Though the group finished a strong road trip with five more runs, giving it 37 in six games, missed opportunities were everywhere. The Yankees have seen an uptick in scoring as of late, averaging 0.0 runs during the last 10 games compared to their season average of 0.0 runs per game. That pushed Chicago up, 4-3. Chicago ranks in the top half at 12th with 8.58.
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Jason Hammel allowed one earned run as he worked a season-high 6 2/3 innings to improve to 5-0.
Aaron Hicks hadn’t had an extra-base hit from the right side since he homered against Houston’s Dallas Keuchel on September 6 until his second-inning double off Jose Quintana.
Ranking 25th, NY is near the bottom of the league in hits, notching 7.74 per game. Matt Wieters and Adam Jones also homered for the Orioles.
When they are outhit, the Yankees are 3-17.
But then Betances retired three straight hitters with runners on second and third, which Joe Girardi called “a tremendous job”.
“Dellin was awesome”, Miller said.
Springer, whose homer was his eighth of the year, and Jose Altuve both stroked three hits and scored twice to help the struggling Astros to their fourth win in their last six games. Marwin Gonzalez delivered a pair of RBI singles.
The Sox bullpen has an 8.59 ERA over its last five games.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Oakland snapped a five-game losing streak, getting four home runs – two from Danny Valencia – in a victory over Tampa Bay. Things didn’t go quite as swimmingly as yesterday: Masahiro Tanaka wasn’t sharp, the bullpen big three wasn’t flawless, and the offense failed to punish White Sox starter Miguel Gonzalez for his mistakes. Max Scherzer recently became just the fourth pitcher in Major League Baseball history to strike out 20 batters in a game and has two no-hitters of his own.
Hellickson gave way to Hector Neris, who pitched a clean eighth inning.
Former Yankees center fielder Bernie Williams received a Bachelor of Music degree on Friday from the Manhattan School of Music after four years studying jazz guitar.
Dickey allowed three singles, including a bunt to leadoff hitter Rougned Odor, in eight innings.
In the seventh, Jose Abreu and Todd Frazier singled and Melky Cabrera doubled in Abreu with the tying run. He had two wild pitches, including one that led to a run in the sixth.
PHILLIES 3, REDS 2: Jeremy Hellickson struck out nine in seven innings and drove in the go-ahead run on a suicide squeeze, helping Philadelphia beat Cincinnati. He avoided further damage by striking out Lawrie to end the inning. All the runs were charged to Braves rookie reliever Hunter Cervenka, who had not allowed a run in his first 15 big league appearances, covering 10 1/3 innings.
MILWAUKEE – Junior Guerra spun six shutout innings and slumping Chris Carter’s first-inning sacrifice fly led Milwaukee past San Diego. Albers’ record now stands at 1-2.
A very odd statistic is that the National League, with the pitcher batting in intra-league games, still was outhitting the American League at.253 to.249.
“We couldn’t get anything going”, White Sox manager Robin Ventura said.
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LOS ANGELES – Ross Stripling earned his first major league win in seven tries in Los Angeles’ win over St. Louis at Dodger Stadium. He didn’t challenge what looked like a strike-him-out-throw-him-out in the first inning, forcing Gonzalez to record a fifth out when he already had to get four. The Cardinals are tied with the Atlanta Braves for the most errors in the league (29).
