During a four-game streak that has seen the Yankees (48-46) knock Baltimore from first place and match a season high by getting two games above.500, NY has received sharp performances from Masahiro Tanaka, Ivan Nova, Nathan Eovaldi and Michael Pineda.
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Orioles vs Yankees Thursday in NY – On Thursday afternoon, Chris Tillman will look to keep his hot streak going when he and the Baltimore Orioles take on CC Sabathia and the New York Yankees.
Last Saturday, CC Sabathia suffered his seventh loss of the year when he was beaten by the Boston Red Sox at home.
Baltimore Orioles starting pitcher Chris Tillman (30) delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees in New York, Thursday, July 21, 2016. It is the kind of thing Teixeira refuses to try and Brian McCann, another frequent shift victim, is incapable of pulling off, but it showed that even a veteran like Beltran is neither too proud nor too stubborn to lay one down for the team. He allowed four runs and five hits with five strikeouts and four walks in seven innings. It was the 11th time in 87 career starts Pineda did not allow a run. He is 7-0 with a 3.23 ERA in 10 starts vs. AL East opponents this year. “I think they’re responding, especially after we lost two to start out this homestand”. “San Francisco’s going to be no easy task”.
“You can’t have a letdown because you lost today”. With one out, Jonathan Schoop reached on an infield grounder that was just out of Didi Gregorius’ range at shortstop, and Manny Machado followed with a soft liner to right for a base hit.
But Orioles center fielder Adam Jones didn’t play because of back spasms, catcher Matt Wieters missed his third consecutive game after being hit by a pitch in the foot and rookie outfielder Joey Rickard sat out with an injured thumb.
While the Orioles hitters benefited from good fortune, right-hander Chris Tillman didn’t need much luck in dominating the Yankees and improving to 14-2 with his fourth straight victory. He won his fourth straight start, allowing exactly one run in seven innings over each outing. Alex Rodriguez is 7-for-19 with five home runs against Tillman, who held the Yankees to one run over seven innings on May 3 before escaping with a 6-5 victory despite three homers by NY a month later. After that hit, Tillman retired 16 of the final 17 batters he faced, with Ronald Torreyes’ two-out single in the fifth accounting for New York’s only base runner over that span.
Tillman pitched well for seven innings, the Orioles offense got a few clutch hits, then the All-Star duo of Brad Brach and Zach Britton took over to close things out. The Orioles added two more in the seventh when Jonathan Schoop lined a two-run double.
“It’s playoff baseball for us, and we have to play extremely well”, Yankees manager Joe Girardi said.
Green pitched 2 1/3 scoreless innings in relief. Green was recalled before the game from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and RHP Nick Goody was optioned to the minor league club. NY 3B Chase Headley (personal) was not in the starting lineup for the second straight day but entered as a pinch hitter. Trevor Bauer (7-3, 3.36) faces Dylan Bundy (2-2, 3.70) on Friday.
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Yankees: The NL West-leading Giants visit Yankee Stadium for the first time since 2013. 500 for the first time since April 12, when they were 4-2 in the first week of the season. “It’s unfortunate. He did not give up a lot of hard hit balls and you look up there’s four runs on the board”.
