It\u2019s been a bit of a janky week for Yankee baseball, with a pair of rain-induced doubleheaders and a scheduled offday in the past six. We return to what is hopefully normal programming today, with the Bombers coming into Philadelphia for a three-game set against the second-place Phillies.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s Cam Bump Day, as the ace Cam Schlittler looks to pull himself over the 4.0 fWAR mark if he can really strut on the Phils tonight. I\u2019ve remarked a number of times this year how Cam will variate between \u201creal good\u201d and \u201cmeh\u201d starts this year, with a handful of dominant performances and only one real stinker in the mix. His last outing was certainly in the \u201cmeh\u201d column, as the Dodgers were able to chase him before the end of the fifth last Sunday.<\/p>\n
I need to do the math on this, but it feels like because Cam throws so many pitches in the zone, he\u2019s most vulnerable against teams that make contact and offer at pitches in-zone. The Phillies boast the sixth-highest strikeout rate in baseball and the 10th-highest Z-Swing percentage, along with the 16th-best Z-Contact rate. To me that sounds like this should be a good matchup for Schlittler\u2019s game plan, but Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper are still who they are.<\/p>\n
Jes\u00fas Luzardo, who is still just 28 despite me feeling like I\u2019ve heard his name for 15 years, goes for Philly. After a five-win season of his own last year, he\u2019s returned that pace and then some in 2026, making the All-Star team with a 3.43 ERA and 2.90 FIP, led by a sparkling ability to keep the ball in the park. The Yankees have managed to induce some immediate regression in other homer-suppressing pitchers this year, if they can manage that tonight they\u2019ll set themselves up well for a win.<\/p>\n
Do note this game is on AppleTV+. I wish it were not.<\/p>\n
Location: Citizens Bank Park<\/p>\n
Radio broadcast: WFAN 660\/101.9 FM, WADO 1280 (NYY) | YES, SportsNet Pittsburgh (PIT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a bit of a janky week for Yankee baseball, with a pair of rain-induced doubleheaders and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,48782,86144],"class_list":["post-305714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-pinstripe-alley-discussions","tag-yankees-game-threads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}