New York’s bullpen lowered its major league-leading ERA to 0.84 on Tuesday after four relievers combined for four hitless innings.
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“The whole rest of the game I was thinking about it was just blood, ” said McCann, who had his toe drained of blood before undergoing a fluoroscope exam that didn’t reveal any broken bones.
Sanchez, meanwhile, gave up a one-out double to Didi Gregorius in the fifth inning.
The Blue Jays took the lead in the second. We’re eight games into the season and people around us, not these 25 guys in here, but people around us have kind of panicked a bit, and I don’t think anybody in this locker-room has panicked one bit.
Mark Teixeira’s solo homer in the eighth inning drew the Yankees within 3-2.
“I guess it’s better to be spiking them [in the dirt] than hanging them over the plate”, Cecil said”.
“He’s going to be fine”, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said of the lefty reliever.
Yankees right-hander Michael Pineda (1-1) allowed five hits, three walks and three runs (two earned) while striking out six in six innings.
“I thought we hit some balls pretty hard in some key situations, but they were at people”, manager Joe Girardi said.
Called upon to hold the Blue Jays at three runs, he surrendered four runs on five hits to put the game out of reach. Happ (1-0) allowed one run, seven hits and three walks. “I’m coming here with the mind-set of playing”, said McCann. Being the only switch-pitcher in professional baseball has created a lot of scrutiny around Venditte, with media giant ESPN doing a E:60 piece on him while he was in the New York Yankees farm system. Jose Bautista and Michael Saunders had two hits apiece as Toronto outhit NY 10-8. Chris Colabello is hitting at a. 067 clip and Russell Martin isn’t much better at.087. To start matters he issued a lead-off walk to McCann after falling behind 2-0, then an out later fell behind Headley 3-0 and walked him too.
Tanaka’s 6-1 with a 3.21 ERA in nine starts after resting for six days or more.
New York’s Ronald Torreyes led off the top of the fifth with a double, his second hit of the game, and he took third on a single by Austin Romine.
Jacoby Ellsbury worked a full count before lifting a flare to shallow left field that allowed Chase Headley to trot home from third base.
Aaron Hicks grounded out to third as Torreyes scored the tying run.
C Brian McCann (bruised left big toe) was not in the starting lineup on Wednesday, a 7-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays. Pineda got Josh Donaldson to ground into a double play on the next pitch, though Goins scored on the play, pushing Toronto’s lead to 3-1.
The Toronto bullpen has struggled over the early going this season.
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The Blue Jays designated right-hander Arnold Leon for assignment to make room for Venditte on the roster. The Blue Jays signed a two-year extension with the Buffalo Bisons to keep them as their triple-A affiliate through 2018. He has four straight multihit efforts with the Yankees (4-2) winning all of those contests after he went 2 for 3 with his second homer in Tuesday’s 3-2 victory in the opener of this three-game series.
