Starlin Castro hit a grand slam for the New York Yankees to fire them to a 13-7 Major League Baseball victory over the Cleveland Indians on Friday night.
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Kipnis, Davis, Francisco Lindor and Carlos Santana all had two hits apiece as the Indians (62-46) ensured they’d remain at least two games ahead of the Detroit Tigers in the AL Central.
Three innings later Gregorius, on the day 18,000 of his Bobbleheads were given away, cracked his 13th home run of the year, a solo shot to right to give NY a 2-0 lead.
He gave their hitters the same tough time he had given Yankees opponents for the past year and a half, and quickly enough the Cleveland Indians had a 5-2 win and Miller had his first Indians save. Aside from the home run, Bumgarner (10-7) allowed only Anthony Rendon’s fourth-inning double and a pair of walks to go along with seven strikeouts and a hit batter over eight innings.
“His command was a little off today”, Girardi said.
Masahiro Tanaka rebounded from two rocky outings, Didi Gregorius homered on his bobblehead day and the New York Yankees held off Cleveland 3-2 Sunday after announcing that Alex Rodriguez will soon play his final game in pinstripes.
Sanchez, impressive since he was called up from the minors Wednesday, made his second straight start behind the plate and showed off his strong arm again when he pounced on a pitch in the dirt and threw out Guyer at second trying to advance.
In the top of the sixth, it looked like Tanaka was going to coast through the inning, but right fielder Lonnie Chisenhall wasn’t going to go down quietly.
Teixeira once had those skills. Rodriguez’s announcement came two days after Mark Teixeira declared he was retiring at season’s end – hours before the Yankees went out and won. Second baseman Starlin Castro then started a hard double play on Carlos Santanas sharp grounder, and Betances struck out Kipnis to end it.
Teixeira had finalized his decision at the All-Star break but kept it to himself and his family. “I told him he doesn’t have a 20-something first basemen like he did in Chicago”.
NY had 16 hits, including at least one by every starter, and the Indians failed to retire the Yankees in order in any inning.
Aided by the early outburst, starter Mike Foltynewicz (5-5) worked six solid innings, scattering six hits and allowing a run with two walks and four strikeouts. He then doubled in the fifth for his first big league RBI and walked with the bases loaded in the sixth. He has hits in all three games he’s played for the Yankees this week, and throwing out the base-stealers boosted his psyche.
“Teixeiras are criers by the way, if you don’t know that yet”, he said.
“It seemed like every pitch he really paid for”. “His exchange was quicker”. Davis delivered a two-out RBI single in the fifth.
In Sano’s first at-bat, he sent a foul ball so high that it hit the roof at Tropicana Field – becoming the first player to do so in fair territory in 19 seasons of Rays baseball. His body may have betrayed him out of a place in the Hall of Fame, but he’ll retire as one of only five switch hitters in major league history to hit 400+ home runs, joining Mickey Mantle, Eddie Murray, and former teammates Chipper Jones and Carlos Beltran. Some say we will be poorer without him. But they’re just 1-4 in Sabathia’s last five starts after scoring five runs or more in their previous game and have lost five of their last seven games coming off a win.
Even with the big lead, the Yankees didn’t use Alex Rodriguez, who has one start and seven at-bats since July 22.
He helped NY win a World Series title in his first season, hitting.292 with 39 homers and 122 RBIs and finishing second behind Minnesota’s Joe Mauer in AL MVP voting.
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Miller’s first nine saves this year came with the Yankees.
