But .235, with little power? That won't cut it.
Lombard will play the entire year on the farm. But I'm watching. Wednesday, his most recent game, he went 1-4 with a K.
7. I'm fine with the Yankees using Luke Weaver as their closer until he cannot handle the job.
Devin Williams had his shot. He blew it. He might be straightening himself out. Fine. But Weaver is our best pitcher out of the pen. By far. Until he fucks up, he's The Man.
8. Speaking of The Man... The Martian couldn't quite lift-off yesterday, following his walk-off HR the day before. He went 0-3 (though against Eovaldi, a great pitcher.) Still waiting for that streak - that moment when he starts raking, and never stops. Remember: He's only 22, and he missed two entire seasons of development - (one for Covid, one for elbow surgery.)
9. The biggest threat to the balance of this team remains Giancarlo Stanton. Nothing against the guy - he seems a great teammate - but when he returns, it's going to be a big round peg being smashed into a small square hole.
10. Again: See Number One. Beware Colorado! BEWARE! I don't trust air that doesn't taste like tailpipe.









