“This is one of the teams that we’re chasing”. Eovaldi comes off a 4-1 loss to the Mets where he was charged with all four runs on six hits including two homers over seven innings. Since taking over for Joe Torre in 2008 he has done an outstanding job handling the NY media, especially when it came to all the trials and tribulations that came with Alex Rodriguez. He became baseball’s third 15-game victor. I’m managing to try to win the games.
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Dustin Pedroia’s two-run double in the third inning tied things, 2-2. Benintendi would be denied his first home run of his Major League Baseball career as he doubled just to the left (apparently, on replay) of the yellow line on the wall in center, scoring Sandy Leon after the catcher continued his magical run with a ground ball that bounced past Aaron Hicks and into the corner in right for a triple. “This is the game turning to the next generation, and I don’t anticipate the games will be any less exciting or any less meaningful or a focal point”. He gets a fastball out over the plate and drives it to the biggest part of the ballpark.
Things got hairy for Boston in the ninth inning.
Girardi let the mostly unproductive Aaron Hicks, with a man on and trailing 5-2, face closer Craig Kimbrel with two outs rather than have A-Rod pinch hit.
Kimbrel walked in a run with the bases loaded in the ninth before handing off to Barnes, who struck out Mark Teixeira for his first save.
“(Porcello) was very strong once again”, said Red Sox manager John Farrell.
Barnes allowed two runs on two walks and an RBI double by Longoria and an RBI single by Mikie Mahtook to extend the Rays’ lead to 5-2.
Pomeranz pitched against the Yankees with San Diego on July 2, yielding a run on five hits and striking out seven in seven innings.
But? “He just said [Tuesday], ‘We’re trying to win games, ‘” Rodriguez said. There’s a human element to me.
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I’m not going to make with the bit about how you’re going to miss him when he’s gone. Meanwhile, Girardi said after NY lost to Boston 5-3 on Tuesday night that he and the rest of the Yankees will continue focusing on staying in the AL wild card race rather than get caught up in any sentiment about the slugger’s pending release. Headley took exception, and pretty soon, the benches had cleared. Harrison and I talked about the legacy of Alex Rodriguez as a Yankee, our reactions to A-Rod’s press conference from Sunday, and whether or not the Yankees owed him a chance to get to 700 home runs for his career. “I don’t know what happened”. “When I heard him say that I can actually play in all four games, I was really excited to get some at-bats”. The Yankees will counter with Luis Severino, and we’ll see if Alex Rodriguez makes an appearance in tonight’s game, which would be his first since announcing his retirement from the game, with his last being this coming Friday. He is scheduled to start Thursday night. Fenway fans chanted for him in the late innings. It was his first start since being demoted to the minors in May. The Yankees claimed LHP Tommy Layne (Boston) and RHP Blake Parker (Seattle) off waivers and optioned LHP Richard Bleier to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. (asi/137616), which provided the bobbleheads, released this statement following the cancelation of yesterday’s giveaway: “We value our decades-long relationship with the Red Sox organization and its decision to postpone Tuesday’s David Ortiz bobblehead giveaway”. Vouchers were distributed. Boston SS Xander Bogaerts, who went 5-for-46 on the just-completed road trip, didn’t play for only the third time this season – the first time since June 28.
