Michael Pineda (6-10, 5.07 ERA) and Marco Estrada (7-5, 2.95 ERA) are on the hill in the second of a three-game series between the New York Yankees (61-57) and the Toronto Blue Jays (67-52) at Yankee Stadium.
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The 23-year-old righty from Ladner pitched a gem at the Nat in Vancouver’s 2013 championship clincher, scattering three hits over six and one-third innings in what became a 5-0 win over the Boise Hawks. Both are great nominations, but make sure you also don’t forget about what the Jays did in NY tonight.
The Blue Jays didn’t score any runs in their last game.
Early on, this looked like an easy Yankee win. NY rallied late for a 4-2 win and Pineda put the Yankees in position to win by allowing two runs and eight hits in six innings.
He ripped his fourth homer of the season into the Blue Jays’ bullpen with two outs in the second inning and then added a three-run shot to left in the fourth.
Estrada was outstanding August 3 in Houston when he allowed one run and four hits in seven innings. We have hitters that put tough at-bats on pitchers and even if the pitcher is good that day, we still are able to get the pitch count up and get him out of there.
However, his New York Mets tasted defeat in the end, going down 10-6 to the Arizona Diamondbacks.
“That first at-bat was a little experiment, basically”, Judge said.
Once the rain cleared, everything changed.
Although Green has shown much more potential as a reliever, he’s a starter by trade.
It all started in the sixth inning with a double off the bat of Devon Travis.
The Toronto Blue Jays and New York Yankees wrap up their three game series on Wednesday afternoon. Aaron Judge made a leaping attempt to grab the ball that just cleared the wall, but his jump was Tu-Lo. It continued with Adam Warren in the eighth.
The Jays would strike again in the eighth, but not before some wonderful relief work by Scott Feldman who tossed 57 pitches and struck out five batters including the last four he faced.
The New York Yankees’ Tuesday began with a confirmation of their worst fears, that their rapidly crumbling starting rotation would definitely lose Nathan Eovaldi, not just for the remainder of this season, but probably all of next season, too. First, a power hitter batting from the left side of the plate, then a right-handed veteran who’s aggressive against fastballs. “I was hoping it would be a quicker rain delay, but when it got to be 45 to 50 minutes, it was frustrating”. Travis hit an RBI single, and Donaldson drove in a run with his second walk of the inning. It was 8-6 Toronto and the Yankees had officially coughed up what looked like a sure win.
The Blue Jays will be looking to beat the Yankees for the ninth time in 12 meetings after storming back from a six-run deficit for a 12-6 victory Tuesday.
With Donaldson on first base, Edwin Encarnacion hit his 34th home run of the season, a two-run shot that tied it on a 1-0 slider. This combined with an RBI ground out later in the frame extended his league leading RBI total to 100 on the season.
After the rain, the offence woke up with 11 hits, scoring four runs in the sixth and eighth more in the eighth, to shock what was left of the crowd of 31,874 that remained at the park. That’s one heck of a comeback when you consider it stood at.569 back on May 9.
Astros second baseman Jose Altuve went three-for-five with an RBI in the loss against the Cardinals. This home run also marked just the fourth time in major league history that both starting catchers hit multiple home runs in the same game.
The eight runs matched Toronto’s largest inning of the season. Royals 3, Tigers 1 • Ian Kennedy pitched effectively into the seventh inning to win for the first time since June 26 as Kansas City prevailed at Detroit.
Green’s impressive start against the Blue Jays lowered his ERA to 4.05, his xFIP to 2.79 and his SIERA to 3.06. J.A. Happ gets the start against CC Sabathia.
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Four homers – including back-to-back efforts by Troy Tulowitzki and Russell Martin in the sixth, and a blistering two-run shot from Edwin Encarnacion in the eighth – erased a 6-0 NY lead.
