Archer fell to 5-4 in his career against NY after permitting nine runs and three homers en route to dropping both decisions this season.
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Back-to-back home runs by Jacoby Ellsbury and Gary Sanchez broke up a scoreless game in the sixth inning and pushed the Yankees to their season-high seventh straight win on Saturday afternoon. We project him to hit three more taters and post a.732 OPS over the remaining course of the season.
“That was a huge team win for us”, Austin said, “and a special moment”.
Yankees: 2B Starlin Castro received a rare rest with NY in the middle of playing 17 consecutive days.
Mark Teixeira rounded first base, raised his right arm in triumph and headed on a celebratory circle of the bases. “It doesn’t change anything about how I pitch – my goal is to go out there and maximize whatever my pitch count is for that day”. “I started off in Double-A this year, didn’t give up, kept battling and here we are”. Teammates met him at home plate by dousing him with water in a raucous celebration.
Matching their longest streak this season, the Yankees (75-65) closed within one game of Baltimore and Detroit for the second AL wild card.
Trevor Bauer (11-6) allowed five runs and seven hits in five innings. The Yankees won the last game 7-5, continuing a six-game winning streak. “I think about the games in Kansas City, the one against Toronto and they just keep fighting back”.
This is what the Yankees are doing during this stretch run, one that is becoming more remarkable each game, and of course winning ballgames, 23-13 since that trading deadline.
“It’s incredible what these kids have been able to do for us”, Girardi said.
In Washington, Ryan Howard hit a three-run homer and Alec Asher pitched six innings of two-hit ball coming off a suspension to lead Philadelphia to a 4-1 win over the Nationals.
Rays started chipping away at that lead in the fourth with a Logan Morrison home run to right field (and not a short porcher either) followed immediately by a Stephen Souza Jr. home run to left field. It was a two-run game in the eighth, and so the bench called for an intentional walk. TB starter Chris Archer fell to 8-18 with three runs allowed on four hits including a pair of homers before Enny Romero gave up two more to put the game out of reach.
Or even his last home run? The right-hander won his first six decisions this season but was 0-7 with a 6.11 ERA in his past 15 outings, eight of them starts. “I hope not”, he said. Despite the loss, Texas still leads the AL West by 8 1/2 games. The Yankees scored twice in the first on an RBI single by Gregorius and a throwing error by Cobb on a pickoff play at first. Last night Austin basically inside-outted a home run. McCann gave NY a 3-2 lead when he drove a 1-0 fastball into the second deck in right.
The Yankees were just 52-52 on August 1, the day they concluded their summer fire sale by dealing All-Star right fielder Carlos Beltran to Texas. Franklin got looked at by the trainer and stayed in the game.
“As far as the eighth inning is concerned, I’m not going to really talk about it other than to say it’s embarrassing”, Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash said. “I’m wearing this belt every night now, ” Austin said.
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It’s easy to find the stars on the Rays’ roster. Ramirez was released by the San Diego Padres on Sunday. Yankees RHP Michael Pineda appeared frustrated at being taken out one out shy of qualifying for a victory Friday and manager Joe Girardi said he did not think Pineda was showing him up by staring blankly. “I have not seen the play, it was kind of a little unique”.
