One terrible week is making them longshots yet again. It happened again Friday night.
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Ortiz is retiring at the end of the season and the Yankees announced yesterday that they will honor him with a ceremony on the field on September 29 before the Yankees and Red Sox battle it out in their last game of the season, according to the Yankees’ website.
Arizona’s Jean Segura singled and doubled, and needs 16 hits in the final 15 games to reach 200. “With that win, its a big win given the situation that we’re in”. We’ve got to keep forward and push it to the limit. “He’s got some of the best stuff in the game, so it’s big, pretty big”. Had the Yankees won they would have closed the gap between them and the Red Sox for first place in the division to just three games with three still left to play in this series.
There’s stinging symbolic pain mixed in there-losing to the Red Sox and watching a legendary Yankee get eclipsed by a Beantown hero in the midst of his swan song.
“This one hurts”, Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. After the conclusion of this 11-game trip, they return to the Bronx for three-game sets against the Red Sox and Orioles to close things out. It’s got to start tomorrow.
Over on the Red Sox side, we’ll be seeing lefty David Price on Saturday. There is still plenty of work to do for the Red Sox if they’re to win the division and avoid the nail-biting one-game playoff that comes with a wild card berth, and all their remaining games are against opponents in their division that can still catch and pass them, but that walk-off win last night is absolutely enormous in getting some separation, however small, and especially by getting the win in such dramatic fashion. And starter Masahiro Tanaka was stellar on the mound, allowing just four hits and one run over seven innings before the bullpen cost him the W. They loaded the bases against James Pazos and Holder before Travis Shaw knocked in a run with a sacrifice fly and Sandy Leon added another with a ground-rule double to extend to a 5-2 lead.
“Just being out here and being on my professional ball club’s field, shagging with all the big-leaguers, I mean, just a great experience”, said the Barnegat Township, N.J., native.
The inning could have been much worse if not for a pair of good throws by Gardner and Jacoby Ellsbury as the Yankees nailed Dustin Pedroia and Ortiz at second base trying to stretch singles into doubles. Myers, a Thomasville native who starred at Wesleyan Christian Academy, is batting.259 on the season with 25 homers, 26 doubles, 83 RBIs, 89 runs and 25 stolen bases. They’ll be charging this game to one of their Baby Bombers, 24-year-old Luis Cessa.
Cessa had thrown only 64 pitches through five innings, but Girardi made a decision to go to his bullpen, trying to mix and match against the heart of Boston’s potent lineup. He gave his reasoning for straying from Cessa to begin the sixth.
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Words in print, perhaps, don’t fully capture the somber mood in the Yankees’ clubhouse when it was all over.
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We’ve seen that out of Cessa a few times so far, haven’t we? Basically, he’s hitting like the three-time All-Star that he was earlier in his career. The Yankees expressed confidence that he’ll rebound from his recent slump.
