It took little time for Yankees’ rookie Gary Sanchez to receive the type of respect normally reserved for established veterans considered among the elite hitters.
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Sanchez homered into the second deck in left field in the first inning on the first pitch from Iwakuma, his ninth home run in 18 games. “I’m hitting.195, of course you walk him there”. In the second, Tyler Austin hit a RBI single. The Mariners have scored 14 runs in their last three games and four or more runs in seven of their last eight games. “His stuff to me really got good in the fourth inning”.
“I got ahead but I just couldn’t put them away early enough”, Walker said. Wednesday marked the first time Tanaka had accomplished that feat in back-to-back starts.
Japanese pitching stars Masahiro Tanaka of the New York Yankees and Seattle’s Hisashi Iwakuma, former teammates with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Japan’s Pacific League, will go at it again after Tanaka and the Yankees beat Iwakuma and the Mariners 4-3 in April.
The walks seemed nearly as impressive as the surge of home runs. Knowing the guys in this clubhouse, if you look around at the coaching staff and everybody, we’ll show up in Chicago, we’ll go out and compete and we’ll find a way.
NY doubled its lead in the bottom of the second, when Aaron Judge beat Norichika Aoki’s throw from left field to the plate.
The incident happened midway through the Yankees’ 5-0 win. Teixeira responded with an RBI single. After Martin stole second, Tanaka retired O’Malley on a comebacker and Chris Iannetta on a ground out to short.
After losing the series opener 7-5 on Monday despite two homers apiece from Sanchez and Castro, the Yankees held Seattle to just one run in the final two games to win three consecutive road series for the first time this season.
Girardi became the sixth manager in Yankees’ history to reach 800 wins, joining Joe McCarthy, Joe Torre, Casey Stengel, Miller Huggins and Ralph Houk.
Seattle Mariners’ Norichika Aoki flips his bat after striking out as New York Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez throws back to the mound in the fifth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016, in Seattle.
NOTES: Mariners 3B Kyle Seager was out of the starting lineup after fouling a ball off his foot on Tuesday night. Initial X-rays were negative, but manager Scott Servais said Seager would get additional examination before the team left for its road trip. Judge then flew out to deep center field. Dominant early on, he got into some trouble and started to unravel. Masahiro Tanaka gets the ball, and he’s 10-4 with a 3.24 ERA and 137 strikeouts this season. Mike Zunino pinch-hit for Nelson Cruz, who was removed from the game with back spasms, going down looking.
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SEATTLE (AP) With the New York Yankees facing an uphill climb to the playoffs, CC Sabathia picked a good time to return to form.
