Before the injury, Rodriguez cranked an RBI double off the top of the wall in left to snap an 0-for-14 slump and score his team’s only run in the fourth.
Advertisement
WASHINGTON – Tanner Roark struck out a career-high 15 batters in seven innings and Ryan Zimmerman drove in two runs in the first as Washington blanked Minnesota.
According to Jack Curry of the YES Network, Alex Rodriguez tweaked an oblique while taking swings in the batting cages in between at-bats. And Ellsbury, who has no doubt been stung by the manager’s apparent lack of confidence in him, wasted no time in showing everyone what a mistake it was to keep him out of the lineup. “I felt great in the bullpen and good on the mound”.
Steven Souza Jr. picked a very good day to have a stellar game.
Souza is the first Rays player to hit two home runs on his birthday and the 12th player in team history to celebrate his birthday by going yard.
Kluber (1-3) lost his first three starts when the Indians only scored a combined three runs. After pitching 26.1 innings in his first taste of pro ball in the Gulf Coast League, he remained at the Rookie-Ball level in 2012 and responded by going 5-1 with a 2.09 ERA in 11 starts while being named the Appalachian League Pitcher of the Year. The left-hander allowed six hits and one walk with six strikeouts, five days after dominating the Red Sox at Fenway Park. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out. “It’s unfortunate for a catcher, you get whacked in the hand, but it happens”.
Snell, a lefty, was scratched from his scheduled start Friday night in Norfolk and will start for the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium.
Evan Longoria doubled off the center-field fence, and Corey Dickerson lined the next pitch into the right-field seats.
The Rays struck quickly with two outs against Pineda for a five-run first.
Rays: OF Kevin Kiermaier didn’t start and manager Kevin Cash said “we got to be smart” and rest him once in a while.
The Rays plan to promote Snell to start Saturday afternoon against NY.
Has made 23 starts since being acquired from Detroit on July 31, 2014 as part of the David Price trade. Thats the lowest during that stretch for any American League pitcher who has made at least 15 starts.
The offensive display certainly was a welcome one for NY, which entered the series having mustered 18 runs during a woeful 1-7 stretch. The other option is to try a rehabilitation program that hopefully would help him pitch with the partial tear.
“I just go out there, prepare and be ready to go whenever my name’s called”, he said.
The Yankees failed to carry over any of the momentum from Saturday’s thrilling walk-off victory in which Brett Gardner sent the faithful home happy with a ninth-inning solo blast into the second deck in right field.
He couldn’t survive all the home runs Sunday.
Advertisement
Ellsbury struck a double to help the Yankees to their win over the Rays but it was his steal that got his side moving and was the first start steal of home by a Yankees player in almost 15 years.
