Start Time: 7:10 p.m. ET
Attendance: 37,591
Venue: Fenway Park
Game Duration: 3:28
Night Game, on grass
Red Sox 19, Yankees 3
With starting catcher Gary Sanchez injured, the Yankees started minor league call up Kyle Higashioka. With the Yankees trailing 12-3 he homered in the 5th. Boston had scored 7 in the first and 5 in the fourth. The route was on.
| Pitching | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | BF | Pit | Str | Ctct | StS | StL | GB | FB | LD | Unk | GSc | IR | IS | WPA | RE24 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masahiro Tanaka, L (7-6) | 3.1 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4.79 | 25 | 87 | 54 | 32 | 7 | 15 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 0 | -11 | -0.414 | 0.54 | -9.4 | ||
| Stephen Tarpley | 1.2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8.22 | 12 | 48 | 29 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -0.005 | 0.01 | -3.1 | |
| Luis Cessa | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.96 | 7 | 18 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.000 | 0.00 | 0.6 | |
| Austin Romine | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 27.00 | 7 | 21 | 15 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0.00 | -2.4 | |
| Team Totals | 8 | 23 | 19 | 19 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 21.38 | 51 | 174 | 112 | 70 | 15 | 27 | 10 | 30 | 16 | 0 | -11 | 2 | 2 | -0.419 | 0.26 | -14.3 |
Yes, the Yankees used their temporary starting catcher Austin Romine to pitch the 8th inning and save their bullpen that one inning with Boston leading 16-3. Sandy Leon and Xander Bogaerts homered off Romine.
So what, right? Romine wasn't in the game but if he had been he would have removed his catcher's gear to pitch.
In games when he catches, Romine, like every catcher forever, would remove his catcher's gear every time he bats and then put it back on when he goes back to catching. That's tedious at best.
Why do that? Any of it? Including when pitching. It makes zero sense, except in the bizarre prism of baseball people: fans, players, management, media. If you presented this to a non baseball human being, the reaction would be that the catcher should continue to wear his protective gear when batting ... and while pitching, the position closest to the batter in fair territory.
I have advocated for years that pitchers should wear catcher's gear. And that all infielders should wear catcher's gear while fielding. But it makes even more sense that all batters wear catcher's gear while batting.
What kind of imbecile would argue against that?
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