“You look at the second half, he has really stepped it up and performed at a high level”.
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Richard (2-3) allowed six hits and two walks with eight strikeouts in his seventh appearance (fifth start) since signing with San Diego on August 6.
In Pittsburgh, starter Ivan Nova remained unbeaten with the Pirates and Kang Jung-ho hit a two-run double to key a three-run first inning.
“I didn’t know how many more grand slams I had left in me”, said Teixeira in the final season of his career.
“We didn’t give them the game”, Headley said.
“I ran a bike for a little bit, got stretched, put some red-hot on my arm and just made sure I stayed as loose as I can, ” Betances said. He had 41 pitches through the second inning but after breezing through a six-pitch seventh, Tanaka started the eighth. Tanaka hit the jersey of the next batter and Girardi went to his bullpen, sending Tanaka off the field to a standing ovation.
Milwaukee Brewers second baseman Hernan Perez, left, and center fielder Keon Broxton can not come up with a ball hit by St. Louis Cardinals’ Jedd Gyorko during the third inning of a baseball game, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016, in St. Louis.
In San Diego, Ryan Schimpf hit a three-run homer and tied a career-high with four RBIs and Clayton Richard pitched seven scoreless innings as the Padres routed Colorado 14-1.
Rays: RHP Jake Odorizzi (9-6, 3.86 ERA) pitches Monday night in the opener of a three-game series at Toronto, where the Rays are averaging 7.5 runs in six games this year. He was done in by the long ball as Jacoby Ellsbury and Gary Sanchez hit back to back homers in the sixth inning to give Tanaka all the run support he needed. Three pitches later, Sanchez did the same, blasting a 1-and-1 slider into the right side of the Rays’ bullpen in left-center. “I think it’s a good story”. If we are still in this toward the end of the season, I want to be a big part of this team. Sanchez hit a pitch to the center field warning track that was meant to be the first pitch of an intentional walk; the ball tailed back toward the plate.
“It’s a great job by Gary Sanchez to be ready to hit there”, Girardi said.
A source of consistency in this season of surprise and upheaval, Tanaka was at his best on Saturday, asserting himself as a legitimate Cy Young candidate with a 5-1 gem of a win against the Rays at Yankee Stadium.
“As far as the eighth inning is concerned, I’m not really going to talk about it other than to say it’s embarrassing”, Cash said.
Sanchez added to the Yankee lead with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the eighth driving an attempted intentional ball to deep center field to score the Yankees fourth run. Tampa Bay OF Steven Souza Jr.is 5-for-8 with three homers, four RBIs and as many runs scored in the series and 12-for-41 in the season set versus the Yankees.3. NY is getting close with two wild wins in Kansas City last week and Tuesday’s thrilling victory over Toronto, which was decided on Gardner’s catch in the ninth.
“These young guys, man”, said Betances,”The energy is definitely feeding off everybody here”. That might not sound like much, but we probably should mention here that the Rays were trying to intentionally walk him at the time.
NOTES: Tampa Bay SS Matt Duffy (left heel) underwent successful surgery Friday afternoon. He will in a splint and on crutches for 2 1/2 weeks and is expected to make a complete recovery by spring training.
It was the right-hander’s first major league outing since he started for the Yankees at Tampa Bay on May 14 past year.
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NY had to use five relievers on a night when its bullpen was already short-handed.
