ATLANTA — With the Yankees down, 8-2, on Monday, Harrison Bader made the ultimate out of the sixth inning when Braves starter Max Fried picked him off of first base.
The Yankees challenged the decision, however replay overview didn’t spare them from an inexcusable out.
“You just can’t get picked off there,” Bader mentioned, echoing a sentiment shared by Aaron Boone after the Yankees’ 11-3 loss. “I take full responsibility for that.”
While Bader confirmed accountability for the gaffe, he additionally mentioned that the left-handed Fried has a “balk move.” Asked if he thought Fried balked on the play, Bader mentioned, “I don’t know. I believe it’s the identical factor you may say about balls or strikes or a balk transfer or no balk transfer. It’s what the umpires name and that’s the usual.
“Regardless of the situation, the umpires’ calls are the calls, and I have to be able to adjust accordingly to that. I knew how good his move was going into it. I just extended [my lead] too much. And again, the situation can’t happen.”
Balk transfer or not, Monday was hardly the primary time the Yankees have made an egregious out on the bases this season.
Such slipups have been a typical prevalence for a last-place, near-.500 workforce that has little room for error. With that in thoughts, Boone was requested, “All season long, it seems like you guys have had some blunders on the basepaths. Why do you think that is?”
“Yeah, it seems like it,” Boone responded, emphasizing the third phrase of the sentence. “But it’s actually probably on the lower end of the league, frankly. Because we’ve been in so many kind of low-scoring, close games for the most part, when you do have a blunder, and it costs you, it’s accentuated. It’s extra. You got to strike that balance between sitting on your hands, not being aggressive, playing scared, and sometimes you get caught.”
It’s unclear what stat Boone was referring to when he mentioned the Yankees are “probably on the lower end of the league” on the subject of baserunning errors, however most say the other.
Entering Tuesday’s sport, the Yankees had been picked off 12 instances, the fifth-highest whole within the majors. They had additionally made 37 outs on the bases (which excludes pickoffs, unsuccessful stolen base makes an attempt and power performs), the Tenth-highest whole in baseball.
While the Yankees have been higher than league common when it got here to outs made at first and second base, they have been the fifth-worst workforce with 11 outs made at third base. They have been ninth-worst with 11 outs made on the plate.
The Yankees’ 75% success charge on stolen bases was additionally amongst MLB’s lowest.
Advanced metrics aren’t keen on the Yankees’ baserunning, both.
FanGraphs’s Ultimate Base Running (UBR) stat measures the worth of baserunning on non-stealing performs. The website’s Base Running (BsR) stat does the identical, nevertheless it consists of stealing performs.
The Yankees ranked twenty seventh in UBR (-5) and twenty ninth in BsR (-11.5) getting into Tuesday’s sport.
Long story quick: the Yankees aren’t a great baserunning workforce. They weren’t too good final yr, both, as they completed twenty first in BsR, twenty third in pickoff outs and twenty seventh in UBR.
“Every time a game situation presents itself, you just have to prepare for it,” Bader mentioned, not directly answering a query about whether or not the Yankees have to put extra emphasis on their baserunning. “Whether it’s doing more work or whether it’s knowing your opposition, whatever it is, it looks different for every player. Just going into situations knowing what you might see on the baseball field will give you the best opportunity to make instinctual decisions.”
SURGERY NOT IN JUDGE’S PLANS
Boone feels that Aaron Judge has seemed good since getting back from a torn ligament in his toe, which isn’t totally healed. The supervisor mentioned the outfielder has been shifting higher and having robust at-bats regardless of not being at his peak bodily kind.
Judge entered Tuesday’s sport hitting .260/.456/.460 with three house runs, 5 RBI, 18 walks and 13 strikeouts over 68 plate appearances since returning on July 28.
Boone added that he doesn’t imagine surgical procedure is within the playing cards for Judge, who beforehand mentioned he wasn’t positive what the offseason might carry.
With the Yankees in final place, Boone was additionally requested if the workforce would think about shutting Judge down at a sure level if the standings don’t change.
“We’re not at that point,” Boone replied.
RODÓN COULD RETURN VS. WASHINGTON
Boone mentioned that Carlos Rodón (hamstring) will throw a simulated sport in Tampa on Wednesday. The skipper wasn’t positive what number of pitches the lefty will throw, however Rodón may have “a good workload.”
If that goes properly, Rodón is lined as much as return for subsequent week’s sequence in opposition to Washington at Yankee Stadium.
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