Wilson gave up three runs in the pivotal inning, the last on a throwing error, and the Yankees went on to end a six-game losing streak with a 7-0 victory Wednesday night.
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The pitcher who gives your team the best chance to get that opportunity is the best pitcher available in your bullpen, whoever that may be at that point in the game. “I’ve done that before in my career”.
“I firmly believe that good things are going to happen and I’m going to be productive”. “But I never saw a falloff in his stuff”.
“I think the last time he had this he was out about three weeks, ” Girardi said.
Of course, the major factor here is that we are still just in the season’s second month, so Tillman would have to maintain this kind of pace, but from everything we have seen so far, the addition of the slider/cutter is drastically helping Tillman in 2016.
“At the start, I wasn’t feeling that good”, Tanaka said through a translator.
Manager Joe Girardi said “we know it’s at least 15 days”.
Rodriguez was coming off one of his best games of the year, a two-hit, four-RBI performance against Boston.
“It’s definitely worrisome”, Girardi said. “He’s started to swing the bat too”.
Gausman gave the Orioles eight shutout innings.
Unfortunately for the New York Yankees, hitting remains very much a problem in their effort to climb out of last place in the AL East.
“I was hot”, Girardi said.
The managerial maxim for tied games on the road should be: you can’t win if you’ve already lost.
Ackley then doubled pinch runner Joey Rickard off first base, and the play withstood a Baltimore manager’s challenge and sent the game to extra innings.
Nick Ciuffo, C, Charlotte Stone Crabs (Tampa Bay Rays) – 2-5 with a run scored and a K in a 4-3 loss to Bradenton. Overall, four of the runs came in with two outs. But, Castro was picked off second by Baltimore catcher Matt Wieters in a play that left Yankee fans scratching their heads in a one run game. “That’s not good enough”.
The Bombers squandered a brilliant outing by Masahiro Tanaka, who was masterful in his sixth start of the year allowing only five hits in eight innings, coupled with seven strikeouts and surrendering zero runs. However, Mark Teixeira’s ground out to first base couldn’t bring Castro in.
Starting pitcher CC Sabathia No. 52 of the New York Yankees throws a pitch to a Baltimore Orioles batter in the first inning during a baseball game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Thursday in Baltimore, Maryland. Machado, an All-Star third baseman, handled the middle of the infield flawlessly while Ryan Flaherty effectively manned third.
In Chicago, Kyle Hendricks pitched six scoreless innings, Ben Zobrist drove in four runs and the Cubs topped Washington in the opener of a four-game series.
That ended A-Rod’s night.
Baltimore loaded the bases with one out in the eighth against Kirby Yates but Dellin Betances, who has struggled of late, came on to strike out Chris Davis and get Mark Trumbo, who homered twice on Tuesday, to pop out.
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The Yankees captured the game Brett Gardner a night before called, in a bit of hyperbole, a “must-win”.
