It’s been a pretty good 24 hours for Yankee fans. Will Warren may have put out the best start of his career last night, leading to a Yankee win, and Camilo Doval is no longer a member of this ballclub. The team can turn a good 24 hours into a great one with another win tonight against the Cubs, but hopefully one that isn’t quite so close as the series opener.
Fried will be making his third start since returning from the IL, one against the Pirates that was excellent and one against the White Sox earlier
this week that was considerably more mixed. The Yankees ended up beating the Pale Hose 9-5, but Fried went just three innings, allowing a trio of runs on five hits. In fairness to Max, all three runs came in a first inning where he got death-by-a-thousand-cuts’d a bit, looking much better in each successive frame. To view it pessimistically, the Cubs hit better as a squad than the Sox do.
David Peterson, the erstwhile Met, will make his sixth start as a member of the North Side boys, and they have not been a pleasant five previous outings. Peterson has lowered his ERA by almost a full run with the Cubs, but his FIP has shot up to an ugly 5.12 and in those five starts, providing … 0.0 fWAR. It’s an easier assignment for the Yankee hitters today, but then again we’ve seen how that can go already this year.
This is, by my count, the 835th time a lefty has made a start against the Yankees this year. That is only a slight exaggeration — Michael Zeno found that since June 14th, 42 percent of all Yankee at-bats have been against left-handed pitching, by far the highest rate in the majors and further exploiting the losses of Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton. The lefty-specialist (so to speak) lineup should be familiar to us now, with Amed Rosario and Paul Goldschmidt in their usual places, although at least Rose is DH’ing today to spare us the usual threat he poses at third base. Ben Rice gets a day off as well, a rare one for the best hitter left on the team.
How to watch
Location: Wrigley Field – Chicago, IL
First pitch: 7:15 pm ET
TV broadcast: FOX
Radio broadcast: WFAN 660/101.9 FM, WADO 1280 (NYY) | 104.3 The Score, WPPN 106.7 / TUDN (CHC)
Streaming: MLB.tv (out-of-market only)
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