The early-season baseball schedule incorporates off-days to help straighten out the scheduling issues because of postponements, but New York’s off-day Monday doesn’t help because the Tigers start a four-game, home-and-home series against the Pittsburgh Pirates. “They’ve got a lot of tough right-handed bats”. The Tigers’ J.D. Martinez will be another important cog in the machine during 2016, and he logged two hits with a run on Friday.
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It wasn’t a dominant start, but it was a triumphant one, with his wife, mother and friends from home in California watching from a private stadium suite. “He’s no nonsense, no frills”, manager Brad Ausmus said. He doesn’t give in. Sabathia was ineffective for much of spring training and is owed $25 million this year plus $25 million more in 2017 unless he has a significant left shoulder injury this year.
No makeup date has been announced. “They were in a heated suite while I was out there in that”.
“It’s always fun, the first one, ” Sabathia said. “The guys in that (locker) room have always had his back”. A wild pitch and groundout to second by Ian Kinsler scored each runner.
Porcello (1-0) allowed four runs and seven hits in six innings.
Garcia, picked off first base a day earlier in a miserable home opener for the White Sox, went the opposite way off Bryan Shaw (0-1).
Kennedy gave up five hits, walked one and struck out seven before being replaced by Danny Duffy with two out in the seventh after allowing singles to Byung Ho Park and Eduardo Escobar. Gregorius then piped a sacrifice fly to left, scoring McCann, which preceded an infield hit by Torreyes, loading the bases with two down.
Rodriguez gave the Yankees a 1-0 lead in the first inning with his 688th career homer, and Beltran hit a two-run shot in the fifth. Tanaka went 5.2 innings, surrendering two runs, striking out four and walking one in a 5-3 defeat to the Astros in his last outing.
In the fourth, McCann drew a walk and Carlos Beltran singled to the opposite field to beat the shift.
Kershaw, Dodgers top Giants, Bumgarner in extrasSAN FRANCISCO – Madison Bumgarner hit another home run off Dodgers star Clayton Kershaw, but both aces were done by the time Los Angeles finished its 3-2, 10-inning victory over the San Francisco Giants on Saturday in a second straight extra-inning game in the rain.
Detroit’s starter, Justin Verlander, said the most hard thing about pitching in cold weather is keeping his fingers warm and “maintaining a feel for the ball”. “You could see that with Sabathia as well”. (Martinez) taking strike three with the bases loaded in the fourth. I thought that was a ball and kind of changed the inning, despite the fact that we scored a couple runs.
So what does Joe Girardi expect from CC this afternoon? I was hit or miss with that, and I missed my fair share over the middle and they didn’t barrel me up today.
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That brought the crowd to its feet, where they stayed as the Pistons ran out the clock. After a triple in his first plate appearance as a Yankee, he added three hits on Saturday. This was a huge play for Castellanos and showed that he had been clearly working hard in the offseason.
