Kinda sorry about this, folks. I mean, Aaron Judge went deep three times, when only once would have been enough, and I don’t think I had anything to do with that. But if we are feeling superstitious, which as baseball fans of course we are, I think I have to own this. When I was preparing my scoresheet for the game, I saw that Luke Weaver, one of the sad failures of the Paul Goldschmidt trade, was starting for the Yankees, I chortled. And when I posted the first comment on tonight’s Gameday Thread, I posted this:
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Weaver proceeded to get through his first two innings of work with only 18 pitches thrown.