Instead, with Sunday’s 7-1 loss to the Twins, they went just 6-5 in that stretch and lost ground in the AL East.
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They had teamed up to set down 26 consecutive batters during that stretch before Joe Mauer singled on a 99 miles per hour fastball from Chapman with two outs in the ninth.
Minnesota 3B Trevor Plouffe missed his second straight game because of a mild right groin strain and remains day-to-day.
Chapman preserved the lead but was not quite as dominant as Friday when his first 10 pitches were over 100 miles per hour and the 11th was a 91-mph changeup.
Rodriguez opened the eighth with a dribbler toward third. Some of the possible relievers they can trade for include Sean Doolittle of the Oakland Athletics, Fernando Abad of the Minnesota Twins and Drew Storen of the Toronto Blue Jays.
All seven homers were solo shots.
Duffey was rolling through the first five innings, then the Twins lengthened the game in the top of the sixth with four runs on three home runs, possibly making Duffey sit too long in the dugout.
Now comes the hard part, keeping a winning record when those three might be unavailable.
Gausman (1-5) struck out seven without a walk, tying a career-high with 113 pitches. Roberto Osuna gave up Eaton’s homer in the ninth before earning his 15th save. Incremental progress won’t help them catch the Orioles, who have won five straight and have gone 17-8 in June.
New York Yankees starting pitcher Nathan Eovaldi reacts on the mound during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Minnesota Twins in New York, Sunday, June 26, 2016.
The Indians spoiled Anibal Sanchez’s return to the Detroit rotation. Danny Santana, Eduardo Nunez and Juan Centeno also connected. Mauer walked on a 3-2 fastball that was clocked at 100 miles per hour.
He’s done it well enough that despite missing the first five weeks of the season because of a domestic violence suspension, he already has 15 saves. “Unfortunately, the pitch count kind of bit him”. He allowed four runs and five hits in five innings.
Altuve drove in three runs and scored three runs.
Eovaldi is enduring his own rough patch of late with 20 runs allowed in 20 innings over his last four turns. He served up back-to-back-to-back two-out home runs to Brian Dozier, Trevor Plouffe and Max Kepler in the sixth. It was the first time the Twins had hit three straight homers in a game since August 3, 2014. Eovaldi allowed one home run in three career starts against Minnesota, building up a 2-1 record with a 3.98 ERA. But Baltimore’s comeback kept the right-hander unbeaten in 13 starts since April 14. And you win a series here, but it’s frustrating because we had a situation where we won three in a row there, we weren’t able to win the fourth. 500 hurdle once and for all is to go on a big run. During a session with the media, Rose joked about taking volunteers for the Reds’ beleaguered bullpen, which is by far the worst in the majors.
He struck out eight batters, walked none and allowed a total of two hits during the entire eight innings he pitched. They are a combined 1-5 against them the past two weekends with the finale of the season series set for Sunday afternoon. He was sidelined for the first two months of the season by a back injury.
“Staying behind the ball doesn’t mean trying to hit the ball the other way or up the middle”, Dozier said. Beltran is hitting. 336 with 11 homers and 34 RBIs since May 19. Minnesota had one hit the rest of the way, two base runners and the last 16 hitters were retired by Yankees pitching.
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DJ LeMahieu and Charlie Blackmon also homered for the Rockies, who stopped a three-game losing streak. “(Sunday) maybe he’ll win the game”. Ichiro Suzuki’s infield single in the fifth sparked what became a four-run inning that put Miami ahead for good.
