There are must-win games to restore sanity. Replay confirmed the call, and Blanco said he wasn’t sure if his fingers actually touched the plate. Mac Williamson singled him in with the go-ahead run. A surprising sequence for the Yankees’ vaunted bullpen trio. “I just hope we can win a game!” “I’m not doing anything in particular to get any velocity”. The first one came after he had two strikes on Aaron Hicks, who entered the game with a.189 average.
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Masahiro Tanaka #19 of the New York Yankees pitches in the second inning gainst the San Francisco Giants at Yankee Stadium on July 22, 2016 in the Bronx borough of New York City. They also lost catcher Buster Posey, who fouled a ball off his right foot and left with a bruise. He was listed as day to day.
I think he s getting better with lefties because he s seeing them, Bochy said. “And that’s the way it goes”.
That was one of those “everything has to go right” plays and the Yankees executed to perfection. “We have to go out and perform, but the organization is going to make whatever decision they’re going to make, so we can’t worry about that”. We wanted to get him out there as soon as he could.
“Three errors? Nah, it’s not happened before”, Crawford said.
Ivan Nova gave the Yankees the length and quality start they needed, giving up just one run in seven innings on six hits and two walks while striking out seven. With two outs and Pagan on third, Betances, who was supposed to be given the day off, was told to intentionally walk Brandon Crawford, but his pitch sailed over McCann’s head in what would have been a wild pitch on an intentional walk.
Posey was pulled after the top of the fourth inning. For the most part, the back end of the Yankees’ bullpen has been automatic in putting up zeros.
“You don’t see it very often”. The YES cameras caught manager Bruce Bochy muttering to himself in disbelief.
But the Yankees bounced back for the fifth win in six games, and didn’t need to hit the ball hard to do it.
Tied at 2, Chase Headley opened the eighth with a single and Mark Teixeira walked. And then Austin Romine hit a ground ball to the shortstop, Brandon Crawford. Headley wound up scoring the winning run because Dellin Betances and Andrew Miller allowed runs in the seventh and eighth.
The Giants still were not done, even with Chapman averaging 102.8 miles per hour on his fastball, the highest by anyone in a game in the last eight seasons. “I felt like it rolled far enough away”. Aroldis Chapman closed in the ninth for his 20th save in 21 chances, working around a leadoff double.
In keeping the Giants at bay, outfielder Carlos Beltran showed there’s some life in his 39-year-old arm as he gunned down the Giants’ Gregor Blanco at the plate for a double play.
A spirited crowd of 45,304 also included lots of Giants fans, and the rival rooters spent much of the game loudly cheering, often at the same time. Starlin Castro has hit 95 times with 37 runs, 11 homers and 38 RBI. The Giants are 6-9 vs. AL teams.
Giants: OF Hunter Pence (hamstring) and INF Joe Panik (concussion) didn’t start for Triple-A Sacramento.
Although he allowed at least four earned runs for the fourth time in five starts last time out, Samardzija escaped with a no-decision at the San Diego Padres last weekend. The Yankees are 5-4 with one game remaining in the homestand that was somewhat billed as the defining one in the buy-sell saga as the August 1 nonwaiver trade deadline approaches.
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Recording his sixth consecutive quality start, Philadelphia’s Zach Eflin pitched a three-hitter against the Pirates for his first career shutout. He struck out nine in six innings, and the only run he allowed was unearned.
