The bullpen has also been suspect at times. It was then that the Yankees were able to capitalize with an Aaron Hicks groundout that scored Ronald Torreyes to tie the game, 1-1.
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Brett Cecil was down heading into Wednesday night’s game against the New York Yankees at Rogers Centre. He walked Castro and, after Gregorius’ sacrifice bunt, Ellsbury dumped a single to left to make it 3-2.
The Jays plan with Venditte is to slide him into a bullpen that is ranked 19th for ERA in the majors heading into tonights game versus the New York Yankees. Manager John Gibbons showed no reluctance in going back to the left-hander, tagged with two losses already, and he responded by going three-up, three-down, his curveball far sharper.
“Yeah, I didn’t think”, he said.
This is mid-April baseball and many players still don’t quite have their timing down. Pineda has traditionally avoided issuing too many free passes, but uncharacteristically walked three batters in six innings on Wednesday. He reached a full count against Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion, but allowed two-out walks to each of them. Still, the bullpen made the slim margin stand. Betances retired the side in order in the eighth inning, and Andrew Miller worked the ninth for his second save of the season. And that has been a growing concern for the defending American League East Division champs, who lost five of their first eight games, with three blown saves.
Shreve entered in the bottom seventh and got first two outs. I know this may sound like a knee-jerk reaction but his stuff has late-inning reliever written all over – power fastball and nice-looking off speed pitches. The hits are going to come.
Brian McCann homered before leaving with a bruised left big toe, Jacoby Ellsbury singled home the tiebreaking run in the seventh inning and the Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on Tuesday night.
PHILLIES 2, PADRES 1: Maikel Franco homered, doubled and drove in both runs and Jerad Eickhoff struck out nine in seven scoreless innings to lead Philadelphia to a win at home. The deal, which began in 2012, now runs through the 2018 season.
“It was kind of the same scenario past year”, Martin said.
Getting his second start of the season, J.
The two starters had similar lines.
Yankees right-hander Michael Pineda (1-1) allowed five hits, three walks and three runs (two earned) while striking out six in six innings.
Last week against the Houston Astros, Nathan Eovaldi had a season debut to forget after giving up five earned runs in five innings of work. He walked three and, mostly because of a biting slider, struck out six.
“It’s a big advantage for me because I get to face those lefties left-handed and righties right-handed”, Venditte said. “It’s as good an environment as you can get, from a logistics perspective as well as from a marketing perspective”.
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Sanchez struggled with his command early in the game before settling down. Headley walked. On Aa.Sanchez’s error on a pickoff attempt, B.McCann to third, Headley to second.
