With Luis Gil back at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and Elmer Rodríguez not exactly dealing in his MLB debut, some of the muddied water around returning Yankee starters has begun to clear. Still, after Will Warren’s excellent outing last night in the win over Baltimore, Ryan Weathers is tasked with holding serve in his own start today, and in fairness to him he’s putting together a nice little run.
Making his seventh start of the year, Weathers has made one truly bad outing against the Angels, but
everything else has varied between serviceable to very good, including a combined 12.1 innings allowing two runs against the Astros and Royals since that debacle at the hands of the Halos. I feel like there’s still another level to Weathers though, and maybe that comes in the rotation, maybe it comes deployed as a five-out-reliever-type. The better each successive start goes, the more I’m going to believe in the former.
Orioles starter Kyle Bradish, meanwhile, is all about the walks. The righty is issuing free passes to 12.5 percent of batters faced, leading to a paltry 10.3 percent K-BB rate, my personal favorite pitching stat. The Yankees have the second-highest walk rate in the game, and there have been points this year where I’ve wondered if they’re actually too passive, but against a hurler like Bradish you can see why they’d be willing to work counts.
Offensively, the lineup reverts back to its normal form against righties. Paul Goldschmidt is back on the bench, Ben Rice is at first batting second, and Ryan McMahon gets the start at third base. Jasson Domínguez will be your DH today, back in the starting nine with a clean bill of health on his elbow after an injury scare in Texas.
How to watch
Location: Yankee Stadium — Bronx, NY
First pitch: 1:35 pm ET
TV broadcast: YES | MASN
Radio broadcast: WFAN 660/101.9 FM, WADO 1280, 98 Rock 97.9 FM, WBAL 1090 AM
Online stream: MLB.tv
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